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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
German Command
Admits Allied
Gains in France

LONDON, June 8. (UP) The
German high command admitted
Friday that the allies have succeed
ed in pouring strong reinforcements
into their Normandy beachheads
and have gained ground in two
sectors despite furious Nazi resis-
tance.
A German communique broadcast
by the Berlin radio said Nazi naval
and air forces inflicted heavy cas-
ualties on the incoming Allied re-
serves Thursday and claimed that
motor torpedo boats sank two large
landing craft off the coast of the
Cherbourg peninsula Thursday
night.
An Allied cruiser and a destroyer
were torpedoed and sunk in the
came area Wednesday night, the
communique said.
Tie high command communique
also claimed heavy damage to four
transports. eight special landing
craft a tank landing ship, and a
destroyer. and asserted that As AL
lied planes were shot down over
the invasion beachheads Thurcday
In the ground fighting. however
the Germans acknowledged that
their forces were being pushed back
On the Cherbourg peninsula by AL
lied units driving north and south
of st. Mere Eglise.
From the bridgehead west of the
Orne, enemy tank forces attacked
Bayeux in a pincer movement and
advanced farther toward the west
and southwest" the communique
said. They were halted some 10
kilometers west of the town"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Black Mart Bill Reaches
Floor of-LoWer House

system on a current payment basis,
instead of attempting to build up
a reserve similar to a life insur-
ance fund at a cost of $12,500,000 a
year
TO BE PORTIONED OUT
The $3O,OO000O suggested to be
earmarked would be subject to bien-
NAL appropriations to pay the esti-
mated state share of actual pensions
for teachers for the ensuing two
years. 1t was estimated that the
sum, plus about $14,0O0,0O0 now in
the func, would last, perhaps, for a
decade.
The committee defeated amend
ments to give subventionS to es-
tablish retirement systems in Los
Angeles, San Francisco and San
Diego to bring their share of state
aid up to that of other sections of
the state where no retirement plans
exist
FARM FUNDS
The assembly ways and means
committee approved $1,014,00O
appropriation for the farm procuc-
ton council, but decreed tnat ex-
penditures of the agency should
be subject to budgetary control of
the state finance committee.
A bill permitting the state war
council to reduce its mandatory
staff to three executives, and trans
ferring more than ST. 900, 900 remain
ing in the councils original appro-
prlation to the state emergency
fund, was held by the ways and
means committee for study by a
subcommittee.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09

Warren said he was informed
that federal enforcement officers in
tracing black market operations
always come back" to the question
of stolen or counterfeited coupons.
Assemblyman Lester Mcmillan, D.,
Los Angeles, declared he would in
troduce a broaoer black market
measure in view of the limiting
amendments to the Fourt bill. Nc
MILAN sponsored a bill at the 1943
session calling for enforcement of
all CPA enforcement and rationing
regulations which passed the as
sembly but died in senate COM
mittee.
The assembly education commit
tee was to complete its action on
the teachers retirement bill Friday.
Amen6 ments agreed to but await
ing actual vote would place the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
DeGau|le Plans
Visit 10 j. 5.

WASHINGTON. June 9. CUP) =
President Roosevelt Friday disclosed
that he is expecting a visit from
Gen. Charles De Gaulle some time
before mid-July
Ee Gaulle, head of tie French
national committee of liberation. is
in London now for conferences with
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
He has sent wCrd to Mr.. Roosevelt
the President said Friday. asking
if MIR. Roosevelt would receive him
If he visited Washington.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he replied that
he would be glad to see De Gaulle
and suggested that the French gen.
eral come to Washington either
between June % and June 80, or
between July 6 and July ID.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Fighter
Units Move
Into Battles
American Armored Forces Sever
Two Main Life|ines Of Foe;
U. S. Commander Inspec+s Fronts

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Lon
don, June 9. (UP)-American armored forces driving
westward against hard fighting into the base of the
Norman Peninsula have cut the east coast railroad
and highway to Cherbourg the two main Nazi life
lines to the great port it was announced officially
Friday.
spokesman at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
headquarters revealed that operations generally "con-
tnue satisfactorily with the beachheads enlarging"
on the fourth day of the allied invasion Of northwest
France
Germans Sight Big Allied Armada
The Germans reported that great naval armada of
several hundred vessels sailed eastward past Cherbourg
toward the assault early Friday evidently to
powerful reinforcements into the beachheads.
Front dispatches revealed that 1t. Gen. Omar N Brad
ley commander of the American invasion forces had
ashore France his troops battling their into
the vital transport network supplying the garrison
at Cherbourg.
At supreme headquarters here it was revealed that
Bradleys forces battling hard and grmly had struck
the 27me stretch of the Cherbourg high
way at several places
Advanced elements pushing beyond the highway,
cut the broad gauge railroad between Carentan and ST.
Mere Egse miles the north An obscure German
high nmand reference to allied troops striking out from
the ST. Mere Eglse beachhead indicated the town might
be in American hands.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09

