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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Make Posters
For Dance

USO junior hostesses Friday
night were busy at the canteen
making posters for the dance which
they will give for service men and
wamen the evening of March 18 at
the Veterans hall.
This is to be a ST. Patrick's party
and is the first event sponsored
by this group of some so young
women.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Milton Dearborns
Have Dauqh+er

Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Dearborn,
1866 Adams, are the parents of an
eight pound, three ounce baby girl
born Thursday. March 8, at the
Ell Centric hospital. The baby has
been named Diana May.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
News Items About
Valley Residents

Mrs. w. N. Boyer is planning to
visit her daughter, Mrs. James r.
Fowble, and Mr.. Fowble, and their
little son, David, who live in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

F. & A. NJ. TO MEET
Ell Centre lodge No. 1884, F. and A.
NJ, will conduct a stated meeting
Monday night, 7:30 o'clock, Masonic
temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

Mrs. Phil Bancroft cfs Walnut
Creek and Mrs. Griffing Bancroft
of San Diego are in Eel Centre for a
brief visit after spending a few
weeks in Borego Valley.
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PRISONER OF WAR
CAPTURED BY FIJI

ATLANTA, April 23.3R-Cap-
ture in Columbia, S. c., of the
last of four German prisoners OF
war who escaped from Camp Cor
don, internment camp near Angus
ia, was announced today by F. c.
Holloman, special agent in charge
of the Atlanta office of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
Holloman identified the prison.
er as Gerd Gutzat, "a.
Two Of the four men, Josef Ii
sinski and Heinz Stolte, were cap
tured near Augusta shortly after
they escaped last Monday night.
German Muller, %, was picked up
on a Columbia street Friday.
At time of the escape the Column
bia office of the FBI quoted Spe-
cial Agent H. K. Moss of Savan-
nah as saying that Gutzat was the
same prisoner who escaped sever
al weeks ago and was captured en-
route to Columbia, where the FBI
said he planned to take plane
from the Columbia Army Air Base
and fly back to Germany ,
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Fighting At Chenghsien Bloody;
Officials Worried By Jap Drive
BIC SCALE GAMBLE
Offensive Taken AS Mean
ing Nips Trying To
Knock China Out

WASHINGTON, April %. -(P)-
A big scale gamble to knock China
out Of the war and cut American
bombers off from bases threaten
ing the Japanese homeland is the
most authoritatively supported in
depreciation here of the Nipponese
drive on the north China city of
Chenghsien.
Other suggested explanations in
yolve conflicting factors which
seem to cancel each other out, and
It long has been felt here that jap
al is likely to make one last great
effort to paralyze China and elm
rate the east China bulge as an
Allied thanking base.
The ready explanation of f'for-
eign observers" in Chungking that
the Japanese attack on Chenghsien
is designed to capture the big Hon
an province wheat crop is dis
counted here.
Honan wheat will not ripen until
the middle Of June. Japan's usual
technique on looting expeditions is
10 wait until crops are harvested,
then invade and carry off what
food stores they can take with them
as they retreat after destroying the
rest
Nor does it seem entirely likely
to some observers here that the
ann Of Japanese drive is to re-
capture the section of the old Pei
plng-Hankow railway which lies be-
tween Chenghsien and the Japa-
nese outpost of Hsinyang north OF
Hankow.
The Chinese, when they retreat
ed in 1898 tore up and carried away
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Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
BLAZE DESTROYS
OVER 200 BOATS

BOSTON, April % ~ About
225 pleasure cruisers and yachts
were destroyed tonight in six
alarm fire that swept coal yard
and adjacent ship yard. 1t drove
20 families from their homes AND
consumed 1000 tons of anthracite
coal. One fireman was injured.
Samuel J. Pope, chief of the Bos-
ton fire department, who directed
force of 300 fire fighters, esti-
mated the damage at $4,000 at
the coal yard and 1925, 900 dam
age to boats at the ship yard.
Chief Pope directed the rescue
of fleet of trucks from the garage
of the Frost Coal Co., and the fire
men protected nearby tanks con-
tanning approximately 125, 900 gal
Ions of fuel oil with heavy water
curtains.
Billowing clouds of smoke at
tracted thousands of spectators tc
fire lines and all auto traffic and
trolley service was maintained by
shuttle service.
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HEALTH OFFICER
WILL COME SOON

