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plined" and seem eager to make the
grade.
The passing grade is the same as
for regular academic work.
Languages to Be Taught.
1t Dunlap said some groups at
Maryland were brought in for spe-
cial language courses - principally
French and German. Most of the
basic course frances will study en-
cheering radio, ordnance, auto
motive, and so forth.
The schedule gets the Army
students up at $50 am. and they
have 10 minutes Tor assembly. with
breakfast at 7:05, sick call at 7:45
and first school call at sos am.
1t goes on just like that all day,
with supervised study starting at
pm, and taps at IL pm. The
students will have little time after
3 pm. Saturday and on Sundays to
catch their breath for another week.
Many of the present instructors
will teach the soldier classes, and it
was believed that some additional
help would be forthcoming for the
military work.
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Maryland VINO Denies
Half Of Job Release Pleas

BALTIMORE. June Is tPj.-Law-
renee B. Fenneman, State War Man
power Commission director, reported
today requests. for releases from
workers in Maryland's war and
essential industries had been APP
proved and denied in approximately
equal numbers since May II.
1t was on May IL that the new
Maryland employment stabilize ton
plan went into effect, and since that
time, Mr.. Fenneman said, the review
unit of the United States Employ
ment Service has made 8,o37
decisions.
In all. 1923 appeals were taken
by employees from the units de-
cisionS.
In the appeal cases, the WING
granted 1896 outright releases and
So conditional releases, denying
them to 4l2 and referring the case
back to the employer by agreement
in II cases.
Mr.. Fenneman explained that the
conditional releases were granted in
instances where employers could
not meet certain conditions, partic-
ularly in cases where the workers
health might be affected.
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900 Selected Troops Begin
Special Course at MARYLAND u.
Intensive Army Training Program
Conducted at Three Of Stute's Schools
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
More than 900 selected Army
troops from virtually every one of
the 48 States yesterday began an
intensive special training program
at the University of Maryland that
will mean for many of them an
opportunity to win commissions.
Maryland is one of three schools
in the State where the Army spe-
cialized training program is being
conducted. The others are West
ern Maryland College at West
minister and Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in Baltimore.
Size of the Army classes appar-
emily was limited only by accom-
mooations, and Col. Robert E.
WySor, commandant of the Uni
versity of Maryland contingent, said
the class was closed until fall be-
cause there were no facilities to
take care of more students.
The special students have just
about made College Park resemble
an Army camp. and military regu-
lations have replaced much of the
old campus atmosphere.
Special Quarters Utilized.
Special quarters have been set
aside for the soldiers, and new bar
racks are being constructed to &C.
commodate future arrivals.
Civilians are not allowed TO enter
the area designated for the Army
men. and sentries patrol. the re-
Stricted zone at night. -
Nevertheless, university officials,
headed by President H. C. Byrd, say
they expect the regular college
classes to continue as usual with
as little disturbance as possible
Swelled by the 9l6 Army trainees,
the total enrolment at Maryland
stood today at 2,0l7, largest summer
enrolment in the colleges history.
And students still were registering
This is modern war" Col
Wysor said, land it requires highly
trained officers and men to fight
modern battles. They're not doing
things like they did in other wars"
Strict Routine Followed.
The Army students march to sep
arate classes AND follow a strict rou-
tine similar to any military post.
They will follow 59-hour weekly
schedule that won't permit much
outside activity. This schedule calls
for "a hours of classroom work, "a
hours of supervised study, 6 hours of
physical training and hours of
military tactics.
The terms OF the basic course will
parallel the university semester.
Weekly individual reports are
planned for each Army student. and
he II be told if his subject work isn't
up to requirements. If the student
can't keep up the pace, he'll go back
to Regular Army duty. If he makes
good, he stands a chance of moving
forward in advanced work and per-
haps shot at Officers Candidate
School and a commission.
Ii. George w. Dunlap of Rock
Hill, S. c.. company commander,
says that his men are well disci-
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shared, Mrs. Engebretson said, Mr..
Engebretson took the trip across the
North Atlantic and was lost.
Also reported missing is Robert
Earl Carpenter. %, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. w Carpenter of 662l Eastern
avenue, Takoma Park, Md. an oiler
in the United States Merchant
Marine.
His father, an employe of the
Post Office Department, said he
talked to his son by telephone few
days before he put to sea on his last
voyage.
HE told me then that there was
little time for anything but work
and that he did not know when he
might get home again. His mother
and are still looking for some news
of him." Mr.. Carpenter said.
The missing man attended public
schools in Takoma Park and later
attended the Paul Junior High
School and the Woodward School
for Boys in the District. He left
school to become a seaman at the
age of l6.
A brother, Pvt. D. M. Carpenter, Is
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Associated Press Writer
In South Poetic Hurt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July
13.-William F. Boni, Associated
Press war correspondent in New
Guinea, received nine shell splinter
wounds in an attack by Japanese
planes on the Salamaua front. the
A. P.'s Australian bureau was in
formed today. Mr. Boni is being
treated at an advanced field hos
pital near the battle scene.
In brief message dispatched here
through Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
press relations Office, Mr. Bor1i de-
scribed his wounds as superficial"
They were received when low
flying enemy aircraft strafed barge
in which the correspondent was
leaving Nassau Bay, IL miles below
Salamaua and the scene OF Amer
lean landings June 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-13
William Engebretson
OF Merchant Marine
Listed as Missing

