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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Boards Named
Bv President

Senate IL nominees to be members
of the advisory board of the Office
of War Mobilization and Reconver-
sion, as follows:
Public members Cow
ernor o. Max Gardner of North
Carolina, Chairman William H. Da-
Wis of the War Labor Board, and
Anna M. Rosenberg of New York.
Labor M embers-William Green,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor; Philip Murray, presi-
dent of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, and T. c. Cashen OF
the railroad brotherhoods.
Agriculture members-Edward A..
O'Neal, president of the Farm Bu-
reau Federation: James G. Patton,
president CT the National Farmers
Union, and Alfred S. Goss, master
of the National Grange.
Industry members-Eric A. john
ston. president of the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States;
George H. Mead of Ohio and Ma
thaniel Dyke Jr. of Arkansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Jap War Chief
In All China
Loses Command
BY UNITED PRESS

Field Marshal General Shunroku
Hata, commander-in- chief of all
japanese expeditionary forces in
China, has been removed from his
command in a broad army shake
up announced by the Tokyo war
ministry Wednesday.
Hata, who Cnly last week was re-
ported personally directing the Jap
anece campaign against American
air bases in China's KWangsi pro-
vince, was transferred to the post of
nspector-general of military edu-
cation.
His China command was taken
over by General Yasuji Okamura,
commander-in-ch CT the Japa-
nese army in north China.
Hata was a member of the Japa-
nese board of field marShals and
fleet admirals, Emperor Hirohito's
highest advisory body on military
and naval affairs. The war ministry
announcement, broadcast by the
Tokyo radio and recorded by FEC
monitors. said Lieutenant General
Sadashi Shimomura, commander of
the western defense district on the
Japanese mainland, had be n
named north China commander to
succeed Okamura.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Peace
Move
Grows
Nazi Officials
Machines gun
Militant Groups

LONDON, Nov. %. (UP)
"A Swiss newspaper said
Wednesday that Nazi author
tiles at Cologne machine-gun-
ned c row d S demonstrating
for peace recently and killed
more than 220 persons.
Some in the crowds even
cried, Long live the Allies 7" +,
the Basel Arbeiterzeitung said in a
dispatch reported by the British
Exchange Telegraph agency.
The dispatch appeared less than
"a hours after disclosure that Ger
man prisoners taken on the Ameri-
can First army front before Col
ogne had confirmed reports of dis
orders inside the city.
GESTAPO ON JOB
The prisoners were quoted as say
ing that the Gestapo was hanging
civilians in Cologne for cisobeying
Nszi official orders. Earlier Swiss
dispatches said 81 persons had been
hanged there in single day.
The Basel newspaper said peace
demonstrations also had occurred
in many other Rhinelanc, cities and
towns. Posters were said to be ap-
pearing nightly on the walls of
bombed cities appealing for action
against the Nazis and threatening
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Building Firm
Pushes Work
On Twenty Homes

Ell Centro'ss building code tottered
Wednesday, but did not fall, and
at the same time the city was as
sureC, of 20 new three-bedroom
houses in the Residence Park sub
division, mainly in the vicinity of
Vine and Wensley.
Harry Wright, representing the
Smith-Taylor company, Long Beach,
which is building houses under the
National Housing Act and is being
financed by FHA loans, has been
seeking permission to erect the
houses in question under broad
relaxation of El Centro's building
coce provisions.
CHANGES CITED
Notably. Wright wanted to intro
duce knob and tube wiring instead
of wiring housed in a conduit, he
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Oil Firm Files
Drill Leases

Interest in oil and gas possible
ties came to the surface in Imperial
Valley again this week when the
Texas company recorded lib leases
on land in the area southeast OF
Holtville.
There were approximately dozen
community leases in the lot which
were said to be necessary becauSe
cf the law prohibiting wells being
put down in too close proximity
Most of the leases filed by this COM
pany this week, however, were indl-
vidual and were for varying acre
ages.
1t was rumored that drilling will
start southeast of Holtville before
long.
Heretofore most of the interest in
oil drilling has centered in the
northern part of the valley where
other companies have leased large
blocks of land
Some valley residents believe that
possibilities for natural gas are more
encouraging than are possibilities
for oil. This. of course, depends
upon later developments, 1t was
pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
JAP LOSSES HIT 66.655
IN 5-MONTH BATTLING

