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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09
Honor Serviceman

A family gathering was held at
Earl Grassley's Monday evening to
honor Pvt. Harold Grassiey who
has been home on furlough and has
left for a new camp.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09
Annual School Reunion

The annual Barnes School re-
union will be held Sunday. June
Is on the school grounds with pic
mic dinner at noon. Mrs. Carrie
Haight-Breining of Ypsilanti is
secretary-treasurer, Clyde Sheats
Of Milan Is the president.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09

Annapolis-Iames V. Forrestal,
Secretary of the Navy: I'VE can
not afford for a moment to relax
the iron pressure which we are
applying with steady and inexor-
able power
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09
IIohtnlno Kills Animals

Lightning killed two cows at the
Borso farm on Fuller Road last
week.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09

Mr.. and Mrs. John Vandemark
and two daughters left Saturday
evening to spend several days with
relatives in Chillicothe, o.
David Stocum returned TO his
home Tuesday evening after spend
ing several days at the home or
his grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs John Frye and son
John. Ypsllanti. spent Monday eve.
ming at the Ralph Colts home
Mrs. Grace Freeman. Lincoln
District, spent several days last
week with Mrs. o. r. Darling
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Colts and
son Wallace spent Sunday evening
with friends I'm Dearborn.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09

The Oakville Sunday School will
have Children's Day program
Sunday morning, June II.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wright are
settled in their new home on the
farm formerly owned by George
Fuller. Bemis Rd. Mrs. Wright was
Miss Irene Cox OF Pittsford and
Mr.. Wright is the son OF MIR. ana
Mrs. John Wright. Willis Rd. They
were married at the brides home
May 90.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09
MI..Iorary Society Meet,

MIhIoHHTJ ooNItNJ WtNW
The Missionary Society OF the
Friends Church met Wednesday
afternoon on the church lawn.
The working hour was spent In
finishing a quilt. Refreshments OF
sandwiches. potato chips and iced
tea were served by committee num-
Der five. The next meeting will be
held at the church with a picnic
supper for members I'D their fam
ilins LILY s.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09

Miss Jeanette Ward Of Eaton
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-09
futile Hill
OBSERVES ssRo BIRTHDAY

futile Hi. Mich. June s-Mr.
and Mrs. George Basset, Noyi, and
Mr.. and Mrs. James Moore, Ian
sing. came Friday 10 spend the
day with their mother, Mrs. Clara
Moore, who was celebrating her
ninety-third birthday anniversary.
She received flowers and many
cards and calls from friends.
Mrs. Moore Is much better than
in the winter and is able 10 be up
and dressed each day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
T. of T. Stresses
Valley as Site
For Army Plant

Imperial Valley Monday was
recommended as site for the vast
army ordnance proving ground
which soon will be established some
where in southern California.
c. Ben Herring, secretary of the
Ell Centre Chamber of Commerce,
was in communication with Robert
Hays, former secretary of the cham
ber who now is representing San
Diego in Washington, D. c., and
asked him to suggest Imperial VAL
ley as a suitable site.
THE army already has Camp
Seeley west of Ell Centro which
might serve as headquarters for such
an ordnance proving ground" Her.
ring said. This army installation
isn't in use now but all the army
would have to do would be move
in what is needed. There is plenty
of room elsewhere in the valley If
there is some reason that Camp
Seeley would not be suitable for
this particular. 1t served as head
quarters for the test command for
many months.
However, if there is some other
site more suitable we would be glad
to assist in any way possible in
getting location"
Hays wrote Herring from WASH
ington that he had contacted au-
thorities in response to Herring'S S
request.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
|. A. Police Seek
SLAYER Suspects

LOS ANGELES, July 10. CUPD--
Police Monday hunted two sailors
for questioning in the strangulation
murder of Mrs. Mary Walker. 81
year-old wife of navy man, whose
nude body was found on a pile of
rumpled bedclothes Sunday in her
home after night of dancing and
drinking.
Shortly after the body was found,
the murdered wOman'S husband,
Melvin G. Walker, navy cook, &c
stationed at San Diego, came home
on a brief furlough to visit the
wife he called "the sweetest thing
that ever lived"
He broke down.
Half an hour later, the woman S
father, John Scobey, returned from
his work as war plant guard to find
the body of the daughter who he
said had never done anything
wrong"
He collapsed.
Being hunted we're chief petty of =
ficer, Jack Maloney, 81, and Donald
Miller, 10, electrician first class
both missing from San Diego naval
station.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
DeGduIIe ANNOUNCES Plan
TO Set Up Government

