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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

area" is available for plans and
$4,000 for acquisitions, the remainder
of the $10,000,000 to be distributed
on the basis of 1910 census popula-
ton.
The funds made available for
plans and sites cannot be inter-
changed, Dean said, but NUM-
cipality or county can assign all or
part of its share to any other tax
supported local agency in the state
or may join with other subdivisions
in carrying out a project.
The directors of finance, public
works and reconstruction and re-
employment, and the legislative
auditor, are members of the review
board.
The totals of the share of each
county 10/l6ths of which may be
used for plans only and 6/l6ths for
sites only, include:
Imperial $93,380 ($41, ,44O.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
&c. Council Sets
Tax Rate, S1.87

Ell Centre City Council Thursday
evening set the city tax rate at Sl.87
per 500 assessed valuation on real
estate for the current year.
1t was announced the Valley
chapter of the League of California
Cities will meet during October, and
Ell Centre will be the host.
The council approved a raise from
$197.50 to S2l5 per month for Jim
Smith, a policeman who had served
his probationary period.
Council members complained of
the manner in which the garbage
disposal was handled. Consensus
was that some residents are forced
to call the city before their garbage
is picked up.
Councilman Tondro said that
the price paid was too high since
the job was inefficient. E. Paul
Ford, city engineer, pointed out
that the city is paying $40 per day
for man and truck.
To this Tondro replied that even
$40 isn't too high If the job is well
done, but any price is steep If the
work is accomplished in an ineffi-
cient manner.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Jap Ship Sunk
In New Air
Raid on Davao

ALLIED EADQUAR RTE r S.
Southwest Pacific, Aug. 18. CUP)-
Allied bombers have struck into the
Philippines again to sink another
Japanese freighter, it was an
ncunced in communique which
said the aerial campaign against
shipping in the Moluccas has fur
ther threatened" the enemy's vital
Philippines-Ha -Halmahera defense line.
A 100O-ton merchantmen was
sunk in the new attack on Davao
gulf of Mindanao island in the
southern Philippines.
General Douglas Macarthur said
the continuing aerial blows have
forced the Japanese to depend on
small ships, sailing vessels and lug
gers to supply outlying garrisons on
Halmahera which is under daily at
tack by American bcmbers.
"The steady advance westward of
our activity is reducing the enemy's
potential strength in the Moluccas,
the deterioration being Immediate
ly evident in his maritime DISPOSE
tions," Macarthur said.
1T is apparent that he can no
longer risk his heavy shipping for
ward of the Philippine Celebes-
Ceram line"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Legion Refuses
To Admit Men
Yet in Uniform

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18. CUP)-
Rejecting a personal plea by Ma
tional Commander Warren H. Ath-
erton, the California department of
the American Legion Friday was on
record against permitting service
men and women to join the Legion
while still in uniform
The refucal to adopt the resolu-
tiCn, most highly contested of scores
considered by the 26th annual con-
vention in its closing day Thurs
day, kept the organization a 100
per cent veterans group.
Ed w. Bolt, San Francisco insur-
ance man and navy cook in World
war one, unanimously was elected
department commander to succeed
Attorney William Haughton, Ell
Monte. Haughton was one of five
delegates elected to attend the ma
tional Legion convention at Chi
cago next month.
Harry WEIGH, Belmont, defeated
ROME Bynum. Oakland, for the Of
flee of sergeant at arms.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Fire Sweeps Town
In Newfoundland

HARBOR GRACE, Newfound-
land, Aug. 18. CUP)-Half of this
four and half century old town
was in smoking ruins Friday fol-
lowing a $2,5OOOOO fire which start
ed in a jam factory and spread
with lightning swiftness through
tinder-dry buildings and homes.
The fire started in the eastern
end of the town, famed as the take
off point for transatlantic flights Is
years ago, and, famed by brisk
breeze, swept eastward along both
sides of the narrow, winding street
that follows the waterfront.
Workers in the fish Wharves we're
having their luncheon respite from
the sweltering humidity when the
alarm sounded from the 100-year-
old bell tower. People rushed into
the streets to see heavy pail of
smoke and ribbons of flames issuing
from the Jam factory.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
yonks
Peril
ouIon
Cannes in Line
To Fall as
Invaders 60 on

