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The Nome nugget., 1944-11-01
CARRIER BASED PLANES DOWN ...: 200 JAP UNITS

PEARL HARBOR, Nov 1.- (AP-Carrier planes wiped out 1259 enemy aircraft, it was report ed today, and perhaps 252 more in the two months dating from the time the task forces opened up on August 18th with the Phil ippine pre-invasion raids, and extending through the trio of naval battles in the Philippine area during the same period.
 Dating from Bonin's assault on through the Palau Ryukyus and Formosa Islands. to October 21, attacking planes of the Seventh and Third fleets lost approxi- mately 300 planes.
 Admiral Nimitz announced that many American pilots and crews of the downed planes were res- cued.
 The assessment of the enemy's staggering air losses is also in the communique, the report being that Japan suffered at least 60 warships sunk or damaged with in the past week, along with 35,- 900 naval personnel, including a few admirals and high officers.
 Inasmuch as the Japanese plane production is estimated to be from 1900 to 1900 planes a month, this action has just about rubbed out all of Japan's aircraft the factor ies could turn out in the same period.
 Admiral Nimitz suggested that the total Japanese aircraft losses should be around 2,594, but that that figure would probably be revised upwards as that is only a conservative recapitula- ton.
 The enemy was caught repeat edly with his planes down on the ground, and it is estimated that probably 1132 were bagged in this manner.
 Two American submarines have sunk 18 more Jap vessels, including a destroyer, the navy has announced.
 The navy departments official statement was that after the bat ties in the Philippines, the Nip ponese fleet is -'dead bird".
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-01
LEHMAN IMPROVING PROPERTY WITH GARAGE

T. c. Lehman has been i'm proving his property on First Avenue, with a new two-car gar age at the rear of his home. The structure is well under way and it will be ready for the winter housing of his car.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-01
JOE BELLEVUE IN FROM DRY CREEK

Joe Bellevue of the Drq Creek Dredging Co.,, now operating in Deering, has completed his sum- mer season and is in town await in transportation to the States.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-01
LADIES AID MEETING IS CANCELLED

The meeting of the Ladies Aid of the Federated Church, prev iousyl scheduled for Friday, has been cancelled because of the epidemic.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-01
NorYCEi

On account of the epidemic no mseiings of the Blue Lodge will be held until further mo- tice.-Luther Dunbar. Master.
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

and British notes demanding that
she cease exporting ball bearings,
tools and special steels to Germany,
but Turkey, in the face of similar
cemands, pledged all aid possible to
the Allies.
Though sweden was not expected
TO reply formally to the two notes
until late next week. the tenor of
editorials in Stockholm newspapers
indicated the answers would be neg
ative.
Aftonbladet said that If Sweden
acceded to the Allied requests, Ger
many undoubtedly would retaliate
with reduction of vital exports,
such as coal, to Sweden. With the
Allies unable to break Germany's
blockade of the Baltic, Sweden
would run short of supplies and
eventually face unemployment, the
newspaper said
NYA Dagligt Allehanda, another
Stockholm newspaper, contended
that Sweden always had stood for
free trade with all countries and
could not break her contracts.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Japanese Held
In Smashing
Blows at |mphaI

NEW DELHI, April Is. up
British and Indian troops engaged
japanese forces in the hills north
and northeast Of the Imphal plain
Saturday in an attempt to stop
the enemy drive which has carried
to within 10 miles of Imphal, capital
of India's Manipur state.
The japanese were reported suf-
fering heavy losses in the fighting
around Imphal, where they were
attacking from three sides in an
effort to isolate British and Indian
veterans in the town.
The enemy forces appeared to be
making the most determined drive
from the northeast, where they had
set up positions 10 miles from I'M
phal.
The communicate acknowledged
that small enemy parties remained
in the area of the Bishenpur- -Silchar
trail indicating that Allied troops
were holding their own against re-
newed Japanese assaults on the
jungle track leading west from the
Imphal plain and only remaining
land connection between Imphal
and inland Indisn bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
kiev Liberator
Succumbs at IS

