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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

way yards, port facilities and war
plants at DuiSburg. An air ministry
communique said first reports in
dicate that great damage must have
been done" Spitfires and Mustangs
escorted the RAF bombers.
Very few enemy fighters were
able to interfere with the bombers,
but ground defenSes were very ac-
tive" the communique said. Thin
clouds were over the target, but
the objectiveS were spotted visually.
Lieutenant General James H. Doo-
little sent mere than 1000 of his
Eighth Air Force heavy bombers
against rail yards and other targets
at Cologne alone, while other For
treSseS and Liberators hammered
Saarbrucken and KaiSerlauten.
About 1000 Mustang and Thun-
derbolt fighters shepherded the
bombers over the Rhineland city
ahead of the United States First
Army and the Westwall anchor
posts next tC northeastern France.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
States Gas Tax
Revenue Falls

SACRAMENTO, Oct. ID. CUP)-
August gasoline tax assessments by
tie :tate board Of equalization of
$4.20O.759 confirmed steady rate
of decrease in this source of reve-
nue.. George M. Reilly. San Fran
cisco member of the board, reported
Saturday.
Compared with the same months
in l943. May collections this year
were off 1l8 per cent, June 525 per
cent, July 6.42 per cent and August
96 per cent, Reilly said.
The downward trend, Reilly add
cd. was established early in the
year. January collections were 1926
per cent greater than in January
l943, but in February the gain was
cut to 1874 per cent, in March to ST.
per cent and April 3.97 per cent
Thereafter the total collected start
ed falling below 1943 figures.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Escaped Yankee
Says Ban Japs'

AUBURN, Wash, Oct. IA. CUP)-
Commander Melvyn H. Mccoy, who
escaped from a Japanese prison
camp in the Philippines after II
months Imprisonment, told mass
meeting of the Remember Pearl
Harbor league" Friday night that
Japanese Americans should not be
allowed to return to their west coast
homes.
"If they return they undoubtedly
will be Disseminated against and
people in that category are not apt
to be good, loyal citizens" Mccoy
said
Addressing more than 1000 citi-
zens OF the Puyallup and White
river valleys pledged to keep the
evacuated Japanese from returning
to their former homes, Mccoy said
he was not against persons of Japa-
nese ancestry enjoying the Ameri-
can way of life, "but would like to
see them enjoy it somewhere else"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Z t%'t'Hs t;St4;;

Meet Me Again
Go to the airport tomorrow and
meet my brother. John, who will
arrive from Ohio" Wallace McClel-
land telephoned his wife in Los
Angeles, land then the two of you
meet me in the dining room at
the Biltmore hotel I'll come up
kand join you"
She agreed and at the appointed
time was at the appointed gate at
the appointed airport to meet john
No John. 1t was early in the morn
ing so Mrs. McClelland waited for
the next plane from the--easts to
arrive. She ran from gate to gate
all day long but still no John. She
began to telephone the Biltmore
hotel at Is minute intervals to have
McClelland PACED. No McClelland.
She would bang up the receiver and
run to another gate to meet another
plane. She met planes and had
McClelland PACED all day long. No
luck
At 4 p. m. she became desperate
and telephoned Clarence Hinderks.
former Ell CentIan, at his place of
business. Clarence was at a con-
vention in the Biltmore SO Mrs. Nc
Clelland had his office contact him
and tell him to find McClelland and
call the airport at once.
Johns at the union railway sta
ton afraid IL move" Clarence tele-
phoned Mrs. McClelland.
I'm at the airport afraid to
move" she retorted. Where is
Mac?"
I'll call you back ne promised.
Il can't find which dining room he
Is in."
After Mrs. McClelland had met
few more planes just from force of
habit, Clarence telephoned her to
get in taxi and come to the hotel.
He had rounded up the McClelland
brothers and was riding herd on
them. They swarmed at 6 p. m.
Charlie Halliday was in on the mix
up somewhere but hanged if we
Continued on Pg. 6, Col y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
yusos
Strike
Anew
Par+isans Aid
Russians in
Belgrade Drive

