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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Bor ptured.
Berlin Says

commander -in-chief of the Polish
armed forces by the exiled govern
ment in London only last week.
Even as the Germans were re-
porting the capture of Komorcwski
Prime Minister Churchill was eulo-
gizing his stand in statement be-
fore commons. He expressed SYM
pathy with the Polish nation over
the collapse of resistance "at time
when Allied armies are everywhere
victorious and e. the final defeat
of Germany is in sight"
When final Allied victory Is
achieved" he told commons. the
epic of Warsaw will not be forgot
ten. 1t will remain a deathless mem
ory for Poland and for friends of
freedom all over the world"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

LONDON. Oct. 5. CUP)-General
Tadesuz CBor) Komorowski. who
commanded the abortive 63-day
Polish revolt against the Germans
in Warsaw, has been taken prisoner
by Nazi forces. the German DNB
agency said Thursday.
"All Boris staff officers, as we'll
as several Polish generals among his
encourage, were captured DNB
said.
Polish sources had believed that
Komorowski, who ordered his men
to lay down their arms Monday aft
er their ammunition and supplies
became exhausted, escaped to or
ganize underground resistance else
where in Poland. He was named
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

months in the spring of 1898.
They travelled about Germany
attended youth rallies at which
Hitler spoke, and for four weeks,
went to a special training school,
the slim, 23-year-old soldier testi-
fled.
"We were taught that eventually
all the world would be Nazi-With
everyone living like the Germans,
Schlote saio, land that we would
be part of the machine that was
spreading Hitler's principles"
While they were at the school,
he testified, they were marched
up to a hillside" where they swore
a secret Nazi oath to "be true to
the German cause"
Before they went over, he testi-
fled, Fritz Kuhn, national bund
leader, and Theodore Dinkelacker,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.
(UP)-The story of how teen
-age boys and girls were sent
to Germany to become dis
ciples of Hitler and then
brought back to spread his
doctrines in t h United
States was unfolded at the
first matinee" session of the
mass sedition trial.
Corporal Roy H. Schlote, Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, now stationed at
Brookley Field, Mobville, Alabama,
told Wednesday how he and %
other members of the German-Am-
erican Bund youth movement were
selected by the bund and sent to
the Reich for two and one-half
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

The new aerial assaults came as
U. S. marines and army troops
cleared additional enemy forces
from Morotai island, in the Halma-
heras, and in the southern Palaus,
at the two ends of the Allied line
around the southeastern approaches
to the Philippines.
General Douglas Macarthur an
nounced that his army forces on
Morotai, $50 miles south of the Phil
ippines, cleared enemy positions
from the American perimeter Mon
day night, killing 90 Japanese, to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Bund Sent Young Members
To Become 'HitIerized

national youth group leader, warned
them not to expect "a pleasure
trip"
"They told us we were going to
Germany to be instructed in Nazi
principles and that we We're 10
come back to the United States
and teach our own groups
Schlote confessed that his trip
convinced him that the bund and
Germany "were the same thing
and, when he came back, he didn't
spread anything"
Schlote was called to the stand
at the first solid afternoon session
of the five and one-half months
old trial of 26 persons accused of
conspiring with the Nazis to sub
vert members of the American
armed forces and set up national
socialism in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Pants ShI1nkage
Costs Black
Eve, Fine of Sd

A fight over an alleged six-inch
shrinkage in a pair of mems trouS-
ers left at an Ell Centro cleaning
establishment ended in Ell Centric
Justice court Wednesday.
Irene Wharton was fined $5 for
blacking the eye of Mary Ellen
Shafer, the customer who objected
the shrinkage in her husbands
trousers, testimony showed. Mrs
Wharton said she told Mrs. Shafer
TO leave the cleaning establishment
after the argument over the trous-
ers and Mrs. Shafer refused.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

DETROIT, Oct. S. (UP)-Repre-
sentatives of striking maintenance
workers voted Thursday to end i'm
mediately walkouts which have
halted or slowed production in at
least 26 vital war plants.
The vote was taken at meeting
CT the United Automobile Workers
(CIO) maintenance workers council
and local union presidents on a plea
by International Vice President
Walter p Reuther, who was rushed
to Detroit by army plane to tell the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
J. S. FORCE SNMASHES TOWARD COLOGNE
Detroit Strike
End S on Vote

workers that they must return to
their jobs at once in the interest of
the war effort.
Reuther tCld neWsmen, who were
excluded from the meeting, that the
back -to-Work vote was adopted
overwhelmingly. al hough not
unanimously"
Reuther said that maintenance
workers committee would return to
Washington for further conference
with the War LabCr Board, and
would report back to local union
leaders by October l6.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

