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ships crew of so were believed 10
have been aboard. Two of the men
ashore are known 10 have been in
jured. VISA said.
Approximately 100 naval person
mel had been taken 10 military hos
pitfalls, and more than 200 civilians.
many OF them women mad children.
were known to have been injured.
CASUALTIES HEAVY
The casualties will be heavy. -
18th Naval District headquarters
said as it continued its preliminary
investigation of one of the worst
disasters in u. S. wartime history.
Norman Montellier, a United
Press staff correspondent. was
among the first newSpapermen to
reach Port Chicago. He reported
that deputy sheriff John Long said
he had made a survey of the ex-
ploSion scene and would estimate
the dead at $50, mostly naval per-
sonnel)
Not a sign remained of the two
ammunition ships, which had been
anchored alongside the loading
wharf at Port Chicago. Cause of
the blast remained unknown. with
no report from possible survivors
yet made public.
An Associated Oil company barge
was anchored between the two
ships and was reported destroyed.
along with several other small ships
anchored nearby.
BOMBS BEHAVE
A 10 to IL car ammunition train
loaced with aerial bombs was with
in go feet of one pier which was
demolished by the blast, but not
one of the bombs exploded.
Coast guardsmen, who reached the
scene within ten minutes, picked up
four seriously injured men. They
said strong winds and tides swept
other possible survivors and debris
up-channel. sr1H
Two small coast guard boats, a
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Battle Sways
About ST. lo
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Gated that the bitter battle for ST.
Lo had turned definitely in favor
of 1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's First
Army. The German high command
acknowledged that 1t had assumed
the greatest dimensions" and that
the nazi defenders had been pushed
back to the fringes of the town.
Heavy fighting still was going ON
around Meyers and Evrecy, holly
contested strong points on the rim
of the British salient below Caen,
and latest reports to headquarters
said the British still were holding
the Meyers rail station.
Battle-grimed American assault
forces seized the suburban village
of ST. Croiz de 10 in a tornado on
surge which strengthened the en-
circlement threat up the Wire river
to a point west of the beleaguered
town, and today the Berlin radio re-
ported that fierce fighting Was 60
ing on in the edge of st. 10 itself.
DETAILS LACKING
Details were skinny, but United
Press war correspondent James Nc
Glincy reported from the Normandy
front in a dispatch filed at 1880
pm. that the Germans had been
forced to withdraw in some parts
OF the ST. 10 area"
The American thrust below the
area of Les Champs de Losque was
extended westward, southwark, and
eastward. South of the town the
doughboys overran ridge COM
manding the st. Lo-Periers high
way. Two miles to the southeast
they captured the hamlet of Petit
Ducrie. To the west they reached
a point almost three quarters of a
mile west of Remilly-Sur-Lozon.
Farther west the Americans es-
tabliShed bridgehead across the
Taute river, moving toward the viii
lage of La Varce.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18

list. and to top 1t off she and her
three companions went to the Cen-
trail Park 200 for an early morning
call on the polar bears.
Miss Searles and her companions
Miss Gertrude Brady. New York;
Corp. Edward Cheney. Manchester,
Connecticut, attached to Camp
Shelby, Mississippi, and William
Chick, Boston. Massachusetts,
rived at the park at a. m.
They paused before the open-aif
cage occupied by Soc" mali
polar bear and his mate. "Coney.P
The bears were asleep. so the med
whistled and shouted to wake them
up. Authorities said that when the
bears awakened, grumbling over
their di { u bed rest Corporal
Cheney waved his garrison CAP
through the iron bars. Soc" seized
the cap and began chewing 1t.
Cheney and Chick broke off
branch from a tree and fished out
the cap. Miss Searles. it was said
then waved a handkerchief at "Socs
The infuriated bear swiped at the
girl and his claw caught her right
wrist.
She struggled to free herself. bud
the bear held on and began chew
ing her arm.
The men lighted matches and
held cigarettes under the bears
snout. Soc" finally let go, When
Cheney ctarted fire under him
with newspapers.
Miss Searles was taken to the
park department building where Q
tourniquet was applied by Patrcl-
man John Norman.
Am ambulance took her to Roose-
welt hospital and an operation re-
moved the remainder of her arm ur
to the shoulder. Hospital authori-
ties said she was suffering from
shock and loss of blood, and was In
serious condition.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Soviet Initiates
Imperial Valley
With Irrigation
By HARRISON SALISBURY

