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Baked Stuffed Peppers

Baked Stuffed Peppers
For each person to be served select
firm, medium size green pepper. Cut
slice from blossom end. Remove
seeds and white fibre. Cook in boil
ing, sailed water 7 minutes. Drain.
Stand peppers in cups of a muffin pan
Fill with any desired combination,
such as: bread crumbs, cooked corn
and cheese cubes; chopped Clipped
beef with cooked lima beans and rice;
curried rice with shrimp or crabmeat;
leftover mashed potato, beaten egg
and cubes cooked meat-weu seasoned
and moistened with tomato pulp, or
condensed tomato soup, or cream
sauce. Top filled peppers with cup
bread crumbs mixed with l table
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MISSING IN ACTION

Sergeant Marion Taylor, 25. of
Butte has been missing in action in
the Pacific war zone since Sept. Is,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs John Gill
more of the Mining city were noti-
fled by the war department.. He was
an engineer aboard Flying Fortress,
type of plane which has been par
ticularly active in bombing Jap in
stallations in recent weeks on the New
Guinea front
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~ A~P "4A
viously bitten a
malarial patient,
he is likely to come
down with chills
and fever a week
or two later.
These predatory
insects do most of
their biting at
night. They are
fairly large brown
mosquitoes, wi t h
black spots on their
wings. When Bit
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Practical
Health Hints
D DR.. J. l. I0DIY
How to Avoid
Chills and Fever

When person is bitten by a vicious
female mosquito of the Anopheles
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
brutton Elected
Defense Chairman

age, because his physician ordered
him to give up some of his activities
He said his health would not per-
nit him to carry on this work.
In outlining the work to be done
by Mrs. Clements, Heald said she
is established in a county coordi-
mating headquarters in the court
house in Ell Centre and will act as
a ccordinating agent among all de-
Tense activities up to date and in
general serve to keep the defense
plans from conflicting in the var
ious communities. In her office
are the master files of defense
workers IN every city all segregated
and indexed so they will be disable
when needed. Duplicates of the
files from each community also are
kept by the municipal defense COM
mittee in each instance. All de-
tail work in connection with the
county council will be handled in
this office. Mrs. Clements volun-
teered to do this work without
charge, giving her entire time to
the task.
Efforts will be made to get fire
equipment for rural areas, council
members said, and they have hope
of getting some help from the state.
As soon as permission is obtain
ed from the Fourth Army head
quarters, it was decided to hold test
notifications in each. city and later
countrywide mobilization. All
civilian defense agencies and indi-
viduals will be included The tests
will be arranged for daylight hours
at such time as to present no in
reference with business or school.
Fire Chief c. S. Reed of FL Gen.
tro will be in charge of the Ell Cen
tro test.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Profit
axes
liked
Levy on Excess
Earnings Fixed
At "a Percent

WASHINGTON, May l.
(UP)-The house ways and
means committee today vot-
ed to tax corporation excess
profits at a flat rate of ga
per cent. 1t retained the present
formula for computing excess prof
its, with notifications.
The committees excess profits
tax rate exceeded that recommend
ed by the treasury and the COM
mittee's staff of experts by four
percentage points. Otherwise the
excess profits recommendations pre-
sented jointly by the treasury and
the committee staff Yesterday were
adopted without change.
The committee voted to retain
the present rates for normal cor
poration income taxes, but post
poned temporarily a decision on the
only controversial issue of the new
corporation tax program-the size
of the war surtax that corporations
will be required to pay. The treasury
wants a 81 per cent surtaX; the
committee staff, Is per cent.
The present normal corporation
income tax rates are: up to $4,000
is per cent; $4,000 to $20,000-17
per cent; $4,000 to $25 ,000-19 per
cent; over 25,OOO-25 per cent.
The committee also deferred a
decision on the amount, if any, of
corporation taxes that will be re-
turned as a back to business as
usual" rebate after the war.
The committee retained the aver
age earnings alternative method of
computing excess profits, under
which corporations may compute
excess profits as those in excess
of 95 per cent of the average of
their earnings from 1886 to 1889
inclusive.
The committee modified the in
vested capital method of computing
excess profits so that corporation
choosing this method would have
the following credit before it was
required to pay excess profits:
On the first S5,O0O,0OO capitaliza
ton, eight per cent; on the next
$5,0OO,00O, seven per cent; on the
next $190000,000, six per cent; on
all over 100000, five per cent.
At the present time, corporations
using either the invested capital
or average earnings credit have a
specific $1,000 exemption from ex
cess profits This exemption was
raised by the committee to $4,000
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
French Generals
Thrilling Escape
From Germans old
Tedious Preparation,
Thorough Planning for
Flight Fools CaptOrs