Germans had evacuated Athens.
ROME. Oct. 5. (UP)-Al-
lied troops, opening the sec
ond battle of Greece, have
invaded the Greek mainland
by air and sea. seized several
airfields and driven into the
fortified medieval port OF
Patrai, a communique an
nounced Thursday.
Virtually the whole of the Pelo-
ponnesus, comprising a quarter OF
the Greek mainland, was believed
already in Allied hands or under
Allied control Embattled Patral. on
the north coast of the Peloponnesus,
was described as one of the enemyS
last strongholds on the peninsula.
The communique reported merely
that land forces of the Adriatlc'
. had entered Patrai during Tuesday
! night, and it was possible that the
port. once the principal seat Of
Greek commerce. had since been
captured.
The invasion opened the final
phase of the liberation of the
liberation of the. southern Balkans,
completing a three-quarters encir-
clement of some 100000 Germans in
Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia. Red
army forces and Marshal Tito's par
tisans in Yugoslavia rapidly were
cutting across the enemy's last
routes of escape to the north.
Some Greek islands" also were
invaded by the Allies, it was reveal
ed, and the speed with which the
campaign was developing was indi-
Gated by Cairo dispatch reporting
that an Allied military mission in
Greece had sent surrender ulti-
matum to German and pro-AXis
forces on Evvoia CEubeO, largest
Greek islano in the Aegean only 80
miles north of Athens.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
AL SMITHS BODY LIES
IN STATE IN CATHEDRAL

NEW YORK, Oct. D. (UP)-Iht
BODY of former governor Alfred E
Smith will lie in state at st. Pat
rick's as long as is necessary fol
his millions of mourners to pay
final tribute.
Msgr. Joseph F.. Flannelly, ad-
ministrator of the Cathedral. sale
the body of the former Democratic
presidential candidate, who dice
early Wednesday, would be placed il
the chapel at 2 p. m. Friday anc
later before the main sanctuary ano
the cathedral would remain oper
all night an unprecedented honor.
A solemn high requiem mass viii
be held at IL a. m. Saturday ano
a quiet burial, with neither flowers
nor pallbearers, will follow.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05

WASHINGTON, Oct. S. tUP)-
American combat casualties IN all
theaters, as officially announced
here, stood at AIT .C85 Thursday, l6-
325 more than two weeks ago when
the last overall compilation was an
nounced.
Secretary of War Henry l.. Stim-
son said at a news conference that
army all-theater casualties totaleu
35l ,293 through September q, IN
Guiding 68.685 killed, 185.92l wound
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Cardinals Even
Series, 3-2
In II Innings

No runs, one hit, no errors, one
left.
Cards urowski sacrificed,
Christmas to Gutteridge, who COW
cred first, Sanders going to second.
Marion was purposely passed. Ken
O'Dea batted for Verban. ODea
singled scoring Sanders.
One run. two hits, no errors. two
left.
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Wor Casualties
Reach 417,085

ed, 45,488 missing and 5l3l6 priS-
oners of war. Of the wounded. a.
379 have returned to duty.
Navy, marine and coast guard
casualties reported as of THURSDAY
totaled 65, 1872, including 25,963 dead,
25,588 wounded, 9761 missing ana
4480 prisoners.
Stimson said army casualties IN
Italy, excluding the air forces, TO-
tailed 82,11l on September 70. vi
these 1889 were listed as killed,
56,178 wounded and l0,044 mis- sing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
TITO IN BATTLE

Marshal Tito's partisans Wednes-
day were reported fighting INSIDE
Pancevo, eight miles from Belgrade,
and it was possible the outpost
already has fallen under a COM
bined assault.
The rapid pace of the Russian
advance on Belgrade indicated that
Red army would free its third
Balkan capital within matter OF
days, possibly before the end OF
the week.
The Danube was not expected to
grove formidable obstacle to troops
who already have forced the river
farther east and have conquered the
Dnestr and Dnepr against far
stronger enemy forces.
The German garrison of Belgrade
faced a threat of encirclement as
well as frontal assault. Other ele-
ments of the Second army were
forging a giant ring around the
capital from the north and south
east and Tito's partisans were clos
ing in from the west and south.
marshal Tito reported in COM
munique released in London that
his partisans had routed an enemy
column south of Avala in the Kos
mai hills sector some Is to Is miles
south of Belgrade.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
i. 5. DESTROYER
Sunk, Japs Say
BY UNITED pRESs

