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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
Officers Trail
Two Suspected
German Escapes

Search for two men believed to
be of the group of Germans who
escaped last Sunday night from the
prison camp at Papago, Arizona,
continued throughout the Ell Centro
area Friday.
The man-hunt began at 5 pm.
Thursday when Father Edward
Hutchinson of st. Paul's Episcopal
church telephoned the Imperial
county sheriff's office that two
men answering the description of
two of the men were in east FL
Centre.
SHERIFF STARTS HUNT
Sheriff Robert w. Ware sent out
an all-points bulletin over the po-
lice radio. He ano his deputies were
joined in the search by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Ell Centre
police, California Highway patrol
men, and other peace officers. The
alert continued throughout the
night, officers hunting through
warehouses and packing sheds in
the industrial part of Ell Centre
where the wanted men were be-
lieveo to have hidden themselves
when the hunt began.
Investigation revealed that occu-
pants of house trailer near the
south city limits of El Centre saw
two men walking north along the
railroad tracks. One had several
GayS' growth of brown WhiskerS
They wore khaki trousers and shirts
and one of them had a blue coat
and one wore a blue cap.
AT ORTIZ HOME
A little later the pair appeared
at the home of Mrs. Magoalena
Ortiz, mother of the prizefight
champion, Manuel Ortiz, in the 100
block on Olive in Ell Centre.
Mrs. Ortiz told Sheriff Ware that
one of the men was more than six
Continued on Page G. Col g.
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great strength were reported bare
ly 80 miles from Vienna at the edge
OF the western Hungarian plains
below the Danube, while equally
strong forces to the north battled
for a crossing of the Hron river
only slightly farther from the Aus
trian capital.
The Soviet morning communique
said the Germans and Hungarians
we're retreating slowly westward,
suffering enormous" losses in men
and materiel, particularly in the
area west of Budapest between the
Danube and Lake Balaton.
Swaying tank battles ragged at
a half dozen points on the 55-mile
front as Marshal Feodor 1. Toll
bukhins Third Ukrainian army
struck again and again in an effort
to broach the enemy lines and turn
their retreat into a disorderly rout.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
BY JAMES f. ROPER

ATHENS. Dec. 80. CUP British
and Greek troops launched three
pronged offensive against rebel
forces in southeast Athens at dawn
Friday and four hours later the at
tack was reported going according
to plan"
The offensive opened the second
phase of a campaign to clear all
southern Athens of left-wing ELIAS
troops. Southwest Athens already
has been cleared virtually up to
Omonoias square and by dusk, the
British hoped to hold half the en-
tire capital.
Attacking at a. m, one British
prong drove toward the stadium
area CT southeast Athens. another
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29

pest SAID the area around the Royal
palace was engulfed in smoke and
flame, the city hall had been blown
up, and streets adjoining parlia-
ment buildings were dynamited.
TERRIFIC HOLOCAUST
The Hungarian capital was re-
ported swampec by one of the most
violent holocausts of the war in the
east as Russian Besiesers and Ger
Hungarian defenders oattled
savagely through the streets, on the
rooftops, and in the cellars.
Moscow relayed front reports that
German SIS regiments trapped in
Budapest were carrying out the sys-
tematic obstruction of public build
ingS as they retreated toward the
center CT the city under the crush
ing blows of Red army assault units
smashing in from all directions
They scattered mines in all the
streets and touched them off when
ever they were forced to give ground.
Gates, doors and windows of thous-
ands of houses had been converted
into BOBBY traps in the last ditch,
hopeless defense of the Coomed
city.
RUSH TOWARD VIENNA
Russian tanks and cavalrymen in
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Government Dinls
Civilian Hope
For Added Meats

CHICAGO, Dec. 20. CUP) = The
government has stepped up its meat
purchases to a point where it is
getting more than four of every
10 pounds of meat produced under
federal inspection, the American
meat institute said Friday in its
monthly review of the livestock and
meat situation.
On the basis of government pur-
chases, coupled with department of
agriculture figures showing seven
per cent decrease in meat produc-
ton over December of last year, the
institute concluded that there can
be no immediate expansion in meat
allocations for civilian consumers.
Pork production, under federal in
spectiOn. was IL per cent more in
December than in November but 20
per cent less than that produced
in December, 1943, the institute re-
ported
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Cites
RAJ id ! S
Saws u. S. Bombs
Honshu Isle;
Boasts Sinkinqs
By UNITED PRESS

