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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Interference With
Labor Liberties
In Calf. Hit

WASHINGTON, July S (UP)-
Inc senate Civil Liberties COM
mittee today deplOred the "or-
ganized and systematic inter-
terence with the civil liberties of
labor" in California and urged
congress to outlaw oppressive
labor practices and assure labor
OF its place in the post war
world.
The appeal was made in the
senate by Chairman Robert M. La
toilette, Prog, Wis, simultaneous
with presentation of the fifth part
OF a report on employers associa-
tions and collective bargaining in
California entitled "the organiza-
ton OF resistance to collective bar
gaining In the period from 1885 to
1899"
The legislative recommendation
contained in this report would SYM
bolize as nothing else the stake of
millions Of men and women in the
democracy we are striving to defend
from aggression" La Toilette told
the senate. Labor needs an as
surance of its place in the indus
trialized society of the future. =.
THE present emergency is the oc-
casion used by anti-labor groups
to deprive labor of its rights. There
was a day when it was considered
popular and statesmanlike to legis-
late for the protection of labor's
rights. Now. the winds that blow
through the mail, over the telegraph
over the radio, and in the great
newspaper organs have created in
some minds a contrary impression.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Crash Kills Polish Leader
Sikorski
Dies in
Plane

LONDON, July 5. (UP)-
Gen. Sikorski, of the Polish
exile government and COM
n,ander in chief of its armed
forces. was killed last night
when a Liberator plane In which
he was travelling crashed soon after
taking off from Gibraltar, the air
ministry announced today.
'.SikOrski was returning to London
from the Middle East, where he in
spected the Polish army In training
in Iran and presumably discussed
with the Allied high command there
the part his forces would play in
the coming invasion of southern
Europe.
German propagandists, utilizing
their favorite theme of trying to
divide the allies, claimed that the
British assassinated Sikorski A Ger
man DNB dispatch quoted Polish
emigrant circles in Stockholm" as
saying that they were positive Six
'rski was aSsinated and that the
British would be forced TO admit
it,
Maj. Gen. Thadeus Klimecki, 48,
chief of staff of the Polish army.
Col Andrea j. Marecke, chief of
the operational section of the Pol
ish staff, who visited the United
States with Sikorski last year.
A. Klakowski, Sikorski's private
secretary.
One unidentified passenger
Seven or eight crew members.
ENGINE FAILS
The plane was reported to have
crashed into the sea, presumably
because of engine failure, few
minutes after taking off from Glib
raltar airport.
The Polish cabinet here went into
immediate session after being noti-
fled of Sikorski's death. Soon after
ward, President Wladislaw Rackie-
wicz announced the temporary ap-
pointments Of Deputy Prime Minis
ter Gen. Marian Kukiel as acting
commander in chief of the armed
forces.
MOVES COMPLICATED
Sikorski's death was expected to
complicate the quiet efforts of Brit
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dOOpCcQ ldIc III huSuoG olie' oiiC dii-
l943-1944 budget which must be
nual tax rate set. The supervisors
had an IDEA of equalizing the sal
aries in various departments but
the war or something made some of
the salaries look a bit odd when
compared with the salaries paid in
some other departments.
GENERAL PLAN
With this equalizing idea in mind,
the board followed general plan
of paying the heads of departments,
where the board has supervision of
salaries, $2,700 year and the chief
deputies $2,100 year. They did not,
however, follow through in all in
stances, apparently being guided by
the type OF work, dual duties, and
other such considerations.
AS set forth in the ordinance the
heads of the following departments
will receive $2,700 year: county
clerk, welfare director, livestock in
spector and county veterinarian,
purchasing agent, probation officer
recorder, county school superinten-
dent, and treasurer. All chief depu-
ties receive $2,100 unless otherwise
noted.
The salary of the assessor-collec
tor was fixed at $1,000 year and
the chief deputy in this office will
get salary of $2,400 because of the
dual capacities these persons serve
in both assessing and collecting the
county taxes. In the assessor collec-
tors office there is a deputy receiv-
ing $2,100, two deputies receiving
$500, two receiving $1,000, four
receiving $l,7l0, seven field deputies
receiving $205 each for three and
half months while making the
annual assessment, one deputy $2O5
for one month, and one deputy re-
ceiving $205 month for five
months.
The county agricultural commits
sioner shall receive $1,000 a year
after Aug. 81, 1943. Before that date
he was paid at the rate of S2,7O0
a year. His chief deputy is to receive
$l,980 year The stenographer in
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Land on


