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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21

to it's second day, with British as
sault forces fighting ahead from the
captured rail station on the edge of
the town.
On the left flank, other British
forces were fighting street battles
IN Eyrecy, southwest of Caen. anol
the village of Bougy mile and a
half to the northwest. St Andre
Sur-Orne was captured, clearing the
bank of the river four miles due
south of Caen, and to the west a
drive more than four miles below
j lilly Sur Seulles overran the vii
lage of MontS.
American forces closing in ON Pc
rierS, central base Of the German
defenseS on the First Army front,
captured SeveS, 2l2 miles north o.
Periers; raids on the Carentan-
Periers highway four miles to tn,
north; and Les Mesnil Fury, eight
l. miles southeast OF Periers on the s
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Americans Cross
Arno in Italy

ROME, July 81. CUP)-American
combat patrols of the Fifth Army
stabbed across the Arno river Fri
day, while the Germans, entrenched
on Monte Pisano guarding the APP
proaches to Pisa, opened a long
range artillery bombardment of
newly captured Livorno.
The patrols were probing Ger
man defenses on the north bank of
the Arno. where the enemy was be-
lieved to have constructed stror>
points of pillboxes and anti-tank
guns at fcrding sites, in an effort to
halt the American drive toward
Pisa.
The main body of Lieutenant
General Mark Clark's Fifth Army.
already spread along 25-mile
front on the south bank, was clean
ing out the German points by
passed in the rapid nine-mile drive
to the Arno from Livorno.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21

the revolt was completely crushed"
and Hitler seemed to be in firm
control again-at least for the time
being-With all communications out
of Germany fully in his service.
STRIKES SWIFTLY
Hitler struck back with the same
speed and fury that characterized
the first great blooci bath of Ger
many on June 30, 1894, which wiped
out the last stable faction of open
anti-nazism in the rS<ch.
His first prominent victim was
Beck, one of the most distinguished
figures in German military life. The
DNB news agency, in announcing
his execution, said there is reveal
ing proof of his contact with an en-
envy power. This evidence is the
card on which Germany's enemies
apparently staked everything"
Another already executed was
Col Count Hans Schenek Won
Stauffenberg, member of the Ger
man general staff, named by the
nazis as the officer who planted
the bomb which exploded at a con-
ference of the military hierarchy
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
RommeI Pulls Back Tanks
To Avert EncircIement

10 highway.
Front reports saio the nazi COM
mand was trying to rush armor TO
Normandy from northern France
and Belgium. In that connection,
the Royal Air Force Thursday night
carried out a concentrated bonn
bardment of the big rail hub nc
Courtrai. Belgium. Three main
lines from Germany through Bel
GUM and into France pass through
Courtrai. which serves as a feeder
junction for all northwestern
France.
AS Rommel pulled back ms arr
NOR from the plains southeast u
Caen 10 avoid the threat from
strengthened British positions ON
either side. the Germans depended
mainly on their anti tank ard other
Notifications to stem the British
push, and only short-livcd clashes
of armor were reported In feeiel
. thruats,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
BY UNITED PRESS

Japan's two senior army and
navy leaders, designated by En-
peror Hirohito to form new gov
eminent, were reported making
some progress in replacing the
fallen regime of Gen. Hideko TOTO.
A spokesman for . Gen. Kuniaki
KCiSo, who will with Admiral Nit
sumasa Yonai was charged to or
ganize new japanese cabinet, said
he expects KoiSo will be able to
submit a list of names of ministers
to Emperor Hirohito by Saturday
morning Japan timel, Tokyo radio
announced.
The broadcast, heard by United
Press in San Francisco, quoted
Lieutenant General Yaheita Saito
speaking for Koiso's headquarters.
The official Domei news agency
quoting a statement issued at cabi-
net information headquarters" in
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
jap Cabinet Job
Moves SLOWLY

