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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Axis Resi- istdnce G
TO British Grows S

ery'S veteran eighth army was aided
by sWarmS of Allied fighters and
bombers and the big guns of the
British fleet in his successful ad-
vance through the Lentini coastal
gap below Cantania.
Principal opposition was provid-
ed by the New Hermann Goering
18th Panzer division. but the weight
)f the Allied assault finally drove
the Germans from Lentini, even as
it had dislodged them from Augusta
after they had deoccupied it only
two days earlier.
The eighth army now was be-
lieved striving cut for Catania, Sic
ily's second largest city, whose cap
ture would threaten seriously To
cut off Axis forces still resisting in
the mountains to the west and
southwest.
Shattering new aerial assault on
wide range of targets on Sicily
itself, as we'll as on the mainland
airdromes to which the dWindling
Axis air forces have been chased
accompanied the ground successes
Ranging ahead of Montgomery's
thrust up the east coast, a Flotilla
of British motor gunboats on pa
troll in the Messina Strait, which
separates Sicily from the Italian
mainland, sank an Axis Mosquito
boat and damaged two others
Eisenhower communique said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Barbara Thompson
Now in Hospital

LONG BEACH, JUL IT up
Barbara Jean Thompson, buxom
brunette who has accused actor
Henry Fonda Of being the father
of her month-old daughter, was
recuperating from the excitement
of the case in hospital today.
She was admitted yesterday to
Magnolia hospital, as Long Beach
authorities hunted for her with a
year-old warrant for failing to ap-
pear for trial on a morals charge
Dr. r. M. Hustled, who attended
the birth of the child she says is
Fonda's, said she was suffering
from highly nervous condition
brought on by the excitement of
filing a paternity suit against the
lanky actor Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
'Amgot', Controls
OCCUPIED Island

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of the Fascist party. Local officials
will be kept in office on the basis
of cooperation, performance ana
good behavior.
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
Gen. Alexander issued a procla.
nation assuring the Italian people
that so long as they comply With
the governments orders, they NAV
go about their normal business
without fear, and thar rationing
vii be supervised by proper Alngot
authorities
Freedom of religious worship will
be upheld and all religious institu-
tions will be respected, it was an
bounced. All laws discriminating
against people on the basis of race.
creed or color will be abolished
Those accused of crimes against
he allies will be tried by an Allied
military court under Amgot OFF,
GERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18

Senator Taft j.. stated EXPRESS
ly that the modification lin the
CCC bilD preserved power in the
price administrator to standard
ize' commodity in any case in
which this was absolutely essential
to an effective system of fixing
prices, the president said. These
assurances are in accord with the
purpose and the terms of the COM
promise amendment and must be
taken as controlling.
1T is with this understanding
that have signed the bill"
The CCC bill forbids OPA to eli
inmate or restrict use of trade or
brand names; forbids it to require
grade labelling; permits it to set
prices in terms of grade standards
only if those already are in use in
an industr.' or required by another
federal agency, and permits it to
standardize any commodity if mo
practicable alte native exists for
securing effective price control with
respect to such commodity"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
MissiIdine Made
Payroll Director

Al Missildine. manager of the FL
rCentro ears-Roebuck Store, has
bee appointed director of the pay
roll deduction division of the city
war bond committee, Arno Yaeckel,
city chairman. said Saturday.
Missildine will take over the post
made vacant when Herb Fawcett
was elevated to the post of war
bond chairman for all of Imperial
county. Fawcett replaced Gordon
Scriven who moved from El Centre
TO Pamona.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18

the regular appropriation bill for
OPA was construed as prohibiting
the agency from making use of
standards lin any case regardless
of how essential they were to price
control unless such standards had
been previously este blished by in
dustry acceptance of government
action"
CRIPPLE CONTROL
such a construction would Grin.
pie price control" Mr.. Roosevelt
said, because trade standards are
frequently lacking or, as in The
case of the grades of meat, incom-
pletely established. I am satisfied
that this bill has no such mean
ing"
He then pointed out that a modi-
fled standardization and grade la
belling amendment was attached to
the CCC bill in an attempt to clari-
fy congress stand. 1t was sponsored
by Sen. Robert A. Taft, r. O., who
also had sponsored the rider to the
appropriation bill
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Is Year Old Is
Guilty Of Murder

