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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
bombers Rake Mindundo:
Hit Ships, Start Fires

bombers and fighters swept over the
port at minimum altitude.
Six japanese seaplanes. anchored
in the harbor, were destroyed and
a l000-ton vessel, two small freight
ers and a barge were set afire.
A lugger and two small craft also
we're destroyed in the Ambcina?
Ceram area, together with land In
stallations and oil storage tanks at
Boela in two separate attacks by
Mitchell medium bombers and pa
troll planes.
Other Mitchells again hit Celebe5
island. 200 miles south of Mindanao.
concentrating on fuel storage areas.
bivouacs, supply dumps and ware
houses near Langoan and Menado
airfields.
Nearby Halmahera island also was
rsided by fighter bombers, on neu-
tralization missions of the islands
airdromeS. within easy bombing
range of the Philippines. In addi-
tion, warehouses on the west coast
were destroyed and four barges
sunk off the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Throng Attends
WiIIkie Rites

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. UP)-Rep-
resentatives, great and small, OF the
"one world" that Wenc ell l.. Will
kie envisaged. paid their last trib-
ute to him Tuesday at impressive
funeral services in the Fifth Ave-
nue. Presbyterian church.
The body of the one-time home
spun Indiana lawyer who became
the Republican presidential candi-
date in 1910, lay in state in the big
brownStone church where at 3 pm.
DR.. John Sutherland Bonnell preach
eo the funeral sermon.
Some 10000 persons filed through
the church Monday to pay their
final respects. They were, in the
main, office workers and laborers.
AT 6 pm. a Pennsylvania train
will carry WILKES body toward his
hometown of Rushvjlle, Indiana, 40
miles from ElWood where he was
born and where in 1910 he made
a speech accepting the Republican
nomination for president of the
United States.
Burial in Rushville will be post
poned until Lieut.. jgD Philip Will
kle, only child of the WILKES, ar
rives home from convoy duty some
where in the Atlantic.
MRS. Willkie. i'll from a throat
injection kindred to that which
contributed to her husbands death
Will travel to Rushville with heI
orother-in-law, Edward Willkie.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Duck Ammunition
Held Ample Now

Rudolph Miller, secretary of the
agricultural association, Tuesday
announced that his office is in re-
ceipt of two additional allotmentS
of ammunition to be used by farm
ers in exterminating crop-ravaeing
ducks.
Miller said the 20 caliber aliot-
ment totaled $1,000 shotgun shells
5000
I'VE have enough ammunition to
cope with the duck problem now,
he concluded, but I'm worried about
next spring, when the ducks really
begin to come back from across the
border
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
y AMBlINe
IMPORTER

A Versatile Bird
While delivering ice along Main
street in El Centre Tuesday, Pat
Patterson missed his husky, Ray
Petree. .-.---,.. -.sa
Pat went on heaving ice out of
the truck and into this place and
that for about 80 minutes, all the
time keeping an eye out for the
missing Petree.
At last he spotted Petree, the ice
man.
Here was Petree in the window CT
the DuSold dress shop helping a
couple of ;al sWomen tog a model
out in a new outfit.
Hey puffed the perSpiring
Petree as Pat harged in the door,
II got one shoe on but the other
went go on. C..e loot must be big
ger than the other
We notice Petree had no diff
Guilty in getting the clothing draped
on the model. He hasn't handled
slipp, ry ice all this time for nothing
This Is Romantic
A nice little shoe, feminine
shoe, was the only evidence Patrol
man Les Conn contributed to cer-
Continued on Pg. g., Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
YanI<s Give German Stronghold
Full Chance To Surrender
Or Face Complete Destruction
Americans Hold First Reich Key
City at Their Mercy as All
Defenses CrumbIe Under OnsIauoh+

