davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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(2l. West.
Substitutions: Eastern-Furmage, Ire
vett- Giureda Ballard Powell, Freitas
Kirk, Smith, Bobb. r. Foley, Norman,
koutsandros, Barrack. Musselman, Viner,
OSBORNE, Bresnahan Sipe, Mendelyan
Mates; Episcopal-Hyde. Parker. Richards,
Mcvoy, kinsolvine, Peters, Sayre
-Referee--kohill. Observation-Disclosures
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D0UBLE-THlcK BLADES

>. just as long but
twice as thick as or
dinary blades. ; times
as thick as paper-thin
ones. So they take
and hold really keen
edge. Oil packed in
special cartridge.
their cutting edges
are suspended in
space.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

has 4 sure.srip
surface that stretches
and hattens the skin
lnst ali cad of the
blade. Pops up whisk.
ers for closer, more
comfortable shave.
Corner guards pro.
tect against nicking
and scraping.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

A mighty good "buy" in this
famous oil that protects all
moving parts of your motor
with a tough, friction-p proof
film. In heavy steel contain
er that later on will serve as
a utility pail for ashes, feed,
water, etc.
At All -Four Sears Stores
Evening star., 1944-10-29
AUTOMATIC BLADE CHANGE

..anexclusiveSchick
Injector feature. A
pull and push on the
Injector shoots out
the old blade, slides
in q fresh one in.
stantly. Nothing to
take apart or re-as.
semble. No fumblink
with sharp blade
edges or messy paper
wrappers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Crash Of Plane
Kills General

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, july IS.
(UP)-MaJ. Gen. Paul W Newgar-
Gen. commander OF the 10Th Armor-
ed Division. was killed near here
Friday night when an army plane
crashed during a storm
Capt. Lester NJ Nichols, public re-
lations officer OF the 10Th. az Camp
Gordon. Augusta. Georgia. said Col
Rem Lawrence. so. commander of
Combat Command ID of the 10th,
one ether colonel and two other
persons. still unidentified. also lost
their lives In the accident.
Newgarden was enroute to Camp
Gordon from Fl. Knox. Kentucky.
to attend a review Saturday In hon.
or Of the second anniversary Of ms
command.
M. p. Hicks of the Bonny Oak
school, near here. said he saw the
plane just barely miss the school
and then dive straight into an or
chard.
Edward A. Stork. civilian mana
ger of the Chattanooga Municipal
airport, reported that the plane ex-
plodeo and only one Piece of the
tail was intact in the wreckage.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Blaze Destroys
Braw|ey Theater

BRAWLEY, July 15.-Fire of UNI
determined origin destroyed the Eu-
reka theater building on. East Main
street here shortly after 4 a. m. SAT-
urday with a loss. of approximately
$4,000. - ,,.....t. H.. ~
The. building, completed in, No
vember OF 1897, was Quilted and the
walls collapsed into the rubble. Of
fices OF DR.. Edward Durable and
Walter Ulloa. accountant, in the
theater building, also We're dam
aged. - ~
Luis Zarazua,. night, man, was
asleep in the rear of the building
and was awakened by the smoke
around 4 a. m. When he opened the
door of his quarters into the audi
forum, he said. 1.-The room was red
with fire and thick with smoke" He
fled from the building 80. :.
Bill Downs, who sleeps in a cafe
across the alley, was awakened
about the same time. He said an
explosion rocked the building and
flames shot 20 feet across the alley
The so-called explosion was believed
to have been. caused by a rush OF
cool air into the heated interior OF
Continued on Page 6, Column 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
lckes Scans Need
OF Water for
MexicaIi Valley

Advices from Washington Satur-
day morning assured Evan T..
Hewes, chairman of the board of di-
rtctors OF the Imperial Irrigation
district. that study was being given
the boards request TO release wat
er from All American Canal to re-
lieve Mexicali Valley farmers of a
water shortage that is importing
10000 acres of corn ano cotton.
A telegram was received from the
Interior Department in response TO
an urgent wire sent by Hewes early
I'm the week asking immediate au-
tho.ity 10 loose the water
Said the telegram
In regard water for Mexico. Mat
ten Is being discussed with State De-
Ear ment. viii advise you promptly
as possible conclusions reached.
Michael w. StrlSs
Assistant Secretary"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Crew
AvertS
Wreck
Workmen Find
Device on
Coastal Track