LONDON, April Is. (UP) - Gen.
Nikolai F.. Vatutin, about As, who
commanded the first Ukrainian
army in the liberation of Kiev and
its march into pre-War Poland, died
Friday night at Kiev after serious
operation.
Rae 10 Moscow called Vatutin "one
of the most gifted of the young
military leaders who came to the
fore in the course of the war for
the fatherland" 1t was Vatutin s
attacks in the Belgorod sector last
August that launched the Russians
on their great 1943-1944 southern
from offensive which since has car
ried into Czechoslovakia and Ru-
mania, as well as Poland.
Funeral rites will be held at Kiev,
radio Moscow said and monument
will be erected there ito immortalize
the memory of Comrade N F. Va
tutin."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Collision Hurts
-Four Marines,
Civilian Driver

Four marines from the El Centro
marine air station and a civilian
were injured in an auto collision
three and half miles north of I'M
perial shortly before midnight Fri
day.
Arthur Lee Fielcs of San Jacinto,
driver of the civilian car, was in
the El Cuntro hospital suffering
from a back injury, cuts and bruises
and the four marines were taken
to the hospital at the station for
treatment of their injuries which
were believed to be less critical than
those suffered by Fields. John T.
Murphy was driving the car which
collioed with the Fields coupe,
Highway Patrolman Tillman Daley
said.
The other marines were John F.
Mufich, Robert j. Ulmer, and James
v. Sellers, the officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
&c. Cadets Win
High Praise
At Inspection

Central Union high schools cadet
corps is one of the finest and largest
in California" Captain Leo A. Har-
ris, liaiason officer to Adjutant Gen
eral Ray w. Hays of Sacramento,
said Friday afternoon.
Captain Harris made this an
nouncement after he conducted
formal inspection and review of the
troops at the schoo:. He said that
he intended to personally cite the
corps as the finest and neatest he
has seen among the 80 units in
the state.
The corps consisting of three
platoons of two sections each went
through rifle inspection as we'll
as inspection of ranks and then
paraded and drilled in review be-
fore Captain Harris, High School
Commandant Clarence Anderson
and Cadet First Lieutenant Jack
Hornh.
The review was Witnessed by stu
dents, faculty, parents and citizens.
Il am much pleased with the in
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Bricker bIames
Pearl harbor
On U.S.. Leaders

SAN FRANCISCO, April Is CUP)
Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio,
candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination, Saturday blam-
ed the Roosevelt administration
for the disgrace of Pearl Har-
Dor" and declared that the United
States might not have been drag
ged into tie European war if the
Pacific war had been prevented"
Bricker WHO Is here en- western
campaign tour. said:
Had the New Deal leadership
been aware of the treachery of
the Jap and the danger we faced
in the Pacific tas Gov. Earl Warren
CT California previously outlined
at a governors conference) Pearl
Harbor would not have happened"
In an address before the Com
monwealth club here, Bricker
charged that either the admisis-
tration's ignorance or failure to in
form the public of Japans fcrti-
fication of the Pacific inundated
islands rs one of the gravest dere-
lictionS in all our history
Earlier he told press confer
ence:
IF the American people had
known CT the islands fortification
and the sales of war materials
to Japan, there would have been
such public indignation that 1t
would have either prevented tie
Jars' doing what they did in the
inundated islands, or would have
resulted in increasing our prepara-
tionS.
I'VE would have been ready.
There was no excuse for getting
caught. The war might not have
occurred if we had been ready"
Gov. Bricker said he would visit
Governor Warren at Sacramento
Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Balkan
Bombed
u. S. PIasters
Bucharest,
PIoes+i Areas

LONDON, April Is. OUP)
= A force of at least 500
American eavy bombers
based in Italy, striking in support
of the Russian armies invading Ru-
mania, blasted the important rail
and communications center of Bu-
charest and Ploesti Saturday, and
German fighter planes rose to chal-
lenge them.
The German radio, broadcasting
reports that Allied planes were ap-
preaching northwest Germany, in
6icated there might be a pincers
attack on the Reich from Britain
and Italy.
Strong formations of Lightning
and Thunderbolt fighter planes es-
corted the Italy-based Fortresses
and Liberators on the Rumanian
raid and shot Gown some of the
German planes which gave battle.
The Liberators hit Bucharest
while the Fortresses concentrated
on the Ploesti area, which in addi-
tion to being an important COM
munications city is the source of
much of the oil used by the Ger
man war machine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

