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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
4 RmANS FLEE FRANCE
Armies Head For Rhine:
Quit Robot Bomb Bases
Allied Planes Blast Horde Racing
Pell MEL for Homeland While
Allies Sweep to Main Channel Ports

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug. 25. (UP)
The German armies of northern France reported
full flight for the Rhneand Friday abandoning their
Seine river line from Paris to the and the robot bomb
bases along the channel coast.
With their 7th army reduced from firstclass fight
ing machine of some 100000 to disorganized rabbe
of barely 0O00 the disastrous battle of Normandy the
Germans appeared to be pulling of all northern France
and moving back for lastdch fight the borders of
their homeland
Under Sauage Allied Air Attacks
The Naz 18th army in the Pas De Faais stripped
of much of its and artillery reinforce the 7th
army was reported racing headong toward the Marne
river line and the Rhine, under savage attack by Allied
planes.
simultaneously four Allied armies crushed in on the
broken of the eneys 7th army below the Seine
converging on the great channel port of lie Havre.
Canadian troops swung eastward along the channel
coast to capture Honfeur at the mouth of the Seine and
less than five airline miles the estuary from LIE
Havre and headquarters spokesmen said the survivors of
the Nazi army penned into box between the Risle
The situation moving swiftly toward climax,
and spokesman said quite probable that by dawn
Saturday the Allies would be complete masters of the
south bank of the Seine.
Airmen Tell of Choked Highyays
Word of mass enemy withdrawal flashed back to
headquarters by Allied airmen who reported the roads
the surrounding jammed with German traffic
Throughput Thursday, large numbers of Nazi trucks
were spotted racing down toward the Marne and the Ger
frontier and RAF night filters reported that the flow
of traffic increased after dark.
For tie first time since the battle of France began the
Germans ignored the presence of Allied night planes
head and rode bumper bumper with their headlights
blazing indicating the frantic haste of the evacuation
Headquarters spokesman had no immediate comment
beyond the grim note that the weather northern France
clear and that Allied warplanes already ranging
over the crowded highways.
A German DNB agency commentator, Max Krull
tacty confirmed that the Nazs planned to fall back from
northern France if they had not already started to do
Kru said German military plans called for establishment
of the western front ION the shortest possible line falling
short of the German frontier
-Four Allied Armies Crush Enemy
The reported evacuation of the channel coast from
Continued on Page g. Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
October Viewed
As End Of axis

WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. CUP) -
Chairman Clifton A. Woodrum, CD
Virginia, told the house committee
on postwar military policies Friday
that the army tentatively" esti-
mates that the war against Ger
many will end in October.
His statement came as President
Roosevelt declined to make any
guess on when Germany will COL
lapse or how long the war in the
Far East will last.
It followed by IL hours a state
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
ydnk Tanks Rake
Nuzi is in Paris

sOANDoANS nus va az 10
was reported firmly in Allied
hands Friday night, conquered
by the overwhelming might of
American and French armOred
forces and a molly street army
of hundreds of thousands of Par
isian patriots.
LONDON, Aug. 25. (UP)
American tanks and rifle
men were reported pouring
into the heart of Paris Fri
day to join French regulars
and motley Partisan street
army in a house to : house
battle against stubborn Ger
man troops, and headquar-
ters sources indicated the
complete liberation of the
city was now a matter of
hours.
An unidentified announcer, re-
ported to be an American war cor
respondent, broadcaSting from a Sc
clet fighting French transmitter
said to have been set up in the
center of the city, said the Yanks
stormed through the Orleans gate
on the south side of Paris at 10:40
Friday morning and famed out
swiftly along the main avenues.
MOVE SWIFTLY
A few minutes later the spoKes-
man announced that doughboy COL
umnS had reached the Luxembourg
gardens and had gone on beyond
into the Latin quarter, where regu-
lars of the French End armored
division alreacy were attacking Nazi
strong points.
The German DNB news agency
said the Americans broke across the
Yvette river at two points just south
of the capital under cover of an
aerial barrage, and asserted that
violent fighting was in progress in
and around the capital.
Between the Americans swarming
in from the south and French ar
nored forces from the west, the
German garrison was being slowly
into the northeastern COR
ner of the city. AT many points
Continued on Page 8, Col. .
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Romantic
Troops
Give up
Russ Onslaught
Moves Swif+ly
For Bucharest