NORWALK, Cal, July Is.
(UP) = A railroad patrol
crew Friday night foiled an
attempt to derail a Southern Pa
cific train on the freight line rum
ming through here when it discov-
cred ara removed from the track a
cleverly contrived device designed to
wreck the train, railroad officials
said Saturday.
The device consisted of two pieces
of iron, one small, flat and rectan-
gular, the other round, seven inches
long, two inches in diameter at one
end and tapering off at the ether
end.
Section foreman Gust Jbakos said
the contraption could not have
failed to derail the next train, had
it not been found in time by the
patrol crew, one of several which
have been patrolling the line since
the outbreak of the war
FBI agents and Los Angeles coun-
ty sheriff'S deputies are making a
thorough investigation of the scene.
They are also checking on all per-
sonnet and students of the Excelsior
technical school, so yards from the
track. after E. r. Deford, an in
structCr at the school said the metal
pieces might have come from the
school scrap pile.
Railroad officials said that the
wreck attempt was made ON the
main freight line used to haul war
materials and troop trains to the
Los Angeles port of embarkation.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Eric Johnston DiScIoSes
Russian War Plans

toward the creates; steel production
in the world outside the Unit q
States. This boom town back of the
Urals--the first brightly lighted
city I had seen since Lisbon--the
Russians have erected an Indiana
Harbor or a Youngstown on top Of
a Hibbing, Minnesota.
ORE RIGHT AT HAND
Bright red ore Is scooped from
tho mountain on which the city
lives and carried to the maws of
the blast furnaces which convert II
into ircn and steel. Like Mime
sofas famous Mesabi Range. the
ere is scooped off the surface. I'm
like Indiana Harbor 1t does not
have to fetch its ore hundreds OF
miles by train and freighter
Magnitogorsk was started I'm 1884
and today 1t has Main street pride
IN the fact that when its l8-year
program is completed it will be
larger than Gary, Ind. TIN war has
accelerated rather than retarded
construction. Blast furnace No. g
was blown in last Nov 7 and great
numbers of workers are busy set
ting up No. 7.
Besides the blast furnaces. Mag
nitogorsk has 20 open hearth fur
nac s. two blooming mills. eight
rolling mills and six coke batteries
Ger comparative purposes. the
II. S. Steel plant at Gary has IL
blast furnaces and 500 coke ovens.
Russian coke batteries could have
60 to 7C ovens each. American steel
sources unofficially compared the
Magnitogorsk facilities to those OF
Inland Steel at Indiana Harder.
Indiana, on the basis of the de-
scription givenl
WORK TRIPLE SHIFT
Thousands of workers labor three
shifts day to keep streams OF
steel moving into the nav of war.
Smoke hangs over Magnitogorsk
ike banner signalling super-nor-
NAL pre- duction
MagnitogOrsk has grown too fast
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Democrats Scan
Contest for
No. Z on Ticket
BY LYLE c. WILSON

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July Is. (UP)-
President Roosevelt is taking
long chance to obtain the renomi-
nation of Vice-President Henry A.
Wallace at the risk CT losing con-
troll of the Democratic national
convention on the question of his
fourth-term running mate.
The word around this pre-con-
vention headquarters is that Wal
lace is cut" But if Mr.. Roosevelt
has been impressed by the urgent
advice of his associates that Wal
lace would cost the Democratic
ticket votes this year. he has baked
at indicating any alternate prefer
ence. Under those circumstances a
score of hopeful statesmen are ma
neuVering to make themselves
available Unless Mr. Roosevelt or
the anti-Wallace forces shortly
agree en- small slate of comprO-
mise nominees there may be up
ward of 20 placed in nomination
Continued on Page 6, Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Circus Readies
To Keep Going

HARTFORD Conn. july rs
tuPl-Posting FeeuTitY % cover
mounting claims res uiting from last
weeks disastrous fire units OF the
Ringing Brothers and Bafnum a.
Bailey circus bryan ieaVing the city
Saturday for Sarasota. Florida
winter quarters. whfre ne greatest
show on earth all b. reCeadi-
toned and sent hack on the read
again 90 continue its interrupted
country wide tour within q month
To obtain its releafe here. a.
lawsuits exceeding 81 eoo.goo piled
up In the courts. ths circus made
a cash deposit Of s2aoa oo Nlih su-
perior Court Reviewer EdNard
Rogin. In addition 81 turning over
It's benefits from q ts100o pablic
liability Insurance policy and a
i25 600 fire INSURANCE poiicy
through an aErcemfnt NuTkrd uut
with a committee uf the Hartford
County Bar azzociaiion-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Yanks Speed
.livorno Drive

