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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Former Valley
Resident, in
Navy Is Killed

1t Robert McCaslin, O.g) son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde McCaslin,
former Imperial Valley residents,
was killed Friday.
Nothing beyond the bare state
ment that he had been killed was
received in Ell Centre by friends
of the family. The McCaslin FAM
lily now lives at 2022 Twenty-fourth
street, San Francisco, where they
moved two years ago.
1t. McCaSlin was a pilot and had
been instructing for the navy. Re-
Gently, however, it was understood
that he was scheduled to leave
the United States. 1t is not known
that he was killed inside the Unit
ed States but friends believed such
was the case
1t. McCaslin attended school in
Imperial Valley and was graduated
from Central Union High and jun
or college in Ell Centro.
He is survived by his parents;
a brother, John, who is in the mer-
chant marine; two sisters, Miss
Nancy Lee McCaslin, who is a
Marjorie Caslin, who is attending
yoeman's school III Oklahoma, and
Marjorie BcCaslin, who is attending
high school in San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Ancient Tunnels
Used by Nazis
To Hold Casino

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Ma
piles, March 25. (UP)-German re-
Inducements have entered Casino
through series of ancient tunnels,
it was disclosed Saturday, bolstering
Nazi forces that have re-captured
one-quarter of the ruined town.
Enemy troops now occupy a belt
several houses thick running from
the southern eXtremities of the
town all the way past highway 6
into northern Casino, to within
about $50 yards of a wall which
marked the most advanced point
which Allied Fifth army troops had
reached before the big air bonn
bardment of March Is, United Press
War Correspondent James E. Roper
reported in a front dispatch.
HEAVY FIGHTING
Heavy fighting continues in Cas-
sino where the general situation
remains unchanged the communi-
que said
Three tunnels dug under the
town in the 10th century-in con-
nection with searches for buried
treasure, according to local tales
enabled the Germans to move their
troops in from the strongpoint to
another, a headquarters spokesman
said In recent years the tunnels
had been used as wine cellars.
Roper reported that the Germans
still were holding a number of
Continued on page 6, COL g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Raj Hits Berlin
With 28O0
Tons of Terror

LONDON, March 25. (UP)-The
air ministry announced Saturday
that the Royal air force struck the
heaviest blow of the war at Berlin
Friday night, pounding the capital
with more than 1890 tons of bombs,
and also fought its fiercest battle
of the humiliation campaign
against Berlin.
THE Germans brought up every
gun, Searchlight and fighter they
could muster to defend Berlin" the
ministry said in a summary of the
record bombardment by the bulk
of more than 1000 British bombers
which also hit Kiel and other tar
gets.
Some observers, assaying the late
reports, believed the knockout Of
fensive against Berlin might have
reached the point of diminishing
returns for night saturation as
Saults, leaving the main task of
picking out surviving objects to
American daylight precision bomb
ers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Fl Centran Wins
High Army Award

The army's Good Conduct medal
was awarded to PFC. Wayne R..
Purdy, of 625 Ross avenue, Ell Gen.
tro, army officials revealed Satur-
day.
He is serving in the south Pacific.
The medal is awarded the men who
are exceptionally good Solciers.
Pfc. Purdy is having many ad-
ventures, army officials said. While
hunting wild boarS on one of the
countless islands in that region, he
became lost in the jungle. He walk
ed more than 20 miles through
morass and thick underground until
he became unconscious before he
was rescued and taken to a safe
place for treatment.
Formerly employed in construc-
ton work as civil employe by a
harvester company and U. S. en-
gineers at Pearl Hai0or, Pic. Purdy
is said to be laying plans to devote
his postwar career to reconstruct
ton work in Asia.
He was graduated from Central
Union High school in Ell Centro
and attended Central Junior COL
lege for year, starring in track,
before going to the Hawaiis. After
he entered the army, he attended
the army medical and first aid
schools. He is son of Bert Purdy
and Mrs. Hazel Puroy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Shipyard Crews
Work Overtime

LOS ANGELES, March 25. (UP)
-Seven-hundred shipyard workers
in four yards Saturday were being
put on 10-hour day, 6O-hour week,
ordered by the war manpower COM
mission to offset a proc uction de-
crease threatened by manpower
shortages.
Two 10-hour shifts instead of
the former three eight-hour periods
will go into effect at the Pico and
Long Beach Consolidated Steel
Corp, California Shipbuilding Corp,
and the Western Pipe and Steel Co.
Consolidated Steel's Wilmington
yard may also come under the new
program, VINO Area Director
Thomas C. Campbell indicated.
All workers at the Consolidated
yards will work the new hours. but
only machinists, sheetmetal work.
ers, electricians, and pipefitters are
affected at the other two yarcs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Russ Blast Ndzi is
I'm Triple Drive

