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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
IL jap
Shiip ps
Sunk
u. S. Subs Send
Cruiser and
Destroyer Down

WASHINGTON, July 5.
(UP)-The sinking of II
more japanese ships, includ-
ing a light cruiser and de-
troyer, by American submarines was
announced Wednesday by Secretary
of Navy James Forrestal who said
the campaign against enemy ship
ping would be accelerated, by the
u. S. advance into the Marianas
islands.
The navy disclosure followed an
admiralty announcement in Lon
don that British submarines had
sunk nine Japanese supply ships
during recent far eastern patrols,
making a total of &c Japanese ship
losses reported by the allies.
Forrestal estimated, that between
one-third and one-half of an esi-
mated 100000 tons of shipping
possessed by the japanese at the
start of the war has been destroyed
by American armed forces.
Producing a chart of merchant
losses by he Japanese, Forrestal
pointed out that the last few quar-
ers have brought rising trend in
enemy ship losses.
japanese shipping is caught in
wise. While our Underwater at
tack continues, our air and surface
attacks will increase. Shipping is
Japan's jugular yein.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Hitler Sounds Gloomy Note
In Appeal to Home Front

seem impossible to carry out
IF you will look to this heroiSm,
you will understand my unshake-
able faith" Hitler saic. Victory
will reward us for everything the
individual has sacrificed. for all
the troubles which we have had
to shoulder, and for all the blood
sacrifices made by families"
The speech, reported by the Ger
man TranSocean and' DNB news
agencies, was regarded here as the
gloomieSt and most foreboding ever
made by Hitler, exceeding even that
following Italy's capitulation last
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Deaths in Train
Wreck Mounts 10
Four. SO Injured

WILLIAMS, Ariz., July S. CUP)-
A pile of crumpled coaches We'd
nesday marked the spot where the
Santa Fe railroads Chief, one of
the nations best-known luxury
streamliners, cracked up early
Tuesday, spilling the locomotive and
IL of its IA coaches along the right
of-way, killing four and injuring SO.
The speedy streamliner, en- route
from Chicago to Los Angeles, was
heading into l5mile straightaway
when it lurched from the tracks,
piling its coaches up like jack
straWs.
Those killed were listed as j. S.
Mcleod, New York, national head
of Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer film ex-
changes; Fireman j. E. Edwards,
Winslow, Ariz.; Mrs. Ann Bradys,
Hammond, Ind, and Harold H.
Helper, manager of the Linde Air
Products Co., Los Angeles.
Investigators said they believed
a section of the roadbed might have
given away as the train hit the
curve, sending the locomotive hur-
tling from the tracks and dragging
the coaches with it.
Travelling at high speed, the en-
gine leaped into the air, then nosed
down and flipped over, whip-crack-
ing two baggage cars over its back
and roofing up the rails into rolls
like a candy ribbon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
REACH AUSTRIA
Harvest Starts
On Onion Seed

Onion seed harvest was in full
blast in Imperial Valley Wednes-
day, making the second harvest of
the newest of valley crops
This year between 1900 and l4OO
acres of valley land were planted to
onion seed, most of which is being
grown under government contract
for seed distributors and for lend
lease purposes.
Quality was good in mcst fields
this year." County Agricultural
Commissioner B. A. Harrigan said
Wednesday. There was some trou-
BILE in some of the fields with thripS.
an insect hard to eradicate in hot
weather. However, spraying did a
great deal of good"
The oniCn shortage, said to have
been caused by the war, was credit
ed with boosting interest in the
growing of onions for seed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
NaZiS Evacuate
East russians
Entire Baltic
Area Faces
Stains Wrath

MOSCOW, July 5. (UP)-
Red armies rolled over the
approaches to Poland and
the Baltic states at a pace
ranging up to more than a
mile an hour Wednesday, smashing
to Within 10 miles of the Latvian
border, SIS miles OF the Lithuanian
stronghold of Wilno and IS miles
of the BaranoWicze gap to Warsaw.
CA London broadcast said there
was evidence that the entire Ger
man Baltic army gsoup was max
ing preparations to evacuate by
sea as a result of the rapid Soviet
advance. A Stockholm dispatch to
the London Daily Telegraph said
the Russians were fighting in the
outskirts of BaranoWicZe.)
CUT NAZIS TO PIECES
Soviet cavalry, tanks and mech
anized infantry were cutting the
fleeing German legions to pieces
and in most sectors the retreat had
lost all semblance of order. Where
the Germans die attempt resistance
or counter-attacks, the Russians al
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
1O1 Children Set
For Outing
At Hipass Camp