LONDON, Oct. ii. (UP)-
Yugoslav partisans and Sow
let troops, forming a tight
ring around Belgrade, have
opened an assault on the out
er defenses in a coordinated
drive to liberate the capital,
the free Yugosiav radio reported
Saturday.
Swiss broadcasts reported that
Units of Marshal Tito's 18th corps
already had entered the city, but
the Yugoslav communique said his
forces still were nine miles from
Belgrade, in the Avala -Zeleznik
valley.
The Germans were reported to
have heavily fortified Belgrade and
made preparations for long street
to street battle. The city, however,
from a military point, already was
lost to the Germans, as the Alice
encirclement prevented the Nazis
from withdrawing troops from the
Balkans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

north and east, while the ThirC
Baltic army stabbed into the south
ern flank.
WARSHIPS, PLANES AID
Soviet warships and planes backed
the attacks with shells and bombs
and ait the same time maintained a
tight blockade over the enemyS
two remaining evacuation ports,
Liepaja and VentspilS. Only Friday,
a 6000..ton German transport was
sent to the bottom by the warships,
While planes accounted for 5000
tonner.
The Germans attempted to ease
the pressure against their southern
flank with an amphibiouS landing
behind the Soviet lines near Pal
anga, Ia miles north of Memel, but
we're driven off by Soviet guns and
planes with a loss of four OF their
"a landing vessels.
GERMANS DROWN
Scores of Germans were drowned
in the attempt and others were
killed by shellfire anc bombing
More than 300 prisoners we're taken
In the Balkans. Second Ukrain-
ian army widened its wedge across
'Yugoslavia with the capture of Top
ola and Dolna Staornja. 81 and 40
miles respectively south of Belgrade,
the capital.
The Russians also cut the Bel
grade e-Kragujevac railway. isolating
large German forces south and
southeast of BelgraCe.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

!, proper from the eaSo Friday, said
the drive was proceeding satisfac-
torily but a complete mopup of the
ancient city would require several
Gays.
NAZIS HINT COUNTER MOVE
German armored forces were re-
portei shifting south from Holland
toward Aachen for an expected
counteroffensive while Lieutenant
General Courtney H. Hodges troops
began a new attempt to crack the
half mile wide corridor into the
city.
An Aachen dispatch by United
Press Correspondent Jack Frankish
reporting much of the eastern part
OF the city overrun in the first "a
hours of the assault said resistance
was comparatively light Saturday
morning, and only one American
casualty had been reported up to
II am.
Some 10000 to 10000 civilians of
the city's normal 100000 were be-
lieved still inside Aachen, and the
garrison was estimated to number
about 1000.
Can unconfirmed Paris broac-
cast said the besieged German gar
Tison Dunkerque on the French
Channel coast had attacked the
Allied line, only to be repulsed and
thrown back to its original posi-
tiOnS.)
INCH EASTWARD
The British Second army contin-
ued to inch eastward through mud
and woods toward Venray, IA miles
northwest of Venlo, in an attempt
to widen the British corridor in
the Netherlands. The forces had
gained 5000 to 5000 yards since the
attack began yesterday.
Supreme headquarters revealed
that German pressure against the
northern end of the British corri-
cor below Arnhem was lessening
as the Germans shifted some of
their best troops, including those
who hurled the British Red Devil
paratroopS back across the lower
Rhine last month, toward Aachen
for what may develop into one of
the decisive battles of the war.
PANZER OUTFITS
United Press War Correspondent
Henry 7. Gorrell reported from the
front that the enemy forces mass
ing northeast of Aachen were among
GermanyS best panzer outfits, spe-
cialiStS in counterattacks.
On the Third army front, history
seemed to be repeating itself in
the green, rolling hills overlooking
Metz. There Lieutenant General
George S. PattonS men literally
were up against stone wall in their
efforts to capture the historic city
which for centuries successfully re-
pulsed every attempt to take it by
storm.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

They would not necessarily have
to be sent to Japan" Mccoy said.
Hawaii or some of the islands we
take from the japanese would be
okay"
Mccoy said he believed American
war veterans would oppose reset
tlement of Japanese Americans on
the valley farms they operated be-
fore the war.
when the boys return from the
South Pacific, I think they will tell
you that the only good Jap is dead
Jap" he said.
r. B. CozZens, assistant west
coast director of the war relocation
authority, said many of the Japa-
nese-Americans were found to be
loyal citizens.
while meetings of this kind are
helpful" Cozzens said, "I disagree
with some of the speakers who
would kick around the constitution
of the United States"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

Tulle is town of some $4,000
population. On the day of the AL
lied landing about $50 French Ma
quis tried to capture it. They cddn't
succeed the first day but ON the
second they routed the German gar
riSon and the population started
celebrating in the streets.
AT that point a German armored
unit arrived and rounoed up all
the men in the streets, The Nazi
commander announced all would be
hanged at daybreak.
The mayor of Tulle interceded and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Moscow
Porley
Begged
Polish Problem
Bessars Of
Early Solution

