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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-09
Dutch Queen Thanks
British for Welcome

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (INS)-
Queen Wilhelmina of The Neither
lands, in a broadcast from Lon.
don. last night expressed heI
thanks for the welcome given heI
and her people in Britain.
"Still greater sufferings lay
I'm store for The Netherlands"
the queen said. II pray that
such an irrevocable catastrophe
might be averted, with a speedy
and conclusive victory of the
common cause over all Its
enemies"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-09

Sgt. Bird did in his six months
of combat. He has the Air Medal
and three Oak Leaf clusters for
other things, and two campaign
stars on his ribbon.
But he's no hero, he insists; just
another one of the boys.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-09
His 80 Missions
Prove HerOiSml

r SGT. Ira c Bird, 81, Of l47So
PetoSkey Will tell you he is no
hero. and II one insists on hearing
his story he will look uncomiort-
able and flush slightly.
OF two Of his exploits during
his six months and so missions
with the Fifteenth Air Force in
Italy as an cngineer-gunner on a
B-24 Libcrator, here's one:
Coming back from a Czecho-
Slovak target, the gas lines OF the
big ship were badly shot up. Gas
oline flooded the bomb-bay and
the rest of the fuSelage 3 inches
deep
STICK WITH SHIP
After an interphone conference,
the crew decided 10 stick with the
shin 10 see what Bird could do.
No one wanted TO bail out over
enemy territory.
SO all Sgt. Bird did was drain
the affected tank into another,
open the bomb-bay 10 get rid OF
the gasoline in the ship and then
spend the next long hours shifting
gasoline from one tank to another
and back again 10 keep all four
engines running,
The ship landed at its base with
minutes of fuel left. The DIE
came for that one.
Here's the other:
Sgt. Bird made five visits to the
PloeSti oil fields in Romanla. On
the last trip. the flax was heavy.
When the plane limped in lean
ing on the arm Of a miracle. the
crew started taking stock. They
stopped counting with the 36Oth
hole. The oxygen system, hydraulic
system. half the control cables,
half the instruments and one
engine had been shot out.
GUNNER Is KILLED
One waist gunner was wounded
so seriously he died a day later.
The co-pilot's foot was blown
nearly off and the right wing held
together by a whisper.
With the hydraulic system gone,
the plane had no brakes. Sgt.
Bird thought of the especially
short landing strip ahead and be-
gan to improvise.
He fastened a parachute TO the
tail gun mount and one to each
of the waist gun mounts and as
the planes wheels touched ground,
he pulled the ripcords.
BRAKES BILLOW OUT
Three improvised silken
brakes" beloved out. There was
tearing jolt. Two of the chutes
were torn loose, but the third
held.
The plane stopped just short OF
the end of the runway.
Those are Just two Of the things
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-09
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-09

MATERNITY FAsHIoNs-FIRsT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-29

Washington, Aug. 29-tNP) AT
}n.aeT General Bjddlc proposed to-
Gay That the Allied poV'c.E "urrlN
itC power Of the German monoarl}S-
Nc INNS because they constitute a
d'i41lle menace TO the future Qcac"
ol lJo Norld.'
Tc5tjtylng before a Senate Military
subcommittee inquiring into cartel
arrangements, Biddlc said the pun
pose Of breaking up the power OF
German m0npoolies would not be -
destroy German economic life, bt, TO
pun It's industries into a form where
thtN Will no longer constitute a "ien-
ace to the civilized world
AS long as they survive in tnclr
present FORM the attorney general
sad, 1T viii be exceedingly difficult
q develop independent industries II
.fIf"pe outside Of Germany
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-29
Bucharest
May Fall BY
" ed1lesday
~!'locsti l,cryiChs
Within l-sain View
OF Russian Armies

