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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
WOMEN'S MILITARY GROUPS
TO CONTINUE AT WAR END

WASHINGTON, Aug. II. CUP)-
Women's Army Corps recruiting,
new at almost a peak level, prob
ably will be continued, even after
Germany's defeat, to provide re-
placements for those leaving the
service and to meet additional
needs in rehabilitation, it has been
learned.
A war department spokesman
noted that WACS are now being
trained as medical technicians and
said that $4,000 more were needed
to serve at hospitals in this country
to help in the rehabilitation of re-
turning veterans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
TELLS OF OTHER WOUNDED

Nov wait. I know where there's
two more men wounded pretty bad.
One of them is a lieutenant who
just got back from the hospital
this morning from his other wound.
The soldier said they were right
up where the bullets were flying
but that if the aidmen would &C
he could walk we'll enough to guide
them up there. So the doctor named
off half dozen men to go with
him.
The doctor also told the wounded
German to go along and hell
carry. But one of the aidmen said
1--WE better not have him with
us. Our own men are liable II
start shooting at us
That's right" the doctor said
"leave him here and he named of
one other American to go. Aftel
they had left the doctor said, that
the truth, and I never even though
of it,"
The doctor and l sat a Whil
on the stairway inside the farm
house, for shells had started hit
ting just outside again. But in ;
little bit the doctor got up ant
said he was going to see how tn
stretcher party was getting along
I said I'd like to go with him. H
said O. K
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
PRISONS NOW EQUIPPED
WITH THREE-W WAY RADIO

CHICAGO, Aug. II. CUP)-Three
California state prisons, Folsom, at
Folsom; San quentin, near San
Francisco, and Chino, at Chino,
now are equipped for the first time
with three-Way radio telephone sys-
TENS with the installation of equip
ment.
Officials of each prison and also
members OF the California prison
and parole boards, have their auto
mobiles equipped as part of the sys-
tenn which employs two frequency
channels and operates on fire.
ency-modulation
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
Travel Subjects
Mark Interest
Of Young Readers

Travel is the most interesting
subject to young readers who are
participating in the summer read
ing contest sponsored by the Ell
Centre library according to Mrs.
Roberta Carpenter, children's Ii
brarian.
She says that the most widely
read book is the Little Mexican
Donkey" by Madeline Brandeis,
and that the wee Scotch Piper"
by the same author, is close sec
ond, with Land of William of
Orange by Adrian j. BarnouW, in
third place
young Wilkie," by Hatch, and
walter Reed" doctor in inform,
by L. N. Wood, arc popular with the
youngsters interested in biography.
Animals always fascinate chill
dren,' points out Mrs. Carpenter.
THAT is why" she says, "such
books as Wild Animals I Have
Known, by Eton; yellow Eyes by
Montgomery, and Animal Tracks,
by Mason, are popular"
Andersen's Fairy Tales" Car
pcnter's Tales of a Chinese Grand
mother" and Kraik's Little Prince"
appeal to the youngsters who like
to read fairy tales.
Those interested in stories, stick
by cid favorites such as Mark
Twains Tom Sawyer" and Alcotts
Little Women"
Mrs. Carpenter says that two
story books which have been added
to the young reader interest as
direct result of the present war are
Felsen's Navy Diver and THE
Youngest WAAC," by Bailey.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17

Wounded Soldier
KeI ps Ills Pals

shut and kept squirming and moan
ing.
When the Goctor would try to talk
to him he would just groan and
say, "Oh, my God!" Finally the
doctor got out of him that he had
a small wound in his hand, and his
sergeant had bandaged it and told
him to start to the rear. Then,
coming across the field, a shell
fragment had got him in the leg.
The doctor looked him over
thoroughly. There we're two small
holes just above the ankle. The
doctor said they hadn't touched
the bone. l think the doctor was
diSgusted
He said, hes making hell of
fuss over nothing" then to one
Of the aidmen he said, better give
him a shot of morphine to quiet
him"
Whercupon the soldier squirmed
and moaned. ooh, no. no, no.! Oh
my Godl" but the doctor said go
ahead, and the aidman cut the
sleeve up to the shoulder, stuck
the needle in and squeezed the
vial.
The aidman trying to be sympa-
thetic, said to the soldier, Its
the same old needle, amt it?" but
the soldier just groaned again and
said, "Oh, my God!'
Our hillbilly soldier lit another
skinny cigar as though he were
at a national convention instead
Of a battlefield. Then one set of the
httcrbearers started back with our
new man and the rest of us went
on with the soldier to hunt for
other WO1lnded
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
BY ERNIE PYLE