ROME. July Is. tUP)-American
troops have smashed up the italian
coastal highway IT, within six miles
of Livorno and have outflanked
the big port in an inland gain CT
more than three and half miles.
carrying within 10 miles of the
lower Arno river, on which the Ger
man Gothic line is based, Allied
headquarters reported Saturday.
United States units of Lieut. nant
General Mark w Clark's Fifth
army captured Peccioli, 20 miles in
land and level with Livorno; Chi
ami. six miles northeast OF Pas
tina: Belvedere. 2la miles southeast
OF Peccioli, and Villamagna, mid
way between eccioli and San Gil
mignano.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
1000 Men Strike
In Auto Plant

When Novak was disciplined Sat-
urday morning the department with
284 men in it struck and refused to
work. This made it impossible for
the rest of the line to operate so
the balance of $50 men was sent
home" the company said.
DETROIT. July Is. CUP)-PrC-
duction of B-24 Liberator bombers
at the Ford Motor Co.'S Willow
Run bomber plant was halted en-
tirely Saturday by walkout of
200 crane operators and riggers
members of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO).
Coming on the heels of renewal
of a no-strike pledge at the state
CLIO convention in Grand Rapids
Michigan, the strike necessitated
shutdown of the entire huge plant
and made $4,000 workers idle.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
$4,000 Japanese
Held in Jungle
IN Escape Moves
HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific. July Is. tUP)-
American troops, aided by an air
and sea bombardment, stopped a
desperate advance by $4,000 starv-
ing Japanese troops in the jungles
east of Aitape and killed at least
268 of the enemy in the first four
days of preliminary skirmishes. it
was announced Saturday.
While warships and planes
pounded the japanese rear posi-
items, the U. S. infantrymen broke
up the enemy thruStS along the
Driniumor river. 20 miles east OF
Aitape, hating at least temporarily
the Jap.<lese attempt TO break
through the Allied enlightenment on
the northern NV Guinea coast
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

MAGNITOGORSK, Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, June %
Delayed UP)-Eric Johnston,
prt,sident of the Chamber of Gem
merce of the United States, told
leaders of the Soviet steel industry:
I'm my interview with Marsl>1l
Stain, he told me that after the
war Russia is going to have two
five-ya ar plans and that after their
completion, Russia's steel produc-
ton will be 6O,O0O,0O0 tons an
nually"
(Current U. S. steel capacity is
SO .648, 400 tons year,
In MagnitC gorsk-the City Of the
Magic Mountain-Russia is building
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

tn be pretty. IL doesn't even have a
civic center or "a main :treet It's
lust a sprawling series of apart
ments. houses and unfloord huts
sprouted around the steel mills set
on the Magnetic mountain which
officials say has proved deposits
of 3tO.00000O tons OF ore which
Is GO per cent iron. plus $4,000. 900
tons of As per cent ore. They esti-
mah' IL will last 500 years.
Officials told Johnston and the
four correspondents whom Josef
Stain permitted to accompany him
on a 600O-mile tour back of the
Urals that steel production here is
greater than the whole steel pro-
duction of czarist Russia
MANAGER rs 3s
The plant dir ctor Is Grigori Nos
ov. 38. a sandy-haired. dynamic
executive who makes 10000 rubles
(roughly $1,000 month and Is
worth IT,
I'm spite CT the large amount of
help Russia is receiving from her
AIS" he said. most steel for the
Russian war fort comes from Rus
sian plants. This was a great mis-
take made by the Germans"
Johnston told Nosov: The as
sistance which We have given you
in the past Is only a small frac-
ton of what we shall give you in
the future"
The averag age of Magnitogorsk
workers is 80 and about IS per
cent are women. The work Is draft
exempt. Nosov said the accident
rate was only 3 per 10000 workers
per month.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

were almost In the bag"
Supreme Headquarters reported
the capture of nine ma jor German
strong points on the approaches to
Lessay and Periers, while field dts
patches said the renewed assault on
st. Lo had carried to Martinville,
village mile from the r1ibble-
strewn citadel.
Ursuru states assault units bend
ing. back the coastal end of the Ger
man line advanced about a mile on
q four mile front. overran five out
lying villages, seized the entire
north. bank OF the river Ay from
the, sea inland beyond Lessay. and
hit the edge of the town itself. -.
AT the center of the American
front, other assault forces moved
forward up to two and half mikes
on a four mile line, selling four
fortified villages and stabbing with
in two miles of Periers.
A headquarters spokesman said
fierce battle for ST. Lo was raging.
The latest dispatches from that Sec
tor said the Americans were batter
ing from, the east, northeast and
northwest.
An estimated 100000 German
troops and tankmen were arrayed
along the American front. They
We're giving ground slowly but
steadily, and faced the threat OF
Erecipitate withdrawal to more solid
defenses If their three keystone
Eases topple under the First Army
onslaught.
/ Lacking details of the new drive
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

