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VOL. VIII, No. 48 Six Pages SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1944 EL CENTRO, CALIF. PHONE 300 THE POST-PRESS

PLANES DESTROY ENTIRE JAP TROOP CONVOY

GERMANS FLEE IN PANIC ON COLOGNENipsFRONT
Bayonet Charge U. S. Subs Sink Russian Forces 4500 Lost
Baseball 'Czar'
Opens Way to 27 More Jap Clear Way to As Bombs Set
Fighting Ships Succumbs to Invade Prussia
Rhineland Plain Latest Bag Includes
Destroyer, Gunboat; Heart Ailment Red Army of 800,000
Hammers at Border;
Vessels Aflame
Yanks Break Through Strategic Total Mounts to 854
Judge Kenesaw Mountain, Landis Dies
Budapest Battle Rages Three Packed Transports Blasted
Lines After 10-Day Battle; WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.
(UP) —American submarines In Chicago Hospital After
By ROBERT
LONDON, Nov. 25. (UP)
S. MUSEL
And Sunk in Philippines Area;
Patton Batters Ahead in Saar have sunk 27 more Japanese Reign of 24 Years in Diamond Berlin reported that 800,- Foe Loses 42 Aircraft on Leyte
PARIS, Nov. 25. (UP) —Bayonet-swinging doughboys vessels including a destroyer CHICAGO, Nov. 25. (UP) —Judge Kenesaw Mountain 000 Soviet infantrymen and Bv WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
Hurtgen of Aachen Satur- and a gunboat in operations Landis, 78 year-old commissioner of baseball who has ruled the bulk of the Red army’s Philippines, Nov. 25.
burst out of the forest southeast
in Pacific and Far Eastern reserves were bat- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
day in a furious charge which sent the Germans reeling waters, the navy announced America’s No. 1 sport with an iron hand since 1920, died armored against the German (UP) —American planes have wiped out an entire four-
tering
back in panic and broke the stalemate on the Rhineland Saturday.
Saturday at St. Luke’s hospital.
pocket in western Latvia Sat-
ship convoy carrying 6000 troops intended for Leyte and
front west of Cologne. The stormy Landis, whos name had become a legend have sunk or damaged 14 other vessels in East Indies wat-
In addition to the two warships, late last night, urday in a massive winter of-
i

The 10-day battle of the Hurtgen
forest, one of the grimmest and
blooc iest of the war in which thous-
the latest bag of the American un-
dersea craft included a transport,
four tankers, three cargo transports,
in professional baseball, died in his condition, issued ers, it was announced Saturday.
sleep at 3:35 a.m. iPWT, his secre- said he was sleeping. fensive to clear the Baltic states
General Douglas MacArthur re-
tary, Leslie O’Connor, reported. His wife, who also is a patient and pave the way for a drive into ported that at least 4500 of the ene-
"In compliance with his wish, no at St. Luke’s convalescing from a East Prussia.
Hillman Slated my troops drowned or were burned

Rambling
ands of men on both sides have
fallen, came to a resrvnding climax
eporter when U. 8. First army troops slash-
ed their way out ont> the Cologne
plain a few miles set th west of
and 17 cargo vessels.
This brought to 854 the number
of enemy vessels sunk by U. S.
submarines in this war. In addition.
37 vessels are listed as probably sunk
and 119 damaged, for an overall
funeral service will be held,” O’Con- fractured wrist, and his son, Colon-
Far to the scuth. other Soviet to death when Warhawks and Thun-
nor said in a statement released el Reed G. Landis, and daughter derbolts set three packed transports
immediately after his death. “Also and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Rich- armies slogged painfully over the
in accordance with his desires, cre- ard W. Phillips, were at the bed-
m?tion will take place privately and side when he died.
mud-clogged mcur.tain roads
Hungary and Czecnslovakia. ham-
of
To Retain Post of 2000
end to
to 11.000 tons a'ojaze from
end in mast-hc’ght attacks
southeast of Masbate in the .’hilip-

Too True —
Duren.
At the south end of the battle-
total of 1010 enemy vessels
Enemy combat ships sunk by subs
total 80, wi'h 11 more probably
hit friends are asked not to send flow- NOTED FOR FAIRNESS
ers.”
CAME INTO POWE
Landis, a gruff-speaking old man
with shaggy whr.3 hair, battered
mering out gains measured at most
points in hundreds of yards against
the fiercest kind of opposition.
As PAC Director pines Fi'.iy.

