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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-20
Veteran Of 81 Missions
Victim OF Accident

GRANT, Mich, Nov. 20 Up
The War Department has in,
formed Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Wolbrlnk that their son, Lieut.
Leslie c. Wolbrink, 22-year-old
veteran of 81 overseas missions
who wore the distinguished Fly
ing Cross and the air medal
with three oak leaf clusters was
killed in plane crash at Peter
son Field, Colo.
Two first cousins Of Lieut.
Wolbrink, both pilots, met death
similarly In accidental plane
crashes since the outbreak OF
the war. They were Lieut.
Charles Van Eumen of Grant
and Lieutenant Wells Parrish
of Allendale.
Lieutenant Wolbrink was kill
ed Saturday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-20
Hunt Sailors Wife
Missing Nine Days
18-Yeor-Old Mother
Object Of Hunt

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Nov
20-(P)- Police have been en-
listed in a search for Mrs. JAG
queline Waite, 18-year-old wife
of a sailor and mother Of a six
month-old baby girl. The young
Womans mother, Mrs. Cecil
Nehrkorn, said she disappeared
Nov. II saying she was going
for short walk.
Wilfred Cross, II, told Off
GERS he saw woman whose des-
cription tall e d with Mrs.
Waite's disappear nc e. She
semed to be weeping and seek
ing to avoid notice, Cross said.
State Police also were check
ing a report that woman
jumped from an automobile on
the night of Nov. IL, and was
forced back into the car after a
struggle with her male compan-
ion.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-20
Turkey(rop
allow Ebb
81 Requirements
Cornered Market

CHICAGO, Nov. 20 - CF) -
Tom Turkey, who has gone to
war to give the boys at the
fighting fronts in prison camps
and at home bases a measure of
thanks on Thanksgiving Day,
will be an item of scarcity for
most civilians on the holiday.
|The armed services had first
choice of the turkey crop, de-
scribed by one expert as the big
gest on record, while other fac
tors for the shortage Of the sup
ply to fill civilian requirements
was mild weather and shortage
of labor in processing plants.
Warm weather, the War Food
Administration said today, is one
of the principal reasons why
country marketings have not
been sufficient to supply the
civilian market. Turkeys, VIA
explained, will not eat fattening
foods when temperatures are
mild. Consequently, many of
this years birds are not ready
for market.
The armed services had first
choice Of the crop, taking a large
quantity Of the finished stock,
most of them hens which mature
earlier than toms.
A VIA order prohibiting tur-
key sales in "a stars until
enough had been bought or con-
tracted for to fill the needs Of
the armed services was lifted
Nov. 5. Military requirements
were considerably higher this
season.
Frank E. Blood, of WAS
dairy and poultry branch, said
this years turkey crop was
probably the biggest on record
and that civilian supplies for
Christmas and New Years Day
probably would be much larger
than those available for Thanks
giving.
A very small " portion Of the
Army's stock of processed birds,
those failing to meet specifica-
tons as to size and quality, is
being released for civilians.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-20

Q-What is a family's average
share of the nations wartime ex-
penditures?
A-$8200, a life insurance
company reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Britain Maps Huge Fleet
For Warfare in Pacific

LONDON, Dec. II. (UP)
Britain announced Monday
the creation of a large new
Pacific fleet = described by
some sources as big enough
to challenge the remaining
japanese fleet-and said it
would operate as needed un-
der the supreme command of
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
or General Douglas Macarthur.
The announcement underlined
Britain's determination to play a
a strong role in the defeat of Japan
and marked her first appearance
III naval strength in Pacific waters
since her loss of Hong Kong and
Singapore in 1912.
AT Canberra, War Minister Fran
els M. Forde revealed that the fleet
would be based in Australia and
said that Australia hao undertaken
to provide by June, l945, facilities,
and services estimated to
cost a minimum of $68,747, 900 in
addition to similar needs aggregat-
ing $357 100000 to be provided this
financial year for American forces
in the southwest Pacific.
Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser, for
mer commander of the British home
fleet, was given command of the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Winter Lettuce
Starts Movinq

