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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
-Four Initiative
Petitions Push
Signature Drive

SACRAMENTO Jure l. CUP)-
Petitions to place four initiative
propositions on the November gen.
eral election ballot we're being cir
culated in the state Thursday
against a ceadline of June 10, and
two-increasing stale aid to schools
and raising old age pensions-ap-
parently had a good chance for
qualification.
The signatures are being gather
ed under new restrictions voted by
the l943 legislature limiting the cir
culation period to five months and
imposing a 5000 fee for prepara-
ton of a title.
WOULD RAISE GRANT
However, sponsors of the school
measure, which would raise the
state grant to school districts from
$50 to approximately $83 per pupil
per year and indirectly raise teach
ers' salaries, claimed they had COL
lected nearly 100000 signatures, al
Though not all of them have been
submitted to county clerks.
A total of 178.764 vslic sigma
lures is required for certification.
The pension measure, calling for
$50 per month beginning at go years
OF age and having the backing of
pension leader Francis E. Town
send is only about $4,000 SIGNATURES
short of the requirement with sup
Elementary petitions still to be filed
CARRY FEW NAMES
Petitions to certify a right of
employment initiative and one
strengthening the alien land law
have been filed with Secretary Of
State Frank M. Jordan. They carry
relatively small numbers of sigma
lures.
The school grant increase pro-
posal may become an issue at the
special legislative session next week.
The legislature is being aSkec' to
continue for another year a year.
old raise in the state grants from
$50 to $66, and some lawmakers
disliked the initiative activity at
the same time.
The proposal is promoted by the
California Teachers association as
a means of inducing teachers to
remain in their profession rather
than going to war jobs. Sixty per
cent of the increased grant would
be earmarked for salaries.
CHIEF SPONSOR
Roy ClouC of the Teachers asso-
citation is the chief individual spon-
Sor.
The $50 at 60 pension measure
would impose a three per cent
gross income tax to finance the
increase it proposes. The present
$50 a month pension begins at IS.
The California employment and
retirement insurance plan commit
tee is sponsoring the pensions in
crease. John c. Cuneo, B. c. Rask-
ing, and Wilford Howard. all of
Los Angeles, are listed as individual
SPONSORS in addition to Townsend
The right Of employment initia-
tive which would prohibit closed
shop contracts with labor unions
has petitions bearing 1855 sigma
lures on file with the secretary of
state.
An intensive drive is getting un-
der way by the Native Sons of the
Colleen West in favor of the alien
land law proposition, aimed prin-
cipally at japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01

American soldiers will be in battle
theaters on every continent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 95, minimum
Thurs. 65; am. Thurs. 68, humid
ity 65; noon Thurs. 81, humidity A;
5 pm. Wednesday 83, humidity 81.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
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Evening star., 1944-09-19
Southern Reroutes Troins
To Avoid Flood Areas

Washouts caused by high water
between Charlottesville and Lynch
burg, Va, have caused the Southern
Railway to reroute its Washington
Southbound trains, railroad oficias
announced today.
Some Of the trains are routed to
Richmond, Va, over the Richmond,
Fredericksburg d Potomac Railroad
from Washington, and picked up 1T
Richmond and moved south over
the Seaboard and Atlantic Coast
Line roads to points on the
Southern.
Other trains are going South over
the Southern to Charlottesville
where the Chesapeake & Ohio pick
them up for movement to Rich
mond. From Richmond they are
carried South over the Seaboard and
Atlantic Coast Line.
In addition Southern trains which
move South by Lynchburg and the
Norfolk & Western Railway are
being taken over c. ds o. tracks from
Charlottesville to Waynesboro, Va,
and turned over to the Norfolk d
Western there for movement South.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Transit Strike Ends
In New England Cities
Dy the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Sept. ia strike
which tied up buses Of the Eastern
Massachusetts, Street Railway in
several cities ended today when
operators on the Quincy, Salem and
Melrose divisions voted to return to
work.
Drivers in other communities
already had followed q directive Of
union of1cials to end the walkout.
The strike, which started Sunday.
affected thousands of war workers,
including employees Of the huge
Bethlehem Shipyard in Quincy.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Montgomery Gets Kit Bock

SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR.
TERS. Sept. 10 R-Field Marshal
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery il
wearing again an old brown sweater
which he left behind with most of
his kit In the haSty British with
drawal from Leuven In 1910. Monka
found the kit and hid it. When
the British came back the monks
presented 1t to its owner.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
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Evening star., 1944-02-11
Germans Place Dead
AT 500 in Bombing
.0f CasteI GandoIfo
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Feb. 11.-A broadcast
by Transocean. German propa-
ganda agency. said today it was es-
timated at Vatican City that 500
persons were killed in the bombing
Of the papal summer residence at
CaStel Gandolfo, south Of Rome, "by
Allied planes"
Up to Thursday night 400 bodies
had been taken from the ruins of the
completely destroyed College of
Propaganda, the dispatch declared
The controlled Paris radio
declared today that so bodies had
been recovered in the Papal Palace
at Castel Gandolfo, apparently seek
ing to spread the suggestion that
the palace had been bombed in the
course Of attacks few miles from
the Allied bridgehead south of Rome
The Vatican radio yesterday, in
dicating that the Pope's summer
residence itself had not been hit,
said three bombs fell on the COL
lege adjacent to the villa" and that
$4,000 refugees were housed in the
village and adjacent buildings. 1t
reported many casualties" without
identifying the bombing planes.
Allied headquarters dispatches from
Algiers said heavy bombings had
been carried out by the Allies against
Albano, IL miles from Castel Gan
dolfo, but that there WAS no con-
flrmation there that Vatican prop
erty had been hit.
Allied airmen have strict instruc-
tions to avoid hitting church prop
erty, the dispatches said.
Evening star., 1944-02-11
5th Army Assault
Wines Out Garrison
By REYNOLDS PACKARD.

BY REYNOLDS PACkAkD,
Representing the Combined American Press.
Distributed Dy the Associated Press)
AT THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD,
Feb. 10 DelayeO Fifth Army
troops on this beachhead assaulted
q town well within the Germans
lines last night and wiped out the
entire German garrison, killing so
Nazis, wounding scores of others and
taking nine prisoners.
The raid, q swift moonlight at
tack, during which hand grenades
slaughtered most of the enemy,
started at 8 pm. and ended at 2
am. when the 5th Army assault
forces withdrew according to plan
and without any enemy interference
The town was occupied in half
An hour after the attack started and
held against two counterattacks
which were easily repulsed before
midnight. Between midnight and
2 am, all was calm.
The attack was commanded by
6-foot-2 1t. Adna H. Underhill from
Summit, N. J.
All the men smeared their faces
and hands with SCOT so as to be
less visible in the moonlight. The
attacking forces closed in on the
town from two sides shooting with
tommy-gu guns and submachine guns
and then as the Germans ran from
the houses into dugouts for cover
they blew up the Nazis with hand
Rrenades II they resisted.
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Prosecution Demand
Arises in Death Of :
Girl, 7, in Cave-In ;.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. s5s
PITTSTON, Pa, Feb. ia de.
mand for criminal prosecution in
the death Of 2-year-old julie Ann
Fulmer, who was swallowed by the
earth in a mine cavein, arose today
IN this mining city built on a shelf
over active and abandoned anthra-a
cite workings.
The city council resolved that
proceedings against coal companies
should be instituted IF criminal
negligence is disclosed" in a coro-
ner's inquest. -.
The council met three days after
the earth gave way under julie
AIMS feet as she toddled along a.
quiet residential street. Rescuers |,
recovered her body 80 hours later. :
Mayor John j. Reilly told the,
council that representatives of sew
eral anthracite region municipali-1
ties would meet soon to draw up
protective State legislation to give
greater protection to owners Of sur,
face property over mines. :,
Mr.. Reilly read letter to coal
companies saying "the reckless and !
ruthless manner of mining COAL,
with resulting destruction of prop ,
erty and human life, must cease" :
The letter, he announced, had
been sent to the Pennsylvania Coal
Co., the Morgan Slope Coal Co.,
Walsh & Belcaster Coal Co. and
the Pagnotti Coal Co. =.
City officials said the tunnel which
collapsed was in a mine owned by
the Pennsylvania Coal Co. Various
levels of the mine had been SUBJ
leased to Morgan Slope and Pag--
notti Coal.
Evening star., 1944-02-11