Hipass Health camp, American
Legion mountain resort for under
privileged children in Imperial VAL
lev, will open next Sunday with
lOl. one more than the usual cap
acity of the place.
Camp officials have made an
rangements to pack the extra
voungster in, declaring they VIII
make room some way.
ALL READY
Everything is reaCy to welcome
the children Sunday. Le9ionnalres
hired a special crew to clean up
the place this year as they ana
other persons interested in keeping
the camp going did not have suffi-
cient gasoline this year to make
the usual trips back and forth from
the valley to the camp.
I'VE only have one worry left to
keep us awake" said Glenn Kill
lingsworth, Westmorland Legion
naire who is this years presicent
of the Hipass corporation. Each
child who attends camp this year
must have his or her ration book.
Only the food stamps which are
valid during the child's stay at the
camp will be used. A receipt will
be given for each book and the
books will be returned when the
child leaves camp. This is a heac-
ache. We have orders to see that
all children have ration books. If
not it will be impossible for them
to stay at camp. We can't feed
them unless they have their books"
Before being admitted to Hipass
the children must have physical
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
By UNITED PRESS

SSSenator Walter F.. George won re-
nomination for the U. S. Senate in
a quiet holiday Democratic primary
in Georgia, while Repre- fsentative
Joe Rankin was assured of re-elec-
tfon to a twelfth term in Miss is
sippi election, IT turns showed We'd
neSday
Democratic nomination is tanta-
. mount to election in both states.
- Principal interest centered in
georgia where election officials re-
fused to permit Negroes to vote, g
move which will mean court test
of the states white primary. In At
lanta several Negroes appeared at
the voting booths and quietly with
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Thousands Flee
Before Russ

evacuees from Poland and the
Baltics-mostly German farmers
and officials-were hurrying toward
KCnigs berg, capital of east Prussia.
BY the same accounts, the Germans
began the evacuation Of Latvia,
with many engineers and technical
experts already out of the country
from whose border the Russians
were only 10 miles away.
German quarters in Stockholm
were described reliably as counting
on the likelihood that the Nazis
would have to give up all the Baltic
states.
FINALLY FALLS
KoWel, 100 miles across the pre-
1899 Polish border on the kieV-
Warsaw railway, had been three
quarters encircled the Russians
since last winter, but there had
been no recent reports Of a new
Soviet assault on the stronghold in
announcement of its capture.
The fall of Kowel would elimi-
nate the last German stronghold
east of the Bug river, 1899 Russian
Polish border, on the south-central
invasion route to WarsaW and Ber-
lin at a time when other Red
armies are rolling down the north
central route beyond Minsk.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05

streets OF La Haye-Du Puts, and
said the Normandy town was in
vested from the northwest, north
east and southeast.
TAKE 19 VILLAGES
The Americans had captured 10
villages and hamlei.s in general
advances along a 25-mile offensive
front at the, western end of the
Normandy line where the fighting
was SO fluid that even headquar-
terS reports did not always give a
comprehensive picture of the situa-
ton.
United Press Correspondent James
McGlincy, reporting the penetration
of the vital town in the west coast
sector of the lower Cherbourg pen
insula, said other American forces
were driving in from the east and
west, threatening to trap the Ger
man garrison unless it gets out
quickly.
ADVANCE TWO MILES
The American right flank along
the coast advanced two miles, Nc
Glincy reported, while the fight
ing front spread to the area due
west of Carentan where u. S. forces
made limited progress yesterday be-
fore German counter-attack nudg-
ed them back.
AT the other end of the Normandy
front, Canadian troops who had
seized most Of the Caen- Carpiuuet
air field were forced by German
pressure to reorganize their posi-
tions. A headquarters spokesman
said they now were 600 yards west
of the airfield hangers, which were
in enemy hands.
Several German tanks were knock
ed out and some prisoners taken
in the heavy battle raging around
the Carpiquet air field. A front
report saic' the Canadians and
Germans were facing each other
across the ruined runways, but the
Continued on Pg, G. Col II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
5000 laps Killed
At Hengyang

