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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Two More Ward
Properties
Seized by Army

CHICAGO, Jan. 2. (UP)-The
government took over two additional
warehouses of Montgomery Ward
and company in Detroit Tuesday,
as Major General Joseph w. Byron,
army officer assigned to run the
seized Ward properties, announced
uncooperative company personnel
would be removed to facilitate his
assignment.
Byron announced at the head
quarters he has set up in the Mont
gomery Ward executive offices that
officers he had sent to Detroit to
survey the Wards situation there
had recommended the government
take possession of the addition9
warehouses to make the govern
ments operation effective in that
area.
Byron said the additional Ward
properties were taken ever by the
army at 9:45 a. m. (CWT).
The government seizure Of Ward
facilities was the second within a
week. The army last Thursday
seized properties of the mail order
and retail store firm in seven cities,
including Detroit, for failure to COM
ply with a war labor board order
covering wages and maintenance of
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
FBI NobS Pair
Of SuboteurS
Landed by Sub
Discharged u. S. Navy Man and
German Nailed in New York;
Marion Warned To Be on Watch

NEW YORK, Jan. 2. (UP)
J. Edgar Hoover, director
of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, warned Tuesday
of a new intensified" effort
by Germany to send sabO-
teurs to this country as he
revealed the arrest of two
agents landed a month ago
by submarine on the coast of
Maine.
The men, arrested in New York,
were William Curtis Colepaugh. 20,
native of Connecticut with dis
charge from the U. S. navy, and
Enrich Gimpel, 35, a German citi-
zen, interned fer time in this
country but sent home as an eX-
change prisoner only to return as
a spy. They landed November 20
in Frenchman Bay.
HAD $4,000 CASH
The two men, trained in espion-
age and sabotage in Berlin, Dresden
and the Hague, were equipped with
$4,000 in United States currency,
forged birth certificates copied after
these of the Connecticut department
of health, forged discharges from
the U. S. navy, secret ink and other
pararhernalia. Both we're carrying
80 caliber pistols when arrested
and had assembled parts for short
wave radio transmitter.
The landing of these two men
anc of the two japanese balloons in
the northwest and other matters
l cannot disclose at the moment for
reasons of security indicate that
the German government has very
intensified program of training and
sending agents into the western
hemisphere. Hoover said.
The FBI chief said he was con-
Continued on Page 6, Cal. .
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Forces Flee Belgian Line
AS Patton Tightens Trap
Nazis Attempt New Thrus+s in Tip
Of F rance and Make Some Gains;
Third Army Recap+ures 5 Towns

PARIS, Jan. 2. (UP)-German forces were reported
eeng the westenost bulge of the Belgian salient Tues
Gay but to the southeast they building up attack
OF considerable strength front of about SO miles be-
tween the Saarland and the upper Rhine
The new German push centered in the Btche area
OF northeastern France Supreme headquarters announced
that around Bitche the Nazis gained mile and half cut
the Roer running five miles southeast Bannestn prob
ably captured the latter town. and still pressing on
Inc Germans now active throughout the border
area from Bche to the Rhine official sources reported
field broadcast said the Naz aggressveness was
ing westward into the Saar valley, where heavy attack
was launched in the of Wuferdngen 13 miles south
east of Saarbrucken.
Patton's Army Retdkes Several Tovns
1t General George S. Pattons Third army units chop
ping into the south flank of the Ardennes salient gained
another couple Of miles in number of up to yes
terday morning, SHEAF reported =
They recaptured Morcy II miles west of Bastogne and
southwestern anchor post of the Naz salient which had
changed hands repeatedly in the previous fighting Closer
to Bastogne the doughboys seized Hubermont six miles
east OF the Belgian road CENTER Harange six miles south
east and Neffe, two miles east
Pattons gains had ironed out the German bulpes on
each side of Basogne removing any current threat to the
citadel while his units pushed on to the north toward
Houffaize 10 miles above Basogne the Liege highway
German communique said the Americans were trynr to
break through toward Houffalize possible hint that tey
were approaching the town.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Russ Cannon and Rockets
Lay Budapest in Ruins

