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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-01
WEATHER
tBy u. S. Weat.;e, -ureau,

tBy u. S. Weat.ie, -ureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 70; 1880 am II; 1870 pm, r.;
1880 pm rs.
Maximum 30; Minimum 70; Mean rs;
Normal 70.
Humidity
13O am, 88; 1880 am. IS; 1870 pm, 96;
1880 pm, 80.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3O pm
LOS inches.
Total since the first of the month,
4.56 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington -------------- 6:51a 2:02a
7:35p 2:10p
Masonbero Inlet ------ 4:26a 1O:46a
5:16p 11:41p
Sunrise, 5:23 am; Sunset. 7:ls pm;
Moonrise, 4:50 pm; Moenset. 2:15 a
The majority of the population
of Turkey is engaged in or de-
V
Lawn clippings allowed to fall
pendent on agriculture.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-01

: The University of Finland was
founded in 1890
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-01

: The earth has 57510,000 square
1miles of land surface.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-01

The majority of the population
of Turkey is engaged in or de-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-01

Lawn clippings allowed to fall
pendent on agriculture.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-01

Sunrise, 5:23 am; Sunset. 7:1s pm:
Moonrise, 4:5o pm; Moenset. 2:15
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
SoviietS
She
Prussia
Fort
Falls as Russ
Press Westward

LONDON, Oct. IL. (UP)-
Moscow reported Thursday
that the Red army had cap
tured Oradea, big Transyl-
vanian transport center near
the Hungarian frontier, and
had ened an artillery
bombardment of East Prus-
sia along a 5O-mile front.
Premier Josef Stain issued an
order of the day announcing the
fall of Oradea to Marshall Rodion
Y. Malinovsky's Second army of
the Ukraine, the left wing of which
was sweeping against Budapest after
capturing Szeged, Hungary's sec
ond city. - -
Stain described Oradea as IAN
important communications and eco
nomic center and powerful Transyl-
vania defense base
Earlier Moscow. reports told of a
powerful Soviet offensive along the
boreer of East Prussia in conjunc-
ton with the artillery lombard
ment of Germany's home soil.
The Nazi- controlled Scandinavian
Telegraph bureau reported from
Berlin that the Russians had driven
into the great Baltic port of Memel,
and violent house to house fighting
was going on.
Hungary is on the verge of capi-
tulation, United Press Correspond
ent Henry Shapiro reported by tele-
phone from Moscow.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12

Farmers made the dirt fly
all over Imperial Valley this
week as they began the ser
ious business of seeding after
the usual let-up in activities.
Land was being prepared for the
planting of flax and barley and
at the same time some farmers were
planting alfalfa, lettuce, carrots,
cabbage, broccoli, onions, spinach,
tomatoes. squash and truck crops
of all kinds.
Due to unfavorable weather con-
ditions, poor stancs resulted from
some early paintings of lettuce,
County Agricultural Commissioner
B. A. Harrigan said in his monthly
report to the county board of super
visors. Grasshoppers and crickets
also did some damage to the early
lettuce. Later paintings, however,
are generally better, he said.
Early carrot paintings also suf-
fered from crickets and grasshop-
pers, Harrigan's report saio. The
pests and unfavorable weather at
time of watering resulted in some
poor stands.
While some cabbage was planted
earlier, there is still more being
planted this month. Considerable
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Huge Air Fleet Strikes
On Way to Philippines
Japan's Powerful Isle Naval Base
Is Target to 1000 Fighter
And Bomb Craft in New Thrust
= By UNITED PRESS

