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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-17
g|er.Probes
Liquor Fraud
Nv FRANK MORRIS

LANSING. May 17-ClaiminE
that lax methods by the liquor
control commission have cost the
taxpayers $4,000 in recent years.
and that he has reason to suspect
criminal acts by employees, Special
Prosecutor Kim Sigler today re-
vealed the grand jury probe IS
reaching back through the adj
ministrations of Governors Kelly,
Van Wagner Dickinson, Fitz-
gerald and Murphy.
He indicated the inquiry centerS
on the activities of the Star
Transfer Co. Of Grand Rapids,
which does all of the liquor COM
mission trucking and operates the
commissions huge Detroit ware
house.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-17
CANCELS CONTRACT

Notice of cancellation of con-
tract was served on the Star COM
pany three weeks ago. and the
commission has advertised for
new bids.
In his petition. Sigler asked
authority to inquire into state
transaction as far back as
January. 1888. But he explained
today he does not intend to reach
further than the final year of the
Murphy regime because OF the
statute OF limitations.
Filed in the name of the special
prosecutor and county prosecutor
Victor Anderson, the petition in
formed Judge Carr:
"Your complainants are re-
liably informed that a con-
spiracy has existed for many
months past among officers, en-
ployes, agents and servants OF
the liquor control commission
and a certain transportation
company whereby the state has
been defrauded of upwards of
$4,000.
FRAUD CHARGE
"Your complainants are in
formed and believe that as q
result of said conspiracy, said
transportation company has re-
ceived large sums Of money
based upon overcharges and
improper bookkeeping entries,
breakage OF bottles, over
charges for rent, electricity and
various other items"
The Star company was not
mentioned by name m the Pc
tition. but Sigler yesterday identi-
fed it in open court during the
examination of Joseph Viviano,
former Detroit liquor store clerk,
who was held for trial by Judge
Carr on a perjury charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-17
330 SeekinQ
County Jobs
(Llst OF Candidates on Page 22)
BY CHARLES WEBER

A bitter race for the Demo
cratic nomination for Wayne
County prosecutor was foreseen
today with the entry of Circuit
Court Commissioner Frank Fitz-
Gerald, one of the last of some
$50 Republicans and Democrats
TO file for nomination to congress
sionsl. legislative and county
Offices at the July IL primary
election.
Fighting il out for the Demo
cratic nomination for prosecutor
will be FITZGERALD. Prosecutor
William z. Bowling and Gerald
X. O'Brien, former assistant pros
ecuting attorney and onetime dep
uty attorney general.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

said, however, that neither
the names of the ships nor
the amount of damage would
be announced at present.
Such information would be OF
value to the enemy in estimating
accurately the size of our naval
force operating in the Philippines
waters and what ships are available
for immediate action" he explained.
A previous announcement dis
closed that the Third and Seventh
fleets lost in the Philippines battle
the light carrier, Princeton, two
escort carriers, two destroyers, one
destroyer escort, and number OF
small craft.
These losses were small. however.
when compared with those OF the
japanese who lost go 10 90 war
ships sunk or damaged.
Nimitz' air forces meantime car
ried out new attacks on widespread
Japanese bases, hitting Paramu-
shiro in the Kuriles Monday; Yap
islanc, in the western Carolinea,
and Two Jima In the Volcanoa sun
day.
"a Tokyo broadcast. recorded
by FEC, said American Liberator
bombers raided Two Jima again
Wednesday and also attacked Chichi
Jima In the nearby BoninsJ
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Canteen Director
On East Side
Asks Police Aid

That further police protection be
afforded Servicemen attending the
east side canteen was requested of
the City Council by Mrs. Frances
Burleigh Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Burleigh. who represented
the canteen, said that attempts have
been made in the last few days to
make the canteen most unpleasant
for those participating and added
that a group of Negro sailors have
been confined to base because of q
disturbance caused, she alleged, by
civilians.
Chief of Police Ronnie r. VcyleS
told councilmen that police found
some sailors punched" on Broad
way last Saturday. With the aid of
the Sea Patrol and civilians in the
street, the group was scattered, but
drifted again toward the east side
of town, VCyles said.
THE civilians were waiting for
them," he told councilmen, "and
they were armed with everything
from five-inch pipe to sticks or
rocks. We got in between the sailors
and the civilians and managed to
quiet things down. There was no
trouble, but there might have been" 3"
The Shore Patrol, he said, round
ed up the servicemen and took them
back to the Holtville Naval base. A
blackjack and other weapons were
removed from the persons of several,
chief Voyles declared.
Mayor Moore assured Mrs. Bur-
leigh that the east side will receive
as much police protection as pos
sible.
The council also granted Mrs.
Burleigh a 90-day extension to en-
able her to put Improvements on
Lot II, Block /. She explained that
she had used her lumber quota for
the year, and that in order to move
house to that let and repair it.,
she will have to wait until after the
first of the year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
City Engineer
Scans Use of
Parking Meters

