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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13

JaPs
Battle
$4,000 Trapped
On New Guinea
Try to Escape

"A l. l. ! f. ID llEAQU ART
ERS, Southwest Pacific, July
13. (UP) - A doomed force
of 5000 starving japanese,
trapped in the jungles CT British
New Guinea, attacked the outly-
ing American positions east of
Aitape Thursday in desperate at
tempt to break through the strong
allied encirclement.
Facing slow starvation or capture
in a 110-mile stretch of the north
ern New Guinea coast, the isolated
units of the 18th Japanese army
were attempting to push westward in
an apparently hopeless bid for
freeC ON.
Although details of the early
fighting were lacking, it was under
stood the Japanese, commanded by
Gen. Hatazo Ad.chi, were carrying
out continuing attacks and they
were expected to grow in intensity.
The enemy action was interpreted
by military observers as a despe-
rate measure taken by the japanese
rather than waiting in the jungles
for Slow ceath from starvation or
Continued on page 8, col. u
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Ernie Pyle
Ninth Infantr, Keeps Up
Record Begun in Africa
In Spearheading Invasion

IN NORMANDY (By Wireless
This war in Normandy is a war
from hedegrow to hedgerow. and
when we get into a town or city it
is a war from street to street.
The other day l went along
quite accidentally, I assure you
with an infantry company that had
been assigned to clean out a pocket
in the suburbs of city.
Since this episode was typical of
the way an infantry company ad.
vances into city held by the en-"
emy, I would like to try to give you
a picture of it. can't do it in just
one column, so you'll have to read
this in installments covering sew
eral days. I hope your patience
holds out.
AS l say, hadn't intended to do
it. I started out in the normal
fashion that afternoon to go up to
a battalion command post and just
look around. l was travelling with
Correspondent Charles Wertenba-
ker and Photographer Bob Capa,
both of Time and Life magazines.
RIGHT AT FRONT
Well, when we got to the C. P.
we were practically at the front
lines. The pest was in a church
that stood on a narrow street. In
the courtyard across the street
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u. s. Casualties
Now 235,411

WASHINGTON, July 13. CUP) -
U. S. combat casualties as officially
reported thus far by the war and
navy departments here were brought
to 235,4ll Thursday with an an
nouncement by Undersecretary of
War Robert P. Patterson that army
casualties through June 20 totaled
l87,O28.
Official navy department casualty
figures announced through Thurs
day total 48,383.
Normandy and Saipan casualties
as announced in those theaters
would raise these totals by 10000 or
more.
Patterson said army casualties in
cluded 33.240 killed, 77,449 wounded
38,l42 missing and 38,197 prisoners
of war. OF the wounded 46,4l4 have
returned to duty.
The navy total, embracing navy,
marine corps and coast guard cas-
ualties, include 20.362 dead. l4,127
wounded, 9,433 missing and 4,461
prisoners of war.
Patterson said American Fifth
army casualties in Italy from the
time of the first landing on the
Italian mainland through July 3
total 1865 killed, 47457 wounded
and l0,287 missing-a total of TO-
399.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
Former Resident
Buys War Bonds

Ell Centros war bond total re-
ceived another boost upward Thurs
day when Mrs. Pearl Edwards, the
former Mrs. Jimmy Hushman, sent
a check for $525.
This is the second time this for
mer FL Centran has given the city's
war bond fund an absent treat
ment,' forwarding a substantial
check in the drive which was in
progress last January.
She now makes her home in Port
land, oregon, but always considers
Ell Centro her hometown. She is
employed in a shipyard, helping
convert ships into troop transports.
In a letter to Herb Fawcett, head
of the Imperial war bond committee,
she said last Saturday she ran
cables into one of the made-oyer
ships, cut in the wires, and hooked
up II switches, outlets and lights.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
.Bombers Hammer
Isle Of Guam