LOS ANGELES, July 17.-UP)-
A 6-foot 3-inch 16-year-old boy
John M. Flanagan Jr., today stood
convicted of the brutal murder of
bis 12-year-old girl playmate. Doro-
thy Marie courtemanche.
Found guilty of second degree
murder, the strapping youth will be
sentenced July 81. The conviction
faced him with possible five-year
to life Imprisonment count.
Young Flanagan, who for two
weeks has sat stoically before a
courtroom crowded with relatives
and curious onlookers, did not
finch when the verdict was an
nounced
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Mexican Teachers
Lost as laborers
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Continued from page ID
at the border" one A.ex.can govern
ment offirial said. instead days
passed during which time the were
faced with the expense of living
away from home. They grew irrita-
BILE at the delay. which they could
not understand, and g 'adually left
the district with the result that
their labor has been lost to Amer
ica agriculture"
Farm labor recruiting officials
said the workers could not be placed
in Imperial county as this is the
off season. One farm official de-
clared there actually is an over
supply of field workers here at
present. He SAID the remaining
Mexican teachers have been placed
in field jobs in San Bernardino
county.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
President Directs OPA TO
Stondordize Is Neceeurv

WASHINGTON, July II. CUP)-
The Office of Price Administration
received a presidential directive"
today to proceed with standardiz-
alton of any commodity if neces-
sary for effective price control.
1t came in statement by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on the occasion of
his signing a bill continuing the
life of the Commodity Credit Cor
poration to Jan. l.
The Standardization and era ie
labelling issues arose as result of
rider attached to the CCC bill
which Mr.. Roosevelt said was so
ambiguous that misconceptions have
already arisen as to its effect"
The President pointed out that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
DEW Chief Asks
Perkins 10 Remain

WASHINGTON, July II CUP)-
Leo T. Crowley, director of the new
Office OF Economic Warfare, today
requested Milo Perkins to remain
with him lin a consultant capacity
at least until July 30."
In a letter to Perkins, who was
executive director of the now de-
funct Board of Economic Warfare,
Crowley expressed appreciation"
for Perkins action requesting key
personnel to remain in their posi-
tions. In a reply, Perkins assured
Crowley of all possible assistance.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
2 Youths Die
as Boat Capsizes

EAST TAWAS, Mich, July H.
(UP)-Five girls and four boys
ranging in age from II to % years
were believed dead today as the re-
suit of panic that sent them leap
ing into Lake Huron when a
launch-towed scot in which they
were pleasure riding on Tawas bay
suddenly shipped water.
Two bodies, these of Ruth Smith,
ls, Bay City, and Harry Bastone,
Is. Caro-. were recovered by the
coast guard last night while a fleet
of small craft joined in the search
for the other seven victims today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
2o Bund Cases
Are Consolidated

SAN FRANCISCO, July II CUP)
THE case of % persons charged
with engaging in activities OF the
German American Bund were
ordered consolidated today for eX-
peditious handling in federal dis
trict court starting Tuesday,
july 20.
The government, through special
Assistant U. S. Attorney Frank H.
Patton, will attempt to prove that
active membership in the Bund
was anti-American and pro-Nazi;
and that Bund membership Is
prima facie evidence the defen-
dants took their caths of citizen
ship with fraudulent intentions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Forts Down Fifty
German Fighters

CONTINUED from page y
the attackers with a minimum oi
losses. ~
A communique said that indus
trial targets in Amsterdam and
northwest Germany" were attacked
and bombs were seen to burst IN
the target areas. .
En- route home some formations
tof bombers) encountered heavy
fighter opposition it added. early
claims total upwards of SO enemy
fighters destroyed By unescorted
fortresses. Two bombers are miss
ing
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Munda in Ruins as
u. s. Bombers Raid

Continued from page ID
Salamaua, but were driven off by
anti-aircraft guns.
Four Allied fighters on patrol in
the central Solomons strafed and
set fire to an enemy barge in Tim
bala Bay on the northwest corner
of Vella Lavella island.
Hudson bombers and Beauforts
raided the Taberfane seaplane base
on Aroe island off southwest New
Guinea. Large fires were started
and an enemy seaplane was left
burning.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Swiss SayPope
Answers President
By UNITED PRESS

The Montreal radio Saturday
quoted Swiss reports that Pope
Fius XII has replied to President
Rcosevelt's letter which was sent
10 him at the start of the invasion
of Sicily.
The text of the letter has not
beer disclosed, the broadcast said,
but 1T seems that Pope Plus ex-
pressed his regret that Roosevelt
did net discriminate sufficiently
between the Hitler and Fascist
Italian regimes
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
ADD CHARGES

