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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
Archie kissee
Tells About
Fight in Cafe

Archie 10y (Bud Kissee, 34 one
of the defendants in the WaStmor-
land suit in which four residents
are charged with resisting an Off
Ger, Saturday gave his version of
what happened in a WeStmorland
cafe last Wednesday night.
He said he was not the man who
grabbed the cafe proprietor. Stewart
Smith, when Smith started to close
up the place and asked the patrons
to leave Kissee said it was his bro
Their, Leo, who objected to Smith
closing the cafe.
When my brother grabbed
Smiths necktie," Bud KisSee said,
Il made him let go and told him
I was going to take him home.
Smith and I always have been
friends. My brother had been
drinking and I decided to take him
home. There wasn't any political
angle to it as we had not been
talking about politics. I asked my
brother later why he grabbed Smith
and he told me he didn't know
lIlcu Sllltl Vi TOllCc ollNCl
Quick stepped up and tried to ar
rest my brother. He took his gun
out and said he was going to shoot
the whole bunch. My half brother,
Cecil Swearingen grabbed the gun
Then John GleSS walked into the
cafe. He hadn't been with us be-
fore. When Guess saw the gun,
he took it and kept it so no one
would get hurt. Quick took out
his blackjack and my brother and
Swearingen began to scuffle with
him over the blackjack took the
blackjack and handed it back of me
to cafe employee.
Smith wasn't pulled over the bar.
He walked around the bar and in
the scuffling he fell and was showed
against the step where the bar stools
are fastened. That must have been
the way his hip was broken. Guess
later handed the gun to Deputy
Sheriff Frank Raney when he came
in. Guess just didn't want anyone
to get hurt"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

ment by carrier aircraft and sur
face vessels, including battleShlpS
from Admiral Raymond A. Spru-
ance's Fifth fleet.
1t was estimated that 10000 tons
o; steel and explosives were pound
ed into the island during the pre-
invasion assault, the greatest soft
ening up attack yet carried out in
the Pacific.
MADE RECORD TIME
A front dispatch said the land
ings, directed 10y Rear Admiral
Richard w. Connolly, were probably
the Smoothest amphibiouS opera
ton of the war AND accomplished
in record time.
The preparatory barrageS had been
SO effective that the troops, under
Marine Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger
sWarmed ashore with negligible re-
sistance and by nightfall had dug
III on perimeterS on beth side of
Crote peninsula, with the northern
anchor approximately two miles
from Agana, administrative seat OF
Guam.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23


CTokyo radio, in a broadcast re-
corded by United Press at San Fran
cisco, acknowledged the landings on
Guam, but claimed that the Amer
leans were lin great confusion due
to the tremendous losses inflicted
by our forces" Tokyo said that the
American forces suffered 1900 cas-
ualties in the landings and report
ed fierce fighting was ragingD
TROOPS ADVANCE
While WarShips offshore hurled
tons of explosives into Japanese
positions inlanC, the assault troops
which landed seven miles apart
early Thursday were tanning out
from secured beachheads between
Adelup and As g points ncith OF
Orote peninsula and Agat and
Bangi point below the peninsula.
(Tokyo estimated that one di-
vision, approximately $4,000 men,
and $50 tanks were landed at Asan
and a half division at Agat)
Admiral Chester w. NimitZ re-
Ported that the troops were meet
ing increasing resistance in some
sections as they drove inland through
the hills in the southern portion Of
Guam, a former u. S. naval station
Continued from Page One)
which fell to the Japanese four days
after Pearl Harbor.
CASUALTIES MODERATE
Preliminary estimates indicated
that the American casualties were
moderate" Nimitz said in his re-
port of the operations on Guam, the
first American territory to be ibe-
rated in the Pacific war.
The Pacific fleet commander,
who again preached Japan's inner
defenSeS with the invasion of Guam,
said the assault troops lan6ed
against light resistance and quick
ly secured good beachheads."
In view of the light opposition to
the landings, it was assumed the
Japanese Withdrew from the beaches
under the terrific l7-Gay lombard
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

some flax. Farmers can't get
enough labor to handle their alfal-
ia. They also need more help to
prepare their land, irrigate it, and
flood it for the fall alfalfa and veg
etable planting.
Il believe we could use around
200 more farm laborerS at this
time"
Farmers are appealing to the gov
eminent to arrange with the Mex
lean government for the importa-
ton of nationals to help them over
the present labor shortage, Harri-
gan SAID.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
Too Late, Too
Weak, What?
BY UNITED PRESS