CHUNGKING, July 5. CUP) =
Six thousand japanese have been
killed in the suburbs of Hengyang
in the last 10 days of repeated
futile enemy assaults on the Canton
-Hankow railroad town, Chinese
communique said Wednesday.
The communique said tn Jap
anese also suffered 1000 casualties
at Yungfeng and 300 at Hsiang-
HSiang. The Chinese recaptured
Lungmoon, 62 miles northeast of
Canton.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05

nerves and determination are nec-
essary to survive in such times as
the present." he said. But I also
know that the guiding star of all
our actions is the one Interchangeable
principle that we will not capitu-
late. however great the difficulties
that face U.S."
In what amounted to desperate
appeal to his people to keep fight
ing despite defeats and overwhelm-
ing odds, Hitler called. on everyone
to emulate his forces at the front,
where our gallant soldiers are ac-
complishing what seems impossible
and do not shrink from tasks which
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05

against tactical targets, including
the railways at VilleneuVe. ST.
George and Orleans, all of which
are main routes for German troops
and supplies headed toward the
Normandy battlefront.
Twin-engined Mosquitoes dropped
two-ton blockbusters on an uniden-
titled oil plant in the Ruhr.
A record of light bombers from
the tcond tactical airforce also
was out during the night. Harassed
enemy reinfcrcements moving along
roads behind the battle area.
The tactical bombers concen-
trated on the western sector of the
American advance, but also struck
south of Paris to hit rail targets.
ROME. July 5. UPl-American
heavy bombers attacked the French
Mediterranean naval base at Tcu-
Ion and other targets in southern
France Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
LONDON. July 5. (UP)-

LONDON, July B. (UPJ-
Adolf Hitler, in the grim
NEST speech of his career,
warned Wednesday that Germany
was fighting for its very existence
and acknowledged that the allies
have far outstripped the Reich in
war production.
a,r He told German arms and other
war production leaders at his head
quarters that this. gigantic strug-
gle for the fate of the German ma
rtion is deciding the future of many
generations to come"
II know that unheard of strength
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Rankin, George
Retain Places

drew as they were refused ballots.
Similar efforts to vote were made
peaceably by Negro leaders in Au-
gusta, Columbus and ether cities.
The plan for the Negro leaders to
make a token effort" to vote had
been worked out earlier with white
officials.
The returns gave George, chair
man of the Ssnate finance commit
tee, 8l0l3 votes against ll,415 for
his vacuum cleaner salesman op-
pcnent, John CoolSby.
In Mississippi, returns from l55
of the 2l9 precincts gave Rankin
9l95 against 2C50 for Charles r.
Hamilton, his nearest opponent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
German Ammunition Vessel
Blows Up i'm Danish Port

STOCKHOLM, July 5.
(UP) = The Danish press
service reported Wednesday
that the explosion of a German
ammunition ship in the Aarhus
harbor of Denmark's Jutland pen
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
RED Army SWEEPS ON TOWARD WARSAW
Burglars Loot
Chiefs Home
Over Holidays

SACRAMENTO, July 5. (UP-
Burglars in Sacramento have
gone to-, far, the police depart
inent declared Wednesday.
Offic rs reported the home Of
Police Chief A. X. McAllister was
entered and cupbOards and draw
ers ransacked during the holiday
absence Of the chief and his
wife. What was stolen could not
be determined until tEe return Of
the McAlliSters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05

30 persons, injured 300 others, ce-
Stroyed or damaged more than 1000
buildings and sank several nearby
ships.
Confirming earlier reports that
the terrific detonation in the har-
bo was caused by the blowing up
OF am ammunition ship, the news
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Assassin Aims
At Humbert
BY UNITED PRESS

The Berlin radio said Wednesda,
that a man had been arrested II
southern Italy for an attempt on
the life OF Crown Prince Humbs n.
to whom King Victor Emmanuel
delegated his royal prerogatives
when the Allies captured Rene.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Railway Center
Captured in
Bitter Fighting
Onrushins Americans Batter Foes
Anchorage on West Sector Line;
Nineteen Villages Seized in Thrust

