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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Ancient Chinese
City Fired as
Jap Forces Near
By GEORGE WANG

KWEILIN, KWangsi Province,
China, Dot. 7. CUP)-ThiS ancient,
Imperial city, known as the Paris
of China, has been turned into a
sea of flame in the past "a hours
as Japanese forces advancing down
the Hunan-Kwangsi railway draw
near.
GA Chungking dispatch reported
Saturday that the Japanese in the
vicinity of bingham, some 40 miles
above Kweilin. had been reinforced
and were resuming their push after
lull of several days.
When my plane circled over Kweil-
lin for 10 minutes on visit from
the front line Friday I saw no
fewer than II fires raging, and later
when 1 Grove around the town. !
saw many small fires combining in
to larger ones and entire blocks OF
former crowded shopping districts
becoming charred ruins and ashes
thought at first there had been
a japanese air raid, but when ]
asked the commander in chief OF
city cefense, he said
Those fires are opening field
for firing on the enemy"
The sky over the city glowed last
night and great columns of smoke
crawled lazily up for thousands of
feet. I drove again around the city
early this morning and found most
of the suburban houses gone and
major neighborhooCs razed.
Hundreds of soldiers in separate
demolition squads were staSting new
fires and spreading old ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
ALLIED HEADQUAR-

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Southwest Pacific,
Oct. 7. (UP)-Alliad airmen
temporarily neutralized the
main japanese airfields on
Halmahera island and sank
or damaged eight more enc.
my vessels in a series OF
night and day attacks over
the Dutch East Indies, a COM
munique said Saturday.
In a two-day strike to knock out
the threat of Japanese aerial inter-
ference against the rear OF the
Philippines bound American ground
forces on Morotai island, forma-
tions of medium bombers and fight
ers bombed ano strafed the Galela
and Kaoe airdromes south of Nor
otai on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The raiders poured SO tons OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

. Breaking through frontier defenS-
es on a 96-mile front, Marshal Rod
ion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrain-
ian army already had swept more
than Is miles inside Hungary and
the broad lisa river was the only
natural obstacle between the ad-
yancing troops and Szeged and Bu-
dapeSt.
100 TOWNS OVERRUN
More than 100 towns and villages
were overrun in the first phase OF
the new offensive, which carries 32
miles from last reported Soviet posi-
tions in Romania and was part of
giant squeeze play mapped by
the Russian high command to elm
mate the last of Adolf HitlerS Balk-
an allies.
The southern phase of the triple
play already was shaping up with
other elements of Malinovsky's Sec
ond army driving northward through
Rusko Selo, 38 miles below Szeged,
HungaryS second largest city.
republic annexed by Hungary in
poised along the Czechoslovak bor-
der north of Hungary Soviet patrols
were believed already to have stab
bed into the Carpatho- Ukraine, the
eastern tip of the old Czechoslovak
republic annexted by Hungary in
1941.
CLOSE IN ON NAZIS
Southeast of Belgrade, Soviet
troops and Marshal Tito's Yugoslav
partisans were making steady prog
ress toward the strategic commune
cations center of Mis- and the Athens
Belgrade railway, last practical
escape route for 100000 Germans in
the southern Balkans.
On the Baltic front, Soviet forces
lanced on the 1000-square-m mile Es-
tonian island of Saare (OeseD at
the entrance to the Gulf of Riga
and already have liberated one
third of the territory, including 80
towns and villages.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Allied Airmen
Hit jap Bases

bombs into the two air bases, de-
stroying one grounded enemy plane
and rendering both fields unservice-
able, the communique said.
Other raiders lashed out against
the chain of Japanese island bases
west and south of the Halmaheras,
ripping up enemy airfields and
wrecking warehouses, COCKS ana
military installations on Ambolna
and Boeroe islands and in the Gel
ebeS.
A 3000-ton cargo vessel and a
1000-ton freighter also were sunk
in the pre-daWn strike on Ambolna,
site of former major Dutch naval
base, and another 3000-tonner was
hit and probably sunk in the Maslrl
straits off the CelebeS.
The communique also revealed
new and heavy attacks against the
isolated japanese positions at We
wax, New Guinea, and the once
formidable base at Rabaul, New
Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
{ of { Directors
Slate Meefinu