the French empire after the war to
proposals for feeding occupied areas
of France through neutral sources
He was asked about reports that
new temporary capital would be
established at Rennes in Brittany as
soon as that city is liberated. He
a0monished reporters that they
must remember that the capital of
France is Paris.
Nov, for reasons of which you
are all aware, the capital of France
is in Algiers," he saicl There are
many towns and villages between
Algiers and Paris. 1t may be pos
sible to govern Professionally in any
one of those towns between Algiers
and Paris.
Il expect to go back to France
soon and as soon as possible ito in
stall the services of the government
in metropolitan France"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Germans Hold
E. T.. Officer
AS Prisoner

Second Lieutenant Milton DAM
ron of Ell Centro is war prisoner
of the German government.
His wife, who is living in Ell Gen.
tro, received a telegram from the
war department Sunday in which it
was revealed that the International
Red Cross had learned of his cap
turc
The war department had reported
his missing in action as of May %.
His wife received the news that he
was missing in a telegram dated
June 3. Until the message received
Sunday, she had no news of her
husband.
1t. Damroa, son of Mr.. and Mrs,
Don Damron of 430 South Sixth
street, Ell Centro, was an army plane
pilot and when last he wrote was
based somewhere in England.
He grew up in Ell Centro and at
tended the Ell Centro schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

LONDON, July 10. (UP)
British authorities began
the evacuation of mothers
and expectant mothers from robot
blasted London after removing
nearly $4,000 school children to the
safety of the provinces in the past
week.
The German flying bombs,
launched from the French coast,
continued to fall in London and
southern England in Daylight Mon
day following night of intermit-
tent attacks. Authorities made
their usual laconic announcement
that damage and casualties had
been reported.
DR.. Rudolf Semmler, radio Ber-
lin commentator, asserted that Ger
many's second revenge weapon
V-2-"will oe far more horrible"
than the robot bombs and the Lon
don Sunday Express speculated the
new weapon may be a rocket Bomb
36 feet long and carrying 10 tons of
explosives. The present jet-pro-
pelled robot bombs are 25 feet long
and carry ton of explosives.
Censorship authorities finally per-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

JIlCS.
In stressing the urgency of the
situation and the remedy that
would alleviate it, President Hewes
said:
THE water shortage that threat
ems to cause tremendous loss of
crops in the Mexicali valley and
which may attain such proportions
as to prove disastrous to the farm
erS there, seems ridiculouSly un-
necessary to the people on both
sides Of the international boundary
line, in view of the known facts
aprertaining to the situation. These
facts are set forth as follows, in
order that all of the people in
these two communities may have
all Of the information that we have
in placing the responsibility for
the present condition:
Since the operations of Imperial,
Parker and Boulder Dam COM
menced, which resulted in elimi-
mating part of the silt load usually
carried by the Colorado river, the
river has eroded opposite the Rock
wood Gate, causing a lowering of
the water elevation where water is
diverted to the Mexicali valley.
This situation has been made
worse by the National Irrigation
Commission of Mexico which caused
a check to be constructed in the
Alamo canal to raise the water ele-
walton in that main canal for the
purpose of making a gravity di-
version to lands that formerly were
served by pumping, and also to
new lands that are being brought
under cultivation. The placing of
this check in the Alamo canal,
thereby raising the water eleva-
tions, combined with the river con-
dition, have made it impossible to
divert sufficient water from the
river to meet the irrigation re-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Downey Resident
Held After
Staying Of Kin

DOWNEY, Cal, July 10. tUP) -
William j. Coll, 39-year-old ship
yard worker was held by police
Monday after he shot and killed his
brother and brother-i -in-laW and
Wounding his sister. during a Sun
day afternoon social call. while his
terrified five-year-o nephew and
his three-year-old niece looked on.
Dead were Thomas Robert Coll,
%, Los Angeles, and Sidney r.
Meade, 36, in whose home the
shooting took place. Mrs. Nellie
Meade, 33, was shot in the head.
Mrs. Meade told police her brother
became angry because he thought
she and her husband were interfer-
ing in his friendship with a woman.
She told how her two brothers
came over together.
Bill and Tommy drove into the
driveway and walked into the house.
Bill said Hello, sis Then he walk
ed into the back yard and came
back in about five minutes.
HE walked in with a gun in
his hand and said, all of you line up
in the bedroom, I'm going to shoot
you"
Tommy Coll made a move to pre-
vent him from firing, she said, and
his brother shot him in the stomach
He staggered out the front door to
his automobile where he was found
dead. Coll then killed Meade, and
shot his sister, who ran screaming
out Of the back door.
Coll was arrested about mile
from the home.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Bonds
Quota
Passed
County Swings
Over Top by
$284,OO Margin