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, July
5. (UP)-Amercan shock troops drove into the French
transport center of La HayeDu Puts Wednesday, captu
ed the railroad station and slashng forward in vol
en street fighting within 300 yards of the of the
shell-scarred town.
General Dwight D. Eisenhowers headquarters confirm
ed front reports of savage battle close quarters the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
}. AMBlINe
u EpoRTER
Now You Know

Now You Know
Remember the feud between Ell
Centre police and RR over leaving
flags out all night?
Someone else is in it now. Deluxe
Cleaners at l19 North Fifth and A.
C. Farrar at l09 North Fifth both
left their flags out after dark on
July 4. Police collected them.
Now you know how RR feels when
being publicly Inundated by those
flatfeet.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Russ Capture
Nazi General
BY UNITED PRESS

The British radio said Wednes-
day that the commander Cf the
35th German army corps. Lieuten-
ant General Baron Won Leutzow,
was captured by the Russians Tues
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Notice !!

Due to an interruption in COM
municatiOns the regular Ernie
Pyle letters failed to reach the
POst-Press Newspapers Tuesday
and Wednesday,.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05

LONDON. July 5. UP)-Berlin
reported Wednesday that the Ger
mans had pulled out of the Kowel
area of old Poland ITS miles south
east Of Warfaw, and Stockholm dis
patches said German civilians were
being evacuated from parts of east
Prussia.
A Bern dispatch to the Stockholm
newspaper Dagbladet said the Nazis
had begun removing civilians from
the border region of east Prussia,
and $4,000 already had moved west
ward out CT the immediate path of
the Russian forces some $50 miles
to the cast.
REACH AUSTRIA
Many east Prussian families have
arrived in Austria, the Stockholm
adviceS said, but a majority OF the
evacuees were going into eastern
Germany because of transportation
difficulties.
Another Swiss report relayed
through Stockholm said 10000
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Mod rn II Nothing

Mod rn If Nothing
They were having high old time
dancing out at the Swiss club near
HOltville on the Fourth of July.
I'm hungrv!" someone shouted
Continued on Pg. 6, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 10, minimum
Wednesday 60; S am. Wed. 68, hu-
midity 54; noon Wed. 10l, humidity
30; 5 pm. Tuesday 1903, humidity l8.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Maryland Air Crash
Kills Man, Woman
CiviIion Instructor Was
Flying to Pennsylvania
photo on Page A-3J
photo on Page A-3.)

By the Associated Press.
A woman identified by Mont
gomery County Police as Mrs. Lillian
Fite of Peach Bottom, Pa, and
Bradnor Cecil Mott of Essex, Md,
were killed last night in the crash
of Motifs plane near Gaithersburg,
Md.
Mott, an instructor with the
civilian training command at Max
well Field, Ala, and Mrs. Fite left
Union City, Tenn, yesterday for
Columbia, Pa, police said.
Mrs. Fite's husband, Victor Fite,
also Is q civilian instructor sta
toned at Maxwell Field, county ON
GERS reported, and his parents live
in Columbia, Pa.
Gillis Owens, owner of the farm
on which the plane crashed, said
he saw the plane, with one wing
sheared of and the motor ap-
parently dead, just before it crashed
about pm.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
badogIio Asks Details
On Transfer Of Fleet
Says He Learned Of Plan
Through Press Reports
sy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NAPLES, Mar. 4.-Marshal Pietro
Badoglio today asked Allied officials
in Italy for "the most complete
urgent and necessary details" of the
plan announced by President Roose-
velt to turn part of the Italian fleet
over to Russia, which Badoglio said
he learned about only through press
and radio reports.
A statement Of his government,
containing note of reproach at the
manner in which he heard of the
proposal, said he reserves the right
to act accordingly" upon receiving
more detailed information. It was
learned Allied representatives also
had had no ofiicial word of the plan
and were awaiting it before replying
The statement reiterated the
Badogio governments determine
ton to cooperate ''to the best of its
possibilities with the United States,
Great Britain and Russia, and its
wish to develop and strengthen "this
cooperation in the interests OF
Italians and Of the common cause"
Most of the Italian fleet proceeded
to ports under Allied control follow
ing Italy's unconditional surrender
last September. Italian crews still
are attached to most of the vessels
and some units have participated in
escort work and other Allied naval
operations-with Italian officers and
men at their posts.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Ice Coats Streets,
Causing Accidents
All Planes Grounded;
Judge Garrett Hurt