One thousand American planes, greatest air fleet
massed the Pacific launched aout assault Thursday
against Japans Pearl Harbor island fortress of Formosa
the northern approaches the Philippines Radio Tokyo
reported.
The attack on the island Japans largest naval base
fleet, began at (Tokyo tme) and still continuing
eight hours later, Imperial headquarters communque
said 1t added that 100 American planes had been shot
down in the first six hours alone
The communque recorded by United Press in San
Francisco.
Center Attack Strategic Rail Line
The huge force of bombers and fighters apparently
tered their raid Formosas railway SYSTEM but Tokyo
said the planes also ranged far and wide the island
The stunning blow within 900 miles of Japan's home
islands presumably another step in the American
offensive neutraze japanese bases preparatory the
promised invasion of the Philippines
The island approximately $50 miles long and 100 miles
wide the base for operations in which the Japanese
launched their assault the Philippines in December 194
and ultimately through the entire southwest Pacific
Although the southern tip of Formosa is 225 miles from
uzon the small islands at the northern end of the Phil
ppnes archipelago separated from Formosa by only
the 100-mle wide Bashi channel.
Tokyo Reports Wide Range Attacks
Tokyo said the "entire area" of Takao, Tainan and
Taichu key points the railroad extending the
sland' was the principal target.
Tanan is the principal city of southern Formosa Jap
ans fortress base 100 miles off the China coast.
later Tokyo broadcast beamed at Italy and reported
by the FEC indicated other points along the FormOsa rail
line bombed, and said the attack being carried
by 'some 1000 fighter and bomber planes, indicating
the presence of carrier task force if the report is
firmed.
powerful American task force had smashed at the Ryu
Continued Pg. 8, Co. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Grape and Citrus
Yields Fall Off

SACRAMENTO, Oct. II. up
Grower estimates of the California
grape crop have dropped as the
harvest advances and the tctal crop
now is estimated at 2,473,000 tons,
the California crop and livestock re-
porting service announced Thurs
day.
An estimated production still is
among the highest recorded, al
though about 100000 tons below last
years record, the service said. In
cluded in the estimate are Sal 900
tens of wine grapes, 1,450,O0O tons
of raisin grapes and $4,000 tons Of
table varieties.
In its first estimate of l944-45
citrus crops, the service placed the
Navel orange crop at l8,72O,00O
packed boxes, compared to 2l,O71.-
900 for the previous crop, and the
Valencia crop at 85 per cent OF a
full crop, compared to IA per cent
or 30,800,000 packed boxes for the
previous crop.
Range conditions in the state, the
service said, are the poorest OF the
past four years and as result
slaughter of calves and cattle is up
nearly so per cent,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Leaders Study
4-H, Extension
Plans for Year

Streamlining winter activities OF
all phases of the agricultural ex-
tension service, home departments,
and All clubs occupied local and
state leaders during tWo-day con-
ference in Ell Centre this week 8
l.. B. Smith, state leader of farm
advisors, conferred with Assistant
Farm Advisor George Winright
concerning the wartime activities
of the extension service in general
ano assisted with Imperial countys
plans to extend and improve the
service to meet the needs of farm
ers of the county and at the same
time fit them into the overall pro-
gram of farming in America.
w. G.. MarderS, All club super
visor in southern California. met
with Assistant Farm Advisor H. Lee
Landerman to exchange ideas for
making the club work more effec-
tive and efficient. They plan a WIN
ter program of outstanding 6iffer-
ence and of more Importance than
have been the programs of the
past.
Miss Fleda Smith, assistant state
leader of home departments, con-
ferred with Miss Florence Glenn,
home demonstration agent, and dis
cussed department plans for the
coming year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Balkan
States
Waiver
Bu|sars Sire am
Out Of Greece
As Peace Pends

LONDON, Oct. IL. (UP)-
Bulgarian occupation troops
streamed out of Gree ece
Thursday, paving the way for
a formal armistice between
the Sofia government and
the Allies, and Hungary also
appeared about to quit the
Axis camp.
Roundabout Turkish reports
broadcast by the London radio said
panic was gripping Budapest as
the Russians neared the city. Count
less refugees were said to be pour
ing into the capital from the east)
The Budapest racio said defense
Minister Ludwig Won Csatay would
make a statement on the war situa-
ton in the upper house Thursday.
Premier Col Gen. Vitez Geza Laka-
tos' cabinet met twice Wednesday
to discuss problems arising from
Russian occupation of part of Hun
gary and the evacuation of refugees,
the broadcast said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12