WASHINGTON, July II up
The Office of Price Administration
today provided measures by which
manufacturers of farm equipment
parts may add emergency service
charges to their ceiling prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
PAMPHLETS ARRIVE

PAMPHLETS ARRIVE
Three thousand pamphlets deal
ing with the operation of the fed
eral governments new payroll with
holding tax have been received at
the FL Centre chamber of commerce
and are available to the public, it
was announced Saturday. The
PAMPHLETS contain table for
figuring individual deductions and
offer other withholding tax in
formation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
SHIP LAUNCHED

SAUSALITO, Calf, July II (UP)
The liberty ship SIS Jack London
was launched at Marinship yard
yesterday-the last freighter built
there before the yard converted to
tanker construction.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
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Continued from page u
of Lentini. controls a network of
five roads, one of which winds
northWestWard TO The big enemy
concentration point of Caltanis-
setta, already menaced from the
southwest.
The new advances, generals
eliminating two enemy-held sale ents
and strengthening the Allied line
from Lentini due west to Cant
catti, also overran Scordia nine
miles west of Lentini, and Gram
michele. eight miles east of Cal
tagiroEe.
The advance continues" Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower communi-
que reported.
Can Italian communique broad
cast by the Rome radio reported
fierce fighting yesterday in Sicily.
especially in the Agrigento and
Catania areas, but asserted that
the enemy had not achieved any
further advances
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
ScanningI.v Y.
News Horizon
LICENSE ISSUED

County Clerk W. j. McClelIand
Friday issued a marriage license to
Robert owen Pinkerton. 81. marine,
and Eva Frances walker, 10, Campo
telephone operator.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Rambling Reporter

Continued from page -
corset. How is he getting by in the
gi1dle shortage? Maybe the girls
better ask him for his technique.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
ALONE AT LAST

Attention Girls-For the flrSt
time in four years Ben Herring is
in circulation. His wife went away
saturday and won't be back all
summer. But she needn't worry.
RR and a whole crew of secret
oneratives are watching Ben Tor
her. He won't be able to get way
with a thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
NOT CONFIRMED

NOT CONFIRMED
British military observers in Lon
don said the American forces on
the western flank of the invasion
forces have captured the south
coast stronghold of Agrigento, but
this was not confirmed Immediate
ly by African dispatches.)
tCRadio Algiers reported that the
British eighth army had broken
through the German lines defend
ing the Lentini gap with violent
fighting now raging only II miles
south of Catania.)
(Another Aligiers broadcast said
the Allies had cut the railway be-
tween Messina and Palermo in
northern Sicily and between Mes
sina and Catania in the northeast,
presumably by aerial lombard
ment.)
c. r. Cunningham, United Press
correspondent with the American
seventh army, said that the first
weeks successes of the Allies had
paved the way for a quick clean
UP that may see the fall of Sicily
within the next three weeks.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
Soviet Tanks in
Cify's Suburbs
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Continued from page Il
railway in one sector, front reports
said
Soviet heavy artillery Joined Red
air force bombers ir sending a con-
slant stream of steel and eXproSives
into the city, hinge of the southern
and central front and a long-range
threat TO Moscow, 200 miles to the
north.
"a Berlin Dispatch from the
Nazi-controlled Scandinavian Tele-
graph bureau said German Military
authorities admitted that the Rus
slams Orel offensive carried a
serious h r t of a break
through
"a Stockholm dispatch to the
London Daily Telegraph said Rus
sian tank units had smashed
through to the outskirts of Orel
but this report was not carried by
any other source
Field dispatches said the Ger
mans, abandoning completely their
own summer offensive on the l65-
mile Orel- -Belgorod front, were
! throwing reserve divisions fresh
from the march into battle in a
futile effort TO halt the Soviet ad-
vance.
Advances of from six TO 10 miles
yesterday were reported by the Rus
sian high command, though there
was no indication whether these
were from the south, east or north,
Latest specific reports had placed
Red armies 40 miles north of Orel
and 28 miles east of the city. as
we'll as 25 miles from Nazi Orel-
Bryask railway lifelien.
EXTEND OFFENSIVE
The Russians now had extended
their offensive as far south around
the exposed Orel salient as Kursk
and the Russian communique re-
ported the Staying Of 5000 German
officers and men and destruction
of 81 tanks in continuing battles.
The capture of a strongly-fortified
point and of a fortified knot of
enemy resistance" were announced.
Field reports indicated that the
rate of advance probably would be
slower as the Russians, after crack
ing the outer ring of Nazi de-
fenses, came up against the inner
score of well-placed Hedgehog
Notifications.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
BY ERSkIHiE JOHNSON

