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Evening star., 1944-03-15

which will tax the diplomatic, in
dustrial and trade brains of both
nations in order to preserve the
amity born of wartime partnership
Postwar Shipping Problems.
Other questions attracting mount
ing attention include:
l. Will there be a postwar ship
ping pool by the two nations with
a division of markets, or will there
be out-and-out competition? What
will be the position of smaller ship
ping nations such as the Dutch?
Should an accord be reached now
on subsidized shipping and tariffs?
2. What arrangements should be
made now to dispose of the huge
quantities of war materials-such
as clothing and motor vehicles-to
civilian use after victory without
duplicating the chaotic market con-
ditions that prevailed after the last
war? What, for example, should be
done with surplus machine tools
to prevent long shutdown in in
dustry?
Both the British and Americans
are approaching these and related
issues with an increasing realization
of their gravity, growing desire to
get them out of the way as the
military situation brightens and
gradual recognition of the political
implications a solution holds for
each other.
Evening star., 1944-03-15
u. ). and Britain Try
To Clarity Future
OF Lease-Lend Setup
By the Associated Press.

~ the AsSocieted Press,
LONDON, Mar. 15.-A determined
effort to reach an accord on sew
eral basic problems of lend
an issue of mounting Importance in
British-Ame relations-is I'M
derstood to be in progress to clarity
the present and future economic po-
sition of both Britain and the
United States.
The first objective probably will
be a clearer understanding of the
scope Of British industrial exports
ut 4 time when this island nation is
dependent on lifeline from Amer
lca for huge quantities of goods.
Division of Production.
The cr,lx of the situation is how
tnuch Of Britain's industrial capacity
should be used for export produc-
ton, how much is needed to main
tain q war-pared trade minimum
and how to settled problems arising
from the shift in shipping suprem-
acy from Britain to America.
1t is understood in London that
rough drafts of proposed agree
ment on one or more of these en-
twined questions had been drawn
and then discarded after confer
ences in Washington. 1t is sure to
be near the top of the agenda for
coming discussions between Edward
R. Stettinius, jr., American Under
secretary of State, and British
officials.
Although the export problem alone
Is far-reaching in it's economic i'm
plicattons, it is just one of several
Evening star., 1944-03-15
Labor Shortage Hits Crime

ST. LOUIS (P).-The manpower
shortage is even affecting crime. A
woman held up and robbed a
grocery store here.
Evening star., 1944-03-15
Dr.. Burns Will Discuss
Postwar Iuxes and Debt

DR.. Arthur E. Burns, assistant di-
rector of the materials and facilities
office, War Food Administration, will
discuss postwar tax problems and
the public debt at 8:15 o'clock to-
night in the Hall of Government,
George Washington University.
His lecture is the third in series,
free to the public, sponsored by the
General Alumni Association of G..
w. u.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Robot Launching Platforms
Built on Holland Hook
LONDON, July 27.-(UP)

LONDON, July 27.-(UP)
Dutch quarters said Thurs
day that recent large-scale
German construction on the hook
of Holland was believed to be
launching sites for a new and larg-
er flying bomb capable of bombing
England'S industrial midlandS $50
miles away.
They said these platforms were
ready for use, if not already in
operation.
German propaganda minister
Paul Joseph GoebbelS has been
warning of a new German robot
piane-the V-2-Which would carry
greater load of explosives longer
distances than the vi, with which
the Germans have been attacking
southern England during recent
weeks.
Dutch officials learned that with
in the last few weeks all shipping.
including even small fishing YES
sells. has been banned from the
hook of Holland area, where large
scale German construction was pro-
ceeding at top speed curing April
and May.
In those months the NaziS con-
scripted almost every able-bodied
man from IS to 55 in Rotterdam to
work on a mysterious project. Dutch
intelligence has not identified this
project definitely and it was point
ed out that it might have been pre-
invasion defense work but the fact
that the hook of Holland is the near
est continental point to the great
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Yankees Battle
For Strategic
Guam Airfie|ds