Japan has recognized Adolf Hit
lers NERVES" and recommends tea
drinking as "a remedy, accord ing to
a Tokyo broadcast recorded by
United Press at San Francisco.
The broadcast said that the
Japan Tea Drinking society," in the
hope that Hitler would become 40
dicted to the gentle art of tea
drinking to sooth his nerves." had
presented to the German Ambassa-
dor Heinrich Stahmer a rare tea
dish.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

less stern terms, according to Curt
RieSS, German refugee writer.
Reiss in his book, The Nazis Go
Underground" to be published July
%, predicted the revolt of the gen.
erals" as part of long range Ger
man army plan to shift war guilt
to nazi shoulders alone and secure
q leading role in keeping law and
order in the reich, as they did fol-
lowing World War I.
According ito writer, the plot was
blueprinted in December, l941, at
the headquarters of Field Marshal
Werner Won Brauchitsch, then Wher-
macht high commander. Field
Marshal Won RundStedt, recently
resigned" German commander ON
the western front, and Field Mar
Shal FeCor Won Boch backed the
conspiracy in its early stages, Reiss
wrote, with other high officers later
joining in the plot.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
British Planes DESTROY
40-Ship German Convoy

burning furiously, and every other
vessel hit extensively by cannon and
rocket fire.
When the beaufighters swarmed
in the anti aircraft ships and shore
batteries threw up wall of fire
and parachute rocket projec.iles
trailing steel cables. One pilot
came back with so yards of G bile
wrapped around his wing and a
piece of the tail torn off.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
Two Sentenced
For Treason

CHICAGO, July %. CUP)-Wal-
ter Otto Froehling and Otto Rich
ard Wergin Saturday were sem
fenced to five years in prison for
being accessories to treason, and
their wives and Mrs. Hans Max
Haupt were released from treason
charges without sentence.
Froehling, Wergin and Haupt had
been sentenced to be executed in
january, l943, but the sentence was
set aside by the appellate court on
a legal technically. Haupt, at a
separate retrial. was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
Valley Farmers
Ask More Help

Farmers of Imperial Valley face
heavy crop loss because of the pres
ent shortage of farm labor and are
trying to get more Mexican nation
ais imported from across the border,
it was revealed Saturday.
b. A. Harrigan, county agricul-
tural commissioner, Saturday said
farmers have not sufficient labor to
finish the summer harvest and get
their land arleady for the fall plant
ingS.
I'VE are rot through harvesting
grapes and onions" Harigan point
out, land we still are harvesting
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
FIvinq Fortresses Smash
PIoesti Oil Field Anew

An American air force spokesman
confirmed earlier speculation that
1t. Gen James H. Doolittle's bomb
ers had been hitting at bases be-
lieved vital to the German pilotless
plane and perhaps experimenting
with some new type going beyond
the flying bombs now in action
action against Britain.
Last Mondays attack on the ex-
detrimental station at Peenemunde
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

the beaufighter planes flown by Bril-
fish and Dominion pilots.
I'VE used the saturation method,
overwhelming the anti aircraft ships
with cannon and rocket projectiles
SO the torpedo-carrying beaufighters
could make a clear run ill.," Squad
ron Leader Colin Milsen said.
Photographs showed that four
freighters were torpedoed, two left
sinking, five escort vessels left
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

in the Baltic area was described
officially as highly successful"
American bombers also made nine
other attacks on jet plane engine
factories. The spokesman said eight
of them could be counted successful
Since last Sunday the eighth and
18th air forces attacked more than
100 targets in Germany in raids in
volving 643l bombers escorted by
some 5000 fighters.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

LONDON, July %. (UP)
The Royal Air Force an
nounced Saturday that it's
beaufighters sank or damaged every
vessel of a 40-ship German convoy
off Helgoland in an attack shortly
after dusk Friday night.
The convoy, one of the largest
ever flushed and attacked by the
Raj coastal command, was describ-
ed as shattered" without loss to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
Refugee Writer
foreSuW Plot

NEW YORK, July %. CUP)-
Prominent German army leaders
mere than three years ago Matched
the plot to eliminate" Hitler and
other naZi leaders and come to
terms with the United Nations on
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

MOSCOW, July %. (UP)-Soviet
newspapers published Saturday an
analysis of the German situation,
prepared by M. Bodrov, specialist
OF the Tass News Agency, in which
the developments were treated as
an uprising" of grave character.
Whatever the outcome of the
present nazi crisis, it is a factor
which will further the collapse OF
Germany, the reviewer said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
y AMBlINe
EpoRTER
Another Suggestion.

Another Suggestion.
1t has been suggested that RR use
petunias as rewards for exceptional
merit. Petunas grow well in I'm
perial Valley.
What do you think of that idea?
Send i'm suggestions as we are about
to complete the poll.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
Amer cons Push
Into Interior
In Guam Attack
Marines and Army Troops Smash on
Toward AirfieId on Peninsula;
Nimi+z Reports Light Casualties
\ MERICANS RUSH.