Tokyo, said that Gen. Kuniaki Koi-
so and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
held conference that progressed
very smoothly and earnestly"
Koiso is governor-general of Ko-
rea and Yonai is former premier
and member of the supreme war
council. Each is "a years old.
The Domei dispatch, transmitted
by wireless to the East Asia press
and recorded by FEC mentors, said
the statement was issued by Saito.
The conference was held, Domei
said after Koiso and Yonai visited
the imperial palace and afterward
discussed the situation with other
japanese officials, including TOTO.
While the designation of two men
by the emperor to fern new gov
eminent at first indicated the pos
sibility of joint premiership, it
appeared that Koiso was taking the
lead in the activities.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
SovietS
CIoSeon
lWoW
Strike in All
Directions
At Polish Civ

MOSCOW, July q. (UP)
Soviet front dispatches
said Friday that Russian mo-
bile forces were closing against
Dwow from three directions for the
final assault on the Polish fortress
city and, far to the north, were ap-
preaching the frontier of East
Prussia.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's armor-
ed columns swept in over the north,
east, and south approaches OF
LWoW, already battered by a Soviet
cannonade and by-paSSed on the
north, anC military quarters were
confident of the early liberation of
the biggest German base in lower
Poland.
At the same time, Russian Co.'S
sacks masSed in the forest along the
west bank Of the Bug river north
of Lwow for a speedy sweep across
the Polish plains toward the Wis.,
tula and Germany beyond
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Vice President
Choice Still
Rests in Doubt
Blu LYLE e. WILSON

c. HIC AGO STADIUM,
July 81. (UP) - Democratic
orators offered a dozen or so
vice presidential possibilities
to their party convention Fri
day but only two CT them-Henry
A Wallace and Senator Harry S.
Truman of Missouri had any real
voting strength lined up and it APP
peared Doubtful that either could
win on the first ballot.
Mayor Edward j. Kelly of Chi
cago and the Illinois delegation
tried to capitalize on the conven-
tons split by offering Sen. Scott
W. Lucas of Illinois in the interests
of party harmony as President
Roosevelt's 1914 running mate.
mo COMPROMISE"
But Vice President Wallace's sup
porterS made it clear with repeat
&c, time-conSuming demonstrations
that they we're in no mood for a
compromise, and Truman's friends
insisted that he ever, Tally would
win the nomination.
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes and Senator Joseph E. Guffey
of Pennsylvania were said to be
making frantic last minute efforts
to get in touch with Mr.. Roosevelt
in an effort to quash reports that
he wants Truman .acner than Wal
lace
Ickes said he hao telegraphed the
President and Guffey had put in a
telephone call to him but that
neither had got a reply.
The fight centered around the
Continued on Page 6, Col d
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Harmon Wedding
Date IS Set

ANN ARBOR, Mich, July 81 CUP)
Mrs. Louis A. Harmon admitted
that her All-America football son,
Lieutenant Tom Harmon, and
movie actress Elyse Knox will be
married, in st. Mary's Student
chapel here Saturday, August 26.
Her verification followed a copy
righted announcement in the Mich
igan Catholic newspaper.
1t will be Hamon's first marriage
and Miss Knox's second. Her first
marriage was annulled in the mat
rimonial court of the Los Angeles
diocese.
Harmon, two-time All-American
halfback at the University of Mich
igan, has been twice reported miss
ing in airplane crashes within the
last year and a half.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Drys to Battle
Cocktail Bars

SACRAMENTO, July 81. up
The Prohibition party of California
hopes to force every cocktail bar in
the state whose receipts from the
sale of food do not constitute at
least 81 per cent of its business to
close, Wesley c.. Edwards, of Santa
Ana, panty treasurer, declared Fri
day.
THE old-time saloon has return
ed. only 1t is worse" Edwards de-
clared.
A mandamus action brought re-
Gently in the superior court of Sac
ramento overturned ruling by the
state board of equalization refus-
ing to revoke the liquor license OF
place where the food business was
only 20 per cent. }
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
By VIRGIL PINKLEY

SOPR EN- f. IlEA DlU AN
TIERS, AEF, July 81, (UP(
Allied armies drove for
ward in drenching rain
through five villages in Normandy
Friday as Marshal Erwin Rommel
Withdrew most of his tanks from
tn e expanding British break
Through salient along the road to
Paris in order to escape a threaten
ed enlightenment.
A United Press dispatch from the
Caen front reported. that the battle
still is going we'll with the defin-
tie failure of the German counter
attack, and lit now is safe to say
that the Allied offensive is over the
hump"
TROARN BATTLE RACES
The battle of Troarn on the left
flank of the Caen pocket ragged /
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
D AMBllNa
NEpoRTER
RAMBLING REPORTER
The Second Onc?-

