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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
British Patrols
Storm Florence

ROME, Aug. 4. (UP)-Britii
Eighth army patrols penetrated I'll
southern section of Florence Frida
Five of the six bridges spannilI
the Arno river were destroyed, frol
reports said, indicating the GeI
mans had fallen back into the maj
section of the city north of I'll
river.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
L.. A. GRAIN

Los Angeles, Aug. 4. (UP)-
No. l hard o. soit wn!te wheat bulk,
2.771s = so; grading barley, 46 lbs, bulk,
2.32 y =. IS; No. oats, IS lbs. bulk, $50
2.62h; No. , yellow corn, bulk, no offers;
No. . milo, bulk no offers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
l.. Il. HAT

Los Angeles, Aug. 4. (UP)-
u. S. No. ,r1tIa IeA15' 554.50-3o. so; U.
S. No. l S3I. .50-33.50; u. No. / S3l. so
$3.50; U. S. No. 2 leafy OF No. 2 green
$50. IA 70; u. S. No. S2.,-31 per ton
No. i barley hay SSo-31; No. l oat hay
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Thursdays Results
st. Louis, Is; Pittsburgh, 2.
Chicago, 81; Brooklyn, 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Markets at a
Glance
BY UNITED PRESS

eIDIkS"IOWCT.
BONDS-1rTegular. L. s, governments
steady. A
CURB STOCKS-Irregular.
COTTON-On as much as 50 cents a
bale.
WHEAT-On 4 10 u cent a bushel.
Evening star., 1944-09-17

Sunbrite's ne-grained
abrasive knocks the sox off
grit and CRIME round the
house without damaging
surfaces. Puts new sparkle
inyourpots and dpans-fast!
Evening star., 1944-09-17
Uncle Sam has IA banking plan
made to order for CI's. Look -.

