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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Cernndn
Bose
AbIdze
Raj Bombers
Raid, Fire
Big Navy Point

LONDON, Oct. 16. (UP,-
RAF heavy bombers set the
German naval base of Will
helmshaven ablaze under a
great weight of explosive and
fire bombs Sunday night,
carrying forward a sustain
ed offensie that in 48 hours
has spread more han $4,000 tons OF
bombs across targets in the Nazl
homeland from the North sea to the
Ruhr valley.
Switching the attack from the
battered and still-burning Ruhr. a
fleet of some 400 heavy bombers
and night fighters of the Royal air
force dropped almost 1000 tons OF
bombs across the spraWling docks,
submarine pens, naval installations,
railway lines, and canals in the
Wilhelmshaven area.
Returning fliers sale their bombs
touched off great explosions and
set fires raging through a dozen
sections CT the NAzi base.
At the same time, diversionary
force of British Mosquito bombers
flew on past Wilhelmshaven to drop
their blockbusters on Hamburg.
while other raiders laid mines in
unidentified enemy waters.
RAF night fighters supported the
bombing fleets an6 famed out on
their own tn strafe enemy airfieldS
on the continent. Eleven British
planes were lost in the widespread
operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Farm Help Held
Adequate for
Start Of Season

With thinning and hoeing of win
ter vegetables pending, it is believed
that a majority of farm lsborers re-
ported to be available in Imperial
Valley will be absorbed, George
Garrigues, farm placement manager
said Monday.
Garrigues' statement accompanied
submission of the weekly farm la
Tor report, wherein it was stated
that 1000 agricultural workers are
available in this locality.
The report stated that thinning
and hoeing will continue to be listed
as next active crops"
I'VE expect to employ several
hundred men next week." the farm
leader said, land we feel that we
will assimilate most of the overage
of labor in existence today. AT
that time, the needs for specific
crops such as lettuce, cabbage and
carrots will be listed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Patton barks Up
From keypoint
In Metz Campaign

WITH u. S. THIRD ARMY BE-
FORE METZ. Oct. 16. tUP)--Lieu-
tenant General George S. Patton's
headquarters announced Monday
that the biggest little battle of the
western front had ended when
American troops withdrew from a
shaky toehold in Fort Driant be-
cause the promised reward was not
worth the cost in casualties.
Patton's doughboys pulled back
from the southwest corner CT Fort
Driant, key outpost CT the Metz for
tifications, under cover of darkness
last Friday after three weeks OF
weird and heavy fighting.
COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN
If it had been thought wise, the
fort might have been taken by
frontal assault" Third Army
Spokesman said. However, it was
net worth the necessary casualties
in view of the fact that Driant was
under the direct fire of neighboring
Notifications"
The Americans suffered numer-
ically light casualties in the attack
on Fort Driant, which carried atop
the stone ramparts and into the un-
derground chambers.
SMALL FORCE USED
The spokesman revealed that
never more than single battalion
was in action against Driant at one
ime. The attack gained much valu-
able information on the construc-
ton of the forts in the Metz area
he added.
The Americans withdrew under
orders and not because the Ger
mans forced them out. The Ger
mans now occupied their former po-
sition atop the fort and in its tun-
nelS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Toxic Lays Claim
To Sinking 40
American Warships
B-29's Continue
To Blast at
Formosa Cen+ers

PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 16.
(UP) - The battle of the
western Pacific ragged on in
to it's seventh day Monday
with American B-29 Super
fortresses smashing again at
Formosa while the American
Third fleet apparently was
slugging it out with Japan's
air forces and perhaps her
elusive fleet in a showdown
struggle.
A war department commu-
nique said the Superfortress-
es carried out the second at
tack with "veryy good bomb
ing results" on the Okayayma
and Heito aircraft repair and
supply bases. No BIOS were
lost and air reconnaissance
showed that in the initial
B-29 raid two-thirds of the
Okayama base was destroy
ed, including 81 buildings de-
stroved and 16 heavily dam
aged.
Tokyo said the japanese fleet "at
last" had gone into action against
Admiral william F. Halsey's mann
moth fleet off Formosa ano, though
this was not confirmed officially.
there were some indications here
that the report might be true.
MAKE COUNTERtTTACK
Powerful japanese air formations
already were known to have coun-
ter-attacked the Third fleet, which
had destroyed or damaged 227 ships
ano 621 planes in five straight days
of destructive American raids, in
their home waters.
A war department announcement
in Washington disclosed that the
giant land-based SuperfortresseS had
carried the offensive into its sew
enth day with their secono raid in
48 hours on Japan's great island
. bastion Of Formosa, previously at
tackled three and perhaps four
straight days by Halseys carrier
planes.
The Superfortresses hit military
targets" on Formosa Monday, Wash
ington and Tokyo time Sunday.
Pearl Harbor time) and further
details will be announced later.
Washington said. More than 100
Superfortresses attacked the Foro-
san air base of Okayama Saturday
! FRIDAY, Pearl Harbor time).
WORD is LACKING
There was no immediate word of
whether Halseyis planes followed up
their last announced raid on For
mosa F'ricay with another Satur-
day, but it was quite possible.
On the outcome of the air-sea
battle off FormoSa may hinge IN
Continued on page 2, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Italian Escapes
From LoCkett
Nabbed at Border

TIJUANA, Baja GINA, Oct. 10.
GUP)-Four Italian war prisoners
were in Jail here Monday awaiting
deportation to u the United States
after they were arrested attempting
to cross the international border at
Tecate, A miles east of here, police
reported.
F. Glare Dorwart, special FB1
agent in San Diego, said the men
escaped from Camp Lockett, Cali
fornia, October 8 and will be
brought back by military police.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Postwar Plans
AWdit Study

In preparation for legislative
postwar planning meeting in Ell
Centre at 10 a. m. Friday, residents
of all Imperial county cities apd
districts coordinated their ideas at
meeting of the board of supervisors
Monday afternoon.
State SENATOR E. George Luckey,
chairman of the subcommittee. and
other members of the legislative
group will discuss the countrywide
plan Friday after it has been worked
out and all Implications and con-
flicts removed.
Representatives of all cities, the
county and the irrigation district
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16

prepared their plans and presented
them Monday.
The Luckey committee was par
ticularly interested in getting list
of contemplated public works con-
struction, estimated cost of con-
struction, and the amount and
kind of labor and materials needed.
Plans and specifications of the va
rious proposed projects also were
sought by the committee
An idea of the necessary legisla-
ton needed to get the construction
projects going so they will provide
employment after the war will re-
suit from the conference Friday.
Luckey said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Berlin Confirms
RommeI's Death

LONDON, Oct. l6. CUP)-The
Germans, finally confirming the Oft
reported death of Field Marshal Err
win Rommel, prepared state fu-
neral Monday for the Desert FcX"
who made the fastest military re-
treat in history.
The official DNB news agency
said Rommel had died as the result
of a heavy head injury suffered in
motorcar accident while he was
serving as commander in chief of
an army group on the western
front.
While the announcement did not
give the time of his death, the Nazi-
controlled Scandinavian Telegraph
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
TWO PLEAD GUILTY IN THEFT
SALE OF WAREHOUSE GOODS

Two defendants in the case con-
cerned with theft and sale of prop
erty from warehouses of the Pacific
Freight Lines company in superior
court late last week pleaded guilty
and asked probation.
George Polos. Greek resic ent of
Calexico, pleaded guilty to two
counts of receiving stolen property
and Pat Blunt pleaded guilty to
receiving stolen property. Polos will
appear for a probation hearing
October 20 and Blunt on October
OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Germans Strike
At yunkS in
Auchen Sector
Massed Nazi Armor Attempts Move
To Break Through Into City;
Veteran Panzer Troops Moved Up

-
TIERS, AEF, Paris, Oct. 16.
(UP) = Aachen front dis
patches reported that "a
good proportion of the Ger
man armor in the west" open
ed a major attack Monday,
while Franco-American fore
es to the south slugged ahead
in bid to flank the Belfort
Gap and open the way to
southwest Germany.
German tanks ano troops struck
in force some four miles northeast
of Aachen in an attempt to smash
through the United States First
army Gordon around the city, Unit
ed Press Correspondent Jack Frank
ish reported from position east
of Aachen.
PANZERS COUNTER
Veteran panzer grenadier troops,
taking advantage of heavy rain
which grounded u S. fighter bomb
ers, uncorkeo a third effort to re-
take the Siegfried Notifications
along the CrucifiX Hill-Stolberg
ridge. American infantry and artil-
) lery broke up the pre-dawn on
slaught.
The main weight of the attack
was concentrated in the area south
east of Verlautenheide, which is
three miles northeast of Aachen.
United Press War Correspondent
Henry T. Gorrell reported that the
generals "just completed a tour of
the front lines, making sure that
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16