ON THE WESTERN FRONT -
(By Wireless)-This soldier had a
white bandage around the calf OF
his left leg. He had loosely laced his
Logging back over the bandage.
He said the wound didn't amount
to a damn" and he wished they
hadn't sent him back from the lines
He said he had gone through Africa
opd Sioilv without uattipu uoIlpded
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17


He had found some long crook
ed, raggedy French cigars, and he
kept lighting these funny-looking
things and putting them about three
inches into his mouth. He wasn't
nervous in the least.
Capt. Lucien StraWn the battal-
ion surgeon, started TO put him in
jeep to go back to the aid station,
but the soldier said:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
DAMAGE SUIT
Is EIIED

Estaquio ValIe, Amparo Vale and
Guillermo Vale sued the Vesubio
Mining company, Louis Vremsak
Jr., Gloria Worthy, T. C. Worthy,
and others, for $6725 damages they
said they suffered in a traffic ac-
cident five miles south of FL Centro
the first of August.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17

ana OlClly WlUllOuJ
and now he'd got
nicked. He was
disguised.
You could sense
t h a t t h i S g NY
was a fine sold
ier. He looked old,
b ut pro b a b | y
wasn't. / took him
to be a farmer,
He talked like a
hillbilly, and be-
heath his Whiskers
you could tell he
ha1l 1~,- l.NIl g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
BODY EXHUMED IN INQUIRY

MONTEREY, Cal, Ang. II. IUP
The body of 19-year-old Jay Lovett
was exhumcd from its flower
dccked grave Wednesday for eXami-
nation in connection with the
states charge that Mrs. Frances
Andrews, 37-year-old Carmel So
cialite, murdered him with an auto
matte pistol en- the night of July
Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
GETS JAIL TERM

Willie Gonzales, so, 157 State
street, was convicted on charges of
petty theft by Judge Lee Nuffer in
police court Thursday morning and
sentenced to so days in the county
Jail. Gonzales stole a purse from
Nellie Mohammed at AL Broad
waV
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-17
MANY SHELL CRATERS

We struck out across a Slopine
wheat field. 1t was full of huge
cratcrs left by our bombingS. There
was a lull in the shelling as we
crossed the field, but the trouble
with lulls is that you never know
when they'll suddenly come to an
end
AS we picked our way among the
craters l thought l heard, very
odd how those things strike you in
wartime. 1 remember thinking to
myself, "oh, pooh, that would be
too dramatic just like a book.
You're just imagining it,
But the doctor had stopped, and
he said, Did you hear somebody
yelling?"
So we listened again, and this
time We could hear it plainly. 1t
seemed TO come from a far corner
of the field, SO we picked our way
over in that direction.
Finally we saw him, a soldier
lying on his back near a hedgcrOW,
still yelling "help!' as we approach
ed. The aidmen who had started
ahead of us had got down in a
bomb crater when the Smelling
started, SO the doctor now waved
them to come on.
The wounded soldier was making
an awful fuss. He was twisting and
squirming, and moaning "oh, my
(IO1I oh NV (,Od ~ He had q
bandage on his right hand and
there was blood on his left leg.
KEPT UP MOANING
The doctor took his scissors and
cut the Logging off, then cut the
laces on the shoe, and then peeled
off a bloody sock and cut the
pants leg up so he could see the
wound. The soldier kept his eye
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

from different units iii Sne Eiuks(grg fighting indicated they would be heavy
 Meanwhile units of the 22nd and 38th divisions were pressing on the Hanks of the trapped Japanese, gradually tightening the ring around the enemy.
 There was an ominous silence from the enemy artillery within the ring today, Usually the mountain locked Humawnk valley re-echoes with the deafening blasts of the Japanese 150, 75 and 70-millimeter guns. The silence may mean that they were trying to pull the guns through the jungle, attempting to save them, or that they were reserv- ing their ammunition for a big push through the walls of the trap some- where along the southern line.
 Most of the heavy explosions in the valley yesterday and today came from American artillery which bona- barded enemy positions while fighter -bombers of the United States 10th Air Force swept up and down the roads and trails, bombing and strafing villages, Japanese positions and transport.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