10Th Armored Grenadiers, the 715th
Infantry Divisions and the Reichs-
fuehrer SIS Brigade.
Casino Buildings Taken.
Meanwhile, at Casino, American
forces, still fighting bitterly in the
ruins Of the town, captured five
more buildings. Their artillery
leveled the town prison which had
been turned into a NaZi port, but
the Germans still fought tenaciously
from the underground dungeons
and cellars.
Countless tons OF bombs smashed
down on the Germans at all points
ringing the Anzio bridgehead and
their main operating points about
Rome as heavy bombers were di-
verted from long-range targets to
join medium and fighter -bombers
in furious attacks protecting the
American and British troops re-
sisting attempts to drive them into
the sea.
The bombers added the weight Of
their explosives to the destructive
blasts arched upon the enemy by
Allied artillery in time crashes
method of fire control by which
hundreds of big guns all place shells
on a single target area in a matter
of a minute or so, often erasing the
target in single blast.
Five Key Points Bombed.
Both Flying Fotresses and Liberia
tors joined in yesterdays forays-
dropping their bombs on enemy
troops at five key points in the high
way network around the beachhead
area-Albano, Cisterna. Velletri,
Campoleone and Cecchina.
Albano, which was heavily bombed,
is within a mile and half OF the
papal summer palace at Castel
Gandolfo, where, the Vatican radio
said, Vatican property had been hit.
There was no confirmation here of
the radio report, however, and Al
! lied spokesmen said Allied airmer
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Allies Retake Town
In Burma Lost in
Surprise Jap Attack
BY the Associated Press.


NEW DELHI, Feb. 11.-Allied
forces In Burma have smashed into
enemy positions and reoccupied the
town of Taung Bazaar, which jap
anese forces took in a surprise at
tack last Friday, communique
from the headquarters of Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten announced
today.
Taung Bazaar is about Is miles
above Maungdaw and about IS
miles north of Akyab.
In the Kaladan area of the
Arakan front the Japanese have
been forced out of some of their
advanced positions, the communi-
que reported. 1t is in this section
of Western Burma that the enemy
has been attempting to cut British
supply routes.
(Ihe Melbourne radio in a
broadcast recorded by United
States Government monitors serv-
ice asserted today that Allied
troops have repulsed the greatest
Japanese attack in the Arakan
area of Burma"
(''The japanese have been driv-
en- beyond the Mayu ridge" the
broadcast said. Allied troops
are row massing for a counter
attack.")
Japanese forces had been attack
ing Ngakyedauk Pass leading to the
coast Of the Bay of Bengal Capture
of this artery would place the enemy
athwart the highway supplying
British troops fighting in the Maung-
daw-Buthedamg area.
Admiral Mountbatten's war bull
letin reported that Allied troops had
repulsed many" Japanese attacks
over a wide area of the Burma front,
and disclosed that British heavy
bombers had raided Bangkok, cap
ital of Thailand, last night. Details
Of the raid were not reported in the
communique.
Japan, meanwhile, expressed fears
that . large Allied offensive was be-
ing prepared.
Evening star., 1944-02-11
2Subs Sunk, 5 Routed
By Converted Carrier
By the Associated Press,

Sinking of two U-boats and at
tacks on five others by H. M. S. Bitter
one of the first American-built escort
carriers of the British Navy, have
been announced by the British In
formation Service.
The Bitter, designed originally as
a banana boat and converted into
q carrier, has steamed $4,000 miles
on Atlantic convoy patrols in the
last eight months, yesterdays an
nouncement said.
Telling Of her battle against enemy
submarines, the announcement said
that in one encounter she sank two
U-boats with a combined attack OF
her aircraft and surface escorts.
On another OCCASION the Bitter
sighted eight U-boats and attacked
at least five of them before the pack
broke of the engagement.
During the entire eight months of
her convoy duty, the announcement
added, not a merchant ship under
her protection was lost.
In addition to her convoy duty, the
Bitter helped cover landing opera
tions in North Africa and her air.
craft shot down five enemy planes
there.
Evening star., 1944-02-11

