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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
June Sessi ions
Acts Now Law

to negotiate the purchase of sites
needed in carrying out a $l65, ,000,-
000 postwar construction program.
Its members are the directors of
finance and public works, and the
real estate commissioner.
Individual appropriation bills
authorize the new board to spend
$l,OOO,00O to acquire sites for new
office buildings in Sacramento;
$85O,OOO for office building in Los
Angeles and $450,000 in San Fran
cisco; 100000 for site to enlarge
San Jose State College; $275,000 at
Fresno State College, and $4,000 at
San Francisco State; 100000 for a
new mental hospital, $4,O00000 for a
maximum security prison, and $500
600 for an epileptic hospital; $780,
900 for a site for a new governor
mansion and $500 for sites for
new state garages at Sacramento.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
81 jap Ships. SO
Planes Blasted

against the Japanese empire, were
the United States Third Pacific
fleet and the American-Austr
Far Eastern air force.
The attack on the Philippines by
WarshipS and carrier planes of the
Third fleet in a tactical operation
was the first of the war 1t was
commander by Admiral William F..
Halsey, Jr.
Steaming close to Mindanao, larg-
est and southernmost of the phil
ippines, Halsey's cruisers, destroyers
and carrier planes delivered the
most devastating single blow yet
struck at the japanese merchant
fleet last Friday.
At least SO cargo ships and small
craft were sunk or probably deS-
troyed-the greatest number ever
taken in any single operation of
this war.
Conservative unofficial estimates
placed the tonnage destroyed at
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brush and woods across the Our
river to catch the blunt outline of
the Siegfried forts.
Through his glasses it was easy
to discern the white concrete. But
in many cases the Germans had
painted the forts a dull green to
camouflage them.
We stood first on a gravel road
about 1900 yarGs from the German
border. Then behind protecting guns
our half track moved atop a hill
from which the forts showed up
even palmer
Directly across the river from US,
lying quietly in the sunlight as If
the war were a million miles away,
were two German villages. There
was no sign of smoke from the
chimneys, and both villages looked
almost lifeless.
This is the real Mccoy you're
looking at and no mistake-its the
Siegfried line we all have heard so
much about" said Major Gregg
Mckee of Bakersfield, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12

SACRAMENTO, Sept. II. CUP)--
Laws enacted by a special session
of the legislature in June embark
ing theStateS on its postwar con-
struction program and streamlinlng
the state war council became ef-
fecive today, 80 days after adjourn
ment of the session.
Richard j. Graves, director OF the
war council, announced appoint
ment of Toland McGettigan, for
merly district attorney OF Solano
county, as law enforcement officer
in the council organization.
Other measures which became law
today included appropriations oil
$4,000 for survey of the mineral
resources of the state and $4,000
for a study of the state school sys-
tenn.
Another establishes property ac-
QUESTION board which is authorized
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Bradley Named
To Hiqher Rank

WASHINGTON, Sept. IL. (UP)-
President Roosevelt Tuesday nomi-
mated Lieutenant General Omar
N. Bradley, commander of the
U. S. Twelfth Army group, to be a
permanent major general in recog-
milton of his outstanding accom-
plishments" in northern France.
The hard-hitting leader of Amer
ican armies now starting the battle
fer Germany holds the temporary
rank of lieutenant general but his
regular or line" rating is brigadier
general
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Maine COP Wins
In Landslide

Bangor, in the third district. Their
margins were approximately three
to one.
The Maine election has been call
ed a national barometer for the
November presidential elections
"as Maine goes, SO goes the nation"
has been the saying-deSpite the
1910 balloting which saw the Re-
publicans win overwhelmingly in
Maine in September only to lose the
presidential race in November.
Although Republican lea d ers
claimed the greatest margin of VIC
tory in history on the basis of Hill
dreth's lead of approximately $4,000
former Governor William Tudor
Care iner polled an $4,000 majority
in 1888
Mondays balloting was relatively
light compared with 1910. 1t fell
approximately 100000 votes short
of the 252,000 cast four years ago.
Hildreth will succeed Republican
Governor Sumner SeWall who is
retiring.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
yonks View Sie9fried Line
Without Nazis Firing

