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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
0PA Schedules
Hearings in {. E..

Five cases have been scheduled
for OPA administrative hearings on
alleged ration order violations TO
begin Thursday at 9:30 a. m. in the
FL Centre City Hall for Imperial
County offenders, Mrs. Margaret
Foster, chief clerk, War Price ana
Ration Board. FL Centro, announced
Wednesday.
B. Mitchell Palmer, OPA nearing
commissioner of San Francisco, VIII
preside and hear testimony.
Cases involve d asserted oVerdraw-
ing of raticn banking accounts, M
proper use of ration credits, supplier
debts, transferring rationed fooas
without requiring points, failing 10
pay point Indebtedness, unlawful de-
posits to ration banking accounts
failing tc properly post point values
and other ration order violations.
1t is understood that persons
from Brawley and CaleXico as well
as FL Centre will appear for heag-
ings. Names of concerns and indi-
yiduals scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Sunken Carrier
Joins Quartet
In Pacific Ocean

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. CUP) -
The U. S. S. Princeton, 10,00O-ton
carrier sunk near the Philippines,
is the first American combat car
rier lost in two years.
The u. S. S. Hornet. a pre-Pearl
Harbor carrier. was sunk IN the
Pacific on October 26, 1912. Since
then the only American carriers
lost have been the Block Island and
the Liscome Bay, small escort types.
The Princeton, formerly the cruis-
er Tallahassee, was an independence
class carrier, type considered high
ly effective as combat craft although
smaller than first class carriers
which range up to $1,000 tons or
more. The Princeton carried As or
more planes.
She was the fifth U. S. combat
carrier lost in this war. The others
are the Hornet, the Lexington, the
Wasp, and the Yorktown.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Dewey Challenges
RooseyeIt's
Pre.War Policies
BY JOHN L. CUTTER

ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN
TRAIN, Oct. 25. (UP)-Governor
Thomas E. Dewey sped toward 1lli-
nois Wednesday, three days ahead
of President Roosevelt, in bid to
put the states important 30 cleo
toral votes in the Republican COL
umn.
Dewey's campaign train was en-
route to Chicago from Minneap-
oils, where the COP presidential
nominee in a major address Tues
day night said he would leave up
CONTINUED on Pg. 8, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
British Capture
HoIIund Port:
Nazis Trapped
$4,000 German Soldiers Cut Off
In Emba+t|ed Transport City;
Winter Shows Fail to Stop Drive

The British had cut the road
north of S Hertogenbosch, depriv-
ing the trapped Nazis of their last
good britge across the Mas three
miles above the town. The only
possible escape routes from the
Dutch pocket were three secondary
bridges to the west. but they were
described as incapable of handling
heavy military traffic.
The position of the Germans in
southwest Holland was said official
ly here to be dangerous. and if
Marshal Sir Bernard l.. Montgcm-
ery'S multi-pronged thrust develops,
it soon was expected to become des-
perate.
The first wet winter SHOWS turned
the loW-lying Dutch countryside in
to moraSS of water soaked, mud
begged fields, but field reports said
the offensive was rolling steadily
ahead despite the weather's Grip
pling effect on armored and aerial
support.
SOUTH FRONT QUIET
There were no new reports of
large-scale fighting on the American
army fronts to the south, although
brisk skirmishing continued in the
Moselle valley and doughboy COL
umns captured a number of Ger
man-held towns northeast of Epinal
on the corner of the Vosges mount
aims.
In western Holland, however, the
plight of an estimated $4,000 orc
more Germans caught along the
seacoast and in the S Hertogen-
bosch area was deteriorating hourly.
British Second army patrols
thrust across the main highway
north and south of S Hertogen-
bosch, entering Orthen,lla miles to
the north, and pushing one to four
miles west of the highway on the
south side.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Wounded &c. Man
Reaches j. s.

