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The Apache sentinel., 1944-04-14
A Wrong Impression

There are still lot of people who have the
wrong impression of War Bonds and their pur-
pose .
The purchase of War Bonds or the-authori
zation of class A or class B. deduction is
taken by some people to that they
giving donating their money to the govern
ment for the war A grin and bear it attitude
is very prevalent.
In order that the people will better under.
stand the purpose of war bond purchases, either
cash or payroll deductions, the following facts
are revealed:
|. You are not giving your money you
lending it at specified rate of interest.
g. The government will return $500 for
every $500 you invest in War Bonds.
3. Your money is as safe as your govern
ment and if the Nazis or Japs take over,
your money isn't worth anything anyway
4. By investing your money in War Bonds
instead of letting it burn a hole in your poe
ket you are keeping down the cost of living.
5. After the war is over and peace is de-
clared you will have little nest egg to start .
your road back to normal.
Remember you are lending your money,
not giving it, and every bit you loan shortens
the war by putting into our soldiers hands and
those Of our Allies the proper weapons to de-
feat the Axis.
Guy o. NENDELL
Civilian War Bond Officer
The Apache sentinel., 1944-04-14
Soeo of urIouqh- Happy WAC

SIX months in Fuachuca-furlough arriving fast
Papers in the office-going home at lastl
Two hours to bed check-what am | do?
All these chores before mel them through.
This night for seepnghoughts wildly straying;
Will tomorrow NEVER come? Through the night m praying
That III make the train that the journey short;
That the folks there greet when get port.
When at last it morning, nohings left undone-
Now make the station: Got get there the
There's G.I. driver-I know he understand
This furlough happy look and give a hand
With these bags which weigh Cor is magnation?) ?)
Aboard at last! The train just crawls along the track
q know could walk faster my home and back
All my thoughts while travelling must be deleed
But, bye and bye the tresome journey is comp pleted.
What No red for the luggage? No greeting with kiss?
Boy friends all in the Army. Did come home for THIS?
The Apache sentinel., 1944-04-14
An Easter Message
By COL. EDWIN N. HARDY
Post Commander


Easter is the most significant day in the cal
endar Of the Christian world 1t represents the
power of righteousness over evil. 1t represents
the power Of everlasting life over death and
despair 1t was this thought that inspired the
words
oh, death where is thy sting,
Oh, grave where is thy victory?"
Easter day celebrates the resurrection Of
Hope-the power to rise on our dead selves
as stepping stones to higher things. Where
there is hope there is no life = but death
cannot exist where there is hope.
The world today is bowed down with the
deepest dependency and despair. No pagan
or heather gods have ever demanded the toll
of human sacrifice equal to that now being
given in the gigantic struggle in which we are
engaged. Say what we may, believe as we
please, to what form the everlasting life
shall take, as far progress in this world
and this life is concerned, there is no solution
to our dilemma except through the teachings
of the Man who crucified on the cross,
but rose from the dead as a symbol Of hope
to all mankind.
Therefore, in spite of the gloom in which
we are engulfed there exists in the hearts of
men the universal hope for new world in
which we shall find better solution of the
problems of human relations.
The world today is indeed dark and it is
only through hope and faith that we can see
any light at all. Perhaps we are cropping in
era which represents the darkness just be-
fore new dawn of peace; or that we are
struggling in the storm just preceding the calm
of better civilization. Notwithstanding the
disappointing record of the progress of hui
manity since Christ pointed the way over two
thousand years ago, it is still only through the
power of the Man of Galilee that the world
finds its strength and capacity for the hope of
things to come when this mad struggle is ended.
We believe here at Fort Huachuca and the
world believes that better times are coming
after while
The practical significance of this particular
Easter day depends upon how much you and
willing to give of ourselves to make
hopes come true. High sounding words are
only ideas and ideals. 1t is true that these
give us direction-but movement along the
way of salvation can only come from DEEDS
duties well and willingly performed.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-04-14

WAC Shirley B. Jones.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

spoke smen in Berlin, refusing to
deny the story, told Swedish news
men only that it had not been con-
firmedD
All accounts of the incident still
were second hand and allied official
sources had no definite confirma-
ton, but Frenchmen who were in
this sectiCn during the enemy occu-
patton said the Germans themselves
seemed convinced the erStWhile
Desert Fox was dead.
A careful mitigation failed to
produce any trace of the French
nurse who was supposed to have
cared for Rommel just before his
death and Monsieur LeJune, the
mayor CT CaniSy, said he had no
knowledge of Rommel having been
tr ated in a German military hos
pital in this town.
One fact emerged from the vary
ing accounts-that Rommel has
been conspicuously absent from all
German propaganda for more than
week. 1t appeared certain the
story to the effect that he had pre-
sided ever staff meeting in Percy
last week. which was told to allied
authorities by nazi prisoner, was
completely untrue.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

