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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Court UntangIes
Marta! Tanq|e

When domestic tangle was un-
snarled in superior court the official
record showed that William O.
Everett had been granted a divorce
from Helen Louise Everett and Der
ward E. Archer an annulment of his
marriage TO the same woman.
During the progress of the case
in Judge Elmer Heald's court room
it developed THAT Helen Louise
Everett had left Everett, a civilian
with their three children and gone
away from their home.
Later on, it developed, she had
married Archer, marine, without
going through the formality of a
divorce. The two men were in court
to get the tangle Strengthened out
and testify for each other. Archer
sead he had no idea that the wo-
man had not been divorced.
AS soon as Archer found that out
he hunted up Everett. The two men
and the twice-married-b -but-never-
divorced woman consulted an at
torney. The attorney arranged the
legal proceedings.
The woman signed away her
children and they were left in
custody of Everett, court records
showed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Madrid Reports
kazi Leaders
Flee vichy, Paris

LONDON, Aug. 16 CUP) Madrid
dispatches said Wednesday that the
Germans have ordered all their
command posts except those direct
ing rear guard resistance and de-
struction squads to evacuate Paris
Immediately.
Other frontier reports reaching
Madrid asserted occupation au-
thoritieS had ordered adminiStra-
tive departments of the French
puppet government at both Paris
and Vichy to leave for the east as
soon as possible.
The reports followed by only a
few hours the Allied invasion of
southern France and coincided with
the growing threat from the Allied
armies advancing on the French
capital from the west.
TRAITORS IN HIDING
Madrid also heard that key
French collaborationists in Paris
either had gone into hiding or had
fled the capital Sporadic clashes
b G Ween collabOratiOnists an d
FRI nch patriots have broken out,
it was said.
Partisan women were represented
as particularly aggressive in demon
strations against the Germans,
shouting insults at soldiers, singing
the "Marsillaise" and cheering Gen.
jacques lie Clerc, commander of
the French Second armored divi-
sion fighting with the American
Third army in Normandy and Brit
tany.
Disruption of public services in
Paris has become so acute that one
French family had to pay $500 for
a simple funeral after three days
of negotiations, Madrid dispatches
said.
BADLY FRIGHTENED
Emilenne Mcreau. heroine of
Loos" in the last war, told newsmen
on her arrival here after escaping
from France that the Germans in
Continued on Pg. 6, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Germans Launch
About Drive
To BaIk Soviets

MOSCOW, Aug. Is. CUP)-The
Germans, admittedly seizing the
initiative, hurled >their largest forces
of the summer campaign against
the Red army before Warsaw and
East Prussia Wednesday in a des-
perate effort to stabilize the east
ern front whatever the cost.
The Soviet high commands COM
munique Tuesday midnight spoke
! of German attacks" rather than
"counter-attacks for the first time
| since the start of the Russian sum-
mer offensive June % and conceded
that the Nazi forces had wedged
their lines temporarily.
ALL-OUT ATTEMPT
Keeling under crushing blows
from both the east and west, the
Wehrmacht appeared committed to
an all-out attempt to plug the holes
on the Russian front to prevent
Soviet armies from breaking through
to Germany while glo-American
forces were engulfing Germ a n
troops in France.
Both north and south of the War
saw-East Prussian fronts, however,
the Russians gained new ground.
General Ivan I. Maslennikov's Third
Baltic army struck three miles far
ther into the flank of the German
pocket of nearly 100000 men on the
Baltic coast with the capture of
Anne, ID miles west of the railway
junction of Valga on the Estonian-
Latvian frontier and rs miles from
the Baltic.
Kassi, II miles northeast of VAL
ga and nine miles from the Riga
Tallinn railway, and Mustaja. 20
miles south of Tartu, also were
seized by Maslennikov's men.
GAIN ON VISTULA
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
'Ukrainian army occupied several
unidentified villages in enlarging its
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

