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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

Capital
PeriIed
Soviet Armored
Forces Now
Ne ar Budapest
By HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Nov. IA. (UP)
The Second Ukrainian ar
my outflanked t h e enemy
stronghold of JasZbereny
Tuesday and sent armored
forces thrusting to within
less than 16 miles east of
Budapest in a converging
drive on the Hungarian capt.
tai, alreacy besisged from the south.
Berlin reported that Soviet tanks
had driven into Jaszbereny, 81 miles
cast of Budapest, Monday but the
enemy report was not confirmed by
the Russian communicate
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
forces, which swung a 3-mile arc
around Jaszgereny. were moving
rapidly in the drive from the east
anc advanced more than 10 miles
in "a hours, despite increasing enc
my opposition.
The offensive, the second launch
ed against Budapest by Red army,
was taking a heavy toll of German
and Hungarian forces. A communi-
que said that 1900 enemy troops
were killed and 1000 others captur-
ed Moncay on the eastern ap-
proaches to the capital, with the
goth Hungarian infantry division
reduced to about 1000 men.
Malinovskys thrust from the east
was spearheaded by one unit which
seized Benye, 16 miles east of Buda-
pest, the western anchor of the arc
around Jaszbereny.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

QtllJ fCOOSeNtll dJ Ille Willie f1OuSt
to plan the final session that will
conclude a congress which since
January 3, 1913, has acted on most
of the wartime legislative authority
and appropriations.
SEVERAL APPOINTEES
Mr.. Roosevelt may enliven the
opening day by sending to the sem
ate the nominations for half a dozen
important offices he now has to fill.
They include a three man sur
plus war properties disposal board,
provided for in legisla ton which he
signed curing the recess, and sue
cessors for James F. Byrnes as di-
rector of the Office of War Mobiliz-
alton and Reconversion; James
Lawrence Fly as chairman of the
Federal Communications Commis-
sion: T. A. M. Craven as a member
of FCC; William H. Davis on the
War Labor Board and Clarence E.
Gauss as ambassador to China.
Byrnes is serving only in an in
terim capa city, Fly has resigned ef-
feotive November IS, Craven already
mas QUIT, ana Davis anC Gauss nave
notified the President that they
want to be relieved Of their posts.
There is little must" legislation
still pending before the retiring
congress. Possibly the major item
is the extension of the second war
powers act, which expires Decem-
ber 81, definite wartime presidential
authority for ALLEGATION of priorities
and requisitioning of property.
House Republican Leader Joseph
w. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts, sale
that congress would give President
Roosevelt "all the power that he
needs to fight the war" He said he
knew of no plan to oppose extern
sion Of the war powers act.
Another important issue is renew
Continued on Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Crash Injuries
Two Drivers

Both drivers suffered minor in
juries in a tWo-vehicle accident on
the Central Valley highway a mile
north of the Brawley city limits at
6'p. m. Monday, California highway
patrclmen said.
A pickup and carry-all driven by
R. N. Ramey. SO, Brawley, went out
of control, swerved to the left side
of the highway and overturned, the
officers said. In the resulting tangle
a sedan driven by Whitney Dear
born, 27, Calipatria, overturned and
rolled into the borrow pit beside the
highway, The drivers were able to
be taken home.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
E. {. Prepares
For Sixth
War Bond Drive

Imperial county's Sixth War Loan
campaign was under way Tuesday,
started a week early in difference
to approaching holidays.
Throughout the county, the Blast
Tokyo" drive was being organized
through an intricate arrangement
of committees whose final goal will
be the raising of S2.750,000 to fill
the Imperial county quota.
Ell Centro'S assignment to raise
80 per cent of the countys total
was taken up before business hours
Monday morning when City Chair
man Viggo Hansen called his COM
mittee heads. into conference over
the breakfast table, with County
Chairman H. w. Fawcett appearing
in advisory capacity
Dovetailing their activities to give
every resident of the city the priv
Hedge of buying war bonds which
will back up what may be the
climactic Allied battles against Jap
an, Ell Centro city committees are
shaped to provide service for wide
variety of groups, Hansen explained.
A full list of committee chairmen
will be announced. Hansen said,
after all top positions have been
filled. Meanwhile. the Monday
breakfast brought forth acceptance
of list of committees which will
include cosmopolitan group to CO.
ordinate drives among racial units,
a women's organization committee,
theater and special events, speakers,
bureau, public schools, utilities. pub
licity, churches, banks and building
loan companies, distribution of lit
erature and the Third Army. in
cluding a retail division and a
mechanized division.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
MexicaIi Arrests
Strike at Big
Narcotic Set.up