All the roads and villages TO the
south coast were reported strewn
with the dead of the occupation
garrison, and big stores of supplies
and equipment were abandoned by
the enemy In headlong flight.
Guerilla detachments hidden for
two years in the Crimean hills
emerged to strike telling blows at
the Germans and Rumanians, cut
ting their lines of retreat and at
tacking isolated garrisons.
Unshaven, unkempt, and tattered
German and Rumanian soldiers,
their escape cut off by the lightning
Russian advance, surrendered en-
masse as the Soviet re-conquest of
the 10000 square Crimea en-
tered it's final phase a week after
it began.
81, 900 CAPTURED
More than 3l,OOc prisoners had
been rounded up by Thursday, and
almost as many more enemy troops
had been slain by two Red armies
that smashed simultaneously into
the Crimea from the north and east.
Swarms of Red air force fighters.
attack planes, and bombers swept
the 60 miles of the South coast still
in Axis hands with an almost con-
slant hail of bombs and bullets.
and joined the shoreline from the
sea to thwart any Dunkerque evac-
uation attempt.
A 3000-ton transport, several
smaller ships and three self-pro-
PEELED landing barges loaded with
infantry we're sunk. while large
enemy transport was set afire and
five self-propelled landing barges
and a mine-laying ship were dam
aged severely.
HEADED OFF
Soviet sailors and airmen are
frustrating all enemy attempts to
save at least some part Of his army
in the Crimea, which is doomed to
DEATH" the Soviet high command
announced in its midnight COM
munique.
There still was no indication
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

Fiesta
24 CabaIIeros
Arrive for
CaIexico Event

Calexicans prepared Sat-
urday to devote the week to
the annual celebration of the
Cavalcade of Imperial Valley which
was initiated at noon with the ar
rival of the ce ANA Trail Cabal-
leros at the close of tteir eieht-day
horseback ride from Riverside.
Arrival of the Caballeros was the
first official event of the celebra-
ton this year. The fiesta was scaled
down to meet wartime require
mentS and was held "lest we for
get" this popular peace-time event.
The program for Saturday called
for festivities marking arrival of
the riders. At night the riders and
Imperial Valley horsemen were to
be entertained at dinner at the
Elks club at p. m. as guests of
the Cavalcace association. The en-
tertainment for the dinner hour was
to be provided by the famed Mar
iachis of Mexicali, including a pro-
gram of instrumental and vocal
music.
!. This years celebration was to be
Nclimaxed by the grand Cavalcace
costume ball in the lobby of the
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

They came Saturday from far and
wide, carrying baskets packed with
good food, and prepared to spend
the day talking over TIE good old
days, singing old time songs, elect
ing officers for next year, and in
general enjoying one of their famous
get together sessions.
In the morning business session
the members of the association
elected the following officers to
handle affairs during 1914:
President-C. F.. Boarts, Westmor-
land
Vice president - Don West, Ell
Centro
Directors
Carl Morford, Holtville.
d. E. Kincaid, CalexicO.
Ira Aten, Ell Centro.
Roy e. Breedlove, Ell Centre.
w. Lee Johnson, Brawley.
Harvey A. Hastain, Brawley.
Elmer Forester, Ell Centre.
j. D. Huston, Imperial.
Douglas Teel.
T. D. Mccall was made honorary
director.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

CRYING.
I'm sure sorry killed that girl,
I sure am," they said he mumbled
repeatedly.
At Huntington Park, he forced
them from the car and drove away.
Police described him as about l8,
with blonde bushy hair, about feet
seven inches and weighing 145
pounds.
Mrs. Horn, 81, was beaten and
bludgeoned to death April 4 few
hours after she had said goodbye
to her husband on his return to
Mojave, Cal, marine base. Her
rifled billfold was found near the
body.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
KidnoPer Sought
For SIayin9

LOS ANGELES, April Is. (UP)-
Police Saturday sought a bushy-
haired youth who kidnapped two
Bakersfield women at gunpoint, for
questioning in connection with the
murder there OF Mrs. Billie Horn,
feight-day bride of a marine SER
geant.
The women we're abandoned in
Huntington Park early Saturday af-
ter he had kept gun in their backs
all the way from Bakersfield.
Mrs. Jessie Dooley, 20, and Mrs.
Patricia MCGEE, As, said that as
they entered their car, the youth
appeared in the back seat and forced
Mrs. Dooley to drive away and keep
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
What Not One
Lawyer Present?