Q.
Delayed - (UP) - The shady.
tree-lined streets of Tashkent surge
with fresh water from the Almaata
irrigation bitches flowing out of the
Alttau mountains. The water runs
along the streets, beside highways
and out to lush gardens surrounded
by high, sun-baked mud walls.
The water flows across fields
green with corn, sorghum. cotton
and sugar beets and turns arid des-
erts into orchards and vineyards
loaded with plums, apricots, rasp-
berries, blackberrieS, apples and
grapes that weigh 10 pounds
cluster.
This is Russia's Garden CT Eden
the closest thing to CALIFORNIA;
IMPERIAL VALLEY you can find
in Asia.
The advances in Russian agricul-
ture under the 21-year-old Soviet
regime are impressive. Eric john
ston, president of the U. S. Cham
Der of Commerce, touring the coun-
try with correspondents, gave the
leaders credit.
Communism and the Soviet sys-
tenn have dcne great things for this
country" he said.
The tour has shown that when
Ukraine sugar production was lost,
Uzbekistan and other central Asia
republics stepped into the gap. pro-
ducing sugar for the first time.
Uzbekistan this year has $4,000
acres of sugar beets for production
plus near 10000 acres for SEED Tor
the Ukraine. The crop yield runs
mere than $4,000 pounds per 1OC
acres In some regions the produc-
ton runs up to 100000 pounds per
100 acres.
Two varieties of rubber plants
are grown, too, in this man-maoe
fertile region. There is the Tausa-
giz. bush containing 80 per cent
rubber with a crop every four years,
and Krimsagiz, a grassy 5 per cent
plant with a crop each year. There
are thousands CT acres of land In
Kazakhistan sown with Tausaiglz.
All agricultural production here
has been doubled in the last III
years. There are rs types OF grapes
in $4,000 lush acres of vineyards.
Uzbekistan has 100000 acres OF
cotton; fat, healthy bolls bobbing
in fields for miles across the coun-
trvside. There is another million
acres CT cotton in production IN
the rest of central Asia.
Uzbek cotton production accounts
for SO per cent of the Russian TO-
tai The yield averages l5O,Ooo
pounds per hundred acres without
seed-roughly comparable to the IT.,
rigated cotton yields of Arizona and
California. Uzbekistan produceo
100000 tons of ginned cotton in 1871
100000 this year with the decrease
caused by a transfer of acreage 10
sugar beets and less fertilizer.
There was nitrogen Taxation
plant. started in 1896, which turned
out nitrate fertilizers at the rate
of 100000 tons per year. but the
plant has been converted TIC pro-
. duction of munition nitrates.
But there is still the huge hyoro-
electric irrigation proect, the thlro
largest in operation in the SOVIET
Union. This project is expected u
extend through 1.250,0OO acres OF
virgin soil CT starvation steppes'
turning another barren land where
only the bravest nomads dared to
wander in other decades.
Now the lands are huge req
bread basket.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
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ICOHIIIlUeu ITOH fdBe II
to Warsaw, also was threatened by
new Soviet advances, which carried
to the Curzon ine-the line which
Russia has suggested as postwar
RuSSian-PoliSh frontier-at several
points.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Russian Armies
Nearing Warsaw

Another Baltic army column driv-
ing toward Re1ekne captured more
than 1000 prisoners and routed two
enemy infantry divisions in topping
the enemy stronghold of Sebezh, AZ
miles east southeast. Osveya. Is
miles southeast of Rezekne, also
was seized.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Meeting to Scan
Soldier Jobs

Tom Finney. manager of the Ell
Centre United States employment
office, will attend a meeting in San
Diego on Friday at which time ways
and means of furthering service to
hCnorably discharged World War II
veterans will be considered
AT present" Finney said, mem
bers of the armed forces who re-
turn to civilian life have 6O days
of grace before they come under
the employment Sterilization regu-
lation which became effective
July l."
TO MASTER PROBLEMS
Finney pointed out that the pur-
pose of the San Diego meeting is
to ircn out unusual problems in the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Good Deed Bureau


