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MacArthur's Fliers. Bombing Tokyo Naval Units Near Australia WEATHER I SPIED- i tii Forecasts generally are forbidden during the war. TEMPERATURE High 55 RAINFALL This season 03 Last NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO THE SANTA APIA VALLEY 14, 1942 SANTA MARIA. CALIFORNIA, FR I DAY, AUGUST Subscription Price $8.40 Per Year Every Evening Except Sunday Jap Bomber-All Broken Up Spotlighting Jap VOLUME 61 (24 Years a Daily) JVL o) Nazis Advancing Into Oil Fields In Hard Fighting Russ Claim Trap On Don Threatens Big German Force MOSCOW (U.R) The. Red army is closing a trap on German motorized infantry which pierced Soviet defenses at the Don northwest of Stalingrad, and Russian fliers have broken up an enemy attempt to bolster wavering Nazi lines with troops on the northwest fronts, it was claimed today but Russians admitted the Nazis were advancing upon their Elack sea naval bases in the Krasnodar region and that the Nazi drive down the Rostov-Baku railroad has carried to within 140 miles of the Grozny oil fields.

In the area of Krasnodar, Soviet troops engaged in tense, defensive fighting, a noon communique said. On one sector Soviet troops under pressure of numerically superior forces, fell back to new positions. Fierce Fighting Rages 1 One of the most ferocious battles around Krasnodar, 65 miles from the Soviet Black sea fleets first- base at had been fought over a river crossing (presumably the Kuban river.) This might indicate that the river had been forced. The noon communique said that in one unidentified part of the northwestern front the Germans moved troops in transport planes after losing more than 3000 men in battle. A fleet of 20 Nazi transports eachjpresumably capable of carrying 35 to 40 fully equipped men appeared with an escort of Mes-serschmitt fighters.

Russian w.v. Big Jap bomber, its fuselage almost entirely demolished, was brought down by U. S. anti-aircraft fire in Battle of Coral Sea. (Official U.

S. Navy photofrom NEA.) jl Held Aleutian Isles Statute Miles KISKAto: Dutch Harbor 650 Kodiak 1200 Seward 1400 Seattle 2500 Hawaii 2400 Japan 2000 Atlantic Charter Reaffirmed Roosevelt Cables On Anniversary Closeup Jook at the three tiny Aleutian islands seized by Japan from the U. S. shows them to be mere specks on the map with a total area only half of that of Rhode Island. But Bataan was no bigger than these three rocky, fog-swept islands, and with Jap troops occupying them, Attu, Agattu and Kiska may yet become a battle area as famous as the Philippine peninsula.

I Webster Clark with a telegram from National Re-p 1 i a Committeeman Ralph Cake of Portland anent Clarks flying boat idea: Think you have a great idea. Am working on it. The Joseph Simas seven sons all back at fathers table again for a family dinner party. Julia Smith searching fruitlessly for a sewing machine which her husband has promised to purchase as a gift for the guest house in Camp Cooke. Marina Mills reading a magazine while walking along the street, while a truck honked warningly from an alley intersection.

Friends refused admittance when they paid a surprise visit to the home of newlyweds Anna Mae and William Ostini at 11 oclock last night. COMMENTS and CACOPHONY By G. A. Martin German fifth-columnists living! in Russia did much to' aid the German advance near Stalingrad. I Catherine the Great, a German Germans and -more than 400,000 comprised a German Volga Autonomous Republic within Russia! until the present war with Ger-i many broke.

Time, the news magazine, says Italys Benito Mussolini is bald as a monkeys bottom. The British ration has been increased by the addition of two ounces of candy per week. The London Daily Mail! says: It will surprise many peo- pie to learn that this country has! the worst record for bigamy ofi any European country. Lucky for us they did not carry the com-1 parisons to this hemisphere and this nation. The known cases of syphilis in Birtain have increased 34 percent since the war started.

Two smart Wichita boys in Kansas loaded a rubber hose with old bullets and other lead, afid sold it at a cent a pound. The smart oil station operator who bought it, shook out the lead and sold it at five cents a pound. Sandy Hook lighthouse, off the entrance to New York harbor, is out for the second time in its 178 years of operations. Revolutionary soldiers smashed it once and now it is out because of dim-out regulations along the coasts. A Nashville prohibitionist wrote a letter to his paper protesting the use of alcohol in making synthetic rubber.