MOSCOW, Jan. 2. (UP)-
Thousands of Russian can
non and rocket guns began
levelling Budapest block by
block Tuesday as the Red
army, inflamed by the MUIR
der of two of its emissaries,
proclaimed mo quarter" for
t h e cornered Nazi elite
guards fighting on in the
heart of the city.
Death to the last man" was the
Soviet war cry as word spread
through the ranks that the Nazis
had rejected a surrender ultimatum
by Staying the two Russian officers
who presented it.
Half the city was in Russian
hands at the start of the second
week of street fighting Tuesday
morning, and Soviet field dispatches
said the narrowing pockets held by
the Axis defenc ers on both sides
Of the Danube were being pulver-
lied by continuous pocket and
artillery bombardment.
Throwing responsibility fer the
destruction of the capital squarely
on the enemy, the Red army high
command ordered the German po-
sitions destroyed by shellfire at
whatever cost to the city and it's
remaining civilian inhabitants.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

The steady gains of the Third
army threatened to lop off the
western half of the German salient,
and it was this mounting threat
which apparently prompted the
Nazi Withdrawal from the bulge
west CT the line through Bastogne.
LOSE TRACK OF NAZIS
A field dispatch timed at eight
O'Clock Tuesday morning g am.
EWT) said all contact had been lost
with the Nazi arlnored divisions
that had been holcing the western
tip of the salient and that the AM
ericans were advancing eastward
against light rear guard resistance.
United Press War Correspondent
Boyd Lewis reported the German
Withdrawal which apparently ended
for the time being Field Marshal
Karl Won Rundstedt's threat to the
Meuse river line.
Apparently alarmed by the grow
ing southern flank, the Nazis were
believed gathering their crack Pam
zer units In the center of the Ar
dennes in preparation for a new
attempt to break through the AM
erican ring-perhaps north toward
Liege and Antwerp or south against
Pattons troops.
Lewis censored dispatch did not
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Eight jap Ships
in N ew
Luzon bombines

ALLIED H EADQUAR TERS,
Philippines, Jan. 2. (UP)-American
land-based planes, extending their
offensive against Luzon nearly $50
miles north of Manila for the first
time, have wrecked two destroyers
and six other ships in the Lingayen
gulf, General Douglas Macarthur
announced Tuesday.
Three freighter- transports CT 5000
tons each, two smaller cargo ships
and destroyer cort, in addition
to the two destroyers, were sunk or
probably sunk by Mitchell and Ago
attack bombers Saturday in
smashing attack against one CT the
havens to which the Japanese had
shifted their Philippines shipping
from battered Manila harbor.
Liberatois hit Nelson airdrome
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
GERMANS START RETREAT
Americans Smash
Sneak Attack
Of German Planes
Heavy BOmbers Battle
Foe to Standstill;
Blast Tanks, Railways

LONDON, Jan. 2. CUP)-Flying
FortreSSes and LiberatorS 1000 strong
smashed at German tank and troop
concentrations, rail yards, road and
rail functions, and bridges behind
Marshal Karl Won Rundstedt's Ard
ennes salient Tuesday.
For the 18th straight day the
Eighth air force struck powerfully
at the bottlenecks of the transport
network at the base of the bulge in
Belgium anG Luxembourg.
An announcement that tank and
troop concentrations were included
in the days targets did not say in
which direction they were moving.
Field dispatches sale the Germans
were pulling out of the westernmost
part of the salient.
Early reports did not indicate
whether German resistance was en-
countered or whether there was any
recurrence of the furious air bat
ties of Monday in which at least
205 Nazi planes were shot down.
A brief announcement from u. S.
strategic air forces headquarters
revealed that the big bombers of
the Eighth air force, with escorting
fighters, again were blasting objec-
tiveS behind the western front, but
none were identified Immediately.
A three-hour parade of RAF
bombers Monday night raided the
Vohwinkel freight yards near the
western front railway bottleneck of
Dusseldorf and the Minister Stein
Benzol plant near Dortmund in the
Ruhr. Numerous fires and at least
one violent explosion were observed
at the Benzol plant, one of Ger
many'S dWindling sources of fuei.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Gro Skl
Kills
! hree
Station Wagon
Sedan Collide
On Highway 80

A New Years day traffic
accident claimed three lives
in, one family in Imperial
county as the roll of 1945
fatalities headed toward the
1914 death toll record of 20
traffic victims.
Death came to the three
victims as a result of a COLI
sion between a station wagon and
a sedan at the intersection of high
way 80 and the Central Valley high
way between Ell Centro and Holt
vile at 1915 pm. Monday.
Can6 elaria Mata, 13, Calipatria,
was killed instantly. Carmen Perez
%, Mexicali, died in an ambulance
Continued on Page 6, Cal. q
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
vinson Studies
Live Cattle
Ceiling Prices

