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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20
Imperial O.E.S.
Ins+aIIs Officers
At Public Service

Public installation services we're
held Sunday afternoon at the Ma
sonic temple in Imperial by Golden
Rule chapter, No. 267 o. E. s.. with
Helen and Lawrence Niles as invit-
ing officers.
Installing officers were Lillian
Talmadge, installing matron;
George Varney, installing patron:
Esther Ingle. marshal; Laura Webb,
chaplain; Margaret Rau, organist,
and Nancy Ann and Rita Rodgers
as candlelighters.
Officers installed were Matte
Stewart, worthy matron; Dorman
Stewart, worthy patron; Blanche
Channon, assistant matron; Elton
Cary, assistant patron; Hilda Mel
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20
CALENDAR
MONDAY

MONDAY
Teastma, t@rs. Sis. California us-
tel.
Carpenter. z.3a. I.abar temple
~ Centre Ledge Ne. zss. o. A a.
NJ. $50. Masonic tempt.
Boy Scout Troop g. TIA. seest
hut.
Red Cross Beard. 8. headauarterS.
n. q. findley Post. =. .. ". A.
Veterans Hall.
TUESDAY
Surgical dJ, ings. 81 T-s.sa.
10000 Club.
Junior baseball. q. stadium.
Presbyterian dinner aud bazaar.
$500. church.
ToastmistreSseS. e:3o. California
Hotel.
Night school. I. Hirh school.
Camp Fire councils. \. Harding
school.
Eagles, y. Eagles hall.
Central Iabor council. :. Iabor
Temple.
Boy Scout Troop 70. 7;3a. u tn
odist social hall.
Boy Scout Troop -. 7:2e. fire
department.
East Side canteen. 7.3e. Women
Improvement Club.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20
University Women
Hear Mrs. Currier
On "Democracy"

Democracy on Your Doorstep"
was the subject of the talk by Mrs.
Warren Gu rier at the luncheon
meeting Saturday afternoon of the
American Association of University
Women in the California Hotel.
Mrs. Currier who said people are
too apathetic about politics in this
country until few weeks before
an election. MADE plea TO save de-
mccracy by taking an interest in
government and ucing the privileges
provided by democracy.
If you don't take advantage Of
your rights and privileges" Mrs.
Currier said. some other country
or group of people will use them
She said the way to preserve de-
mocracy, which we take for granted
is TO use it and awake to the prob
lens OF the courtrv and to what is
happening politically
Preceding the proram, Miss Flor
enre Glenn presided at a short
business meeting. The roll call Of
members was answered by reports
of the various Latin and South
American countries which are being
'tudied. Maps and appropriate
books were PLACID about the dining
"ocrl in keepino with this theme.
Mrs. Elmer Heald gave a short
talk on the Sixth war loan drive,
and Mrs. Liefv Upholt was on
nounced as repr sentative for the
group in the drive.
After announcing the next meet
ing for December 9 at the home CT
Ell nder Dickson. with Miss Lillian
Turnor as the speaker on women
in Science" Mrs Glenn turned The
meetino' Over to the proram chair
man, Mrs. Freeman Witt, who in
'roduced MIS-. Currier.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20

son. secretary; Emma Hevensn.
treasurer: Minnie McKinnon. eon<
ductress; Thelma Henry. assistant
conductress.
Ethel Varney, chaplain: Lila Foa-
ter, marshal: Blanche Tullos. or
ganist; Addie House. warder: Es-
ther Ingle, sentinel: Jewell Rodgers,
Adah; Helen Maynard. Ruth;
Martha Cary, Esther: Edith Cleve-
land, Martha; and Lillian Talmadge
Electa. -
Following the installation refresir
ments we're served by the social
committee and an interesting pro-
gram was presented. Il
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20
East Side Canteen
To Have Meetino

Officers and members OF the East
Side servicemen's canteen will meet
at 7:30 O'Clock Tuesday night I'm the
Women's Civic improvement Club
house. All those interested i'm help
ing out in the canteen have been
asked to attend.
The canteen will be open Thurs
day, Thanksgiving l..cht, in addition
to the regular weekend nights 10
give the boys holiday recreation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20

OF lilo localities covered by a
war manpower commission survey,
CD blamed lack Of child care serv-
ices for their inability to hold work
efs. VINO r, ported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20

