davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The midland journal., 1943-03-12

Eating out to beat rationing won't
help, says OPA, because restaurant
supplies are being cut about in hall.
American fighting men serving
outside the country now can say it
with flowers! Three dollars per or
der is cabled to the Red Cross and
the Red Cross selects and delivers
the flowers to Madame. No longer
'tout Of sight, out Of mind"
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
HICHLICHTs -. in the week. ns~.

WASHINGTON: More than S.00O,-
600 babies were born in the United
States last year, the census bureau
estimated. This was the largest
number Of births in any year in the
nations history. The previous rec
ord was In l92l when 1850 900 were
born. The 1942 record compared
with an estimated total births Of
2.7l5 900 Ia 1914 and I. 2.550. 900 in 1910.
OficiaIs estimated fewer l94S births.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12

NEW YORK: Unless certain mer-
chandisers cease encouraging mail
ing Of an excessive number of par
eel post packages to the overseas
navy personnel. the mailing privi-
leges may be restricted, according
to navy statement. While army
personnel abroad must obtain prior
permission from commanding Of
ficers to receive parcel post pack
ages. navy men do not.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
TURKEY:
Watches and Waits

A watchful waiting policy based
on a determination to stay out of
the war if possible but to enter the
fight if necessary was enunciated by
President Ismet Inonu of Turkey.
Inonu pointed out that the final deci-
sion might not be in Turkish hands.
Calling all Turks to intensity their
preparedness against any eventual
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
4TO RECORD:
For u. S. Airmen

Americans learned with pride that
their fighting airmen had destroyed
four enemy planes for every one of
their own knocked out Of the skies
in 1912.
An official tabulation covering
complete operations for the last year
showed that army, navy and marine
fiiers shot down at least 2,587 Of
their foes. This total did not include
hundreds of planes listed as prob
ably destroyed.
Aircraft losses by all American
armed services last year totaled 500.
Some of the fiiers were shot down
by anti-aircraft fire, others simply
did not return from combat missions
for reasons unknown. A majority of
the 500 losses. however, resulted
from actual combat with enemy air.
men.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12

tiles, President Inonu declared: 1--WE
are grieved by and suffer from the
global disaster. We shall do our ut
most not to be entangled in it nor
contaminated by it, but we know
that it is not entirely within our
power to stay out of the war;"
Turkey has spent more for defense
in the last four years than at any
time in her history, he declared.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Aids Flight Strip Boom
Super-HighWay Serves as Ideal Emergency
Landing Field for Planes; Postwar Advances
To Emphasize Need for Runways.
BY BAUKHAGE
Neps analyst and Commentator.

have talked flight strips" for years
know, what the development of these
runways will mean.
AS Fred Schiepfe, special en-
gineering consultant to the admins
traitor of the Federal Works agency,
says: "The congress, the state high
way departments, and the contrac-
tors are pulling together toward the
end that the projects will be built
in the shortest possible time"
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Parity Vote Heralds Farm Price Rise;
Allies North Africa Strength Grows
AS Yanlxs Wipe Out RommePs Advance;
RAF Raids Strafe German U-Boat Nests

the they are nS
Reease dbx We NeNspap -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
laps Trying Hard
To Hold REMAINING
|. axe Shore Points

CHUNGKING, June 10.
(UP) - japanese troops,
beaten back steadily by ad-
vancing Chinese armies, are
irving desperately to hold
their few remaining strong points
on the north shore of Tung Ting
lake in central China, a Chinese
communique indicated today.
The communique, reporting con-
tinued mopping Up operations by
the Chinese south Of the Yangtze
river near SungtZe, said that to the
east the enemy attempted a coun-
ter-attack at OwChihkou. near
HWajung on Tung Ting's north
shore, but ran into strong Chinese
forces.
Annihilation of the remaining
enemy troops near Sungt2e, so miles
below Ichang was predicted. At
Itu. closer to Ichang, heavy casual
ties were inflicted on fleeing enemy
forces.
The communique also reported an
attack on Tungyang, south of
Hangchow in Chekiang province
far to the east. with the Staying
of 200 enemy troops and said a
new Japanese drive in the Taihang
mountains of north China had been
stopped.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
Dissolution OF
International Is
Accepted by All
RY UNITED PRESS

Radio Moscow said Thursday
that all existing sections in a po-
sition to reply have approved the
dissolution of the Third Commu-
mist International and that the
Comintern would be considered
abolished as of Thursday.
The PreSidium of the executive
committee Of the Communist IN
ternational recommended the dis
solution May 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
SECTIONS APPROVED