made to order for CPS. Look -.
CoLDlERs' DEPOSITS, the War Departments spe-
- cial savings plan for enlisted men. is just about
tops in banking systems - from the depositor side
of the window anyway. Soldiers Deposits pays four
per cent interest on money held SIX months or longer
is protected without reservation by the 5 Treasury
1t is an enlisted mans best means of insuring himself
a wad of cash for expenses between the day OF his
discharge and civilian unemployment.
1t i. available to ever, GI Joe regardless of
where he may be stationed and can be lost by
hin, only through his deserti"n. In that event.
his account il Immediately transferred To the
Soldiers Home - for keeps!
Previous to the revamplng of regulations once
money was deposited no Withdrawals could be made
until the depositor had been discharged from the
Army Now, however, soldier stationed outside the
continental United States can make withdrawal
with the approval of his commanding officer. It's a
little different for the man on active duty IN the
States He must offer some evidence that he actually
needs the money for an emergency
He Saved SCI. 900
AT PRESENT Soldiers Deposits has 100000 accounts
gathering average of S5,8OO,OoO each month.
Money for deposit is given to the GIs company COM
mander He marks the amount in deposit book
similar to the kind used by ordinary banks Only
restriction on deposits that they must be SIS or more.
Amounts up to 50 600 not nreQuent. "a master
sergeant recently withdrew So .l20 plus 81 ,l89 IN
interest - when commissioned to higher rank
Record amount saved by one man is $4,000
The most frequent deposits - and IN the highest
amounts - are registered where entertain
ment facilities consist principally of games of chance
Chronic losers who are unable to resist such sport
can have deposits deducted from their pay.
Money deposited cannot he touched by any
one except the d~positor his heirs. Creditors
must seek else~ here for pa yment of debts. The
Government itself cannot touch the accounts. dis
honorable discharge does not affect them. Even a
court martial convection does not change the status
of a soldiers deposit.
In of death. settlement is made with the
beneficiary designated
Back in the days when losing ground.
currency sometimes destroyed by enemy fire. or
by evacuatng troops. But not penny has been lost
by depostor through these actions cent will be
waiting in the US Treasury when they come home.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
(See PACIFIC, Page A-1O0
ISee PACIFIC, Page A-IU.J
Serb Force 10 Relieve
Nazis in Yugos|av Port
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE German
radio said today that a Serb ma.
tionalist" force, composed mainly Of
students, had arrived in the Ger
man-occupied Yugoslav port OF
Sibenik, apparently to relieve Nazi
forces for use on the active battle
front.
At the same Ane a communique
from Marshal Josip Broz' (Tito's)
headquarters announced that bitter
fighting continued in Eastern ano
Central Bosnia-labeled by the Ger
mans as a projected Allied "inva-
sion corridor into the Balkans -
where the Nazis latest drive has
been reported smashed by the
Partisans in some sectors.
A German broadcast asserted that
the Patriots had been cleared from
Sofia (Sule) Island off Split.
The broadcast Yugoslav com
munique also said guerrillas at
tackled strong German column or
the Kocevje- -Rakek road in Slo-
venia, inf1icting great losses" ir
men and material on the Nazis. The
bulletin said that go Ustachi soldiers
were killed and many wounded in
an attack on their garrison near the
Croatian town of Karlovac.
In the Gorica area of Montenegro
an enemy garrison was wiped out
the bulletin declared. The Parti-
sans were said to be pressing their
offensive in the Novo Mesto area Of
Slovenia.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Work on Invasion
Is Far Advanced.
Eisenhower Saws
Wilson Hints New
Mediterranean Blows:
Bradley Gets Post
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE pre-
invasion task in Britain already
is far advanced. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower disclosed today as
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
limited at new blows in the Medi-
terranean, possibly into Southern
France.
This picture of Allied might men,
acing Hitler from the west and
south, as we'll as the east. was
thrown into sharper focus with an
nouncement that 1t. Gen. Omar N
Bradley, veteran of Tunisia, has
become senior American general
under Gen. Eisenhower in this
theater.
Gen. Eisenhower, in his first press
conference as western invasion
commander in chief, warmly praised
naval, air, supply and other forces
for "the work that has been done
in advance Of my coming" and
lauded infantrymen in the United
Kingdom who ARE getting them
selves ready and toughened for any
job that lies ahead" He recently
arrived there after visit to Wash
ington, during which he conferred
with President Roosevelt and Gen.
George C. Marshall, United States
Army chief of staff.
Gen. Wilson, the new Mediter-
ranean commander in chief, in his
first press meeting at Allied head
quarters in Algiers, declared his
front extends from the Maritsa
River in the Balkans to the Pyrenees
and we've got to hit home wherever
We see the opportunity >. If
we saw an opportunity for going
Evening star., 1944-01-17
| Some Calendars
Mark Wrong Day
lFor Thanksgiving
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Now it's the calendars which have
lent some confusion to the date of
the Thanksgiving Day observance,
once settled in all minds as the last
Thursday in November.
BY congressional will, turkey day
will be celebrated on the fourth
Thursday of November henceforth,
the lawmakers setting aside Presi-
dent Roosevelt's idea that it should
be the third Thursday.
However, the vagaries of the
calendar in 1914 bequeath five
Thursdays to November. So Thanks
giving Day, by act of Congress, by
terms of the calendar and by every
other sign, will be on November 23-
the fourth Thursday, and not the
fifth and last as some calendars
show 1t to be-
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Reds sHur| Back
Nazis in Drive
Toward LatVia
Gains Along 9-MiIe
Front in New Soviet
Offensive Reported
/Mnn op Dn1o Aol
MAP on Page Az
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. ia powerful
new Soviet offensive was sweep
ing toward the 7O-mile distant
Latvian border today, hurting
the Germans back along a emile
front, while in old Poland far to
the south Red Army spearheads
were driving toward the big rail
and highway junction of Rovno.
Asserting last night that the new
drive to the north of Newell already
had swept up 40 localities and cut
the important Novosokolniki Rail-
way below Lake linen, Moscow an
nounced at the same time that Gen.
Nikolai F. Vatutin's lst Ukraine
Army had killed 100000 Germans
and captured 1000 in three weeks Of
the massive offensive which has car
ried the Russians SIS miles inside
old Poland.
The Req Army also forged ahead
in White Russia, crossing the Ippa
River to capture Novoselki, II miles
north of Kalinkovichi in the Pripet
Marshes. and reaching point At
miles from the old Polish border
in drive toward Pinsk, about 100
miles away
Cold Wave in White Russia.
Moscow dispatches said cold wave
accompanied by sharp frosts had
returned to White Russia. Hard
freezes in the Pripet Marshes would
afford firm terrain for tanks.
The Russians told of repulsing
heavy tank and infantry counter
attacks yesterday in the Vinnitsa
and Uman sectors to the south, kill
ing 1000 Germans and destroying
1876 tanks. Stockholm dispatches
quoted a Berlin military spokesman
as saying some Red Army units had
crossed the Bug River, near Vim
nitsa, only 20 miles from the vital
Warsaw-Ooessa Railway which sup
plies the Germans in the Dnieper
Bend.
The new Soviet offensive north of
Newell apparently caused German
propagandists some anxiety. One
German broadcast declared the Rus
slams were ready to throw 100000
men in a major sweep toward the
Baltic states. The Nazi-controlled
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
quoted a Berlin military spokesman
as saying, I'VE are convinced some
Of the bloodiest battles between
great bodies of troops are about to
be fought on the northern front"
Reds Cut Highway Line.
A Moscow bulletin said the Red
Army had launched the drive three
days ago, pushing a wedge miles
wide and miles deep into the Ger
man lines and seizing Nasva to cut
the Novosokolniki-Dno railway "over
which the Germans had transferred
their troops along the front line"
The communique said Gen. Va
tutin's forces driving through old Po-
land captured Vladimirets, % miles
northwest of Sarny, and Antanovka
Is miles west of Sarny, while his
units farther south drove to within
10 miles of Rovno by occupying Kos
topol, IS miles inside the old border
Besides killing 100000 and captur-
ing 1000 Germans in the period be-
tween December "a and January 13
a Moscow announcement said, Gen
Vatutin's forces swept up tremen-
dous quantities of booty and de-
stroyed 2,204 German tanks and
LIZA guns.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Ceremonies al Airport
To Mark Opening Of
Bond Drive tomorrow
Dedication Of Fighter
Bought With District
Money Is Slated

