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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
YANkS SEIZE FRENCH HILL
FIVE Die IN TRAIN WRECK
$50 u. 5. Bombers
Wreak Havoc on
Paris AirfieIds
20OO Planes Hit Blows
At NaZis in Normandy
Under Clearing Weather

LONDON. July 4. CUP)-A big
sky fleet of $50 American heavy
bombers and fighters rained 1900
tons of high explosive fireworks
across a half dozen German air
fields in the Paris area Tuesday,
while mere than 2000 other war
planes ranged over the Norman
battleiieldS to hammer NaZi trans
port and gun positions in the path
Of the attacking Allied armies.
Improving weather D rmitted a
partial resumption of the aerial Of
the Allied tactical air forces took
advantage of the break tC bomb and
machine gun scores of en- my strong
points in northern France, prin-
cipally at the base of the Cherbourg
peninsula where the American First
army was on the march.
Five hundred Flying FortresseS eS
and Liberators, escorted by $50
fighters, hit the Paris airdromes.
primarily fighter fields from which
the Germans had been supporting
their troops in Normandy Heavy
overcast prevented full appraisal of
the bombing results.
The escorting fight rs met no OPP
position, and many dived down to
treetop level to flush enemy tar
gets on the ground. shooting up
trucks and railway trains.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Warren Praises
COP Ticket

SACRAMENTO, July 4. CUP)-
Gov, Earl Warren returned to Cali
fornia Tuesday from the Repub-
lican national convention and de
clared that the Republican ticket
can be elected if party members
get in and work and make the
kind of fight that should be made. -
Warren, who declined to have his
name put before the convention
for vice-presidential nomination
said he believed the nomination CT
Gov. John Bricker for Vice-Presi-
dent helped the tick-t."
He indicated he will take an ac-
tive part in California in the cam
paign to elect Gov. Thomas f.
Dewey and Bricker saying he would
take whatever part they ask me
to do
Warren disclcsed that he plans to
leave Sacramento in about a week
to take up summer residence at
Santa Monica. He said he will stay
in Southern California through
August and will have his official
headquarters at TIE Los Angeles
State Building.
He spent a similar semi-vacation
at Santa Monica last year.
The governor, Mrs. Warren and
their daughter, Virginia. arrived in
Sacramento ON an early train and
went to the executive mansion.
Warren said he planned to get TO
work on an accumulation of state
business Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
300 Mexicans Set
To Assist in
Crop Harvesting

G.. w. Garrigues, farm placement
manager, is arranging with Ru-
dolpho Sanchez Taboada, governor
of Baja California, to transfer more
than 300 MeXicans to the United
States to harvest seasonal crops.
Teachers and industrial workers
of the Mexican Republic now have
a slack season and are volunteering
to save American food, Garrigues
reports.
GarrigueS points out that al
though Imperial county has suffi-
cient help, Ventura and Hemet,
combined, need 300 men to pick
apricotS.
We also must supply San Diego
with so men to take care CT the
lemon crop" declares the farm
placement manager.
A survey shows laborerS distrib-
uted as follows:
Alfalfa, 1850; flax, 450; water
melons, 100; cantaloupeS, $500; and
sugar beets, 400.
Miscellaneous seasonal work used
1000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Burglars Strip
Ranch Home
West Of SeeIey

Somebody furnished house at
the expense of J. MARROW, stripping
MS home four miles west of Seeley
)f everything from rugs to photo
Graph albums.
NARROW was away from home be-
'Ween May 6 and July 3. Burglars
in the meantime looted his home,
lie told Sheriff Robert w. Ware.
Among the missing articles were
a mattress, an 8Xl0 rug, three
smaller rugs, an auto fan and bat
terry, an electric fan, wearing al5-
parel, an electric iron, set o..
silverWare, bedspread, four blan-
ketS. two couch covers, clothes
hamper, a set of dishes kitchen
utensils, three flashlights. an axe.
a butcherknife and a marine album,
pictures and medals
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04

danger resulting from the increas-
ing federal control of water and
national resources.
Delegate after delegate from the
II western states represented at
the convention" Harshman said,
spoke of the increasing federal
control of irrigation, rivers, navi-
cation, floods, parks, and monu-
mentS.
ut was almost unanimously de-
cided that the farmers of the west
should take determined stand to
protect state rights and the rights
of the Individual. Everyone seemed
to be alarmed at the inceaSing in
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
By UNITED PRESS

