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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Allies Will Avoid
Fighting in Rome,
President Declares
COmmander-in-Chief of
American Arms Likens
Drive to Holy Crusade

WASHINGTON, Oct. l.
(UPE-President Roosevelt,
discussing Allied capture of
Naples, said today every
effort is being made to
avoid fighting in Rome which
would lead to the damage to the
eternal city and the Vatican.
The president said the Allies in
tend to continue their advance up
through Italy in what he hkened
to a crusade to liberate Rome, the
Vatican and Pope Plus XII.
He said he doubted reports that
the Germans would make their next
stand on line with Rome, saying
that it was now difficult to deter
mine where the next stand will be.
NEWS FLASHED
News of the occupation of Naples
was flashed to the president by
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower just
a few minutes before the president
met his press and radio conference
Mr.. Roosevelt said the reports
hat the next German stand would
be on line with Rome were based
on the fact that this would be the
Continued on page 6, col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

Inc proposal sponsored also Dy
Sen. Edward v. Robertson, R., Wyo.,
would preclude occupation defer
ments for any man under 80 except
agricultural workers. They are COW
cred under separate legislation pass
ed earlier this :ear.
Otherwise, the Revercomb- Rob-
ertson proposal was virtually iden-
tical with one offered yesterday by
Sen Robert A. Taft, R., O., as a
substitute for the pending Wheeler
bill to defer all pre-war father in
ductionS to Jan. l.
Taft'S measure, however, would
permit deferment of men under 80
on approval of his board of original
registration, any new board in
whose jurisdiction he may have
moved, and Selective Service Direc-
tor Lewis B. Hershey.
Robertson and Revercomb oppos-
ed such discretionary power on the
part of Selective Service.
The fourth day of senate debate
on the father-draft issue began as
drafting of pre-Peari Harbor fati1-
ers was formally instituted through
out the country. Selective Service
officials, however, were making
every effort to prevent their induc-
ton until the senate votes on the
issue.
Selective Service instituted for
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Singer Dies from
Traffic Injuries

Jack Dalton, 33, cowboy radio
singer, died Thursday in Ell Centro
from injuries suffered in a traffic
accident two miles north of Cali
patria early Monday.
The singers car went out of con-
troll and overturned in a borrow pit
beside the highway. Dalton's neck
was broken and he suffered spinal
injury.
He had been in inland for a
month before his death.
Funeral services will be held in
Ell Centre but arrangements were
not complete Friday. Dalton is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Irma
Dalton.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

Mr.. Roosevelt said that he did
not want to put the government in
commercial, passenger and freight
service after the war. He said he
believed all air routes should be
operated by private concerns where
it was profitable and that govern
ment operations should be reserved
for a few lines operated at a loss
purely by communication with new
and distant territories.
Tentative planning on postwar
air traffic has been in progress
from six to eight months, the
President said. All of it, he added,
looks to one rather simple objec-
tive-free air and principle OF
allowing all internal aviation to be
owned and operated by the in
dividual country itself.
BY way of illustration, Mr.. Roose-
velt said, his idea was that a
Canadian line operating from
Canada to the Bahama islands
should be allowed to refuel in this
country but not haul passengers be-
tween Buffalo and Miami
The same thing, he added, would
apply to international lines in all
parts of the world crossing diff
ferent countries.
Mr.. Roosevelt's discussion of post
war airlines was touched off by \
uuesticner who said the senator's
just back from tour OF war zones
expressed fear that, six months
after the war, this country will not
have the use of air bases which we
have helped build throughout the
world.
Mr.. Roosevelt said his conception
of free air included free use of air
ports now in use and being built
and that the ownership of the air.
ports involved was unimportant in
a program OF free air operations.
The questioner raised the issue OF
Continued on page 6, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
0PA Tries Case Of
Ca!exico Man

CALEXICO, Oct. 1.-E. E. Nelson
of the Western Vegetable Distrib-
utors was charged with misuse of
c gasoline coupons and this week
was given hearing by OPA en-
forcemnt officers from San Diego.
The decision will be returned
later.
He was accused of using c gaso-
line coupons on an automobile trip
made in August to Denver, Colo,
via Phoenix, Ariz. He said he took
his family on the trip, travelling g.
800 miles on the round trip. Mel
son said the trip was made in con-
nection with business for the firm
he represents as it operates in
Colorado and other states.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Midsouth to Sell
Out Dairy Herds.
Senators Are Told
Dairymen in Area Ask
3-Cent-Quart Increase;
New WA Plan in Effect
WASHINGTON Oct