MOSCOW, Aug. 25. (UP)
-Romanian troops ordered
by their king to cease resist
ing the Red army, were sur
rendering by the thousands
Friday in the face of a Rus
sian onslaught that already
has overrun virtually all
Bessarabia and mort h ern
Moldavia and carried to with
in 1873 miles of Bucharest.
Front dispatches indicated that
the Romanian army had collapsed
completely as the End and Bird So
Wet Ukranian armies, vancing up
to % miles in "a hours. rolled to
within 40 miles or less of the Galati
gap to southern Romania and 118
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
Three Men Perish
When Gasoline
Tank IS Wrecked

HOLBROOK, Ariz., Aug. 25. (UP)
The state highway patrol Friday
was investigating the wreck of a
gasoline tank and trailer II miles
east of here Thursday night that
caused the death of its driver,
Clyde Usrey, Holbrook, and two
servicemen, Norman j. LaForte.
Kingman army air base, and d. S.
Goldstein, o marine.
Patrolman Floyd Sisney said the
tragedy occurred when Usrey swung
too sharply to avoid hitting a park
ed car, striking the soft shoulder
Of the road and overturning.
The bodies were badly burned,
making identification difficult.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. up
Commenting that he sees lots of
people privately President Roose-
vClt said Thursday that he had
been in private contact with Wen
dell l.. Willkie.
Mr.. Roosevelt, under news con-
fer, nee questioning, said he knew
of no plans for private" meeting
with the 1910 Republican presiden-
tial nominee. Then he went on to
say he might meet him but that no
date had been set.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
Complete Balkans
Collapse Looms

LONDON, Aug. rs. CUP)-A Ber-
lin broadcast said Friday that Ger
man forces had begun a with
drawal from Romania, and Cairo
heard they also were abandoning
Bulgaria as the result of Romania' S
capitulation to Russia.
The entire Balkans were reported
in a turmoil over Germany's set
back in Romania and the growing
Red army threat to southeastern
Europe. Slovakia was reported to
have proclaimed martial law and
an underground radio called on the
Hungarian army to revolt against
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
House Group Calls for Curb
On Powers Of Bureaus

proper courts of the land"
The administrative arm of go'
ernment has expanded enormously.
he said, "and the signs are unmjs-
takably that vast field OF admins
tration regulation will continue TO
exist after hostilities cease"
Smith said the new legislation
should specifically prohibit any ''im-
pliec' powers by government agen-
cies. In the absence of congresion-
al provisions OF powers to any
agency, he said. their assumption"
is "a usurpation of legislative au-
thority and an infringement upon
constitutional government"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

the committee urged passage of leg
islation to make sweeping changes
in methods of settling disputes be-
tween individuals and agencies
which are assuming more and
more OF the actual government of
our nation"
If the citizens of the country are
TO have any protection whatever
from the arbitrary actions of those
In charge of executive agencies of
the government" said Chairman
Howard w. Smith, Cd, Virginia, in
offering the report, congress must
enact proper legislation so that they
may assert their rights in the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

question was almost iffy and he did
not know.
He went on to say that it is sort
of iffy to say what's going to hap
pen in the future. And again he
said he cld not know.
Under questioning he said that
Nelson was still WPB chairman.
The 37-year Krug, who was a
WPB vice chairman until he joined
the navy several months ago, got his
new appointment late Thursday
when WPB executive chairman
Charles E. Wilson resigned and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
Death Summons
Father of
excl Centran

Word has been received in El
Centre of the death of Alexander
Taylor at Culver City He died
Wednesday at p. m. in his home
of a heart ailment He was the fa-
ther of Caroline Taylor, associated
with the Fred Bright company for
a period of 20 years. She retired
frCm her situation a few months
ago to live with her parents. Her
mother has been seriously i'll for
some time. Funeral services will be
Saturday at 10 a. m at Culver City
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