City Engineer f. Paul Ford ac-
vised Ell Centre councilmen Wednes-
day night that he had begun study
of establishment of auto parking
meters for the city. His announce
ment followed recent instructions to
make fact-finding report to
council.
Ford told commissioners that thus
far he has accumulated the follow
ing facts about the meters.
Cost of individual inStalla-
tion will total approximately so.
2.-No cash outlay for the pur-
chase need be made by the city.
The vender will accept approx
mately Is per cent of the proceeds
from the meters, which will be APP
piled against the purchase price.
3.-Automatic meters are prefer
able, in order to eliminate the neces-
sity of an additional operation. such
as turning a lever to throw the
mechanism into operation.
4.-Maintenance of meters will be
Undertaken by the City at the Citys
expense.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Engineers Duties
Outlined, d, 0kehed
By City Council

A four-page designation OF the
responsibility and authority of the
city engineer anc director of public
works was brought before the Coun-
Gil by Herbert w. Fawcett, water
and park commissioner, and ap-
proval was given at Wednesday
nights meeting.
The designation, it was explained,
was prepared by council members,
in conjunction with Ford, to provide
written authorization of the direc-
tors Cuties. No written authorize
ton has been in existence prior to
this time.
A division of water department
duties was the only change noted.
This stated that under the office
branch Of the water department,
1T will be the duty of the directory
(of public works. to keep all of
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

Front reports said terrain diff
cultieS were slowing construction of
American airfields on liberated sec
tions of Leyte in the central Phil
irpines, but it was expected strong
forces of lane -based planes soon
would be in operation.
Fighters already operating from
land bases joined carrier planes in
enforcing an aerial blockade on the
west coast Of Leyte, sinking a small
freighter and lugger attempting
to ferry reinforcements across the
CamoteS sea from Cebu.
Torpedo boats boosted the toll
of enemy shipping for the past 48
hours to Is small craft sunk or
damaged by seno ing a troop-laden
barge to the bottom off the west
coast at night.
Japanese prisoners reported only
few hundred troops had been able
to run the blockade successfully and
land at the west coast air and sea
base of Ormoc, where the enemy is
expected to make his final stand
on Leyte.
General Douglas Macarthur re-
ported in his daily communique that
Japanese air attacks on American
shipping and troops at Leyte con-
tinued light and ineffectual".
American ground forces on Leyte
frightened their assault arc around
the north coast town of Carigara,
key to an escape route to Ormoc
for an estimated 1000 japanese in
the northwest portion of the island
The oath division advanced an
other two miles up the Leyte valley
to within six miles of the north
coast against stubborn enemy rear
guard resistance, while the first
cavalry division was hammering at
the eastern approaches to Carigara
itself.
The southern column already had
cut all east-west roads and trails
on Leyte with the exception cf that
running from Carigara to Ormoc,
81 miles to the southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Americans Open
New Offensive
East of Aachen

PARIS, Nov. 2. (UP)-The United
States First Army opened a new
offensive Thursday in the sector of
its deepest penetration of Germany
southeast of Aachen and smashed
forward nearly two miles to VoSe-
mack. % miles southwest of Cologne.
Lieutenant General Courtney H.
Hodges troops broke out of the
Hurtgen forest onto the Cologne
Elain ..nder cover of a thunderous
artillery bombardment in the first
major action on the First Army
front since the fall of Aachen.
Hodges attack in the sector 1872
miles southeast of Aachen hit one
of the most vulnerable points in
the German defenses of the Rhine
land. At VoSSenack the advanced
elements were 913 miles east-north-
east of the frontier ct Rotgen.
Once out of the Ii,.rtugen forest,
where the doughbOyS and Nazis
have skirmished sporadically since
the initial invasion CT Germany, the
First army was in the clear 81
miles southwest of Duren for
drive through the secondary forti-
fications of the Siegfried line.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
j. 5. War Losses
Top 417.0O0;
1866 Are Killed