ROME, Aug. 18. (UP) =
American field guns bonn
barded the outer defenses of
TOulon, Frances main naval
base, Friday as tanks and
mobile infantry S m a S h e d
through crumbling German
resistance to within seven
miles or less of the strong
hold in converging drives
from the east and northeast.
Some SIS miles to the northeast,
other American forces at the oppo-
site end Cf the bcachhead were ex-
pected momentarily to burst into
Cannes, Riviera resort town, after
capturing La Napoule, three and a
half miles from its outskirts.
Fast-rolling American and French
flying columns between the two
flanks were striking steadily north
ward more than 30 miles inland
severing German communications
and chopping up disorganized gar
risen forces into isolated pockets
for easy conquest.
7Oc0 NAZI PRISONERS
More than 1000 prisoners already
have been captured, General Sir
Henry Maitland Wilson, supreme
Allied commander, reported in his
fourth communique of the INVASION
and the count still was not COM
plete. Among those in Allied hands
was German general and his
staff. presumably seized by Ameri-
Continued on Page 8, Col A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
vichy Regime
Waits Exodus

LONDON, Aug. 18. (UP)-The
German foreign office said Friday
that special announcement con-
cerning the removal of the French
government from Vichy may be
made Saturday.
The Nazi Transocean news agen-
cy broadcast the foreign office
statement without explanation.
Vichy is almost midway between
the Allied armies advancing on
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Bulgaria Moves
To Capitu|ate;
New Chief Acts

ANKARA, Aug. 18. CUP) Bull
garia, the first enemy country to
capitulate in World war one, ap-
peared headed Friday toward a
similar role in the present conflict.
This premise was based on a
statement by Bulgaria's new pre-
mier, Ivan Bagrianov, to special
session of the parliament that he
would seek rapid" withdrawal
from the present conflict.
Bagrianov, who became premier
cnly two and half months ago,
charged that the previous govern
ment had taken the country into
war without the consent of the
Bulgarian people, and he empha-
sized that the nations fate must
be decided by Bulgaria alone.
Undoubtedly he referred to Ger
many, whom Bulgaria Joined on
March l. 1941, by signing the Axis
pact, although he made no direct
reference to the Reich.
In the first world war, bulgaria
suffered heavily and signed an un-
conditional armistice on Septem-
Der 20, 1918, after her line was
broken and the country invaded
Subsequently she was disarmed and
parts of the country given to Ro-
mania, Yugoslavia and Greece.
RaprianOv criticized the previous
governments for taking Bulgaria
into the war when the nations eco
nomic system was not capable of
supporting the struggle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Fuse. Blows Out,
HaIts Service

Light and power service was halt
ed in part of Imperial county Fri
day morning when fuse was
blown out on one of the drops on
the All American canal east of
Calexico.
Imperial Irrigation district offic-
ials said fuse was blown on a
potential transformer operating re-
lays. The fuse operated two main
switches on a $4,000 volt loop. The
four minute delay was caused be-
cause the fuse holder was burned
Workmen had to replace the holder
and fuse also before the power and
light service was resumed. Service
halted between 10:43 am. and 10:47
am.
The old California Electric sys-
tenn was not affected.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
BY RICHARD d. MCMILLAN


WITH THE BRITISH IN
PURSUIT OF THE GER
MAN 7TH ARMY, Aug. II.
CUP) = (Delayed) - The
fighting in western France has be-
come a vast battle of annihilation
that promises victory over the
Germans greater than any previous
ly inflicted upon the Wehrmacht in
Western Europe, British staff Off
GERS said Friday.
Allied forces have created two
great pockets: the Germans escape
from one only to find themselves
in another.
Prisoners are pouring in from both
the inner and outer pockets acmit-
ting complete defeat.
Those still fighting are madmen,"
is typical prisoner statement. An
other says: 'They have not the
slightest hope and they know 1t is
futile to fight any longer"
British officers said that although
a considerable number of panzers
had escaped from the inner trap,
they faced annihilation on their
way to the Seine.
"It has become open warfare al
most along our entire front" I was
told at headquarters. We are max
ing swifter progress in cutting up
his slowly withdrawing columns.
"It begins to look as If the entire
German 7th army would be wiped
out before or at the Seine" an Off
Ger said. Some of our men have
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Postwar Funds
Await Requests

