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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
OUTLINES WARFARE

LONDON, Dec. IA. (UP)-Lieuten-
ant General George S. Patton has
made a three day tour of strategic
military zones in the Middle East,
a Cairo announcement revealed
Tuesday, tanning speculation on
the likelihood of brewing or immi-
nent action in the jittery Balkan
theater.
Patton, who commanded the Unit
ed States Seventh army campaign
through Sicily, was revealed to
have made a sweep through the
Middle East as the guest of Gen.
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, British
commander.
Accompanied by his staff, the
general, known as "Old Blood and
Cuts" appeared unheralded in Cairo,
and the demands of military secrecy
shrouded the intents of his trip
so far from Sicily, where the most
recent advices said his Seventh
army still was stationed.
A United Press dispatch from
Zurich quoted reliable sources as
reporting that Germany was rush.
ing all available reinforcements TO
the Balkans. Several air squadrons
earmarked for use in Italy and
material for the Russian front were
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Boards Ordered
To Review
Farm Deferees
Move Affects Worker
Class, Unmarried,
In &c ad &c Lists

SACRAMENTO, Dec. IA. (UP)-
Local draft boards have been or
dered to review the deferments of
all unmarried agricultural workers
between 18 and 25 who have been
placed previously in classes &c and
&C, State Selective Service head
quarters announced Tuesday.
The review of the agricultural
deferments, Col K. H. Leitch, Selec-
tive Service director said, will be
carried on jointly by the local
boards and the county agricultural
war boards which have recommend
ed all of the deferments.
A statement released by Leitch
said:
THE number of persons engaged
in agriculture on a full-time basis
exceeds by far the number who
were so employed year ago; and
for this reason, it is believed that
many registrants in this age group
previously deferred can now be
available for military service.
Local boards are requesting
USDA war boards to review all agri-
cultural cases within this age group
and make new recommendations.
Because of the necessity of induct-
ing pre-Pearl Harbor fathers at this
time, we have been assured that
only those registrants in this age
group who are found to be indis-
pensable to agriculture will be rec
commended for deferment.
Leitsch also disclosed that the
six appeal board areas comprising
Los Angeles county have been COM
bined into one area, so as to SIM
rlify procedure under an amend
ment to the draft law requiring
that the appeal board in a regis
trants place of employment review
his deferment.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
MontreaI's S Cify
Employees Strike

MONTREAL, Dec. IA. CUP) -
Most of Montreals 1900 police,
firemen, garbage collectors, and
snaw shovelers went on strike at
IL a. m. Tuesday in an effort to
force city recognition of their
unions, affiliates of the Canadian
Congress of Labor.
Within a few minutes after the
strike deadline had passed, all non-
commissioned police officers at
headquarters had walked off their
jobs.
Fire department director r. Pare
announced shortly before noon that
only 35 per cent of the day shift
had struck, but city hall sources
said that the strike was almost 100
per cent effective. Only commits
stoned police officers remained at
their desks.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
AID TO RABAUL DRIVE
Two Probation
Officers Quit

Mrs. Leona Jacobs, Imperial coun-
ty probation officer, and E.. A.
Nance, assistant probation officer
have resigned, it was announced
Tuesday.
Their designations were presented
to the county probation committee
and Judge Vaughn N. Thompson,
judge of the juvenile court.
The resignation of Mrs. Jacobs
will become effective January Is
while Nance's will become effective
January l. She resigned because
she plans to make her home outside
OF Imperial county and Mr.. Nance
because of i'll health.
In order to fill the vacancies left
by the designations, members of the
probation committee announced
that applications for the positions
will be received in written form and
must be filed at the probation office
in the court house in Ell Centro not
later than December "a. Blank
forms for the purpose may be OBJ
tanned from the probation office.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
0PA 10 Govern
Alfalfa Seed

All alfalfa seeds, including all
California state certified improved
varieties, have been made subject
to the control of the price regula-
ton governing legumes and grass
seeds, the Office of Price Admins
tration announced today.
Affected now are the following do
meStic and Canadian seeds: alfalfa,
medium red and mammoth red
clover, alsike clover, sweet clover,
timothy and all mixtures of those
seeds.
State certified varieties generally
carry premium price over other
grades of the same kinds of seeds.
The new regulation which went
into effect this week puts control
on these premium grades the same
as ordinary seed stocks
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Knox Says Drive
TO Finish laps
Increases Tempo
Preliminary Steps Now
Make Final Trip to
Toxic Matter of Time"