More than 100000 bushels of this
falls apple crcp will be made into
vinegar, while about 10000 BUSH
els will be used for cider.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20

The biggest crop of tree nuts In
history, about Is per cent above last
year, is indicated by September es-
Inmates of the U. S. Agriculture De-
partment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20
Churches
SCHOOL,
Morsan-EImore Vows Said
In Lovely Garden Wedding


Saturday afternoon
Rev. of
FIrsf Presbyterian church
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20

Mr. and Mrs. M. o. Briggs we're
hosts to group from San Diego
this weekend, who enjoyed the
hunting here. They included Sgt.
and Mrs. E. O'Neal and Sgts. Beebe,
Neff and Miller.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-20
OF Interest to Women
Edited By Marjorie Hovey Kinder
Society
Clubs
OF PERSONAL
INTEREST

Mrs c. p Lunder, who formerly
made her home in Ell Centro, was a
weekend visitor here from Santa
Ana, where she is now living.
Evening star., 1944-07-30

cal. recreational vocational educational
and employment needs of the men are
met.
He particularly stressed recreation
because he said he felt that had been
underemphasized in most parts OF the
country.
There should be organized public
recreation under definite leadership. an
outlet where men can let of their excess
energy. They should have plenty of
choices-hiking, stamp collecting, COM
munity singing, model sailboat racing,
work shops. If that were available, it
would be GodserM for these men
keep their minds occupied"
Vocational Courses
For the youths who left school to
join the Army and have never had any
job experience, Col. Menninger recon-
mended short vocational courses spe-
cializing in the types of work where
there will be demand for men. The
men should be directed into those
courses and the setup of courses. should
be ready for them as soon as they are
demobilized, he said.
Even the men who start or resume
interrupted liberal arts courses on their
return to civilian life should combine
Evening star., 1944-07-30
Almost Unnoticed, Mont Castro Battle
Most Dramatic Of Normandy Campaign
BY Thomas r. Henry,
Star Stat Correspondent.

WITH UNITED STATES Goth DIvI-
SION IN NORMANDY (By Mail)-out
OF boggy, thorn-hedged Normandy COW
pastures and black marshes speckled In
July with yellow stamened waxen water
lilies rises an 800-foot hill whose brow
under bald crest Is girdled by = green
band Of trackless forest. It's summit is
crowned with gray ruins OF ancient wars.
From them on q clear day an observer
can look eastward to the English
Channel, westward to the Channel Is
lands and northward to the docks OF
Cherbourg.
From secure camounaged observation
posts midst these ruins contemptuous
Nazi ofiicers watched through their field
glasses on invasion day American forces
wading ashore on the Channel beaches
and directed against them the fire
power Of the German artillery.
From these same posts through the
ensuing three weeks they watched the
swift progress of the invaders across
tine Cherbourg Peninsula, the right
angled swoop northward. Had the at
mosphere been little clearer they
might have seen the first white flags
raised over the outer defenses Of the
port city itself
Day after day they witnessed a
thickening brown line of dust a few
miles away which indicated the growing
numbers Of soldiers and vehicles oc-
cupying the northern third of the
peninsula. Almost at will they could
Evening star., 1944-07-30
How Will the War Change Them?
BY Miriam Gutenberg.

The man you sent of to war may be
q problem for while when he gets
home even If he never left this country.
That's the opinion of Col william
c. Menninger. chief of the division Of
neuropsychiatry, once of the Surgeon
General. who believes that many vet
erans are going to have a first-class
problem In reconversion on their hands.
They'll be different fellows" he said.
They've all known some degree Of
stress. Some will be more aggressive,
others restless and still others full Of
indecision.
Some will feel they have paid dearly
and they will expect to be compensated
not merely in money.
THE men have only vague notion
Of what goes on here but most of them
feel the people back home are making
more money than they ever did. Some
not all of them-will have q feeling
of resentment.
They'll Be Looking for Utopia
THE veteran has heard of $10O-a-
week jobs. He's going to look for them
and they'll be scarce. Expecting to
find n Utopia, they'll cast around for
awhile and they won't find it."
Some of the worst sufferers, the Army
psychiatrist predicted, will be the
clerks who became colonels, the mes
sengers who became majors.
1T seems to me their best chance
will be to stay in the service. 1t will
be no easy job for them to step back
to where they were before they entered
the Army" Col. Menninger said.
Just because man has never hap
pened to be in battle doesn't mean he'll
Evening star., 1944-07-30
Gen. Arn0lds Career Has Paced Growth of AAF

