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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
AN-Ou+ Aerial
Siege Feared
From New Bases
BY UNITED PRESS

T he japanese reported
Tuesday that they were
stripping Tokyo's 100000
population down to essential
defense personnel in a mass
evacuation preparatory to a
full dress American aerial
siege, foreshadowed Tuesday
evening by a Superfortress
bombing which set fires in
the city.
Tokyo reports relayed
through Berlin said 10000
persons were leaving the
Japanese capital Tuesday
alone as the general evacu-
alton" continued. They were
described as mostly aged
and ailing persons, children,
and expectant mothers "who
in great numbers asked for
evacuation"
Make Fire Breaks
Amid the evacuation and
the steady recurrence of Su-
perfortress flights over Jap
an, the advices said, build
ings in the city are being
torn down to create "fire
breaks" and impede the
spread of blazes kindled by
American bombs.
The German Transocean ney 5
agency, in Tokyo dispatch quotiig
the controlled Asahi Shimbun, sad
that workers employed in arml-
mentS, industry, transport, al /
journalism may be evacuated only
by special permission disclosing
how deeply the move was biti g
into the ranks of Tokyos million.
The same dispatch gave a tip-off
that the evacuation is at least i'll
part compulsory. 1t said that oil
persons connected with air defen ;e
were exempted from the evacu
! ton measures, as well as utilis y
workers, doctors and chemists, "a =
cording to police regulations given
out for Greater Tokyo on Decent
ber H."
SUPERS FLY OVER
Both the Tokyo radio and Axi =
relayed dispatches from the capl-
tai reported new American Super
fortress flights over Tokyo. Some
were reconnaissance and nuisance
flights with bombings interSpersed
The japanese domestic radio sail
B-29s based in the Marianas made
three flights over the Japanese
mainland between midnight and S
am. Tuesday.
A Transocean dispatch from To-
kyo said several" planes swept over
the capital Tuesday evening, drop
ping incerdiaries. The acknowledge
ment that fires were started was
contained in the claim that they
were put out Immediately.
The broadcasts stirred specula-
ton that the evacuation might also
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

more city blocks in what was de-
scribec at military conference as
very fierce fighting"
LEFTISTS REINFORCED
Scobie announced that reinforce
mentS had landed to join in the
battle against the anti-government
forces.
Some progress has been made
in the past II hours against heavy
resistance" his communique said.
Several hundred Elias troops NOV
ing toward Athens from the north
were strafed by the Royal air force
TUESDAY morning.
The government forces Withdrew
from the military barracks in north
ern Athens. and had to pull back
from one block in the northeast
ern part of the city under heavy
pressure.
Several fires were burning around
the perimeter of the British and
Greek government forces. Most were
caused by Elas dynamiting.
Within the last Is minutes before
this was written, at least 10 pro-
jectiles-apparently 75's-landed in
the heart of Athens. They splinter
ed masonry and sent billows of acrid
smoke rolling down University
street, the principal tnoroughfare.
REPORT YELLED
Censorship or other restrictive
measures apparently prevented Rop-
Ell from explaining what had hap
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Cologne
Defense
Yankees Knock
Out Seven
Outpost Towns

PARIS, Dec. 12. (UP)-
American First army assault
forces drove within a half
mile of Duran, key fortress
city astride the Roer river
west of Cologne, and toppled
seven of it's outpost towns
Tues d day in an eastward
surge through crumbling
German resistance.
Dispatches from Lieutenant Gen
eral Courtney H. Hodges front said
the German defenses west OF the
Roer river were falling apart be-
fore the eastward charge of the
dcughboys closing against the Nazi
winter defense line on a 10-mile
front
Cologne bound troops of the First
army captured Pier, Merken, Hoven,
MariaWeiler, Kozendorf, DerichS-
weller, and Gey in what field re-
ports described as excellent prog
ress" Tuesc ay that carried them
from 300 to 600 yards of the Roer
along a four-mile front above Dur
en- and gave them control of some
three miles of the western bank of
the stream below Duren.
The clearing of Mariaweiler tip
ped over the last strongpoint before
the northwestern outskirts of Dur
ell, and the Yanks pushed on to
within less than 1000 yards of the
Roer citadel, the most formidable
barrier blocking the way to the
Rhinelanc, and Cologne.
The Germans were throwing in
fanatic paratroopers fighting as
infantry in the Gey-Strass sector
below Duren, struggling desperate
ly to prevent the Americans from
establishing themselves on the Roer
bank and expanding their foothold
on the river east of the Hurtgen-
Bergstein area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
EI Centro Airman
Awarded DIE