PEARL HARBOR, July 27.-UP)
American invasion forces ON Guam
Eattled Thursday for the 4,70O-foot
airfield on Orote peninsula, with
in B-29 bomber range of Tokyo,
after two mile advance aimed at
driving the trapped enemy troops
into the sea and clearing the Apra
harbor naval anchorage.
With marines and army troops in
control of most of Guam'S west
coast, second and fourth marines
or Tinian, 100 miles north, COM
pieted the occupation of the islands
northern tip and small but vital
CShi Point airStrip, and prepared
to crive southwark.
Supported by intense artillery
and naval gun fire and bombing,
L. S. forces on Orote Peninsula
drove ahead 5000 yards on Tuesday,
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced in communique Wednes-
cay night, and came to within 400
yards of the airfield, one of the
chief detectives of the Guam cam
paign.
The advance came shortly after
desperate Japanese attempt to eS-
cape from the peninsula, during
which they We're thrown back with
toll of 400 dead and IL tanks de-
StrOyed
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

Germans to withdraw in the area
Of Brest-Litovsk, the almost en-
circled citacel 100 miles east of
Warsaw, but claimed the threaten
ed garrison still was holding out.
DOUBLE JUNCTION
Bialystok, city of $1,000 before
the war, is the junction cf the War
saw-Leningrad and Warsaw-Mos-
COW trunk railways.
Unconfirmed reports attributed
by the British radio to Moscow said
Soviet forces were pouring across
the cistula some so miles up river
from Warsaw. The corning of the
last big warer barrier east of the
German frontier 140 miles west
ward was made in amphibious
trucks and covered by the fire of.
artillery and trench mortars massed
along the east bank, the reports
said.
A United Press dispatch from
Moscow said Soviet tank units were
the first to reach the cistula, storm
ing forward despite repeated Ger
man efforts to counterattack with
reorganized divisions and fresh
troops brought up from Warsaw,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Dewey Readies
Program for
Leaders Meet

ALBANY, N. Y, July q. (UPl-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Republican
presidential nominee, said Thurs
day he would place a comprehen-
sive program before the ST. Louis
COP governors conference next
week in an effort to bring agree
ment out of chaos which has exist
and the states for IL years"
DeWey'S program, which was APP
proved by his running mate, Gov
ernor John w. Bricker of Ohio, in
cludes Is major issues:
Public expenditures.
2-Public health.
Administration CT unemplOy-
ment insurance.
administrator of unemploy-
ment services.
Relationship between unem-
ployment insurance and employ
ment services.
6-Labor-the sphere of influence
of the national government as con-
traSted to local government.
Public works, the extent to be
financed and supervised by the va
rious units of government.
8-HighWays.
9-Regulation of insurance.
10-CwnerShip of national lands.
ll-Water and flood control and
the conservation of national re-
sources.
12-The national guard, whether
it shall be returned to the states in
the postwar era or remain federal
lied.
l3-The whole problem of federal
and state tax coordination.
l4-Agriculture. the extent to
which agriculture, soil conservation
Continued on Pg. 8. Col. -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

chant ship.
AT least 26 salvoeS frcm the giant
guns of the Allied battleshipS and
cruisers landed squarely ON the
harbor installations and adjacent
barrack areas, turning the target
into a mass of flame and smoke, the
communique said.
1t was announced that the war
ships which steamed into Sabang
harbor suffered minor damage and
very few" casualties, including two
men killed
Six enemy aircraft were destroyed
at Sabang. four of them aground.
and three others were shot down by
Allied filters Tuesday evening when
formation of japanese planes at
tempted unsuccessfully 10 attack
the Allied striking force.
Only one Allied plane was lost.
and the pilot OF that ship was
picked up, uniniured. by q cruiser,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

WASHINGTON, July 81. (UP) -
Announced casualties among the
U. S. armed forces announced in
Washington total 257,779, it was re-
vealed Thursday.
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son said army casualties through
July totaled POT 1888, while a navy
casualty list released showed 5O,496
The combined totals for both SerV-
ices showed $3.50 dead, lC4,888
wounded, 1926 prisoners of war
and 1896 missing.
Stimson said fifth army casual
ties in Italy since the Salerno land
ing through July 10 total 1896, in
Guiding 1882 killed, 5l,194 wound
ed, and 10,92O missing or prisoners
of war. Army air force losses in
Italy through July 10 total II ,665, he
said, including 1883 killed, l,74l
wounded, and 854l missing or priS-
onerS of war.
Stimson also estimated that 85, 900
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
RFC States Sale
of 5129 Used
Military Planes