: MOSCOW, Mar~25. CUP)
The official Izvestia pro-
claimed Saturday that "the
Germans have been pushed back
to the border where the war start
ed" by Russian armies massing in
the foothills of the Carpathians,
along the upper Dniester, and al
most within sight of the Prut river.
I'VE are fighting where we fought
in the summer of 1941," an Izvestia
dispatch reported from the south
ern front, where SynchroniZed
drives by three Red armies ap-
peared to have doomed all German
positions east of the Balkans.
THREE ARMIES ADVANCE
The first army of the Ukraine
was poised on the north bank of
the Dniester for a smash into Buco-
vina province of pre-War Rumania.
The second was slashing in toward
the Prut border of Rumania. The
third was rolling back the nose Of
the tottering German salient along
the Black sea.
Front dispatches said Marshal
Gregory X. Zhukov's first army had
caught the Germans off balance in
his wheeling drive 81 miles south
ward from the Tarropol-Proskurov
sector The Soviets raced southwark
with little difficulty scattering
German regiments, the biggest
units mentioned as opposing the
powerful Red army columns.
The advance was so swift that
the Russians captured two train
loads of intact tanks in the freight
yards at Gusyatin. Another Soviet
unit seized 300 German trucks, dis
patches said.
In Bessarabia, Marshal Ivan S.
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill's Ameri-
can forces and the Chinese 37th
division cut behind the enemy from
the east flank to catch an unde-
termined number of enemy troops
between Shanouzup and the main
Chinese force pressing down the
valley from Jambu Bum, the noun
tain dividing the Mogaung from
the Hukawng valley to the north,
a southeast Asia command COM
munique reported.
SLOW, STEADY PROGRESS
A front report from Stilwells
headquarters said the main Chi
nese force was making slow but
steady progress" into the valley,
while a British commando force
of Gurkas in the Fort Hertz Valley,
some go miles to the northeast, was
advancing Gown the road from
captured Sumprabum toward the
big japanese supply base at Myti-
kyina, 80 miles south.
On the central front, 9, the In
dian side of the Burma border, a
Japanese column south of the
Palel-Tamu road which is driving
toward Imphal, capital of India's
Manipur state, has made some
further progress to the north" the
communique acknowledged.
North of the road, which links
Imphal with the Kabaw valley of
Burma, another enemy force cap
tured British position with a
strong attack Thursday, but Brit
ish and Indian troops counterat-
tackled Friday to retake the point,
Adm. Lord Louis Mountbattens
headquarters announced.
ENEMY MAKES RAIDS
THE enemy also carried out two
raids at other points along the road
itself, but these had little effect
and the raiding parties have been
forced to withdraw" the commu-
nique said.
An observer with the British l4th
army reported from the front that
the Japanese were being punished
severely at every stage of their ad-
vance up the Kabaw valley and
across the upper Chindwin area.
The German DNB news agency
reported in Tokyo dispatch that
the fall of the town of Tamu, just
inside Burma, lis to be reckoned
with" The Nazi dispatch said the
japanese column in this area would
meet another spearhead moving up
the Manipur river 20 miles from
Imphal.
AS the enemy moved slowly along
the road which runs like a spine
up the low-lying, malaria infested
Kabaw valley, he was being hit from
every angle, front dispatches said.
Whenever he bumped into an allied
outpost or strongpoint, he received
a heavy blow.
We're giving him bloody nose,"
one commander said.
Northeast of Imphal, a small
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Red Cross Drive
Leaders Issue
Final Goal Call

AS the Red Cross drive goes into
its last week, CaleXico chapter has
oversubscribed its quota, Ell Centro
is within $1,000 of its goal, and
Brawley chapter still lags behind
being between $4,000 and $4,000 shcrt
of its quota.
Calexico subscribed $e00 It's
quota was $4100. Ell Centre chapter
has collected $20,894, with a quota
Of $22,5O0. and Brawley has ap-
proximately $4,000 CT its $4,000
quota.
For the Ell Centre chapter Hot
vile reports $500 collected, and
Imperial, $3.50. the Ell Centlo ai,e
'o''erting Sl7855 with final reports
still to come in from the Chinese
group, the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict employees, the various labor
groups and business houses.
w. A. Tondro, chairman, again
made the plea Saturday that in
dividuals contribute, send theil
money to Red Cross headquarters,
100 North Fifth.
OF the Brawley chapter, the Cali
patria and INLAND branches have
made their quotas and are still at
work, Calipatria having reached its
goal of $1,000 and being well on the
way to raising $2500, while inland
is seeking TO increase it's collec-
tionS, having already made its quota
of $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Five Sentenced
As Nazis Spies