Gen Arnold AS a second lieutenant
was one of the first three Army men
to learn to fly. The pilots. bombardiers.
radio operators. navisators and tech
nicians under his command now number
more than 2,300,o0 officers and men
equipped with some $4,000 planes. rang
ing from puddle Jumpers to B-29s.
The Army's latest fleets of sky battle-
ships, each turning up $500 horsepower,
are in appalling contrast to the lone.
frail kite of fabric. wire and sticks
which the "Aeronautical Division" ac-
quired from the Wright brothers August
2, 1909.
The Wrights built the first Army
plane to military specifications. In
addition to speed and range require
ments, it had to lift two men of a
combined weight OF at least $50 pounds.
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"The veteran has heard of
S1O0-a-Week jobs. He's going
to look for them, and theuH
be scarce"
dicated. He's talking about the aver
age veteran, not the man DISCHARGED
as a psychoneurotic.
No Set Rules
The psychiatrist isn't offering any set
Of rules to guide either the soldiers or
the civilians in the period of human
reconversion. But he does urge a real
istic attitude toward what is to come.
Civilians should put their relations
with veterans on a realistic basis"
he declared. They should recog-
nize that the servicemen have risked
great deal, but that doesn't make
them gods. Put it this way: The
civilian owes a debt to the soldier but
that doesn't mean the civilian should
be indulgent and regard the soldier like
a spoiled child"
AS for the soldier, "the earlier he
makes the adjustment we know he
has to make. the better of he'll be-"
Col. Menninger Is in favor of the
men going to work as soon as possible
after they leave the service. Postponing
the day they 60 to work, he believes,
simply postpones the day they will have
to start adjusting to civilian life.
Dos and Don'ts for Civilians
Col. Menninger suggested a few dos
and don'ts for civilians:
Don't make fuss over the veterans,
don't pry If they don't want to talk,
assume they're not the same person
they were when they left home, don't
be patronizing or pitying. don't call
them boys or kids-they're men"
That's what a mans family and
friends can do or refrain from doing
as individuals but Col. Menninger en-
phasized that as group they should
be responsible for seeing that the medi-
Evening star., 1944-07-30

lowing July with another plane which
few for an hour IL minutes and 40
seconds at an average speed Of almost
48 miles an hour.
After accepting the plane the Army
established its first flying field at Col
lege Park, Md. with Wilbur Wright as
instructor. First pupils included 1t.
Benjamin Foulois later Maj. Gen.
Foulois, chief of the Air Corps.
When the rank of military aviator
was established the first Army pilots
to earn their wings were 1t Thomas
De w. Milling, Capt. Chalder and 1t.
Arnold.
The Nations first four-star air gen.
eral earned his nickname of Hap"
because of his early optimism. Even
In the old days he believed the airplane
was here to stay.
Evening star., 1944-07-30

"The colonel recommended
short vocational courses in
types of Uork where these Diu
be a demand for men,"
their cultural studies with some voca-
tional training, the psychiatrist said.
Why does he put the emphasis on
Jobs and recreation to make the return
ing servicemen as good citizens as they
were soldiers?
Give Them Security
What the public can give these men
is satisfaction and security - more
simply. Job he likes and a girl he
likes. The more fun he has, the less
restless he'll be in civilian Clothes" Col.
Menninger explained
At that point, the Army psychiatrist
gave his nearest approach to a for
mula:
Amy veteran who can feel secure and
have fun in the job he's doing isn't
going to be a problem"
Evening star., 1944-07-30

This No, plane. which thousands OF
Washingtonians have viewed at the
Smithsonian Institution until it was
removed to a secret place Of safety for
the duration, had a 36-foot wingspan
and was pushed by two light propellers
driven by chains from a 30-horsepower
engine.
The biplane was given It's first ac-
ceptance tests at Fort Myer, Va, in
August of 1908, with Orville Wright at
the controls. President Theodore Roose-
welt and members of his cabinet watched
several trials. Many records were
broken, but the tests ended disastrously
when propeller hit brace wire. 1t.
Thomas E. Selfridge was killed and Mr..
Wright severely injured in the crash.
The Wrights were given second
chance, however, and returned the fol-
Evening star., 1944-07-30