Chamber of Commerce board Of
directors will meet Wednesday at
a regular meeting in chamber Of
ficeS.
Discussions, according to Charles
c. Bramkamp, president. will en-
brace the following: a report of
objective committees progress by
w. G.. Outlook; Civic Improvements
Committee report. relative to a To-
cation for an FL Centre municipal
plunge, by K. H. Thornton; report
on secretary manager applications
by executive committee: report on
the initiative and referendums to
be voted on at the next election by
Ira w. Kinsey and a report from
the committee ON resolutions and
legislative matters by w. G.. oFss.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
British Forces
Sloy Germans
Fleeing Greece
Germans Try TO Escape Isles
And Mainland Under Fire
From Surface Craft. Airplanes
BY RRERT VERMILLION

ROME, Oct. Z. (UP)-
German troops were reported
evacuating Greece and the
Aegean islands by sea and
air under merciless attack
by Allied planes and war
ships Saturday as British
invasion rces swarmed
ashore on the islands and Oc-
cupied virtually all of the
Peloponnesus mainland peninsula in
a swift drive on Athens.
Exacting a terrible vengeance for
the defeat CT their eXpeo itionary
force in Greece more than three
years ago, British cruisers, destroy
ers and at least one aircraft carrier
hunted the Nazi evacuation fleet
through the Aegean and lombard
ed the islands still in enemy hands.
RAF warplanes bombed and straf-
ed the troop-packed German YES
sells and struck repeatedly at Nazi
transport planes attempting to evac-
uate their garrisons under cover of
low-hanging clouds.
At least two Nazi-occupied Gre
clan islands, Samos and Letitha,
were disclosed officially to have
been taken by British assault troops,
and Khios, Mytilene Gesbos), An
dros, and Skyros also were reported
in Allied hands.
Unconfirmed reports said Allied
troops had lane ed on Rhodes, the
main German stronghold in the
Dodecanese group, and that RAF
planes already were operating from
fields on the island
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
NAzI WEST FRONT BENDS UNDER THRUST$
Nazis Disclose
Hostage Plans
To Save Hitler
Belgians' King Among
Many to Pay With
Lives If Allies ''Punish"

LONDON, Oct. 7. (UP)-A Stock
holm dispatch said Saturday that
Germany has revealed she intends
to move King Leopold of Belgium
and other prominent prisoners to
Japan as hostages to be exchanged
for Adolf Hitler or other Nazi war
criminals who may fall into Allied
hancs after the fall of the Reich
If any captured Nazi leader is
sentenced to death, a hostage will
pay the same price simultaneously
in Germany or Japan under the
plan, the dispatch said.
The Stockholm correspondent of
the London Daily Mail said the plot
was disclosed in Reichmarshal Her.
mann Goerings own newspaper, the
Essener National Zeitung.
National Socialist leaders are
about to organize counter-measures
against trials of war criminals
which are forecast to occur after
Germany's defeat" the National
Zeitung said.
Among well-known prisoners in
Germany, the most outstanding will
be selected to serve as hostages.
They will be taken to Japan, whence
they will be exchanged with prom
inent Nazis captured by the Allies
The Daily Mail correspondent
went on to say he had learned that
if the exchange plan fails, the hos
tages will pay with their lives fol
any Nazi lea6ers executed.
The dispatch did not say how
the prisoners would be moved tt
Japan, but it was presumed tht
plan envisioned use of long-rang,
submarines.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
President Plans
New York Talk

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. up.
President Roosevelt will address the
Foreign Policy association at a New
York dinner meeting on Oct. 81, the
White House disclosed Saturday.
Mr.. Roosevelt accepted an invita-
ton to discuss foreign policy in a
telegram dated yesterday and ad-
dressed to Major General Frank r.
Mccoy, president of the association,
the White House announced.
Mccoy had urged the President to
make the address in behalf of the
Foreign Policy associations effort
ito bring to the attention of the
citizens of this country the impor-
tant issues of foreign policy"
The President was invited to make
the address in letter from Mccoy
dated October 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
81 Found Guilty
As Polygamists