DETROIT, March 25. (UP)-Fed-
eral Judge Edward j. Moinet Satur-
day ordered long prison terms for
Calladian- born Grace Buchanan
Dineen and four other members of
a German spy ring who pleaded
guilty to violating the espionage
laws.
The 34-year-old self-styled coun-
tess, who became counter-spy
when her activities were uncovered.
was sentenced to IL years imprison-
ment.
Mrs. Theresa Behrens, former
secretary at the International
Y.W.C.A., was sentenced to 20
years.
Mrs. Emma CMama) Leonhardt.
mother-in-law of high Nazi Off
cial, drew five years.
Carl Wilhelm Leonhardt, 65, hus-
band of Mrs. Leonhardt, and Walter
Joseph Abt, 36. Romeo, Mich, de-
scribed in the original indictment
as personal friend OF Jaul Joseph
Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister.
each received l0-year terms.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
l.. A. Mayor Wants
Sales Tax Split

LOS ANGELES, March 25. CUP)
California cities should get a cut
from state sales tax collections,
Mayor Fletcher Bowron suggested
to a meeting of the California Tax
payers association.
The split would give cities some
income from non-property-owned
thousands of workers that have
come to California industrial CEN
ters from the east.
Most of these people con-
tribute not ony thin dime to local
government, though hundreds of
millions of dollars are spent in
stores, theaters, and cocktail bars, =
Bowron said.
The city's principal source of
revenue is still the property tax,
Bowron pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

and 21 per cent alcohol may be
increased in price by one cent, while
three cents may be added to the
cost of three-ounce or larger drinks
OF champagne, sparkling or car
donated wines and wine-based cor
dialS.
The one-cent matted beverage
boost applies to eight-ounce or
larger drinks of beer or porter on
draught. OPA said specific in
ceases allowed under the new taxes
for bottle beer will be announced
later. The tax adds 81 a barrel to
the previous beer tax.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
L.ond on
Dru Tvs
Air Raid
Germans Drop
Fire Bombs
In Main Areas

LONDON, March 25. (UP)
"A few German squadrons
gave London one of the
sharpest fire raids since the 194O-
Al blitz Frioay night, but all of
the biggest blazes were controlled
before the all clear sounded early
Saturday.
The Nazis dropped hundreds of
incendiaries, interSpersed with a
number of explosives, in various
parts of greater Lone on, but hun
dreds of volunteers assisted fire
fighters to nullify the enemy's ef-
fort to burn the capital.
For few thousand Londoners
near the bombs, it was sort of a
pale imitation of the destruction
going on in Berlin last night as
the Royal air force renewed the
attack on the German capital. For
+, the remainder it was like most re-
cent London raids-a big fire.
works display which almost was
imperSOnal because so much fire
was going up at the raiders and so
comparatively little was coming
down.
At least eight raiders were shot
down. One crashed in London, de-
molishing house, killing woman
and two children, and setting fire
to houses on the opposite side of
the road. A second crashed mile
away. Six airmen from the two
planes landed in the area by para
chute.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

Hull as concerned about many
phases of world affairs and rela-
tions among the allies. He quoted
the secretary as saying that Great
Britain and Russia no longer are
on speaking terms because of the
Polish border dispute.
The congressman said the secre-
tary told in detail how he had TAX
en- to Moscow blueprint of a plan
for postwar treatment of Germany
even though he had been advised
by the Soviet ambassador here
that the Moscow conference must
be confined to ways of defeating
the Germans.
USE MIMEO COPIES
He quoted Hull as saying that he
cid not try to bring up the plan
at the formal discussions but fin
ally gave a mimeographed copy TO
British Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Soviet Foreign Vice Com
Continued on Pg, 6. Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
.OPA Fixes Price
On Valley Rice

