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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Army Announces
Broadcast Plan
Fer Campaigning

WASHINGTON, Aug. 90. CUP) -
Announcement Monday that the
army would adopt the policy of Civ
ing equal time to five political par
ties for short-wave broadcaSting to
troops overseas stirred varied COM
ment.
Republicans Immediately raised
the contention that any speech by
President Roosevelt should come out
of the Democratic quota.
Senator Revercomb, CR), West
Virginia, summed up the COP.
viewpoint:
Any troop broadcast time given
to speech by the President GER
tainly should be a part of the time
allotted to the Democrats. He is a
candidate, and whatever he says
amounts to an appeal for support" {"
The army did not go into that
question.
A specified period will be avail
able to the Democratic, Prohibition,
Republican, Socialist and Socialist
Labor parties each week between
early September and Nov. l." the
army said Failure of a party to
use it's scheduled time will not
prejudice any other party's right to
time.
The sequence OF events indicated
a relation between Mondays enun-
citation of policy, based on recent
law which permits rebroadcast of
political addresses" if equal time
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Two FL Centrans
On Way Home
From Overseas

Two Ell Centrans are nearin
home from air combat service
Europe. First Lieutenant A. r. Or
walt, $50 Ell Centre avenue an
Tech, Sgt. George r. Harris, Jr
telephoned their families from Sa.
Lake City Sunday that they woul
so to Monterey and from there leay
.or Ell Centre. 1t is expected the
will be home late this week.
Both men have served full quota
of missions. 1t. OSwalt has bee
awarded the Air Medal, clusters ft
80 missions, Distinguished F1Yn
Cross and clusters and has bee
recommended for the British Fly
ing Cross.
Sergeant Harris wears the Purp
Heart, the Air Medal with Fol
Clusters and the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross.
Both were stationed at an a
base in England.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
B0 0Ikon
Crisis
Flares
Hitler Pushes
Drive to
Hold Powers

LONDON, Aug %. (UP)-
Adolf Hitler, battling with
guns and threats to hold his
desorting Balkan satellites in
line, launched a full-scale at
tack on Bucharest Monday
and rushed his diplomatic
trouble shooters to Sofia to
block a bulgarian declara-
tion of war on the Reich.
The German Transocean news
agency sale fierce fighting had
broken out between Nazi troops
and their erstwhile Allies in Roma
MIA, w.icre Il German divisions
were reported 20 have been killed.
captured, or trapped since Romania
broke her ties with Berlin and went
over to the Allies last week
ENCIRCLr, BUCHAREST
Transocean said German troops
had encircled Bucharest where
Premier Marshal Constantin Sem
atescu anc his new anti-Nazi cabi-
net were holding the former Pre-
mier Ion Antonescu and members
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Warren Stresses
Need for Many
Canning Workers

SACRAMENTO, Aug %. (UP)-
Hous eWiVeS and white collar work.
ers' Monday we're asked by Cover
nor Earl Warren to volunteer for
work in California's agricultural and
food processing industries during
Sept mber, period the governor
termed critical, particularly in the
cannerieS."
He said the labor shortage stu
alton will be aggravated by the re-
turn of thousands of Students to
school duing the month.
Our men overseas need canned
food on which to live and fight and
advance en- Berlin and Tokyo" "
Warren said. The war isn't won,
it is just going we'll, and this is not
the time to stop
The governor also called attention
to the fact that September has been
designated nationally as food and
nutrition month" and urged Cali
fornians to learn mere about the
Importance of nutrition and its val
Je in safeguarding health"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Jdps Claim Three
B-2q's Downed

ceiving mortal hits were left be-
hind their formation and were fl
nally sent hurtling down to the
sea. Twelve minutes after this en-
counter the Sub-lieutenant came
across another group of five enemy
bombers. In defiance of frantic en-
emy firing, the Japanese fighters
launched a daring close-quarters at
tack and in the ensuing furious
aerial dog fight one of the enemy
planes hard hit by the Japanese lost
its control and was gradually forced
into the sea-
Domei said Endo attacked an
other group of B-29s but to his
modification his gasoline was run
ming low and he was compelled to
make a forced landing on a certain
island"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
y AMBlINe
EpoRTER
What's This:

Once upon time, just what time
r r does not pretend to know or re-
member. the Ell Centre Chamber of
Commerce equipped its general as
Sembly rOcm-a room devoted to
variouc meetings of various groups
boxes. Not ash trays, but boxes, and
said boxes did contain cigarets for
those who sat at the big table
once upon time. The boxes still
are there and they are right Orna-
mental. But now, no Cigarets there
in. They do ferve purpose. how
ever. GathererS in deep meditation
may. and do, use them in place of
pcncil-doodling. making all sorts
of lines and cross lines of circles
and such. you know, and so this was
gcing on the other night when the
Imperial county cection of the Cali
fofnia League Of Cities was meeting
there. One doOdler indifferently
turned box upside down. Some
printing was on the bottom. Aha!
Then up jumped this member, so It's
said, and demanded that the league
at once adjourn and again at once
reassemble as little League CT Ma
tiOns. For why? it was demanded
"Juet because this"-and he read
from the line On the bottom of the
Cox-"Made in Japan"
Some were in for summoning Ben
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
FIame.Thrower
Hur[s Death
Around Corners

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 CUPo-
Allied invasion armies in France
now are using a tank-borne flame
throWer that hurls a "fearsome"
geySer of fire more than $50 feet
and around corners, the British
army staff revealed here.
The hitherto secret weapon is
fitted to the heavily -armored Al
ton Churchill tank, which also pulls
an armored trailer to carry fuel for
the flame throWer. A Churchill
tank fitted with the flame thrower
is called a crocodile"
1t originally was designed to burn
out strong points in Hitler's Allan
tic wall. British army sources de-
scribed it as truly terrifying and
deadly and said it was the most
powerful flame throWer in the
world.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Two Deportm ents Oppose
monopoly Air Set-up

WASHINGTON, Aug. 90.
(UP)-The state and justice
departments have informed
Congress of their opposition
to legislation to set up a mon
opoly airline to represent the
United States abroad in post
war commercial air trans
port, it was learned Monday.
The two departments were said
to have advised the Senate ccm-
merce committee that, in their opin-
ions, so-called chosen instrument
would not be in the national inter-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Onrushin9 yonks
Race Through
Valley Of Marine
British Tanks Back Up Americans in
Blasting Enemy Along the Seine;
Now 20 Miles From Reich Border

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug. 28. (UP)
TRUMP phant American troops stormed through the val
ley of the Marine Monday, approaching the historic battle
ground of ChateauTherry, while powerful British arm
ored force sreamed the Seine above Paris in
doube-edged threat the Nazs robot bomb bases and
the borders of Germany itself
The battered German armies of northern France were
full retreat and Nazi reports said American col
had thrust beyond captured TrOyes to reach the
Marine at Vtry Francois 100 miles southwest of Paris
and barely 80 miles from the German frontiet
TANKS SWARM ACROSS THE SEINE
AS the Americans struck eastward long lines of Brit
sh tanks and mechanized infantry swarmed across the
river brdgehead at Vernon, 38 miles northwest OF
Paris and struck for Fleury, six miles beyond tn,
Seine and Id miles southeast of Rouen
Other British columns swept the Seine IN
Force Nantes, Elbeuf and new ywon bridgehead
Louviers almost midway between Vernon and Elbeuf.
MEET FEEBLE ENEMY RESISTANCE
Only feeble enemy opposition encountered by tn,
British spearheads but headquarters spokesmen
early to determine whether Hitler had ordered
troops the Pas de Calais to hold at all costs
abandon their flying bomb bases to avoid encircement
Equally weak resistance met the American columns
their swift thrust up the Marne and official reports
placed the Yan pearheads the approaches of Chateau
hierry barely 80 miles souh-southeas of the forest
Compiegne where the armistice of 1918 signed ant
Germany imposed her harsh truce of 1910 beate
France
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
BY UNITED PRESS

The japanese Domei news agency,
reviewing the last American B-29
Superfortress raid on Kyushu, Mon
day paid special tribute to two naval
fliers named Ozaki and Endo who,
it said. shot down three B-29s and
damaged two others in that attack
(The reference to "Ozaki' appar-
emily gave rise to report that the
B-29s had raided the Japanese city
of Osaka Monday.
The Domei account, recorded by
United Press, San Francisco. from
Tokyo broadcast, said Endo and
Ozaki encountered five B-29s while
they were en- patrol duty over the
Sea of Kyushu.
Endo, Domei reported, flashed
the news to his home base and at
this instant two of the B-29s re-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
HiI|mon Says Campaign
Fund Stands At S135,OOO