A representative from the United
States Public Health Service IN
Washington will visit Wilmington
as soon as available and appraise
the work of the Consolidated Board
of Health by request of DR.. A. Il.
Elliot, city-county health officer,
DR.. Carl V. Reynolds of the State
Board of Health in Raleigh reveal
ed yesterday.
DR.. Elliot said Saturday that he
had not received official acknowl-
edgement of receipt of communi-
cation from the State Board Of
Health in Raleigh.
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron, in a
meeting of the city-county health
board on April 10, declared that
the local organization is not full
filling its obligations to the COM
munity. Since that date, the ad'
ministration of the health setup
has been the subject of much dis
cussion.
Mayor Cameron, who has point.
ed out that the city of Wilmington
and citizens of the town are con-
tributing a substantial amount q
the Board of Health appropriation
and that better service is due,
has stressed that his attack is by
no means personal, and that it
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ALLIES SAID NOW
ON VICTORY ROAD
Navy Commander Says In
Report Nations Ready
To Travel Far, Fast

WASHINGTON, April %. -(P-
Admiral Ernest J. King, navy com.
mander in chief, said tonight thai
allied forces are now fully enter.
ed' on the roads to victory and
fortified with unity, power and ex.
perience are determined to travel
far and fast
Both in Europe and the Pacific,
he said in a report to Secretary
OF the Navy Knox, long roads still
lie ahead, but
1.-THE enlightenment of GERMANY is
in sight,
The war against Japan is in the
American offensive STAGE and
progressing increasingly WE'LL"
King enumerated also these 9TH
err long steps toward crushing the
Axis in all parts of the world:
The German submarine fleet
has been reduced from a menace
to problem.
THE German structure of satel-
lite states is crumbling."
THE Balkans are aflame with
guerrilla war and other occupied
countries await only the signal"
Numerical inferiorities' of the
American forces in the Pacific dur.
ing early phases of the war 'have
been reversed"
Our submarines and planes are
cutting deeper and deeper into the
vital Japanese shipping. Our fleets
move in the Central Pacific un-
challenged.
Devoting the greater part of his
40, 000-word report to the war
against Japan, where, because of
geographical factors. most naval
Continued ON Page Five; Col. "
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British 1mperials Fight Invasion
Of India By Japs To A Stand-Still

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Randy, Ceylon, April 49,
(R)-British Imperial forces have
fought the Japanese invasion Of
India to a standstill in the Imphal.
kohima areas and steadily are
Strengthening their positions with
the effective aid of Allied aviation,
Southeast Asia Headquarters an
ncunced today.
The communique followed an op.
timistic special statement declar.
ing the enemy offensive had fail.
ed to attain even it's primary OBJ.
jectives and had lost its initial i'm
petus.
The japanese are fighting fierce
ly, however, southwest of Imphal
in the neighborhood of Bishenpur
along the strack leading to Silchar
and a railway spur to the Calcutta
Assam railroad but "the enemy
advance is being held here" the
communique added.
"Our forces are operating both, in
and around Kohima and the final
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Heavy Bombers Rip
Battered Continent
Allied Aerial Campaign
Said Nearing 'Fruition'

LONDON, April 23.-LR)-The
British-American campaign to de-
stroy the German airforce - "as
a preliminary to destruction of the
German ability and will to contin-
ue armed resistance"-is nearing
fruition after a year of history's
most savage air fighting in which
the luftwaffe has suffered a ma
jor defeat, an Allied announce
ment said today.
A desperate German counter plan
to quadruple fighter production
has been smashed and "for three
successive months the German
fighter force has lost more planes
than its plants could manufac
ture," U. S. Airforce headquarters
and the British Air Ministry said ir
an extraordinary joint statement
detailing the strategy and progress
of the campaign.
The gigantic offensive, while {
success" is mot yet a complete
one," the announcement said, bu
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2 TOP SOLDIERS
TO GET TOGETHER