Imperial Valleys lettuce industry,
the giant of western agriculture,
started the winter shipping season
during the week end.
A few truckloads of dry-pack left
Ell Centro Sunday for the coast
markets. Carload shipments are eX-
pected to start within a short time.
Ice-pack shipments probably will
start rolling around December 90
Present demand is high, growers
said, with the price hitting the OPA
ceiling price of 1926 a crate, FOB
Ell Centre. The price is expected
to remain at the ceiling for con-
siderable time.
Warm weather which continued
late into the fall caused some of
the early lettuce to blow up and
necessitated replanting in many in
stances. Early paintings are poor
to fair in stand.
The current shipments are going
to the Pacific coast area from San
Diego to Seattle, Washington, grow
ers said The lettuce season does
not hit its stride until after the
first of the year.
Total lettuce paintings in Imperial
Valley were estimated at approx
mately 10000 acres this year. This
is less than the total a year ago,
growers said Monday
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Peace Move Din1s
In Greek Revolt

ATHENS, Dec II. CUP)-Hope for
an early compromise settlement of
the Greek civil war faded Monday
as the bloody street fighting in
Athens ragged into it's second week
with some 10000 well-armed leftist
troops still sniping and shelling Brit
ish and Greek government positions
in the heart of the capital.
Repulsed with heavy losses in an
attack on the central gendarmerie
barracks and in an attempt to move
reinfOrcementS in from the suburbs
Sunday, the left-wing Elias detach-
ments fell back to a sporadic bonn
bardment CT the British Greek
headquarters in Athens and the
naval station at Piraeus.
Tentative peace feelers we're put
out by the leftist leaders Sunday,
but they were rebuffed sharply by
spokesman for Premier George
Papandreou, who merely reiterated
the government position that no
peace can be arranged until the Elias
forces lay down their arms.
The leftists countered with an
offer to withdraw from the Athens
area if a new government were
formed, including Communists and
other left-wingers, which left both
sides exactly where they were when
the hostilities began last Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
DeGauI|e, Stain
Reach Accord
On Mutual Aid

PARIS, Dec. II. CUP)-General
DeGaulle, en- route from Moscow
with a new Franco-Russian treaty
OF alliance anc mutual assistance,
probably will meet next with PreSi-
dent Roosevelt, informed French
sources said Monday.
Though Mr. Roosevelt has not
replied officially to DeGaulle's invi-
tation to come to Paris, there was
good reason to believe that the visit
will occur fairly soon.
1t was suggested that the Presi-
dent might visit Paris Immediately
after the next meeting of the Al
lied "big three.
Having reached agreement with
Prime Minister Churchill and Pre-
mier Stain on the main outlines
CT treatment OF Germany and the
postwar European settlement with
France in a key role, DeGaulle was
said to desire similar under
standing with The united States.
The signing of the Franco-Rus-
sian pact probably will be followed
soon by the signing of a parallel
Anglo-French alliance.
The text of the Franco-R Russian
agreement was not released, but
an announcement in Moscow said
the two countries haG, 'reaffirmed
their determination to continue
military operations up to complete
victory over Germany and their
desire to take all necessary meas
ureS in common for safeguarding
Europe from new aggression"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Imperial County
Girds TO Win
War Bonds Goal

Imperial county entered upon the
last week of its bond-selling drive III
the Sixth War Loan Monday with
an accumulated total of sales in the
amount of S2,267 ,003. Saturdays sale
Of bonds had slunIped to a new lew
of $45,16l
If the county fills its quota, sales
must reach $432,995 in the next six
days, County Chairman Herb FaW-
cett announced.
A joint meeting of city and county
bond leaders. to discuss ways and
means for a garrison finish, was
scheduled for Monday afternoon at
the Ell Centro chamber of commerce.
Dedication of the week at that
time to the commemoration OF the
adoption of the Bill of Rights, pop
ularly regarded as the first III
amendments to the Constitution
was planned, Fawcett said.
Viggo Hansen, Ell Centre city
chairman, was far from optimistic
Monday Bond sales at the booth on
Main street, having reached zero
and stayed there. it was deemed ad-
visable to close that part OF the
drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
2400 u. s. Planes
Rake Germany

LONDON, Dec. II. CUP)-A huge
American air fleet of more than
1900 heavy bombers and 800 fighters
smashed vital points on Germany
rail lines leading to the western
battlefront Monday. British bomb
ers joined the big offensive with an
attack on freight yards and benzol
plants in the industrial Ruhr.
The assault on the Germans vital
supply routes was paced by one of
the biggest forces of Flying For
tresses and Liberators the Eighth
Air Force has yet sent against the
NaZis.
Escorted by Thunderbolts and
Mustangs, the four-engined Ameri-
can bCmbers concentrated on rail
yards at Frankfurt and other points
in the immediate area, including
Hanau and Giessen.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Survey Slated
On Farm Labor

