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Evening star., 1943-05-06

prevention is already dawning, Col
Stilwell said, 'the grim fact remains
that there is lot of hard, unrelent-
ing work ahead of us"
In 1943," he urged, "let us see to
it that our homes, our highways,
our farms are made safe. We can
no longer waste our manpoWer
through preventable accidents"
The best way to root for victory is
to dig deep into that pocketbook or
purse and buy War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-05-06
Alcohol Process Found

Formaldehyde may be produced
from ethyl alcohol by new process
developed in India.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Hull Sees Unity
As Victory Need

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. UP)-
Secretary of State Cordell Hull as
serted today that the war in Europe
can be ended in 1914 provided all
peoples of the United Nations re-
double their efforts and work in
greater unity.
Hull made the statement during
his daily news conference. 1t came
as surprise to correspondents, in
asmuch as it was the first time he
had discussed future military oper-
ationS.
Hull's comment was virtually a
reiteration of a statement made a
few hours earlier by Gen. Dwight
d. Eisenhower at AlgierS. The new
ly-designated commander of Allied
armies now maSsing for the inva-
sion of western Europe told cor
respondents that I'VE will win the
war in 1914"
Hull'S statement was in response
to a request for comment on what
Eisenhower had said.
The secretary tempered his pre-
diction with the warning that peo-
pie should not be too optimistic
But he said he believed it possible
to win the war at some stage such
as Eisenhower had predicted, pro-
vided that all people in the United
Nations, both those behind the lines
and on the battlefronts, but espe-
lltr L.
double their effort and give every
effort to obtaining greater unity in
support of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
VALLEY MARKS HOLIDAYS
WITHOUT FATALITIES

Imperial Valley went through the
Christmas weekend without fatai
traffic accident or major tragedy
to mar the holiday celebrations, a
survey revealed Monday.
Five persons, however, suffered
minor injuries in head-on col
lision between two automobiles
near the outskirts of Brawley
Christmas Eve.
The injured included Virgil Straw
horn, 46, w. P. johnson, 80, Will
lard Preston Johnson, Is, Wilma
Spradlin, II, and Edna Spradlin, Is
all of Brawley.
A car driven by John Roland
Watkins, 10, and one driven by
William Preston Johnson, 80, both
of Brawley, collided on east Main
street short distance outside the
city limits of Brawley, California
Highway patrolmen said Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
More Amerians
Land on Tip
OF New Britain
Macarthur Tightens
Moose on Base
To Starve Out Rabaul
BY UNITED PRESS

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces
tightened the moose around Japan'S
main southwest Pacific stronghold
of Rabaul today after a new land
ing on the northwestern tip of
New Britain that completed Allied
control of the islands western sup
ply routes.
Marine veterans of the Guadal-
canal campaign, landing without
opposition, seized beachheads on
both sides of the enemys Cape
Gloucester base early Sunday after
an 1l-day aerial bombardment that
virtually flattened Japanese de-
fenses in the area under $500 tons
of high explosives.
DOWN 81 JAP PLANES
SwarmS of enemy aircraft roared
into the attack hours after the
landing, but Allied planes shot
down 81 of the raiders at a cost
of only seven planes Only one small
Allied escort vessel was sunk and
the American loss of life was de-
Scribed officially as very small.
Other marine units captured Long
Island, 80 miles west of Cape Glou-
cester, in a supporting attack.
The invasion came II days after
army units had seized control of
beachheads around Arawe, on the
southwestern side of New Britain,
and poised double threat to Ra-
baul, 275 miles northeast of Cape
Gloucester and $50 miles northeast
of Arawe.
Capture of the network of air
fields surrounding Cape Gloucester
would place MacArthur's fliers with
in easy striking distance of Japa-
nese supply conveys moving down
to Rabaul from Truk, 300 miles to
the north. and would effectively
choke off the flow of barge traffic
from northeastern New Guinea.
CARRIER FORCE ACTIVE
An American carrier task force
already was revealed in action
against the eastern supply lanes
leading to the Bismarck sea and
Rabaul, sinking a Japanese destroy
er and three big supply ships in
Christmas day raid on the Kavieng
. area of New Ireland, $50 miles
north of Rabaul. A spokesman at
MacArthur's headquarters limited
that the task force might still be
on the prowl for other enemy sur
face units.
Meanwhile, American army and
navy bombers maintained their
steady offensive against japanese
positions in the Marshall islands.
raiding Wotje and Mile atolls and
sinking a small transport near
.Kwajalein. At the same time. Pre-.
mier-General Hideki Tojo told the
Gath session of the Diet in Tokyo
that the Japanese army and navy
Continued on page g. COL -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
STEEL STRIKE GAINS; RAIL UNITS YIELD
Allies Destroy
Last Of Big
German warships
Send SchwarnhOrSt to
Bottom in Murmansk
Convoy Channel Battle