Plans ,
Baked
Big Guns Heard
In Paris as
Allies Advance

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AEF, Aug. 16. (UP)
Allied armies struck from
all sides into what remained
of the German seventh army
in the Normandy pocket
Wednesday, killing or cap
turing thousands of fleeing
troops, while Berlin reports
said American armored col
umns were striking eastward
in a new drive toward Char
tres, DC miles from Paris.
The London Evening News
quoted reports from the con-
tinent as saying that the dis
tant roar of heavy artillery
could be heard by the people
of Paris Wednesday.
Shaken by the incessant
pounding of Allied planes
and shellfire, the broken rem
nants of Field Marshal Won
Kluge's IL divisions were
splitting up into small bands
in a franctic attempt to es-
cape through the ring of guns
and armor Tightening around
them.
The Canadian first army fought
its way into the outskirts of Falaise,
narrowing the mai neastern escape
corridor to six miles or less, and
front reports indicated that the
Germans were trying to break out
over seconc ary roads and sneak
through the hedgerows to safety.
MORE PRISONERS
Rowing Allied armored patrols
raced along the perimeter of the
pocket, plugging the loopholes in
their trap and slaughtering hun
dreds of the fleeing enemy. More
than 4400 others were rounded up
and shunted back to prisoner-of-
war stockades during the past 80
hours, some 5000 falling prisoners
to the Canadians and 1400 to the
Americans.
United Press war correspondent
Robert C. Miller, with the American
third army near Argentan, reported
in delayed dispatch that the
slaughter of Won Kluges army was
in full swing Tuesday night.
Many of the Germans, he said,
were tricked by their own COM
manders into believing that the way
to the east was open.
1T is when they try to find this
gap that we either kill or capture
them,' Miller reported
His dispatch said the Germans
were surrendering in small groups
of five to so men.
Several thousand prisoners already
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

LONDON, Aug. 16. (UP)
More than 1000 American
heavy bombers escorted by
fighter planes in about the
same strength, attacked aircraft and
engine factories, oil rcfineries, and
airdromes in Germany Wednesday.
AS the u. S. second tactical air
force reported the new assaults on
the 5th consecutive day of the heavy
Allied aerial offensive against Ger
many and German-cortrolled areas,
the Nazis reported other formations,
possibly based in Italy, were over
Bavaria
Although the weather continued
comparatively favorable for aerial
operations, it was not equal to that
of the last few days in which the
Allies hammered the Germans from
the two invasion areas of France
to their home territory.
Following up Tuesdays big opera
tions, which comprised 1000 often
sive sorties excluding routine pa
trols, Mosquitoes of the RAF bomber
command made another harrassing
attack on Berlin Tuesday night,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Machinists Defy
VINO Threats
In Overtime Row

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. -l6..
fUPl-The navy "Wednesday cam
Celled draft dcfermefits, supple
mental gasoline rati0ns and i'm
posed a war nianpOwer cOmmiss-
ion blacklisting upon AF'L machin-
lists who refused to obey over
time work orders at machine shops
seized by the government under
nexccutivc order signed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. CUP)
AFL machinists, almost unanimous
ly, Wednesday refused to obey navy
overtime work orders at four gov
ernment-seized machine shops de-
spite threatened cancellation of
their selective service occupational
deferments and blacklisting by the
war manpower commission.
Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen,
special assistant to Secretary of
Navy James Forrestal, announced
the following results of check up
at five plants taken over by the
navy on an executive order issued
by President Roosevelt:
Pacific Gear and Tool works
None of the machinists obeyed the
overtime schedule calling for OPEN
ing at one-half hour earlier"
Link Belt company: Tuesday
night the Welders, but not the ma
chinistS. worked to the scheduled
closing time on an overtime basis
Wednosda morning none of the
machinists appeared at the sched-
uled opening hour on the overtime
basis"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
-Four FIiers Die
In Collision