MOSCOW, Oct. ID. (UP)
High diplomatic quarters
indicated Saturday that sol
ution of the delicate Polish
problem still hangs fire de-
spite the efforts of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
and Marshal Josef Stain,
and declined to view the situation
either with pessimism or optimism.
Authoritative persons, who declin-
cd ito allow themselves to be identi-
fled at this stage of the negotia-
tionS, revealed that Churchill held
a private meeting with the London
Polish group tocay following the
long session of Premier StanislaW
Mikolaczyk with Churchill and Stall
in last night.
AT Saturdays two and one half
hour meeting, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden, British Ambassador
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Polish
Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer,
and Prof StanislaW Grabski, speaker
of the Polish national assembly par
ticipated.
Developments since Mikolaczyk's
last visit to Moscow were said to
have sharply accentuateC the diff
ficulties of achieving a settlement
cetween the Lublin and London
groups.
The Soviet-sponsored Lublin group
takes grim view of the responsible
itics for the>bloody Warsaw upris-
ing and have made clear-cut warn
ings that those responsible would
be charged with the death of tens
Of thousands of Poles who lost their
lives in the battles. The Lublinites
charged that the responsibility rests
with agents Of the London group.
Both Churchill and Stain were
described as oxerting their good Of
ficcS to bring about a settlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Air Assault Hits
East Of Auchen

LONDON, Oct IA. (UP)-More
than 1000 American and British
heavy bombers teamed Saturday in
four-way assault on Cologne,
Saarbrucken, K a aiserlauten n and
Duisburg, key Herman transport
centers supplying Nazi forces facing
the Allied armies on the western
front.
Well over 1000 Flying Fortresses,
Liberators and fighters smashed at
Cologne, Rhineland stronghold 40
miles east of besieged Aachen, and
the Saar basin hubs of Saarbrucken
and KaiSerlauten in the French
border area.
The Royal Air Force dispatched
more than 1000 of its big bombers
against Duisburg, island port on the
Rhine some 35 miles east of the
German frontier against which the
British Second Army was closing
through Holland.
The British raiders dropped more
than $500 tens of bombs on rail-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Roosevelt Declines Proffer
To Share Time With Dewev

i. WASHINGTON, Oct. ID.
lUP) = President Roosevelt
has declined an invitation to
share the speaking platform
with Governor Thomas E.
Dewey at the closing session
of the New York Herald Trib-
une forum next Wednesday,
the White House disclosed
Saturday.
i, He was invited by Mrs. Ogden
Reid, vice president of the New York
Tribune, Inc, which publishes the
Heralcl-Tribune. to speak at the
forum, but turned down the bid in
q brief telegram Friday night, White
House Secretary Stephen r. Early
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Allies Liberate
Isle of Corfu

ROME, Oct. ia. CUP) - Allied
troops have liberated the island OF
Corfu, it was announced Saturday,
while Partisan forces on the Al
banian mainland occupied Delvine,
seven miles inland from captured
Sarande porto Edda).
The liberation of Corfu a 277-
square mile Greek island in the sea
off the Greek-Albanian border, was
completed virtually without opposi-
ton after the bulk of the German
garrison had fled to the mainland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
GoIIows-Weary Nazis Save
Lives Of Fl Frenchmen

PARIS, Oct. ID. (UP)-
The newspaper Giaro Satur-
day revealed the Germans
hanged 80 men of the town
of Tulle in the Correze de-
partment the day after the
Allied landing in Normandy
and then spared another II
men who had been ticketed
f or hanging because t h e
hangman was tired of his
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
AUTO RIDER INJURED
IN HEAD-ON COLLISION

A motorized argument over the
center OF the road ended in tie
on a bridge near the McCabe school
at 6:15 am Saturday, highway pa
trolmen said.
Cars driven by John Black. IL,
Calexico, and Lazaro V. Fernando,
SO, employe on the Boone ranch, COL
Iced head-on in the center OF the
highway, the officers said. B. E.
Villanuae, 80, passenger in the Fer
nando car, suffered minor injuries
and was taken to a hospital for
treatment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Norway's Puppet
For Germans
Reported Dying

LONDON, Oct. ID, (UP)-A Stock
holm dispatch to the Daily Mail,
quoting German sources in Norway,
said Saturday that Major Vidkun
Quisling, minister-president of the
Nazi puppet government in Norway,
was dying following a heart at
tack attributed to an extra heavy
drinking bout"
Another Stockholm dispatch said
the Morgontidningen reported that
rumors that Quisling died of a
stroke were circulating on the
Swedish Norwegian frontier.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Sister Aimee's
VIII favors
Son.Successor

