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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
IABOR'S COURS--E MAY
WEIR VOTERS EITHER WAY

DEVELOPMENTS in the labor sltua-
ton can likewise throw a lot OF
votes either way in the next couple
of months. C. I. o. political actions
may well solidify the labor vote
behind the President and may also
cause a lot of defections. John l.
Lewis will probably be able to force
a pro-DeWey resolution through his
United Mine Workers convention
this fall, but whether he can de-
liver the u. M w. vote TO Dewey
is something else again.
Growth of war plant strikes and
labor unrest can drive lot OF votes
TO Dewey Who gets the anti-labor
vote is ust as important factor as
who gets the labor vote.
Even the weather can play an
important role. Continued drouth,
particularly in scme parts of the
middle west, can make a lot OF
Dewey votes.
Splits in the Democratic party
are still an unmeasured force.
The polls all show a Republican
trend, and political statisticians
say the trend is important-not the
individual poll result. Also, notice
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
BOTH RUNNING MATES
VULNERABLE

Beth vice presidential candidates
are likewise uncertain quantities
and while most people don't vote
for a vice president, this year more
than ever either vice presidential
candidate can spoil the chances OF
the head of the ticket.
Bricker is causing the Republic
ans plenty OF embarrassment by
having the America Firsters' label
unwillingly pinned on him. Tru-
mans record of past criticism OF
the Roosevelt administration and
Truman's past connections With
the Pendergast machine do the
President no good.
President Roosevelt is back from
the Pacific with every campaign
advantage in his favor. Democratic
publicity can try to build him up as
the perSonification of the conquer
ing hero, but even if this folloW-up
isn't permitted, the Roosevelt re-
port to the nation is a campaign
document of importance. Dewey S
handlers will find it hard 10 pull
out OF their mats any IFlcK IIldC Cdii
match or even touch 1t.
Progress of the war in the next
few months can work to the advan-
tage of either candidate, fer the
psychology of this is impossible TO
figure out. If the war is we'll won,
the Democratic dont-sWap-horses-
in-the e-middle-of-a-W argument
loses its punch. On the other hand
a successfully conducted war makes
heroes out CT the party that man
nnnd &c rnil1t1inp
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Unless we can guarantee the funda-
mentals of security to the American
working man, the American farmer and
the American business man. we are
doomed to a new depression-Sen James
Z. Murray Of Montana
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
THIEF ADVISES VICTIM

BOSTON. Aug. %. UP)-After
robbers lad taken Herbert SHELLS
wallet containing $50. one of them
tossed back the empty billfold, re-
marking, Leather is tough to get
these days. buddy, and if you keep
working hard you'll have something
else to put in it soon"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
Impartial COUNTY SOLDlEh
IS HELD PRISONER

Mrs. Leland Smith, Imperial
Tuesday received a telegram from
the war department advising her
that her husband, reported a week
ago as missing in action III Ger
many now is listed as a prisoner
of war. The information came 10
the war department through the
international Red Cross.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
FAMILIAR NAMES
lNeW York Times(