PEARL HARBOR, July l3. (UP)
American warShips and bombers
poured laundering bombardment
of shells and bombs into Guam in
four new attacks, bringing to nine
the number of consecutive days the
former American naval base has
been under fire. Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz announced Thursday.
A communique said cruisers and
deStrcyers shelled Guam Monday
and Tuesday while Adm. Mark
Mitscher's carrier aircraft attacked
Guam and Rota Tuesday and We'd
nesday. Tuesday was the fourth
consecutive day of coordinated ma
val shelling and aerial lombard
ment against Guam and the fifth
day Guam has been shelled since
the opening of the Marianas cam
paie.. June IL
The cruisers and destroyers shell.
pounded gun emplacements, block
houses and warehouses and sanl
five barges, the communique said.
Cur surface units were not dam.
aged, the cOE:munique SAID.
The air attacks en- Guam wert
concentrated on military objectives
near Pitt Town. Gun emplactments
were strafed, but anti-a!lcraft fire
was only moderate
We lost one plane, but lie COM
munique again failed to mention
any Japanese aerial interception.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
Two El Cenfrdns
Reported as
War Casualties

News was received Thursday of
two Ell Centrans who played their
part in the great battle of Europe.
Staff Sergeant S. G.. tChuck) Has
kell, whose wife is the former Gen.
eva Abel, Thursday was reported
missing since June 90 in action over
Germany.
Lieutenant B. w. Rippy. son of
L. T. Rippy was critically wounded
in action in Europe June 19 and now
is recovering in military hospital
in England.
The news that Sergeant Haskell
was missing came to his wife in Ell
Centro Thursday in an official tele-
gram from the war department. He
was gunner in Liberator bomber
B-24. His parents, the late Mr. and
Mrs. S. G. Haskell, lived west of
Ell Centro. and Sergeant Haskell
attended the schools of Ell Centre.
He entered the army year ago last
March.
Lieutenant Rippy wrote from a
hospital in England where he is
under treatment. He said both his
legs were fractured in several places
but his physician assured him that
eventually he will walk again. This
is the second time he has been
wounded, the first time in the neck
and leg. For this he received the
Purple heart. Lieutenant Rippey
is a member of an r-borne div
iSiOn
His father lives in Ell Centro as
does his sister, Mrs. Fred C. Smith
of l056 Brighton avenue. His BROTH
er c. p. Rippy, lives in Calexico.
His wife is in Oakland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
Berlin Announces Deuth
Of Edouurd Herriot

back to the premiership but he re-
signed and refused to form new
cabinet six months later when the
chamber of deputies overthrew him
on the cebt issue.
AT that time he declared:
Il will continue to decline the
premiership and will refuse the for
eign affairs or any other portfolio
until France has paid her debt.
France must pay"
The French committee of national
liberation at Algiers said Herriot
was made prisoner of the nazis
and in broadcast in December last
year demanded his release. He was
a sick man then, the committee
said, and the broadcast warned that
should his condition take a turn
for the worse "the men of Vichy"
would be held responsible.
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center of st. Lo with bayonets and
grenaC es Thursday while another
column outflanked the historic
fortress with a push through st.
Pierre-de Semilly, three and half
miles to the east.
1t. Gen. Omar NJ Bradley'S
American First Army also advanced
to within three and half miles of
Periers and two miles of Lessay,
with st. Lo the main German
bastions anchoring the western half
CT their ll7-mile Normandy line,
against weakening but still strong
enemy resistance.
IL VILLAGES SEIZED
Seventeen towns and villages
were seized by the Americans, while
1t. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's
British Second Army re-cartured
Maltot, five miles southwest of
Caen, and beat off two fierce enc
my counterattacks involving nearly
80 tanks against the salient be-
tween The Odon and Orne rivers.
The Americans reached the gates
of st. Lo, hilltop fortress guard
ing the invasion roads to the heart
OF Normandy, in an advance Gown
the Bayeux-St. Lo highway from
the northeast in what an intelli-
gence officer at-the. front told Unit
ed Press war correspondent James
McGlincy was "helluva fight"
German paratroopers, among the
toughest nazi units, fiercely resist
ed the advance and fighting ragged
at such close quarters that at some
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windsors Plan
Stay in u. S.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, July l3.
(UP)-The Duke and Duchess of
Windsor arrived Thursday from the
Bahamas for an indefinite stay in
this country, with plans for busi-
ness and rest but none for shop
ping.
The Duke said they would go to
New York in two days, and that he
did not know how long they will
remain there. He plans to make
several trips to Washington on
business concerning the Bahamas,
of which he is governor, and may
possibly visit his large ranch In
western Canada.
The Duchess. the former Wallis
Simpson of Baltimore, rested after
their trip and did not appear at
the conference.
The former king of England. look
ing very healthy, said both would
undergo regular physical checkups
in New Pork.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
GuoyuIe Plants
Speed Output