william M. Engebretson, a former
foreman with the National Capital
Park Service, has been reported
missing and probably lost" by the
Merchant Marine, according to a
casulty list issued by the Navy De-
partment today.
His wife, Mrs. Alice Engebretson.
1924 A street Sc, said Mr.. Enge-,
preston was Midwesterner who had
passion for the sea. 1t came out
when he joined the Navy as a men,
Der Of the Medical Corps on gradua-
ton from the Hudson tWis) High
School in 1925. Injuries sustained in
the Nicaraguan uprising led by
Gen. SANDING in 1929 forced his re-
tirement.
Mr.. Engebretson then returned to
Hudson, where he operated several
service stations, became first
lieutenant in the National Guard,
and as owner and coach piloted the
Hudson Eagles to the semiprofes-
sional football championship of Wis
consin in 1881. He then directed the
team in a coveted interstate VIC
tory over the Red Wing (Minn)
eleven. r-e
Two years later he took the Job
with the Washington park depart
ment and moved here. Since then
Mr.. Engebretson has been connected
with the Cafritz Real Estate Co.,
Miller Brothers and Universal Credit
Co. He left the last company In
May. 1912, to join the Merchant
Marine as wiper after being turned
down by the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps.
He made three trips overseas. On
the first one to Africa last fall, his
ship was torpedoed. but all hands
were saved. During the winter Mr..
Engebretson went to South America.
Despite premonition which they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-13
Hardy Wheat Strain
Wins Russiun Prize

Breeding of a perennial wheat
which withstandS the cold and the
drought of Central Asia has won a
100, 000-ruble prize from Moscow for
Nikolai Tsitsin, scientific farmer.
Already 1000 acres of the new
wheat have given heavy yields in
KaZakstan Root stalks bear the
second year without replanting, it is
reported.
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0'Conor SCOTS al Plan
For Postwar Rule by
Functional Areas
Governor Hits Round TobIe
: Plea to Abolish States
As 'Uninformed'

ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 13.-
Postwar plans calling for the elm
ination of States and the establish
mept of functional areas" drew a
sharp reply yesterday from Gov
OConor.
- 1T is hard to treat such sugges-
@%tions seriously" the Governor said.
49, Those who make such plans are
- either unmindful of what States
are doing or they are uniformed
on the whole subject"
! Gov. O'Conor's statement fol-
lowed round-table conference on
surban planning sponsored by the
Johns Hopkins University, during
which the plan was presented.
= Two Schools of Thought.
of course, it is well known" said
1.-The Governor, that there are two
aschools of thought-one, consisting
spf those people who believe that all
spoWers should be centralized in the
Federal Government and, two, con-
ssisting of those who appreciate the
benefits of dual form of govern
80 tnent, with the States and the Fed
8 eral Government each operating as
II separate sovereignities.
= The fathers of our Republic ad-
IS eocated the dual system, and / for
:. one. believe that the country pro-
4. crossed very far while that system
was given full play.
The importance of the States as
administrative entities in matters
! affecting the welfare of all the peo-
pie has been demonstrated SO con-
:. Tir1cingly during the current emer-
= gency that l cannot conceive how
s<any one could question their con-
tinuing Importance in the field of
postwar planning and action :.
- People Will Decide.
- What some proponents fail to
realize is that the people are still
81 the Government and that the people
do, not intend to establish a die
,s~sta torship privileged to act on its
,ssspwn accord"
~ Robert M. Law, technical director
srsssnf the Federal Housing Authority at
and one of several per-
.ssons participating in the discus
Ss~sions, had suggested that States be
polished and the country be re-
- districted into functional areas.
- THE State" Mr.. Law said, is
! decreasing markedly in its functions
.sepersus those of the urban area.
- wonder if it is not timely to con-
5.@Aeisder the reorganization of the Ma
s..~tion. indeed, the world, on an urban
rssbasis."
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a member of the United States
armed forces in North Africa.
john Mccormick Carter engine
cadet, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Lee
Carter of Rockville, who was re-
ported by. the family as missing in a
story in The Star last Sunday, also
was included on today's list.
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Mrs. Armour Returns

= MIAMI, Fla, July 10 ,P>.-Mrs..
+. Norman Armour, wife of the United
States Ambassador to Argentina,
~arrived yesterday by Pan American
sClipper from South America. Mrs.
. Armour said she would fly to New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-14

step in this latest contribution to the
about war effort came when the Dam
vile, Va. Technical School began
training husbands and wives as work.
ing teams. Graduates are now working
side by side in plants that make tor
pedoes, planes, guns.
Husband-and- wife teams have made
hit with once-skeptical personnel
managers. They work as a complete
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her Homework by rearranging her
schedule. When she does her market
ing once a week she puts in suffi-
cient supply of staples to tide her
over until the next shopping day.
Additional food purchases are made
on the way home from work.
Every day. more women are enter
ing factories to work side by side with
their men. They're working at the
same tasks in such plants as the Glenn
L. Martin Co., Baltimore, Md, the
Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth.
Va, and many other war factories.
American husbands and wives are
proving that they can take their team
work out of their homes and put it to
work for Victory.
SHIRLEY ALEXANDER
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highly cooperative unit, share the
same hours and experiences They
have a deep understanding of each
others jobs and coordinate their
thoughts and actions to form a swift
efficient production team.
The plan got under way when sew
eral Virginia couples decided that they
wanted to help do their share and still
remain together if possible. They dis
cussed the idea with Gordon May.
director of the school. and he gave the
marital-team plan its first practical
test. Husband-and-wife students who
are learning to work side by side can
choose from a variety of courses:
welding. machine shop, electric wiz
ing, sheet metal, etc.
After work is over the two team
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-14
Man-and-Wife teams
are making a hit in
southern war plants

q PRS. AMERICA does more than
" just pack her husband lunch
ava box these days - she's shar-
ing it with him right on the job. First
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mates have more in common than ever
before. Hubby is more apt than ever
to be model husband and help with
the dishes or other household chores.
After all, the lady is bringing home a
pay check, too. And couples with chill
dren have noticed that the youngsters
are on good behavior when their par
ents come home - anxious to show
that they want to do their share. too.
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1HE husband-and-wife team earns
from $3.50 to $l6O week. Practically
all of them invest everything above
their normal living expenses in jointly
purchased War Bonds.
The lady of the team takes care of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
final BATTLE OF AFRICA UNDER way
Farm Rationinq
Red Tape FIayed

