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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY

Picnic for 7th and 9Th grades, $50,
Methodist church.
Transfers, chaufeurs, 1880, Labor
temple.
University of California alumni
dinner, 7, Barbara Worth Hotel.
20-3O Club, 8, California Hotel.
Servicemen's dance, 8, veterans
hall.
State guard, 1880, stadium.
Boy Scout troop, II, 1880, Scout
hut.
Junior choir, 4, Methodist church.
Senior choir, 1880, Methodist
church.
THURSDAY
Surgical dressings, 9-d, 10000 Club
McCabe- Eucalyptus Home Dept,
1890 a. m., 1924 Hell.
Rotary Club, IL, Barbara Worth
hotel.
Junior Toastmastcrs, 6:15, Cali
fCrnia hotel.
Night school, 7, High school.
CAP and CAPC, 1880. High school.
Electricians, 1882, Labor temple.
Church night, 1880, MctOdist
church.
Motor corps 8, Red Cross head
quarters.
B.P.O.E., 8, Elks club.
RAM.,NO. 100, 1880, Masonic tenn
pie.
USWV Auxiliary, s, Veterans hall.
Building trades, 8. Labor temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
Legion Approves
War Memorial

American Legion posts in Imperial
county voted 100 per cent endorse
ment of the memorial for Imperial
County war dead to be erected in
the park north of the court house
in El Centre, it was revealed We'd
neSday.
Approval was given at a meeting
of the county council of the Amer
lean Legion.
County council members ordered
letter of approval and apprecia-
ton written to the board of super
visors of the county for the deci-
sion to erect the memorial.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
NEW BOOKS
BOOKS RELEASED NOV. s, 1914
FICTION

bOohS hELEhSED NON. D. lHt4
FICTION
"All in Good time" by Marguerite
Allisl Love Calls the Tune" by
Kathleen Norris: mo Gifts From
Chance" by Margaret Pedler; Men
Die at Cyprus Lodge by John
Rhode; Blaze Allan" by Lillian
Ross; Mustang Marshall" by Her.
bert Shapiro; THE Prairie Kid"
by Chuck Stanley.
NON-FICTION
Parents Can Be People" by
Dorothy w. Baruch; The Practice
of Idealism" by Alfred M Bingham:
The Jew in Our Day" by Waldo
Frank; Born Under Saturn a BIZ
ography of william Hazlitt" by
Catherine Maclean: Twelve Deci-
sive Battles of the Mind" by Cor
ham Munson; "China's First Lady"
by Helen Nicolay; Gateway to
Asia Sinkiang' by Martin Norma.
War Correspondent" the stcry of
Quentin Reynolds by F.. E. Rech-
nitzer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
Churches
Schools
J. 6. Plans Dance
For Marines After
Football Contest

Men of the marine base will be
the special guests at dance Sat-
urday night III the high school gym,
sponsored by tie student body of
Central Junior college, with Mar
garet Ann Henderson, president CT
Sigma Delta Chi as chairman.
The dance will follow the J.C.-
Marine football game and will be
an informal affair like the dance
following the Camp Lockett game
last Saturday.
All servicemen, as well as junior
college students, will be welcome at
the dance, according to Lora Jean
Carr, president of the student body.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
Red Cross Motor
Corps to Ne ct

A business meeting will be held
Thursday night by the Red Cross
motor corps, at o'clock at chapter
headquarters. according to Lillian
Fleming, captain.
Present at the meeting will be
Mrs. SHES, representative for the
Red Cross in the Pacific area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08

Although relatively low in calories,
ice cream is high in protective quail
tiles, particularly vitamin A, cal
cium and phosphorus. The proteins
of ice cream are the same high quail
ity prote.ns as those found in milk
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
OF PERSONAL
INTEREST

Mrs. Gerald Tinkle has left for
a three weeks visit with her par
ents in Greencastle, Indiana.
Henry Jensen, who was recently
promoted to corporal at Brown Mill
tary Academy, Pacific Beach, will
be home Friday to visit his par
entS, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jensen
over the week end.
Mrs. Dozier Dawson has been
enjoying visit with her son Will
liam of Kansas City, who has been
renewing old acquaintances in Ell
Centro. Mr.. Dawson was on the
coast on business and managed to
spend some time here with his
mother.
Mrs. Proctor Knott Perkins of
Los Angeles is visiting her daugh-
ter and son-in-laW, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert SchWob of Imperial. She
expects to leave the end of the
week
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
Eastern Star
To Elect Officers

