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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
By WALTER CRONKITE

LONDON, July II. (UP)-A fleet
of approximately $50 American
heavy bombers crossed the channel
through misty weather Monday to
attack supply dumps for flying
bombs, and bridges and marshalling
yards in the network of French
railways feeding the German battle
areas.
The daylight assaults, coming
few hours after British bombers
pounded Germany's dwindling oil
supplies in coordinated night raids
from the west and south, were made
in generally unfavorable weather.
More than dozen railway
bridges in wide circle around Paris
were attacked by small formations
of bombers, while others went on
to hit flying bomb dump at Rilly
La Montague, south of Rheims. and
rail yards at Belfort, about 35 miles
west of Basic on the Swiss border
Raj Mosquito bomberS, flying
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
CONVENTION II E A d =
@ U A r II f r S, CHICAGO,
july II. (UP) - President

CONVENTION II E A d :
@ U A R II E r S, CHICAGO,
July II. (UP) - President
Roosevelt reliably was reported
Monday to- be determined to give
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
one-ballot chance to obtain renomi-
nation before indicating to the
Democratic national convention as
Sembling here Wednesday his pre-
ferenceS among alternate canoi-
dates.
The moment Mr.. Roosevelt sug-
lace is through.
The vice presidential controversy
is almost all that marks this as
Democratic national convention.
Mr. Roosevelts denomination is
bagged and packaged. The plat
form is near final form-under
1000 wordS-although the resOlu-
tons committee Monday starts 60
ing through the motions of hear
ing all sides of all questions from
persons who have plankS to Sug-
geSt.
LITTLE CHATTER
There is barely whisper of an
ti-fourth term talk, in contrast to
the noisy anti-third term outcrieS
of four years ago. But there is a
big and determined movement here
against the denomination of Wall
lace. He is not accepted by many
partymen as a bona fide Democrat
but as more representative of the
new Democratic coalition and
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Missing Aviator
Is Found Safe

CHICO, Cal, July II. (UP)-Sec-
ond Lieutenant Anthony M. Su-
mares. 20, missing on a training
flight since Friday, was found safe
Sunday 60 miles north of Battle
Mountain. New. where he had mace
forced landing in a single-seat
fighter plane. Chico army air field
officials announced Monday.
Officers said that Sumares was
suffering from exposure and shock
but had no serious injury. The
plane was damaged slightly. What
forced Sumares to make the I'M
scheduled landing has not been de-
termined, officers said.
SUMMARIES was to be returned to
the Chico field, his home base. Mon
Gay His home is in Oakland, Cali
fornia.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Death Summons
Veteran of 81

MERGED, Cal, July II. up
CALIFORNIA; thinning ranks of Civil
war veterans mad one less member
Monday when funeral services were
held for 98-year-old Elias Heller,
who died Saturday at an Atwater,
California, hospital.
Heller, a native of Dayton, O.,
joined the 145th Illinois infantry
at the age of Is and served, in the
Union army throughout the war. He
came to California in 1905.
Surviving were one son, E. A.
Heller, Atwater druggist, two grand
sons, Donald Heller, of San Diego,
and James Heller, of Atwater, and
granddaughter, Mrs. RoSalie Lee,
of Vacaville, California.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
L-essoy.
St. 10
Seized
London Reports
yanks Taking
Invasion Towns

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AEF, July II. (UP)-
American assault forces were
reported in a dispatch pub
lished here Monday to have
broken into st. Lo and Lessay, the
beleaguered easter and western
anchor bases of the German de-
Tense line being hammred back
through Normandy by the United
States First Army.
Gen. Dwight d. EisenhoWer's su-
preme headquarters lacked immedi-
ate confirmation of the report by
the London Evening Standard that
the stubborn defenses of ST. Lo and
Lessay had cracked and the Ameri-
cans has entered the towns.
The Standard said American in
fantry and armor now were in ST.
Lo. If the report is borne out it
will mean a climactic success in the
Continued on Page 6, Column u
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
BY UNITED PRESS

