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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

,r LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.
UP)-Robert Cecil Ham,
18-year-old navy deserter
freed from Inglewood Jail a week
ago by two machine-gun armed
friends, was captured early We'd
nesday as he attempted to rob a
service station, police reported.
A second member of the trio,
which left a trail of crime through
the area in the wake of ther spec
tacular jail break, was arrested
Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona. He
was j. T. Nettle, "a, AWOL soldier.
Charles Handy Adams, 20, also
an army deserter and asserted
"brains" of the Junior Dillinger"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Federal CHARGE
Faces 5. F. Pair

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 9. CUP)-
A San Francisco physician and a
former film studio guard were in
federal custody Wednesday charged
with illegally wearing the uniforms
Of army colonels.
Dr. Charles Kelley, 81, San Fran
cisco, was arrested after spending
a gay evening at Sunset Strip
nightclub, according to U. S. Attor-
ney Charles H. Carr. He gave no
explanation for the asserted imper-
sonation, officers said.
John Alternately Rodell, AZ, was
arrested in Fresno while apparent
ly enroute to San Francisco. Rodell
told officers he thought the uni
form might help him get job.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

'eS 10 the LatVlan capital.
Front dispatches said the 1st and
2nd Soviet Baltic armies already
have won the first round by smash
ing the most powerful German at
trap, and by knocking out more
than three German divisions in a
fighting advance across the Aiviek-
stes river 65 miles southeast of Riga.
TO GO BY LAND
Informed military observers said
the Germans Baltic armies appar-
emily have decided against an at
tempt to escape by sea and intend
to fight it out on land. The eventual
collapse and destruction of the
enemy units is certain, they said.
Heavy German counter attacks
slowed or halted Soviet advances
all along the central and southern
sectors of the vast eastern front,
but the 1st Ukrainian army ex-
tended its bulge across the Vistula
river some lis miles below War
saw and with the End army widened
the Russian arc paralleling the
Czechoslovak border to 18O miels.
See-SaW battles continued with
out decisive change both in War;
saws eastern suburb of Praga and
on the immediate approaches to
East Prussia with the Germans
fighting a 'do-or-die" struggle to
protect their eastern frontiers.
To the south, Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's lst Ukrainian army ex-
tenc ed its bridgehead on the west
bank of the Vistula below Warsaw
with advances of three to six miles
along a 30-mile front. One column
cut the Sandomierz-O -OstroWiec high
way at Wloslow, while others cap
tured Samorzec, four miles south
of Sandomierz, and Korytnica, 25
miles southeast of Kielce.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
YANkS PRESS WITHIN 81 MILES OF PARIS
American Planes
Bomb Budapest.
Stuttgart Plants
Heavy Bombers
Hit Hungary
From I+aIy Base

LONDON, Aug. 9. (UP)-
More than 1,500 American
warplanes defied bad wealth
er and fierce enemy fighter opposi-
ton Wednesday to bomb the Ger
man railway hub and industrial
city of Stuttgart, while 500 heavy
bomberS based in Italy attack an
OF refinery, an aircraft factory and
two airdromes in the vicinity of
Budapest, Hungary.
Liberators in the fleet from Italy
attacked the oil refinery, second
largest in Hungary, at Almas Fuzito
on the Danube river, 80 miles west
OF Budapest. Flying FortreSseS
smashed the Messerschmitt fighter
plane assembly plant at Gyor be-
tween Vienna and BuC apest.
The fleet from Italy encountered
no enemy fighters, but the forma-
tions from England met the first
serious opposition the LuftWatfe has
offered for days.
A fleet of $50 Flying Fortresses
and LiberatorS, escorted by $50
Thunderbolt, Mustang, and Light
ming fighters, encountered at least
100 German Single-engine fighters
one area in Germany.
The raid on the Stuttgart area
was made in bad weather, and came
as German news sources reported
other allied formations had plunged
} deep into central Europe.
During the night, RAF Mosquito
bombers pummeled the rail and
communication center of Cologne,
In Germany, with two-ton block
busters while four-engined Hall
faxes attacked several flying bomb
launching sites in northern France
and blasted three large German
fuel dumps in France.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Clippers Dead
Mounts TO II