A rotiuck supper at 6:30 o'clock
Friday night will precede the busi-
ness meeting of Signal Chapter 276,
O.E.S., at the Masonic temple.
The main buciness will be cleo
ton of officers, with that meeting
starting at 8 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08

If you plan to change your sum-
mer curtains and drapes for winter
ones, make sure they are cleaned
before storing for the winter-at-
mospheric gases, dust and fine grit
which collect in them will injure
fabrics.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-08
AIDS REIMBURSEMENT

SHREVEPORT, La, Ncy. 3. CUP)
The Shreveport chamber of COM
merce is sending 7500 letters offer
ing business information and assis-
tance to Caddo parish men in mill
tarY service.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04

positions on narrow front at Afua
village on the Driniumor river, and
an allied headquarters spokesman
said repeated thrusts could be taken
as an indication that collapse of
the desperate Japanese in that sec
tor was imminent.
The battle area was Uttered with
abandoned and uncounted enemy
dead after the final assault was
made, Gen. Douglas Macarthur re-
ported in a communique. The death
toll was yet to be added to a total
of 1870 enemy troops already killed
in their hopeless struggle to break
through the American lines.
The Japanese opened their as
sault with point-blank fire from
artillery, mortars and machineguns,
and then charged through slight
clearings in the thick jungles. AM
erican infantrymen broke up each
charge with artillery up to 155 How
itZer calibre.
After the final charge was made
the Americans reassembled their
forces and continued the drive Gown
the coast into enemy territory
along the Driniumor river.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
{. +. Man Writes
Home From
Nazi Prison Camp

First word directly from Lieu
tenant Milton Damrcn, war pris-
oner of Germany. arrived in Ell
Centre Friday.
His wife had a card which her
husband had written and addressed
himself. On the card he told her
he was a war prisoner of the Ger
mans and was well and safe" He
sent love to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Don Damron of 430 South
Sixth, Ell Centre, and closed by
saying, Take care of yourselves"
On June 3 Mrs. Damron received
official word that her husband was
missing as of May %. Later she re-
ceived official notice that the Ger
mans were holding him as a pris-
oner of war.
The card received this week was
dated May 81, five days after he
failed to return to his base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04

take a holiday and give him time
to recover"
Byrnes said that under the new
program the responsibility for pro-
viding the necessary manpower for
vital war programs rests with the
local communities.
Those at home must work as
hard as those abroad are fighting" :"
he said. THE responsibility for
manning our war plants is clear
and unmistakeable and it rests
with the communities. The COM
munities must meet the respon-
sibility if we are able to finish the
war without enacting a universal
service law
Byrnes issued directive giving
area production urgency commit
tees in all group and II labor areas
areas of actual or threatened la
Dor shortages-the power to clamp
employment ceilings on less essen
tial industries in order to channel
the surplus labor to nearby war
plants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04

in multi-prongeG fan-Out threat
ening to collapse the last organized
German resistance on the peninsula
at any time.
Front dispatches reported heavy
street fighting in the northern and
southern suburbs of Rennes, Breton
capital which Washington an
nounced Thursday had been cap
tured, but said the Americans
struck on beyond to Mauron, 81
miles cue west, and Balm de Bre-
| tagne, 20 miles south.
BYPASS TOWNS
Lieutenant General Omar N
Bradley's westbound right wing
swept along the Breton coast to-
ward st. Malo, which already was
by-passed in a push through Dinan
to Broons, II miles to the south
west and 81 miles northwest of
RenneS.
All around rough arc of rs to
100 miles bulging south and west
through Brittany, the U. S. spear
heads probed through strong points
vital to any cefenSe of the penin-
sula and its strategic harbors of
Brest and Lorient.
SPEED SOUTHWARK
United Press Correspondent Rob-
ert c. Miller said the onrushing
Americans had pushed to the area
Of Pipriac, 22R miles south of
Rennes, had reached Balm de Bret
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Russians Ready
Dash Across
Prussian Border

