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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
panzer Forces Badly Battered
From Belgium on to Rhine
u. S. Armored Forces Gain Marked
Victory in Area Of St. With;
Pat+cn Hits Enemy in Luxembourg

PARIS, Dec. 23 (UP)-Clouds of Allied fighter-bomb
bOmbers and fighters swarmed into the battle OF Bel
gum Saturday in perfect weather. batterng Naz Panzer
forces from the Ourhe to the Rhine and American amored
forces scored important defensive victory in great
tank battle nine miles west of st. With
1t the moment which the Allied command had been
waiting fohe first break in the weather since the Nazi
offensive launched just week ago-and thousands
of American and British planes of every type, including
great task force of Flying Forresses and Lberators,
joined the battle
Early and far from complete reports said sc German
planes destroyed 81 by the Eighth air force attacking
from Britain and 20 by the Ninth air force
Patton Sl0ings Against Southern Flank
The air blow fell upon Field Marshal Karl Won Rund-
stedts columns Lieutenant General George S. Pattons
Third army reported sashng into the southern flank
Of the through where it indicated the Germans
have succeeded in capturing Luxembourg city, capital OF
the prncipality. >sef
Supreme Allied headquarters characterized the Ameri
tank victory of ST. With the first and very
important defensive victory
Yonks Defeat Junction of Spedrheads
The battle ragged between ST. With and Vielsalm which
is nine miles due west the wandering river Sam Here
SHAEF revealed, two of the German main spearheads
attempted link up, but American armored forces rush
ing into BATTLE prevented the juncture.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Death Summons
Famed Artist

NEW YORK, Dec. %. UP-
Charles Dana Gibson, n, artist and
creator of the famous Gibson girl
of the gay 90s, oied OF heart disease
Saturday in his home here.
DR.. Alvin r. Harnes, his physi-
clan, said the artist had left his
home only twice since mid-Septem-
Der following a previous heart at
tack at his summer home in Dark
Harbor, Maine.
His wife, Mrs. Irene Langhorne
Gibson, a sister of Lady Astor, was
at his bedside Saturday morning,
DR.. HarneS said.
A son, Commander Langhorne
Gibson, of Greenwood, Virginia, and
a daughter, Mrs. John j. Emery, of
Montgomery. Ohio, and IL grand
children survive.
Private funeral services will be
held from the Gibson home Tues
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

Reports from the first 100 Ninth
air force sorties-and the figure
was expected to top 1000 before the
day was over-said that IL tanks
and 18 German planes had teen
destroyed. The planes were chot
Gown in two dogfights over the
Trier and Coblenz areas.
American divebombers were crash
ing loads of high explosives en-
Nazi ranzer columns and 1t was
anticipated before the day was over
they would roll up one of the big
gest tank slaughters of the war in
the west.
FIVE u. S. PLANES LOST
Five American planes had been
reported lost at this point.
American military spokesmen re-
fused to confirm or deny rerorts
that Patton had wheeled Third ar
my forces northward to drive into
the southern flank of the Nazi
salient.
However, a SHAEF spokesman
said Patton had yielded Ems, orr
southeast of Saarlautern while
continuing to hold the Dillingen
and Saarlautern bridgeheads across
the Saar. German reports had caid
these bridgeheds were yielded in
the course of Pattons deployment
of his forces northward.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

free hand" committee members
said.
The committee instructed him to
complete the experiment as he saw
fit and assured him that the COM
mittee will not interfere with it in
any way
HAS anyone any other ideas
about controlling these ducks?" W.
r. Bailey acked.
WHY doesn't someone keep them
from breeding SO we won't be both
cred with them2" L. E. Sinclair,
committee chairman, asked.
Frank Richmond, incessant duck
hunter by his own admission, told
the group that he didn't mind the
airplane herding so long as the
pilots left the private duck club
ponds alone. He also declared during
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.
(UP)-War Mobilization Di-
rector James F. Byrnes took
steps Saturday to close all
horse race tracks by January
8 to save labor and critical
materials.
In an announcement issued
at the White House, Byrnes
said he had asked the war man.
power commission to withdraw labor
ceilings under which race tracks
employ labor necessary for their
operation.
He also asked War Production
Board Chairman j. A. Krug and
Defense Transportation Director j.
Monroe johnson to undertake to
prevent the use of critical mater
ials, services, and transportation in
the operation of these tracks If
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
BY UNITED PRESS