WASHINGTON, April %. -P)-
Two soldiers who have the Media
of Honor to show they know how
tough infantry fighting is in Italy
Sergeant Commando Kelly and Sc
cond Lieutenant Ernest Childers-
will get together and tell their COM
bined story tomorrow.
The War Department announced
today the two men will hold a press
conference tomorrow morning in
the Penta gon. Where the two were
today the War Department did not
disciosed-but left the impression
that it was much nearer than Italy.
Commando tthe army insists
that he is Sergeant Charles E. Kel-
lv) lives in Pittsburgh when not
fighting Nazis. childers' home is
Tulsa. Okla,
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result should remove not only the
local threat but any further threat
to Dimapur and 1t. Gen Joseph W.
StilWelPs lines of communication, "
said the confident special state
ment from headquarters of the SUI
preme commander in the Southeast
Asia theater, Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten. But it added that the
situation here cannot be regard
ed as fully satisfactory"
1.-The disappointment of the Jap
anese at their failure first in Ara
kan in February and now in the
attainment of detectives in Mani
pur may be gagged by the extrava-
gance of his propaganda at pre-
sent.
1.-THE position is painted for JAP
anese eyes in wildly optimistic
colors. The claim that Allied
troops are facing humiliation is
linked with the long-prepared move
of the Southeast Asia Command S
headquarters to Ceylon, which is
represented as panicky fight.
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JAPS MAKE PROGRESS
Enemy Strengthens Forces
Which Crossed Peip-
ing-Hankow Line
(By The Associated Press)

CHUNKING, April % - Sangui
nary fighting in the suburbs ano
on two sides of Chenghsien, where
the Lunghai and PeipingHankow
railways once crossed to form =
strategic junction, was announced
by the Chinese today with the
Japanese apparently making pro-
gress in their aim of loosenins
the Allied grip on another Leg
of north China's communications
The enemy strengthened his
forces which had crossed the Peip-
ing-Hankow railway Is miles south
of Chenghsien and severe fighting
was in progress near Sincheng.
west of the railway.
The roadblock which the Japa-
nese had established across the
Lunghai railway Is miles west
of Chenghsien also was being firm
ly held by the enemy despite heavy
battles.
The enemy's position here had
the double effect of cutting pos
sible corridor of Chinese escape
westward from the Chenghsien area
and of preventing flow of Chin.
csc reinforcements eastward along
the destroyed roadbed.
Likewise, the spearhead pointed
westward across the Peiping-Han'
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JAPS ISOLATED
M'Arthur Watches Landing
From Cruiser Off New
Guinea Coast
U. S. LOSSES SLIGHT
Third Assault Team Lands
$50 Miles Southeast
To Reach 'Drome
U. S. LOSSES SLIGHT
By C. YATES MCDANIEL

MacARTHUR'S A D VAN c f D
HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUI-
NEA, Monday, April 24-lR-Pow-
erful American Army forces, NOV
ing the ground front 500 miles up
the New Guinea coast, landed on
both sides of Hollandia Saturday
while Gen. Douglas Macarthur
watched from a bombarding cruis.
er, headquarters announced today.
A third assault team landed I'M
opposed $50 miles to the southeast
to reach the Aitape airdrome.
These operations, covered by
tremendous aircraft carrier task
force, helped isolate 100000 Japa-
nese from the Solomons to New
Guinea.
Under the guns of the Navy, the
Americans landed with slight
losses on the beaches east and west
of the Dutch New Guinea base
of Hollandia early Saturday morn
ing. BY noon they had driven
about two miles east from Tana-
merah Bay and the same distance
west from Humboldt Bay. Their
detectives are three airfields ly-
ing midway between the American
beachheads.
This is the first reconquest Of
Dutch territory since the Nazis
overran Holland in 1910 and the
Japanese swept through the Neither
lands East Indies early in 1912.
The assault troops, whose land
ings swept the New Guinea front
500 miles up the coast from the
Madang sector, found no land
mines and few obstacles to inter-
fere with rapid establishment Of
the three beachheads.
Driving inland at Hollandia, the
American shock troops met weak
resistance which they quickly wip-
ed out Or overran, leaving to fol.
lowing forces the job of neutra.
lizing and smashing a few pill
boxes.
This longest ranged amphibious
blow of Macarthur to date bypass
ed the bulk of the Japanese 18th
Army on New Guinea estimated
at 60, 900 between Madang and Hol-
landia.
1t also frightened the envelop-
ment of some 10000 more Japa-
nese holding out on New Britain,
New Ireland and in the northern
Solomons.
Caught in trap at Hollandia by
landings in bays which provide the
only escape outlets to the COST,
the japanese units either were be-
ing crushed by American steam
rollers or were falling back toward
34-mile long road which links
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Nine DIE IN OIL
REFINERY BLAST
Nine More Are Injured !;
Fire And Steam Fill
Affected Areas