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. ID. (UP)-Ol
her less than $4,000 estate, Evan
gelist Aimee Semple Mcpherson left
$40 to her mother, Minnie Ma)
Kennedy; $25OO to her daughter,
Roberta Semple Salter, and the rest
to her son, Rolf, her will revealed
Saturday.
The testament was dated last
March 81.
Should any of these attempt to
oppose, or set aside the will, they
are to receive S. the will said.
Mrs. Salter is. the wife of Orches-
ira Leader Harry Salter, while Rolf
is now head of Angelus Temple,
succeeding to his mothers role.
Mrs. Mcpherson died September
27 in Oakland, California, of an
overdose. of sleeping tablets.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
0PA 10 Issue
Emergency Gas

Authorization has been granted
the Office of Price Administration to
approve and issue emergency gaso-
line rations through the current
quarter, Mrs Margaret Foster, chief
clerk, war price and ration board,
Ell Centre, said Saturday. Previously
approval has been dependent upon
decisions rendered by the office of
defense transportation.
According to Mrs. Foster, farm
ers who are in possession of ODT
gasoline certificates will continue TO
make application for emergency
rationS through the agricultural
conservation association office.
In the past applications were for
warded to either Los Angeles or San
Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
0ne-Legged
Prisoner
Skips Away

FLORENCE, Ariz., Oct. II. (UP)
Officials at the Arizona stat,
prison here had very red faces
Saturday. One-legged convict
has escaped.
Jack RalstOn, a 21-year- old
former cowboy from Yuma county
who lost his right leg in an acci-
dent, walk d away from the prison
with a companion convict, Simon
Simms, 20, an Indian from Pima
county. Both were TRUSTEES serv-
ing short terms. RalstOn for bur-
glarv and Simms for passing
bogus checks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
SALINAS SOCIALITE WATTS
MURDER JURY'S VERDICT

SALINAS, Calf, Oct IA (UP) -
A jury of eight women and four
men retired at 1885 a. m. CPWT)
Saturday to deliberate the murder
case against Mrs. Frances Andrews,
SO year old Carmel valley society
matron accused of shooting to
death 10 year old Jay Lovett in a
moment of jealousy.
Monterey county superior Judge
Henry G. Jorgensen, in SIS minute
tinal instruction in law, directed the
Jurors to return one of the follow
ing three verdicts:
Murder in the first degree with a
recommendation for the death PEN
atty or life Imprisonment
Murder in the second degree.
Acquittal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Shaw Societies
Peeve Bernard

LONDON. Oct. IA. (UP)-George
Bernard Shaw told the newly
formed Bernard Shaw Society of
Ireland Saturday For Gods sake
leave me alone.'
In a message to the society he
said:
Heaven defend me from Shaw
societies. have to be civil to them
but have more present and future
, work on hand than / have time for
and societies are concernd only
with my old work that is for me
past and done with"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Flying Bombs
Hit London

LONDON, Oct. IA. CUP)-A larger
scale flying bomb attack, described
semi-officially as something like
concentrated raid" was launched
from planes over the North sea
during the night against southern
England and the London area.
Some casualties and damage we're
caused but shore defenses knocked
down most of the robots and the
raid was called a failure.
Casualties from air raids I'm Brit
ain during September were an
ncunced today at ITO killed, includ-
ing 81 children. and $3.50 injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

the commander agreed TO hang only
100 men. The Nazis put up gallows
along the main streets and started
with their executions, forcing the
population 10 watch. One after an
other 80 men we're hanged. Finally,
with 81 hangings still TO go. the
hangman got tired and the remain
ing hostages we're spared. The arm
ored Nazis then got into their ma
chimes and left the town. posting
a small security detachment behind
them which remained until August
Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Warren States
Thanksgiving
As November q

SACRAMENTO, Oct. IA. CUP) -
Gov. Earl Warren said Saturday his
proclamation calling for observance
of Thanksgiving day in California
on Nov. % will be issued approx
mately 10 Gays in advance of the
date.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

ObSerVerS here beIleVed Tie pow
erful strikes this week, which not
cnly blasted the enemy's sea and
air forces but heaped destruction
on ground bases and port facilities,
considerably weakened Japan's abil-
ity to defend the Philippines.
These blows also increased the
difficulty of Japan's supplying and
reinforcing its large Philippine gar
rison, estimated at 10000 or more
troops.
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

