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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-02
by DON CASwELL

ALLIED HEADQUAR TIERS.
SouiEweft PaclIlc. June 2. up
American reinforcements moved up
TO the frcnt on Biak Island Friday
TO aid invasion forces in their at
tempt to break enemy resistance on
the approaches to Mokmer, where
the advance was halted while pa
trols routed japanese SniperS and
artillery spotters from the surround
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-02
GAME CAUSES FIRE

A short in electrical wiring orig
mating in a wall socket resulted
in the FL Centre fire department
making a run to the J. N. Smith
residence at 1882 Brighton at $50
p. m. Thursday. Children playing
hide the thimble had Secreted the
metal thimble in a wall socket
causing the short circuit.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-02
Two Nazi Anchors
To Rome SIashed

Continued frcm Page II
my from the Artemisio mountains
in the heart of the Alban hills were
only two and a half miles from
Mt Della Faeta, whose slopes de-
scend to the wooded Campagna
plain and Rene itself It's capture
would bypass beth the Germans
Appian Way stronghold of Albano
ano nearby Castel Gandolfo, site of
the Pope'S summer hon1S-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-02
CLOSE RIVALS

BOSTON. JCEe >. 6UP) -- The
only thing Atty. Joseph McDonough
has to do to check up on his op-
ponentS Tor the Democratic nomi-
nation for Encouragement is open
his office door. Attys John Backus
and Francis Harrigan have offices
across the hall
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Continued from Page -
geant in the army and is stationed
in the Pacific arear. He enlisted In
Imperial Valley in 1910. Both Boys
are we'll known in Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-02

Among the new pilots of the CEN
trail flying training command in
Texas is Fred Higginbotham of Ell
Centre. He was graduated as an
army pilot at graduation exercises
held simultaneously at II advanced
training schools. He took his train
ing at Aloe Field.
The Valley settler., 1944-02-25
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It BY .KIRKE L. SIMPSON :.
Associated Press War Analyst

+, A new Russia b ak-tHTouei1 To
cut, the, Leningrad-Odessa railroad
north of Novosololniki shapes up
as the opening of the battle of the
Baltic flank in the east even be-
fore, the crisis is. reached on the
Black Sea wing Of the front.
Russian forces astride the Novo-
sokoldiki-pno link. Of the railroad
stand within less than 100 miles .of
Pskov.. That is the vital supply
and escape corridor south Of Lake
Peipus- for all German forces on
the Leningrad-Lake' Ilnen-Lovat
river front. '' 4 4
The site Of the new, operation,
which Berlin estimates is backed
by at least 100000 fresh Rus
sian troops, suggests that an at
tempt to roll up the Nazi Baltic
wing from the south has started.
The new break-through came south
of the tremendous marshes of the
Lovat which have guarded the Ma
ri defense line for 125 miles from
Welikie Luki to Staraya Russia.
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TRIBUNAL RULES
IN CARRIER CASE

WASHINGTON, JAM IL B :
A railroad must make every rea-
sonable effort to settle labor dis
pute before it is entitled, under
the Norris-Laguar act, to a
court injunction restraining strik-
ing employees from committing VIC
lence agains the road, the Supreme
Count ruled today.
Specifically, the court held that
the Toledo, Peoria and Western
Railroad, 239-mile road between
Keokuk, Iowa, and Elmer, Ind,
had not made that effort and re-
versed a Federal district court at
Quincy. ILL.,, which granted the car
rier an injunction during a strike
of 104 employees two years ago.
Denial of an injunction, the opin'
ion added, would not necessarily
leave the railroad without a RENE,
dy from the mob violence which
it charged to the strikers. Damage
suits and criminals laws prohibit.
ing interference with interstate
trains still could be effective meth,
DDS, the court said,
In another To opinion. the court
laid down the rule that the right
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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New Soviet Break Through Shapes
Up As Opening Of Baltic Battle

The Pskov gateway seems the
logical main objective of the Rus
sian drive. Through it run all trans
port feeders for the whole Ma
ri Baltic flank except the round
about Revel-Leningrad railroad
and a highway via 'Narva.
/. A serious Russian threat to
;Pskov must force hasty Nazi re-
tirement from Leningrad, the Vol
kov front below it, and from the
Lake IInlen-Staraya Russia sector
German evacuation of all north
western Russia to match the re-
treat from the Ukraine and White
Russia to the south may be i'm
pending.
While the scope and direction of
the Russian attack has not yet
FULLY developed, there are indica-
tons that mark it as the start of
the long expected major winter Of
fensive in the north for which the
Russians are known to have been
preparing for months.
The NaziS in the Baltic theater
Continued on Page Tive; Col. 4
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Southern Governors Say
Dixie Is Still Democratic
Believe Disputes Can Be Handled Better B,
Democrats = Broughton Is Present "a