The Red Cross sent out an SOS
Tuesday for beds, springs, Mat
treSses, and a cooking stove, for
family in the Imperial area whose
house, furnishings, and most of
their wearing apparel burned Mon
day. Call Tile Ell Centre Red Gross
chapter if you have any of these
articles you aren't using. Someone
will take them to the family. The
father of the family is in hospital
in San Diego. The mother, a 13-
year-old daughter, and l6-year-
old boy are doing the best they can.
The boy is carrying on the fathers
work at the irrigation district but
replacing all ones possessions is
an expensive process, especially in
these days. The boys in the dis
trict shop at Imperial collected S85
and donated all their coke fund
money to the unfortunates, making
a total of $3.50.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
READY THE SECOND TINE

SPRINGFIELD. III. July 10. up
When Detective Willard Kelly went
to investigate an early morning
burglary at the home of Mrs. Rob-
ert Nevill, he was met at the door
by Mrs. Nevill, who was swinging
rolling pin. Kelly ducked Red
faced, Mrs. Nevill told Kelly she
thought he was the burglar return
ing for another visit.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
SON ill TURN ri TRICK
CDnrAYNr 1yEr - ~ y.r

CUP - A very active, healthy
Springfield man has been COM
planning bitterly because he was
just toe young to get into the first
World War. and in spite of every
thing he could do, just barely too
old to get into this one. So his IT.
year-old son undertook to console
him. Never mind" he said, lin Just
few weeks now you'll be eligible
for the War Dads
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
SocioIite Loses
Arm to Zoo Bear

NEW YORK, July 10. CUP)-It
had been a gay evening at the
Stork club for Catherine Searles,
"a, socially prominent daughter of
Railway, New Jersey, industrial
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Doubling in Brass

Doubling i'm Brass
Why are you looking so weary?'
a friend asked Elwood Spencer. the
Future Farmer o. America head at
Central Union High school.
You know the FLA are farming
at the county farm, don't you?"
Spencer asked. The friend said he
did.
Well Spencer sighed, Many Of
the FLA boys are out Of the valley.
I'm the farmer"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
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startling as the squeaky little voice
that energies from Jack Dempsey's
great frame.
Niles always has to be funny
about things.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
PLEADS GUILTY

Porfcrio Gonzalez of Brawley in
Imperial county superior court
pleaded guilty to two morals Of
lenses.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
TOWN BADLY WRECKED

The town of Port Chicago was
badly wrecked" and isolated The
blast blew out doors and windows
In residences five miles away. wax
eneo people so miles distant and
the glare was seen at Santa Cruz.
on the seacoast 100 miles to the
south.
There was a flash that went 1000
feet into the air." one eyewitness
said. Then pieces of metal rained
down like hail"
A l50-pound piece of metal. Is
feet long, was blown through the
air for a mile.
The first binding flash mush-
roomed into the sky. turning night
into day. and then fell apart into
myriadS of red incandescent streaks.
cascading downward like giant trac-
er bullets, eyewitness recounted
Within few moments the roar
OF the blast shot out across the San
Francisco bay area, causing rumors
CT an earthquake as windows shat
tered nd plaster fell from ceilings
and walls 80 miles away.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
FULL CONSIDERATION

Even in cases like this" declared
Finney, every consideration must
and should be given to returning
soldiers: however, an ex-soldier
should be willing to work and ac-
cept jobs commensurate to his
skills."
He says the meeting will study
the problem of servicemen who re-
turn with nervous and mental all
mentS.
Finney expressed his belief that
these men should be specially ham
died and the right kind of work
found for them.
ITO help the placement inter-
viewer and veteran representative, y
says Finney, 'iiie United States
employment office is provided with
a full transcript of the medical rec
ord of the discharged soldier which
enables the USES to place him in
the very best position in view of his
physical or mental limitations"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18

various employment areas.
The Ell Centre employment man
ager says that ITS discharged vet
Grams have been placed in Imperial
Valley in various occupations such
as tractor operators, chauffeurs,
laborers and automobile mechanics.
From Is to 20 are placed monthly,
he said.
I'VE have had some difficulty in
placing service men," declared Fin
ney.
He said most of the men are not
difficult to place, but others are
given to changing jobs.
This will be one of the prob
lens under discussion says Fin
ney.
Finney said that the Ell Centre
employment office gave one ex-
soldier Ia jobs within his 60-day
grace period and that he wasn't
satisfied with any.
The soldier said that the jobs
either we're too hard or did not pay
enough.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
IS RECOVERING