LONDON, July S. (UP)-A
special Middle East communique
tonight said that small British
forces carried out successful
raids on air fields in Crete Sum
day night.
The cOmmunique said that a
number of enemy aircraft were
destroyed on the ground.
All patrols withdrew safely.
The raids, presumably design
ed to test Axis invasion defenses
as we'll cs to knock out enemy
planes, were assumed to have
been made from the North
African coast.
1t is about 100 miles from the
Libyan coast to Crete and about
$50 miles from British Cyprus
to Crete.
The island of Crete has fire.
quently been the center of spec
ulatiOn regarding Allied inva-
sion preparations in the east
ern Mediterranean since it gives
the enemy good air bases from
wilich to oppose any blow at
Greece.
There has been a general be-
lief that the Italian DOdecanese
islands off the coast of Turkey,
would be the first step in an
eastern Mediterranean invasion
because they flank Crete and
should be knocked out first.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05

to white gloves.
On the other two sides were the
visitors seated in folding chairs. In
the center was flagstaff and loud
speaker microphOne.
After a one minute speech, Ad-
miral Gunther declared, by virtue
of the authority vested in me
hereby commission the Holtvilel air
field and order 1t Commander E.
3. Bronte to take command and
lead his orders"
ORDERS READ
There followed the reading of
orders by Bronte, setting of the
watch, inspection of the personnel,
announcement that 1t was regretted
the visitors could not inspect the
various installations. and the COM
missioning was ended.
The ceremonies were opened by
the raising of the flag, music being
played by recording machine.
No planes were in the air, and
only one or two were in evidence
on the ground partially hidden frcM
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Highway Deaths
On July 4Are Few

it was the safest and sanest Fourth
If July the nation has enjoyed In
decades
Holiday crowds which tiironged
oy the thousands by rail- and bus To
resort areas were seeking days
rest They differed psychologically
from the pleasure-seeking crowds
If peacetime.
Ia DROWN
Fourteen drownings were report
I'd, and eight persons were killed
n miscellaneous accidents.
Eight of those killed in traffic
accidents died in head-on automo-
bile collision near Marionville. Pa.
Five others were injured In the ac-
cident. which involved automobiles
from Akron, o.. and New York.
Seven OF the dead we're occupants
OF the car from New York.
California, which usually leads nll
other states In traffic fatalities. was
far down the list with three. Most
states repored no traffic deaths ~
all.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Simple Ceremon"
Dedicdtes Airport

In a brief, almost colorless 10
minute ceremony. the U. S. Naval
auxiliary air station six miles east
of Holtville Sunday morning was
officially commissioned, while some
four hundred civilians watched the
simple proceedings.
Anticipating an elaborate event.
the visitors who drove the many
miles from valley towns with special
invitations in their pockets were
doomed to disappointment, as they
were not permitted to inspect the
buildings and installations of the
new airport for military reasons"
CENTRAL FIGURE
Rear Admiral Ernest l.. Gunther
was the central figure in the short
program staged in quadrangle be-
fore one of the low, one-storied
buildings near the long concrete
runways. On one side naval per-
sonnel in white and blue full dress
we're lined up opposite similar
line of naval and Marine base Of
f&ers. The naval officers wore stiff
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05

VI Cdi ~ iiiFooAcfi'
Gustave Siegfried Ems, an under
ground station that processes to
be pro-German but anti-Nazi, as
serted that Mussolini was consider
ing an Allied peace offer that
would return Italy itc North Afri-
can possessions"
MANY WARNINGS
Though the Allies repeatedly have
warned Italy that only bid for
peace can save the country from
destruction, there has been no in
dication that they will accept any
thing less than the unconditional
surrender demanded by President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill.
Recent British hints jnat Rome
may be bombed b. the allies were
reported in a Zurich dispatch to
have led the Italians to make hasty
attempts to sandbag fountains and
monuments.
The Italians were said to fear AL
lied landings on the coast near
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
ItoIy
Fig hts
Bu C. k
BY UNITED PRESS