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-RH
The South may not be entirely
happy about its treatment under
the Roosevelt administration but il
is still dependably within the Dem
ocratic party fold, Southern gov
errors agreed today.
The governors expressed this
view in advance of White House
tea to which they were invited by
President Roosevelt. Summed up,
their general attitude was that
quarrels, over freight rates and
States Rights can be handled bet
ter within Democratic ranks rath-
er than with Republican admin
istration.
Governor Prentice Cooper OF
Tennessee, chairman OF the South
ern governors conference which is
sponsoring Interstate Commerce
Commission cases containing the
South's freight rate adjustment
pleas, said he felt 'only hostility
is evident from COP leaders to
proposed rate parity with the il
dustrial east.
With one partial exception the
Southern governors expressed firm
belief the Solid South again will
be strongly Democratic in the No
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o. S., FRENCH HIT
AT GUSTAV Line

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AL
giers, Jan, 17.-tR-American and
French troops, smashing at the
Nazis' Gustav line along 3O-mlle
front. reached the Rapido River
and other points favorable for
launching an attack on the key
city of Casino today as their new
ccmmander-in-chief, Gen. Sir Hen
nv. Maitland Wilson, declared that
the Germans would be hit wher-
ever ana whenever the opportuni-
ty offers on the Mediterranean
front.
Rome, itself, is the immediate
objective of present Allied opaat-
ions in Italy, Wilson said at his
first press conference here, add
ing that he was Optimistic" that
the Eternal City would fall to the
Allies before long. He said other
attacks might be expected along
the southern front anywhere from
it's western extremity, the Pyre-
nees, to its Balkan terminus.
where the River Martha flows in
to the sea.
Promising easier terrain for Al
lied troops once they break the
enemy's present defenses before
Casino, the man who has been
nicknamed Jumbo" because of
his size said that, given luck, the
Allies might win the war this year
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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= ed Nations, welcomed the Offer
I of the United States to help and
waited to see whether negotia-
tons with the Soviet government
could be attained in the face OF
the stern Russian reply to the
Polish statement Saturday.
The Poles have asked that
Washington and London under
take to mediate the Polish-Rus
sian dispute and participate in
discussion of all outstanding ques-
tons involving the two nations.
1t had. said that it could not .ae-
cept q 'unilaterar' settlement
from Russia.
To this Polish statement Moscow
had replied early today that the
Poles evidently were unwilling to
accept settlement along the lines
proposed by Russia some days ago
and that the Russian government
would not center into official ne
gotiations with a government with
which diplomatic relations have
been interrupted.
It is believed in London that a
reshuffling of Polish officials to
eliminate President WladyslaW
Raczkiewicz; Gen. Kazimierz
Sosnkowski, commander in chief
of Polish armies in exile; and
1t. Gen. DR.. Marian Kukiel, min
lister of defense; and giving the
Moscow union of Polish patriots
representation might bring the
two governments together. =
It is understood here that Pre-
mier StantislaW Mikolajczyk and
Foreign Minister Tadeusz Rom
err will discuss the situation with
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
soon and report to the Polish
cabinet. In the meantime the
Poles, feel that purposely avoid
ing acceptance OF rejection Of the
Russian Curzon Line proposals
was wise because settlement OF
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Reynolds Becomes N. {.
Recreation Chairma an
For National Group

Jesse A. Reynolds, Recrea-
ton Director, has agreed to
serve as state chairman for
North Carolina, for the So.
ciety OF Recreation Workers u
America, of which the head
quarters are in Washington.
D. G..
Milo F. Christensen, chair
man of the society, requested
in a recent letter to Mr.. Rey.
nolds that he serve in tb6
capacity.
National committee members
of the Society include Jean
Barnes, Washington, D. c.;
Jacob Fieldman, West Hart
ford, Conn; Robert L. Horn
ey, Davenport, Ia; and
Charles Graves, Atlanta. Ga. =
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REYNOLDS BACKS
INCOME CEILING
Sen. Maybank Vamly Tries
To Get Tax On Oleo
Repealed