Early added that, as he recalled
it. the brief telegram gave no reason
for the refusal. However, he referred
reporters to Democratic National
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan for
possible answer to inquiries about
the reason.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
TWAS NOT so GOOD

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. Ia, (UP)
james Goodluck of Arizona de-
cided today that his name was no
safe conduct pass through the jinX
of Friday the 18th. Goodluck was
arrested at hotel here and given
80 day suspended "floater" SEN
tence for attempting to find vac
ant hotel room by rafting all doors.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

Dewey has scheduled a major
foreign policy address at the final
forum session. Mr.. Roosevelt plans
to discuss foreign policy in speech
before the Foreign Policy associa-
tions annual meeting in New York
on October 81,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
WILL TAKE TRAINING
IN IMPERIAL VALLEY

B. j. Konkright will arrive in Ell
Centre late this month to take
part of the training required for an
assistant farm advisor in California.
He has been in Tehama county for
other phases of the course.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
Russians Close
Down on Nozi
Army Of 100000
Three Red Armies, Backed by Big
Ships and Planes Storm Baltic
Pocket to Ready Prussia Attack

MOSCOW, Oct ID. (UP)-Three huge Red armies
backed by planes guns and warships sormed tire Ger
mans Baltic pocket from three sides Saturday in bid
for speedy liquidation of nearly 100000 trapped Germans
preparatory to a final assault on East Russia
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
SIussins yonks
Mop-up Last
Adchen Germans
Battle Through Barricadedl Streets
With Grenades and Machineguns;
Best of PanZer Divisions Moving I'm

UP)-American doughboys slugged slowly but steadily
with granades and machine guns through the street barr
cades of Aachen Saturday and by late morning had
pied szeable portion of the eastern half of the city
Lieutenant Colonel Derrill NJ Daniel of Geneva N. Y,
commander of the First army troops striking into Aachen
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
THIEF GETS CASH

Earl s. Hiler. sos State street.
reported to police Friday night that
his purse had been stolen from his
hotel room. The purse, he told Off
GERS, contained $75 in cash, tele-
phone company check for SOC, ra-
ton books and other papers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

Quickly exploiting their capture
of Riga. capital of Latvia and main
fortress in the pocket, the Second
and Third Baltic armies smashed
at the doomed enemy from the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15
WEATHER

Maximum Friday %, minimum Saturday 81; 5 am.
Saturday H. humidity ~; Saturday 80, hu-
mi6ity %; S pm. Friday 95, humidity IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-15

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Evening star., 1944-04-13

All / ii / VI III IL ]
visit on Justice
Frank Murphy,
her form e +
teacher of law
at Detroit Col
lege.
There are at
tendants here at
the court who
t ke group S
t hrou G h t h e
building" h e
] u S t / G e re-
marked. "They
always point out
all the salient
Evening star., 1944-04-13

features and enQ s"'er 'oacHa'
with the statement-'And one nun
has been admitted to the practice. "
"She was the first student OF the
class when 7 taught law at the De-
troit College of Law" he added.
Sister Joachim, who came to
Washington Monday to attend the
Catholic Association for Interna-
tional Peace at Trinity College, en-
tered the Dominican Order in 1928,
after IL years. practice before the
Detroit courts. including five years
of criminal law.
When interviewed in the office OF
Justice Murphy yesterday she was
reluctant to discuss the legal phases
of her duties with the order, saying:
Everything else is secondary to
the training of religious life. My Job
now is teaching college"
She did admit, however, that "I
take care of legal matters of the
community, such as probate and real
estate, whenever it is necessary"
Aside from teaching history, eco
nomics and political science at the
Sienna Heights College in Adrian,
Sister Joachim said she sometimes
lectures at st. Louis University on
the problems of medical records and
negligible liabilities of charitable in
stitutions and writes articles for
legal and medical publications.
Although she was admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court
in 1923, Sister Joachim has never
tried a case there. She points out
her life for the past 16 years has
been dedicated to her religious du-
ties as MN and teacher.
When admitted to the Michigan
bar in 1928, Sister Joachim was the
youngest woman lawyer in the
United States.
Evening star., 1944-04-13

Wanted: Waste kitchen fats to
make explosives for our guns! Save
yours. Take them to your meat
dealer.
Evening star., 1944-04-13
Only Nun Admitted
ToU.S. Supreme Court
Visits Justice Murphy

Sister M. Ann Joachim of Adrian,
Mich, the only nun ever admitted
to practice before the Supreme
Court, yesterday dropped in to pay