A combination of rain, sleet, snow
and below-freezing temperatures
glazed streets and sidewalks in this
area with a treacherous coating of
ice last night, causing numerous
accidents and grounding all planes
at the National Airport.
Most of the accidents, involving
automobiles and pedestrians, were
of minor nature, police reports
indicated.
Judge Finis j. Garrett of the
United States Court of Customs and
Patent Appeals, slipped and fell
near his home at $3.50 Springland
lane NV. The 68-year-old jurist
was taken to Emergency Hospital,
where it was said he was resting
comfortably.
BY midnight the temperature had
dropped to ~ degrees. The Weather
Bureau predicted the sleet and snow
would end this morning, but colder
weather was forecast for later
today.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Federal Petition Ask.
Cut in Transit Fares
In Living-Cost Fight
EorIy Hearing Sought
To Effect Reduction
By Temporary Order
BY CAMBRIDGE CRIST.

The ONCE OF Price Admins
tration and the economic Stabil-
ization director, who have fought
before the Public Utilities Com
mission and in the courts to re-
duce electric and gas rates in
the District, moved yesterday to
cut the rates of the Capital
Transit Co.
Claiming that a reduction will
aid the Government in its program
to keep down the cost of living
the petition proposed:
l. A public hearing "at an early
date for the purpose Of determin-
ing whether the comoany's rates
should not be reduced by tempo
rary order"
2. The commission should tissue
a temporary or immediate order re-
ducing the rates of the company
after hearing.
3. The PUG should Immediately
order the transit company to rec
ognize and accept a weekly pass as
emitting a passenger, upon his re-
quest therefore, to a transfer fol
transportation on the Washington
Marlboro & Annapolis Motor Lines
from Seventeenth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc. to Suitland, Md.
or in alternative ask the Inter.
state Commerce Commission for 9
joint hearing for the purpose oi
bringing about such adjustment in
the fares of the said companies"
4. The OPA and economic stabil-
ization director should be permitted
to intervene in the proceedings.
5. The PUG should grant such
other relief as may be necessary
to prevent the company from con-
(See TRANSIT. Page A-30
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Gen. Marshall Asks Delay
On Palestine Resolution
BY the Associated Press,

BY tne Associated Press.
Gen. George c. Marshall, Army
chief Of staff, has urged the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee to
postpone action, for military rea-
sons, on resolution which would
put the Senate on record as favor
ing continued Jewish immigration
to Palestine, Senator Nye, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota said yester-
day.
Although Senator Nye declined to
elaborate on Gen. Marshall's objec-
tions, made recently at a closed
meeting of the committee, some
other members said it was obvious
that fears existed that passage OF
the resolution might disturb rela-
tions with the Arabs in the Middle
East.
Gen. Marshall's views were said
to have been backed by Secretary of
War Stimson and Secretary of State
Hull in letters to the committee
suggesting that no action be taken
on the resolution.
The measure, introduced by Sena-
tors Wagner. Democrat, of New
York and Taft, Republican, of Ohio
would express the sense of the SEN
ate that Palestine be opened for
free entry of Jews, and that the
Jewish people be permitted ulti-
mately to reconstitute Palestine as q
democratic commonwealth.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Sorensen Resigns Posi-
As Ford Vice President
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Mar. A.
Charles E. Sorensen announced to-
day his resignation as vice president
OF the Ford Motor Co., because
am compelled to take much-need-
ed rest"
Calling reporters to his winter
home here, he issued this prepared
statement:
I'm answer to your inquiries, am
resigning as vice president of the
Ford Motor Co. after 80 years of
continuous service.
Il have enjoyed every minute of
1t, and it is with great regret that
am asking Mr.. Henry Ford to re-
lieve me of my duties.
"The great war program that was
developed by the company is we'll
organized and is in competent
hands.
Il am compelled to take much
needed rest. I expect to return to
Detroit about May l..
II have no immediate plans for
the future"