LONDON, July 81. (UP)
Allied sources in Ankara
told the United Press Mon
day that Turkey was about to break
off diplomatic relations with Ger
many, and might do so within "a
hours.
(The passage of the report
through the tight Turkish censor
ship appeared to put it in the semi
official class as the most authentic
version SO far of a number of fore
casts that a major decision by the
Turks was approaching
United Press correspondent Leon
Kay reported from Ankara that AL
lied quarters said a rupture of Tur-
kish-German diplomatic relations
was imminent"
Turkey is taking the initiative,
possibly within "a hours, according
to reports current in diplomatic
circles this morning, Kay reported.
(The German Transocean news
agency was quoted by the FEC as
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Migratory Camp
Tenants Wait
Moving DeadIine

BRAG-,ETY, July 81. tSpeciaD-
Dazeo and bewildered, SO families
awaited the deadline at midnight
Monday to move from the migra-
tory workers camp under notice
that water services would be shut
off at that hour and under eviction
orders by the United States govern
ment. Six families had managed to
locate trailer spots and Shacks Mon
day and had moved out. With no
place in sight, the other families
just wait.
AT noon Monday members of the
BraWley city council announced
they hao had no word from Wash
ington concerning payment of the
delinquent water rentals, on which
the abandonment of the camp hing
eS. The city served notice July first
that service would be discontinued
August /. The government agency
in charge of the camp served evict-
ion notices a week ago
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Re ports Insist
Romn1eI Is Dead

CANISY, France, July 81. (UP)-
An unofficial inve stigation cen
Quoted among French civilians and
captured German soldiers Monday
tended to confirm reports that Nazi
field marshal Erwin Rommel was
seriously wounded by a bomb or
gunfire from strafing allied plane
more than a week ago and may
have died of his wounds.
All available evidence compiled in
this recently German-held section
of Normandy points to the proba
bility that Rommel was wounded
and p rhaps killed on July 10 or 20
when an allied flier, unaware of
his prize target. sWooped down on
the German commanders car near
LiSieuX anG prayed it with high
explosives and cannon fire.
LOCATIONS DIFFER
Reports spread among French
civilians by Germans said Rommel
died several days later, one account
locating the place of his death at
Livarot; another, at a hospital in
Bernay.
(The reports that ROmmeI had at
least been injured were supported
by United Press dispatches from
Stockholm which said Germ n
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
US. Reduces Construction
Of Subs as Needs Drop

ate navy statement said, land
CORRESPONDENCE limit the future
hunting grounds for our submarines
Therefore, the number of submaa-
rines which we can proiitably en-
ploy will be correspondingly re-
duced."
The navy said the reduction will
be accomplished by cancelling start
OF construction on number of
submarines which were scheduled
for completion toward the end of
the building program.
while some adjustments in the
working forces in the six submarine
building yards will be involved, the
submarine completion schedule will
be maintained at present levels
through the next seven or eight
months, the navy said.
The navy emphasized that the
men and women released in the
next few months can be employed
advantageously on other parts of
the navy shipbuilding and repair
programs. The number of workers
to be released was not specified.
American submarines have ac-
counted for more than $500, 900
tons of Japanese shipping sunk since
the beginning of the war-over
one third of Japan's merchant
fleet at the beginning OF the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
New U.S.. Weapon
Out Japs

Ill a furious campaign aided by
a devastating secret weapon put to
use for the first time, the marines
took Tinian town, where most of
the islands $4,000 civilian popula-
ton was concentrated, and swept on
to compress the remaining enemy
forces on the island into a pocket
estimated in front line dispatches
to be an area of from two to five
square miles.
Details of the weapon, even
whether 1t is dropped by plane, fired
by Warship or artillery, were with
held, out Clinton Green, in front
line dispatch for the combined AL
lied press said it was truly fearful
and it was doubtful whether any,
one could live within a hundred
foot radius of its target.
No estimate has as yet been
placed on the size of the enemy
force trapped at the southernmost
tip of Tinian, but LeatherneckS were
cleaning out the enemy nests of
resistance which still form strong
rear guards. They had no alterna-
tive but to surrender or make last
ditch stand as the marines pressed
them against the sea.
Admiral Chester w NimitzS latest
communique made no mention of
the civilian population, almost
wholly Japanese. 1t was recalled,
that however, during Saipan island
campaign civilians retired with Jap
anese troops and in the final stages
emerged from caves and fox holes
to surrender.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