Second Lieutenant Roger L. Ander-
son, co-pilot, Ell Centran. was award
ed a Distinguished Flying Cross. it
was announced by the commanding
general of the India China division
of the air transport command.
The award was made upon COM
pletion of 800 hours of operational
flight in transport aircraft over
the dangerous ana difficult India
China air routes where enemy in
Perception and attack were probable
and expected.
The air trail over the Hump,
famed route through the towering
peaks of the Himalaya mountains,
is recognized by airmen as the
worlds toughest. Today the Hump
is the only lifeStream of vital mill
tary supplies for Allied forces fight
ing the Japanese in China.
Accompanying the award was a
citation which said in part: Flying
at night as well as by day, at high
attitudes over impossible mount
aineous terrain through areas char
acterized by extremely treacherous
weather conditions necessitating
long periods of operation ON instru-
ments requiring courageous
and superior performance of his
duties to overcome he accom-
plished his mission with distinction
Award was made for the period
of service from November 8, 1913 to
June %, 1914.
Lieutenant Anderson is the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James l.. Anderson OF
the Ell Centre area and attended
Central Union High school and Jun
ior college.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Judges Arrange
For Grand Jury

Superior court judges Monday dir
ected the impanelirg of the 1914
grand jury, Imperial coInty having
been without one since early this
year.
1t was explained that the law re-
quires a grand jury be appointed
every year. The one selected at this
time will serve next year.
judges Vaughn N. Thompson and
Elmer Heald each will put 80 names
in the official box Part of the
names will be drawn out WedneS-
day. Those thus selected will report
for questioning later. BY repeat
this process The required 10 persons
will be selected.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Russians Doom
Budapest in
Deadly Assault

LONDON, Dec. y. CUP)-Tank-
riding Russian shock troops, opening
the grand assault on Budapest,
broke into the outskirts of the
flaming capital Tuesday and Mos
cow declared that Soviet armies
have collapsed the entire German
front in Hungary and are pouring
through a l85-mile breach on the
southeastern road to Austria and
Germany.
THE German defense in Hungary
has collapsed" radio Moscow de-
clared in a triumphant broadcast
beamed to Germany. Budapest can
no longer be held. It's fall is inn
minent.
The threat to Vienna, the rest
of Hungary and CzechSlovakia has
grown many times over.
Russian shock armies in the
southeast have broken open the
west Hungarian gate into Germany
and are smashing through a breach
300 kilometers wide"
Soviet field dispatches said thun-
dering artillery duelS and violent
hand-to-hand fighting were raging
over and in the outskirts of Buda-
pest.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
BrawIey Turns on
YuIetide Lights

Brawley's magnificent Christmas
decorations and municipal holiday
lighting are the envy of all Impe-
rial Valley.
The whole downtown district is
a veritable fairyland with its color
ed lights, bobbing balloons, and
streamers of lights, spectators de-
clareG Tuesday.
The plaza is declared to be one
of the most delightful spots in the
entire valley.
CaleXico has gay red and green
lights sparkling overhead, the same
decorations which have remained
III place for months.
The Holtville Chamber of Com
merce will meet Monday night and
at that time will cecide what to
Go about Christmas lights and holi-
day decorations for the town.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

WASHINGTON, Dec. u.
(UP)-The Greek civil war
came briefly under discus
sion at a senate foreign rela-
tions hearing Tuesday when
n committee member asked
one of the new state depart
ment nominees whether Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
was forcing the American
state department to play second
fidcle in this Greek thing"
Fuller discussion was reserved for
q closed session of the committee
after Chairman Tom Connally CD
Texas, remarked that.
ut seems to me that for SEN
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Death Separates
Oldest Twins

BERWICK, Pa, Dec. IL. CUP)--
Death Monday separated the 93-
year-old Pennington twins, believed
to be the oldest twins in the naticn,
when Wilbur G. Pennington died at
his home near Forks, Pennsylvania,
one-talf mile from the home of his
brother, william.
His death came after two weeks
of illness. William, with whom he
went to the polls to vote in the
presidential election last month, Wis
tied him for the last time Saturday
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Senators Quiz Stettinius'
Aids on Greek Situation