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF Paris, Oct 10.
(UP)-The American First army forged Gordon of steel
around Aachen Tuesday and delivered 24-hour utmaum
to it's German garrison demanding unconditional surrender
or face complete destruction of the city,
Front dispatches reported the surrenderor-die ulti
matum to the Naz defenders of Aachen conciden with
the shift of General Dwight Eisenhowers supreme head
quarters from London to Paris.
Hodges Army Cuts Strategic HighUay
SHAEF authorities at the first press conference here
announced that Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges
First had the Aachen Cologne highway northeast
of Haaren mile north of Aachen and captured Schauf
enberg, mile east of Alsdorf.
U. S. Third army, steadily extending its gains six
mile front in the Mosee Valley captured Letrcourt five
miles northeast of Nancy the second day of violent
street battle.
The ultmatum delivered the doomed Germans
by the American infantry commander of the Aachen sector
1t declared that the NaZ garrison believed number
Nazi forces
Artillery And Air Bcnbdrdn,ent Waits
Unless the garrison surrenders, the Germans in
formed the Americans will loose mercileSs hail of artil
lery and air bombardment which will annhilae them.
Elsewhere the general Aachen front, American
troops stormed into Haaren and mopping German
resistance at that strongpont mile north of Aachen
They already had captured commanding heights mile
north of Haaren.
On the Third army front in France Lieutenant General
George S. Pattons forces advances along 6-me
front north of Nancy which the Germans falling
back to prepared positions Street fighting continued in
LcricOurt, Is miles northeast of Nancy
Farther south, American and French troops captured
several villages in the Vosges foothills north of the Bel
fort On the opposite wing of the battlefront Can
adan troops drove inland two miles from beachheads
the south side of the Schede estuary.
Front dispatches from United Press War Correspond
Henry T. Gorrell and Jack Franksh made plain that
They Swamed into the eastern suburbs of Aachen state
forest called Forst-Aachen
Aachen the first big German city to pass within
the grip of American forces
on Pg g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
14,3q4 Voters
Sign in County

Registration in Imperial county
this fall dropped to the lowest point
in Is years, 14.394.
In October of 1943 the registra
J ton for the county was 1850 and
before the presidential election in
1910 it was 2O,68l, County Clerk W..
j., McClelland announced TueScay.
The party count this fall shows
8,196 Democrats and 5,623 Republic
cans.
Those who declined to give any
party affiliation totaled 1876. The
great register of the county shows
three Progressives, eight Prohibi-
tipnists, Is Socialists, So Townsend
tiers, and one Communist.
1.-The party count as to supervisor
ial districts was as follows.
=. No. (Calexico) $50 Republicans,
1929 Democrats, 109 who declined
to give party affiliation, one Prog
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Meats and Butter
StiII Run Short

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. tUP)-
The agriculture department Tues
day predicted greater shortages of
pork. beef and butter for the re-
mainder of 1914, and reported over
all food costs rose At per cent be-
tween August, 1899, and August
1914.
The departments food forecaster
the bureau of agricultural econcm-
les, said that while pork and beef
production would increase season.
ally. civilians would get less due to
higher military needs.
The bureau said there would be
even less butter from now until the
beginning of the year, but predicted
increased supplies of poultry and
plentiful quantities of eggs, fats,
and cils, most fresh vegetables,
fruits, milk and grain products.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Greeks, British
Seize Corinth

the original troops had pushed
south there in fortnights opera
tionS.
The attack on Porta Edda was
launched at a. m. Monday. Some
troops penetrated to the western
outskirts of the town. Others
reached an unspecified central To-
cality after silencing a battery A
paratroop company captured an
other battery. More than 100 pris-
oners were taken.
The Porto Edda attack threat
ened to unhinge the whole already
rrecaricus German position in
north Greece and Albania.
The British and Greek forces
pounded into Corinth, key citadel
commanding the isthmus linking
the Peloponnesus with the main
land. Sunday morning behind the
last Germans to flee the southern
peninsula comprising a quarter of
Greece.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

yesterday, revealed that the four
powers had reached a compromise
HAT waatls shave virtually the same
effect as the Russian plan.
Under the compromise, members
of the new organization to be
known as THE United Nations" -
would be obligated to hold national
air force contingents Immediately
available for combined inter-
national enforcement action" by the
international authority.
A high official serving as spokes-
man on the overall peace plan was
asked to explain why a special Sec
ton had been made on the air force
units since the general obligation to
support the new organization by
Continued en- Page 6, Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Yield Of Corn
Shows Gains

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. CUPD-
The agriculture department Tues
day predicted that the 1914 corn
crop will total 3.196977 900 bushels
as compared with 3,1H,3l9,000
bushels forecast a month ago and
a 1943 harvest of BOTS, l59, 900
bushels.
The report was based on condi-
tions as CT October l. The crop re-
porting board estimated an average
acre yield of 38.2 bushels, compared
with 31.8 bushels indicated month
ago and the 1943 average of 32.5
bushels.
The overall 1914 wheat crop is
now indicated at l,108,88l 900 BUSH
els. compared with l,1l5.402 900
bushels indicated month ago and
a harvest of 36,293,OOO bushels in
1943, the board said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
AAcH cE is ULT|N|ATU|v
LEST We FORGET
Imperial Man
Killed In
Holland Area

