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Evening star., 1944-11-28

consulting engineer, and others;
Baltimore, A. H. Ehlers, president
of the Interstate Baseball League;
Philadelphia, J. j. Ahrin, business
man; Washington, 1t. Harry L.
Harris, an insurance man now in the
Coast Guard; New York, W. S.
Palmer, a contractor; Honolulu,
Ralph w. Olson. businessman, Dr.
Samuel L. Yee, Chinese surgeon, and
F. j. Brickner, Navy employe. who
once played football at St. Mary's,
Calf; Akron, Charles Burns, repre-
sentative of the Akron Rubber Bowl
and so stockholders. Boston's fran
chise holders were not identified.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Maryland Is PIunninq
Exhibition Twin Bill

Coaches Paddy Kane and Burton
Shipley Of Maryland will stage q
preseason exhibition with their box
ing and basket ball teams Saturday
night, December 16.
Kane's team will put on an intra-
mural show while Shipley still is in
the market for a top quint to op-
pose his tossers in q practice ses-
Sio,,
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Most Service Contest
Tickets Are on Way

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. %. - First
batch of Army-Navy football tickets
to go out to the general public, num-
bering about $4,000 were put in the
mail yesterday. 1t is expected that
all the public's tickets, at least 20
900, will be in the mail by tomorrow
afternoon.
Fifteen six-seat boxes have gone
to purchasers of $1,000,O0 War
Bonds and it is estimated that the
remainder will go for between $780,
900 and 81 900 900 each.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Rowland, Coast Loop Head,
Asks Hiqher Draft Price

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 28.-Clarence
Rowland, president of the Pacific
Coast League, says he wants to see
a raise in the prices major league
teams pay for players taken in the
annual draft.
He said he intends to bring his
arguments before other minor league
officials at their annual convention
In Buffalo, N. Y, December s, 7
and s. He stopped here en- route
to Buffalo.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Soldier Gridder Is Killed.

FORT BENNING. Ga, Nov. 28 aR,.
-Sergt. Chester A. Turner, tackle on
the Fort Benning 4th Infantry foot
ball team, was fatally injured yes
terday in a training accident at the
infantry school, public relations an
nounced az
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Young, ,Dimancheff, Serpico,
Hackett Gel Grid Honors
Nv tn. Assoc;at.J prssS

BY the Associated Press. =.
CHICAGO, Nov. 28-Claude
Buddy Young of Illinois and
Boris (Babe) Dimancheff of Purdue
have been named by their respective
teammates as the most valuable
players on their football teams. y
Illinois also elected Ralph Ser
pico. all-conference guard, captain
for 1945. and Ohio State picked Bill
Hackett and other all-loop guard>as
its 1945 leader.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Illinois U. Planning Huge
Postwar Sports Plant
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, Nov. 28-
The States Postwar Planning Com
mittee and Illinois U. trustees are
considering a proposal by an alumni
committee for construction OF a ST.
500, 900 sports building.
1t would be used for all types of
indoor sports and would seat 10000
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Army, Randolph Field
4
Still Head College,
Service E|evens
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Army and
Randolph Field retained their re-
spective No. / ranking as the best
college and service teams In the
country in this weeks Associated
Press football poll.
In the overall voting by 80 sports
writer's Army polled~ 737 points, with
Navy, the Cadets opponents this
week, second with 624 and Ohio State
and Randolph Field, each unbeaten
and united, deadlocked for third at
507. Bainbridge Naval 1882 was
fifth, with the Iowa Seahawks (27D,
Southern California (23D, Michigan
(232), Notre Dame Q2O and Ten
nessee 1oD completing the first 10.
A collegiate first 10 placed Army
first, Navy second with Ohio State,
Southern California. Michigan, Notre
Dame, Tennessee, Duke, Oklahoma
Aggies and Alabama following in
order.
An all-service ranking put RAN
dolph Field on top, cambridge Sec
ond and Iowa. Seahawks third fol-
lowed by Great Lakes, Norman
(Okla0 Navy, 4th Air Force. Camp
Peary, Ell Toro CCalifD Marines.
I'd Air Force and Fort Pierce Ella,
Amphibs and North Carolina Pre-.
flight tied for the 10th spot. :
Yale, with II points. Virginia, Wake
Forest, Georgia Tech and Georgia,
with each. and Illinois, PennsvI.
vania and Tulsa, with each, were
other collegiate outfits that received
votes.
Navy Gets Lone Top Vote.
Of the 80 ballots, unbeaten and
united Army received 551s first place
votes to only one for Navy. Ohio
State got 8 f1rsts, Randolph Field
5ls, cambridge 11ls and the Iowa
Seahawks /.
Tennessee, Rose Bowl foe Of
Southern California. is in the select
circle for the first time and the only
bowl team so far chosen among
the first 10. a.,
Neither Army nor Navy played
last week end, while Ohio State
completed its first unbeaten season
since 1920 Randolph Field found
the Amarillo AAF a stronger Toe
than the $50 score indicated.
Leading teams, determined on q
basis of 10 votes for each first-place
vote, 9 for second. 8 for third, etc.
(First-place cotes in parenthesis)
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Wm,Lose or Draw
Tiger Pair Had Most Valuable Vote in Boo
By JOHN B. KELLER.

