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CONTINUATION OF THE SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL AND THE SANTA CRUZ EVENING NEWS SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1943 SIX PAGES ru 1 JJuu LnJU Ted Cress Is Suicide RED ARMY REPORTED TO BE 10 MILESFROM CITY Spearheads Put Reds Within 65 Miles Of Old Polish Frontier By Henry Shapiro United Prn Staff Corrtipondtnt Moscow, Nov. 12 Russian, armored spearheads drove within artillery range of the great rail center of Zhitomir astride the Leningrad-Odessa trunk line today, bringing under fire the German defense line only 65 miles short of the old Poliaia frontier. Gen Nikodai F. Vatutin's flying columns stepped up their onrush to a rate of 20 miles a day in the wake of German rear PEOPLE WWlfflYE HITB DTTV ME SHEET HIES DUeiiry Washburn Is bequeathed $25,000 Reds Near Zhitomir Orsha Smolensk Minsk Mogilev Bryansk I HI Korosten ''i RUSSIA im ODESSA Sevastopol IIP 4 MP mmm mmm 88th Year No. 271 fo) Our Men In Service More than 2300 men from the north end of Santa Cruz county ere now listed in the Sentinel-News card index of the men who are in training or fighting in Uncle Sam's armed services.

The Sentinel-News is trying to keep the home folks informed of their activities. Relatives friends are invited to send conrtibutions to this column. FARLEY Lt. Francis A. Farley of Boulder Creek, who entered the army as a V.O.C.

last December, is now with the coast artillery anti aircraft division stationed at Fort H. G. Wright, New York. His wife and two sons, John and William are remaining in Boulder Creek, where Mrs. Farley is manager of the school cafeteria.

Before entering the service Lt. Farley was manager of the purchasing department of a San Francisco paper concern. FOMASI An announcement has just been received here of the promotion of Raymond H. Fomasi to the rank of sergeant. Sgt.

Fomasi was graduated from the Santa Cruz high school with the class of 1938, where he was prominent in athletics and was captain of the basket ball team. He entered the service in January 1942, and is now serving as a dental technician with the medical corps at the army air base, Blythe, California. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fomasi, 120 Chestnut avenue.

GRAY Wm. L. Gray, B. M. 1 with the U.

S. navy is now somewhere in the South Pacific. Bill re-enlisted in the navy in 1942, having been in six years previously. He is the son of Mrs. Sophie Gray, 417 Bay street, and the husband of the former Bernice McCutchan of Soquel.

McCABE Ensign Lillian T. McCabe of the naval nurses corps has been transferred to Bremerton, Washington from Mare Island. Ensign McCabe was recently sent to Wash ington, D.C. for two weeks special duty, she also visited in New York and saw her cousin, George Moorad. She is the nece of Carmen and Viola Guichard and Mrs.

Mary L. Rueff of Santa Cruz, whom she visited here a short time ago. While here Miss McCabe also spent some time with her aunts in Ben Lomond, Mrs. R. Hammond and Mrs.

Norma Paradis. NICHOLSON Aviation Cadet John W. Nicholson, U.S.M.C.R., has completed his basic and instrument training at the Corpus Christi air training center and is now taking advanced fighter training. Upon completion of his course Cadet Nicholson will be commissioned at 2nd Lt. in the marine corps reserve.

Nicholson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Nicholson of Soquel.

He attended Santa Cruz high school and San Jose state college. WEEKS Raymond Lisle Weeks has completed a course at the armament school of the army forces technical training command, Lowry Field, Colorado, and now has the rank of Pfc. Weeks is the son of Mrs. V. Weeks, 3 Buena Vista avenue.

Before entering the service he was a watchmaker in Monterey. State Department To Reveal More Jap Treachery By Unlltd Praia Washington, Nov. 12 Japan secretly promised the United States to stop bombing Chungking following bomb-damage to the USS Tutu-iila on July 30, 1941 yet within 10 dropped more bombs than ever on the Chinese capital, ths state department revealed last night. The Japanese intimated that the United States had broken its agreement and told the Chinese about the promise. The story of the secret pre-Pearl Harbjr agreement was contained in officj of the state de-parH jnt on the Tutuila "incident," wh will be included in a white pa "Foreign Relations of the UVii With Japan, 1931-41," to be published soon.