Bolsena, more than go miles north
of Rome.
Allied reconnaissance revealed
that the Nazis, stripped of great
part of their transport by savage
allied strafing, were commander
ing farm carts and horses in a des-
perate effort to withdraw their
troops and equipment
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09

ganize and turn on the pursuing
allies.
Waves of allied bombers and
fighters strafed German troop and
transport columns from dawn to
mid-afternoon Friday and return
ing pilots said units of the retreat
ing Nazi 18th army had reached
a point north and west of Lake
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09

man. The gunman escaped
First reports from eyewitnessef
indicated the man was attempting
to stage a counter-6emonstration
against Humbert, but II was not
clear whether he actually had fired
at the prince.
The gunfire followed disclosure
that Humbert had appointed Bon
omi premier OF liberated Italy 70
succeed Badoglio. who had refused
flatly TO undertake the task OF
forming new cabinet acceptable
to all political elements
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09

The WLB chairman said produc-
ticn was the first objective of the
board.
mo union has continued to defy
the government, he declared IF
it did, l imagine our procedure
would be to indict the leaders and
subject them to punishment that
could amount to $4,000 fine and 10
years imprisonment. We can't jail
all the members"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Macarthur Trops
Jops in Caves
ALLIED HEADQUA A-RTER s.

ALLIED HEADQ @ U AR T E r S.
Southwest Pacific. June 9. CUP -
American tanks, artillery, and war
ships poured steady bombardment
Friday into Japanese forces trap
ped in caves and cliffs east of
newly-captured MCkmer airdrome,
where u. S. sixth army troops were
poised only one mile from Borokoe
airfield.
A communique said the enemy po-
sitions on the ridge bordering the
Biak coast, isolated by American
troops, were being reduced grad
ually and infantrymen were mop
ping up Japanese remnants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

ROME, June 9. (UP)-
A wild burst of gunfire, ap-
parently aimed at Crown
Prince Humbert, broke up a roy
alist demonstration before the Quir-
inal palace today as Marshal Pietro
Badoglio turned over the govern
ment of liberated Italy to a new
regime headed by Ivanoe Bonomi,
7l-year-old italian underground
leader.
Humbert, to whom King Victor
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Honolulu Crash
Kills 8 Persons

HONOLULU, T. H., June Q. oUPo
Frightened residents of the pop
ulous Kalihi-Kai area of Honolulu
thought Japanese planes were raid
ing Hawaii again Thurs6 ay and ran
for bomb shelters when two medium
army bombers collided and crashed
in the residential section, killing
at least eight persons and setting
10 houses afire.
The crash of the two bombers
was officially announced by the
army.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Chairman Views
"Dedth" to WLB

LOS ANGELES, June 8. CUP) -
The war labor board will die q
natural death because Americans
don't like to be interferred with,
board chairman William H. Davis
declared here enroute to Washing
ton from Honolulu
Americans just don't like to be
ordered around" Davis told a press
conference. I'VE ought to grow up
and handle labor problems without
the aid of government"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Prince Humbert ESCAPES
Shot Fired from Crowd

Emmanuel delegated all his royal
powers after the liberation OF Rome
last Sunday, was making one of
his first formal appearances in the
capital since he fled to escape the
German occupation forces last Sep
tember.
He had just stepped out on a
palace balcony to wave to some
5000 Royalist demonstrators gath
cred in the piazza when the shots
rang out.
Police searched the crowd and In
the confusion, arrested the wrong
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Valley ArteriaI
Road Boosted

SACRAMENTO, June 9. CUP) =
The assembly Friday adopted by
unanimous vote a resolution me-
mCrializing Congress to include
within an inter-regional highway
system a route directly connecting
San Diego and the Imperial Valley
region with "easterly portions" of
the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
$4,000 JAP TROOPS HIT
MAIN BASE IN HONAN