Imperial Valley aW k e
Monday to cheering news
when it was announced by
Chairman Herb Fawcett that the
County had gone over the top in
the Fifth War Loan drive by the
margin of $234,6l4
Completed reports from eight of
the valley issuing centers disclosed
that goals had been exceeded. From
Holtville came the word that pur-
chaSes already made but not re-
ported and others in the process of
completion woulct put that unit over
the quota in the next two days.
Mondays figures showed that unit
only $28,032 under the quota of
S34l 900 with sales listed then as
$312,967
When figures were totaled last
Saturday morning the county as
whole still lacked $121 900 of the
goal. During Saturday the Southern
Pacific ann -dnced ALLEGATION of
100000 to the county. Still later
Saturday it was announced from
headquarters at the Ell Centre
Chamber of Commerce that the
grand total above the quota stood
at S284,6l or $l84,614 over the
quota independent of the big pur-
chase by the railroad company.
Final figures shows the over
quotas in the eight districts
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
MexicoIi Valley
Faces Crop Loss

The farmers of the Mexicali val
ley face the immediate loss of 16,-
600 acres of cotton and the posi-
bility of the eventual loss of ap-
proximately half of their remaining
acreages of cotton, corn and other
products, comprising between 100000
and 175,000 acres. These losses,
caused by a critical shortage of ir-
rigation water, will be inevitable
unless prompt action is taken" Evan
T. Hewes, president of the Imperial
Irrigation District pointed out Mon
day.
In a summing up of the situation
HeWes declared that the deplorable
condition could be eliminated in its
entirety within IL hours time-"if
the Mclean and American govern
ments would agree to delivery of
water through the All-American
canal under conditions that would
protect the interests of both coun-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Russians Force
Germans Back
On All Sectors

MOSCOW, July 10. UP)-The
First White Russian Army smashed
through to the east bank of the
Bug river Monday and battleo' for
crossings into Germanys govern
ment general of Poland while other
Soviet forces drove deeper into
Lithuania and Latvia in march
toward the Baltic.
German broadcasts acknowledge
ed that the Russians, attacking
with 10 infantry divisions and three
tank brigadeS, had broken through
German lines on the east bank of
the Bug river west of KoWel, but
added the customary claim that the
penetrating units had been destroy
ed)
"a London broadcast Saicl Adolf
Hitler had transferred his eastern
front headquarters from East Prus-
sia deeper into the German reich.
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

he said that the President had dis
cusseo. the ro.e of the United States
in the war and that De Gaulle on
his party explained how France,
gradually emerging from her tenn
porary misfortune. intends to parti-
cipate with her Allies at her right
full place, first in the war and then
in the life of the world at peace"
De Gaulle now has his headquar-
ters in Algiers In addition to head
ing the French committee, he calls
himself chief of the provisional gov
ernment of France. Refusal of this
country to recognize any such govA
ernment cause0 long complications
in u. S.-French relations. Because
of the impasse ON the recognition
issue, that question was by-passed
in the Roosevelt-De Gaulle talks.
The press conference questions
ranged all the way from plans for
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Ernie Pyle .
Iowa Farm Youth Commands
Invasion Ack- Ack Grew;
Linguist Husties Victuals

IN NORMANDY - by WireleSs)
= The commander of my ack-ack
crew is Sergeant Joseph Samuelson,
farm boy from Odebolt, Ia.
Sam is a quiet fellow with a
mellow voice. His mouth is very
wide. and right now his lips are
chapped and cracked from the cold
climate. He is conscientious and
the others like him.
Two of the crew are from the
same home town, Manchester, N. H.
They are Pvts. Armand Provencher
and Jim Bresnahan. In fact there
are six Manchester boys in this
battery, and Is in the battalion.
They all went into the army on
the same day at the same place,
and now they are firing within
few miles of each other in France.
HE HUSTLES GRUB
Private Provencher is of French
Canadian extraction and is the
only one of our crew who speaks
French, SO he does all the foraging
His family speak French in their
home back in New Hampshire. I
had always heard that the French
Canadian brand of French was un-
intelligible to real Frenchmen, but
Provencher says he doesn't have
any trouble.
Three of the boys are from Mas
sachuetts Corp. Charles Mala-
tesla. of Maiden, Pfc. George Slav-
en-, of Southbridge, and Pvt. Walter
Covel, of RoXbury.
Covel has heavy black whiskers
and it takes two razor blades to
shave him. With two-day growth
he LOOKS like hobo, and then
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