Word was received Wednesday
that Private First Glass Philip Boone
of Ell Centro arrived Tuesday at a
Hospital at Coral Gables, Florida,
and was awaiting transfer to an
other hospital for treatment of
wounds received in southern France
last August 81.
While he was at breakfast with
other men they were all struck
with shrapnel. Boone has shrapnel
in his abdomen and in both legs
He was serving with the infantry
medical corps and went through
the Casino and Rome campaigns
He entered the service two years
ago next December and was over
seas year
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. l.. Boone and brother of Mrs.
Robert Van Der Linden OF Ell Gen.
tro. He telephoned his sister We'd
nesday morning and said he hoped
to be sent to a hospital closer
home,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
LeYte
Ga inS
Mount
yanks Capture
% Towns, Push
Far Into Jungle

GEN. MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, l. y t e,
Oct. 25. (UP) = American
forces beat off the first or
ganized Japanese counterat-
tacks Wednesday and extend
ed their foothold on Leyte is
land to the extreme tip OF
San JuanicO straits, giving
them a 35-mi'a coastal zone
to a depth of 10 miles and
including three airdromes and at
least % towns and villages.
Japanese resistance was Stiffen-
ing as American doughboyS SlOgged
through rice paddles and fields deep
with mud to shove the defenders
hack to the foothills of the central
Leyte mountain range.
FIND BARRIERS
The Americans encountered
japanese series of pillboXeS, field
bankers and trenches, defending the
Burr airdrome and a stiff battle de-
veloped. The Americans already
hold Tacloban, Dulac, and San
Pablo airCrcmeS. The latter'S cap
ture was announced Wednesday.
Pressing westward from San Pa
bio the Americans met fierce Jap
anese baycnet countera.tack but
knocked the japanese back. near
Burauen. 10 miles west of Dulag.
The fighting was the severest vet
encountered in the Philippines in
VaSion
The japanese were also hurting
more airpoWer into the battle. car
rying out five attacks on Leyte
harbor with a total of about 40
japanese planes in action Only
seven of the Jap planes were able
to penetrate the American defenSes
ard five of these were brought
down.
USE SMOKE SCREENS
American defenseS employed
SmokescreenS to protect the harbor
and obscure the japanese bombers'
view of the masses of shipping con-
centrated there.
To the northern end of the Leyte
foothold patrols of the dismounted
First U. S. cavalry struck rapidly
north from Tacloban along the San
Juanico straits which separate Leyte
from Samar island to the north
east. The patrols reached the ex-
treme tip of the straits where they
established a fOOthOld on the Samar
sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

To date every returning service
man seeking a job through the help
of the United States Employment
Service has been placed, according
to Tom Finney, director of the
USTS, Ell Centro.
Finney said that preponderance
of veterans have been honorably
discharged from the armed fcrces
because of various causes other
than service connected wounds"
however, few of the latter are be-
ginning to come back into the val
ley.
Although a majority of the men
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AEF, Paris, Oct. 25.
(UP) = Dutch Frontreporte
said the strategic transport
center of IS Hertogenbosch
fell Wednesday to British
Second army forces, clamp
ing some $4,000 Germans in
a trap against the lower
Mas river.
Supreme headquarters announced
that British assault forces haC driv-
en- the German garrison from all of
s Hertogenbosch except a toehold
in the southwest corner, and unoffi-
cial accounts said the conquest of
the town had been completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Oct. 25. (UP)-
Front reports Wednesday
said Red army formations
beat off Extremely power
fup' counterattacks by four
crack Nazi Panzer divisions
to deepen their 25 mile spear
head into East Prussia, fore
ing the Germans back to the
outer hedgehogs defending
the key traffic junction of Inster-
burg.
The Russians drove forward ON
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Old Jobs Await
Ex-Servicemen

wish to return to their old jobs.
an average of from $3.50 servicG-
men visit the offices of the USES
each week. Finney said. Last week.
he observed, was an exception, when
so returning veterans applied for
work.
The employment head lauded Inn
perial valley employers. who show
returning servicemen every possible
preference.
"As yet" Finney concluded. there
has not been a single instance of a
former employer refusing to accept
a returning Seryiceman."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Rules Revomped
On Liquor Sole

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 25. CUP)-
George M. Stout, alcoholic beverage
division administrator, Wednesday
announced that commanding Off
GERS of both the 18th and 18th naval
districts have agreed to permitting
purchase of beverages by enlisted
men starting at a p. m. daily in
stead of at S p. m. as at present
Previously the Ninth Service Gem
mand, Fort Douglas, Utah, had in
dicated its willingness to give SOL
dierS the extra hour and Stout said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Russ Defeat Crack PunzerS
I'm East Prussia Advance

both sides of the Kaunas- KoenigS-
berg railroad with forces described
as numerically superior to those de-
Tending Germans.
THE Gumbinnen sector, about 10
miles east of Insterburg, was the
scene of the bitterest tank and
artillery battles.
(The German DNB news agency
reported the Russians had launch
ed what may be final attack to
capture Memel and also have gone
over to the offensive north of
Warsaw A BBC report credited to
Nazi sources said the Red army had
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Here's Tally
Against Nips