PEARL HARBOR. Territory OF
Hawaii, Nov. %. (UP)-American
ground forces killed or captured
66,655 japanese in the Marianas and
Palau iclands during the past five
months and scattered remnants OF
the enemy garrisons still are being
hunted down and destroyed, COM
munique disclosed Wednesday
Although all organized resistance
on the islands ended long ago,
American patrols still are meeting
bitter-end resistance from isolated
enemy soldiers, headquarters spokes-
men said. disclosing that more than
2000 Japanese were killed in the
caves on Bloody Nose ridge" on
Peleliu island in the past mcnth.
The Japanese casualties for the
five months included 63,388 dead
and 1857 captured.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

cans. One Seventh army column was
more than eight miles east of fresh
ly-liberated Sarrebourg, another was
IL miles northeast, and third was
IL miles southeast.
The speedy Seventh army ad-
vance threatened to trap thousands
of German solciers caught between
it's columns and the French First
army pushing north along the Rhine
in the enemy rearS~s=a-l-ssss-7ss--
At the northern end OF the front,
the American First, Third. and
Ninth armies and the British Second
army were slugging it out in a
showdown battle inside Germany
itself. Gains were measured in yards.
On the Seventh anny's northern
flank, Lieutenant General George
S. Patton's American Third army
captured the Maginot line fortress
town of Pont Pierre, % miles east
of Metz and nihe miles from the
frontier
In Metz itself, Patton's men clear
ed the island of Chambiere just
inside the city and one of the last
two pockets of enemy resistance.
General Kittel, commander Of Metz,
was found wounded in hospital on
Chambiere.
Thirty miles northeast of Metz.
Patton's 10th armored division in
the Merzig area two to three miles
inside Germany repulsed the first
German attempt to hurl it back
across the border in a two-and-a-
half-hour battle.
Other elements of the 10th divi-
sion pushed two and a half miles
inside Germany to the Tlnsdorf
area, seven miles northeast Of Mer-
zig. Patton's tanks were inside Ger
many on an II to Is mile front and
in the Merzig area had come up
against the main defenses of the
Siegfried line.
The Ninth army captured nine
towns Tuesday, including Merzen-
hausen, within sight Of the Roer.
three miles west of Julich and Is
miles west of Cologne, and Engels-
dorf, two miles southwest of Julich
and also 25 miles west of Cologne.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
SovietS
nner
Riga
New Offensive
Hits Blockade
In Baltic Port
By ROBERT S. MUSEL

s LONDON, Nov. 22. CUP
Soviet tanks and riflemen,
supported by the guns of the
Red fleet, slashed deep into
the last pocket of German
resistance on the southern tip
of Saare island Wednesday,
in a bitterly-contested drive
to reopen the Gulf of Riga and
break the Nazi blockade on Riga
harbor.
Far to the south, German counter
blows and driving rains that churn-
ed the Hungarian hattlefields into
quagmire stalled the Red army's
enveloping sweep on Budapest al
most to a standstill.
LIMITED GAINS
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
Second Ukrainian army hacked out
limited gains all along the 80-mile
front extending northeastward from
Budapest, but the ceaselssS rains and
stiffened enemy resistance prevent
ed any decisive breakthrough.
Both Moscow and Berlin limited
strongly that the uneasy lull on the
eastern front was about to end in
6 mighty Russian offensive, perhaps
simultaneously in Poland and East
Prussia where the Nazis recently
have been reporting immense con-
centrations of Soviet men and ma
terial
BIG ARMY MOVES IN
One Berlin spokesman sale seven
to eight Red army divisions. pos
sibly 100000 or more men, already
had gone over to the attack in
eastern Czechoslovakia in bid to
break off the German salient jut-
ting into the Russian lines in the
Czech Hungarian border area.
All organized enemy resistance on
the 1910 -square-mile Estonian island
appeared to be crumbling swiftly un-
der the concerted Soviet blows from
land and sea. Hemmed into mar
rowing corner four miles wide and
about four miles deep on the south
ern extremity of Sorve peninsula,
the trapped Nazis fought back des-
perately but with little or no chance
of survival.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Students Slate
Essay Contest
For Bond Drive

Plans for speaking contest
among the students of the seven
county high schools are under way
to push War Bond sales. Herb FaW-
cett, war bond chairman announced
Wednesday.
Preliminary contests among three
students of each high school will be
held to determine who shall. rep
resent each school, Fawcett said.
The student body of each school will
pick the winner among its three
candidates.
The winners then will meeet in
the final contest, and three prizes
will be awarded, $50 war bond
and two $25 war bonds.
Brawley Ell Centre, Calexico,
Koltville, Imperial and Calipatria
are being asked to contribute to
the purchase of the bonds. Brawley
already has forwarded it's check for
$25, FaWcett said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Merchants Ban
YuIe Lighting