I always did think those prohibitionists wanted to keep alcohol away from others to have it all for themselves. If you forgot to register for the primaries, dont worry. You are in the same box as one of the nations greatest four-flushers, Fiorello LaGuardia. He also forgot and was unable to vote in Tuesdays New York primary. Glenri Taylor, a former vaudeville performer, emulating Pass the Bisquits Pappy ODaniell of Texas, won the Democratic senatorial nomination in Idaho by riding over the state in a drugstore cowboy outfit, some-times making short journeys on a horse, and singing with Ma and the boy at political meetings.

Taylor won the nomination once bpfore and Dr. Owen Stratton, who was State Democratic chairman, resigned in disgust and said he would support Sen. John Thomas, Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not a complete imbecile and a goddam pettifogging demagogue. Dr. B.

U. L. Connor savs if people generally werent so crooked, politicians would not have to be dishonest. Harvey discovered circulation of the blood 314 years ago today on Aug. 14, 1628.

This is also the date of the birth of John Galesworthy, English novelist, in 1867. Santa Marias flagpole was raised 24 years ago today. Ernest Thompson Seton, American naturalist, was born 82 years ago today. United States troops, together with armed forces of other nations, entered Pekin, the capital of China, 42 years ago today, to put down the antl-foreign Boxer uprisings Several hundred Europeans were slaughtered before the cooperating nations could get troops to the scene. Ettamae says the modern slogan is dont put off until tomorrow what you can put over today.

Number 95 tyj Army Pounds at Reinforcements For the Enemy Japan Claims Big Victory, Many S. Navy Ships Sunk By United Press IT. S. Marines arp making satisfactory progress in consolidating shore positions spizerl in the Solomon islands while IT. S.

Army and allied airmen are smashing at Jap bases and ship concentrations in enemy-held harbors, the Navy announced today in Washington. Tt said Naval units are protecting lines of communication and escorting supply vessel to the occupying forces. Loudons Evening Star in a dispatch from Sydney today, said the first stage of ilie Bat- tie of 1 lie Solomons is over-Americans won it. The dispatch added that the battle is likely to continue for weeks, however, with a series of bitterly contested land engage- ments and a widespread naval battle which may include large fleet units on both sides. I The Naval correspondent of the British Yorkshire Post reported that, according to the latest intelligence, supporting naval forces had arrived and joined in sea operations in the Solomon', area.

American troops, he re- ported, had driven back the Jap-J anese farther with the aid of re- inforcements newly landed, and air attacks on Guadalcanal island are in progress. Japanese Claims Japan claimed it had sunk 25 allied warships, including nine American cruisers, and ten trans-i ports so far in the battle qf Solo- mon islands and had shot down 58 allied planes. She said her only losses had been two cruisers slightly damaged, both of them still able to fight, and 21 planes, all of which power-dived on to their targets in suicide attacks. At Gen. MacArthurs headquarters today, correspondents said United States Marines were 1mh Australia that the Marines held firm and meant to keep their hold in the islands.

It was indicated that the fleet was driving off probably inferior enemy surface units and fighting back against a ferocious enemy aerial attack, with its hard-pressed Naval planes. Casualties Arrive United States South Pacific Naval headquarters reported' that the first casualties of the battle had arrived at American base and field hospitals somewhere in the South Seas. Gen. MacArthur's communique at noon today reported a ferocious attack on a Japanese reinforcement fleet in New Guinea waters, evidently bound for the Southern Solomons. Boeing flying fortresses and medium bombers attacked the fleet three times yesterday in force and though the weather in- Continued on Page 6, Col.

3 liKMEMBKIU DANCE Modse Hall Saturday Night Aug. 15 DALE HARRIS and Ilis Orchestra Dancing 9 to 2 Gentlemen 75c, Tax Included Service Men 50c. Tax Included Ladies Free Indian Riots Turn Into Looting And Robbery EOMBAY (U.R) Police and troops fired on mobs today in five trouble areas of Nagpur, in the central provinces 420 miles east of Bombay. At two points the police, backed by troops, fired several times on Official reports said the rioters were mainly laborers who' surged through riot areas looting, starting fires and wrecking property. Grain, cloth and sugar shops were looted, dispatches said.

Railroad stations in Tenali, Duggiraa, Chirala, and Midabro-lu were burned by angry crowds Another mob attacked the station at Nasulipatan but police dispersed the crowd. Troops were sent to Bazawadaward to patrol the rail line. In an outbreak in Guntur, two persons were killed and six injured when police opened fire on a mob which was pelting them with stones. A mob in Tiruvadi in the Tan-jore district stormed the court of a civil magistrate and removed cash from his safe. In Karaikudi a 'mob tried to release a man who had been arrested.