: To the northwest, and the enemy re-
port of Granville's capture undoubt-
edly was correct.
BREAK NAZI GRIP
Lieutenant General Omar NJ.
BradleyS first army and Lieuten-
ant General Miles c. DempSey's
second army were pumping heavy
blows into the entire western half
OF the Normandy front, breaking
the German grip on strong points
and battering the enemy back to
new sectors.
Almost as significant as the Am
erican landslide was the British adj
vance in the Cannont sector, where
a new attack had over-run Hill 3O8,
its 1000 feet the greatest elevation
thus far achieved by the Allies in
Normandy, and drove some miles
farther into Galet, six miles be-
low Caumont. ,fessi .,.
The easternmost American troops
and Westernmost British forces
swung toward each other from Tor
igny-Sur-V and st. Martin Les
BeScaes and were nearing a junction
which would carve out a pocket of
Germans to be mopped up at will.
IMPORTANT POINT
The Avranches bridgehead across
the river See was regarded at head
quarters as extremely important.
Its establishment in force was be-
lieved to have shattered and chance
the grogsy German left wing had of
seizing a foothold anywhere near
the present coastal positions at the
base of the Norman peninsula.
Bradley, whose initiative has
sparkleo throughout the break
through drive which wrecked the
German positions in western Nor
mandy, could be expected to exploit
his new advantage quickly, moving
up infantry and artillery to strength
en- the spearhead while tanks fam
ned out south and southeast.
To the east other American forces
bypassed Torigny-Surjavire and
pushed on across the Torigny- -Cau-
mont highway down the railroad
to the southeast. They took the
hamlets of La Readiere and Lo
Frectiere, within a couple of miles
of the British right flank. While
the Anglo American junction was
reported prospective, some sources
believed { already had been affected.
The effect of :ne moves was first
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Searchers Find
Crash Bodies

LUKE FIELD, Ariz., July 81. CUP)
"A band of $50 Luke Field enlisted
men Monday were combing the pre-
cipitouS slopes of the Wooded Tower
mountains for the body of a fourth
officer after discovery late Saturday
of the mangled bodies of three Of
ficerS missing since three ATS
training planes crashed four months
ago
A searching party brought the
bodies out Saturday after climbing
5000 feet up the mountain where
the planes crashed and burned.
The dead were identified from
dental records as:
Second Lieutenant John l.. HesSe.
Jr., 20, Eugene, Oregon.
Second Lieutenant Harold f.
Drinkman, 20, Clarksville, Iowa.
Second Lieutenant William T.
Johnson. Little Rock, Arkansas.
Missing was Second Lieutenant
James M. Arkridge, l9, Memphis,
Tenn.
The three planes took off together
on March 25 on a routine training
flight. An extensive search at the
time failed to disclose the wreckage
of the planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Turkey Reodies
Move to Allies

saying that a talk between German
ambassador Franz Won Papen and
Turkish premier Sukru Saracoglu
has been postponed until Tues
day.~
After Ankara dispatches predicted
a diplomatic break between Turkey
and Germany, Berlin newspapers
said that the Turks would cede air
and naval bases to the Allies.
The Turkish governments deci-
sion was expected to be revealed to
editors of Turkish newspapers at
an urgent meeting called at Ankara
for Monday, but presumably will
not be announced until after the
grand national assembly meets
Wednesday.
Baron Franz Won Papen, German
ambassador to Turkey, has warned
German residents and visitors to be
prepared to leave Turkey on short
notice and some already have left.
German diplomats Istanbul, Adana
and elsewhere in Turkey were re-
ported to have left their posts and
entrained for Ankara.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Bombs
Rok ke
Europe
5000 American
Planes Hit
Munich, PIoesti