WASHINGTON, Jan. IT, Up -
Senator Reynolds (D.-N.C.) advo.
Gated a postwar tax ceiling of %
per cent on individual earnings to-
day as the Senate entered its sec
ond weeks debate on 1925
100000. revenue bill.
sit is absolutely impossible to
do it now," he told the Senate,
''but as soon as this war is over
we've got to begin thinking about
tax reduction.
Reynolds supported the pending
tax bill, denounced by the Ad-
ministration because it falls far
short of the $40 500, 600, 600 revenus
goal set by the Treasury. Presi-
dent Roosevelt said last week the
bill fails to pass the test of a
realistic tax law"
The Senate's drive to pass the
new tax measure stalled today be-
hind a day-long fight which wound
up in defeat for an attempt to
abolish for the wars duration a
tax of 10 cents a pound on the
sale Of yellow colored oleomar-
garine.
Senator Maybank D.-S.C.)
brought the repeal attempt into the
tax debate and stirred an immedi-
ate outburst from dairy state SEN
ators who argued it was an effort
to give oleomargarine equal stand
ing with butter on the nations din
ner tables. Maybank's proposed re-
pealer was defeated SIS to % on
a roll call vote.
''This tax is not to raise re-
venue" declared Senator Shipstsad
R.- Mimi. SIT is regulatory
tax to prevent fraud and decep-
ton"
"Oleo can now be colored any
color except yellow without paying
the tax" shouted Senator La Fol-
lette (Prog. Wis.,. "But its manu-
facturers want it to look like but
ter and smell like butter. They'd
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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.USSIANS SURPRISED
Pravda Ladies Story As A
'Rumor' From The Be-
ginning

MOSCOW, Jan. IT, Up - The
Communist party organ, Pravda,
today published a report which al
though plainly labeled as ru-
NOR from Cairo, amounted to an
unofficial accusation that Britain
was sounding out Germany on the
possibility of a separate peace.
The 1O-line dispatch, published at
the top of Pravda's foreign news
page under a Cairo dateline and
credited to "a special correspond
ent of Pravda', said two British
officials had met secretly with Joa-
chin Won Ribbentrop, German
foreign minister. with the "aim OF
finding out the conditions of sep
arate peace with the Germans. ="
1t said SIT is understood the meet
ing did not remain without re-
suits" "a phrase which carried to
Russians the positive connotation
that it had met at least a partial
success.
Excited interest and surprise
were stirred among Russians by
the strange and disturbing story.
Allied quarters were incredulous.
British officials said they could not
understand either the report or the
publication of it, and that they did
not believe it.
There was no hint as to the iden-
tity of the Britons reported e.
gagged in the negotiations. A Bern
dispatch said the Ankara radio had
qquited Pravda as saying two for
mer British statesmen had met
Ribbentrop.
The Pravda dispatch in its en-
tirely was as follows:
Cairo, Jan. 12-- (By Special cor
respondent of Notwithstanding
to information from reliable Greek
and Yugoslav sources, a secret
meeting took place recently in one
Of the seacoast caies of the Pyre-
nees peninsula between two Eng
lish officials and Won Ribbentrop.
1.-The meeting had the aim of
finding out the conditions of sep
arate peace with the Germans. 1t
is understood the meeting did not
remain without results"
Pravda made no comment, nor
did Soviet officials.
Although this story was printed
in the official organ of the Com
munist party, it did not bear the
weight of a dispatch of the Of
fetal news agancy, Tass. The
newspaper itself was careful to Ia
bel it as a ''rumor."
Nevertheless its mere publication
raised an interesting point at a
time when Britain. the United
States and Russia appeared to
have sealed their United Nations
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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GARDNER Will GO
TO AIR MEETING

H. r.. Gardner. county commits
sioner, was appointed to represent
New Hanover county at the an
nual meeting of the Atlantic Coast
al Cities Air Service Association
in Washington Friday, January 81,
at the regular weekly meeting of
the Board of Commissioners Mon
day afternoon.
M. o. Dunning, general counsel.
stated in a telegram from Wash
ington to Henry w. Lockwood,
Charleston, chairman Of the group,
that this would be the most i'm
portant meeting ever held by the
association.
Dunning stated that the purpose
of the meeting is to elect officers
and transact general business. It
is expected that the association
will arrive at plans for the de-
velopment of adequate air service,
both domestic and foreign for
coastal cities.
The meeting will be held at II
O'clock Friday morning in the Pam
American room of the Mayflower
hotel.
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LEGION SUPPORTS
DRAFT OF LABOR