George Burt's band had just
vowed the CROWD at the gall game
in FL Centre Thursday night with
dilly of a musical selection.
And now ! wish to express APP
probation to George Burt and his
Riddles for their splendid playing"
sale, the announcer. Master Techni-
cal Sergeant f. S. Mccarthy.
E. N. d. Hatch, a grandpa, was
playing the trombone and Dim
Gresham, Ell Centre high school
teacher, was banging the drums!
We Told You So
Remember away back when RT2
predicted that the men of Ell Cen
tro soon would be entertaining the
lady marines in the same manner
that their wives entertain the male
marines?
Listen to this FL Centre Rotari
ans, always a bunch of gay dogs
Continued on Page g. Col. A.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Hitler Executes
Wo Leaders Of
Revolution Plot
Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck Swiftly Pays
Penalty, with Won Stauffenberg;
GeStapO Chief Himmler Hunts Others

oIoCkoIM July H. lUP)-Air travellers from Berlin arriv
MalmO late Friday
state Passengers
and Gcstapo
emily had been hOwev
Berlin quiet with
Berlin OF
manys best officers in nut down
unrest and disorders. =
LONDON, July q. (UP)-Adof Hitler opened the
foodgates naz blood bath Friday in reprisal for an
aborve revolt which threatened to plunge Germany into
civil war as Berlin announced the execution of Col Gen.
udwg Beck former chief OF general staff ring leader
Of the ti-IIitler cOnSniracv
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Hull Sees Nazis'
Power BREAKING

WASHINGTON, July 81. CUP)-
Secretary of State Cordell Hull,
warning against over optimism, y
said Friday the attack on Adolf Hit
lei clearly indicates that the real
ization OF Gemanys impending
defeat is spreading in the .reich.
The appointment Of Heinrich
Himmler as commander in chief of
;he home front, Hull said in a for
NAL statement, is an illustration of
the steadily deteriorating military
position of Germany"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21

INoColIN iSiS ~ n nv
FIC COAST NAVAL BASE,
July 81. (UP) - President
Roosevelt, speaking from this un-
identified west coast naval base,
accepted the fourth-term nominal
tiCn Thursday night and warned
the people not "to turn over this
1914 iob-this world wide job-to
inexperir need and immature hands
The President, speaking from the
guarded security of his special
train in which he iourneyed from
Washington, said that he would &C
cept the nomination despite my
desire to retire to the quiet of pri-
vate life" and promised that he
would not campaign in the usual
sense for the office"
I'm these days of tragic sorrow,
I do not consider it fitting" he
said Besides, in these days of
glCbal warfare, I shall not be able
to find the time. I shall, however,
feel free to report to the people
the facts about matters of concern
to them and especially to correct
any misrepresentation.
WAR WILL END
Mr. Roosevelt said that it seemed
wholly likely" that the Allies will
have gained a complete victory
over Germany and Japan within
the next few years and the world.
will once again be at peace under
system that he hoped would pre-
vent a new war.
"In any event, new hands will
then have full opportunity to real
ize the ideals which we seek"
He said that in the last three
elections not only Democrats but
forward-looking Republicans and
independent voters have turned to
progressive leadership which has
sought consistently to advance the
lot of the average American citizen
who had been so forgotten during
the period after the last war"
He added that his acceptance of
fourth-term nomination was based
solely on a sense CT obligations to
serve if called upon to do so by the
people of the United States
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was lat
this naval base in performance of
Continued on Page 6, Col -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21

flying a round trip of more than
GOO miles, dropped their explosives
by instruments through a smoke
screen thrown up over Brux, below
Dresden near the old Bohemian
border
The Eighth Air Force bombers
hammered an assembly plant at
Regensburg, SIS miles southeast of
Nurnberg, the vital ball bearing fac
tories at SchWeinfurt and Eberbach.
also in the Nurnberg area-and
other military targets in southern
Germany.
The LOO Flying Fortresses and
Liberators escorted by 800 fighters,
carried 5000 tons of high explos-
ives into Germany before noon,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Beachhead Falls
In First Thrust
Sea and Aerial
Bombardmen+
Softens Enemy
BIZ FRANK TRENAINE