The Japanese Domei news agency
reported today that an Allied de-
stroyer exploded and sank west of
Peleliu island i'm the southern PGs
laus Monday afternoon.
The dispatch, recorded by United
Press in New York. said IL wGs be-
lieved" a Japanese submarine was
responsible for sinking the de-
Stroyer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
A LII | E d HEADQUAR-

A l. l. | e ID HEADQUA A r
TIERS, Southwest Pacific,
Oct. 5. CAPITALIZED bomb
ers hammered japanese bas-
es and shipping along a 40O0-
mile front from the Kurile
islands to the Dutch East IN
dies Monday and Tuesday
sinking or damaging II more
enemy vessels, it was an
nounced Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
u AMBl|Ne
<EpoR7ER
For Little Children

For Little Children
Parents of little children may
help themselves to dates at the Ira
Aten ranch northeast of Ell Centre
free of charge.
"The dates are en- the trees for
little children" Aten said. Il want
as many children to enjoy them as
possible Thew ore not to he Sn'd.
Continued on Pg. 8, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
CUT ESCAPE HIGHWAY

The fall of Banat Kraljevicevo,
As miles inside Yugoslavia, to Mali
novsky's men in a mile-an-hour ad-
vance Wednesday cut the Germans
last escape railway from Belgrace
north of the Danube and the only
line south of the river was expected
to be under artillery fire soon.
Southeast OF Belgrade, Malinov-
sky's men linked up with Tito's par
tisans. the Soviet high command
said IN a communique confirming
earlier front reports of a junction,
and famed out toward the capital
anG toward the strategic communi-
cations hub of Mis-, 100 miles to the
south.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Germans Battle Desperately, Fail

The Germans battling desperately to stem the
American advance The two-way bombardment mounted
to the of giant machine fusilade, United Press
Correspondent Henry T. Gore reported from the First
army front.
AS. the laundering battle spilled out onto the plain
stretching eastward to the Rhine British forces to the
northwest pressed offensive six-mile front
in Holland below Arnhem, driving within two miles OF
the Rhine bridge beyond which the Red Devil paratroops
fought in vain
On other wing of the battlefront Lieutenant Gen.
eral George Paton Third army shock troops stormed
the underground chambers of Fort Drant and began
routing the Nazis out of their concrete in the
stronghold southwest OF Metz.
Lieutenant General H. D. G.. Crear's Canadian First
army snasret northward from Antwerp beyond its peri
meter forts against light resistance reached the Dutch
border and within miles of cutting the escape
for the Germans manning the islands the north
side of the Schede estuary.
Dunkerque Truce Is Extended
The truce in the battle of Dunkerque extended
four hours to 10 Friday Eleven thousand civilians had
been evacuated from the last Germanhed port the
French Channel coast by midday and 1000 remained to be
taken out before the Canadians launched their final assault
"Our tanks have penetrated the edges of the Cologne
plain Gorrel said in dispatch filed from the front north
of Aachen at pm.
United Correspondent Jack Franksh reported the
capture of Beggendorf Thursday afternoon in dispatch
from First army headquarters and added that German
engaging American tanks in growing battle
that tip of the wedge driven through the Segfred lne
Kerkrade, the Dutch side of the Siegfred line about
five miles north of Aachen, occupied by u s. infantry
at after bitter house to house fighting.
Armo,ed Infantry Score Big Gains
Armored infantry and tanks gained about mile north
ward in the direction of Geenkrchen after which the
armor swung eastward we'll behind the Siegfred line.
Hodges artillery pounding Geienkirchen, against
which the infantry moved from positions mile and half
south and less than two miles west.
Continued Pg g. Col %
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Balkan
Ca pitoI
otters
Russ Big Guns
Now Pound
At Belgrade

