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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Council Awards
Contract for
Sewer Repair Job

Ell Centre City Council, at an adj
journed session Thursday night
awarded a contract for repairs or
the outfall sewer to j. S. Barrett
Newport Beach, California, contrac-
tor, for $36,57450 With awarding
of the contract comes the assurance
that work will be started within 1O
days and completed in 80 days.
Thus one of the immediate and
pressing needs of the city has been
met. Repairs will be finished in ad-
vance of the rainy period, it is
pointed out by city officials.
The Barrett bid was not the low
est. Council, acting on advice of the
city attorney, Dorsey Whitelaw, act
ed when it was declared that the
lowest bid had not met full stipu-
lations.
Present at the special session were
two members of the Building and
Construction Trades Council, AFL
Walter I. Weldon, secretary, and N
L. Wray, president of the Imperial
Valley BCTC. The labor heads ap-
peared in council chambers to as
sure themselves that the wage scale
level by the contractor selected
would be in accordance with that
recoenized by the AFL and Associ-
Continued on Pc. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Dewey Prepares
For Talk in
West Virginia

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 6. tUP)-
Governor Thomas E. Dewey re-
sumes his campaign for the presi-
dency late Friday when he leaves
Albany for a swing through West
Virginia in quest of its eight elec-
toral votes.
The epubli lean presidential
nominee put the finishing touches
on the nation wide political speech
he will deliver from Charleston
Saturday night after clearing his
desk of state affairs.
Dewey, his associates said, worked,
on the speech last night with State
Banking superintendent Elliott Bell
at the executive mansion while
President Roosevelt delivered the
second talk of his campaign. The
governor gave no hint that his ra-
dio was tuned in on the President
and his aides said he had no i'm
mediate comment.
From New York City Dewey will
go directly to Charleston. where he
will arrive about noon Saturday. He
will board his special train imme-
dlately after the speech Saturday
night for the return trip to New
York City.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Final Rites Set
For Irwin Cobb
In Tree PLANTING

PADUCAH, KY, Oct. 6. CUP)-
A dogwood tree, fertilized by the
ashes of irwin S. Cobb, will be
planted here Saturday in services
for the late Kentucky humorist as
the single, simple monument to his
memory.
In cemetary plot shaded by a
towering centurieS-old oak, the
ashes of Cobb-Who aCmonished in
letter written before his death
that there be no long faces, no
flowers, no mourning"-will be laid
to rest in hole dug for the tree.
Should the tree live, that will be
monument enough for me-" Cobb
wrote.
Neither will the "so-called Chris
tian burial service be read.
Cobb, who was born here June %,
1876, and died in New York City on
March 10 this year, asked only that
the 23rc Psalm be read.
Only brief services will be held.
His ashes, which Cobb wrote when
properly rendered down shouldn't t
much more than fill a mason fruit
jar were brought here from New
York in a polished marble urn.
AT the head of the procession of
friends and relatives who were told
to keep the thing cheerful, boys
ano girls" will be George Goodman,
state OPA director and intimate
COED friend, carrying the urn.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
YANkS SMASH NAzl ATTACK NEAR COL l0CNE
LEST WE FORGET
Two Residents
Of Valley
Die in Action

Two more Imperial Valley boys
have made the supreme sacrifice
in World war No. 2.
Russell Whitmer of Holtville
and Sergeant Bill Hosea of Cal
exico both lost their lives, it
officially has been announced.
Whitmer was a pilot in the
American air force on Mosquito
plane. He was killed September
8 while serving in the European
theater of war. He was graduated
from Holtville Union High school
in 1885. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. w. Whitmer, now live
in San DimaS, an uncle, Loyal
Whitmer, lives in the Alamitos
district.
He earned his wings with the
Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943
and was transferred to the Amer
ican forces September that
year. He went overseas May l
this year. His death occurred in
Newmarket, England.
Sergeant Hosea, a paratrooper,
was killed in action September
l. his mother, Mrs. Gloria Hosea
of Calexico. was informed. He
attended school in CaleXico and
entered the service in 1912. His
wife, the former Gloria Easter
ling, also. lives in Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Bombs
Rake:
Berlin
200 American
Planes Score
In Long Flight