DESTROYER SUNK
iron t, American and French troops On the Hungarian front. Marshal CHICAGO. Nov. 25. <UP>—Re- sank as
There was quite a crowd at the virtually completed the conquest of sunk and 16 damaged. Landis, who was namea commis- hat and keen wit, became a legend Two of the transports
sioner of baseball shortly after the in his lifetime. He was noted for Rcdion Y. Malinovsky's Second election of Sidney Hillman as chair- panic-stricken soldiers, their cloth-
home of Mr. and Mrs. Shields Strasbourg The navy also disclosed that the
and pushed half way notorious “Black Sox” scandal, had his fairness and as a man who al- Ukrainian army was locked in a man of the CIO Political Action ing afire, flung into the sea. The
Charlton in El Centro on Thanks- through the Vosges mountains on Netherlands submarine operating
furious battle with German and Committee
appeared a foregone
giving day. Among the guests was a 55-mile front while tightening under U. S. control has sunk 4500 been ill since October 2. ways gave the underdog a break. Saturday, leaving only third transport was beached. An
Landis was noted for his hardiness Baseball was severely shaken by Hungarian units entrenched along conclusion escorting destroyer also was sunk
Father Edward Hutchinson of St. their grip on 50,000 Germans pin- tons of enemy shipping in Neth-
i

and disdain for pampering and mec- the northeastern approaches to the question of how much mcney is with all hands.
Paul s Episcopal church in El Cen- ned against the upper Rhine. erlands East Indian waters. The “Black Sox" scandal in 1920 Budapest. One Soviet spearhead to be allotted to the PAC to be de-
tro. Abo among the guests were Mr. ical care and his physician said he and needed someone to guide it (A Japanese communique record-
was undergoing a “rest cure” to through its darkest hour. Club own- pounded to within a mile of Aszod, cided at a meeting of the union’s ed by the FOO said Japanese planes
and Mrs. Al Bevan and their six- PATTON FORGES AHEAD executive committee.
15 miles from the capital, captur- sank two transports and two land-
year-old daughter. Bonnie.

man
"Why does
father?"
everyone
Bonnie
call that
asked as she
Lieutenant
Patton's
General George
Third army was moving
S. Three Injured recover from a severe cold and ers turned to Landis, a 54-year-old
fatigue. His, condition was not federal judge in Illinois who had
thought to be serious until early gained nationwide fame 13 years
ing the fortified town of Bag and
bringing Budapest-Aszed
line under direct artillery fire.
The movement
railway president of the
to re-elect
Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union as head of
the ing barges and damaged a destroyer
and another transport in Leyte gulf
looked at Father Hutchinson with swiftly to clean out northeastern
a puzzled frown. "He must have a France and battering
big family. Why is he everyone's German Saar on a broad front.
through the In Car Crash this week when he suffered a heart previously when he fined the Stand-
attack.
He rallied later in the week, how-
ard Oil Co. $29,240,000 for accept-
ing rebates on railroad shipments of
The Germans ami their Hungar-
ian satellites counterattacked
peatedly in the Aszod area and ar-
the PAC was headed by Elmer A.
re- Benson, formeronly
sota and the
governor of Minne-
midwest member
and raided an airfield on Mbrotai
island in the Moluccas south of the
Philippines.)
father?” The break on the Aachen front Three persons- suffered minor in-
ever, but suffered another relapse oil. Another destroyer was sunk in
with an improvement in the Friday. The last bulletin on his ound Gyongyos, 37 miles northeast of the executive board. Balabac Strait off Borneo by a Mar-
That was a poser so Mrs. Charl- came juries in a traffic accident at 12:30 Landis answered the distress sig-
High clouds rolled away of Budapest. The Russian communi- Little, if any, opposition to Hill- tin Mariner, the first time tha‘
ton, Sr., undertook to explain to weather. a. m. Saturday on highway No. 99 a nal and took office as baseball's
and the sun broke through after sole ruler in 1920 and stayed there que reported, however, ithat the man's re-electicn was anticipated. type bomber has been reported In
Bonnie. mile nerth of El Centro. to the union's
"Father Hutchinson is our rector." a morning rain. Waiting Thunder-
Mrs. Charlton said.
"What is a rector?” Bonnie asked. man
bolt dive-bombers smashed
transport and gunned
Ger-
the
Donald Miller, 29, aviation ma-
chinists mate first class, 485 El Cen-
tro avenue. El Centro, piloted his
Senate Receives for 24 years.
The sport was ridden with rifts
c ue to the scandal and the organ-
Soviets were pushing slowly forward The ICOCI delegates
on both sectors. seventh annual convention made a
public manifestation of the 57-year-
action in this theater. It also dam-
aged a 7500-ton freighter at Brune;
bay, Borneo.