Bureau said Rommel died Sunday,
but did not disclose where.
The automobile accident referred
to by DNB apparently was the one
which occurred last August in Nor
mandy AT that time, residents of
the vicinity told United Press cor
respondent Edward w. Beattie that
Rommel probably had died of a
fractured skull in a hospital at Ber-
nay and that his body had been
flown secretly to Berlin.
The 53-year-old marshal was said
then to have suffered large head
wound when he either jumped or
was caught in his car after STRAIT
ing Allied plane killed the driver
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
FOUR WESTMORLAND MEN
GO ON "RESISTING" TRIAL

A packed court room greeted
Judge Elmer Heald Monday when
attorneys began selecting a jury
to hear the trial of four Westmor-
lane residents of charge CT resist
ing arrest in the north-end city
last July 26.
Defendants in the case are A. l..
tBud) Kissee. Cecil Swearingen, Lee
Kissee, and John Guess. They were
charged with resisting officer Alvin
Quick when he attempted to take
them to Jail during fight in a
WeStmorland saloon.
Selection of the IL jurors to hear
the case was expected to take all
day Monoay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16

the state at the con-
ference we're 0. C. Williams, state
land and water commissioner, and
R. Gail Baker, water engineer.
Before his departure, williams ex-
planned that the basin-wioe plan
delineating use of the huge water
supply probably would be ready for
presentation at the National Re-
clamation associations annual con-
vention at Denver, Colorado, Novem-
ber Is.
Under the proposal, 100000 acre
feet would supply the Yuma and
other projects. and 100000 acre
feet would be reserved for supple
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Arizona Maps Plan to Tap
Colorado for More Water

menting existing projects now suf-
fering water shortages.
The overall plan was in line with
the governors aim that projects
be made big enough to use all sur
plus waters of the river in the lower
basin so that full development would
be obtainable when they are COM
pleted.
1t was pointed out, however, that
the plans take into consideration
the established rights of other states
and the privileges that Mexico
would have unoer the pending
United States treaty with that coun-
try.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Truman Invites
Vote Support
OF John |. Lewis

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. tUPD-
Senator Harry S. Truman, Demo-
cratic vice presidential nominee,
Monday invited President John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Workers
to reconsider his support of the Re-
publican presidential ticket in the
November election and back PreSi-
dent Roosevelt.
Il think the best interests of MI
Lewis organization would be served
by the mocratic party Truman
said in reply to press conference
question asking him to amplify a
remark he made Sunday that the
Democrats would accept Lewis sup
port if Lewis would come back and
be a good boy
Truman said he had been told
that Governor Thomas E. Dewey,
Republican presidential candidate,
had read Lewis out of the Repub-
lican party" and added, Il didn't
want him to have no place to go"
In Los Angeles for the first major
address of his campaign tour, Tru-
man was asked to comment on
Deweys reiteration Sunday of the
Republican charge that the admin
istration had failed to prepare the
nation for war.
Mr.. Dewey either is not familiar
with the facts or he's covering them
up for political purposes" Truman
said "The Republicans Tough
tooth and nail against these prepa-
rations."
Asked about his association with
the Pendergast machine in Kansas
City, Truman replied that no can
didate in Missouri could be elected
without the support of that Or
~ganization.
Il didn't ask them to support me-
he said. They supported me be-
cause I was a good vote getter.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 16.
(UP)-Arizona was to ask
the federal government Mon
day for approval of a long
range irrigation program
that would guarantee the
state 100000 acre-feet of
Colorado river water for
postwar agricultural devel-
opm'ent.
Set by Governor Sidney p Osborn,
the goal was to be presented at a
conference in Boulder City, New
ada. to E. A. Moritz, regional direc-
tor of the U. S. Reclamation bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Repairs Started
On 0utfaII Sewer