,region of the Reich The bombers
were accompanied by strong forces
of Lightning, Thunderbolt, and
Mustang fighter planes.
The targets in northern Germany
included the flying bomb and rock
ct experimental station at Peene-
munde; a bomber assembly plant
and bomber component parts plant
at Wismar: another bomber COM
ponents plant at Lubbock; a bomb
er assembly plant at Rostock; a
synthetic oil plant at Politz: Ger
man airforce stations at Anklam,
Schwerin, and Neubrandenberg west
of Stettin and a German air force
research center at Rechlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.
(UP) - The special house
committee investigating ex-
ecutive agencies, citing an
urgent need" for action,
Friday called on congress to
restrict the wide and oftimes
assumed" authority of gov
ernment agencies such as the
office of price administra-
tion.
In report naming no specific
agency but believed aimed primarily
at the OPA and the war labor board,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
Nuvv Officer Takes Over
JOB Of Running WPB

brought to dramatic climax his
long g-smouldering feu6 with the
WPB boss.
Wilson, the former ,000-a-year
president of General Electric who
was called into the WPB to break
bottlenecks in plane and ship build
ing, followed his resignation with a
bitter denunciaton of Nelson, leav-
ing high and dry the congressman
and others who had been protesting
up to the last minute that if any,
thing reigned within the WPB it
was harmony.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

ment by Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal quoting General
Dwight Eisenhower as saying there
was no rational way to predict
when the Germans could be finish
ed off.
Woodrum declined to expand on
his statement. But the committee
heard Rear Admiral James H. Irish,
who was testifying on disposal of
surplus property, declare that the
navy is assuming that the war
against the Japanese will proceed
on at least until the end of 1945,"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
ST Servicemen
Ask for Ballots

Records in the office of county
clerk disclose that to date 571 Impe-
rial countians in the armed services
have sent requests for ballots for
the November 7 election. In the
May primaries, 1873 servicemens bal
lots were returned and counted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25

the Germans.
Wilfred Won oven, German home
service radio commentator, acknow-
lodged in a Berlin broadcast that
German troops were pulling out of
Romania, where the front was dis
integrating under the impact of
troubles and treason"
I'VE do not want to deny that the
treason of the Romanian King and
his cliques is causing us some wor-
ries and difficulties and will con-
tinue to do SO until the situation
has been secured again by prompt
action, as it was in Italy" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
D AMslINe
\EpoRTER

Quite True
Two planes were having a duckv
dog fight over the town of Imperial
one morning.
Claude Stanfield and Eddie Col
lings craned their necks and
watched the fight. A white looking
streamer trailed back Of the planes.
That must be ice trailing out
from the WINGS opined Ceilings,
uuirking an eyebrow and looking
judicious or something. Stanfield
frowned and pulled his lower lip
while thinking of all the streets
he had cleaned up for the city of
Imperial.
That's not possible in this coun-
try" he said with weary droop,
"it must be dust"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
Greetings

Greetings
"Oh, yes, am here" piped Louise
RAIDER. employe of the Bank of
America, as she peeked from be-
hind gorgeous and huge gardenia
that well-nigh hid her from sight
of customers. But I am so happy
maybe I hardly can do anything"
Well. gardenias and smiles and hap
piness should go together and so
the petite body had to explain. The
gardenia was birthday greeting
from her husband, Marvin RAIDER,
all the way from Ireland where he
Is in the military service.
A long life and many happy re-
turns of the day and more gar
denias and the safe return of Mar
win to you, Louise, from RR.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
BULLETIN

LONDON, Aug. 25. OUP)-The
British broadcasting company
heard radio Cairo broadcast an
announcement Friday that the
new ROmanian government had
declared war on Germay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-25
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 10. minimum
Friday 81; 5 a. m. Friday 66, humid
ity 80; noon Friday 101, humidity
20; pm. Thurs. 100, humidity %.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-31
AND STILL THEY FOUGHT
Drama OF Norway Points Answer To Postwar World