Axis aerial resistance over
Italy's island outposts was
revealed Monday to have
flared up after a long period
of dormancy, suggesting reinforce
ment of the Mediterranean defenSes
against the mounting threat OF an
Allied invasion.
American and British airmen
battering necessarily at the italian
bastions shot down 43 Axis fighters
yesterday in overriding the licrcest
opposition they had encounter ~ in
recent weeks.
MANY HITS
The weekend air offensive across
the Mediterranean hit Italy and
outlying Italian soil on broadSide
pattern. Raiders hit coastal targets
near Rome Saturday night, accent
ing recent hints that the allies were
ready to smash at the Italian capi-
tai as a prime military objective.
Though the Allied announcement
of the raid near Rome failed to
specify the targets, an earlier Ital-
ian broadcast said bombs fell on Os-
tia, a seaplane base, and Fiumicino,
on the coast 20 miles southwest. of
Rome and five miles apart.
BLAST AIRDROMES -
The main weight of the Sunday
operations was concentrated on air.
ONES in Sicily Bursting through
the rejuvenated Axis defense screen,
the allies hit Catania, Gerbini, Scia-
cca, Comiso, and Milo. Comiso was
ombed Saturday, along with Ira
pani where the AXIS was reported
glowing up its own quays, presuma-
bly, to prevent their use by Allied
invasion forces.
NEW OFFENSIVE
The raids across the Mediterran-
can coincided with exploding of a
new aerial offensive against Europe
by American and British forces
based in the United kingdom.
The ROYAL air force returned to
Cologne, described by the Germans
as "one vast field of devastation, "
and gave the Rhineland industrial
capital another 1,5OO-ton dose of
bombs. A supplementary force struck
at Hamburg in the Saturday night
bombardment which cost 80 RAJ
bombers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
AIR
W AR
ATTACK GERMANY

LONDON, July 5 (UP) - Allied
planes attacked western Germany
last night, the Berlin radio said to-
day. after Juiy's first big day and
night of pulverizing British and
American raids piled ruin from the
coast of France to Hamburg, Ger
many.
Berlin described the raids as
nuisance" attacks, and they ap-
parently were too small for the air
ministry TO report.
The series of weekend raids be-
gan with the 1l8the Royal Air
Force bomber attack Saturday
night against Cologne. Germany's
most bombed city. 1t was kept
going with an American Fourth of
July battering of French targets in
DAYLIGHT yesterday and wound up
with an attack on Amiens in the
afternoon.
The Flying Fortress attacks came
on the anniversary of the first
American raid on continental OBJ
jectives.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
All led FORCES Draw NET AROUND MUNDA
Bomb
jap
Bases

WASHINGTON, July 5.
(UP) = American warships,
apparently seeking to isolate
Munda from any outside aid,
bombarded Japanese supply
bases in the central SOlOmons and
left fires raging among their in
stallationS, the navy announced to-
day.
The bases attacked are at Villa
and BairOkO. Villa, on KOlOmban-
CARA island, is an auxiliary air
base as well as supply station for
Munda, on New Georgia island.
BairokO is an anchorage on the
western end of New Georgia is
land, on the opposite side Of Kula
gulf from Villa.
This action was announced after
disclosure that the octupus- like AL
lied offensive in the southwest Paci-
fic had gripped another Japanese
held island in the central Solomons
-Vangunu, off the southeastern end
of New Georgia.
NO DETAILS
The navy provided no details on
the naval bombardment of Villa and
Bairoko except to report that U. S.
surface units slipped into the Kula
gull under cover of darkness, blast
ed the two enemy positions and
LETT number of fires burning. The
action occurred on SUNDAY night
dSland time.)
Meanwhile army filters in a for
nation of Lockheed Hudson light
bombers attacked Rekata bay. on
Santa Isabel island. one of Munda,s
satellite bases which has been used
for both seaplane and submarine
operations.
Vangunu island, where Vura VIII
lage was captured by U. S. forces,
was the third island to be occupied
by American forces in the central
Solomons.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Aged Resident Is
Claimed by Death

Thomas M. Upton, 80, resident
of Imperial Valley for the last 25
years, died in Ell Centre Sunday
night and funeral services will be
conducted Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock in the chapel at Lemons
Funeral home.
A retired farmer Mr. Upton made
his residence in Imperial
In addition to four brothers he
is survived by the following chill
dren:
Mrs. H. c. Massey, Ell Centro;
Thomas M. (BilD Upton, Ell Centre;
Mrs. Ora Upton, San Diego: Mrs.
Gertrude Grisham, Ell Dorado, Ar
kansas. and Mrs. Taft Macias Of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Senate Votes 10
End Program on
Crop Insurance