Repairs on the Ell Centre outfall
sewer have started, E. Paul Ford,
city engineer and director of public
works, announced Monday.
Ford said that the j. T. Barrett
Contracting company has it's ma
chinery on the job and that much
of the pipe needed has been de-
liVered
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
S,"ECIAL AGENTS FOR FBI
TO AID OFFICERS CLASS

Charles Franisch and Paul Hart
special agents of the federal bureau
of investigation, will be in Ell Gen.
tro Wednesday night to participate
in the peace officers training course
at the court house.
They will have charge of that part
of the program devoted to chemis-
try in crime detection, wrapping
handling and shipping evidence, and
preserving the chain of evidence
Sheriff Robert w. Ware said Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16

MOSCOW, Oct. 16. (UP)-
Strong evidence was seen in
responsible quarters Mon
day that weekend confer
ences of Russian, British and
Polish leaders had carried
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
Marine Officer
Dies in Crash

First Lieutenant Ernest r. Dick
son of the Ell Centre marine air sta
tion was killed when his fighter
plane crashed on a routine training
flight as miles northeast of the sta
ton, officers announced Monday.
A board CT officers is inveStigat-
ing the cause of the crash.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16

the discussion of the thorny
Polish problem to its conclu-
sive stage.
The issues of proportional repre-
sentation in a projected coalition
government of the London and
Lublin groups of Poles, as we'll as
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
u. S, JAP FLEETS REPORTED IN CLASH
kazi Troops
Evacuate
All Greece

LONDON, Oct. 16. (UP)-Ger-
man troops are evacuating all of
Greece in order to stabilize the
Balkan front, the NaZi Trancocean
News Agency said Monday.
Transocean said the situation
in Greece is very fluid
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
GOES TO CHICAGO

A family illness caused Mrs. Vir-
ginia Ivy, farm placement clerk,
to leave Ell Centre last week end for
an undetermined stay in Chicago.
Mrs Dorothy Larsen will assume
Mrs. Ivy's duties while she is away.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
y AMBl|Ne
EpoRTER

True to Form
We understand Captain AL Bis
gard is shooting on pistol teams
again and with marine team from
the Ell Centre marine air station.
Remember when he used to shoot
Oh the Imperial Yuma Peace Off
GERS team? Wonder if he is any
d, better now than he was then.
Sweet Adclinnnnnne!
At one of those sWank joints on
Ventura boulevard, Tom Finney and
Paul Hill were having no end of a
good time. There was a pipe organ
there and the Hill-Finney party was
singing what was fondly believed
to be some high class stuff, aided
and abetted, of course, by the pipe
organ.
The alleged singers noticed that a
beautiful baritone voice had joined
in from a neighboring table. The
voice was magnificent
Il don't know who you are" Fin
ney said to the volunteer singer,
"but you have wonderful voice and
l WdIlC you 10 JOIN US.
MY name is Thomas" said the
singer.
80 is mine," beamed Finney and
the two became virtual blood
brothers from that time on, calling
each other Tom like Tnobody's busl-
ness. The two IONS were members
of one of those spontaneous quar-
tets. The place was almost empty
when the concert started but the
crowd soon swelled to around 200
you know, Tom" said Finney
with his arm around the other
Toms neck, nobody in the world
can sing Comm Round the Noun
tain like you can"
mo wonder" piped UP voice
in the audience. ."he's John Charles
Continued on page 2, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-16
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday "a, minimum
Monday 80; 5 am. Monday 62, hu-
midity 10; noon Monday SO, humid
ity 80; pm. Sun. 81, humidity l6.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
Negro Elks for Dewey

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 CUP)-The
National Voters League, Inc.
composed of 600, 900 Negro men,
bers of the Order of ElkS, today
endorsed Gov. Dewey.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
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Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
OPE F ORU M
RAILROAD MANPowER SHORT