LONDON, Aug. 4. (UP)-Rado
Moscow Friday broadcast front
report asserting that Soviet tank
columns have reached the "imme-
diate approaches" of East Prussia.
Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's
army was poised on broad front
for a drive into East Prussia, but
semi-Cfficial sources stated cate
gorically that the border crossing
had not yet been made.
EXODUS STARTS
The government organ Izvestia
said the roads of East Prussia were
jammed with nonedescript trans
port carrying civilians and property
westward from the Soviet -menaced
region of the fatherland, while
fierce air battles ragged overhead
While Marshal Konstantin K.
RCkosSovSky's vanguard stormed
the Praga outpostS of WarsaW, his
left wing veered up toward the city
from the Vistula crossings, which
had driven wedge within less than
100 miles of German SileSia, to re-
duce the capitals defenses from
the Soutt if the frontal onslaught
were held up.
"a Polish underground commu-
nique said more than $4,000 Polish
patriots battling the Germans in the
streets of Warsaw had seized many
strong points scattered throughout
the city, and "the initiative is ours,
but the fight is bitter')
A little more than 100 miles south
Continued on Page 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Bombs StrikeRobot
Factory On Baltic
Soaring Sor+ies
Sweep North
German District

LONDON, Aug. A. (UP)-
A sky-filling parade of 2,200
or more heavy bombers and
fighters spread a trail of
ruin across 200 miles of
northern Germany Friday,
smashing at dozens of Nazi
military targets and secret
enemy experimental stations
at Peenemunde on the Baltic
sea.
Streaming out across the
Reich under brilliant sun
shine that permitted visual
bombing of all their targets,
more than 1,20O U. S. 9Th air
force Flying Fortresses and
LiberatOrs spewed a great
weight of high explosives
and fire bombs on Bremen,
Kiel, Roctock, Anklam, and
Peenemunde.
Another 1000 Mustang, Lightning,
and Thunderbolt fighters covered
the widespread assault against what
Berlin described as furious resist
ance from the luftWaffe.
FIERCE AIR BATTLES
Nazi accounts said fierce air bat
ties ragged all across the northern
Reich Friday afternoon but there
was no immediate confirmation
from the 9th air force.
The American objectives included
an oil refinery at Bremen, port in
stallations in Kiel, an aircraft as
sembly plant at Rostock, fighter
component plant and an airfield
at Anklam, 20 miles south of Peene-
munde, and mystery targets at the
latter city.
Peenemunde is the site of vast
Nazi experimental plants where the
Germans were reported to have de-
veloped their robot bombs and now
may be working on new secret
weapons for use against the allies.
Allied tactical air forces also were
on the attack in great strength over
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Negro Convicted
OF Murder in
5. F. Hotel Blaze

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. d. CUP)
George Holman, 40 year old Negro
cafe owner, Friday stood convicted
on % counts of murder as the pyro-
maniac who set the New Amsterdam
hotel fire that claimed % lives last
March q in San Francisco's worst
disaster since the LOG earthquake
and fire.
A superior court jury of seven
men and five women returned the
multiple conviction late Thursday
night after deliberattng for 7l2
hours, and recommended that Judge
E. P. Murphy sentence Holman to
life Imprisonment.
Holman, upon hearing the ver-
dict, exclaimed:
mo matter what anybody else
thinks, God knows I'm not guilty.
The New Amsterdam holocaust,
which injured 81 people in addition
to the % dead, flashed through a
three story frame building in San
Francisco's south of Market skid
row district at midnight, trapping
many of the hotels occupants in
their rooms.
Holman was indicted on charges
of setting the fire last May after
witnesses testified that he had been
in possession of five gallon can
of gasoline and that he had been
seen in or near the hotel at the
time of the fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Yankees Star Mon-Hunt
To Clear Qua m of Jups

eSe apparently have chosen the
thickly wooded plateau country of
northern Guam, which in places
almost rivals the south Pacific
jungles.
reconnaissance tanks and ad-
vancing marine and army infantry
units already have encountered
enemy concentration in ambushes
alon the front lines which now
follow a zigzag course roughly
southeast from Nato beach on upper
Tumon bay to a point some 1000
yards below Sassayan Point on the
east coast.
1t is still nearly 10 miles to the
extreme northern tip of the island
from our farthest point of advance
and In their final drive marine and
army assault forces will have to
hight the terrain as well as the
Japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Fisherman Sees
Enemy Sub off
Catalina | nd

SAN PEDRO. ca Aug. 4. CUPo
Neither Capt. Harry Evans nor the
navy would comment Friday on re-
ports that the fishing boat operator
had sighted foreign submarine
off the southern California coast
July %.
A waterfront story said Evans, a
former submarine creWman, saw
the craft surface near his boat
while he was pursuing a school Of
albacore between Santa Catalina
and San Clfmente islands. He re-
portedly said he recognized the
design as foreign.
Evans referred all queries to the
navy and the navy withheld COM
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
10000 Workers
Idle in j. 5.
As Strikes Grow
Army Takes Over
Operation of
Philadelphia Plant
By UNITED PRESS