MEXICALI, Nov. Ia. - Activities
oil an illicit narcotic ring operating
III Baja California received a set
back when Lieutenant Colonel Jose
Escudero Andrade, police inspector
general CT Baja California. raided
a house in MeXicali during the week
enc, arrested two persons, confis-
Gated $500 and 615 grains of opium
valued at $5000
This raid is part of concentrated
drive to wipe out illicit narcotic
rings operating in Baja California.
Francisco Zepeda and Felipe Ocha
Aguayo were arrested by the raiding
Officers anc Mike Monies, 81, said
to be the owner of the house where
the confiscated articles were found,
was taken to Tijuana and held un-
der secret custody for several days.
Continued on Page 6, Col. 3,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

Pby CHS, said American carrier
planes bombed Manila, $50 miles
north of Leyte, twice yesterday
PLANES OVER MANILA
ca German DNB dispatch from
Tokyo asserted 400 carrier-based air
craft appeared over Manila itself
Yesterday, as we'll as over Clark field
Legaspi and Cavite. Thirty four
American planes were downed by
the japanese air cefense, DNB
saidD
The fall of Libungao, already un-
der American artillery fire, would
isolate two enemy divisions now de-
laying the American advance down
the main highway from Pinamcpoan
to the north from the main Japan
ese garrison around the west coast
sea and air base of OrmCc in the
south.
II also woulC cut the main link
between Ormoc and Palcmpan, l6
miles to the northwest, an alterna-
tive reinforcement and evacuation
port on the west coast, though sew
eral rough mountain trails between
the two towns still would remain
in japanese hands.
General Douglas Macarthur dis
closed in his daily communique
that the Japanese now have COM
mitted five of their best divisions
possibly $4,000 troops-to the Ieyte
front in an attempt to smash the
american invasion of the central
Philippines.
Two of the divisions, the 26th anC
the 1st, were giving ground slowly
in bloody fighting along the Pima
mopoan-Ormoc road just south Of
Limon, 10 miles north of Libungao.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Light Rainfall
Covers Valley

Rain pattered down on Imperial
Valley early Tuesday as the edge
OF a mountain rain and snow storm
spread out over the desert
Showers fell throughout the val
ley but up TO noon Tuesday the
precipitation had not been suffi-
cient to cause damage to crops. At
that time the rainfall in Ell Centre
totaled 002 inch.
Snow fell in the Laguna mount
aims and rain in other mountain
regions during the week end. 1t was
raining hard in Jacumba Tuesday
noon.
Valley residents did their usual
struggling with muddy roads Tues
day.
Brawley schools closed at noon
Tuesday because of the rain, giving
the school children one of Imperial
Valleys famous mud holidays.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Two Men Survive
In Plane Crash

of the halves bounced and struck
the mountain Il second time-1t
shattered into pieces
Chi5m said that when he regained
consciousness he heard Bedford
yelling and by calling to each other,
they got together
Sixteen army men, working in
shifts of four, struggled down the
tWo-mile slore in driving rain and
snow tc bling Chism and Bedford
on stretchers to waiting army am
balances in national forest.
Rescue work was halted at late
hour Monday night and officers
said they would not be able to re-
move the bodies Tuesday if the
weather conditions did net i'm
prove.
The plane, which last reported
from Bake, sfield, California, was
bound from st. Joseph, Missouri, to
Mints field. in the metropolitan
Los Angeles area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

PASADENA, Calf, Nov ID. (UP)
Helpless because of their own in
juries, two survivors of CAT army
cargo plane crash huddled under
bent wing tip for protection against
a driving snowStorm for mere than
"a hours while one of their COM
panions reamed in agony until he
died. the Two said. Tuesday.
The victims name was not re-
leased. Ten other fervicemen were
killed when the plane hit the slope
of Strawberry peak in Angelus Ma
tiOnal Forest during a stern Satur-
day night.
The two survivors. resting in an
army regional hospital after their
rescue by arm crews, were
PM3/C Buford Chism. who was
the less seriously injured, and Cor
poral Kenneth Bedford.
THE plane split in half when it
hit the mountain, Chism said. "One
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Braw|ey Officers
Round up Eight
zuit Suit Youths

