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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
OFFICERS PROCEDURE

All commissioned Objects must
give evidence of length and tcrmi-
nation of service.
Officers discharged from the navy
apply to the bureau Of naval per-
sonnel, navy department, Washing
ton, d. C. Officers discharged from
the coast guard apply to the U. S.
coast guard headquarters, Wash
ington. Officers discharged from
the marine corps apply to the COM
mandant of the marine corps,
Washington. m
Navy and coast guard enlisted
veterans file their applications with
the field branch, bureau OF sup
plies and accounts, Cleveland, Ohio;
for the marine corps, with the COM
mandant of the marine corps
Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-06
MAY FACE DELAYS

Late applicants may face delays
since approximately 100000 vet
Grams discharged since December
6. 194l. must be handled.
Veterans. to be eligible, must
have been honorably discharged or
released on or after December 7,
Ie41. from the various services, IN
Guiding the four Women's reserves.
Those with less than 60 days
services will receive $lOo; those
with longer active service put no
foreign duty will receive 500 IN TWO
monthly installmentS.
Persons discharged from SATURDAY
on will receive the payments with
out the necessity Of an application
The 100000 previously dis
charged or relieved OF active duty
must follow this procedure:
l. Submit certificate of discharge
or service.
2. Submit an informal type OF
application. 1t should include name
address. service number, serial
number or file number; and a state
ment that he was not discharged
or released to accept employment
without having served outside OF
the United States, that he is not
now on active duty, that this Is
his only application for mastering
out pay. He is asked to state tht
place where he resided at the TINT
Of induction or enlistment, ant
whether he has been on iorcigI
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Bricker Flags
New Dea! Waste

LONG BEACH, Calf, Oct. l8.
CUP) - Gov. John w Bricker of
Ohio Wednesday condemned the
new deal for spending the taxpayers
money 'laviShly and unwisely.'
The COP vice presidential noml-
nee said: New Deal waste has be-
come so rampant that the nation IS
beginning to reel and stagger under
the load of the national debt"
The estimated postwar New Deal
debt which will reach $300.000,-
100000 he said, is burden which
must be borne by American tax
payers for many years to come.
Let us not forget that the war
alone is not responsible for this
burden he said.
Before the war, he added the New
Deal administration nearly doubled
the public debt over what it was in
1882"
The Republican party, he recalled,
has promised to eliminate from
the budget all wasteful and unneces-
sary expenditures and exercise the
most rigid economy"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Part of Detroit
Strikers Go
Back to War Jobs

DETROIT, Oct. 18. CUP - Pro-
ductiOn at Timken-Detroit Axle Co.
and Briggs Manufacturing Co. plants
resumed Wednesday with termina-
ton of strikes that affected ap-
proximately 10000 workers.
An estimated 1000 workers in
other warplants remained off their
jobs, however because Of other Ia
Dor disputes.
Timken workers enued a strike
which closed the plants Saturday
when they voted Tuesday night to
return to jobs. United Auto Work
ers CCIO) local TIA leaders said it
was decided to obey war labor
board directive to terminate the
strike when it appeared" that the
WLB would order reinstatement Of
a union shop committeeman whose
discipline by the management re-
suited in the WalkoutS at four plants
producing army truck parts.
Some 1900 UAW-CIO members
were back on jobs at Briggs plants
after one-day walkout protesting
discharge of a fellow employe.
Most serious of the other strikes
ill in progress was at the Kelsey
Hayes Wheel Co. plants shut yes
terday by strikes of UAW-CIO
members. The strikes apparently
were in sympathy with the Timken
workers. Employees of both firms
are members of the same union
local
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
BY EDWARD V. ROBERTS

U. S. AIR BASE, England,
Oct, 18. (UP)-Rep. Ranulf
Compton (R) Connecticut,
said Wednesday that the AL
lied high command schedule
Eaver had contemplated COM
pletion of the European war in 1914
but the American people had been
deluded into believing victory this
fall was probable.
"Unharpily due to lack of proper
information from the OWL, Ameri-
can people have expected the end
soon," Compton said on his arrival
here after a siX-day tour of the
western front. This should be cor
rected."
Actually. he said, the European
operations are well ahead of sched-
ule."
He said high ranking officers told
him that except for another supply
miracle. we should not expect to
finish the European operations until
next spring"
At the front Compton visited
Lieutenant General George S. Pat
ton, commander the American Third
army, under whom he served in the
first World war.
Patton told him. he said, to tell
the people back home that this is
not anywhere near over" He added
that Patton told him that his army
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Luzon and Island Capitals
Become Steady Targets:
Tokyo Claims Naval Gain
'Clark Field Listed as One Main
Point Under Bomber Attacks;
Halsey Repor+s-S+iII Hitting
- By FRANK TREMAINE =

