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Evening star., 1944-01-15
1000 Reported Cleared
From City of Tromso
By the Associated Press.

~ .kSoONIdItU IS.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15.-The Ger
man-dominated Scandinavian Tele-
graph Bureau said today there were
reports in Oslo that 1000 persons
had been evacuated from the Nor
wegian coastal city of Tromso be-
cause of possibility OF an Allied
invasion in that area.
The bureau said there were other
rumors that Narvik and Harstad
would be evacuated.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Strange Spots Traced
To Boy Commands

LLBERTYVILLE, Ill-Residents
saw spots before their eyes on some
stately elms and assorted trees, 90
they called in the State Department
of Agriculture to find out.
Inspector Jack Williams inspect
ed. He trailed the spots through
the trees and onto fence posts and
telephone poles.
His diagnosis: Small boys play
ing commando.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Congress in Brief

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Continues work on revenue sec.
tions of tax bill.
Finance Committee considers vet
Grams legislation. sr
Houses
In recess.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Rescuers Toll to Free
Three Entombed Miners
81 the Associated Press,

6y the ASbOclAteu FfeSS,
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Jan. IS.
Three miners were trapped by an
extensive slate fall yesterday in the
Louise Coal Co.'S mine on SCOTS
Run, near Morgantown, and rescue
workers toiled to reach them with
out knowledge Il what had beeu
thar fa*e,
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Former Navy Grid Star
Is Missing in Action

By the Associated Press.
WILLIAMsPORT, Pa, Jan. Is
1t. David Z. Sloan, 20, former An
napolis and Penn State football star,
is missing in action, the Navy De-
partment has notified his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. K. Sloan.
Evening star., 1944-01-15

FLAX JACKET SAVES HIS LIFE-Staf Sergt Jerome J. Ba-
ensk Of Akron Ohio Flying Fortress radio operator the
damaged flax jacket that saved his life during Tuesdays
raid Germany In his left hand he holds the of
20m shell which exploded embedded itself where the
hole shows In the jacket his heart Knocked out the
impact he recovered to shoot down enemy planes
"A p. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Reserve Banks Earn More

Federal Reserve banks last year
reported net earnings Of $49, ,528 900
more than four times the 1912 fig
ure of $12,470,000.
Evening star., 1944-04-16

Hyou are the first in your neighborhood to uy this
inviting SPONGE CAKE recipe, then your husband
will have head start on his friends who bfag abour
their wives cooking. What's more, ,os will be sure
before you aar-because this grand dessert is
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Evening star., 1944-04-16

pillsbafys Best with any Pilsbury recipe-wirh
:, favorre recipe OF your own-yes, with ANY GOOD
RECIPE If you don't agree that you get better baking
than with any Other four, write Pisburys
Cooking Service, MINNEAPOLIS. and get back the
COST OF ~ your recipe ingredients.
. Sk.. Uitb Whipped F,.a j,eaag
isrk 49, esks T3-s.~ka~tYx.~
sS ~ unsseased tube pan and bake in slow oven
hvss. pan unl cold (abouf hour) Cut cake into
rso ayeas. Ffost wth the following
WlnppED vRusy saoSupso
teaspoon salt, egg white, top Of double
boile. wish roeary esx heater untl stiff but
dry.
pases boihns water
Ass.....-.l teaspoon lemon juice Ia cups dfained
crushed ss'eesened fruit canned or fresh
suawbenies, peaches, chefies; cooked dried
Pfunes apfieoC o. peaches)
sCsNnsss beating for 6ve minutes or until mixture
sands IN soft mounds. Allow 20 cool If de-
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Nazis Plan V.3
Rocket Attack
On Norway Peak

LONDON, Dec. 8. (UP)-A Lon
don Daily Mail dispatch from
Stockholm said Saturday that the
Germans were preparing for great
winter rocket offensive from Ncr-
wegian and Danish bases, possibly
with V-3 which was scheduled to be
ready for use against New York by
the end of this month.
The dispatch, quoting Allied OBJ
servers" and Norwegian under
ground sources, said the Germans
were studding Norway's famous
skiing Slopes with w" bases.
The main bases, it said, apparent
ly were being built atop 57O0-foot
Mount Gaustad, highest mountain
in southern Norway, but others were
constructed on heights as far to the
west and north as Bergen and per-
hapS Trondheim.
The dispatch theorized that sinov
height was not required for the sue
cessful launching CT vi robot
bombs and V-2 rockets, the new
bases may have been designed for
launching V-3.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
By UNITED PRESS

