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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Death Summons
Pioneer of
Imperial Valley

William j. Best, 70, Calexican
who first arrived in Imperial Valley
in 1900, died Saturday in Paradise
Valley Sanitorium where he was
taken after suffering a stroke at
CaleXico lodge.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the Lemons chapel in El Centre
at 10 am. Wednesday. Burial will
be in Evergreen cemetery.
Best was well known pioneer
resident of the valley and his pass
ing will be mourned throughout
the area. He was construction fore
man for the California Development
company when the work started and
held responsible places with that
company throughout the early years
of valley development
He worked on the levee at And
rade during the 1906 break. In 1911
he was working with the receiver
OF the Mexican company on the
Mexican side of the border a pos
ition he hel duntil 1919. After that
he returned to the United States
and was employed by the Imperial
Irrigation district, being superin-
tendent OF the central division in
1920 He was employed at that work
for several years before he was
elected supervisor. AT the close of
his four-year term as supervisor,
Best retired from active employ
ment and spent much of his time
at CaleXico lodge in the mountains
west of Imperial Valley. He was
widely respected for his unusual
personal knowledge of the irrigation
systam, system in which he was
intensely interested until his last
illness.
On January l, 1881, Best was
sworn in as a member of the I'm
perial board of supervisors, rep
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Soviets Threaten
East Prussia
From North, South
Armies Close Arc Around
Jutting Nazi Areas in
New, Smashing Attacks -.

MOSCOW, Aug. Is. (UP)-TWo
powerful Soviet armies forged a
huge arc around East Prussia from
the Niemen river TO the southern
approaches of the Masurian lakes
Tuesday with one salient within less
than Is miles of German soil.
Driving rapidly mort h W d
through the Biebrza marshlands in
a move to bypass the Masurians,
General Gecrgi Zakharov brought
his Second White Russian army
into the fortress city of Osovets in
the closest thrust to German terri
tory from the south.
MEETS RESISTANCE
At the northern end of the
tightening 1873 mile semi circle,
General Ivan D. CherniakhovSky's s
Third White Russian army was bat
tling against strong enemy resist
ance around Raseiniai, SO miles
northeast of the East Prussian city
CT Tilsit.
CThe Berlin radio said Russian
forces had forged across the Wis
tula river north of Warsaw and
captured an unidentified locality.
The exact place of the crossing was
not given. The Russians last were
reported at Radzymin, II miles
from the Vistula at the bend above
Warsaw
Zakharov has been movi G
swiftly northwest of Bialystok-Lyck
for the past three days in an ap-
parent attempt to flank the MaSu-
rian lakes, scene of the historic
clash between CzariSt and German
armies almost exactly 30 years ago
ESTONIA ATTACK
At the northern end of the Rus
sian frontier, Colonel General Ivan
l. Maslenikov's Third Baltic army
was racing across southern EStOnia
in a drive that threatened to nip off
the northern end of the country.
Striking 16 miles in one day,
Maslenikov's forces west of Lake
Pskov drove to the town of Antsla,
ID miles east of the Riga -Tallinn
railroad.
The thrust deepened the wedge
into southeastern Estonia and car
ried the Soviet troops to within 83
miles of the Gulf of Riga.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

consin and Michigan. However, it
is gaining strength and when it
moves south and east, it will bring
definite relief from the scorching
heat, he promised.
The weather bureau said mois-
ture was moving north from the
Gulf of Mexico and light rains
which fell in Montana yesterday,
moved into the Dakotas and Min
nestota today, and will make their
appearance in upper Michigan and
Wisconsin tomorrow.
Scattered thunderstorms were re-
ported in the drouth stricken states
of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and lower
Michigan and will tend to become
heavier and more frequent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
WPB Lifts Bon on OUTPUT
Of Many Home Appliances

facilities are available and vital
war production is not adversely af-
iected. War manpower officials will
nave flnal say as to whether man.
power can be spared.
However, he said, manufacturers
may apply for permission to begin
or increase production in rs classes
of items including:
Vacuum cleaners, mechanical re-
lrlgerator Except gas and electric q,
metal office furrNtlat. domestic
electric ranges, miscellaneous cook
ing utensils, bad springs, musical
Instruments, electric flatirons, sew
ing machines, lawn mowers, fishing
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