HAVANA, Aug. 9. CUP)-The of.
flee of the Pan American Airway,
at Antilla, Cuba, said Wednesday
that II passengers were known tc
be dead, as divers began removing
bodies from the four-motored clip.
per which crashed in Nipe bay al
Antilla during a take-off Tuesday
for Miami.
Six bodies were recovered. Four
teen persons, including five crew
members. escaped from the plane.
The accident was the worst il
Cuban aviation history. The clipper
en- route from San Juan, Puerto
Rico, to Miami, was turned over
by high wave while attempting to
take off.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

gang, was still at large.
Ham, apprehended after young
woman noticed him break the glass
in the service station door and
called police, said he had broken
with the gang and was going it
alone"
Nettle had told police in Phoenix
that he was forced by Adams to
take part in freeing Ham from
Jail. The pair also released Robert
Carr, Hams cell-mate, and locked
the Jail attendant in the empty
cell. Carr later surrendered to Off
GERS after he escaped from the trio,
which he said held him captive at
gunpoint.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Trucking Strike
Awaits Action
At White House
WalkOut of $4,000 Drivers
And Freight Men
Out of Control, Reported
BY UNITED PRESS

Operators and Truckers in
the m i d west Wednesday
awaited presidential action
to halt a rapidly-spreading
transportation strike raging
completely out of control" in
eight states, tying up er-the-road
shipments of vital war materials.
All estimated $4,000 drivers and
freight handlers already have join
ed the Walkout, precipitated by fail
ure of approximately 125 firms to
grant a seven-cent hourly wage in
crease approved by the war labor
board, and a union spokesman said
there was danger the strike would
spread to include 10000 workers,
1900 OTHERS OUT
/ Elsewhere in the United States
and Canada, more than $4,000 war
workers were out on strike making
total of $4,000 idle because of la
Dor disputes.
The truck strike tied up over the
road shipment of freight in Mis-
souri,, Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas and North and South
Dakota.
Thomas F. Flynn, acting presi-
dent of the International Brother
hood of Teamsters (AFL), said at
indianapolis that the situation has
gone completely out of control" and
the Walkout was spreading so rapid
ly that he could not keep abreast
of developments.
Flynn said the union would well
come government seizure of the
trucking lines.
CITES NEXT MOVE
Lou Hosking, secretary of the
Midwest Operators association, said
at Washington that the next move
in the strike would have to come
from the White House.
The facts in the case were pre-
sented to President Roosevelt Tues
day night by War Mobilization Di-
rector James F.. Byrnes and it was
expected that he would either issue
seizure order or appeal to the
companies and workers to comply
with war labor board directives.
Although the strikers promised
TO keep all war shipments moving,
Major Alec Baxter. chief of the
highway branch of the army trans
portation corps at Chicago, said
movement of war goods was bog
glng down at Omaha and Min
neapolis" because operators did not
want trucks to leave the terminals
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Ell CENTRIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
SETS OPENING SEPT. IL

Schools throughout the FL Centre
system will open for the fall session
on September l8 officials reminded
the public Wednesday.
Details as to the opening hours
and the length OF the sessions dur
ing the first week of school will be
announced later in the summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Marshal Tito
Visits Rome

VATICAN CITY, Aug. 9. CUP)--
Marshal Tito, leader of the Yugo-
Slavian Partisan forces, has ar
rived in Rome with his staff and
visited the Church cf st. Peter
Tuesday, the semiofficial Vatican
news agency announced WedneS-
6aV
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
LABORER DROPS DEAD
IN BRAWLEY STREET

Manuel Espanoza, SO, farm Ia
borer, died from heart attack on
the streets of BraWley Tuesday
night. He was rushed to doctors
office but nothing could be done
to revive him. He is survived by
his mother and sisters, all residents
of the Brawley area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

Japanese aircraft were damaged
and explosions and fires started
among ground Installations.
Night air patrols struck into the
Halmahera area in an attack on
an enemy convoy in Wasile bay.
A direct hit was scored on a 3000-
ton cargo vessel and a naval escort
was strafed.
Other heavy bombers carried out
a new attack on Yap island in the
western CarolineS Monday, drop
ping 81 tons of explosives without
interception Macarthur announced
yesterday that the Yap air base had
been neutralized in Sundays raid.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
GAS FRANCHISE EXTENDED

