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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
N uziis
Quit
Riga
Battered Army
FIees Before
Russ Onslaught

MOSCOW, Sept. 26. (UP)
The battered German ar
my of the Battles has begun
the evacuation of Riga, CAPT
tai of Latvia, against which
Russian troops were closing
from three sides, the Soviet
army organ Red Star report
ed Tuesday.
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
Front dispatches said the Rus
slams had won complete control OF
all rail functions and main high
ways leaCing out of Riga, and the
Red air force was pounding the
secondary reads over which the
German garrison was fleeing.
AIR BATTLES RAGE
Big air battles ragged over the
Riga area as the Nazi command
threw in strong fighter formations
in a desperate attempt to shield
the hard pressed ground forces.
Red Star reported that Soviet
armored and mobile forces were
racing toward Riga from the east,
beating back the German rear guard
which was fighting for time to evac-
uate the main garrison from the
capital.
Red army tanks were reported
nearing the main airorome in the
Riga area, the capture of which
will place the NaZis at the mercy
of Russian assault planes swarming
over the battle zone.
SEIZE ESCAPE PART
In climactic drive to wind up
the Baltic campaign and free their
full striking power for an all-out
offensive against East Prussia, the
Red armies seized one of the two
escape ports still open to the Ger
mans in Estonia, herded the surviv-
ing enemy divisions against the sea-
coast. and broke open the long-pre-
pared Nazi winter line" guarding
the eastern approaches to Riga.
The battle of Estonia virtually
was ended Monday. except for mop
ping up operations. when spear
heads of Marshal Leonid A. Gov
Grows Leningrad army captured the
port of Haapsalu and more than
800 other towns and villages, along
with over 1000 German prisoners
and huge quantities of war mater
ials.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

-Four Cabins
Of inland Unit

INLAND, Sept. 26. CUP)-(Valley
News Service) Fire originating in
a cabin where the occupant was said
to have left food cooking, destroyed
four units and damaged a fifth in
the group owned by Sol Gullett at
Ills Tuesday. Loss to buildings,
furniture and other equipment was
estimated at upwards of $4,000 by
the owner.
Gullett was on the point of leav-
ing by auto, accompanied by his
family, on the first leg OF trip to
Nicaugura and other Central Amer
ican places where he is Interested
in mining properties.
only reason I go to see the fire
was that the milkman was late in
arriving to make collections said
Gullett.
Calipatria and Camp Dunlap equip
ment prevented further spread OF
the blaze.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
'ARATR00P RESCUERS LOSE bR|DGEHEA[
Dewey AssaiIs
Roosevelt Talk
As 'Denlagogy'
Oklahoma City Speech
Ends Tour Schedule;
Visit Wife's Home Town

SAPULPA, Okla, Sept. 26 UP)
Governor Thomas E. Dewey carried
his Republican presidential cam
paign into his wife's childhood
home town Tuesday, asking Repub-
licans and good Democrats" to join
him in complete housekeeping of
the federal government.
The New York governor followed
through on last nights request for
election to the presidency ito re-
store integrity to the White House"
by promising anew as he cam
paigned across Oklahoma that if his
bid is successful, there would be a
complete housekeeping in the ma
tional capital.
With the help CT all Republicans
and good Democrats, we will start
achieving that next January 20,
Dewey told a crowd at Bristow,
Oklahoma. in his first stop before
reaching Sapulpa.
The Republican presidential NOM
inee wound up seven-speech coast
to-coact campaign tour in Okla
homa City Monday night with a
charge that integrity had been
lacking in the IL years CT President
R.oosevelt's administration and in
his opening bid for an unprecedent-
ed fourth term.
It was the fightingest speech to
date of the western campaign swing.
His audience. estimated at 5000
(Contlnued on Pg. 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
Imperial County
Voters Rush to
Sign Poll Books