The PerilS Of Enrol have shit
cd from courtroom to the
screen.
To the Last Man Enrol
Flynn's first picture since his
acquittal on morals charges,
makes his previous adventures,
on and off his Yacht seem
rather dull Flynn plays a North
west Mounted Policeman who
joins a group of German Sabo-
tours to bring them TO justice.
But before tn final tadcout
Flynn has survived an ava
lanche, a ski chase across halt
of Canada, a plane crash. two
fights, one in a plane and an
other aboard train, a para
chute jump. an Indian uprising
an the dynamiting of a mine.
Oh. yes, and he also does a
bit of dog sled muShing with
the girl, Julie Bishop. Sounds
like pulp magazine adventurc-
and that's Just where Warner
Bros. got the original story
Brian Donlevy has gone to
work at last. Not that ne hash I
been busy in Hollywood all
these years. but until now nc
never really worked at his act
ing. 1t all carle natural 10 HIM.
But as Czech immigrant who
comes to America in 1898 and
rises 10 the world outstanding
arplane builder in 1913 in NJ
GINS America Donlcvy IS
finding things lot different
A lot happens TO him in those
As years. First he had to learn
$50 words Of the Czechoslovak
ian language Then the physical
work started Scenes showing
him shovcling iron orc INTO
trucks. operating a steam shovel ,
shoveling coal into steel furnaces
and operating an over n a q
crane. And then there was
wardrobe. He has 81 changes OF
costume in the picture, ranging
from dirty ovcrallS 10 a iull
dress suit. which meant days of
trying on clothes and having
them fitted.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18

II ever two people called for
the noun. "antitheSis, Johnny
Burke and Jimmy Van Heuscn
are it They sec eye-to-eye on
nothing except their music. and
( h en- only upon completion.
When RkO hired them recently,
they asked for an office with
piano for all-night use Their
explanation was that they argue
all day and work all night
Burke is married and the
father of twin girls Jimmy is a
bachelor, a test pilot at Lock-
heed in his spare time, and a
killer diller with the ladies'
Burke is volatile, laxative. a
connoisseur of excellence, Jim
my is lackadaisical.
While their attitudes cause
disaGrccmcnts. h ey feel it
makes for more balanced music.
And apparently they are right.
They have six new song num-
bcrs in Bing Crosby's forthcom-
ing Dixie. another in Lady
in the Dark and two current
hit songs. Moonlight Becomes
You and Its Always You
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
High|ights from
the Latest Books

Army life, as ii is, and was
back i'm the days of SWashbuck =
ling Marines. is interestingly
portrayed in two current books
-"Khaiki Is More Than a
Color. by Sergeant NJ II +,
Marsden Doubleday ID or a n:
So. and And a Few Marines
by Col. John W. Thomson, Jr.
(ScribnerS. S3)
You anxious mothers. sweet
hearts, fathers, brothers, doting
unclcs and auntS will get first
hand account of the life of your
favorite relative IN the army IN
reading Mike" Marsden'S book.
Himself draftee before Pearl
Harbor, Marsdcn a k es YOU
through the various phases OF
and heartachcS of basic training,
army llfe-through the lnduc-
ton, trials, tribulationS. pains
observation of other rockies as
they 60 through the PAGES, and
the good. wholesome aspects of
army life.
You get the idea that YOU
shouldn't fear for the Wcll-bc =
ing of your boy IN the army;
rather, he'll be much better
man for the rigorS of training,
the discipline handed down by
qualified, brilliant and human
officers.
It's honey book, one that
puts you right in the same bunk
with the boys, sets you TO
scratching imaginary mosquito
bites with them, and suffering in
silence with them over their foot
blisterS, fatigues Of the march
and homcSickneSS.
Thomson : book is a Volumi-
nous tone. at first glance that
most romantic branch Of the
armed service - the Marines
But its more than $50 pages are
chock full of adventure - the
type Of which only the Marines
are capable Of.
Book takes YOU TO China,
Chile. France in the last war
Nicaragua. and a lot of other
places. And you'll love the char
acter who appears most often in
tbs series Of short Storles-SGt
John Houston.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
TRUE TYPE

