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Evening star., 1944-01-16

The Army, Navy, Merchant Ma
rine and air forces are represented
in the family of Mrs. Alma Walsh
1104 Trinidad avenue NE.
Her son Thomas Edward Walsh
20, Is on sea duty in. the Atlantic as
seaman first class in the Navy. A
former Star carrier who attended
Woodrow Wilson High School, he
Joined the Navy three years ago
Another son, Pvt. Ernest Linwood
Walsh. 10, is with the air forces al
Gulfport, Miss. He entered the
service in April
The Walsh brothers brother in.
law, Walter Scott Wald, enlisted ir
the Merchant Marine in June, anc
their cousin, Pfc. Lewis Melvin Hor.
man, 1926 Trinidad avenue NE, /.
with the Army in the South Pa.
cific. He joined the Army in Oc.
tober, 1941, and went overseas two
months after Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1944-01-16

him no matter what happened. Days
Of training, of hikes, of maneuvers,
Of examinations-all happy memo
ries made so by Joe, Frank, Harry
Slim and all the rest-those fellows
whom he called his friends. Yes
that was something to be thankful
for, too. Something that made
these trying days shorter and
happier.
And then, as the night breeze
grew colder and the fire offered little
more than a Pickering light, the
soldier realized that he was warm
and comfortable. He was vel
dressed; in fact. the best dressed
soldier in all the world. He grew
proud as he thought of that. Yes,
have friends, am we'll clothed, cer-
tainly have enough to eat, / am
healthy, and those tents? Well
they are not exactly as comfortable
as my room at home, but they keep
me warm and dry.
Home and Liberty.
"The fire was now almost out
Home flashed again in his mind. The
house, whose door squeaked and
whose hall room ceiling leaked a
little, was before him. And then the
homes of countless others like him
self appeared, and the picture grew
larger and larger, until he could see
the whole country spread out before
him-48 States united as one under
one great and glorious flag.
Liberty! He had seen how people
rejoiced when it had returned tc
them. He had seen his reward in
the eyes of mothers, the laughter OF
children, the handclasp of a father
the shouts and rejoicing in the
streets, the ringing of church bells
the cry of newsboys, the outpourine
of words in a language he didn't
understand, the table spread once
again with not too little, but enough
Yes, he knew what he was fighting
for.
Through the dark night he could
see a torch, shining with beckon-
AK, CSoScii, WSlSoiililB dli W lIlt
land of the free, the home of the
orave-America!
Breathes Prayer of Thanks.
THE soldier looked again into the
starlit sky. The darkness was
wrapping itself closer. Yes, God.
the soldier whispered. T do have
something to be thankful for. I am
the luckiest man in the world. Please
help me to show my gratitude by
letting me do my part in making
the world free again America is
taking good care of me, so let me
show by gratitude by serving will
inely and well. And next Thanks
giving, and the next. and the next
forever, let all people be able to say
Thank God for letting us live ir
peace, in plenty and with liberty
The last ember gave a f1na.
sputter, then died"
Corpl Jackson was a teacher al
Smither's Elementary School before
entering the Army in September
l943. He was graduated from Miner
Teachers College and attended Co.
lumbia University.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Choploins Prove Ingenious
In Unusual Circumstances

War certainly makes men re-
sourceful. There is the story o1
Chaplain John A. Burgess, formerly
of Santa Fe. N. Mex. who during
the North African campaign found
himself without chalice with which
to administer communion. In this
extremity the oxygen tank of Ger.
man plane shot down by our air
men, and part of an American B-2e
forced down by enemy action, fur
nished the materials from which
thanks to sergaent and his steel
lathe, beautiful chalice was fash
ioned.
At Fort Jackson, S. c., Mai. Wiley
Evening star., 1944-01-16

