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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Federation Meets
In Lansing Tonight

THE SOUTHEASTERN Dis
trict of Michigan State Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs will hold
its 26th annual meeting Tuesday
and Wednesday in the Lansing
Woman's Club House in South
Washington avenue, Lansing.
A luncheon will be held Tues
day in honor of Mrs. Emma A.
Fox: past presidents OF the fed
Grafton and past presidents OF
the Southeastern District. Re-
ports will be made by officers
and chairmen Of the clubs and
forums conducted. Among the
guest speakers will be DIR.
George w. Shepherd, who has
spent 20 years in China, six in
close association with Gen.
Chang Kai-shek.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Kings Daughters
Call z Meetings

FELLOWSHIP CIRCLE OF
the Kings Daughters will meet
. at 1890 p. m. Wednesday at the
home Of Mrs. j. w. Dykstra in
West Boston boulevard.
FULTON CIRCLE of Kings
Daughters will meet at 100
d. m. Friday is the Women's
City Club. Mrs. c. L. Williams
and Mrs. Harry Booth will be
co-hosteSses.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
lie Fe+es
1t. Kranners
CROSSE LIE, Oct. 21.

CROSSE LIE, Oct. n.
II T. AND MRS. HERMAN d.
MER JR., recently
25narried In Troy, have arrived
to be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman d. Kramer. until FRI
day, when 1t. Kramer goes TO
Texas to instruct a school for
pilots. Mrs. Kramer will re-
turn to Troy.
Mrs. Kramer Wednesday In
Wted so guests from Detroit
and the island to meet her new
daughter-in-law at a beautifully
appointed tea In her home. As
sisting her were Mrs. o. A.
johnson, Mrs. Ralph Clark OF
Crosse Pointe, Mrs. Hugh Mar
tin and Mrs. Elmer c. Texter
of Detroit.
The Wednesday Book Club,
Mrs. Sidney Corbett III, presi-
dent, will meet this week at
the home of Mrs. Rice Fitz-
patrick on West River road.
Mrs Frederick L. Lowrie will
be hostess to the Book Club
of Crosse lie, Oct. "a, when
Mrs. John Karmazin will read a
paper on The Religions OF
India" Tea will be served by
Mrs. James Wilson.
Mrs. Myron Vorce has gone
10 Cleveland for two weeks.
She will be the guest OF Mrs.
d. F. Pettibone. Shaker Heights.
Yellott F. Hardcastle OF
Broomall. Pa, has joined the
duck hunters on the island.
He is quartered with the Robert
A. Alexanders, and will return
to his home tomorrow.
-
The annual meeting of the
Crosse lie Yacht Club was held
Wednesday at the Crosse lie
Golf and Country Club. Four
new officers and three new d.
ectors were elected. Leander
c. Knight retired as oom-
modore. The annual Com
modore's Ball. sponsored by the
Yacht Club, will be given Nov.
3 at the Country Club.
Sally Denison. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Denison
Of. Grand Rapids, guest OF Mrs.
John c. Wright, spent several
days at Wells College in
Aurora, N. Y, attending her
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Undergraduates
Set Benefit ca

KINDER GARTEN DIvI-
SION of the Detroit Teachers
Association will hold tea from
a to 6 .p. m. Nov. 2 at the
YWCA, honoring retired and
active women principals Of the
elementary grades and retired
kindergarten teachers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Servicemen Unit
To Give Luncheon

THE woMENS LEAGUE
FOR SERVICEMEN of High
land Park will entertain Friday
at a 1890 luncheon and benefit
bridge at Kern's Auditorium.
Mrs. Elmer +. Mason Is
chairman OF the party.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Goodmans Await
Dauqhter's Visit

MR.. AND MRS. FRANK
GOODMAN of Rochester ave-
nue. are. awaiting the arrival,
this week, of their son-in-law
and daughter, S/Sgt. and Mrs.
Jack Mackson of Santa Barbara.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Auxiliary to Hold
Benefit Luncheon

ST. JOSEPHS AUXILIARY
will hold a benefit luncheon at
/ p. m. Wednesday in Kern's
auditorium. Proceeds will be
used for the crippled children's
ward. Mrs. John c. BECKER
chairman, will be assisted by
J. n. Andres William A. Cant
A. T. MArantette r. J. hauer,
Fred 8chnldenbrand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Cpl. Paulos Jr.
Goes TO Airfield

Cpl. Peter B. Paulos Jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter p.
Paulos of Sturtevant avenue has
gone to Will Rogers Field. Okla,
following a Today furlough
here with his parents. He was
formerly stationed in Noun
tain Home, Ind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
EnroIls in Foreign
Service School