Tokyo disclosed new Amer
lean aerial assaults on the
Japanese home island of
Honshu Friday and reported
that a big American convoy.
of 80 transports and more
than 20 cruisers and destroy
ers was sailing westward
through Mindanao sea, pos
sibly for a new invasion in
the Philippines.
An enemy broadcast said undes-
ignated American planes were raid
ing the south-central section of
Honshu, site of the large industrial
cities of Kobe and Osaka, in the
wake of three attacks on the same
area by single B-29 Superfortresses
from bases in the Marianas.
The Japanese claimed that two of
the raics were made on the east
ern sector Of the capital" but did
not specify whether Tokyo itself
was hit.
Reported presence of the Ameri-
can convoy in Mindanao sea follow
ing recent japanese speculation that
General Douglas Macarthur was
getting ready for amphibious land
ing operations against Luzon, prin-
cipal island of the Philippines.
A Tokyo communique claimed
that Japanese planes had sunk six
large American transports and
heavily damaged two Others in at
tacks Thursday.
Operations in the Philippines
went into a temporary lull. with U.
S. troops continuing the mop up
northwest Leyte. An additional 912
enemy dead and 16 prisoners were
counted Wednesday. There was
neither ground nor air activity on
Mindoro.
The japanese reported that 10
Lightning and WarhaWk fighters
bombed and strafed the suburbs of
Hanoi, capital of French Indo-Chi-
ma for half-hour yesterday, but
claimed only insignificant DAM
age" was caused.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
y AMBLINe
NE:poR1ER

Big Surprise
1t was mighty cold the other
night when Deputy Sheriff M. C.
Pinnell answered the door at his
home.
A looking man draped in
a long overcoat stood on the porch.
The visitor began asking questions
and talking in vague manner.
Pinnell thought there was some
thing strange about the man SO he
took him TO the sheriff's office for
questioning.
OF course the first thing was to
search him for weapons. Pinnell
started with the side pockets of
the long overcoat, slapping them
smartly He then thrust his hands
under the overcoat and slapped at
the hip pockets of the mans trous-
erS.
"WoW!" howled Pinnell.
The seat was gone from the mans
trousers and he wore no under
wear.
HE was cold, too," muttered Pin
nell amid the hysterical shouts OF
his fellow deputies.
Psychological Note
A great deal has been said ABOUT
what causes happy and unhappy
marriages. One of the things which
frequently mentioned in connection
with marriages happy and unhappy
is the universal habit of husbands
in regard to newspapers.
Most husbands take newspaper,
select the pages and sections they
want and hand the rest, If any, to
the little woman. The head OF the
house then retires behind the news
paper and, unless interrupted by the
little woman, stays there come wtat
may.
Not long ago Mrs. Burris Jenkins
Sr was talking this matter over
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
Avery
Defies
Custer
Ward Executive
Stays on Job;
Army Moves in

CHICAGO, Dec. 20. (UP)
camps were formed
in the paneled executive Of
fices of Montgomery Ward
and company Friday as the
government moved toward a
showdown on it's ability to
operate the plant despite de-
fiance from Sewell Avery,
militant chief of the COM
pany's board of directors.
The government force headed by
Major General Joseph w. Byron,
established itself in an office only
a few feet from Avery's in the
glistening white plant along the
north branch of the Chicago river.
The army moved in Thursday under
orders from President Roosevelt to
take possession of the Chicago plant
and Wards facilities in six other
cities for failure to comply with
war labor board orders.
STILL ON JOB
The position of the Montgomery
Ward management was made clear
by Avery when he said
I'm still in charge. The plant
hasn't been turned over to the gov
ernment, and I'll be on the job to-
Cay unless I am thrown out or
fenced out"
An army spokesman said Avery
could come and go as he pleased and
would remain free to operate the
more than 600 Ward retail and
wholesale outlets which were not
included in the seizure order. The
Continued on Page 6, Col. a.
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The housing problem of Ell Centro
and Imperial county is receiving
sympathetic study, but there still is
nothing that can be done until the
next congress appropriates sched-
uled $15,OO0,OOO for projects in Cali
fornia.
This was the general outcome of
a conference Friday morning in the
Ell Centre chamber of commerce be-
tween Stanley Abel, representative
of the Federal Housing Authority in
Los Angeles with the housing COM
mittee CT the chamber of commerce
and representatives of the Ell Centre
marine air station and the Holtville
chamber of commerce, on Friday.
County Supervisor Hugh Osborne
told the meeting that the growers
and shippers here are planning to
transport 200 trailers from Beau
mcnt, Texas, at their own expense,
and that these will house either a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29