The first of the special fleet
of carrier based planes, bought
with $32 100000 of War Bond
money furnished by Washington
citizens during one-month
drive last fall, will be dedicated
to the District at ceremonies at
the National Airport at II am.
tomorrow, coincident with the
opening of the Fourth War Loan
Drive.
The plane, Navy Hellcat, will be
the first of fleet which will go into
battle from aboard an American
carrier with the seal of the District
of Columbia embossed on the fuse
lagos.
Special authorization for the Dis
trict War Finance Committee to
sponsor a drive to purchase the
planes was obtained from Secretary
of the Navy Knox last fall. The
campaign was carried on between
September and November 8.
All the funds subscribed came
from small individual buyers of War
Bonds. During the new campaign,
which gets under way tomorrow, in
dividual buyers will be asked to meet
quota of $53,000,000 out of the Dis
trict's total goal of $95 100000.
Here's Mother to Preside.
The Hellcat will be dedicated by
Mrs. C. H. Young, 2700 Connecticut
avenue NV, mother of the late
Capt. Cassin Young, U. S. N, one of
the Districts greatest heroes of the
war.
! Capt. Young was in command of
the U. S. S. Vestal, which lay along
side the battleship Arizona in Pearl
Harbor when the Japs attacked on
December 7, 1941. The Washington
officer beached his vessel in order to
save it. Later he was given COM
mand of the cruiser San Francisco
and was killed in action while lead
ing an attack against superior
enemy forces near Guadalcanal on
November 13, 1912.
Capt. Young was posthumouSly
awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor and the Navy Cross for his
heroism.
Commissioners John Russell
Young and Guy Mason, along with
Treasury officials. will also be present
at the dedication ceremonies.
Admiral Land to Speak.
Meanwhile, departmental rally
in connection with the bond drive
was scheduled for pm. today by
the Maritime Commission and War
Shipping Administration in the
Commerce Department auditorium
Madeleine Carroll, former screen
actress, who is now training as Red
(See WAR RONDS pace Az
Evening star., 1944-01-17
SupreneCourt
Will Review
.McNabb Ruling
Mitchell Case Used
In Test of Decision
Barring Confession