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UP)--
Casualties in the U. S. armed forces
in World War II approached the
half-million mark Thursday.
The war department announced
that through October 81 the army
had suffered 4l7,12l casualties, in
Guiding GUL666 killed, 229,2l2 wound
ed, 1892 missing, and 53,62l pris-
oners of war.
Navy, marine and coast guard
casuaitiec through November l to-
tai d 70,57l, including 28,23f dead
29,44l wounded. 942l missing and
4478 prisoners of war.
This gave an overall total casualty
list of 487,692. an increase of 1898
over the 472,799 figure reported a
week ago.
The war department said that
los, ,499, OF nearly half, of the army
wounded have returned to duty
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
u. s. PI ones Hit
Nozi Oil Areas

LONDON, Nov. 3 UP)-More
than 1000 American warplanes bonn
barded Nazi oil and railroad tar
gets from the Ruhr and Rhineland
to central Germany Thursday in a
smashing daylight follow-up to the
RATS triple night strike at Ober-
hausen. Cologne and Berlin.
A half-doZen aerial task forces,
numbering we'll over 100 Flying
FortresSes and Liberators and 900
Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters,
famed out over the Reich for the
great daylight assault.
Synthetic oil refineries in the
Ruhr valley and at Merseburg in
central Germany, the Bielefeld
freight yards on the Rhine. and
other targets in the western half
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
japan
Fears
Ru id $
B-29 Flight Held
As FeeIer for
Attacks TO Come
BY UNITED PRESS

Tokyo finally d ecide d
Thursday that the American
planes = identified in some
broadcasts as B-29 Super
fortresses--which supposed
ly flew over the japanese
capital Wednesday were bent
solely on reconnaissance and
dropped no bombs.
This official version of the raid,
issued by Vice Chief Kenichi Ku-
magai of Japans air defense gen.
eral headquarters, was broadcast by
Tokyo after Japanese stations had
aired a long series of conflicting
reports of the irst air raid alert
TO be sounded in the capital in two
anc a half years.
Kumagai acknowledged that the
mere sounding of the alert had Gre
ated confusion and Gisorganization,
FEC monitors who recorded his
statement said. Some people lost
their calmness", Kumagai complain
&c, and others failed to take shelter
quickly enough.
His statement still left vague, how
ever, the number and type of planes
involved in Wednesdays reported
flight. He said merely that enemy
aircraft had appeared over the
Tokyo Yokohama area. Earlier
broadcasts had referred vaguely to
'one" and several Superfortresses
and suggested that some of them
dropped bombs.
Though the flight was confined
to reconnaissance, Kumagai said, lit
is cognizable that the tendency to
carry out raics against Japan is
ever increasing" He reminded the
Japanese that their homes easily
could be set afire and urged them
to keep adequate water supplies on
hand.
, He also deplored scarcity of air
raid shelters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Tokyo Announces
Damaging Of
n US. warskips
Suicide" Fliers Send
Battleships, Cruisers
Down, Report Declares
BY UNITED PRESS

Japan claimed tocay, in a series
of announcements unsupported by
any Allied source, that its army
air force and special suicide attack
units" sank or damaged ID Ameri-
can warships, including battleships
and cruisers, in heavy raids on the
United States invasion fleet in and
near Leyte gulf Wednesday.
The first claims were contained
in a japanese Imperial headquar-
terS communique, broadcast by To-
kyo radio and recorded by United
Press, San Francisco. The commu-
nique asserted that Japanese planes
sank lone enemy battleship or
cruiser and three cruisers and dam
aged three enemy battleships" in
Leyte gulf Wednesday.
A later unofficial announcement
by Tokyo reported that the Japa-
nese special attack corps" sup
posedly consisting of explosive filled
planes manned by Suicic al pilots,
had sunk or damaged seven addi-
tional American warships approach
ing Leyte gulf.
Raids on the Tacloban, San Pa
bio and Dulag air field early Thurs
day morning were reported from
Manila by Tokyo radio, while the
Japanese acknowledged an Ameri-
can raid on the Bacolotas sector of
Negros island, west of Cebu and
Leyte.
The enemy claimed a heavy coun-
ter-attack had been launched against
American troops on Samar island
northeast of Leyte, where dis
mounted first cavalrymen were
gradually expanding their beach,
head.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Finance Chief
Favors No. b