Among the baseball writers covering a-mporant
between Washngtons Mats and Des Tigers the
the 1914 campaisand they were from city boasns big
league cbthe question about the valuable
award in the American whether should Harold
Newhouser Dizzy Trout the remarkable pitching
swept Detrots club to championship.
Most Of the award committee present did their voting in the
Baseball Writers Association poll that time them
then indicated that although he had than
Newhouser 49, would the honor They strung along with
the big rgthander mainly because hitting we'll the
pitching strength he had displayed splendid with the Tigers
Today learn that Trout actually the most rstplace
votes but the second third place for Newhouser that
the remainder of the selecting committee put the efhand
a
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Vote for Award Couldn't Be Foirer

When the writers casting their ballots almost to man
they expected the Tigers become the American League champions
But that nothing with their choice the other OF
with the
they rolled themselves Some the voters
wanted the Tiger at the That's how they measured
Newhouer against Trout But the rules OF the award wouldn't permit
it. AS it turned the vote couldn't have been fairer
while valuable vote word for Stan Spence
Nat ouhelder placed eighth the select field of TO- 1t high
tribute player with everything he had
though his hopeless assigned to last place from mid
couple might have made
Big surprise of the ballot the assignment OF Nelson Potter
ninth position
Stephens batting direction OF the Browns
hurler was
factor in the Browns amazing
Evening star., 1944-11-28

Organized baseball keeping about what's to be done to-
ward setting to succeed that OF the late Com
missioner of Baseball Keneaw Mountain Lands all
however that when the gather for their annual sessions in
Chicago next month another apowerfu commissioner will be
selected The vote confidence given Judge Lands while he Ill
hospital by the majors Steering Committee several weeks
indication the big leagues of the National
Commission that dissolved when the Judge took IN 1921
The National Commission the time into being in
1903 particularly the club parc
ularly those in the National League of the
presidents of both head of the Cincinnati
club the American Leagers at the start bit suspicious of
because of having only member on it.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Siser Case Helped Get Judge Lands at Helm

1t long before johnson,
the voted
president
refusing Naturally this upsetng
Leaguers
Hermann particularly mbieed his National
the Pittsburgh Pirates
pitcher first baseman and batter voted
this Louis
demanded that Hermann either resign the National
Craftsmanship or his Cincinnati club presidency.
Hermann quit the National here
that Judge Lands first entered the big picture
the chamanshp But the
with such unpopular proved
the Judge and baseball.
Two later he sole boss of the pastme
Evening star., 1944-11-28

Second ten-11. Duke, as: 1e. Grea.
Lakes. TO- 13, Norman GOklaD Navy, "a:
IA, 4th Air Force, A: Is, Oklahoms As-
49, tie for 8, Yale and Eltoro tCalif) Ma
rines. II each: 20. I'd Air Force, T.
Also rans-Virginis. 6: Wake Forest s:
Georgia Tech, 6: Georgia. y Fcrt Pierce,
3; North Carolina Prefight, s.: Illinois 4:
Pennsylvania, 4: Tulsa, 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Gavin Resigns
E. f. Office to
Reenter Trade

Neal H. Gavin, Ell Centre city
clerk since April 1910 when he was
elected to the office at the regular
city election and reelected last
April, Wednesday night rendered
his resignation asking that it he
effective September l. The resig-
nation was presented to council in
a letter read by Mayor P. E. Moore
After Gavin had answered mo"
to a query as to possibility OF re-
considering his move, council voted
unanimously to defer action until
the first meeting in August.
Gavin announces that he has de-
cideti to retire and reenter business
He will go to 'une coast for a time
after he lelinquishes his office and
return late in the fall to establish
his business in Ell Centre.
Sure I am staying in Ell Centre
I'm too much of a desert rat to
think OF leaving the Valley" Gavin
said.
The written resignation included
request for an audit and clear
ance Of his books and recor6s by
September l.
Members of council discusses.
working out new method for col
lection of delinquent water charges
Mrs. Vivian Whitlock deputy in
the city clerks office, was grantee
a salary increase from $50 to $l6O
a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20