The first sight of France caught by
most Americans soldiers in the last war
was the rock headlandS Of the Breton
Peninsula rising green and welcome out
of the early morning miStS to the east.
AS the big, daZzle-camouflage transports
formed in column to ride the Slft-tloWlng
morning tide through the narrow opening
in the cliffs the inner bay opened TO their
view Climbing the hills on the port hand
were the red-roofed houses of Brest.
When the German submarines were too
thick off Brest the conveys moved on
south and put the troops ashore at St.
NaZaire.
The return to the headlines Of the
names of those two old French towns, as
another generation of American fighting
men test their mettle successfully against
a new generation of Germans with the
same old ideas. will stir many memories
under the craving thatches OF several
hundred thousand survivors of the first
AEF and the navy men who helped take
them to France.
The memories will not all be pleasant.
ANY AEF veteran will take an oath that
Brest had more rain and Stlckler mud
than any other place on earth (the 1917
Is GI Joe probably had never ever heard
Vi DQtlIldJ W, III COT >NlINi ~ -NttN.'Ai
had little to recommend them as leave
areas except quaintness. The wooden
Y.MCA building close by the seven
lowered castle that dominates the harbor
never was big enough to accommodate
the service men seeking entry But those
lucky enough to have entered Brest on
sunny morning never will forget the
beauty of the bay with the blue water,
white beaches, green hills and the gray
stone buildings of the town with their red
tiled roofs. st. NaZaire was only slightly
less beautiful, although not so spectacu-
lar, lacking the encircling hills that make
the picture frame for Brest.
From the purely military angle the
opening of the two great ports Of western
France to Allied shipping will greatly
simplify the reinforcement and supply
problem during the Battle for France.
1t will wipe out, also, two important Ger
man submarine bases. The concrete pens
of St. Nazaire were among the most elab-
crate the Germans have built anywhere.
Just as Brest and st. Nazaire were the
main ports of debarkation for the east
ward-moving AEF, they also were the
main ports of embarkatiOn for the long
voyage home after the war was over.
Many a man who was sick of war and
killing saw them fade away astern with
the fervent hope that neither he nor his
sons son, would have to see them again
rise out of the sea to the east as he stood
armed and in full pack on a military
transport.
1t was at Brest that President Wilson
was put ashore from the y. S. S. George
Washington to attempt to make the peace
and set up the international organization
that was to end war for all time. But in
the space Of only twenty-seven years the
wheel has come full turn. Soon the loaded
transports, now painted only somber
blue-gray, again may be standing in past
the Breton hills to anchorage in the bay
Of Brest or feeling their way through the
morning fog of the Loire estuary to dock
at St Nazaire. his time, let is be hoped,
really will be the last time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
Public Warning!
BEWARE or
PlN.vvORmS

Wartime living conditions may. be the
cause of spreading Pin-Worm Infection.
Scientific reports in many communities
have shown at least one-third OF the ex-
umined children and grown-ups to be VIC
Tins of -Worms-often without know
ing what was wrong
Watch out for the warning signs That
NAV mean Pin-Worms in your child or
YOURSELF the tormenting. embarrassing
rectal itch. the uneasy stomach. bed-wet-
ting, nervous fidgeting, finicky appetite.
New Discovery Hailed BY Doctors
After centuries of distress caused by Pin
Worms, a ne,o and highly effective 'odU TO
deal with this stubborn pest has recently
been discovered. This scientific discovery,
hailed by medical authorities, is remark
able drug (gentian violet 1t is the Nitai
element in P-W, the new Pin-Worm treat
rnent developed by the laboratories of Dr.
d. Jayne e. Son, America leading special
lists in worm medicines. P-W tablets are
small and easy to take, and they act In
IA special way to destroy the creatures.
So don't take chances with Pin-Worms.
At the first warning sign, ask your drug
gist for P-W, and follow the directions.
p-W means Pin-Worm relief
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOiiowing edit
0riais are presented as interesting 0pm-
ions UOiced by editors eiseThere 1hey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
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bly,
Peter Edison
Peter Edison

the undecided percentages.
Add all these things together and
you get an unsettled picture. The
election is still to be wen-or lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-22
MOTHS WANTED

WATERVILLE, Me, Aug. %. CUP)
Most people don't want them around
dead or alive-but Miss Ruth
Goodwin makes a hobby of collect
ing moths.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
President Emphasizes
Need Of Careful Plans
For Gl Education

The postwar education of service
men and women must be channeled
in lines in which they can find
jobs.
This objective was emphasized
yesterday by President Roosevelt
in a letter accepting the final re-
port of the Armed Forces Commit.
tee on Postwar Educational Op-
portunities for Service Personnel
headed by Maj. Gen. F. H. Osborn
The report pointed out that the
keen awareness of the disastrously
explosive character of an educa-
tional program bearing no rela-
tionship to the outlets for con-
structive use of the education pro-
vided" had led the British govern.
ment to create a committee to put
/ its veteran education program on 6
common-sense basis.
1t added that the American Coun-
Gil of Education has enlisted the aiC
of interested agencies for the same
purpose, and suggested the further
need for "a great cooperative en-.
deavor on the part of our educa.
tional institutions themselves, with
the financial assistance of the Fed
eral Government"
The report said recommendations
in an earlier report were being fol-
lower by the administrator of vet
erans' affairs in planning for the
veteran training made possible by
the "GI Bill of Rights"
Mr.. Roosevelt said hundreds of
thousands" of veterans will benefit
by this legislation and we owe
those men and women in the armed
services an opportunity to prepare
for and to find a Job for which they
are fitted in a field which offers
them reasonable assurance of WE'LL
being and continuous employment. "
Evening star., 1944-12-27