Is RECOVERING
Jack Murphy, foreman of the I'M
perial road district, is recovering at
HipaSS from heart attack he Suf-
fered while in Ell Centre last week
end.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18

crash boat and a fire barge. were
also destroyed in tie explosion, the
navy announced.
Two hundred Negro sailors were
reported loading ammunition on the
wharf, which the navy described as
receiving most of the damage along
with nearby naval wartime install
lationS.
The Red Cross reported four ci-
william deaths, and the navy said
four members of the two coast
guard boats were missing More
than 200 persons. many of them
women and children, were listed as
having been treated for injuries at
hospitals throughout the surround
ing area.
Small craft have been warned
away from the port area. IS miles
northeast of San Francisco. since
live ammunition was reported float
ing on oilslicked waters. the navy
said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
Wallace Backers
Claim Victory;
Byrnes Moves Up
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with Senate Leader Alben w.
Barley of Kentucky.
PERSONALLY FOR WALLACE
The President in letter advised
the Democratic national convention
meeting here Wednesday. that he
personally was for Wallace but that
he would not dictate, that it was
up to the convention to decide.
Only miracle can save the Vice
President now that the President
has limited his endorsement to
mere personal preference.
Wallace's associates nevertheless
said they were content and pre-
dicted his denomination. A vice.
presidential confidante said Wallace
was extremely happy" over the
Presidents lett'r.
HE thought it was a pretty good
statement" this aid said. good
enough to get job on-any kind of
a job. Yes, the vice-presid ncy,
too"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-18
PREDICTS VICTORY

He predicted Wallace's renomina-
ton on an early ballot and claimed
full support of Oregon. Waching-
ton, Minnesota, Iowa. Georgia.
Florida and District of Columbia
delegations and partial support
from California, Montana, Pennsyl-
vania, Michigan. South Dakota,
North Dakota and Nebraska
There is little business before the
convention ether than nomination
of a Vice-President. The platform
has been in T. ntative final form for
some time and Mr.. Roosevelt's own
denomination is merely a matter of
calling the roll and recording the
100 or so anti-fcurth term votes
which will be case for other men.
LEAD ANTI-GROUP
Mississippi is leading the anti
fourth term parade The states
delegation announced a caucus vote
of l6-to-2 for Senator Harry F..
Byrd, Virginia anti-New Dealer, for
the presidential nomination. For
mer Gov. Mike Conner forced the
Mississippi caucus issue by chal-
longing the delegates to show their
quits and spine"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-22

in charge of non-coms of the ord
nance companies.
The plant, operating under the
strict regulations of the American
government, also is equipped with
modern mills for furnishing its own
lumber for Grating and packing the
ammunition
Hundreds of rounds of high ex-
ploslve ammunition are placed on
moving lines and the technical adj
Justments, cleaning, painting and
stenciling is accomplished in a mat
ter of minutes.
Constant checking of the ammu-
milton is necessary and this is done
under the skillful eyes of the Ne
gro troops.
Five high speed assembly lines
manned by Australians and Ameri-
can Negroes are kept busy every
hour of the day. Everything from
the manufacture of several types of
crates to the stenciling and banding
OF the ammunition is accomplished
on nonstop moving rollers.
Australian and Negro personnel
working side by side are a symbol
OF democracy in its clearest sense.
Negro sergeants in charge of the
Australians find them willing and
able workers.
1t IS a strange sight in a nation
which for the first time in its his
tory learned that Negroes and
whites can live and work together
for common cause.
1t IS strange, too. that while
America reels under the shock of
racial friction, this country noted
for its white Australian policy.
finds the race question incidental
to the winning of the war.
One Australian after hearing ra-
dlo reports of the riots in Philadel-
phla, remarked that Americans
would do we'll to forget the racial
question in time when all efforts
should be bent toward settling such
issues by a peaceful means.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-22
A(QUIT BUS DRIVER
IN Staying OF
NEGRO SOLDIER