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. CUP)-
Economic Stabilization Director
Fred M. Vinson was confronted
Tuesday with the task of deciding
whether to impose price ceilings on
live cattle over the strong protests
of the cattle industry, a bloc of
western congressman, and the War
Food Administration.
The Office of Price AdminiStra-
ton is proposing ceilings for on
the-hoof beef as the only method of
bringing the price of live cattle
into line with wholesale and retail
prices and relieving beef shortages
in eastern metropolitan markets.
Representative cattlemen from IL
important beef-producing tat e S
Monday carried their anti-ceiling
arguments to Vinson after assert
etly unsatisfactory sessions with
OPA in Chicago and Kansas City
last week.
Protesting almost every phase of
the OPA program, they declared
that ceilings would intensity rather
than relieve the beef shortage. The
cattlemen said the current black
market will look like a side show"
alongside illegal operations that
would develop with the imposition
of ceilings.
Meantime, the nations farmers
were asked to make 1945 another
top-production food year even
though the job may have to be
done with new reductions in the
farm labor force. The plea came
from War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes in his report on
full home front mobilization.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
BY UNITED PRESS

A cold wave, coming out of the
northwest, extended over the entire
Midwest and eastern half of the
nation Tuesday, with little immed-
late let-up in sight.
The northern plain states, Mis-
sissippi anG Ohio valleys and Great
Lakes areas were hardest hit by
the cold blast, the federal weather
forecaster at Chicago reported, with
a national low of % degrees below
zero registered at st. Paul, Mimi.
Temperatures along the eastern
seaooard ranged in the low twenties
yesterday an6 last night, but could
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
California Heads
Holiday Death
Lists I'm Nation
By UNITED PRESS

Deaths caused by accidents during
the three-day hoiiIay week end
reached 241 Tuesday, with the COL
lision of two sections of a Southern
Pacific passenger train claiming 48
lives.
Asice from the train wreck, which
occurred near Ogden, Utah, Cali
fornia led the states with % deaths.
Pennsylvania was second with 18
and Michigan third with Is.
Throughout the nation, traffic
accidents took more than lis lives.
On the whole, however, it ap-
peared unlikely that final reports
would boost the traffic toll to the
$50 figure predicted for the week
end by the National Safety Council.
The Safety Council estimate. bas-
ed on previous holiday accidents, in
cluded all persons who will die of
injuries received during the three
day period.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

! WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.
(UP)- Congressional lead
ers said Tuesday that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had "indicat-
ed" to them that he would
meet sometime soon" with
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Premier Josef
Stain.
This information was developed at
the leaders first conference of the
year with the President, in prepar-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

at Manila, while so or more marine
Corsairs blew up an ammunition
train and seriously damaged three
others in dive-bombing and strafing
attacks south of Manila.
In addition, the Corsairs destroyed
at least 20 locomotives along a 150-
mile stretch of track. One locomo-
tive exploded and appeared TO leap
at least 20 feet in the air, a pilot re-
ported.
Reconnaissance planes shot down
five Japanese aircraft over Luzon.
Over Mindoro, just southwest of
Manila, American night fighters and
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Navy Announces
Loss Of Sub

These losses raised to 243 the tota
of U. S, naval vessels lost from al
causes in this war.
The Harder carried normal COM
plement of 65 men. It's skipper. COM
mander Samuel ID. Dealey, Dallas.
Texas, hclder of five decorations for
heroism as a sub commander. Is
among the missing
The LSM-018 was skippered by
Lieutenant Penny w. Rairden Jr.,
Los Angeles, who survived.
Commander of the PT-3l1. Lieu
tenant (jg) Baker w. Creclman.
Lakeville, Connecticut, Is missing.
The navy's records did not show
who cor-mandcf TIE -r-3-0.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. (UP)-
The navy Tuesday announced loss
OF the 1525-ton submarine Harder,
nemesis of Japanese shipping since
the early days of the war. Loss of
three lesser craft also was disclosed.
The Harder, holder of a presidential
unit citation for sinking thousands
OF tons of Japanese shipping, was
the 35th U. S. submarine lost in this
war.
The other lost vessels were the
landing craft LSM-0l8 and the mo-
tor torpedo beat PT-300, which was
lost in the Philippines area, and the
PT-31l which was destroyed in the
Mediterranean area.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Cold Sweep Hits
Half of Nation

be expected to dip Tuesday as the
wave continued it's eastward sweep,
the weatherman said.
Only the far southwest and the
southernmost tip of Florida escaped
the icy blasts, and temperatures as
low as 25 degrees were experienced
at Atlanta, Georgia, and in the
gulf states.
In the Midwest, which Shivered
under temperatures of five below
at Chicago, and nine below at Rock
fore, ILL.,, slight relief was predicted
for tomorrow. On the whole, how
ever. the cold spell was expected to
continue for the remainder of the
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Experts Study
Balloons of
Origin