PEARL HARBOR, Oct 25. (UP)-The box score in
the two-day battle of the Philippines:
Japanese Wdrships Sunk:
One large aircraft carrier.
Two cruisers acknowledged by the JapaneseD
One destroyer acknowledged by the Japanese)
Japanese Warships Damaged:
Five six batteshipS.
Two large aircraft carriers.
Two cruisers.
Four destroyers
Japanese Planes Destroyed:
At least $50.
American Losses:
10,OOO-ton aircraft carrier Princeton and at least
part of her complement of planes possibly 60 to IS
(Ihe two cruisers and destroyer which the Japan
ese conceded had been lost presumably were among
the warshps listed by Pacific fleet headquarters as
damaged.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

penetrated Norwegian territory In
an advance ON Kirkenes)
Gen. Ivan ID. Chernlakhovsky's
Third White Russian army was re-
ported to be destroying more than
100 German tanks per day In battl-
ing reminiscent of the Allied break
out combat at Caen
Cherniakhovsky's north and south
flanks were moving westward stea1i-
ly while the center engaged the
German armor. Capture OF AnguAiov
was believed to have ayerted any
danger of successful Nazi counter
attacks In the Masnrian lake region.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

the board of equalization probably
will take formal action Wednesday
or Thursday.
If adopted, the new order will
permit purchase of package goods
by enlisted men between the hours
Of and 8 2. m. and purchase of
beverages by the drink from 4 p. m.
to midnight. Stout said.
Headquarters of the 11th naval
district are at San Diego and of
the 18th naval district at San Fran
cisco
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Red Army Captures Nozi
U-Bodt Base Of kirkenes

LONDON, Oct. 25. (UP)-
Russian Arctic troops broke
across the Finnish-Norweg-
ian border in force Wednes-
day, captured the Nazi air
and U-boat raiding base of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

KirkeneS, and drove eastward
across the northern tip of
Norway in close pursuit of the re-
treating Germans.
Soviet Premier Marshal Josef
Stain confirmed the fall of Kirken-
es in special order of the day
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

few hours after Berlin conceded
the loss of the Barents sea base,
once one of the main lairs for the
German undersea and aerial fleets
thrown against Murmansk- bound
Allied conveys in the early stages
of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
y AMBlINe
\EpoRTER
Bouquet Department.

Bouquet Department
1t is with a great deal of pleasure
that RR presents Leo Hetzel. vet
eran photographer, with a big bou-
quet of desert lilies.
The occasion for the award is the
thirty-first anniversary of his ar
rival in FL Centro. He has been
busily engaged in taking photo
graphs and pictures in Ell Centro
and surrounding areas since Octo-
Der %, 1918.
His cameras have recorded the
likeness of hundreds and hundreds
of men, women and children. His
photographs of desert scenes are
famous everywhere. He has taken
the pictures of Imperial Valley
seryicemf n in two World Wars. He
has photographed the classes year
after year in many schools in the
valley.
And by his side all this time was
Mrs. Hetzel. We think wives are en-
titled to something extra, extra
special. To her we award a delight
full nosegay containing one blossom
of all the flowers she loves best.
Many happy returns to this below
ed FL Centre couple.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25

IIlIpTISUIIIIIPIlI. NUIIItIS, TIC SdIU, dIC
liable for the care of their children.
TELLS OF NEGLECT
"A four-year- boy was brought
before me because he had stolen
bicycle and set several fires"
Judge Thompson said. Mrs. Mildred
Standlee, probation officer, ancl po-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Juvenile Judge
Warns Mothers
Of Neglect Law

= - -
lder allotments intended to
re, Judge Vaughn N. Thomp-
lie court declared today.
out that there is a section in
ich provides for the punish
The penalty on conviction is
lprisonment or both fine and
lice officers in the town where the
boy lives told in court of the star
tling conditions which had resulted
in the little boys troubles.
Police officers said they repeat
edly found the boy wandering around
the streets late at night as we'll as
in the Daytime. They would take
him home, his home being a house
at the rear of a saloon where they
said the mother spends most of her
time"
Investigation showed that the
boys mother receives 500 a month
in service allotment provided for
the care of the boy and his six-year
old sister The girl is living with
relatives. The child ran about the
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
He Never FOrgeis--

