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Evening star., 1944-06-05
Hayeock 10 Request
Board 10 Keep Cadet
Program Unchanged
School Superintendent
Opposes Proposals to
Revise Troinine Setup
BULLETIN.

Maj. Allan C. Smith, high
school physical education in
structor who recently criti-
ciZed methods used in the
cadet corps, was suspended
from further teaching today
pending review of his case by
a special meeting of the per-
sonnel committee of the
Board of Education tomor-
row, Robert L. Haycock, su-
perintendent of schools, an
nounced this afternoon.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Berlin Press Admits
Rome's S Fall Is Blow
To Nazi Prestige
Main Body Of Forces
Transferred North of
Tiber. Germans Soy

GERMANS SAY KESSELRING Of
fered to declare Rome an open
CITY, Page AS
Evening star., 1944-06-05

(See KENNEDY. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1944-06-05

fSee DE LUCE, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1944-06-05

See CADETS, Page A-6
Evening star., 1944-06-05

tSee ITALY, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1944-06-05

Temperatures today-Highest, S. at
1:30 pm; lowest, So, at am. Yes
terday-Highesl. rs, at 1901 am;
lowest, 81, at 7:50 pm.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Weather Forecast

Cloudy. continued cool today Tomor-
row partly cloudy. warmer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
BuI 9ario Breaks
Ties With Nozis

official statement from the Soviet
TasS news agency denCuncing the
Bulgarian stand as unsatisfactory.
Bulgaria's only hope. Tass said,
is not neutrality but collaboration
with the Allies against Germany.
Tass said bluntly that the new
Bulgarian government was incap-
able of abandoning neutrality and
joining the anti-German coalition.
Muraviev, apparently still strug-
Cling to avert declaration of war
against the Reich, said only that his
government would break diplomatic
relations with Germany if the
Nazis attempted to prevent the exc
cution of his new measures.
The prompt Russian reaction,
however, indicated that Moscow
would be satisfied with nothing
short of Bulgarian military action
against the Nazis 1t was recalled
that the Bargianov government fell
last week after series of blunt
Russian charges that it was ccn-
tinuing its aid to Germany.
Moscow spokesman accused the
Bulgars of harboring and assisting
German troops driven from Ro-
mania into Bulgaria.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

To achieve this the secret army
committed at least 1853 individual
acts of sabotage against the Nazis
between June 8 and September 4,
including the cutting of more than
1000 railway lines and the destruc-
ton or damage of rs railway
bridges. The army also destroyed
155 locomotives, at least 300 railway
cars. cut more than 100 under
ground cables. damaged 20 power
stations, and DESTROYED hidden
stores of German gasoline.
More than so Allied agents para
chuted into Belgium prior to the
invasion of the continent and began
laying the groundwork for the lib
Grafton of the country. Shortly be-
fore the Allied forces crossed the
Belgian border, the secret army's
activities were spurred to greater
intensity with other special air
service personnel.
The entire Belgian operation, SUI
preme headquarters revealed, was
executed just as it was planned
more than year ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

London. Sept. 5. CUP)-Bul-
garia broke her last ties with Ger
many Tuesday and ordered her
peace emissaries in Cairo to con-
clude an armistice with the United
States and Great Britain as quickly
as possible.
Bowing to powerful Red armies
massed along the Bulgarian-Ro-
manian frontier, Premier CcnStan-
tin Muraviev broadcast a procla-
nation to the Bulgarian people an
nouncing that his government had
repudiated the Axis tri-partite and
anti-comintern pacts and was ready
to make peace with the Allies.
Muraviev, a veteran peasa t
party leader who formed new
cabinet last Saturday night to re-
place that of ex-Premier Ivan Bar
gianov, proclaimed his collntrys
full neutrality in the Soviet Ger
man war and promised that any
German troops attempting to es-
cape into Bulgaria would be dis
armed.
Radio Moscow rebroadcast Mura-
views declaration and followed it
almost Immediately with a semi
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Yankee Bombers
Pace Troops;
Hit Rhine|and