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. (UP)--
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
said Tuesday that preliminaries are
out of the way in the Pacific and
that the United States is getting
ready to deliver powerful offensive
blow" against the Japanese.
1--WE are getting stronger and
stronger" Knox told his news con-
ference. The preliminaries are out
of the way and we Ne getting
ready to drive home some hard
blows.
Operations of our combined sea,
air and land forces in all areas of
the Pacific are going forward in a
very satisfactory way.
I'VE now have the equipment and
trained men to do a complete job.
Few people appreciate the work
that goes into the job-months and
months of preparation.
STRATEGY APPARENT
"Of course, the whole strategy is
becoming apparent as these things
develop 1t is perfectly obvious now
that what seemed to be only nib
Continued on page 6, col y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14

Official Moscow announcement of
the capture of Cherkasi was borne
out by German high command ac-
knowledgement that the town had
been evacuated. Supplementary Nazi
reports said it had been completely
destroyed"
Stain, hailing te victors at Cher
kasi, described the town as IAN inn
portant center of German defenses
on the right bank of the Dnieper"
and said it fell as result of stub
born fighting.
SEE NAZIS CRUMBLE
Military quarters here believed
the fall of Cherkasi signalized the
crumbling of the entire German
position in the northern section of
the Dnieper bend, since it gave the
Russians firm grip on an extensive
and strategic rail and highway net
work.
The capture of the town also
cleared the way for Russian ad-
vance westward to threaten the
southern flank of the Germans
counter attacking the Kiev salient.
RuSSian front dispatches previous
ly had reported the city encircled,
and 1t was possible that a large
Nazi force was trapped.
CLAIM NO LOSSES
The German announcement, car
ried by the official DNB agency,
said, however, that the garrison
evacuated the city Monday night
lin full order without loss of men
or materiel."
Cherkasi. some 100 miles south
east of Kiev, had been completely
destroyed for a long time," DNB
said.
Though the city was the scene of
bitter fighting for several weeks,
the agency added, "the Soviets
were able to penetrate the COM
pletely-mined ruins" only in the
final few hours.
DOOMED WEEK AGO
Soviet front dispatches first re-
ported the encirclement of Cherkasi
more than a week ago and told of
the defeat of all German attempts
to break through the Soviet ring
both from within and without. Rus
sian spearheads fought their way
into the city, the dispatches said,
and the Germans acknowledged sew
eral days ago that the Soviets had
penetrated to the Cherkasi railway
station.
The fall of Cherkasi was expected
to pave the way for full-scale
Soviet smash at Smela, key railway
junction Is miles to the south.
whose capture would complete the
collapse of German railway COM
munications in the northern half
of the Dnieper bend.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
SCHENCK TESTIFIES

NEW YORK, Dec. IA (UP) -
Joseph M. Schenck, production
executive at Twentieth Century,
Fox Pictures, testified at the gov
ernment's $1O00,OO0 eXtortion trial
today that William Bioff lied when
he said he was friend of Schenck' S
and described the transactions be-
tween them as run by force and
fear"
Schenck followed Westbrook Peg
ler, newspaper columnist, to the
stand in the trial of the seven
racketeers for alleged extortion from
the film industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Allies RepuIse
Nazi Attacks
On Italy Lines
Eighth Army Batters
Way Through Big
Tank Drive in East

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Dec. IA. (UP)-British eighth
army troops fought through Ger
man tank counterattacks to ad-
vance toward Ortona, coastal an
chor of the Nazi Adriatic line, AL
lied headquarters announced today
General Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomery's forces pushed their drive
into the enemy's faltering defenses
in the face of rain and muggy
weather, which was closing dowr
on the entire Allied battlefront
across Italy.
The extent of the advance by the
Canadian coastal wing toward Or
tona was not specified. Monday
they were only two miles from
Ortona, holding heights that gave
them command of the town.
INDIAN TROOPS FIGHT
Indian troops thanking the Ca
nadians on the inland side made
limited advances, taking SO pris-
oners and broadening the eighths
positions south and southwest OF
Ortona.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
communique said the Canadians
knocked out several German tanks
in beating off the futile Nazi
counterattacks.
On Lieutenant General Mark w
Clark's fifth army front activity
was limited to artillery exchanges
and patrolling, with the Germans
maintaining an incessant motaI
fire on American and British po-
sitions atop the Camino- Maggiore
heights above the main road to-
ward Rome.
Frontline reports quoted German
prisoners as saying their ranks had
lost heavily in the recent nine-day
battle which ended with the fifth
army in full control of heights
commanding long stretch of the
road leading into the 2O-mile Cas-
Sino plain.
AIR ATTACKS GAIN
Invader and Warhawk planes
stepped up their assaults ahead of
the fifth's front, knocking out two
important bridges and nine guns
in the Portecorve and Casello areas
near Casino. They met little Luft-
waite opposition.
While the weather grounded
heavy bombers, Mitchells attacked
the oil depot at Split, on the JUgo-
slav coast, setting off a big explo-
sion, and kindled fires in ware
houses and railroad yards at ST.
bernik.
Terracina, rail center So miles
southeast of Rome, was attacked
for the second straight day. Two
allied planes were missing from all
operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14