1t. William H. McCorkle, u.
S. N. Chaplain's Corps, looks
at holes in his helmet after
the marines landed at Cape
Torokina on Bougainville. He
was helping a Navy corpsman
on the beach when the bullet
pierced the helmet.
On December IA, 1943, Chaplain
McCorkle wrote the Chaplains' Divi
sion, Navy Department:
"a group of our boys are practic,
ing carols now and we hope to hav,
a little pageant on Christmas eve. il
the heart of the jungle. Two of tn,
men are planning to bore holes in ,
tree, placing appropriate branche
up the trunk with fitting decora
tions. We hope likewise to have
manger scene with crayons on whit,
canvas"
Last September he wrote:
"At present I have four service,
each Sunday, two regular Protestant
worship periods in the mornings
two general services 80 mile.
apart on Sunday evening.
I shuttle back and forth from on,
group to another. AS we ge
closer to the time of business tn.
spiritual responses are more marked
This is the kind of expert.
ence that comes once in lifetime
I am grateful, whatever lie,
ahead, for the opportunity to try tt
introduce Him where the need fo
guiding companionship is so great.
The chaplain, a private in Worlt
War !, joined the naval chaplainc,
on September 4, 1912. After sue,
cessfully completing course OF in
doctrination at the Navy Chaplains
School he was assigned to duty witt
the Marine Corps.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
?. c. Marine Sergeant
pne of Youngest TOPS

One of the youngest top sergeants
y the Marine Corps is First Sergt.
Ernest Nelson Reid, %, and another
District youth, Corpl. R. L. Pat)
Rooney, 81, is the tops" clerical
assistant, according to a dispatch
Nom Technical Sergt. Samuel E.
%avisky, himself from Washing
tbn and Marine Corps correspond
T1t in the South Pacific.
Z Sergt. Reid is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs Ernest N. Reid of 3644 Eleventh
Areet NV.
( Corpl. Rooney once worked in the
pail room of the Washington Post.
he is the son of Mrs. Camilla A.
Mooney of 1412 Chaplin street NV,
aWar Department employe.
Both youths rate the Reserve serv-
49, defense, Pacific theater and
presidential citation ribbons.
Evening star., 1944-01-16

sors. However,
t is W i'll be
somewhat anti
climactic in light
Of recent hap
penings in new
er theaters.
AS I wrote be-
fore, at the con-
clusion of tn e
Tunisian C a M
paign we W e r e
near Chuigui in
the Matuer Sec
tor. H ere we
W ere detached
from the 34th
Evening star., 1944-01-16

rnember Of the Marine Corps presi-
Dental honor guard.
sPfc. Upton has been on military
ESve from the actuarial department
a re PEOPLES Life Insurance Co. in
Washington since he joined the Air
brces in April He went overseas
n 7vember. He is a graduate of
Henedictine Preparatory College,
savannah, Ga, and of Benjamin
Eanklin University. His wife is
Mrs. Ruth v. Upton.
Evening star., 1944-01-16

1-lOuI duQ q
half years, with
% months pa
troll in the North
Atlantic. Before
that he had
done an enlist
m e n t in the
Army.
But he'd seen
duty In the Phil
j ippines, and
when he listened
with the rest Of
the world to the
Bataan and Cor
regidor1s t a n d S
he began to get
Evening star., 1944-01-16

FORT KNOX KyLt Col Harry semmes 5000 Thirty ninth
NV shown as he greeted his John Gibson Semmes
an o1cer candidate here after Col recent
tne rofed School for duty COL Semmes September
was featured in The Stars Heroes Washington Area
portraits by Staff Artist Newman Suddth the Distn
gushed Service Cross with Clusters and the Purple
Heart received for heroism Wars TWO
oener sons are IN the service: 1t Harry Semmes r now
overseas and 1t Raphael Semmes, at Fort Bragg N G.
--Armored Command Signal Photo.
Evening star., 1944-01-16

leagues. recently
organized a new
communications
unit in the
Southwest Pa
cifc theater.
Cryptography.
messages in Sc
cret characters.
is an old talent
to Pei. Upton. In
1896 he accom-
panied the Pres
ident on his
South American
goodwill tour as
communications
Evening star., 1944-01-16
n. E. Upton Organizes
Cryptoqrophy Unit