The deaths of 13 japanese
admirals in actions along the
South Pacific fronts were
announced Saturda y by
headquarters of the Yokosu-
ka naval station, Japan's
largest home base.
The announcement transmitted
by the japanese Domei agency and
recorded by FEC, did not specify
dates of death but it could be as
sumed the flag officers were killed
after Oct. 4 since on that date
Yokosuka announced the deaths of
seven other admirals in previous
actions.
1t was considered likely that the
IL admirals were killed in various
phases of the series of naval en-
gagements with u. S. forces, begin
ming october IL off Formosa and
past the first landing OF
troops in the Philippines.
Among the 13 dead listed by Do
mel was Vice Admiral Hideo Yano,
former chief of navy press section
and a key figure in Japanese pro-
circles
Others were: Vice Admirals Take
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Yankees Battle
Way to 0r'noc;
Last leyte Port

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Phil
ippines, Dec. 8. CUP)-The Ameri-
can 77th division thrust into the
outskirts of Ormoc, last sizeable
japanese port on Leyte, Saturcay
in a drive threatening to roll up
the rear of enemy forces fighting
to the last man against frontal
assault nearly 20 miles to the north.
The division overran Camp
Downes, an old American military
camp dating back to the Spanish
American war, on the outskirts of
Ormoc yesterday after three mile
advance from the beachhead they
had carved out only "a hours earlier
in a surprise landing.
The speed OF the advance indi-
Gated that. the japanese, caught
off balance by the amphibious blow,
would not be able to organize suf-
f,cient resistance to prevent the
speedy fall of Ormoc, their main
supply and reinforcement gateway
Six other American divisions sent
the all-out' offensive on Leyte into
its third day by further tightening
their strangehold from the north,
northeast, east, southeast and south
Oh 10000 to $4,000 japanese hem
med into two pockets in the north
west corner of the central Philip
pines islanc.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
By UNITED PRESS

Tie japanese acknowledged for
the first time Saturday the severity
of the earthquake that ripped across
central Japan Thursday afternoon,
and revealed that war plants and
residential areas were damaged in
Ocaka, the empires second city,
Carefully censored enemy broad
casts, which for the past "a hours
had been minimizing the extent of
the disaster, listed damage caused
by tidal waves and landslides in
half-dozen crowded manufacturing
centers extending from the edge CT
the Tokyo district to Osaka, 240
miles to the west
Official accounts Issued by the
Domei news agency, however, made
no mention of Tokyo itself or of the
loss CT life in Thursdays upheaval,
which observatories around tn G
world recorded as even greater than
the 1923 convulsion that wiped out
Yokohama and much of the capital
and killed almost 100000 persons.
The Domei dispatch, recorded by
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
$500 Quit Jobs
In Steel Plant

representative for the steel workers
union, caid union leaders would
urge the Columbia employees to re-
turn to work pending negotiation of
the riggers' controversy.
Smith said the riggers have been
working a six-day-week schedule
since last April. Half of the men
have been having Sunday off while
the other half work Sunday, he
said. The riggers change work
schedules every five weeks so that
those who had been working Sunday
could have that day off and those
who had had Sunday off would work
that day.
Nov the company has additional
work contracts. jobs expected to
last 81 weeks, and wants all the men
to work all Sundays" Smith said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Senate Freezes
Security Rate

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. up
The Senate late Friday passed and
sent to the President the House
approved bill to freeze social secur-
ity payroll taxes at per cent fer
another year
The bill passed by vote of AZ to
10, would bar an automatic doubling
of payroll tax on employers and en-
ployes alike on January l.
However, the President is expect
ed to veto the measure. Congress
then would have to override the
veto by two-thirds vote, amend
the freeze bill to permit boosting
the tax to a compromise IL per
cent, or drop the whole thing and
let the rate rise tc per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Governor Warns
Of Budget Hike

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 8. up
Governor Earl Warren said Satur-
day that the states budget for the
l945-47 biennium cant help" but
be the largest in history, although
he said it is being prepared just as
carefully as it would be if the state
had deficit instead CT a surplus.
The governor said he had been
going over budget requests of state
agencies with Finance Director
James S. Dean throughout most of
this week
Because of increases in fixed
charges, Warren said that the esti-
mate of all state expenses for the
next two years would exceed past
budgets even if I've didn't allow one
dollar increase in comfortable ex-
penditures."
The governor listed as important
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
u. S Infantry b0RES INTO SIEGFR|ED LINE
T. Of T. Committee
Pushes Postwar
Aviation Program
Calls for First Class
Airport at Imperial;
Shipping Center Seen