Sections OF the organization ap-
proving the dissolution were said
to include those in Australia, Aus
tria, the Argentine, Belgium, Bul-
garia, Britain, Germany, Ireland
Spain, Italy, Canada, Catalonia
China, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Po-
land Rumania, Syria, Russia
Uruguay, Finland, France, Czecho-
slovia. Chile, South Africa, SWitzer-
land, Sweden and Jugoslavia.
1t was noted that many of the
countries were under Axis occupa-
ton or control. Favorable replies
were received from all the most
important sections, the broadcast
said.
A commission was appointed to
liquidate the affairs, institutions,
apparatus and property of the In
ternational, according to the broad
cast, which was reported to the Of
flee of War Information by gov
ernment monitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
Nazis Dare Allies TO Acf

LONDON, June l0-tUP Ger
man Marshal Erwin ROmmel fran
tically is speeding the construction
of defenses along the French Med
iterranean coast, a Madrid dispatch
said today while the Berlin radio
dared the Allies to invade Europe
the sooner the better
Reports reaching Madrid from
Vichy said that Rommel has been
named commander OF the social
ed Mittelmeer wall. the name loose
ly applied to the Axis detenses III
the Mediterranean from the Span
ish to the Turkish borders.
NO AUTHORITY
For unexplained reasons. how
ever, Rommel apparently has not
been given authority over the de-
fenses Of Sardinia, Sicily or any
part of italy and deeply resents it,
Madrid said.
Little work has been done toward
defending the south coast of France
before he arrived. the dispatch re-
ported. and Rommel has been spur
ring construction units into build
ing more and better forts. more ar
tillery emplaCements and more anti
aircraft batteries.
Rommel also vas said to have
visited Corsica several times to ad-
wise on the construction OF de-
fenses. Before going to France, he
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
Yanks Still Seek
Jap Attu Shippers

WASHINGTON, June 10 CUP)-
American forces are still searching
Attu for enemy survivors and pre-
pairing permanent housing and de-
fenses for themselves on that Aleu-
tian island, Secretary of War Henry
[. Stimson declared today.
Stimson also noted that Ameri-
can flyers had helped the Chinese
in their recent ground fighting near
Ichang, on the Hupeh front, where
the Chinese repulsed five Japanese
divisions. As a result of American
al rforce coordination with Chinese
ground forces, the Chinese enjoyed
local air superiority for the first
time in their long struggle against
the japanese invader, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
Blast Rocks Plane
10000 Feet in Air

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus
tralia, June 10 (UP)- A Liberator
attacked Nabire, Dutch New Guinea,
in one Of three single-plane raids
yesterday, touching off heavy ex-
plosion that Jared the plane 10000
feet in the air and causing a huge
fire, a communique said today.
The communique did not disclose
what the Liberator hit The attack
was directed at the airdrome and
port. The fliers could see the fire
IS miles away. Smoke billowed up
1900 feet
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
CORONADO MAN MISSING

WASHINGTON, June 1O.-UP)
The navy today announced II ad-
ditional naval and marine corp cas-
ualtieS, including: Henderson,
Douglas, Lieut., missing Wife, Mrs.
Loberta G. Henderson, 465 B Ave,
Coronado.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
FATHER OF YEAR

NEW YORK, June 10 (UP)-Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower, Allied COM
mander in North Africa, praised
the fathers and sons who par
ticipated in the Tunisian campaign
in accepting designation as the
number one father of the year"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10

submarines from the Atlantic to
help defend Europe from invasion
The submarines are being concen-
trated at La Pallice and Lorient
on the Bay of Biscay, in the
Scheldt estuary in Southern Hol-
land and at Trondheim, Norway.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
COLONEL KILLED

WASHINGTON, June 10.-UP)
Col. Edward p. Earle. native of
Marietta, Ga, and a former reSid-
dent If Birmingham, Ala, was kill
ed IN action on Attu island when
american forces advanced against
the enemy from Massacre bav.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
ATTACKS BASES

Radio Berlin said the Luftwaffe
also attacked Russian airdromes and
the supply base at Oranienbaum, lG
miles west Of Jeningrad on the
Finnish gulf opposite the fortress
Of Kronstadt. The broadcast was
the first indication that this i'm
portant coastal defense position has
been recaptured by the Soviets)
Only minor patrol and artillery
activity was reported from the
ground fronts.
At Lisichansk in the Ukraine
German infantry, supported by four
tanks, attempted TO attack Soviet
positions, but were thrown back
with heavy losses.
Russian forces on he Leningrad d
front killed nearly 400 German Of
ficers and men and destroyed Is
pillboxes and six dugouts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
Reds Destroy 1b0
German Planes in
Raids ON Airdronles

