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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
IS Dissatisfied
Mexicans Leave

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4.-(UP)-
Eighteen Mexican National workers
who quit their Santa Fe Railway
jobs because they said they were
dissatisfied with their 47l2 cents
an hour pay today were on their
way back to Mexico.
Most of the others" involved in
the dispute were back at work,
the railway said, and added the
number was 80 workers instead of
the 10 originally believed to have
quit.
Albert Del Guercio, legal aide for
the immigration department, said
the l8 men left voluntarily, al
though they might otherwise have
been forced TO go because they
broke the contract permitting them
to stay in this country when they
refused to work.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Union Heads Put
off Strike Vote

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-CUP)-
Presidents of Is railroad Unions
representing 100000 non n-operat-
ing employees agreed today that they
would withhold a strike vote over
wage demands until they confer
with railroad executives here Fri
day.
The Union presidents had come
here prepared to authorize a strike
vote Immediately, but they decided
against issuing the order pending
outcome of the new negotiations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Commission Tells
Years Ship Output

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-UP)-
The Maritime Commission reported
today that American shipyards dur
ing the first seven months of 1943
delivered into service 1.046 new
merchant vessels representing a
tonnage equivalent to that of this
country's total ocean-going mer-
chant-marine at the time of Pearl
Harbor
The commission disclosed that
production of 158 new vessels in
July brought the years total de-
livery to l0,485, 500 deadweight tons.
The July delivery was nine vessels
short of the previous months out
put but the total tonnage-1,67O,-
400 deadWeight tons - remained
about the same because of con-
struction of larger units.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
FEC Looks into
Closing Of Postal

WASHINGTON. Aug. up
The Federal Communications Com
mission today ordered an investiga-
ton into the closing of postal tele-
graph offices since announcement
of plans for merging postal with
Western Union.
The American communications
Association (CIO) charged that
wholesale abandonment" of Postal
facilities is impairing telegraph
service. Postal officials contended
that only small branch offices have
been shut down with no consequent
reduction in service. =.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
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northeastern corner of Sicily.
"a German communique broad
cast by the Berlin radio said that
American divisi ions attempted
again and again" to break through
the Axis central front, but were
thrown back each time with heavy
loSSeS.)
American cruisers and deStroyers
aided the American coastal drive by
bombarding enemy defenses and
roads, over which reinforcements
and supplies were being rushed to
the front.
Catenanuova, 81 miles west of
Catania, fell to the Canadians yes
terday after being by-passed by a
column that captured Centurripe,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Pilots Stop Jap
Drive in Burma

u. S. FIGHTER BASE. Eastern
Assam, India, July 81 Delayed
CUPl-Knockout blows delivered by
P-40's against bridges in northern
Burma have stopped an enemy
drive from Sumprabum toward
ESrtz and British troops are mop
ping up the remnants of japanese
advance units, Capt. Emile A..
Berman, of New York, y. Y, said
today.
Berman, intelligence officer at
this base. said the attacks had
wrecked the l00-foot Loilaw rail-
road bridge and the Namti, Nsop-
zup and Tpunzinzup bridges, all
important to japanese traffic from
Myitkyina to Sumprabum. two
enemy bases in northern Burma.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Soldier Sentenced
On Check Charae

F. L. Richards, 2l-year-old SOL
dier, was sentenced to serve from
one to 10 years in San Quentin
prison by Superior Court Judge
Vaughn Thompson Wednesday on
q forgery charge.
Richards was accused of passing
bogus checks last February and
after being found guilty his SEN
tence was suspended so that he
could return to military service.
He was recently turned back over
TO civil authorities by the army.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
British Bomber
Falls in Sweden
BY UNITED PRESS

The Stockholm radio reported
Wednesday that a Canadian bomber
which took part in Monday nights
Raj raid on Hamburg had crash
landed in southern Sweden. The
seven crew members were said to
have been disarmed and interned
by Swedish authorities.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Reich Puts New
Bans on Press