The Japanese Imperial
headquarters announced that
an American carrier task
force in a two-day raiG attacked
the BONN and Volcano islands, a
pin-point Archipelago 600 to 700
miles southeast of Tokyo, Monday
and Tuesday.
The commmique was broadcast
by Tokyo radio and recorded by
United Press, San Francisco.
Our units on Saipan island have
been continually engaged in furious
battles against the enemy troops
of superior strength around the
sectors OF the Garapan Straits,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Wallace Leaves
China for Home

CHUNGKINK, July 4. (UP)-Vice
President Henry A. Wallace is en-
route to the United States after
spending nearly two weeks in
Chungking.
Wallace said he found rhe Ameri-
can forces in China ready to CO.
operate with the fighting Chinese
and confident of ultimate victory.
He thanked his Chinese and Amer
lean friends whom he said were un-
sparing of time in an effort to give
him a closer insight of conditions in
China.
Particularly, l wish to thank
my host and hostess. president and
Madame Chang Kai Shek," Wallace
said. President Chang devoted
many hours OF his time in explain
ing China to me as only he could
do and Madame Chang in spite of
her serious ill health was cheerful
interpreter of her country"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
HAWAII LEGAL STATUS
Is UNDER SCRUTINY

SAN FRANCISCO, July 4. tUPp-
The legality of continued martial
law in Hawaii is under considera :
ton of the u S. Ninth circuit court
of appeals after day-long hearing
Saturday in which Honolulu attor-
neys, representing two civilians WHO
were tried and convicted by provost
courts, bitterly criticized military
court trials of civilians charged
with military offenses.
The case came on appeal by the
army from two Hawaiian federal
district court decisions which held
that the army has no right to try
civilians for military offenseS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04

r radio Berlin said lively land
ing activity" at the mouth of the
Wire river and extensive re-group-
ing of allied forces in Normandy
indicate that the enemy will, in
the nearest future, launch ether
large-scale attacks east of the Orne,
east of Caen at st. Lo and south
of C1rentan, as we'll as in the
southern part of the Cotentin pen
inSula."
ARTILLERY POSITIONS
The capture of Point l31 at Valois
Lithaire, two and a half miles
northeast of La Haye, gave Lit. Gen.
| Omar N. Bradley's American lst
army commanding artillery posi-
items from which to support an
assault on the stronghold itself.
Canadian forces at the eastern
end of the front went over to the
attack west of Caen early today
under cover OF a terrific artillery
barrage and in the first two hours
captured Carpiquet, two and a half
miles from the outskirts and three
and half miles from the center of
Caen.
Pressing on, the Canadians at
tackled the Caen-Carpiquet airfield,
one of the main airfields serving
Caen, Ronald Clark, United Press
war correspond emit, wrote in a dis
patch from Carpiquet. Heavy fight
ing was under way at the airfield.
NAZI TANKS QUIT
The Germans had a number of
tanks and guns in Carpiquet. but
pulled them out under cover of
smoke screen as the Canadians
closed in Some machine gun and
mortar fire was encountered by the
Canadians, but they soon fought
Continued ON Pg. 6, Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04

Resolving to increase their
fight to protect the rights
If individuals and reaffirm-
ing their faith in the principles on
which the government of the Unit
ed States was formed, Imperial
County Farm Bureau directors Sat-
urday charted their course toward
the postwar period.
Their renewal of principles was
brought about by talks given by
various directors.
I'VE must hold Ito the agricul-
tural traditions of life with which
we are familiar" said c. o. Hoober,
president of the California
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Holidays Deaths
Mount to 245

sens died in traffic accidents, 70
were drowned and 65 lost their lives
in other accidents attributed to
holiday activities.
Illinois and California were tied
at 81 each for the highest sta =
total. Illinois had eight traffic vic
tins, four drowning, and nine mis-
cellaneous. California had l3 traffic
deaths, five drownings and three
miscellaneous deaths.
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and
Pennsylvania reported IA deaths
each, while Michigan had l3 and
Indiana l2. New York reported 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
WESTERN SENATOR'S IN WORLD
SET-UP STRESS SILVER

WASHINGTON, July 4. CUP)-
Twenty-Five Western senators urge
the current world monetary confer
ence at Breton Woods, N. H., to
adopt silver as we'll as gold as a
standard for any international
monetary fund.
The senator's noted in a letter to
the President that Congress must
approve any plan developed by the
conferees and said that elimination
of silver from the TreaSury's re-
Gently announced world currency
stabilization plan was basic, Or
ganic defect"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Farm Bureau Directors Eve
Need to Guard Liberty