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 7. CUP
Thirty-one fundamentaliStS con-
victed en- charges of conspiracy to
practice polygamy Saturday prom
ised to appeal the case to Almighty
God, if necessary"
The defendants, who face maxi
mum sentence of one year in Jail
or a $1,000 fine, were convicted by
an eight-man jury late Friday, the
saith anniversary of the Mormon
church's anti-polygamy manifesto
They will be sentenced next Friday
the 18th.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

; f1OuStS AIIltIlCdIl FlTSI dIIIly dS IL
lunged eastward in the face of a
hurricane barrage from concealed
German batteries on the Cologne
plain. Allied planes swarmed over
head, lending strong air support.
STRIKE FRCM NEW PLACE
One column cue east of battered
Aachen jumped off from newly
won positions only six miles from
the transport center of Duren and
27 miles from Cologne, while the
other some 10 to IL miles to the
north surrounded Beggendorf, now
a norman 's-land two miles east of
Ubach, and battled to widen the
Ubach gap in the Siegfried line.
Doughboys of the American Third
army under Lieutenant General
George S. Patton extended their
hold on the southwest corner of
embattled Fort Driant in the sub
urbs of Metz to within 100 yards of
the main Notifications. where they
could hear the Germans shouting
to one another.
The Americans also had a toe
hold on the northwest corner OF
the fortress. but had not penetrat-
ed the defenses as deeply as their
comrades.
YIELD SOME GROUND
South of Metz, the Third army
yielded some ground to an enemy
counter-a attack near Siry, nine
miles north of Nancy, but advanced
more than halfway through the
Parrov Forrest east of Luneville
against stubborn resistance and cap
tured Anglemont, six miles south
west of Baccarat.
Supreme headquarters reported
the Germans had sent substantial
reinforcements of good troops. in
cluding "fight-to-the-death" fam
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
GETS DEATH SENTENCE

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7. UP)-
John Sernsky, 38-year-old ex-con-
vict, was sentenced to die in the
lethal gas chamber for the murder
of Mrs. Marian Berger. whose
beat n body was found in the ocean
near Point Mugu last May 10. Su-
periOr Judge NeWcomb Condee
overruled motions for new trial
by Mrs. Leola Buck-Kellogg, Sern-
sky's attorney. on grounds that Da-
vid Berger, the murdered woman's
husband, was seen talking with a
Juror on a Streetcar.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
DEALERS AND FARMERS
STUDY EQUIPMENT

A group of CaleXico automotive
dealers and farmers were in Pomo-
ma Saturday inspecting 1la ton car
go carriers and other "GI" equip
ment for release to farmers, accord
ing to Rudolph Miller, secretary,
Agricultural Conservation associa-
ton. Ell Centro.
Miller expressed the hope that
procedure involved in obtaining
such trucks in the future would be
simplified and that farmers could
direct bids on equipment on dealers
blocks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
ONE DETROIT WAR PLANT
REMAINS STRIKE-BOUND

DETROIT, Oct. 7. CUP)-Normal
production was resumed Friday in
all but one of Detroit war plants
which were affected by a 27-hour
maintenance workers strike that
closed eight factories and slowed
output in more than 25 others.
The American Metal Products
plant, normally employing 1900,
still was closed. Union spokesmen
charged that workers were locked
out No comment was available
from the company.
The strikers members OF the
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
maintenance council, walked out
Wednesday after expiration of "a
hour ultimatum to the war labor
board demanding that fact finding
committee be set up in Detroit to
study wage rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Cardinals Win:
ven Series

SPOR MANS PARK, ST.
LOUIS, Oct. 7. CUP)-The st. Louis
Cardinals exploded some of the hit
ting power which enabled them to
coast to the National league pen
nant to defeat the Browns, 5 to l,
Saturday and even the world series
at two games each.
A 12-hit attack against three
Browns pitchers, which included a
first-inning home run by Stan Mu-
sial. gave the Cardinals the fourth
game before the largest crowd OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Ca|exican Suffers
Wound in Battle