Evidence of numerous German
atrocities during the present often
sive, including the deliberate massa-
ere of unarmed American captives,
has been uncovered on the U. S..
First Army front, according to a
CHS frcnt dispatch.
Some of the evidence came from
captured German films, more from
a handful of doughboys who were
the only survivors of group of
several hundred prisoners slaugh-
tered by Nazi SIS elite guards.
1.-The Germans are stepping at
nothing to win success in their last
desperate Offensive" CHS War Cor
respondent Richard G. Hottelet re-
ported in dispatch filed from the
First Army front Friday night.
GERMAN BRUTALITY
Hottelet cited widespread in
stances of German brutality in the
present. fighting, quoting Nazi pris-
oners as admitting that at least
one general commanding an SIS pam
ger division told his men that he
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Greek Leftists
Corner ArmV

ATHENS, Dec. 90. (UP)-Rightist
EDES forces in northwest Greece
urgently appealed to the British
command for help Saturday against
an ELIAS army of $4,000 to 10000
that has penetrated Is miles into
EDES' territory, capturing two
towns.
The development came as Lieu
tenant General Ronald Scobie, ccm-
mander of British troops in Greece,
was studying the reply of EAM,
governing body of the ELIAS, to the
formula he laid down last week for
settlement of the Greek civil war.
The reply was said to be ccnciliatory
and some hope was held for quick
truce.
British observers in northwest
Greece reported the EDES forces,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Shortage Cited
Of 100000
Guard Property

SACRAMENTO, Dec. %. UP)-
Assistant State Attorney General
Jess Hession Saturday disclosed that
an apparent shortage of 100000
worth of state guard equipment is
under investigation after it was
disclosed by finance department
audit.
Hession said the discrepancy, cis-
covered in a routine check of state
guard records, may have occurred
by error or design" Victor R. Han
sen, who took office Friday as ad-
jutant-general, is unc ertaking an
immediate state wide inventory to
determine exactly what equipment
is involved and if it actually is
missing, HeSsion said.
30 DAYS CHECK
The inventory he added, is eX-
pected to be completed in about 80
days. The check is complicated by
the fact that most state guard
equipment is loaned by the federal
government, HeSsion said.
Some of the shortages may have
occurred because individual guarcs-
men leaving the guard retained
equipment issued them.
In such cases an attempt is made
to withhold pay of the man, but
that IS not always possible, Hession
said. The feceral government is
reimbursed for such shortages.
SOLD AS SURPLUS
At the same time, equipment
which is declared missing and paid
for sometimes turns up later, he
said, and is sold as surplus proper
ty" by calling for bics. Shortages
may have occurred through irregu-
lar sales of such surplus property,
he said.
However, HeSSion emphasized that
there is no evidence so far of any
illegal act by anyone connected
with the guard.
Hansen, who was not available
here, replaced Ray w. Hays, who
retired several weeks ago to re-
enter law practice in Fresno.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

numbering some 10000. we're fall
ing back under the ELIAS attack
into mountains which they had
honeycombed with caves, tunnels
and defensive positions during the
German occupation.
General Napoleon zervas, the
EDES commander. sent the urgent
appeal to the British command for
assistance from British air and land
forces, but no decision has been
made on his request as yet.
The attack was carrying across
territory which the EDES and the
ELIAS, as result of mediation by the
British. agreed last summer should
remain under EDES control pending
the complete liberation Of Greece
and the establishment of stable
government.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Soldier Killed
In Bus Wreck

SALINAS, Cal, Dec. %. up
One colder was killed and AZ other
persons were injured, five possibly
fatally, when a Greyhound bus
plunged over a 55-foot embankment
near Fcrt Ord Friday night. ac-
cording to the California highway
patrol.
All of the injured are soldiers. ex-
cept two civilians and the driver.
The bus was EN- route from the fort,
going downhili. when 1t left the rosd
to light on its top SIS feet below on
another road and roll over ON It's
wheels.
Names OF the injured. who were
taken TO the Fort Ord hospital. were
withheld pending Identification. Tho
driver. Asher Montgomery. "a. San
Francisco. was injured seriously. The
patrol said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Bvrnes Acts to Close Up
AuHorse Race Tracks

fort the people can give to support
the armed forces and the produc-
tion of needed war materials, Byrnes
said operation of race tracks 'is not
conducive to this all-out effort"
Therefore, with the approval of
the President" Byrnes said. II urge
that the management of these
tracks take immediate measures to
bring present race meetings to a
close by January 3, 1945, and to
refrain from resuming racing at
all tracks until war conditions per-
nit"
CHICAGO, Dec. %. CUP)-Maj.
Ednyfed Williams, president of the
National Racing association, said
Saturday he is confident that all
race tracks in the nation will fully
comply" with the request of War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes for closing CT race tracks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Duck Herdinq'
To Cont

