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Evening star., 1944-12-25
13 District Area Men
Home on FurIouqh
From Pacific Zones

Thirteen District area men, in
cluding five who have been serving
with Air Group 13, have been re-
turned home from the Pacific. Air
Group 13, composed of carrier-based
planes, has been fighting the Japa-
nese in the Pacific for the past five
months. This group has seen action
in the Philippine area, over Formosa
and in the Palaus campaign.
The names, local addresses,
branches of service and lengths of
overseas duty for these men and for
other returning veterans follow:
Pacific Theater
1t. q; gD John Joseph Kehoe, s2o4
Moorland avenue, Bethesda, five months
with Air Group 13.
1t; q: a. Frank T. Langdon, 1888 A
street S E., tour of duty with Air Group so
Ensign Richard Owen Sparshott, 5402
Thirty-seyenth t avenue; Hyattsville, 3
1t Kilmer S. Bortz, 51s Somerset place
NV, five months with Air Group 13.
Ensign Roger Talbot, 2116 street
Ensign William Catterton, 202s Fulton
place NE, five months with Air Group 13.
1nkns as04 R sFaae aSenue Sa9es s
months with the Medical Corps.
Technician, fifth grade, Arthur Western,
3sl2 Twenty-sixth street NE, "a months
with the Army service forces.
Technician, fifth grade, Ray c. West,
62l7 Walhonding road, Glen Echo Heights,
Technician, fifth grade. James W. Dick
erson, ao3 Concord avenue NV, 20
months with the engineers.
PVT. Theodoore A: Smith, 202 Morgan
staff seTst: Peter ,Kalla,, 9e Darlington
Pvt, John G Wildensteiner, i7f3 wen
ty-ffth street Sc. 80 months with the
Transportation Corps
Pvt Elmes M. Embrey, Sumerduck, Va,
33 months with the Coast Artillery.
European Theater.
efst Street NV h0s y months aS
with the .Quartermaster Corps.
engineers.
Technical serst. Jack M waldron, 1905
Thirteenth street NV, months with
Pvt. Joseph s. Jones' 945 x street s.w.,
IL months with the Quartermaster Corps.
dence street NE, 81 months with the
ouartermaster Corps.
street NV, 80 months with the Quar-
Technical serst. John R. Reinoehl, s712
Technician, fourth. grade, Chester v
pe the ordnance Seefss pepaTtmen9 Mq t. months WIN
First 1t. Robert L. Bacon, s73 Harrison
force
Technician, fourth grade, Ambrey
Strother, 500 West Mpreland road, Falls
Church, Va, 13 months with the engineers
Capt. Jimmy Fogle,. 1877 c street NE,
year with the air force.
wounded in battle for Brest.
Cnina-Burma- India Theater.
First Lit. Ralph w. E. Webb, Laurel, Md
Master Sergt. Harold P. Mckinney, 1907
Trinidad avenue NE. 81 months overseas
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circumstances 70 bring the Issue

circumstances to bring the issue
closer.
At the top Of Com z Is 1t. Gen
John G. H. Lee, one of the most
energetic men in the Army.
One of the brightest minds of this
distinguished group OF Com 2 Is
Brig. Gen. Royal B. Lord.
Chief quartermaster, the man
who keeps the men fed and clothed
is Maj. Gen. Robert M. Littlejohn
Chief engineer is Mai. Gen. Cecil
r. Moore. The others, and important
jobs they are doing, are: Chief OF
ordance, Maj. Gen. Henry Benton
Sayler. jr., who lives in Washington
at 5000 Cathedral Avenue NV;
chief surgeon, Maj. Gen. Paul r
Hawley;; chief signal officer, Maj
Gen. w. M. Rumbaugh; provost
marshal general, Maj. Gen. Milton
A. Reckord. who is also executive
vice president of the National Rifle
Association in Washington, and has
the task of administering for the
Army conquered territory; chief .oi
transportation, Maj. Gen. Frank S
Ross.
Evening star., 1944-12-25