CHUNGKING, June 9. tUP) = A
military spokesman said Friday
that 10000 japanese troops are at
tacking the last Chinese defense
lines on the northern edge CT
Changsha, the main Chinese base
in Honan province and a key juno
ton on the Canton Hankow rail-
Way
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Red Army Advances
On R0manian Line

MOSCOW, June 8. tUP) Red
army troops continued small-scale
attacks along TIE Romania front
Friday after capturing the third
important height in two days north
of Iasi and seizing series of en-
emy trenches south of Tiraspol on
the lower DneStr river.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
+ EDGE FORWARD

EDGE FORWARD
British forces continued to edge
forward in the Caen area against
stiff German resistance and coun-
terthruSts which still had not reach
ed the proportions of big scale
attack.
The main weight of Marshal Err
win Rommel's counteraction was
centered around Caen. 1t included
considerable amounts of armor.
which the Germans had moved up
well forward.
! German prisoners have been TAX
en- in sizeable numbers, the spokes-
man said, the total now running into
four figures.
The weather, one of the knottiest
problems of the invasion, took a
slight turn for the worse early Fri
day, the wind kicking in briskly
from the southwest.
The word at supreme headquar-
ters late in the day was that the
invasion could be considered max
ing satisfactory progress" But as
allied beachheads expanded, Nazi
resistance stiffened. The weight of
armor engaged by both sides was
increasing, and the fighting was
severe.
ENEMY HELD BACK
All enemy thruSts along the bat
tie arc from the neighborhood of
Caen to above st. Mere Eglise we're
held, and ground was gained after
ward. (T'hat statement from head
quarters suggested the possibility,
without Qualification. that American
and British beachheads had been
Joined to form a continuous 'front.'
A late report said the Americans
were at st. Formigny, eight miles
west-norhwest of Bayeux, Wednes-
day evening and presumably they
Continued on Pig. 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
Allies Chase Nozi Forces
I'm Retreat Across Itolv

ALL | E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, June 9. (UP)
-Germany's armies were in
full retreat across the italian pen
insula from the Adriatic to the
Tyrrhenian sea, almost so miles
above Rome Friday, but front dis
patches indicated the Nazi high
command was struggling to reor-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
BY LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO, June 9,
7 UP)-An anti-black market
bill was over it's first hurdle
in the state legislature Friday sent
to the floor of the assembly by the
lower house judiciary committee in
the form recommended by Gov.
Earl Warren.
A tentative agreement was reach
ed. meantime. by the assembly edu-
cation committee on solution for
the tangled teachers pension prob
lem as the committee adopted in
principle a "pay as you CO. plan
under which the legislature would
earmark $3OOOO,0OO for its contribu-
ton to pensions.
POSTWAR PROGRAM
Also, the governors postwar
building and employment program
apparently cleared it's last obstacle.
The senate passed a bill setting
up a site acquisition board, the
remaining controversial item of the
$112,000,000 program, and the as
sembly ways anC means committee
approved the bill with restrictions
previously voted by the assembly.
The assembly judiciary commit
tee recommended by Ia to | vote
the black market bill after confirm
ing adoption of amendments which
eliminated state penalties for all
rationing violations except coun-
terfeiting of coupons or using il
legally obtained coupons.
Warren told a press conference
he believed the anti-counterfeiting
bill would break the back of the
black market
AS originally introduced, the bill
also would have set state penalties
for deals in rationed goods with
out proper ration documents. The
amenc ments reducing the scope of
the bill were sponsored by the auth
or, Walter j. Fourt (RD Ventura.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
D AMBlINe
II EPORTER

ROdeO Dirt
RR is still dizzy after a glimpse
of Bob Smith and Ken Thornton
in their rodeo garb.
wow
Where Ken found those red cow
boy boots is a mystery.
But we know where Bob got his
outfit. He borrowed it from a mo-
ton picture costume department.
It's so loud, though, it must have
come from two studios.
And by the way. Girls are ell
gible for the calf riding event. If
there is a calf small and sweet
tempered enough RR might
:. or are there any gentle calves?
There already is female in the
Cowpony racc, Boots Pigney of
Campo. Go to it, Boots. hope you
win.
Give me my boots and sofa
pillow
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
DOUSE CAR FIRES

The Ell Centro fire department
extinguished two car fires Thurs
day, one at $50 Main, and the Sec
ond at Sixth and Orange.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09