themselves, although a massing Of
forces indicated further heavy
thrusts were to be expected.
Il feel now that the enemy will
have to mount a new drive, as the
one which began Monday night has
petered out" said Correspondent.
Reynolds Packard in a dispatch for
the combined American press.
Despite steady Allied air attacks
on the enemy's lines of communica-
ton, the Germans were said to have
concentrated powerful mass Of
men, tanks and artillery in the area,
and Associated Press Correspondent
Kenneth l. Dixon wrote that the
weary Americans and British cer-
heavier onslaught.
Everything points to one obvious
conclusion-the German high COM
mand has ordered the beachhead
knocked out regardless of cost" he
said.
Blow From North Expected.
He predicted the enemy might
cast mis- fullest weight from the
north-from the direction of Rome
hitting the British lines near and
west Of Carroceto.
Mr.. Packard said that after a tour
OF the front yesterday he was con-
vinced that our defensive position
is improved considerably" The Ger
mans, he said, very apparently had
attempted to break through in one
sector with the hope then of run
ming in tanks and splitting the
beachhead.
But despite wave after wave OF
German troops and tanks thrown
into this push" he added. 1T did
not break through but made only a
number of indentations which dur
ing the last "a hours the Allies have
smashed"
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Aeronautic Association
Head Quits, Joins Paper
1y the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
Gill Robb Wilson, Trenton, N. j.,
resigned yesterday as president OF
the National Aeronautic Association
to enter the aviation writing field
and was succeeded by William r.
Enyart, Greenwich, Conn, president
Of Simmonds Aerocessories, Inc.
Mr.. Wilson, who was serving his
fourth term as head of the NAA,
helped organize the Civil Air Patrol.
He will become aviation editor Of
the New York Herald Tribune.
Mr.. Enyart, q native Of Corners
vile, Ind, has been flying since
1924, when he was graduated from
the University of Illinois. He served
on the NAA staff from 1881 to 1899.
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Raids
Continued From First Page

this morning as the bombers hit
the Pas-de Calais area.
The daylight forays came in the
wake Of Raj Mosquito attacks on
Western Germany and mine laying
in German waters from which all
Raj planes returned safely.
The Mosquitoes raid was their
first attack on Berlin since the night
Of February but they have been
over Western Germany every night
this month but one. Berlin has
not had heavy attack since the
night of January 30.
The Marauders were not chal-
lenged by enemy fighters and re-
turned without loss, headquarters
announced.
First Liberator crews to return
said enemy fighter opposition was
decidedly lacking over Pas de Calais.
In yesterdays raids % American
bombers and eight fighters were lost.
an American communique said.
The bulletin declared the Ameri-
can fighters had accounted for IS of
the Nazi planes which were blasted
out OF the sky-a new record for a
single day for United States fighter
pilots in this theater.
Fierce Opposition Encountered.
The fiercest opposition was en-
countered by Flying Fortress forma-
tions which struck at Brunswick in
an attempt to knock out vital air.
plane assembly plants located there.
1t was the third heavy American
attack on Brunswick, and returning
flyers said the Germans apparently
sent every available fighter aloft in
an effort to repel the assault.
You can say for me the back of
the Luftwaffe definitely is not
broken declared one sergeant gun
ner, describing the furious melee
that developed as the Germans
tried unsuccessfully to turn back
the big bombers.
Other crewmen estimated that
the Germans had sent aloft 200 to
300 fighters, which tried every con-
ceivable tactic to smash the attack
ing formations.
The Flying Fortresses were es-
corted on their 900-mile round trip
to Brunswick by long-range Mus
tangs. Thunderbolts and Lightnings.
Liberators Run Into Flax.
The fierce fighting exhausted the
fuel supply carried by some of the
fighters before they reached the
target and forced them to turn
back.
The raid on the Giltze- -Rijen air
base was carried out by Liberator
bombers escorted by Thunderbolts
They encountered some antiaircraft
fire but comparatively little fighter
opposition.
The communique did not indicate
how many of the German planes
were destroyed on the Brunswick
foray and how many were destroyed
over Gilze- -Rijen.
In addition to the "a German
planes destroyed by American air
men yesterday, RAF Typhoons shot
down six Nazi aircraft during forays
over Northern France in which
American Marauders participated
One Marauder and two Typhoons
were listed as missing.
Evening star., 1944-02-11
PTA Meeting Monday