A war and 80 months of fighting
in Far East jungles made close
buddies of three Arlington marines
who knew each other only casually
although they lived within two miles
of one another at home.
Back on furlough, they chatted
freely of their experiences.
The three 1st Division men, Sergt.
William w. Burnett, 5213 North
Twelfth street; Pfc. Bob Chitten-
den, 2434 North Potomac street,
and Corpl. Lloyd o. Allen, 1919
North Van Buren street, first rec
ognized each other on their way
across the Pacific. Sergt Burnett
and Pvt. Chittenden went to school
together at Washington and Lee
High, and Corpl Allen had seen
Sergt. Burnett "at baseball games"
After this first meeting, I'VE just
kept running into each other all
over the Pacific" Sergt. Burnett
said.
The sergeant's recollection of
early battles is vivid. One night he,
with a platoon, was lost in Quad
alcanal swamp and listed as miss
ing.
Leave Trail of Gear.
I'VE were in Jap territory for
three hours with orders from lieu
tenants to be quiet and not leave
a trail for the Japs. I had to laugh
when I saw the string of pots, pans,
o,,tin1nS cfrouYr1
through that swamp the next morn
ing. I guess all that gear got too
heavy for the men"
During the Cape Gloucester cam
paign it was Pfc. Chittenden's turn
to be reported missing. Detailed to
carry a drum of communications
wire, he became lost and wandered
waist deep in a swamp for II hours.
Il was looking for any marines at
all" he said, but I had been given
up for dead or missing, so I don't
suppose they were looking for me"
After wandering around all night,
he met his outfit again-without the
drum of wire.
Hit on Peleliu.
"I left it on the bottom Of Cape
Gloucester swamp. Something had
to go down." Pfc. Chittenden ex-
planned.
But none of them seem like
tough battles compared with Pei
eliu," Corpl. Allen said. That was
where got hit"
Six days after they landed, Corpl
Allen was hit in the hand and leg
with shrapnel but kept on fighting
Evening star., 1944-12-25
Com I Keeps Job
|0f Front Lines Going
with Supply Service
By WALTER McCALLUM.
Star War Correspondent.

PARIS.-Back of the fighting SOL
dier is long line of supply, even tc
the lathes making shells in De-
| troit factory, or factory making
K rations in Long Island City. II
is up to Com z to keep the jot
| going.
Com z is well known in the Euro
pean theater of operations. Roughly
| it Is the zone behind the lines. the
Service of Supply.
Inside this zone are the main es-
adjustments of supply, Transports
ton, signal communication, engi-
neering, disqualification and all the
services and administrative agencies
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Hilton Cummings Dies;
Cab Company MANAGER

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PURCELLVILLE, Va, Dec. 25.--
Hilton L. Cummings, 81, former
resident Of Purcellville. died Sat.
urday in Richmond hospital after
an illness Of several months.
A native of Loudoun County Mr.
Cummings had lived in Richmond
for the last 80 years and was man.
ager of the Yellow Cab Co. there
Besides his widow. Mrs. Katherine
Evening star., 1944-12-25
Tough Action in Pacific Makes
3 Ariinqton Marines Buddies

until medical aidmen finally put
him on a boat.
'I didn't see any more of Bob
and Bill then - as far as I knew
they both could have been dead.
Plenty of marines were dead in that
battle" Corpl. Allen concluded.
None of us knew the others were
alive" Sergt. Burnett said, until
we met on the boat going back to
the States. I have never been SO
glad to see two people in all my
life"
They pulled into Union Station at
am. and had "a decent shave
Then the three went home in a taxi
Evening star., 1944-12-25

r. Cummings, he Is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Augustus Davis,
Great Falls, Mont; his mother, Mrs.
Ella B. Cummings; a sister, Miss
Evening star., 1944-12-25