Moscow. Aug. % (.AP)
Swift Russian drives through
Eomanja approached the great
oil center oil t'IoeSti and Bucha-
rest today as one army poured
across 4 = mile stretch Of the
Danube and another hnifcd fir
teen miles inside hungarian
held Pennsylvania.
"I,uu4ar.an and German troops
~erc reported musajng la Trausyl-
Eaala. inc tG.G42 .qr.Irc-u.Ic section
of Ltamau.a which Hitler gaze t.
~IluHgaay IL 1910.
CIhr German radio SAID the
Russians had driven into Buzaru,
10 mites northeast 81 Ilocsti and
sjNty mile, from Bucharest. That
is a rail and road junction 80
nil"S west Oi Brai!la, the large
DaruGc pot, which tn Russians
captured last night
The entire Dan .sr delta Mas In
Russian band, and uo,ps @h1cb cross
"a 'He D4nlJUp 0s Il WIdc front were
racing tor tic H.tce Sea port vt
toHstauta and tnc road Lending IL
Bucharest 0en the cast and NORTH
cast.
The Eus5rsua captured - large fin
tina en- 'he Danube. and cact Houf
neW snll- aoro al.ltIn2 IN The Dan
lJbc and Bt9vE Sea coast behind Rus
Sian ljHee. GivIog 'te Rcd FLAG.
Alreads The rioesti oil fell
dcfricks. north Of the city, Wrre
in SIGHT ai Russian troops. Cos
seeks, taniS and motorized in
iantry on the plains before the
EHmanian capital ranged close to
the city of 6J0.0G0. feeling out
German resistance.
The WY va. vide open - Bucb3-
re Moscow .a|ccuIafcd that Sos'ct
forces would reach ,ho capital br
tome1+# lalo.t reports p'tcol.
'auh-I"G ..oaG.eaj- les tbau tIftr
mric9 3E1s.
"A tHsJn -.H. Of The .ccood III
1a1ne s.0as plunged through tho
Dr'GE Pas a' PeIona-Sar3'4. and
penetrated II. #IIe, ~jtGm northern
TransHl'anru. capturing Vccu ant
hurting baa. H.tn Gorman apd IIuq-
GHfIsu troops.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-29
Armies Near
Belgian And
German Soil
First World War
BattIciields Are
Reached in Drive


supreme tinati4ija#lefa, AlIl"t
ENptGItI0MurN Force. hlg. 20
IAPl-Am4rir.n 4rn41r -4cIur
t,r..,.l ta.. 1,.. 49,.
-
! '"l' l' I'i'td'tt ana itdHNtl}A
the NdZI~ rocket bomb coast pc
9ltlUH-, >urgCQ across the Narmr
# two n}acp@ TODAY nush-
t.. H.. ,,, ..r.t,., - EL.
NJ NJ 40 [''".'''''
''''ii% anu '''0t''E N'I' wen man
escape gap across northern
France to IS miles.
one -paaracaa plunged II. maro.
northeast Of AIg4aN =. Cr.ergror.
These G.ltco S,1's, fe#sa -#euv ,rrrr-
were Hlfrln 70. ,-.le- 9l tho Frfn.t
yf C4upGguc. u.cro the ..r.' VIOLA.
Va. anmI-,ase wa. signed. and ..ar.s
forced .i. 'vrl.. .n F.,r-.
.H 1870 THE. .~'.atug.r Al,ue rI.r
Was is mics mort. .t fr... Auu.I ~.r
The arrarG arr.lra s. ,ar. ~ ,
occurred ten n.Ir- cast of Tcau.
The whole 85-mIlc third arm.
assault are east of Paris ~,
swinging north to within 20 mile
of Ipcrnay and Njtry-thc hacE
door to Verdun-and was -
miie> away from Rclms. 1t Va
a mep-up on a >vceping >cale
acr"Ss the Scared battlcfIeIGs Of
sanr thirty years ago.
A Reuters dispatch tfoo the. army
NcadQaaIterI said Ea1a~ H4d boon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Mew. 0st,oite.s-