PEARL HARBOR, Oct Is. (UP)-The greatest Ameri-
offensive of the Pacific into its 10th
day Wednesday with angry of planes
blasting ceaselessy at Japans weakening antnvason
defenses in the Philippines
The Japanese controlled Manila radio, in broadcast
recorded by the FEC the United States said 80 American
carrier planes attacked the Philippine capital in three
10 Manila time Wednesday, while other air
craft raded nearby Clark Field and Legasp in southern
uzOn Sixteen planes shot down and three others
damaged seriously the broadcast said
Tokyo Claims u. S. Fleet Is Dispersed
Tokyo said Japanese army and navy circles were en-
phaszing the need to be fully guard against Amer
lean invasion of the Philippines despite fancul earlier
reports that American warshps assigned the task of land
ing troops had been defeated and dispersed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Witnesses Tell
OF Seeing Tilt
AT WestmorIand

Eyewitness descriptions of fight
in a Westmcrland saloon last July
26 enlivened the superior court trial
of four WeStmorland residents in Ell
Centro Wednesday on a charge of
resisting VIXEN Chief of Police Alvin
Quick attempted to arrest them.
A jury in Judge Elmer Healds
court heard prosecution witnesses
describe the actions of the defend
ants, A. L. BUD Kissee, Cecil
Swearingen, Lee Kissee and John
Guess, when a fight started near
the bar which was in charge of
Stuart Smith.
1t was pointed out that Smith
suffered broken hip at the time
of the fray July 26 and was unable
to appear in court in Ell Centre to
testify Court attaches were sent
20 Smiths home in Westmorland to
take statement from him Tuesday
afternoon.
Exhibits included pistol and
sap stick allegedly taken from Quick
during the fight. 1t was declared
that the fight started when Smith
asked patrons of the place to leave
because he was going to close up.
The state expected to rest its case
late Wednesday. Deputy District
Attorney Don Bitter said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Dewey Welcomes
Presidents
New York Visit

NEW YORK, Oct. 18. CUP)-
Governor Thomas E. Dewey COM
mented Wednesday that President
Roosevelt's scheduled tour of New
York City next Saturday is "a good
thing
Dewey made the comment during
a brief press conference shortly
after arriving in New York for his
second major speech on foreign
policy.
Il think it is a good thing for the
President to come to see the people
even though it is only once every
four years." Dewey said when asked
to comment on his opponent S
scheduled tour
The Republican presidential NOM
inee did not elaborate.
Dewey received reporters briefly
after meeting with Mrs Theodore
Roosevelt Jr., chairman of a Wom-
ans group backing his presidential
candidacy.
Dewey said he was delighted
with the active participation in the
campaign by Mrs. Roosevelt and her
associates and their efforts Ito call
to the attention of all women the
issues of this campaign
Never were the results of the
campaign so vital to the women of
the country" Dewey said Employ
ment and peace and opportunities
fer all the world in the years to
come can only be assured by fresh
and competent administration of
our government"
only in that way can confusion
and chaos be brought to an Ind
and victory speeded," he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Hitler Calls Out
Eyery Man From
IL to 80 to Fight

LONDON, Oct 18. (UP)-Adolf
Hitler "Wednesday ordered the mo-
bilization of every able-bodied man
in Germany between Is and 80 into
German peoples storm units to
defend the Reich with all weapons
end by all means"
Hitler issued a decree fraugnt
with a spirit of desperation calling
on the German people for their
ultimate effort against Allied forces
near or at the German borders"
on a number of fronts owing to
the failure of our European Allies.
At the same time Heinrich Him
mler, Gestapo chief and commander
OF the German home army, broad
cast from an East Prussian town
a like message demanding the last
ounce of German effort in storm
unit" resistance.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Fires ]
Stir
Probe
De estruction Of
Hay in Val ley
Hits Thousands

