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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
RAMBLING REPORTER

Greer, called at the Post-Press Of
flee with her father, neWspaperman
from away back when, after work
ing hours WEDNESDAY.
The little girl looked around the
office solemnly. The place was a bit
Uttered after a busy day.
Daddy" she said with a shake of
the head, this office is as bad as
ours"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
WIDE TRAVELLER

He made three wartime round
trip transatlantic flights, but had
gotten his first taste of foreign re-
porting at the 1880 London naval
arms conference. His first wartime
journey was to England before
Pearl Harbor. Shortly after we got
into the war, Clapper flew to Cairo.
Calcutta, and Chungking. Last year
he visited and reported in his COL
umn upon conditions in Sweden,
England, Africa and Sicily. That
was when he flew to observe the
bombing of Rome.
1t was tribute to Clapper and
the other reporters invited on that
delicate mission that the army
chose them because it wanted train
ed, reputable and military wit
nesSes to the fact that only mill
tary installations were attacked.
Clapper fitted the pattern. He was
known around town as top flight
reporter and his report on Rome
was sample of his wares.
Clapper probably was no fatalist,
Oul lac OiO lldNC a COIilOIIlIlS COll-
fidence in his star. 1t is a long way
from Linn county to the places he
had been to, and Clapper figured
there were plenty of places still in
viting a look. He also knew that
war corresponding may be a dam
gerouS job.
HAD OWN STAR
On Jan. &c, in a column dated
somewhere in New Guinea, Clapper
wrote few words which were, of
course, intended more as reassur-
ance to his family than for his
public
Just about every individual has
some religious charm or other good
luck token he wrote. I'm not
religious man but I find myself
frequently taking out a tiny brown
bear which my daughter gave me as
was leaving last year for the
European theater. Over here seven
war correspondents have been killed
mostly in the last few months, and
l never get in a plane any more
without checking with the little
brown bear"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
QUAKE RECORDED

BERKELEY, Calf, Feb. 3 (UP)-
The University of California seis-
mograph recorded a small earth
quake at $50 a. m. Thursday 1900
miles distant probably in Alaska.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
Farmers Demand Duck Protection

! the greatest crop damage, more than
200 acres of lettuce, proposed most
of the resolutions. In his comment
on damages he called attention to
the crop insurance program of the
Agricultural Conservation Associa-
ton which no lc-- EXISTS as part
of the program.
CITES INSURAi{CT
Rudolph Miller, secretary of the
association, stated tLct in 1899 and
1910 hundreds of acces of wheat
were burned due to rust damage
and claims were allowed. He said
the program was dropped in 1943
due to the nations farmers inability
to decide ON a definite program.
He said there had been some con-
troverSy as to whether claims for
crop losses due to lack of labor
should come under crop insurance
or the War Risk Insurance set up
by the government
Other crop losses were cited by
w. Lee Johnson, George Buffers,
Charles Sperry and j. P. Hoffman.
Miller has announced that several
agencies are working to get ammu-
milton released. A recent proposed
allotment of 217C0O rounds of shot
gun shells for southern California
may not come through, but if it does
it will mean that approximately
10000 rounds will be available here,
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
Raymond CIapper
Dies In Crash
lContinued nom page n