The official Japanese Domei
agency reported Monday that Ad-
miral Shieetaro Shimada had been
relieved of his post as navy min
lister and indicated the action may
have resulted from the recent de-
feat of the Japanese navy in the
Philippines sea and the American
conquest of Saipan in the Marianas.
Tokyo radio previously had an
nounced that Shimada resigned
and had been replaced by Admiral
Naokuni Nomura, who is said, was
sworn in Monday afternoon in the
presence of Emperor Hirohito. The
Domei dispatch, recorded by FEC
monitors which also reported the
Tokyo broadcast, said the change
in navy ministers was made in view
of "the present grave war situation"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Bombers Hammer
Nuzis in France

from bases In Britain, struck into
Germany's Ruhr valley to drop two
ton blockbusters on synthetic oil
plants at Hamborn, near Duisburg,
while Italian-baSed heavy bombers
raided an oil refinery at Smederevo,
near Belgrade in Yugoslavia.
The Mosquitoes also mined enemy
water, and the air ministry said
the night operations from Britain
were made without loss.
A force of 800 Flying Fortresses,
Liberators and escorting fighters
headed the Allied activities Sunday
with concentrated attack on
Munich and the almost equally i'm
portant rail center of Saarbrucken
on the French border.
British Lancaster bombers con-
tinued the incessant campaign oil
flying bomb installations In north
ern France, while other warplanes
hit German communications from
the Paris area to behind the bat
tlelines.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Bombs
Fire
an,
18th Day Raid
Skaters
Isle Port, Ships

II. (UP) - The Island of
Guam, former u. S. naval
station in the Marianas has
been attacked for IL consecutive
days by American carrier based
planes in the most intensive soft
eEing-up" campaign of the Pacific
war.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced Sunday that the carrier
planes carried out their latest strike
Saturday, hitting both Guam and
nearby Rota, and also revealed that
navy Liberator bOmbers in a raid
ON 1.-Two Jima in the Volcanoes
Thursday, bomber and strafed II
ships, including a destroyer, and
knocked out IS grounded enemy
planes.
Bombs and rockets were dropped
among building and bivouac areas
at the two MarianaS targets to set
the japanese installations afire,
communique said.
An American dive-bomber was
shot Gown during a raid on Guam,
but the crew was rescued by a de-
stroyer after the plane crashed two
miles off shore.
In the raid on Two Jima, the low
flying Liberators scored 50O-pound
bomb hit on japanese destroyer
and severely damaged destroyer
escort, two cargo ships, coastal
vessel, and IL smaller craft.
The Liberators also strafed an
airfield in the southern part of Two
Jima, destroyed three grounded en-
envy planes and damaged 10 others.
The Japanese on Two Jima failed
to put up any aerial opposition, al
though one American bomber was
damaged by anti aircraft fire.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17

pected to return aluminium to civil
ian life in the form of pots and
pans, aluminium foil for cigarettes
and chewing gum, lighting and
bathroom fixtures, and other uses.
WPB warned householders not TO
look for an immediate increase in
the actual number of these items
because the government ordered
primarily provides for substituting
aluminium, now in surplus supply.
for other critical metals and ma
terialS not so readily available.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Family Loses
Belongings
In Ranch Fire

Fire Sunday afternoon at 1;55 on
the I. J. Harris ranch, two miles
north of the Dogwood road, destroy
ed all the personal belongings of
the E. w. White family, tenant resi-
dents, according to report by Corn
Reed, Ell Centre fire chief. Reed
said the building was insured but
that the White family had not pro-
lection. Mr.. White is in a San
Diego hospital recovering from sur
gerry.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Farmers Call on Democrats
To Write Plenty Plank

to be here today.
Other witnesses were clipped off
with only three or four minutes
each.
Spokesman for a national news
service asked that the Democrats
declare themselves in favor of a
world wide right" OF news services
and newspapers Ito gather and dis
tribute news without government
interference
That platform committee also was
urged to favor reducing the legahzed
voting age from 81 to 10 years of
age. and to give residents of the
District of Columbia the right to
vote.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17

vital foreign policy plank. As a
matter of fact, the essence of the
platform already has been drafted
in a forth agreeable to President
Roosevelt
Urging adequate farm prices and
IAN economy of plenty that makes
full employment possible" Alder S.
Goss of the National Grange told
the committee that I'VE must avert
the tragic error of allowing abund-
ance to destroy its producer"
Only one hour was allotted to the
farm plank, with some time held
over until tomorrow for President
Edward A. ONeal of the Farm Blu
reau Federation, who was unable
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17