Lucie L. Cummings, and a brother,
Fenton B. Cummings, all of Pur-
cellville. Burial will be in Rich
mond today.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Stimson Refuses
To Disclose
Patton Command

WASHINGTON, March %. CUP)
The Sicilian slapping incident was
not the reason for transfer of 1t.
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., from
command of the 7th army, Secre-
tary of War Henry L. Stimson said
Thursday in declaring he considered
the incident closed.
StimSon declined to reveal the
army which Patton now commands.
His transfer was revealed earlier this
week with announcement that Mai.
Gen. Alexander M. Patch, Jr., hero
of Guadalcanal, now commands the
7th army.
Stimson also denied reports that
U. S. air forces operating in Sicily
last summer were under one COM
mand while ground and sea forces
were coordi dinated under an
other command when 25 trans
port planes were shot down by mis-
take by Allied fire with a loss of 410
men.
Allied operations in Sicily were
coordinated under a unified COM
mand, he said, and the unfortunate
action was the result of combina-
ton Of circumstances, including the
fact that enemy planes by COIN
cidence were dropping bombs at the
same time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Yankee Bombers
Hit Berlin in
Daylight Raids

LONDON, March %. CUP)-Pow-
erful forces of American bombers
smashed at Germany for the second
straight day Thursday in a broad
side attack on the northwest Reich
and the Brunswick area, where the
Nazis reported violent air battles,
after a 1,0O0-plane British night
bombardment of Frankfurt.
United States army headquarters
announced that strong fleets of
Liberators and Flying Fortresses
possibly 500 to $50 bombers, swept
back over Germany with an Amer
ican fighter escort in very great
strength" for an attack by perhaps
1900 U. S. warplanes.
The daylight aerial siege of Ger
man war production centers was
reported by the Nazis finally to have
succeeded in Turing Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering's fighters into
battle, in contrast with Wednesdays
attack which was not challenged by
a single enemy plane.
Targets for the widespread bonn
bardment by the U. S. Eighth air
force heavyweights, in addition tc
the Brunswick war plant area 100
miles west of Berlin, were the Ger
man bomber base at Handorf, the
air force station at Achmer, and
big aircraft park at Werl.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Jap-Americans
Refuse Army
Duty, Face Trial

FIT. MCCLELLAN, Admission, Ala,
March %. (UP) Twenty eight
mutinous Japanese American SOL
diers who refused to obey military
commands remained confined in q
stockade Thursday awaiting action
of a court-inartial
The soldiers, members of a newly
formed unit which had started
training only Monday, were de-
scribed as second generation Japs
who, although being citizens of the
United States, had returned to their
homeland for education.
Other members of the Japanese
battalion stationed here were said
to be following regulations.
Brig. Gen. Wallace Philoon, COM
manding officer of the infantry re-
placement training center at this
fort, said the offenders apparently
were lin sympathy with the war
aims of Japan
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Voters Neglect
To Register;
DeadIine Nears
Only Is more days to register!

Only Is more days to register!
County Clerk w. j. McClellane
wednesday warned Imperial county
residents that their registrations
must be in order if they wish TO
vote at the primary May 16. Last
day for registration is April 6.
Registration is at one OF the
lowest points in the history OF I'M
perial county," McClelland said.
1T would be wise for all residents
to check their registrations
Resic ents may register at any
CITY clerks office in the county or
at the office of the county clerk in
the courthouse in Ell Centro.
Persons desiring to register must
be able to read and write and shall
have been a resident of the state
one year and of the county 80
DAYS" McClelland said.
Registration is permanent for
all purposes during the life OF the
voter unless Cancelled by the county
clerk because the person registered
has voted at neither the preceding
August primary or November gen.
eral election or for other reasons
as required by law.
Voters who have moved should
register in their new precincts as
their votes are subject to challenge
if they moved more than 40 days
prior to election day.
Postal card notices of cancella-
ton were mailed by the county clerk
in January, 1943, to all voters who
failed to vote in both August and
November elections in 1912
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Hitler Summons
Rumuniu Chiefs