Registration in Imperial county
took another squirt this week as
voters sought to beat the registra-
ton deadline on September %.
"The voters have been coming in
tc register in punches, like doves
County Clerk w. J. McClelland said
Tuesday, but we still haven't reg
iStered all of those who are eligible
to vote. In order not to be disap-
pointed on election day, it would be
good idea for voters tC check up
and find out if their registrations
are in order. After September % it
will be too late to do anything about
it until after the November election.
1t is not possible to vote unless
registrations are in order"
He pointed out once again that
it is possible to register in each city
hall in the county, at the county
clerks office in Ell Centre, and at
various public places and business
establishments scattered through
the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
British Capture
Adriutic Towns

ROME, Sept. 26. UP)-British
Eighth Army troops crossed the
Rubicon and captured Bordanchio,
Camerano and several other towns
near the Adriatic coast Tuesday as
the Germans moved up reinforce
ments for fierce counter-attacks
which virtually halted the Ameri-
can drive on Bologna.
The British troops cleared the
enemy from the area between the
Marecchia and Rubiccn rivers and
forced a number of bridgeheads
across the latter historic stream.
Bordonchio, one of the towns cap
tured, is one mile inland, less than
a mile from the southern bank Of
the Rubicon and six miles north OF
the coastal city of Rimini.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
q07 Servicemen
Get Ballots

A total of GOT election ballots are
on their way from Imperial county
to servicemen scattered throughout
the world, official records showed
Tuesday.
In addition to the GOT ballots,
County Clerk w. J. McClelland said
Tuesday, nine servicemen have
voted in his office in the court
house in FL Centre, bringing the to-
tai of servicemen's ballots to Ole.
In the section devoted to absentee
ballots for civilians, McClelland
said, records showed that 38 ballots
nave been mailed and II voted in
his office to date.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

The town of Santarcangelo. six
miles due west of Rimini, now is en-
tirely in the hands of the Eighth
Army troops, who also captured
Camerano, two miles southwest of
Santarcangelo. Santarcangelo is on
the southern end of the air line
highway known as Via Emilia ex-
tending from Rimini northward to
Bologna, Modena, Reggie and other
rich prizes of the Pc valley.
The U. S. Fifth Armys drive
through the Apennines from cap
tured Futa pass towards Bologna
was slowed tc gains of yards instead
of miles as the Germans brough up
fresh troops through driving rain
and hurled attacks at the northern
most units of Lieutenant General
Mark w. Clark's force.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
Position Of Surrounded Skymen
Grows Desperate Under Fire
Immediate Relief Must Arrive Else
It Means Death or Surrender;
Measer Supplies Dropped From Air
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY :

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Sept 26 (UP)
A thinning band of British paratroopers still held
y to the Rhine gate at Arnhem under murderous
fire Tuesday, but front dispatches limited their situation
had become desperate and only immediate relief could
them from death capture.
AS the battle for the lower Rhine crossing and the
gateway to northwestern Germany blazed into it's 10th
day. field dispatches revealed that the sky troops had lost
the north end of the Arnhem bridge and the fight now CEN
tered around railway span running into OOsterbeek two
miles west of Arnhem.
Eisenhower Orders Security Blackout
simultaneously, General Dwight D. Eisenhower order
ed complete security backout all operations in Hol-
land and forbade all news and speculation the battle
Headquarters said the secrecy had been imposed be-
the situation had become Extremely fluid. making
imperative to screen Allied from the enemy
Below the disputed crossing, Allied troops showed out
the wall of their corridor with the capture of Hemond
Deurne and Nook and opened secondary supply road to
Nijmegen, apparently along the eastern flank.
ma jor changes reported the American First
and Third fronts from north of Aachen down to the
Meurthe river valley, but Third army units made some
northeast and southeast of Nancy against stiff
opposition while the u S. Seventh army drove closer to
the Befort gap.
Germans San Streams of Blood Flow
Radio Berlin boasted that the Allied drive into Germany
would be measured in inches and will cost streams OF
blood and that "war of destruction Will be opposed oy
defense of destruction
Official pokesmen said supply columns still were were nun run
to the south bank of the Rhine where the British
Second army building up powerful relief column
within full view of the trapped paratroopers on the far
1t was admitted however, that the forced
to travel secondary roads above Nijmegen since Es
almost midway between that town and Arnhem was still
in German hands.
Allied patrols famed out through the fivemile wide
corridor between the Rhine channels Is miles north
west Nmegen and about the distance west OF Arm
hem and found Naz forces dug in on the north
bank of the lower Rhine to prevent thanking attack on
Arnhem from that direction.
Thin Trickle OF Supplies Reach Men
thin trckle of supplies still was reaching the trap
ped men, only in boats and barges slipped the
river by night. .
Headquarters said limited amount of supplies was was
dropped to the advanced battle forces by air Monday but
disclosed whether they parachuted to the
O
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
Nazl Casualties
Set at 100000