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.
(UP)-L. F. Friend, man.
ager of the Midsouth Milk
Producers association, Mem
phiS, Tenn, warned today
that there will be a general sellout
of dairy herds in the midGestf in
less dairymen received a three e-cent-
per-quart price increase.
Friend testified before Senate
Agriculture subcommittee consider
ing the war food administration
new three month feed subsidy,
which took effect today. He said
that subsidy amounting to one
cent. a quart would not even retard
current production declines.
The VIA meanwhile was pre-
pairing to test in Is areas a program
of controlled milk distribution
which will probably determine
whether milk will be rationed.
SALES TO BE LIMITED
Milk sales will be limited to the
amount sold in the peak production
month of June and sales of cream,
cottage chees, buttermilk and
chocolate milk to rs per cent of
June sales.
The VIA said controlled distrib-
ution would be extended to all
cities of 100000 population-most of
them by Nov. land later to cities
of $4,000 population
VIA officials said rationing at
the consumer level undoubtedly
will be necessary. If control over
dealers sales does not effectively
Continued on page 6. col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Allies Surround
Fiinschhufen Bose

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS South
west Pacific, Oct. l (UP)-Austral-
ian troops have completed the en-
circlement of Japanese held Finsch-
hafen, in northeastern New Guinea,
and slowly are driving the trapped
enemy garrison back to the sea, an
Allied communique disclosed today.
Moving down from the northwest
Wednesday night, the Australians
stormed and captured Kakagog
Spur, dominating height about
three quarters of a mile west of
Finschhafen, and then sent a
column around the enemy flank to
seal off the southern approaches
to the port.
closing in from positions about 700
yards north of the town and an
other column less than Is miles
away in an advance up the coast
from Lac, the fall of Finschhafen
and the 1000 square mile Huon
Peninsula which it commands ap-
peared imminent.
LAUNCH COUNTERATTAC
Japanese troops based in the
neighborhood of Satelberg, 10 miles
west of Finschhafen, launched
three desperate counter attacks
against the Australian rear posi-
tions in the northern sector but
were beaten back each time.
The Allied communique also re-
vealed that Australian troops who
were flown into the Markham
river valley Sept. 18 and 10 to seize
Kaiapit, 10 miles inland from
Finschhaffen, had reached Wan
kon, IA miles further to the north.
The inland column appeared to be
heading directly toward the big
Japanese supply base of Madang, 10
miles further to the north, although
their route lay through the rugged
Finisterre mountain range.
American Airacobra fighters dive
bombed and strafed the enemy's
supply roads around Bogadjim, II
miles south of Madang, and Liberia
tor bombers attacked enemy ship
ping around New Ireland.
United States warplaneSi
were on the attack in the
and northern Sokmons. A
L Lihesatora sia4 the/
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

christmas Package"
Parcels should not exceed five
pounds in weight, or Is inches in
length or 36 inches in length and
girth combined. Intoxicants, in
flammables, perishables, food will
not be accepted. Packages must be
securely boxed, wrapped, and tied.
Only one package can be mailed in
one week to and from the same
persons.
mo food should be enclosed in
parcels mAiled TO members of the
armed forces overseas Richmond
stltda Crumbs or other ma
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

out hundreds of more letters the
following day. Most were girls
praising the doughboys' technique.
Typical of the con" letters was
one signed by two students. who
commented critically that "by rat
ing money and entertainment above
self-respect and pride, many of our
girls have shown themselves to be
empty-headed, without any ideals
whatsoever = indeed a disgrace to
Womanhood.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
oct. Is Is DeudIine for
Parcels to Men Overseas

escaping from the parcels attracts
vermin which destroy the packages.
Besides the men overseas are amply
supplied with food"
All packages have to pass through
the hands of censors and postal in
spectors. 1t will save time If
packages for men overseas are
wrapped and tied SO they. may be
opened and quickly repacked and
closed. Do not seal packages and
do not tie the strings in knots that
have to be cut. Don't clip the ends
of the twine so short that they cam
S.ot he retied ulnnxly I'D aasilsuani
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Swiss Down u. 5.
Flying Fortress