Proceed with the noble expert
ment," was the order issued Friday
night by the county wildlife depre-
dations committee to E. E. Horn -
the federal wildlife service who is
in charge of an airplane herding
and duck control program in Impe-
rial county.
At meeting in Ell Centro Friday
night the members of the committee
commended Horn on the progress of
the experiment and instructed him
to go on with his program so that
it will be possible to determine
whether or not it Is success in
protecting farmers crops from the
Unsuitable appetites of the hundreds
of thousands of ducks of all kinds
who make Imperial Valley port of
call. "The government sent you here
to do a job and we will give you a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

have been reported in action over
Japan or Japanese dominated east
ern Asia in their intensified Of
fensive against the enemys war
making potential.
BOMBS AZ DAWN
Tokyo said a single B-29 from
the Marianas penetrated ''deep"
into the Tokyo area in the dawn
raid and filed" after dropping its
bomb load.
Another B-29, presumably from
a base in China, made a recon-
naissance flight over the former
British Crown colony and naval base
of Hcngkong about 80 p. m. EAST
China time) Frio1y, the Japanese
Domei agency sale.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Phil
ippines, Dec. %. UP)-The 77th
division drove across the northwest
corner of Leyte Saturday to within
nearly 10 miles of Palompon, last
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

such steps prove necessary"
Byrnes said he was confident.
however, that race track manage
ments could be depended upon ito
take prompt action without the nee
essity of recourse to other meas
ureS."
Byrnes said his intention is to
prevent resumption of racing at all
tracks until war conditions per-
nit"
1.-The operation of race tracks"
Byrnes said, mot only requires the
employment of manpower nee6ed
for more essential operation, but
also manpower, railroad transporta-
ton as we'll as tires and gasolines
in the movement of patrons to and
from the track, and in the move
nlent of the horses and their at
tendants."
Asserting that the current war
situation demands the utmost ef-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
Strike PicketS DESTROY
Goods at Ward Store

attempt to force company compli-
ance with a War Labor Board direc-
tive made in 1912. Approximately
l5CC members of United Retail
wholesale & Department Store EN-.
ployes (CIO) supported by CIO To-
Gals, have been on strike fourteen
days but the company had left the
coors to the stores open for the
small percentage of customers who
entered for holiday shopping.
Picketing at the stores has been
peaceful except for a minor dis
turbance a week ago at the Royal
Oak store.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
War Department
Would Train
Youth for Battle

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. CUP)-
The war department, in contrast to
President Roosevelt's emphasis on
educational and social aspects. told
army officers Saturday that it fa-
vors universal training for purely
military purposes.
The department declared its pol
icy in circular addressed to Off
GERS. 1t indorsed universal military
training for the ''one and only rea-
son that without such program
the continued security of our ma
tional life and institutions can no
longer be assured"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

been summoned to the store, the
spokesman said, but meanwhile,
unionists were reported tearing up
ready-to-wear merchandise an d
breaking fragile sale pieces.
There are about 100 pickets in
the store" Edward Borden, Royal
Cak manager, said. "They are
storming the counters and tearing
things up in general"
The union had threatened to
close the stores by Saturday in an
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

DETROIT, Dec. %. (UP)
Company spokesmen at the
Royal Oak store of Mont
gomery Ward & Co., one of
four of the firms stores on
strike here, reported Satur-
day that pickets had entered
the store and "are tearing up
things in general"
State and Royal Oak police have
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

Japanese-held escape port on the
island, and American artillery al
ready was bombarding the town.
The advance carried four miles
CT more west OF the Ormoc corridor,
where another 1916 enemy dead
we're counted in mopping-up oper-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