GROTON, Cnn., Aug. Is.
(UP) - Production Of sub
marines at the huge Electric
Boat Co. yards was halted when
"75 to 80 per cent" Of the $500 en-
ployes on the day shift failed to re-
port for work, the company an
nounced Tuesday.
Edward DarroW, personnel man.
ager, said the company was wait
ing for the independent shipbuild-
ing and marine engineers union,
which called the strike Monday
after workers had voted against
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is.
(UP)-War production chief
Donald Nj. Nelson Tuesday
issued the much-disputed order No.
4 in his program or limited recon-
verSion-an order permitting res
tricted production of vacuum clean
ers, sewing machines and many 9TH
er civilian items long off the mar
ket.
The order authorized WIPE t.eld
officials to permit local manutact-
urers to resume production OF the
designated items provided labor and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Allied Force Strikes
From Sea and Air
Land and Establish Beachheads From
Nice TO MarseiI|e Before Dawn;
Stunned Germans HELPLESS TO Resist

ROME, Aug. IS. (UP)-A mighty Allied invasion force
struck into southern France from and sky Tuesday and
within matter of hours the Germans feeble shore
defenses and established firm beachheads along 100mle
strip of the Mediterranean coast between Nice and Mar
selle
meslong sky train of gliders and transport planes
swept in the coast before dawn to shower thousands
OF American and British paratroopers the rolling
hills behind the Nazi coastal detenses and the main assault
force spashed ashore from landing craft at a.
FOrtHicafiOns Preached
Between the two forces, the stunned Germans
rendered almost helpless and their formidable fortif
cations were preached almost without struggle.
by mid morning all the landings proceeding
cessfuly according to schedule against only light ground
opposition and no air opposition" headquarters
munque announced.
The supporting air-borne operation also
fully executed"
First reports said American and French nfantrymen
the pick of the veteran armies massng the Mediterranean
theaer for months made the bulk of the assault
put ashore by armada of 800 warshp and trans
port craft. -4....-s. .'..-sr
American and British paratroops and ar-borne in
any sperheaded the attack but indicated that the
initial British army participation limited this phase
of the invasion.
Strike Si0iftly Inland
Reports ricklng back from the thousands of Allied
ers who swept unchalenged the beaches said the
invading army was striking swiftly inland in drive aimed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

as commander of the Third Ameri-
can Army, was leading the motor
lied spearheads which swept around
the German Seventh Army in
France in one of the outstanding
American field operations of the
war.
Approval of Patton's promotion
was voted unanimously at a meet
ing of the Senate military affairs
committee, and action on the Sem
ate floor came late in the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
p AMBlINe
Ep0R1ER
Not RatiOned, Eh?

Not RatiOned, Eh?
Virginia Ivy checked over her
ration books
I've enough red points for a
good roast - she eXulted and prompt
ly telephoned her butcher.
Il want four poUhdl rump
roast Virginia said with visions
of juicy slices of succulent roast
rising before her eyes.
What is that you Want?' puzzled
a masculine voice from the butcher
shop.
Il want a four pound rump
roast she repeated.
We'll, lady" the man stammered,
what kind of roast is that?"
Il just want an ordinary rump
roast" she snapped.
What part of the animal does it
come from?" the butcher fretted.
She explained and graphically.
Let us pause a moment. Can the
powers that be create a new beef
without the old familiar rump roast
repository? Or was that one of the
things Henry Wallace ploWed un-
der?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

tackle, golf clubs. cutlery. fountains
pens, typewriters, tire chains, tele
phone equipment steel wool ami
automotive maintenance equipment,
etc.
Items which will most likely get
into earliest production will be those
of fairly simple construction and
which do not require the use Of
complicated componenis, such as
cooking utensils, pen nibs and office
furniture.
Specifically exempt from the list
were automobiles, washing mach
ines, and electric and gas refrigera-
tors.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Fate of 100000
Sealed as Last
Gate Is 81 unmed
u. S. Tan k Force Under Gen. Patton
Planes and Infantry Start in
On Terrific Demolition Maneuvers