Prices for Imperial valley and
other American-grown rice on the
1914 crop will be lower it was an
nounced Saturday by the Office of
Price Administration.
The new prices are in line with
the recent decline on imported
stock, the statement continued.
New Imperial Valley shipping
point prices, to become effective
April 18th, have been set as fol-
lows, according to L. M. Kearns,
OPA food pricing chief for South
ern California:
California Pearl and Blue Rose,
$3.57 per hundred; Calady, 1854
and all other varieties, $3.57.
If the country shipping point SELL
er supplies the sacks, the actual
cost of the sacks may be added to
his charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
VIA TO Release
Frozen Foods

LOS ANGELES, March 25. CUP)
Pacific coast consumers will find
100000 extra pounds of frozen
food including poultry, fruits, vege-
tables and butter on the market
within 80 days, Paul j. MesSer, War
Food Administration area supervisor,
said Saturday.
The VIA ordered a 20 per cent
reduction of cold storage stocks TO
make room for perishable fom the
1914 crop. Commodities stored for
longer than 10 months must be re-
moved.
Less than half of the surplus
stocks are rationed, Messer said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Chaplin Defense
Hit by Ruling

HOLLYWOOD, March 25. CUP)
Charlie Chaplin was blocked Sat-
urday from telling Mann act
jury anything about any of Joan
Barry's boy friends, except himself.
Chaplin's attorney, the veteran
to inform the jury of oldsters
Jerry Geisler, who had attempted
about Miss Barry and the other
men she knew in New York, Mexico
City, Tulsa, Okla, and Beverly Hills,
groaned when Judge J. F. T. O'Con-
nor told him nothing doing
This just about shuts the door
on our books he exclaimed late
Friday. The rest of his GRO S
examination OF Chaplain's red
haired accuser was perfunctory and
court recessed until Tuesday when
Prosecutor Charles H. Car expects
to finish his case.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

Dom
In China
Tokyo Reveals
Concern as
Puppets Whine
BY UNITED PRESS

A serious outbreak of anti
J a pan e S e disturbances in
north China was indicated
this week in Tokyo press and radio
reports, the u. S. Foreign Broad
cast Intelligence Service said Sat-
urday.
One report stated that anti
japanese elements had been filter
ing into north China since last
year, impeding Japan's eXploita-
ton program there.
Peiping, Tientsin, Tsinan, and
Tsungtao were named as centers
of the disturbances.
The broadcast service said Tokyo
revealed the increasing unrest had
been the subject of a conference
that included puppet military Off
cialS.
Lieutenant General Yasugi Okla
mura. supreme commander of the
japanese forces in North China,
was reported to have appealed two
days ago to the peace preservation
corps" for increased efforts to
counter the unrest and resistance.
An appeasement gesture was re-
ported in a Tokyo broadcast Friday
when Emperor Hirohito granted
decorations to % Chinese puppets
for services rendered in the joint
operation of Japan and the puppet
government in North China.
A report said Jiro Takeda, lead
ing japanese authority. declared
in the magazine Fuiji that aircraft
production must be corrected as
victory or defeat now depends up
on aircraft"
He said manufacturers of planes
hao been mistaken in their concep-
ton of production, quality and
quantity.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
BY-Drink Prices
To Be Boosted

WASHINGTON, March 25. CUP)
Drinks across the bar will cost an
additional one to four cents begin
ming April when the new tax on
alcoholic beverages becomes effec-
tive.
The Office OF Price Administra-
ton said bars may raise liquor
prices two to four cents and add
an extra penny on the cost of an
eight-ounce glass of beer to COM
pensate for the added levies on
spirits.
Wine drinks of 2h ounces or
more and containing between IA
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
By UNITED PRESS

The japanese war ministry shook
up its military personnel again
Saturday, including change of
commanders of its eastern and
western armies.
A Domei agency dispatch, record
ed by United Press, said Gen. Kei-
suke Fujie, former commander in
chief of the western army, had been
named head of the eastern army,
Lieutenant General Sadashi Shimo-
mura had been commander of an
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Dewev Hits Administration
For Fighting War in Dark

such incidents begin to lay the un-
pleasant suspicion of aoministra-
ton policy"
only now" he said, do we learn,
because it leaked out, of the shoot
ing down of % transport planes
and the killing of 410 American
paratroopers in Sicily, eight months
ago. Even after a presidential
broadcast, we still know precisely
nothing of what really happened
at the much-heralded conference in
Tehran."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
COP Baby" Congressman
Discount Hull Stroteqv