LONDON, Oct. 6. (UP)-
More than 22OO American
warplanes made a 14O0 mile
round trip into Germany Fri
day to raid Berlin and num-
erous other targets over a
widespread area.
Formations of 1900 Flying For
tresses and Liberators, accompanied
by approximately 1000 fighter planes
in the Eighth air force made the
raid in favorable weather condi-
tions and with good to excellent
results" the u S. strategic air force
announced.
(The German DNB agency report
ed the bomber formations struck
Berlin during the noon hours, at
the peak of vehicular and pedes-
trian traffic0
In addition to hitting a tank as
sembly plant. military depot, an
ordnance depot and an aircraft en-
gine plant in Berlin, the American
bombers struck oil refineries at
Harbourg, 23 miles northwest of
Luneberg; an aircraft engine plant
and ordnance depot at Hamburg,
and airdromes at Stargard, Neu-
brandenburg and Wensedorf, near
Hamburg.
1t was the first time since August
6 that American bombers had
plunged SO deeply into the Reich.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
BY PHIL AULT

LONDON, Oct. 6. (UP)-Prime
Minister P. S. Gerbrandy said FRI
day that 100000 Dutch men, wom-
EN- and children in German-occu-
pied Holland face imminent ex-
haustlon of food, fuel and drinking
water.
Gerbrandy expressed fear that
Holland faces "the greatest disaster
in history" as result of war raw
ages and demolition and retalia-
tory measures undertaken by the
NaZis.
The critical condition, he revealed,
results partially from the strike Of
Dutch rail workers which has been
called to hamper delivery OF sup
plies to the German army.
Holland said Gerbrandy, lis
faced with a calamity greater than
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Browns Swamp
Cards + to Z

SPOR TSMAN'S PARK. ST.
LOUIS, Oct. 6. (UP)-The st. Louis
Browns gained a two-to-cne edge in
the world series Friday when they
defeated their intra- city rivals, the
Cardinals, 6 to in the third game
of the world series today before
34,757 fans.
The Cinderella boys of the Amer
ican league won with an unusual
display of hitting power and the
tight pitching of 26-year-old Jack
(Pretty Bcy) Kramer, who held the
Cardinals to six hits and would
have had shutout had it not been
for two errors his teammates COM
mitted.
The Browns, who won the OPEN
ing game, but kicked away the sec
ond Yesterday with four errors,
came from behind to win after Ted
Wilks, Manager Billy Southworth's
rookie ace, had been given first
inning one-run lead on inept Brown
fielding. =.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Allies Hammer
Jap Oil Field
In East Borneo

ALLIED HEADQ UARTERS S,
Southwest Pacific, Oct. 6. (UP)--
Allied warplants. striking for the
second time in five days at Japan's s
richest oil prize in the Pacific,
stocked new fires in the great Balik-
papan refineries on eastern Borneo
Wednesday and shot down 10 to "a
intercepting enemy fighters. COM
munique disclosed Friday.
simultaneously, Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz' Pacific fleet headquar-
ters at Pearl Harbor announced
that the toll of japanese dead in
the southern Palaus had reached
l1,043. almost II times the number
of American lives lost in the inva-
sion of that strategic island chain.
The devastating fire raid cn Balik-
papan was launched by a strong
force of Liberators from the South
west Pacific 18th Air Force at a
cost of seven bombers, the heaviest
loss of four -engined planes ever re-
Continued on Page 6, Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Award Department
BvLYLE c. WILSON