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug 15 (UP)
Allied planes tanks and nfantryme opened the battle
of annhilaon some 100000 cOnered fighting Germans
in the Normandy pocket Tuesday veteran Canadian
troopers and the "blood and guts armor of Lieutenant
General George S. attons American third virtually
slammed shut the enemys last escape route to the east
Patton's sashng tank columns pounded up from
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

to the northwest of the Rhone val
ley, less than 80 miles west of Mar
seille.
One observation plane flew 80
miles inland without sighting any
large German troop concentrations,
but later reports said American
Thunderbolts were 6ive-bombing
Nazi tanks attempting to reach the
coast.
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson,
supreme Allied commander in the
Mediterranean, declared his forces
would sweep the Germans from their
path, march northward through the
heart of France, and join up with
the Allied armies closing in on Paris
from Normandy.
Victory Is certain" he proclaimed
IN a ringing message to the people
of France, Remember 1918"
Even as Wilson's armies Stormed
ashore, Gen. Charles de Ciaulle's
French committee of national liberia
ton broadcast call to arms to all
of France, ordering patriots through
out the country to rise agains the
ASeiAl OCCu1dllOIl armies.
LAST BLOW ORDERED
THE last blow is about To he
struck the committee declared.
The first special Allied communi-
que announcing the success of the
lancing carefully masked the prin-
cipal assault points in an obvious
attempt to spread further confusion
among the German coastal garri-
sons.
Berlin broadcastS, however. said
the main weight of the invasion
fell upon a rocky 16-mile stretch
OF coast extending westward from
st. Raphael, Is miles southeast of
Cannes and GO miles west OF Mar
seille, to Cape Camarat.
A fun battalion of American
partroops, about 1000 men, landed
in the st. Raphael area, the Nazi
DNB news agency Sadi, while an
other landing attempt at Port Dra-
mont. four miles to the east, was
repulsed.
German reports of furious fight
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Yankee Bombers
Raid Forlnosa

CHUNGKING, Aug. Is. UP) -
Heavy bombers of the u. S. 14th
air force attacked the japanese
island of Formosa of the China
coast Tuesday, bombing docks in
Takoa harbor and sinking three
enemy freighters in Formosa strait.
American P-40's meanwhile STRAIT
ed three large junks and left them
sinking off Luchow peninsula, and
struck an enemy airfield and bar
racks on Waichow Tao island.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Volcano Isles
Bombed, Says
Tokyo Reports
Ry UNITED PRESS

The Japanese Domei news agency
reported today that % Liberatol
hombers raided Two Jima in the
Volcano islands, $50 miles south OF
Tokyo, Monday.
The dispatch, recorded by FEC
mentors, claimed Japanese fighter
planes shot down two Liberators
but made no mention of any dam
age to the island.
Two Jima is almost midway be-
tween the japanese mainland and
the recently conquered islands in
the MarianaS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Senate Approves
Patton Advance

WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. UP)-
The Senate Tuesday confirmed the
promotion of Lieutenant General
George S. Patton to the permanent
rank of major-general after nearly
a year of delay resulting from
criticism of his slapping of three
American soldiers.
Senate approval same only a few
hours after Gen. Dwight d. EiSen-
hoWer'S announcement that Patton,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Nazis Dropped
Beetles on
British Spuds

LONDON, Aug. Is. CUP)-
The Germans used potato bugs
as a forerunner of the secret
weapon vi flying bombs, a sci
enlist Of the ministry of agri-
culture said Tuesday.
He said German planes
dropped Colorado beetles in an
effort to damage the 100000
ton British potato crop.
Odd specimens of the beetle,
prevalent in Germany, were dis
covered in southern England.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
BROUGHT BACK TO
FACE CHARGES

James Fred (Slim) Adams, SO,
sought since last April % on a
charge of grand theft of $500 from
the Hong Sun Grocery store at
Seeley, was arrested in Abilene,
Texas, and returned to Imperial
county to face trial. The complaint
against Adams was signed by Yee
Teng Song.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
NAZIS CONGREGATE