G. w. Garrigues. manager of tie
farm labor office, back Monday
from a conference CT officials rep
resenting eight southern counties,
said a statewide survey of agricul-
tural needs for 1945 will be UNDER
taken at once.
Garrigues eaid agricultural labor
demand and supply in Imperial VAL
ley arc about on balance at this
time. He estimated about 5000 per-
sons are engaged in farm work in
the valley now and the peak en-
ployment should be reached the last
week CT February and the first half
of March, when harvests OF peas
carrots and lettuce reach their high.
At the peak, Garrigues said, ap-
proximately $4,000 agricultural la
borers will be required. This esti-
mate is based on the figures of last
year. which was the first complete
year the U. S. Department of Labor
and the University of California Ex-
tension Service cooperated under
the present setup aimed at control
of the farm labor supply.
About 900 Mexican nationals are
now at work in Imperial valley,
Garrigues said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

One column pushed north up the
Ormoc corridor in an effort to
strike a knockout blow from the
rear against the bulk of the enemy
garrison fighting a last-ditch strug-
gle against an American frontal
assault below Limon. Another head
cd south and already may have ef-
fected junction with the seventh
division around the second enemy
pocket.
SURPRISE ATTACK
Ormoc, main Japanese supply and
reinforcement gateway on Leyte,
fell Sunday to veterans of the 77th
only 70 hours after they had driven
ashore three miles to the south
in a surprise amphibious landing.
The capture Of Orrnoc split off
the southern end of the enemy's
Yamashita line beyond hope Of re-
lief and complete encirclement of
that pocket appeared imminent.
The seventh division, driving up
the west coast from Albuera, eight
and half miles south of C'rmoc,
Sunday was less than a mile from
junction with the 77th and al
ready had established contact with
other forces moving across the in
land mountains from Mahonag, nine
! and a half miles east of Ormoc.
Trapped ano compressed into a
narrow pocket by these three AL
lied columns. the enemy's forces
III the southern segment of the
Yamashita line, although thous-
andS strong, are unable to eXtricate
themselves" General Douglas Mac
Arthur reported in his communique.
"They are being destroyed with
little opportunity for effective re-
taliation. With their destruction,
Cur troops from the south will be
in position to take the northern
segment of the Yamashita line in
reverse"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Italy Repudiates Sforzo
I'm New Cabin ct Set-Up

ROME, Dec. IL. (UP)-
Count Carlo Sforza, eXclud-
ed from the new Italian cab
met as a result of British OPP
position, Monday accused
Pr m e Minister Winston
Churchill of trying to force
King Victor Emmanuel on
the italian people.
Sforza denied Churchill's charge
that he had conspired to overthrow
the armistice government of Mar
shall Pietro Badoglio in violation
OF pledge made to the Allies be-
fore his return from political exile
i'll the United States last year.
Churchill attributed Badoglio's
expulsion from office to my in
trigue," Sforza said. Instead, 1t
was the Committee of National Lib
Grafton in Rome which, after the
liberation OF the capital, unani-
mously demanded with extreme
frankness and no intrigues the
elimination of Badoglio and his re-
placement by Bonomi."
II took no part in this episode, 3"
Sforza aided in flat contradiction
to the charge made by Churchill in
the house of commons last week.
Sforza asserted that in his two
hour conference with Churchill in
London on october IL, the prime
minister devoted most of the dis
cussion to pressure that we accept
Victor Emmanuel regardless of his
heavy responsibilities for Fascism."
He added that Churchill was well
aware of his opposition to the king
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
SIottery Quits
REA. on Request

WASHINGTON. Dec. II. (UP)--
The White House Monday an
nounced the resignation of Harry
Slattery, Rural Identification Ad-
ministrator.
Slattery. whose activities as REA
chief long have been under fire,
submitted Ills resignation to Presi-
dent Roosevelt early last week and
it was accepted. effective immedi-
ately, In letter from the President
dated December 8.
The White House did not make
public either Slattery's letter of res
ignation or Mr.. Rocsevelts reply.
Slattery's stewardship of the REA
was the subject of an extensive in
vestigation last winter by Senate
agriculture subcommittee. His critics
apparently led by the National
Rural Electric Cooperative Associa-
tion--charged that REA under his
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
YANkS BATTLE way TO R0ER RIVER BRINK
GERMANS FLEE
BUDAPEST AS
RUSS MOVE IN
Defeated Foe Leaves
Wounded Behind;
LuftWaffe Driven Off