Eight so-called zoot suffers OF
Pachucos, were behind the bars OF
the county Jail Tuesday, consigned
there by Brawley officials who de-
clared they comprised a gang OF
Calexico boys who went forth to
the north-end city Ito cause
trouble
The boys ranged in age from Is
to 18 years.
Brawley police rounded up the
youths and consficated their fan
tastic shoes which they had soles
and heels composed of approximate
ly two inches of leather. The Of
ficers said they planned to call
the waste of good leather to the
attention of the War Price and
Continued on Page 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

LONDON, Nov. IA. (UP)-
The government of Fire has
declined to join other neutral
nations in refusing sanctuary
to prescribed Axis war Grim
inals and has reserved the
right to shelter such refugees
ut its own discretion, a Brit
ish spokesman indicated in
commons Tuesday.
Replying to volley of questions
from the house, Dominions Under
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

Also named as Gould's partners
in the conspiracy were the Cornwall
Shipbuilding company of Cornwall
Landing, New York. its president.
Milton A. Henry, Victor Fox and
Henry Glassgold, partners in the
firm whom assistant trial judge ad-
vocate Lieutenant Kenneth f..
Graft, in summing up for the prose-
cution. described the accused as
modern buccaneers who took to
fighting over the division of the
spoils.'
The court-martial conviction and
sent nee still must be reviewed by
the judge advocates office.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Officer Faces
bribe Penalty

NEW YORK, Nov. Ia. CUP)-
Captain Joseph Gould. former man.
ager of heavyweight champion
James j. Braddock. Tuesday faced
dismissal from the service, a $4,000
fine and three years at hard labor
on a court martial conviction of
accepting a fee for influencing the
awarding of army contracts.
Specifically Gould was charged
with defrauding the government of
100000 for his part in helping
throw army contracts for life RATS
in a direction that netted him more
than $1,000 in bribes, but that figure
was changed during the trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
300 Mexicans
Arrive for
Work in Crops

Three hundred MeXicanS who
have been working in Minnesota
have arrived in the valley to go to
work at thinning and hCeing vege-
table crops, George Garrigues, Ell
Centro farm labor board chief, an
nounced Tuesday. He said between
1900 and 1400 more Mexican work.
ers are expected to arrive within
the next 80 days.
Garrigues said that I'D women
have been recruited for date pack
ing. and 25 more recruits were eX<
pected Tuesday. He said 100 more
women are needed for that work.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

LONDON, Nov. IA. (UP)-
Swedish reports that Adolf
Hitler has cancelled aud
fences with foreign statesmen
and diplomats, as we'll as
with many of his close asso-
ciates. heightened speculation
Tuesday that he is insane, i'll,
or dead.
Official Allied circles remained
aloof from the growing discussion
over Hitler'S health and where
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Rocket Bombers
Renew Attack

LONDON. Nov. IA (UP)-After a
long lull, the Germans launched a
small-Gcale flying bomb attack On
the London area and southern Eng
land Monday night, causing some
damage but no casualties.
Several of the bombs were shot
down into the sea by anti-aircr2ft
fire, east coastal observers report
ed, and one fell harmlessly in open
country.
The flying bomb attacks, includ-
ing V-2 raids, caused 588 casualties
in England last month.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
ciiSaret
Deurth
Black Market
Thrives in
Many Sections
BY UNITED PRESS

Millions of Americans were
scrambling for cigarets Tues
day, upsetting the routine
and morals of war plants and
business offices, enriching
hundreds of black market
operators, and increasing an
already acute shortage with
extensive boarding, a nation
wide United Press survey
showed Tuesday.
Everywhere men and women were
ready to pay eXorbitant prices, stand
in line for hours, and resort to all
varieties of 6odges to assure them
selves Of smoke.
Extensive black market operations
were reported in New York, Chicago,
Minneapolis, ST. Paul, Detroit. At
lanta, Connecticut, and Buffalo, N.
Y. National and regional Office of
Price Administration officials were
investigating these eXploiterS for
profit of an unavoidable wartime
situation and threatened drastic ac-
ton.
PARIS, Nov. IA. CUP)-Cigarette
rations, reduced last month in U. S.
army post exchanges, hac vanished
completely Tuesday as far as Off
GERS, CTS and WAC's stationed in
FariS are concerned. 49,.
PIX attendants. refusing to sell
them, explained that more cigarettes
are needed by the men at the fronts.
American cigarettes reach France
only through army or Red Cross
channels. French civilians were linz
tied to one package of 20 cigarettes
week anc it was common sight
to see well dressed Frenchmen. re-
trieving castoff stubs from side
Uf.lks and cutters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Congress Eyes
War Measures
I'm Final Spurt
Sevcnty-Eighth RecOnvenes After
Election Recess for 5-Week
Session Before New Body Comes In
. by JOHN l.. CUTTER