Mackinac Island Mich. - Over 6OO
workers and their families, leaders OF
labor, management, government, edu-
cation, and medicine, including repre-
sentatives from Chin Australia,
Britain, Canada, South Africa, India,
Holland, Denmark and Norway, gath
cred here at the Moral Re-Armament
Training Center to see the powerful
new stage saga of the Norwegian
peoples triumphant counter strategy
against Nazi ideas.
Centering around the life of Fredrill
Ramm noted Norwegian editor, ex-
plOrer and leader of MIRA, who has
just died from the hardships and pri-
walton of NaM concentration camp,
"And Still They Fight tells a story
that will stir millions-Of how one
man rallied and is still inspiring his
nation to fight for hate-free, fear
free, greed-free world.
Ramm Raffles Quisling
Fredrik Ramm knew that quiSlingS
were made up of moral weaklingS who
put their own safety and interests be-
fore their union, community and cOun-
try, and so he began to raise up q
steel structure of loyal men and women
throughout the nation who would stand
unswervingly for moral standards, and
could not be swayed or pressured by
threats or appeals,tO self-interest. His
fight for Moral disarmament in Nor
way quickly brought down upon his
head the wrath of Quisling, the former
Communist turned NaZi. But Quisling
was bafied for Ramm had set In
motion moral force that did not need
his own leadership to keep it going,
and which was creating the qualities
in people that made democracy the
strongest power in Norway.
Quisling banished Ramm and quick
ly found that his action had boom
eranged and was raising up thousands
of patriots with Ramm's spirit and
iron determination to free Norway and
make the countries of the Nordic North
the "reconcilers of the nations"
From first to last the play Is fast
moving and exciting, tracing the
march of events in Europe and the
world since 1926, up until Ramm's
death this year. Three of the eight
scenes that are particularly powerful
are those i'm the Nazi prison cell; the
battle of words between Ramm and a
newspaper quisling; and the final
scene i'm the Railroad Station In Oslo
when Ramm's friends who were await
ing his coming, discover he Is dead,
and pledge themselves to carry on his
fight,
Foundation For Postwar World
And Still They Fight gives the
answer to the fears for postwar
Europe. 1t reveals the march of the
right idea--of moral standards and a
fighting faith that will unite all men,
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not on basis of race and class hatred
- but on the foundation of people
whose hearts are free from hate and
fear and greed. You can tell your
friends in the Oxford Group that when
the truth is told Ramm will do down
in history as one of Norway's greatest
heroes said the Norwegian Foreign
Minister in London. HE refused to
abandon any of his principles after the
German occupation"
1.-The most important play produced
by the war" was the description given
to "The Forgotten Factor" MIRA in
dustrial drama for national teamwork,
by Senator Harry s. Truman, William
Green, George Harrison, Philip Muir
ray, Admiral Leahy and others of the
Committee of Invitation when it was
presented in Washington recently.
And Still They Fight" this new
drama of Norway, may very soon find
itself In the category of ''the most i'm
portant play of the postwar world"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-31
Members Of L. u. SO
(Cosfinnsd From Pace Ons)


these same officials will recall that
when the WLB directive was handed
down, il was the manufacturers who
contended that II was not retroactive
10 l943. Once again we remind you,
attend your meetings regularly and
keep informed on what Is going on in
the trade.
Brother Mazzie was elected conferee
to the wage conference 10 be held In
Cleveland beginning September IL.
We wish To call to the attention of
our members that there are quite n
number of non-uDion barber shops In
our city. When you get that next hair
cut be sure to look for the Union Card
In your respective shop.
Brother Elmer Wamsley was re-
ported ON the sick list.
Brother Otto White Is passing the
cigars around the shop. otto married
a nurse he met while he was In the
hospital few weeks ago.
Brother Ed Adams, Vess Gregory
and Frank Terog are home on furlough
from the arny.--O. &. 80.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-31
Airmdil Spanish Clipsheet
To Lutin America

Washington tFP) Latin American
workers are keeping abreast of AFL
activities these days. Since February n
Spanish edition of the AFL Fedora
tion's clipsheet has been airmailed 10
south of the border labor papers and
periodicals. Material Is clipped for
papers by Latin American labor edi-
tors from the semi-monthly news sheet
which Is similar In form and content
10 the one u. $. labor editors receive
each week.
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Roosevelt Informs America
Free Labor Is Winning Wdr
President Asks Union Co.
operation To Solve
Peace Problems
by FRANKLIN ID. ROOSEVELT
President of the United States