LONDON, Sept. 26. CAPITALIZED
headquarters said Tuesday the Ger
mans were estimated to have suf-
fered more than 100000 casualties
since D-Day. including more than
100000 captured, 100000 killed and
100000 wounded seriously.
Headquarters had no comment
on German reports that the british
airborne force at Arnhem had been
wiped out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
Valley Onion Growers Say
Fixed Price Entails Loss

Valley are not stampeded into plant
ing a large onion acreage this year
because of this threatened onion
famine" Harrigan said. I'm the
past valley farmers usually have
suffered a loss when they have
planted to avert threatened short
age. They usually have to plow
under part of the crop and suffer
losses. I believe enough onions will
be planted so that there will be no
famine. It would not be good econ
omics to rush in and plant a lot
of onions, glut the market again,
and suffer a loss. I recommend
caution"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
Rail Executive
Blasts PAC

ing segments of American labor
was born Jeffers said The rail-
road brotherhoods know how and
where stand. But say to you and
to the people of this country that
no political action committee or any
group or individual is going to tell
me or any upheaded American how
he is going to vote or what he is
going tc think.
IF the sorry day should ever
come when nefarious schemes like
this succeed, then on that day the
disintegration of American labor
unions starts and democracy begins
to crumble."
Jeffers declared that when the
Continued on Pg, 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
B-2q's Strike New Blows
On jap Monchurid Plants

anese empire, had been hit in to-
days raid.
The enemy broadcasts spoke OF
an attempted" attack and claimed
that Japanese air defenses engaged
the American planes in fierce COM
bat"
A later Tokyo broadcast, record
ed by FEC, dropped the phrase
attempted" and admitted that An
shan and two other towns had been
bombed. Monitors said atmospheric
interference garbled Identification
of the two other towns. but report
ed they sounded like Andan, mile
and a half south of Anshan, and
the port city of Darien, farther
SOUTH
The raid on Anshan. SIS miles
southwest of Mukden. would be the
third by American bombers on the
vital steel works since the B-29s
began their terrific assaults on Jap
ans war industries.
In their third operation of the
war, the goth bomber commands
huge Superforts first attacked An
shan on July 20 and returned again
on September 8. with the greatest
force yet sent against the Japa-
nese.
Although no actual figures we're
given by American authorities ON
the size of the force which hit An
shan early this month. Japanese
broadcasts at the time said the
attack was carried out by 100 OF
the huge bombers.
Anshan, which Is believed To have
an expanded wartime population Of
almost 100000, Is the site OF the
Showa steel works, one Of the larg-
est operated by the Japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

costs 60 cents to grow a 50-pound
bag of onions in Imperial Valley
and IS cents sack to pick and
harvest it. In some other areas
the cost to the growers is $l.08 a
bag
A warning was issued in WASH
ington by California and Colorado
congressman that the nation faces
another onion famine" because of
the "bogged down" price. Onion
crops were not harvested In Cali
fornia, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and
Michigan, senators, said The Impe-
rial Valley onion acreage this year
was approximately 1900.
81 hope the farmers of Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

Anshan has been hit twice
before by the B-29's, the first
time on July 20 and the sec
ond time on Sept. 8.
The war department gave no de-
tails beyond saying that the new
attack had been scored. 1t was the
ninth mission for the big four en-
gined bomberS.
Tokyo broadcaSts said that not
only Anshan but other localities in
the AnShan area, second Largest
producing center in the Jap
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