The camp is a barbed-wire cage in the Mayu hills where Japanese captives are brought directly from the battle lines More than 20 of them mentally unbalanced by their experiences, are receiving hospital treatment.
 One bedraggled, undernourished Japanese infantryman, swathed in bandages, sits upright in his bed with look of hopelessness in his eyes. He has piece of shrapnel in his brain.
 These prisoners were taken dur- ing the IS day battle fought in the Mayu hills last month, when the British Indian 7th division held of a determined Japanese attempt to drive them out of Arakan.
 The beating the enemy took there helped drive their morale down to a new low. One thin-faced Japanese artilleryman said he was convinced the war would last another three years although he believed Japan would lose.
 Others believed Japan is standing practically alone and that Germany has been all but knocked out of the war.
 The prisoners lave been so badly broken by their defeat they are docile. Only one burly, sullen fellow gave his captorS any trouble. He had been in the camp for four days when I reached 1t and quickly pulled a blanket over his face when we approached him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

their way through the American lines on the south, utilizing the ar tillery bottled up with them, or they may try to filter out through the jungle cutting their own path. There already were some indications that they were trying to sneak out over a narrow jungle trial west of the main road.
 The retreating enemy left almost nothing in charred Maingkwan. Be- fore the villages capture, American fighter bombers attacking Japanese positions there reported that the Japanese were burning the few re- maining huts.
 After the Maingkwan battle, de- termined Chinese troops under Maj Gen. Liao YaO- Hsiang rushed swiftly southward. Shingban was taken almost without opposition. Behind them around Maingkwan a few Japanese snipers still were hanging in the trees, but the Chi nese were mopping them up rapidly and pushing on to keep close con- tact with the retreatirg enemy.
 Large enemy dumps of artillery and ammunition were left intact along the roat, indicating that the Japanese were surprised by the CO., ordinated Chinese and American at- tack and unable to evacuate all their supplies.
 No definite figures on Japanese casualties were av liable but reports
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Marines Mo ove
 Near RobouI
tContinued from Page D

Admiral William F. Halsey's head- quarters reported increased activity by the beleaguered Japanese garri- son on Bougainville, where Ameri- can airmen dropped 115 tons of ex- plosives on enemy supply concen- trations northwest of the Torogina river.
 AdmiraltieS
 In the Admiralities, U. S, troops spread out from their new holdings, securing the beach on the west coast of Los Negvos at Searler harbor and occupying Porlaka, west of Momote airdrome.
 The Island of Los NegroS is now under our control" a communique said, "and Momote airstrip is ready to receive planes
 A spokesman disclosed that vir- tually all useable land was held by the Americans and pointed out that the remainder of the tiny strategic island mostly was swampland.
 The American forces captured AT inch naval guns which the enemy had embedded in concrete emplacements, and searchlight equipment south of Momote.
 Air units again attacked enemy positions in the rear, ranging as far as Lorengau on the main Ad- miralty Island of Manus, while naval units, from close range, bombarded Hauwei Island, north of Lorengau and West of Los Negroes. The communique disclosed that 479 additional enemy read had been buried on Los Negros by the Amer jeans.
 Allied troops on New Guinea, operating from newly-Won Yalau plantation, on the Raj coast, reach- ing the villages of Bibi and Gang alu, while Omerican airmen con- tinued their attacks on the big enemy base at Wewak, shooting down three enemy bombers and two fighters at loss of one plane.
 Four enemy bargeS were destroyed by light Allied naval units in an attack on Ambitle Island in the Penis of the Maiang coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
(OwI Radiophoto, from NEA)

to German airdromeS 50 miles be- yond Paris.
 Photographs
 Reconnaissance photographs tak- en during and after the record American raid on Berlin Monday were given prominent display in London newspapers today. Some showed concentrated clusters of bomb bursts in factory areas, while others pictured anti-aircraft shells exploding among formation of for- tresses and dozen bombs falling toward the target.
 The official German news agency DNB hinted thatt he bombers dropped peace pamphlets on Berlin.
 "All talks about Roosevelt peace are beyond the possibility of being materialized," DNB quoted the Deutsche Allgemeine zeitung as saying. '"The entire German peo- pie are for a German peace of freedom and national greatness"
 A U. s. Army announcement said that Munstang fighter group of the 8th Air Force destroyed 20 en- emy fighters in the Berlin raid with out loss to themselves to establish a new record. The group was com- manded by Major Thomas L. Hayes of Portland, Ore. who took over command when the regular leader was forced to return to base because of engine trouble.
 Coastal command Beauflghters with an escort of Mustangs, at tackled an enemy convoy of the FTisian Islands with torpedoes and cannon fire, setting fire to three armed travellers and damaging other vessels. Two Beauflghters were lost.
 Mustang Base, England, March 8. (UP)-The first returning fighter pilots who accompanied American heavy bombers to Berlin today said the German defenSes were as fierce and determined as they were on Monday. The battle was fought to- day in an almost cloudleSs sky. Otherwise perfect visibility was marred only by clouds of anti-air- craft fire thrown up by the ground guns, the strengths of which seemed to have been increased.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