He Never FOrgeis-
Remember Ralph French who
used to be dep. d. q. in Imperial
county? He lives in Fresno now, on
Iowa avenue
Just because he was born in Iowa
he thinks he has to live on Iowa
avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
Showdown Sea Battle RACES
I'm Areas Around Leyte
At Least Three Large Nip Vessels
Sent Down. Many Others Damaged;
U. S. Loses 10000 Plane Carrier

LONDON Oct 25 UP)A United broadcast
from the Philippines montored Douglas
macarthur wednesday
most crushing defeat on
a dwinding
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
All or Nothing

All or Nothing
AT the football game the other
night when Ell Centro played Holt
vile, Jimmy Gavin, 5, and his
mother, Mrs. Neal Gavin of FL Gen.
tro happened to be sitting in a
perfect nest of Holtville rooters.
Jimmy listened while those
around him kept shouting, Come
(ConJmued on Pg. 8, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
. BY FRANK TREMAINE :

PEARL HARBOR Oct 25. (UP) The American
hrd fleet has sunk at least japanese aircraft carrier
TWO cruisers and destroyer and damaged dozen other
Wafshps, including five battleShps, showdown
battle with three enemy naval forces for control of Philip
pines waters, it was revealed Wednesday.
. General action is continuing Admiral Chester W.
Nlmltz, commander of the Pacific fleet announced in
communlque disclosing that probably the great ar-sea
battle of the had been joined southwest northwest and
north of invaded Leyte island.
Shore Based Aircraft Sink Carrier
japanese shorebased aircraft supporting enemy fleet
units sank the 1000Oton American aircraft carrier Prince
on but her captain 1873 other officers and 1927 enlisted
men rescued Nmtz said He listed no other Ameri
! losses.
The communque said Admiral William F. Halsey's
Third fleet at last bringing the Japanese fleet battle
far had sunk at least large aircraft carrier severely
damaged two others, and bombed torpedoed strafed
five six batteshps two cruisers and four destrovers
as well as other undisclosed craft.
japanese Imperial headquarters voluntarily added to
the toll by acknowledging in cOmmunque that the
cruisers and destroyer had been sunk but said nothing
OF the aircraft and did damage
to other fleet units.
Nimitz cOmmunique indicated that contact between
the opposing forces far had been limited to aircraft
but Tokyo said surface units also in action and
German Transocean dispatch from the Japanese capital
reported the fleets closed to within miles each other
at the climax of the battle Wednesday morning Tokyo time
Some $50 Japanese planes shot down during the
attack which resulted in the sinking the Prince
ton Nmz sad but other enemy aircraft losses not
listed.
Tokyo Claims Heavy American Losses
The japanese communique claimed that 16 American
ships had been sunk damaged four aircraft carriers
cruisers, destroyer and more than four transports
sunk, Tokyo said while two aircraft carriers
battleship and two cruisers were reported damaged
Two of the enemy naval forces sighted Tuesday
Philippines time Monday Pearl Harbor tine) sailing
through the central Philippines, proceeding through
Continued on Pg g. Col II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-25
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 80, minimum
Wed. So; 5 am. Wed. 81, humidity
81; noon Wed. 83, humidity 38; 5
I'm. 79, humidity So.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-03
COP Governors
Map Views On
Federal OUTLAWS
BY LYLE c. WILSON

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug. 3. (UP)-
Inc orsing continued federal con-
tributions under certain condition
to help pay for public works, the
national guard and highway con-
structon, the Republican governors
conference warned Thursday that
permanent peacetime jobs can be
assured "only by private business
under an enterprise system
The conferees challenged en-
croachments of centralized govern
ment on state prerogatives.
Uncer leadership of Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey, COP presidential candi-
date, the conferees announced
agreement on principles dealing
with six of the IA questions compris-
ing their agenda here. They are
scheduled to end their conference
with agreement on the remaining
eight questions tonight.
The report made public charged
that "the new deal now is seeking
to undermine and abandon our
traditional national guard system"
The agreements on principles an
nounced covered: reconversion and
postwar jobs, public works. high
Continued on page 2, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-03
Hull. Ickes Deny Districts
RiQht to Get Wuter Fees