Sergeant Jerry Martin Murphy,
%. was killed in action in Hol-
land September II.
A war department telegram
arrived at the home of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Murphy
of Imperial, Monday night. Ser
geant Murphy was a paratroop-
er with a long list of jumps to
his credit.
He enlisted in Ell Centre and
trained at Ft. Benning, Georgia,
and Ft. Bragg, Kentucky. In
February of 1912 he was assigned
to the five hundred and fourth
regiment, eighty-Second division.
He was a paratrooper in an air.
borne division. He had not had
a furlough.
Sergeant Murphy fought in
North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Nor
mandy, and in Holland. He was
wounded in italy and was in
hospital for two months after
that. The Purple Heart was
awarded to him.
Several weeks ago he sent
home an Italian and a German
flag which he had captured.
He attended high school in
Imperial and Junior college in Ell
Centro.
His brother, James, is a radio
man second class in the navy,
stationed in the Pacific area. He
enlisted right after the. Pearl
Harbor incident and was sent
out within few days after en-
listment. Another brother, Pat,
is in high school as is one of his
sisters, Colleen. His other sister,
Mrs, Jackie Payne, lives in Ell
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

ressive, two Socialists, and one
ToWnsenditer.
No 2 (El Centro)-20 Republic
cans, 2,517 Democrats. 1876 who de-
clined to give party affiliation,
two Progressives, five Socialists, 20
Townsenditers, and one Prohibition
ist.
No. GmperiaD Republicans,
1913 Democrats, 48 who declined to
give party affiliation, two Social
lists, one Townsenditer, and one
Communist.
No. (Brawley)-l, ,698 Republi-
cans, 2,462 Democrats, 113 who de-
clined to give a party affiliation,
five Prohibitionists, five Socialists.
and II ToWnsenditers.
No. CHoltville)-533 Republicans.
800 Democrats, 30 who declined to
give a party affiliation, two Prohi-
bitionists, one Socialist, and four
Townsenditers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

ROME, Oct. 10. CUP)-British
forces and Greek Patriots have cap
tured Corinth, freeing the entire
Peloponnesus from Nazi grip. and
other British forces are storming
Porto Edda, key to South Albania
and Northern Greece and chief sup
ply port for the strategic island of
Corfu, it was announced Tuesday.
Capture of Corinth liberated
about one-fourth of Greek territory
and gave the British springboard
for an advance of Athens only 48
miles tc the east.
News of the attack on Porto Edda,
scene of heavy fighting in the
Greek-Italian campaign in 1910, was
the first indication how the cam
paign of British paratroopers to
clear Albania from the Germans is
proceeding
1t was not revealed whether
fresh forces were landed for the
Porto Edda operation or whether
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Soviets Scored
At Peace Meet

WASHINGTON, Oct 10. CUP) =
Soviet Russia won major point at
the Durnbartan. Oaks conferences a
high spokesman acknowledged Tues
day, when the big four powers
agreed to give the proposed new
league of nations authority to call
on special air force units for "ur-
gent military measures"
Russian delegates originally came
to the conference with a proposal
for an outright international air
force which could be hurriedly dis
patched to any part of the globe to
discourage a nation preparing for
aggression.
Original Russian plan was rejected.
But the final craft of proposals for
the new organization, as released
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
PlI|box Emptied
Of Germans,
Glad to Give Up
By HENRY GORRELL

WITH THE u. S. FIRST ARMY
NEAR AACHEN, Oct. 10. (UP)-The
Germans in the pillbox on Crucifix
mortar and small arms fire but a
little fast-talking by an American
interpreter had them on the way to
a prisOner-of-War cage in five min
uteS.
1t happened like this:
During lull in the fighting a
Nazi climbed out of the pillbox car
rying white flag He came to the
American lines and appealed for
medical aid for an American lieu
tenant who had been wounded in
charging the pillbox.
I'VE have no facilities to look
after him." the German said. THE
lieutenants condition is critical. He
needs TRANSMISSION"
Three American medical corps
men and an interpreter went back
to the pillbox with the German un-
''der protection of a Red Cross flag
Inside they found seven German
soldiers and non-com bending
over the unconscious American lieu
tenant.
While the corps men administered
plasma the interpreter did his stuff
You fellows are surrounded" he
said to the Germans. I'VE have
you cut off. Why don't you give
yourselves up?"
The Germans looked at one an
other and then one of them said:
"All right we'll go along with you. y
Their superior officer feigned in
dignation, saying:
You can't go off and leave me
here all alone"
There was little argument and
then the German officer said:
We'll, 1 guess I'll have to come
along, too"
A few minutes later the Germans
walked out of the pillbox with a
white flag while the Americans
carrying the wounded lieutenant
followed along behind
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