Declaring it imperative
that Ell Centro keep in the
vanguard of aviation prog
ress, the aviation committee
of the Ell Centre Chamber of
Commerce Saturday present
ed Charles Bramkamp, pres
ident, with a list of recon-
mendations and suggestions.
The committee, headed by Paul
A. jenkins, chairman, met Friday
with William F.. Carroll, airport
engineer with the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, and his assistant,
Paul G. SanderSon, to Stucy the
outlook of aviation effective in the
immediate and postwar future.
PLANS OUTLINED
The committee recommendations
included:
THAT william Duflock. secre-
tary of the chamber, be sent to the
December II and II meeting in
Hollywood which is to be held un-
der the auspices of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce for the pur-
pose of stuoying aviation matters.
2.-That the Ell Centre Chamber
of Commerce recommend to the
Continued on Page 6, Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
SCOUTS COUNCIL STATES
MEETING AT CALEXICO

The executive beard of the Impe-
rial-Yuma council of Boy Scouts
will meet at the De ANA hotel in
Calexico at p. m. Monday for the
last meeting of 1914.
All officers of the northern, east
ern and southern districts will be
presented during the evening and
plans will be made for the annuf:
council meeting the first week OF
February cr during the opening days
of National Boy Scout Week. A
nominating committee will be ap-
pointed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

PI1TSBURG, Cal, Dc. o. up
Thirty-five hundred employees of
Columbia Steel company's Pittsburg
mill who left their jobs Friday night
were scheduled TO hold mass meet
ing today to decide whether they
will return to work on critical army,
navy and merchant marine produc-
ton.
The plants entire force of en-
ployes, all members of the United
Steel Workers of America, Local
1440 (CIO), left work in sympathy
with a walkout by riggers who were
protesting a company order requir-
ing them to work every Sunday. The
walkouts tied up work on castings
for Mare Island navy yard, ship
frameworks for the merchant ma
rine and army ordnance.
Charles j. Smith, international
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Greek Gueri||as
Use Artillery
To Halt British

ATHENS, Dec. 8. (UP)-Armed
units of the EAM national liberia
tion front Saturday were laying
mines and establishing gun posts in
growing "bridgeheads" scattered
through the capital, and an official
said Athens might not be cleared
for very long time"
Elias forces. the military arm of
EAM, established road blocks en- the
highway between Athens and the
nearby port of Piratus Friday night
but the barricades were cleared Sat-
urday.
FORCES ESTIMATED AT 10000
Authorities estimated that the
ti-government forces in Athens
numbered about 10000, with another
10000 in the region around the cap
ital. The position and strength CT
the latter group, however were OBJ
scure.
About 200 Elias men were dug in
on Ardittos hill and another 100
just to the north. The latter force
was laying mines, and controlled
bridge over a river flowing through
the stadium area
Two hundred more were sniping
vigorously from a church in west
ern Athens. The British turned
small arms fire on the church, but
expected to refrain from shelling it.
They hoped to starve out the de-
Tenders of the building, situated in
city square.
USE OWN FIELD GUNS
AT scattered point; the Elias forces
had brought their own field artillery
into play as the battle of Athens
rounded out full week.
An official announcement here
said British casualties in Athens
had been very light" but the Greek
police had lost 600 killed, wounded
or missing from force of 5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Chinese Forces
Crush Foe in
Kweiyang Sector
Defeat of Japs Closing
In on u. S. Air Base
Eases Crisis in Nation

CHUNGKING, Dec. 8. CUP)-
China has successfully weathered
one of the gravest military crises of
the war, high government spckes-
man declared Saturday in announc-
ing the rout of a strong japanese
invasion force that had penetrated
within IS miles of the big American
air base at Kweiyang.
General Chen Cheng, newly ap-
pointed Chinese minister of war,
told press conference that the
critical phase of the present cam
paign was passed with the crushing
defeat of two japanese columns at
Tuhshan and Paichai Friday.
Both towns we're recaptured by
heavily reinforced Chinese troops
who slashed across the enemy's sIrs-
ply lines to the south and west and
then sent the invaders reeling in re-
treat under a series of smashing
frontal attacks
A communique reported that pur-
suing Chinese troops advanced 20
miles south of Tuhshan by night
fall yesterday and occupied the rail-
way town of Shangssu, Is miles
north of the Kweichow- -KwangSi
border.
Another pursuing Chinese force
drove down to the provincial border
at Limingkwan, southeast of Tuh-
shan.
An estimated 5000 japanese spear
headed the invading force at Tuh-
shan, rs miles southwest of Kwei-
yang. while another 5000 had pushed
up along the flank to Pachai. 65
miles below the American air base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

straight day mace TWO nuisance
attacks on the japanese capital it
self during the morning. Only dur
ing the first at am. Il pm. Fri
day, PVT were any bombS-"a
few incendiaries' - dropped, the
broadcast said.
The second sortie over Tokyo at
$50 am. (PWT0 was followed by
an hour-long raid on the Seto
Naikai coastal area, Tokyo assert
ed. The broadcast did not say, how
ever, how many B-29s participated
or whether any bombs were drop
ped.
H2to Naikai or INLAND sea-,
flows between the main japanese
home islands of Honshu. Shikoku
CONTINUED on Page 6, Column A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Imperial County
Lacks S539,000
Of War Bond Goal