WASHINGTON, Mar. 25.
(UP)-Republican freshmen
OF the house, unimpressed by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull's
outline of U. S. foreign policy, Sat-
urday appeared ready to project
into the 1914 political campaign
what they described as the admins
tration's "do nothing" attituoe on
international affairs.
They agreed generally that more
action" was necessary and that it
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

would be we'll to press for a clearer
definition of this nations relation
ships with other world powers.
HULL KEEPS SILENCE
Hull met with the "a first term
COP members in his office for
more than two hours Friday. The
house members emphasized they
were not convinced that U. S. policy
is all that it should be and few had
comment favorable to Hull.
One congressman, giving his ver-
sion OF the conference, described
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Greeks Pledged
EarIv Freedom

LONDON, March Is. CUP)-~The
day OF Greek liberation Is ap-
preaching. Prime Minister Winston
Churchill said Saturday in a mes
sage TO the Greek nation which
will celebrate its i23rd Anniversary
OF independence Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
Tokyo ReshuffIes
Army Commands

army unit in China since November,
1912.
Domei also announced that Lieu
tenant General Hikosaburo Hata
was appointed director of the army
staff college, and Lieutenant Gen.
eral Ichiro Shichida director of the
army science academy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
NEW YORK, March 2I

NEW YORK, March 25.
(UP)-Gov. Thomas E. Dew
ey said Friday night that
"the stakes in this war are far
too high for it to be fought in the
dark" and charged that the ad-
ministration was at least partly to
blame because newspapers appar-
emily are being denied the right
to print all the news.
Important matters repeatedly
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

have been withheld for months un-
til they leaked out and became the
subject of such widespread gossip
that they could not longer be COM
pressed" he told the annual meet
ing of the New York Press Photog
raphers association.
Dewey, possible candidate for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation, noted several alleged in
stances of news suppression and
declared that lone such incident
might be charged to blunder; two
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
JAP DIET ADJOURNS

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.
(UP)-The 84th session of the Japa-
nese imperial diet closed Saturday
after passing wartime budget and
33 bills presented by the govern
ment, Tokyo announced today in a
broadcast recorded by United Press
at San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
NAVY FLIERS KILLED

ALAMEDA, Calf, March 25 CUP)
Two naval aviators were killed
when their training plane collided
with a fighter plane near Alameda
naval air station Friday, navy Of
ficials announced. The fighter pilot
landed safely,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
THREE DIE IN CRASH

MARCH FIELD, Calf, March 25.
CUP)Three men were killed and
nine others were injured, two seri-
ously, when a B-24 -engined
Liberator bomber crashed in the
desert 10 miles from the Tonopah,
New, army airfield, March Field
officials announced Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

Rendezvous
We would give a pretty to follow
that Imperial Valley delegation
around Washington, d. c., to see
what they are up to- They're up
to no good, we bet
Everybody knows Harry Horton
and Mike Dowd are back there on
treaty business for the irrigation
district. Maybe you've forgotten
that Sheriff Bob Ware is in Wash
ington attending FBI school. The
other member of the quartette is
Chief Bill Livingston of the Sea-
Bees. stationed net far away.
They all got together and wrote
post cards to Ell Centre, showing
pictures of monuments and historic
buildings.
Monuments and historic build
ingS, me eye.
Continued on page G, col. 2
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
j. S. TROOPS BLOCK JAPANESE IN Burma
'StiIweu Cuts off
Retreat Path
Mountbatten Sends Native Units
Into Fray as Onrushins Foe
Presses Farther Into India Areas

NEW DELHI, March 25. (UP)-American and Chinese
forces have captured the village of Shaduzup in northern
Burma to cut off the path of Japanese retreang down
the Mogaung valley before advance of Lieutenant Gen.
era Joseph W. Stlwes main army it announced Sat-
urdav.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
y AMBlINe
EpoRTER
The Reason Why

The Reason Why
Ed Carter, cubmaster of Pack
No. l74, planned to take the cubs in
Den l to manufacturing plant
because they are required TO make
such visit. Garter and Mrs. w.
Fl. Tyler, Jr. den mother, thought
a visit to the flax mill would be
just dandy.
But the boys unanimously decided
to visit creamery. The adults
couldn't understand why until the
close of the visit. Charles Bram-
kamp gave each boy an eskimo pie
Well, you can't eat ilaX.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

Something New
A note left at the county Jail on
behalf of one of the prisoners had
this address:
ITO Whom I May Concern"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 81, minimum Saturday 40; am
Saturday SO, humidity 55; noon Saturday 80, hu-
mdity 20; pm Friday "a, humidity 30.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-26

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