AWFKICANS KUSII--
PEARL HARBOR, July % (UP)-U. S. marines and
army troops pushing from the north and SOUTH drove
toward junction the west coast Of Guam Saturday in
apparent effort to cut off OrOte peninsula and it's
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
More About ROtarians.

More About ROtarians.
AS the Ell Centre RotarianS were
filing into the mess hall to have
luncheon with the lady marines at
the Fl Centre marine air station,
couple of Wags watched the situa-
ton with considerable interest.
The Wags noted the lack of hair
on some Rotarian pates and the
general tendency to plumpnesS.
Il didn't know" said one wag to
the other, that the draft board
was getting that low in the Darrell ="
The Specialist.
In spite of the fact that Rudolph
Miller is secretary of this and that
wartime board. he only admits to
one profession.
He says he is pecan grower.
From The Public.
The following letter came in the
mail. 1t was signed "A Stranger"
Here is the letter:
Dear RR-At times you've polite
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 40, minimum Saturday, "a; S am
76, humidity IS; noon Saturday 102, hui
mitlity Al; pm. Friday 107, humidity g.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23

L. A. HAY-U. S. No. 1 ss1-sS.5O; U. S. No. 2 ieafy
l. v. s305O-S2.5O; No. 2 $500 $500; Sept flax
S3s6M.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04
Femininity Is Featured
In Cast Of New USO Show
Now Playing on Post

Arriving in Fort Huachuca after
a swing through Texas, USO Tab
loid Troupe No. 80 is currently en-
tertaining soldiers on the Post at
the Fry USO, the Service Clubs and
in their own recreation halls.
Four girls and one man comprise
the crew of merry makers: Emma
Floyd, pianist, sings as well as she
plays the piano. Lucille Haggman
teams up with Manager Bud Harris
to. provide laughs and songs in a
comedy duo. Martha Please pleaseS
the boys with her acrobatic dane
ing, and little Ruby Hill is a singer
of sweet songs.
The show is "only fine" ac-
cording to Chauncey (Jody) Lee,
USO coordinator, so all youse guys
are urged to be on the lookout for
its performance in your area.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04
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.ONDON.-Turkey aligned herself
with the United Nations Wednes-
day to the extent of breaking off
diplomatic and ecopomic relations
with Germany, and there were
broad indications that powerful
Soviet Russia soon would consider
a new Finnish request for an
armistice guaranteeing Finland's
independence.
It was reported reliably in
Stockholm that Marshal Baron
Mannerhein had received Rus
sian assurances before he aSSum-
ed the presidency of Finland on
Tuesday
Prime Minister Churchill, in
his first war review since Feb
ruary %, asserted this week that
he had been led increasingly to
feel that the interval between the
defeat of Germany and Japan
will be shorter" perhaps much
shorter"-than I had at one time
supposed"
Berlin reported this week that
the Red army had stormed across
the Vistula river, and Moscow
tacitly supported the enemy re-
port as other Russian assault
forces battled through the north
eastern, eastern and southeastern
suburbs of Warsaw.
MOSCOW. = Thousands of Ger
mans trapped in Latvia and Es-
tonia by swift Russian. plunge
to the Baltic Sea 80 miles west
of the Riga thrashed at the Rus
sian moose today while other
Nazis fought violently ON a 20
mile suburban arc in defense of
besieged Warsaw.
The official German DNB news
agency declared Wednesday that
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the
Desert Fox of the North African
campaign, had suffered injuries
and a brain conclusion in "an
accident" French underground
reports say that Rommel, seriously
wounded in fighting on the Nor
mandy front, is definitely out of
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04
erSOnnGl
9erSOndlS