The bulk of the Nazi forces were
concentrated near the southern rim
of the pocket, however and there
was possibility that the desperate
enemy might hurl his entire weight
against the Allied perimeter there
in last-ditch attempt to break
through to Paris.
Headquarters sources predicted,
however, that any such attempt
would be crushed with bloody losses
to the Germans, since they now
are SO heavily engaged on all sec
tors that they have little or no op-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

AfgenJan TO WITHIN eight miles or
less of Falaise while the Canadian
first army stormed southwark to
within about two miles of that town
and cut across one of the two main
highways eastward to LiSieuX.
Front reports suggested that the
escape corridor might have been cut
to less than 10 miles, and the
flaming guns of the Canadian and
American forces already had made
that narrow lifeline impossible.
WAR PLANES HURL DEATH
Wave upon wave of Allied war
planes shuttled necessarily over the
doomed NaZi army, bombing and
strafing every moving target and
turning the entire area into burn
ing charnel house.
Headquarters reports indicated
that Field Marshal Gunther Won
Kluge had abandoned all hope of
II divisions from the pocket and
was reforming his battle-wearied
troops for death fight against
the Allied armies pressing in from
all sides.
The Germans appeared to be
wheeling their remaining tanks in
to stockade-type defense line
similar to the covered wagon cor
donS once used by American pion-
eers, massing their riflemen, mach
inc gunners, and artillery behind
taht barrier
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Strike HuItS Production
In Huge Submarine Plant

it Saturday to make a move" to-
ward arbitration.
The company is one of the worlds
largest producers of submarines.
Charles Suisman counsel for the
union said that 80 per cent of all
workers both on the day and night
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15

shift have joine dthe strike.
More than so state policemen
guarded approaches to the plant
but there were no reports of viol-
ence.
Efforts to arbitrate the dispute
Monday ended in a stalemate.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
TRAPPED NAz|S DOOMED
Lines Shorten
Everywhere in
Race TO Berlin
BY UNITED PRESS

The shortest distances to Ber-
lin from advanced Allied lines
Tuesday:
Russia-328 miles unchanged
for week..
Northern France-595 miles
Cunconfirmed, gain of % miles
in week..
Italy-602 miles gain of two
miles in week..
Southern France - Possibly
658 miles measured from point
near Nice).
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Street Fighting
SweIIs in Paris

MADRID, Aug. Is. (UP)-Sporadic
street fighting has broken out in
Paris reports from the border in
dicateG Tuesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
Home Sweet Home

to live, Bill Plum and Spouse, Elsie
Violet, bought n trailer and are
setting up housekeeping while
thumbin9 their noses at rent, rent
control. and the housing shortage
in the fair city of Ell Centre.
They are making great plans
First come the installation of cool
ers, of course. Then they will give
interior decoration a Whirl. What a
Continued on Pg. G, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
KILLED IN ACTION

Mr.. and Mrs. viii Bradford re-
ceived the news that Mrs. Brad
ford's nephew, Harold Gibson, was
killed in action in France. He had
visited his uncle an daunt in I'M
perial Valley many times while he
was intraining with the army al
Desert Center.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
DRAWS $500 FINE

William Deloney, 38, FL Centre,
convicted on drunk charges and dis
turbance of the peace by Judge
Lee Nuffer Tuesday morning, was
fined $500 or an alternative of $50
days in jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-15
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 108, minimum
Wed. 70; am. Wed. 81, humidity
~; noon We'd. 10l, humidity 49; 5
pm. Tuesday 90, humidity 40.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Separate Chaff From Wheat