+ With the organization OF new gov
eminent confirmed that the eX-
tremist military clique which put
TOTO in power and engineered the
sneak attack on Pearl Harbor had
lest control of Japan.
SEEN AS PEACE MCv.E
The move was regarded as the
first step toward an ultimate Japa-
nese attempt to win a negotiated
peace, though no immediate peace
bid was anticipated
Sources familiar within the Japa-
nese political situation suggested the
new cabinet would attempt to in
tenSify the Japanese war effort,
then give way to another govern
ment within the next few months
as American successes in the Pa
cific mount. Only when a wholly
civilian government comes into pow
er 'hese sources believed will Japan
make real effort to withdraw from
the war.
Dcmei broadcastS heard by FEC
monitors sale that Koiso. governor
general eff Japanese occupied KO-
Continued on Page o, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20

and fighters flew over scattered
cloud formations and found good
hunting among aircraft, ball bear
ing anG' synthetic Oil plants strung
through Germany from the Rhine
land ito Leipzig, 80 miles south of
Berlin.
In some quarters they ran into
stiff German resistance 1t was the
most stubborn over the Junkers en-
CINE factory at Dessau, where more
than 100 MeSSerSchmittS rose to
challenge the raiders during their
bombs runs.
Mustang fighters tore into the
German formation, and one of the
LiggeSt dogfights in weeks broke
out. Outnumbered about two to one,
the Mustangs broke up the attack
on the bOmbers, and one pilot said
he said he saw six enemy fighters
go down under the first Mustang
sweep.
The bombers from Italy with their
Lightning and Mustang escort found
relatively weak fighter opposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
British Troops
Storm vimont:
Breach Highway

S U P r EN- HEADQUARTERS
AEF, July 20. CUP) Births h
armored forces tanning cut in
many-pronged thruStS up to eight
miles beyond Caen Thursda
Stormed Vimont. German strong
hold aStride the road to Paris. and
the left flank anchor post of Troarn
While furious tank battles swirled
ever the Normandy plains.
supreme headquarters reported
that General Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomerys Second Army had reached
both Vimont and Troarn, and front
dispatches said violent street fight
ing was going on in both towns.
The British and Canadian forces
mad seized the seven main roads
and three rail lines below Caen. and
were maSsing for a frCnt-wide
plunge deeper into France.
United Press War Corresponds MT
Richard ID. Mcmillan reported that
German resistance Stiffened again
after the first major counter-at-
tack was crushed, indicating that
Marshal Erwin Rommel was mus
tering his battered forces for an
other about attempt to stem the
Allied break-through drive.
British troops bolstering the right
wing CT the drive beat the hard
fighting Germans back steadily in
the Meyers ! sector southwest of
Caen, overrunning strategic posi-
lions including valuable hig h
Continued on Pc. 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Patterson Says
laps Must Pay
For Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTON, July 20. CUP)-
Acting Secretary of War Robert p
Patterson warning that the change
in japanese leaders may be just
window dres sing predicted Thurs
day that those in control in Japan
would install the toughest and
nest ruthless commanders" for the
army and navy posts
The Japanese need not think
that because they change their
leaders we will forget what hap
pened at Pearl Harbor and there
AFTER" Patterson told a press con-
ference.
Commenting on the fall of Pre-
mier Hideki TOTO, Patterson said
that the United States would not
be fooled by any move in Japan to
install leaders who pretend to be
friendly to the United States.
Tojo's fall, however, is proof that
the japanese people are beginning
to be aware of the serious character
Of japanese defeats, he said
Regardless of any window dress
ing, the desperate group that con-
troll Japan will see tC it that the
toughest and most ruthless COM
manders are brought out to occupy
the hazardous army and navy
posts he said.
Just as the local japanese COM
manders have kept their .len fight
ing until the end, we can take it for
grant d that the military chiefs in
Tokyo will keep their empire, whose
central forces have net yet been
Continued on Pig. :, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Patton Reported
In Normandy

LONDON, July 20. CUP) The
German Transcean news agency
said Thursday that an army under
Lit. Gen. George S. Patton has gone
into action in Normandy.
Further divisions of Patton's
army now have been thrown into
battle in Normandy, German re-
connaissance discovered" the Trans
ocean agency said in a broadcast
dispatch.
They consist of Americans and
Canadians. Among them are the
reinforced Canadian divisions which
made the unsuccessful attempt at
Dieppe.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Robot Bombs Fall
Day and Night