MOSCOW, June 10. (UP)
The Red air force, seeking
to cripple axis air strength
in advance of anticipated
ground battles, destroyed or
damaged $50 to 100 German planes
in mass raids on six airdromes Tues
day night, a special communique
announced today
Ammunition and fuel stores were
left in flames and hangers were
burned out, the communique said
The loss Of q Russian planes in
dicated the scale Of the assaults.
BELIEVED SIGNIFICANT
The raids on German airfields
were believed particularly signifi-
cant in the light of a Nazi report
that the Luftwaffe has built up a
huge force of bombers in Russia
10 support impending operations.
A German communique claimed
that rs out of 100 Russian planes
which participated in Soviet at
tacks on German air bases and
supply centers on the central front
Tuesday were shot down.
As the air war increased in in
tensity, the Germans followed up
three raids on the Russian arms
city Of Cork, $50 miles east of
Moscow, with a 70-plane attack
on Volkhovo, southeast Of Lenin-
grad, in daylight TUESDAY. -Four
dwellings were damaged, but "a
raiders were shot down. the Rus
slams said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10

was reported 70 have strengthened
the anti-invasion defenses in the
Balkans
GERM4HS BOAST
The German radio. III an eSpec-
iallv boastful broadcast last night,
said that every man landing on Eu-
ropean soil with arms in his hands
would "either end up in coffin
or in a prison camp
Let there be no mistake on this
point, please" the broadcaster said.
We are ready and waiting for
your would-be second frontiers
and the sooner the better
Another German broadcast said
that any attempt to land on the
French Atlantic cast oWould result
in bigger and bloodier catsatro-
phe than the first attempt to in
wade Dieppe."
BEING REINFORCED
The wall of steel and concrete
which defends the coasts of the
European continent is constantly re-
inforced and new Notifications in
depth are added everywhere, the
broadcast said THE British and
Americans who still doubt whether
the wall is really so strong are cor
daily invited to make a trial.
The Daily Mail reported that Hit
Ter already has started to recall his
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-10
IS YOUR CHILD A
NOSE pICkER III?

nc may be a sign OF bowel WormsI and
these roundworms can cause real troubled !
Other warnings are: uneasy stomach, ner-
yousness, itching parts. If you even suspect
roundworms, get Jayne's Vermifuge today
JAYNE'S is Americas leading proprietary
worm medicine used by millions for over a
century. Acts gently, yet drives out round
worms. Demand JAYNE'S NEhMltUGE.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

with Liberators and Mitchell
medium bombers dropping 93 tons
of bombs on bivouac areas, artil-
lery emplacements, tracks and
other installations near Komiatum.
The entire target area was LETT
covered with smoke and flames.
A light force of Corsair fighters
intercepted and dispersed a su-
perior force o. Japanese fighters
and dive bomberS over RendoVa
island. south of New Georgia. and
shot down two of them with the
loss of only one plane. American
ground forces on RendoVa suffered
only few casualties and minor
damage.
Radio Tokyo quoted Gen. Sadao
Araki. former japanese war minis
ter, as saying that Japanese naval
and air forces shot down more than
PCS Allied planes and sank % war
ships in the first 20 days OF the
American campaign in the central
Solomons. The u. S. navy has an
nounced that its only losses have
been a cruiser. two destroyers anu
an empty transport
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23
u. $. Liberators Fly 24O0
TO Bomb Key Jap Bastion

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, South
west Pacific, July % (UP)--A big
oil refinery. warehouses and rail-
way and dock installations at Soc
rabaia. Japan's largest naval base
between Singapore and Rabaul, lay
i'll smouldrlnie runs today follow
ing a record-shattering 2400 mile
raid by Allied Liberators.
The 70 minute raid. which kindled
fires visible for lao miles, conceded
with the heaviest aerial attack of
the war in the southwest Pacific
on Munda and Bairoko, last Japa-
nese bases on New Georgia island
in the central Solomons. some 1900
miles east of Soerabaja.
The Liberators found Soerabaia.
on the north coast of Java in the
occupied Dutch East Indies. COM
pletelY lighted when they arrived
over the port early yesterday, ap-
parently taking the enemy by sur
prise. Soon afterward. Japanese
anti-aircraft batteries put up an
intense barrage, but it dwindled as
the raid progressed.
Direct hits were scored with 500
pound bombs on an oil refinery
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