WASHINGTON, July S (UP)-
The senate surrendering TO house
demands for the fourth time in
recent days, voted a. to 23 today
to terminate the federal crop in
surance program.
Receding from IT'S amendment to
continue crop insurance in full
force, the senate completed legis-
lative action on the $85O,OOO, 900
agriculture appropriation bill for
1914. The measure now goes to the
President for signature.
As passed, the bill carries So
100000 for crop insurance liquida-
ton. It provides that no funds can
be expended on insurance of wheat
and cotton crops planted after
July 81, "or for any other purpose"
except the liquidation of insurance
contracts on wheat and cotton
planted before that date.
SENATE GIVES IN
The senate on Saturday gave in
to house demands for liquidation of
the National Youth Administration.
Friday 1t bowed to the house in
denying salary to three government
employees acused of subversive asso-
Citations and in prohibiting the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board from
calling labor elections in plants
where labor contracts had been in
force for three months without
complaint.
Sen. Gerald P. Nye, r.. N. D., said
he would try to revive the crop in
surance program in an amendment
to the forthcoming second deficiency
bill Nye, who voted for the death
of crop insurance in the agricul-
, ture bill, said that If the item were
inserted in the deficiency measure,
the senate would have a good
chance of forcing the house to ac-
cept 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
SOVIET TROOPS
BREAK UP TWO
NAzI ATTACKS

MOSCOW, July S (UP) - Soviet
guns broke up two tank-supported
NaZi thrusts northwest of Moscow
and scattered enemy infantry gath
ering for attack in the Belgorod
sector, the Russian high command
reported today.
Eight hundred elite SIS troops
were killed and four tanks disabled
out of force of from 2,400 to 5000
men and seven tanks that attacked
futilely twice under artillery cover
at a new-captured height in the
Kholm sector.
In the Belgorod area above Khar-
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III eW
Isles
T aiken
By BRYDON TAVES

"A Il II L T. ~ I1EAD<2O AN
TIERS, Australia, July 5.
(UP)-Allied troops, moving
swiftly to protect the flanks
of their newly-won positions in the
Solomons, have occupied islands
adjacent to Rendova and seized the
Japanese-held village of Vura on
Vanguna. just southeast of New
Georgia, it was revealed today.
A dispatch from Frank Tre-
maine. United Press correspond
ent at headquarters of the Allied
South Pacific forces, reported the
occupation of islands fringing
RendOva. from whose northern
coast Allied artillery was shelling
the Japanese air base at Munda,
five miles across the Blanche
channel and goal of the invasion
forces.
The dispatch did not name the
islands involved, but Blanche Is
land lies off the east coast of Rem
dova, larger Tetipari is off the
southern tip and several smaller
islands dot the coastline.
CAPTURE VILLAGE
The capture of Vura village on
Vangunu island was reported in
toda.'s comriunique from Allied
headquarters in Australia. which
said that Allied troops killed 800
of the japanese garrison and scat
tered the survivors. The Allied force.
which swarmed ashore from nearby
Nickham anchorage, suffered only
relatively light" losses.
r. The cOfllnuniqtie implied that the
Allies had captured Wickham An
chOrage, which yesterday was under
pOmbardment from Allied warships.
Tremaine's dispatch said inform
ed sources at south Pacific head
quarters regarded Munda's position
as mot particularly healthy" as
result of the Allied invasion thrusts.
On the other hand, the American
position was described as very sat-
isfactory" with Allied progress on
New Georgia island, where u. s.
army troops and marines captured
Viru harbor, proceeding according
to schedule"
American. dive-bombers were cred
tied with sinking a 2,500-ton heavi-
,-camouflaged Japanese cargo ship
in the Kula gulf between Kolom-
bangara and the east coast of New
Georgia, Friday.
"a Japanese communique, broad
cast by the Tokyo radio and re-
corded by tine United Press in San
Francisco, said Japanese planes
destroyed nine planes on the ground
and sank transport and large
number" of smaller vessels in a
raid on American beachheads on
Rendova Friday)
Informed sources at south Pacific
headquarters said the Japanese had
made no attempt to re-capture Rem
dova and no troopships had been
seen at the time of the shelling of
the island Saturday.
LAND TROOPS
Headquarters of Allied amphib-
ious forces in the Solomons reveal
ed that thousands of troops with
tons OF equipment have been put
ashore in Ji.e New Georgia group.
Before the battle of the New
GeorgiaS is over the Americans may
have struck the Japanese the hard
est blow yet in this Pacific war;"
Frank Hewlett, United Press cor
respondent at amphibious head
quarters, wrote.
On New Georgia Island itself.
where the largest force probably
was landed, American soldiers and
Marines were completing mopping-
up operations around Viru harbor in
the southeast preparatory to a con-
certed push toward the main enemy
base at Munday, 80 miles away.
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HAMMER AIRDROMES