WASHINGTON, Nov. ID. UP)-The 18th Congress
wound up its election Tuesday and headed into
final four fve-week session to few majo war
and postwar before giving way to the 10Th
Congress in January.
In the absence Of urgently pressing business, and with
members not returned both houses scheduled only
perfuncory sessions go through the ormaes of
venng and notice that Capitol Hill again open
for business.
Democratic leaders scheduled conference with Pres-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

secretary Paul Emrys-Evans said
Fire had rejected the Allied demand
that neutral states close their doors
to war-2uilty Axis leaders who might
try to flee abroad.
I'm their view tthe Fire govern
ment, the right to grant asylum is
not in question and they give no
assurance which would precluc e
them from exercising that right
should justice, charity, OF the honor
or interests of the nation so re-
quire," Emrys- Evans said.
Fire, he added, also informed Brit
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
SUPERVISORS ARRANGE
FOR VOTE COUNTING

SuperViSOis Of Imperial county
late Monday assembled and in
structed County Clerk w. J. Nc
Clelland to make the official can
vass of the ballots cast at the gen.
eral election November 7.
McClelland said he is permitted
by law to receive soldier and civilian
absentee ballots up to and including
Move mber "a. An official board ap-
pointed by the supervisors will begin
counting the absentees November
25.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14

aboutS, but cautioned against wish
full thinking
Premier DR.. Stephen Tiso of the
puppet state of Slovakia was said
to have been among those whose
appointment to confer with Hitler
had been cancelled on short notice.
SHUT AWAY FROM CHIEF
A London Daily Herald dispatch
from Stockholm said DR. Otto Diet
rich, German press chief who GUS
tomarily gives Hitler a daily report
on world events and opinion. re-
peatedly has been sent away with
out seeing the Fuehrer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Fire Asserts Own Authority
On War Criminals Haven

ain that since the beginning of the
war the Irish had denied ao emission
to all aliens whose presence would
be at variance with the govern
ments neutrality policy or detri-
mental to Fires interests.
The Irish answer alluded also to
the lack of comprehensive inter
national code covering the treat
ment of war criminals" and to the
fact that Fire does not recognize
any established court or procedure
for the judicial determination of
individual cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
PLANE HITS DORMITORIES;
SIX CREyyMEN KILLED

MARCH FIELD, Cal, Nov. IA.
UP)-Flight personnel quartered
in two dormitory buildings narrow
ly escaped injury Monday when a
win-engined army bomber crashed
into the barracks area, killing its six
crew members. Colonel Leroy A..
Walthal, base commandant, said the
plane had taken off from Coolidge
field, Arizona. but he was unable to
give its home base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Hitler DeepensHide-Out
Coering Is inEcIipse

Hitler's personal photographer
Heinrich Hoffman, has been unable
to issue any photographs OF Hitler
since mid-September. the Herald
said
1t added that reliable sources re-
ported Hitler still was alive during
the last weeks of October, but cata-
ing his encourage great anxiety
Living in an armored train, Hitler
became so restless and apprehenaivs
over Allied bombing that he rarely
spent more than two days In one
place He ordered the train 10 run
CONTINUED or pace .. cfI ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Finnish Vessel
Hits German
Mine and Sinks

LONDON Tuesday, Nov. IA.
CUP)-A report from Stockholm
said Tuesday that Finnish ship,
en- route from Sweden to Helsinki
with a vital cargo of focdstuffs,
had become the first victim of Ger
many's proposed blockade of the
Baltic by striking mine off the
south Finnish coast and sinking
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
vunk MuneuverS
Threaten to
Divide Jap Army
Macarthur Speeds Drive to Cut
Main Forces in North Ley+e;
Tokyo Claims u. S. Warship Sunk