Three Imperial Valley men ar
rived at Ohio State University in
Columbus. Ohio. for work in the
armys specialized training pro-
+ gram. They are Pvt. John Ram.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank r. Ram
of El Gentro. Pvt. Benjamin w
/ Shaw. Jr.. son of Mrs. Louie Wilson
! Of El Centre. and Pvt. Billie B.
/ Gray. son of William H. q. Gray
/ of Holtville.
Among the men who completed
! their basic training at the Fort
] Knox. Ky. replacement training
center ere Pvt. Kelly McCollum of
/ Imperial and Fyt. Charles II. Sharp
of FL Centre They arc preparing
for combat duty with an armored
force unit
He now must be addressed as
Major ". W. Bib Jones. The day
after this FL Centran was married.
he was promoted 10 major He is
stationed at the Sioux City, Iowa.
base. He has been in the army air
corps for four years.
It was old home week for 1t
Norman Dupont when he met
Kenneth Kenyon and George Harris
Ct Lowry Field. near Denver. Colo.
They had a long talk about FL
Centre, their families, and traded
news from Imperial Valley.
Lt. 1gl Don FoSs. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs J. d. Foss of FL Centro is with
the United States navy in the
south Pacific war zone He left the
United States two months ago.
Mr.. and Mrs Bill Lyons. Sr. re-
ceiyed word that their son. Billy
/ Lyons. Jr.. seaman second class, is
on a cargo ship at San Francisco.
He was Just graduated from the
University of Idaho at Moscow.
Idaho. after completing radio
/ course
He is Corporal Harold +. Gil
lett The former fingerprint eX-
pert of the Imperial county sheriff's
office was promoted from private
first class to corporal at Camp
Beale early this month. army Of
ficerS announced. He is a son of
Mrs. Nellie NJ. Gillett of FL Centre
and is well known throughout I'M
perial Valley. His father was the
late Charles Gillett. one time
sheriff of Imperial Valley.
Torleif Olsborg of III Brighton.
FL Centre, Is stationed at the army
air force basic training center at
kearns, Utah. He is with the air
force technical training command.
He is being taught how to fight.
how 10 protect himself under
battle conditions. how to march.
how to use small arms and machine
guns, how TO use a gas mask and
other subjects before being as
signed to duty with ground crews.
Lit. Calvert A. Moody, former El
Centran. is now group navigator
officer in the Avengers group This
group is q medium bombardment
unit under the northwest African
air force, He is leading his squad
ron in the number of successful
missions made over enemy terri
tory. 1t Moody is a navigator and
has directed his BIS bomber on a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23
Axis Preparing 70
Move Italy Cow

We may be pardoned, however.
If we imagine that # will not make
a deep impression on those sections
of the faithful who live in other
belliperent capitals and have al
ready passed through terrifying
ordeals and seen their sacred
buildings shattered, yet without. as
far as one can be aware. exciting
any special discontinue within the
precincts of Vatican city" The
Mirror said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

ONE DOLLAR IN WAR STAMPS FROM
EVERY AMERICAN WILL BUILD THE
MYSTERY IP-SHANGRILA.
Nickels-dimes- quarters = add them up to
one dollars worth of War Stamps and you've
bought your share toward building the
Shangri-La: Mystery ship that will carry the
planes that will plant the bombs that will put
Tokyo in ashes. Buy at retail stores-from
your newsbOy-at motion picture theatres.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23
Toio Summons Jap
Leaders 10 confah

san FRANCISCO. July % up
Premier El6ed Toio summoned
Japan's elder statemen, including
seven former preniers. and gov
ernment and military leaders to an
extraordinary conference today to
examine the critical war situation
ana developments IN the interna-
tional situation" Tokyo radio re-
ported.
Announcement Of the meeting
was made by the japanese board Of
information. Tokyo radio said in
broadcast recorded by United
Press.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23
Jap reinforcement
Rushed TO Front