WASHINGTON, Aug. rs.
(UP) = Chairman. Sidney
Hillman of the CIO Political
Action Committee told the
House committee investigat-
ing campaign expenditures
Monday that two CIO-spon-
sored political groups had
received voluntary contributions
from individuals totaling Sl35,OoO
with which to pay expenses in con-
nection with the November election
and that "if we relied on money to
do our work, we would have scant
hope of success"
He complained to the committee
that other political organizations
were not being subjected to con-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28

alone. I assume that they will do .
veil or better in 1914"
He told the committee that III
'AC did not object to congressiona
.crutiny, but believed that 1t shoul
not be the exclusive object of go,
ernment inquiry"
Hillman suggested Investigation
of the American Democratic Ma
tional Committee. Gerald l.. r
Smiths America First party. III
Committee for Constitutional Go,
ernment, the National Econom
Council, United Mothers of Amer
lea, the Anglo-Saxon Federation
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, and the National Indu
trial Information Committee, whic
he said were "overripe for inquiry
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
100000 Blaze
Hits MexicaIi;;
Big Mill Burns

Fire believed to have started
from sparks in the Harinera de la
Baja California S. A. flour mill
swept a border area in Mexicali
Saturday evening with an estimated
loss of $200,000. Two stores and
the Mercantile Bank completely
were destroyed ugether with all
their contents.
Equipment from Ell Centre. the
Ell CentrO Marine Base, BraWley
and the state pump together with
most of the Calexico apparatus
rushed to the assistance of the
Mexicali fighters and kept the blaze
in a small area although at times it
threatened to go beyond control
and sweep the entire business dis
trict.
SPREADS THROUGH BLOCK
Under good neadv'oy before ap-
paratus was in position, the blaze
spread from the mill on Azueta
Continued ion Pg. 6. Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Cavalry Forces
Lead Assault:
PIoesti PeriIed
Severe Fighting Follows Attempt Of
Romanians to Disarm Germans;
Liberation Of Balkans Seen as Near

ern Bucharest and in the PloeSti
area fighting broke out when Ro-
manian troops, according to Sow
let Instructions attempted to cis-
arm the Germans. 1t asserted, how
ever, that German troops were
holding out in their positions every
where"
COSSACKS LEAD
Malinovsky's mechanized Co.'S
sacks paced the drives down through
the Galati Gap which military OBJ
servers believed would complete the
liberation of the Balkans in a few
weeks. Thel Grove Spearhead
through Ploesti's outer defenses and
sent another force racing toward
the Romanian capital farther
south.
Tanning out south of Ramnicul-
Sarat, where Malinovsky brought
his forces to within 81 miles of
Romania's rich oil fields and 70
miles of Bucharest, one column
swept along the railroad to Ploesti
and the other struck down the main
highway to the capital.
The Red army troops, moving
along the western sice of the As
mile wide gap below Focsani. were
meeting cnly token resistance from
the fleeing Germans and Romanian
troops were surrendering on con-
tact.
In sweeping to Ramnicul-Sa a
rail junction on the Cernauti-Ploe-
sti railroad 18 miles northeast of
Buzau. Malinovsky's armymade a
spectacular 49-mile advance that
pierced the Galati Gap at Focsani
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28

2ressicnal scrutiny such as the
PAC inquiry, which opened Monda,
With statement by Chairman
Clinton Anderson, CD, New Mexi
co, that he hoped to get full rec.
ord of CIO political activities.
IF we rely on money to do ou
work, we would have scant hope c
success" Hillman said. l need onl'
recall that in 1910, despite the limi-
tations of the Hatch act, the Re
publican party and its cooperating
groups collected and spent some
SIT 100000 on behalf of their candi
dates. The total expenses of tn
C1O Political Action Committee tc
date are considerably less than the
1910 contributions to the Repub-
lican party by five wealthy families
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28

LONDON, Aug. %. (UP)
Soviet cavalry forces drove
over the eastern Carpathian
mountains through Transyl-
vania and crossed the Hun
garian border Monday, a Ber-
lin broadcast admitted, while
two other Russian armies
poured through Galati Gap
on Bucharest and Ploesti,
where German and Roman
ian troops, erstwhile allies,
were por e d fighting
against each other.
DNB also reported that in north
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Madame Chang
Seriously III