MOSCOW, Oct. 5. (UP)-
The Red army swept to with
in 10 miles of Belgrade
Thursday, bringing the Yugo-
slav capital within range OF
it's mobile artillery.
Jumping off from Banat Kraljevi-
cevo. IA miles northeast of Belgrade,
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
Second Ukrainian army was expect
ed to overrun Pancevo, last enemy
stronghold above the capital, some
time Thursday in a dash for the
north bank of the Danube opposite
its goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Armored Division Hit
Across Open Plains
Hodges First Army Captures Big
Key Points on Siesfried Line;
Blasts at New German Barricades

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF Oct 5. (UP)-
American armored forces burst out onto the Cologne plain
behind the Siegfred line 35 miles from the Rhine Thurs
day in two-me advance beyond Ubach through maze
of newly constructed obstacles.
Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges First army
extending and broadening its breakhrough north of Aach
en- captured Beggendorf miles northeast of Ubach
and closing Geilenkrchen big transport center
three miles to the north.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
Greece
Areas
Taken
Allied Forces
Sweep in
By Land, Air

LONDON. Oct. 5. tUP)-The
Exchange T. legraph quoted the
Swiss radio today as reporting
from Turkish sources that the
Germans had evacuated Athens.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-05
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 98, minimum
Thurs. SIS; 5 am. Thurs. 2, humid
ity &C.; noon Thurs. 81, humidity 26;
8 pm. Wed. 80, humidity 23.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-24

Continuation of the Red Cross drive
will give many of those who have not yet
done so, an opportunity TO donate TO this
splendid organization, which is never
more effective than in wartime.
Like any other large organization, the
Red Cross is not perfect. Ii is an agency
of human beings trying to do things for
other humans and as such can and does
have the same human elements. Yet, on
the whole, the Red Cross has established
over long period of years a reputation
which could not hold up were it not based
upon actual accomplishment.
The Red Cross needs our help in its
work. 1t needs our financial aid in doing
the things which we want it to do for our
service men and women. Give now and
give generously, because the need for
this organization is greater now than ever.
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Praises SpiedelI

Dear Editor
l would like to thank you
for sending me the Union
Journal. It's swell to be able
to read what's going on in the
Union. / was a steward before
coming into the Waves and, of
course, I'm very much in
terested in the growing of a
grand Union! | worked at
Champion Spark Plug and
they have very strong Union
there. l hope that it will con-
tinue to stay that way. When
was steward, they had a
wonderful committee and one
swell chairman, Lloyd Spie-
dell. was sorry to hear that
he WASH t reelected, I'm
afraid that the Champion Unit
made a big mistake, because
Mr.. Spiedell was grand
organizer and leader. He is
1000 Union and that's the
kind of person that makes a
good chairman.
l would also like to inform
you of a change in my adj
dress. 1t is now:
Grace |, Mailer,
sac U.S.N.R.
Bldg. c, Apt, BIG
U.S.N.T.S. CIV. R.)
Bronx, N. Y. SO N. Y.
If | get leave soon, I'm
looking forward to attending
a Union meeting. l miss them.
In closing, | would like to
wish Local II, the best of
luck and keep up the good
work. I'm all for YOU
/ remain
Grace Mailer
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Editor S Mail
Crifieizes p. R. System
By Pettigrew