sion, said today some Of Mr.. Cor
coran's story will be revealed in the
committees final report. But they
haven't decided how much of it.
Mr.. Corcoran, one-time confiden-
tial adviser to President Roosevelt,
was called before an executive ses-
sion of the committee two weeks
ago. Reports had gone into COM
mittee hearings that White House
pressure had been used to bring
about the sale of the radio station
by Donald Flamm to Edward j.
Noble for $3.50, 900 in 1910.
After his day of secret testimony
Mr.. Corcoran told reporters he was
in Mexico when the radio station
Evening star., 1944-12-27
Corcoran WMCAS Story
To Be Revealed in Part

By the Associated Press.
Part of the story Thomas G. Cor
coran told House committee in
secret about his knowledge-if any
of the sale of Radio Station
WMCA in New York, is going tc
be made public.
Members of the committee, wind
ing up a long investigation of the
Federal Communications Commis.
Evening star., 1944-12-27

Grandma was great one for
rubbing" the miseries of chest
colds and many other simple pains
and aches of her family. The rub
she used was medicated in her own
way but she insisted that it contain
mutton suet. She liked the way
mutton suet disappeared as it
helped carry medication to nerve
ends in the skin to relieve pain.
Today science has modernized
Grandma's old-time pain relief
principle to bring you Penetro, the
salve with a base that contains old
fashioned mutton suet plus 5 ac-
tive ingredients. Now mothers ev-
erywhere are praising this newer
relief and thanking Grandma for
her idea that is switching habits of
long standing. During this sea-
son of colds, Penetro is SO helpful
in easing chest muscle tightness,
soothing chest rawness, loosening
Evening star., 1944-12-27

phlegm and relieving coughs.
Rubbed on chest, throat, back it
melts instantly, quickly vanishes
to act ways-(D To relieve pain
at rerve ends in skin. (2) To ease
chest muscle tightness by counter
irritation. 90 To soothe irritated
breath passages through inhaled
aromatic vapors.
Many households call Penetro a
real friend in so many other ways,
too-as it eases neuralgia and rheu-
matte pain, takes sting from
chapped lips and nostrils, acts as
soothing dressing for bruises, mi
nor cuts. No wonder mothers today
are praising Penetro and. druggists
everywhere are recommending it.
So clean, so white, so easy-to-use
and such ort-bringer for SO
many simple every day home needs.
Do as millions are doing-today
get your jar of economical Penetro,
Evening star., 1944-12-27
Half Frances Income
To Be Spent on War
By the Associated Presa.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 27.-France intends
to spend almost half of its l945 gov
ernmental income for the war
against the Germans and the Japa-
nese, members of the Consultative
Assembly said after a closed ses-
sion on national defense yesterday.
Assemblymen predicted that the
ls45 budget would total $50, 900, ,o00,- :
600 francs approximately $7,000,-
100000, including 10000, 900 900
francs ($3,360, ,000, ,000) for army,
navy and air force establishments
and gasoline and explosives.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
Eisenhower Warns Nuzis
On Horminq Aliens

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 27.-Gen. Eisen-
hover warned the Nazis today not
to harm foreign workers in Ger
many, declaring grave penalties
will fall on those who are guilty of
treating them badly"
Evening star., 1944-12-27

wtS so1n tnu uad no cornectIou Win
II. /"
The committees Anal report must
be filed before the new Congress
meets January 3.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
ADVERTISEMENT
Grandma Switches Millions of Mothers To
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Evening star., 1944-08-26
Of Por Drops Pose and Weeps Freely Cis Wild Acclaim

"The sight of the old fortifs-
Partisan abbreviation for the forti-
flcations which used to surround
old Paris before parts of the SUBJ
urbs were incorporated into the
metropolitan area-was sneaky
blow and I began smiling hope
lessly.
Masses of people ahead of us
were so Partisan in spirit and reac-
ton that the last remnants of my
composure melted away and tears
began rolling down my bearded
dirty face.
Il looked around and saw -four
correspondents with me crying, toe
(The correspondents with Capt
Bollas were Gordon Gammack OF
the Des Moines Register Tribune
Chuck Hacker, Acme photog-
rapher; John Groth, Parade artist
and Fred Graham of the New York
Times.)
Although / felt this was my show
I did not resent their crying a bit.
I wondered how they would have
reacted II they had been entering
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Briancon and Avignor
Seized by Americans
Near Italian Frontier
Coins by Poteh's Troops
Free Most Of Southern
France Eost of Rhone
By the Associated Press.