SACRAMENTO Nov. :. CUP)-
James S. Dean, state director OF
finance, Thursday announced with
Governor Earl Warren's approval
MS support of the annual state
budget and legislative session pro-
posal which will appear on the
Tuesday ballot as Proposition No.
6.
Dean said that adoption of the
proposition would end the crystal
gazing" by which his department
attempts to forecast revenues and
expenses two and half years in
advance in order to prepare two
year budget.
Governors secretaries said War;
rem approved issuance by Dean OF
q statement on the proposition with
knowledge that Dean favored it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

of the Nazi homeland all came un-
der the American bomb sights.
Dense cloud formations obscured
most of the targets, forcing the
raiders to drop their bombs by in
strument, but it was indicated that
the attacks were concentrated and
highly effective.
The huge Leuna plant at Merse-
burg apparently was the major tar
get. its 18th attack of the war by
the U. S. Eighth Air Force. The
Leuna refineries. sprawled out over
an area two miles long and 5000 feet
wide. form one of the biggest syn
thetic units in Germany. They pro-
duced more than $4,000 metric tens
of synthetic oil products monthly
before the start of the American
bombing offensive.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
S.F.Muchinists
Scan WLB Move

OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. g.
(UP)-Approximately 25OO
machinists of Lodge 1904
(CIO) stopped work on an
estimated so military and
cargo vessels in a dozen Oak
land and Alameda shipyards
Thursday to attend a union
membership meeting in con-
nection with a jurisdictional
dispute with Steamfitters
Union Local 500 (AFL).
Construction and outfitting at
virtually all big San Francisco East
Bay shipyards, with the major ex-
ception of the Kaiser Permanente
Metals Corp. Richmond plants, were
affected by the machinists' failure
to report to their jobs. All machin
lists except those assigned to tool
rooms and trial runs halted work.
The men were called to a Sec
one general union meeting to con-
slider compliance with a National
War Labor Board order Monday
directing them to resume work pend
ing settlement of the dispute. The
members were to receive a report
on developments in the situation.
James Smith, business agent,
termed the WLB order ambiguous"
anc. the union requested clarifica-
ton and scheduled another meet
ing.
Employees said withdrawal of the
machinists from their joss may
cause lay-offs among other crafts
men and possibly a general work
stoppage if it continued
The latest count indicated ma
chine work has been halted on q
military anC cargo vessels in bay
area yards. The dispute arose over
conflicting claims of jurisdiction in
the installation of copper piping,
flange valves and pipe hangers. The
steamfitters have remained on the
job.
Shipyard operators met late We'd
nesday and requested the regional
WLB to ask the NWLB to issue a
supplemental oroer directing the
machinists and steamfitters to re-
main at work and the management
to assign the disputed work on the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Planes Rushed
From Homeland
To Stop yonks
Reinforc emen+ Move Reveals One
Desperate Attempt TO Delay
Manila Ba+tle-March to Tokyo
: BY WILLIAM b. DICKINSON

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. 2. (UP)
Japan, her navy crippled in futile attempt to smash
the American INVASION rushed air renfOrcements into the
Philippines from her dwinding in the homeland
Thursday.
The Japanese command obviously gathering all
available aircraft support final desperate stand
Luzon, site of the capital city of Manila in attempt to
Geay long possible American liberation of that step
ping stone to Japan itself
One japanese pilot who parachuted into the Leyte
and captured said he had left Japan only six days be-
fore Enemy aircraft known to be shutting into
Luzon from Japan, presumably by way of Formosa and
other intermediate bases
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Supplies Reach
votinq Places

Election supplies began leaving
the court house Wednesday and by
Friday will be in place in the IS
election precincts in Imperial coun-
ty. County Clerk w. j. McClelland
said Thursday.
All of the official election supplies
are securely padlocked in m e |
boxes. Along with them go the vot-
ing booths and equipment required
by the California election code.
The supplies were delivered by
county road foremen in the five
SuperVis orial districts in the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Fly Gives Up
FEC Office

spent more than a year inveStigat-
ing the FEC and Fly's stewardship
of it. The group first was headed by
Representative E. E. Cox, Cd, Geor-
gia, who Joined some Republicans in
charging that Fly sought to pave
the way for complete domination
of the broadcasting industry by the
federal government.
Cox, however, resigned as chair
man of the investigating committee
last spring amid widespread criti-
cism that he was using the inquiry
as a means of expressing his per-
sonal animosity toward Fly. The in
quiry was continued under the di-
rection of Representative Clarence
Lea, CD, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