ing of the states prison system.
The committee charged in a pre-
hminary report to the governor that
behavior credits for prisoners was
influenced by key inmates, that the
use of guards was inefficient be-
cause of conflicting authority, that
no systematic effort was made to
prevent sex perversion, and that
assignment of prisoners to harvest
camps and other duties was haphaz-
ard.
FISCAL IRREGULARITY
Financial Irregularities, including
the failure to credit to the state
all of the money received from use
of a prison hall, also were charged
by the committee.
The committee declared that in
period of approximately two years
and half all money received from
organizations using the prison hall
were credited to a special fund
from which money was used without
authorization.
AS a result, the committee said,
$4046 is owed to the state treasury.
Establishment of this fund and
use of the half was declared to be
contrary to a section of the penal
code and an attorney generals
opinion.
Warden Clyde Plummer, who re-
signed last week, was in conflict
with Captain of the Guard William
Ryan, the committee found, and
often countermanded Ryan's orders
to the detriment of the guard and
inmate discipline.
Ryan also told the committee
there had been "a dissipation of
employe manpower with the result
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14

NEW YORK, Dec. IA. CUP) -
Penicillin, one of the most effective
disease-fighting substances yet dis
covered, will be available "in ade-
quate supplies for military and
civilian needs within the next six
months" Major General Norman T.
Kirk, army surgeon general, re-
vealed Monday.
Addressing the American Phar-
maceutical Manufacturers associa-
tion and presenting awards of DR..
Alexander Fleming, London, for his
discovery Of penicillin, and DR.,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Meeting Planned
On Soldier Vote

SACRAMENTO, Dec. IA. (UP) -
Secretary of State Frank M. Jor-
dan, Tuesday announced a meeting
would be held in San Francisco
Thursday of groups interested in
simplifying California election laws
to assist servicemen in casting abb
sentee ballots.
Jordan said that while soldiers
and sailors may vote on regular
absentee tickets, dates for sending
the bollots out and for their return
might have to be changed to make
sure California servicemen in re-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14

mote parts of the world can cast
valid ballots.
The executive committee of the
county clerks association, State
Senator Arthur Breed, Alameda,
chairman of the senate elections
committee; assemblyman Alfred W.
Robertson, chairman of the assem-
bly, elections committee. and as
semblyman Harrison Call. Redwood
City, have been invited to attend.
Jordan and Deputy Charles Hag-
erty will represent the secretary of
states office.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
HIGHWAY FUNDS MADE
READY FOR USE

SACRAMENTO, Dec. IA. CUP)-
Director c. H. Purcell of the public
works department today reported
proposed expenditures of $186,327.81
from legislative appropriation of
S1,500,000 for surveys, plans and
specifications for postwar county
highway construction have been
approved by the division of high
ways.
County budgets approved includ-
ed:
Plumas $S,53865; Glenn 1888 SO; /;
Stanislaus $19,650; Sacramento $685.
411.79; MADEIRA $2,600; San Mateo
$25,853.82 Monterey $18,213.53; San
Luis Obispo $40; Mendocino $8,-
1924; Fresno $35,500; Tuolumne
$6,505.10; Siskiyou $1,000
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
BY UNITED PRESS