MARY ANN BUCKLEY of
Los Angeles will depart on
Tuesday for New York City to
enter foreign service training
school. She is visiting her uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred
v. Casgrain of Willow lane, here.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
Legion Auxiliary
Chairnen Named

MRS. GORDON X. MacED-
WARD newly elected president
Of Ragan-Hde Unit No. 13.
American Legion Auxiliary. will
be assisted by the following
chairmen:
MESDANfES
z z Wenp George Herbst
Clarence BosckmAn Alfred Whitaker
Ralph Rosselle ward ". Peck
Harold Aaruns Paul n Eppold
c. william Palmer Ralph BOokmeyer
Colin W. Hungerford
and Miss Dorothy Pudrith.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
B-29's Hit japanese Base
On East Coast Of China

WASHINGTON, July 8.
(UP)-Mighty B-29 Super
fortresseS struck hard
blow at Japanese supply bases in
occupied China, pounded the third
largest naval base on the Japanese
mainland with a heavy weight of
bombs, and smashed again at the
steel center of YaWata the war de-
partment reported Saturday.
In new communique on the sec
ond raid of the flying battleships,
the Goth bomber command revealed
that they had struck at Laoyao, a
coal and supply shipping port on
the north coast of China, and Han
kow, major Japanese base inland,
in addition to targets on the Jap
aneSe mainland.
The communique said the heavi-
est weight of bombs had been drop
ped on SaSebo, great Japanese nav
al base on the island of KyuShu and
important as a fleet repair center
for the WarShips American naval
forces have been pouncing during
the past month.
The communique also revealed
that Omura, vital war industry
center south of SaSebo, had been
hit by the fortreSseS. The attack
on Omura had not been previously
reported. The communique correct
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
County as Whole
Still Behind
On Bonds Quota

All but three cities in Imperial
county have gone over the top in
the Fifth War Loan drive-El Cen
tro, Holtville and Imperial still trail
their quotas. The total Saturday,
although lacking returns for the
full day stood at $2,978,241 which
leaves balance of $121 ,759 before
the quota of $3,100,00O is filled
When the drive closed officially
Saturday all types of bonds gave
Series E and G and tax saving
notes went off sale. The U. S.
treasury has announced that pur-
chase of the individual liStings up
to and including July 81 will be
credited to the present drive and
the county drive officials are con-
fident that the quota will be met
long before the end of the month.
1t also was announced that the
total amount under the goal will be
reduced when all agencies complete
their reports for the week.
While Imperial county is under
the average shortage of the goal
in the country at large, we cannot
rest on that score County Chairman
Herb FaWcett and Ira Kinsey, Ell
Centre chairman stressed Saturday.
Lets not drag along all month.
Let's have it finished quickly" is
the way both chairmen expressed
themselves in noting the amount
yet to be sold.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Chinese Forces
Break Through
Tenqchunq Lines

CHUNGKING, July 8. UP)-
Chinese troops broke through the
outer defenses of Tengchung Satur-
day and struck to within less than
half mile of the wall around the
city, one of the Japanese main
strongholds on the Salween front.
The drive followed a heavy at
tack on Tengchung by Mitchell me-
dium bombers, which have been
supporting the Chinese troops in
the Yunnan province campaign.
A communique said other Chinese
forces occupied town 10 miles
south Of Tengchung on the road to
Lungling, and already were attack
ing the cutter defenses at Lungling
key point on the Burma road.
On the central China front Chi
nese forces fiercely fought vigorous
Japanese onslaughts north, south
and east of Henyang on the ham
koW-Canton railway. One group of
Chinese soldiers and commanders
held Commute ceremony in the
besieged city yesterday commemo-
rating the seventh anniversary of
the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese
Central News agency reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Battering Russ
Breach Lines
In Warsaw Trek

eaSv Oh warsaw, after preliminary
bombardment of heavy field guns
and within the first few hours
smashed into the outskirts of the
key town guarding the northern
gap through the Pripet marshes.
The fall of BaranoWicZe would
pave the way for a Soviet drive
east to BialyStok and southwest
toward BreSt Litovsk, the twin cita-
dels guarding the approaches to
Warsaw.
Litva and Rusiny, four miles
southeast of BaranoWicZe, were
seized Friday by RokoSSovSky'S s
forces. along with Luki, eight miles
south, ano Savichi, l6 miles north
east. in outflanking drives.
Southeast of BaranoWicze, Rok-
ossovsky's troops further dented
the shrinking German salient in
the Pripet marshes with the cap
ture of Stolin, 33 miles southeast
of Pinsk, in a 21-mile advance in
"a hours
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
BRITISH SECOND Army DRIVES ON CAEN
Yank Bombs Rake
Invasion Line,
Vienna Oil Area
500 Italy Based Planes
Hit Damaging Blows;
Robot Nests Hunted Out