(Contlnued from Page D Massachusetts law. Counsel and the judge planned to continue their conferences later today.
 District Attorney Charles R. Al- berti indicated he would contend that dumbell shped burn described by the pthologist was caused by climp which hedl the wire on the child's arm. The District Attorney also noted in his opening argument that the cooked flesh" which pr. Moritz analysed for the superior court jury yesterday could not have resulted in the brief period he left the child alone.
 Dr. Moritz, the 18th witness sum. moned by the prosecution, said his autopsy disclosed that the baby'S heart and other organs essentially were normal although he noted con- gestion in the lungs. This conges- ton, he said probably was caused by a rapid flow of blood immediate ly before the child's death.
 The Pathologist supervised sev- eral laboratory tests of electrother- nal burns, similar to those on the Noxon baby's body. which will be reviewed later in the trial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
War In Casino
(Continrled from Page D

change in the battle lines, while American artillery traded heavy fire with the Germans west of Cisterna.
 Observers reported intensive activ- ity ill the German rear areas, how ever, and it was indicated that the Nazi high command was reforming its 10 battered visions for another attempt to wipe out the Allied beach, head.
 Relentless BOmbardment
 Allied cannon battered relentlessly at the enemy concentrations, and swarms of planes virtually unop- posed by the uLftwaffe, bombed and machine-gunner the German rear areas and road transport.
 Cold and rain again hampered ac- tivity on the British 9th Army front. except for minor patrol clashes and artillery duels. Two strong parties Of Nazi skirmishers attacked Indian units in the Orsogna area Monday night. But both were dispersed by shell-fire before they reached the Allied lines.
 With the ground fronts Stalemat- ed by weather, Allied air forces picked up the offensive or a major scale, sending heavy bomber forma- tionS into central Italy and southern France and pounding at the enemy's air bases and railroad targets in the Rome area with medium and light bomber groups.
 TOulon Hit
 Flying fortresSes and Liberators of the 18th air force hit the Naziheld French naval base at Toulon, four airfields northeast of Rome, and three key freight yards in the Flor ence area through which enemy supplies and troops had been nov ing down to the battlefrontS.
 American MarauderS and Mitchells backed up the heavies with series of attacks on the Ostiense and Lit torio railroad yards in tn series of attacks on the Ostiense and Litt0rio railroad yards in the outskirts of Rome, piling up tracks anc freight cars into twisted masses of wreck age. Other medium bombers struck at harbor installations i'll San Ste- fano, and the RATS Wellington raiders followed up with night ate tack on the same targets.
 In all, the Allied air forces flew some 1900 sorties-their second har- gest day of the Italian campaign against about 25 enemy planes sp0U- ted over the battle areas. Four Al- lied planes were reported missing, while five German aircraft were de- stroyed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Tito's PoFtisuns Counter Attack

London, March 8.-(UP) Mar shal Josip (Tito) Brozovich's Parti. san forces were reported counter ttacking today along 25-mile front of western Bosnia where the Ger mans were attempting to capture Ljubija mine east of Prijedor.
 Heavy fighting was raging from BoSanski Novi on the western hinge of the line of Kozara on the east ern end, with the Germans said to be su suffering heavy losses. 2 communique said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