LONDON, Dec. 81. (UP)-A naval
spokesman revealed today that the
destruction of the 26,000-ton Nazi
battleship Scharnhorst in running
battle with British warships on the
Murmansk convoy route, cut the
striking power of Germany's once
formidable surface fleet to two
pocket battleships and some small
cruisers.
Confirming unofficial reports that
both the 41,000-ton Tirpitz and the
25,000-ton Gneisenau had been
knocked out by previous British at
tacks, Adm. Sir William James,
chief of British naval information,
said the loss of the Scharnhorst
left the Germans without single
capital ship in fighting trim.
Only the thinly y-armored and rel
atively slow 10,000-ton pocket bat
tleships Lutzow and Admiral Scheer
are now left to oppose the Allied
navies, James said. The elusive Graf
Zeppelin is the only known aircraft
carrier from which the Nazis can
provide air cover for their puny
surface fleet.
James said the sinking of the
Scharnhorst would ease the task of
the British home fleet-to contain
the German fleet and prevent it
from raiding Allied convoy routes
and it was expected that the vic
tory would tip the scales even more
strongly toward the United States
and Britain in the coming naval
showdown with Japan in the Paci-
rfic, ...-...-..-.--. .-..a.s.............ss.
Through all these long years
our main fleet has had to be ready
at moments notice when in har-
Dor and has been at sea whenever
conveys have been within striking
distance of German ships in north
ern Norway" he said.
The Arctic naval victory prob
Continued on page 6, col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Americans Seize
New Heights in
Advance on Rome
Chase Fleeing Germans
Toward Casino Plain;
Ortona Conquest Gains

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Dec. 81. (UP)-American
troops have captured two more
strategic Italian heights and were
reported pouring down the Apen-
nine slopes toward the Casino
plain in pursuit of German forces
falling back along the road to
Rome.
The tide of bitter battle in the
Mount Samuoro region of the Fifth
army had turned in favor of the
hard fighting Americans, and they
now were pressing down the noun
tainside overlooking San Vittore,
six miles southeast of Casino.
Across the Apennine spine in the
Adriatic sector, Canadian assault
forces Wrested two more city blocks
from the Germans putting up a
little Stalingrad" fight in the out
skirts of Ortona, while Indian troops
captured the village OF. Villa Gran
de, two miles to the southwest.
The 1mperials smashed two tank
supported German columns pre-
pairing to counterattack in the Adri-
attic area, where the fighting blazed
up along 12-mile front inland to
Orsogna.
The Canadians moved in tanks
to batter down German strongpoints
in the northwest edge of Ortona
and beat off Nazi attempt to fill
ter into the southwest section OF
the city.
Columns of smoke were rising
from Tollo, southwest of Ortona
indicating that the Germans were
razing the village preparatory to
eyacuating it in what may amount
to a general fallback along the
Adriatic
British destroyers shelled Drvenis
on the Dalmatian coast of Jugo-
slavia last Thursday night, it was
announced
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
FLIER KNOWN IN VALLEY
DIES IN AIR CRASH

Captain Clarence F. Terry. 81. at
one time municipal court Judge in
San Diego, was killed in plane
crash 30 miles northwest of Yuma
December l8, the army announced
Monday.
He had many friends among the
legal fraternity of Imperial county
and news of his death was shock
TO them. Captain Terry took off
alone from Yuma in a light bomb
ing plane December l8 The wreck
age was found late Saturday but
identity of the pilot was not re-
vealed until after the family was
notified. He was chief OF the air.
craft modification section OF the
western procurement district OF the
air force material command In Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27