CHICAGO, Sept. 26. CUP)-Wil-
liam M Jeffers, president of the
Union Pacific railroad, Tuesday de-
nounced the CIO Political Action
Committee and declared that If the
PAC succeeds in its aims the dis
integration of American labor un-
ions starts and democracy begins
to crumble,'
Jeffers, former controller OF the
rubber industry, told the 10th an
nual convention of the American
Bankers association that he was
speaking as a man who has carried
a unicn card all his working life
and still does"
"I was union man before the
un-American element now dominat-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

Imperial Valley farmers
ioined the rest of the grow
ers in five states in plowing
under their onion crop this
wear because the sale price is
too low to warrant harvest
ing it, it was revealed Tues
day.
It costs $125 to produce a So
pound bag of onions in Imperial
Valley and the present price per
bag is 10 cents FOB, County Agri-
cultural Commissioner B. A. Harri-
can said. He explained that 1t
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
Fire Races Home
In EI Centre

Flames resulting from an over
flow of boiling peach juice Tuesday
cost Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Jewell, 1853
Oak street, the loss of their home.
According to Fire Chief Corn
Reed, Mrs. Jewell, who was canning
peaches, left the house to water her
front yard. When she returned to
the back door, flames blocked en-
trance to the kitchen.
Firemen fought the blaze more
than an hour.
Damage was estimated at $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.
(UP)-The war department
announced Tuesday that big
American BIO Superfort-
resses Tuesday smashed at
strategic military targets"
in japanese dominated Man
churia, and Tokyo broadcasts
indicated the target again
was the industrial city of An
shan.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26
y AMBlINe
(\EpoR1ER

Chase Imperial County
While the annual struggle was on
with the Imperial county budget,
tax rate and all the attendant work
were at their height this summer,
County Auditor Irene MattoX re-
,ceived an offer to dc public rela-
tions work in San Diego.
This is work she always has loved
and wanted to do. The salary was
almost as much as she gets as
county auditor. The office was not
political one, thus she would not
be faced with the expense and
worry of political campaign.
But Mrs. Mattox refused the offer
because she would not leave the
county while so much work was to
be done.
Loyalty again.
It's the Truth
On the bulletin board at the Ell
Centre marine station this an
nouncement of a show that night
was displayed for all the world to
see:
MRS. Miniver Without
Shorts"
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-26

Maximum Monday 104, minimum
Tuesday 81; 5 am. Tuesday ~, hu-
midity 81; noon Tuesday 80, humid
ity 80; 5 pm. Mon. 100. humidity 28.
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-12-20
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
By GERTRUDE coRRIcAN

The Christmas tradition extends to the humble erea-
lures that are placed here in the of mortas and
whom these latter sometimes neglect or even mistreat
Their very dependence the good will and the bounty
OF man should be for the exercise on his part
of mercy and protection.
The various messages that have come through
Christmas legends TEEN with lessons of kindness and
justice to the humber folk in the animal world
The story of the little Gray Lamb tells of the longing
in the heart of the small animal to be white The
shepherds would not take him with their snowy flocs
to visit the ChrisChd because of his dark color So
he implored the Clouds the moon the trees. and the
birds, to help him to become white
AT last he wandered away from the fold until he
encountered the procession of the Three Wise Men
they neared the dwelling of the Holy Family The shiv
erng little creature stood the door while the Wise
Men worshipped the Infant Jesus Then the Christ
Child saw the lamb at the door and beckoned him to
come in He laid his hand on the head of the lamb and
became white This is the lamb one sees in
pictures walking the Savior It carries the cross
1t becomes symbol of the Lord in its meekness and
humility.
Then there is the story of the donkey in the pas
lures at Gailee, which showed him as vain creature
who dotted on his own long, siken ears He even dis
oaned the white horse gay caparsoned ridden by the
Roman messenger who to tell the carpenter JOS
eph, OF the governors order to enroll all citizens
But when his master, Joseph led the proud donkey
along the difficult and tedious path to Bethlehem bear
ing Mary upon his shoulders the naughty animal grew
meek and humble under the gentle burden And when
he returned to Nazareth carrying not only the Mother
but also, the ChristChild the curious animals in his
home pasture wondered why the donkey should not be
proud and boasful They knew of the great honor he
mad been gwen and they remembered the great pride
ne had formerly felt for his silken ears
The donkey answered that his ears had heard the
angels singing so he would always droop them in hum
bic reverence for the heavenly favor And he told his
companions of the field that every night at the hour
when ne had seen the angelic vision at Bethlehem he
awakened from sleep and recalled what he had been
permitted to see
Stockmen say that at midnight there is a stirring
IN the corras and stables Because the glory that
came to the lowest of them? Who can tell!
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-12-20
All Together for l945