HIGH POINT, Jan. 17.-RH
Warren A therto on of Stockton,
Calf. commander of the Ameri-
can Legion, said in a speech here
tonight that enactment of the Ma
tional Service Act "can shorten
the war and save lives
Addressing TIE closing session OF
the North Carolina Department
Post Officers conference, Anterior
said the Legion had urged enact
ment of universal service act
for the last 20 years and essen
TALLY this was the same legisla-
ton which the President recently
said was needed to win the war.
He commended the loyalty OF
the American workers who aided
in making production hit an all
time peak, but called TRAITORS"
those who "defied our commander
in chief, and their own leaders.
who turned deaf ears to the pray
ers of mothers whose sons are in
action, and stopped production"
He said strikers were "prolong-
ing the war and the blood Of Amer
lean boys will forever stain their
hands,
Future peace, he declared, de-
pended on the continuance OF
friendly relations with nations OF
this hemisphere.
Atherton told his hearers that
the producers of "the arsenal OF
democracy are beginning to turn
the tide of battle" but that the
war is far from over. He predict
ed that at the present rate OF
casualties, there will be 800, 000
killed and wounded between where
we are and the ruins of Berlin
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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MARCH OF DIMES
CAMPAIGN OPENS

The eleventh annual appeal for
funds with which to carry on the
work of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis was begun
here Monday, with the quota fol
New Hanover county set at 81
900.
The Rev. James B. McQuere is
chairman of the drive, and j. D.
Carr, vice chairman. Harry Dosh
err, who handled the campaign
here last year, was appointed te
handle public relations.
Dosher stated yesterday that
the drive here was to effect II
no way the campaign of the
Fourth War Loan. AFTER all, ''he
said, we are only asking fol
dimes. )"
Officials of the campaign sale
that if people who were Thankful
for the wonderful work carried or
by the foundation in previous
years would begin saving theil
dimes two or three months before
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WALLACE SPEAKS
TO DIXIE HEADS
Vive-President Denounces
New York Money
Market

WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.-lR-
Vice President Wallace told the
Southern Governors Conference to.
night that the Federal Government
must break the monopoly pow.
err of the New York money mar.
ket if the South is to achieve eco.
nomic equality with other sections.
Cheering the Southern governors
on in their efforts to force a re.
vision in the freight rates they
contend discriminate against their
section, Wallace urged them to
join with governors in the West
and other areas in support of ma.
tional measures to abolish trade
barriers and to decentralize finan-
cial controls.
"Such a program will certainly
meet with an enthusiastic response
from the governors of Western
states and should appeal to any
governor of New York who is
genuinely interested in the gen.
eral welfare" Wallace said in his
prepared text.
He charged that the South had
been kept in a colonial status
by discriminatory differentials in
transportation COSTS" by state
trade barriers and because the
expansion of Southern enterprises
would compete with other bust
nesses in which the bankers were
already interested"
'1n short" he declared, "the
failure of the South to build a
balanced regional economy can be
told in terms of vested interests
seeking to protect uneconomic
profits through control of finance,
control of production capacity,
monopolistic pri~ ng of transporta-
ton services and control mar
kets."
He proposed removal of freight
rate making powers from private
bureaus and their Judgment with
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. He said this should be fol-
lowed by action to establish re-
gional money markets.
"At present." Wallace said, 'all
industrial developments that must
appeal to the capital markets for
funds to establish or expand their
operations are subject to a veto
by the New York money market,
whose dominant bankers are al.
ready interested in established en-.
terprlses in virtually every indus
try and who are naturally not ca
ger to facilitate the establishment
of competing firms.
The breaking of the monopoly
Continued ON Page Two; Col. 81
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Nazis Say Entire Eastern Front Blazing
e. Russian Troops Drive TOWARD Latpia;
- Great Britain Accused Of Seeking Peace
RAIL CENTER IS NEARED
Slaughter OF 1900 Ger
mans Is Claimed By
Moscow

LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 18-
R-Northern Russian trops ham,
mering toward the Latvian from
tier 70 miles beyond drove to with
in seven miles of the rail junction
of Novosokolniki yesterday, while
far to the southwest another Red
army plunged to within IA miles
of Rovno, an important commune
cations hub for all eastern Poland.
A Moscow communicate early to-
day said the Russians had killed
a total of $500 troops yesterday,
1900 of them in the reduction of
five German strongpoints il the
north where the Red army's latest
offensive had entered its fifth day.
Berlin accounts said, however,
that 250,000 Russians were attack
ing all along a 25O-mile front be-
low Leningrad.
Fierce German counter-attacks
were reported continuing in the
Uman region of the southwestern
Ukraine. The Russians said their
troops successfully repulsed all of
them, destroying 80 tanks, 16 ar
mored cars, six big guns, 200
trucks and other equipment.
Unan is IL miles south of Yaro-
vatka. where the Russians prevj-
ously had cut the Smela-Khristi-
Novka railway, one of the Nazi es-
cape routes leading out of the mid
die Dnieper River area.
The capture of Tuchin put Gen.
Nikolai F. Vatutin's forces OF the
First Ukraine Army only IA miles
northeast of Rovno, and Moscow
dispatches said Rovnos capture,
an early possibility. would imperil
the German grip on vast area
Of southern Russia.
Soviet troops first by-passed Tu-
chin. said the bulletin broadcast
| by Moscow and recorded by the
Soviet monitor. Then. taking adj
vantage of the panic that broke
cut among the Germans, Soviet
fighters wiped out about 300 Hit
lerites,'' and captured several
guns. an ammunition dump, and
other booty.
Rovno, 40 miles inside pre-War
Poland, is an objective of troops
alta cking on the southern side Of
an 85-mile Russian bulge inside
that territory. 1t is junction Oh
the Observation-Disclosures and Sarny-
Lwow railways, and also is astride
the hard-surfaced Kiev-WarsaW
highway.
On Sunday other Russian units
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Loss Of Life Expected
To Mount Far Beyond
500 In Andean Town

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. IL
R-Latest government reports
from quake-stricken San Juan
said tonight the loss of life
IS expected to mount far be-
Sond 500, with 900 to 1000
seriously injured and 1900 less
seriously hurt.
The government press bur-
eau said it was too early for
On accurate calculation Of the
material loss but estimated 1t
would reach at least SIS, 000--
ihe task of removing the
sead from the rubble and adj
'histering to the wounded
went on amid huge piles Of
ae'fis which still blocked most
streets in the once picturesque
mountain city of 10000. Res
u u squads cremated scores Of
duehtlfieL bodies at the or,
s OF health authorities.
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18th WarLoan
Drive Opens;
Rally Is Set
s4,S5e,ooo IS GOAL
Retail Stores Will Open
Today AT 10 a. H.
Premier Slated

New Hanover county will star
steps to reach it's goal of $4,S59,
600 today, as the Fourth War Bone
campaign formally opens with {
'kickoff' bond premier movie a
D. m. tonight at the Bailey thea
fer.
Having accepted major role
in this great bond sale undertak'
ing, the city's retail merchants
and their employees are expected
TO set the pace of the campaign
bv offering unqualified support at
a mass meeting at 9 am. at the
Bailey theater, when Judge Hen
Nv L. Stevens, of Warsaw, presid-
inc at superior court here this
week. will deliver a war bond
pep talk.
All city retail stores will open
at 10 am. Tuesday, in order for
employees to attend the mass meet
inc. where it is expected that
each store worker will accept for
himself goal of 5000 worth of
bonds or stamps to be sold dur
ng the campaign Jan. 18-Feb. %.
The premier showing of the
motion picture, ''Destination
Tokyo" will be the formal "kick-
off to the bond drive and bond
leaders expressed the opinion
Monday that it will be a "sell-
cut. Tickets to the movie may
be secured free rom any bond
issuing agent for the purchase of
an extra war bond.
Atmosphere for the official
launching of the drive at the Bailey
theater will be supplied by mill
tary equipment which will be dis
played from 1870 to $3.50 pm.
along the east side of Front street,
between Market and Princess
streets. Both sides OF the street
will be blocked off by police.
A concert by the 141st Army
band from Camp Davis will be
played outside the theater from
7 pm. to 7:30 pm, and the band
will move inside later to play for
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