STOCKHOLM Aug. 3-(DelaycO
-tUPl-Nazi propaganda minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels has imposed
new. stringent restrictions on for
eign correspondents within the
Reich, prohibiting them from writ
ing about the air war, bombings,
and evacuation of blasted German
cities. Correspondents of n e
Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyhet-
er and Svenska Dagbladet still are
banned from communicating with
their papers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Germans Punish
Greeks for Strike
By UNITED PRESS

The Moscow radio reported We'd
nesday that German authorities
have ordered that when three or
more Greek workers are absent
from the same factory they will be
treated as saboteurs and punished
accordingly. The order was said to
be In retaliation for a recent strike
at Athens.
The BROADCAST, recorded by CHS,
said that Greek guerillas had killed
go German troops in an engage
nent near Agrinion.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Get your
tires
Inspected
early

Like to be able to forget about tire inspection until next
wear? You can do it-and avoid the usual Il tminute
rush too by getting the job done right now If y have
an A book just stop this week and of Sta ard
folks who a,e tire inspectors. Then you'll be finished
INSPECTIONS till March, 1914. It's smart to stee.
clear of that stampede of folks who put off tire inspections
till lust before September 30.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04

1t left whose right foot
chopped off by the propeller japanese Zero over the Russell
It. James Gilbert Percy
USMC pilot 2O0oot fall when his
chute failed he baied his The Jap flyer who
finally chopped at him with
the planes propeller Official U. s. Navy photo axx&zE&sz
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04

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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-04
Down in front

Don let your front Wheei Dear
ings down. Every 5000 miles
they need a careful cleaning and
greasing that we Standard folks
are specially trained to do. For
safe driving, let us check them
next time you come in for one of
our never-miss fabrication jobs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-12
TO PUT.IN.BAY
SUNDAY, JUNE 10

A. Cedar Point will not open
this Aummer until June 26th.
there are two Sundays, June
18th and goth. that the big
Steamer Put In Bay will be
leaving Detroit at 10 -m.-IoE
= cruise among the islands Of
Lake Erie, There will be
three hour stop at Put-ln-Bay so
the passengers can picnic, ride
the bikes. visit the Perry Monu-
ment and the caves, or battle
in the warm waters of Lake
Erie. Then, instead OF return
ing directly TO Detroit, the
steamer will cruise among the
Erie Islands at the discretion OF
the captain. getting back TO De-
troit about $50 p. IN. There
will be free dancing aboard the
steamer and our dining room
will be open for all meals in.
GLIDING breakfast. Also lunch
and refreshment stands for
your convenience. The fare, in
GLIDING federal tax, ia $50
for adults or IS cents for
children.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-12
NEW AMERICAN HISTORY

500. Or. Quaife contributed more
than 80 papers TO these volumes.
Nf.tS tNTKTCEN HISTORY
Suggested by Charles Barnes
and probable choice for The midi
vldual award is the Two volume
set, Growth of the United States.
by Ralph Nomcy Harlow profess
sor of American history Maxwell
Graduate School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs. Syracuse TIM
veSity. These history books have
Just ben published and cover the
period up 10 the present year.
Decisions OF The committee and
more names .of the members of
the school teams VIII be published
daily in the columns OF The De-
troit Times until the contest ends.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-12
Committee Maysgein &
Final Contest plans
ny OFT Wf6tF

Honorary committee members
and Judges OF the William Ran
-tI5tftlit- HFt-stti-t American history
Awards contest sponsored by The
Detroit Times 20 spur interest and
love in the glorious pages of our
nations past are meeting today. &c
formulate final contest plans and
select volumes of American his
tory books that viii be purchased
by MIR. Hearst and placed in the
libraries Of the winning Detroit
high schools.
Five OF tho best American his
tory scholars from each of the
cltys 10 public high schools, 90 in
all, Will write a Commute exam
nation or American history TO
win valuable sets of volumes for
their school Libraries and indIyId-
ual awards for themselves.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-12
COMMITTEE MEETS