BERN, Oct. 1.-(UP)-American
bombers and German fighter planes
fought battle over eastern Switz-
erland, and a flying fortress was
shot down by Swiss antiaircraft bat
teries which joined in the action, it
was announced officially today.
A communique said several bombs
were dropped on Swiss SOIL causing
material damage but no casualties.
Air alarms were sounded over a
considerable area OF eastern SwltE-
Aapd the M Auncen,hnt said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

Shop and mail Christmas pack
Aages early
Especially If they are intended
I for servicemen overseas. Christmas
parcels and cards for army person.
incl overseas must be mailed before
oct. Is. Gifts and cards for the
navy marines, and coast quart must
be mailed by Nov /. Postmaster
|Frank Richmond of Ell Centre said
Friday. a.
1t is not necessary for a man
overseas to request package dur
Ting the specified period for service
gifts. Packages should be marked
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

Newspaper offices all over Aus
tralia have been deluged with
thousands of letters endorsing or
contradicting Mrs. Roosevelt's opin-
ion. The flood of mail shows no
signs of slackening, although at
least one editor has appealed pub
|licly to the letter writer's to forget
the whole thing.
The first repercussions were in
dignant letters from Australian SOL
dlers and a few girls, which brought
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Ranks OF Ranks
Aussies AIoof?
Some Disagree

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Oct l. (UP)-The
frore created by Mrs Eleanor Roosevet casual remark
that American soldiers walking off with the Australian
girls because the Australian male too aoof threatened
to divide the commonwealth into two etterwrng camps
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
No Deferment for
Men Under 3Oin
New Senate Bill
Substitute for Wheeler Bill Offered as
SeIective Service Boards Throughout
u. S. Call up Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads

WASHINGTON, Oc l. (UP)-A new proposal to for
bid draft deferment for any under 30 except for
physical mental deficiencies dependency grounds
offered in the senate today by Sen Chapman Rever
comb, r.. w. Va. .,-~- t--~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
AN EASTERN CANAD-

A savage, running DaCCle
fought in heavy seas on the
outer rim of the Arctic cir
Gle, in which several Allied mer-
chant vessels were torpedoed and
the Canadian destroyer, st. Croix,
formerly the U. S. S. McCook, was
sent to the bottom, was described
today by surviving seamen.
The battle was the one mentioned
by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill in the British House of
Commons on Sept. 81 as being join
ed at that time.
The st. CroiX, one of the destroy
ers exchanged by the United States
for air and naval base sites on
British territory, was stink by a
torpedo with the loss of all but one
of her complement of lat. Among
the missing was Surgean-Lieut Will
liam Lyon Mackenzie King of Bed
ford, N. S., nephew of Prime Min
lister w. L. Mackenzie King.
SUB DESTROYED
AT least one attacking submarine
was destroyed, the survivors said,
when it was caught in the beam of
a searchlight and blasted out of the
water by gunfire from an escorting
warship.
Survivors of two American and
one Norwegian cargo ships told of
the battle, one of the fiercest of the
war. They told of ships breaking
Continued on Page 6; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
FDR Tells PIons
For Air Future
Free Use Of Air Bases. In+erIockins
System Of Lines. Envisioned by Chief
Executive; Planning Is Well Underway

WASHINGTON, Oct. T. 'gis't-f-F -FresdeFt Roosevelt
told his conference today aat British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill have been discussing post
program of worldwide freedom of the air. under
which all nations will participate in nterockng system
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
d AMBlINe


Caught Short
Tricycle. jim Smith the new traf-
fic cop at Ell Centre police station,
parks his motorcycle in the shade
and captures traffic offenders on
! the hoof.
He used to be a hay hauler in
his pre-cop days. Soon after he
donned his traffic uniform, how
ever, a California Highway patrol
man handed him traffic citation.
Smiths hay truck had bad brakes.
When Tricycle. Jim tangles with
sassy female traffic violatOr, he
longs for his hay hook and the
privilege of using hay hauler's Ian
guage.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
LARGEST italian PORT FALLS TO ALLIES
Naples TokenWithout Shot
Being Fired by Our Troops
'Nazis Retreat Toward Rome. Giving
Up Positions; Allied Advance on Capital
OF Italy Expected to Take Place Rapidly
: By UNITED PRESS :