tempt to capture It against armed
resistance since Caesars legions. the
ruins Of whose stone fortifications and
trenches still remained, had repelled
there an enemy horde in one of the
last great battles of the Gallo wars.
But the emotions of these observers
can be only surmised. Few OF them are
left alive today.
This commanding hill Is designated
on maps of Normandy as lie Foret de
Mont Castro. For centuries 1t had been
a treasure chest for antiquarians. Even
today Roman spearheads occasionally
can be picked up among its rocks 1t is
an eerie spectacle on a misty day with
white fog ewirling about the walls of
little fortress which. according to
local legend, was built with Caesars
personal supervision. 1t stands almost
In the center OF the weirdly lovely low
land of stately moated chateaus and
Evening star., 1944-07-30

predominantly was made up of men
from the Southwest
1t had been one of the first Ameri-
can divisions to land in Normandy and
had taken major part in the reduction
of Cherbourg. 1t had come with head
bloody but unbowed through what was
probably the fiercest baptism of fire
undergone by any new American divi-
sion in this war. The days of that
inevitable awkwardness Of soldiers first
plunged into the red waters Of battle,
regardless of the thoroughness of pre-
vious training, were over.
The men Of the Goth moved south
ward as veterans along a narrow cor
ridor of hedged fields just east of La
Haye du Puts. Squarely in their path
over the boglands doomed the forest
girdled Mont Castro. From its observa-
ton posts every move they made was
"zeroed" for the German artillery.
From the hedgerows came the constant
canvas-tearing noise Of enemy machine
pistols, known to the soldiers as "burp
guns" firing at the rate OF 900 rounds
a minute. Mortar shells were inter-
mittently hailing death on their foxhole
bivouacs.
1t was necessary to take Mont Castro,
regardless of cost, before any of the
advancing divisions could move farther
southwark except at prohibitive cost.
1t was considered the most strategic
point in the strong line of German
outposts strung before the main line
of resistance stretching eastward from
Coutance. The reduction of the hill
clearly was the job of the now-seasoned
veterans of the Goth.
The battle which was to continue for
a week may be considered to have
started at the extraordinarily pictur-
esque crossroads of Ste. Suzanne, where
stood = 18th century church, q clump
Of farm buildings and an enormous 18th
century chateau, the home Of the vi
comte who was the chief land-owne of
the neighborhood. Every window In the
house had been broken by. shellfre. It
Evening star., 1944-07-30

He talks about night club In Algiers
as familiarly as we do about one in New
York.
Some of the men will be willing to
go back to the farm but lot of them
will find the farm drab That will be
equally true for the men who have to
60 back to sitting at a desk or doing
a monotonous shop job. What they've
been through, what they've seen will
make it difficult to settle down to some
thing dull where they know they'll be
doing tomorrow just what they did
today
One thing that's been worrying many
thoughtful civilians was discounted by
the psychiatrist. No, he doesn't think
the fact that man learned how to fight
dirty" will be carried over into civilian
life.
I'VE have generated lot of aggres-
sion on the enemy but I don't think
that because man learned judo and
jujitsu he's going to keep on fight
ing when he comes home.
"Oh, there may be lot of difficulties
at first-the barroom brawl type of
thing-but that will be tied up with
the mans resentment growing out of
being a privileged character ideas
rather than because he was trained to
oe fighting man.
When the men first come out he pre-
dicted, they're almost certain to go on a
spree. II will surprise him II they
don't.
The average CT hasn't seen more
than $40 or $50 month for years
Then he's handed the first installment
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envelop the city and storm its outer
defenses.
Within few hours after the ports
surrender three of these divisions were
withdrawn and the Goth marched south
ward. leaving, as Is the usual and ex-
pected fate of mud wallowing infantry
men, the comforts of the almost
undamage Cherbourg to the service
ribbon -bespangled sos. They moved
down to the former jumpoff line and
pushed beyond against German de-
fenses centering in the 10th century
barony seat of the children of Rollo
the Northman, La Haye du Puts.
1t was the same sort of fghting all
over again-the reduction one by one
OF hedgerows on top of shoulder high
earth walls about 100 yards apart. Each
hedgerow was a strong breastwork for
the enemy. Each field was like the
parade ground Of Nazi fort. swept by
rife and machine pistol fire from pla-
toons in secure dugouts under the con-
cealing hedges. 1t was a progress of
constant attrition. All day long the
observers atop Mont Castro watched
through their field glasses. reported
every American movement, and directed
artillery and mortar fire on the ad-
vancing troops.
The Famous Ninetieth
Among the divisions which was max
ing this slow progress southwark was
the Goth. the bulk of whose soldiers
We're inductees from Texas and Okla
homa. 1t had established glamorous
record Is years before as one OF the
fighting American divisions in the st.
Mihiel and Meuse- -Argonne campaigns.
Its cow punchers and ranchers, Mexi-
cans and Indians, now were mixed with
smaller blocks Of men from every State
in the Union and especially from Min
nesota and the Dakotas. But it still
Evening star., 1944-07-30