LONDON, Dec. IL. CUP)-Soviet
front reports said the Germans were
evacuating the Hungarian capital
of Budapest under storm of Rus
sian bombs and shells Monday, leav-
ing a doomed rear guard to cover
their flight from the burning city
The fall of Budapest southeastern
EuroDe'S greatest communications
hub and the citadel of Adolf Hitler's
last major satellite, appeared i'm
minent as nverging Russian
armies crashed in to the gates of the
city from three sides and all but
severed the enemy'S narrowing eS-
cape line northwest to Vienna.
ABANDON WOUNDED
Moscow said the fleeing Nazis
were abandoning their wounded and
huge piles of equipment in desper-
ate attempt to escape through the
closing Jaws of the Red army trap.
Several crack luftwaffe squadrons
joined battle with the Red air force
over the choked rail and road lines
tc Vienna in a last-minute attempt
to save their marching columns
from slaughter, but Moscow said the
Soviet filters were taking a heavy
toll of German troops and trans
port.
FANATICS REMAIN BEHIND
Fanatical German rear guards re-
ckr IF
the capital and along the flanks of
tie Nazi escape corridor, but Mes
COW indicated they could do little
more than delay the Red army en-
try into Budapest.
Earlier reports had indicated that
the bulk of the German and Hun
garian garrison was digging in for a
death stand inside the city, but the
Moscow dispatches suggested this
activity was ruse to cover the
evacuation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

particularly registrants 18 through
81, to give their fullest support to
the war effort either in uniform or
in essential war or civilian activit-
les"
Defermert stanc ards have been
applied strictly ON men 18 through
25 and the order was therefore
aimed primarily at the 26-37 age
group whose deferments have been
granted more literally.
"Selective Service regulations and
memoranda" the telegram said, "are
being amended. to provide that
when an occupationally deferred
registrant leaves the employment
for which he has been deferred, he
shall be reclassified into class i'm
mediately available for service, un-
less before leaving such employ
ment he requests a determination
and determination is mace by
the local board that it is in the
best interests Of the war effort for
him to leave such employment.
This provision, it vas understood,
Continued on Page 6.BCol. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

leadership had been inefficient and
poorly managed.
He in turn told the subcommittee
that the association began an un-
dercover campaign to force him out
of REA after he disapproved an as
sociation plan to use REA coopera-
tive funds to form two mutual in
surance companies. He said his res
ignation had been requested by Sec
retary CT Agriculture Claude Wick
ard and by Jonathan Daniels, an as
sistant to President Roosevelt.
Slattery was executive officer for
the National Boulder Dam Associa-
ton in the late '20s. and was re-
called to the government by Secre-
tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes in
1888 as an assistant to Ickes. He be-
came undersecretary OF interior in
1888, and moved over to the REA
dictatorship the next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
B.2q's Hit Tokyo
For Fifth Day

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. lUP) -
B-2o superfortresses bombed Tokyo
for the fifth straight day Monday
and again kindled fires in the heart
of the worlds fourth largest city,
japanese broadcasts reported.
The early morning attack by
small formations" of B-29's fol-
lowed five other attacks by the huge
bombers over the weekend on CEN
tral Japan and Korea, including
two strikes at Tokyo, the Japanese
said.
"All fires were put out speedily, "
Tokyo said in reporting today's at
tack. Air raid defenses of the city
drove off the raiders before they
could do any real damage"
Two Marianas-based superfortres-
ses also attacked Tokyo about $3.50
pm. (9:30 am. EWT) yesterday
with a shower of inccndiary bombs
that caused fires, Tokyo said. These
fires, too, were extinguished i'm
mediately," it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Oil Firm Starts
On Test Well

A big steel oil derrick lowered
over the countryside five miles
southwest of Holtville Monday as
the Texaco company made rapid
progress toward drilling operations.
The derrick was put up during the
week end at the intersection of
Alamo road and the Holtville- Bonds
Corner road on the the old Coco
pah ranch.
The Texas company is known to
have more than a hundred leases
in the Holtville area where interest
in oil development has been centered
since test wells in the northern
part of Imperial Valley were aban-
doned.
Foundations for engine buildings
and other units at the we'll site were
said to be under construction Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Midwest Swept
By Snowstorm
By UNITED PRESS