PEARL HARBOR, July 81
j (UP)-U. S. assault troops,
expanding their foothold in
the enemy's inner defense
zone preparatory to striking
at Japan itself, landed on
Guam early Thursday and
seized beachheads on the first
American island to fall to
the Japanese in. the Pacific
war, a communique. ANNOUNCE
ed Friday.
Army and marine forces still were
porting ashore Friday under cover
of mighty sea and air lombard
ment and against only moderate
ground opposition" Admiral Ches-,
ter W. Nimitz revealed.
FOLLOWS CLOSE ON SAIPAN
The invasion of Guam, prewar
U. S. naval station 1879 miles
southeast of Tokyo, followed by
only IL days the final conquest of
Saipan. 1870 miles to the north, at
the heaviest cost in any single OPP
eraticn in the Pacific war-15,053
killed. wounded and missing.
First reports indicated that the
initial opposition was not so strong
as that encountered at Saipan. but
the islands 225 square miles as
compared with Saipan's II may
foreshadow longer campaign.
Hundreds of carrier-based planes
and the big guns of battleships.
cruisers and destroyers from the
powerful Fifth Fleet paved the way
for the landing with an almost
nonstop bombardment lasting II
days = the most intensive ever
mounted for any amphibious opera
ton in the Pacific war
HIT AT DAWN
The terrific barrage of bombs and
shells reached it's peak as tiny as
sault boats, amphibious tanks, trac-
tors and other landing craft put out
from transports and moved toward
the flame bathed shore in the
early morning darkness.
All the landings were effected as
planned, spokesman announced,
indicating that nowhere were the
Americans kept off the beaches
where they wished to move ashore.
Continued on Page 6, Col -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Bombers From ItaIy. Britain
Hammer NoZi War Plants

bringing the 72-hour total for Amer
lean heavies to about 20 enemy tar
gets.
The first bombers and fighters to
return reported that, with one ex-
certion, the luftwaffe again was alb
sent. The exception was force of
80 to 50 German interceptor planes
which spent Is minutes Giving
through their own flax making pass
after pass at a lone Liberator
group.
Bombers which We're able to hit
their targets usually - including
precision targets ait Schweinfurt.
Regensburg and Eberbach - said
their bombs plummeted squarely in
to the marked areas.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Vast Wheat Crop
Assures Plenty

WASHINGTON, July 81. CUP
The United States, now harvesting
the greatest wheat crop in its his
tory, will have more of the grain
for civilians next year than was
available in pre-War years, the war
food administration predicted Fri
day.
VIA said that a total supply of
15OO,00O,O00 bushels from this years
production and last years stocks
will meet all demands and provide
carry-over of 435 100000 bushels
as protection against any possible
short crop next year.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
LONDON, July 81. (UP)

LONDON, July 81. (UP)
American heavy bombers
attacked Germany from both
Britain and italy Friday for the
fourth straight cay when THE
Eighth Air Force sent 1000 planes
against aircraft plants in the south
eastern reich and the 18th bombed
Brux, in the sudetenland 1870 miles
south of Berlin
About LOO fortresses and Iiber-
ators flew from Britain against fac
tories supplying the German air
force after British night bombers
hit targets in Germany, Belgium,
and northern France
The heavy bomhers from Italy,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Goerinq Turns Up
After Trouble
By UNITED PRES.