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. a.
(UP)Amercan invasion forces threatened to cut the
Japanese front in northwest Leyte in two Tuesday with
push to within five miles of the key road junction OF bun-
gao 10 miles north of Ormoc.
CA Japanese communique said japanese planes had
sunk an American batteshp in attack task force
east Luzon last night Another Tokyo broadcast heard
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
Germans Burrow
Deeper into
Main DefenSeS
Outer For+ifications Tumble as
Troops Battle in Heavy Rains;
Only Three Miles From Fortress

PARIS, Nov IA. (UP)-Fort User, the second of nine
great forts grdng Metz fell Tuesday to American troops
driving up from the south through bonechilling rain to
within 3/2 miles of Metz while other units launched
frontal assault four miles east of the city.
A regmenta combat team of the 5th division of Lieu
tenant General George S. Pattons Third army smashed
northward from Berny through the village of Orny and
about mile northwest seize the User fortress group
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
What Other Cities Are Doinq
About Postwar PLANNING

Next winning the not of
pnnng Imperial County and the communities cities
action
the keyword bring the pattern to The
a
writer
other in
Wednesday given
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
y AMBlINe
X EpoR1ER
Generosity Reminder

Generosity Reminder
And don't forget, ladies and gen.
tlemen, the tuberculosis and Health
association was not included in the
agencies benefitting from the War
Chest drive in Imperial county.
Remember the tuberculosis as
sociation depends on the sale of
Christmas seals to finance the ex-
cellent work that group does in
stemming the spread of what some
times is called the great white
plague.
Be generous in buving stamps
from the association this year.
Eternally Feminine
A crowded bus was laundering
Continued on Page 6, Col. 3,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-14
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 70, minimum
tuesday 43; 5 am. Tuesday 81, hu-
midity 81; noon Tuesday 63, humid
ity 78; 5 pm. Mon. IS, humidity 40.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
TOM PATERSON |
 HURT IN CRASH
First Lieutenant Seriously
 Injured in Auto Accident . in Kansas

Beacon Falls, Feb. 4--First Lieut.. Thomas Patterson, son of Mrs. Clara O'Shea of Beacon Falls, has been seriously injured in an automobile accident at Topeka, Kansas. His condition was reported 'tsatisfac- tory" according to most recent word received here.
 Mrs. O'Shea and a daughter, Helen, arrived at Topeka yesterday to visit the government hospital where Lieut.. Paterson is being treat ed.
 Mrs. Catherine Dupsis, another of the injured officers sisters, said she had no details of the accident, but had learned through the American Red Cross and the state police her brother was seriously injured.
 Lieut.. Patterson was in charge of recruiting WACs in the western district and travelled extensively in connection with his work.
 In the service two years next month, Lieut.. Patterson is well known here especially in Waterbury where he made his home on Pros pect street. Before leaving for the service he lived for a brief time in Beacon Falls. +,'.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
THIRD LIQUOR
 THEFT OCCURS
Jeff's Restaurant Victim This Time; Six and a
 Half Cases Missing

Naugatuck, Feb. 4-No new de- velopments were reported today on the theft of abour $200 worth of liquor from Jeff's restaurant, 9 Church street. Six and half cases of liquor were taken in the break early Thursday morning, but $50 in cash in the cash register was un- tcuc!led.
 Police Chief John J. Gor1nley said thieves forced oren a window in the rear of the building to effect entry and carried the liquor out through the back door, leaving 1t open Wifi ed J. Davis, proprietor, discovered the theft whe, he open ed the restaurant in the morning.
 Sergt. Anthony Farrar is making the investigation. It Is the third liquor theft in recent weeks, Gae- tano Sileo's restaurant, South Main street, and Joseph Sodloski's Dia- mond street, were entered several weeks ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-04
COPS HOLDING DINNER TUESDAY
Newly-Elected Officers. to Be Installed at Maxie's
 Restaurant

Naugatuck. Feb. 1.-The Nauga- tuck Young Republican club will hold dinner meeting next Tuesday night at 8 in Maxie's restaurant on Rubber avenue at which time newly elected officers will be installed.
 Franklin Hotchkiss will be induct- ed as president succeeding John Finsel who has held the office for the past two years, The installing officer will be Matthew Anastasia, president of New Haven county.
 Reservations may. be made by committee consisting of Henry Zwick chairman; Henry Schildgen, 3d John Finsel, William Painter, FL mer Larson and Mrs, Julia Nardello.