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, July (UP)-Allied airmen
burst through inteEre opposition
which cost the Axis As planes yes
terday to hammer five Sicilian air
dromes after night raiders had
plastered the Lido Di Roma sea-
plane base Is miles south of Rome.
Overriding the heaviest fighter
resistance since the peak of the
Tusisian campaign, American Cun-
ners shot down SO Axis planes over
Catania and nearby Gerbini and
lost only three.
Gunners aboard Flying FOrtresses
striking at Catania shot down l8
enemy fighters and ran the gantlet
of aerial bombs which the defense
planes tried to drop amidst the
American formations.
Maj. A. B. Hughes of Center, Tex,
veteran of more than 40 raids on
Frenc hand Meditepranean targets,
said:
"ThOse fellows were very aggres-
sive. If they weren't picked fight
ers. they certainly were given a
good pep talk before they took Off"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
IIDuce Reported
Proposing Peace
: BY ROBERT DOWSON :

LONDON, July 5. (UP)--A European underground
radio station said today that Premier Benito Mussoni
considering separate peace the fury of the Allied
aerial assault against Italy mounted pitch that held
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
Set
Up New Pay Plan

Imperial county supervisors emerged from the thrCes
of exhaustive struggle with the ouchy wartime salary
problem this week with newly vamped salary ordinance
which adopted by unanimous vote.
Work on this ordinance done in connection with
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
RAIL YARDS HIT

NEW DELHI, July (UP)-Am-
erican bombers dropped 20 tons of
explosives on Japanese operated
railroad yards at Shwebo and enemy
barracks at Meiktila in central
Burma and hit the Akyab ietty i'm
Continued ON pape & Col ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05

Time Out
Take breather.
RR is celebrating this firecracker-
6less firecyacker day by thinking up
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
EXPIRATION DATES

Coffee stamp No. 21-July 21.
Sugar stamp No. 13-August Is.
Shoe stamp No. 1S-Oct. n.
Gasoline "A" coupon 6-July 81.
Gasoline IT" stemps-June 30.
Canned goods. stamps r. L, NJ in Book
July 4 N, and Q-August 7.
Meat Butte. etc, Red stamp P-July 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-05
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday, 1903; minimum
Monday So; am. Monday IS, hu-
midity SO; noon Monday 81, humid
ity 81; S pm. Sun. 1O2, humidity 26.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-10
SWISS FEEL WAR
MAY END IN '43
Continued from Page One)

great Orel victory, Berlin is ner-
vcusly awaiting bambardment;
other Reich cities are already feel
ing the weight Of Allied bombs.
1. may well re considered signifi-
cant in the light Of 20 veslrs ago,
that Hitler met IN urgent confer
ences last week with his generals,
political advisers, Field Marshal
Herman Goeclng and Propaganda
Minister Joseph Goebbels to tell
Of the feeling among the people.
Says the Lausanne Tribune: The
Germans no longer fight today
icr victory. What they seek in con-
tinuing struggle, which appears
daily more difficult, is to obtain
from a firing enemy acceptable
conditions for peace"-just as Is
years ago.
The editorialist declared the
hopes for a summer offensive in
Russia. Ct which Goebbels wrote
in February, didn't materialize,
the air offensive on Germany is
on the increase, and, while Goeb-
eels urges the people to stand un-
der the raids as did the English,
the English hadn't started to fight
in 1910 and had enormous reserves.
/ This is mot the. same as Ger
many N 1943 whose economic and
military machine has been sub
:aitted through long years to ex-
hausting tension," he added.
Germany IS already troubled
with oil needs as in 1918. The
American bombers won't help. The
disappearance of the air force as
a great, massive weapon; the new
er-lessening problems Of transport,
and the urgent need of men to
guard The whole continent to keep
It's occupied people under control
are all factors:
The most important factor, how
ever, is Italy and how the hopes
OF her ceople ere resolved. If Italy
gets out of the war somehow, as
i now appears must be in the
near future, the Balkans can be
spurred into similar efforts. The
hardest, moss persistent military
effort can be concentrated against
Germany then and the five-to-eight
month chance may we'll become
a reality. The Germans in Berlin,
themselves, talk of five months.
If Italy gets out quickly by the
negotiation OF an armistice under
the open pressure from her peo-
Pile, and the resultant effect ex-
tends both into the Balkans and
Germany; if the air raids on Ger
many bite deep into her morale,