classified advertisements per-
~ tanning to help wanted, situa-
tiOns wanted, rides wanted or Of
fered, lost or found, and other mat
terS considered to be for the benefit
of Fort Huachuca or its personnel,
both military and civilian, will be
printed in this column free of
charge. Any advertisement will be
repeated upon request.
LOST Gold, open-faced lapel
watch, with blue mother of pearl
back, between Finance Office and
Knoxville cafeteria. A substantial
reward will be given the finder as
the watch was valuable keep sake.
Please call Mrs. Iva Moore, Finance
office, Tel. 2157
FOR SALE-RabbitS and hutches
and a 100 lb ice box Please call
at Quarters 3006-A, Apache Flats.
Home in the evenings.
FOR SALE-Houseful of new fur
niture. Iron bed and spring with
inner spring mattress, $4,000. Pre-
war chest of drawers, $4,000. Pre-
war dresser with full length mirror,
$4,000. Kitchen rug, $3.50. Bedroom
linoleum, $500 3-piece bedroom
suite complete with box springs and
mattress, $130. Dining room set,
$4,000. Wool living room rug with
mat (wine- colored), $34.5O. Coffee
table, $3.50 Metal top kitchen ta-
BILE, $500. Oak, chair, $1,000. Two
end tables, 500. Two piece living
room suite, $135.O0. Fan type cooler,
$1,000. Call at 3027-B Apache Flats.
r. II. Bailey.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04
Heroic Act
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Mrs. Wells followed him into his
room, meanwhile snatching a bath
robe hanging in the hall as she ran.
Throwing the robe over Cpl. Blount,
she also flung her body on him,
smothering and beating out the
flames. Later she attached the gar
den hose outside and helped neigh
bors who had gathered put out the
fire in the house. Cpl. Blount was
carried to hospital section /, suf-
fering with second degree burns.
Mrs. Wells, the widow OF the late
Sergeant Wells, for whom Wells
Football Stadium was named, stated
to an Apache Sentinel reporter, ST
can never quit thanking God for
letting me keep cool head, for
am usually extremely nervous"
The fire in her home marks the
second one in recent days that has
started because of the use of gaso-
line as cleaning agent. Not only
is the practice of washing clothing
in gasoline very dangerous, but it
is also against Post regulations
Ma jor j. H. Healy, Post Claims Of
ficer and Fire Chief j. w. Mercer
have repeatedly deplored the prac-
tice. Gasoline is for motor cars and
if used in cleaning at all, should be
used out of DOORS" according to the
claims officer.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04

the war and has been succeeded
by a Nazi unknown, Heinrich
Eberbach.
SUPREME HEAD UAR TERSy
AEF. = American armored forces
pushed four and a half miles
south from Avranches across the
Selune river into Brittany against
only sporadic resistance Tuesday,
rupturing another possible Ger
man defense line in drive aimed
squarely at the heart Of France.
American tanks and infantry
men poured through the shattered
German battle lines on the road
to Paris and Brittany today and
Prime Minister Churchill revealed
the doughboys already may be
nearing the big communications
hub of RenneS, almost halfway
across the Breton peninsula in a
dramatic race to exploit their
breakthrough below Avranches.
Allied armies that Churchill
described as the finest-equipped
in military history were on the
move all along a front of more
than 70 miles from Caep to east
ern Brittany, methodically rip
ping the German defenses to
shreds.
ROME. British and German forces
locked in a swaying battle OF tanks
and infantry almost in the out
skirts of Florence Tuesday and
official reports said the 9th army
veterans were slugging forward
yard by yard against some $4,000
to $4,000 crack Nazi troops man
ming the last hill defenseS below
the city.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, an
cient Italian landmark, has been
reported destroyed by Allied ar
tillery fire, according to the Berlin
radio. Germany denied that Nazi
troops had been using the tower
as a point from which to attack
Allied troops.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, South
west Pacific.-Allied forces under
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, quietly
rounding the northern-most tip
of Dutch New Guinea to land on
Sansapor, 600 miles from the
Philippines, secured their beach
head Tuesday, advanced inland
to cross a strategically important
river, and started construction or
an airport.
Allied land, sea and air forces
hit Sansapor Sunday in a bril-
liantly executed amphibiouS blow
that neutralized $4,000 japanese
at ~Sorong, SO miles to the west.
by-passed a similar number OF
enemy troops 140 miles to the east
at Manokwari, and brought Mac
Arthur 200 miles farther on MS
promised return to the Phlllp-
pines.
American patrols ranged over
the entire southern half of Guam
this week. encountering only
sporadic opposition as Marines
and Army troops drove against
the plateau-like northern half
where the japanese defenders
were believed to have Withdrawn.
IN THE UNITED STATES.-Presi-
dent Manuel Quezon of the Phil
lippines commonwealth died Tues
day at Saranac Lake, N. Y. He
had been i'll for a long time and
went to Saranac Lake early in the
summer after spending the win
ter and spring in Florida and
North Carolina
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04

dice, will not be shown on the
theory that not showing it will
avoid friction between the races.
The ban not only prevents the
showing of the picture in white
movie houses, but in theatres
catering exclusively to cOlOred
patronage.
The twenty ninth Spingarn
medal for outstanding contribu-
ton made to American culture by
a Negro was awarded to DR..
Charles r. Drew, of Howard uni
versity recently by the NAACP.
DR.. Earnest A. Hooton, of Harvard
university, in speaking at the
presentation, referred to DR.. Drew,
whose work with blood plasma
has actually saved thousands of
American soldiers lives in this
war, as brilliant innovator and
mastery organizer in the pro-
cessing of human blood plasma
and the building of blood banks" 3"
DR.. Drew was member of the
commit e that developed plans
and techniques for the mass pro-
duction and shipment of human
plaSma and was full time medical
director and organizer of blood
donor stations of the American
Red Cross.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-04
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