Relatives received word SATURDAY.
that Second Lieutenant Robert T,
Doolittle. son of Sergeant and Mrs.
Jack Doolittle of Calexico, is suffer-
ing from a shot in the back, a
wound received while in action in
France.
He was taken to a hospital in
England. Physicians wrote that they
have not as yet determined the ex-
tent of the injury to his spine and
one lung.
Lieutenant Doolittle has been
awarded the Purple Heart.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
CIVIC LEADER DIES

HANFORD, Cal, Oct. 7. CUP)-
Frank R. Hight, 83, former city
treasurer of Hanford and chairman
of the advisory board of the Anglo
California bank, died at his home
Thursday night shortly after he suf-
fered his third stroke. Hight was
prominent in civic and fraternal
organizations and also served as a
director of the Sun-Maid RaiSin
Growers association. He was sur
vived by two sons and a daughter.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

production in several hundred war
plants, threatened northeastern
Ohio.
AS ITO CIO employees OF the
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.
voted "to strike or not, United
Utility Workers union officials re-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
p AMB1!Ne
NEpoRTER

The Acid Test 90
For some reason known only to
himself, Hugh Osborne, veteran of
World war No. /, was sitting beside
the information CeSk in the USO
club in FL Centro with his face hid
den behind a newspaper
He was within earshot while Mrs.
Jean Shelby was explaining the
duties of the women at the infor-
nation desk. She was instructing
Mrs. Arno C. Yaeckel, Mrs. Philip
Hodgkin, and Mrs. Pat Bush, who
were ito be on duty for the first
time.
I'VE have to be very tactful at
the information desk" Mrs. Shelby
said. I'VE can't lose our tempers and
we must handle every situation with
tact" The group of women then
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. @
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Pending Walk Out Would
Durken 300. 900 Homes

fused to reveal strike plans until
the opportune moment.
The strike vote call, made by the
union or September 7, resulted when
the regional War Labor board re-
jected a abor-management proposal
to raise employees wages seven cents
an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
RECONyERSION ORDERS

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Z. (Uf)
The War Production board auth
orized total of $6,372,225 worth OF
reconversion orders in California
plants up to Oct. 1, it was an
nounced Thursday. OF the amount
approved $3,984,875 was authorized
for % plants in the San Francisco
area, while 81 approvals totaling
$2,387,350 were made in southern
California, WPB said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

the Series-35, ass.
Harry Brecheen, Stream-lined
Cardinal southpaW, yielded nine hits
to the American league champions
but kept them well scattered and
did not permit a run until the eighth
inning when his mates already had
given him a five-run margin.
AS the Browns began their batting
drill the sun was SO hot that the
customers in the left and center
field bleachers were holding VI
newspapers and ether articles fol
shade.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
STOPS PRISON
PENALTY DIET

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Oct. 7. CUP)
State Director of Corrections Rich
ard A. MCGEE has ordered the abol-
ition of bread and water diet for
prisoners in solitary confinement
at San Quentin and Folsom pris-
ons, he announced here late Friday.
MCGEE said that future rations for
convicts placeC' in solitary will
include a meat loaf and vegetable
containing vitamins necessary for
health in place of the previous daily
serving of half a loaf of bread and
water.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
FoochoW Falls
To Japanese

to the north on September 81. the
broadcast said. Tokyo propagandists
said the occupation of Foochow was
intended to forestall a possible
American Claiborne landing on the
China coast.
Foochow was ocepied by the Japa-
nese in April. 1889. but was recap
tured five months later by Chinese
forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

LONDON, Oct. 7. (UP)-
A big force of RAF heavy
bombers set Bremen, Ger
many's second port, afire
from lend to end" and also
hit Berlin, Dortmund and
Saarbrucken in a shattering
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
BY UNITED PRESS

Radio Tokyo said Saturday that
japanese troops have occupied Foo
chow, the last seaport held by the
Chinese on the east coast of China
Foochow, directly opposite the
island of Formosa, was taken We'd
nesday morning by Japanese forces
that landed on the seacoast 25 miles
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Robot Bombers
K,t London

LONDON, Oct. 7. UP)-German
robot bombs crashed through an
earth-shaking flax barrage Friday
night and exploded in number of
places in southern England, inclLl =
ing the London area, causing DAM
age and casualties.
Taking advantage of late-rising
moon to evade patrolling British
night fighters, the Nazis made two
brief robot attacks soon after night
fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
DEPRECIATION PERMITS WAIT
FARMEES IN DUCK AREA