Police fired on the crowd, filling one and wounding six. Telephone ahd telegraph wires have been cut at some points. Joined by Wife BOMBAY U.R Mohandas K. Gandhi was very happy when his short, wrinkle-faced wife, Kastur-bai, joined him in the Aga Kahns palace where the Nationalist leaded has been held since ordering a civil disobedience campaign, it was learned today. Glendon White Dies In Oklahoma Mr.

and Mrs. C. B. White received word today from Tulsa, of the death of their only son, Glendon White, 30, after a long illness. He was a chiropractor in Tulsa.

The deceased grew up in Santa Maria and attended local schools. He was married in Oklahoma, and his wife survives. They had no children. Air Freight Cars Rolling Out of California Plant LOS ANGELES (U.R) President Donald W. Douglas said today the Douglas Aircraft Co.

has been producing long-range military cargo planes of freight-car capacity in quantity for months. Some of the ships already in he said, are delivering war equipment and other supplies to battlefields thousands of miles from its source. We must take the ax to the axis, and we must and will take it by air, he said. To win this war we must carry it to the enemy. fighter planes shot down six of organization with the San Luis the transports and anti-aircraft gunners brought down nine others.

The transports were identi- Obispo Production Credit association in an amount not to exceed $5000. Ralph Tuthill, local commander of the American Legion, was the first person fuoroscoped in the special chest clinics of the County Health Department and the County Tuberculosis Association, which opened today. Commander Tuthill was a member of the committee of the Forty et Eight society of the American Legion which gave the fluoroscope now being used in the clinics, -to the California Tuberculosis Association. More than 150 persons were examined in the two fluoroscopic clinics held in Guadalupe on Tuesday and yesterday, according to Walter Word, local chairman of the Tuberculosis Association. Women of the American Legion assisted with these clinics and public interest was widespread, he said.

Few Appointments Open A few appointments for the Santa Maria clinics are still open, but our schedule is rapidly filling up, Word said. Persons wishing to be examined at any of the four remaining clinics next week or the following wbek should call the Health department immediately, he said. He reported that Safeway Stores employes have signed up 100 percent. While we will try to turn no one away who wishes an examination, persons having appointments will be taken first, and others will have to wait at the clinic until there is an opening. The four remaining clinics, all to be held in the junior college, will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week and Monday, Aug.

24. Robert Bruce, Miss May Grisham, Word and other members of Continued on Page 5, Col. 3 HEAVY DAMAGE IN RAIDS ON GERMANY ANKARA (U.R) Travelers from Germany reported today that 2000 persons were killed in a recent British air attack on Hamburg when huge bombs hit a large air-raid shelter near the Zoo. 1 British attacks on Cologne, they said, have caused unusually ex- tensive damage because the waterworks was put out of commission, leaving firefighters helpless. The same sources estimated that 23,000 persons were killed in the devastating RAF attack on Luebeck.

Surplus Women CHICAGO (U.R) Philip M. Hauser, assistant diretyor of the Census Bureau, said today that at the end of the war the United States may have a surplus of marriageable women for the first time in history. British Cruiser Sunk by Axis U. S. Carrier Not In Engagement LONDON (U.R) The 9400-ton WASHINGTON U.R Presi-cruiser Manchester, one of Brit-(dent Roosevelt reaffirmed today ains newest, and the aircraft jin a message to Prime Minister carrier Eagle have been sunk ini Winston Churchill of England, the a blazing naval-air battle in the principles of the Atlantic Char-Central Mediterranean while es-1 ter which, the president said, corting a large convoy to be- will bring us to a happier Cuyama Pupils To Maricopa Contract Made by S.

M. High School Members of the high school board, at an. adjourned meeting yesterday approved a contract drawn by the district attorneys office for the payment of tuition to the Maricopa unified school district for the attendance of pupils there from the Wasioja and Cuyama school districts. Through the arrangement, the Santa Maria high school district sends the pupils to the Maricopa school at abig saving in transportation, it was explained. The board also approved, credit for the Future Farmers of Amer- The award for the purchase of lubricating oil for the coming year was made to the Union Oil on the basis of bids, at 60 cents a gallon.

Award for lubricating grease went to the Associated Oil Co. on a low bid of seven cents a pound. Purchase of maps for the social studies department was approved at a cost of $161. The board was shown new permanent record cards adopted for all high schools and elementary schools in the county as the result of conferences held last year. Next regular meeting of the school board will be next Wednesday.

-Attending yesterdays session were M. B. OBrien, Byron Bil-lington, Eugene Martin, Fred May and Superintendent Andrew P. Hill Jr. Board Member W.