Moist, slushy snow, 10 inches deep
in some areas, covered the midwest
Monday and extended as far south
as Birmingham, Alabama, and east
ward as far as upstate New York.
The sncwstorm was centered in
Illinois and moving eastWard, but
the weather bureau at Chicago said
snow in the northeastern states will
change to rain during the day.
In the midwest, the storm caused
extremely hazardous traffic con-
ditiops and delayed arrival of trains
by as much as six hours. AT least
Is deaths were attributed to the
midwest and Wectern SHOWS.
Freezing weather extended into
the Texas middle gulf coast area tc-
day, with localized snow lurries and
near-zero temperatures in the lower
Rio Grande valley fruit section.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Jops Set Back
In kWeichoW

CHUNGKING. Dec. II. CUP)-
Counterattacking Chinese troops
have cleared the remnants of two
japanese invading columns from
Kweichow province and crossed the
border into Kwangsi province to
capture the railway town of Liuchsi,
los miles south of Kweiyang, mill
tary spokesman said Monday.
A communique said the Japanese.
who suffered heavy losses at Liu-
chai, were retreating toward Nam
tan, railway town Is miles inside
Dwangsi province.
AT the same time. u. S. l4th
Air Force communique revealed that
China based American and Chinese
fliers sank more than 10000 tons of
japanese merchant shipping and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

defenSeS.
United Press Correspondent Jack
Frankish reported from the first
army that the withdrawal of Major
Nazi forces eastward across the
Roer hac, been established, and
was reflected in the lack of coun-
terattacks in the SO hours of a full
dress smash toward the Rhineland.
BATTLE WAY EAST
On the Roer front, Hodges left
wing battled into Merken and oc-
cupied most of the western part of
the village three miles northwest
OF Duren, the eastern outskirts of
which lie only 100 yards from the
Roer.
Other infantry units, after clear
ing Echtz, less than two miles
northwest of Duren, advanced to-
ward Hoven and Mariaweiler. just
northwest of the city of $4,000 as
tride the Roer. The doughboys wer,
fighting inside a half dozen town
and hamlets along the front be-
tween Schophoven and Gey, tic
whole length of which was saggirg
back within easy striking distance
of the Roer.
PATTON CHECKED
To the south, bitter counters =
tacks between Dillingen above Sasr-
autern to the Sarreguemines area
hacr checked Lieutenant General
George S. Patton'S push into and
against the Saarland.
At Dillingen the Germans coun-
terattacked three times between
2:3C and $50 am Monday fartf cr
south in Saarlautern, two maier
counterattacks we're repulsed in the
northern suburb of the city.
Major General Ira Wychc's 7g II
division of the American Seven II
army today captured Haguens II,
biggest transport center still in
Nazi hands in northeastern Franc.
A dispatch from Hagunau said the
Germans were withdrawing toward
tie Maginow forts four miles north
of the town.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

Acting swiftly to implement the
work or fight" mandate of James
F.. Byrnes, director of war mobiliz-
alton and reconversion, Hershey
telegraphec, local boards that
amended memoranda would be sent
them within few days.
NEED HELD URGENT
There is continuing urgent need
for combat replacemen's in the
European and Pacific theaters of
war and most critical shortage of
workers in war activities" the tele-
gram said.
1t said it was therefore "increas-
ingly necessary" for all persons, but
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Germans Withdraw
In Cologne Drive
Americans Forge Ahead in Heavy
Snows+orm as Nazis Fall Back;
Patton Halted by Coun+era++ack

PARIS, Dec II. (UP)-The American First army slug
ged eastward up to two miles 10-mie front Monday
in cose-n against the Roer line before Cologne
yond which major German forces withdrew under cover
of delaying action.
Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges forces storm
ing the outposs of the Roer river line through rain which
followed binding snowstorm captured the villages of
Schlicht, Echz, and Dhorn clustered in tight arc two
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

and that he had reaffirmed his
definite reputation" of Emman-
uel before and after that confer
ence.
On his return to Italy, he said
he suggested to Batcg<o that the
king abdicate and that the child
prince of Naples be proclaimed
king. with Badoglio as regent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

six warships during November, h /
addition to 274 small craft.
Nine other merchantmen totalin
23,l00 tons, two naval vessels, and Is
small craft. were listed as probably
sunk, and another IL merchant
ships aggregating 22.950 tons, two
warships and 626 small craft. were
damaged during the month.
The November attacks brought
the 14th air forces cumulative toll
cf enemy shipping since July Z.
1912, to more than 10000 tons Of
merchant shipping sunk, 286.700
tons probably sunk, and 100000 tons
damaged plus 20 Japanese naval
vessels sunk, II probably destroyed
and 80 damaged. as well an 1880
small craft sunk or damaged