on.
“A priest." Mrs. Charlton went Nazis in the front lines.
The Yanks lu the northern tip
“Who is a priest?" Bonnie in- of the Hurtgen forest went over
coupe into the back of a car driven
by Bert Diemoz. 27, of 763 Holt
Centro. California highway patrol-
Protocol to ization had disbanded the three-
man commission which had govern-
ed the game and drafted the major Tokyo Reports
old Hillman’s popularity earlier this
week when he was given a 20-min-
utc ovation during his first appear-
26 JAP PLANES GONE
Lightning fighters accounted
the remainder of the enemy ship-
for

sisted. the top with bayonets gleaming and

"He is a minister," Mrs. Charl- closed with the Germans
ton said patiently.
in an
attack that panicked the Nazi ranks
men said, while attempting to drive
past.
Colorado Treaty
(Continued on Page 6. Col. 3> The injured included Mr. and
(Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 5)
Mrs. Miller and Delbert Suthpin,
20, aviat.icn machinist; mate second
class. Holtville naval air station.
State's Traffic
All were treated at the dispensary
at the El Centro marine air sta-
tion.
league agreement which set up Lan-
dis' office, and is the foundation
of baseball's current government. Raid on Manila
ance at the meeting.
Little difficulty also was foreseen
in deciding how much money the
ping, sinking a 6000-ton freighter
and damaging a gunboat and 10
freighters of 300 to 3000 tons in ?
PAC was to be allocated from the surprise attack Wednesday on Mak-
WASHINGTON. Nov. 25. <UP>- BANNED EIGHT PLAYERS
Fresident Roosevelt sent to the With that power behind him, BY UNITED PRESS union treasury, but the question of assar. Celebes. Twenty-six Japan-
Senate Friday a protocol supple- Landis met the issue by banning The Japanese-controlled Manila how much the committee would re- ese planes were destroyed on the
“about 60" American quest remained a secret.
menting the United States-Mexican from baseball for life the eight radio said ground atMakassar.
treaty carrier-borne planes bombed Manila Some spokesmen said the PAC The Japanese also stepped up
concerning utilization of Chicago "Black Sox" players found
waters of the Colorado, Tijuana and (Continued on Page 6, Col. 2> and Clark Field, inc FCC reported. would ask for $1,000,000. the sum their aerial activity, striking sav-
Rio Grande rivers. The Manila broadcast said the reported to have been allocated to agely but cdisastrously—to them—at
The protocol, which requires Sen- attack began with high level bomb- start its activities. American installations on Leyte. At

Deaths Mount Japanese Told

ate ratification, was signed early
this month to clarify certain treaty
provisions dealing with the func-
Brussels Revolt ing of shipping

a graveyard
in Manila Bay.