LONDON, Mar. %. (UP)
Reports reached London
Thursday t h a t Germany.
strengthening her hold on south
eastern Europe in preparation for
a desperate stand against the Red
army, has summoned the premier
and vice premier of Rumania to
Adolf Hitler's headquarters for i'm
portant talks" anG may have oc-
cupied Slovakia.
In German-occupied Hungary, a
new puppet government took office
and prepared, in the words of an
official communique, to muster all
that country's resources for final
victory of the common cause in the
spirit of old friendship and COM
radeship in arms between the Hun
garian and German peoples
A Loncon Daily Mail dispatch
from Madrid said German air-borne
troops were seizing railways and
telephones throughout Bulgaria and
had detained Soviet diplomats in
Sofia after occupying the embassy.
Bulgaria. alone of Germany's sat-
elites, maintains relations with
Russia.
Reports circulated in Bern that
German troops have occupied Slo-
vakia, across from the Carpathian
mountains from Russian troops
converging on LwoW in old Poland.
The Nazi Vichy radio said that
Premier Marshall Mihai Antonescu
of Rumania had left for Hitler'S
HEADQUARTERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
SoviietS
ace
To Prut
Reds Scatter
Nazi and
Rumania Units

MOSCOW, Mar. %. (UP)
The End Ukrainian army,
already half way across the
waist of Bessarabia, Thursday scat
tered German and Rumanian fore
es trying desperately to re-group
for a stand north of the Prut river
border of Rumania.
Steadily widening and deepening
their bridgehead across the Dnies-
ter river Marshal Ivan S. Konev's
flying columns smashed through
enemy rear guard resistance and
broke up German groups rallying
for an attempt to stem one of the
most amazing Soviet advances of
the Russian war.
Nudushita, "a miles northeast of
the Prut river and II miles north of
the key escape railway junction of
Balti was seized by the Soviets
Wednesday. To the west, other Rus
sian units advanced to within 20
miles of the Prut.
Far to the east, the Russians
stormed the last defenses of Voz-
nesensk and the Black sea port of
Nikolaev, the last two German
strongholCs on the east bank of
the Bug river.
Gen. Rodion Y. MalinovSkys 3rd
Ukrainian army reached the sub
urbs of Nikolaev, a city of 10000
persons at the junction of the Bug
and Ingul rivers, after capturing
kalinovka, eight miles to the north
east; Bergoyavlensk, five miles
south, and Gorkhovka, six miles
east.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

federal property with U. S. govern
ment approval.
The favorable argument, prepared
by State Sen. w. P. Rich (RD i,
Marysville, declares that the present
state constitutional prohibition
against taxation of federal property
is superfluous and puts California
at disadvantage compared to other
states which can and do tax some
types of federal holdings.
Robert H. Fouke, president of
the Young Voters League of Cali
fornia, contends that adoption of
the amendment will cause confu-
sion, be breach of faith with other
states and result in costly litigation
in attempts to collect taxes.
The proposition is the only one
which will appear on the May ballot.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
U. 5. Casualties
Reach 1922

WASHINGTON, March 90. CUP)
Announced American casualties
since the start of the war Thursday
totaled ,292-39,24 killed, Gilt
wounded, 35,783 missing, and 81, 1853
prisoners of war.
Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son sal dthat army casualties as of
March 7 were 26,193-21, ,737 killed
50,363 wounded, 26,747 missing, and
27,346 prisoners of war. On Febru-
ary 20 the army total was 123,054.
The total announced navy casual
ties-navy, coast guard and ma
rine corps-are 1909. They COM
prise 1887 dead, 10,754 wounded,
9,036 missing, and 4,442 prisoners
of war.
The latest reports from Italy,
Stimson said, place total army
casualties there at 39,058-5, TAG
killed, 23,035 wounded, and 1O,274
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Executive Sees Industry
Hdmstrun9 After War