The officers of the group slowly
and carefully studied the woods
and terrain around the Nazi de-
fenses and offered ample targets
for any fingered German. But
not once was the observation inter
rupted.
Lieutenant Colonel Howard f,
Boyer, Akron, Ohio, who guided us
to the observation place, calmly
pointed out where to look among
the plowed fields, tangled under
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Accused Pastor
Freed on Bond

Rev. Robert Eugene Dunaway, 80
year-old Four Square Gospel church
pastor charged with statutory rape
and lewd and lascivious conduct,
was released Tuesday on $4,000 bond.
He posted bail in Imperial county
superior court in Eel Centre Tuesday
and shCrt time later was released
from the county Jail where he had
been held since his arrest in River
side August last.
The pastor was charged with
morals offenses against young
girl who was member of his con-
gregation while he was pastor of
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Quebec Conference Seems
Concerted Pacific Drive

QUEBEC, Sept. IL. (UP)
- President Roosevelt and
Prim me Minister Winston
Churchill held their first for
NAL business session Tues
day on new plans for the
final destruction of the Axis.
The President and the
Prime Minister met in their
quarters in the old Citadel
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12

Coincident with the disclosure
of the American invasion of Ger
many from the west, MoscoW's early
morning communique revealed that
patrols of the Third White Russian
army in Lithuania entered East
Prussia before dawn Monday on a
reconnaissance raid.
They crossed the Szeszupe river
about 40 miles southwest of Kaunas
after nightfall and shot up a de-
tachment of German border guards,
killing 16.
RAIDING PARTIES
Military spokesmen revealed that
similar raiding parties have been
operating on Prussian soil since
August II when General Ivan d.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12

overlooking the st. Lawrence
river this morning. and pre-
ared for a larger conference with
the Anglo American combined chiefs
of staffs this afternoon.
The basic subject of the confer
ences was the Pacific war. Plans
are expected to be made for a di-
rect assault on the Japanese home
land, and a unified command to
direct it.
White House Secretary Stephen
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12

T. Early, under questioning, said
that although the conferences were
pointed primarily at the Pacific, he
did rot know whether Chinese rep
resentation here had been sought.
He added, however. that the Chi
nese government would be kept in
formed up to the minute on the
proceedings here.
The President, the Prime Minis
ter, Canadian Prime Minister w. L..
Mackenzie King and their parties
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: While the advanced First army
spearhead was probing the fortifi-
cations before the Siegfried line,
other elements of Lieutenant Gen.
eral Courtney H. Hodges army to
the north were tanning out from
Liege. They seized a number of
points almost on the German 'front.'
ier, and smashed to within one mile
of the Dutch border near the great
fortress city of MaaStricht
MYSTERY SPOT IN 40
1t was in the extreme east tip of
Belgium below Maastricht that the
Americans seized Fort Eben Emael.
There the NaziS unveiled their
"Blitzkrieg in the west" in 1910 and
swamped the fort in a mysterious
manner never fully explained.
With Eben Emael and its adjac-
cent Notifications overrun, and
with Maastricht set up for frontal
assault, the barriers before the Ger
man frontier in the Aachen area
were crumbling.
The Nazis offered comparatively
light resistance at Eben Emael,
which was held strongly by the Bel
gians in the first phase of the war
but nevertheless toppled immed-
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12

PEARL HARBOR, Sept. y. CUP)
The unified strength OF Allied
naval and aerial might was leveled
Tuesday at the Philippines where
Warships, carrier planes and land
based bombers destroyed 81 Japan
ese vessels and SO aircraft in series
of attacks which Tokyo radio said
continued into the third straight
day.
Welded into one potent weapon
by Admiral Chester w. Nimitz and
General Douglas Macarthur in their
Joint and intensified campaign
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
RUSS TANKS P0|SE TO HIT EAST PRUSSIA
Troops
Advance Six Miles
'Ou+f|anked Nazis See Reich Under
Invasion First Time in Century;
Bombers Smash at Sieqfried Line