has no right or authority to nego-
tiate and conclude a contract cover
ing payment for water now being
delivered to Mexicali valley through
the facilities of the All-American
canal, has convinced the board that
the people of the Valley need to be
advised fully of the entire matter.
After Secretary Hull had served
an ultimatum' on the district to
the effect that the financial ar
rangements must be made between
the State Department and the
Mexican government the district
board approved the following state
ment issued by Chairman HeWeS:
THE most typical example of the
bureaucratic philosophy of govern
ment that is being practiced and
proposed in Washington at the pres
ent time, in my opinion, is the let
ter received by the board of direc-
tors of the district over the sigma
ture of Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and the telegram signed by
Assistant Secretary of State Oscar
Chapman Both of these officers
take the position of absolutely ig-
noring the rights of the people of
the Imperial Irrigation district as
outlined in the All-American canal
contract, and declare their inten-
tions of dealing back and forth
between themselves for the use of
our property.
with this attitude taken by the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-03
Aircraft Plants
Hit in Germany

LONDON, Aug. 3. cUP)-A huge
striking force of some $50 Italian
based American heavy bombers
smashed at the Nazi aircraft man
ufacturing center of F'riedrichshaf-
en- on the German-Swiss frontier
Thursday and ripped up enemy
communications lines funnelling in
to the Brenner Pass from northern
Italy.
Part of the big task force veered
off to the east to lay their block
busters across the network of
bridges and railway lines running
through the Alps into Germany,
inclucing railway viaduct on the
Brenner Pass.
Seventeen allied aircraft were
listed as missing from Wednesdays
operations, and 10 enemy planes
were destroyed, supreme headquar-
tiers, AEF, announced Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-03
Strike
Areas
Widen
Union Dispute
Ties Up
Indiana Plant
By UNITED PRESS

A jurisdictional dispute be-
tween rival CIO and AFL
Unions Thursday threatened
to tie up all industries at
Muncie, Ind, adding to the wide
spread strikes that plagued the
United States and Canada, tying up
transportation in Philadelphia and
Montreal and hampering war pro-
duction.
Sixteen thousand CIO workers at
Muncie voted to quit their jobs in
sympathy, spokesman said, after
$50 members of an AFL union
agreed to post an iron clad" picket
line around the glass house at the
Ball Brothers plant.
FOLLOWS RULING
The dispute arose after the Ma
tional Labor Relations board award
ed bargaining rights for miScellan-
eous workers in the glass house to
the CIO following an election. The
AFL contended that it had bargain
ing rights for workers in the glass
department and established picket
lines July %. CIO workers recog-
nized the picket lines but returned
to work when the protest dWindled
to only token" picketing. Most of
plants $500 workers had been back
to work for several days when the
trouble flared up again.
At Philadelphia, where a strike
of $500 transportation workers en-
tered its third day. trucks were
pressed into service to transport
workers to their jobs in war factor
les and the city awaited an expected
order from PRESIDENT Roosevelt for
the federal government to seize con-
troll of the paralyzed transporta-
ton system.
The regional war manpoWer COM
Continued on page 2, col ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-03
Two Gangsters
In Chicago
Shot 10 Death

CHICAGO, Aug. 3. CUP--Law-
renee (Dago) Mangano, 54-year-old
member of The old AL Capone gang,
was killed early Thursday and his
bodyguard, Michael Pontill, 81, was
fatally wounded in new flareup of
gang warfare over gambling.
The shooting occurred when three
gunmen in a black sedan drew
alongside the car in which Man.
game, Pontill and Miss Rita Reyes
were riding, and opened fire with
shotguns and 45-caliber pistols.
Mangano died shortly afterwards
at BrideWell hospital but Pontill
survived the shooting by seven
hours. Miss Reyes, who escaped in
jury, was held by police for ques-
tioning
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-03
Poles Slaughter
Nozis in Warsaw
: BY JOHN A. PARIS

LONDON, Aug g. UP)-Poish rflemen a
Nazi
battling the ciyS
dramatic flashed
said the patriot troops had launched
rear that hard fighting
Inc n.equpped Poles were reported sniping Nazi soldiers
hndreds buildings and units
fighting
A communique
Military authorities London believed the Poles
the the trap
Thursday
had extended the battle
the military
Polish