Grave dangers which will
threaten American industry
after the war were defined
and analyzed Wednesday
evening by John B. Canady,
official of the Lockheed, We
ga Aircraft company, at the
annual intercity meeting Of
Rotary clubs held at the Del
Rio country club of Brawley.
Approximately 100 Rotarians and
guests from Brawley, Calexico, Ell
Centro and Holtville attended the
meeting which incluC ed a golf tour
nament in the afternoon followed
by dinner, musical program and
Mr.. Canady's address.
The greatest threat which this
country must face in postwar years,
Canady said, is the public accept
ance of the theory that security can
be expected only from paternal
government.
DISRUPTING INFLUENCE
''Implantation of such a theory
in the minds OF. the people, Can
ady said, will, and is now, dis
rupting the very foundation of
American economic and spiritual
life. Our way of life cannot oper-
ate successfully if reliance upon
government for security is placed
above reliance upon our own ef-
fort, labor and ingenuity"
No plans for the postwar years
have thus far been blue printed by
his mammoth company, Canady
said. because so many essential fac
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Major Inspects
Valley Units
OF State Guard

Official inspection of Imperial
county's four State Guard units is
under way this week.
Major B. J. Groth, Ninth Service
Command, Ft. Douglas, Salt Lake
City, Utah, accompanied by Major
Henry West, Escondido, regional
State Guard instructor and men,
ber of the state adjutant generals
staff, are making the inspection.
At the Ell Centro stadium We'd
nesday night, Major Groth inspect
ed anG reviewed Lieutenant Joe H
Thompson's company A unit and
Lieutenant H. K. Roban's head
quarters detachment. The inspec-
ton was held in ranks with the
men in full uniform dress and un-
der arms. Several operations prob
lens were demonstrated.
CALLS INSPECTION
The inspection was called by
Major Elmer Heald, county battal-
ion commander, and his staff Capt
John Tepley, executive officer,
Capt. H. K. McClimans, plans and
operations officer, and Lieutenant
Roban, adjutant, and the unit pre-
sented Major Groth and Major
West.
Major Groth, who will make a
full report to the state office, COM
plimented the companies OF the
valley he had inspected. Monday
night he inspected Lieutenant Ear
Roberts Company C at Calexico;
Tuesday night Lieutenant H. E. I'M
lers Company B at Brawley and
Thursday night Company D under
Lieutenant E. G.. Noble at Bard.
He said the value of the State
Continued on page 2, col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

that 10 companies operating gov
ernment-owned shipyards had in
vested only $22,OOO,OOO in the yards
while the government put up $37l,-
100000. Despite this, the investigat-
ors charged, the companies had
earned $174,000,000 in fees up to
Nov. 80, 1943
Land challenged use of the in
vestment figure of the companies.
There is virtually no relation
ship between shipbuilo er's profits
in their brilliant production rec
ord of 5000 ships to Gate and their
invested capital" he told the COM
mittee.
Their profit is measured on the
basis of output, on the basis of
production achieved ano not upon
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat-
tens headquarters cid not disclose
any details of the fighting in this
area in which the Japanese are
moving toward Imphal, capital of
Indias Manipur state, but said that
further to the south a British COL
umn was closing in on a strong
enemy position on a hill feature
north of Tiddim, on the Burmese
side of the border.
POSITION UNCHANGED
I'm the Chin Hills, the position
is unchanged with our troops still
moving to oppose the main Japa-
nese forces in this area" Mount
batten's southeast Asia command
communique said.
The Chinese 22nd division, mov-
ing southwark from the Hukawng
into the Mogaung valley Is meet
ing strong japanese resistance
southeast of Jambu Bum, the noun
tain dividing the two areas, and
northeast of the village of Shadu-
zup, and heavy fighting is in prog
ress in the upper Mogaung, it was
announced.
JAP RESISTANCE STIFFENS
Japanese resistance is stiffening
along the entire Burma front, the
communique Indicated, noting that
condition particularly on the
coastal plane south of Maungdaw
and in the western foothills of the
Continued on page 2, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Losses
Faced
On Eggs
State Growers
Need Cold
Storage Spots

