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Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys Fair with mild temperatures Thursday and Friday. MORNING EDITION 89th Year No. 59 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944 EIGHT PAGES So Copy TSe Month 17.10 Yui la Advance mnU tecs Injuries Fatal Bombing Master GOP Sees IFdDirHJmd Irad Gitchell, Fisherman, Dies Of Injuries Received In Fight With YouthOf 15 Irad Gitchell, 40-year-old Santa Cruz commercial fisherman, died from a brain hemorrhage at 2:10 a.m. Wednesday at the county hospital where he was taken by ambulance after being knocked to the sidewalk on Pacific avenue by 15-year-old George Olive ira of 125 River street, police Gitchell was struck by the boy in the course of an argument which began about 10:30 p.m. at the counter of the Unique Smoke House at 169 Pacific avenue, police said.

Sam I wv 1 1 fig Post-War Italian Front Expects New Nazi Attack Re Discussed At Talk To Re Sleld Iln London Many Problems Involved In Victorious Course Of Conflict Will Be Taken Up At Coming Secret Meeting In Britain By Th AuoclaUd Prtu London, March 8. A guarantee of United States post-war domination of the Pacific in the form of island bases stepping stones to security against future ported today to be one of the topics likely to be discussed in the forthcoming British-American talks here. It is expected that this subject will he on a prelim inary basis when Edward R. Stettinius. IX S.

undersecretary of state, arrives, probably late this m6htB for "a review of the problems of the two countries, and cU.ua,TCd, great detail in aviation conferences in which Joseph C. Grew, former American Irad Gitchell Gitchell Was Fine Navigator And Fisherman Bv Skin Little'ield Irad "Old English" Gilchell has weighed unchor. Commercial fisherman, deep sea mariner and sportsman, he earned his livelihood from the sea for over 16 years. He was one of the best known and best liked figures of the colorful municipal wharf fishing fraternity. Gitchell is well remembered for his participation in the famous "Day On The Bay" celebrations here of a few years past.

He was a member of the unique commercial fishermens' singing society which annually entertained the elite of California assembled each spring for the "Day On The Bay." Coming to Santa Cruz in 1923 he became associated with the Cot-tardo Stagnaro Fishing company operating his own 40-foot lampara launch. He was a native of Rock-ford, 111., 40 years ol age and unmarried. Prior to Pearl Harbor Gitchell was teamed with Joe Gomes, now in the navy, during albacore and salmon seasons. Of recent months he has been fishing with Jim Mills. "Old English" was considered one of the best small boat navigators -on -the waterfront.

Slight of build, quint and unassuming in manner, his antecedents sprang from the races that produced Hendrik Hudson, Francis Drake and John Hawkins. One of his most exciting experiences on the briny was the finding of a derelict fisherman ma rooned on Santa Cruz island for nine days. The unlucky mariner had become lost at sea with his boat broken down with engine trouble. Gitchell was a bi other of Mrs. Ethel M.

Pinkham and Miss J. Gitchell of Santa Cruz. He lived with his mother, Mrs. Gus Richter, at 17 Roberts street. He is also survived by two brothers.

Men Gitchell, San Francisco, and Lloyd Gitchell, Hideout, 111. Funeral services will be hold at the Wessendorf mortuary, Saturday, March 11. at 2 p.m. with Rev. Heber S.

Mahood conducting the rites. Private inurnment in the I O.O.F. cemetery. CREW AFTER SHIP BREAKS IN TWO An Eastern Canadian Port. March 8.

All of the crew of a United States merchant ship which split in two after being torpedoed in a raging blizzard were rescued after a 33 hour fight for their lives in high seas, it was revealed today. Robey. District No. 5. to be represented by two members had no candidates filing on the Democratic paity.

Victory This Year Washington, March 8. Republicans rejoiced today over another special congressional election victory this time in Colorado where a business man defeated a war hero-political neophyte. Democrats, while unhappy, refused to concede that it indicated a national trend. Republicans have won eight of the ten such elections held since the general elections of 1942 and five more are coming up. They now have 210 house seats against 216 for the Democrats, with 218 a clear majority.

They have no hopes of organizing that branch this year through future special elections. Opposite Views Rep. Halleck of Indiana, chairman of the national Republican congressional committee, saw in the victory of Dean M. Gillespie, Denver Republican business man, over the Democratic nominee, Major Carl E. Wuertele, wounded and decorated World War II flier, evidence that the people are "through with the New Deal." A Democratic spokesman, Victor Hunt Harding, executive secretary of the Democratic house campaign committee, made no attempt to hide his disappointment, but said in all special elections so many local factors are involved that it is "difficult to detect a general trend." Partial Slates For Central Committees Incomplete slates for the coun- ty.

central committees of the two major parties were filed with County Clerk Harry E. Miller. The Republicans, with 22 places to fill, filed 21 candidacies, and the Democrats, with 21 places on their committee, filed candidacies of 15. The vacant spots will be tilled by the elected members of the committees after the primary. For the Republican county central committee 22 applications have been filed, and foe the Democratic county central committee 14 candidates filed.