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF., Sept. II. (UP)
The first phase of the battle of the Segfred line opened
Tuesday when American troops outfanked it's outpost of
Trier in drive than six miles into Germany and
captured the mystery fort' Eben Emae on its northern
approaches.
United States Marauder and Havoc bombers heavily
pastered long stretch of the Segfred line between Aach
en- and Saarbrucken while American First army guns
pumped shells into Germany from newly positions
just west of the frontier.
Far to the west the French port of La Havre
reported have surrendered about British troops
of the Canadian First army giving the Allies control of
of the most valuable gateways to France
United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorre reported
a dispatch from Germany that American armored
division stabbng deeper the Reich after estab
fishing itself German soil in force in the first United
States invasion of Germany in history. e-~--f-
Supreme headquarters lacked further information on
the penetration of Germany which reported to have
flanked the ancient city of Trer and sprngboard
for full scale push toward the Rhineand.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Labor Shelter
Plans DELAYED

That construction of the war food
administrations FL Centre farm la
Dor supply center, located at Fair
field Drive between Main and Con-
mercial, has been stalled by "unfor-
seen circumstances" was disclosed
Tuesday by Stephen " delter.
architectural engineer In charge OF
construction.
I'VE had hoped TO pour founda-
tions this week" Gelter said. but
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
French and Yank
Troops Move
On BeIfort Gan

NOMc, oepC. IL. tUP)-Amerlcan
and French troops CT the Allied
Seventh Army famed out rapidly
as much as % miles beyond Dion
on broad arc in the region where
a junction had been made with
the right wing of the United States
Third Army to the north, headquar-
ters reported Tuesday night
The towns of Orville and Champ
little. 16 and % miles respectively
northeast of DijCn, fell to the ad-
vancing Allies. The Germans put
up little resistance, devoting their
main effort to the withdrawal back
into the Belfort Gap
French forces continued their
northern and northwestern advance
beyond Dijon. They occupied ST.
Seine L'Abbay, Valsuzonwn and
Cortivron without resistance.
The Americans advanced north
of the Saone river at many points
between Gray and VeSoul. Forward
elements reached Port Sur Saone.
seven miles northwest of Vesoul.
While the French were moving
up near the Swiss border, the
Americans struck 27 miles north
of Besancon to the rail and road
junction center of Vesoul, 80 miles
due west of Belfort, cutting off one
of the main escape routes of the
Germans caught in central France.
The French and American line
converging on Belfort, which is
only 20 miles from the German bor-
der, formed a 3l-mile arc from
Vesoul to Pont-de- where the
PoiluS were 16 miles from the pass.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
HOUSING PROJECT SOLD

LOS ANGELES, Sept. u. UP)-
The Bankers Life Co. of Des
Moines, Iowa, Tuesday bought the
S2,700,OO0 mortgage of the Wyvern-
wood housing project, largest pri-
vately-owned project on the coast,
federal housing administration Of
ficials announced. The project oc-
cupies over 70 acres of land and
contains 1902 residential units, tc-
falling 4425 rooms. 1t was con-
structed in 1899 and is owned by the
d. Herbert Hostetter estate.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Lewis Sounds Call
To Beaf Roosevelt

Cincinnati, O., Sept. IL. CUP) -
United Mine Worker President John
L. Lewis, charging that President
Roosevelt once had publicly kicked
every miner in the face" Tuesday
called for the Presidents defeat in
the November elections.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
BY ROBERT C. RICHARDS

ON He SIEGFRIED
LINE, Sept. II, 6:30 pm.
(UP)-A group of American
soldiers stood within 1000
yards of the concrete pill
boxes of the Siegfried line
Tuesday, but the Germans
did not fire a single shot at
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
d AMBlINe
(<EpoRTER
It's Obvious