DETROIT, July Is. (UP)-Pro-
duction at the Chrysler Corp. tank
arsenal was halted Saturday when
approximately 1000 employees, men,
pers of the United Auto Workers
OCIO) were forced away from their
jobs over the disciplining of one OF
their members for allegedly having
txied to incite race riot earlier in
the week.
Chrysler officials said 284 men
employed on the arsenal assembly
line walked out and when the line
stopped another $50 workers had to
be laid off.
A company statement said the
man disciplined was Stanley Hovak,
who, after hearing rumor that a
Negro worker had put his arm
around q white girl, made rope
moose 80 feet long and hung 1t over
an overhead beam.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
LONDON, July Is. (UP)

LONDON, July 10. (UP)
"A fleet of $50 American
heavy be m bers swept up
from bases in Italy Saturday to
bomb five refinerieS and pump
ing station at Ploesti, in The center
OF the Romanian oil field, while
British Lancaster bomberS crossed
the channel TO pound the rail GEN.
ter of Villeneuve st. Georges. nine
miles north OF Paris.
Early reports from the Ploesti raid
we're that the targets were accurate
Is hit and that they sent up huge
columns OF smoke, which rose to a
height CT 10000 feet and were Wis
i5le for more than 100 miles.
The British raid on Villeneuve.
enc % the largest rail centers in the
Paris area. followed up attacks dur
ina The night on Hanover. Ger
many. on flying bomb installations
IN northern France. Seven of the
four-engined bombers failed to re-
turn.
Tons % explosives were Showered
on large concentrations of rolling
stock and German military supplies
clusht In the railyardS while await
ing shipment 10 the Normandy bat
flefTOnt.
bad flying weather developed over
ne channel again today. hampering
allied areial support Of the ground
forces tn France
Tnr attack on Villeneuve was the
third strike In "a hours on enemy
communications In the immediate
Paris AREA.
Two rruups Of Lghtnings opened
une almost continuous assault yes
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
'Buzzinq' Airman
Gets Life Term

MARIANA ARMY AIR FIELD,
Ariz., July Is. (UP)-Second Lieu
tenant Howard E. Stittsworth,
Wakefield, Kansas, Saturday was
found guilty by an army court
martial board of buzzing his plane
so low to the ground that it de-
capitated mOtorist.
The board found Lieutenant Sits
worth guilty on all charges and
specifications" and sentenced him
to be dismissed from military serv-
ice and to be confined to hard
labor for life.
The wing of training plane
piloted by StittswCrth on June %
struck an automobile along {
highway near Phoenix and decapi-
tated the driver, Earl E. Nepple,
Los Ange,>s res taurant man.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
All NJ Jops Driven
From India Line

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, HANDY. Ceylon. July Is,
last Japanese have been
routed from the !, Imphal-Ukhrul
road in India, completely opening
the 45-mile all-weather supply
route to India, a communiqne an
nounced Saturday, %. 81.
The road was cleared by British
and Scottish troops, which drove
from both ends and effected juno
ton last Monday, the communicate
said. * -
In gaining control OF the road,
the Allied troops eliminated one of
the Japanese most important scom-
munication lines in India. Ukhrul,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

at the northeastern end of the roat,
was the first major base seized BY
the Japanese shortly after they
crossed into India from Burma last
March
A communique reported that Al
lied forces. pursuing the Japanese
fleeing from the Ukhrul area, had
contacted the enemy rear guard, al
though It gave no details OF tins
action.
In northern Burma. Chinrse
troops. supported by American war;
planes, began an attack on the
northwestern section OF Myitkyina.
where a trapped japanese garrison
has been holding out stubbornly
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
US. Bombers From Italy
Hit PIoesti oil Plants

terday, attacking an airddrolne and
a freight yard near the French cap
ital Twenty one locomotives, two
ammunition trains and 1902. freight
cars were destroyed by one group OF
Lightnings, which. also shot down
two enemy planes. -"
Liberators of the Eighth U. S.
Airforce, escorted by Mustangs and
Thunderbolts. returned in strength
late in the evening to attack air.
fields in the Paris area. There was
no aerial opposition and only light
flack as THE Liberat6rs dropped
their bombs by instrument on the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
War Costs Hit
Highest Peak