The honorary committee headed
by Or. Milo NJ. Quaife, historian
and secretary Of the Burton His
t0rlcal Collection OF the Detroit
Public Library, and the four con
fGSf judges headed by Charles {,
Barnes, director OF social studies
for the Detroit schools, gathered
today at the Board of Education
Building 467 West Hancock.
They Will make final selection
II the volumes that are TO be
awarded 20 the five winning high
schools whose history teams"
make the highest aggregate score
on the examination 10 be written
at Wayne University June Is,
They VIII also select the history
books that VIII be given the 10
scholars who make the best score
on cach Of the teams.
Committee members and Judges
VIII choose the volumes from the
approved list Of American history
books Of the Detroit Board OF
Education.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
1O-Yeor-OId
Dies Of Hurts

Bonaventure Ristoli, ten year
old inmate of the Southbury train
ing school for mental detectives,
died at Waterbury hospital this
morning from shock and perfora-
tions Of the intestine, following an
unexplained occurrence at the in
stitution yesterday afternoon.
Coroner Miles F. McNlff, Jr., who
is investigating, said that DR..
Deutch Of the school staff was sum-
moned to the boy at 500 in the
afternoon, and found him suffering
from a rupture of the intestine. DR..
Deutch summoned an ambulance
from Waterbury hospital and the
boy was admitted at 7:30 p. m.
Coroner McNif said that the rup-
ture may have been caused by the
application of a water hose. Fur
ther comment is being withheld
pending investigation.
The Southbury school has been in
the news since yesterday when a
parent of a sixteen year old inmate
charged that his boy had been mis-
treated by a cottage master. Super
intendent Ernest Roselle had denied
the charges, and explained that a
cottage master had slapped the boy,
for which he had ben severely rep
rimanded. Further details of this
incident will be found elsewhere In
this paper.
Prosecutor Russell Warren, of the
Southbury Town Court, who was in
vestigating the mistreatment COM
plant has begun an investigation
of this latest occurrence.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10

Rops FIJI

Danbury, Conn, Aug. 10-UP)-
Rose Wilder Lane, prominent au-
thor, said today it was important for
Americans to know what is going
on" in America when police are per-
mitted to brighten people in their
homes"
Mrs. Lane said she personally was
not alarmed when a state policeman
came to her home recently to check
her identity at request OF the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, but
added there were thousands of other
Americans who would feel other
wise.
IT don't think this should be done
by the American police, Mrs. Lane
asserted in commenting on the Incl
dent which arose after she sent a
postcard to New York radio CON-
mentator and newspaper columnist
Samuel Grafton disagreeing with his
views on social security.
She said Grafton, in radio COM
mentary last March, asked for poll
of listeners on the subject. He ad-
vocated that the system should be
extended and that American teach
ers should be sent to Germany after
-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Baby Mix-up
Boy Or Girl?

Los Angeles, Aug. 10-(UP)-Two
tiny footprints will tell Mr.. and Mrs
Harry James Hardwig whether Pa
tricia Lynn is their baby or a child
they were given in hospital mix
up.
One print was that of the child
Mrs. Hardwig bore few weeks ago.
Hospital attendants told her it was
boy. The other, taken yesterday
in superior court, was that of the
baby girl Mrs. Hardwig was given
when she left the hospital.
The HardWigs have filed a $780,
900 damage suit.
The HardWigs claimed that DR..
j. M. Andrews, who attended the
birth, signed a birth certificate for
a boy. When they took the baby
home, however, they found the
child was girl.
my own baby's arm was stamp
ed sex: male Mrs. Hardwig said.
I'VE even paid for an operation
which could not possibly have been
done to the little girl We took
home" she added.
HardWig, who shouted you can't
stick me with a girl" when he dis
covered the child was not what he
thought it was, said he loved the
little girl, even If he didn't believe
it was his own.
But, I can't figure out where my
boy Is" he said
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Bovingdon
Blasts Dies