Influenza and colds, spreading
throughout the nation, reached epi-
demic proportions in some cities
Tuesday, curtailing war plant oper-
ations and forcing schools to close
DR.. George Calver, Capitol physi-
clan, estimated that 20 per cent of
the congressman in Washington
have contracted influenza or a res
piratory virus infection. He said
100000 cases were reported in the
city, where the flu and influenza
meningitis have claimed four lives,
including three young children.
DR.. James G.. Cumming, head of
the government bureau of prevent
able disease, anticipated an increase
in the infection within the next
few days, but expressed the hope
that the crisis would be reached
shortly, followed by a sharp de-
cline.
LOOK TO COOLER WEATHER
DR.. Bruce H. Douglas, city health
commissioner of Detroit, where
about 10 per cent of the population
has been hit, said colder weather
would have a marked effect in
checking the number of heavy colds
and winter respiratory ailments"
Philadelphia health authorities
recommended the cancellation of all
public gatherings when about 20
per cent of the population was re-
ported suffering from influenza and
colds.
Northern New Jersey authorities
said an epidemic of virus infections,
which already has caused one death,
may force the closing of schools
and curtailment of operations in
war plants. Some factories reported
as many as 80 per cent of their
employees absent because of illness.
Production of motion pictures at
Hollywood was disrupted as many
stars, directors and technicians were
confined to their homes or entered
hospitals for treatment. Shooting
Continued on page 6, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
PeniciIIin Soon
To Be Plentiful

Howard w. Florey, oxford univer-
sity for "his pioneer contributions
/ to our knowledge of the value of
penicillin," Kirk hailed Penicillin
as one of the three heroes of
World War H." The other two, he
said, were the sulfa drugs and blood
plasma.
1.-The army is working night and
day to the end that not a single
American boy will have to die from
an infected wound that hight have
been healed by penicillin," Kirk
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
RUSSIANS SEIZE DNIEPER STRONGHOLD
Allies Tighten
Lines Toward
Goal Of RabauI
u. S. Resumes Aerial
Pounding as
AusSies Push Ahead

ALLIED H ADO u R T e r S,
Southwest Pacific, Dec. IA. (UP)-
A two-mile advance By Australian
troops in New Guinea and resump-
tion of the American aerial pound
ing of Bougainville were reported
Tuesday in the laborious Allied cam
paigns on the approaches to Rabaul.
Paced by Matilda tanks, Austral-
ian infantry forced the Sowi river
on the coast of New Guinea's Huon
peninsula and advanced two miles
against Japanese rear-guards to the
outskirts of Lakona village, four
miles northeast of captured Bonga.
PRESSING JAPS
The advance was made Saturday,
"a hours after a Japanese force
was routed at the mouth of the
Sowi. Inland other troops were
pressing the Japanese near Wareo.
Grounded four days by bad
weather, American planes renewed
their attacks on japanese bases on
Bougainville, northernmost of the
Solomons. Nearly 100 aircraft drop
ped 81 tons of bombs on the BUN
area, at the south end of the island
destroyed three ground guns, a jetty
and several buildings.
Five attacks were made in the
BUM area and on nearby Choiseul
island while other planes wrecked
nine buildings at Kieta, on the
east coast, and hit Buka, on the
north. U. S. troops suffered minor
casualties in light ground action
on the Empress Augusta bay west
coast beachhead.
AID TO RABAUL DRIVE
Completion of the campaigns on
the New Guinea coast and on Bou-
gainville would give the allies
springboards aimed at Rabaul, on
New Britain, from the southwest
and southeast.
Long range fighters flew to with
in 60 miles of Rabaul to strafe
Kalai and Waitavalo villages on
Wide bay.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
ICC NAMES CHAIRMAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. (UP) -
The interstate commerce commits
sion today announced the election
of w. j. Patterson, commissioner
since 1899, as chairman for 1914.
He succeeds j. Haden Alldredge
who will resume his regular duties
on the commission when his term
expires at the end of this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
ANNOUNCE NEW ALLOY

Boron, an accidental discovered al
10y, coupled with recent steel re-
search will result in better and
cheaper alloy steels for postwar
industrial use, D. D. Barbour, as
sistant chief metallurgist of the
Kaiser Company, Inc, iron and
steel division, told a group of Los
Angeles manufacturers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
COAL DEARTH FEARED

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. CUP -
The office of war information said
today that coal supplies will be at
dangerously low level by March
and warned that if above-ground
stocks are not replenished during
the summer, the situation next fall
will approach catastrophe
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
IDENTIFY FLIER's BODY

81 LOS ANGELES Dec. IA tUP)-
Army authorities Tuesday identified
q body found in the burned wreck
age of a plane in big Tujunga valley
yesterday as that Of Maj. William
T. Num-, who disappeared on a
lfMght from Ontario to Merced last
april. Two deer hunters discovered
the wreckage Sunday. Surviving
Major Num- is his widow. who lives
In Pomona.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
u AMsLINe
kAEpoRrER