WASHINGTON, July 81. (UP) =
The reconstruction finance corpora
ton has started the job of selling
approximately $50. 10000 worth of
surplus army and navy aircraft, in
Guiding trainers, cargo carriers,
transports, bombers, and gliders.
The smaller craft will be sold on
bid, and many of the larger ships
through negotiations or at a ceiling
price yet TO be established. Although
many of the larger ships are air.
worthy. many are damaged to vary
ing degrees. Some can be repaired
The RFC has 5l29 army and navy
planes which it intends to sell as
soon as possible Their original
cost was $50, 1897. The agency
has already disposed of 2843 planes
for the defense plant corporation,
an RFC subsidiary. Their value
when new was $7,850,749. They
brought in $4,886,295.
The RFC has an additional 2l39
of its subsidiary's planes to sell,
They are mostly Piper Cubs and
Taylor-CraftS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Allies bomburd
SumQtru Port

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADOUAR-
TIERS, HANDY, Ceylcn, July 81.
tUP)-An Allied eastern fleet task
force shelled and bombed the Japa-
nese base at Sabang off northwest
Sumatra on Tuesday, destroying
harbor installations, silencing shore
batteries, sinking one medium mer-
chant ship and wrecking two Jet
ties, special communique revealed
Thursday.
Moving in at sunrise, the tar K
force achieved complete surpri' g
and fer 35 minutes subjected the
strategically important enemy base
to an intense naval gun and aerial
bombardment. Battl ships, carriers
cruisers and destroyers participa ed
Three deStrovers and a Neither
lands cruiser daringly entered the
harbor to engage the targets at
close range. They sienced the
shore batteries and sank the mer-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
McNuir Killed
In Norm v

WASHINGTON, July q. CUP)--
Lieutenant General Lesley j. Nc
Nair was killed by enemy fire IN
action in Normandy, the war de-
partment announced Thursday.
McNair only recently relinquished
command of all army ground forces,
with headquarters in Washington,
to take an overseas assignment. He
was observing action in the front
lines during a recent offensive when
hit by enemy fire.
General McNair was in charge of
the tremendous ground forces train
ing program involved in expanding
the army from 100000 to the pres
ent strength OF 100000.
The notable success of American
combat troops going into action for
the first time against battle-hard-
ened enemy troops was accredited
in considerable degree to the eff
fectiveness of this training pro-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

gram.
General McNair was born in
Vernedale, Mimi. on May 25. 1883
He was graduated from West Point
in 1904
THE chief of staff, General
George c. Marshall, when informed
Of General McNair's death, stated:
THE American army has sustained
a great loss in the death of General
McNair. Had he had the choice, he
probably would have elected to die
as he cid in the forefront of the
a'tack. His presence on the firing
line with the leading element in the
great assault which has just been
launched on the American front in
Normandy was indicative of his ag-
glessive and fearless spirit and
should be an inspiring example to
the forces of our great ground
army which he organized and
trained"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

LONDON, July 27.-(UP)-RuS-
sian tanks and shock troops ripped
up the northern flank of the Ger
man defenses before Warsaw and
laid open the invasion road to East
Prussia in a single blow Thursday
with the capture of the ancient
Polish fortress of Bialystok.
Soviet Premier Josef Stain an
nounced in a triumphant orcer of
the day that armored formations of
Colonel General Georgi Zakharov'S
End White Russian Army hammered
their way through the streets of
BialyStok and completed the occu-
patton Of the city after two days
of savage fighting
TWIN THREAT
Covering the highway and rail-
road lines running southwark to
Warsaw and the roads to East
Prussia, only so miles to the North,
Eialystok's fall poised a twin
threat to the German armies try
ing desperately to hold the Polish
capital and prevent a break
through into their fatherland soil
TO the month.
Stain hailed the city's fall as a
first-rate military triumph and or
dered Moscow's 224 victory guns to
fire a 20-Salvo salute to Zakflarov' S
troops.
Radio Berlin acknowledged the
1bcc of tho rNnWarf,l1 nj lar
tie more than an hour earlier, adj
hitting that the Nazi defenders had
been forced to abandon the city and
fall back several kilometers."
The Nazis said heavy fighting
ragged in that area throughout the
night, and flared up intensely again
Thursday, Indicating that after
topping the key base the Red Army
had struck out in a full scale OF :
fensive toward East Prussia and
the northern route to Berlin.
ONLY 80 MILES AWAY
The most advanced elements of
the Red Army already were within
less than 80 miles of East Prussia
IN the area of LipSki, 35 miles
above Bialystok, anG a Soviet battle
arc was closing against the frontier.
Other Soviet assault forces in
Lower Poland were reported by the
Nazis ito have stormed the defenses
of Przemysl, So miles west of Lwow
Infringing the southern wing of the
German Armies which were being
battered back against the cistula
and across the approaches to War
saw.
The British radio quoted Moscow
reports that the Russians had
stormed across the cistula southeast
OF Warsaw, and were racing across
the Polish plains in a swiftly
developing drive.
: Berlin also admitted that mount
ing Soviet pressure had forced the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Chow Time Saves
Blasting Crew