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 18. CUP) -
The department of finance is ready
to accept requests for application
forms needed in seeking alloca-
tions from S1O,0O0OO0 appropriated
by the legislature in June for as
sisting counties in preparing plans
and acquiring sites for postwar
construction projects, James S.
Dean, director, said Friday.
The board of review set up in
the appropriation act cannot start
functioning until the acts effect
i've date-September 12-but re-
quests for forms are desired in
order to expedite the program, Dean
said.
At the same time the finance dir
ector announced a corrected sched-
ule of amounts available to the
cities and counties.
A minimum of $4,000 per "counyt
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

mite understanding en- German oc.
cupation existed among this coun.
try and Russia and the British.
The President said they hatl
talked about it; 1t was going along
all right, and there was general
understanding which does not YET
involve specific details.
Asked whether sections to be oc-
cupied by each nation we're part Of
the details. he said yes. He affirmed
that the European advisory COM
missicn had worked on this matter.
Asked whether a similar under
standing existed with China about
occupation of Japan, the President
said there was nothing on paper.
But he recalled his talks With Cen
eralissimo Chang Kai Shek ana
said he thought there would be no
problems involved In reaching such
an understanding.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Regular German
Troops Revolt;
Elites Favored

SUPREM HEADQUARTERS,
AEF', Aug 18. CAPITALIZED Head
quarters sources said Friday that
evidence has been found of SER
ious split between Nazi SIS Elite
guard troops and regular German
army troops in northern France.
Official sources refused to ampli-
fly the statement, but it was in
dicated that the Nazi units have
been abandoning regular army
troops in the 7th armys headlong
retreat, sacrificing them to cover
the withdrawal in the same man
ner that italian soldiers were des-
erted by the German Afrika Korps
in North Africa.
Gen. Paul Hausser, a Nazi SIS Of
ficer, recently was named to COM
mand the 7th army under overall
command of Field Marshal Gunther
Won Kluge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Powers Prepare
To Occupy Reich

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 CUP)-
President Roosevelt Friday told his
first Washington news conference
since July IL that general under
standing had been reached with
Great Britain and Russia on the
occupation of Germany.
The President, in response to
questions, also said he expected to
confer soon with Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, but he would
not GO into details.
Mr.. Roosevelt made this state
ment when reporters asked him to
elaborate on an interview during
his recent trip in which he said that
the Allies would not allow Germany
or Japan to quit the war until their
homelands had been invaded and
completely occupied by our forces.
He was asked whether any def
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Russians Poised
For Invasion
Of East Prussi
Reds Break Through Final Barrier
And May Be Streaming
Across Onto Reich 'Ho|v Soil
Bv HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Aug. 18. up
A powerful Russian army,
breaking through the enemy's
last defenses east of the from
tier, massed along the Sees
pzupe river border of East
Prussia Friday and already
may have sent vanguards
acros sthe narrow stream in
the first invasion of the "holy
land" of the reich of this war.
Once across the Szeszuppe
General Ivan D. Cherniak-
hovsky's 3rd white Russian
army will find open plains devoid
of all natural obstacles stretching
Beyond the big railway jun ,tion of
Insterburg to Koingsberg, capital of
Germany's easternmost province.
GOOD FOR TANKS
Front dispatches described the
terrain as iceal for tank operations,
through formidable network of
pillboxes, anti-tank bitches and
barbed wire entanglements thrown
up by the Germans in the past
few weeks may slow the Soviet ad-
vance
A thrust across the Szeszurpe
into East Prussia would outflank the
Masurian lake defenses, which
brought disaster to the Russians in
the last war, and threaten another
huge German Baltic army encircle-
ment.
Cherniakovhovsky's tanks and in
fantry preached German defenses
Continued on Page 8, Col ID
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Major Trenb|or
Is Recorded

PASADENA. Cal, Aug. Is. CUP)-
A major earthquake about $500
miles to the southeast was reported
Friday by the Pasadena seismologi-
cal laboratories, recorded at 3:45
and 1854 a. m.
Authorities said the source was
probably under the Andes noun
tainS in the region of Santiago,
Chile, but no great damage was ex-
pccted as the quake occurred more
than 100 miles below the earths
surface.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Drive i'm rance Becomes
Battle Of AnnihiIotion

in 1910, which drove me out at
Dunkirk, was nothing like this. Our
forces are bringing in prisoners in
Groves.
The German communications have
been slashed to ribbons and they
have no cohesion as an army any
longer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

LONDON, Aug. 18. (UP) - Radio
Paris failed TO transmit its usual
programs Friday and the London
Daily Sketch reported by other AL
lice listening posts, the stations
failure to follow its customary pro-
grams indicated something unusual
was under way in the French capi-
tai as American tanks and troops
neared its western outskirts.
FILL IN PROGRAMS
Instead of broadcasting news in
French as was customary, one wave
length assigned to Paris carried
Berlin home service programs at
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