TERRAIN ROMA SHIFFMAN born Oct. IS to Mr.. and
Mrs Joseph d. Shifman (Florence Sommers
THEODORE NICHOLAS TOWNSEND born Oct %
Ensign and Mrs Harlan L. Townsend Eleanor Purman)
LINDA MARIE BENNETT q. . born Oct. 20 to Mr.. and
Mrs. Navarro Bennett Sylvia Schappacasse).
JOHN CHRISTOPHER NAGLE . . born Oct 20 to Mr.
and Mrs. Patrick j. Nage Betty Kuhnein).
FREDERICK MERRILL ADAMS JR. born Nov. l to
Or. and Mrs. F. M, Adams Louise Carpenter.
LYNNE ELLEN LARSON born Nov. 3 to Cpl. and
Mrs. Louis o. Larson GLADYS B. Rolf.
GILL ANN ROCKENBACH born Nov. to Mr.. and
Hrs. Lyle ]. Rockenbach Barbara BOOTH.
DONALD J. CAREY JR. born Nov 5 to Woman 1Ic
nd Mrs. Donald j. Carey Nancy Baker,.
SHELDON SHAFFER . . . born Nov to Mr. and Mrs.
David Shafer (Helene Adele Linkner).
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
MaryOrant Society
To Hold Bazaar

MARY GRANT, SOCIETY of
Detroit will sponsor a benefit
bridge luncheon and bazaar at
1890 p. m. Nov. u in the
Women's Guild in the Metropol-
itan Bldg. in John r. street.
Proceeds will be used for the
Crippled Children's S U m m e r
Camp Reservations are being
taken by Mrs. William Rutledge
and Mrs. Harold Guittard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Marine Aux. TO Meet

DETROIT UNIT NO. / of
the Marine Corps League Aux
Hilary will meet al 100 p. m.
Tuesday In the Veterans Bldg.
in East jefferson avenue. 10
pack boxes for Servieemen A
membership tea will follow
The business session will be at
100 d. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Author TO Speak
Al Jewish Center

JEWISH COM NIT Y
CENTER will present program
AT 3 p m. this Sunday in the
auditorium featuring Irving
Deakin. dance critic. author and
lecturer. whose topic will be
The Dance of Today"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Plan Church
Bazaar Soon

THE annual Christmas bazaar
Il of ST. Paul's Episcopal
Cathedral. Woodward and Han
cock, will be held Nov. 10, be-
ginning at ii a. m.
Luncheon will be served from
noon to 2 p. m. The luncheon
is bazaar donation by Mrs.
William Aston. A turkey dinner
will be served from $50 TO 7:30
p. m. There will be II tables
Of various articles, including
children's clothes and hand
knits, jewelry, books and art
objects.
Mrs. A. Frederick Stryker.
general chairman. has named
as her committee Mrs. John W.
Purvjs, bazaar treasurer, and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Circle Site Changed

GOOD WILL CIRCLE OF
THE KINGS DAUGHTERS
AND SONS will meet Thursday
in the home in Pierson road,
instead OF in the church house
as originally planned.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Letters. lnc.. Tea
Set for Next Week

LETTERS. INC, will hold a
membership tea at 3 p. m. next
Sunday at the home of Mary
Helen Waldman, Promenade
avenue. The officers named for
the coming year are: Miss
Waldman. president: Mary Shu-
bitowski. vice president: Mar
garet Muc a. corresponding
secretary. and Rita Kaye,
treasurer. /l
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12
Ends Detroit Visit

MRS. PERCIVAL DGE
will depart for her home In New
York this week, after a brief
visit here with her mother,
Mrs. John w. Dyer of Dyar
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24