WASHINGTON, Oc t. 6.
(UP) - President Roosevelt
has repudiated Communist
support in his reelection
campaign, thereby pointing
this country toward more en-
bittered dispute over the pol
itical affiliations of many of
his left wing adherents.
In a broadcast directed
specifically to thousands of
Democratic party workers gathered
In meetings throughout the, naticn,
the Pre- sident Thursday night de-
fined as Hitleresque and "loose" use
OF the term Communism by labor
baiters, bigots and some politicians. -
But he also repudiated American
Communist, who are among his ac-
tive campaign supporters.
II have never sought" he said
"and I do not welcome the supper.
OF any person or group committed
to Communism, or Fascism. or any
other ideologs which would under
mine the American system of gov
ernment or the American system OF
free competitive enterprise and
private property"
TRIBUTE TO SOVIETS
He linked his reputation of the
American Reds with a tribute to our
Russian allies AMI pledge that his
J administration would participate
with them after the war in a strong
organization to maintain peace
"if necessary. by force
In spurning the Communists of
this country, the President chal-
lenged those who apply the term
Communism or Communist to "ev-
cry progressive social measure and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Russ Open Siege
Of Belgrade
Marshal Big Guns
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Oct. 6. (UP)-Russian
troops surged to the north bank of
the Danube river opposite Belgrade
on 26-mile front Friday and un-
limbered their siege guns for an i'm
pending assault.
The army organ Red Star said
several crack German SIS regiments
were routed on the approaches to
the Danube and their remnants
presumably were hurled back into
the river, second largest in Europe.
The Germans were reported to
have blown up the bridges across
the Danube to Belgrade, however,
and it was possible that Marshal
Titos Partisans closing in from the
south and west may liberate the
capital before the Russians can
mass sufficient strength to force the
river.
The Partisans at last report t S
were only six to &c miles west and
south of Belgrade.
Marshal RodiCn Y. MalinovSky's
Second Ukrainian army reached the
Danube opposite Belgrade after an
all-night march from the capitals
north bank suburb of Pancevo,
eight miles away. captured with the
aid of Tito's Partisans.
The next few days we'll may de-
eide the fate. not only of Belgrade,
but also of some 100000 Germans
in the southern Balkans. The fall of
either Belgrade or of India, juno
ton of the Athens-Munich and Bel
grade Budapest railways. would de-
prive the enemy of his last prac-
tical escape route from the south.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

The Browns. became the hcme
clup for Fridays game and were
wearing their white and red uni
forms. The Cardinals, who were the
nome club for the first and second
games and who will be hosts for
one sixth and seventh, if that many
are necessary to decide the best
TOUR out of seven games series. were
forms.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
HoIIonders Face
Sweep eping Famine

it ever has faced in history. The
next few weeks will decide whether
as a modern civilization we will be
able to play our part In postwar
Europe. 1t is question of to be Or
not to be-"
Gerbrandy said the Dutch under
ground had evidence of German
plans for demolition of the main
Dutch sea walls. This would flood
parts of Amsterdam and Rotterdam
and place much of the Netherlands
under 18 to 20 feet of sea water. II :
said the Germans have 5000 special
demolition troops in Rotterdam,
now busily destroying port facilities.
Van Kleffens revealed most of
the 60,O0 residents of Arnhem have
been forced to leave the city and
that summary executions had been
carried out both in Arnhem and
nearby Osterbeek.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
1eomster-Nuvv
Probe Opens

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. (UP)-
Counsel and investigators for the
senate campaign investigating COM
mittee conferred Friday with legal
aid to Secretary of the Navy James
Fcrrestal concerning the battle of
the Statler" and were promised
fullest cooperation in their inquiry.
The fracas occurred at the Hotel
Statler here the night of September
23. a short time after President
Roosevelt had addres sed the team
sters dinner. 1t allegedly involved
a group of teamsters and two naval
officers. who said they were set
upon because they refused to stay
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

how they planned to vote in the
forthcoming elections.
Robert T. Murphy. committee
counsel, who ras accompanied by
Chief Committee Investigator Har-
old Buckles and Special Committee
Investigator George Shillito, said he
could not discuss his Commute visit
with Major Matthias F.. Correa, For
restafs special assistant. because
this is very delicate situation"
He said that although no further
meetings with Correa were planned,
the inquiry-made at the behest OF
Committee Chairman Theodore +.
Green, CD. Rhode Islana-will con-
tinue.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Roosevelt Sc orns Support
Of Communists I'm Vote

to the visws of every foreign-born
citizen with whom they disagree"
Sidney Hillman, head of the CLOS
National Citizens Political Acticn
Committee. has been the most fire.
gu ntly assailed on that score
among Mr.. Roosevelt's 1914 sup
porters and the firing is likely to
continue against him and lis asso-
ciates.
Although the broadcast from the
White House was especially for
Democratic party workers, the Pres
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
British and Canadians
Spell Dunkerque Doom