Too Enthu iaStic
This is going to be the best
cooler we ever had" A. d. Allen
promised lis family while pound
ing away He installed his work
shop on the back porch which is
encloced in canvas flaps.
He worked away on the new
tangled triangle cooler every cpare
minute he had, making it bigger
and better all the time At last
came the day when he was to carry
it outside and fasten it to a WIN
dow.
Hold the door open," he instruct
ed his wife, picked up the cooler,
and started out.
1t was too big to get out the
door. He had to take down one
secticn of the porch to get it out
side.
Heb! Heb!
. Continued on Pg. 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-09
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday l01, minimum
Friday 81; 5 am. Friday 65, humid
ity Sc; noon Friday IS, humidity AZ;
5 pm. Thursday 81, humidity 28.
Evening star., 1944-11-27
Invasion Of Germany
Increases Demand
For Steel Products
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Nov. 27. The
Steel noted today a gen.
eral Tightening in all major steel
products as the result of the Allied
armies needs to support the in
creased tempo of the invasion Of
Germany.
plates are sharing in this quick
ening to less degree than other
products, but recent award of 13
tankers. requiring $4,000 tons of
plates, $4,000 tons of shapes and
5000 tons of bars, has improved the
immediate situation, as the steel
IS asked for first-quarter delivery"
the publication observed.
I'm bars the heavy shell program
is providing an increasing load,
which is scheduled to grow heavier
month by month, until by May re-
Quirements will be about 10000 tons
per month greater than at present" "
Steel said deliveries now extend
into March and April. with the pos
sibility of some smaller sizes being
available earlier. Other war de-
mands involving bars include heavy
requirements for gun components
and truck parts.
I'm spite of some shifting of plate
tonnage from continuous strip mills
sheet deliveries continue to recede
and many producers are unable tc
accept tonnage for delivery before
March, some not before April" the
trade journal said.
Steelmaking operations last week
declined 1l2 points to 95 per cent
of capacity, largely because of q
strike interruption at Chicago.
Evening star., 1944-11-27
Selected Stocks Up,
But Many Leaders
Lack Support
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Selecteda
stocks contested mild selling with
moderate success today, although
many market leaders exhibited no.
table raising apathy or backed into
slightly losing territory.
Trends, rather steady at the OPEN
ing, turned a bit indefinite as the
session proceeded and, near the
close, small fractional advances and
declines were pretty evenly divided.
Dealings were quiet throughout and
transfers were, in the neighborhood
of 100000 shares.
Further investment caution was
based partly on expectation of more
year-end tax adjustments and con-
sequent shifting of accounts,
thoughts of reconversion problems
as the Allies hit Germany and
Japan, and the fact the averages
several times have approached but
failed to penetrate the seven-year
tops of July. Earnings and divi-
dends still were helpful to individual
performers, but even these were
disinclined to do much sprinting.
In the plus column the greater
part of the day were Chicago &
North Western, at a 1914 high;
Southern Railway, Glenn Martin
International Telephone, Westing-
house. Johns Manville, Allegheny
preferred, Eastman Kodak, North
American and J. c. Penney. Hesi-
tant were U. S. Steel, Bethlehem
N. Y. Central. Baltimore & Ohio
Anaconda, Goodyear, Dow Chemical
du Pont, Union Carbide, American
Telephone and Texas Co.
Evening star., 1944-11-27
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. '** Ais
~.
Missouri Goldfish,
Gift of 40 and g.
Reach MONTGOMERY
BY the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Nov. 27.T
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery reports that his
six goldfish have arrived, "in
terrific heart"
The goldfish were shipped by
the Missouri Voiture of the 40
and 8. This organization decid-
ed that Marshal Montgomery
was surrounded with noisy pets.
How about some nice, quiet ones
for a change?
Replied Marshal Montgom-
cry:
Thank you very much in
deed for your interesting and
amusing present of six goldfish.
They arrived yesterday, via
Paris, only seven days en- route,
and were in terrific heart. I
should say that in the goldfish
world this is probably one of
the longest Journeys ever
made"
Evening star., 1944-11-27
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, Nov. 81 .+P, fWFA) Sal
able hoss. $4,000; total, 24,5OO: market
weak, with, last Friday on weights 270
pounds and down: closing less active than
early: weights over 270 pounds and sows
steady, both classes bringing 400 ceiling;
good and choice l90-270 pounds, 14.2Q-
14.35, top. 1875: good and choice, I5O-
lse pqInds 125o3l425: oa5 fair clesyanee
salable calves. 1900; total, 1900: best
steers and ,yearlinss steady to 25 cents
lower; mostly 25 cents down on good to
average choice weighty steers; early top
1928, some held higher; most early sales
Il .50-17 so; heifers 25 cents off; best
~; COWS fairly active, steady; bulls
steady to weak: ,vealers unchanged at
Is. 50 down; largely fed steer run, bulk
comparative shortfeds; stockers and feed
Salable sheep, 5000; total, 1880; ac-
tive, steady to strong; early sales good and
choice native and fed western lambs,
"A so. some held toward l475: several
loads just-cood native and Western lambs,
0o-l 4.25. common native lambs II so
down; Geek good and choice yeariings with
laH Shorn pelts 1850: yearling ewes out
at 80: good and choice slaughter ewes,
8 600-6.25; Gull and common kind, 450-
=
Evening star., 1944-11-27
Putting Cash 10 Work
Is No. | Postwar Job,
Fo|qer Declares
Nv EDWARD G.. STONE.