NEW GUINEA.-Pfc. Harold E..
Upton, 3911 Seventh street NE, a
cryptographer assigned here, to-
gether with smball group of col
Evening star., 1944-01-16

b r a n c n e S OF
service coul d
not be trans
nitted at this
time for secur-
ity re as o n S
They intend to
C on t in ue the
club after war.
One of the
members, C. E.
Rhodes, recent
ly received a
frst-class petty
officers rating
in the Seabees.
He was a plum
Evening star., 1944-01-16

Wr1CCcn 10 MS
parents, Mr.. and
M RS. e u g e n e
jackson, AIS U
street NV, on
Thanks giving 6
eve.
1.-THE snore Of
q heavy sleeper
from a nearby
tent came family
on the breeze.
That's Bill. The
soldiers eyes
soften. He had
made friends
loyal friends that
up,fId Sfirk nv
Evening star., 1944-01-16

Bishopp of the
marines admit
ted In . letter to
his parents. DR..
and Mrs. F. C.
B | S h opp, 8014
in ey Branch
road, silly e r
Spring. T he y
still haven't
heard directly
from Maj. Bish-
opp about the
S h o U l d e r
wound that he
received " h e n
he landed at
GnAI
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Soldier in Italy Writes
|0f Fresh Conviction Of
Values Of Liberty

What an American soldier In Italy
is thankful for has been expressed
by Corpl. Stanley +. jackson in a
letter entitled "Thanksgiying, 1913, .
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Bnck From the Wars

william Manner was IS years old
and had done hitch In the Navy
20 years before during World War
Evening star., 1944-01-16
Battery Commander Writes Vivid Account
OF Events Leading Up to Invasion Of Sicily

fThis series OF Sunday articles
IS contained in a single letter
from Capt. J. P. Fitzgerald, jr., to
his mother, Mrs. J. P. Fitzgerald,
2022 Columbia road. As a con-
nected tDhole it is an excellent
fdctual document OF life OF fight
ing men in the areas portrayed.
Evening star., 1944-01-16
TNSTALLMENT I.

Although we haven't been given
permission yet to write about our
battle experiences in Sicily as we
were allowed to do at the conclusion
OF the Tunisian campaign, I hope
that what I write will pass the CEN
Evening star., 1944-01-16
U. 5. Marine Battalion
In South Pacific Nets
|S34,70o in Bond Drive

Softball ildulged too strenuously
can make an arm sore-especially
II it's an arm that received a flesh
wound. That fact Mai. Fred T.
Evening star., 1944-01-16

ington before enlisting last Sep
tember. He went overseas in April.
His home is at 2408 Thirtieth street
NE.
Evening star., 1944-01-16

Corpl. Jackson was a teacher at
Smither's Elementary School before
entering the Army in September,
l943. He was graduated from Miner
Teachers College and attended Co.
lumbia University.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
State Official
Eyes Corner
On Fruit Boxes

SACRAMENTO, Aug 81. UP)-
The War Food Administration is
unable to buy the box shook it
needs in order to move $500 tons of
the surplus California peach crop,
and thousands" of secondhand
fruit boxes apparently have been
"cornered by spectators" A. A.
Brock. state director of agriculture,
caid Monday.
Brock said he saw huge stacks of
the containers in vacant lots in Los
Angeles last week.
He added that he is notifying
VIA officials in San Francisco. The
VIA procurement office there was
authorized to buy the $500 tons of
peaches and distribute them to
school lunch rooms and to relief
recipients.
Brock said the purchase won't
dent" the total surplus, now esti-
mated at 100000 tons. but added
that 'it will help a little"
He said that the state farm pro-
duction council has asked army and
navy authorities to permit soldiers
and sailors to work in canneries
which are short of manpower.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
KimmeI Says Pearl Horbor
Facts will Amoze Public