GARDNER FIELD. Cal, Aug. IT,
CUP)-The mid-air collision of two
training planes 20 miles southwest
of Bakersfield Tuesday took the
lives of four army airmen. Lieuten-
ant Colonel H. j. Betchel, COM
manding officer, announced We'd
neSday.
The dead we're: Aviation Cadet
Courtney G.. Taylor, 10, of Ridge
way, Michigan; Second Lieutenant
David w. Gemmill, 81, Salt Lake
City. Utah; Instructor Dick L.
Erickson, 23 of Mount Pleasant,
Utah, and Instructor Stephen J.
Ginter Jr., "a, Franklin, New Jer-
sey.
The two instructors ranks were
not reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Capt. Henderson !.
Returns From
Duties in Africa

Captain Randall Henderson is in
Imperial Valley after serving over
seas with the United States army 18
months.
His ome-coming was saddened
by the recent announcement that
his son, Corporal Randall Hender-
son Jr., 90, had been killed in action
in the Pacific war theater where he
was serving with the marines.
Captain Henderson has a 21-day
leave. He left CaSablanca August
3 and spent short time in Wash
ingtCn, d. c., before coming on
west. He has been reassigned to a
Pacific coast station where he will
go at the close of his leave. Here
after he expects to be able to spend
more time in Imperial Valley.
SERVED IN AFRICA
During his 18 months overseas
Captain Henderson was in Africa.
When he left for that area he flew
via the southern route and on his
return to the United States travelled
by air ever the northern route.
In Africa he had a chance to ex-
pand his desert explorations to the
Sahara and to compare the African
desert with the deserts in the Unit
ed States, especially with Imperial
Valley, where he has spent most of
his life For six months he was
commanding officer at small
transport station on the desert
more than 400 miles from his near
est "neighbCr.'
The usual period a commanding
officer spends at this station is
three months. Henderson asked for
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
French
Start
Drives
Uprising Ge+s
Under Way;
Artillery Used

BERN, Switzerland, Aug.
16. (UP)-Reports from the
Franco Swiss frontier said
the French underground be-
gan a general uprising in the Haute-
Sovoie department of southeastern
France at a. m. Wednesday and
captured at least two German-held
towns within the last four hours.
Srtong forces of Maquis were re-
ported to have opened simultaneous
attacks on number of Nazi garri-
sons in Haute-Savoie, using heavy
artillery which they apparently had
been massing secretly for some time.
ST. Julien, near the Swiss border,
and Cruseilles, were said to have
fallen into the hands of the Maquis
at 8 a. m.
The uprising was timed to COIN
eide with the new Allied invasion
drive into southern France, less than
200 miles south of the Haute-
Savoie.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

George states rights bill.
The campaign was launched by
Representative Emanuel Celler, Cd
New York, as both house and senate
moved ahead with work on diff
ferent phases of the rehabilitation
reconversion problem.
SURPLUS DISPOSAL BILL
In the house, members begas1
the second and last scheduled day
of debate on the Colmer bill tC
create machinery for dispoSing ol
SIS 600, 100000 of surplus war pro-
perty while the ways and means
committee continued consideration
of the George unemployment COM
pensation plan. War Mobilization
Director James F. Byrnes was
scheduled to discuss it at a closed
meeting with the group.
In the senate, military affairs
subcommittee continued hearings
on another surplus property bill
with Secretary of Interior Harold
Maverick of the smaller war plants
corporation as witnesses.
Celler, author of a house bill
similar to the senate-rej jected Muir
ray-Kilgore bill providing federal
unemployment compensation up to
$35 weekly, announced that he in
tended to invite about so liberal
minded" members to a conference
Thursday to mobilize support for
his measure.
Celler emphasized, however, that
if the committee reported out the
George bill he would offer his meas
Continued on Pg 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Truman, Roosevelt
10 Map Campaign