A double-barreled investi-
cation aimed to bring to light
the causes of nearly a score
of hay fires which have caus-
ed loss of thousands of dol
lars in the last two months
was launched Wednesday by
insurance companies and the
Imperial county sheriff.
The probe from the insurers an
gle is being directed by w. c. Quigg,
manager of the Peckham & Green
Insurance Adjusters company, l09
North Sixth street, Ell Centre and
Sheriff Robert w. Ware is in direct
charge of the investigation STEM
ming from that source.
TONNAGE ESTIMATED
Ell Centro's Fire Chief Corn Reed
set loss since September 5 at 10l1
tons, the result of nine fires in the
south end of the valley.
Reec figure did not include a
400-ton less on the Werner Hofer
ranch on south Fourth street Tues
day, inasmuch as the call was an
sWered by the Brawley truck at the
request of the Ell Centre depart
ment. Reed said the Ell Centre de-
partment'S county truck was fight
ing a second blaze on the V. K.
Corfman ranch south of Meloland
at the time, but that the BraWley
department was able to get equip
ment on the site Of the Hofer fire
almost Immediately.
Fire Chief Harry L. Stewart
Brawley. cited seven fires since July
four of which, he said can be at
iributed to undetermined causes
only.
with four fires being reported
one right on top of the other to the
FL Centre department, the BraWley
chief said ''it appears evident that
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Czech
Front
Swoys
Sovie+s Forge
New Trap
Ar Tartar Pass
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Oct. 18. (UP)
Marshal Malinovsky's Sec
ond Ukrainian army forged a
solid nine-mile front along
the southern border of Czech
oslovakia Wednesday for an
expected thrust northward to
bottle up German forces in the
famous Tartar pass.
At one point, Mannovsky's troops
reached within one mile CT the
Czechoslovakian frontier at Bistra
Viseul, and the remaincer was
stretched out within two or three
miles from the border.
A communique also disclosed that
Red army bombers severely attacked
three important towns in East Prus-
sia Monday night, just west of the
Latvian area where the Germans
reported a big offensive was start
ed by the Russians on Mono ay.
There still was no confirmation
of the German reports OF land
offensive against East Prussia. The
communique mentioned only the
heavy air assault, in which big
bombers concentrated on the key
rail town of Insterburg, 43 miles
west of the border, and Gumbinnen
and Stalluponen, 33 and 18 miles
respectively west of VilkaviskiS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Hungarian Army
Deserts ii dzis

LONDON Oct. 18. CUP)-Buda-
pest reports indicated Wednesday
that large proportion of the Hun
garian army garrison in the capi-
tai had deserted rather than serve
the new Nazi government and it's
German masters.
Urgent orders were cent out to
all soldiers in the capital to return
at once to your barracks, quarters
or home" London observers inter-
preted the order as a sign of whole
sale desertions in the wake of the
Nazi coup.
1t also was possible that disorders
had broken out in Budapest on a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Feeding Ground
For Ducks Gets
Start in Valley

Future feasts tempting enough to
toll the ducks away from crops
will be planted in Imperial Valley
as soon as the present land prepa-
ration job is complete, it was learned
Wednesday.
E. E. Horn of the federal fish and
Wildlife service is heading the plant
ing job and said Wednesday that
seed already is arriving in the val
ley and the land is being made
ready to plant it so it will be up in
time to help protect the farmers
crops.
The influx CT ducks has Stacked
off some" Horn said. las what we
call the first flight is about over.
The duck population in the valley
slacks off for a time after the first
flight and then increases when the
second flight begins. The time of
the second flight depends upon the
weather. We plan to have the grain
growing in time to feed the ducks
sc they will let other crops alone. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

ica's heaviest mobile weapons, in
Guiding eight-inch cannons and
240- -millimeter HoWitzers, which hurl
a nine and a half inch, 350-pounC
shell. to lombard enemy forces de-
Tending Metz.
The Germans also had unlimber-
ed their heavy artillery on the Third
army front and front dispatch
sale big enemy railway gun had
been shelling the Pont a Mousson
area IA miles south southwest Of
Metz continuously since Tuesday
midnight.
FALLS TO BRITISH
The Dutch stronghold of Venray,
three miles south of Overloon, fell
to British Second army infantry
after a house-to-house battle in a
driving rain. In some cases, the
Tommies were forced to fight from
room to room in old Dutch dwell
ingS. Only a few isolated enemy
pockets remained to be mopped up
German forces northeast of Aach
en- launched their first counter
attack in 30 hours against the
American siege ring around the
city at 7:30 am. with tanks and
infantry in company strength, Unit
ed Press War Correspondent Henry
I. Gorrell reported from Lieuten-
ant General Courtney Fl. Hodges
headquarters.
BY $3.50 am, Gorrell said, the at
tack haC been contained"
CLOSE ESCAPE GAP
The failure of the countcrattack
proved to the enemy that we have
successfully consolidated our line
after closing the Aachen escape gap
at Wurselen," Gorrell said.
Supreme headquarters said house
toulouse fighting continued in
Aachen, while northwest of the
city, other troops "mopped up seq
ments Of the Sieg:ried line"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