RAILROAD MANPoWER SHORTAGE
is A MYTH
Thousands of Railroad Men AYaliable-
A Conspiracy Between Roosevelt Ad-
ministration and Railroads.
Butte-The railroad corporations, as
well as some Of the officials of the fed
eral government in high places a V
been engaged for some time past in
snreading the propaganda that there IS
a dangerous manpower shortage on the
various railroads of the country. h
Northern Pacific for instance, has large
masters on display in passenger depots
in which they are advertising their al
legged shortages in manpower with the
renuest that every man available, be ne
big. little, old or young, should engage
himself in railroad service. The govern
ment. on the other hand, is sending rail-
road manpower recruiters, or administra-
ton politicians, around the country
drawing down fat salaries from the tax
navers of the nation, pretending to be
in search of railroad men that they car
assion TO some of the various railroads
All of the above proves a self-evloeh'
conspiracy between the present natloha
administration and the railroad Interests
10 o,rtail in various ways under the pre-
tense and excuse that they are IN nee'
of men. and to fail in their lawfui serV'
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
VANISHING FREEDOM OF THE AIR

The suspension of labor's only regular
national radio program, the Labor for
Victory series over the National Broad
casting Company's network, raises a
number of disturbing questions to which
the CLIO would like to know the answers.
The NBC has been the only network to
grant the millions Of organized working
people as much as this 15-minute weekly
program, shared by both CLIO and ALL,
and we have repeatedly expressed our
appreciation of this public service.
But even this brief offset to bust
ness monopoly of the air waves is
now at an end, and labor is left with
out any regular radio channel to
bring its message to the American
public.
It is particularly disturbing that this
action should be taken at the beginning
of a national election campaign, on the
apparent grounds that any labor program
during this period would be "political."
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
Matson Is Out for
Associate Justice

Enor K. Matson of Helena, who has
filed for the office of Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, has been a mem
Der of the Montana bar for thirty years.
Mr.. Matson began the practice OF law
at Lewistown after studying law at Har-
ward Law School and University of Ne
braska. He served two terms as county
attorney Of Fergus county. From 1888 to
1910 he served as assistant attorney
general and attorney general. Resigning
as first assistant attorney general in 1870
he accepted appointment as counsel for
the Railroad and Public Service Com
missions. Recently he was appointed a
member Of the committee on regulatory
procedure of the National Association OF
Railroad and Utilities commissioners
Since filing for the Supreme Court MI
Matson has resigned as counsel for the
Railroad and Public Service Commission
in order to devote his time to his cam
paign.
While in the attorney generals office
he took special interest in labor problems
and obtained a decision of the Supreme
Court UNFOLDING the eight-hour law FOL
clerks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matson reside at Helena
Mont. A son, Enor K. Matson, Jrp Is
member of the U. S, armed forces.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22

Inasmuch as the present Fish and
Game Commission is promulgating rules
and regulations governing the take Of
fish and game as well as fixing the sea-
sons and bag limits, would it not be per-
missible for them to issue a courtesy
license to our boys and girls who are
serving in the armed forces while they
are home on furlough?
We will appreciate your opinion on this
matter as soon as possible.
RESOLUTION
To All Members of Organized Labor
and Sportsmen of the State Of Montana:
WHEREAS, the rank and file of our
people have sons and daughters serving
with the armed forces Of govern
ment, and
WHEREAS, during the past two years
the Montana Fish and Game Commits
sion has received more money from the
sale Of hunting and fishing licenses and
from the federal government under the
provisions of the Pitman-R Robertson act
and other sources than many Of its pred
ecessOrs, and
WHEREAS, our som and daughters
when home on furlough are only here
for a few days, having limited financia
resources should not be required to pur-
chase a hunting or fishing license.
NOW THEREFORE,, BE 1T RE
SOLVED, that due to these facts, we tn
Executive Board Of the Rocky Mountain
Sportsmen's Association go on record re
questing the Fish and Game Commission
to issue u boys and girls a courtes'
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
ice to the general public

ice TO the general puDuc'
Railroad Men in Abundance
The true facts are that there are
many thousands of experienced railroad
men who are available. In fact, they
would be delighted to become affiliated
with the railroad business again. They
have been previously crowded out by the
companies on different p%retenses, mostly
on account of their politics or brother
hood activities. The companies and the
government recruiters know there are
many thousands of good railroad men
they could hire, but they will not have
them for the reason that they desire
only young novices who do not know
anything about a railroad or railroad
officials instead Of hiring veteran rail-
readers who know how to operate a
railroad train as firemen, brakemen' en-
gineets, or conductors, and thus render
to the general public the safety OF eX-
perience instead Of the dangers Of mex
perience.