PHOENIX, ArIZ., Aug. y. IUPJ =
Phoenix voters Wednesday had ap-
proved by to l margin renewal
for 25 years of the gas franchise of
the Central Arizona Light and
Power Co. The franchise under
which the company operates would
not have expired until l947, but the
company requested renewal of the
pact at this time so they could pre-
pare for postwar expansion.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 8. CUP)-
U. S. marines and army troops
hammered the japanese into a tiny
portion of northern Guam Wednes-
day in the final phase of the cam
paign to retake the first American
territory seized by japanese in the
Pacific.
CLOSE IN RAPIDLY
The Americans were closing IN
rapidly on the beleaguered enemy
along the entire line across Guam,
advancing as muc has six and a
half miles at one point to press
them into an area of approximate
ly 18 square miles.
With mere than 10000 of their
dead already counted, the japanese
forces faced the almost certain
prospect of being cut in two by ma
rineS and soldiers who drove to
within less than a mile of Guam'S
northern shore at the center of the
front.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

flaXseed 0oan base) is $500 per
buShel fob. Los Angeles making
support price in Imperial Valley
around $285 per bushel. Support
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09

price, at or near parity. is to be
maintained by government for two
years following the close OF hostil-
ities.' Parity is now $287.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Showdown Battle
O pens to Drive
Nozis From Riga
Russ Begin EncircIins Movement
To Wipe Out Remnants Of 20
To 30 Divisions in Baltic Districts

MOSCOW, Aug. 9. (UP)-Two Red armies opened the
battle for Riga and frightened their encircemen Of the
remnants of 20 to 80 German divisions in the Baltic states
Wednesday with convergng drives through swamps and
forests the southeastern and southern approach
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
p AMBllNe
EpoRTER
A Sure Test

The conversation at the Harold
Atkins cabin in the mountains had
to do with juvenile delinquents.
What are juvenile delinquentS?"
puzzled Marlea, H.
You rascals are" laughed their
father.
I'VE are not" snapped Marea in
dignantly, we don't even like the
smell of beer"
Praises Due
The women of Imperial deserve
all kinds of praise and credit for the
splendid work they are doing in
supplying food and serving 1t at the
Ell Centro free canteen in the USO
club in El Centro.
They are as dependable and re-
liable as the sun. They are gen.
erous when it comes to donating
food. They always appear on time
when it is their day to officiate AT
the canteen. And remember the
great help the Imperial women
were in the surgical dressings sta
ton in FL Centro? Wonderful.
ai Others are coed, too, of course
but the Imperial women as group
= are something mighty special
Mixed Breeds
q understand that the rabbits
have been taken from the Farm
Bureau poultry department and put
in the livestock department" said
c. o. Hoober.
, Rabbits aren't livestock" snort
ed Baxter Loveland, thinking of his
, pigs,
They're not chickens, either"
said j. F.. Harshman.
- So the rabbits apparently will
d. have to be put in department of
their own.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 102, minimum
Wed. 7S; 5 am. Wed. 80, humidity
....79; noon Wed. SO, humidity SO; 5
pm. Tuesday 80, humidity 36.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-09
Americans Canadian
Breach Main Lines
Rail Junction
Of LeMans
Is Left Behind

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
AEF, Aug. 8. UP)-Gen. Dwight
ID. Eisenhower announced We'd
nesday night that he has moved
his allied supreme headquarters
from England to France.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
"His is it,. "
21 MARY LEWIS


very Glad to see Robert Wallace
James Cary Mike Bannar Percy Hughes Hughes Phil
Clarence Hammond Fred Shuck and all other soldiers home
or the holidays
Mr. Louis Mason overnight guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mason, Sunday and Monday
of the night closed not have been out
Sunday PaMor really swell affair." only too
many people about in time Saw Enestne Danfor
Jane Moss Margie Lewis, Margaret Campbell
Gertrude Yates Everete Evelyn Miller Rozetta Thomas
Thompson Ingram Clyde Johnson Jimmy
Jr eat Crockett and great many oers De
watching for will another dance at the
The Dick Manns Chubby Bradys Smiths and Robert
Paynes were of many holding house Sunday
Mr. entertained the following guests at
Christmas breakfast Monday Harold Mayes Mr. and
Mrs Harry Maye Smith, Mr. and Mrs Eddie
Robbins Hughes Lucille Thomas and your coumns
lovely breakfast was served enjoyable had by all!
Andy Clark, Jr, and Mrs Minnie Rhodes held open
house Monday . ,
ter, Mrs Vera Robbins.
Carl Wade ST. entertained for small group Oh
friends Saturday
for
Mr. and Mrs William Reddck for Minneapolis Athletic
Club employees and former employees
Have you seen Ckee You've heard the
dope this coming oke Chckee
falls solid daped dresses big hats long gloves etc.
To pick up the Es Rest sometime during the holidays
return after spending
Our New Year Resolutions
Chubby Brady-Make work every day.
Small-Drnk juice.
Gloria Gates-Read book-"How To Be a Good Wife.
Villa Booker-Catch husband.
Clyde Johnson-Make every trip
GLADYS Lott-Vsit in New York.
Hensey.
De Newman-Stay sweet as she is.
Banks-To make good wife,
Ann ann-Keep Dick straight
Arvada Lawrence-Keep her charming personality
Margaret Campbell-Keep her good looks
Phoebe Givens-Be a good mother.
Kitty Tayor-Wat for her hubby.
troubeSay out of other peoples business
Those tongues-Get clamps and stop telling lies
give and greater and to be of
service at all times.
Holiday Mr. Robert Clark of Midway to Chicago, Mrs.
Zephyr Turner to Chicago Flint c Mrs Lois Murphy to
Chicago and Covinth Miss.
Congratulations Dorothy Martin and &c James Makabe who
became Mr. and Mrs recently Dorothy expected home sometime
month.
Be sure to attend the Friday night Malory's
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
SPORTLIGHT