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. CUP)-
Senator Harry S. Truman, President
RooSevelts fOurth-term running
mate who probably will carry the
brunt of the party's national CAM
paigning, hoped Wednesday that he
could limit the job to a half-dozen
major speeches.
The strategy for the Democratic
campaign is expected to be worked
out by Truman and Mr.. Roosevelt
at a meeting either Thursday or
Friday 1t will be their first confer
ence since they were nominated by
the Democratic national convention
at Chicago last month.
In the interim, Truman, as the
vice pre- sidential nominee, has been
working out his own ideas in con-
junction with Democratic National
Committee Chairman Robert E..
Hannegan. His proposals will be
subject, of course, to the approval
of Mr.. Roosevelt as titular head of
the Democratic party as well as its
master political Strategist.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
p AMBL!Ne
EpoRTER

Comfort i'm Reverse
"This is a terrible day." puffed
Bill Clements as he charged around
his downtown emporium Tuesday
morning, ITS like an oven in here
The day wore on and on
Il declare" said Clements weak
ly, Il never saw this store SO hot
Lets go fishing" someone sug
gested.
'"I might as WELL" agreed Glenn
ents, "the cooling system in here
is in terrible shape"
He was right. That morning
someone had turned on the heater
and it ran all day.
Let's See Now
In her best Secretarial voice Mrs
Tom F'inney telephoned her hus-
band in the employment office and
told him her boss E. l.. Hiteman
would be down at the employment
office at 8 am. to confer with him
about something.
Fine" Finney doomed, I'm ex-
pecting Hugh Osborne at the same
time and we'll wait until Lee gets
here"
Osborne arrived on time and he
and Finney awaited the appear
ance of Hiteman. Fifteen minutes
passed. Half an hour. Forty-five
minutes. An hour
when in the devil are you COM
ing to my Officer" F'inney tele-
phoned Hiteman.
why should I come to your Of
fice?' Hiteman asked.
Questions flew back and forth
Continued on Pg 6. Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Chinese Attack
Burma Citadel

CHUNGKING, Aug. Is. CUP)-
Chinese troops stormed the impor-
tant city of Tengchung on the Sal
ween front near the Burma China
border Monday and were reported
to be fighting in the ruins of the
former British consulate, a COM
munique disclosed Wednesday.
cThe communique gave no indi-
cation of what the status of the
city had been since Monday
The Chinese repeatedly made sew
eral large-scale attacks on the
walled Japanese-held bastion after
having repulSed enemy onslaughtS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Power District
To Pay Sales
Tax in Arizona

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. Is. CUP)--
The ella Valley Water Power dis
trict Wednesday agreed to pay
sales taxes on its power sales after
a hearing before the Arizona state
tax commission.
Chairman Thad M. Moore said
steps would be taken Immediately
TO collect the tax from other irri-
cation and power districts.
Moore said the Gila Valley dis
trict would be audited to determine
how much is due the state retro
active TO 1885, and that similar au-
dts would be made of other dis
tricts, including the Salt River VAL
ley Water Users association.
Districts have not paid the sales
tax since 1885, although, municipal
tiles had been required to pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Argentine Gold
Tied Up in u. s.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. CUP -
The United States, in another stern
move to display its concern over
policies of the present Argentine
government has temporarily frozen
Argentine gold stocks in this coun-
try, it was learned Wednesday.
The action was disclosed by we'll
informed persons just three weeks
after Secretary of State Cordell
Hull. in a sharply worded statement
charged that Argentina had violated
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
japan Army Stoff Boasts
Of Victory Battle Plan

tegy: I'm the Pacific, Japanese
strategy involves drawing the enemy
as close as possible. whereas In
China, it is positively OF am often
Sive character"
Undermining Nogai's statement OF
strategy, Tokyo broadcast Domei
Manila dispatch reporting that a
civilian defense drill was held In
Manila Tuesday TO help the city
prepare TO meet any emergency"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced Halmahera, biggest Japan
ese base on his route TO the SOUTH
ern Philippines, had been "neu-
tralized. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

ans future military strategy to
military attaches of East Asiatic
powers" at an interview in general
army staff headquarters in Tokyo
Wednesday night (Japan time).
Nogai first acknowledged that
Japans air power sis only roughly
one third that of the enemy"
Despite this inferiority, we have
absolute confidence in our victory.
Inc decisive battle for victory un-
ocuptedly will be fought on the
arc linking Japan and the Philip
pine Islands. For here, Japan will
nave undisputed control of the air. 4"
Nogai summarized Japanese stra-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