Continued from page II
Howard papers. Clapper established
and maintained a remarkable aSso-
ciation with the great political
figures and later with the military
leaders of our times. He was as
signed here during the latter part
of Woodrow Wilson's second ad-
miniStration and was on the job
through Harding, Collidge, Hoover,
and thus far with President RooSe-
velt
From the Harding front porch
campaign, through the Scopes mon
key trial the oil scandals, naval
conferences, the political conven-
tionS, first. second, and third New
Deal the war Clapper covered
them all. adding always distinction
to himself and to his profession.
Clapper's colleagues were remem-
bering things about him Thursday
in the offices where he had worked
and was so we'll known. The purple
burst of profanity when things went
wrong and the quick soft word of
apology a moment after. There was
the time he sat for some l3 hours
debating a running story for the
United Press from the press box OF
the 1882 Democratic national con-
vention and could not be persuaded
to leave his chair.
He was essentially a shirt sleeve
journalist, although the country
boy from Kansas did become
polished, cosmopolitan figure. He
lived in one of the most emphati-
cally modernistic homes in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
u. ). Planes Sink Two
German Submarines
In South Atlantic
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Destruction of two German sub
marines in the South Atlantic, one
after five and one half hours OF bat
ling in which six Navy and Army
planes participated, was reported by
the Navy last night.
Both submarines were sighted
attacked and sunk by planes flying
search missions from Ascension
Island, midway across the Atlantic
from Natal, Brazil.
Seven times Navy Liberator bomb
ers roared down on one submarine
dropping 80 depth charges and
straflng the U-boat's decks. Two
Army planes also joined in the fight,
dropping 10 demolition bombs.
The submersible was first sighted
and so damaged that it could not
submerge and escape. It was at
tackled by a plane piloted by 1t.
Charles A. Baldwin, Is, Kearney,
Nebr.
The submarine finally went down
after another Navy Liberator piloted
by 1t. William r. Ford, 20, Crescent
City, Fla. had attacked, returned
Ito its base for refueling and came
back with partly new crew fol-
the final kill.
The second submarine, the Navy
said, was destroyed "a few weeks
later" by another Liberator bomber
|piloted by 1t. q. g. Marion v
Dawkins, %, Sumter, S. c. That
submarine, the Navy reported, blew
up shortly after 1t. Dawkins' plane
had blasted 1t with depth bombs.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Hopkins Still Has Fever,
Navy Official Reports

Harry Hopkins, presidential ad-
wiser, who is Ill with influenza at the
Naval Hospital at Bethesda, still
was running fever today and his
condition remains about the same -
it was learned from naval authori-
ties.
Mr.. Hopkins, like all other nom
Navy personnel admitted to the
hospital, is paying s4.25 a day, the
so-called set fee" at the institution,
it was learned. One naval spokesman
said this was fixed as the actual cost.
An official naval statement in re-
gard to such cases said:
SIT has become the custom to ad-
init Government officials to the Ma
val Hospital. The Secretary of the
Navy has the right to say who may
enter and he reviews each applica-
tion before permission is granted"
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Jack & Heintz Voids Guarantee
Of Jobs; Blomes Reneqotiotion

Is all over, because the Price Adjust
ment Board Is taking all our 1912
profits from us, and may take all
subsequent profits If the precedent
is established"
The company reported a 1912 net
profit, before payment of taxes, of
$7,983,253 on sales valued at $23,-
357 500, and offered to refund $4,-
791 ,82l through renegotiation of the
contracts, Mr.. Jack said.
The Price Adjustment Board, how
ever, issued final ruling setting
100000 as due the Government
from the company's profits, leaving
us a net loss of per cent against
the sales Of our entire products" !"
the industrialist declared.
The postwar employment prom
ises, made to employees last Febru-
ary, were withdrawn by Mr.. Jack
in a talk to employees.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Ration Board Clerk Dies
In Gas-FiIIed Apartment

Miss Marion c. Campbell, IS, of
1927 Massachusetts avenue, a ration
board chief clerk, was found dead
early today in the gas-filled kitchen
Of her apartment.
She was pronounced dead by
an Emergency Hospital physician
Police, who were called by neigh
bors who had smelled gas, sum-
moned the fire rescue squad to aio
in administering artificial respira-
ton.
When police broke into the apart.
ment, they said, they found Mis-.
Campbell with her head in the
kitchen oven, her face covered by
a heavy bed quilt. All the jets or
the gas stove were turned on. NJ
notes were found.
Police said Miss Campbell was
employed by Ration Board 33, Tenth
and Monroe streets NE. They sale
she had returned to work at the
board on January S, after taking
leave on December 10 to make a trip
to California.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said no certificate has been issued
in the death. His Office still is in
Vestigating,
Evening star., 1944-01-13