The traditional Christmas light
ing in the business district of Main
street in Ell Centre, sponsored by
retail merchants, will be omitted
this year at the request of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, the Office of War Utilities,
and the War Production Board,
E. G. Missildine, chairman of the
Ell Centro Chambers Merchants
committee announced Wednesday,
Missildine said that the request
is based on the conviction that, for
the duration, there should be the
greatest possible saving of electric
power and man power.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Meet to Discuss
Duck Herding

Possibility of herding ducks by
airplanes tc prevent them from de-
stroying crops will be discussed
Monday night at a meeting of the
wild life committee, it was an
nounced Wednesday by Baxter Love-
land, president of the Imperial
County Farm Bureau.
E. E. Horn of the federal fish and
wild life service suggested the plan
and will describe the results OBJ
tanned in other duck infested areas
by means of airplane herding.
The committee will confer with
Hcrn in the Farm Bureau office at
8 p. m. Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
By NELSON SPRINGER

AS Dean Pieper, manager, Bakers
field chamber of commerce, eX-
planned that groups position to me,
it has in view the same objectives
as the Pomona, San Bernardino and
Redlands chambers. That is, it pro-
poses to held on to existing indus
tries, to expand them as far as pos
sible, and to acquire new ones. But
it has not engaged in the positive
action of these other communities.
Instead, it has postponed aggres-
sive action to postwar date.
Meanwhile. it has confined its ac-
tivities to surveys. including the To-
cation and cataloguing of sites
where new industries may be To-
Gated if and when they are OBJ
tanned
According to Mrs. Frances P.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. (UP) -
Two B-29's were shot down by Jap
anese fighters during Tuesdays at
tack on Omura in the largest air
battle in which the superfortresses
have been engaged" the goth Air
Force announced Wednesday.
A communique added that these
losses are the first due to enemy
fighter interception since the in
auguration of the Goth bomber COM
mand on June Is, 1914"
A third superiortress was report
ed missing under circumstances
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

Senator Homer Ferguson (R) Mich
igan, calling for a 10-man senate
investigation would remain in the
senate military affairs committee
without action before the present
congress expires next January g.
The resolution was sent to the
military affairs committee, instead
of the Judiciary committee as pro-
posed by Ferguson, at the request
OF Senate Democratic Leader Alben
w. Barkley of Kentucky
In making his motion Barkley
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Thousands Of Fans Await
Traditional Grid Tilt

thought of the Valley champion
ship. There will be nothing official
as to that when the score is written,
but what of that? I'VE Won will be
enough for either side to be salts
fled as to grid supremacy And this
feeling. if strong among fans, is
stronger, even with the lads who
go into the scrimmagc. To them it is
as much championship contest as
If officially so designated.
With all these elements, add
grincing practice, development of
new plays, surprise plays and re-
moving bugs" from plays already
used this season, and you have the
ingredients that should produce
stellar contest.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Valley Begins
Winter harvest

Grapefruit picking also started
carly this month. A normal crop was
anticipated. The fruit is somewhat
smaller than last year and heavy
shipments are net expected u,'il
December and January.
There is a slow movement of al
falfa hay to coast markets, Harri-
gan said Considerable hay remains
in storage yards.
Onion seed paintings are in and
a satisfactory crop is anticipated,
according to the report.
Lettuce, carrot and cabbage plant
ings are in good condition. Cabbage
and carrot acreages are lighter than
last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
GI Sends Back
kazi Cookies"

KANSAS CITY, Nov. %. CUP)-
Last May Mrs. E. M. Skates mailed
a box of cookies to her son, Tech
Sgt. Robert Craycraft. 1t was de-
livered to him in France on D-Day
plus two.
Recently the box was returned to
Mrs. Skates containing a German
ammunition pouch, plastic bottle
of an antidote for gas with in
structions for use in German, and
an assortment of other battle tro-
phies seized from the enemy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. (UP)-
President Roosevelt Wednesday had
nominated former Governor Robert
A. Hurley of Connecticut and Lieu
tenant Colonel Edward Heller of
California to be members of the new
surplus commodity board.
1t was repoi ted that Senator Guy
Gillette, Cd, Iowa, would be ap-
pointed to the third place en- the
board. He was defeated for re-elec-
ton and his Senate term expires in
January.
Mr.. Roosevelt also sent to the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