It's Obvious
Frank WinsloW, Greyhound bus
driver who is as much a part of
FL Centre as the clock on the bank,
was the worlds most disgusted
man Tuesday.
A woman approached him with
tears in her eyes as he was about
to start his trip from Ell Centro
to San Diego.
I've got to get on this bus" she
begged. I'm a school teacher. I've
been at Willows and I couldn't get
from there to San Diego on the bus
They wouldn't let me on because
they were SO crowded"
I've got all I can possibly take
this load WinsloW said.
But my husband brought me
down from Willows to Ell Centro,' .
she walled, Just so I could get a
bus for San Diego"
Lady" frothed Winsloy, will
lows Is 80 miles from FL Centre.
Willows is 80 miles from San Diego.
Next time you Grive someplace to
take bus, drive to the nearest
one"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Powerful Troop
Force Moves
Across Borders
Fortress Guarding Fa+her|and Hit
In Drive ct Motorized Units,
Infan+rymen as Invasion Moves On

MOSCOW, Sept. II. (UP)-Waves of Soviet tanks and
nfanrymen attacked the fortress town of Lomzha Tues
day in drive threatening to roll into East Prussia which
already had been invaded by vanguards of powerful Rus
forces massed along the Prussian frontier
to the northeast.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-12
Poets Corner

Poets Corner
Katherine Dormann, who has
been pinch hitting as telephone op-
orator at the county court house in
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WEATHER ,

Maximum Monday 1O5, minimum
Tuesday "A; 5 am. Tuesday 76, hu-
midity 81; noon Tuesday 81, humid
ity so; 5 pm. Mon. 102, humidity AZ.
Evening star., 1944-10-20