AS night approached, the tempo
of the fighting increased, the com.
munique said.
Chinese also attacked two heav-
lily fortified hill positions dominat-
ing the approaches to Lungling,
Burma road city 80 miles south of
Tengchung. Infantrymen ma d e
their attack after the Japanese po-
citions had been softened by an in
tense artillery barrage and bomb
ing by the 14th American Air
Force.
Sankuanpo. one mile from Lung
ling, was the focal point of another
Chinese thrust.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
PLEADS GUILTY
AND is FINED

Guy Hudiburg, head of the Pacif-
ic Freight Lines In Imperial county,
Tuesday was fined $3.50 in Ell Centre
justice court after he pleaded guilty
to petty theft of mems and womens
wearing apparel in charge of the
company. .4
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
BY UNITED PRESS

Japan plans to light a de
cisive battle for victory
along the arc linking Japan
with the Philippines where a
grand scale American offensive
eventually will be aimed and where
the imperial air torce will have
undisputed control of the air" Col.
Yasuji Nogai, spokesman for the
general army staff, said WedneS-
day.
Tokyo radio, in broaCcast re-
corded by United Pres, San Fran
cisco, said Col. Nogai outlined Jap
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

her pledges for aiding hemisphere
defense by giving affirmative as
sistance to the Axis.
Argentina and many other Latin
American countries are known to
have considerabl gold stocks in this
country, much of it resulting from
favorable trade balances created by
heavy wartime buying in their
countries by the United States. Most
governments, however have left
the gold in United States vaults.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
/unk BomberS Smash Nuzi
Refineries, Plane Plants

ern Germany, Belgium and Holland.
An air expert summing up the
mighty strike in which 5000 tons
of explosives were dropped during
90 minutes, said the blow would go
down in history as the "Luftwaffe's
unhappy day."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
Congress Studies
Peace Set-ups

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. CUP) -
A drive was opened in the house
Wednesday to rally liberal mind
ed" members behind rehabilitation
legislation offering more generous
unemployment compensation pay
m ent IS that the senate approved
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

dropping two-ton blockbusters with
out loss.
The widespread assaults were
capped by a concentrated blow of
1900 four-engined bombers and
nearly 1000 fighters against 81 key
German air force stations in west
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 109. minimum
Wed. 76; 5 am. Wed. 78. humidity
68; Noon Wed. 101, humidity 81:
5 pm. Tuesday 104, humidity So.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-16

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AEF, Aug. 16. (UP)
Allied armies struck from
all sides into what remained
of the German seventh army
i
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Deatb Hotites