WASHINGTON, Nov. %.
(UP) = Administration OPP
position appeared Wednes-
day to have sidetracked for
the remainder of the present
congress any senate investl-
CATION into the Japanese at
tack on Pearl HarbOr D'ecem-
Der 7, 1941.
There were strong indica-
tions that a resolution by
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

AS traditional as t h e
Thanksgiving turkey, is the
GridirOn contest between Ell
Centro and Calexico High
School Varsity teams, and
this year the game has an
extra significance. 1t will be
in the way of a tie play-off
for the regular fall season,
each team having won three
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

Winters harvest season was off
to start this week with light ship
ments of early tomatoes from the
inland district moving out Agricul-
tural Commissioner B. A. Harrigan
said in the monthly report sent tc
the county board of supervisors.
Tomato paintings are in good
condition at this time with pros
poets for good season.
Light shipments of squash are
moving to the coast, where markets
are weak
Rice harvest and milling started
early In November, the report said,
with acreage slightly below that of
last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

Tits.
For that reason and, furthermore,
because there has been a lull in
football activity cue to rains, a
capacity crowd is expected to be
on hand at 2:30 pm. Thursday when
the whistle blows for the kickoff.
This keyed-up interest runs far and
wide over the county, among STU
dents and grown-ups alike.
In he minds of the thousands of
followers of the two teams is the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Two b-2q's Lost
In Omuro Raid

which lead to the presumption that
it is lost the communique said.
1t added that none of the B-29s
was lost to enemy action at the
secondary targets of Marking and
Shanghai in Tuesdays raid.
The returning planes reported
that they destroyed 20 Japanese
fighter planes, with 10 probably
destroyed and % others damaged.
The communique debated Japan
ese radio assertions that SO of the
huge American bombers had been
shot down or damaged against
loss of Six Japanese fighters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Senate Bolks New Inquiry
Into Pearl Hurbor Attack

said he was opposed to such an m
quiry at this time on the gro'ints
that it might hamper the war pr
gram.
Barkley indicated he would COOP
crate with Ferguson. however, IN
bringing up a second resolution ex-
tending to June Z. 1915. the statute
of limitations for courts martial OF
Rear Admiral Husband +. Kimmei
and Major General Walter O. Short.
commanders Of the Pearl Harbor
base at the tine 81 re attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Postwar Plans
Get Close Study

Ouire, manager, Pomona chamber
of commerce. such surveys are OF
little value apart from arcusing and
spreading interest because the ma
ture of the situation changes so
rapidly. AS a bafis of praitical ac-
ton, Mrs. Quire told me, surveys
made six months ago are now
worthless. because the present situ-
alton isn't now at all what it was
when the surveys were made, and
six months hence it will not be at
all what it is today.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
KNOWS DIFFICULTIES

Bakersfield itself has reccgnized
this difficulty, and has avowed that
a community cannot hope to abide
by a set of rigid rules. 1t therefore
has analysed its program under the
head of postwar intentions, instead
of postwar planning, recognizing
Continued on Page 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
WEATHER FORECAST

Considerable GOODNESS Wednes-
day night and Thursday with
chance of few light showers.
Clearing weather by Thursday
night. Little change in temp ra-
lures. No frost at nights.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

PARIS, Nov. %. (UP)-Lieutenant General Alexander
NJ Pachs American Seventh army in eastern France has
broken through the outer ring of defense protecting the
German Rhneand and is pouring eastward against
bling resistance within sight of the Rhine it announced
today
Penetration of the Saverne gap in the Vosges mountains
to within 18 miles of the German border revealed by
American fifteenth corps headquarters only 48 hours
after French First army troops similarly collapsed the
southern end of the line with drive to the Rhine
The retreat through the Saverne gap becoming
pancky with Germans abandoning weapons and other
equipment their haste escape the advancing Amer
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22

Her is sixth article on "What
Other Cities Are Doing About Post
War Plans."o
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
RhineIand Defense
Breaks Under Blow
81 Monster Fighting Machines Put
Out in Most Decisive Victory;
Retreat Turns into Disorderly Rou+

WITH u S. NINTH ARMY, Germany, Nov. 22. (UP)-
Lieutenant General William II. Simpsons decsivey
defeated the most formidable German tank force engaged
since DDay knocking 81 of about 100 enemy tanks
including AZ of the 70-ton "Kng Tigers"-in four
day battle northeast of Aachen.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
Fl Centran Wins
Co|one|cy in
u. 5. Air Service