"A lot of them WiU find the
farm drab."
come back the same man who went
awav, the psychiatfist pointed out.
Somebody has fed and clothed and
paid him for two or three years" he
explained. There's been no way for
him to get into serious economic diff
culties. He's had a philosophy of liv-
Ing from day to day with no sense OF
responsibility for anybody else Even
the allowances to his family came out
of his pay automatically
Hard to Settle Down
1T will be hard for him to settle
down. He's been living out of a KNAPP
sack for two or three years In the
Army he's always been In a travelling
situation"
That's one reason why the psychatrist
thinks the men will be restless. and find
1t difficult to pick up the burdens and re-
sponsibilities they put aside two or
three years ago.
Then, they'll be reluctant to return
to monotony.
Back to the Farm
The farm boy from Iowa who never
before rode in Pullman now knows
all the lowdoWn on Burma and Tahiti.
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ulTeCt dTJllleTy ure
from the booming
l55s and barking s8s
upon any point in a
radius of 80 miles.
Perhaps they were
still contemptuous
on their mountain
stronghold " h ose
defenses they had
spent three years in
building. For 1000
years the post had
been a lookout over
the Cherbourg pen
insha. There had
kn@~ ~4 rnrfox,e ~
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OF his mustering-out pay. That's a
lot OF money to him-more than he's
seen in a long time in one lump What
DO you think he's going to do with it?"
The shaterring of illusions, however,
Will be the greatest problem of the re-
turning serviceman, the psychiatrist in
Evening star., 1944-07-30
By W. H. Shippen, Jr.,
Aviation Editor, The Star.

The Army Air Force, which will be
81 years old this week, has developed
striking power on par with the Army
and Navy within the active career of
one man.
Both the science of aviation and Gen
H. H. Hap Arnold were very young
when the Army established an Aero
nautical Division on August /, 1907,
TO study the flying machine and the
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possibility of adapting it to military
purposes"
The careers Of early flying officers
like former 1t Arnold closely parallel
the development of air power since the
days when the Army hoped to surpass
the equipment of any European
armies with not one. but two. flying
machines each capable of carrying two
men l25 miles at 40 miles an hour.
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rich Towering pastures Of the region
known as lie Bauptois. At its northern
foot lies the shell-smashed village of
Lithaire.
Local peasants fear to enter the
forest at night. Strange red lights
believed to be spirits of the dead flash
about through the foliage. Some say
they are the ghosts Of Caesars legion
naires. The forest of birches. beeches
and chestnuts constituting the green
girdle was chopped down apparently
about IS years ago. This area now is
covered by vigorous completely un-
combed second growth tangled with
blackberry vines-almost as thick and
difficult to penetrate as a South Seas
jungle.
The German observers on the crest
knew every foot of the surrounding ter
ritory. For the past four years the
Bauptois area has been used as a sum-
mer maneuver field for the lazy, sloyen-
ly, cognac- -guzzling occupation troops
Wars Most Dramatic Battle
This Fort de Mont Castro was des-
tined to be the scene for nearly week
of one of the most stubborn and costly
battles Of American history-by all odds
the most dramatic of the Normandy
campaign. 1t has gone almost unnoticed
rs attention of correspondents was
focused on the apparently more signif-
icant fight for st. Lo, Is miles to the
eastward.
1t was the Belleau Wood of this war
to date-in some respects a super Bel
leau Wood. Yet 1t may be destined to
become forgotten battle.
Four American divisions took part in
the capture Of Cherbourg during the
last two weeks of June. The narrow
peninsula had been cut from east to
west along a nearly horizontal line ex-
tending from Carentan to the erstwhile
fashionable beach resort town Of Barne-
vile on the Channel Islands side. From
this line they had fought their way
northward, hedgerow to hedgerov, to