Rudolph Miller, agricultural con-
servation association secretary, an
nounced Saturday that Alvin w.
Elder, game management agent, U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has
asked the AAA to cooperate in trI
issuance of depreciation permits to
farmers throughout the county.
Miller said that any farmer eX-
periencing duck damage on any
crop can apply at his office for
permits. Although farmers and
their agents are entitled to such
permits. none will be granted hunt
ers. Miller said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

four-pronged assault on the
Reich Friday night.
Nearly 1000 four-engined. Lam
casters and Halifaxes participated
in the night foray, which followed
by only few hours the largest
American daylight raid on Ger
many since June with Berlin among
the prime targets.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
DOPE RUNNER SENTENCED

TUCSON, Ariz, Oct. 7. (UP) =
Charles C. Blanco, Nogales, was un-
der a federal sentence Of 312 years
Imprisonment ancI fines OF $1,000
Friday for using his position as a
government undercover man To
smuggle more than l3 pounds OF
opium into the United States from
Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

CLEVELAND, Oct. Z.
(UP)-A paralyzing power
blackout, which would shut
off electricity in 100000
homes, cripple Cleveland's
electrically operated trans
portation system, and halt
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
RAJ Bombers Fire Bremen,
Hit Berlin at Night

The main weight OF the RATS
assault was directed against Brem-
en- and Dortmund, the latter an In
land port ana one of the main rail-
way centers In Germany's great
industrial Ruhr. with probably more
than 1000 tons Of fire and demolt-
ton bombs being dropped on each
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
SPENDS FURLOUGH AT HOME

HOLTVILLE, Oct. 7. - Walter
Enz, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Enz,
arrived hcme Thursday night for
Today furlough. He is stationed
at Camp Roberts, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Russians Peril
Budapest in
Hungary Drives
Infantry and Tanks Sweep Across
Plains With River Only Barrier
AS Par+isans Hem 100000 Nazis

MOSCOW, Oct. 7. (UP)-Red army tanks and infantry
pounded the plains of southeastern Hungary within
artillery range Of Szeged and less than 100 miles from
Budapest Saturday in rapdfire offensive to knock Ger
many's third Balkan satellite out of the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY :

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Oct 7. (UP)-
American tanks and infantry charged German deenses
12-me front north and east of Aachen at dawn Satur
day resumption their twin offensves aimed the
big industrial and railway center of Cologne 27 miles
to the east
Sunny skies favored Lieutenant General Courtney H.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
DEADLINE NEARS

El Centro landlords have but
one week left to register rentals, r.
r. Edmunds. area rent director
warned Friday. October Is is the
deadline.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
Turn
On New Blow
In Auchen Area
Twin Offenses Aimed at Cologne
Sweep Germans readily Back;
Patton Tishtens Line About Metz

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Oct :. tUP)-The Amer
breakhrOugh six miles wide and
fanOu of miles
Basenweir and rolled swiftly toward
Rhine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08
WEATHER

Maximum Friday SO, minimum Saturday SO; am.
Saturday GA, humidity 20; noon Saturday SO, hu-
midity 35; pm Friday 92, humidity 22.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

1. A. HAY-U. s. No. s31-3350; u 8. No. leafy
l. ". SsO.5O- 80 so; No. $1,000 S31OO; Sept flax
S3.96A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-08

Total Cash, Cheeks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two III Centre Banksl
Bradley beam., 1944-05-20

Hundreds each morning I behold Along the highways stalking Many are walking to reduce
 More are reduced to walking.
Bradley beam., 1944-05-20
STR0ILINC THROUGH THE RANKS
B, PVT. GROVER c. PRICE, JR

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 with such beautiful
 
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Bradley beam., 1944-05-20
now. So long.

And there was the Scotchman who bought only one spur. He fig ured that if one side of the horse went the other was sure to follow.
Bradley beam., 1944-05-20
Final Three Steps In Paper SalVage

In effort to make all personnel conscious of the inn portance of savaging waste paper the BEAM two weeks ago. carried photo showing the procedure of pack