Farm Bureau Federation. I'VE must
look forward to the job to be done
and then do 1T efficiently and cour-
ageously. We must have strength
and courage to do the job well.
Farmers will have to co the tasks
before them and the farmers will
have to pay the bill
CITES FEDERAL CONTROL
He was followed by j. E. Harsh
man, state delegate, who declared
that the last western regional con-
vention in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was
devoted in great part to the i'm
portance of the American Farm
Bureau members taking a stand
for genuine Americanism and the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
By UNITED PRESS

y Tie nations accidental death toll
for the four-day holiday week nd
stood at 245 Tues day, Just five short
of the $50 the National Safety
Council predicted would die in the
four days ending at midnight Tues
day.
Largest single accident of the
weekend was that OF the wreck of
the Santa Fe streamliner, the
Chief, in which five persons died
early today near Williams, Ariz. 1t
was the first fatal accident in Ari-
zona during the holiday.
Since Friday midnight, 10 per-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Westbound Chief
Jumps Track in
Arizona Desert
Crack Santa Fe Diesel Propelled FIer
Piles u p Near Williams at Midnight
Injured Passengers Set From 26 TO 30
Identified dead:
J. .. Edwards, fireman, WinslOw
Arizona.


WILLIAMS, Ariz., July A
(UP)-The Santa Fee Chief,
speeding around a curve
through the colorful Indian
plateau country of northern
Arizona, plunged from the rails
early Tuesday and killed at least
five persons and injured from &c
TO 40 others.
Railroad officials whose first dis
patches from the confused scene
of the Wreckage gave IL killed said
later and more accurate reports
listed five dead and possibly a sixth
FIREMAN KILLED
One of the delC, John II. Ed
wards, fireman from WinSloW, Ariz
was burned fatally by scalding oil
His pockets were filled with burn
ing cinders and all items of identi-
fication were tern from his cloth
ing.
Mimi Forsythe, screen actress
wife of Hollywood Producer Ben
edict Rogeaus, was among the in
iured taken to Williams hospital
with possible internal injuries and
a fractured wrist.
The engine and IL cars of the
Fast diesel-poWered streamliner
ploWed into the sagebrush at ter
rifle spee6, catapulting two bag
gage cars ahead of the locomotive
and twisting a heavy steel rail over
the top of one pullman.
ESCAPE IN NIGHT CLOTHES
Force of the wreck tossed a bag
gage clerk 400 feet into the desert,
uninjured except for shock.
Passengers clambered from the
wrecked cars clad only in their
ni2ht-clotheS.
Screams of the injured runctuat-
&c the cold air of the desert plateau
Is miles east of Williams where
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Reading Cotest
Sspurs Children

"Seventy-tWo youngsters have
signed up for the reading contest
which is being sponsored by Ell
Centro's library" says Mrs. Agnes
BigeloW, librarian.
She emphasizes that the student
who reads the greatest number of
books during the summer mcnths
will receive a prize.
Mrs. Roberta Carpenter, in charge
of the Childrens Section of the
library, is preparing all the details
of the contest
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04

The airtig hit reconnaissance
caught up with the enemy force
three days ago." said Tokyo radio.
"As expected, the shipborne enemy
aircraft came to raid Two Jlma
island on Monday afternoon and
again on the following morning
made a repeated attack ON Two
Jima and Chichi Jima Islands"
The Bonins and Volcanos, belieY-
ed ITO be heavily defenced by the
japanese, lie almost midway be-
tween Tokyo and Marianas. They
were hit last month by Vice Admir-
al Mare A. Mitscher's big ~ Is.
carrier force while marines were
landing at Saipan.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Jops Report U. S. Strikes
600 Miles From Tokyo

Mount Tapotchau and Berni", said
the communique.
AN enemy task force on July
third air-raided Two island Vol
cano) and again raided Two and
Chichi Jima island on the morning
of July fourth.
Our garrisons intercerting the
enemy are engaged in fierce fight.
The number of the enemy planes
shot down up to the present is 80
or more"
Tokyo subsequently broadcast
commentary On the communique
which said that IAN enemy task
force has been in action for the
last two days i'm the waters near
the Ogosawara islands"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
Valley Observes
4th i'm Quiet

For the most part Imperial VAL
ley marked quiet Fourth. 1t
wound up three-day rest period.
AT Calexico the day was featured
by parade and program in the
City Park. In El Centre the Ameri-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
BY RICHARD w. JOHNSTON
United Press War Correspondent
Representing the Combined
Allied Press.