Getting idle capital back to work
is generaly conceded to be the mo.
Job in the postwar period" and the
best way to bring this about will
come with tax relief, John Clifford
Folger, Washington finanicer, and
president of the Investment Bank
ers' Association of America, declared
in his annual report scheduled for
delivery at the opening of the asso-
ciation's 33d annual convention in
Chicago today.
''The banks are chock-full of
money" he said, land to get it out
we must remember that capital likes
to be encouraged, not frightened
The flow of real venture capital has
slowed down to trickle. What We
need Is a real stream. 1t is alleged
there are more than 5000 separate
recognized tax plans in existance.
each outbidding the other with re-
spect to tax reduction.
Lower Gains Tax Advocated. .
ITO help business, the capital
gains tax should be lowered or
eliminated" Mr. Folger added. Rich
people are facing the probability
that the days of very large incomes
are over. They will, however, take
chances in the hope of increasing
capital.
THE best way to get venture capt.
tai into the open is to give the
large investor his chance at capital
gains, avoid soaking corporations
confiscating taxes before the money
ever gets to the stockholders, sand
help new and little business tax
wise.
Most informed people believe the
Securities Acts need Streamllnlng
Events of the past Is years have not
favored little business. Recently,
commercial bankers have set up
their own RFC credit pool. This, in
itself, offers great promise. A lifting
of the present exemption on
registration for security issues of
100000 and less to $1000,0O0 should
be considered. The problem of small
business belongs to the SEC as well
as to U.S."
Foreign Finance Stressed.
Turning to international finance,
Mr.. Folger reviewed the Breton
Woods Conference, said bankers see
more merit in the United Nations
Bank than in the stabilization
fund. and predicted that much of
the investment business will be
abroad after the war. He urged the
State and Commerce Departments
to stiffen their service to private
investment interests
In conclusion. Mr.. Foleer urged in
vestment bankers to respect the
authority of the SEC. to sell bonds
and keep them sold. be aggressive,
have jobs ready for returning SOL
diers. and get new blood in the
investment business
Such resolutions can open the door
for the best period of investment
banking in the countrys history, he
asserted.
Transit Plan Approved.
At special meeting of the stock
holders of the Capital Transit Co
held this noon in the Office of the
company, the resolution approving
the ref1nancing and mortgaging of
the property was approved by
ajority vote.
The meeting adjourned until next
Monday, December 4, to await ac-
ton on the application for approval
of the plan by the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Public Utili-
ties Commission and the Interstate
Commerce Commission. If not re-
ceived by that time, the meeting
will again be adjourned.
Evening star., 1944-11-27
Washington Produce

From The War Food Administration
Prices paid net f. o. b. Washington
EGGS-Market firm. Arrivals of graded
eggs continues light. with a strong demand
still prevailing. Some ungraded stock
from Western areas were available Occa-
sional small lots of current receipts were
reported. Prices paid for Federal-State
graded eggs received from grading sta
tons (Noy, e0. Whites, browns. mixed
coors, U. S. grade A, large, 57-5S; average
81 u; U. S. grade A medium. 47-49: aver
age, 4S1a: U. S grade B, large. As. Com
mercially graded, large, A, 55-57; medium
43-47; large B. A.
LIVE EPOULTRY-Market firm AS ususl
Mondays activity was light Only a few
light truck loads. of poultry were reported
Prices shown reflect sales reported within
existing price control regulations, but dc
not cover other poultry sold on the market
ior which prices were not obtainabe Prices
paid net I: o. b. Washington tpermittet
transportation charges included accordine
TO mlleagel, broilers and fryers, 3l-3l / q
fowl, 26-2S4