It has been fun and highly patriotic to lambast the war profiteer and others who have sought to capitalize on the na- tional emergency. They deserve lambast- ing. But when the lambasting begins to include most of the productive capacity of the country, 1t is time to call halt to generalized name calling and begin to Se- gregate the chaff from the wheat. h. flation cannot be licked by holding to prices that discourage production and cripple distribution. And that is precise ly what is being done, with respect to many of the nations basic industries.
 In the field of distribution, dry goods retailers have been forced to drop various lines of clothing because of excessive price restrictions. And food retailers face a critical year in which the most important need will be to maintain sales volume. In the latter half of 1943, that volume showed a tendency to fall off and net profits dropped to the near vanishing point. If volume continues to fall Tn l944, companies will be writing their pro- fit and loss in red ink unless the Office Of Price Administration modifies ceiling price regulations. According to Chain Store Age, the net profits of seven repre- sentative food chains for the first nine mOntnS oI lS4o, WcEe dOouC OlAS-AAeiA NA one per cent of sales.
 Mass distribution has always relied on a hairline relation between prices and VOL tune for It's existence. Ordinarily, private management Is free to seek the most ef- ficient balance between the two which au- ton tically results in maximum consum- CT service But currently prices are sub- ject to Washington edicts and retailers have had to seek living by grim fight for volume sales. The distribution indus try Is no different from scores of other in- dustries. If costs rise, prices must rise. Name calling will never halt that vicious spiral.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Chinese Trade-And Jobs

When the war ends, some l0,000,000 men will be released from the armed forces, and perhaps another 100000 per- sons will leave jobs in war plants. Can jobs be found for these millions in peace time pursuits? There is good reason to answer "Yes", provided every opportun- ity to provide additional employment is realized. The American people will have higher standard of living after the war than ever before, and people must be employed to furnish the goods and serv- ices they will want. Considering the in- creased efficiency of industry however, it is very doubtful that jobs will be avail able for all if our manufacturers are to be limited to the home market.
 They need outlets abroad also. Only if foreign countries will buy locomotives, freight cars, steel, electrical equipment, automobiles and similar products will the American manufacturers who make these things be able to operate continu- ously at capacity, and employ the added workers that capacity operation makes necessary. The richest of all foreign markets open to America after the war is China With more than 400 000000O people, with vast natural resources and with hard-working, enterprising popu- latiOn, China will offer market of fabu- lous proportions.
 Time was when Yankee clipper ships dominated the China trade. Many New England family of wealth based it's for tune on trading with China. Then came the Age of Steam, and British steamships took over from our clippers. But in those days China was backward agricultural country, and her commerce was very small by comparison with her size. All that is changed now. The Chinese people know that they must industrialize to survive, and they have already begun the process in the vast western stretches of their country that are beyond the Japan sse invaders grasp. When the war IS over, we may be sure that all China will hasten to develop new industries and commerce, and that the country will become one of the great trading nations of the world' just as we did after the Civil War
 Far-sighted American business men recognize this opportunity. They know thal China is determined to catch up with the western nations in her economic de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-23
Commercial Lend-Lease

When Lend-Leace got under way three years ago, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden pledged his country to refrain from exporting Lend-Lease ma- terial received from us, or substituting Lend-Lease for British goods and using the latter for commercial exports, Now it Is reported that preliminary negotia- tions are under way to relax that agree ment. The report has brought an un- favorable reaction from members of Con- gresS, including some administration StalwartS. Ono of them, Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said, q will not stand for relaxing that pledge and neither will the Congress" The pro- posal, as Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada has pointed out, Is violation of the spirit of Lend-LeaSe. This arrangement has been one of Americas WiseSt and most profitable ventures, and the advantages have been reciprocal. Lend-Lease sub- stantially helped Britain, Russia and, to a lesser extent, China hang on while we prepared for war.
 It started putting our industry on a war footing nine months before Pearl Harbor, an invaluable aid to our prodi- gious production since then. Without Lend-Lease, 1t is most unlikely that pros- poets of victory would be as bright as they are today. There was no question of counting the cost. Russia's millions of casualties and the more than 10000 English civilians killed by German bombs cannot be measured against the $20 bil- lion this country has spent and the $2 billion received in reverse Lend-Lease Only Q heartlessly mercenary person would attempt It. Our industry and our government have done what they could, and gladly
 For that reason there has been no ob- jection to the fact that the British gov- ernemnt has sold Lend-Lease food to the British people. But dispensable civilian goods for export are not food. Britain's peacetme economy Is Vitally dependent upon export trade, of course, But Lend- Lease is a military, not commercial, arrangement. We ordinary taXpaying citizens cannot be expected to know all the deep-diSh qualifications of the diplo- matic negotiations now going on. But 1t just doesn't seem logical that Lend-Lease is the proper instrument for the resump- ton of Great BritainS commercial export trade.