LOS ANGELES, April Is. tUP)-
WiSeacres SATURDAY profesSed to
have found the answer to the short
age of doctors.
OF 33 men arreste dearly Friday
for allegedly playing poker at the
mysterious" Montague's Rolling
Hills Country club, 80 were doctors.
The other vas an undertaken.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Burglars Loot
CaIexico Store

CALEXICO, April Is. - Officers
searched Saturday for large
quantity of merchandise stolen
from the National Dollar store in
Calexico early Fri6ay morning.
Entrance to the store was gained
through an opening in the roof
and then through the skylight. Of
ficers said. The burglars left a
hacksaw. a flashlight, pencil, and
an empty matchbox.
Loot included 13 sport shirts, six
pairs of pants, IL military shirts,
three bathrobes, two coats. two suits,
10 dresses, a cesk radio, 36 pairs
Of Sligo hose, "a pairs OF 79 cent
hose, and $46.66 III cash.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Jittery Germans
Dream Invasion

coast and that the action did not
constitute maneuvers.
Reason for the alert was not dis
closed.
A German DNB news agency
broadcast from Berlin yesterday
said German troops recently held
a test OF defense Notifications along
the French Mediterranean coast
with live ammunition.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Gangster Slips
Up 'Kidnapers'

CHICAGO, April Is. OUP)-Jack
Guzik. chief of what remains Of
the AL Capone gang, was back in
circulation Saturday. but he wasn't
talking about his reported kidnap-
ing.
A confidant of the gang leader
told the United Press he talked
with Guzik on the telephone last
night. little more than "a hours
after the gang leader was reported
to have been dragged from his auto
mobile In suburban Berwyn by three
men.
"Guzik said he had not been kid
naped,' the informant said, "but
he didn't say where he had been"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
1000 Coast Men
Vote to Strike

LOS ANGELES, April Is. UP)-
More than 1000 Pacific Electric
railway shop craft employees Satur-
day recorded an almost unanimous
strike vote but declined to set a
strike date until all reasonable
efforts" are made to settle differ
ences rising out of company alleged
delay in paying government
ordered retroactive wage increase.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Fire RetuIiote S in Moves
To Enforce Neutrality

neutrals to feel the pinch Of the
economic pressure which Secretary
OF State Cordell Hull announced
Sunday would be applied. Early In
March Dublin rejected an American
request TO close the German and
Japanese legations on grounds that
their functioning jeopardized the
military security OF forces In north
ern Ireland and gave the Axis a
vantage point for spying on activity
In the United Kingdom.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Chicago Polio emen Form
Union Tied up With AFL

kept it quiet until we have built
up a membership. All policemen
from Commissioner Altman down
are eligible. Dues are $l.50 a month,
and there will be no initiation fee
for another go days"
Union policemen assigned to
strikes called by other unions will
consider the public first and will
60 through picket lines II 1t becomes
their duty"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

prOductlOn.
Under such programs as the
George Murray bill and the Baruch
plan, Patton said, farmers and la
Dor are treated like poor relations,
as pressure groups to be heard po-
litely at uncertain intervals and
then dismissed" while the proposed
director of demobilization "acts in
the public interest"
Patton said there will be a post
war need for 3,500,000 new farm
homes and "at least 10000 urban
units.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

was closed in fast on Fire.
Rail services linking Dublin with
provincial centers were cut to the
bone. Authorities reported that
main line passenger service would
be reduced to two days a week and
freight trains would operate only
four days week beginning April
"a. Eleven branch lines of the
Great Southern railway were to be
closed completely.
Fire was the first of the European
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

proposed reconversion programs now
being widely discussed on grounds
they contemplate an economy of
scarcity, and urged government
planning for full peacetime indus
trial proc uction.
Testifying before senate military
affairs subcommittee, Patton said
that both the George Murray and
Kilgore reconversion program bills
would Legislative artificial search
ties of aircraft, synthetic rubber,
aluminium, magnesium and steel"
and hold other war plants out of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Invasion Food
Stock. Mounts

LONDON, April Is. (UP)-The
Daily Mail reported that the largest
food stock in world history has
been accumulated by Britain for the
western invasion-food for the in
vading soldiers, for the people they
will liberate and for civilians at
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
KuriIe Islands
Blasted Anew

WASHINGTON. April 15 CUP)-
American airmen struck four more
times at enemy bases in the Kurile
islands OH Thursday night and early
Friday in their stepped-up aerial
offensive against Japan's north Pa
cific outposts, the navy announced
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