WASHINGTON, July l3. CUP)-
George r. Salmond, head of the
governments emergency Guayule
rubber program, disclosed Thurs
day that greatly accelerated proc
essing of guayule shrubs from fed
orally. owned plantations will begin
late this fall.
Two plants at Salinas and Ba-
kerSfield, Calf, will extract rubber
from two-year- Guayule plants
at the rate of two or three tons a
. day each, and production for the
season is expected to total about
600 tons.
' The Salinas plant already has
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
CAPTURED Nuzi Document
Shows Man Power Deurth

WASHINGTON, July 13.
"A captured German docu-
ment several months old has
confirmed that the enemy is suffer-
ing from a severe manpower short
age which is affecting the course
OF the war in Europe, Acting Secre-
tary of War Robert P. Patterson
disclosed Thursday.
There is no doubt that the en-
emy is faced with a manpower
shortage" Patterson told press
conference.
"A German order, now several
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
Seven U. 5. Ships
Lost in First
Invasion Thrust

LONDON, July 49, (UP) - Gen
Dwight D. EisennoWers headquart-
ers revealed Thursday that the in
vasion of France cost the United
States Navy three destroyers and
four other Warcraft.
The destroyers lost were the Cory
the Meredith and the Glennon.
The other U. S. losses were the
transport Susan B. Anthony, the
escort Rich and the Fleet tug Part
ridge
The list of losses include the two
deStroyers which President Roose-
welt mentioned as having been lost
shortly after D-Day.
BRITISH LOSSES
British losses were three destroy
erS, three frigateS and two Other
! smaller craft.
This was the first announcement
the British have made of their nava.
losses during the invasion of France
The Susan b. Anthony was the
former passenger liner Santa Clara
The ship was fully loaded with
troops but only six men were lost
BIG FLEET
Through the first days of the
invasion, more than half a dozen
British and American battleShips
and about double that number of
cruisers worked the channel, bomb
arding German positions and pro-
tpctinp Allied rOpVOVS
All of the big ships were afloat
and operating at the end of the
naval phase of the invasion, al
though some of them were damaged
10 some degree.
WASHINGTON. July Is. (UP) -
The navy revealed Thursday that
six of the commanding officers sur
Continued On Pg. 8, Col. -
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turned out about $50 tons of rubber
from wild and cultivated plants
shipped in from Texas. The next
few months will be spent renovat-
ing the mill and by November it
should start operations "a hours
a day, Salmond said.
Plans are nearing completion for
the construction of a $350,0OO mill
at Bakersfield, 1t probably will be
ready for full-time production by
midwinter, he said. The design is
being drawn by the Southwestern
Engineering Co. of Los Angeles and
construction contracts will be
awarded In a few weeks.
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u. s. Bans Leave
On Kin Illness

emergency furloughs will be re-
ferred to local Red Cross chapters
which will investigate and submit
recommendation to the theatei
commanders. This procedure does
not imply more liberal policy re-
garding emergency leaves, it was
stated, and such leaves will be
granted only rarely.
The War Department routinely
reports serious illness and subse-
quent changes in the physical con-
dition of soldiers to the next Of
kin. In the absence of such reports
it must be assumed the individuals
condition has not changed mate
rally, it was pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13

WASHINGTON, July 13. (UP)-
The War Department announced
Thursday it will cease transmitting
messages to thtater commanders
requesting soldiers overseas be re-
turned to the United States be-
cause of family illness or other
emergency.
Requests for special information
on the physical condition of indi-
viduals likewise will not be trans
mitted.
The ban is necessary because of
strain on communications, the
War Department said.
Pending and future requests for
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13