both fides agreed TO cease firing un-
til 6 a. m. Friday. TO permit the
evacuation of civilians from the
port.
Since that time. 10000 French
civilians and several hundred se-
verely wounded Germans. Britons
and French underground fighters
had come out of Dunkerque In Z
strange. pathetic procession. while
the opposing troops snatched :
brief rest and prepared for the
showdown.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

guns massed outside the port paid
4 rolling barrage across the path
of the attacking infantrymen.
Front dispatches said the garrison
at Dunkerque was commanded by a
group CT fanatical Nazi officers
sworn to hold on at any cost, but It
remained to be seen whether their
troops would fight or surrende.
after "tcken battle" as the Calais
garrison did last week.
The battle for Dunkerque was
suspended at p. m. Tuesday when
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

the United States dispatch forces
to land on the China coast" the
newspaper said editorially.
THE" reason is simple. There
should be two fronts on the China
mainland and China needs Britain
and the United States to share the
responsibility of fighting against
the Japanese army.
I'VE have not made the demand
before out of respect for the Allies
Europe-first policy"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

LONDON, Oct. 6. (UP)-The
mercy truce of Dunkerque ended at
IN a. m. Friday and British and
Canadian infantrymen moved in
grimly on some $1,000 die-hard Ger
mans trapped in the tiny channel
port where four years ago Britain
brushed closer to disaster than at
anv time in her long history
Wave upon wave OF Allied bomb
ers thundered in across the channel
to heap their cargoes of death on
the cornered enemy and great field
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Recreation Plan
Stalled in E. {.
By Fund Shortage

Plans for Ell Centro's recreation
program for this fall are at stand
still due to insufficient funds, ac-
cording to Mrs. John L. Dubois Sr.,
chairman of the committee.
Application for monetary aid was
submitted to the Community Chest,
Mrs. Dubois said, but it was denied.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
MARSHALL AND BYRNES
ARRIVE IN FRANCE

FARIS, Oct. g. CUP)-General
George c. Marshall, U. S. army chief
~ staf1, and Director James Byrnes
oi tne Office of War Mobilization,
arrived in France Friday en- the
iirst regularly scheduled army air
uansport passenger plane to fly di-
lectiy to France from the United
States,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

ident made an urgent plea to all
qualified persons to register and
vote reminding that it is not only
a right and duty but sacred OBJ
legation.
SOLDIERS VOTE
Turning then to the political in
fighting he enjoys, Mr.. Roosevelt
implied that the Republicans had
conspired to make it difficult or
impossible for service men and
women and other absentee voters to
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Chinese Demand
Asiutic Front

CHUNGKING, Oct. 6. (UP)-The
Chinese newspaper Tia Kung Pao
Friday made the first open demand
for second frcnt" on the Asiatic
mainland
"In our opinion China has full
right to demand that Britain and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
First Army Hits
Heavier Blows
In Rhine Drives
Deepens Breakthroush at Ubach
Under S+iffenins Resistance;
Advance Moves Into Huge Forest

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Oct. g. (UP)-
The United States First opened attack east of
Stoberg and dozen miles southeast of the Ubach break
through Friday, driving forward half mile to within six
miles of Duren and 27 miles of Cologne
Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges troops,
ing the push into the Rhneland beyond Solberg after
ul of two weeks battered ahead through the Hurgen for
est in woods dense that the deepest American penera
ton of the Reich was virtually jungle battle
Drive Through Artillery Fire
Other First army the northwest drove through
heavy German artillery fire to deepen their Ubach salient
by mile south of the town despite counteraacks in
which the Nazs regained Beggendorf at the tip of the
armored wedge.
First army headquarters dispatch at so pm. said
u S. tanks and infantry had driven than three miles
inside Germany in the Ubach area and had reached the
outskirts of Geenkrchen road and rail town three miles
The dispatch reported that Hodges armor still was on
both sides of and beyond Beggendof but intense artillery
fire had forced them out of the town during the night
First reports of the attack east of Stolberg where
the First army its first breach the Segfried ne
skmpy Stoberg first big stronghold of bypass
ed Aachen captured September 5 and the Ameri
cans pushed in beyond it to the area of Gressench.
Aimed At Big Nazi Transport Center
The push now apparently was thanking Eschweiler,
northeast of Stoberg and aimed at Duren the biggest
transport center between the Yanks and Cologne.
Improving weather enabled the Allied air forces to
give the troops powerful support but the Luwaffe did
show up. More than 100 German planes flew over the
first army area Thursday Anaircraf gunners downed
at least ls and damaged II others
persisted and captured Freenberg in drive toward Cell
o"y Na to the east M
determined since the start of the Ubach push-drove
American tank spearhead back from Beggendorf which
lies just east of Ubach.
short distance to the SOUTH however, the Americans
reported by headquarters spokesman slog
ged ahead mile deeper into Germany
British Force Makes Crossing On Rhine
On the Dutch front German reports asserted British
troops apparently had successfully crossed the lower
Rhine south of Wageningen II miles southwest of Arm
hem The Naz reports said the British had built up a
new bridgehead on the north bank of the Rhine
Farther west, where the Allied lines touch the North
Sea between Ostend and Flushing flamet throwing Canad
ian shock troops into action driving the
pold canal in the face of desperate German resistance
Continued
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
Athens
Seen
As Coal
British Forces
Strike Down
Peninsula Line