LONDON, July 20. (UP) - The
Germans continued their robot
bomb attacks on London and the
southern counties during the night
and into daylight Thursday, with
one of the weapons repeatedly fly
ing due west from the direction of
the Netherlands.
While the attacks were on the
biggest scale yet early Wednesday
evening, the tempo tapered off dur
ing the night.
A number of the flying bombs was
shot down over the channel by Raj
fighters and antiaircraft guns, al
though some landed in the target
areas, causing damage and cas-
ualtieS.
Radio Tokyo today distressed
briefly from reporting the Japanese
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Wallace Smashes
Opposition:
To Get Illinois

CHICAGO STADIUM, July 90
UP)-Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace's bitter fight for denomination
Thursday broke the opposition front
in a major sector as powerful ILL
nois pulled away from Sen. Harry
S. Truman, of Missouri, few
hours before the Democratic ma
tional convention delegates were to
name President Roosevelt for a
fourth term.
Mayor Edward j. Kelly, of Chi
cage, the Illinois Democratic leader,
retreated in the face of charges
that he and other party bosses had
unfairly ganged up on Wallace. His
move changed the picture here,
throwing the contest wide open and
increasing Wallace's chances for re.
nomination. Illinois delegates will
support their senator, Scott Lucas
until he releases them.
Kelly backed away from Truman
saying that the Missourian doesn't
want the job" But national COM
mittee chairman Robert E. Hanne-
gan denied wildfire rumors that
Truman had withdrawn. Truman
told the United Press that he lis
not a candidate" but would accept
the nominations if the delegates
want him. The charge that the
convention was unfairly boss con-
trolled" was made against Henne-
gan, Kelly, Edward j. Flynn. leader
4. l.
Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City,
boss of his state.
Kelly said last night the Presi-
dent had told him to vote for Tru-
man for vice president. His en-
thusiasm Wilted and Illinois decided
to cast its first ballot vote for
Lucas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Geisha Girl Plays Siren
TO Defect Jap General

CHUNGKlNG, J u ~ 20.
(UP)-Routing of the elite
Japanese 18th Imperial di-
vision in northern Burma was at
tributed in Part to its generals rem
devious with a Japanese geisha girl
during the Chinese advance on the
strategic city of Kamaing.
Miss Yoshiko OTTAWA held the at
tention of Gen Sinichi Tanaka up
to the moment when the generals
aide informed him Chinest troops
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20

cabinet crisis to broadcast a Domt
report from Stockholm assertin
that the Nazis have concentrate
las many as 1000 super-robots /
western Jutland."
New York are we'll within the.
reach" said the Japanese ANNOUNCED
in an English-language broadca{
beamed to North America.
These projectiles," the ANNOUNCED
continued, ARE said to weigh I'd
tons each and to travel through IT,
air at the unthinkable speed OF IN
600 kilometers or $500 miles a
hour.
These projectiles are almost I'm
mune against enemy interrogation
aircraft owing to their operatis
heighth of 10000 meters and als
their high speed"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Soviiets
Push
On East
Armies Appear
Only 8 Miles
From Prussia
BIZ JOSEPH W. BRIGG

LoANDo4S, uly ~. WI
The Red Army hammered
at the gates of East Prussia
Thursday, Berlin indicated in re-
porting heavy fighting only eight
miles from the frontier, and far to
the south the Russians drove with
III sight of the great fortress city
of LWoW in lower Poland.
Nazi broadcasts reported that
Soviet assault forces mad pushed to
AugustCw, 38 miles northwest of
Grotno and on the border of the
SuWalki triange eight miles from
the soil of Germany proper.
Our troops see LWoW," the Rus
sian government newspaper Izvestia
was quoted in United Press dis
Patch from Moscow. Now our tanks
have started forward to attack the
city"
IWcW, the biggest German base
on the southern route to Berlin. al
ready was under fire from Soviet
artillery, and Red Army shock
troops were closing in for the final
assault on the nine-way rail hub.
North of Lwow the right wing
CT Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
Army of the Ukraine alreaCy was
swarming across the Bug river into
the part CT Poland from which
Adolf Hitler launched the invasion
OF Russia
Moscow and Berlin reports agreed
That Soviet armies were driving for
ward in all key sectors of the bat
tletront from the upper Battles to
lover Poland, and threatening half
a c'ozen key bases vital to the nazi
defenSes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Bomb
Hits
Room
Blast Strikes
Group in
Close Farley