Nearly 10000 workers were idle
Friday in a score of Walkouts that
plagued the United States and Can
ada, the most important of which
were the transit strikes at Philadel-
phia and Montreal, while at Detroit
a strike of 1000 employees at five
General Motors plants entered its
ninth day, tying up production Of
Pratt-Whitney aircraft engine parts.
Elevated subway service was re-
sumed on several lines at Philadel-
phia this morning, despite strike
leaders statements that the walk
out, which began Tuesday in protest
against training of Negro opera
tors, would continue.
NEGRO BOY SHOT
A 13-year-old Negro boy, Frank
Howard, was shot and critically in
jured Thursday at Philadelphia by
white men in a passing automobile
in the first violence the city has
experienced since Tuesday, when
IL persons were hospitalized and
more than 200 arrested in riots.
The system was taken over by the
war department Thursday night on
order of President Roosevelt, and an
army spokesman said under govern
ment operation working conditions
would revert to a pre-strike basis.
The strike of $500 transit work.
ers raised absenteeism to 10 per
cent, curtailing production as much
as 80 per cent in some plants, and
100000 workers were forced to walk
or find other transportation to work.
s. Montreal workers continued TO use
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04

appearances.
Both Two Jima and Chichi Jima
were hit by American task forces
twice in June, at the start of the
Marianas campaign, at the time of
the invasion of Saipan, approXi-
mately 900 miles TO the south.
Two japanese ships were sunk, 10
ships damaged and AZ planes de-
stroyed in a strike June a. An
additional ll6 planes were destroy
ed at Two Jima June %.
An American task force again hit
Two Jima and the Bonins July
and 3, with II Japanese ships being
sunk or damaged and 100 planes
doWned, as we'll as '96 damaged.
Since then Liberators have struck
at the japanese outposts from newly
won airbaSeS on Saipan.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04

Col MerWin II. Silverthorn. chief
of staff for Maj Gen. Roy S. Geig-
er's third amphibious corps, told
correspond ents that advancing in
fantrymen virtually were beating
the bushes to drive the scattered
Japanese defenders from their hide
outs in dense thicketS along the
west coast above the newly won
Tiyan airfield.
U. S. forces now dominate three
fifthS of the island including the
mountainous southern portion where
far reaching marine patrols have
encountered only a few scattered
Japanese troops.
uring the past "a hours, marine
veterans of the south Pacific drove
northward from Tiyan airfieid
against sporadic resistance ana
seized the strategic road junction
and village OF Fingayan.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Jackie Coor er
Faces Charge

SOUTH BEfD. Ind, Aug 4. (UP)
Jackie Coope. ormer film star and
a naval vi. .inee at Notre Dame,
was charged .iday with contribut-
ing to the d iquency of l5-year-
cid South Bend girl by furnishing
her intoxicating liquor and induc-
ing her to remain overnight in a
hotel room he had rented.
Prosecutor Arthur F. Scher filed
six affidavits against four persons,
including the 22-year.old Cooper,
charging them with the delinquency
count. He said the charges came
from an investigation of a wild
party thrown at South Bend hotel
July 22.'
The last picture Cooper made be-
fore entering the navy, Where Are
MY Children" dealt with juvenile
delinquency and was made at the
request of the United States gov
ernment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Air Crash Kills
Two Officers

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 4. OUPl-
Two officer students were killed
Thursday night when their BPS
bomber based at Mather Field
crashed and burned in field north
of Elk Grove.
The dead are Second Lieutenant
Russell Paine, 10, Syracuse, New
York, and Second Lieutenant John
r. Penttinen, Ashtabula, Ohio They
were the only occupants of the
plane.
Mather Field officials said the
plane was on a routine training
flight. A board of officers was in
vestigating the cause of the crash
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
2200 j. S. PLANES SMASH ACROSS REICH
U.S.. Carrier Planes Strike
Blow $50 Mile S From japan

tiles near the japanese homeland"
indicated to the japanese that an
American task force was operating
in the area, already struck by Nit
scher's force three times since the
start of the Marianas campaign in
June.
Powerful formations of carrier
borne planes raided Two Jima, 100
miles to the south of Chichi Jima,
twice Friday morning, Tokyo said,
while Chichi Jima was raided three
times simultaneously by many for
nations of carrier-based aircraft"
Presence of the carriers would
incicate that the American strik-
ing unit was supported by the bat
tle-Wagons of Mitscher's tremend-
Gus task force, which shelled the
japanese bases in their previous
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Rent Control Set
In Order for
Imperial County
OPA to Inaugurate Plan
Starting on Sept. l;
March. 1943, TO Be Basis