CLEVELAND, Nov. "a.
(UP) - Long distance tele-
phone service was fully re-
stored in 20 Ohio communit-
les and key cities of the east
and midwest Friday after an
eleventh hour union decision
w hi c h forestalled govern
ment seizure of struck facil-
tiles.
The break in the seven-day Ohio
work stoppage came suddenly in
Washington Thursday night. Presi-
dent Robert Pollock of the strike
originating Ohio Federation of Tel
ephone Workers announced uneX-
pectedly to the War Labor Board
that he and other union officers
involved were convinced" that the
board would make fair and equit-
able" settlement of strike issues.
Pollock Immediately ordered men,
bers of his Ohio union to go back to
work and other officials called off
sympathy" strikes which had
spread to Washington and Detroit.
The spreading strike, spanked by
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
Fault in Plane
Caused Death
OF Six in Crash

SAN DIEGO, Nov. "a. CUP)-The
crash OF Liberator bomber We'd
nesday that cost the lives of six
civilian fliers was caused by an al
most complete lack of belts holding
on the left wing, and four employees
have been discharged for their neg
lect, 1. M. Laddon, executive vice
president of Consolidated Vultee
Aircraft corporation, disclosed Fri
day.
Laddon said an investigation OF
the crash showed no signs of sabot-
age and no other planes showed any
lack of bolts. He said the plane was
on its first flight.
THE crash was caused by hui
man error and certainly should
never have occurred" Laddon said.
"Of approximately 10000 first flights
made here by Convair, this Is the
first fatal acciGent."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24

establish a beachhead on the east
bank of the Roer river, the new
German last-ditch defense line be-
fore Cologne, had been smashed.
The Germans also said French
forces had attempted to take the
Rhine bridges al Strasbourg by
storm, but had failed. The broad
cast indicated that the French may
have driven through the city to
the west bang of the Rhine.
General Jacques Leclerc, liberator
of Paris and hero of the North
African deserts, stormed into Stras-
bourg with his Second armored
division just before noon yesterday
after splitting the German front in
eastern France with 20-mile dash
across the Alsatia plains.
conger, United Press
war correspondent with the Sixth
army group, reported that street
battles ragged throughout the night
around the famed Twelfth Century
Strasbourg Cathedral in the heart
of the city.
Some 30 miles to the northwest,
Lieutenant General George S. Pat
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
Arrest Interrupts
Honeymoon Of
HoItvjIIe CoupIe .

Honeymoon of couple from Holt
vile was halted in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Friday when police there ar
rested them at the request of the
girls parents.
GecIge Vermilyea, IL. and Lorene
C. Booze, 16, we're married in Bea :
YER, Utah, 100 mil : south of Salt
Lake City They disappeared from
Holtville several days ago. Vermil-
yea was charged with contributing
to the delinquency of a minor and
the girl was listed as runaway.
Imperial county officials instruct
ed Salt Lake officers to release the
couple as it was believed there was
nc means of holding them since
they have married.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
Bond
Sales
Mount
Week. S Campaign
Sees $272.98o
Sold in County

Six Imperial county COM
munities reported total war
bond sales of 1912 $50 as of
Thursday evening, it was an
nounced Friday by the coun-
ty Sixth War Loan commit
tee.
The report follows:
Brawley. S107, 7,112.50; Ell
Centro, $93,O12.50: HOltville,
S35 ,373.75; Calexico, s25,7OO; West
morland $780, and Imperial, $4,-
1925.
One proposal for stimulating war
bond purchases, emanating from
Herb FaWcett, chairman of the
county war bond committee, Woulc
call for the remaining of Main street
as the high spot in big downtown
bond rally in Ell Centre.
ION TO BERLIN, TOKYO"
Fawcett would divide Main street
into two parts, from Sixth street,
name the eastern arm the Road to
Berlin" the western arm the Road
to Tokyo"
Such a downtown rally is con-
templated, but has not been schec =
lled as to date, and has not thus
far been planned as to details.
Meanwhile, schools throughoutthe
county, which have been participat-
ing in the nation wide Name Your
Weapon" war bond sales campaign,
according to Mrs. Florence c. Fin
ney, chairman, county schools at
war committee. are taking advant-
age of the Sixth War Loan crive to
increase their sales.
Under the Name Your Weapon
project, school selects a given
type of equipment required by the
armed forces, proceeds to sell suf-
ficient bonds to pay for it. When
the equipment is purchased, a panel
recognizing the school, is attached
to it.
The Bard elementary school has
Continued on page 2, COL -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
100 Superforts
Rake City From
Base on Sal pan
Planes Fly 1900 Miles to Find
Targets in Homeland Capital;
Nips Admit Bombs Wreak Damaoe
. By FRED SCHERFF -