Imperial county's Farm Bureau,
along with farm bureaus from Or
ange and Riverside, was on record
Monday urging abandonment of
the rationing system in use on
farm machinery and equipment and
the establishment of higher prices
for dairy products.
Meeting Saturday afternoon were
more than so members of farm
bureaus and home department of
the three counties to discuss pre-
vailing farm problems.
After an address by J. J. Duel,
head of the law and utilities depart
ment of the California Farm Bur-
eau federation, the assembled men,
berS passed several resolutions.
Duel spoke on The Problems OF
Agriculture Under Wartime Con-
ditionS." After he gave suggestions
on how the farm machinery and
labor situations could be met the
bureau members acted
The farm group resolved that
practically the same result now OBJ
tained with burdenSome red tape
can be achieved by allowing deal
ers to handle equipment and gas
oline
Members opinions in regards to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
Reporter Catches
One In Rear
HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa. Jan. 25.-(UPD-Wil-
liam Stoncman, correspondent for
the Chicago Daily News with the
Allied forces, was wounded slight
" early this month when his au-
tomohile was ambushcd In the Gus
seltia sector, it was disclosed to-
day.
Il must definitely assure all in
tcrcSted there is nothing wrong
with me except that I will have to
be careful about sitting down for
week or two" Stoncman wrote
from an American casualty clear
ing station.
Stoneman drove his machine
through the lines during tank
and infantry battle five miles east
of Ou3selta. Heavy German ma
chine gun fire sprayed the auto
mobile, and Stoneman leaped from
the car ana piayed possum for al
most an hour before he made his
way painfully back to American
lines.
Il prayed hard and expected to
be hit any minute" Stoneman
wrote. They stopped firing final
ly and l noticed a numb spot in
my right rear, But I didn't realize
I'd caught one"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

saw nOtnln2 drnlSS.
Mrs. Martha Virginia James. 21
four months bride of navy ensign,
was found on a pullman floor of
southbound train early Saturday.
Her throat had been slashed as she
lay in lower berth 13 and her body
tumbled to the floor.
The body was found at apprOXi-
mately 4 am. FolkeS told authori-
ties who took him into custody
when the train arrived here that
he had passed through the car
twice around am, and saw moth
ing out of the war.
Folkcs admitted to detectives F.
A. Tetrick and Richard McCreadie
that he had several drinks before
he boarded the train. Stewards on
the train, he said, had a party
and FClkes said he had four high
balls and some beer
The youthful cook said ordinar
lily ne started the fires in the diner
around $3.50 am. Saturday morning
he declared. he oversight and did
not leave his berth until about 4
o'clock.
He said he went forward through
The diner into tho tourist sleeper
ahead and smoked for Is minute.
with the car porter, a Negro named
Hughes.
AS he passed through tho sleeper
nc said. he had to walk around the
black clad legs CT a man getting
down from an upper berth.
He returned to the diner Is min
uteS later and said all was quiet
II the tourist car.
McCreadie and Tetrick were to
continue questioning the Negro
They said Folkes had a record OF
three previous arrests in Los An
rs.
Last December 90, records showed
he was arrested and booked as a
drunk after police reported he cut
window screen and entered d
bedroom in which three women
were asleep.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
Army Trucks In
Valley Accidents

Two army trucks were involved
IN accidents with civilian vehicles
over the weekend in Ell Centre.
At l1:30 pm Saturday an au-
tomobile driven by James L. Able
collided with a truck at Main and
Hope streets. No serious injuries
resulted.
A car driven by Mrs. James
Weaver and one driven by w. j.
Mallory both crashed with another
Army truck early Monday morn
ing at Main street and the rail-
road crossing.
Mrs. Weaver was fined $3.50 in
court Monday morning when found
guilty of drunken driving
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
SO Contribute TO
March of Dimes

More than 50 firms and in
dividuals in Imperial Valley
have contributed to the March
of Dimes since the initial phase
of tho national drive began To-
cally, Mrs. Dorothy Ehmkc,
secretary Of the valley chapter
of the group, announced Mon
day.
Mrs. Ehmke said that the
drive will not take on an all
out aspect until Wednesday
when final committee appoint
ments arc made.
While a certain percentage of
the money collected by the COM
mittees goes to do battle with
infantile paralysis throughout
the nation. much of it reL\'ins
here TO help local victims. Mrs.
Ehmke emphasized.
One valley victim: is now be-
ing given the fullest use Of funds
collected i'm other campaigns.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