ROME, July 10. (UP)-American
troops smashed four miles beyond
Volterra within a few hours after
capturing the key outpost before
Livorno and threatened Monday to
turn the coastal defenSes some 10
miles below the great tyrrhenian
port which had stalled a frontal
push against it.
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clarks forces
pushing northward from Volterra
last OF the big mountain fortress
towns which the Germans converted
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Yankees
Clear
Saipon
Conquest Opens
Way to Bomb
Islands. Japan

PEARL HARBOR, July
10. (UP)-Completion of the
conquest of Saipan in the
bloodiest fighting of the Pacific war
established UnlJed States forces
Monday within bombing range OF
Japan and the Philippines.
Saipan, with two large airfieldS
ano deep water harbors, opened a
new springboard for further amph1-
bious operations westward to the
China coast and eventually to ia
pan itself.
FINALLY CONQUERED
Complete conquest OF the 75-mile
square island, administrative center
Of the Marianas, was announced
late Sunday by Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz who said U. S. marines and
army troops broke the last japanese
organized resistance in the northern
tip of Saipan Saturday.
The 25-day campaign for Saipan
involved the fiercest fighting of the
Pacific and resulted in heavy losses
to both the United States and
Japan.
Of the enemy's estimated 10000
to 10000 men originally on the is
land, more than 11,300 were buried
by U. S. forces an6 hundreds taken
prisoner
LOSSES HEAVY
Although the American losses for
the campaign were not disclosed,
Nimitz previously had announced
that in the first Ia days of fight
ing, the United States suffered
9,752 casualties, of which l,474 we're
killed, 7,400 wounded an6' others
missing. 1t was believed, however
| that the casualties were on small
er scale since then.
Nimitz communique gave no indi-
cation of the size of scattered en-
emy remnants still on Saipan, but
operations to dig the stragglerS out
of the hills and caves probably will
continue for some time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

re lie south OF Caen.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery's Second Army, striking again
even while the mop-up of the Caen
area was under way, stormed
through Eterville, Maltot, and Bret
tyeville Sur Oden in advances up
to about a mile and overran the
hotly contested height called liz
commanding the Orne- -Odon salient
below Caen.
YANKS MOVE SWIFTLY
American forces advancing down
the mid-Normandy highwaj toward
Periers captured Sainteny, five
miles southwest of Carentan, and
other United States units expand
ed the bricgehead across the Wire
for an average gain OF about q
mile, reaching a point only 7OOO
yards from st. Lo.
The expansion of the Wire bridge
head almost brought the front in
line with the general battle zone
through the Caumont-St. Lo area,
and a headquarters spokesman said
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's drive
there shows considerable long term
promise"
The British Canadian armored
force cutting in below Caen like a
giant scythe began developing a
possible encirclement maneuver
against the German troops holding
out grimly in the Fauborg de Vau-
celles suburb of Caen.
The high ground captured by the
Imperials between the Odon and
Orne was the key to the entire Caen
sector, and the victory put the final
seal on the conquest of the great
inland port from which the nazts
were hammered by main strength.
NAZIS USE RESERVES
A spokesman, however, empha-
sized that the Germans still were
fighting fiercely all along the Nor
mandy front, but had been OBJ
liged to throw in reserves they had
been trying to build up for show
down.
! 1t was emphasized that wherever
the nazis were giving ground, they
were doing so by orderly withdraw
ais, and nowhere was there a sign
of disorganization in the enemy
ranks or large-seale disengagement.
With the seizure of Point 112 be-
tween the Orne and Odon, the
British we're able to command the
highway running south and slightly
west from Caen to Thury-Har-
court, leaving only the Caen-Falaise
highway in German hanos and rel
atively free of interference.
In the immediate area of Caen.
which fell Sunday, German strong
! points which had been by-paSSed
in the final assault of the city we're
being cleaned out Systematically.
West of Caen the Germans coun-
terattacked along the Caumont-
Tilly Sur Seulles line, but we're
held everywhere by the British.
A front dispatch said British
armor, including Churchill and
Sherman tanks. ranged the Odon-
Orne corridor. backing up the in
fantry sweep against the high
Continued on Pg. 6. Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