reduction of the District OCD
budget.
OCD will recommend continuance
of periodic training for local civilian
defense workers, but such training
will not involve general public par
ticipation except when practice alerts
are approved by military authorities.
The War Department, moreover,
has issued instructions that its field
agencies be prepared to resume air
raid drills "in the event the stra-
tegical situation changes In such
manner as to warrant increased
passive defense measures"
Volunteers Still Needed.
This action is not an indication
that the war is over as far as the
continental United States is con-
cerned," the War Department said.
Rather, an even greater burden is
placed on the civilian population to
be alert, to utilize manpower efii-
ciently and to assure our fighting
forces OF being adequately supplied" !"
The two agencies declare there
is still need for volunteers to serve
in control centers and with the air
raid wardens, auxiliary police, medi-
cal and fire services,
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Raid Crippled 3 Plane Plants
For Months, Gen. Arnold Saws
Returning Flyers Tell
Of Desperate Battles
With Nozi Fighters
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated freSS.
A UNITED STATES BOMBER
BASE IN BRITAIN, Jan. 13.-The
heaviest fighting in all the spectacu-
lar air battles fought over Germany
by American and German planes
Tuesday apparently developed at
Oschersleben, the home of the Nazis
No. / Focke Wulf fighter factory.
Crewmen said rocket-firing ground
guns threw up explosives which, in
the words of Capt. Kenneth R.
Beckett of La Junta, Colo, looked
"as big as house."
Groups of fighters charged single
bombers % strong in some instances,
often risking collisions with the big
raiders to press home with guns and
aerial rockets their counterattacks
in defense of the plant.
Smoke bursts filled the air.
Direct bomb hits, however, were
observed on the factory installations
of the town, 80 miles southwest of
Berlin, which was previously at
tackled by American forces last
July %.
Fury Of Fighting Unprecedented.
Veteran airmen described the fury
of the fighting over the blasted tar
get as unprecedented.
I've never seen anything like it
during my Is missions" said the in
jured navigator of one Fortress in
describing the three-hour battle
with the German fighters. 'They
came in on us % at time. I
counted them"
Sergt. Carl A. Gundersen of
Hoboken, N. j., told of an enemy
fighter formation so big Il thought
they were our escort, there were so
many. When they saw us, Is peeled
off and came tearing head-on
through our formation"
"They, threw everything at us
even "a big two-engined job which
looked like a transport" said 1t.
William H. Hartlet. New Orleans, a
Fortress pilot. "It looked like a
the way they'd come
creeping in, shoot, swing around
then come back again."
More than 20 FW190s came at 1t
Col. William R. Calhoun's bomber
head-on.
Nazi Flyers Desperate.
II had to lift one wing or be
rammed," the Birmingham Gala. }
flyer said. Those guys were
desperate"
The new ground-fired rocket came
up at the Fortress formations 'look-
ing big as a house." one crewman
said, and the resultant explosion was
like giant flax from ack-ack guns.
Fortress gunners, though. who
bagged more than 100 of the enemy
defenders, were by no means idle.
Crews told of seeing the gunners
on one Fortress pop a couple of
ME1o9s simultaneously as they came
IN for a frontal attack. Both spiraled
to the ground in flames.
Sergt. Clyde v. Craig Of Harlan,
KY, found g. fighter in his sights
while he was sitting out there get
ting ready to lob a rocket at us. I
blasted the hell out of him!"
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Placing Of Veterans
lis Left 10 uses
Under New Plan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Selective service and the War
ManpoWer Commission, both of
which have a stake in getting jobs
for veterans, have reached an in
formal working agreement clearing
up a source of possible friction, it
was learned last night.
Meantime selective service said
Col. Lewis Sanders is no longer head
of the unemployment division,
which has authority under law to
help service men find jobs when
they return to civilian life. He was
replaced this week by 1t. Col. Paul
H. Griffith.
The unemployment division will be
virtually all that will remain of
the selective service system when
the war is ended.
Selective service has mandate
from Congress to ID help veterans
to return to their former jobs or (2)
help them get new ones. 1t is en-
powered to function through exist
ing agencies or set up adequate
facilities of its own.
1t now has agreed to handle the
placing of veterans in new jobs
through the United States Employ
ment Service, which is under the
VINO. Chairman Paul McNutt of
the VINO recently announced an
expansion of the Veterans Division
of the Employment Service in order
to handle postwar demobilization.
Selective service retains the other
function, that of seeing that a vet
eran gets his old job back, as re-
quired by law. If the job is still
there.
Col. Sanders, in civilian life a New
York consulting engineer, was trans
ferred by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her.
shey, selective service director, to
serve in the Office of the director.
Col. Griffith, who is from Union
town, Pa, was director of the Wash
ington office of the American Legion
from 1885 to 1910.
In September, 1910, he joined
selective service, and was in the
office of the director until his new
assignment.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Raid Tests
Continued From First Page.)