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. CUP)-
Madame Chang Kai-Shek, wife of
the Chinese generalissimo, is seri-
ously i'll and will come to the Unit
ed States in a few weeks for urgent
ly needed medical treatment, her
brother-in-law. Ch ines Finance
Minister DR.. H. H. Kung, disclosed
Monday.
Madame Chang is now in Rio de
Janeiro with her sister, Madame
Kl,ng.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28

LONDON, Aug. 28. tUP--Hun-
dreds of Allied fighter planes and
fighter bombers defied difficult
weather Monday to rake German
escape routes north of the Seine
and supply routes along the Franco
German border.
American and British planes from
both Normandy and British bases
struck at the German transport
system.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
u Meet Death
When Plane
Hits Residence

LONDON, Aug. %. OUP)-Twen-
ty-six persons were killed Monday
when a plane, believed an Ameri-
can sky master mail plane from the
United States, crashed into dwell
ing at PrestWick. Scotland.
The victims incluced seven
creWman, ID passengers and five
occupants of the demolished house.
The plane was understood to have
circ!ed twice before 1t crashed.
Prestwick is one of the worlds
busiest air functions and the east
ern sterminal of the trans Atlantic
ferry route.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Germans Trapped
On Rhone Banks

ROME, Aug. 20. (UP)-
American tanks and artillery
racing more than so miles
overland into the Rhone val
ley, closed behind the beaten
remnants of the German
10Th army at Montelimar
Monday and turned a mur-
derOus fire on some $4,000
Nazis trapped against the
east bank of the Rhone.
With their Ucidges across the
broad Rhone cut by allied bombers,
the survivors of the 10Th army fac
&c imminent death or capture be-
tween the converging guns of the
main American forces moving up
from Avignon and the enveloping
column at Montelimar, halfway be-
tween the Mediterranean coast ano
Lyon.
15,OCO NAZIS KILLED
Headquarters spokesmen. 1ho pre-
viouSly had issued an ambiguOuSly
worded statement indicating that
$4,000 Germans were killed, wound
ed, or captured in the new Ameri-
can stroke, explained that that fig
ure referred to the number of Ger
mans now pinned against the Rhone
river.
The trap was sprung by a strong
armored force that swept into
Montelimar after a secret forced
march from the Sisterone -Grenoble
highway more than so miles to the
east.
The battered Nazis, fleeing up
the east bank of the Rhone. raced
into Montelimar to find the Amer
leans ready an6 waiting.
DEATH BATTLE
Front dispatches said the star
tied Germans fell back to the river
edge and braced for a death battle
against the Americans closing a
round them. Throughout Sunday.
United Press War Correspondent
Dana Adams Schmidt reported.
American guns Houred a deadly
fire into the cornei ed enemy.
American riflemen and hundreds
of warplaneS joinec in the slaugh-
Continued on Is. -, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Chinese General
Is Executed

CHUNGKING. Aug. %. UP) =
The commander of the fourth
Chinese army. Chang Teh Neng,
was executed Friday for neglect in
duty which registered in the loss
of Changsha last June, the Central
News agency reported Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Planes Hit Ndzi
ESQ ape Routes

BY noon Monday the Eighth Air
Force, which put 400 fighters into
the area of north France, Belgium,
Holland and western Germany,
claimed 200 locomotives destroyed or
damaged, 200 railway cars destroyed
and another 1000 damaged. and ECO
motor vehicles destroyed or dam
aged
The Eighth also claimed damage
or destruction of numerous barges,
oil tanks, radio and power stations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
Ring Tightens
As Miles Drop
BY UNITED PRESS

The shortest distances to Ber-
lin from advanced Allied fronts
Monday:
Northern France $50 miles
trom point near Vitry en- Fran
co.'s. Gain of 98 miles in week..
Southern France 500 miles
from point near Grenoble. Gain
of SO miles in week..
Italy-583 miles (from point
near Pesaro. Gain of 18 miles in
week..
Russia-328 miles (from point
near Warsaw. Unchanged for
week..
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28

est and probably would run afoul
the antitrust laws.
The opinions were requested in
connection with bill by Senator
Pat McCarran, Cd. Nevada. to es-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
SPREADS THROUGH BLOCK

tablish an All-American Flag Line,
Inc, with working capital in ex-
cess of $l,000,000, 1000. All transport
agencies would be invited to pur-
chase stock.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
NOTICE.!