In district No. 1, which has six members those filing on the Republican party are Charles S. Green, Clifford N. Kilfoyl, Alan B. Mortimer, Fred McPherson Edward C.

Poulson and William C. Troyer. District No. 2, which has three members, petitions were filed by James A. Harris Harry H.

Rhodes, and James C. Waddell, Republicans. In district No. 3, four members to be selected, those filing were J. D.

Byrne, Milo Cain, Jay M. Gates, and Robt. A. Republicans. In the fourth district, six members to be chosen, Republicans filing were E.

Carl Bronson, John L. McCarthy. Carrol J. Rodgers, Walter J. Wilkinson and James A.

Wyckoff. District No. 5, three to be sslected. Republicans filing were Geo. D.

Cress, Frank R. Pimentel, and Harold E. Rickey. Democratic Candidates For the Democratic committee in the first district, which has six members, five filed applications, Lamar Cureton, Charles E. Davis, Edward B.

Perctto, John A. Seid-linger and Donald Younger. In district No. 2, which has two members, three candidates have filed, Walter R. Bettencourt Amos H.

Roff and Joseph G. Walsh. District No. 4, with six members, six Democrats also filed, C. Vincent Anderson, Joseph J.

Crosetti, Harold L. Kane, L. C. Matiassevich, Francis J. McCabe and Paul C.

STATUTt MILES Berlin, once proud capital of the fi.m. Nari Reich, was I sea of flames from another powerful Allied bombing raid today while all Awaiting Witnesses assertedly state uit-f chell insisted that young Oliveira listen to a radio program. Oliveira said he "couldn't listen to the radio," according to Ray Pillsbury of 5 Roberts way, and began to walk outside. Pillsbury and another youngster, Izatt Pokriots, declared Gitchell followed Oliveira to the sidewalk where Gitchell assertedly made a gesture as if to strike Oliveira. Oliveira then struck Gitchell on the jaw knocking him down where his head "bounced on the sidewalk," one of the boys declared.

Officers arrived to find Gitchell lying dazed upon the sidewalk after ttte youth called police. The injured man was removed to the county hospital by Perrigo ambulance where he was treated by Dr. John D. Fuller. Although the injury was believed at first to have been a slight concussion, the resulting hemorrhage could not be halted.

The body was taken to Wessendorf mortuary. No charges as yet have been filed against Oliveira. He was questioned at length by police and released on his own recognizance Tuesday night. Woman Guilty On Vagrancy Charge Here Helen King Smith was found guilty of being "an idle and dissolute person" when she was tried on a charge of vagrancy Wednes day morning by Police Judge James J. Scoppettone.

Mrs. Smith was arrested Saturday, one day after she was released from the county jail where she had served a 20-day sentence on a similar charge. Sentenced to 60 days, Mrs. Smith will not have to serve the last 30 provided she leaves the city of Santa Cruz immediately upon serving the first half of the term. She was oidered to remain out of town for six months, Arraigned on the charges Monday, Mrs.

Smith pleaded not guilty, but would not testify in her own behalf at the trial except to say that although she had had a few drinks," she did not remember taking a sailor into the ladies' restronm of a local bar or picking up another sailor on the street and taking him to a hotel, circumstances which were recounted by Officer Tom taonard, who made the arrest. Leonard said he heard Mrs. Smith and the sailor talking loudly at the top of the hotel stairs, and investigating, found that neith er had a room there. He sent for a patrol car to take the woman to the police station and returned to find her "rolling down the hotel staiis," he testified. 53 FRENCHMEN KILLED Fifty-three more Frenchmen have been killed or executed and 46 have been arrested in continuing clashes between French patriots and Nazi controlled police forces in Occupied France, according to German and Vichy press and radio dispatches reported to the office of war information.

In a determined drive toward Iteisarabia that threatens to go Into Rumania proper. In France the underground was active while puppet Frenchmen shot 33 Russians Push Into Strategic German Base By Tha Aiiociatad Prau London, March 8. a al Gregory K. Zhukov's First Ukrainian army battled its way into the suburbs of the big strategic German base of Staro-Konstantmo vtoday and 30 miles to the southeast cap tured the district cener of Cherni-Osrov on the important Odessa- Lwow rail line, Moscow announced tonight. More than 100 localities were captured in the day's advances, said the Moscow communique, recorded by the Soviet monitor.