Promotion of William W. jones
of Ell Centre from lieutenant colonel
to colonel was announced recently
at an eighth air force Liberator
ctation in England where he is cCm-
manding officer of the 445th bonn
bardment group of B-24 Liberator
heavy bombers.
This 27-year-old group COM
mander is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Jones of 869 He'll street,
Fl Centre. His wife lives in San
Diego.
LED MANY MISSIONS
He was placed in command of the
group last July. He is veteran of
numerous combat missions, includ-
ing attacks on objectives at Bre-
m en-. OSnabruck, LudWigShaven,
Saarbrucken and Friedrichshafen,
Germany. He was awarded the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross for out
standing performance as formation
commander in leading bomber
formation to Brunswick, Germany,
in face of constant attacks by enc
my fighters.
Colonel Jones is graduate of
the University of California at Los
Angeles, where he received B. A..
degree in psychology in 1899, and
where he was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, honorary scholastic fra
ternity. He enlisted in the army two
months after graduation, completed
pilot training, and was commits
stoned second lieutenant in May,
1910, at Kelly Field. Texas. He be-
came operations officer of heavy
bomber group in January, 1943, and
flew to England last October with
the advanced echelcn of the group
he now commands.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
y AMBlINe
EP0RTER
Thanks on Thanksgiving

Thanks on Thanksgiving
Let US all be genuinely thankful
on Thanksgiving day this year. In
spite of the shadows on many hearts
there are many things to give
thanks for. Fer instances:
Let us be thankful that we have
the strength to bear the sorrows
and heartaches which are our lot.
Let us be thankful that we are
endowed with the ability to win
through to happiness and content
ment in the face of grief and worry.
Let us be thankful that our coun-
try has not been overrun by the
enemy.
Let US be thankful that children
still laugh and play in our homes.
Let us be thankful that we are
Americans living in America.
SuccrCs! Success!
The most successful campaign
carried on in Ell Centre in years
was the one asking Ell Centrans to
invite patients from Mitchell Con-
valescent hospital to their hcmes
for Thanksgiving dinner. And three
Brawley families asked to have pa
tients as their guests Thanksgiving,
also.
The response was as spontaneous,
Continued on Page 6, Col. 3,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-22
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 70, minimum
Wed. so; 5 am. Wed. Sc, humidity
rs; noon Wed. 81, humidity AZ; 8
pm. Tuesday 68, humidity 35.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30
MIS-. Keller in Violet

c Arthur Miller was best
man and uSherS were Jack Wat
son and Ervcn Howell.
Mrs Keller chose violet chiffon
for her daughters wedding
with eeriSe feathers in her hair
and an orchid corsage.
Mrs. Spinning wore powder
blue crepe with small match
ing flower hat and an orchid
corSage.
A reception at the bride $
home followed where white
roses and Snapdragons we're
used in decoration.
The young couple left by
motor for the East, eventually
going TO Atlantic City, where
1t. Spinning viii he stationed
for the present.
For travelling the bride wore
a purple MORE two-piece frock
with a matching hat and a beige
tweed coat with stone marten
collar
Mr.. and Mrs. ROLAND Haef-
ner and MIR. and Mrs. Robert
Ruddinski of Decatur. Mich,
were among the out-ot-toWn
guests.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30
.d Women List
Exc cu+ive S Mite

THE ANNUAL Executive
Eite" dinner OF the WomenS
advertising Club Will be held at
IS 80 p. m. Thursday in the
Penobscot Club. Malcolm w.
Bingay. guest speaker, will talk
bn Are Politicians People,
Edgar Guest Will introduce the
Speaker.
Florence Clark. president is
tn charge of the event, assisted
by May Wander Pyi and Tillie
basker. Marge Casper is taking
reservations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30
Navy Man


MIR. AND MRS. JAMES F.
WI PARTLAN of Birmingham
announce the engagement or
kheir daughter. Virginia Flor
ence, TO Sp l/c Arthur Francis
Link Jr. USN. SON of Arthur r.
link and Mrs. II Ar-fi1r-rttT'
both Of SanduSky. Q.
Miss Partian was graduated
Prom the University OF Detroit
|hnd is now taking postgraduate
work al Wayne University. Her
lance Is also a graduate OF the
University of Detroit and IS now
|ktationed at the Baldwin-Wal-
ace College in Berea, O., as a
6avy physical training instruc-
J