Ernie Pyle has wirelessed that
he "is unavOidably out of produce
tion for a few days"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28

Continued IN Pg. b, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-28
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday 118, minimum
Monday IL; 5 am. Monday IS, hu-
midity 78; noon Monday 101. hu-
mildly IL; pm. Sun. III, hum. IL.
Evening star., 1944-01-18
Pacific Coast Planning

land, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
They have several features in common.
Most of them take account of the
fact that there will be an extensive
exodus from these cities by dismissed
workers. Tens Of thousands will 60
home. and home to many is the State
in which they are now employed Other
thousands have saved enough for the
little place in the country that. they
have dreamed about for years. Small
places with gardens or a few acres of
productive land are in great demand.)
For others, spring will set in motion a
considerable reverse migration. Okla
homa, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska will
be calling.
But seaports on the West Coast will
employ more people than before 1910.
The Japanese war will 60 on for some
time, and shipping to Russia, Australia
and China will keep many busy. A
considerable belief exists here that ship
building yards can be converted into
essential plants for embarkation, for
stevedoring and for naval repairs. Be-
yond the Japanese war will be an in
crease in commerce with the Far East
probably not as much as some optimists
believe, but considerable In any event,
for many years to come these ports will
be servicing the greatest navy the world
has seen.
But as Robert Moses Of New York
told the people Of Portland, no one has
a right to assume that there will be
1ull employment in such activities And
Evening star., 1944-01-18
Provdu Throws Mud

Whatever the obscure motive be-
hind the publication by Pravda,
Communist party organ, of the
grotesque charge that Britain has
been seeking separate peace with
Germany, the incident serves to
make it painfully clear that Marshal
Stain still likes to play his hand his
own way, and this despite the glow
ing picture of harmony and close
understanding that came out of the
Moscow and Teheran conferences.
The Pravda accusation has been
received with amazement in London
and Washington. In the first place,
the complaint, on it's face, was based
on rumor. Secondly, it was printed
under January u Cairo dateline.
But the report apparently did not
clear through British censorship,
and the fact that publication was
delayed for five days suggests that
the Soviet authorities themselves
may have questioned its authen-
ITCHY. Finally, there remains the
all-important fact that Pravda
would not have published the story
without the knowledge and consent
OF the Soviet government, and in all
probability it was approved by Stain
himself.
Thus, it is fair assumption that
Marshal Stain either believed the
report to be true or, disbelieving it,
nevertheless permitted publication
OF what was plain affront to the
British government. In either event,
1t is an incident which does nothing
to help future relations with the
Soviet government.
There is nothing to do now, how
ever, but await developments. The
British have denied the report in
categorical fashion, and that denial
will be accepted without question
here, first because of American con-
fidence in the integrity of Mr..
Churchill and his associates, and
also because Britain would stand
to lose rather than gain by deserting
her Allies at this stage of the war.
1t is to be hoped that the Soviet
government will clear up the shady
aspects OF this affair, but even il
this is not done it will remain of
first Importance to keep the Anglo
American-Russian alliance in good
working order. We still have war
with the Axis to fight and win, and
though we may not find it possible
to get along as well with Russia as
we had been led to expect, we can
i'll afford to begin fighting among
ourselves.
Evening star., 1944-01-18

to feel secure on any parC OF tne VaSC
perimeter which they must now
defend.
1t is. of course, to be anticipated that
various diversionary operations will be
undertaken in order to prevent the
Germans from concentrating their
forces to resist our main attack IN
Western Europe. AS to each area in
volved in such a diversion, the Ger
mans will be presented with the same
dilemma which confronts the Japanese
in various Pacific islands and which the
Germans have had to face again and
again in Russia; either give it up, in
which case it will be used by the Allies
as base Of operations to further the
main effort, or defend it at the price
of deducting German defensive power
from the big show when it comes.
So considered, Southern France is of
particular strategic interest. We have
a good base for attacking the south
coast of France-the island of Corsica.
1t is perhaps significant that we have
had little. if any, news from Corsica
recently; but glance at the map tells
us that about 80 miles Of the Mediter-
ranean Coast of France Is within 110-
100 miles of some point Of the Corsican
shore. This is practicable, If not COM
Portable, range for fighter aircraft:
which means that we can give good
air cover for landing operations over
this entire stretch of beach,
If all or great part Of the 10000