Colored employees of the Boo
ing Aircraft Co. are still work.
ing in their second-class status
Job permits only without en-
joying the protection and privi-
leges of their white fellow work.
ers. For this outrage and hui
initiation, they are forced to pay
$3.50 monthly to the Aeronautics
Mechanics Union, 1t is charged
in an injunction suit that will
be filed soon in the Federal
District Court here by Eugene
Dunn, former employe of the
Boeing Aircraft Co.
This action in the interest OF
the six hundred or more colored
victims of the A. M. U.-most of
whom refuse to pay the $3.50
permit due on the basis that 1t is
illegal and it affords them no
seniority status and protection
during and after the wars be-
ing prosecuted by Jeffrey Hell
man, attorney for the Seattle
Civic Committee.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-12-20
WASHINGTON
THE STATE---HAS
EVERYTHING

Schedules were being COM
pleted this week in order that
the message, Washington = the
State Has Everything" will
continue in 1915 the work OF
telling the nations financial and
industrial leaders of the post
war possibilities of this state. ac-
cording to Frank Mclaughlin
president of the Puget Sound
Power and Light Company.
Sponsored by the four princi-
pal electric companies of Wash
ington, the advertising campaign
has been appearing in Fortune
Business Week, Manufacturers
Record and other national maya
Zines as well as metropolitan
newspapers. BY the end of 1914
the series will have run in pub
locations with a total circulation
of more than 30 millions and an
estimated leadership of 80 mil
lions.
Aimed at pointing out the ad-
vantages OF Washington to the
men who have both the capital
and the know how" for irndus-
trial development. the service
stresses the excellent transporta-
ton facilities, nearness to post
war Pacific markets. abundant
electric power. immense sources
OF raw materials, Industrial sites
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Says Mr. Dunn. who has been
In uniform: Now that the real
war has started. there viii be
mountains OF dead bodies left on
the far flung battleflelds. We
must stop a proportlonate num-
Der Of our boys from being
slaughtered. There are many col
ored tradesmen and skilled me-
chanies in Seattle. II they are
fired for refusing to be a part
TO a labor hi-Jack or kept from
using their skills as is the prac-
tice OF the Aeronautics Meehan-
les Union. Bollermakers, Sheet
Metal and other unions In Seat
tie. who bar them, they are I'M
Justly and illegally drafted into
the Army. AS an example, In
certain shipyard, of the total
number of employees there are
about 100 colored workers. There
are the same number of Norwe-
CLANS. One half of the colored
are skilled workers, but they are
forced into the mental Jobs. Thus,
to the draft board this means
non-essential and, 70 course, In
duetion. The Norwegians have
about the same number of skilled
and unskilled, plus the privilege
of going to the shipyard's train
ing school, to which colored
workers cannot go. Their skilled
workers are classed as essential
TO the draft board. This means
that about one half of the Nor
wegians are deferred.
We were outraged when we
read of a 14-year-old colored boy
being lynched In Mississippi, but
now lyinching is on a vast scale.
The lynehers, through the prac-
tice of keeping our skilled boys
and men in laboring gangs, just
pass sentence, and let Tojo's and
Hitler's firing squads do the ac-
tual killing. If we were aroused
then, we should be downright
mad now, and l am willing to
help anyone, or organization, who
will not stand by and see our
boys murdered"
Boeing workers who want to
find out more about the case
contact Mr.. Jeffrey Holman, at
torney. Main 1900.
You who would like to help
in stopping a porportionate num-
Der of your brothers, fathers, and
other innocent men from dying.
call Seattle Civic Committee, EA.
1917, or Mr.. Jeffrey Holman,
/ Main 1900.