Rent control for Imperial
valley will be inaugurated
September |, according to a
dispatch from the Office of
Price Administration in
Washington and a telegram
to the Eel Centre OPA office
from district headquarters
at San Diego.
Under the directive issued at
Washington the basis for rental
charges will be as of the rate in
operation March |, l943.
Announcement of the action from
Washington ends a series of moves
started many months ago to in
clude the valley in the areas select
ed for federal regulation.
The official telegram from the
San Diego office which covers this
county, was signed by the new di-
rector, Stewart o. Wicklin and
advised officials at the FL Centre
office that he would arrive here
August 8 for the purpose of getting
the directive under way. The in
itial move will be to appoint man.
ager for the Imperial county office
and to arrange for official head
quarters.
Under the Set-up qualifications
for the area manager include three
years government or executive pos
ition anG license to practice law in
California.
While in the county Wicklin will
make his headquarters in the office
in FL Centric at Main and Sixth,
it was announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Kenneth Kenyon
Missing in
Raid on Germany

Staff Sergeant Kenneth S. Ken
yon, son of Mrs. Fred Kenyon OF
Eighth and Park streets, FL Centre
is missing in - ion over Germany.
The official telegram from the
war department said he had been
missing since July 20. Sergeant
Kenyon was a nose gunner on a
LiberatCr and did not return after
his eighteenth mission.
Friends recalled that news dis
patches on July 20 told of 70 al
lied planes being lost. The last let
ter his mother received from him
was dated early in July.
Sergeant Kenyon attended school
in Ell Centro and is we'll known in
Imperial Valley. He joined the army
air corps two years ago. He was
ranked in the highest grades among
600 men training at GCwen Field,
Idaho. He left the United States for
overseas duty last May.
He had been awarded the Air
Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters and
the new medal, the Bronze Star.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
BY UNITED PRESS

The Japanese reported Fri
day that powerful formations
of American carrier planes
had attacked Bonin and Vol
cano islands, within 630
miles of Tokyo, and Radio Tokyo
expressed its belief that Vice Ad-
miral Marc A. Mitscher's famed
task force SO was on the proWl near
the japanese homeland.
A Tokyo broadcast recorded by
United Press in San Francisco said
ten cruisers and destroyers were
sighted east of Chichi Jima in the
Bonins Friday afternoon.
Their appearance there land sud-
den intensification of enemy activ-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Byrnes Directive
Sets Job CeiIinQ

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. CUP)-
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes Friday or6ered employ
ment ceilings placed on non-essen-
tial industries in labor shortage
areas in order to hold war workers
at their jobs and to free 100000
workers for vital war work.
The new orders were prompted
by the armed services pleas for
more production for the imminent
climactic phase of the war.
I'VE have the enemy on the
ropes; he is 6azed and his knees
are bucklng," Byrnes told a press
conference This Is no time to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Phillips Arrives
For Meetinus

What is happening in Washington
and how it affects Imperial Valley
farmers will be discussed by Con-
gresham John Phillips at the I'M
perial County Farm Bureau direc-
tors meeting in Ell Centre at l:3O
p. m. Saturday.
Congressman Phillips is particu-
larly interested at this time in dis
cussing pending legislation with the
farmers and getting their ideas
about what should be done to help
farmers in their production pro-
gram.
He was the speaker Friday noon
at the regular weekly Rotary meet
ing in Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
COP Leaders Charge New
Deal Policies Stir Up Strife

cited conflict between state and
federal interests in a broad field of
governmental relationships and de-
manoed greater scope and respon-
sibility for local government.
GROUND COVERED
Fridays reports dealt with social
welfare, education and public
health; public expenditures; labor,
water resources: and state federal
tax coordination. recommended
were:
/. There should be no political
control of the profession of medi-
cine.
Q. The states and local commun-
tiles should improve their existing
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-04
Heart Failure
ST. LOUIS, Aug. a. (UP)

ST. LOUIS, Aug. a. (UP)
The Republican governors
conference concl u d e d its
work Friday with final reports
charging the new deal with chaotic
administration of welfare agencies
and arbitrary handling OF labor
problems in a manner tending to
promote industrial strife.
Under leadership of Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey, Republican presidential
candidate, the governors submitted
the last of their bill of particulars
challenging the Roosevelt admin
istration in the form of five re-
ports and a statement OF conclu-
sions. Dewey said the action OF