5c Copy 1 So Month ST Ymx la Advuvca mm guard action, despite snow and slush which clogged the treads of Soviet armor. (A Columbia Broadcasting System report from Moscow said the Russians were within 10 miles of Zhitomir. The German high command acknowledged that the "battle in depth in the breach area" west of Kiev "continues with undiminished Frontal Assault While Vatutin's central column plunged straight westward for a frontal assault on Zhitomir, the hub of railroads radiating throughout the wetsern Ukraine, his right and left wings methodically consolidated their gains and rolled forward on a steadily widening arc to mop up small German gaps between the last German-held lateral line and the Dnieper. (Stockholm quoted Berlin advices that the Germans had order-' ed the evacuation of civilians from the Ukraine adjacent to Poland and the Polish cities of Lwow and Caracow, together with Minsk in While Riicsin After smashing the formidable German defenses in the greater Kiev area, Vatutin swiftly maneuvered his vanguards, striking Nazi communications in an attempt ot encircle the survivors of what was called the "Kiev massacre." Fighting what now was described as only a delaying action, the Germans abandoned scores of towns and villages on the northwest Ukrainian plains, elaving rich stores of armaments and supplies, A "Debacle" Front dispatches said the Nazi flight had become a "debacle" which could be gauged from the fact that the Russians were able to knock out 42 German tanks in a single battle in the Zhitomir area. Violent fighting flared up in southern White Russia, in th Rechitsa area west of Omel.

Gen. Ivan Podov's forces Dressed tho foe back toward the Pripet river, at the same time famng out southward for an eventual junction with Vatutin's men northwest of Kiev. The latest front reDnrta wunt beyond the official announcement that Russian tanks and motorized infantry had swept through Ber-ezovka, 63 miles west of Kiev and 16 miles east of the Zhmerinka-Zhitomir-Korosten railroad. (The German line in th sector has been broken, the Mns. cow radio reported in a broadcast relayed by the British radio).

Keren Fight Continues In the eastern Crimea the battle for Kerch, ancient citadel of the Kerch Peninsula, entered its decisive stage. The Russians were storming into thj suburbs of the blazing town on the 12th day since Gen. Ivan Petrov's daredevil ma. rines veterans of Odessa and Sevastopol landed on the beaches. As the struggle developed with extraordinary furv.

front rlisnntch. es said, seasonal winds abated and low fogs hovered over the peninsula, facilitating the efofrts of the Black and Azov Sea fleets to pour reinforcements in from the northwest Caucasus. Nazis Gain On Lcro Br United Prat Cairo, Nov. 12 A communique announced today that the Germans had gained footholds on the Dodecanese Island of Lero. German forces attacked the island this morning the communique and were engaged by British occupation troops who landed on Lero at the time of the Italian armistice early in September.

The German landing forces "are being dealt with," the communique said. Lero is about 60 miles northwest of Rhodes, main German-held island in the Dodecanese, and 30 miles south of Allied-controlled Samos. nn IOO Henry L. Washburn, Santa Cruz county farm advisor, was left a $25,000 trust fund in the will of his aunt, the late Mrs. August Veatch Thompson of Palo Alto, who died on November 6, it was learned here today.

Other Santa Cruzans named in the will include Everett L. Moore, who receives $15,000, and Barbara Jean Moore, his daughter, $5000. Barbara Beach Thompson, well known in Santa Cruz, having participated in many golf tournaments at Pasatiempo and Rio del Mar, was the principal beneficiary in her mother's will. She is to receive $1000 a month and, in addition, the income from a $125,000 trust fund and the residue of the estate. Mrs.

Thompson, who was 65 at the time of her death, left Stanford university an outright gift of for the establishment of the Beach Thompson memorial fund Bombers Smash Railway Wtih Heavy Assault Br United PrM London, Nov. 12 American and British bombers smashed the last direct railway link between France and Italy in a record-breaking day and night pincers assault yesterday and RAF Mosquito bombers rounded out the offensive with raids on Berlin, Hannover and the Ruhr, it was disclosed today. Only a few hours after a heavy British night raid on the Modane bottleneck severed the Lyon-Turin railway Wednesday night, American Liberators from the Northwest African Air Force cut the coastal railway between France and Italy and possibly the adjacent highway at another near Cannes on the French Riviera yesterday. Hundreds of British-based four-engined bombers clinched the destruction of the coastal railway last night with an attack on the junction town of Cannes and several other key points along the line, over which the Germans have been moving supplies and reinforcements to their troops in northern Italy. NAVY FLYER KILLED INS.