M. P,'s were frisking freshly taken
prisoners.
I mingled among the prisoners
awhile. They were still holding
their hands high in the air, and
you're pretty close to the front
when prisoners do that. They OBJ
vicusly were frightened and eager
to please their captors. A soldier
standing beside me asked one Ger
man kid about the insignia on his
cap, so the kid gave the insignia TO
him.
The prisoners haG a rank odor
about them, like silage. Some of
them were Russians, and two of
these had their wives with them
They had been living together right
at the frCnt. The women thought
we were going to shoot their hus-
bands and they were frantic
DECEIVE FIGHTERS
That's one way the Germans keep
these conscripted Russians fighting
they have thoroughly sold them
on the belief that we will shoot
them as soon as they are captured.
Below us there were big fires in
the city. and piles of black smoke.
Explosions were going on all around
us. Our own big shells would rustic
over our heads and explode on be-
yond with a crash. German 200-mm,
shells would spray over our heads
and hit somewhere in the town be-
hind us. Single rifle shots and ma
chine-pistol blurps were constant.
The whole thing made you feel
tense and jumpy. The nearest Ger
mans were cnly 20O yards away.
We were just hanging around alb
,sorbing AN this stuff when a
young lieutenant, in a trench coat
and wearing sun glasSeS-although
the day was miserably dark and
chill-came up and said:
Our company is starting in a
few minutes to go up this road and
clean out'a strong point. It's about
half a mile from here. There are
probably snipers in some of the
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 81
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months old, cecreed a 90 per cent
reduction in strength of rear eche-
Ion combat units; a IS per cent re-
duction of strength of all supply
units; the immeoi late transfer with
out requirements of men of 1914
class and younger (men under 30)
from rear echelons and supply
units; and preparations for trans
fer, with requirements, OF soldiers
OF 1906 to 1913 classes linen up TO
3S) from rear echelons and supply
units.
For manpower to keep the roads
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13
District Renews
Appeal TO Aid
Mexico Farmers

In renewed efforts to obtain Of
ficial approval for release of water
from the All-American canal to
relieve farmers in Meicali Valley,
Evan T. HeWeS, chairman of the
board has made a special appeal in
kilograms to Secretary Hull and
Secretary Ickes.
The crisis in that valley had been
cited to authorities at Washing
ton in previous wires, when it was
stressed that if water was not
made available at once thousands of
acres of cotton and corn would be
lost to Mexican farmers.
The kilograms sent Thursday fol-
low:
Honorable Cordell Hull
Secretary of State,
Washington, D. C.
Because of consultations between
your office and the secretary of the
Interior you are aware of the
critical situation that exists in the
Mexicali Valley, Mexico, owing to
a shortage of water.
I'VE implore you to use your good
offices to recommend that the sec
retary of the interior consent to
Imperial Irrigation Districts use of
All American canal to deliver water
to Meico during this grave emer-
gency
''Evan T. Hewes, President
Board of Directors.
Imperial Irrigation District"
Honorable Harold l.. Ickes,
Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, d. c.
Refer kilograms from our con-
sulting engineer M j. DoWd to you
Continued on Pg. 8. Col. 81
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Pi|otIess Planes
Used by Germans
On j. s. Soldiers

WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN
FRANCE, July l. DelayedD-(UP)
The Germans were reported to
have used pilotless planes against
American troops in the front lines
for the first time.
The first reports of the German
use of pilotless planes said a few
had been in action against the AM
orleans fighting alongside the Brit
ish flank at the center of the Nor
mandy line.
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open behind their lines in Italy. the
Germans have orc cred ruthless ex-
ploitation OF civilian population for
labor service
The manpower shortage revealed
by the document obtained I'm Italy
was evident in Normandy where the
Germans we're applying all troops
available to them there. Patterson
said,
Patterson said allied ground and
air forces In Italy curing the past,
week have continued TO fi@bten thH
noq ring now constructing the uer-
mans.
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The dispatch did not disclose the
time, place or cause of death.
He first became premier OF France
in 1924 and his cabinet of radical
socialists and socialists held power
from June "a, 1924 to April II, 1925.
After his government was over
thrown he became president of the
chamber of deputies.
In June of 1882 he was called
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laps Withdraw
On India Front
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Randy, Ceylon, July l3.
UP)-The japanese have with
drawn from the entire Maibi Khu-
nou ridge, dominating the Palel-
Tamy road, the enemy's most i'm
portant supply route into India, a
communique announced Thursday.
In the Imphal-Ukhrul sector, the
japanese were reported surrender
ing in increasing numbers. with
their forces split into disorganized
isolated remnants.
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Nazi Ace Killed:
Claimed 50 Score

LONDON, July l3. CUP) = 1t.
Eugen ziegert, one of Germany's
leading air aces who claimed to
have shot down SO Allied planes,
has been killed on the western
front, the German radio reported
Thursday.
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LONDON, July 13. (UP)