Dunn said this government agreed
with Churchill's statement that the
Greeks should be permitted to
choose their own government.
Murray asserted that when you
read the entire statement, it seems
that Churchill is against the people
Of Greece
Dunn said he was in no position
to discuss the subject and Murray
added:
There is an opinion by many
people in this country that men in
the state department largely are
un6er the influence of the Brit
ish."
Dunn replied that he had never
seen such influence at work.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
BY UNITED PRESS

A supreme headquarters prccla-
nation served notice on Germany
Tuesday that all property of the
Nazi party. its leading officials, and
supporters would be blocked by the
Allied military government pending
settlement of the issues of right
full ownership
The proclamation was broadcast
in the name cf General Dwight d.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

ator to call on a state department
witness to discuss backstairs gossip
about Churchill is of very doubtful
propriety."
The interchange about Greece
was between Senator James e. Muir
ray CD Montana, and James C..
Dunn, veteran state department Of
ficial who has been nominated, to
a new assistant secretaryship. Pre-
vlously, Secretary of State Edward
X. Stettinius Jr.. had asked prompt
senate confirmation of the new APP
pointees to speed departmental re-
organization and formation of post
war peace machinery.
In response to a question by Sem
ator Hiram Johnson (RO California,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Allies to Hold
Nozi Pro perty

Eisenhower. 1t was the ninth OF q
series directed to Germany on Allied
plans for occupation of the country
Attempts to conceal such blocked
property or to hinder the military
government in preserving it fer de-
termination of its future use will re-
suit in severe penalties being i'm
posed upon all persons who take
part in such transactions" the proc
lamation said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Paris Prepares
To Light Up

PARIS, Dec. 12. tUP)-The lights
of Paris will go up again Tuesday
night after four years of blackoutS.
The illumination will not be as daz-
zling as blackout-weary Parisians
would like, but it will be the bright
est possible within limits of a war;
time electricity shortage.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Bus Wrecked:
q Injured

BAKERSFIELD, Cal. Dec. II.
(UP)-A north-bound Greyhound
bus early Tuesday skidded in the
heavy fog on the Golden State high
way about Is miles south of Bakers
field and crashed into a ditch, in
juring 81 perosns. none seriously, it
was reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

Of Japan will net be in full swing
until more B-29's are completed, he
said.
There are two schools of thought
among scientists regarding the pos
sibility of German rockets Screech-
ing across the Atlantic, he sale.
One believes it is possible, the
ether says it can't be done.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
WEATHER FORECAST

Increasing high clOudiness late
Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Slowly rising daytime tempera-
lures. Light to moderate frost
Tuesday night. Higher tempera-
lures Wednesday night. Lowest
temperatures Tuesday night
around 80 degrees i'm coolest sec
tions but slightly above freezing
i'm main vegetable areas in north
end. Temperatures 80 degrees at
El Centre Monday night. Gener-
ally above 80 degrees i'm north end.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Jops Struggle
In Death 1rop

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Phil
ippineS, Dec. u. CUP)-American
troops battled the survivors Of Jap
ans Leyte island garrison into a
tightening death trap north of or
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
WPB Head Cites
New Work Rule

LOS ANGELES, Dec. u. CUP)-
The work or fight" order of War
Mobilization Director James F.,
Byrnes, is going to stop a lot of
fellows drifting away from war
jobs because they think they won't
be drafted, War Production Board
Chairman ]. A. Krug, sale Tuesday.
Enough men are working In nom
essential industry in the Los An
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

geles area TO fill 2700 essential work
vacancies without importing labor
ers,' Krug added.
While war industries lost i.i0t,-
900 workers during the past year
hiring i'm civilian trades sweIled 10
100000, Krug said. He said thas
100000 OF the workers lost 10 war
industries are now In the armed
forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

General Arnold cautioned that
America has let down bit since
the Allies push across France. The
Germans were able TO reform their
defense lines when the Allies out
stretched their supply lines, he said,
and many Americans are still coast
ing on the illusion that was created
by the first spectacular victories.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12

although some progress has been
made in Piraeus ano the central
sector of the city, the general situ-
alton has improved little" the COM
mander of British forces in Greece
said in a communique.
The British and Greek govern
ment forces in the center of Athens
had been forced to yield dozen or
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
D AABl!Ne
EpoRTER
It's Irish Blarney-