LONDON, Sept. 5. UP)-More
than 1850 American war planes
swept ahead of the Germany-bound
Allied armies Tuesday and ham,
mered Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and
Ludwig great Rhineland
bastions anchoring the first line
of defense of the Reich proper.
Upwards of 750 Flying Fortresses
and Liberators were escorted by
some 500 Mustangs of the Eighth
Air Force fighter command in the
three-prcnged assault on the Rhine
land area bordering the northeast
ern tip of France.
WEATHER CLEARS
Improving weather enabled Allied
air forces to resume action on
m jor scale. Coastal observers
reported intense activity Tuesday
afternoon with all types of planes
shutting to and from Europe.
The attack on the Rhineland
cities was described as a combina-
ton strategic-tactical assault, la
beling it as at least partially in di-
rect support of the Allied forces
striking at Germany.
The bombing Of Karlsruhe. big
rail center only a few miles from
the tip of France which British
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

LONDON, Sept. 5. CUP)-Rus-
sia declared war on Bulgaria
Tuesday night. accusing the Ball
kan country of continuing to pro-
vide bases for the German army
despite repeated Allied warnings.
Radio Moscow announced the
Soviet declaration as climax to
a series of bitter Russian denun-
Citations of the Bulgars. 1t came
a few hours after Bulgaria, strug-
Cling to avert disaster, had de-
clared her last ties with the Axis
broken.
The new Bulgarian government
formed last Saturday was report
ed to have ordered peace ennis
saries to conclude an armistice
with the United States and Brit
ain as soon as possible.
Foreign Ccmmissar " M. Molo-
tov at 7 p. m. handed the Bull
garian minister a note breaking
relations with Sofia and charging
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Russian Thrust
PeriIs Entire
Germany Forces
Offensive Drives Nearer Border
Of East Prussia, Threatens
To Split Enemy North of Warsaw

ond White Russian Army opened
the new offensive against East Prus-
sia along a 35-mile front southwest
of Lorenza and drove deep wedge
into the German lines.
Attacking behind a thunc erous
artillery barrage, infantrymen
fought through maze of mine
fields, barred-Wire and trench bar
riers and forced a crossing of the
Narew in the OStroleka area, 81
miles southwest of Lonzha and 81
miles north-northeast of Warsaw.
More than 100 towns and villages
fell as the drive swept five miles
beyond the Narew into NoWawieS, %
miles below the East Prussian bor-
Ger.
ADMITS DEFEAT
Berlin admitted a deep Soviet
penetration in the Narew-Bug sec
tor on the approaches to East Prus-
sia, but asserted that the Russians
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Supervisors Eye
East's View on
Postwar Roads

Imperial county tuper viSors
Tuesday expressed concern ever a
report that eastern senators are
blocking passage of HR 4915, bill
designed to provide financing for
highways in the postwar period
The eastern senators are attempt
ing to get the funds allocated on
population basis. commissioners
point out, which of course would be
detriment to the western states
where population is not as dense as
it is in the east.
AS a counter-move, the western
organizations interested in getting
money for construction in the post
war period are backing senate bill
2l05 which was introduced by Sen
ator Carl Hayden of Arizona.
Among other provisions the bill calls
for ALLEGATION of $34644,825 federal
aid each year for three years for
planning highways, roa DIS and
streets in California.
Western organizations backing
the Hayden bill asked Imperial
county supervisors to assist in get
ting it passed speedily.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
BY UNITED PRESS

Two earthquakes reverber-
ated through eastern, mid
western, and southern states
and southern Canada early
Tuesday, the first rattling
windows, breaking wa t e r
mains and doing some scat
tered property damage.
The second passed virtual
ly unnoticed except for sci
entific recordings.
The Rev. joseph j. Lynch, seis-
mologist at Foro ham university said
the first tremor-which he said
was severe-occurred at 12:39 am.
(EWT). The second was recorded
at 4:52:17 am.
Hundreds OF sleepers in the New
England states, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
West Virginia and as far south
as Georgia and west to Chicago
were routed from their beds by the
initial shock. Father Lynch said
the quake was centered 270 miles
northwest of New York City in
Central New York state.
Father Lynch said the tremor
was severe, but not severe as
earthquakes CO." He said the force
of the shock was confined to the
top of the earths surface, not deep
as destructive quakes are. The
quake apparently followed fault
In the earth's surface which runs
from Canada through the New
England states, across New York
and into the south.
Among the cities where the quake
was felt were Philadelphia, Boston,
Buffalo, Wheeling, W. Va, Detroit,
Erie, Montreal, Hartford, Conn,
Albany and New York
Sgt. James Duck, of the Bergen
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Russia Wars
On Bulgaria

the Bulgars with stubborn
maintenance of favors to Ger
many, specifically the provision of
bases in Bulgarian territory.
The Moscow radio said the note
accused the Bulgars CT helping
Germany for three years, a posi-
ton heretofore countenanced by
the Russians since the Bulgars
were in no position to resist the
Nazis.
Although the Allies now have
sealed the fate of Germany, Mos
COW said, making the Nazi defeat
inevitable, the Bulgars have re-
fused to follow Finland and Ro-
mania and join the anti-German
coalition.
The Soviets Charged that the
so-called neutrality of the Bull
garians included giving help to
the Germans, which the Russian
Government regards as participa-
ton in the war against Russia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
u. s. Puts Out 41 More jap
Ships. Downs 107 Planes