American workers can observe this
Labor Day in the proud knowledge
that in the battle of production theil
free labor is triumphing over slave
labor 1t was their determination to
safeguard liberty and To preserve their
American heritage for coming genera
tions that made possible the greatest
production achievement i'm the worlds
history.
Our soldiers, sailors and marines
are carrying on an amazing offensive
all over the world They are doing II
with the finest weapons I'm the world
weapons which have been made pos
sible only by the unwavering loyalty
and unflagging resolution of the work
ers and management of our industries.
The position of our battle lines in
Italy, in France and In the Pacific
zone today is greatly dependent on the
production miracle which labor and
management and farmers have accom-
plished.
We now have the enemy on the run.
Yet we must face the prospect that tile
hardest fighting and the biggest job
of supply are still ahead of iisl our
needs for the products Of our indus
tries, mines and farms--weapons raw
materials. transportation and food
are as urgent as ever.
Our immediate job is victory. To at
tain it quickly will require the fullest
utilization Of our manpower and
womanpower In the production Of the
necessary weapons of war. American
labor can be depended on, ! known, 10
continue Ia devote itself primarily to
that task.
Once the forces of tyranny have
been overcome. we shall be faced with
difficult problems of transition from
war to peace. There will be matters of
international arrangements as well as
questions of internal economic policy.
What we do In both spheres will af-
feet our success in attaining Il durable
world peace-a peace which will CON
tribute To the progress of mankind.
and will give 10 all who work and
produce an opportunity constantly to
better their own lives.
In the solution of these problems we
Will need the cooperation of free
American employers aid free American
farmers ! am confident that we shall
have IL In days Of peace as we have
had IL In days of war.
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Publishers Lose
Battle To Escape
6-DoY Work
Didn't Object To Longer
Hours. But Bdlked At Pay
ing Overtime Wages

The power of the press took a
tumble In the nations capital this
week. Washington's big daily news
papers lost 10-month battle against
"A War ManpOwer Commission order to
put into effect sixday work week for
employees SO as to ease the labor
shortage.
The longer week had been decreel
by the commission for all labOr-shOrt
war centers. II was extended to indus
tries in the capital last fall Most
businesses complied but the daily
newspapers--as has been their habit
I'm the case of all government labor
laws and regulations an inn
mediate fight for an exemption.
Their opposition boiled down to one
of expense. They didn't want to pay
time and one-half for the sixth day
of the week, as required under union
contracts. They were willing to go
along, they said. If the unions agreed
to waive the overtime pay rate.
or Course, Unions Baked
Naturally, the unions rejected that
proposition. IL had taken years, they
declared, To build up present wage
standards and they weren't going to
junk that just to safeguard swollen
wartime profits of the publishers.
So the newspapers appealed for n
special dispensation." but lost at
every step In the VINO appeals ma
chlnery. Finally, this week Manpower
Chief Paul V. McNutt formally issued
the order, leaving Ii up 10 the area
director To fill in the effective date.
An ironical feature of the situation
Is that the newspapers, though fran
tically resisting the order, had in the
Interim found II necessary, because OF
scarcity of labor to put some depart
editorial-on six-day
week, with time and one-half for over
time.
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Labor Bourd Sends
AFLCuse ToVinson

Washington (FP). - Economic Sta
bilization Director Fred Nj. Vinson
officially received the dispute between
the American Federation of Musicians
(AFL) and three electrical transcript
ton and phonograph companies August
25 for action toward settlement.
The National War Labor Board with
its AFL members dissenting, sent the
case to Vinson after a hearing August
II at which the AIM refused to lift
its ban on members working for the
National Broadcasting Co.'S recording
division, Columbia Recording Corp.
and RCA-Victor.
A number of companies engaged in
the manufacture and production of re-
cordings for phonograph and radio use
previously agreed to the unions terms
and signed formal contracts. Only the
three hOldouts remain.
WLB Vice Chairman George w.
Taylor, in his letter to Vinson said in
part "The board voted to report this
labor dispute to you for such action
as you may deem appropriate The
Presidents letter Of August 16, 1943,
to the chairman of the board states
that Executive Order 9370 may be ap-
piled If that can be done without
impeding the war effort Whether It's
application is appropriate or feasible
in this case is for you to decide
Executive Order 937O authorizes
VinsOn to take action he deems neceS-
sary to obtain compliance with WLB
orders referred to him and includes
seizure by the government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-31

LITTLE STEEL = Yomen cartoon
shows how workers wives felt the
pinch of pay envelopes kept frozen by
the Little Steel formula trying to com
pete with prices increased by the
privilege lobby in congress. Both major
labor organizations fought for an end
to the formula. Decision on the case
is exepected soon Federated Pictures)