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.
(UP)-The full story behind
the Pearl Harbor disaster
took on a new note of mystery
Monday when Rear Admiral
Husband E. Kimmel, naval
commander at Hawaii when
the japanese struck, declared
that the public "will be
amazed" when "untruths and
half truths" are brushed
aside and the facts revealed.
Sharply challenging fincings of
tine commission headed by supreme
court justice owen J. Roberts, Kim
mel called for fair play" in a let
ter to Senator Harry S. Truman.
Id, Missouri, President Roosevelt's
fourth term running mate. 1t was
written specifically to deny Tru-
mans asserting in recent maga-
zine article that the root cause
of the December 7 catastrophe was
lack of cooperation between Kimmel
and Lieutenant General Walter @.
Short, then army commander in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
Invasion Force
Enters TouIon
ROME, AuU 81 T1P)

ROME, Aug. 81. (UP) =.
French invasion forces enter
ed the western and northern
sectors of the key naval base
of Toulon Sunday night and
street fighting was in prog
ress there Monday as Ameri-
can forces to the northwest
stabbed to within nine miles
of Marsoille, Frances second
largest city.
Northeast of Toulon and Marseil-
les, Allied forces crossed the bor-
der into the Basses-Alps department.
and captured Castellane, % miles
north of Draguignan in the mari
time Alps, climaxing an advance of
more than SO miles from landing
points near st. Raphael and Frejus.
Though the frontal advance on
the Riviera resort town of Cannes
at the eastern end of the beachhead
begged Gown against strong enemy
resistance in the western outskirts,
other troops we're outflanking the
stronghold from the north and al
ready have cut all escape roads for
the garrison except that leading
northwest to Nice
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson,
supreme Allied commander, an
nounced in his oaily communique
that some $4,000 German prisoners
have been taken in the first six days
of the fastest breaking invasion ever
mounted by the Allies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
Patriots Battle
NuziS in Paris

said there had been exchanges of
fire" at several points, while YER
sailles inhabitant who escaped
through the Nazi lines told United
Press War Correspondent Robert
C. Miller at the front that there
had been dozens Of armed clashes"
between demonstrating French stud
entS and the Germans.
The Frenchman who said he had
left Paris only few hours earlier,
reported there were many large fires
burning in the capital, presumably
set either by sabateurs of by the
Germans themselves in an attempt
to destroy vital installations before
abandoning the city.
The Germans were using machine
guns on patriots in an effort to quell
the uprising, he said, and he appeal
ed to the Americans to come to
the aid of the resistance forces.
UPRISINGS GAIN
The uprisingS in Paris keynoted
mounting patriot resistance through
out France, featured by these de-
velopments:
l. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Presi-
dent of the French committee of
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
Order Extends
Wage Controls

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 21. CUP,
Federal wartime wage controls
have been applied to automobile
repair and tire shops in California.
Arizona and Nevada employing less
than nine persons. Thomas Fair
Neblett. chairman of the 10th reg
lonal war labor board, announced
Monday.
Neblett said representatives of the
INDUSTRY and its employees request
ed application of wage Qualification
controls to prevent labor pirating
and lnflationary wages. Neblett said
establishments engaged exclusively
in servicing automobiles and trucks
were not included in the new ruling
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
LA. War Writer
Dies in Jeep
Crash in France