Staro-Konstantinov, mid-way on the rail line that connects Shepe- tovka with the Odessa-Lwow line, has been held strongly by the Germans as a main prop for its entire line in this area, a formidable bastion around which the Russian advancewhich began Saturday-flowed both to the southeast and to the southwest. The Germans still hold the rail line south of Staro-Konstantinov as an escape route. The Soviet capture of Cherni-Os-trov menaced the southern escape corridor from Staro-Konstntinov, for it was but eight miles west of the junction of the Shepctovka railway with the Odessa-Lwow line. Dispatches from the fast shifting southren front said the German command was rushing up air reserves and undertaking counter-thrusts in a desperate effort to halt the Rsd army sweep designed to drive the last Nazi soldier from Ukrainian soil. Spring thaws had turned the flat-lands of Ukraine and secondary dirt roads into bottomless nits of mud, tending to confine the fight ing to the main arterial highways and railroads, along which the Germans were putting up stiff resistance.

Despite the 'double handicap of terrain and increased resistance, the Russians forged an assault arc around the northern approaches to Tarnopol, key rail junction commanding the valleys running down to Rumania. The Soviet vanguard by passed Tarnopol to capture Igrovitsa, 10 miles to the northwest and within 100 miles of the Czech border. From there the battle line swung southeast around Tarnopol to cross the Odessa-Warsaw railroad, ruptured arterv of supply for an estimated 500,000 Germans who are threatened with isolation along the Black sea coast. Chas. Anthony Suffers Broken Back At Ice Plant Charles Anthony, foreman at the Honor Brand frosted foods plant at 1SH) Chestnut avenue, was taken to Santa Cruz hospital Sun day morning with a broken back which resulted when a metal rack fell on him while he was at work.

According to a spokesman at the plant, Anthony was just "passing by" when the rack suddenly fell, it was estimated the rack, used to carry trays to the freezing room, weighed about 300 pounds. The accident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Anthony, 4(1, lives with his wife and two children at 34 Campbell street. He has been employed at the freezing plant for approximately two years, it was stated. Chaplin Must Go To Trial Hollywood, March 8.

Movie Comedian Charlie Chaplin today lost his plea for dismissal of Kcd-Haired Joan Barry's suit charging him with being the father of her baby daughter. Superior Court Judge Stanley Mosk, concluding a week's study of arguments about the color of the comic's eyes and a blood test in which three doctors decided he could not have been the father of live-months-old Carol Ann, denied the motion of Chaplin's attorneys to dismiss the paternity action. His decision was tantamount to ordering the actor to stand trial. "The court is convinced," Judge Mosk said, "that the ends of justice can best be served by a full and fair trial of the issues." Rome Raided By Bombers London, March 8. Rome radio said Allied bombers raided Rome again today.

American heavy and medium bombers pounded railway yards In Rome heavily last Friday in their third major attack of the war on the eternal city. U. S. Marauders and Mitchells struck freight yards in the suburbs of the city yesterday. Status Will Japanese aggression was re ''ambassador to Japan, is likely to outline the United States' basic needs.

To Clear Away Doubts Thus the coming get-together a sign of the increasing effort of both countries to clear away doubts regarding each other's objectiveswill be interwoven with the economic and political prob lems ot Allied and Axis countries and neutrals, including one having diplomatic discussions so delicate that reports of them are banned for publication. It is highly probable that many of the talks will concern post-war Doraers ot turopean countries In the light of the steady progress of the European advisory commission's efforts to reach agreement on uerman Doraers and kindred matters after victory is won. FDR Adviser To Go This speculation was strength ened by the announcement that Stettinius would be accompanied by Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University, who is a Roosevelt adviser, one of Washington's elder statesmen and one of the country's top geographers. umer possible questions on the agenda: 2. The government of Italy after the capture of Rome.

2. A decision on the resumption of the effort to win Turkey over to ine Aiiiea cause. 3. The status of the French committee for national liberation after the war. (Contlnutd on Pag I.

Column 3) Argentina Lifts Ban On News By Associated Press By The AuoclaUd Fran Buenos Aires, March 8. The Argentine government announced tonight that a ban against' wireless reception of the Associ- ated Press news report had been lifted, effective at midnight. At that hour La Nacion, a leading South American newspaper whose radio station has transcribed AP broadcasts from New York, London, Madrid and other news centers for distribution by La Prensa Asociada, Latin Amen lean affiliate of the Associated Press, was authorized to resume' this esrvice. Permission to resume distribution of domestic news by Aso-ciacion Noticlosa, with which Li Prensa Asociada has an exchange agreement, also was granted aud a teletype printer circuit between La Prensa Asocada offices in Ituenos Aires and Montevideo, I'ruguay, may be reopened tomorrow, authorities said. County Welfare Department Aides Are Granted Raise A request for increase in salaries of certain female office workers in the county welfare department was granted by the county board of supervisors meeting in regular session Tuesday afternoon.