family or from three to four single
people.
URGE HOUSING AUTHORITY
He also said that at a discussion
earlier on Friday he and other
county supervisors reached the con-
clusion that no real progress will be
made until a county housing au-
thority is created, and that they
were agreed that steps should be
taken to create such an authority.
The magnitude and character Of
the local housing needs were analy-
zed in detail.
Colonel Hugh c. Brewster, COM
manding officer. Ell Centre marine
air station, told the meeting that
morale is his first and last problem
and that the soldiers wife and fam
lily are basic to morale. He said that
when a doctor or psychologist eX-
amines man returning from over
Continued on Page 6, Col. a.
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Both Sides Rest
In Chaplin Case

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20. CUP) -
Charlie Chaplin's attorney Friday
rested his defense after the last of
three doctors who made a blood
test testified that he believed the
British comedian could not be the
father of Joan Barry's baby.
Miss Barry's attorney, 77-year-old
Joseph Scott, announced he would
not have a rebuttal and court re-
cessed while the attorneys debated
the time to be allotted for final
arguments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
u. s. Planes Destroy Rail
Lines Back Of Nuzis

southeast of Frankfurt.
The rail yards at the big juno
tons of Frankfurt, Ashaffenburg,
and Bingen were the targets for
heavy blows by the raicers rounding
out a full week of attacks in which
they were estimated to have drop
ped $4,000 tons of explosives on
German transport lines.
The British heavy bomber force
flying toward the continent as dusk
gathered was the sixth armada in
action within 40 hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
British Hammer
Greek Reds

British column pushed into the
cemetery south of the stadium and
a Greek force advanced from the
east.
Peace negotiations between Greek
government leaders and representa-
tives of tie Elias were at a stand
still pending word from King George
on their united demand for the i'm
mediate establishment CT regency.
Prime Minister Churchill and For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden left
Greece Thursday for London In an
attempt to persuade the exiled king
of the wisdom OF such choice
Relief agencies In central Athens
Thursday distributed $4,000 mesla.
OF which 10000 we're given out by
British troops from their military
liaisen surrlios
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LONDON, Dec. 20. CUP)
"A force of more than 1900
American heavy bombers and
fighters lashed for the sew
enth straight day Friday at
German rail and road juno
tions and key bridges behind
the battlefront and in the
Rhineland.
The joint American and British
around the -clock heavy bomber Of
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fensive went on Friday night, with
great fleet Of Royal air force
raiders sweeping out through the
gathering dusk toward Germany.
More than 300 Flying Fortresses
and Liberators escorted by almost
as many Mustang and Thunderbotl
fighters hit cogs in the transporta-
ton network funneling into the
Ardennes salient and also struck
deeper into Germany at the Rhine
land town of Bingen, Frankfurt to
the east, and Ashaffenburg, % miles
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German Planes
Bomb, Strafe
Marked Hospital

WITH U. S. SEVENTH ARMY,
WESTERN FRONT, Dec. 20. CUP)-
Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers
announced in communique Friday
that two German planes Tuesday
night bombed and strafed a clearly
marked American general hospital,
causing casualties.
The attack on the general hospital
was at irecourt, at least 40 miles
from the nearest battlefront, the
Sixth army group report said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
GERMANS IN DEATH TRAP
Latest Trick
From Tokyo
By UNITED PRESS