Lieutenant General Courtney H.
Hodges headquarters reported that
the air, artillery, and infantry on
slaught was designed to drive out
or eXterminate the German garri-
son and capture the city rather than
cestroy it.
United Press Correspondent Jack
F'rankish in a dispatch from First
army headquarters said the Nazi
command had thrown one of its
crack diviSions-no misfitS and
aged, but first class fighting men
into a heavy but futile counterat-
tack northeast Of Aachen.
Supreme aeac quarters announc-
ed that southeast of Aachen the
Yanks captured the village of Vos-
senack, in the Hurtgen forest eight
miles INSIDE Germany, and turned
back counterattack against it.
Front dispatches said the Ameri-
cans held firmly to Germeter, near
Vossenack, but gave up some ground
to a counterbloW in a neighboring
sector today.
Thunc erbolts and Lightnings dive
bombed and gunned fortified viii
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12

situation of American boys coming
home who will clash with the Japa-
nese if they are allowed to return
here"
Garland urged the peace officers
to express their opinions to MEM
bsrS of congress and the state legis-
lature in order to obtain laws TO
cover the problems
1T is our right to form opinions
and mine is that all foreigners,
whether japanese or Chinese, II
they demonstrate through their own
acts that they do not believe in our
constitution, should be banned. Such
individuals never acquired any con-
stituticnal rights" Garland said.
The conference adopted unani-
mously a resolution presented by
Deputy Sheriff John A. Greening
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Eisenhower Sees
Hard Days Ahead

SU EN- E HEADQUARTERS,
AEF, PARIS, Oct IL. CUP)-Gen-
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower ex-
presse complete confidence"
Thursday in the home and fighting
fronts of the United Nations ito
see this war through to final vic
tcry," but warned that while VIC
tory is certain, I'VE have a hard job
ahead"
Eisenhower, looking fit and con-
fident, discussed the entire war sit
uation at a conference of more than
100 correspondents.
The supreme commander said the
surrender-Or-die ultimatum to the
Aacheil garrison Should not be con-
sidered a precedent, but was the de-
cision of the field commander who
was left to his own devices as how
best to kill the Germans.
After saying that the people at
home were going to see the war
through to victory, he added that
"as lcng as they will see it through,
I know that all the soldiers, sailors
and airmen possess the indomitable
will to Win"
He emphasized that the hard
fighting ahead would be made
tougher by the fact that the CO.
ercion methods of the Nazi heir
archy now are being used more than
ever.
If the Gestapo pistol were not now
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
{. Of {. Directors
Take Stand on
Ballot Proposals

Directors of the El Centro Cham
Der of Commerce, at meeting
Wednesday night, took a definite
stand on all but two of the II prop
ositionS on the November election
ballot
They recommended a yes vote on
prcpot itions No. veterans welfare
bonds; No. veterans tax exemp-
tions); No. 3 compensation of con-
Stitutional Offices; No. public
officials in military service, and
No!7 texpenses of legislators.
They recommended a nc vote on
propositions No. 4 hospital and
charity tax exemptions No. 6 Can
nual session of the legislature No.
tax deeds; No. 9 elementary
school apportionmenb and Nc. II
retirement PENSIONS.
No recommendation were made
on propositions No. 10 (compensa-
ton of local officials, and No. 12
(the right of employment.
The directors followed the recon-
mendations made by Ira Kinsey
chairman of the Imperial county
affsirs committee, and his commit
tee members.
Directors voted $20Cl from the
music fund to the Imperial Valley
Concert association to assist in
bringing what the directors called
a worthwhile community project
to- the city
1t was decided to cooperate with
the Ministerial associa ton in patri-
services to be held at
5 p. III. on Victory in Europe Day"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12

being held at the back of the Ger
man people and soldiers, there
would not be enough Germans re-
sisting to prolong the war, he said.
Eisenhower said a large portion
of the German people want to throw
in the sponge, but they are, first,
inarticulate and, second, they don't
dare oppose the SIS and. Gestapo
standing at their backs with pis-
tolls.
He said that while nobody can say
the collapse of Germany at any
moment is impossible, nevertheless
the Nazis can be expected to fight
like fanatics, gcing into mountain
.hideouts. and underground. bases al
the end.
In Germany there will be no fra
ternization," Eisenhower said 1--WE
go in as conquerors. We shall treat
them justly in conformity with the
civilized standards as exemlified by
our governments. We will have
nothing else to do with them ex-
cept in the necessary official rela-
ticnships."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12

FRESNO, Cal. Oct. 70. UP)-
Two hundred members of the Cali
fornia peace officers association
concluded their three-day annual
conference late Wednesday after
hearing Gordon Garland, director
of the state department of motor
vehicles, warn that return of Japa-
nese to the Pacific coast would Gre
ate a difficult problem for law en-
forcement officers.
you cannot make our American
boys who saw the atrocities of the
Japs and who are coming back from
the Pacific theater of war like even
the presence of the Japanese in
California-not even the sight of
them" Garland said. 6. You peace
officers will have to cope with
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Sheriff States
Fall Glasses
For Eight Weeks