CAMPBELL-Aug. 10. William G. Of
Toledo, o.. beloved husband OF Edna
MCGEE Campbell. dear father ~
suzanne and William Jr.. dear
brother of Alex r Kenneth A. and
Mrs. Evelyn Widger. Funeral serv
ices Monday 81 p. m. At A n
Peters Funeral Home, l2057 Gratiot
CHAPMAN - suddenly Aug. /, 1t.
Edward Jack. son OF Ernest ID. and
Elsie brother OF Mrs. Raymond
Drouillard, Edna, Clara Mae ana Ro-
berta Jean. Services At VIM. sullivan
a Son Funeral Home T05 w First
ST.. Royal Oak. Monday Al ? 30 p. m
COOLS-A Alma Of 1927 Concord. be
loved wife ~ the late isidor, dear
mother OF Henry and Homer, dear
sister ~ Mrs. Elias Renter Of Du-
luth, MINI. Mrs. Victor Faes and
Funeral from the Van Lerberghs
Funeral Home. 1890 East Warren.
corner LAkeview. Monday morning a.
2 80 and Our Lady OF Sorrows
Church a. TO- Rosary Sunday eve
ming at s. Interment Nj. Olivet.
Member THIRD order ST Francis
CRICHTON-Aug. 10. John OF 37l5
Mt. Elliott. Beloved husband of
Clara Measel Crichton, brother Of
Lawson. Clarence. Mrs George Buck
,-AEsr-I.--Ess4s -GES--Geaxgf
Cooper md AFs-Jshn Ralston.
Funeral Monday, ! p. m, at A II.
Peters Funeral Home, l2O57 Gratiot.
KOLLINGER-Cath died Aug
10. Beloved wife OF Joseph. Funera
from chapel OF Leo J. Miller, 9221
Jos, Campau, Monday at p. m.
kOLOsICK-Aug. 10, Anna Of l7eO'
Roseville Blvd. Rosevllle. Mich. WIFE
OF the late Albert. dear mother OF
Mrs Evelyn Ubelhoef.- grandmother
OF ave grandchildren. Funeral servic,
Monday. 2 2. m. AZ A. n. Peters
Funeral Home l2057 Gratiot. De
ceased Was member OF Washington
Ladies Aid
LICHTWARDT-Aug. 10. Herman OF
1880 Jos. Campau. Husband OF th'
late Elizabeth. dear father OF AlfreC
and Bertha, grandfather Of Betty
| brother OF Morris and Mrs EmmI
| TrallOpe Funeral services Monday
2 80 p. m a. A r. Peters Funera
Home. l2057 GrAtiot.
MoCANETT-John b. 24O22 "
Warren Ave beloved husband Of
Viola Mae. dear son OF Mrs. Ssraf
McCsvstt. brother OF @rs Dsisy
LtnnON, EDWARD A. ana Orest X
McCavett Funeral Monday a.
O'Clock from HowePeterson Funers
| Home. 2254s Michigan Ave Buria
Crsndlawn Cemetery
McCRACKEN-Aug. II. William +
OF 1906 r. Forest. East Detroit
Husband OF the late Florence, deal
father OF William j.. Edward J..
Thomas ~. Mrs. Beatrice Price snc
Mrs. Helen housssau; grandfather ~
three grandchildren. brother ol
James. Funeral Monday. $50 a m
from A. II Peters Funeral Home
i2057 Grstiot, and . a. m. ~ S.
Veronica Church
PLOCHE-Joseph. beloved husband oi
Rose. Services from Leroy Rexrod'
! Funeral Home. 272i w. Grand Blvd
(near Ford HospitaD, Monday p. m
SANDSTROM-Nn age 70. OF 1880
Sanford Ave. Dear husband Of Eriki
Sandstrom (nee Jonsson) dear fathei
OF Mrs. Martha Feldpaush. Alex
HJalmar. Gunnar and Carl Sand
strom. grandfather OF four grand
children, dear brother Of Hanna Sand
strom OF Manor, Tex Remains Al
Alfred W. "Opens Funeral Home
1899 Gratiot until Monday morning
nj 10 O'Clock VIII lie in state II
immsnusl Lutheran Church. corner
Dickerson and Chandler Park Drive
from noon until time Of service al
o'clock. Interment Forestlswn.
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Bankers toHedr
Eric Johnston
Continued from Page T~o)

NtontHueu from rage INO)
building boom in itself He based
his opinion on the possibility that
several million men and women
now in service will take advan-
tage of it's provisions.
One portant feature he
added is that its effects will be
felt in the immediate postwar
years. The Mortgage Bankers
Association is now studying plans
whereby II can assist in wide
spread distribution of information
10 servicemen and women in the
same manner as It's members over
the country did in explaining the
operations of the Soldiers and
Sailors Civil Relief Act.
These plans will be perfected as
soon AS MIA and FILA, which
the Veterans Bureau has dele
gated 10 handle the construction
phase Oh the program, have COM
pfeted the regulations under which
the legislation will be admins
tered.