It's Irish Blarney-
Masculine heads nodded in ap-
proval while Mrs. Herb FaWcett told
Mrs. Jimmy Marshall how she
cooked good dinner for her hus-
band every night. All the men with
in ear-shot leaned eagerly forward
while learning how Heb gets
treated.
They patiently disapproved. how
ever, when Mrs. Fawcett launched
into a description of Herbs work in
her rose garden every Sunday Mrs.
Marshall app owed of that phase OF
The conversation.
Every morning. Mrs. FaWcett
went ON in what she thought was
private conversation with Mrs. Mar
shall, Herb brings coffee on tray
to my bed and usually there is a
rose en- the tray
Hey" came a chorus OF indlg-
nant masculine voices. doesn't
Herb know there is a manpoWer
shortage and wives should work to
keep their husbands"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Eight Italian
Traitors Shot

ROME, Dec. II. (UP)-An Allied
firing squad Tuesday executed eight
Italians convicted of espionage on
behalf of the Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
This Is History

We just heard this but its too
good to miss.
Stay away from that election
precinct" Mrs. Lewis Mitchell OF
Brawley told her 7-year-old daugh-
ter, Joan, last election day. jean
promised. ,
That night at dinner Joan startled
the family by calmly announcing
that Dewey had been elected.
How do you know?' her father
asked.
Il stood out on the corner and
asked everyone how they were going
to vote and they said for Dewey"
said Joan with worried look at
her mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
British Baked
In Wipins Out
Greek Leftists
Red RevoIutionis+s Strengthen
Positions With More Men;
Snipers Guard Routes into City
By JAMES r. ROPER

ATHENS, Dec. II. (UP)-Lieutenant General Ronald
Scobe Tuesday announced extensive rebel lnitraton
into the parts Athens cleared in the last few days and
said snipers were pcketng all routes out of the city
There been sackenng of rebel resistance, ana
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Listen to This

Listen to This
just in case you are getting a
little discouraged about the sixth
war bond drive. here is a cheerful
ncte. All four janitors in the court
house bought a $l00 war bond each.
They always do, you know.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
One More Change

Monday night Charles knights
refused to serve again as secretary
of Ell Centro Lodge No. 384, F. "
A. M.
He held that position for II years.
We shall miss him. And we think he
has earned a bouquet of desert lilies
for his long term in office.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
Mass Evacuation Order Speeds
All But Workers From CapitaI
Sea of Japan

SHlPYARDS ENGINE WORKS, STEEL WORKS,
| AlRPLANE COMPANIES. LOCOMOTIVE WORKS.
| MACHINE SHOPS. WAREHOUSES, GAS PLANT
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-12
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 81, minimum
Tuesday 81; am. Tuesday 81, hu-
midity 65; noon Tuesday 50, humid
ity "a; 5 pm. Mon. GA, humidity Ii.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-05

headquarters announced the
US. 14th Air Force was CIV
ing strong support to Chinese
troops attempting to stem the
Japanese drive, blasting at ene-
my troop concentrations and
supply lines.
Other American planes at
tackled Kinhwa, base of the cur
rent Japanese offensive in Che
kiang Province and a force Of
Liberators attacked the railway
yards at Marking, starting fires
and causing secondary explo-
sions.
On the .Yunnan front the Jap
anese succeeded in taking the
Changschingshan road block
two and one-half miles southeast
of the Burma road town OF
Lungling, a High Command
communique said. The japanese
had thrown in 1000 troops in
an attempt to relieve their
Lungling garrison.
The Chinese reported $50
japanese killed in that area in
fierce fighting.
japanese Zeros came to the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-05
Th0kes' Beset
High altitude
Army Filters

ST. LOUIS, Sept. s. (R -
The chokes, an affliction of ex-
tremely high altitude flying,
were described TO the Aero
Medical Association of the Unit
ed States today.
The .chokes are coughing,
something like asthma. OF them
selves, they are not dangerous,
but they endanger combat avia-
tors, because a choking man
cannot keep on his oxygen mask.
He cannot live at high attitudes
without his mask, so he must de-
scend TO lower attitudes, where
flax is dangerous.
The Aero Medical group, of
the College of Medicine of-the
University of Cincinnati, which
has made studies of the chokes,
said they apparently are due to
bubbles of nitrogen forming in
the throat membrane due to
aeroembolism - a gh-altitude
trouble somewhat like the deep
sea bends"
These flying "bends" hit vir-
tually all men who remain at
extremely high attitudes long
enough, but combat operations
usually do not require such long
exposures as the Cincinnati
scientists used for human vol
unteers.
The Cincinnati investigators
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-05
Guinea Pig
Doctors
Get TB