The japanese Thursday claimed
to have perfected a trick that
might well have taxed even the
late Harry Houdini
Radio Tokyo in broadcast re-
corded by United Press asserting
that scores" of fires started by
incendiaries from B-29s were i'm
mediately put out" added:
I'm fact we would state posi-
lively they have been actually put
out before they even started"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
lckes RePorted d Near Point
Of Resignin9 From Cabinet

partment by Mr.. Roosevelt since
the election and decided it would
be futile to expect them to approve
what he would like to say about
Franco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Clear Friday night and Satur-
day. Little change in day tenn
peratures with maximum around
68 degrees. Light frost Friday
night in wind protected areas.
Frost more general Saturday night
with lowest temperature around
20 degrees i'm the coolest areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29

THE Germans at Celles had m de
their deepest announced penetra-
ton of the First army center, osm-
ing within four miles of the Meuse
river fortress of Dinant.
Headquarters announced that the
regiment lost practically all its ar
NOR and transport More than 1000
Nazis surrendered and most of the
others were believed to have been
killed.
RAN OUT OF GASOLINE
The enemy spearhead was trap
ped when its mechanized units ran
out of gasoline because of the ter
rifle Allied aerial bombar6men. Of
supply roads.
Even greater potential disaster
loomeo for the Germans along the
southern flank of their Ardennes
salient, where Lieutenant General
George S. Patton's Third army was
attacking along a 35-mile front
from Bastogne eastward across
Luxembourg to the German border.
Spanked 10y tank column that
slugged 10 miles northward in five
days to lift the siege of Bastogne,
Patton's men were advancing at the
rate of one to two miles a cay across
their entire front and threatening
to pinch off the eastern corner of
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ed with any address Ickes had pre-
pared, or that he even had sought
its advice. The implication is that
Ickes took one look at the men
placed in charge of the state de-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
n uzis Set Fire
To BudoP pest:
City Doomed
Trapped Enemy Dynamite Path
For Last Stand in Capital;
Russ Move SWiftlv on Vienna

LONDON, Dec. 90 (UP)-Russian armies struck up
the Danube valley toward Austria 80 mile front Fri
day far beyond Budapest where the trapped German
rison blew up all the Danube bridges and burning
whole sections of the city they fell back.
Soviet front dispatches reporting the raZng of Buda
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Two Yank Armies
Near Junction
In Pocket Moves
Northern and Southern FIanks Now
Only Is Miles A part as Giant
Pincers Close on Foe in BeIoium

PARIS, Dec. 30 (UP)-The American First and Third
armies drove deep into the northern and southern fanks
OF the German salient Friday and within less than
10 miles of juncture in developing counteroffensve
that threatened to turn the Ardenes into gigantic death
pocket for tens of thousands of crack Nazi troops
Fighting down from Grandmenil and up from Bastoqne
he TWO american forces were convegng along the Lege
Arlon highway in bid to op off the entire western hall
of the salient and enguf the Panzer spearheads that only
lew days ago were threatening to break the Meuse
and split the Allied armies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
LEST WE FORGET
Sgt. Kenyon
Met Death
Over Germany
Kenny" Kenyon is dead.


Staff Sergeant Kenneth Ken
yon, son of Mrs. Alice Kenyon of
Ell Centre, was killed in action
over Germany last July 20.
News of Sergeant Kenyon's
death came to the war depart
ment Cf the United States from
the German government through
the international Red Cross.
Mrs. Kenyon received an official
war department telegram Thurs
day night.
He was reported missing last
summer. but Mrs. Kenyon never
ceased hoping that he was alive.
The other eight members of the
crew were accounted for long
ago. Five are at their hcmes in
the United States now and three
are known to be prisoners of the
Germans.
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Checkmaed at the center within four miles of the Meus
and reeng back under the American thanking blows
the Germans had lost the initiative everywhere the 1GO
mile permeter of their Ardennes pocket
Field dispatches said the 100000 Naz nfantrymen and
hunreds OF tanks that burst out of the Segred line two
weeks ago to rip 90 miles Belgium and Luxembourg
were struggling desperately pull back their over-extend
ed western spearheads and form tight defensive line
AT the western tip of the salient Germans took their
first decisive beating early Thursday when American tanks
ntantrymen and artillery units wiped an entire Nazi
Panzer Notwithstanding perhaps 1000 menthat had
been encircled just east of Celles
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
ON 23RD MISSION