Washington, Aug. 1O-(UP)-John
Bovingdon, economist and former
dancer who was discharged from the
office of economic warfare, last
week, charged last night that Chair
man Martin Dies, D., Tex, OF the
house committee on un-American
activities is "the star pupil of the
NaZis.
Bovingdon's blast at Dies, whose
accusations against the Columbia
university-trained economist result
ed in his dismissal, was at meet
ing of the CLIO United Federal
Workers union.
"Those who smear progress smear
culture" Bovingdon said. 1.-THE
Nazis are the star examples. I think
Mr.. Dies is the star pupil"
He accused Dies of introducing
character shopping and political
murder into American customs" and
said, patterns of resistance to Dies
are patterns to victory"
Bovingdon charged that DEW di-
rector Leo Crowley dismissed him
without just investigation.
Crowley asked me to resign to
take the agency out from under
fire." he said. II guess I should
have said yes with a piroutting turn
on my toes"
He was fired, he said, because he
wouldn't resign. He said he was not
hired for dancing, but to handle
population data, "for which I am
trained and experienced"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Talk our
For Rep. Luce

Greenich, Conn.,, Aug. 10.-(UP)-
Preparations went forward today
for speaking tour of the midwest,
Pacific coast and south late next
month by Rep. Glare Boothe Luce.
An announcement by Mrs. Luce's
Office said their tour, scheduled to
start in Detroit and end in Park
ersburg, w. Va, was deemed by the
Republican national committee to
be helpful in arousing interest in
politics during non-election year.
The tour, in addition to Detroit
and Parkersburg, will take in Min
neapolis, st. Cloud, Butte, Seattle.
Portland, Ore, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Salt Lake City Denver, In
dianapolis, and Louisville.
While Mrs. Luce prepares her adj
dresses, arrangements for the tour
are being worked out by Miss Mar
ion Martin, director of the womens
division of the Republican national
committee; the national committee
woman of each state Mrs. Luce
visits, and the Women's Republican
clubs in each city affected.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Kidnapped Baby Is Found
Safe And Happy And Well

He thought, until disillusioned, that
Baby Quincy was his child.
Mrs. Wright came here four
months ago from New York TO be
near her husband.
Found in Automobile
Police found blond. blue-eyed
Judith In an automobile with the
Wrights last night. She had been
kept In their home, six blocks from
the hospital from which she was
kidnapped. Physicians said Judith
had been well cared for and was
In excellent health.
Mrs. Wright did not confess I'M
til she had been questioned for
hours. Although physicians examin-
ed her and said she couldn't have
given birth within the last five years
and although baby identification
bracelet marked Quincy was found
in her purse. she continued TO in
sist that the baby was hers.
w. 3. Quincy, mill foreman,
and his wife who has been partially
paralyzed from childhood, the par
Continued on Page a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Knox Knocks
The Optimist
.NEA Radiophoto

Portland, Me, Aug. 10. (UP)-
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
labels as foolish optimists" those
persons who hold the belief that the
war will end this year.
Knox said last night In an inter-
view while inspecting the Nays
training base here that Sicily Is an
outpost" and that the United Ma
lions have had only minor sue
cesses" so far there.
1.-THE fall Of Sicily would not
mean the end Of the war;" Knox
said. 1--WE still have to gain foot
hold on the European continent it.
self.
"In the South Pacific we have
had success but we are still great
many miles from Tokyo-our objec-
tive-and there is a lot of trouble
in between"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Lewis Worry
To Labor

Chicago. Aug. 1O-(UP)-Thirteen
labor leaders today began threshing
out the American Federation of
Labor's most ticklish problem
when and how to take John l..
Lewis and his miners back into the
fold.
The 10 men comprised the AFL
executive council, which must ap-
prove or reject Lewis petition for
reaffiliation of the United Mine
Workers. The miners split the AFL
in 1885 when they withdrew to form
the nucleus of the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations.
Last October Lewis led the miners
in a bolt from the CLIO, and since
then the UNIV has been indepen-
dent.
The council members headed by
AFL President William Green de-
clined to comment as they prepared
to hear the report of a three-man
committee which met with Lewis
july 20,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10