SHAEF characterized the wealth
er over the break-through area as
absolutely perfect" The sun shone
brilliantly and in blue skies the
dominant Allied air power was
thrown into battle for the first
time since the Naz attack was
launched.
The attack was started by Raj
heavy bomber formations Friday
night attacking Rhineland trans
port centers and communications.
In early morning a great formation
of Flying Fortresses, diverted from
their orc mary strategic bombing to
tactical duties, roared over the con-
fused battle lines.
Some 400 American heavies, with
an escort of TOO Thunderbolts and
Mustangs, smashed at rail and road
targets just forward of the Amer
ican lines in Belgium and at the
jam-packed railyards at Ehrang,
near Trier and at Kaiserlautern,
west of Mannheim.
The Ninth air force and the 10Th
and Goth tactical air commands
were out in full strength.
This is just the weather we
have been waiting and praying for, "
pilots said.
The Germans were out in force,
too, and big oogfightS ragged over
the battle areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
71s -' sd
p AMBlINe
IMPORTER

This Is A Happy One
Reunion In The Islands," would
be a good name for what happened
when Stall Sergeant Boden Rock
we'll and his brother -in-laW, Serg-
cant ROLAND Ostrander, met on an
island in the Pacific area this
Christmas season. They had never
met before and OStrander dicnt
know Rockwell was headed that
way.
This Is Ostrander's fourth Christ
mas away from home so Rockwell
was a wonderful Christmas present
for him.
Christmas Spirit
Don't worry about tine family
which had the Christmas presents
stolen.
They have been we'll taken care
Of since burglars took doll ano
G. box of candy from their Christ
mas tree while they were away. The
father, a discharged veteran just
out of the hospital, is deeply CRATE
full as are all the members of the
family.
But the ones who are the hap
piest are those who came to the
rescue.
Thank you, Public, once again.
Might Be
While Charlie Halliday and his
wife were on business trip north
recently Charlie was nonplussed
to discover that he had lost his
trousers.
That is, an extra pair. He believ-
ed he had left them hanging in a
closet in a hotel in Selma.
Lets go home another way"
Mrs. Halliday suggested. Charlie
objected. He had to go back to
Selma to get his missing trousers.
Arrived in Selma, Charlie had quite
q time with the hotel people. They
Continued on Page 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
b-2qs Hit Tokyo
In Dawn Raid:
Visit Hon9kon9
Super Drops Load Far Inside Mp
Ca pi+aI in Sixth Day Bombing;
Levte Japs Face Last Route Loss

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90 (UP)-Japanese broadcasts
said B29 Superforress dropped fire and demolition
bombs Tokyo in dawn nuisance raid Saturday and
another roared Hogkong biggest naval base on the
China coast reconnaissance for possible impending at
tacks 1t the sixth straight day that Superfortresses
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24
WEATHER

Maximum Friday IS, minimum Saturday 48; am.
Saturday SIS, humidity SO; noon Saturday 65, hu-
midty Sc; pm. Friday So, humidity 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-24

L. A. HAY-No. 1 barley hay SS6 a $29; No. oat
hay, S36 a S37; U. s. No. l alfalfa ungraded, $29
q S31; U. S. No. 2 alfalfa, green & leafy, $27
a $29; No. 2 S24 a S25.
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Roosevelt
CONTINUED from Page II

NCVn0hoC1 ihUh eAN ~
OF the voters undecided a the time
of the polling OF their communi-
ties.
The reasons given in all of the
areas polled ran along the same
line with. most emphasis being
placed upon the record OF President
Roosevelt with regard to Negro
citizens and the conviction that the
gains OF the last II years were
greater than in any other similar
period Of time. Many voters were
inclined TO think that Roosevelt
had done more for Negroes than
any other President since Lincoln.
Well Liked
Many others based their choice
upon the fact that they liked the
man for what he had done for the
masses and minorities despite oppo-
sition from the outside and within
his party.
As election time comes nearer
and the President has given answer
10 many OF the charges made
against him by the opposing party,
slight increase has been noted in
those who favored Roosevelt and
gradual falling of OF those who
were undecided as 10 how they
would cast their ballots For ex-
ample. IS per cent and II per cent
Of voters in Inkster and Ecorse-
River Rouge declared themselves
for Roosevelt this week while 81
per cent OF the voters on the West
side were for Roosevelt last week
and 90 per cent Of the voters cas-,
Of Woodward and north Of the
boulevard were for Roosevelt week
before last.
Undecided Have Decreased
Conversely the number OF those
undecided has steadily decreased
since the first OF the polls, four
weeks ago. Although rs per cent oil
the Negro voters south Of the
Boulevard and east Of Woodward
indicated that their choice for tho
next President was Franklin
Roosevelt II DER cent Of these
voters were undecided. The follow
ing week. in the north Of the Boule
ward. only 10 per cent Of the voter!
were still in doubt. The only ex
ception in this downward trenc
was found on the West side las
week when IL per cent Of the
voters had still been unable to
make UP their minds. This week
only q per cent OF the voters still
had any doubts as to how they
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COKD 1Ue trust?
HOW CAN WE TRUST