WIlllt llICll GULL doCo WCLt obdp-
bing eastward in three key sectors
along a 250-mile stretch of the
front. the American First army beat
off another German counterattack
northeast cf smoking Aachen and
continued its mcprp of the city it
self.
PATTON ADVANCES
}, Lieutenant General George S. Pat
tons American Third army infan-
try reached point only four miles
southwest of Metz, one CT the most
formidable German fortresses on
the western front, after an advance
OF nearly mile up the Moselle river
bank from Ansy-Sur-M -MoSelle.
: With mud limiting tank and in
fantry activity, the Third army was
revealed to have brought up Amer
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Roosevelt Maps
Aid to Waqner

NEW YORK, Oct. 18. (UP)-Rob-
ert E. Hannegan, Democratic ma
tional chairman. announced We'd
nesday that President Roosevelt
would appear at an Ebbets Field
Brooklyn, rally for Senator Robert
F. Wagner. Cd, New York, on Sat-
urday morning and would tour the
city before his speech at the for
eign policy association meeting Sat-
urday night.
Hannegan said Mr.. Roosevelt's APP
pearance at the businessmen for
Wagner rally probably would not in
clude a speech He said the Presi-
dent merely would greet Wagner
there.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

Admiral Chester w. Nlm1tZ, COM
mander in chief of the Pacific fleet.
announced in a communique Tues
day night that aircraft of Admiral
William F. Halsey's vast Third fleet
we're continuing to attack objec-
tives in the Philippines" but gave
no details.
His failure to specify that the
latest targets lay on battered Lu1on,
northern and most important island
in the archipelago, raised the pos
sibility that the carrier planes were
extending their trail of destruction
south toward Mindanao, already
within striking range of American
invasion troops and land-based
planes.
A roundabout Japanese report
said carrier planes had attacked
Clark Field near Manila and the
Legaspi area of southern Luzon
Monday (Tuescay, Tokyo time).
TOLL INCREASES
A late communique from Chung
king raised to 20 ships sunk or
damaged the toll exacted by the
China-based American 14th air
force in its destructive raid Mon
day on Hong Kong harbor where
japanese vessels had sought shelter
from the ravages of the Third fleet.
Eight ships totalling more than
10000 tons were sunk. seven totalling
$4,000 tons were damaged and five
others probably were damaged. An
other freighter was skip-bombed off
Hong Kong island and left sinking.
Fighter planes from the south
west Pacific command of General
Douglas Macarthur, who has vowed
to return to the Philippines at the
heao of liberating army, joined
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Warren Removed
To HOSPITAL
With Flu Attack

SACRAMENTO. Oct. 18. CUPl 49,
Governor Earl Warren. moved from
MS home late Tuesday to the Sut>
ter hospital when he was found to
be suffering from influenza, was re-
ported this morning to be "at the
height of his illness"
His physician, DR.. J. B. Harris,
SAID the governors temperature was
at l02 Tuesday but was reduced to
slightly over 100 by sulpha drugs
administered during the night.
Harris said Warren is quite
weak" as a result of perspiring
neavily but added that this is a
characteristic of the ailment
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

scale threatening to overwhelm the
defenders of Nazi Premier Ferenc
Zzalasy.
German newspapers arriving In
Switzerland said Slovak rebels" en-
couraged by Hungarys apparent
detection from the Nazi camp, had
rounded up large number OF mem-
bers of the German minority and
already had executed 1000 OF them,
In retaliation, the newspaper said,
German forces In the country
started similar mass executions.
Adolf Hitler's newspaper Volkischer
Beohachter said the Germans acted
with "the full support OF the Slovak
government"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Chinese Repu|se
Foe In kWanusi