WASHINGTON, July II.
Industry was embarked on a
program of gradual, limited
reconversion to peacetime procmc-
ton, touched off by the new war
production board order permitting
aluminium to be used for essential
civilian articles.
Issued over the week end as step
one in WPB Chairman Donald M.
Nelson's widely disputed four-point
recoynersion plan, the order Is ex-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17


firmation of German reports that
the Russians have launched new
offensive on the approaches to
LWoW on the southern front, but
Moscow customarily delays such an
nouncementS for several days until
the offensive has achieved definite
SUGGEST
The fall of the ancient Polish
fortress of Grodno, 5 mil4es from
the pre-war border of East Prussia
and Is miles from the disputed
boundary, gave the 2nd and Bird
White Russian armies a clear road
to the province from the southeast
with no more important natural OBJ
stacles behind which the enemy can
attempt to stand.
LONDON, July II. CUP) - A
Moscow dispatch reported violent
fighting today in the immediate
neighbOrhOOd of East Prussia"
and Swiss advices said the nazis
had ordered the immediate evacu-
alton of civilians from the border
region of Germany's easternmOst
homeland.
One column from Gen. Ivan D.
Cherniakhovsky's 3rd White Rus
sian army two days ago was arrayed
along the east bank of the Niemen
river northwest of Groono and only
two miles from the so-called Su-
waikiki triangle, which Germany an
neXed to East Prussia in 1899 fol-
lowing the partition of PoIand, and
already may have crossed that dis
puted borcer.
COMES FROM EAST
Cherniakhovsky also was mount
ing an offensive against East Prus-
STA from the east with a developing
assault on KaunaS, Lithuanian gate
way to the German province. His
converging columns were IA miles
east, Is miles southeast and &c
miles south of Kaunas.
Capture of KaunaS, pre-war capt.
tai of Lithuania, would enable
Cherniakhovsky to attack along the
railway running almost due cas-
through Insterburg to Koenigsburg
capital of East Prussia, and thu:
outflank the Masurian Lake de.
Continued on Page 6. Column 4
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Order Returns Aluminium
To Civilian Production

THE order contains restrictions
WPB explained, preventing this
substitution from creating an Ia
crease in total production--whieh
might use too much aluminium or
divert manpower from more esse,i-
tial operations.
War demands still come frs =
and will continue TO come first until
Germany and Japan are defeated
The controls also Will assure that
labor will not be diverted ahead u
schedule 10 peacetime production
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
ARMED FORCES TO GET
10 PER CENT OF ORANGES

LOS ANGELES, July II. (UP) -
Handlers of California and Arizona
oranges have been ordered to set
aside 10 per cent of their weekly
shipments in fresh fruit channels
for the armed forces, the war food
administration announced Monday.
Set-aside regulations were effect
ed to assure adequate supplies of
Single-strength orange juice for
military requirements, production of
which is largely confined to the
months of July, August and Septem-
her.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
CONVENTION H E A d :

CONVENTION H E A D.
QUART E r S, CHICAGO,
july II. (UP)-Farm lead
ers Monday urged the Democratic
national convention platform COM
mittee to adopt an agriculture plank
calling for development of an econ
omy of plenty with employment for
all.
Witnesses rushed their presenta-
lions ON insistence OF committee
chairman John w. Mccormick of
Massachusetts,, who was determined
to finish all domestic business by
Tuesday night SO that Wednesday
may be devoted exclusively to the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
How Race 10
Berlin Goes

BY UNITED PRESS
The shortest distance to Berlin
from advanced Allied battle lines
today:
Russia-43O miles.
Italy-640 miles.
France-63l miles.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
CHARGES DISMISSED

LOS ANGELES, July II. CUP) =
Charges of conspiracy to defraud
the government against Col. Joseph
j. Canella, former quartermaster at
the Santa Ana, California, army air
base, were dismissed Monday when
federal judge Perison M. Hall sus-
tanned defense demurrerS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17