F. CRASH By Unlltd Prau San Francisco, Nov. 12 Ensign Rudolph L. Wilfinger, USNR, was killed yesterday when his fighter plane from the Alameda naval air station crashed into the San Francisco bay, the twelfth naval district public relations office announced today. Navy searching parties are still looking for his body.

IT Here Iffiig Job Ahead Council By Harry Blickhohn The scope of the job of correcting similarity and outright duplication in names of Santa Cruz streets, some work on which has been done by the city planning commission, can be seen by taking a casual glance at a map of the city. The commission and the city council are planning further extensive work on the project, but. it is emphasized that co-operation of the public is highly essential. Specifically, the planners suggest that if it becomes necessary to change the name of the street on which you live, don't fight it. By doing so you will delay and make harder an already difficult job.

To illustrate how this works, consider the case of a street now listed on the city map as Pogonip avenue. This street originally was. Golf Links road. It led to the one-time municipal golf course. The only golf course now, however, is Pasatiempo, and Golf Links road became a misnomer.

When a petition was presented to change the name the more appropriate Pogonip avenue, the move was opposed by commercial interests which claimed that any change would nullify their investment in advertising at the old address. The affair was never definitely decided, and while the street is designated as Pognip avenue on city maps, signs on the street itself inform the puzzled address-hunter that it is both Pogonip avenue and Golf Links road. Names Are Overworked As the city grew from a small Spanish settlement, streets often acquired names that had a family connection, or derived their names from the particular locale, with little or no check to see whether these names were identical or similar to ones already in use. Such obvious titles as "Bay" and "Beach" were overworked, to result in confusion in later years. Perhaps the most confused situation is the fact that there are First, Second and Third streets in both the Beach Hill and Twin Lakes areas, and First, Second and Third avenues in Seabright.

In Twin Lakes Fifth street and Fifth avenue intersect. Although Twin Lakes is not within the city limits and hence is beyond the control of the city planning commission and the city council, the duplication in street names nevertheless contributes confusion. Strange As It Seems In some instances a street carries one name to a certain point and another name beyond that point. A good example of this is Campbell avenue and Oxford way. It's Campbell avenue on one side of Wood-row avenue, and Oxford way on (See Street Names, P.

3, C. 6) At The Operations Here working in black oily water at a temperature of 95 degres they raised the the first' ship after 29 working days, during which time their lives were constantly in danger, since the sunken ships had been rigged up with booby traps. Biddle Dorcy will be remembered by many Santa Cruzans, he was graduated from the local high school in 1923, and later received his degree from Stanford. He then spent some time in the Philippines doing commercial diving, later came back to California and made a living as a stunt man in the movies. He swam the rapids in "Northwest Passage," fought a giant squid for Ray Millard in "Reap The Wild Wind," and he recalls "I dived endlessly off masts and cliffs." Dies From Gun Shot In Temple J.

"Ted" Cress, operator of the Toll House resort on the San Lorenzo drive, committeed suicide here yesterday afternoon, Coroner Pat Freeman announced after an investigation of the case. Freeman stated that there was no indication of foul play. The coroner reported that Cress shot himself in the head with a .38 caliber revolver about 3:30 p.m. yesterday. He died about 10 p.m.

last night at the Sisters' hospital No suicide notes were left. However, friends indicated that Cress had been worrying over financial troubles for some time. His mother, Mrs. J. B.

Cress, said that he had just recovered from the flu and had not been feeling well. Cress, a former San Franciscan, had been operating the resort for two years here. In June he was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on a charge of attempting to defraud the U. S. government.

Although indicted on the charge, Cress was later acquitted. Rhodes Connected The FBI had charged that Cress acted as middleman for Robert Rhodes in attempting to sell fraudulently obtained merchandise to local merchants. Rhodes was later convicted on the charge. Freeman revealed the reconstruction of the suicide as follows: Cress and J. W.