PEARL HARBOR, Sept.
5. (UP) = American naval
and aerial forces have de-
stroyed or damaged Al more
japanese ships and 107
planes in widespread attacks
headed by a four-day bomb
ardment of the Bonin and
Volcano islands, $50 miles south
of Tokyo. it was disclosed Tuesday.
Striking along a 4000-mile front,
the forces of A6miral Chester w.
Nimitz and Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur hammered the japanese
from the Kurile islands in the north
to the Dutch East Indies in the
southwest Pacific.
The intensified campaign brought
four new air assaults on the Phil
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

ippines and another sea and air
bombardment of the former Amer
lean base at Wake. by-passed in
Nimitz' drive toward the Japanese
homeland
Cruisers, destroyers, carrier-based
planes and Seventh Army air force
Liberators joined in blasting the
Bonins and the Volcanos in four
days of concentrated attacks that
DESTROYED or damaged 81 ships and
small craft and 85 planes. The is
lands are within Japan's inner de-
fenses.
In the series of raids, which be-
gan Wednesday and ended Satur-
cay, carrier-based planes dropped
1856 tons of bombs and 400 rockets
into the two island chains, while
army Liberators unloaded 95 tons
and the surface units added the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
BeIsions Help
Rout Germans
SUPREM HEADQUARTERS

SUPREM ME- HEADQUARTERS,
AEF, Sept. 5. CUP)--To a secret
Belgian Amy which has been oper-
ating as unit throughout the four
years CT German occupation, is due
much of the credit for the ease
with which the Allies swept into
Belgium, supreme headquarters re-
vealed Tuesday.
When the secret army led by 55-
year-old Maor-General Ivan Ger
ard was ordered on June 6 to in
tensify its action against the enc
my, its efforts were SO successful the
Germans found Belgian communi-
cations almost useless. One German
division ordered frcm Antwerp to
the Normandy battlefront was
forced to make great detour
through Germany to reach the
fighting front.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

MOSCOW, Sept. 5. CUP)
Powerful Red army forces
drove to within % miles of
East Prussia's southern from
tier Tuesday in a full-scale
offensive that preached the
heavily-fOrtified Narew river
line and threatened to split
the entire Nazi front cover
ing both Warsaw and the
.eastern-most prov ince of
Germany.
At the southern end of the long
eastern front, Soviet troops stormed
and captured Brasov, gateway to
the Pennsylvania plains leaoing
northward to Hungary, and struck
west and southwest of Bucharest to
within 124 miles of Yugoslavia.
Col. Gen. Georgi Zakharov's Sec
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

weight of their gunfire.
Chichi Jima and .Haha Jima in
the Bonins and Two Jima in the
Volcanoes were the principal targets
for the heaviest concentration Of
central Pacific forces since the Mar
ianas campaign.
Nimitz' communique said all sur
face ships escaped damage, al
though five carrier planes were
lost, with one pilot and three fighter
personnel missing. Three Ltberators
were damaged by moderate anti
aircraft fire at Two Jima.
The toll OF enemy shipping In
the Bonins and Volcanos was: sunk
five small cargo vessels. tanker
and seven landing barges; probably
sub-chasers and q
small cargo vessel; damaged--three
sub-chasers and a ssmrsn
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Miles Reduced
In March on
Reich Capital
BY UNITED PRESS

The shortest distances to Ber-
lin from Allied lines Tuesday:
Western front - $40 miles
(frOm point east Of Antwerp.
Gain of 80 miles in week.
Southern France-54O miles
(frOm point near Macon. Gain
of 43 miles in week.
Italy-555 miles (frOm point
near Rimini. Gain of 28 miles
in week.)
Russia-328 miles (frOm point
east of warsaw. Unchanged for
week.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Board Authorizes
Pay to Aid at
County Hospital