casting companys transcription div
ision. Eighty recording companies
previously had reached agreements
with the union uncer which they
make payments to the unions un-
employment fund.
President Roosevelt had asked
Petrillo to lift the ban "in the in
terest of orderly government The
President said that while the un-
ions nom compliance with a War
Labor board order to end the strike
c i'd not interfere with the war ef-
fort, it's continuance might en-
courage other refusals to abide by
WLB orders.
Petrillo, in a telegram to the
President. said the unions execu-
tive board had voted unanimously
to refuse to accept the WLB order.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
VMemeI
Doom
Russians Mass
To Wipe Out
100000 Of Foe

MOSCOW, Oct. TO- UP)-Soviet
armored forces closed in on the big
Baltic port of Memel Tuesday and
probably already were storming it's
outskirts, virtually completing the
entrapment of 100000 or mere
German troops.
"a London broadcast said Russian
troops had reached the Baltic coast
20 miles south of Memel)
The Russian thrust toward the
Baltic from newly captured Vezai-
Ciai, IL miles east of Memel, pinned
10 to Is battered enemy divisions
against the sea in vast pocket
stretching northeast to Riga. DOOM
Continued ion Pg. 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Legion Meeting
To Hear Band

Director George .1llrt will present
his Wil;on school band of 40 pieces
at the American Legion program in
Ell Centre Tuesday night in honor
of Ira Aten
AS an additional tribute to Aten,
a former Texas ranger, Mrs. George
Burt will sing Home on the Range"
The meeting was planned to honor
Atcn as he is the father of the
World War No. here for whom the
post was named.
The public was invited to attend
the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
PetriIIo Spurns Roosevelt
Plea to Obey WB Order

He told the President that the only
solution to the dispute would be for
the affected companies to make
agreements with the union similar
to those made by the companies
that now are turning out musical
records.
This is one of the greatest fights
in which organized labor ever has
been involved" Petrillo'S telegram
said
He said the dispute involves bias
ic, fundamental rights" and Is a
fight to preserve free labor as
against conscription.
Knowing your position on hu-
man rights, we know you would not
want to impose unjust conditions
on thousands of musicians" he told
the President
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
Stain Confers
Churchill

MOSCOW Oct TO- UP-Prime Minister Churchill Premier
Marshal Stain revealed
Announcement of the Churchill
shared melght
results international
there hint of crec connection between the prime
problems Washington
Dumbaron
higher levels Rssia that should
action against
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

CHICAGO, Oct. 10. (UP)
The American Federation
of Musicians refused Tues
day to comply with President
Roosevelt's request that the
federation lift it's ban on the
making of recordings for
some commercial uses as or
d'ared by the War Labor
board.
\ President James c. Petrillo, of
the AFL Musicians Union. said the
ATM International Executive board
had voted against encing the rec
ording strike against the three COM
panies still under the ban-Victor,
Columbia, and the National Broad
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

the port of Zamboanga, on the
southern tip of Mindanao. where
Iiberator bombers and Lightning
fighters started huge fires and ex-
plocions in the waterfront area and
surrounding installations.
A vast blanket of smoke. rising
1000 feet into the air, covered the
target area, General Douglas Mac
ArthurIs communique said after the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10

ALLIED H f d @ u AR T Err S,
Southwest Pacific, Oct. 10. (UP,-
Allied bombers and fighters bat
tered japanese bases on Mindanao
in the southern Philippines and
nearby island bastions in heavy at
tacks Saturday, wrecking six enemy
vessels and six planes, it was an
nCunced Tuesday.
The biggest raid was centered on
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
CALEXICO CHILD DIES
ON FIRST BIRTHDAY

Death came TO Frank Nunez OF
Calexieo on his first birthday an
niversary.
The baby, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ambrosio Nunez OF 80 West sixth
street, Calexico. died Monday.
Services we're conducted at the
Catholic church III Calexico at 4
D. m. Tuesday with Father Thomas
O'Toole officiating. Burial Will be
in Mt. View cemetery With the HENS
mortuary in charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
DRAWS FINE OR TERM