The Allied Fifth army captured Naples Friday in the
greatest victory of the 22-day-o Italian campaign
Troops of 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's American British
force entered the ravaged city this morning beaten
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Judge S Ruling
Nav Be Felt Here

federal judges ruling that the OPA business suspen
sion system is unconstitutional and his declaration tha
administrators issuing suspension orders are moderI
instance of dictatorship will have persuasive effec
upon similar in other in the opinion of Harry
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
WiIIkie Undecided
Whether to Enter
California Primary
Former COP Nominee
Breakfasts with Warren,
Discusses Political Plans

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 1.-UP)
Gov. Earl Warren declared to-
day he had made no agreement
with Wendell Willkie on either
WILKES or his own possible can
didacy in next years presidential
election.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

Service Plus
AT l q. m. Mrs Lottie Meagher's
telephone rang She wasn't sur
prised. AS Red Cross executive
NSecretary and field director, nothing
surprises her.
1t was camp out on the desert
The mother of a boy formerly sta
toned there had received word
\ that his mother would arrive in El
1 Centre that morning at a. m. The
boy had been transferred to
Georgia SO his officers wanted Mrs
Meagher to meet the mothers train
and look after her. She was told
there was no a. m. train but there
was a 6 a. m. one. Mrs. Meagher
/ ton at a. m. No train at 6 a. M
but there had been one at a. m
That was terrible. She began tele-
phoning around town in an effort
to find the soldiers mother.
Just as she reached the hope
4 less stage, the desert camp tele-
phoned to call off the deal The
mother had changed her mind!
Ranks OF Ranks
AS far as we can gather, Joe
Thompson and Frank Harvey are
four star generals. Sodelle Mathews
is a brigadier general and BERTHE
Haskell is major general.
At the rate they have been selling
bonds. they NAV all be commanders
in chief by this time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 1.
(UP)-Wendell Willkie, the
1910 Republican presidential
nominee, today declared he
had not yet reached a deci-
sion on whether he would permit
a slate pledged to him to be en-
tered in the California Presidential
primary next May.
Willkie, here for breakfast
meeting with Gov Earl Warren,
said there had ben no occasion so
far for him to make decision on
his entry in the California primary.
He declared he believed it literal
ly true" that no California group
had approached him on the subject.
MUST DECIDE
He said he believed the first
primary election in. the nation
would be held in New Hampshire
and that he would have to take
some sort of action by January if
he were to attempt to have a dele
cation from that state pledged to
him at the Republican national
convention.
He and Governor Warren, he
said, had no agenda for their dis
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01

f1OTtOI, I'll CellJTO attorney.
He referred to ruling of Federal
Judge w. H. Atwell in a case in
Dallas, Texas. Atwell ruled that the
OPA had legal authority to ration
gasoline and (, nGW>n ~
such authority
power to SUI
their rights Il
commodities.
Horton is ha'
Langston Goree
ruling ordering
oline sales for
lscld gasoline to
RithoYys ccepti
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
Destroyer, 14b Of
Crew Lost in Sea
Battle With Subs
Several Allied Ships
Sunk in Arctic Fight
Disclosed by Churchill

AN EASTERN CANADIAN
PORT, Oct. 1.-CUP) - German
submarines, possibly using a new
type of torpedo, sank 10 Allied
ships with heavy loss of life in
a savage, Today attack, begin
ming Sept. 10, on two Canada
bound conveys in the north At
lantic, survivors reported today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 109, minimum
Friday 20; am. Friday "a, humid
ity AZ; noon Friday 108, humidity
l8; pm. Thurs. SO, humidity "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-01
BASEBALL.

BY UNITED PRESS
NATIONAL
Evening star., 1943-08-14
HOBART STREET.