ROME, Aug. 26.- American
columns have occupied the
Alpine town of Briancon, near
the Italian frontier more than
100 miles north of the captured
seaport of Cannes, and other
7th Army forces have seized
Avignon, key communications
center in the delta of the Rhone
Valley, Allied headquarters an
nounced today.
The Germans reported fighting
near Montelimar nearly so miles
north of Avignon, but there was
no Allied confirmation
Reports from Southern France
indicated, however, that the situa-
ton was comparable with that in
Brittany when the Americans first
broke out of the Normandy beach
head.
Patriot and 7th Army forces ap-
peared to be roaming widely, seek
ing out disorganized enemy groups
who were fleeing through a narrow
gap between ANied forces in North
ern and Southern France.
The advance of 1t. Gen. Alexander
M. Patch's troops freed nearly all
of Southern France east of the
Rhone River and south of Avignon
and Briancon. At the eastern
coastal end of the invasion front
his forces were fighting less than
20 miles from the Italian frontier,
pushing forward on Nice from
Antilles, which fell yesterday.
Capture of Avignon, with a popu-
lation of $4,000, placed the Allies
firmly astride Rhone Valley COM
munication lines which are the last
feasible enemy escape route, and
extended the front in the west to a
depth of "a miles.
French Take Two Cities.
Just before Avignon fell to the
Americans, French troops reported
they had occupied Aries and Taras-
con, Rhone River cities below
Avignon.
Briancon is S miles from the
1talian-French border on the French
side and 70 miles from the junction
Of the French, Italian and Swiss
frontiers.
Meanwhile, in the embattled
naval base of Toulon the French
reported substantial progress. They
said the naval arsenal was taken
(See SOUTHERN FRANCE A-2J
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Iceland Expects U. 5.
To Re|inquish Bases
Al End Of War
Foreign Minister Regrets
Politicians Statements on
Peocetime Acquisition
picture on PAGE A-4.)
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

Expressing regret over recent
statements by leading politi-
clans" in the United States that
this country should acquire
peacetime military bases in Ice
land, Foreign Minister Wilhjal-
mar Thor today declared that
the Iceland Republic intended to
govern itself without any for
eign interference"
At joint press conference held at
Blair House, Mr.. Thor and Sveinn
Bjornson, President of Iceland, made
it plain. however, that they felt sure
that American troops would leave
Iceland at the end of the war in ac-
cordance with the agreement with
United States.
Mr.. Thor said he had not raised
the question of postwar military
bases with the State Department
because this Government had never
said that it wished to retain
them. Although he would not name
the politicians to whom he was re-
ferring, he apparently had in mind
recent speeches made in the Senate
by Senator McKellar, Democrat of
Tennessee and others.
I'VE are a nation of individualists
and We did not establish our republic
in order to become less independent.
We intend to own our country, all of
it and without any foreign inter-
ference.
Under an agreement between
Iceland and the United States, the
United States undertook the mill
tary protection of our country dur
ing this war.
I'VE are fully aware and appre-
ciate that this protection against
aggression has given us security.
II presume you are also aware
that the position given to United
States forces in our country under
this agreement has been very i'm
portant in shortening your tremen-
dous struggle to end this war"
Mr.. Thor said he regretted any
implication claiming the necessity
for the United States to acquire
peacetime military bases in Iceland
and added:
Il am glad that 1 can state here
that no such request has been pre-
sented to the Icelandic government
and I am of the firm belief that the
United States Government has no
military designs on foreign countries
and no wish for territorial expan-
sion"
Evening star., 1944-08-26

of them. All the time I was trying
to dry my tears and get hold OF
myself.
People would ask me why cried
In self-defense I would explain ]
was a Partisan and had not seen
the city in II years. Then the
shouts, exclamations, kisses, hand
shakes and questions would start all
over aagin-leaying me worse OF
than before.
"All the time I wanted to feel
happy and exuberant like the crowd
I was mad at myself. If the crowd
had been crying I would have felt
better. But they were singing the
"Marseillaise." hopping up and
down, waving arms, weapons, hand
bags.
I'm this incredible Hollywood set
ting we got to the Place Denfert
where the statue of Lion de Belfort
reminded me of the times used
to go to visit my aunt. wondered
If she was in the crowd with all my
cousins and relatives.
Here We heard the hrst shot
Evening star., 1944-08-26
BY HENRY B. JAMESON,