ABOARD JOINT EXPEDITION
AIRY FLAGSHIP OFF SAIPAN,
July 4. Via Navy Radio)-A mass
OF flame, which Illuminated the
sea through the night, spread over
Garapan in mute evidence of pin
point firing from naval guns and
artillery and mortars in the heights
overlooking the city.
1t was an awesome specacle to
see from the bridge of this ship.
Through a glass, many fires were
discenible, but to the naked eye
they merged into one immense or
range glow into which floating
tracer shells from the warshipS van-
iShed.
Nature adced to the grotesque-
ness of the scene, in almost symbol
ic heraldry of the fall of the first
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04

can Legion staged the second pro-
gram of two-night carnival to
boost bond sales. Good sized crowds
shared in the fun and programs.
In other parts of the county picnics
and informal gatherings were fea-
tured
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04

Flagless Holiday
FL Centre was conspicuous again
Tuesday because of the absence of
flags to mark the celebration of an
other patriotic holiday.
A survey made at a somewhat
early hour showed there were flags
out in the downtown district in
front of five places.
And would you believe it. some
Of the public buildings were flag
less!
We're beginning to think that
some Ell Centrans have complex
against flags.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
ScuSe II Please

where is the Legion hall?" Jack
Tinkle, painter first class asked
someone on the street in Ell Centro
Monday night lie and his wife and
Harry KliSsner wanted to go to the
war bond party.
lie was told the Legion hall was
back OF the court house. They
Continued ON Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
BrodIey's Army
Pushes Ahead
I'm New ThruStS
Berlin Fears Large Scale Attacks
Will Follow Caen Assaults;
Americans Move Up Heaviest Guns

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London July
A. (UP)American forces seized 4O0foot hill overlook
ing La HayeDu Puts in advances of up and half
miles in the first "a hours of their offensive
announced Tuesday, while Canadians struck at the
opposite end of the front and captured Caprquet
and half miles of Caen
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-04
y AnLM AMBL!Ne
EpoRTER.
Seasons Greetings

Happy Fourth of July Tha
is, if you didn't have to work.
Evening star., 1944-02-19
Clio Political Committee
Challenges Dies Authority
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-Authoritv
of the Dies Committee to investigate
affairs of the CIO Political Action
Committee was under challenge to-
day.
Sidney Hillman, head of the labor
group, declared yesterday it would
refuse the Dies Committee access to
any records, files, documents or
materials"
1T is high time that some one in
America challenged Martin Dies
abuse of congressional power" Mr..
Hillman declared, adding:
"The Dies Committee has been in
vested with the authority to investi-
gate subversive and un-American
activities. Dies has done little in
the sphere to which Congress con-
fined him. -
THE CIO Political Action Com
mittee will resist by every legitimate
means the efforts of Martin Dies to
thwart the civil and political rights
OF the American people"
Mr.. Hillman, who is president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
said the challenge resulted from an
investigator of the Dies Committee
asking a bank for permission to ex-
anime the Political Action Commit
tees accounts.
Evening star., 1944-02-19
Auto Kills Pedestrian;
Eighth Fatality This Year

The eighth death from traffic
accidents in the District this year
was recorded last night when John
y. Wright, As, plumber, of 1890
Eleventh street NV, was fatally
injured by an automobile as he at
tempted to cross Connecticut ave-
nue., near Tilden street NV. The
toll for the corresponding period
last year was r.
According to police, Mr. Wright
was hit by a car driven by Capt,
Coram w Hall, 80, of 1854 Highland
place NV, who is attached to the
Australian Military Mission here.
Capt. Hall was to appear today at
a coroner's inquest scheduled for
11:30 am.
The victim died in Emergency
Hospital an hour after the accident.
An unidentified Army lieutenant
was injured today when his car
and truck collided at the inter-
section of Baltimore boulevard and
University lane, College Park, Prince
Georges County police reported He
was taken to Walter Reed Hospital
in an unconscious condition.
The driver of the truck was listed
as Earl Leo Bordman, 25, of 7O9
D street NV.
Evening star., 1944-02-19
Yande|I Henderson
Dies in California;;
Expert on Gases
By the Associated Press,


NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. 19.-
Yale University announced today
the death of DR.. Yandell Henderson,
70, an expert on gases and director
of its laboratory of applied physiol-
ogy, in La Jolla, Calf, last night.
DR.. Henderson, who also made ex-
tensive studies on the effect of al
cohol on human beings, was visiting
his son, Malcolm C. Henderson. He
died in Scripps Memorial Hospital.
During the World War DR.. Hen
derson was chief of the physiology
section of the Governments war
gas Investigations and chairman of
Medical Reasearch Board, aviation
section, Army Signal Corps.
DR.. Henderson, who was born in
Louisville, April %, 1873, joined the
Yale faculty in 1900 and retired 38
years later He was widely known
throughout the country for his ex-
pert testimony in legal cases on
physiological problems and fire.
quently testified before congress
sional committees.
He had been in i'll health for a
year and died of an intestinal all
ment. In addition to his son, he is
survived by daughter, Mrs. George
M. Harper, jr., of Williamson, Mass.
His wife died last summer.
Evening star., 1944-02-19
Student Talks
To Conclude Symposium

A mental hygiene symposium
sponsored at St. Elizabeth's Hospital
by the District League of Nursing
Education was to conclude this aft
ernoon with panel discussion on
adjustment of high school graduates
to higher education, employment
and military service.
The conference. which opened
yesterday, is attended by high school
teachers and counselors. university
students and representatives of
nursing groups.
Today's program also included a
lecture on Alcoholism in Relation
to Mental HEALTH by Dr.. Lillian
Malone of Gallinger Hospital, and
talk on juvenile delinquency by
DR.. Dorothy Donley of the psy-
chology department, Catholic Uni
versity
DR.. Winfred Overholser, SUPER
intendent of ST. Elizabeths, and DR..
Addison Duval, senior medical Off
GER OF the hospital were among the
speakers yesterday. DR.. Overholser
discussed 'Psychiatry and Post
war Planning"
Sessions are being held in Hitch
cock Hall and the Red Cross Build
ing at the hospital. The guidance
and placement department of the
District public schools has Coop
Grated in arranging the program.
Evening star., 1944-02-19
3 Aboard Bomber Feared
Lost in Lake Ontario
BY the Associated Press.


SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. ia
missing Army bomber, battling a
binding snoWstorm, was feared lost
IN Lake Ontario today after Coast
Guardsmen reported hearing a
multi-motored plane headed toward
Canada. 1t carried at crew of eight.
Coast Guardsmen at Gallups Is
land Station in Lake Ontario and
at the OsWego Station, so miles west,
reported hearing a roaring noise
overhead, but were unable to iden-
tlfy the plane. Provincial police at
Kingston, Ontario, and RCAF au-
thorities at Picton, Ontario. said
they had no reports of the missing
plane
The bomber flew here from West
over Field, Mass, yesterday, circling
over Syracuse Municipal Airport for
an hour, where it reported it was
running out of gas and unable to
land because of poor visibility. The
commanding officer at Westover
Field ordered the crew to bail out.
Army officials at the Rome Airport.
announcing that next of kin had
been notified, listed members of the
missing planes crew as:
Flight Officer Wendell K Ponder,
jackson, Miss; Flight Officer Ray
mond A. Bickel, Springfield, Mass. !;
Sergt, Aubrey H. Alexander, Rogers
vile, Ala; Sergt. Kenneth M. Jones,
Milwaukee, Wis; Sergt. Thomas C.
Roberts, Boston; Sergt. Joseph M.
Lebo, Pawtucket, R. l.: James O.
Cozier, Tulsa, Okla, and Phillip R.
Walton, Berkeley, Calf.
Evening star., 1944-02-19
Navy Lists Three Officers
Killed in Plane Crashes

Three Navy officers were killed
three Navy men and a civilian were
injured and another officer is miss
ing as result of air mishaps
caused by Thursdays fog, the Navy
announced last night.
Navy officials at Quonset Point,
R. L., identified two officers killed
when their twin-engined plane
crashed in heavy fog near Rock
vile, Md, as 1t. J.gD G. w.
Thomas, 33, Wexford, R. l., and 1t.
Gg) T. N. Sexton, %, of Fishtrap,
KY.
Injured in the crash were DR..
Maurice F. Bell, 33. of Wexford. a
civilian: 1t G,g) Gerald A. Fried
erici. %, of Wexford; Edward B.
Collins. 90, aviation machinist' S
mate, Sd class, Annapolis, and Mat
thew Phillips, %, aviation machin-
lists mate, Sd class, Westheld, Mass.
One officer was killed when his
plane, a part of six-plane squad
ron from the Atlantic City Naval
Air Station, crashed at Montross,
Va, and another officer from the
same squadron was reported missing
after the crash of his plane near
Quantico The names were with
held pending notification of next of
kin.