LONDON, July 81. (UP)
An estimated 5000 Ameri-
can warplanes struck a shat
tering two-Way blow at Axis
Euro today, smashing
from the west at Munich and
other enemy targets in France
and Central Germany and from the
south at Romania's bomb-scarred
oil refineries in Bucharest and
Ploesti.
The u. S. 9th air forces British
based raiders, 2200 or more strong,
spearheaded the tWo-Way assault,
unloading some 1900 tons of high
explosives and fire bombs on Mum
ich, bottleneck point on Germanys
main nOrth-south railway network.
MAKE WIDE SWEEPS
Other diversionary forces slashed
at enemy airfields in France and
unidentified targets in Central Ger
many. The Nazi DNB news agency
said Augsburg, 35 miles northwest
of Munich, was attacked.
simultaneously, the U. S. 18th air
force hurled some 500 Flying For
tresses and Liberators UP from
Italy under a strong fighter escort
to blast and burn the sprawling oil
refineries and storage depots in
southern Romania.
One attacking wing touched off
huge fires in the Prohova refinery
and the Morgasaia depot at Buchar-
est, while a second sprayed tons of
high explosives and incendiaries
across the Targoviste tank storage
area, the Creditul refinery and a
third unidentified target at Ploesti,
The British-baSed assault on
Munich was the 9Th air forces 18th
major strike at Germany this month
and the fifth blow in the past three
Continued ON Pg. 2, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Blast Victims
Rites ARRANGED

PORT CHICAGO, Calf, July q
CuP)-Religious and military me
mcrial services were held here Sun
day for 322 Servicemen and civilian
killed in the July II explosion dis
aSter
While $50 friends and relatives OF
the men killed in the explosion and
more than 1000 navy and marine
personnel faced toward the direc-
ton in which two ammunition shin;
exploded. services were read by
chaplains representing the Prot.
estant, Catholic and Jewish faiths.
A squad of marine riflemen fired
a volley, and navy plane dipped
down over the calm waters of the
bay and scattered flowers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
Strikers Halt
Output at
Bearing Plant

SAN FRANCISCO, July 81. (UP)
machiniSts at the Federal Mogul
bearing plant halted production
Monday of turbine and reduction
gear units at the Joshua Hendy iron
works at Sunnyvale, California, and
threatened continued production of
engines in other plants throughout
the nation.
A spokesman at the Hendy plant
said work on equipment for C-3
and CA navy vessels already has
been halted because of lack of bear
ings. Production of diesel generator
sets for 40OU-ton cargo ships will
b stopped Wednesday unless new
supplies CT bearings were received,
he said.
Srokesmen at Atlas Imperial Die
sci Co., Oakland, California, said
work on some types of diesel units
will be curtailed this week unless
bearings were received from Federal
Mogul. where agents of AFL Ma
chinists Union 68 ordered members
to cease work Friday because the
company defied the union overtime
ban by permitting members to work
overtime.
The Hendy spokesman said near
stoppage of bearing production un-
doubtedly was felt by factories on
the Atlantic coast, such as Baldwin
Locomotive Works, producing en-
gines for landing craft and other
vessels.
The IA machinists en- the job at
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

Siege
Starts
Main Russian
Forces at
Ci+y's Suburbs

LONDON, July 81, CUP)
The Berlin radio said the
Red army hurled a powerful
attack at Praga, Warsaw
suburb on the east bank of
the Vistula, and the German high
command admitted the loss OF
Kaunas, prewar capital of Lithuania
and last keystone base before East
Prussia.
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Won OIL
berg, Nazi military commentator.
said maSsed Soviet forces attacked
at Parga in an attempt to break
through to Warsaw proper, directly
across the Vistula but a German
counter-blow broke up the on
slaught.
FIGHTING CONTINUES
I'm The whole area of the Vistula
bend, fighting continues with the
same violence" Won Olberg said, in
dicating that the Red army had
wheeled up it's main forces for the
final assault on the Polish capital.
Kaunas, AZ miles east of East
Prussia, was the Lithuanian capital
until the Soviets shifted it to Wilno.
This city of 10000 and captured
Grodno to the south were the watch
dog bastions of the direct approach
es to East Prussia, now laid open
for the drive reaching within artil-
lery sound of the frontier.
Moscow had reported Kaunas vir-
tually besieged, with the capture
of outposts half dozen miles from
the city proper on three sides.
NAZIS WAIT OFFENSIVE
The German TransOcean agency
interrupted a broadcast of the daily
war communique to quote a Nazi
military commentator as saying that
the German "strategical retreat is
in the last phase of the defensive
conduct of the war in the east.
After that the offensive conduct of
the war will begin"
From neither Berlin nor Mos
cow, however, came any sign that
the decimated German army Of the
eastern front was in any shape to
undertake a stand against the Rus
sian forces sweeping westward.
Even as the TranSocean agency
admitted that Soviet forces were
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
D AMBlINe
NEpoRTER
Official Tester