SYDNEY, Dec. 27. tUP)-Declar-
ing that lit is legitimate to express
hope that he soon will resolve doubt
one way or another" the Morning
Herold urged Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur today to make further
statement regarding the 1914 u. S.
presidential campaign.
On Dec. 90, spokesman for Mac
Arthur declared there was no
foundation whatsoever" to reports
that the latter expected to go to
Washington in the near future for
conferences. The statement follow
ed publication by the Indianapolis
Star of a Washington dispatch
which said that Macarthur was
planning to return to the United
States in March, possibly to accept
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Macarthur Plans
Stir AuSSies

when the future of the COM
mander-in- -chief of all Australian
forces in the southwest Pacific, the
man upon whose shoulders the ulti-
mate responsibility of our country
rests, becomes involved, our vital
interests are touched and comment
becomes permissible the Herald
said.
ut is for Macarthur to decide in
what. sphere of activity his great
talents can best be employed" the
newspaper declared. What con-
Germs us is simply that prolonged
uncertainty as to MacArthur's at
titude towards those Americans who
wish him to move from the military
to the political arena shouldn't be
allowed to prejudice this theater OF
operations"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27

typhus, its spread had been mod
crate and that there have been no
cases among Allied troops.
Typhus was found in the city
when it was first occupied. There
were 25 cases in October and $50
cases reported in the three months
of occupation, with about 25 per
cent mortality. Only four other
cases have been reported in Allied
occupied Italy.
Allied medical authorities were
setting up delousing stations for
the general public.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Is Units
Agree
On Pay
Three Operating
Groups Expected
To Abandon Fiqh+

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.
(UP)-The 15 incorporating
railway unions today called
off the nationwide strike
they had scheduled to begin
Thursday.
The unions made public a
letter to President Roosevelt
reporting t h a t t h ey had
reached substantial agree
ment with management rep
resentatives on their wage
dispute and we're leaving to
the president the decision on
how overtime pay should be
distributed.
The incorporating unions
embrace about 100000 en-
ployes.
Two of the five operating
unions which originally had
scheduled a strike to start
Thursday also have called it
off, leaving only three oper-
ating unions still scheduled
to walk out. 1t was believed
likely that they would fall in
line soon and call off their
strike. The five operating
unions cover some 100000
workers.
Having with your assist
ance accommodate our i'm
mediate difficulties, we are
withdrawing approval here
tofore granted to the en-
ployes to stop work at 6 am.
on Dec. 30, 1943."
The letter recalled that
the Is unions had protested
against administration = ap
proved wage increases on q
sliding scale ranging from
four to 10 cents an hour, but
said they had decided tC
abandon their objections.
The letter said that the railroads
had offered TO grant the operating
employees the benefits of the wage
hour law, paying them at an over
time rate after 40 hours instead OF
after 48 as they now are paid. The
unions had asked that the over
time payment be made by a
straight increase of six cents ar
hour, which would be equivalent in
cost to time and a half for hours
in excess of 40.
while we prefer the benefits Of
this overtime lie distributed in a
pro-rata amount to all employees,
the unions told the president, iii
that is not agreeable to you we will
accept the literal application of the
fair labor standards (wage-hour)
provisions on overtime.
Therefore, there is no longer any
dispute over the amount of wage
increases to be granted to oul
group. The only remaining ques-
ton in dispute is shall the non-
operating group receive the bene-
fits of overtime after 40 hours pei
week offered to the operating
group?
I'VE agree to leave decision on
this single question in dispute tc
the president of the United States
and agree to accept the decision"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Russians Sweep
Westward, /, Halt
Germans at Kiev
Smash 1000 Tanks as
Nazis Move Back Nearer
Old Polish Border Line

MOSCOW, Dec. 81. (UP) = Cen
Nikolai F.. Vatntin's army of the
Ukraine swept westward on So
mile front against the zhitomir-
Korosten railroad today, pressing
new offensive in the Kiev salient
which in three days had regained
almost two thirds of the territory
lost in five weeks.
Vatutin's drive had ended a Ger
man threat to Kiev, and had set
the Russian forces of the northwest
Ukraine against striking out toward
the prewar Polish border some rs
miles beyond their battle line.
PUSH FORWARD
At some points on the rim of the
new expanding Kiev salient, Soviet
forces had driven beyond their
most advanced positions before the
Nazi command flung its best forces
against the bulge in a desperate
bid to stem the Russian drive
westward.
Front dispatches said that on the
fourth day of the new Soviet Of
fensive, Vatutin's veterans were
approaching the Korosten-zhitomir
stretch of the Leningrad-O Odessa
trunk railway.
The towns of Zhitomir and Koro-
stem themselves again were threat
ened by Russian forces driving to
topple the last German strongholds
between them and old Poland.
The Russians reported that the
abortive German counteroffensive
had cost the Nazis more than 10
panzer divisions or in excess of 1000
tanks, along with at least six in
fanty divisions which at full
strength would approach 100000
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Typhus Epidemic
Strikes Naples