ANNEMASSE, Unoccupied
France, May 1. (UP)-Gen.
Henri Giraud, 60, commander
of the French army of the
north before the surrender
in 1910, climbed down an 80-foot
hempen rope to escape from a Ger
man military prison and made his
way through Germany disguised as
Swiss travelling salesman, it was
disclosed today.
His escape from Koenigstein fort
ress, revealed last week, climaxed
eight months of tedious preparation
during which Giraud and his fellow
prisoners. wove the escape rope
from emp collected during walks Ill
nearby fields Which they were per-
mitted four times a week. They
timed the movements of their Ger
man guards until they had worked
out split-seconds schedule.
1t was Giraud's second escape
from a German military prison.
During the last war, he was captur-
ed by the Germans, but escaped
and passed through the German
lines disguised as a Dutch peasant.
Koenigstein fortress is located on
an almost inaccessible mountain.
300 feet above the River Elbe. 1t is
surrounded by stone wall and a
deep moat, where guards patroled
constantly.
On a moonless night, he climbed
silently through a window of the
fortress hospital and slid down the
8O-foot rope, dropping into the
moat at the instant the sentries
were fartheSt from him.
He crawled from the moat and
hid for two days in nearby for
est, then started an 11-day journey
in which he doubled back and forth
through Czechoslovakia, across Ger
Continued on Page 6; Column d
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Stain Orders Reds
Troops to Defeat
Germany in 1912
Soviet Leader Tells
People Russia Desires
Orly Full Liberation
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

KU1BYSHEV, Russia, May
l. (UP)-Premier and De-
Tense Commissar Joseph V.
Stain ordered Russia's arm
ed forces today to rout the Ger
mans completely in 1912.
Stain, in May day proclamation
and order of the day. said Russia
had the means to achieve this no
BILE aim," and only one thing was
lacking: complete knowledge of how
to use against the enemy the first
class machinery which was given
to the Red army by our country"
He emphasized that Russia was
fighting only for liberation and
justice.
I'VE do not aim to occupy other
countries or conquer other people,
he said. Our aim is clear and noble
We want to liberate the Soviet
from the German Fascist scoun-
drels. We want to liberate our
brothers in the Ukraine, Moldavia
White Russia, Lithuania, Esthonia
and Karelia from the shame and
ignominity into which they were
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Junk Dealer Held
For Sack Theft

l.. S. Martin, %, Negro Junk
dealer of Calexico. was held in the
county Jail Friday on a charge OF
stealing $500 sacks from an I'M
occupied house near VendellS SER
vice station.
The Negro was connected with
the theft Of the 1,500 grain SACKS
from Roy Miller and with an at
tempt to raid the sack supply at
the Veliquette ranch in the McCabe
district. The Negro was surprised,
Deputy Sheriff Herbert Hughes
said, in a pen near the sack sup
ply at the Veliquette ranch and
fled the scene. leaving his truck
behind him. The Negro was charged
with grand theft and burglary.
Officers believed his arrest Will
mean a let-up in the epidemic OF
sack thefts that swept Imperial
county when they became so scarce.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Sugar Consumers
Must Register on
4Days Next Week
Details of Family
Appearance Needed
For Ration Signup

Sugar consumers will reg
lister for war ration book No.
1 on Monday, Tuesday, We'd
nesday, and Thursday Of next
week at the elementary school
nearest their homes, Guy Weakley,
head of sugar rationing in Imperial
county, announced Friday.
To make way for the task of reg
istration, Weakley said, all schools
in the Ell Centre system will open
at 8 am. and close at noon during
the four-day registration period.
Registration will begin on each of
the four days at l pm. and con-
tinue until pm. Other schools in
the county have established their
own hours and the consumer will
have to ascertain what they are.
Each person who registers for his
or her family must have the follow
ing information available when ap-
pearing at the schools for registra-
ton; the name of each member OF
the family unit, the weight of each,
the height in feet and inches OF
each Gncluding babies in arms,
the color of the hair and the eyes
of each, the age and sex of each,
and the number of pounds of sugar
the family owns Including white
and brown sugar and sugar convert
ed into syrup unless the syrup is
corn, maple or molasses)
I'm order to facilitate matters,
Weakley said, I'VE sent blanks home
by the school children. The parents
should get the required information
and take it with them when they so
to register"
One person in each family may
do the registering for the entire
family unit. Those who live in rural
districts and have no children IN
their districts elementary school,
Weakley said, should register at
Continued on Page s; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
HITLER. MUSS0L|N| plan new MOVES
Commissions for
Civilians FIayed

WASHINGTON, May l-tUP)
The house will have chance
next week to decide whether the
army's practice of commission
ing civilians without military
training is "fast approaching
national scandal"
Rep. Charles I. Faddis, d.,
Pa, said it was an added amend
ment prohibiting the commits
siOning of inexperienced men to
the military service pay bill. II
was approved by the house mil
itary affairs committee and sent
TO the house today.
Indications were that the
amendment would precipitate
considerable debate in the house
when it is brought up early next
week, probably Tuesday. Military
affairs committee chairman An
drew J. May, D., KY, declined
to reveal the committee vote on
the commission amendment.
Faddis said most of the OBJ
jectOrs believed that the pay
bill, which covers the army,
navy, marine corps and other
branches of governmental SER
vice, was not the place for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Five Injured When
Auto 0yerturns