of Japanese
Principal action of the conven-
described in recent Allied reports as tion at its final session
shipping re-election of Philip Murray for his
was the
least 42 enemy aircraft were shot
down Friday in a series of what
MacArthur called “desperate air
SACRAMENTO. Nov. 25. <UPi
California highway traffic accidents
took an increasing toll of children
first half of the year.
Tentative figures as cf Octobct
1 gave 1868 fatalities, compared Of Raid Failure
tions and jurisdiction of sections of
the international boundary
water commistion as set up under
and Against Cabinet rimmed with the wreckage of shore fifth term as CIO president. James
installations as a result of a series B. Carey was re-named
of U. S. aerial assaults. treasurer.
secretary-
combats.”
Small suicide squads of Japanese
• Continued on Pg. 6. Col. 6>
tinder 10 years of age and caused with 1885 on the same date a year
the death of 205 military personnel ago, Garland said. Radio
BY
Tokyo
UNITED PRESS
told the Japanese
the pact.
The main treaty, signed here on Curbed by Police
during the first seven menths of

of motor vehicles, reported Satur-

day.
He added that traffic accident ;e-
1944. Gordon H. Gai land, director --verity “appears to be increasing de-
spite a reduction in the total num-
ber of accidents” and blamed this
people that Americn B-29 superfort-
rerses had been unable to achieve
“much o' anything" in their raid
on the capital Friday, but notably
February 3. has not yet been rati-
fied and the Senate foreign rela-

ther consideration
LONDON, Nov. 25. (UPi—Reports
from Brussels Saturday night said
tions committee has deferred fur- police guarding government build-
of it until next ings fired on demonstrators demand-
'Big Three Draws Pattern 1

held out no hope for counter meas-

Garland said the 1944 total of on "higher speeds both in urban
perrons killed and maimed in traf-
fic accidents may exceed
ures.
1943 fig-
and rural areas.”
Fatalities during the first seven
months of 1944 included 166 chil-
ures or relief from future attacks.
Blithely ignoring the pall of smoke
which rose over factories in both
the center and the suburbs of
year. Presumably the new protocol ing the overthrow of the cabinet,
will be considered at the same time. and a number of them were wound-
ed.
The Brussels radio said demons-
For Occupation of Reich
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. tneatment of Germany after The tentative plan provides for
He pointed out that the death toll dren. Garland raid. They included
increased 50 in July, 70 in August 96 who were riding in automobiles
and 13 in September and is “wiping and 71 who were lun down while
Tokyo, the announcer re-assured his
listeners that "nothing much hap-
De Anza Hotel trations organized by resistance
groups were put on by delegations
from various Belgian provinces.
(UP) —Unanimous agree-
ment by the United States.
the war is provided for in a occupation of Germany by all three
tentative blueprint of occu- major Allied powers, each in its
pened.”
Clerk Faces An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
I

out" a decrease recorded during the playing in the streets. pation machinery worked out own designated zone, and is flexible
from Brussels said the police form- Russia and Great Britain on
ed a cordon around ministry build- any and till measures to be by the European advisory enough to permit France and other

Arrests Disclose Charge

nations, such as the Low Countries,
Theft Charges
CALEXICO, Nov. 25.—A com-
ings and fired on the crowds trying
to break through.
taken with respect to the commission. to share in the occupation machin-
ery.
Undersecretary of State Edward

Of Dining Car Swindle

have failed to give meal
plaint charging Stephen
43-year-old day clerk
M. O’Leary.
at the De
Anza hotel in Calexico, with grand
Navy Air Station Kurusu Defends R. Stettinius, Jr„ announced Friday
that British. American and Russian
members of the advisory commis-
theft was issued in justice court
Gets New Funds sion had drawn up the tentative
after he allegedly dirappeared with

Japan at War plan, which now will be submitted

.. 1,,,,,.. t

making a total of 96 arrests so far. waiters

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.
(UP) —Nearly a hundred Un-
ion Pacific dining car wait-
About 40 more dining car workers
are expected to be arrested later
before night. As the arrests were
i
checks to entire seatings of 68 $80« belonging to hotel guests. Word was received from Wash- to their respective governments for
Complaint against the clerk, who
servicemen customers. The money ington Saturday that the secretary study. France became a commission
had been employed at the hotel a member after the accord was reach-
paid then was split equally between of the navy has approved allocation

ers and stewards have al-
month, was signed before Judge of SB9OO for erection of a magazine, By UNITED PRESS rusu said, “whe are ready to follow ed.
made, standby crews quickly took waiters and stewards. Japan's “peace" in the steps, of the rpecial attack
Thomas E. Anderson by Harry J. barricade and roads at the Holtville Saburo Kurusu.
steward's report inc icated
1