(Continued from Page D bardmen tat dawn bupt the Marines ashore flashed a signal that they had found only four Japanese on the atoll so the smelling was called of after five minutes. Marinjes who landed without opposition found intact and unharned huge Japanese stores, many buildings and ware- houses, six locomotives. power tools and good barracks, all abandoned when the enemy decided to concen- torate on Mile atoll, instead oi Majuro. But for the Marine recon naissance signal, all of these might hay ebeen destroyed by the naval bombardment.
 Four Japanesej
 The four JapaneSe-a naval petty officer and three civilians-all were found on the atoll's big island. known as the mainland" The four swan back to the island from a bombed ship at the time of the gen. eral evacuation.
 Learning that the uartet was hid- AAA6 ALA n AntAtS VAuAkeO the marines waited unti lafter midnight, when they assumed everyone would be in bed. to move in for the capture, but arrived at the village to find a na- tive celebration-apparently over the arrivel of United States forces -n progress. The Japanese fled amid the confusion.
 The Japanese officer was captured by Lieut.. Harvey Weeks of Joplin Mo, who bounced on him from am. bush threw him to the ground and, after applying full nelson, deprived him of his Samurai sword and his pistol. Other marines captured the three civilians without incident.
 Had Q Date
 Later the marines discovered tha the Japanese ofticer had removed the guns from a wrecked Liberatci bomber and was training the ciyi,. ians as his personal army. But or the night fo the attack he was dolied up in his fancieSt gear and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08

NContinued rom Page D Army and Navy compute the bonus compensation for each veteran and certify the amount direct to the treasury for payment.
 Their bill would allow a credit of $3 daily for domestic service and $4 daily for overseas service with an additional $500 for men wounded in action. Maximum payments would be $3,500 for the unwounded domes- tic veterans and $5,00O for 8 woun(l- ed veteran of foreign service.
 The legion's position on the bonus question as expressed by National Commander Warren H. Atherton was:
 Tt is our thought that adjusted compensation should be left to the determination of World War II veterans"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-08
Young Local Flyers Listed
(Continued from Page D

Columbia high school in Maplewood, N. J., and Yale engineering school.
 He was employed by the Rock bestos Production Corp. of New Ha- ven at the time of his enlistment in the army October 1942. During the course of his training, Cadet Braunsdorf was stationed at camps in eleven different states.
 Besides his parents, he is sur vived by two brothers, William and Robert Braunsdorf of this city.
 The funeral will be held from Gle Alderson funeral home, time and other arrangements to be an- Ilounced.
 Second Lieutenant William R, Farrell of Fleet street has been missing in action since February 22, according to a telegram his mother received this morning from the War Department. He was bombardier on the ere wof the U. s. Army Eighth Air Forces B-l7, Friday the 18th.
 Lieut.. Farrell was recently cited by the War Department for his he- roism. Twice wounded he dropped bombs on a German fighter factory at OscherSleben, shot down an ene- my fighter, administered first aid to a wounded navigator and re- lnained at his guns through a run ming battle with hordes of Nazi fighter planes before attending to his own wounds.
 He later was sent to United Kingdom Hospital to recuperate. but shortly afterward reJoined the crew of Friday the 18th.
 Pilots Story
 His pilot Second Lieutenant Francis J. Flaherty of Plattsburg, N. Y. who successfully landed the plane without brakes after the hy- draulic system was knocked off in the battle of Oschersleben, told the following story of the Waterbury boys heroism to the War Depart ment.
 'Forty.five minutes before we reached the target, fragments from Q 20 nm. shell cut Lieut.. Farrells leg. German fighter planes were coming at us in punches. Lieut.. Farrell. though wounded, never falt- cred. He kept meeting each attack with a stream of bullets from his nose turret guns.
 On the bombing run We got 1t again. A shell hit the left h ndle of the chin turret, injuring Far rell'S hand. Force of the explosion threw the Waterburian from his stool, wrenching off his oxygen mask and headset
 Back To Guns
 Farrell struggled back to hls bombsight and with a few rapid ad- justments let the bomb 50 plumning down on the factory. He closed the bomb-bay doors. plugged his oxygen mask into the outlet and returned to his guns.
 During the withdrawal, enemy fighter planes pressed their attacks with increasing fury.
 A short distance from the target Lieutcnant Farrell's guns sent a Focke-Wulfe down in flames. His tracers poured into dozen others before he exhausted his amrnuni- ton.
 Then Farrell jumped to the right nose guns and fought off attacks from that position until ammuni- tion has been expended. By that time the frontal attacks had let Up.
 Flight Officer Benjamin N. Sa- porta of Bronx, N Y. navigator, wounded during the bomb run, has stayed by his guns, but was wcaken- ing from loss of blood. Using the interphone, Lieut.. Farrell called Staff Sergeant Casinir Bukowski of Buffalo, N Y. to assist in giving first aid to the navigator. Not un- til that job was done did the Wa terburian turn attention to his own wounds.