ROME, Oct. 6. (UP)-
British invasion forces, sup
ported by Raj warplanes
operating from bases on the
Greek mainland, Overran the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
d AMBlINe
EpoRTER
Not Fitting

Sheriff Robert w. Ware appeared
to be tired and sleepy at meeting
He yawned and yaWned.
whats the matter, Bob?" some
one asked him.
Il was out all night last night
on murder case" the sheriff said
with another yaWn. isn't it heck
whenI the sheriff has to work, too?"
Award Department
RR would like the privilege Of
awarding Albert E. Jeffray of Ell
Centro desert lily in appreciation
of his work in aiding the war ef-
fort.
He has helped in all the drives
for scrap metal paper and the like.
Continued ion Pg. G, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

yestern corner of the
nnesus and S truck
the north coast of the
ia for Athens Friday, cap
the fortified port of Rion,
S west of Corinth and 95
'om the Nazi-held capital.
ian resistance appeared to be
swiftly in the face of the
British advance after a saw
short Lived attempt to hold
: seaport of Patrai, the third
Greece and the Nazis' main
8 base for the supply of their
on the west coast.
man coastal batteries covering
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06

the ltrance to the Gulf of Corinth
wei silenced quickly by the fast
moving Tommies and it was indi-
Gated that British warships would
soon be operating in those waters
III they were not already thereto
6Henge the beating they took from
the Luftwaffe during the ill-fated
first battle for Greece in 1941.
Other forces lanced in the
southwestern corner of Albania five
miles from Sarande. Bad weather
restricted their movement in the
hilly and difficult terrain. The Ger
mans still held out in Sarande, and
maintained artillery positions along
the road to Delvino.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-06
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 98, minimum
Friday SO; am. Friday So, humid
ity So; noon Friday 80, humidity 4S;
pm. Thursday 90, humidity 30.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
Thomas Finishes
S eries Against
State Proposal

Bringing his campaign against
State Proposal No. 4 to close the
week before 1t comes to ballot
Francis S. Thomas, Monguagon
Township supervisor, has this week
and will continue the remainder OF
the time addressing organizations
throughout the county.
The text of his talk is as follows
Detroit Is continuously trying to
get the present out-county property
assessment raised to the level of De-
troits assessments. The city'S nee6
for tax money has been so great
that it has raised the Detroit home
owners assessments TO such an in
crease that 1t is claimed the as
SesSments are greater than the re-
sale value of the property.
I'VE people in the out-county dc
not want this kind of assessing or
our property, but II Detroit gets
control of the county government
anything can happen to the present
fair way of county assessing.
Il have tried to cover all the i'm
portant points in my articles. If you
have read them. you will agree that
We people in the Out-county have
nothing to gain by the adoption OF
the amendment.
"As 1 stated before, we will lose
direct representation, our power over
taxes and assessments, eventually
our local municipal services, the
chance of losing part of school oper-
ating tax money, and the possibility
of some day being annexed to De-
troit.
You can help defeat this so
called" home rule charter amend
ment by voting mo" on State Pro-
posal No. 4.
Support the Work Pile Plan