But there was heated debate between Board Chairman George Morgan and other board members before the supervisors unanimously passed the controversial measure which raises salaries of several public assistant workers from S8S a month to $100 per month. Bomber Crashes In Pacific Grove Pacific Grove, March 8. A plane tentatively identified as a naval torpedo bomber crashed and burned today on the front lawn of a home here, killing all four occupants of the plane. Witnesses said the plane shear ed me top of a r.ucaplyptus tree as it came down. They said the plane apparently was banking to land, but crashed before leveling oil.

Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz Berlin Is Again Hit By Bombs By Tha Auoclaisd Praia London, March 8 U. S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators with a tremendous fighter escort, which made up an armada estimated at between 1600 and 2000 planes.

struck at Berlin today for the third time in five days with what a conservatively-worded American com munique called "good results. Out of the huge fleet 38 bombers and 16 fighters were lost, but the escorting planes alone knocked down 83 enemy aircraft; gunners aboard the bombers destroyed others yet untabulated. The communique named the Eikner ball-bearing factory in an eastern Berlin suburb as one of the primary targets for "a concentrated attack by divisions of B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators of the Eighth Air Force" and said that other industrial and military targets in the capital area also were bombed. Ten thousand high explosive bombs and 350,000 incendiaries were cascaded down upon the ruined capital, the communique disclosed, and this devastating load was estimated at approximately Ol(r tunc The first returning fighter pilots said the resistance was as fierce and determined as in the great battle Monday, when 176 German planes were shot down and 68 American bombers were lost. While the heavies were lashing Berlin, ISO fighter-escorted Marauders struck without opposition at two German air bases in Holland Soesterher, 35 miles northeast of Rotterdam, and Volkel, IS miles from the German border.

Today's powerful assault followed by two days the first mass daylight assault of the war on the German capital, in which Fort resses and Liberators broke through a stiff defense shield to hammer the city. Nazi bioadcasts said a furious air battle was being fought over northwest Germany indicating that the reported penetration of the Reich had succeeded in drawing up large numbers of German fighters as Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz pressed the second phase of his campaign to wipe out the luftwaffc.

A Nazi DM) broadcast faded dramatically. apparently as a result of a sudden reduction in power, about the time Berlin was reporting the presence of the United States raiders over Germany, but no explanation was forthcoming immediately. Germans Put Up Strong Defense Of Burning Berlin Mustang Rase. England. March 8.

The first returning fghter pilots who accompanied American heavy bombers to Ilerlin today said the German defenses were as fierce and determined as they were on Monday. The battle was fought today in an almost cloudless sky. Otherwise perfect visibility was marred only by clouds of anti-aircraft fire thrown up by the ground -guns, the strength of which seemed to have been increased. The airmen said the Germans seemed to throw up every type of fighter plane, including some trainers which were duck soup for the American gunners. They said the Nazis appeared to he under orders to hold off until there was no doubt whatever that Berlin was the target.

Thev did not attack in force un til the bombers were practically on their bomb runs. Then they swept in formations of two and three, "all over the sky," in the words of one fighter pilot. Paramushiro Isle Is Bombed Again Washington, March 8 Navy search bombers struck Paramushiro Japanese base in the Kurile Islands, again on Sunday evening, the navy revealed today. A Pacific fleet announcement released here and al Pearl Harbor reported that heavy antiaircraft fire was encountered In some areas but all of the American planes returned. By Th Auoclaiad Praia Allied Headquarters, Naples, March 8.

German forces opposing the Allied beachhead below Rome were reported today to be regrouping their strong resources of men and armor, possibly in preparation for a fourth major drive against a selected point in the Allied de-lenses. I A headquarters spokesman said the Germans "appear to be on the watch for any opening in our forward positions." It was two weeks ago today that the Nazis launched their third costly assault on the beachhead and saw heir total casualties in that area mount to Lowland mud and mountain snows held ground fighting to a minimum throughout Italy yesterday while Allied heavy and medium bombers blasted the Toulon naval base in southern France and railroad yards and airdromes at Florence and Rome. Photographs showed hits 'on a munitions factory at Toulon, and several warships anchored there were thought to have been damaged. The Allies flew 1300 sorties in all and lost five planes while destroying an equal number of enemy aircraft. While no change in ground positions was registered either around the beachhead or in the Cassino sector, opposing troops engaged in many fierce machine-gun and mortar duels.