LONDON, July g. fUP)-Ameri-
can heavy and medium bombers
pounded German troop concentra-
tions and gun batteries at Caen and
robot bomb installations in the Pas
de Calais area Saturday as more
than 500 Italy-based Fortresses and
iberators fought their way through
heavy flax and fighter opposition to
hit oil refineries at Vienna and
targets in Hungary.
The fleet of 500 bombers escorted
by Lightnings and Mustangs. struck
at three oil refineries in the Vienna
baSi, three fighter fields covering
Vienna, and a Hungarian airdrome
at Veszprem, IS miles southwest of
Budapest.
HIT REFINERIES
Among the targets was the Flori-
dasdcrf oil refinery in the northern
suburbs of Vienna, and the Fanto
VoSendorf refinery six miles south
of Vienna also were hit.
Meanwhile, Eighth Fighter Com
mand Mustangs, Thunderbolts and
Lightnings stalked the LuftWaffe
on airdromes throughout France
and dive bombed railroad targets
during the day.
At least 81 German planes were
destroyed on the ground by bomb
ing and strafing fighters, 20 of them
by one formation commanded by
Col. William j. wild Bill Cum
mingS Jr., of Lawrence, Kan.
FIND HIDDEN PLANES
Cummings Mustang group, led to-
day by Major Henry B. Kucheman
Jr., Richmond, Va, found and
bombed an airfield hidden in the
woods southeast of Paris, with the
German planes, mostly tWin-engined
ME-14s, camouflaged under trees
and Shrubbery.
The Lightning group, in a series
of Strafing attacks, shot up II loco
motives, SO railroad cars and flag
tower. While these attacks were car
ried out and more than $50 Flying
FortresseS and Liberators of the
Eighth Air Force attacked enemy
robot bomb installations in the Pas
de Calais area American medium
bomberS joined the furious fight for
Caen.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Captain Moore
Reaches E. T..
From War Zone

Captain Leonard Moore, one of
the foremost of all Imperial VAL
ley's war heroes, arrived in Ell Gen.
tro Friday night for a visit with
his parents, Mayor and Mrs. P. L..
Moore.
During the years he has been
serving his country as an army
pilot, Captain Moore repeatedly has
been decorated and commended for
his accomplishments where the &C
ton in the Pacific war zCne has
been the thickest.
This is his first visit home in sew
eral years.
Captain Moore had his schooling
in Calexico and Ell Centro and after
that was employed by the Post-Press
Publications as photographer and
engraver. just before he enlisted
in the army air corps for his cadet
training, he was employed by the
Imperial Irrigation district.
Since he entered the field of ac-
ton in the Pacific war zone, Cap
tain Moore and his associates have
engaged in many spectacular and
dangerous missions which have been
featured in newspapers all over the
world.
He was resting Saturday after his
trip across the ocean and then from
San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
&C Meeting Sees Industry
PeriIed. Herring Soys

tive manager of the department of
governmental affairs of the U. S.
chamber in Washington, D. c. as
advising business to organize as
other groups have done and thus
be ready to protect itself in the
years to come. This was advanced
as another means of insuring free
enterprise after the war.
Herring was reelected one of the
seven members of the board of gov
ernors which every year plans and
arranges Iof The annual institute.
This is his third year to attend the
institute.
The most startling speech of the
institute, Herring said, was given
by j. M. Howes, secretary of the
American Chamber of Commerce at
Shanghai before the Japanese took
over. He reached home on the last
trip of the Gripsholm.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Circus
Deaths
Hit 153
Added Warrants
Issued Against
Show Officials

HARTFORD, Conn, July
8. (UP) - Additional war
rants charging manslaughter
were issued by investigating Off
cials Saturday as the death toll
from the worst fire in circus his
tory reached 153 with Is of the
bodies still unidentified Most of
the victims were children.
Only the marvel drugs of recent
research kept alive % others whose
conditions were regarded as criti-
cal. They were badly burned and
many were Waging a losing fight
with death.
Police Commissioner James F..
Kennedy said no arrests had been
made under the new warrants but
States Attorney Hugh M Alcorn,
Jr., disclosed that evidence had
been uncovered which he believed
Indicated criminal negligence.
Five circus officials already have
been arrested on technical charges
of manSlaughter and were released
on bail
AS the Ceath toll from the flam-
ing big top" mounted almost hour
ly, State War Administrator Henry
B. Mosle announced that % per-
sons were listed as missing. The Is
unidentified victims, ne said, may
be among them.
BY actual count, 1913 persons,
most of them children, remained
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