Dear Sir:
In a recent issue of the
Blade appeared an editorial by
Professor Garfield Jones of
7. U. in support of the So
called proportional represen-
tation system of city elections.
Professor Jones contends
that the opponents of P. r.
have nothing better to offer.
If this were true they would
really be hard up for ideas,
for regarding how to find a
better system than P. r. it
would be hard to miss.
Under P. r. instead of nine
votes for nine offices the voter
gets one vote. If candidate
had enough supporters to
easily get elected in popular
election he could easily be de-
feated under PR, for no mat
ter how many votes can
didate gets he must have so
many first choice votes to stay
on the ballot. The CIO with
$4,000 members elects one
councilman in a Council of 9
in a city with 10000 voters
and Professor Jones calls this
Proportional Representation.
Our candidate was elected
in spite of and not because of
P. r. AS successor to P. r.
for a means to elect coun-
Gil of nine men, / suggest a
method in use in all other
elections, but probably, too
simple and not complicated
enough to suit the learned
professor.
That system is to elect nine
officers, the voters placing an
X beside the names of nine
candidates, the nine receiving
the largest number of votes
are elected.
P, r. is not proportional. 1t
is not representation. 1t is
awkward, slow, expensive and
cumbersome. 1t is undemo-
cratic and tends to keep a
bureaucracy perpetuated. Out
side of these considerations
P. r. is perfectly satisfactory.
Clayton Rusch.
Chairman, WHY'S Overland
Educational Committee
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onciant civilization was based, that Is, the
roads, ships, houses, public buildings and
such tools and agriculture implements as were
in use were all built by the workers.
WEALTHY RULED AND STUDIED
The reason that the workers were not con-
sidered important is because OF the class nature
of the society which composed ancient civili-
zation. This was as true in democratic Greece
as it was in monarchial Egypt, Babylon and
imperial Rome.
In Greece and also under the Roman Re-
public which preceded the empire, the class
of free citizens who made the laws were not
the class who did the manual labor Naturally
enough the lawmakers were not interested IN
the welfare of the workers.
Nor was this situation which could have
been easily remedied at the time, for the work.
ers were mostly chattel slaves who had no civil
rights and therefore, could not correct condi-
tions by political action
THE POOR WORKED
Throughout the period from the beginning
of written history about 5000 BIC, until the
fall of Rome in ATS AID, not only was most of
the manual work done by slaves who enjoyed
no civil rights, but women, even of the ruling
class. had practically no rights at all.
When we study the cultural contributions
of the ancient world, it is well to bear in mind
these limitations and to appreciate that what
literature and art was developed, and it was
considerable was the product of minority,
and that doubtless many gifted people nevS~
had chance to develop their talents.
This fact may also explain why despite tfN
development of art and literature, physical
science did not make much headway. The rul-
ing class was just not interested in how to
tighten labor by use of mechanical aids.
Most histories tell of the rise and fall of
empires the development of culturo and po-
litical Vaccinations. We are more interested
in how the workers lived throughput this
period and this topic will be +he subject of the
next few columns
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mems conference are: l. That each delegate be
an active, well-informed union man. 2. That
insofar as possible, the delegates selected be
those who have seen active service and prefer
ably have received decorations or citations.
The purpose of the conference will be to
formulate in detail the program of the union
for veterans employment and rehabilitation
as set up by veterans themselves. Their recon-
mendatons will be submitted to the Executive
Board.
It seems to me that this is very good time
to give the veterans themselves the opportunity
to formulate program. The very fact that the
veterans devise their own program should act
as an obstacle to those who might attack the
program if it were formulated exclusively by
the union.
Delegates to be selected will have their
travel expenses, lost time and living expenses
paid by their Local Unions
THE IDEA
Behind the conference is the idea of giving
the servicemen the opportunity to express
themselves and outline procedure which will
be followed by the International Union with
respect to unemployment and rehabilitation.
Such an opportunity not given the vet
erans after the last war, fact which has so
often been stressed by veterans of World War
who, when the depression began, were just az
hard hit as other workers who had not seen
service.
Our Union certainly doesn't want its men,
bers or, for that matter, any servicemen,
coming back to a country which they have
fought for, which does not supply them with
work opportunities
Nothing less than full employment for our
returning servicemen will satisfy either them
or u.s. Nothing less than full employment for
all the workers will satisfy people who have
proven their ability to produce the materials
of war for killing other human beings and de-
stroying the wealth and resources of our
enemies
Out of the Washington meeting should come
some thoughts that will be constructive and
form pattern for to follow we 60 into
the final stages of the war and prepare for the
peace which is to follow. We will watch the
meeting with great interest and anticipate that
from it will come some plan which will become
the basis for the postwar UAW-CIO program.
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realizes the value of an un.
derStanding of general his
tory will find such books
worthwhile reading, but for
our purpose, which is a study
of the labor movement, most
world histories are made
quate.
To begin with, the workers
were not considered impor-
tant in ancient times. This
despite the fact that the
rnhuSical foundation on which
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to vote. If Mr.. Hansen did this he was acting
well within his own rights If he did not in
struct his councilmen, it puts entirely differ
ent light on their votes.
If the members of council who voted against
the labor sponsored OPA ordinance did so on
their own, then all the worse, yet, to me this
seems scarcely possible. The only member of
the Republican bloc in council in whom we
can place any degree of confidence for intel
lectual integrity is Mayor Lloyd Roulet
Outstanding is the fact that all the Repub-
lican members of council did vote against the