be reduced, in addition to transfer
of personnel from those areas.
The consolidation of the two de-
fense commands will be effective
Saturday, and 1t. Gen. George
Grunert, commander of the Eastern
Defense Command, will head the
consolidated command, with head
quarters in New York. 1t. Gen.
Lloyd R. Fredendall, commanding
general Of the Central Defense Com
mand and the I'd Army, will retain
his I'd Army command, with head
quarters at Memphis, Tenn.
Economy in Personnel.
consolidation of the two defense
commands was decided on to effect
an economy in personnel, as well as
to simplify the procedures of opera
ton OF the commands" Mr.. Stim-
sons announcement said.
THE staff of the present Eastern
Defense Command will operate the
consolidated command, releasing
those who have been on duty in the
Central Defense Command for other
duties"
There was no mention Of the 1st
Army, which heretofore has been
commanded by the same general
who headed the Eastern Defense
Command, suggesting the possibility
that large numbers of troops which
have been stationed along the East
ern Seaboard may be destined for
combat operations overseas.
The consolidated command will re-
tain The name of Eastern Defense
Command. States in the present
Eastern Command are Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, PENNSYLVANIA,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
the District and Florida east of the
Apalachicola River. States in the
Central Command are West Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Min
nesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Wyoming and Colorado.
Series of Steps Taken.
Today's developments were the
latest in series of steps rejecting
the gradual re-emphasis of CONT
mental defense in favor of overseas
expansion.
Among these have been discontin-
uance of the civilian aircraft warm
ing service, and the announced clos
ing Of SO Army Air Forces installa-
tions in various parts of the country.
Steps to curtail civilian defense
already had been taken here with the
Evening star., 1944-01-13
laps Won't Discuss
New Prisoner Trade;
1uIeIake a Factor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department has re-
vealed that Japan SO far has re-
FUSED to discuss third exchange of
nationals until it received a report
on treatment of interned Japanese
in this country.
Spanish representatives in charge
Of Japanese interests here have
been requested to supply the infor-
nation to Japan, the department
said yesterday.
The announcement emphatically
denied reports that American pas
sengers from the Philippine Islands
who returned on the Gripsholm in
the recent exchange of nationals
with Japan were selected for re-
patriation by the Department of
State"
The Japanese put many difficult
ties in the way of Swiss diplomats
representing American interests in
the Far East who were charged with
selecting repatriates from the
Philippines, the department indi-
Gated.
Given Broad Orders.
The Swiss were given broad hu-
manitarian directives, it said, in
choosing repatriates, since not all
Americans in the Orient could be
brought home on the Gripsholm's
second trip.
The neutral representatives were
instructed to pick as passengers:
ID Those under close arrest. 90 IN
termed women and children. 90 The
seriously ILL., "a Interned men with
preference given to married men
long separated from their families
in the United States.
"The japanese government did not
permit even these broad directives
to be applied in the Philippine
Islands, and even in other areas it
prevented their full application In
respect to certain Individuals" the
announcement said.
Tulelake Is Factor.
Before the japanese will discuss
q new exchange, it desires to receive
Identification on certain points re-
specting the treatment of Japanese
nationals in the United States" the
department said.
, 1t has been reported that the re-
cent disturbances at the Tulelake
(Calif) internment camp resulted
in renewed refusal by Japan to
discuss a third repatriation imme-
diately.
. Spanish representatives are re-
ported to have finished their investi-
cation and to have told Japan that
Japanese in this country have been
treated well and humanely.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Raids
Continued From First Page.)