Imperial county's total bond sales
Friday night had reached $2,2l0,342.
Friday sales totaled $780, 708. With
one more week to go, the county
lacks $539000 of its quota of $2.-
75C,00O.
THE difficulty lies in the fact
that the individual small buyer is
rot buying" County Chairman Herb
Fawcett declared Saturday. Bus
mess, an6 particularly big business.
has been doing it's stuff. But the
man who in the past has been buy
ing from $25 to 5000 or $500 worth
of bonds hasn't been buying, SO far.
Unless he does buy during the last
week, Imperial County may expert
encc the humiliation of failing to
fill ties quota"
No efforts so far have persuaded
most of the retail clerks in El
Centre, or elsewhere, to try to sell
bonds, Fawcett said, and bond crive
leaders will have to push individual
sales themselves during this last
week, while trying to enlist such
other volunteer aid as they can.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
BRITISH INFANTRY GAINS
ITALIAN Rail, CENTER

ROME, Dec. 9. CUPD-British
infantry, supported by armor, cap
tured the road and rail junction of
San Peospero, one mile southwest
of Faenza, Saturday while other
units of the Eighth army advanced
against strcng German opposition
to the northwest and reached a
spur 1000 yards from the town Of
Celle.
German forces counterattacked
and recaptured the town of Pideura
four and half miles west of Faenza
yesterday, but after a day of bloody
house-to-hc fight ing Eighth
army infantrymen and tanks drove
out the enemy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

and forth through the streets and
houses of the town for more than
10 hours, but the battered enemy
finally withdrew at 5 pm.
HEAD FOR SAARBRUCKEN
Southeast of Saarlautern, other
elements of Lieutenant General
George S. Patton's Third army
massed strength along a broad
siege arc for grand assault on
Saarbrucken, industrial capital of
the Saar absin and extended their
new beachheads across the Saar
river near Saarguemines.
German resistance was stiffen-
ing all along the line as the Third
army bit deeper into the vital Saar
regions which supplies the hungry
German war machine with 10 per
cent of its iron and steel and SIX
per cent of its coal. One big iron
and steel works already has been
seized by the Americans at Dill
gen. = s2s {.
On the Third armyIs eastern flank
Lieutenant General Alexander M.
Patch's American Seventh army
swung north two miles through
the eastern tip of France to within
six and half miles of the Germs n
border dozen or more miles north
east of Sarre Union.
Gambshien, on the Rhine river
nine miles northeast of Strasbougg.
also fell to the Seventh army, while
other elements farther south tear:,-
ed with the French, further corl-
pressing the German pocket BE-
tween the Rhine and the VoSg 3
river.
ON COLOGNE PLAIN
Lieutenant General Courtney II.
Hodges First army doughbo 5
struck out on the Cologne plain in
q minor action and captured his II
ground about one mile east of
Grosshau five and a half mil 5
southwest of the Roer river stronc;-
hold of Duren. A small German
counter attack southeast of Ber,
stein, three miles below Grossha-i,
was repulsed.
Ninth Army forces still we're bat
tling to crush the last two pocke5
west of the Roer in the Julich area.
but elsewhere their sector we
quiet. Infantry drove wecges into
the two pockets in the julio,
Sportspalast and Hasenfeld Gut Fri
cay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Jap War Plants
Hit by Quake

FEC mentors, admitted the shock
was particularly heavy in the Osaka
area, sprawling factory city of
3,252,000 residents. Second only to
Tokyo in size and Importance, the
seaport city is vital railway and
shipping hub and is packed with
textile, machinery. metal and chem
ical plants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

increases in fixed expenses of the
state, old age pensions. about s64.-
100000; the increase in state pay
ments to school districts voted at
the November 7 election, mere than
E0,000,000, and emergency salary
increases to state employees. about
$l4.000,000
The governor declined TO estimate
what the budget estimate of ex-
penses of running the state for the
next two years would be, saying he
rad not yet gone over requests Of
some of the larger state agenciee
The 1943-45 budget estimate for
regular state spending was about
1854. 100000 but special appropria~
tions by the legislature raised the
total actual and estimated spending
to $576.000.000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Riots in Berlin
Follow Raids
BY u. s. Bombers