NAPLES, Dec. 81 up Naples
was out of bounds for all Allied
troops today because of an epidemic
of typhus fever among the civilian
population.
A Fifth army order declaring the
city out of bounds was announced
by Col. Edgar Erskine Hume,
regional Allied military government
head, after conferences with Allied
army medical officers, and became
effective at 8 a. m. Sunday.
Hume stressed that although the
disease was the epidemic form OF.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
WLB Calls Session
To Consider Waqe
'WaIkouts Increase Despite Call
Of President TO Stay on Jobs;
Roosevelt. Byrnes Study Problem
. By UNITED PRESS

steel strike, spreading through states where
$4,000 workers remained away from their jobs today pre-
cptaed of the labor crises since Pearl Harbor
President Roosevelt returned to Washington from
holiday vacation at Hyde Park to take charge of
the situation which developed while members of the three
operating and Is incorporating railroad unions threatened
to tie production by walking off their jobs Dec 80
The War Labor Board called special session for z
pm EWT at Washington to act the CLOS United Steel
Workers demands that increase be made retroac
tive The president already had pledged retroactive
in appeal from Hyde Park for the striking workers
return O their Jobs
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27

The steel workers claimed that
they were not on strike, but were
protesting the WLB's action in de-
nying them II cents an hour wage
hike-a demand far in excess of
the presidents anti-inflation for
mula.
Meanwhile, the strike spread to
Buffalo, NJ Y, where 500 employees
of the Republic Steel corporation
refused to work after reporting for
the morning shift.
HASTENS TO CAPITAL
President Roosevelt, cutting short
his Christmas week end at Hyde
Park returned to the White House
this morning and conferred at
length with War Mobilization Direc-
tor James F. Byrnes about the two
big labor crises-the steel workers
walkout and the railroad strike
scheduled for Thursday
Public members of the WLB met
for two hours this morning. After
ward, Chairman William H. Davis
said that If the four industry men,
bers return in time, the board will
meet tonight-instead of tomorrow
as originally scheduled-on the
steel workers petition for. extern
sion of their expiring contracts
with retroactive provision
We'll act on the petition tonight
instead of tomorrow, but we want
the four industry members here"
Davis said. "They now hope to be
here in time for us to start at
pm"
MIGHT RECONSIDER
He added that the public mem
bers proposal providing substan-
TALLY the program outlined in the
presidents telegram, might be re-
considered. The proposal originally
was voted down eight to four, with
the labor members rejecting it be-
cause it provided any wage adjust
ment must be in accordance with
the stabilization program and the
industry members turning it down
because they wanted no retroactive
ity at all.
Davis was asked if he thought
the success of United Mine Workers
President John l.. Lewis in getting
more money for miners had any
effect on the steel and rail disputes.
There's no doubt about it that
Lewis got what he wanted, as Mr.
Byrnes said, with gun in his
hand" Davis replied. "I think it did
| lot of harm to the country"
Davis said the whole labor situa-
tion could be improved if one CEN
trail authority governed labor mat
| ters.
NEED CONGRESS AID
In response to another question
Davis said 1--WE need assurance fro.il
congress that it is definite in ito
stabilization policy"
I'VE don't know whether congress
will run out on its stabiliZation poll
cy," he said. That's putting 1t
plainly"
Meanwhile, leaders of the Is nom
operating railroad unions met in
a hotel. There was no official word
on the subject of their discussions.
but it was believed they might be
considering some further PROPOSE
tion from management. The nom
operating unions and three operat-
ing brotherhoods still are scheduled
to strike Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Eisenhower Declares War
Will Be Won in 1914