Brooks, a cook, were running the dining room yesterday with several dinner parties expected. They had served one party when a group of six people came in, but Cress said, "To hell with them, I don't feel like feeding more." 'Brooks, however told Cress that he would cook the food if Cress would watch the front bar, the coroner continued. A few minutes later Brooks came out of the kitchen and Cress was missing. The cook looked in the bedroom for Cress and found him lying on the floor, a gun in his hand and a bullet wound in his head, Freeman said. Died At Hospital Brooks asked a soldier, R.

S. Nesbitt to look at Cress and they found he was not dead. They called the Perrigo ambulance and Cress was rushed to the Sister's hospital. He died there last night Cress is survived by his wife, a small son; one sister, Gladys Cress, and his mother, Mrs. J.

B. Cress. Funeral arranements are pending at the Santa Cruz mortuary. Rugged Young Delinquent In Court Today Jack Emberg, 15-year-old would be sailor and alleged fire-bug, was scheduled to appear in juvenile court at 1:30 p.m. Friday on charges of petty theft.

Emberg, who twice slipped out of the city jail, the second time holding police, military authorities, and shore patrolment off for more than a half-hour while he threatened them with a stolen gun from atop a water-tank on the west cliff, first came to the attention of local authorities when he was placed in the brig at the local naval hos pital September 11 after he at tempted to walk out with navy uniforms. Released by Probation Officer E. Balke, Emberg was next arrest ed by a deputy sheriff and Ranger Les Gnm, who alleged the boy had attempted to set forest fires in this county. FRENCH TO SETTLE LEBANON "INDEPENDENCE" London, Nov. 12 The French National Committee of Liberation was reported moving swiftly to settle the "independence" crisis in Lebanon today, within a few hours after Great Britain had ordered its diplomatic agents in the Middle East to intervene.

Nimitz Says Time To Hit The Japanese Br Unlltd Pram Pearl Harbor, Nov. 12 The time has come to attack the Japanese throughout the Pacific, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander, said last night. "We feel victory is sure," he declared in a broadcast speech at an American Legion program celebrating Armistice Day. "We also know bitter, bloody fighting lies ahead.

For two years we have faced the necessity of containing the enemy while gathering the strength necessary to drive through to the vitals of his defensive system. "Now we are getting the ships, men and planes henceforth we propose to give him (the enemy) no rest anywhere our time has come to attack. "Must Dig Him Out" "We have no illusions about the opposition we will encounter or the loses we must endure. We know our ships and planes alone cannot destroy the enemy. The Jap has dug himself in.

We must land and dig him out." He warned that time and again security will require that secrecy surround American actions until they are carried out. "Our northern flank in the Aleutians has been secured," he said. "In the south and southwest Pacific intensified attacks have placed the Japs in a precarious position. In other areas he has been relatively unmolested. Tonight, while we are again at grips in both hemispheres, we see the beginning of new victory." More Beach Hill Property Sold Here Sale of the five-room guest house and approximately 125-foot lot on Main street between Second street and the Esplanade by Attorney Stanford Smith to Joseph Doslotti, of Stockton, for a price reported to be in the neighborhood of was reported Friday.

The house has a double garage and the grounds include a tennis court and greenhouse. Smith some weeks ago sold the main residence on Beach street, adjacent to the guest house, to George L. Holland for a reported $24,000, and subsequently bought the five-bedroom home at 69 Third street from Mrs. Perry Castle for use as his own residence. Sale of the- Main street guest house was handled through the J.

H. R. Jacoby real estate agency here. of a contracting firm in one of the large hotels, before long, he relates, he found himself with, a deep-sea diving contract. But where the job was no one would tell him.

His boss was Captain Edison D. Brown, a veteran sal-vager and also former movie actor. There was no salvage vessel available in the United States, so one was built at Port Arthur, Texas, in 26 days. In this steel tug, 97 feet long, Diesel engine driven, and equipped with diving and salvage gadgets the 14 Americans set out. After an exciting journey during which they were many times mistaken for an enemy craft, since their tug somewhat resembled a submarine, they reached Massaw 90 days after leaving Texas on May 27, 1942.

for schoralships. Her rare and valuable collection of Japanese antiques and curios also goes to the university. Large Estate According to the will, dated August 1, 1941, Mrs. Thompson left no direct descendant other than her daughter. However, according to the will and a codicil dated December 5, 1942, she left other large amounts to relatives not identified as to relationship.