Porter is director of the Home
Service Association in Toronto,
Canada.
Well, out goes 1914 and in comes
1915, and as we gaze over the
calendar for the old year for out
standing features in the sports pa
rade, we find: Local interest has
been high. First came the inva-
sion of these parts by two fine
Negro teams, the Pittsburgh Craw-
fords and the Harlem Globe Trot-
tiers. Second was the winning of
the Sterling clubs golf tournament
crown, Clyde Johnson. Third, the
fine showing of the sepia boys in
the professional fights in both
towns. Fourth, the outstanding
performances in prep football of
such boys as Louis White, Paul
Ray, Frank Brown and Percy lack
airy, all of st. Paul, Earl Bowman,
Glenn Pullens and Freddy Vaughn
of the Mill City. Last but not
least is the interest shown in the
bowling alleys. The boys and gals
have been cracking the naples at
a fast clip in most of the alleys
throughout the two towns. Some
of the leading bowlers are: Harvey
Moss, Percy Hughes, Don Brady,
Vincent Owens, George Mundell,
John Williams, Martin Wedding
ton and John Banks.
Yes, dear readers, the year 1914
has seen many athletic achieve
ments. Here's hoping 1915 proves
as well.
Here's hoping and wishing you
the Happiest of a Happy New Year.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

in either duke. Sergeant Posto-
way of Minneapolis is just the lad
to give the Milwaukeean plenty of
scrap. In a recent fight in the Wis
consin city Van was the winner by
decision-and very close. Major
Jones the Kansas City sensation,
will also make an appearance on
the card. He is scheduled to take
on Eddie Simmons for six rounds
or less. Simmons halls from De-
troit. In the Majors last appear
ance here he got off the floor to
score a K.O.
This boy Jones, by the way, has
been picked by "The Ring" leading
boxing magazine, as one of the
coming boxers. The same maya
zine this month picks Austin's
pride, Jackie Graves, as one of the
coming 128-pounders. Graves, by
the way, will fight st. Angelo in
the double wind-up Friday night.
From all outward appearances and
dope it looks like another victory
for Graves.
Talk about Bowls: Well here's a
good one on the Spaghetti Bowl
This football game will be played
somewhere in Italy as the name
will indicate. The game will be
between the Fifth Army and the
18th Air Force. None other than
Dwight Reed will be playing with
the fifth Army squad. Dwight,
former University of Minnesota
great, will be holding down his
favorite right end position. Also
playing on the same squad will be
Big John Moody from Morris
Brown. Moody and Reed were
teammates on the Fort Knox, KY,
team months ago. We hope the
sepia lads have lots of luck and
fun. Gerald Porter, former
athletic director of Halle @. Brown,
is in st. Paul spending the holiday
season with Mr.. and Mrs. S. Ed
ward Hall, his wife's parents.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29