DURHAM, N. c., Sept. o.
(ANP)-Deliberating only % min
utes, Durham Superior court
jury returned a verdict of not
guilty in behalf of Herman Lee
Council, white, Duker power COM
pany bus driver, in connection with
the Staying of Pvt Booker T.
Spicely. The Negro soldier, sta
toned at nearby Camp Butner, was
shot to death by Council last July
8 when the two argued over jim
crow seating regulations on the bus.
The presiding judge, Luther
Hamilton, heard defense witnesses
testify that Spicely cursed the bus
driver. State witnesses declared he
did not. In supporting his self-de-
fense plea, Council claimed he shot
the Negro soldier twice when he
advanced toward him with his
hand in his pocket after an argu-
ment over the North Carolina law
requiring Negro passengers to sit
in the rear of buses.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-22
CONDUCT CAMPAIGN
FOR RENEWAL OF
CHURCH MEMBERSHIPS

A six-weeks campaign, lasting
until the end Of October, is under
way by members of st. Johns Bap-
tist church, Fifth and Summit
streets. to get all members Of the
church to renew their memberships
for the ensuing year.
An effort will also be made to
secure new members, who do not
belong to the church at present.
Ruth Stone is chairman of the
campaign, and the Rev. H. L. Buck
man is pastor of the church.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-22
WAR PLANT IN
PACIFIC IS MODEL
OF DEMOCRACY

WITH U. S. FORCES IN THE
PACIFIC, Sept. % (ANP)-A huge
renovation plant somewhere in Au-
stralia operated completely by Ne
gro ordnance troops, is the most
modern in the Pacific.
Covering several hundred feet of
floor space. it is equipped with the
latest electrical devices for the
complete renovation and recondi-
tioning of ramunition.
Australian civilians form big
part of the personnel and they are
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-23

High precision standards, together with the spe-
calized skills Of peacetime manufacture, enabled
Chryser Corporation quickly to turn out these job
Rated trucks for military service Each s"l00fS gutsy
designed to operate under the worst conditions
where ruggedness, sdaptabity and stamina vital.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-23

travels fast in sand muck. AS radio-equipped
command reconnaissance car it gets officers quickly
to any sector. And takes 60S grades with
footed Winches behind the front bumpers pull
these vehicles out of the toughest spots.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-23

In saving the lives Of our boys, minutes count!
Fast, rugged, Dodge built ambuances have seen
fronne action in Africa Italy and the South Pacific
They enable heroic medical corpsmen, who work
under fire. unprotected and unarmed, to minister
quickly TO the wounded and speed them to safety.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26

Gaullist sympathles, she immediately
set in motion the elaborate machinery
necessary 10 gel nm out,
Armed with a scholarship, which
she had obtained for him at Furman
University, in Greenville, she won his
release
She was at the dock when his ship
arrived Joe said:
Were still going TO get married,
aren't we? I've been looking forward
to it for so long
We'll, as a matter of fact" she
said, II ah-you see. 80.
And, turning, she motioncd to a
handsome young man in a Marine
uniform, who had been lowering in
the background
Arthur" she said, 81 want you to
meet the Prince de Chimay. Joe,
my husband, Arthur Furman"
Later, when he had collected him.
self, Joe asked why-as long as
things were apparently as they were
she had gone to all this trouble for
his sake.
Because of Madame Tallien." she
said. II wanted TO pay back a debt
And then she told him about HER
grandmother,
THE NNIERUCNN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26

proudly TO tell how she had effected
the escape to America of a veritable
army of fugitives from the Terror.
Since it pleased him TO entertain
on large scale, her husband, ,he
ruthless Director of the Commune in
the Biscay region, had offered no OBJ
jections 10 Madame's large staff OF
servants.
He was ignorant of the fact that.
under orders of their mistress,
buffers, footmen, cooks and walters
would at night doff his livery and in
nondescript attire haunt the Bor-
deaux waterfront cafes, meeting
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-26

last discovered, il looked as though
she would meet the fate from which
she had, by then, saved 1900 men,
women and children.
However, in one of the most dra-
matte episodes of the Revolution, she
denounced the Terror's guiding
genius, RobespierTe, and so bold was
the stroke, so great her eloquence
that his head was struck off; hers,
spared.
Later. she divorced her husband,
married the 10Th Prince de Chimay
and assured the continuing success
of her career by bcfriending a then