WASHINGTON, Aug. IS.
(UP) - Lieutenant General
Jonathan Wainwright. COM
manding general on Bataan
at the time of its capture by the
Japanese, said in a recent inter-
view at his prison camp in Formosa
that conditions there are "as good
as can be reasonably expected" the
American Red Cross revealed Fri
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

Paris and those moving on Toulon
from the south.
A French underground leader
who reached the Allied lines in the
north told the United Press that
French Chief of Government Pierre
Laval and other government Off
cials already had fled from Vichy
to Metz, near the German border,
following the American thrust to-
ward Paris.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

Allied military spokesman
declared t h a t Germany's
power of resistance in France
has been smashed.
Front dispatches said the
German retreat had degen-
Grated into a wild race for
survival with 100000 or more
panic-stricken Nazis fleeing
in disorder for the doubtful
sanctuary OF the Seine,
bombed and strafed every
foot of the way by low-flying
Allied planes and raked by
fast-rolling Allied tanks and
armored cars.
"The battle of Normandy
has been won," a high Allied
spokesman told United Press
ware correspondent Richard
D. Mcmillan in the field.
"Germany's power of effec-
tive resistance in France is
Y 4
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

7 a. m. Programs from Stuttgart
we're put on the air at $50 a. m,
though Stuttgart's regular band is
far from the Paris wave length.
The Daily SKeJcn said radio
Paris was silent last night until q
speaker identifying himself as an
officer of the German Waffen IS
suddenly broadcast call to his
comrades to revolt. He used first
one wave length, than a half hour
later a second
Addressing comrades of the Waf-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

a month was necessary for each
prisoner to make up protein and
fat deficiency in the diet and that
additional towels, socks, raincoats
and toilet articles were needed
American Red Cross Chairman
Basil O'Connor said efforts are
continuing to make possible a regu-
lar flow of supplies to Japanese
held Americans by shipment through
Soviet-Pacitic port.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Suits Would Clear
Land Titles TO
Extend Cemetery

In order to add 10 mere acres to
Evergreen cemetery east of Ell Gen.
tro, the Central Valley Cemetery
district Thursday filed suit against
two japanese and others as part
of the plan to clear up the title.
The cemetery district offered
Toshiga Tsujimoto and Joshimi
Tsujimoto $500 or $50 an acre for
the land lying east of Central drain
No. 8, but the Japanese refused to
sell.
Cemetery district officials seek to
have the land condemned by the
court and the title vested in the
district.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

Strike
Foe
Patriots Aide d
By Police
Strike in Paris

LONDON, Aug. 18. (UP)
= Increasing patriot activi-
ties throughout France, in
cluding the almost complete
liberation of Haute-Savoie province,
were augmented Friday by police
strike in Paris and the walkout of
thousands of rail workers who tied
up one fifth of the French railroad
system.
Street fighting was said to be
raging in Paris where local police
left their jobs with the approach
of American armored columns to
the outskirts.
REPORTS LAVAL GONE
A resistance leader who reached
the British front in France told
the United Press that Premier
Pierre Laval, Security Minister
Joseph barnard, and other colo
borationists officials, fled Vichy to
Metz following the invasion of
southern France.
The patriot. who had just left
Paris, said 1t was not known
whether Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain accompanied Laval, although
an attempt was being made to get
him to leve Vichy. He reported that
Vicheyites now in Metz would go
into Germany when Nazi troops
retreat across the Rhine.
ADMITS STRIKES
German broadcaSts admitted that
rail workers had struck on the
main lines running north and east
through France, and French sour
ces here estimated that 5000 miles
of track in the eastern and northern
sectors we're affected
The main railway lines involved
in the strike were those leading
from Paris to Boulogne, Calais,
Brussels, Cologne, Nancy and Stras-
bourg-all important communication
routes for the German armies in
France.
A Bern dispatch said Brigadier
General Joseph Pierre Koenig's
French interior forces cleared the
Germans from more than lis square
miles of Haute-S -Savoie province in
some 1876 separate engagements.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Wainwright Sends Appeal
For More Aid From Home