The monthly meeting of the
Sarent-Teacher Association of the
fakoma Park. Junior High School
will be held at 8 pm. Monday to
coincide with a bond rally and quiz
program at the school. Richard r
Green, chairman of the Montgomery
County War Bond drive, will be
master of ceremonies. Morgan
Beatty, radio commentator and
newspapermAn, will speak. Music
viii be furnished by the school band
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Planes and Warships
Team Up in Blasting
More Marshall Isles
Ey the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES PACIFIC
FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl
Harbor, Feb. l1.-Fighter planes,
Mitchell medium bombers, Daunt-
less dive bombers, big Liberators
and Navy search planes are teaming
up with shelling warships in blast
ing away at Japanese-held Marshall
Islands now gravely imperilled by
American conquest of Kwajalein.
Yesterday, Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz disclosed that on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday planes of
such a wide category dumped ia
tons of explosives on enemy bases in
the mid-Pacific group; Navy Coro-
nado bombers on Tuesday night and
early Wednesday pounded airdrome
and barracks on Wake Island: and
warships during the three-day Pc
riod bombarded two enemy filled
atolls."
Only Wake, which is in a position
to support the supply severed enemy
bases In the Marshalls, was specified
rs a target. The Coronados, which
gave Wake its 18th raid of the war.
scored effective hits and all got
back safely.
Enemy Kept Guessing.
American investment of Kwaia-
lein in the heart of the Marshalls
has SO disrupted Japans contact
with other bases there that the
Navy now keeps the enemy guessing
by saying only "enemy-held is
lands" or enemy bases" or Mar
shall atolls."
Monday, Army Warhawk fighters
and Mitchells dropped 80 tons of
bombs ION enemy bases" Tuesday
the WarhaWks, dauntless dive
bombers and Liberators hit Mar
shall Islands" with "a tons. Wednes-
day Liberators dropped 81 tons on
Marshall atolls."
Qnasmuch as it is an absolute
necessity that the westernmost
Marshall Island, Eniwetok, be
kept neutralized because plane
reinforcements must come by
way OF it, that atoll very prob
ably was among the bases
pounded)
Other Atolls Raided Four Days.
The three-day report made it four
days in a row that the warships
and planes have been hammering
away at other atolls since the fall
Of Kwajalein. During the period
individual bombings have been car
ried out by Navy search planes.
The last previous strike at Wake
was the night of February 4, also
by Coronados.
There was possibility that the
Wake raid sprang from Kwajalein.
Admiral Nimitz remarked at a press
conference two days ago that we
would be able to raid Wake from
Kwajalein now" There was no in
dication, however, where this latest
raid originated.
The chief value Of Wake to the
enemy, Admiral Nimit4 said at that
time, is as base for air reconnais-
sance and attacks on our newly won
bases in the Marshalls.
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Italy
Continued From First Page.)

tacks, but not in the grand manner
1t was evident that their main effor
was yet to come. and there were in
dications that the heavy aerial as
sault may have delayed it. Indi
vidual tanks charged, fired severa
rounds and retired in scattere,
thrusts.
Homer Bigart. New York
Herald Tribune correspondent,
reported in a delayed dispatch
that the German counteroffen-
sive showed signs last night Of
having lost momentum after a
week Of savage fighting in which
the Nazis regained some high
ground and a small town. The
town may have been Carroceto.
Heroic resistance stopped the
drive, Mr.. Bigart wrote, but only
after the enemy had captured an
important ridge commanding
several square miles of the
bridgehead. The loss OF this high
ground admittedly Is serious, he
said, but enemy attempts to
crash across the plain from this
sprirgboard were repulsed.
CMr. Bigart wrote that heavy
rain this afternoon Thursday
prevented full support by the AL
lied air forces but during the
morning several flights OF bomb
ers few over the beaches and
dropped bombs on targets be-
tween our lines and Rome.")
The new 65th German Division q
the Anzio front participated in tn
Sangro River defense In Easter
Italy several weeks ago. was badl
mauled by the British 9th Army an
was taken out OF line to be re
organized and refitted at Genoa.
Other German units in the AMI
battle line were the Hermann Goer
ing and 26th Armored Divisions, tn
Evening star., 1944-02-11
Woman Marine Now Major

The Marine Corps announced to-
day promotion from captain to
major in the Marine Corps Womens
Reserve of Martrese T. Ferguson,
Brooklyn. Maj. Ferguson is COM
manding officer of Henderson Hall,
Women's Reserve barracks in Ar
lington.