with virtually every correspondent
in AlgierS present
He apOlogized for being a few
minutes late, then praised the cor
respondents in this thcater, saying
he had received the grandest CO.
operation any commander ever had
in the field
Swinging quickly to the subject
of his new task, announced only
Friday by President Roosevelt,
Eisenhower said:
my own and personal job imme-
diately of course, will be to do what
we have done here. That is to weld
the directing teams together in such
way that no real friction ever
develops, that tie people trust each
other, work in unison and go into
this thing with their full weight.
"I believe that we have got here
that sense of partnership which has
come as nearly as it is humanity pos
sible to the elimination of the fric-
ton that has been so typical of
Allied actions in the past"
Eisenhower, talking with the COR
respondents for an hour, defined
war as extension of politics into
force. He said time is what we fight
for, and morale ranks next in i'm
portance to time.
He expressed amazement over the
ability of American and British
front line troops to accommodate
themselves in the conditions on the
Italian front, where they fight in
knee-deep mud.
CITES ITALIAN DRIVES
Eisenhower said that if the sur
rendering Italian armies had done
their utmost the Allies could have
had all of Italy. He conceded that
the surrender did not net all that
had been hoped for, but what the
Allies got made it well worth while.
The surrender of the Italian fleet
permitted the withdrawal of heavy
units of the British fleet from the
Mediterranean he said. and enabled
the speedy occupation of laramie
Continued on page 6, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
gierS, Dec. 81 (UP)-General Dwight
ID. Eisenhower, newly appointed
commander of the Allied armies
massing for invasion of western
Europe declared confidently today
that I'VE will win the European war
in 1914"
1t was in effect pledge to do his
job within year that Eisenhower
gave the American and British cor
respondents at a farewell press con-
ference preparatory to his depar-
ture for Britain to take over his
new post.
STARTLES WRITER'S
Eisenhower's soberly assured words
starteld the correspondents after
one of them asked the departing
commander-in in chief of the Mediter-
ranean theater for a New Years
prediction.
I'VE will win the European war
in 1914" he answered abruptly.
After the conference, he authoriz-
ed the additional quotation:
."The only thing needed for us to
win the European war is for every
man and woman all the way from
the front lines to the remotest
hamlet of our two countries to do
his or her full duty"
Smiling and unusually genial,
Eisenhower gave quick answers to
most of the questions, but pondered
a few with his customary gestures
of rubbing and leaning for
ward with clenched fists, finally to
pound his points. 1t was the biggest
press conference here in months,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Uttered WITH DEAD

A Pravda dispatch said the path
of the advancing Russians was lit
tered with heaps of bodies, knocked
out tanks and vehicles, and aban-
doned German weapons.
The Ukraine offensive shaped up
as the second of the Red army's
winter drive. Foreign military OBJ
server confidently predicted that
Vatutin would reach the Rumanian
border this winter. They believed
the White Russian drive might
carry through to the Baltic.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
Holiday Deaths
Mount to 2bb
: By UNITED PRESS

Christmas holiday end the nations first full holiday since the
began, United Press showed today
Traffic accounted deaths ~~*sas
California with fatalities
Illinois Michigan 13,
California with 80 deaths automobile accidents
Fire took So lives including killed a rooming
house and three in Minneapolis rooming
Miscellaneous
army filters killed airplane crashes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
TWO SOLDIERS KILLED

SANTA MARIA, Calf, Dec. q
CUP)-Two soldiers from Camp
Roberts were killed early today and
three others seriously injured when
their sedan crashed into a heavy
truck loaded with explosives on the
highway near here, police reported
today Killed were Pvt. William H
Gooding, Los Angeles, the driver
and Pvt. John j. Boyle, Jr., Holly
wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
STEAL PURSE FROM CAR

Louise Rogers, Box 734 san YSldro
reported to the police Sunday morn
ing that during an interval when
she parked her car and ran in to
greet friends on South Fifth, a
thief took black felt purse from
her car. The purse contained cards,
ration books, check for $34.80 and
between $50 and $40 in cash.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
DIES IN CRASH

DIES IN CRASH
HAMILTON FIELD, Calf, Dec
81. (UP)-Second Lieutenant Rob-
ert G.. Crabb, %, San Bernardino
Calf, was killed Christmas day
when his fighter plane crashed near
Santa Rosa. public relations officers
here announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-27
GIVE STORM WARNINGS

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. (UP)
The weather bureau announced
small craft warnings were posted
on the west coast this morning at
7:30 a. m. from Point Reyes, Cal,
to Tatoosh island, Washington.