BY unanimous vote of the beard
of supervisors Tuesday. it was
agreed to pay $25 to DR.. John l..
Parker's assistant called to attend
to births at the Imperial county
hospital when Parker is unable to
be present.
He told the board that he offici-
ated at the births at the county
hospital himself unless it was i'm
possible for him to get there. DR.
Parker, county physician, caid he
had an assistant who would off
ciate when he was unable to do so
himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
School Officials
Scan Quarters
For Wilson PUPILS

Nothing definite will be known
about housing for Wilson school
pupils, whose school house burned
last week, until after a school board
meeting Wednesday night.
Guy Weakley, superintendent of
FL Centre city schools, said that all
available buildings in the city are
being inspected, available space in
other school buildings in the city
are under survey as possible quar-
ters and budgeting of extra rooms
in the high school plant is being
made as possible places for the
WilsoniteS.
Arrangement are being made to
replace the school books which were
burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Hitler, Japanese
Envoy Confer
On War Operation

LONDON, Sept. 5. tUP)-The
German DNB news agency reported
Tuesday that Adolf Hitler held a
long conference Monday with Japa-
nese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima
on questions concerning the joint
conduct of the war German For
eign Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop attended t-.e conference, the
agency said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Imperial County
Escapes Death
Toll on Holiday

Imperial county occupied an en-
viable position in the nation Tues
day because no violent deaths oc-
Cured during the Labor Day week
end
There were no fatal traccic acci-
dents in t. ent:;e area. Nc one
drowned. N fact, violent deaths
we're non-eXictent.
Peace officers attributed the
splendid record to good luck" and
could not be induced to give any
one or anything the credit for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

night at midnight.
A United Press survey showed
that 172 persons lost their lives in
accidents over the week end Traf-
fic accidents killed 95 persons. 81
were drowned and AZ died in other
mishaps.
California led the fatality list
with % deaths. 20 of them as
result of traffic accidents. New
York was second with 16 and North
Carolina was third with Is.
Fatalities reported from other
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Bonbers Blast
Tirpitz Again

LONDON, Sept. 5. (UP)-Carrier-
plane aircraft attacked the 35,OOO-
ton German battleship Tirpitz at its
mooring in Altenfjord, Norway,
several times recently, the British
admiralty announced Tuesday. Hits
were claimed en- the ship, but re-
suits could not be observed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Holiday Accidents Take
Toll Of 172 Lives

states included Indiana, 13: Penn
sylvania. IL; Texas and Wisconsin
IL each; Michigan, nine: Connecti-
cut, eight. Colorado. six; Missouri
five; and Mississippi, Missouri and
West Virginia. four each.
AS vacationists returned to their
homes and other travellers took
advantage of the last summer holi-
day in 1914, railroad companies
and bus lines reported business
nearly as heavy as on pre-war labor
days.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Board Speeds
Plans for
Park Memorial

Tentative plans and specifica-
tions coordinating a war memorial
and Identification the court
house park in Ell Centre will be
prepared by Supervisor A. Y. Preble
and County Agricultural Commits.
sioner B. A. Harrigan and submit
ted to the board of supervisors for
approval.
This decision was reached Tues
day at meeting of the board of
supervisors. The board set asice
$500 for the memorial itself and
will provide the needed funds to
make the court house park a suit
able setting for it.
BOARD SEES SKETCH
A sketch of a proposed memorial
was placed before the board by
County Clerk w. j. McClelland,
member of a memorial committee
of the Boyce Aten Legion post in
Ell Centre. The board decided to
erect a memorial for all the I'M
perial county men and women who
will have given their lives for the
United States in World war No. 2.
Since the memorial will belong
to the county the board decided it
should be placed on county proper
ty and selected the court house
park as suitable site. The board
plans to landscape and beautify
the park this fall anyway and so
are working en- plans and specifica-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Quake Hits New England.
Sweeps South. West

street police station in New York,
said his chair began to sway back
and forth.
Il thought I was getting high
blood pressure" he said. Il felt a
little dizzy. The desks in the station
house began to move and the build
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
By UNITED PRESS

Labor Day traffic was re-
ported to be the heaviest of
any holiday since Americas
entry into the war but re-
ports Tuesday indicated that
the death toll was less than
the $50 the National Safety
Council had predicted for the
three-day period ending last
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

ing shook"
The quake was the first for the
eastern states since December "a,
1910, when shock rocked New
England and southern Canada.
That one was centered at Ossipee,
NJ H.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Patton Crosses MoseIIe:
Attacks Saarbrucken
American Forces Engage Enemy on
Home Soil at North France Tip;
British Advance Into Netherlands