Aue NAV man Wuo olbCuCQ Iu8 SJAt8
Committee on Discrimination In Employment.
stalled its bills - kissed it to death by asking
for another committee" another investixs-
ton!
-. the little man whose hometown Of owosso,
Michigan. hasn't q single Negro In its 10000
population - because for many years IL has
barred Negroes?
the little man who II supported by tho
Kuxers, Silvershirters. Gerald X. Smith, Col
onsl Mccormick, and every. Fascistfronf
group!
the little man who chiselled down 10 one.
hfth State money for slum clearance - whose
team-mate Bricker calls public housing =
social and political menace" - and who has
slashed mercilessly appropriations for schools.
nurseries, child care!
the little man who put stumbling blocks
in the way of the soldier vote and who dueked
doing anything to help the antipon tax bill
through!
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04

m ysu stay home from the pens,
yeu stay home frem the futnre.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-04
NEGRO VETERAN.
IS IGNORED IN.
HOUSING PLANS

Charles Edgecomb. chairman of
the Detroit Housing Commission,
told the Michigan Chronicle this
week that no special plans are be-
ing made TO take care Of the hous-
ing Of Negro veterans.
"All we are doing" Edgecomb
said. lis to make it possible for
the men to register at a special
table in the War Housing office
on Fort street" Edgecomb said
further that the managers OF the
housing projects had been in
structed 10 give preferences TO vet
Grams where vacancies occur.
No Designations Yet
In answer 10 an inquiry as 10
whether any new houses for vet
Grams would be built. Edgecomb
said. 1--WE are going to build houses,
period" but am not saying how
many. for whom. or where"
George Schermer. area repre-
sentative Of the FPHA said. "Nstur-
ally our office is interested in this
problem OF housing for veterans
but we don't know just now what
we are going TO do about IT,"
Schermer explained that the acts
which created the FPHA do not
allow for or make any provisions
TO take care of housing for re-
turning veterans.
Local housing authorities an
nounced last week that they are
taking into consideration plans for
the housing Of war veterans.
The Detroit Housing Commission
said that il would provide special
agency TO give information and ad-
vice to veterans AT the War Hous-
ing center on Fort street
Turned Down Bv Vet Council
The Council ~ Veterans Affairs
had previously turned down an Of
Cor 70 set uo a similar service in the
Veterans Information Center. 81
Cadillac Square.
Veteran Aids
Veterans who wish information
from the Cadillac Square Center
NAV be referred 10 the Veterans
Administration in the Fox Theatre
building: the Department OF Guild
ance and Placement in the Ameri-
can Radiator building adjoining
the Board ~ Education on Broad
way: the Legal Aid Bureau in the
Community Fund Headquarters. 81
West Warren: the War Housing
Center; the Service Mems Bureau
in the Cadillac Square building:
and the Red Cross. which has an
office in the Information Center.
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Continued from Page II
from combat jobs in the navy and
limited all Negroes who remained
in the navy to the rank Of mess
men.
Jim Crowed Mothers
ut was President Hoover. Gov
ernor Dewey's godfather. who lin
crowed' Negro gold star mothers,
sending them TO visit their sons
graves in France on a cattle boat"
Governor Dewey's contention
that he had appointed more Ne
groes to key jobs was not left un-
touched by Ickes.
Ickes said that President Roose-
Welt during his first term alone,
appointed more Negroes to re-
sponsible governmental positions
than the last three Republican ad-
ministrations taken together"
within the last two years"
Ickes pointed out. Governor
Dewey has ordered three Negroes,
including a 16-year-old boy. to be
sent back to face trial in Alabama,
South Carolina and Georgia. For
tunately. in one OF these cases. the
case OF the l6-year-old Otis john
son. New York State Supreme
Court Judge Aaron ]. Levy. over
ruled Governor Dewey and re-
leased the boy. stating that he was
guilty. at worst. OF juvenile delin-
quency and could not be extra
dited on that charge"
Sponsored by the New York
State Democratic Committee. the
mammoth Roosevelt Rally heard
speeches by Vice President Wal
lace, DR.. Claiming H. Tobias.