LONDON, July 20. (UP)-
The official German news
agency ID NIB announced
Thursday that Adolf Hitler
and II of his top military
and naval collabCrators were in
jured Thursday in an attempt on
the fuehrer's life when a bomb eX-
ploC ed during conference at the
fuehrer's headquarters.
DNB listed Hitler's injuries as
slight burns, bruises, and a light
CCnouSsion of the brain.
The weight OF the blast fell upon
a cluster of gold braided nazis
around him. They included, seven
generals and two admirals. Four
were wounded seriously and eight
others, among them Gen. Alfred
JoCl, chief of Hitlers personal mil
itary staff and an ardent nazi, eS-
cared with minor injuries.
Radio Berlin subsequently charged
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Curtis Mayfie|d
Critically Hurt

Curtis Mayfield, former irriga-
ton district employe who has been
farming in the Bonds Corner dis
trict, was injured critically early
Thursday when hay grader ran
over him.
About $50 a. m. Thursday Nav
field was driving q truck pulling a
hay grader along the highway near
Bonds Corner. He fell from the
truck, friends said, and wheel of
the grader passed over his body
He was taken to a hospital in Ell
Centre. His condition was said to
be critical.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Chinese Advance
In Yunan Area

CHUNGKING, July 20. UP) =
Chinese forces continued their as
sault on the Yunnan stronghold OF
Pingka Thursday after routing a
column Of japanese troops attempt
ing to reinforce the Pingka garri
son Tuesday, a Chinese high COM
mand communque said Thursday
Meanwhile other Chinese forces
made Slight gains against the be-
sieged Japanese at Myitkyina after
taking more than 80 Jap prisoners
Tuesday. Chindit troops repulsed
a strong enemy attempt to retake a
strategic hill position north of
Taungni, the communique said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
Four
Face
Count
Wes+morland Is
Brawl Scene:
Man in Hospital

Complaints were issued in
the district attorneys office
in Ell Centre Thursday
against Bud Keesee, former
city councilman CT Westmorland,
lis brother, Lee Keesee, his half
brother, Cecil Swearinger, and
John Guess, brother of Bill Guess,
former chief of police of Westmor-
land.
They were charged with resisting
an officer, Chief of Police Oliver
Quick of Westmorland, when he at
tempted to stop a fight in saloon
and cafe in the north-end city We'd
nesday night.
HIP BROKEN
Meanwhile Stewart Smith, pro-
prietor of the salUon and cafe was
in an ambulance en- route to coast
hospital for treatment of a broken
hip suffered, investigating Officers
said, in melee started becaus.e he
decided to close up his place for the
night and askd the patrons ito leave
Deputy District Attorney Don Bit
lei said Chief Quick told him that
But Keesee apparently resented
Smiths order for patrons to leave.
he chief said Keesee grabbed
Smith and started to pull him
across the bar. Quick stepped up
behind Keesee, Quick said, and told
him he was under arrest. Then the
officer declared the other Keesee,
SWearinger, and Guess jumped in
to the fight.
Guick'S sap stick and gun were
sait' % have been taken from him
and ne was badly beaten. Chief
Suick was able to be about Thurs
day tut Smith was said to be in a
critical condition.
POLITICAL ROW
WeStmorland residents, it was
said, expressed the opinion that the
fight was a part of a battle between
warning political factions for con-
trol CT the city government anG
policies in the municipality.
Bitter said the investigations had
just started and he planned to take
statements from all concerned in
the affair.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20
y AMBlINe
u EPORTER
Universal Language

Universal Language
Pat Patton used as many ges-
lures and made as many faces as
q Frenchman while directing a
crew of MeXicans putting in water
mains in eastside Ell Centre.
The Mexicans couldn't speak
Americanese and Pat couldn't speak
Mexican. They all made gestures,
pointed, and made faces fit to kill.
They got along fine.
Pat ended c:.e oil these deaf and
dumb shows one day, crawled into
his car, started the motor, and be-
gan to back. Staring straight ahead
in a trance, Pat backed his car
into a six. foot ditch. Only the
nose of the car peeked out of the
ground.
The MeXicans began to laugh in
Mexican. They fairly had convul-
sons of mirth. Pat sWore in Amer
icanese as he craWled out of the
ditch and contemplated the status
of his car. The MeXicans hoWled
with glee as they took hold of the
Continued on Pg. ., Col, g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-20

expected to make a strong stand
from the north bank in defense of
Pisa.
The drive to the Arno was ac-
companied by advances all across
the Allied line to the Adriatic.
where armored troops of the eighth
army thrust inland to establish a
bridgehead across the Esino river,
10 miles northwest of newly-cap-
tured Ancona.
The drive gave the eighth army
troops a solid siX-mile front on the
south bank from the mouth of the
river. The main forces which cap
tured Ancona pushed ahead three
miles against stiffening opposition
as they approached the German
gothic line.