Official Tester
"Ah, that's fine" Don HaWes in
the agricultural conservation office
congratulated himself upon his
ability as a swivel chair fixer He
had successfully oiled the thing un-
til it cidnt squeak. mot a squeak
left" he Dragged as he leaned back
and suuirmed around in the squeak
er. You try it, he said to Betty
Pollard.
Betty obligingly tried the chair,
which emitted a resounding squeal.
whats this?" pu2zlec Don. get
ting out the oil can again. He sat
down and tried it out. No squeak.
He bounced up and down. No squeak.
Try it now," he directed Betty.
She sat down and the chair squeak
&c again This time Don got out
dhe oil can plus slide rule, plus
a screWdriver and an ouija board
Now" he muttered through his
Continued on page 2, col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
.Cu|tisfs Lose
In Court Edict

LOS ANGELES, July 81. CUP) -
Conviction of the Jehovahs Wit
nesSes fer disturbing the peace in
a downtown hotel was upheld Mon
day by the appellate department of
superior court.
The court ruled that constitution
al guaranty of free speech and re-
ligion cannot be interpreted to en-
title persons to invade the privacy
and rest of others.
Grace Vaughan and Leon F..
Scheerer had been convicted in mu-
nicipal court of pounding on doors
in a downtown hotel on a Sunday
morning loudly endeavoring to i'm
press their religious views on the
occupants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

ROME, July 81. (UP) =
German troops reeled back
from their last hill defenses
less than five miles southwest OF
Florence Monday after losing heav-
ily in men and armor in a series
of desperate counterattacks that
failed to crack the British siege
lines below the city.
The bloodiest fighting ragged
around the mountain town of San
Michele five miles southwest of
Florence, where veteran New Zea-
land troops stood fast under day
and-night rain of German counter
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

PEARL HARBOR, July 81
(UP)-American marines be-
gan a battle of annihilation
Monday against the remaining jap
anese forces who were compressed
on the southern tip of Tinian ISL
and, while on Guam U. S. planes
operated from the important air
field on Orote peninsula and supply
ships steamed into the completely
cleared Apra harbor naval anchor
age.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
yunk Sees Ndzi
General Killed

with red collar tabs on his uniform
standing outside a farmhouse near
the armored column outlining a
plan of attack to his officers.
He was a big shot because every
man he'll -Hitlered him and clicked
their heels, including the colonels,
the doughboy said.
Then our planes dived down and
their was terrific series of ex-
plosions. They were strafing the
Germans in nearly every direction
and 1 saw a piece of shrapnel hit
the general in the forehead. He
staggered and then stumbled away
alone"
A search party was sent out Mon
day morning to recover the generals
body for Identification purposes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31

and their heaviest armor into ths
battle prodigally.
Official reports indicated however
that British ground forces backetl
up by low-flying attack boribers,
were giving the enemy savage
beating and taking heavy toll of
German lives and armor.
The Nazis gave up their assault
on San Michele after a last dea-
perate night thrust during which
force OF giant Cotton Tiger tanks
and motorized infantry su ;ceeded
i'm breaking into the town, only 10
be hurled out again by the defend
ing New Zealanders.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
MexicaIi Grocery
Suited by Fire

Fire of undetermined origin
swept the Garcia grocery store at
Mexicali late Saturday. cutting the
inside CT the concrete building. All
stock and fixtures were consumed
with an estimated loss of up to $685.
600. Some damage resulted when
the flames spread to the Garcia
Curio shop next door. Calexico fire
men responded to the call for help.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-31
WITH u. s. 2nd ARMOR-

WITH u. s. End ARMOR-
ED DIVISION. France, July
81. CUP)-A German gener-
al commander of either the 18th
SIS Elite guard division or the
243rd infantry, was reported Mon
day to have been killed by Allied
bombing planes while attempting to
rally his troops for a stand against
the onrushing Americans in western
Normandy.
News of the Nazi commanders
death came from doughboy of the
second armored division who made
his way back into the American
lines after having been captured
near st. Denis LIE Cast.
The soldier said he saw a general