OUTSIDE PARIS, Aug. Is de-
layeO What is believed to be the
first American vehicle to enter Paris
today was driven by Capt. Sachal
Bollas, 36. of Los Angeles, who was
born in Paris and had not been
there since 1927.
A member of the United States
9th Air Force public relations staff
he was sent to France soon after
the invasion as an eScorting officer
and guide to assist war correspond
ents. In civilian life he was vice
president of the Birtcher Corp,
medical equipment manufacturers
of Los Angeles. He was drafted into
the Army in March. 1912. His wife
and baby live at Glendora, Calf.
Following is the dramatic story of
his entry into Paris amid tears and
cheers as he told 1t to me.
Il had promised myself I would
be perfectly composed when and II
I entered Paris, but I arrived cry.
ing like q baby.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Woman Found Slain
Near P| |anetarium
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2e-Thirty de-
tectives went from house to house
on New York's West Side today
seeking anyone who could identify
blond-well- addressed woman found
strangled yesterday in a clump of
bushes near the entrance to the
Hayden Planetarium on the grounds
of the American Museum of Natural
History.
Photographs of the woman. whose
death was listed as homicidal, were
shown to restaurant employees, room
ing house proprietors and bartenders
and her description was broadcast
on a nine-State police teletype sys-
tenn.
Police said the woman. about 36
was feet 2 and weighed 105 pounds
She wore light tan finger-length
coat over blue WOODEN dress. On
the little finger of the right hand
was a yellow metal ring set with
three white stones. She also wore a
bracelet studded with blue stones
A beaded handbag near the body
contained 81 cents and a key.
Evening star., 1944-08-26

fired. They seemed to come from
all directions. As we entered the
Boulevard du Montparnasse the fir
ing became havier. Our jeep cleared
in hurry and the crowd began
to scatter.
1--WE swung in between two tanks
for protection. They were firing at
the top windows of a row of six
story houses. AS I craned my neck
from side to side hoping to sight
a sniper before he saw me, all
could see were steel shutters closing
slowly as If by their own accord.
"One young fellow next to us
seemed to be enjoying himself. He
was shaking hands with us as he
lay on the ground, grinning from
ear to ear.
After IS minutes the firing STOP
ped. We climbed into tho jeer
again and reached the head of an
armored column by the Rue de
Sevres and near the Rue du Bac
The resistance boys were every.
where armed with every type OF
weapon and doing . magnificent
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Two Warsaw Areas
In Flames, Poles Say
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 26-The southern
and western working class sections
of Warsaw are in flames, with
fighting in progress in the midtown
section, a bulletin from the Union
of Polish Patriots reported today.
Blood flows in the streets of the
Polish capital" it added. "At times
1t appears the struggle has subsided
then it flares up again, its flames
enveloping whole sections of the
city.
LAS in September, 1899, the people
are in struggle for Warsaw"
The home army of the Polish ex-
lie government in London assumed
responsibility for choosing the mo-
ment to start the struggle" the Po-
ish Union declared, without pre-
viously coming to an understanding
with the Allies in co-ordinating ac-
tion.
The uprising which could only
result in unnecessary sacrifice of
Polish blood" the Union added. was
calculated to demonstrate the in
huence and numerical strength of
The home army at the moment
negotiations were being conducted
n Moscow which would decide the
'urther development of the political
utuation In Poland"
Evening star., 1944-08-26

their native city under the same
conditions.
Thousands upon thousands of
Parisians pressed in upon us, kissed
us. and deluged us with flowers,
thanks, and all the ingenuity of Par
isian gratefulness. We were appar-
emily the first Americans they had
seen enter Paris, and shouts of
VOLTA les Americans; bravo, bravo
merci" rang out again and again.
Meanwhile We were by-passing
French armor. popping in and out OF
rumbling tank columns. 1 was hav-
ing hell of time driving the jeep
through the crowds and barricades
and in and around vehicles.
within five blocks we had a jeep
full Of Partisan girls. don't know
how they got in or on but there were
four or five sitting on the boys laps
and four more huddled on the radi-
ator.
I'VE were smeared with lipstick
I have never been kissed by so many
pretty girls In one day, but cannot
remember the face Of . single one