COFFEYVILLE, Kas., April 23.-
(R-Nine persons lost their lives
in an oil refinery explosion that
wrecked still and barrel house
of the Cooperative Refinery today.
Nine or more were injured, six OF
them so severely as to require
disqualification.
Refinery officials were unable
to say Immediately whether more
men might be trapped in the wreck
age and thorough search was i'm
possible Immediately because OF
fire and steam which still filled
the affected area. The fire was
believed under control, however,
and all danger of involvement OF
other portions of the huge plant,
recently greatly enlarged, appear.
ed past.
Cause of the explosion was not
Immediately available.
The only identified dead was
Lawrence Pollett, who succumbed
in a hospital several hours after
the blast.
Russell Hamlin, an undertaken,
said the other victims were burn
ed beyond recognition and that
names of the dead probably would
not be determined until after the
refinery could check it's payrolls
against the list of the known SUR
vivors. Even then, he said, the
only possibility of final identifica-
ton would be through possible
dental records.
The first explosion came at 1:45
O'Clock. Two hours later city fire
men and plant workers reported
they had the fire under control and
they believed there was no dan
ger of further spread of the fire.
Smoke and steam delayed ex-
animation of the plant and Off
Gals were unable to say how
seriously operations would be in
terrupted.
The barrel house is storage unit
for containers, both empty and
filled. Considerable gasoline was
believed to have been in the build
ing.
Flames shooting up from the re-
flnery were visible over most oil
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N. c. DELEGATION
FACES BUSY WEEK
Doughton Expects To Pre-
sent SimpIified Tax Bill
To The House
By HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-NeWs Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, April %. - A
quartet of North Carolina solons-
two senators and two house mem
bers - hold the congressional
spotlight during the coming week
due to their committee participa-
ton in major measures slated for
early consideration in both houses.
Rep. Robert L. Doughton, dean
of the Tar Heel house delegation
and chairman of the powerful
ways and means committee, ex-
poets to present on the floor Mon
day tax simplification program,
embracing a plan of salary with
holdings designed to render I'M
necessary the filing of tax returns
by all persons earning $1,000 per
year or less.
The simplification process would
put somewhat larger tax burdens
on single persons and married
couples without children, while
easing the load on large families,
causing some tax experts to label
it ga baby bonus bill"
Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), ways
and means Republican leader,
said that "there shouldn't be a
vote against the bill when it
comes up. Rep. Cooper D-Tenn {,
ranking committee Democrat COM
mented cts the greatest program
for the convenience of the taxpay-
er that ever has been offered in
this or any other country
Senator Robert R. Reynolds,
chairman of the Senate Military
Affairs committee, will preside ov.
err deliberations of the committee
in perfection of program for
termination of army war con-
tracts.
The problem of uniform pat
tern for termination of war con-
tracts is also under consideration
by the House Military Affairs COM
mittee, where a subcommittee I'M
der the Craftsmanship of Represen-
tative Carl Durham is further
along with proposed legislation
than the senate committee. Term
nation of navy contracts is also
under consideration by the senate
and house naval affairs commit
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
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PRESIDENT WARNS
MAIL ORDER FIRM

WASHINGTON, April 23.-(R -
Complying with a presidential re-
quest, the union leader of strlk-
ing employees at Montgomery WARD
and Company in Chicago notified
President Roosevelt tonight ne
would order the strikers to re-
turn to work.
Samuel Wolchok, president Of
the united retail, wholesale and
department store employees (ClO),
New York, telegraphed the presi-
dent of his intentions only a few
hours after Mr.. Roosevelt had di-
rected the mail order company to
resume relations with the union
and told the strikers to 60 back tc
work.
The President told the union and
the company that if they did not
comply by noon Tuesday, he would
''take such further action as the
interests of the nation require"
Volchok said he WOULD call a
mass meeting of the workers at
II a. m. tomorrow, give them a
report on the Presidents request,
and instruct them to go back to
their jobs Immediately.
Wolchok pledged the President S
request will meet with complete
compliance'' from the workers
and expressed the hope that the
company will "obey, too"
Should the company refuse to
abide by your request, however,
we stand ready to cooperate in
any steps which you may find nee
essary to take" Wolchok told the
President.
Wolchok charged that the strike
was provoked by what he termed
the company's arrogant refusal to
comply" with War Labor Boaro
directives and cts consistent acts
of brazen disregard of the mos
elementary rights of American
| workers."
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This hysterical note in the en-
emy's propaganda is clear indi-
cation that his plans have not gone
as well as hoped and therefore a
clear signpost for quiet confidence
on our side"
tThe Tokyo radio asserted the
British Fourth Army was surround
ed on the Imphal plain and quoted
the Axis-supported Indian leader
Supbas Chandra Bose as saying
that the fall of Imphal was immi-
nent and that his group was ready
to move in and set up national
government" on Indian soil)
The Allied hold on Kohima, on
the road IS miles from Dimapur
and the Bengal-Assam railroad,
was frightened despite Japanese re-
Inducements in this vital area and
the enemy, having suffered heavy
casualties, now is re-grouping, the
the communique said. Several
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
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FROM TWO DIRECTIONS
History's Greatest Aerial
Assault Is Continuing,
Nazis Claim