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 2. GUP)-
Army officers and FBI agents Tues
day yelled in secrecy results CT their
intensive investigation of a large
balloon-possibly of Japanese origin
found in wooded country about 38
miles southeast of Portland.
Belief that the japanese could
launch long-range, small-scale pa
per balloon forays against the west
coast of North America from bases
between Formosa and the KurileS
was expressed by Professor P. E.
Church, former army-navy oceanog-
raphy instructor, in Seattle.
NEAR POWER PLANT
The balloon was discovered by un-
identified residents of the area near
Estacada, site of large power plant.
Several miles away lies an important
part of Portland's water system
the Bull Run headworks.
Army and FBI officials declined
comment as to: Whether the balloon
was Japanese, fer what purpose
such balloons might be employed by
the Japanese, where or how they
would have been released. An army
demolition squad removed the bal
loon from a tree in which it landed.
The balloon was reported to have no
marking.
Church said japanese suicide"
balloons could make one-way trans-
pacific flights at a speed of from
so to 100 miles per hour from Kurile
bases and reasonably be expected
to cover the 5000-mile distance in
SO to 100 hours" with the aid of sea-
sonal winter gales.
HARD TO DETECT
Such balloons would be hard to
detect if they travelled at between
5000 and 10000 feet or higher to
catch ideal winds, he said. A balloon
crew equipped with food and hydro
gen could maintain that flying
height, Church believed.
Even greater accuracy could be
obtained by releasing balloons from
submarines close to the west coast,
he said. Tokyo recently announced
that japanese submarines were
again lurking off the Pacific coast
of the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Famed British
Admiral Killed

PARIS, Jan. 2. (UP)-Admiral Sir
Bertam Ramsay, naval commander
in chief under General Dwight D.
Eieenhcwer was killed Tuesday in
an airplane accident while on his
way to conference in Belgium.
Ramsay was 81.
In the first World war he COM
manded the famous destroyer Broke
and since has commanded three
cruisers and one battleship.
Ramsay won the nickname of
Dynamo and his knighthood
when he organized the evacuation
of Dunkerque. He also helped plan
and carry out the three Allied land
ings in the Mediterranean.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
Imperial County
Man Wounded

The war department Tuesday an
nounced that Private Curtis L. Glib
lett has been wounde,. in action
in the European area.
His name was included among
those of 1881 southern California
men wounded in that area. The
official announcement said next of
kin of all the men have been noti-
fled and kept informed of changes
in status.
Private Giblett's wife, Mrs. Mar
jorie L. Giblett's address is route
l, Box 279, El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
President Hints Meeting
Of big Three" and Soon

House Democratic Leader John
w. Mccormack, Massachusetts,,
quickly interjected, probably"
Barkeley echoed this. Then he
and Mccormack stressed that there
was nothing yet as to time or
place"
Asked whether they thought plans
for the "big three" meeting would
be developed fully by the time of
Mr.. Roosevelt's fourth term inaug-
uration on January 20, Barkley said
that anything he might say ON that
point would be purely speculative.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

For the tough Nazi elite guards
who comprised the core of the Bu-
dapeSt garrison, the Soviet COM
manders decreed infant death, and
It was announced that the respon-
sible German officers involved in
the murder of the ENJOYS would be
hanged.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

alton for the new congress which
convenes Wednesday.
1t was decided that the President
will send his annual message to
congress on Saturday.
The indication of an early meet
ing of the "big three Allied leaders
was reported by Senate Majority
Leader Alben w. Barkley, Kentucky.
He told reporters as sort of an
afterthought.
1.-The President Indicated that
sometime soon-without indicating
the time or place--he will meet
with Churchill and Stain"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02

After a week of street fighting
surprising in savagery even the bat
tie for Stalingrad, the Russians
held about 40 of Budapestis 80
square miles, including most Of the
west bank section of Buda and
about eight square miles of Pest,
total of about 500 city blocks.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
WEATHER FORECAST

Continued nice weather Tuesday
night and Wednesday. Warm days
with m x / m u m temperature
around 10 degrees. Cool at night
with lowest temperature 20 degrees
to 30 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
y AMBlINe
IMPORTER
Historical Notes