LONDON, Dec. 9. (UP) Stock
holm dispatches said Saturday that
rioting and panic swept Berlin in
the wake of the American bombing
of the Nazi capital last Tuesday
when thousands of Berliners were
caught in the open at the height of
the raid, with resultant heavy loss
of life.
Travellers who returned to Sweden
from Berlin Immediately after the
raid said the American bombers
were believed there to have taken
off from new baseS close to the
Franco-German border, with the re-
suit that the city received only the
briefest warming of the impending
attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

20 miles away.
Sheriff James Long and company
officials identified the dead as
Louis Saph, 26, and Andrew J. HUT,
40, both of Hercules. Twenty-Five
were known injured and Sheriff
Long said the list was growing"
Most of the casualties were caus-
ed by flying glass which shoWered
this little industrial community on
the northwestern shore of San
Francisco bay, 20 miles from San
Francisco. Plate glass was shatter-
eo here and at the adjacent towns
OF Pinole and Rodeo. Conclusion
OF the blast was felt in San Fran
CISCO
Company officials, three hours
after the blast, said there was no
indication of the cause of the ex-
ploSion.
MAKES WAR PRODUCTS
The plant produces ammonia, dy-
namite, nitric acic, ammonium nj
trate, black powder and other prod
ucts for the army and navy.
The plant lies approximately Is
miles west of Port Chicago on Sui
sun bay, scene of one of the wars
aworst home front disasters. There,
in mid-July, two ammunition laden
merchant vessels blew up, killing
at least 1923 persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

sertion that Substantial un-
derstanding' existed between
the two allies.
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchills fighting speech and his
vote of confidence from the house
OF commons Friday strengthened
belief among American authorities
that the policy breach would re-
main until the next Roosevelt
Churchill Stain meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
British-U. S. Rift Widens
On Freed Nations PoIicv

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.
(UP)-Diplomatic observers
believed Saturday that the
United States and Great
Britain were far from agree
ment on allied policy toward
liberated European govern
ments despite British AM
bassador Lord Halifax's as
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
USE OWN FIELD GUNS
YUGO PARTISANS CROSS
DANUBE NEAR BELGRADE

LONDON, EoC. 8. UP)-Yugo-
slav PartisanS crossed the Danube
river IS miles northwest of Belgrade
and captured the town of Sotin on
the west bank, Marshal Tito'S COM
munique said Saturday.
The Partisan forces Immediately
started drive toward Vukovar, an
important highway junction seven
miles northwest of Sotin.
Vukovar is approximately 90 miles
south of Apatin, where Soviet forces
made che of their crossings of the
Danube for the present thrust
through southwest Hungary.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10
Flame ThroWers
Hell p Wi pc Out
Many PiIIboxes
Stop Strongest Coun+era++acks in
Battling East Of Saar River;
yanks Make Gains on Whole Front

PARIS, Dec. 8. (UP)-American infantry knocked out
IL bterydefended pillboxes with flame throwers gren
AIDES and and plunged deeper into the of Seg
fried line deenses northwest of Saarlauern Saturday af
ter smashig the strongest German counter attack yet
corked east of the Saar river
Some 600 ounter-attacking Germans with II tanks
stabbed back into Amercan-held Dngen two and half
miles northwest of Saarautern and six miles inside the
Saar basin, $40 Friday The battle swayed back
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-10

Halifax told reporters that 'un-
cerstanding" existed between U. S.
and Britain on policy in liberated
countries after comforting Friday
with Secretary of State Edward r.
Stettinius, Jr.
Many we're quick to draw a dis
tinction between understanding"
and agreement" as it applies to
the Week-long dispute that has
caused both governments to air
publicity their divergent views on
the right of big powers to inter
vene in the internal politics of liber-
ated nations.
Britain has claimed the right of
Intervention, while the u. S. has
champiohed a hands off" policy.
OUTLINE FUTURE STEPS
Both governments, it was clear,
have taken steps to assure future
consultation before acting inde-
pendently on such issues as the
Italian cabinet dispute, in which
Britain interfered without first no.
tifying the United States and Rus
sia. Italy is a combined American
British Russian military zone.
Moscow has maintained COM
plete silence on the issue although
Russia's interests are involved in
political problems in Poland, Bull
garia. Romania and Yugoslavia-
and probably Italy and Greece as
well.