ready been arrested in three over the tasks of the suspected One Wall, hotel manager. Bail was set envoy to the United States at the corps whose plane crashing tactics The- present agreement concerns
,

that 65 meals were served, but FBI auxiliary naval air station. only the machinery of dealing with
swindlers and service on the "Chal- time of the Pearl Harbor attack, have sunk many enemy ships."
cities—and more arrests are some of whom posed as
at SIOOO. It is understood that this is part
I

without inter- Kurusu defended Japan's right to postwar Germany and not with de-
1

lenger" continued agents, Saturday warned America that

'to come—on charges of with-
holding receipts from meals
served on the “Challenger,”
crack Omaha Los Angeles
-
ruption.
The FBI said that as a result of
the ingenious scheme of withhold-
ing meal receipts, Union Pacific
had lost $200,000 a year, but no cus-
O’Leary was said to have been
stewards, discovered that 118 cus-
missing since 10 p. m. Thursday.
of the construction pregram now in
“Japan has 100.000. (100 Patrick "prepare for war" before Pearl Har-
tails of the treatment she will be
tomers were in the dining car dur- progress at the Holtville station accorded by the victorious Allies,
Report of the clerk's alleged dis- which is expected to be completed Henrys who are fighting for their bor. and denied that her actions
ing the serving period. an authoritative source emphasized.
As the employes were taken under
appearance with the money started oon after the first of the year. country's freedom with heart and constituted aggression.
The unanimity reached is consid-
a nation-wide search for him. His soul.” Again as to the matter of war
crews were ready

arrest, staneby A Tokyo radio broadcast sum- preparations, ered an important step toward a
the Soviet Union smooth-working
train, the FBI announced tomers lost money. at intermediate points to take over.
description was sent from the Im-
occupation and post
completed her mighty arms cf today
Saturday. The FBI announcement said the
Sixty-five dining car employes had “racket” on each train was directed
The waiters and stewards,
will be arraigned immediately
who
at
perial county sheriff's office in VI
Centro on an all-stater bulletin
WEATHER FORECAST marizing Kurusu’s sjreech before the
Japan foreign and political affairs by carrying out several
plans."
five-year -war punitive or control measures.
“It In practice it will mean that the
were charged
arrest, asking officers everywhere to be on WEATHER association, recorded by United Kurusu commented.
been arrested in Los Angeles by by the stewards, who are account- the points of
Press in San Fiancisco. quoted him would, however, be incorrect to con- manner of occupation by any of
9:15 a.m., and other arrests were able for all funcs. The swindling with conspiracy in violation of the the alert for his appearance. Clear Saturday night. Increasing
O Leary was described as weigh- high clouds Sunday afternoon. as replying to former American clude that she has during these the three or more powers involved
being made as “quickly as we can was accomplished by using meal interstate shipment law. which cov- must be approved by all the others.
ers thefts or swindles in any "pass- ing 160 pounds, five feet and nine Slowly rising daytime temperatures Ambassador Joseph C. Grew's mes- years been engaged in preparations
run them in,” Richard B. Hood. checks more than once or by failing advising for war. Nor can Japan, surrounded It will also mean that other major
FBI agent here. said. to give checks and pocketing the enger car, sleeping car, or dining inches in height, blue eyes, medium with maximum 68 tc 70 degrees Sun- sage to Japan unegndi-1
powerful actions regarding Germany will re-
'

day. Continued cool at night. Tem- tional surrender. by countries possessing

Hood added that 23 stewards and money paid by customers, the state- car” on an interstate train. Maxi- brown hair, partially bald and hav-
ing a sallow complexion. When last peratures slightly higher by Sunday "There are countless heroes at armaments, be accused of having quire the absent of all parties to
waiters had been arrested at Omaha ment said. mum penalty is two years in prison made war preparations." the agreement.
The FBI said that on occasions a fine of SIO,OOO. teen he was wearing sports clothes. night with little or no frost. the battlefronts and at home." Ku-
and eight at Las Vegas, , Nevada. and

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