Vice President Wallace - he re-
mains in race for second spot to
puzzle pOliticOs.
a leader of the brigaces of the left
The national committee will meet
Monday for final convention ar
rangementS and a subcommittee
will hear contests of opposing
groups from Texas and South Caro-
lima.
Lost cause presidential supporters
of Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Two Red Armies
Crash Way to
Old Border Line
Push Through Liberated Grodno With
German Soil as Final Goal;
Evacuation Of Mai Civilians Begins

STOCKHOLM, July IT, (UP)-rhe newspaper Alton
tningen reported Monday that Russian parahutss had
landed in East Prussia.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
Dress Rehearsal

Dress Rehearsal
All was quiet and peaceful at
Camp Lockett. Harold Harvey was
sitting quietly at his desk. But net
for long.
Suddenly there was tremendous
explosion and an 18-pound rock
crashed through the side of the
Continued on Page 6, Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17

MOSCOW, July IT, (UP)-Two powerful Red armies
pounded through liberated Grodno to within striking dis
lance of East Prussia Monday and already may have
crossed the disputed 1899 border of Germanys eastern
most home province
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17
, 4 4..!nts
Our Public

Our Public
Since RR's great embarrassment
over the discovery that oleanderS
are poisonous, there has been con-
siderable discussion about flower
to present to those worthy of praise,
The desert lily was suggested as
a substitute for the Cleander bou-
quets The desert lily is one of the
most beautiful of all desert flowers.
1t is rare, appearing but seldom
when conditions are right.
This beautiful desert flower
would be a fitting tribute to present
to desert jewellers when they de-
serve notice, don't you think?
Pooh to Bill Donnan, who sug-
gested the gift of Georgia peach
blossoms because of Bill Outlook.
Someone suggested the desert
Verbena. Would that be good?
Still open to suggestions.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-17

Maximum Sunday 1909, minimum
Monday 10; S am. Monday 30, hn-
nudity 20; noon Monday iO7, hu-
midity 10; s am. Sunday lO5,
humidity II.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
War Loon Drive

With the opening of the second front
through the invasion of France, the 5th
War Loan drive, which opens next Mon
day, takes on greater significance.
Now, more than ever before your gov
ernment needs money to finance the final
concentrated drive to liberate the cOnti-
nent of Europe from the domination of the
Nazis. Now more than ever before, the
accelerated pace of the war will use up
guns, ships, ammunition and other ma
terials which must be replaced.
We can show our confidence in our
men in the armed forces who are in the
invasion forces we can prove our conf
dence in our government and our devO-
ton to our great cause by buying bonds
now as we have never purchased them be-
fore. Buy as many bonds as you can, and
in the buying feel that you are doing your
part to sustain and maintain the war eff
fort in its triumphant phases.
Our part in purchasing the bonds is
easy for we are sacrificing nothing. We
are merely investing our money in safe
security. We can always get back as much
money as we put in. We can't lose. Buy
bonds now and back the final attack on
Hitlers European Fortress.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Bracket Racket

Walter p. Reuther has made an attack
on what he terms the bracket racket
the figures arrived at by the War Labor
Board in establishing wage rates for jobs
in the various industrial areas.
Figures supplied by Mr.. Reuther show
that the wages fixed by the War Labor
Board for skilled workers in the automo.
tive industry are fully 60 cents an hour
below rates agreed on in union agreements
in the same area.
This extreme differential is due to the
fact that in taking the weighted average,
the WLB has failed to recognize any diff
ference in the wage rates of large shops
snd those of small substandard wage
p1ants. IL has Jumped all the shops to-
aefher, and as has been the boards pro-
cedure, sets the minimum rate 10 per cent
below the average community rate.
The Reuther figures are correct and
his reasoning in protesting these wage
rates established by the WLB cannot be
lightly tossed aside.
Ii is high time for the Board to re.
examine its policies and methods of estab-
fishing wage rates, and TO investigate the
JAWS policy of seeking to establish equal
pay for equal work with an industry
wide agreement.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Servicemen S
Letters
Ducks At Sec
Ducks At Sec