LONDON, July 13. CUP)
-Nazi broadcasts reported
Thursday that the German
army had begun a major re-
treat on the Baltic front and that
massed Russian armor was trying
to force the Niemen river at Alytus,
border of East Prussia.
The Berlin radio beat out run
ming account of bad news for the
Germans on the eastern front
throughout the day, highlighted by
the report of large scale with
drawal in keeping with previous
warning that this drastic step was
imperative ito protect the reich
STORM LATVIA CITY
The naZiS sale the main defenSeS
OF Daugavpils, defense citadel of
lower Latvia, were being stormed by
the SovietS after a German with
drawal, and that strong Soviet arm
ored columns had pierced the Ger
man protective screen on the road
to Brest LitvoSk.
The British Press Associations S
l-military correspondent sale the
Germans were believed to have suf-
fered nearly $4,000 casualties in
killed, wounded and captured since
the Russian offensive began ON
June 90.
STRIKE LAST BARRIER
Ernst Won Hammer, Berlin radio
commentator, said the Rec Army
concentrated infantry and tank
forces at Alytlls, 80 miles south of
kaunas, and began an attempt to
storm across the Niemen, the last
major natural barrier west of Ger
man SOIL
1t Col. Alfred Won Olberg, an
other military broadcast, said a big
tank battle had broken out south
west Of Lithuania, indicating that
the Russians might be even closer
to East Prussia there than they
were at AlytuS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-13

- LONDON, July 13. (UP)
-Edouard Herriot, former
French premier whose gov
'ernment fell in December of 1882
because he insisted on paying the
French war debt to the United
States, cied at the age of 70, the
German DNB news agency reported
Thursday in wireless dispatch.
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points the Americans were on one
side of a he6gerow and the nazis
or the other
CLOSEUP FIGHTING
AT one place" McGlincy report
ed, "a German reached over a
hedge and tossed a hand grenade at
a company commanding officer and
killed him. That's how close the
fighting is"
Other columns converging on ST.
Lo advanced to within two miles of
the city at a number of points to
the northeast, north and northwest.
The German garrison of 200 TO 300
encircled in LIE Meauffe, five miles
north of st. Lo, was liquidated and
Hill lis, two and a half miles
northeast, was Sei~,d
The outflanking column seized st.
Plerre-de Semilly and drove on
toward the st. Lo-Caumont high
way after cutting road running
east northeast to Berigny. Here,
too, the Americans were meeting
stiff opposition.
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Great Rail Center
Hit Third Dav
1000 Heavies. 500 Fighters Rain
Terrific Blows on Targets;
Saarbrucken Again Suffers Attack

LONDON July 13. (UP)-A fleet of than 900
American heavy bombers accompanied by 500
fighter planes smashed through feeble opposition the
uftwaffe Thursday bomb the Munich the third
successive day and Saarbruchen the French border
Other American heavy bombers meanwhile, roared up
from southern Italy to attack oil storage installations
GermanOccuped northern Italy and four railway yards
between Milan and Venice.
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YANk B0MBERS DOOM CITY OF MUNICH
Ring Of Steel
Steadily
Grows Smaller
BY UNITED PRESS

BY UNITED PHESS
The distance to Berlin from
the advance Allied battle lines
today:
RusSia-435 Miles.
Italy-e40 miles.
France-630 miles.
While Allied gains were made
on all the fronts, none came in
the advance areas which are
nearest to the Nazi capital.
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Uneven Trade
1T isn't supposed to be cricket to
tell tales out of school but here goes
anyway. The sky's the limit, say
we.
Bruce King, in spite of his height
ard reach. is no great shakes as a
sofl.Sall player. In fact, he just isn't
all there when it comes to baseball.
He wears a baseball cap all the
lime but it hasn't helped a bit. He
does everything but play backwards.
A Post-Press carrier boy swagger-
ed up to King Thursday.
Hey said Carrier Boy Billy
James, nickname "Superman" to his
friends. IF you're not going to
play baseball FriGay night I'll take
your place.
1t would be a good thing for
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. A.
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EXTEND BRIDGEHEAD

Northwest of ST. Lo, America
forces extended their bridgelead
across the Wire river with thrust
west from Pont Hebert and, far
ther northwest, almost completed
the encirclemer of the ~nrges in
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. II