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. UP)-
Tom Treanor, youthful war corre-
spondent for the Los Angeles Times
and the National Broadcasting
company, was killed near Chartres
on the French battlefront when the
jeep in which he was riding was
overturned by tank, the Times
announced Monday.
TreanOr was en- route to the Paris
front in the jeep as it passed the
tank on the highway last Friday.
The tank suddenly swerved and
overturned the lighter vehicle.
Tom suffered a crushed leg, in
ternal and head injuries" fellow
war correspondent reported to the
Times. HE regained consciousness
for a while at the hospital.
DIED IN HOSPITAL
His attending physician, Cap
tain William Warner. Los Angeles.
said Tom was given plasma all
night but he died Saturday on the
operating table"
For nearly two and a half years
Treancr had covered various war
fronts in Africa, India. Burma,
China. Sicily, Italy and France. He
eyewitnessed the strategic Ell Ala
mein battle, the invasion of Sicily,
the first American bombing of
Rome, the battle of Casino. the
Anzio beachhead fight, and the in
vasion of France from June 6.
His book, One Damn Thing Aft
er Another" just published. tells
of his battlefront experiences and
his previous globe-trotting trips.
NATIVE OF L. A.
Born in Los Angeles in 1908, Trea-
nor attended Stanford and was
graduated from the University of
California at Los Angeles. He be-
gan his reporting career on the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
Soviets
Strike
Rom uniid
Open Drive to
Oil Fields;
Warsaw Deaped
By JOSEPH w. GRIGG

LONDON, Aug. 81. (UP)
The German high COM
mand announced in a COM
munique Monday that the
Red army has launched it's
long-expected Romanian of
fensive, presumably in an at
tempt to break through the
Galati gap to Bucharest and
the great Ploesti oil fields.
The new ass sault was
launched with strong sup
port from Stormovik. At
tack planes south of Tiraspol
and northwest of Iasi, the German
communique said, plunging into
battle the last quiet sectors of the
1200-mile eastern front from the
Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea.
BITTER FIGHTING
Bitter fighting is in progress in
both sectors" the communique said,
but gave no further details.
On the north-central front, the
Soviets' final assault on Warsaw ap-
peared imminent as the 1st White
Russian army resumed its attack
with a deep penetration into the
eastern and northeastern suburbs
and the lst Ukranian army reached
the city's southern approaches in a
new outflanking drive.
Polish sources in London said the
Germans were evacuating the Oke-
Gle airport in the outskirts of War;
saw under heavy attack by Polish
patriot forces. clearing the way for
airborne supply cf the embattled
underground army
SPEED WARSAW ATTACK
Soviet observers predicted an i'm
mediate acceleration of operations
against Warsaw, but warned that
the Germans probably would put
up last-ditch battle for the city.
It's fall would open up the Vistula
waterway to Danzig and enable the
Soviets to cut off East Prussia from
the rest of Germany, as we'll as pave
the way for frontal smash toward
Berlin.
Marshal Konstantin X. Rokos-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21

LONDON, Aug. 21. (UP)
French patriots fought the
Germans in the streets of
Paris Monday and the Nazi
C o m m a n d, acknowledging
that an open revolt had
broken out, clamped virtual
martial law on the turbulent
capital.
French quarters in London
estimated that 10000 to 50,-
900 Maquis-organized MEM
bers of the French forces of
the interior - were leading
the rebellion in an effort to speed
the liberation of the largest city
in continental Europe and the
fourth largest in the world.
The German military command in
Paris, ordering a curfew and other
drastic measures, said that "irres-
ponsive elements in PYaris have
taken up arms against occupation
authorities"
URGES u. S. AID
A later German DNB dispatch
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21

a third German general - Mai.
Hans Schuberth, civil affairs COM
mander for the Bases Alps district
and his entire staff of six officers
and 80 men were among the latest
prisoners to fall into Allied hands.
A front dispatch said Shuberth
was captured in battle for an in
land town. His headquarters were
in house outside the town. When
German troops in the house fired
on a passing American unit, an ar
mored car and light tank immedi-
ately fired two rounds into the
structure, after which the general
anc his staff surrendered.
Hundreds of French collaboration
lists were being rounded up. The
most important yet caught was Fer
dinand BouisSon, II, former presi-
dent of the champer of deputies,
who was found hiding in a friends
house four miles from st. Raphael.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
ITALIAN PRISONER
ESCAPES INDIO CAMP