B. A. Gebhart, AZ, Imperial cook,
pleaded guilty Tuesday in police
court to charge of drunk driving
and was sentenced to serve so days
or pay a fine of 500. He began
serving the term.fater in the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
BOOM IN TWINS

BOOM IN TWINS
LIMA, O., Oct. 10. CUP)-Lima'
Memorial hospital believes it has
"cornered the market" on twin
births. The other day seventh
pair of twins was born, the seventh
set in "a days
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-10
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 100. minimum
Tuesday 81; am. Tuesday IS. hu-
mitlity Sc; noon Tuesday 81, humid
ity 25; pm. Mon. 96, humidity Il.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-04-15

to labelling Of Negroes In newspaper crime re-
porting For this practice disrupts daily harmony
OF American workers of different color. (Of
this 1 have evidence, but could use more Hence
II you picked up any In the place you work, please
send Il on. You may have heard colored workers
being damned just as q result Of the recent SEN
sational treatment by the newspapers Of an limo
cent many
Putting the Negro label in crimes intensifies
prejudice 1t reinforces the false notions many
whites already have about Negroes. They have
these notions because their public schools never
taught them any facts In this regard. They don't
know that colored folks are just good and just
as bad as white folks.
II they knew about the real life and achieve.
ments Of Negro citizens, then reading about one
isolated individual who Is in the clutches of the
law wouldn't have the disruptive effect 1t now has
That Is one OF the many reasons that the council,
while pushing for fair employment practices, Is
also pushing for the teaching Of facts about Ne
groes In the schools. Substitute facts for ignorance
and there'n be some effect upon prejudice
That's what was good about the Intercultural
conference. It taught the teachers who are to
teach the children Intercultural Is high-sound-
ing name. But to me II means that all schools
would teach all children about the contributions to
American life that all races have made. It would
teach children to act and think democratically. As
well as to do lip service. Future citizens would
learn that democracy must be practced for all and
by all in order to exist. They would learn to dis
tinguish name-callng for what Il really is-an in
strument OF the propagandist 1t would teach .
number OF other things. including regard and re-
spect for people as individuals regardless of the
race or religious group to which they may belong.
This would be deterrent to prejudice. that is
to pre-judgng an individual on the basis Of false
notions about his group Scientific facts would be
substituted for the false notions.
This type Of teaching material. lntercultural
Education as 1t Is called, will gradually be intro
duced in the schools Of the North, Beginnings are
already being made in the Detroit schools. which
Is q hopeful sign. A generation from now. with
ignorance Of our fellows disappearing q greater
degree OF fairness in employment may be
expected.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-04-15
THE WATCHTOWER 8, ROY WILKINS

ing. He might have meant many things. but he
did not rave.
A long statement came from Rep. Hatton w.
Summers Of Texas. who as chairman Of the power
full House Judiciary committee has kept legislation
on Negroes and labor bottled up in committee for
years. He thinks those who want to 60 too fast"
are "hurtful and hindering' and disposed to Eek
aggerate what can Be accomplished with the man.
date Of legislative bodies and the Judgment Of
courts" This questioning Of courts from the chair
man Of judiciary committed
The same theme erspt into IN editorial In the
New York World Telegram when II advised Ne
groes to be temperate" In taking advantage Of
the new ruling. How does one temperately ap-
proach the ballot box?
But not all southerners tore their hair VirRinius
Dabney, editor of the Richmond, Va, Times Dis.
patch declares IL "a little difficult to understand
the tremendous amount Of indignation and heat
generated in the Deep South" by the decision He
points out that Negroes vote in the Democratic
primaries in Virginia land the skies haven't
fallen" He notes that North Carolina has no
white primary and no poll tax, as does Kentucky
and that Negro voters have not overwhelmed
these states.
Most satisfactory aspect of the decision Is TO
be found, perhaps, in the concurrence of Mr. Jus
tice Black Here is a man who, during his political
career depended upon the white primary system
Yet he could vote TO outlaw il. Hugo Black has
come of age. II is one thing to be fair to Ne
groes in murder case as he has been frequently
II is quite another TO vote to overthrow a system
The millennium is not here. This decision rep
resents just one more Of the many battles which
must be fought before full citizenship is won But
we are on our way.