Dear SlT.
ALLOW me to take this opportunity of
congratulating you on the excellence of
your column which I read avidly and
with good deal of interest.
while vacationing this summer near
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. was watching
wren teaching its young to fly.
"One OF the poor little fellows fell into
the lake near the shore and after fish,
ing him out I was faced with the prob
lem of uniting him with his mother, who
kept lowering about anxiously.
"She perched on an electric wire
swooping down at fairly regular intervals
and circling around her bedraggled
young un. I finally placed the swimmer
in the crotch of tree and after about
Is minutes. mamma started to feed him
again, alternating between the other
two, high up In tree, and the disgraced
one.
"A robin would alight in the grass
near the tree with the wet youn 'un, and
mamma would swoop down and attempt
to drive 'Redbreast away.
When Robin took wing and flew un-
comfortably close to Jennys helpless off :
spring out of the nest, she flew at him
viciously and drove him off.
1T was thrilling to see Jenny drive OF
a bird four times her size.
After two days Jenny had apparently
succeeded in setting her young ones
shifting for themselves Is she once again
was happily perched on her favorite
electric wire, swooping down like a dive
bomber after her favorite insect, which
appeared to be the snapdragon.
From time to time thrilling pursuit
would be observed as the unhappy snap
per attempted to outmaneuver Jenny, but
never to any avail.
Some days later, baby robin was
found whose mother fell victim to cat.
Il wondered what I was to do with
him and finally I thought would put
him into nest containing three young
wrens just over the entrance to our
dining hall
Jenny would first alight, with an in
sect in her mouth, on the electric wire.
anxiously look around for a moment or
So then swoop under the caves into her
nest.
When she first observed the robin, she
looked around her as If to find the
thoughtless individual who was rude
enough to place the little stranger in
her nest.
Then with no further ado, she elected
the robin bodily, the poor creature fiut-
tering clumsily to the ground. I reckon
the mother instinct didn't hold in this
case as Jenny Wren certainly showed
very little consideration for the robin.
yours sincerely, j. H. E."
Recognition of their young by parent
birds, and vice versa, Is a strange thing.
Evening star., 1943-08-14

it is remembered that until this
summer the rise in living costs had
been almost uninterrupted since Ger
many attacked Poland.
This slight turn for the better
should be of particular interest to
those labor spokesmen who have been
saying that rising costs threatened
to make it impossible for wage
earnerS to maintain a decent stand
ard of living-a claim which has no
foundation in fact so far as the great
majority of workers are concerned.
Considerable light on this subject
is contained in the July survey of the
demand and price situation by the
Department of Agriculture's Bureau
of Agricultural Economics. One phase
of this survey reports the change in
weekly earnings for thirty-tw indus
tries from January, 1941, to April,
1943. In all but six industries the
percentage increase in earnings has
exceeded the % per cent increase in
living costs. The greatest increase
was in water transportation, in which
earnings rose from $40.76 to $8O.1s per
week, partly as a result of wartime
bonuses. Other increases were i'm
pressive, however, shipyard earnings
rising 56.7 per cent, and all manu-
featuring, 59.5 per cent. Wages of
bituminous miners, described by John
L. Lewis as being virtually at the
point of starvation, went up 59.2 per
cent, and the earnings of hired farm
labor rose 611 per cent. The only
industries covered by the survey in
which earnings have failed to keep
abreast of living costs were the Gov
ernment executive service, electric
light and power, printing and pub
fishing, telephone and telegraph.
retail trade and Glass I steam
railways.
Whatever else may be said of the
effort to control living costs, it is
apparent that when the accomplish
ments to date are laid against this
background the majority of wage
earners have been helped rather than
injured economically by the develop
ment OF the war program.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Discusses Danger
OF Hazardous Riding.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Permit me to direct attention to some
thing that should be absolutely forbidden
in Washington.
The death of the Ellender boy makes
my point very pertinent. Many time
I have driven down street. with three
lane traffic on each side, when suddenly
I would be confronted by boy on
bicycle-not riding along in the midst
Of traffic, but pedaling with one foot,
coaster-bra operating, and with the
other foot on the rear bumper of car.
Frankly, these situations have added
gray hairs to my head but I have never
heard an authoritative whistle from the
sidelines Not more than 10 days ago
that sort of thing occurred on Connect
cut avenue, just north of Calvert, where
trafic is exceptionally heavy-and fast
at certain times. Had the car on which
the boys foot was placed swerved either
way. I would have been in the same
serious situation in which the driver of
the Treasury truck was involved.
r. E. w.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Private War Aims
he London Daily Expres,

From the London Daily Express.
Pvt. Clark who is aged SO, had milk
business in Wood Green. He was called
up, and his mother, aged 81, who had
started the business with her husband
4o years ago, carried it on. The mother
is killed in street accident Pvt Clark
has to get rid of the business. The Gus
toners will have to be transferred to
other shops" he says. There is lot to
do" What are Pvt. Clark war aims, do
you think? He wants his milk round
back, That is the business his father
and mother founded, a nice thriving
round with 300 customers He wants to
follow the old trade again in the old
home town. That is Pvt Clark's private
war aim after Hitler has been beaten.
People who do not care much about gen.
eralities in discussions of trade and
industry can see an issue of this sort
clearly when it is reduced to the size of
one Individual