Come out and fight and dashed
TO within 33 miles of the south
eastern Tunisian coast in a raid
below SfaX American tank units,
lsed in increasing numbers, appar-
entity had halted the axis drive on
he Ousseltia valley.
Tfere were recurrent reports, un-
confirmed by London official quar-
-ers. that advance patrols OF the
British Eighth army, pounding down
.he 100 miles of hell between Tri-
coli and Tunisia, had crossed the
Tunisian frontier.
Fighting French headquarters re-
ported that Brig. Gen. jacques Le-
Clerc's Lake Chad forces had reach
ed a point only so miles from the
Mediterranean and west OF Tripoli.
FINAL BATTLE FRONT
These developments lent sub
stance to reports that the American
British and French units from all
parts of North Africa soon would
be joined to drive the Italians and
Germans back into the Mediterran-
can.
The Germans faced as serious a
crisis in Russia, where the Soviet
armies of the Caucasus, aided by
planes and ships of the Black Sea
Red fleet, increased the speed of
their drive to clamp an iron ring
around an estimated 185, 900 axis
cffectives south of the Rostov line.
Soviet forces now were within ar
tillery range of Kropotkin after a
25-mle overnight advance. The fall
of KrOpotkin would leave Germany
with only one important rail juno
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of RoStov.
JAPS ROUTED
The nav: announced at Washing
ton that American forces on Quad
alcanal had stormed and captured
the OnCe-strong Japanese base at
kokumbona, seven miles west of
Henderson field. Six elevations west
Of the field were captured. a COM
muniQuc said.
Allied planes in North Africa de-
vcloped a tWO-Way, almost nom
stop aerial attack on Field Marshal
Erwin Rommcls Afrika KorpS which
was pulling itself painfully to new
positions in TuniSia
One fleet of Allied planes was
operating from neWly-Won bases
around Tripoli; the other flew out
from the Tunisian side of the bat
tie front to haraSs axis forces try
ing to make their way from Libya
to GabeS
There was no official confirma-
Continued on Page 6, Col q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25
Eisenhower MAY
Guide All Allies
In Mediterranean
Dramatic Announcement
Believed Forthcoming
On New War Plans

LONDON, Jan. 25. (UP)-
A suggestion was advanced
t o d y t h at Lieut.. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower may
be named commander of
joint operations in the Mediter-
ranean area as a result of Anglo
American strategy conversations.
This report was accompanied by
the possibility that Gen. Harold
Alexander, British commander-in-
chief in the Middle East, may be
assigning the specific task of COM
manding the climactic cleanup in
Tunisia.
1t was pointed out Eisenhower,
Alexander ana even Gen. George c.
Marshall, American chief of staff,
all would be logical choices for the
task of the high command in the
Mediterranean.
However, some reliable opinion
favored Eisenhower's selection be-
cause the operation in northwest
Africa is primarily an American
show.
Radio Berlin asserted today that
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
left London some days ago to con-
suit with President Roosevelt on
the African situation and on Anglo
American relations with RussiaD
A dramatic announcement of
agreements on North Africa was
anticipateS shortly.
The decisions might result in
placing Alexander in charge of CO.
ordinating actual operations OF the
British first and eighth armies and
the American fifth army. Alexan-
der's experience and brilliant ad-
work is credited here
with a large share in the success
of the drive on Tripoli.
Coordination of the three armies,
it was noted, is necessary without
delay since air action is merging
Continued on Page 6, C)l. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-25

The two officials warned during
a joint press conference that un-
less these manpoWer needs are fill
cd somehow. agriculture in gener-
al faces a breakdown. They met
reporters in connection with issu-
ance by McNutt of directive Civ
ing the Agriculture Department
full responsibility for handling farm
labor needs.
McNutt and Wickard said that
100000 persons were engaged in
farming in December and that this
figure must be increased to more
than 12,000000 il production goals
arc to be met this year. They eX-
pect to get most of the needed
workers from volunteers in urban
areas.
The situation is extremely Sc
rious," McNutt said 1T is mat
ter of utilizing everything available
TO solve the problem
Asked where the land army VOL
unteers will come from, Wickard
said they would be sought in every
rural and urban community. He
said they must come from house
wives. persons employed in stores,
banks and every other business not
directly engaged in war work
Wickard stressed that the vollm-
teerS will be paid the prevailing
wage of the area in which they
work Those taking full-time. year
round jobs would get either the
prevailing wage or 30 cents an
hour. whichever is higher.
McNutt was asked if he foresaW
the closing Oh small firms to meet
the overall manpoWer problem of
war industry and agriculture.
Not necessarily" he said. But
every man should ask himself to-
day if he is doing something es-
sortial to the war effort. If not,
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