The Government was success
full today in an effort to obtain
a clarification of the Supreme
Court ruling in the McNabb case.
The tribunal agreed to review
the decision of the United States
Court of Appeals setting aside
the conviction of James P. Mitch
ell, so-called society burglar"
here, whose reputed confession
was held invalid because he was
held eight days before arraign-
ment.
The Mitchell case was one of a
number in which prosecution has
failed because the lower courts felt
bound by the principle laid down
by the Supreme Court last spring in
reversing the murder convictions of
three Tennessee mountain youths by
the name of McNabb, on the ground
that they had been held too long
for questioning before arraignment.
In using the Mitchell case for
test the Justice Department asked if,
under the McNabb ruling. "a subse-
quent delay in arraignment pre-
cludes the admission in evidence Of
confession given while detention
without arraignment was proper,
and which was not in response to
interrogation. and to which the de-
lay IN arraignment bore no causative
relation?"
Admitted 30 HOusebreakings.
Mitchell was arrested October IL,
IN connection with a theft at the
home of Harry G. Meem, and before
his arraignment. reputedly confessed
to some 80 housebreakings.
According to the prosection, the
Time OF arraignment had no bearing
on his statements, which were said
to have been made almost immedi-
ately after his apprehension.
In the McNabb case, the Defend
ants were held for varying periods
up to 48 hours. In outlawing the re-
puted confessions the Supreme Court
said the youths should have been
arraigned with reasonable prompt
ness"
The Court of Appeals contended
that this ruling would bar the ad-
mission in evidence of statements
attributed to Mitchell, because the
District code provides for arraign-
ment immediately and without de-
lay"
Mitchell repudiated the confess
sion attributed to him and said he
was mistreated by the police.
Challenged in Congress.
In asking review, the Justice
Department said that the facts in
the McNabb Case sand the language
Of the majority opinion, read by
Justice Frankfurter. are consistent
with the understanding that for
the confession to be rendered in
admissible by the operation of this
rule, it must have been given in the
course of the unlawful detention
and in response to interrogation.
The McNabb ruling also is being
challenged in Congress, Representa-
tive Hobbs. Democrat, of Alabama,
having introduced a bill that would
validate confessions in criminal
cases without regard to possible de-
lay in arraigning a defendant.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
zoning Board Denies Plea
For Housing Restrictions
Mrs. Rooseuelt's Comment on the
Zoning Situation on Page BIZ

A petition of the Congress
Heights Citizens Association. asking
that part of the Congress Heights
area be semirestricted to prevent
construction of multiple family low
cost housing for Negroes, was re-
jected today by the Zoning Com
mission.
Action on similar petition from
the Bradbury Heights Citizens As
sociation was deferred.
The commissions action leaves
the way open for private construc-
ton of apartments to be rented to
colored families.
The action came as a climax to
controversy which developed be-
tween Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and
leaders of the two citizens asso-
Citations, after the Presidents wife
discussed the petition of the Brad
bury Heights group in her MY
Day syndicated newspaper COL
umn of January 5.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Army Bans Opinions
Of Soldiers on Vote
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Jan. 17.-Soldiers will not be
permitted to express their views for
publication on the subject of the
soldiers vote, under a War Depart
ment ruling
Correspondents of this theater
were told they might write their
own impressions on the attitude of
military personnel on this issue, but
might not quote individuals or take
polls.
The ruling was based on a per-
manent Army regulation which for
bids officers or men from ente1Rng
into public debate on controversial
political issues or matters pending
before Congress.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Soviet Paper Reports Peace Bid
Extended to Germany by British;
Allies Batter Nazi Line in |ta|v
Step Up Attack on
Enemy Defenses
Near Casino
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL.
giers, Jan. 17.-Attacking along
a 30-mile front. American and
French troops of 1t. Gen. Mark
w. Clark's 5th Army reached the
steep banks of the Rapido River
which runs through Casino, anc
have begun battering assaults or
the Gustav defense line, mair
barricade to Rome, Allied head
quarters announced today.
The exact penetration where
American troops finally pushed ur
to the Rapido, which runs almos
due north and south at Casino
was not announced. Previously
however. American infantrymen hac
stormed and captured Mount Troc-
chic. the last high ground before
Casino. whose peak is but 2 miles
from the town. and it was possible
that they had thrust on down the
slopes to Casino itself.
French Reach Upper RapidO.
The French of Gen. Alphonse JUN
also smashed through pecipitous
hills and mountains in the Apen-
mines to reach the Upper Rapido
having previously captured the vii
lage of Cardito and another of the
many Mount Croces which dot the
Italian terrain
At Cardito and Mount Croce the
French were 9 to 10 miles north OF
Casino and only slightly east
Lower down the line, however. where
they had reached to within 2 miles
of the mountain village of SAINT
Ella, they were but miles from
Casino.
The Rapido's high banks have
been converted by the Germans
into one of the main features OF
their Gustav line 1t has been
studded with guns, weapon pits
dugouts and traps, as have the hills
and rocky ledges behind it.
The Americans launched their
final attack against the l,475-foot
Mount Trocchio at dawn Saturday
and by nightfall had cleared out
the enemy except for isolated pock-
cts. These were attacked Yesterday
Although the victory placed Gen
Clark's troops only two airline miles
from Casino, the Germans were
expected to fight desperately to re-
tain this base, for its fall would
open up the possibility of a swift
Allied advance through valley land
toward Rome, some 10 miles away
Yesterdays communique an
nounced that Gen. Juin's French
troops, fighting in difficult noun
tain terrain, had occupied Cardito
which is 3 miles northwest of cap
tured Acquafondata, aad seized the
village of Vallerontonda.
Drive Toward Junction.
The French also were driving to-
ward the highway junction of Atina
miles north of Casino.
Gen. Clark has sent congratu-
lations to Gen. Henri Giraud on
the performance of the French
troops in Italy against resolute
German resistance despite un-
favorable weather and in ex-
tremely difficult terrain" Radio
France of Algiers said last night.
The broadcast was recorded in
New York by FEC monitors.)
Action along the 9th Army front
on the Adriatic end of the Italiar
battle line remained at a virtua
stalemate except for patrol action:
and raids on enemy outposts in the
Orsogna area by British troops.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Reds Interpret Reply
As Rejection of Offer