beacon lights last night as . guide
for the convoy entering the gulf.
During this period prior tc D day,
mine sweeping units ano soecial
Navy demolition squads clear ed the
approaches to the objective area.
These demolition units cleared OBJ
stacles from the landing beaches
and marked any navigational haz-
ards in the path Of the attack force.
Tons of steel from naval units
marked the landing areas in the pre-
liminary bombardment attacks yes
terday and last night, blasting the
areas in the vicinity Of Tacloban.
Road functions, the airdrome,
coastal highways and high ground
commanding the beaches were
pounded In softening up punch.
This bombardment is still in prog
ress and probably will continue for
several more hours.
As infantry units move inland
toward their objective, naval units
are in fire support positions to fire
on targets on call from the beach
and targets Of opportunity spotted
from the gulf in direct support of
the leading landing waves.
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combat team landed at Panaon on
the southern tip of Leyte.
The beach fronts are 81, miles in
width and approximately II miles
apart.
This quick, hard drive establishes
American forces only 275 statute
miles from Davao and $40 air miles
southeast of Manila.
At the entrance to Leyte Gulf an
American combat team landed three
days ago on the northern tip of
Dinagat Island and the southern
portion of Homonhon to take over
enemy installations and establish
command of the entrance to the gulf
for the main assault forces.
The big landings were made along
the level coastal Leyte Valley. I'm
opposed by Japan's navy, American
battleships and American and Aus
tralian cruisers laid a thunderous
fire along the beaches.
At H-hour an enemy plane ap-
peared. Strong ship antiaircraft fire
brought 1t down
AS the heavy naval fire raised a
cloud of cordite and huge billowing
columns of smoke, carrier based
planes from Admiral William F. Hal
sey's Sd Fleet and Vice Admiral
Thomas Kincaid's 7th Fleet bombed
and strafed the beach. High over
head Hellcat and Avengers patrolled
the sky. 1t was only minutes before
the few salvos of 16-inch shells in
creased into a continuous barrage
which echoed and re-echoed across
San Pedro Bay.
Tons and tons of explosives ripped
into the coastal area along the
beach, augmented by close inshore
fire from rocket-firing craft.
Great battleships worked slowly
along the shore, splitting the air
with belching fame as their guns
cracked round after round over the
heads of crouching infantrymen:
| This invasion armada of hun
dreds of ships goes busily about the
business OF landing troops and
equipment on the smoke filled shore
under protection of surface and air
power dash SO far unmolested.
! While these troops are pouring
ashore, rocket-firing ships are work
ing close in shore lending direct
support to the inantry.
On D day minus three a combat
team landed on the northern tip of
Dinagat Island and on the southern
portion of Honohon Island, which
borders on the entrance to Leyte
Gulf, to secure ana capture enemy
installations.
These forces had small marker
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225 900 defenders included Marshal
Terauchis 14th army troops. Seven
divisions, the 10th. 25th, 3Oth. Tooth.
1920, 103d and 106th or 107th have
been identified.
The strategic result of capturing
the Philippines will be decisive" Gen.
Macarthur pointed out in the COM
munique.
The enemy's so2called Greater
East Asia co-prosperity sphere will
be cut in two. His conquered empire
to the south, comprising the Dutch
East Indies and the British possess
sions Of Borneo, Malaga and Burma,
will be severed from Japan proper.
The great flow of transportation and
supply upon which Japan's vital war
industry depends will be cut as will
the countersupply Of his forces to
the south.
"A half million men will be cut off
without hope of support and with
ultimate destruction at the leisure of
the Allies certainty in the broad
strategical conception.
Jap Defensive Line.
The defensive line of the JAP
anese which extends along the coast
of Asia from Japan islands through
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Formosa, the Philippines. the East
Indies to Singapore and Burma will
be pierced IN the center, permitting
an development to the south and to
the north.
Either flank will be vulnerable
and can be rolled up at will"
The japanese landed on Luzon
December 8, 1941, after air raids
the day before Manila, bombed by
the japanese after it was declared
an open city, was occupied along
with the Cavite naval base January
2. 1912. Thereafter began the siege
Iof Bataan whose defenders fought
until they were without food and
arms. then surrendered only to be
mustered into the death march" of
bitter memory for every American,
Corregidor surrendered May s,
1912. The previous March, Gen.
Macarthur arrived in Australia and
soon opened the offensive which was
climaxed this week by the Philip
pines reinvasion.
Manila Area Raided.
In communioue last night at
Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester w
Nimitz reported carrier plane strikes
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
in the Manila area and to the north.
These were combined with land
based strikes of Gen MacArthurs
bombers to knock out every Philip
pine air base which might interfere
with the invasion operations.
Invaded Leyte is geographically
suited for the quick establishment
of American air fields from which to
dominate all other enemy bases in
the Philippines.
The japanese war machine In the
Philippines has been deprived of
rich sources of aviation gasoline and
lubricating oil at Borneo by Gen
MacArthur's destructive air attacks
on Balikpapan.
Last weeks poWerhouse carrier
plane assaults on Formosa are be-
lieved to have cut it off as a source
OF reinforcement
On the Philippines, guerrillas long
have been operating against the
japanese in preparation for the re-
turn of the Americans. Last week,
a japanese authority frankly ac-
knowledged these guerrillas were
effectively cutting up communica-
tionS.
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and life preServers were ready for
the expected enemy attack. It didn't
come. Shortly after dark, a single
twin-engined enemy bomber winged
down through terrific antiaircraft
barrage and dropped a single bomb
conically into the water. Then the
enemy bomber itself plunged into
a watery grave.
But this couldn't really be called
an attack. It was hardly aggressive.
OF course, enemy aircraft may sweep
in over the mountains here at any
minute. Tonight after dark they
are almost sure to make some sort
Of attack on the hundreds of ships
milling around us here in the gulf.
But the fact remains that up to
now the enemy has not made a sin
gle concerted effort either with sub
marines, planes or motor torpedo
boats to interfere with this history
making invasion. AS far as is known
now, not single American ship has
been lost. 1t Is as though a protec-
tive shield was held over our inya-
sion convoy.
Right at this minute In front of
me, invasion craft continue In dis
gorge the men and mechanical
equipment. A big craft with rolling
bulldozers, jeeps, tanks and all the
implements of American mechan-
lied warfare. Already the spear
heads of orr otfack col,,rnpc nv.
pushing inland, toward the city OF
Tacloban in the north, and toward
the cluster Of enemy airfields at the
lower end of Leyte Island.
Preliminary reports state that our
casualties have been unbelievably
low. There may be tough days ahead
before Gen. Macarthur leads his
troops down the streets of Manila
But up to now the combined skill O.