Historical Notes
Remember Ed Law, one time
county clerk, deputy district attor-
ney, and state senator from Impe-
rial county? We are inc EDITED to Leta
May Bryan, superior court reporter
since away back when, for this
little tidbit from her "reminiscences
of the past.
''While he (Ed Law was county
clerk woman came in one day and
he, with his usual glad hand man.
ner, went to the counter and in
quired all about her family, her
children, anc al her in-laws. Pres
emily she said, You don't know who
I am. He began to squirm but said
OF course do She said, You don't
know me at all. ann your cousin
from Phoenix and you haven't seen
me for Is years.
Leta May delveo a little further
into the past for this one.
another time man came in to
register and Ed, with his usual
warm hearted friendliness (acquir-
ed by long years of practice as both
politician and preacher began ask
ing numerous questions about the
mans family, his parents, grand
parents, and all the chilcren. He
finally got down to the business of
registering his lifelong friend. At
ter writing a few minutes and stall
ing as long as possible, Ed said, I
forgot how you spell your last
name The man looked at Ed with
broad grin anc' said, JONES'
Through The Nose
There is no more loyal Tennessee
an than Tom Finney.
He backed up his loyalty Monday
by backing the Tennessee team in
the rose Bowl game. He gave some
use backer 20 points.
So use beat Tennessee 25 to 0.
Poor Old Uncle Tom, nicked $xxx.
Quiet Please
H. L. Laird, the Bull O The
Woods at the Coca Cola plant in
El Censro, has hao all he can take.
He left the keys in a company
service truck not long ago and
some miscreant made off with it.
It's pitiful the way those men at
the plant have ragged him.
just you wait, Laird, some of that
hard hearted gang will forget some
car keys someday. Revenge, they
say, is sweet.
Sic 'em!
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-02
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 66, minimum
Tuesday 33; 5 am. Tuesday 43, hu-
midity 20; noon Tuesday 6l, humid
ity 81; pm. Mon. 81, humidity SO.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-19
q WISHING WELL 4
Resi,tered Z S Patent Ofcc
By MacLean
BY Jimmy Halo

ERE pleasant little game give you
every day 1t numerical puzzle designed to spell out
the letters hrst Il The number
subtract IL the number less than g.
add The result number Start az the upper left
Of rectange and check Of your key
left right Then read the the letters under
the checked hrures give -4A-i4
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-19
Boost Flint
VFW Home
IL
p,uoi, Time. rlin, BurssO

FLINT. Oct 1S-Fiity membefs
of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
s22. the auxiliary and city Off
cials, held pep meeting and
dinner last night at the Cos
mopolitan Club where plans for a
S240.000 veterans memorial home
were reviewed A fund raising
campaign soon will be launched
City planner Jack Mosicr de
ciared TO the group that he l.
looking for city-owned land which
might be given TO the VIEW for a
building site.
# he-eeterdrS group Seeks q
location within one mile of down
town Flint.
City Commissioned Clarence
Mckay declared he will back the
veterans on the floor of the COM
mission and Casper Kenny, state
representative, asserted he can be
counted on If state action iS re-
quired.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-19
Airport
Set for DC-4s

II IL; iiA~y-4i, t't-tt-ifS-1 f}Tyn0p AT.
port can accommodate the huge
lour-moiored transport planes
which Pcnnsylvania-Ccntral Air.
lines j. introducing airport
spoKesmcn stated today
c. Bedcl. Monro Pea prcSi-
dent, announced that l. Douglas
DC-4'S were acquired by the air
line and vIif'bC put INTO operation
by the end of the year Pea
expects three more fOur-motored
planes IN the near future
No plans have been announced
Yet concerning the use OF the new
Shlp, ON Flint flights
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-19
aI(D-EbAC Aide
Loses Salary

FLINT. Oct. is Jacob Waldo,
Go political action committee
director. VIII work for nothing
henCcforth. In an economy move,
The Go council decided against
retaining a Salaricd PAC director.
Waldo viii continue TO direct
PAC activities here and draw a
salary as a member OF the JAW
Go regional Office staff The
council VIII continue TO finance
activities of the PAC.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-19
State S First Enlisted
Nurse Is Back Home

COLDWATER. oct. IS Nj S
Dorothy NJ Newberry Coldwaior.
at The outbreak Of the war was
credited with beng the first
woman in Michigan 10 enliStN IN
the army nurse corps Today Isl
1t Newberry was back in her
home here with an honorable dis
charge
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-19
Dufch Traitor 10 Die

TIE HAGUE oct Is uNSl-
Dr r. van Gcnechten in charge
of education in Holland during
The Nali occupation. has been
sentenced 10 death for treason.