WASHINGTON. July IS. up
The United States spent si2.750. 900
an hour tor war I'm June-si 500. 600
more than Thomas jefferson paid
France in 1903 for the Louisiana
territory from which all or part o.
10 states were erected.
The War Production Board an
nounced that June war expenditures
of $7,957, 100000 set new monthly
high and were $39C00,000 above
May. The average daily outlay was
$500, 100000.
WPB said that 1914 fiscal year
wal, expenditures jumped 20 per
cent over l943 to $89. 900. 000. 900 and
that total war outlay July l. 1910.
to June 80, l9i4. was sl99 900 0oO.-
900,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

laps Execute
Yank Filters
BY UNITED PRESS

A japanese broadcast reported
by the Federal Communication
commission said Saturday that
several American airmen cap
tured by the Japanese, apparent
ly after their first Superfortress
raid on kyushu last month, had
been executed.
The broadcast, beamed to
American forces in the southwest
Pacific, said that ANY Allied
airman who falls or balls out
over Japan will be executed"
This is the order of the day."
the broadcast said.
1t reported that the American
airmen had met with the same
fate which was meted out to
raiders of Tokyo some two years
ago"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

be east-west transcontinental routes
and the others north-south arteries.
Al or near each of the l8 intersec-
tons would be "a minimum of one
airport at least one mile square"
Maverick said.
The highways would go directly
through" cities along the route and
would be connected by spurs with
the cities streets. In building the
roads, Maverick said contracts would
stipulate that the contractor shall
employ, first veterans, and second
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16

cloud covered fields.
Another Liberator force raided
various military targets in the
AmienS area in northeastern France.
All the planes returned safely from
this operation.
Fighters and fighter -bombers con-
tinued their attacks yesterday ON
German transport lines and rolling
stock headed toward the battle
lines. The rail lines were cut in
the Argentan. Lemans and Alencon
areas, while rolling stock in the
Loire valley and at Chateaudun and
La Ferte were ptmmeled.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
DeGau!Ie Gives
Report OH Trip

ALGfERS. July Is. up - Gen.
Charles De Gaulle. reporting TO the
French committee of national lib
Grafton al a special session Satur-
day. emphasized the profoundly
friendly" reception given him cur
ing ms talks last week with allied
officials In the United States and
Canada
The committee also heard a re-
port OF is foreign affairs commits
sioner Rene Massigl. who told Of the
progress Of neetiatiOns in WASH
ington anu London.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
Official Views 10 Billion
Road Project for Nation

unemployed men between the ages
O. so and 60 of the region in which
his unit of -the highway will be
built" ,-+..
The east-west highways would be
between Southern California and
Savannah, Georgia, San Francisco
and Newark, New Jersey, and the
northwest and Albany, New York.
The westernmost of the south-north
roads would connect Mexico and the
Alcan highway via San Diego, San
Francisco, Portland, Seattle and
British Columbia.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
SAN FRANCISCO, July

SAN FRANCISCO, July
IS. (UP)-A $10,000.00O sys-
TEN of nine six-lane divided
superhighways to employ 100000
people will save the west. strength
EN- our nations economy and
be of tremendous strategic mill
tary value" Maury Maverick. San
Antonio, Texas. chairman of the
smaller war plants committee told
meeting of Builders OF the West,
Inc. today.
Three Of the surerhighways would
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-16
D AMBI!Ne
EpoR1ER
From A Hero

From A Hero
1t is with a humble heart that RR
passes this letter on to you. 1t is
a letter from Little Burch Carson,
son of Judge and Mrs. Burch Car
son of Van Horn, Texas. He has
visited Mr.. and Mrs. William HouS
ton at 1865 State street, FL Centre.
He wrote the letter from New
Guinea to his parents. Here is the
letter, may it make you more con-
scious of what many of our service
men have in their souls:
Dear Folks, Hope all of you are
Wce and happy now This is
go.;'g to he one of the hare est let
tiers I've ever had to write but I've
thought it all over and decided /
should tell you the whole truth
about how badly l was wounded be-
Continued on Page G, Column a.