MADRID, April Is. CUPc-Reports
from France said Saturday that the
Germans. fearing the real thing,
called a general invasion alert for
about three hours on the Brittany
coast in northwest France Wednes-
day night,
The reports said that coastal bat
teries had fired for miles along the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

triCt, who said he Is president OF
the new local.
Chief John Prendergast of the
uniformed force said he believed
any policeman who joined union
violated police regulations.
"You can't be good policemen
when you line up with outside out
fits he said.
Anderson sal dthe men began Or
ganizing about month ago but
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Historic City Becomes
Graveyard for Last
Of Mighty German Army
Sursins Russ Tanks Crush Lives
Of Beaten Enemy as Planes
Sink Heavily Laden Troopships

MOSCOW, April ID (UP)-The final battle of the
Red army's Crmean campaign shifted to Sevasopo Sat
urday when Russian assault forces crashed through strong
Axis guard in the hills before the historic
city.
The London Evening star reported in its first edition
Saturday that the Russians within 10 miles of Sevas
topo and in it's second that they sight of the city
One week after it began, the battle of the Crmea
reported nearing it's end in mercess slaughter Of the
routed of about 1000 troops corraled in
so square mile bridgehead anchored on Sevastopol.
IN MAD FLIGHT TO SEA
The ancient city of epic sieges reported with
tag survivors of the Axis armies in mad flight from the
pursuing Russians who milling about in desperate
efforts to board frai craft for gamble flight by
Red force assault planes pounded the evacuation craft
ercessly and torpedo launches of the Black fleet
dashed in and of the coastal waters torpedong vessels
loaded with enemy troops
AS the Soviet of steel closed against Sevasopol
tanks the vanguard reported powing into fleeing
bands crushing hundreds of under their treads
and spraying those out in front with machine fire
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Valley Pioneers
Hold Reunion

Pioneers of Imperial Valley as
sembled at Ira Aten's grove north
east of Ell CenJro .or their sixteenth
annual picnic and memorial to the
early days when they started re-
claiming the desert and transform
ing it into the nations most famous
agricultural area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
LONDON, April Is. (UP)

LONDON, April Is. (UP)
Airplane service between
Dublin and Liverpool was
suspended Saturday and Fire or
dered a drastic reduction in its rail
transport as a result of British
decision to halt coal exports.
The sharpened policy of cracking
iown on neutrals which might give
lirect or indirect support to the Axis
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
CHICAGO, April Is. CUP

CHICAGO, April Is. (UP)
"A Chicago policemen's
union with a claimed men,
bership of more than 300 men has
been organized recently but is In
violation of police regulations, de-
partment officials said Saturday,
The union is affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor, ac-
cording to Lieutenant Charles A.
Anderson OF the Irving Park dis
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
farm Leader Hits Postwar
Plan as One Of Scarcity

WASHINGTON, April Is.
(UP) - James G. Patton,
president of the National
Farmers union, condemned three
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Sweden Scorns
Allied Demands

LONDON, April Is. CUP)-Stock-
holm dispatches said Stature ay Swe-
den probably would reject American
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
D 4Ms,!ss 4.s!..s
The Peaceful Age

The Peaceful Age
You had a good ride this year
in spite of the war;" someone said
to Tom Clay of the De Anza Trail
CaballerOs. "TEe war didn't in
terfere much, did it?"
What do you mean warp Clay
shouted. why should the war in
terfere with uS?"
why shouldn't it?" he was ask
cd
Because we're all 4-Fs,' said
Clay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Number Six Billion

Number Six Billion
The availability certificates de-
manded of employed persons when
they change jobs have been called
a lot of peculiar names.
v II want one Of them possibility
certificates" a Negro said to Don
Robertson at tie U. S. Employment
office Friday.
why do you call 1t "possi-
bility' certificate?' Robertson ask
ed the Negro.
"Becaure its impossible to go to
work without it," the Negro re-
piled.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16
Natural Phenomena

Natural Phenomena-
Don't be alarmed by that strange
buzzing heard in the vicinity north
east of Ell Centre Saturday. Stop
worrying about the haze seen
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WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 85 minimum Saturday 40; s
am. Saturday 54, humidity 81; noon Saturday 80,
humidity 28; p. M. Friday 76, humidity %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-16

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