CAMP PARKS, SHOEMAKER,
Cal, July 27.-CUP)-Tim out for
Chow" saved Charles H. Cowling
gunner's mate first class, San Diego,
CAL, and six mates of the 38th
Seabee battalion from being crushed
to death under hundreds of tons of
rock, it was revealed Thursday.
CCwling and his crew were power
drilling holes in a 60-foot volcanic
cliff in pouring rain one night
when they stopped to eat. On their
return they were unable to find
their drills an6 discovered the next
morning that the entire face of
the cliff had buckled, burying the
equipment under 500 tons of VOL
canic rock.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Hearing Holds
-Four 10 Trial

On August 4, in Imperial county
superior court in Ell Centre, four
Westmorland men will be arraigneG
ON charge of resisting an officer
in the north end city.
At the conclusion of prelimi-
nary hearing in Ell Centre Wednes-
day. Judge John E. Simpson or
dered Archie 10y (Bud) Kissee, ga;
Leo Kissee, 80; John Everett Guess,
"a, and Cecil Edward Swearingen,
%, to trial in superior court on a
charge of resisting when Chief of
Police Oliver Quick of Westmorland
attempted to arrest the two Kissee
men during fight in Westmor-
land cafe last week.
All four defendants are at lib
erty on $4,000 bail each.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Valley Farmers
Declare Full
War on Ducks

Farmers of Imperial Valley are
going straight to Washington to
get crop insurance against duck
damage and an order for Sports-
men to pay for it.
This decision was reached at a
meeting in BraWley Wednesday
when SO farmers aired their griev-
anceS against the ducks, the way
they are protected by the govern
ment, and the half million crop
loss the ducks caused valley farmers
last year.
At the same session in Veterans
Memorial hall in Brawley the farm
ers delved into the future as far as
the importation of farm labor goes
and checked over their labor needs
for the coming season.
OF LITTL.1 i.ELP
After listening to William Page
of the state agricultural adjustment
committee discuss the proposed fed
eral Fulmer bill providing crop in
surance for wheat, cotton and flax
and other crops, the group in Braw-
ley decided it would do little to help
Imperial Valley farmers as now
drawn up and appointed commit
tee to study it, apply it to valley
needs, and draw up proposed
amendments. The farm bureau duck
damage committee will meet with
the war be ard next Monday to go
into the matter
1t was decided to ask that duck
hunters license fees be increased
Continued en- Page 8. Col. A.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
.MexiCans Await
Entry into u. 5.
As Farm Helpers

'Seventy-five Mexican farm Ia
borers," says G. w. Garrigues, farm
labor heao in FL Centre, will ar
rive in Imperial County from Mex
leo by August % according to the
latest word received from the agri-
cultural extension service"
GarrigueS points out that while
there is no farm labor shortage,
Imperial Valley could use two to
three hundred farmhands.
The first contingent will leave
Mexico August 6. They have been
allotted to help in the food har-
vest in other parts of the State.
Garrigues declares, there will be
no labor shortage during the fall
harvest since Mexico has promised
us 1850 men and will let us have
more if we need them"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

Thursdays attack on Belgian
targets crew no opposition IRON
the Luftwaffe, which offered but
feeble resistance to RAF squadrons
which raided Hamburg and other
points on the continent last night.
The bombers, more than 200
strong, were covered by strong
fighter escort, but they failed to
meet any German fighter oppoSi-
tion, so the American fighters dived
Gown to tree-top level to strafe
road and railway targets,
Meanwhile, headquarters of the
u. S. 18th Air Force revealed that
a formation OF Mustang and Light
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

LONDON, July 27.-(UP)
Eighth Air Force Liberia
tor bombers attacked Ger
man military installations in the
Brussels and Client areas of Bel
GUM Thursday, while the official
German DNB news agency report
ed that American bomber forma-
t!Ons based in Italy carried out
"terror attack" this morning ON
Budapest, capital of Hungary.
The German agency said Hun
garian interceptor planes shot down
a number of the attackers There
was no immediate allied confirma-
ton CT raid GA budapest.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Eight Yank Filters
Down Nine Nazis