States bomber force based in Brit
ain has reached new strength
which may soon equal the RATS
1,000-plane (bomber) raids"
700 Bombcrs In Force.
Together" the newspaper added,
"the two most powerful bomber
forces in the world have more than
broken the back of the giant task
before them-that of completely
emasculating Germany"
More than 700 heavy bombers and
a likely record fighter escort consti-
tuted the American aerial task force
The attacks, directed against fac
tories at Oschersleben, Halberstadt
and Brunswick (Braunsweig), all
within radius of 100 miles of Berlin,
constituted possibly the most Grip
pling blow of the war against the
Nazi air arm.
Results we're described officially as
excellent. In beating their way to
and from the objectives and unload
ing their explosives directly on the
targets, the Americans shot down
more than 100 of the challenging
enemy aircraft.
The London press was virtually
unanimous in hailing the attack as
a mighty blow to German air de-
fenses. The numbers and fury of
Nazi fighters prove, the Daily Tele-
graph said, that "the battle of Ger
many is growing desperate" and
heading for showdown.
Nazis Continue Claims.
In contrast to the official Amer
lean report of "a planes lost, Berlin
propaganda outlets this morning
still were declaring 124 bombers and
IL fighters were shot down, claim
they had put forth even before re-
lease of yesterdays United States
communique, which said:
"At Oschersleben, direct strikes
were observed on machine shops
and other factory installations man
ufacturing Focke-Wulf 1905. At
Halberstadt a Junkers 88 and Junk
ers 1873 component plant was heav-
lily hit. At Brunswick two of three
main assembly buildings producing
Messerschmitt HOS were destroyed
and the third was badly damaged" :"
In addition to the three aircraft
centers, the Americans attacked
other targets, but the official an
nouncement did not identify them.
Swedish reports, however, said one
wing of the American aerial task
force swung over the Berlin suburbs
without attacking and continued on
to other objectives. If true, this was
the first time American bombers had
been over the German capital.
Although the "a planes lost ex-
ceeded by two the so bombers and
two fighters which failed to return
from the American raid on Schwein-
furt October IA, the loss in Ameri-
can personnel on Tuesday was
slightly less-a total of sos men as
compared with 602 on the earlier
operation.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
or Man River
Gets Court
On Border Shifts
By the Associated Press,

os tne Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 13.-The
Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals held
yesterday that the Mississippi River
may legitimately transfer portions
OF Louisiana to the State of Missis-
sippi so long as the stream doesn't
get In too big hurry about 1t.
The court decreed that where the
main channel Of a boundary stream
between States changes through
gradual natural processes, the
boundary Is reset by the channel.
But, the court said, If a freshet or
flood changes the channel, the
boundary remains fixed by the old
river bed.
The decision affirmed Judgment of
the southern district of Mississippi
court, dismissing a claim by Albert
w. Iselin and others seeking possess
sion OF a tract In Warren County,
Miss, from Arnaud Lacoste. The
land edges on the river and once was
part of Louisiana.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
5-Year-0Id Girl Dies
In Prince Georges Fire

Frances Price, S, colored, was
burned to death last night when
fire destroyed the interior of Gin
der house at Glenarden, Prince
Georges County police reported to-
day.
Patrolmen Charles Caldwell and
Lee Pumphrey said the blaze started
from fireplace while the child's
father, James Price, was at work.
They said the mother also was away
from home.
Two brothers Of the burned child
Leon, 6, and James, jr., 8, and a
sister, Evelyn, 9, escaped from the
house and attempted to put out the
fire with buckets Of water.
The Bladensburg and Cottage
City Fire Departments responded to
the alarm.
Evening star., 1944-01-13

York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jer-
S e y, Maryland,
Delaware a n d
the District Of
Columbia, h a S
joined the staff
OF H. A. Bruno
& Assoc i a t e S,
public relations
counsel. In New
York, 1t was an
nOunced to q a Y
b y AIRY A.
Bruno.
Before joining
the OPA, Mr..
Rea z q n served
Evening star., 1944-01-13
BY the Associated Presa,


CLEVELAND, Jan. 13.-Declaring
contract renegotiation "is taking all
our 1912 profit from u.s." William s..
(BilD Jack, president of Jack g.
Heintz, Inc, Cleveland war plant,
yesterday withdrew "any guarantee
of job for the returning soldiers
and 40 hours of work week for our
present associates (employes) when
this is all over"
In a statement attacking a War
Department Price Adjustment Board
ruling, which he said claims $7,000,-
900 through renegotiation of 1912
Jack 6y Heintz contracts for preci-
sion aircraft parts, the head of 7,400
plant associates" declared:
I'VE are forced to withdraw any
guarantee Of job for the returning
soldiers and 40 hours of work a week
for our present associates when this
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
In recess.
Judiciary Subcommittee investi-
gates charges that distillers are buy
ing up wine and beer control.
Interstate Commerce Subcommit-
tee opens inquiry into reported di-
version OF box cars for Canadian
wheat movement.
Education subcommittee works on
veterans education bill.
House:
Routine session.
Judiciary Subcommittee hears
proponents Of national prohibition
bill.