Dear Ollie: AS you can see,
I have a new address, and l
guess that's it for a while, and
that's for sure. I'm ok and hope
all the gang is the same, in
fact, better. Now let's see that
l get the paper and also the
gossip.
l sure keep busy with plenty
of hours a day. l heard Ed
might be in the Navy. He
hasn't written me in three e
months, SO suppose he's busy.
There isn't a heck of a lot /
can say--now, but one of these
days I'll send you one for the
JOURNAL, when | get in the
mood. So, in the meantime,
send me the paper and drop
me a line, and might send the
Local a pet monkey for Art to
play with, or a kangaroo for
Emil to box with.
III write again soon, when
l can mail a letr No kidding.
Right now l wish l was on
Lake Erie trolling for pickerel,
then I'd turn the bow to San
dusky and tie up at the nearest
beer joint.
William B. Duck,
Co Fleet Postoffice,
San Francisco, Calf.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

We do not recognize any tradition of civil
ilents. Judge has no right of Interpretation
in the face Of the Fuehrer's decision
-DR. HANS FRANK. Nazi Minister
of Justice From a speech, January
15 1856
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof or abridging the free
oom OF speech or of the press; or the right OF
the people peaceably to assemble and to petit
ton the Government for redress of griev-
snces7
THE BILL OF RIGHTS, ARTICLE
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

Before going on to tell of the beginning of
real organization for the auto workers, wish
to refer to a certain viewpoint somewhat
popular today.
l mean those who contend our chances of
obtaining adequate social security and full
employment thru political action are prac-
tically nil because we can't get people inter-
ested in voting for Labors candidates
Who would have dreamed, judging from
the situation in 1917, that one day the auto
workers would be organized into the largest
and most effective union in the world.
In 1925 the AFL made another organiza-
ton attempt but the same stumbling block,
jurisdictional disputes, caused the project to
fall through. Then in 1929 came the big de-
preston.
With the encouragement of a friendly ad-
miniStration and under pressure of real need
of organization, the auto workers began or
ganizing To prevent real unions from being
established the manufacturers set up company
unions.
The AFL attempted to straddle the issue
of industrial unionism by establishing federal
unions on the basis of one federal local to
each plant, to be split up into crafts later.
Such setups of course could not secure
good wages or working conditions, and the
original membership of 100000 fell to 10000
members.
In April, 1885, the Chevrolet workers in
Toledo went on strike. This strike would
have tied up production in the General Motors
plants In a short time four other c. M. work
erS wanted to strike in sympathy. The issue
was to get contract signed.
The AFL declared he strike unauthorized
and ordered the men back to work. The issue
which could have been won was for the time
lost
THE CIO
Workers in other mass production indus
tries were getting the same deal by the AFL
Under the leadership of John l.. Lewis,
Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, the Com
mttee for Industrial Organization was formed
The unions comprising this committee were
expelled in 1897 and they formed the Congress
of Industrial Organizations The UAW was
part of the committee and it became promiz :
nent union in the CIO.
Then came the great sit-down strike
against the employers who refused to recog-
nize the Wagner Act.
AS a result of this organized pressure the
employers were forced to recognize the UAW
and to sign contracts which provided for de-
cent hour wages working conditions and for
bid discrimination against union members.
BY the end of 1887 all the big employers
except Foard, whose turn was coming, had
recognized the UAW.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
D-Day

D-Day, bringing the invasion of Europe
for which we all have been waiting, marks
what we hope will be the beginning of the
end of the war in Europe.
As the final stages of the tragedy of
war take shape, we all sincerely wish for
complete and final victory over the forces
of brutality which have enslaved the
minds and hearts of men and nations in
the name of the false philosophy of
fascism.
Defeating naziism shall prove a vain
fight if the fascist idea for which naZiism
is but another name spreads throughout
the world. Unconditional surrender shall
be false victory, if in the surrender of
those who have sought TO impose the phil
osophy of fasciSm upon the world, we
shall allow that philosophy to spread its
virus to other lands.
We must plan as never before for the
days ahead, when the war shall be ended
and our men who fight for democracy
shall return to this country to receive the
reward, including democracy, which their
fighting and sacrifice have merited.
Our hope, now that the invasion is
under way, is that our boys upon the
beachheads and roads of France, making
an heroic fight to drive the Nazis and all
they stand for out of the lands they have
desecrated and piundered, shall soon be
with us again. We believe that those who
have fought and sacrificed most for de-
mocracy will realize the meaning of their
ideal with deeper feeling and guard it
well in the future.