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a (UP)-One hundred or more
offensive to soften Japan for INVASION bombed Tokyo by
daylight Friday and the admitted factories and
other important installations had been damaged
Roaring out from Saipan in the Marianas 1850 miles
to the southeast the giant four-engned bombers swept
over Tokyo at III pm Thursday, EWT) give the
tery Japanese capital its first of American bombs
since the historic April 49, 1912 raid by Lieutenant Cen
era James H. Doolittle's fers.
Ickyc Admits Damage to Factories
Four hours later Tokyo belatedy admitted the raid and
backed i into admissions of what it sought imply was
Small fires caused Tokyo broadcasts added but
ony among civilian homes and hospitals and all
Tokyo said the bombars attacking 10 or more proups
were over the city for two hours
The attack the first Tokyo by and-based aircraft
was announced by General H. H. Arnold, commander of
the army air forces and chief of the globa
The battle for Japan has been joined Arnold said in
special report to President Roosevelt "his operation
is IN no sense htand-run raid. 1t is calculated extern
sion of air No part of the Japanese empire is
now out OF our range war factory too remote to feel
win Coordinate With China Bases
The Saipan based B-29's, working under the newly
formed 21st bomber command Arnold said will coordi-
nate their operations with those of the goth
bomber command whose B29s have already carried out
II missions against japanese targets.
The systematic demolition of Japan's production
be carried out with decisive vgor softening the Japan
heart for the ultimate invasion by combined United
Nations land and air forces, Arnold told Mr. Roose
Welt.
Arnold did not disclose the exact number of B-29s in
the attacking force saying only that it sizeabe-a
term that in the past has meant 100
Neither did he identify the exact targets although
Tokyo the site of of the most vital Japanese war
waiima shpyards the Mitsubshi heavy industries and
arpane and ammunition factories. oil reflner-
les and machine tool electrical radio and precision nstru
ment works.
The attack Tokyo just "a hours after Japan
had observed it's Thanksgiving day-he Mnamat festival
in which Emperor Hiroho had offered newly harvested
grain to his gods Even the festival the
Japanese witnessed harbinger of things when
single B-29, according to Tokyo reports, flew the
Nagoya some 275 miles west-southwes of Tokyo.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
Absentee Ballot
Count Starts
In E. {. SATURDAY.

A special absentee vote canvas
sing board of five members Satur-
day will begin the official count OF
653 ceivicemen's and 40 civilian
absentee ballots received in Impe-
rial county, County Clerk W.. Nc
Clelland announced Friday.
1t is estimated that 100000 serv-
icemen's ballots we're received ir
California from servicemen who
at the November presidential elec-
ton.
Imperial county's five supervisors
each appointed one person from
his district to serve on the absentee
vote canvassing board
The mailed ballots are expected
to be decisive in cnly two contests
in the state in the 4th congress
sional district where Frank Haven
ner, Democrat, held slight lead
over Representative Thomas Rolph,
(RD, in the regular count, and in
the 33rd assembly district where
Fred Emblay, Democrat, was lead
ing Lloyd Tiernan, Republican.
Secretary of State Frank M. Jor-
dan disclosed that 1929 federal
ballots were received from service
men, while applications for state
ballots were received from 283,767
service men. No count was available
on the number of state ballots voted
and returned.
The count on the delayed ballots
will take from few hours in small
counties to an estimated two weeks
in Les Angeles county. Official
state-wid totals for the election are
scheduled TO be announced by the
secretary of state on December 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
Americans Seize
Key Points in
leyte Offensive