The junction Of the American and
British spearheads was believed to
have cut off unknown numbers OF
German troops making sacrificial
stand before the mouth of the pass.
one of the most vital Sicilian OBJ
jectives remaining in Axis hands.
The hard-pressed Germans, strug.
Cling to slow down the Allied adj
vance in all sectors, started CAM
paign of blowing up roads on scald
never before witnessed in this
Sicilian campaign, which went into
its second month today.
Dynamite Blasts
Dynamite blasts in the wake OF
Of the Nazi withdrawal sent whole
mountainsides crashing down on
the roads. The Germans evidently
realized that they were nearing the
end of their fighting days and were
embarking on an eXtravagant poll
icy of demolition.
The only conquest of town re-
ported today-the capture of Pc
dara, five miles inland from Acireal6
by British forces Strengthening out
their lines along the eastern sea-
board-was no barometer Of the
steady Allied gains promising final
victory within matter of days.
On the north coast the left wing
of lieut.. Gen. George S. Patton's
Seventh Army forged ahead and
was estimated to have reached a
point less than five miles west Of
Capo d'Ordando.
1t was west of the cape that the
Seventh Army with U. S. Navy as
sistance turned the German flank
Sunday morning in landing now
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
Yanks Blast
Guinea

BY BRYDON TAVES
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Aug. 10.-UP)-The heavi-
est air attack on the war on Villa
airdrome in the central Solomons
and another strong blow at Sala-
maua, New Guinea, foreshadowed
today imminent new ground action
against the japanese in the south
and southwest Pacific.
Villa, expected to be the next OBJ
jective of American troops cleaning
out the Solomons, was blasted by
So tons of bombs while % tons were
dropped into enemy positions at
Bairoko harbor, on New Georgia,
eight miles to the south across Kula
gulf.
CA Japanese communique broad
cast by Tokyo radio said heavy
damage was caused Sunday by Jap
anese naval planes in attacks on
American troop positions at Rice
Anchorage on the New Georgia
west coast and at RendoXa Har-
Dor, near Munda.
Several Explosions
LlUGIdGOlS dllO IIlcOluIll UOlllUCIS
with a strong fighter cover took
part in the Villa raid yesterday which
caused big fires. Reconnaissance
units followed them up last night
with another bombing that result
ed in several explosions.
The communique said II disabled
Japanese planes were captured by
the forces occupying Munda, first
major objective taken in the pres
ent offensive which is under SUI
preme command of Gen. Douglas
On the New Guinea end of tie
front $50 miles from the Solomons,
one of the biggest forces of Liberia
tors ever gathered in the south
west Pacific roared over Salamaua
in five formations and pounded
the town, river and harbor areas
with 103 tons of high explosives.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-10
SIc|L Y NAz|S FIGHT STUbb0RNLY
Germans Reel Back On Russian Front
Reds Close In On
kharkov Bastion
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Moscow, August 1c.-UP)
- Red armies pounded to
within IL miles of Kharkov
today and sent armored
spearheads probing far to
the west and northwest to-
ward the strongholds of
Poltava and Sunny which
guard the approaches to the
Dnieper River. The Germans
reeled back along a 50-mile
front under concentrated
tank, artillery and air blows that
drove them from villages at the
rate OF four an hour and forced
them to abandon sufficient tanks
in 48 hours to equip Panzer d.
vision.
A front dispatch to the govern
ment newspaper Izvestia said the
Ukranian steppelands were dotted
with the wrecks of German mach
ines reminiscent of the litter mark
ing the path of the German retreat
from Stalingrad last winter.
Terrific Bombardment
1zvestia quoted German prisoners
that they never had undergone such
bombardment from artillery and
aircraft. Some units were said to
have lost upward of half their per-
sonnet.
Despite the speed of the Russian
advance, the Germans were fighting
bitterly for every village, ravine and
corpse, even counter attacking in
small groups with infantry, tanks
and planes.
However, the momentum and
scale of the Russian offensive over
whelmed every counter attack and
cut al important German COM
munications west and north OF
Kharkov.
One Soviet force penetrated to
within IL miles of Kharkov from
the north following the capture Of
Slatino on the railroad from Bel
gorod while other columns APPROACH
ed the city from the east and west.
Garrisons Wiped Out
The Russian armored spearheads
split numerous German forces, fore
Ing them to fight under the
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