LONDON, April % H. Allied
invasion planes in great strength
and of every category from fight
ers to heavy bombers ripped Hit
ler's battered European fortress
from the south and west again to-
day, while German radio warnings
late tonight indicated that history S
greatest sustained aerial assault
was continuing it's week-long fury
throughout the night.
The offensive, eliminating stroke
in plan to destroy the German
airforce, was declared at the same
time in an unprecedented joint
statement of the British Air Min
istry and the United States stra-
tegic air forces to have been a
success although not yet COM
plete one.
From 500 to 75G Liberators and
Flying Fortresses skinned the
Alps from Italy for the daylight
blows at Austria, heavily pound.
ing the aircraft centers of Weiner.
Neustadt and Schwechat and the
air field at Bad Voslau, all neal
Vienna, while hundreds of lighter
bombers and fighters hoped the
Channel from Britain, blasting
coastal anti-invasion defenses tt
keep rolling for the seventh
straight day this most powerful o.
all aerial onslaughts.
The Budapest radio said Buda
pest and Bekes, a town near Tran
sylvania, were under Allied at
tack. Both the Budapest and Bel
grade stations then went off the
air.
Medium-sized forces of fighter.
bombers and fighters of the U. S.
Eighth Air Force struck at Least
seven widely separated airbases
in France and Belgium Sunday aft.
ernoon, an American communique
announced. It listed losses as sew.
en- fighters.
American Marauder medium
bombers, in their second operation
of the day, attacked Namur, Bel
gian rail center, while the Raj
coastal command joined in the day.
light offensive by setting fire to
medium-sized German merchant
ship in the English Channel.
In its night poundings, the Raj
sent a force of 1 1000 or more bomb
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SWOLLEN RIVERS
RAVACE MIDWEST
BY The Associated Press

thousands of homeless we're be-
1g cared for by the Red Cross to-
way throughout Missouri and Kan
S'S aS weather bureaus in the area
iopelully predicted that the rivers
I09lhg from their banks would
uegln to fall by Wednesday if the
rains subsidized.
More than 200 were evacuated
p ~. their homes along the Blue
t 4Gvef running through the indus
a,al district of Kansas City's east
l LuSe While in Wichita 1000 home
N,S slept In churches and schools.
+r1 Nnphlbious units of jeeps, large
:aeks. rubber RATS and pontoons
rum Camp Phillips reached Wichi-
shortly after midnight Saturday
work.
1actlcally all main roads lead
rs mo Wichita were blocked by
s-"oQ waters and there was no rail
r ro.y-ce out of the city. Scores Of
n aauS throughout Missouri also
"e1e impossible.
me Red Cross in Kansas City
, ,spoFled it was unable to reach a
on a1 plant, surrounded by water, ir
, ouef 10 get food to some 100 per-
M residents in towns all along the
fs a|slS de Cynes River in Kansas
t G.eo one Of the most serious situa.
T .lIS' A terrific rain at Guenemo
49, prevented the weathermar
h,t rom making official reports
~. ~. indications were that the Mar
s ~ ue Cynes had risen eight feet
N'0Ve its 80 foot flood stage.
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u. S. Invasion Moves Up
Left Flank OF Pacific
Fight Some 500 Miles
Bv The Associated Press

The invasion of Hollandia, Dutch
New Guinea, announced today by
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, moves
up the left flank of the islandto-
island Pacific front approximately
500 miles.
From -Hollsndia, that front
line" runs like this. The Admiral
ty islands to the St. Matthias is.
lands to the Gilberts, the western
Marshalls, Midway and thence to
Attu in the Aleutians.
The distance from Attu to Hol.
landia is approximately $500 sta.
tute miles.