Reichmarshal Hermann Goering
was the big man who wasn't there
during three major occurrences in
Adolf Hitler's career.
He hurried to Hitlers side after
the abortive assassination attempt
Thursday, even as he did following
the bombing of the Munich beer
hall Nov. 8, 1899, a few minutes
after Hitler had left the structure.
Goering also was absent during
the historic Reichstag fire in 1888,
which facilitated Hitier's rise to
power.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21

Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler,
newly vested with the command of
ali armed forces in Germany, APP
peared to have sent his legions of
vengeance on ruthless hunt for
dissident and suspected elements,
with the wheels of "nazi justice" al
reacy grinding out their toll
Nazi broadcasts emphasized that
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
Marine FORCE LANDS ON ISLE OF GUAM
Wallace Truman Battle:
Roosevelt Accepts Bid
Fears for Nation Under
Immature" Leaders;
Okey for Change in '48
Ru NERRTN AN SMITH

WITH P r f S ! D E n T
ROOSEVELT AT A PAC1-
FIG COAST NAVAL BASE,
July 21. UP) - President
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday Ill, minimum
Friday II; am. Friday 80. hui
nudity 81; noon Friday 10t, hui
midity Al; pm. Thursday 1906,
humidity 81.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Finland Is Reported
Needing u. 5. Note
To Get Out Of War
Py the Associate , Press.

Ry the Associate, Press.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 1O.-Peace-
hungry Finland, caught as a Ger
man ally in the middle of war she
never wanted, was reported seeking
a way out today on the basis OF an
American warning to act now or
take the consequences.
A Helsinki dispatch said there was
possibility that preliminary deci-
sions were taken" at cabinet ses-
sion last night and added that the
Finnish public knows how i'm
partant" any decisions will be.
At the same time, the independent
Helsingin Sanomat, making the first
Finnish editorial comment on Sec
retary of State Hull's recent state
ment, declared that when the
United States appeals to Finland to
step out Of the war, this finds a
deep echo among our peace-loving
people
The Helsinki dispatch, written by
the correspondent of the Swedish
newspaper Dagens Nyheter, said the
cabinet meeting, a regular Wednes-
day night session, was preceded dur
ing the day by closed council Of
the Parliamentary Foreign Policy
Committee at which Sir Henrik
Ramsay, Foreign Minister, reviewed
Evening star., 1944-02-10
.0fficer's S Legs Broken
In Traffic Accident

Col. Benjamin w. Mills, so, of the
Army War College staff, who safely
came through a dramatic lost plane
episode over Canada last week only
to become a District traffic victim
was in Walter Reed Hospital today
with two broken legs.
Mrs. Mills, who lives at 2O17
Klingle road NV, said the colonel
was aboard plane transporting an
Army mission through Canada last
week when the ship became lost in
dense fog. With both radio and
compass out of order, the plane flew
blind for two hours while all South
ern Canada was placed on the alert
for crash. The pilot finally
brought the plane down safely in a
field about 40 miles from Ottawa.
Col. Mills legs were broken yes
terday, one in five places, when he
was struck at Klingle road and Har-
ward street NV by an automobile
operated by Arthur J. Borenstein
26, of 1850 Harvard street NV, DO
lice reported.
Col. Mills, stationed here since last
October, is director of the Board for
the Promotion of Rifle Practice
Army Ground Forces, in addition to
his War College duties.
Col. Mills has two sons, Cadet
Robert Mills of West Point and 1t.
Benjamin w. Mills, jr., of the Army
A brother, Maj. Gen. Robert Mills,
is stationed at the Office of the sur
geon general here.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Vast Radio Changes
Predicted by FEC
BY the Associated Press.
Tho Fadarol

Ry the Associated Press.
The Federal Communications
Commission reported today that
revolutionary discoveries" have re-
suited from war stimulated expert
mentation in various phases of
radio.
For military reasons, the commits
sion said in its annual report, the
results of unprecedented research
cannot be revealed at this time, but
it added:
ut is commonly predicted that
after the war the whole field of
radio communication will be greatly
affected by the revolutionary dis
coveries now being carefully guarded
in the laboratories
One large educational institution
alone employs hundreds of engi-
neers and physicists whose primary
activities are directed to the de-
velopment and perfection of radio
detecting and ranging, commonly
known as "radar," the commission
said.
Fundamental research is being
supported and financed by the
Government.
The Radio Intelligence Division,
the largest unit of the FEC, safe
guarded the radio channels from
subversive operations, checked 1850
cases of suspected illegal transmits
SionS, furnished direction finding
service for more than 300 aircraft.
including military planes, and
located sources of interference to
commercial and military services y
the commission said.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
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