January: Jewel Alexander Sues
Pharmacy for Refusal of Service,
-. U. S. Attorney General Francis
Biddle Threatens to Quit Federal
Bar Association Because of Race
Ban. Rev. Francis Gilligan was
Credit Union Speaker. Fred
McCracken, Pioneer Business Man
and Civic Figure Dies in st. Paul
Thomas Brigham Dies.
Roland Hayes Refused Hotel Res
ervation by Hotel st. Paul.
w. B. dad" Walker, Insurance
Man Reelected President of Asso-
ciated Negro Credit Union.
M. P. Webster Raps Negro Press.
E. . st. Paul Ministers Urge Youth
to Better Public Conduct.
February: Publishers Confer
with Roosevelt on Race Aims.
Townsend CLIO Leader Praises Ne
gro Press in Local Interview.
Charge German Prisoners Treated
Better than American Negro Sol
diers in South. Bilbo Becomes
Mayor of Washington, D. C.
Roosevelt Asks Boilermakers to
End Color Bar. E. o. Pearce,
William Long Jack" jackson and
Fred Abbey, all we'll known Twin
Citians, Die. Congressman
Richard Gale, Only Minnesota Rep
resentative to Vote for Admins
tration Soldiers Vote Measure.
Twin Cities Observe Race Relations
Week. st. Paul YMCA Drops
Race Bar. St. Paul NAACP
Unable to Obtain Audience with
Congressman Mas. McDuff
Woodland, for Years Minneapolis
Business Man, Dies. Negro
Press Announces Plan for Annual
Newspaper Week.
March: Earl Lacy, TCOP guard
and former Minneapolis Club door
man, Dies. War Dept. Raped
for Failure to Use Negro Troops
in Combat. ;. Minneapolis YMCA
drops Race Bar, Accepts Negroes
in Full Membership. Charles L.
Horn named to FEPC by President.
Publishers Spend Two Days
at Great Lakes as Navy Guests.
. . Negro Child Delinquency in
st. Paul Shows Decrease. E. H.
Brother" Payne Dies. ]. T.
Wardlaw of Massillon, Ohio, Named
Minneapolis Urban League Secre-
tary. SPOKESMAN & RE-
CORDER Papers Attack MINNIE
APOLIS DAILY TIMES News
handling as Conducive to Interra-
cial Ill-Will. Burk Farrar Dead
April: India B. Allen, Minnesota
Woman Inherits $4,000 Re
publicans name S. Edward Hall
Presidential Elector for Third Time
A. Phillips Randolph DefeE
Boss Crump, Speaks in Memphis
Tenn. Frank Boyd Named
Democratic FL Presidential Elec.
or. Rev. S. E. Ware, Pastor
If Pilgrim Baptist Church Resigns
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-29
NEWS HAPPENINGS
IN 1914
Culled From This Puper's Headlines

roper S HeOoI1neS
Under Fire. :. Lillian Schofield is
First Full Time Minneapolis Public
Library Employee Assigned to
Main Library. Helen Scott
WEEDS Sergeant William Whiteside.
NAACP offers Ten Instances
of Mistreatment of Negro Soldiers
in Southland. Don Bonaparte
Former St. Paulite Named Acting
Manager of Huge Chicago Housing
Project.
May: Mrs. Maceo Littlejohn
Buried. K. C. Hotels and Res
taurants Bar Negro Methodist
Church Delegates. Mississippi
Chinese Protests to State Depart
ment Against States Attempt to
Force Chinese Children to Attend
All-Negro Schools. Artie Boyd
Discharged from Army. W.
Squire Neal Opens New Mime
apolis Funeral Home. Phillip
Randolph Speaks Here. Henry
Thomas Elected President Twin
City Federation of Settlements.
Archis West Dies. Abe Rennix
and Clyde Young Die. Louise
Bohanon Returns to Wheatley
House as Girls Worker. A.M.E. S
elect George w. Baber and John
Claiborne Bishops Amidst Politics
and Confusion. Congressman
Martin Dies of Texas Announces
He Will Not Seek Reelection.
Governor Ed Thye Addresses
Credit Union Celebration.
June: Kenny ("Puzzy'O Wallace
Dominates State Track Meet.
Restaurant Owner Fined $10O for
Refusing to Serve Mrs. Samuel L.
Ransom. FEPC Appropriation
Saved by Narrow Squeak, Seven
Minnesota Congressman Voted For
1t. Milwaukee R. R. Agrees
to Employ Negro Stewards.
Charles H. Miller Prominent Ma
tive Born st. Paul Man Dies.
Henry Bolts, Jr., Ordained.
Bishop John A. Gregg Describes
Overseas Visit to War Zones.
Col. Campbell Johnson of Selective
Service Here for Conference.
Ed Brown Honored for 25 Years
of Service at Blake School.
Publishers in New York Elect Cecil
E. Newman to Associations Exec
utive Board. :. Wendell L. Willkie
Calls on Republicans to Take Forth
right Stand on Negro. Dewey
Woos Newspaper Publishers Meet
ing in New York. FEPC Gets
by Senate by 80 to 81. Hilda
Moses Simms Twin City Girl Wins
Acclaim of New York Critics by
Stellar Stage Performance.
Minnesota Baptists Reflect Rev. A
F. Martin, Moderator. N. Y
Doctor Gives NAACP $1,000.
Republican Platform Supports
FEPC, Attacks Lynching and Poll
Tax in Strong Bid for Negro Votes,
July: Frank Boyd and Maceo
Littlejohn Appointed to Twin City
OPA Advisory Board. Percy
Hughes New Commander Johnnie