NINTH AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, England, July 81
(UP)-Eight Mustangs of the
Ninth Air Force, led by Capt. Wal
lace N. Emmer of st. Louis. Mo,
attacked 35 German ME-l09'S over
France Wednesday. knocking down
nine planes without loss to them
selves, it was announced Thursday.
The Mustangs were on a patrol
mission when they saw the enemy
fighters south of st. Lo. Fmmer or
dered an immediate attack. In the
ensuing battle. he shot Gown two
Nazis and shared one with First
Lieutenant Carl M Bickel of Ell
Monte. Cal, who scored another
kill in addition.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27

Hull Brands Argentina
AS Traitor to Allies

United Nations"
He further charged that at the
very time the Farrell regime was
protesting its intention to cCllabo-
rate with the United Nations,
contrary policy was being pursued.
The State Department is in posses
sion of irrefutable evidence of the
following acts by the Argentine
governments:
/. In mid-June Argentine authOri-
ties required firms friendly to the
United Nations to receive bids as
subccntractors from Nazi firms on
contracts calling for materials i'm
ported from the United Nations.
2. For three months large govern
ment contracts for public works
have been given to firms that were
either of enemy origin or actively
cooperating with the enemy,
3. On July q, the ministry of fl
nance placed display advertising in
four Axis newspapers and the June
issue of the scurrilous 'Clarina-
da'" contained a full-page adver-
tisement by the ministry of interior.
4. During the last two weeks
newsprint imported under grant CT
Allied navicerts has been supplied
with the aid of the government to
four Axis newspapers which day
after day have been viciously at
lacking the United Nations while
enthusiastically supporting the Axis
cause"
5. For the last three years the
government has been aiding Axis
firms so that they have been able
to double, in some cases treble
their normal peacetime profits.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Botu|isnl Food
Poison Fatal

LOS ANGELES, July 81. CUP) =
A midnight smack" of home-canned
picked pigs feet Thursday was
blamed for the deaths of Louis Pay
ran, 40, steel construction worker,
and his wife, Maud, who succumb-
ed to the dreaded botulism food
poisoning.
Payran died at General hospital
where he was taken after Mrs. Pay
ran suddenly became ill and died
at their home.
In the back yard of the Payran's
home investigators found II chick
ems dead and some picked owe
pigs feet bones.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
Allied Planes Hit Blows
At Brussels and Client

ming fighters had returned to their
bases in Italy after a dramatic,
three-day shuttle flight curing
which they supported Russian
ground troops in Poland and shot
up enemy targets in the Bucharest
and Ploesti areas of Romania.
The shuttle fighters shot down
at least "a German planes in the
three day operation, 80 of them
over Poland and 35 over Romania,
and destroyed at least nine others
on the ground at the Melee air.
drome in central Poland.
TWO fighters were lost in the en-
tire operation.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-27
va n ks
Pa SIS
St. 10
Breaches
In Nazi Line;
Seven-Mile Gain
UPREME HEADQUARTERS,

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
AEF, July q. tUP) The German
defense line i'm Normandy crack d
wide open Thursday and an
American armOred column raced
,sOuthwestward toward the sea in
a fast-breaking bid to shear off
the Nazi left wing and trap the
en- sny's saith army corps of seven
badly mauled divisions.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF,
july -CUP)-American armored
columns raced forward up to seven
miles Thursday in their Normandy
break through crive, tanning out
en- a broad arc which overran the
read functions of Canisy and LIE
MeSnil Herman and reached points
nine miles from Coutances and six
south of st. Lo.
Field dispatches reported the cap
ture of fire-ravagec Canisy, three
miles southeast of Marigny, and
said Lieutenant General Omar N.
Dradley's tanks had Spurted another
five miles in the same direction to
seize lie Mesnil Herman on the ST.
Lo-Percy highway and reach st.
Samson de Bon FoSse.
GERMANS GROGGY
The advances through groggy
German cefenSeS expanded the
breakthrough by American armor
to a depth of nearly II miles in
less than three days of fighting
They also made possible thanking
pushes ito the east and west which,
if successful, would collapse the
whole southern rim of the German
arc around the Normandy beach,
head.
The main spearheats of the break
through forces were swinging south
Continued on Pg. =, Col. II