LOS ANGELES, Mar. %.
(UP) - California farmers
face a loss Of approximately
100000 unless cold storage space
is provided for some 48,000,000 sur
plus eggs proc uced at government
request to meet war needs, War
Food Administration officials re-
vealed Thursday.
State Agricultural Administrative
Assistant Frank NJ Kramer told
agriculture officials that the ma
tional egg production has jumped
from 40 billion to 60 billion per
year
Los Angeles county stored 1885,
600 cases of eggs last season." :"
Kramer sale, while 10000 cases
are now in storage. No more space
IS available
Contending that unless farmers
get more space or local consump-
ton increases there will be an
acute egg shortage next year, Kra-
mer announced that April has been
designated egg month" and urged
housewives to include more egg
dishes in their menus.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Lend Defends EurninQs
Of Liberty Ship Firms

the dollars they have invested"
Declaring that If payment were
to be on percentage basis of in
vestment, it should be "a percent
age on brains and not a percentage
on capital" Land said If invested
capital were to be used as yard
stick some Liberty ship builders
would get only about $l8 per ship
profit after taxes.
Defending the commissions fee
policy. he said. these shipbuilders
have done one of the greatest man
agerial jobs in history"
Data compiled by committee In
yestigators showed that 10 compan-
les operating government-own
shipyarcs will ultimately receive
fees totaling $228. .234 1892 undev
contracts existing Nov 80. i043.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
vesuvius Ash
haIts Jeeps

ON THE SLOPES OF MOUNT
VESUVIUS, March %. UP)-
Weary villagers in the Pompeii-
Salerno area Thursday were digging
out from a blizzard" of volcano
ash that sWirled from Vesuvius in
the last ~ hours.
Layers of ash three to 13 inches
thick blocked highway traffic and
threatened to cave in roofs.
The road circling Vesuvius was
cut by ash so deep that army jeeps
could not get through and had to
be hauled out by trucks. Army
bulldozers were called out to open
the road. Ash also was reported
blocking traffic on the main Tore
Annunziata- -Salerno highway.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

tors are underlined Some of these
he listed as follows:
Cd What will the govern
ment co about it's debts to war
industries? Only enough reserve
capital is permitted to allow
the Lockheed-Vega company to
operate for two weeks at pres
ent capacity, if contracs are
cancelled
90 With government own
ing SO many plants, private
enterprise fears competition
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

SACRAMENTO, Mar. %.
(UP) = California livestock
and poultry producers met
the heavier demand for their prod
ucts with production increases dur
ing l943, the California crop re-
porting service said Thursday, but
the increases were accomplished
only with increasing difficulty"
. The service in report covering
last year estimated livestock and
poultry producers income at SAP
474,O00, but said the rise of l8
per cent over 1912 income could
not be taken to mean an equal
rise in net income.
The increased demand for feed,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Group Limits
Lend-Lease

WASHINGTON, March %. CUP)-
The house foreign affairs committee
Thursday unanimously recommend
ed extension of the lend-lease pro-
gram to July l, 1945, but with an
amendment that would make Con-
gress, rather than the President, the
final arbiter of settlements between
the United States and beneficiary
nations after the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

uneven application of ceiling price
arrangements and difficulties in
feed distribution caused for many
producers a much less favorable
livestock-feed price relation than
was enjoyed during the preceding
ing year." the service said.
Increased inventories of animals
on farms of the state forecast an
even greater cemand for feed dur
ing 1914, it was said. Cattle in
creased two per cent in number,
hogs increased four per cent, chick
ems two per cent and turkeys 25 per
cent, the service reported. The
number of sheep on farms de-
creased six per cent.