CHUNGKTNG. July % cUP) -
japanese reinforcements have
reached the Taihene mountain
area of China. counteracting the
heavy casualties suffered in fight
ing of increased ferocity. a Chinese
communique said today.
The Chinese were said to be con-
tinuing their attacks from the rear
The fighting represents roughly
the 18th separate mopup opera
ton by the Japanese in the last
five years as theg tried to clear
out the guerillas in the Honan
Shansi, and Hopei border areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

total of i9 missions, high figure
considering the time the Avengers
have been in combat Raids in
which 1t. Moody participated in
elude enemy troop and gun concen-
trations and airdromes i'll TuniSia
and the islands of Pantelleria and
LampeduSa. PROBABLY now. he is
participating in the bombing of
Sicily
Sgt. James V. Schofield. 10. SON
of Mr.. and Mrs James A. Sehofield
of Ell Centre, recently was gradu-
ated from the Kingman, Ariz., army
air field flexible gunnery school.
He entered the army at San Diego
Oct. %, 1912.
PFC. Earl Hunick. son of MIR.
and Mrs. c. F. Hunick and former
resident of Calexico and Holtyille,
enjoyed leave in Imperial Valley
and has gone to an army camp at
Ephrata. Wash, about 100 miles
west of Spokane Hc is in the air
corps.
In a letter received by relatives
recently, 1t. Tom Caughlin, Jr., of
Calexico wrote that he IS in New
Guinea. He was transferred there
from Australia.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

Mrs. Florence Deniiam
Clarence walker
Martin Wahl
Charles Freedman
Shippers Ice Company
Marsh Dry Cleaners
Ira Aten
II. II. Maddux
SOnes Lumber Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

McNcecc g. McNeece
Evan r. Uewes
Fred II. Bright Co.
Herb Fawcett
X. X. Sharp
Les BIackman, Plumbing
Aux Ambort
Jolly Rogers
Arthur Hofmann
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23

LONDON. July 23-ouPl-Ger-
many already considers Sicily lost
and the Italian government, either
preparatory to declaring Rome an
open city or because of the growing
danger of invasion of the mainland
may move to Verona. $50 miles
north of Rome, reports reaching
Spain said today.
A neutral source in Italy reveal
ed that there was considerable talk
in Rome last weekend over the
possibility that italian government
departments, along with the mill
tary, naval and air staffs. would
shift headquarters to Verona. Where
Premier Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
conferred. Monday. a Madrid dis
patch asserted.
The discussions actually preced-
ed the 500-plane American raid on
Rome Monday. il was pointed out.
but Pope Plus XII's letter deplor-
ing the raid indicated that he had
appealed to the italian government
to strip the capital of military OBJ
jectives some time ago.
CThc German transocean agency
reported that Premier canon De
Valera of Fire had sent a message
of sympathy to Pope Plus on the
bombing of Renee
CoNCEDE LOSS
Madrid reports that informed
German military circles already
have conceded loss of Sicily TO the
Allies appeared borne out by Nazi
broadcasts depreciating the island
they once hailed as Mediter-
ranean Bastion as Minor island
outpost
All Axis Garrisons in western
Sicily were reported by Madrid to
be fleeing eastward for last stand
at Messina Only small percent
age of Italo-German troops prob
ably can be evacuated across the
because of the preponderance of
Allied sea and air power.
Reliable information reaching
Madrid from Italy asserted that
Italian mainland ports have been
bombed so heavily that efforts to
reinforce Sicily by sea virtually
have been abandoned. Some 500
German troops were killed or
wounded at one port while await
ing transportation it was said.
(Radio London quoted an order
by Gen. Paul Conrad, commander
of the Nazi Hermann Goering di-
vision in Sicily. threatening death
for further serious cases" of de-
sertion and unauthorized retreats
by German troops)
The seriousness of the Sicily sit
uation and the growing threat to
Italy herself were reported by the
Daily Herald to have turned the
Swashbuckling MusSolini into an
elderly. mild-mannered italian A
Cairo dispatch to the newspaper
said he had lost all his remaining
hair and a great deal of weight.
BLAMES MUSS0LINI
The London Daily Mail editoriaily
asserted that the Pope's letter on
the bombing of Rome placed sole
responsibility for the raid on Mus
solini
we all share the Pope's SYM
pathy for the victims of the Rome
raid-for we, too, have had many
victims in this country .. but we
cannot relax any means of ending
as quickly as possible war which,
if long continued, would engulf.
not only Rome. but the entire civil
lied world" the ably Mail said
The Daily Mirror protested that
the Pontiff's letter casts Stigma
on the Allied nations, especially
America +"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-23
You Are Buying Future Freedom
When You Buy
TO BOMB TOKYO!

War stamps building the mystery ship, "SIIANGRI
LA, to bomb Tokyo again. From its fattopped decks,
American planes will fly Tokyo, and when their mis-
sion is fulfilled the city will lie in smodering ruins. Then
the whole world will know that the extra change from
avenged murder and saved countless other from the
tortues of barbarsn The world will feel the power of
democracy crushing the forces of eachery with the extra
pennies and dimes of free people, Every man, woman,
and child has job to do to help build the Shangr-La
that will re-bomb the Japs