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Sept s. (UP)
Lieutenant General George S. Pattons Third has
reached the Moselle in force between Metz and Nancy
front dispatch revealed Tuesday, and unconfirmed re-
port published here that U. S. tanks had reached
Strasbourg the German border and fighting was in
progress on German soil around Saarbrucken.
British armored forces plunged deeper into the Neither
lands than 80 miles beyond Antwerp strengthening
Channel coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
D AMBlINe
NEpoRTER
The PERI ct Solution

The PERI ct Solution
Rcy Womack, Ell Centro school
board member, was stopped by a
brisk little eighth grader who had
put considerable thought on the
city-wide question of what to do
since Wilson school burned"
"Mr. Womack," the eighth grader
said with a serious air, why not
have commencement fer the eighth
graders right now? They would not
have to go to school and that would
relieve the congestion"
Yes. my dear little eighth grader,
but what about you freshmen with
out portfolio who would be crowd
ing the high school seating capacity
to the limit?
Don't forget that high school
comes after the eighth grade.
Tough, isn't it?
Now We Say It
1t certainly has been relief this
summer to be freed from the usual
deluge of picture post cards cf de-
lightful places on which heartleSs
vacatiOners have penned, Having
wonderful time. Wish you we're
here"
They're afraid to. OPA, you know.
Always In Style
Ell Centre is always in the swim
When disastrous fires became the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
FACE OWN DUNKERQUE

The lower side of the Channel pocket coapsing.
Canadian speared within three miles of NouOgne
the Straits of Dover The Evening News said the Ger
garrisons of BOuogne, Calais Gravenes and Dun
kerque trying to escape by in reversal of the
Allied Dunkerque evacuation in 1910
Robert C. Richards United Press correspondent with
Patton army said the American vanguard to grips
with the Germans in the village of Mousson asride
the Mosee roughly midway between Metz and Nancy.
In the first word from the Third Army front in several
days. Richards said the Yanks held the part of PontA
Mosson the west of the river beyond which the Ger
had retreaed after brisk skirmsh and the demOi
ton of the bridges the 8O-foot stream.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
YANKS HebD SPOT ON STREAM

although patrols previously had stabbed the
vital waterway guarding the last Naz defenses in north
eastern France this the only point at which American
troops standing the Moselle in substantial
strength" Richards said.
The London Evening News however, published dis
patch credited to French frontier which said Amer
lean had plunged to the Rhine and the German bor
der at the outskirts of Srasbourg IS miles east of Nancy
To the northwest the dispatch which lacked confrma-
tion in any other quarter said American and German
troops locked in battle Naz homeland soil around
the border city of Saarbrucken.
Richards dispatch and meager word at headquarters
opened chink in the security veil' hanging
the American operations for three days.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
FORCE MOVES FROM VERDUN

spokesman said Pattons troops advancing
ward from the Verdun against stffening resistance
and the first army still moppng nests of resistance
in the COmpiegneSt. Quentin area
Most of Belgium in the hands of the British and
their American First Army comrades driving eastward
through the Meuse Valley, and the speed of the Allied
ensve indicated that the battle of the Netherlands would
be over as swiftly in 1910 when the German hordes
conquered the country in five days.
Pig g. Col
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 106. minimum
Tuesday 81; 5 am. Tuesday 70. hui
midity 35; noon Tuesday 1O6. hu-
midity 16; pm. Mon. 104, hum. "a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-24
$500 FLAT PAYMENT

WASHIAGiTt1% Jan & lINS)
House and senate ConiCrecS ON
the soldier muStcIfnC out pay bill
were reported leaning today to-
ward an agreement prOV1dinG fof
a fat payment OF $500 10 dis
charged members of the armed
forces.
The payment would be made
AZ The time they were honorably
discharged and would be AT the
same rate for all regardless OF
period or place OF service
A meeting Of the committee is
scheduled for this afternoon and
quick action was forecast IN the
conference.
Should the $500 figure he ac-
cepted by the House and Senate
members OF the committee. II WIS
predicted The conference report
would meet Senate objections
that this figure is not high
enough
senate Democratic Leader
Aftcu w Barley Of Kentucky
has insisted that the higher pay
rates approved by the Senate are
essential 10 meet the needs Of The
Servicenen and women when they
are demobilized.