LONDON, Jan. II (P).-The Soviet
government, interpreting last Fri
days Polish statement as a rejection
of its offer to negotiate a new Rus
sian-Polish border on a Curzon line
basis, emphasized today it could not
"enter into official negotiations with
a government with which diplomatic
relations have been interrupted"
Moscow's short sharp reply also
raked up the Katyn Forest mass
graves accusation by Nazi Propa-
ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb-
bels last April with reminder that
Polish recognition of the charge
caused the diplomatic break.
Hard on the heels of this re-
sponse, Moscow announced in
another broadcast-both of which
(See POLAND. Page A-1O)
Evening star., 1944-01-17
DeroiIed Freight Grozes
Passing Passenger Train
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
LANCASTER, N. Y, Jan. IT.
Twenty-Five cars of a Delaware
LackaWanna & Western freight
train plunged off the tracks here
yesterday, grazing a passenger train
and piling up in nearby field. No
one was injured
The last two coaches of the New
York-bound passenger train passing
on parallel track received glanc-
ing blow from the freight cars as
they hurtled by, but railroad officials
said the only damage to the passen-
ger train was broken windows.
Westbound tracks were torn up
for 200 feet and traffic on both lines
was halted for several hours.
A preliminary investigation indi-
Gated the derailment was caused by
a broken axle on one Of the freight
cars.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Allied Tribunal Dooms
Supporter Of Fascism
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
AlgierS, Jan. 17-An Allied military
tribunal has imposed the death
sentence on an Italian convicted o1
trying to revive Fascism in Italy ano
ordered woman colleague i'm
prisoned for a year, it was an
nounced today.
Eleven others involved in the plot
discovered by the American Counter.
intelligence Corps were given SEN
tences of from one to 10 years.
Salvatore Bramante, "a, received
the death sentence on three charges
OF possessing guns illegally, damag-
ing communication lines and attend
ing meetings of the outlawed Fascist
Party.
The confessed leader of the group
Cataldo Grammatico, 20, was sem
fenced to 10 years.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Hungarian Radio Denies
Mass Evacuation Of Sofia
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Hun
garian radio said today it had beer
announced Officially that Sofia con-
tinues to be the seat of the Bull
garian government"
The German-language broadcast
recorded by United States Govern
ment monitors, declared that this
disposes of all rumors alleging move
ment of the government to one OF
another provincial town, which are
thus exposed as untrue"
"A German broadcast last Friday
said the Bulgarian government had
ordered immediate total evacuation
of the city's 100000 inhabitants as
a result Of devastating Allied all
raids.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
BY the Associated Press,

A UNITED STATES 18th AIR
FORCE BOMBER BASE IN
ITALY, Jan. 17.-Flying Fort
resses of the 18th Air Force
struck a savage blow yesterday
at the highly-important Klagen-
furt aircraft works which Hitler
tucked away in Northern Austria
to safeguard it from attack.
Fortresses from Italian bases, CO.
ordinating their crushing force with
that of the Britain-based 9Th All
Force in the rising campaign to pull
verize the NaI aircraft industry
struck through heavy antiaircraft
fire and few fighter planes to score
many direct hits on the factory.
Returning crewmen said great
clouds of smoke hovered over the
plant and part of 1t was in flames
as the Fortress turned away. The