Wainwright told delegate of the
International Committee of the Red
Cross that relief supplies received
through the diplomatic exchange
ship Gripsholm were useful but that
more canned food and warm cloth
ing were needed.
Brigadier General Lewis C. Beebe
and Captain George T. Scholey-
prisoners interviewed at two other
camps-said one Red Cross parcel
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

been fighting without a break for
five days. They manage to carry
on because they realize they're in
on the greatest victory of Allied
arms in the west-the greatest de-
feat the Germans have ever srIf-
fered in Europe"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
p D!nte AMBL!Ne
IMPORTER
Question Bureau

Question Bureau
Away down in the South Pacific
area Warren WaShburn was read
ing a copy of the Post-Press which
is sent to him every day by his
father, Mark WaShburn.
do you live in Imperial Valley?'
a voice asked from behind Wash
burn, pharmacists mate second class.
WaShburn sale he did
81 visited down in Imperial VAL
lev one time" sadi the other sailor,
with man named Miller. He is
boxing champion of the navy now.
/ can't remember his first name but
he lived in Imperial Valley"
Washburn is as curious as can be
about Champion Miller. SO is RR
Who is this Champion Miller? Does
anybody know?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
Battered NaziHordes Flee
from Channel to Paris
Advance American Troops Reported
Fighting in Suburbs Of Capital;
Patton Tank Brigades Lead Assault

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug. 18 (UP)-
The German front south of the Seine broke wide
all along flaming 135mle battle line from the outskirts
of Paris to the English channel Friday and high
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
From Louisiana

From Louisiana
The world is a small place after
all and it can be proved by this
letter from Pfc. l.. r. Fuzzy
Nichols. He wrote from Alexandria,
Louisiana.
Dear RR-IVc really hac my
share of luck running into fellows
who are from El Centre. While l
was going through basic training at
Buckley Field, Colorado, I ran across
Bill Clements in one OF the PXS,
Also while at Buckley Field I saw
Ray Barnes at a USO in Denver
Later l was sent to Las Vegas, Ne
vada. While I was there I met
James Boyer in the chow line one
day. We had some good times
chatting about the valley. I was
sent to Lincoln, Nebraska, from Las
Vegas. Then on down here to
Alexandria. Tonight I ran into
Red Robertson in the mess hall.
His wife (Janet Shaller) is also
Gown here. This sure is small
world. Robertson is on night KIP.
That's how I happen to see him."
What's This?
This note was delivered to RR.
ITO Whom 1t May Concern - A
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
What's This?

WHdCS 5 HIS!
This note was delivered to RR.
ITO Whom 1t May Concern - A
Continued on Page 8, Col II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday I07, minimum
Friday II; 5 am. Friday 10, humid
ity so; noon Fritiay 105, humidity
81; 5 pm. Thurs. 104, humidity %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-18

WITH THE BRITISH IN
PURSUIT OF THE GER
MAN 7TH ARMY, Aug. II.
Evening star., 1944-09-24
Candy Makes Friends

Wherever our fighters advanced their friendly smiles and
big hearts helping back friendship and trust IN
human nature the part of young and old alike.
little gift of dy-bar piece bokeno off chunk OF
candy raton-s one way boys have of Frightening
faces, raising spirits
For as sure as you born Candy makes endshee there
everywhere.
The u Army puts candy easily divided fair and equal
the ratons-why2 portions and it keeps up morale
Because spells quick energy Take modem look candy
and small space offers the and
Because keeps we'll high sense OF friendly "eDeing hat
Temperatures or low and COM brings fighting forces,
bats thirst and because be allies and workers.
COUNCIL CANDY
NATIONAL CONFEC CTIONERS ASSOCIATION
aad,h s4a", a.a s.d t5t aht"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-06-09
Murray Writes to
Senate: Keep FEPC

Washington, D. ca contln-
ued appropriation for the Fair En-
ployment Practice Committee
(FEPC) is a war measure and
should be voted by the Senate as
a contribution to the continued
success of our national war effort"
President Philip Murray of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tons said recently in a letter to
members of the Senate now con-
sidering the measure.
The House has already voted a
100000 fund by a majority of four
votes, and the appropriation is now
before a subcommittee of the Sen
ate Appropriations committee. The
members of this subcommittee are
Senators Glass d., Va.), Mcclellan
3D., TENN, Thomas 3D., Okla)
Tydings d., Md, McCarran d.,
New, Overton d., Iowa., Bank
head d., Ala, O'Mahoney d.,
Wyo.), Nye (R., N. d., Bridges
r., N. H., Holman r., Ore.),
Quincy (R., S. d., and Brooks (R.,
Ill.,.