ALLIED HEAD QUARTER ERS,
Philippines, Nov. "a CUP)-Ameri-
can tanks and infantry neared the
rolling Ormoc plain Friday after
capturing the japanese onghold
of Limon and plunging on across
the Leyte river bridge 800 yards to
the south.
"a Japanese communique said
japanese planes sank two transports
and a cruiser or destroyer and dam
aged an aircl aft carrier in attacks
Tuesday through Thursday on an
American naval force east of Min
danao island. Five Japanese planes
we're lost, it said. The communique
also claimed that two additional
unidentified warships had been
found to have been damaged east
of Luzon last SundayD
Destruction CT the crack japanese
First division, one of the best in
the enemy army, virtually was COM
pleted in the advance, which carried
through rugged hills to within 10
miles of Ormoc itrelf.
Control CT the bridge over the
Leyte river PIT the American 32nd
division il position tc launch an
attack over easier ridges, but
sWamps on either side of the road
were expected to hamper the ad-
vance somewhat.
General Douglas Macarthur re-
ported in his daily communique that
the enemy suffered terrific losses"
from American artillery and supe-
rior infantry fire power in his bitter
defense CT Limon, northern anchor
of the YamaShita line.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
President Sees
Lend-L End

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a. CUP) -
President Roosevelt told congress
Friday that lend-lease and reverse
lend-lease should end with the
war" but that the United Nations
partnership" must continue and
grow stronger to assure an enduring
peace.
The President said in his seven
teenth report on lend-lease opera
tions that the Allied system of COM
bined supply must be replaced after
the war by "a permanent and
stronger united nations" capable OF
quelling aggression, building eco
nomic foundations for prosperity and
furthering civilized progress.
The report, devoted solely to re-
verse lend-lease provided to the
United States by the British COM
monwealth of nations said Britain
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24

and her dominions had furnished
$3,348, ,127,0O0 in services and sup
plies to this country in the two
years ended June 30.
Mr.. Roosevelts report was made
public a few hours after the British
government issued a white paper
reporting that the United Kingdom
had provided American forces with
sG,437 ,062 900 in reverse lend lease.
The President noted that an addi-
tional $9ll ,065 900 had been pro-
vided by Australia, New Zealand,
and India.
U. S. lend-lease shipments and
transfers to the British empire dur
ing the same period totalled more
than $lO,5OCO, 100000 while another
Sl8 ,500.000,000 was channeled to
other United Nations, according to
lend-leaSe records.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-24
Russians Clear
Esthonia of
German Forces

LONDON, Nov. "a. (UP) -
Premier Josef Stain announced
Friday that the Red army had
completed the liberation of So
Wet Estonia by crushing the last
German resistance on the Island
of Saare (OseD off the west
coast of that Daltic state.
The island, largest of a group OF
three in the Baltic off Estonia
virtually blockades the entrance tC
the gulf O. Riga. Its southern tiL
is only 20 miles from northwestern
Latvia.
LONDON. Nov. "a. (UP) - Rec
army troops were reported storming
CSepel island in the Danube in the
southern edge of Budapest Friday
while other Soviet forces hooked
down across the southeastern cor
ner of Slovakia in a fast-breaking
offensive that threatened to rol
up the shaken German flank ir
Hungary.
FIGHTING RACES
Berlin and Moscow agreed that
furious fighting was raging on the
immediate eastern approaches tc
Budapest and at a half dozen key
points on the long battlefront eX-
tending ITO miles northeast of the
capital into Slovakia.
But the Russians early morning
communique remained silent on a
Berline announcement that Red
army troops had landed in force
on Csepel, 30-mile long island
formed by two arms of the Danube
extending almost into the heart OF
Budapest
FOG HIDES ADVANCE
A German DNB news agency COM
mentator said powerful Soviet units
battled their way onto Csepel under
cover of heavy fog early yester-
day morning, cementing solid
siege arc around the western, south
ern and eastern approaches to the
city.
The Nazi admission indicated that
the battle for Budapest was enter
ing its final phase.