Sergeant Kenyon's death oc-
Cured on his 23rd mission. He
was nose gunner and on the
mission July 20 all bombs had
been dropped en- the designated
targets when the plane in which
he was serving was forced to
break formation over Frankfort,
Germany, Mrs. Kenyon was told
by other members of the crew.
The crew hoped to reach base in
England or land in the English
channel where there would be
chance cf being picked up. But
the plane burst into flames. BY
the rules set up Sergeant Kenyon
was to jump first.
Continued on Page 6, Col, -
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WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 66, minimum
Friday AZ; am. Friday so, humid
ity 81; noon Friday So, humidity as;
5 pm. Thursday 62, humidity As.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-29
Official Seems
Housing Needs

family or from three to four single
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YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX
CARE IN PREPARATION OF INFORMATION

victory report Govern
ment of taxable income for the past
The declaration estimated victory by many
taxpayers 943 estimated liability year
actual tax liability based complete figures the reported
the and victory return for 19
Individual returns be
must the form under the penalties
dental by the Government their
outside the Federal Internal Revenue
officials authorized by law The law permits inspection
tain Congressional committees law enforcement
officials who administer State income
After return has been fled it
estimated tax filed for the taxable
by the Internal Revenue Service
Ito examination inquiry relative matters
or ms income and he be asked for further sunton
ens made in the return the estimated
payable directly the collector of internal
understated penalty for undesaemen may
Estimates could however
before the instalment and year
will determine whether penalty due.
1t is important that subject the victory
prepare complete and both their
the interest of the administration
accurate filing of returns should
received during the
read carefully the instructions accompanying the
Employees Statements
mens OF Income Tax Withheld should
dence supporting the victory
held
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PATRoNIzE OUR ADVERTISERS
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-01-27

were evidently bent on getting an
education, even if it were the hard
way. The three boys appeared on
the Antietam school record under
the name of Plummer.
Boys (and girls, too), this is an
admonition from the Old Lamp
Lighter to put every ounce of en-
ergy in school work in 1914. What
do you think?
Oh, we almost forgot One OF
these brothers performed the task
of being janitor of the school house
at Is cents a week. He's a promi-
nent minister in one of the large
congregations of a well known re-
ligious denomination today.
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the S a m e s., snow
has its great ben
efits. 1t was no
secret back in the
days of our ia
Tiers and grand
fathers, mothers
and grandmothers,
that snow is a
fertilizing agent
It serves to make
the wheat grow
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-01-27
Horse and Buggy
Days
By the Old Lamp Lighter

Editors Note-The Old Lamp
lighters column has, for many
years been a feature of the Ha-
gerstown Globe. If you would
like him to dig up some special
OId-time information, or if you
know of some interesting item
out of the past, why not drop
him line, care of the paper.
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CORNERS AND CANYONS
By Frank Edwards HenckeI

reached its height in time of the
Worlds fair, when prints were
found of the fair of 1853. One of
these shows the Crystal Palace
building as it appeared when the
first great exposition was on. An
other shows that famous structure
in flames. Fire RACED it to the
ground Many old homes west and
south still treasure originals bear
ing the proud imprint. The time
was when they could be bought for
song. But not today.
l like the woman who, at New
York's homegoing hour, gets aboard
the packed Broadway bus near
Maiden lane, and rides up town to
somewhere in the Fifties. She near
ly always stands up, holding to the
crossbar near the enrance-way, and
looks steadily up the thoroughfare
until her stop is reached. Then she
makes her way slowly to the exit
Pitifully famed, she tries to disguise
it by standing while others sit-and
studiously ignores offers of a seat.
A fellow rider tells me she holds an
executive position in the diamond
district, but for some reason prefers
the buses to private car.
1t still does not pay to offend the
press. A currently printed item re-
calls to me the time when for the
first and only time in my reportorial
career I was Extensively rebuffed by
a man rated as a top-liner in the
business world. l had been sent to
ask him a reasonable question about
matter of public concern. His re-
ply was peremptory order to Get
outl" A few months later a mem
Der of his family was principal actor
in one of the filthiest affairs in the
history of New York. The man came
to us, in the attitude of mendicant,
begging for crumbs of fairness,
which I would have granted; but
the managing editor, remembering
and resenting the affront, turned to
an assistant and ordered the story
played to the skies.
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Possibly we run a big chance of
being "shot at sunrise" for just
mentioning snow-espeeially if we
start to talk about big SHOWS. All