Sign Language
At the concert given by the Metho-
dist church choir in FL Centro last
Sunday night, serviceman by the
name of Clarence Turner was to be
one of the soloists.
y When the Rev. M. HAYDEN Sears
introduced him he said Turner was
from the Ell Centre marine air sta
ton. Instantly the back OF every
soldier in the church stiffened
There was wave of tangible dis
pleasure.
No wonder Turner is a soldier
from Camp Seeleyl (We would like
TO have heard the reverend talk
himself out of that corner)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
FARM CENTER MEETING

The Alamo-Verde farm center will
meet at Verde school at 8 pm.
Thursday for program consisting
of election of officers, talk by
Farm Advisor Frank Beyschlag on
Farmers Income Tax on the Pay
As-You-Go Plan," movies, and a
fiddling and dancing party.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
TRIAL CONTINUES

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IA. CUP,
Attorneys for socialite Capt. Lind
say C. Howard today continued
their efforts to prove before an
army courtmartial that he Is inno-
cent of charges Of conduct unbe-
coming an officer and gentleman
because of his refusal to maintain
$l250 monthly al.mony payments
to his ex-wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Flu Takes Form
Of Epidemic;
Cast Hard Hit
War Industry Plants,
Schools Closed;
Milder in West Areas

California health authorities
Tuesday indicated fear that the
epidemic may hit the southern
part Of the state, although in
mild form as half the cases re-
ported have not been of serious
nature. 1t also is stated that the
disease appears to be a mixture of
flu and grippe"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Court Room Scene

Court Room Scene
A witness in court in FL Centro
was asked if he ever had been in
4 iail He said he had been in jail.
"As a matter of fact his aues-
'tioner went on, haven't YOU been
in iail many, many times?"
The witness shrugged and threw
up his hands expressively.
$50 what of that? Everyone goes
to JAIL" he said.
Later on in the same case, an
other witness was being questioned.
did you slap your wife?" an at
4 storney asked.
II did Just as her mother told
me-" the witness said. "The mother
of my wife told me to slap my wife
with my hand like this" showing
his open hand, but never like this,
Showing his doubled fist. II did
as the mother of my wife told me. .
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
Germans Chased
From Cherkusi,
Last Main Bose
Victory Clears Enemy from Lower
Bend, Opens Way to Kiev Area;
Crumbles Right Banks Defenses

LONDON, Dec IA. (UP)-General Ivan S. Konev's
Ukranian army has sormed and captured Cherkas the
last major German base the west bank the lower
Dneper river Premier Josef Stain announced Tuesday
in special order of the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
'GovernorCuIIS
Session on
Prison Problem
Investigators Reci+e Series
Of Alleged Offenses
Charoed TO Folsom Authority

SACRAMENTO, Dec ID. (UP)-Gov. Earl Warrens
committee investigating prison conditions Tuesday reported
administrative and discipline problems existing at Folsom
prison demanding immediate correction the governor
he would shortly call special session of the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
: Eden Declares
ParIeys Map
Speedy Victory
Commons Hears Foreign
Secretary Tell of
Death Drive on Axis

LONDON, Dec. IA. (UP)-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden told COM
mons Tuesday that Britain, the
United States, and Russia at Teh-
ran had insured the shortening of
the war and laid plans for "main-
tanning the worlds progress" in the
peace to follow.
In apologizing for Prime Minister
Churchill's absence at the opening
of the war debate, he limited broad
ly that further conferences in the
Mediterranean theater were con-
templated or under way.
There still remains important
work for him to do in the sphere
where he now is," Eden told the
packed house and gallery, land I
am sure the house would wish him
to see that work through to the
end"
OUTLINES WARFARE
Fresh from the momentous round
of conferences at Cairo and Teh-
ran,, Eden reported that:
l. Britain will throw her. full re-
sources against Japan following the
Continued on page g., col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
More Good Deeds

More Good DcedS-
Now that the children at the
Juvenile home received few games
to help them while away the time,
how about adding some ring toss
games, some Chinese checkers, some
regular checkers, and some games
permitting a little activity and
exercise?
Thank you.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-14
WEATHER

Maximum Monday sc, Minimum
Tuesday 43; 5 am. Tuesday 49, hu-
midity 80; noon Tuesday Ga, humid
ity 63;i5 pm. Mon. 63, humidity &c.