ST. LOUIS, Sept. s. (R -
Two doctors who voluntarily ex-
posed themselves in the inter
ests of science to repeated ex-
cursions into thin air at $4,000
feet developed active tubercu-
losis of the lungs.
This tuberculosis, it was re-
ported TO the Aero Medical AS
ISOLATION of the United States
yesterday, was not caught di-
rectly in the altitude expert
ments, but was caused by thin
air reopening old, long healed,
tubercular spots in their lungs.
The report was made by Drs.
Alvan l.. Barach, Artell E. john
son and Golfer Rule, of the Col
lege OF Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University. The doc
tors making the experiments
were not identified. Both since
nave recovered.
Their experiments were made
in steel chamber of sort used
by the Army and Navy to pro-
duce air conditions Of extreme
attitudes at which the latest
fighting planes sometimes must
fly.
The physicians were studying
the bends" a painful condition
which often hits men at extreme
attitudes and caused by nitrogen
bubbles forming in the blood
and tissues.
One of the physicians exposed
himself TO these attacks periodi-
cally for II months, the other for
three months. AS rule, the men
went to simulated attitudes of
$4,000 feet for half an hour at
time.
Why the scars opened is not
clear. They may have burst of
their own internal pressure
when in the experiments the
pressure in the lung tissues drop
ped. Perhaps the nitrogen bub-
bles had a role in the reopen
ing. Both doctors exposed them
selves to conditions far beyond
anything fighting men are like
ly to have to endure so often or
for such periods of time.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-05

WESTON, Mo-, Sept. s - up
Weston, the only major to-
bacco market west of the Missis-
sippi river, has good news fol-
al tobacco users.
It's harvesting its finest crop
In history.
w. B. and w. r. Hull, Jr.,
brothers, who are the largest
producers of White Burnley to-
bacco in the country, estimate
that 1000, 600 pounds of tobacco
worth $4,000, 900 will be gather
ed in this region.
"a. y newcomer to Platte coun-
~, which nestles in the bend of
the Missouri river between Kan
sas City and st. Joseph in north
eastern Missouri, has shock
when he sees the fields of to-
bacco and the long curing barns.
Why this touch of the south so
far west and north?
The answer is that most of the
citizens of this region are from
old Kentucky and Tennessee,
sub. Their ancestors treking
west stopped here because the
rolling hills with their fertile
valleys reminded them of home.
And the tobacco-raising habit
seems as strong as the tobacco
habit itself.
Weston growers admit they're
just a pinch of snuff compared
with the industry in the south.
But they say the quality of
their White Burley is so good
it got next to the highest price
in the bidding last year, and
with this years crop looking the
way it does, last years quality
should be maintained, or sur
passed.
Arthur Watson, one of the
larger growers, says most of
Weston's tobacco goes either for
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SOftball
Continued from Page 10

! SOntlnueu from rage lU
Bernie School hit TO third and
resultant bad throw put the run
ner on second base. M. Duckert
singled to score School and the
former went to second on
throw TO the plate. A stolen base
and wild pitch permitted
Duckert to score.
Heller started the sixth off
for the Lumbermen when he re-
ceived a base on balls. He stole
second and moved to third on d
passed ball. Parker singled him
home and a moment later the
Trailer catcher threw Parker
out trying to steal second. AL
brecht walked and Cont ground
ed TO short. On an attempt to
force Albrecht at second, a poor
throw resulted and there were
men on second and third. An
other fielder's choice on Don
I Trombley's grounder gave the
batter first base as Albrecht beat
the throw to the plate. The next
two men were retired before
any further scoring took place.
Outside of their two runs, the
Wagoneers didn't threaten Sc
riously. In the third, Vic
Browne singled and got as far
as second on a passed ball, but
Warren Ray lined to short and
Browne was doubled. Bulley
singled in the seventh with one
away and advanced to second on
al, infield out, but M. Duckert
famed the next batter to end
the game.
Parker, with two hits in three
tries, and M. Duckert, getting
two for four, led Hubarth e.
Schott batters. The three Cover
ed Wagon hits were distributed
among as many battcrs, Browne
having the best average with a
single in two times at bat.