"The United States will
lose free enterprise if there
isn't more interest and par
ticipation in governmental affairs
by the men and women due to lose
most of its destruction" c. Ben Her.
ring, secretary of the Ell Centro
Chamber of Commerce, said Satur-
day after he returned from the
western institute of the United
States Chamber of Commerce in
Eugene. oregon.
He declared this thought was i'm
pressed again and again by the
speakers who were on the program
arranged for the III western states
at the University of oregon. Speaker
after speaker said the United States
will lose its freedom If there is not
more consistent and intelligent vot-
ing throughout the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Death Toll Rises
In Train Wreck

JELLICO Tenn, July 3. CUP) -
The confused facts of a tragic troop
train derailment in the north Ten
nessee mountain country IL miles
north of here Thursday night were
still locked Saturday in the twisted
steel coaches that plunged into a
canyon-like ravine, taking at least
10 lives.
The official death toll, as released
by an army public relations officer
Friday night, stood at II service
men and two trainmen, but Jellico
police chief Hubert Perkins told the
United Press that approximately 90
bodies had been removed from the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Rescuers Speed
Air Shaft to
Trapped Miners

BELLAIRE, O., July 8. CUP) - A
rescue crew working at high speed
sent drill biting down deeper Sat-
urday into the earth in an effort
to open nine-inch shaft to sc
miners entombed and presumed
dead in section of the burning
Powhatan coal mine near here.
The work on drilling the nine
inch shaft began Friday night and
by morning it had been driven down
100 feet III what company officials
said was satisfactory progress" AS
the shaft goes deeper, however, the
rate of progress will slow. The drill
crew will have to sink the shaft
through 600 feet of earth. A three
inch shaft also was being sunk in
an effort to send air to the miners
in event they are still alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

debris and that eight others had
been sighted hut not vet extricated.
Sightseers we're barred Friday
night from the scene of the trag-
edy-a forested gorge, split by a
mountain stream and trimmed by
$50 foot cliff-steep banks-and the
area was under constant patrol of
military police.
An estimated 1000 soldiers just
through with basic training were on
the train when the engine and six
coaches jumped the tracks on a
curve. Ninety-two passengers were
hospitalized and about IL others
were given emergency first aid and
released, the army said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

MOSCOW, July 8, (UP)-
Russian flying columns broke
into the southeastern out
skirts of BaranOwicze on the
historic invasion route to Warsaw
and Berlin Saturday as other Red
army troops to the north approach
cd and probably crossed the border
into Soviet Lithuania 10 miles from
Wilno, its capital.
(Soviet sources in London said
German puppet authorities hao in
voked drastic degrees tantamount
to martial law in Wilno following
a wave of sabotage and terroriStic
attacks on German soldiers. An
article in the Soviet government
newspaper Izvestia, London said
charged that the Germans had
killed 100000 Lithuanians ancl en-
slaved hundreds of thousands of
others.)
Marshal Rokossovsky's 1st White
Russian army stormed the defenses
of Baranowicze, 225 miles north
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Ernie Pyle
Cat Maps. Relieve Routine
OF Night in Ack-Ack Pit
Dawn and Safety Welcomed

IN NORMANDY by Wireless =
The six hours of night time go
swiftly for our ack-ack battery
which is a blessing Time races
when you are firing AND in the
long lulls between the waves CT
enemy planes you doze and catnap
and the time gets away.
Once, during lull long after
midnight, half a dozen of the boys
in our gunpit start singing softly.
Their voices are excellent. Very
low and sweetly they sing in per-
feet harmony such songs as I've
Been Workin' on the Railroad" and
"Tipperary.'
JUST GET SINGIN'
There isn't anything forced CT
dramatic about it, It's just half a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

Il also was impressed by the fact
that all the speakers and class in
structors agreed on another point
the community which does not have
it's postwar plans all made and
blueprinted will ;ose out in the great
reconstruction period after the war.
We, who do not have our plans
ready are going to lose out all along
the line Herring said.
1T also seemed to be generally
conceded that city governments
should handle and direct postwar
planning through corporations with
chambers of commerce. If there
is any money to spend on postwar
plans for cities, it will be the city
governments who have to spend it.
City governments must approve
projects of any kind which are plan
ned for the cities"
He quoted John c. Hazen, execu-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09