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. CUP)-
Paola Lucifora. "a, Italian prisoner
of war who escaped from Camp
Young near Indio Saturday was
being sought Monday by sheriff's
deputies and police who believe he
may be headed for Los Angeles to
visit a girl friend. He is described
as five feet six inches in height,
weight 14b pounds dark eyes and
hair, complexion ruddy. At the
time of his escape, he was wearing a
regulation sun tan army uniform.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
PeQc ce
7 oIks
Start
Three Nations
Meet in u. S.
To Scan Plans

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.
(UP) The three most power
full nations in the world
promised Monday to create a
partnership of all nations,
large and small, to keep the
peace with responsibilities al
located to each according to
it's powers.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
opened the three power conference
on a world organization at Dunn
barton Oaks with reinsurance that
the little nations of the world
would be partners" in the inter-
national undertaking. Agreeing with
him in responses to his opening re-
marks were Sir Alexander Cadogan,
heao of the British delegation, and
Soviet ambassador Andrei A. Gro
myko, head of the Russian dele
cation.
Cadogan also revealed that the
thre egreat powers were in general
agreement that some sort of a
world organization must be created
'soon"-before the war ends.
RUSS ENVOY SPEAKS
Gromyko, asserting that the time
was not far off when the freedom
loving nations of the world will have
won their inevitable victory, said
that the future international Sc
curity organization must be based
upon the sovereign equality of all
freedom-loving people who will have
joint responsibility for the mainte-
nance of peace"
To preserve peace, Gromyko. the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
Illegal Entry
Quiz Faces
Panama Actor

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 81. OUP) -
Antonio Icaza, Panamanian actor
currently sueing band leader Tom
my Dorsey for $4,000 for a knife
nicked ear which he said he received
In the celebrated Dorsey-Jon Hall
brawl, Monday was held by immi-
grafton authorities for illegal entry
into The United States.
1caza was being held in San Ped
70, California, under his right name.
Antonio Icaza- Baitens, pending in
vestigation by U. S. Attorney Charles
Carr.
The Panamanian actor had an
nounced last Friday that he was
returning to Panama on urgent
business" shortly before the grand
jury was to open an investigation
into the bloody brawl at Dorsey's
apartment in which Hall almost lost
his nose and few 5iices of his
neck.
Immigration officials said Icaza,
previously deported, entered the
United States July 81 es a seaman.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
s. +. Mochinists
Void Penalties

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81. OUP)
Work at l04 government-seized ma
chine shops returned virtually to
normal Monday after more than
25OU members of Machinists' Union,
Lodge So, AFL. voted not to penalize
machiniStS who chose to work
overtime despite a union ban.
At meeting Sunday night at
tended by approximately one-sixth
of the organizations membership
of 10000. the machinists voted
down motion formally to rescind
the no-overtime rule. However, the
near unanimous vote followed an
nouncement that individual mem
bers would be allowed to exercise
their own judgment whether or not
to work in excess of 48 hours a week
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-21
japanese Steel
Plants Set
Afire at XoWutu
B-29's Strike Nips' Homeland Isle
In Day and Night Smashing Blows;
Four Supefortresses Lost in Tilt

SECRET B-29 BASE, WESTERN CHINA Aug q
(UP)-Americas mighty B-29 Superfortresses smashed
the Japanese steel center of Yawaa twice with the heaviest
bomb load concentrated single target in Asatc
warfare Sunday 1t the first roundtheclock attack
on the enemys homeland
Striking in daylight and again at night, the huge
bombers from western China bases hurled many of
high explosives into Yawatas sprawling works the
pittsburgh of the far east into a of flames
The first raid the first daylight attack on Japan
since Lieutenant General Jimmy Dootles raiders hit
Tokyo. 1t and the following raid the fourth and