There's typical Hollywood
story behind the casting Of Man
art kippln as Josef Stain in
Mission 10 Moscow Twenty
c0c actors tested for the role
before Kippcn was selected. AL
though born i'm Russia. he pre-
viously had played but one Rus
sian character. That was in
Booth Tarklngton's play, Pol
dckin. in which he portrayed
Leon Trotzky. the mortal enemy
of Josef Stain In the same
film. Peter Goo Ching, Chi
nose actor from the New York
stage, PLAYS the role Of Japanese
Ambassador ShigcmitSu Asked
how he kept his Jap medals 50
shiny the Chinaman replied.
"Oh. every hour ! take them off
and spit on them >
It's nice to see Monte Blue
getting another break after all
these years. In Edge of Dark =
ness. he once more receives Of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18

bidding, as shown Stone did not
bid spade over a heart, prefer
ring to leave that for his second
bid. or TO go 10 two spades II
doubled at two clubs.
You can see the odd develop
mcnt in the bidding as result
of the wo-club bid. East chose to
bid two diamonds rather than
two spades, with practically the
same thought in mind that Stone
had in bidding two clubs. When
East reached four diamonds,
Roth (South) decided to support
his partners club bid at the
range of five.
Vests double was little opti-
mistic, but East took him out
with the bid Of five diamonds.
Now Roth made the very daring
bid of six clubs, which of course
West doubled. East and West
took only heart trick.
AT the other table Harry
Fishbein and Fred Kaplan sat
East and West. Here North over
called with a spade bid. which
East doubled. South bid two
clubs, East two diamonds, West
two no trump, North three clubs.
West three diamonds. That went
around TO South, who bid four
clubs East came in az four dia-
monds, and strangely enough
was allowed TO play the hand
there He lost two spades, heart
ruff. a diamond and a club, going
down two but still making
good profit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
McKE@klY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

With the year only third
gone. Alvin l.. Roth, formerly OF
Washington and now OF New
York, won his second 1913 major
championship. Only short time
ago he won the world champion
ship Masters Individual title,
and then was a member of the
Mayfair Bridge Club team that
won the national Knockout team
of-four championship for the
Vanderbilt Cup Roths team
mates were Tobias Stone, Harry
}. Fishbein and Fred Kaplan OF
New York, and Harold A. Fagin
of New Haven, Conn.
In the hand shown today, Roth
sat South and Stone sat North,
and they reached six clubs in the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
OLD MAN RIVER

With the rising waters Of the Clinton oson lop-
ping at the extreme limits Of its normal bed Mount
Clemens residents today cost oPPrehensive eyes TO-
word the skies the rons continued to drizzle down.
The foet that the usuoIIy tranquil Clinton river
con, as it srmIy demonstrated last week. rise in
fury Of destructive might odds nothing to the quiet OF
civilian military nerves.
Despite the opporent lack Of interest by Federo'
ofcioIs in the post it to be hoped that this lotest
rosins exhibition Of noture's wroth may convince
them Of the necessity for effective flood control
measures in the Clinton valley. The river const
tutes menace not only to civilians ond their prop
erty but to the vital SeIfrdse Field Air Bose we'll
In the meantime all residents Of the oreo moy
we'll proy thot the Clinton will be content to follow
its usually sluggish eourse-indefnitely We need
no further proofs Of its crushing, roene power.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What is tho longest barge
canal in the world?
A-The Marinskv Canal. IN
Soviet Russia. running from the
Baltic Sea and the Volga river.
Q-Are there any impossible
hands in cribbage'
Ayes There arc no hands
totaling 10, 25. %. or %.
Q-What is an amalgam'
"A combination of mercury
with some other metal Mercury
forms the amalgam by mere
contact. such as applying drop
TO a gold ring
Q-How many secretaries Of
the Navy have served under
President + nklin d. RooSc-
Vclt7
A-Thrcc: Claude A. Swan
son, Charles Edison. and tho
present secretary. Frank Knox.
Q-How many copies. II any.
of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
were autographed by the prcSi-
den
Alive. one of which was
presented 10 Edward Everett. the
famous orator.
Q-Who were the original set
tiers Of New York State?
A--The Dutch. They settled
in New Amsterdam. as il was
called, in 1878.