W. Stokes was out of the city. HOUSE ROBBED, AUTOMOBILE STRIPPED Katherine Stara, of 618 West Main street, reported to city police that her room had been entered last night between 10 p.m. and three a.m. and a Motorola radio stolen.

Suitcases were ransacked and the room was left in disorder, she said. Ralph Tuthill reported the theft of headlight lenses and chromium rims from his car as it was parked in the 100 block on South McClelland street Subway Panic NEW YORK (U.R) A sizzling short circuit that set several rail ties afire started a melee among hundreds of passengers on a subway platform today and several were injured and trampled in a stampede for the exits. Christmas Mail WASHINGTON U.R The War, Navy and Postoffice departments today agreed on Nov. 1 as the deadline for mailing Christmas parcels to service men overseas. (lieved to have captured Kokuffl, w01'd.

on Guadalcanal island, most val- On the first anniversary of the airdrome site in the Soutlr-proclaiming of the charter, Mr. i ern Solomons, and the Japanese seaplane base off Tulagi. Confidence rose steadily Roosevelt reminded Churchill declared: i 14 1 i I 1 fied as Junkers-52s. Flank Attacks Official Russian dispatches told of Russian attacks and heavy German casualties on the northwest front, around Bryansk and Rzhev, in the region of Lake Seliger about 215 miles northwest of Moscow and on the Voronezh flank of the Germans Caucasus offensive. -iThe capture of numerous villages and fortified points was described in accounts of the Rus- Continued on Page 6, Col.

4 SHIPMENTS OF VEGETABLES LOW Vegetable shipments from the valley continued to hold to the low level prevailing for a number of weeks, dropping to 26 carloads this 'week, according to a report by the Federal-State Market News Service. Santa Maria continued to ship only potatoes, with 14 carloads going out, only one carload less than last week. Guadalupe shipped nine carloads of carrots and three of lettuce. The valley carload total was three chrs less than in the previous week. For the first time in several weeks shipments were made from Lompoc, five carloads of lettuce going out.

Goleta shipped 12 carloads of lemons. Overconfidence? LOS ANGELES (U.R) Alonzo J. Riggs, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today said Gov. Culbert L. Olson is headed toward a walkatvay victory in his race for reelection because the Warren people are overconfident and are not working to get their man in office.

Nobody's Business NEW YORK (U.R)' What members of the Womens Naval Reserve wear under their uniforms will be left to individual choice, Lieut. Comdr. Mildred H. -McAfee, commander of the group, said lcagucred Malta, the Admiralty announced today. Branding German and Italian claims that upward of 30 British warships and merchant ships were sunk in the three-day battle as exaggerated, the Admiralty indicated that the aerial phase of the struggle might still be under way.

It was stated authoritatively, in contradiction of Nazi boasts, that neither the aircraft carrier Wasp nor any other American war vessel was engaged in the battle. The Germans have claimed that six aerial bomb-hits were scored on the American carrier Wasp and that it fled, ablaze, toward Malta. Twq Axis Subs Sunk Against the loss of the cruiser Manchester, which went down off the African Tunisian coast, and the old carrier Eagle, the Admiralty said that at least Continued on Page 6, Col. 4 STRIKERS BARRED FROM DRAWING STATE PAY SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) Union attorneys planned an appeal today from the California State District Court of Appeals ruling that longshoremen and dock checkers were not entitled to approximately $413,000 unemployment compensation for working time lost during two strikes in 1939. The court overruled a threc-to-two decision of the California Employment, commission which held the men were entitled to the money.

None had been paid, pending outcome of litigation. We based, and continue to base, our hopes for a better future for the world on the realization of these principles. He recalled that a year ago the nations resisting a common. Barbaric foe were units of small groups, fighting for their existence. Now these nations and groups of nations in all the continents of the earth have united, the president said.

Union of Humanity They have formed a great union of humanity, dedicated to the realization of that common program of purposes and principles set forth in the Atlantic Continued on Page 6, Col. 3 'PHANTOM BARBER' NAZI SABOTEUR, ARRESTED PASCAGOULA. Miss. (U.R) Police Chief A. W.

Ezell claimed today that the phantom barber who broke into at least ten homes; to cut the hair of the sleeping occupants, is William A. Dolan, 57, a German-educated chemist. Dolan, Ezell announced, has been in jail for three weeks and is charged with- attempted mur-! der. His motivation, Ezell i charged, was to impair the morale of war workers. Dolan was charged in connection with an assault on Terrell Heidelberg and his wife by the phantom barber the night of June 13..