The sheriff's department training
school will resume weekly classes
next Wednesday after a vacation
during the summer, Sheriff Robert
w. Ware anne unced Thursday
Glasses will be held in department
No. | of the superior court in Ell
Centre from 7:30 p. m. to $50 p. m.
each Wednesday for eight weeks.
Ware said these classes are open
to all regularly employed, salaried
law enforcement officers in the
county. By means of the Glass;
Ware passes on to other law en-
forcement Officers in the county
the information he gained while at
tending the peace officers training
course given by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in Washington, D..
c.. early this year.
Subjects to be discussed at the
classes will be: ID Chemistry in
crime detection, including the wrap
ping, handling and shipping Of evil
dence and preserving the chain OF
evidence; 90 jurisdiction CT federal
agencies, including fugitives investi-
CATION, sources of information. un-
lawful flight status and case dis
cussion: (3) surveillance, raids and
road blocks. including the discus
sion of raid charts; (4 photography
as an investigative aid, including
fraudulent. hecks and forgery
equipment: (5) confessions and
protect, including interviews; CO
juvenile delinquency and arson in
vestigation; ca report writing,
Communism, Nazism and Fascism;
go firearms demonstration and
practice.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Highway Patrol
Gets New Men

SACRAMENTO, Oct. IL. (UP) -
Addition of IA officers to the Cali
fornia highway patrol was an
nounced Thursday by E. Raymond
Cato, patrol chief.
Five of the new officers will be
assigned to duty in Los Angeles
county, four to the San Francisco
Oakland bay bridge, and one each
to San Joaquin, Riverside, Solano,
MADEIRA and Ventura counties, Cato
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
EI Ceniro Waits
Chest Fund Drive

Fric ay the thirteenth has no ter
rors for the Ell Centre War Chest
committees.
Fortified with many a rabbits
foot and other good luck charms,
drive chairmen and their soliciting
teams will meet for breakfast at
6:45 am. Friday, and Immediately
thereafter dive into the task of
collecting funds to meet Ell Centro's
goal of more than 100000.
Committee chairmen announced
Thursday that they had completed
organization work, had their teams
intact, and were ready to get down
tn business.
Special interest at the breakfast
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Betting Listed
On End Of War

NEW YORK, Oct. IL. (UP)-The
famed LloydIs Underwriters of Lon
don have given the equivalent of
four to one odds that the European
war will be over before the end of
October, but have issued a con
tingency" contract at rate of
100 to one against the naming of
We Day, George j. Stewart,
member of the Lloyd's insurance
group, revealed Thursday.
Stewart, here on a business trip,
refused, however, to comment on
presidential election odds.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Finest German
Troop ps Foil
To Halt y0n Ks
Air and Artillery Bombardmen+s
Set Fires in Industrial Areas:
Escape Channels Remain Closed

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Paris, Oct II.
(UP)-The American First stormed burning Aachen
Thursday two industrial districts in push to-
ward the dominating Observatory Hill and beat down
desperate efforts by of Adolf He finest divisions to
pry open a relief corridor to the city.
Covered by dive bombers and artillery, United States
shock troops sugged through the Roete factory dis
and the Schachthof Saughtehouse and press
ed against the Observatory height WHICH commands the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Valley Growers Speed
Work on Fell Paintings

poets for a normal crop, as harvest
approaches. The citrus crop also is
normal with groves generally in
good condition.
Alfalfa markets are weaker with
movement to coast. markets lighter
than usual, Harrigan said. Consider
able tonnage is stacked in storage
yards at present.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Peace Officers Warned
Of Jap Trouble Ahead

of Alameda county, asking the fed
eral communications commissions
aid in retaining present police fre~
quencieS on grounds that proposed
reductions would be detrimental t0
public interest.
At its closing session the confer
ence selected Salinas for It's i945|
meeting and elected the following
officers:
Charles w. Dullea. San Francisco|
police chief, president. Sheriff
George J. Overhead. Fresno county, !
first vice president; Harold A. v6-|
gelsang. Stockton police chief. sNc~|
ond vice president, Howard r uIes~|
son, Alameda county sheriff thir0
vice president. and g. r. Horrnl1
Los Angeles police chief. fostrtj
vice president.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Cub Scout Chief
Stresses Home
AS Best Builder