Lowell M. Washburn of Lindsay, Tulare county, will receive $20,000 and his daughter, Patricia, $5000. Only indication of the size of the estate is that it "exceeds Barbara Beach Thompson and John F. Leicester are the executors. Henry Washburn being out of town could not be reached by this newspaper for comment today.

Mrs. Washburn declined to make any statement. Small Jars Of Jams, Off Rationing List Br United Pratt Washington, Nov. 12 Small-size jars of jams, jellies, preserves and fruit-butters were of fthe rationing list today but only until after the Christmas holidays. The office of price administration said no ration stamps would be needed to buy jars weighing five and one-half ounces or less.

The aim is to make it easy to buy small quantities of sweet, stuff for shipment to servicemen. Point values will be reestablished in February. Destroyer Beatty Is Sunk By Unlltd Pr Washington, Nov. 12 The 1700-ton U. S.

destroyer Beatty was sunk in the Mediterranean by German planes last Saturday, the navy announced today This was the fourth destroyer loss announced in recent days by the navy. The skipper of the Beatty, Lieut. Cmdr. William Outerson, of 8975 Shoreham Drive, Hollywood, was a survivor, the navy reported The navy did not say how many casualties were suffered. Ships ot the Beatty type normally carry from 175 to 200 men.

The Beatty's loss raised to 129 the total of American naval vessels lost in this war. It was the 12th American naval vessel lost in the Mediterranean. tug, all of the Mediteranean coast of Africa, and the Suez Canal, might today be in Axis hands." The story goes on to relate that early in 1942, when the British in Egypt were short of supplies, guns, ammunition, trucks and fuel, the Axis air fleet based on Pantelleria practically cut off Allied shipping from England and America to Egyptian ports. Supplies for Allied armies had to go around the Cape of Good Hope and then up to Djibouti or Massawa, and at Massawa there were nine sunken ships blocking the way. The British had tried to get some of the ships out of the way but without proper equipment or skilled drivers were unsuccessful.

At this point, Dorcy, then in Los Angeles, received a call asking him to meet a representative Varna Soviet forces were reported less than 40 miles from Zhitomir, vital rail junction, after capturing Vasllev (A), in the forked drive west of Kiev. In the south, the Fourth Ukrainian army was massing for a drive (I!) into the Criemea. (AP Wire-photo). Thousands Of Rumanians Are Evacuated By Aldo Forte Unlltd PrM Sufi ComtponcUni Bern, Switzerland, Nov. 12 Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were reported evacuating eastern Rumania in the path of the onrushing Russian army today, jamming the Important military highways over which the Germans are trying to hasten reinforcements to the front.

With the Red army now in striking distance of the Rumania frontier, throngs of panic-stricken refugees abandoned their farms in Bessarabia, Bucovina and Moldavia in a mass flight toward the relative safety of the interior, these reports said. Nazi garrisons in the menaced provinces were understood to have been given orders to halt the evacuation at all costs, to clear the roads for military traffic. Hundreds of refugees have been arrested. Swiss sources said the arrests had failed to halt the exodus, however, and that practically every highway leading westward from the frontier was jammed with farm buggies and slow-moving oxcars loaded with refugees and their household possessions. Alarm over the possibility of Russian air raids apparently touched off the mass flight.

The concern of the people also was said to have been heightened by reports that the Germans had ordered their troops to abandon Odessa and that Bucharest itself was to be evacuated. German troops were said to have diverted as many refugees as possible from the roads to temporary shelters in Kishinev, Jassy and Czcrnovice. That move, however, appeared to have raised serious complications for the Germans, because of the difficulty of providing food and other supplies for the evacuees. Former Santa Cruzan Was Biver important Massawa Salvage By Maureen Jones Biddle Dorcy, one-time resident of Santa Cruz and a graduate of the local high school, who deserted the surf city for the glamour of Hollywood several years ago, and who hat since been leading an adventuresome life both on and off the screen, appears In the public spotlight again this week. An article in the November 13 issue of Collier's entitled "The Massawa Miracle," by Biddle Dorcy as told to Barrett C.

Riesling, brings to light Dorcy's activities during 1942. Says Dorcy, to quote Collier's, "It took 100 days in the summer and fall of 1942 for 14 civilian Americans and a small harbor tug to save North Africa for the Allies. If it hadn't been for us and our.