It was disclosed that New Zealand artillery had gone into action south of Cassino. 22 Santa Cruzans Will Be Inducted Middle Of March Twenty-two Santa Cruz men will be inducted into the armed forces on Wednesday, March 15, it was revealed today by the local selective service board. Five of the men will go into the navy and the remaining 17 will report to Monterey for army service. Leaving lor San Francisco on Wednesday where they will receive their assignments to naval boot camps will be Curtis Young Benson, Richard Fillmore Phillips, Robert John Baldassar, George Wesley Cowan and Arno Malcolm Fidel. Benson's present home address is Bakersfield and Cowan's is Port Chicago.

Reporting to the Monterey Pre sidio on the same day will be James Edgar Yeomans, George Joseph Netto, Gino Lorenzi, Enrico Ernest Barilati, Calvin Osborne Carter, John Thomas Negri Ernest John Rebuffo, Leo Danda Bandini, George Ow, George Walter Hunter, Floyd Wilbert Gostlin, Fred Dom enico Stefani, Charles Fred Phillips, Bedford William Acuff. Donald Fiske Budworth, James Harold Breuncr and Burkett John Faraola. All of these men have been living in Santa Cruz with the exception of Budworth, whose present address is Oakland, and Faraola, who has been making his home in Berkeley. Leninarad more guerrilla workers. Save for little Switzerland there was no peare In Europe where man, woman or child could find the sanctity of peace.

Alvarez Sentenced For Life Twenty-year-old Felix Alvarez was sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin yesterday afternoon for murder of Restituto Ta-bares, labor contractor. The sentence came at the end of a day of court hearing to determine, the charge on which the penalty should be imposed. Tony Soto, charged as accessory, was given not more than five years in San Quentin. Manuel Serrano and Max Wilson, minors implicated in the case, were held for disposition by the juvenile court. Twenty year-old Felix Alvarez told the story of the killing of Restituto Tabares.

labor contractor, to Superior Judge James L. Atteridge Wednesday morning before approximately 40 persons, most of whom were obviously of Mexican descent. Spectators included parents of Manuel Serrano and Max Wilson. A flashlight loaded with lead to the weight of about six pounds with which another minor, Manny Gonzales, is alleged to have hit Tabares with was offered in evidence by District Attorney Stephen Wyckoff. Alvarez, thin and not looking 20 years old, spoke with an accent as he repeated his story, lie said he was "scared stiff" after he had shot Tabares in the head with a pistol he had bought from his cousin.

Tony Soto, who has pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact in that he did not report the killing. He maintained he did not think the gun was loaded, since it had not been when he got it from Soto. Alvarez indicated that Manny Gonzales might have loaded the gun. In response to questioning by Wyckoff, Alvarez admitted that shortly before Tabares' death, both he and Alvarez had given blood transfusions to Alvarez's sister at Watsonvjlle hospital. Alvarez stated he had been employed by Tabares for about eight months and that he considered him of" his friend.

Stanford Smith, representing Gonzales, Wilson, and Serrano, cross-examined Alvarez, who stated that he had seen Tabares with a $1000 bill about three weeks earlier and that he had told the younger boys that Tabares was in the habit of carrying large sums of money on his person. W. A. Deans was appointed attorney for Alvarez, and Willard D. Paine was present to represent John Banuelos, another charged with being an accessory.

Banuelos will plead to the charge Friday New Landings Near Rabaul In New Britain Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Match 8 U. S. marines, in a 110 mile jump from their Cape Gloucester base, have landed on the north coast of New Britain near Talasea to capture positions less than 170 miles from the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul, it was announced today. American forces also won control of Los Negros in the Admiralty islands, across the Bismarck sea from New Britain, and prepared to stait using Momote airfield which they captured in the initial landing last week. The marines, in landing near Talnsea on Williamez peninsula Monday morning, met only light opposition when they went ashore in small landing craft, and a head quarters spokesman said no American casualties were reported.

Invasion, All Europe Feels Bombs And Death KSy swEDENf kW RUSSIA DENRKMapT Kaunas ('Minsk Kfe SSfA' "Grodno I 'kV 'v-v, Gomel uniffi. Brest Ut0Vlk Kiev. -tfVmVEsUn eipzjgW POLAND tf.1.rivologne DresdeV over the fortress of Europe the mighty weight of Allied arms WM Mn facU Ru((. Ra the Red army was again on the march through fields of mud.