WASHINGTON, Nov 2. CUP)--
Chairman James Lawrence Fly OF
the federal communications COM
mission, long target of bitter
charges by Republican congressman
and some segments of the radio in
dustry, announced Thursday that
he has resigned, effective Novem-
Der Is, to return to a private law
practice in New York.
Fly's resignation was announced
by the FEC information division
which said he had authorized is
suance of this terse statement:
Il am leaving the FEC on Novem-
Der Is to enter private practice of
law in New York City"
A special House committee has
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
More Hunters
Than Ducks

Hunters outnumbered the ducks
in Imperial Valley Thursday.
The first day of the duck season
this year was disappointment to
hunters who flocked to the valley to
get the limit. Few got the bag limit.
Cars packed the highways in areas
usually frequented by ducks. Two to
five ducks seemed to be the largest
amount bagged in the morning
hours. The season opened at sunup
Thursday.
Warm weather was blamed for the
non arrival of ducks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

ltuSU 1OuT 1ll1ltS,
Most of the German guns on
Walcheren that have barred Allied
ships from Antwerp and its 26 miles
of docks for more than month
already have been captured or neu-
tralized. Once the island has been
cleared completely. cargo ships will
begin pouring reinforcements and
supplies into Antwerp for the an
ticipated winter offensive against
Germany.
RESISTANCE SOFTENS
Front dispatches reported the
German garrison. estimated var
iously at 1000 to $4,000, was offering
stiff resistance. but the Commandos
were slashing inland and along the
coast from both beachheads with
hayonets, tommy guns and grenac es,
backed by the big guns of 200
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

erts was obviously inaccurate" since
ii did not carry the secrecy desig-
nations given to the army and navy
inquiries completed last month. He
conferred with Roberts but declined
to disclose details OF the talks.
The Michigan senator acknowl-
edged that his investigation resolu-
ton would precipitate battle
royal, especially on the issue of
whether service officers who might
refuse to testify could be forced to
tell congress what 1t wants to know.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Senator Dem unds Inouirv
On Pearl Hurbor Disaster

stage for the new battle when he
promised to introduce Immediately
after the recess a resolution for a
formal congressional investigation
of the Japanese attack.
1--WE have got to the point where
the only thing that can be cone is
for congress to make its own inves-
tigation," he said.
Ferguson declared yesterday that
the 1912 Pearl Harbor report filed
by the commission headed by Su-
preme Court Justice Owen j. Rob-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

ship invasion armada and sWarms
of planes.
The southern column of army
Commandos was reported three to
four miles inland after landing on
beach between two ouays in the
center of the Flushing dock area.
Continued on Page 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.
(UP) Congress appeared
certain Thursday of walking
straight into a bitter new
fight over the Pearl Harbor
disaster soon after it ends it's
election recess November ID.
Senator Homer Ferguson R)
Michigan, constant critic of what
he terms administration delay in
revealing the full facts" set the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

same basis as it was done in June.
The steamfitters asked the WLB
to intervene in what they claimed
was a management violation of an
earlier WLB order
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
PARACHUTES TO SAFETY

FOSTER FIELD, Tex, Nov. 2.
tUP)-Second Lieutenant Rivon E.
Jones, 81. of Phoenix, Arizona, par
achuted to safety Wednesday when
the plane in which he was riding
spun out of control. The plane
crashed killing Aviation Cadet
Francis j. Ford, 25, of New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Nimitz DiscIoses Damages
To Several War Craft

Thursday from action in the
battle of the Philippines last
week.
Admiral Chester w. NimitZ
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02

PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 2.
ships of the
U. S. Third and Seventh
fleets were listed as damaged
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-02
Commundos Push
Nuzis Back
Around Antwerp
Sea Approaches to Shipping Center
Rapidly Fall to British Arms;
Patton Scores Gain in Nancy Areas
- Bv J. EDWARD MURRAY

PARIS, Nov. 9. (UP)-Complete liberation of Watcher
island last obstacle the approaches to Antwerp
appeared Thursday British Commandos hurled the
Germans back into the northern end of Flushing the
south wdened their west coast beachhead to at