CHUNGKING, Oct. l8 CUP)-
Chinese forces have repulse6 new
japanese drive toward KWeilin in
northeastern KWangsi province af-
ter two days of heavy fighting, a
communique said Wednesday.
A second japanese column at
tempting to drive up on Kweilin
from southeastern Kwangsi also was
repulsed in the Pingram area, 10
miles south of KWeilin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Lawmaker Says Europe War
Will Run Well into Is

would be further ahead of schedule
had it not been for an acute prob
lem of supply.
After talking with Patton, I be-
lieve the Third army would have
taken Metz and gone on to the
Rhine if it had not been for this
difficulty" Compton said.
Compton was hatless and clad in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

places of confinement for less than
1000 Japanese prisoners of war held
in the United States, federal auth
critics announced recently. Their
quarters here are separate from
those of more numerous prisoners
from other Axis countries. They
participate in work details under
guard, but have not been assigned
to harvest and canning jobs such
as those assigned to Nazi prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
BRITON REVEALS
INVASION LOSS

LONDON, Oct. 18. CUP)-Deputy
Prime Minister Clement Attlee re-
vealed in commons eonesday that
from the opening of the campaign
in western Europe to the end of
August, casualties to British Impe-
rial forces totaled 103,842, of whom
20,795 were killed, 63,193 wounded,
and l9840 missing or taken prison.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

study automobile insurance laws
ano traffic legislation in other
states and draft law for Califor-
mia.
Under a state compulsory insur-
ance plan all accidents would be
investigated by the state insurance
or by trained city traf-
fic officers for the state" he sale.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Hidden Rocket Bomb Kills
jap i'm u. s. Prison Camp

here Monday night, authorities an
nounced Wednesday.
The bomb apparently was picked
up by a work detail, Colohel George
NJ. MacMullin, post commandant,
said. He declined to reveal other
cetails or explain the purpose of
smuggling the high explosive into
the barracks
Camp Mccoy is one of the few
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

CAMP Mccoy, Sparta,
Wis, Oct. 18. (UP)-A Jap
anese prisoner of war was
killed and five others were in
jured in the explosion of a
rocket bomb which they had
smuggled into their barracks
at the military training camp
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Two Crewmen Die
In BIinlp Wreck

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 49, up
Two crewmen were killed, two re-
ported missing ana five injured
when u. S. navy blimp wandered
of it's course in a fog and crashed
into a hill near Avalon on Santa
Catalina island, the navy announced
Wednesday
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Enforc ced Auto
Policies Urged

LOS ANGELES, Oct. l8. up
Compulsory state insurance for mo-
torists administered by the state
department of insurance was advo-
Gated Wednesday by City Traffic
Engineer Ralph T. Dorsey as a safe
~ measure.
Dorsey proposed that a committee
OF traffic experts be appointed to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

mechanics overalls when he landed
here. He said the morale of the
front line troops was tops"
The weather over there has been
pretty terrible he said. 1T has
been raining most of the time and
the mud is terrific. But our troops
have plenty of food and warm win
ter clothing"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Patton Advances
In Metz Area:
Dutch City Falls
Coun+era++acks on Aachen Fail as
yanks Close Up Escape Route;
Mobile Implements Ba++le in Mud

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Paris Oct. 18.
UP)-Alied armies, hacking deeper into Germanys west
wall in preparation for fall offensive captured the for
titled Dutch town of Venray drove to within four miles
of the Mosee Valley bastOn of Metz and fought into the
Bon Homme pass in the Vosges mountains Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
u AMBlINe
~ EP0RTER

Still Laughing
Russ looks yellow but he's still
fresh" Miss Joyce Sherwood tele-
phoned her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Russell Sherwood, ST., from the bed
side of her brother, Private Russell
Sherwood Jr, in a military hoSpi-
tai in Vallejo. Leaving her duties
as member of the WASPS at
Riverside, Miss Sherwood flew to
Vallejo to see her brother as soon
as he arrived from the Pacific area
Isn't it amazing how these young
people try to keep their parents
cheerful by making laughing re-
marks about tragic and serious
things? There are many kinds of
bravery and the Sherwood incident
is an example of one of them
Masquerade
There was something peculiar
about Bert Lemons appearance as
he strolled around Ell Centre re-
Gently. There was something mighty
strange about the set of his jib.
Around the middle he seemed to
have great surplus of trousers.
There were not enough to the trou-
ser legs to give his ankles coverage.
In fact, he resembled bird called
the Stork
whats the matter with you?"
friend asked.
oh" said Lemons carelesSly,
Continued on Pg. 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 81, minimum
We'd. Sc; 5 am. Wed. 81, humidity
40; noon Wed. 80, humidity IA; 5
pm. Tuesday 81, humidity 20.