Extending the influence of moth
ers and fathers and keeping small
boys at home is the basic principle
of the Scout Cub program in Amer
ica,' said William C. Vessel, ma
tional director of Clubbing, in Ell
Centre Thursday,
There are $4,000 den mothers
working with the 100000 Cubs in
the United States, he said.
Cur plan is to extend the influ-
ences of parenthood to include boys
whose parents have no time for
them and to do everything to center
the activities of these young boys
in the home instead of having meet
ings in other places" Vessel said.
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. So
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12

He disclosed that by the end of
last August, Lloyd's Underwriters
hao issued 1000 pound sterling con-
tracts for a premium of 200 pounds
sterling if the war still is in prog
ress on November /, 1914. This is
equivalent to odds of four to one,
since the buyer of the premium
does not get back his 200 pounds,
The man in the street in London,
according to Stewart, who is senior
member of Stewart, Smith & Com
pany, has only one chance in 1000
of being killed or disabled through
enemy action.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
Moscow PorIeys
STUDY Pocts

these developments followed almost
Immediately upon the arrival OF
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and his initial conference with
Marshal Josef Stain.
1t was believed other Develop
ments of equal or greater signif-
icance will follow shortly.
Churchill and his party were re-
ceived in an atmosphere of un-
precedented Angle Russian cordial
ity in which were seen important
signs for success of the negotiations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
By NJ. s. HANDLER

MOSCOW, Oct. 12, CUP)-First
fruits cf the Stain Churchill con-
ferences became evident Thursday
with a series of diplomatic develop
ments which included an eleventh
hour effort to achieve Polish set
tlement, the apparently imminent
capitulation of Hungary, and the
acceptance by Bulgaria of prelimi-
nary armistice terms.
There was no doubt here that it
was more than a coincidence that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12

acreage has been planted to seed
onions Yields from last years crop
we're generally satisfactory and in
cications are for approximately the
same acreage as last year.
Early paintings of tomatoes in the
inland area are up and indications
are for an early fall crop.
Milo maize paintings show pros
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
( 1%,s7Hs t;ot4ts

Turn About
1t was weary day for Deputy
Sheriffs Slim Lyons, Walter Henry,
j. H. Brown and Henry Boguet when
q report came in that 75-year-old
man was lost on the desert II or
Ia miles east of inland. 1t was too
dark to find anyone when the re-
port came to the sheriff's office SO
the delegated searchers arose early
Wednesday and went out into the
wilds of the desert.
In the meantime, George RasmuS-
sen of Los Angeles, the man sup
posed to be lost, reached inland
under his own power He hadn't
been lost He was prospecting for
gold
But the searchers didn't know
that. They finally got word and
came back to town. Lyons was SO
tired he couldn't wear his gun dur
ing lunch.
The other deputies insist that the
quartet of searchers lost themselves
while searching for the old gentle
man and the old gentleman had to
go out and find them.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
No Black Cats?

No Black Cats?
Great things are expected of Kit
Carson, backfield man on The Cen
trail Union High school team. He
knows he is going places at the
game against Holtville Friday night.
: The game will be played Friday
the 18th.
The number on his helmet is 49,
His number on the team is 13.
The pants he drew for the game
bear No. 13.
We all know the game is bound
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-12
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 104, minimum
Thurs. So; 5 am. Thurs. 81, humid
ity 10; noon Thurs. 80. humidity IS;
pm. Wednesday SO, humidity 22.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Suburban Notes
OF Society

Mrs. Horace P. Luckett of Silver
Spring has left for a vacation in
Tucson, Ariz.
Mrs. r. j. Scofield of Sligo Park
Hills is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Brooke, in Oak Park, Ill
Yeoman Elmer Parsons, jr., U. S
N. R., is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Parsons of Silver
Spring, having recently arrived ir
this country from sea duty, where
he was wounded and received tbs
Purple Heart.
Mrs. Thomas Conan and hel
daughter Susan returned during
the week end to their home in Ia
koma Park after visit with rela.
tives in Cincinnati and Sydney
Ohio, and in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E. Smith OF
Woodside Park are spending two
weeks at Hot Springs, Ark.