WASHINGTON, July 10.
CUP) - Gen. Charles De
Gaulle, asserting that the
principal object of his talks with
President Roosevelt had been at
tained, revealed Monday that he in
tends to return to France as soon
as possible to install his govern
ment in new provisional capital
De Gaulle, chairman of the
French committee of national liber-
alton, told an hour-long conference
with more than 200 correspondents,
that the object of his talks with
President Roosevelt was frank and
objective talks on the grave ques-
tions of common interests to the
United States and France in this
great war and after the war"
In formal statement, which he
read in French to the conference,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Yankees Threaten
Key Italian Port

into strongholds TO impede tie
American advance, battled tire
crack Goth panzer grenaeier Cd
vision, shifted to the sector VIII N
the na2is wheeled reinforcemeiits
into the Livorno defense belt.
official Italian sources announced
that Italian patriots we're battling
the Germans In the street OF Leg
horn as the 5th army closed against
the prize city, while guerillas hit
repeatedly at nazi communication
lines throughout enemy-held areas
OF Tuscany behind the battlefront.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
E. T.. B-24 Pilot
Held as Missinu

Mrs, James d. Collins, III, the
former Bonnie Ann Stephens, re-
ceived word from the war depart
ment Sunday that her husband is
missing in action over Germany.
He was pilot of a B-24 bomber
and was believed to be in the action
SO much in the news last month.
The telegram from the war de-
partment said he was missing in
action as of June 81.
Mrs. Collins is with her mother,
Mrs. r. J. Bolembaker in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Experts Combat
Alfalfa Disease

square foot, is the only present
known means to combat it,
The group, which visited various
ranches where the two diseases
were known to have been found,
included DR.. G.. TiSdal, DIR. G. E.
Smith, both of the United States
department of agriculture; DR.. T..
Riddel of the University of Cali
fornia; Gino Tome and Elvino Sar-
tori, both of Argentina; Assistant
Farm Advisor George Winright; and
l.. G.. Goar, head of the agricul-
tural experiment station at Melo-
land.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

A thorough survey and inspection
of the rare cotton root rot and the
more common rhizoctonia in alfalfa
in Imperial county was completed
Saturday by group of plant di-
sease experts, visitors from South
America, and county residents.
Information gathered on the sur
Vey will be used in the plan to dis
cover better means of eradicating
these diseases. Cotton root rot is
rare in alfalfa but is difficult to
eradicate, 1t is comparatively new
to alfalfa in Imperial county. Soil
sterilization, which costs cent a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10

( when he cleans up you hardly reCog-
nize him. He asked if I'd say hello
for him III the column to his nom
and Bernie. I didn't ask who Bernie
was but it probably wouldn't be hard
to guess.
George Slavin is the entrepreneur
of the battery. Back home he owns
drugstore, which his wife is running
while he is away Fighting. His wife
keeps sending him stuff from the
store until he has built up minia
ture drugstore over here. He has
such things as aspirin, lip pomade
shampoo and so on. He used to
have a stock of cigars but they're
all gone now. The boys say he gets
more packages from home than any
Is other men in the battery.
ONLY TWO MARRIED
Slaven and Malatesta are the only
married men in the crew. MalateSta
wanted me to tell his wife in the
column that he loves her. So, since
it is springtime and there's no law
l know of against man being fond
of his wife, here goes.
Pvt. Bill Mallea, Of Shelton, Conn.
is the oracle of the group. He tells
long and fascinating stories and
thinks about the world situation
and has a great sense of fun. He
is the oldest man in the crew, al
though he isn't so old.
He's politically minded, and says
he is going to become an alderman
in Shelton after the war. He calls
himself Honest Bill Mallea He
is one of the ammunition carriers
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-10
Robots Hit London Anew:
Women, Children Moved

mitted disclosure that robot bombs
recently destroyed the famous 106-
year-old Guards Chapel in the We'll
lington barracks area only a little
more than a stones throw from
Buckingham Palace.
The bomb hit while 208 to 500