Caen and named two villages cap
tured in addition to the four an.
nounced at headquarters plus parts
of two more
NAZIS MOVE BIG GUNS
Reports reached headquarters that
the Germans were moving big guns
and armor south and southeast of
Caen and vehicular traffic was
heavy along the only two of Ia
roads radiating from the city which
still were in Nazi hands.
(The headquarters report of Ger
peared to hit at a Nazi flight from
Caen under the drubbing impact of
Montgomery's full dress offensive to
escape the threat of entrapment in
the partially encircled city,
Zero hour was 4:20 a. m. Satur-
day. British and Canadian troops
went over the top after the heaviest
artillery bombardment of the Nor
mandy campaign had softened the
German positions in and around the
great inland port of Caen Satur-
day evening headquarters spokes-
man said the days advances were
highly satisfactory"
TOWNS OvERRUN
Officially reported overrun in the
converging assault on Caen were
the villages of GOuchy, Buron, st.
Contest, and Epron, while parts of
Lebisey and Herouville were in Al
lied hands. Other reports added
Galamanche and Labijude to the
list of captured villages.
Headquarters spokesmen also an
nounced the capture, in addition to
the tight little knot of villages in
suburban Caen, of Malon, four miles
northwest of the center of the city:
Bitot, three miles north-northwest:
and Colombelles on the Caen canal
two and quarter miles northeast
American forces driving forward
on the central front in Normandy
captured the town of st. Jean De
Daye, eight miles north of ST. Lo,
Continued on Pig. 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Yank Unit Downs
10 Nazi Planes
In One Days Bag

EIGHTH U. S. AIR FORCE
FIGHTER BASE, England, July 8.
(UP)-Capt. FREQ Christensen, Wat
ertoWn, Mass, set a record for the
number of enemy planes destroyed
in a single action Friday, shooting
down six JU52's-Germany's big
gest transport plane.
Christensen was leading a flight
in Col. Hubert Zemke's famed Thun-
derbclt group when they sighted II
Junkers circling prior to landing
over an airfield in Germany.
In a few seconds the Americans
had shot down 10 of the trans
ports.
Six fell before Christensen's guns,
bringing his total of planes downed
in combat to %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Party Groups
Slate Meets.

Stated meetings of the Democratic
and Republican county central COM
mittees are to be held Tuesday at
p. m. at the Imperial county court
house as set out under the law.
The official count for committee
men named at the recent conSoli-
dated primaries will be checked and
the committees plan full reorganiza-
ton,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

dozen young fellows singing because
they like to sing-and the fact that
they are in gunpit in France
shooting at people. trying to kill
them, is just a circumstance.
The night grows bitterly chill
Between firingS every man drapes
an army blanket around his Shoul-
ders. and sometimes up over his
head, capelike. In the darkness
they are just silhouettes, locking
strange and foreign like Arabs.
After 2 o'clock there is a long lull
Gradually the boys wrap up in their
blankets and lie down on the floor
of the pit and fall asleep. Pretty
soon you hear them snoring I talk
with the gun commander fer a few
minutes, in low tones. Then my eyes
get heavy, too.
SILENCE EVERYWHERE
wrap blanket around me and
sit down on the floor of the pit,
leaning against the wall. The night
is now as silent as a grave. Not a
shot, not movement anywhere.
My head slacks over to one side.
But I can't relax enough to sleep
in that position. And it is so cold. l
am so sleepy l hurt. and I berate
myself because 7 can't go to sleep
like the others.
But I'm asleep all the time. For
suddenly voice shouts, Stand byr'
and. it is as shocking as bucket
of cold water in your face. You look
quickly at your watch and realize
that an hour has passed, All the
silent forms come frantically to life
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09
Official Ends
Own Life at SD.

Frank Rood. representative of the
state board of equalization. in I'M
perial county received word late
Friday from San Diego that Louis
c. Marie, board administrator for
San Diego and Imperial counties.
had ended his own life The infor-
maticn was that Marie shot himself
while sitting in his automobile. No
reason had been ascertained for the
act, Rood said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

Assessed valuations in Imperial
county this year showed a gain of
S1,505,733 over the year before, As
sessor-collector Dan West an
nounced Saturday.
There was approximately a mill
lion dollar gain in the valuations
outside the cities, caused in part
by the bringing OF more land into
cultivation through the rice industry
and by other additions. All seven
incorporated cities in the county
also showed gains in assessed val
uations.
The official tabulation of assess
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-09

ed earlier reports that said Tobata,
steel center near YaWata, had
been hit.
YaWata, one of Japan's chief
steel centers which was attacked
on the first superfort raid June Is,
also was hit again.