Five Negroes, one a three-year-
old girl, we're injured early Friday
when an automobile went out OF
control on the mountain grade west
of Ell Centre, skidded on two wheels
for SO feet, overturned twice, ano
crashed to the earth only one foot
from the edge of a deep canyon.
Mrs. Leona MAJ Wilson had both
arms broken, Eugene Triplett was
painfully scratched and bruised,
Mable Triplett was scratched and
cut. Katie Lott was scratched, and
Ruth Wilson, 3, suffered from
scratches and from shock. All are
from Bakersfield, Highway PATROL
man Ed Reyes said.
The accident occurred $3.50 am.
on the second curve below the in
spection station at the top of the
grade.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Nv. Termed Best
Rice Growing Area
In Entire World \
Expert Tells Civic
Group Conditions Are
Ideal for Culture

Arthur Hoffman,, president
of the Imperial Valley Rice
cooperative, told an Associ-
ated chambers of commerce
meeting at Imperial Thurs
day night that the valley offers
the best climatic conditions for rice
culture in the world.
Il have studied rice production in
every part of the world where this
commodity is grown, and can
safely say that Imperial Valley,
with it's long neat period and irri-
cation facilities, can produce rice
more successfully than any other
place on EARTH" Hoffman said.
He said that rice, which many
experts in former years predicted
never would succeed here, has been
the means OF retaining thousands
of acres of submarginal desert lands,
enhancing not only the productivity
of otherwise useless acreage, but
improving the appearance of the
whole valley.
The Hoffman, interests last year
planted and processed $500 acres
of this commodity and paid the I'M
perial Irrigation district $4,000 for
water. Much of the land on which
rice was the first crop ever pro-
duced has been built up TO a high
state of fertility as a result OF the
paintings, he said, and are now
producing other crops.
OFFICERS NOMINATED
Following Hoffmann's talk. the
organization received from its NOM
mating committee the names OF
candidates for officers to guide the
chambers next year.
E. H. Cain of WeStmorland was
nominated for president Other
nominees we're:
Vice presidents, Harold Brandt
and Stewart Green of BraWley
Treasurer, Charles Small, incum-
bent.
The election will be held at the
groups final meeting of the season
May 20 at Seeley.
Other business taken up at the
Imperial meeting:
Received the resignation of Cor
don Scriven as chairman of special
committee appointed to work With
the Southern Pacific on proposal
to obtain better train service be-
tween the valley and the coast, and
appointed Fern Young as ScriVenS
successor.
Adopted a resolution to reduce
by 10 per cent the annual dues
previously suggested for the indl-
vidual member chambers.
Heard plea by Joe Enz OF Holt
Vile, chairman of the dairy COM
mittee, for assistance to the valleys
dairymen, many of whom, Enz said
have been forced to sell out as a
result of curtailed sale of hay and
grain here.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01


crudely half -soled bottoms OF the
dress oxfords worn by the drown
ing victim, and found them star
tlingly similar to footprints left at
the scene of at least two OF the
mysterious bridge fires in Imperial
county in the last six weeks.
Photographs of the footprints
show imperfections which closely
resemble those shown on the size
614 shoes the drowned man wore
when discovered floating in the
canal near Midway Wells east OF
Holtville. The body was in such
bad condition that it was impos-
sible to determine the race or ma
tionality. The shoes were crudely
half soled and had wedges nailed IN
the sides. These imperfections tai
lied closely with marks shown in
the photographs taken at the sabo-
tage scenes.
In an attempt to identify the
body, Hughes took grocery store
slips from an Upland store and
talked with clerks and regular GUS
toners. He aScertained that Mexi-
cans in that area remembered an
extremely small man who walked as
though crippled. They said they had
not seen him since the first of the
month. They said he kept to HIM
self, apparently lived in the jungles
inhabited by railroad hoboes, and
worked in the vegetables. The gro
eli
clothing of the drowned man.
Still further confirmation OF
Hughes theory was found in wage
tickets found in a desert hideaWay
not far from the scene of the fire
which destroyed two Southern Paci-
fic main line bridges south OF Nj
land last March 20. These tickets
showed someone had received
cents for some type of work. Hughes
said he learned grape pickers receiV-
ed 5. 6, and 7 cents a lug. The short
Mexican seen in Upland had been
employed in the grape harvest be-
tween Cucamonga and Upland. Some
footprints resembling those OF the
drowned mans shoes also were
found near this nest on the desert.
The drowned man must have
been o transient Hughes said,
Judging from the articles found in
his pockets. Thread, amirror, razor
blades, and his money, $34. He must
have planned to swim the All AM
erican canal as he had tied his
pockets shut and fastened his coat
down with the belt of his trousers.
The water is about - feet deep III
the vicinity where the body was
! found"
Hughes planned to continue his
Investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Too Confusing
School Year Ends
Here on June 9Th

Ell Centre will wind up another
public school year June S, with
graduating exercises in the vari-
Gus schools to be held on days prior
to the official closing date
Central Union High school, which
will graduate 1913 students, has
scheduled it's graduation program
for June 4 in the high school ath-
letic field. Ell Centre Junior college
will have one of the smallest grad
uating classes in years, due to en-
the dropping out Of many students
to accept POSITIONS in war indus
tries.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Bettors Collect
On Ice Breakup

NENANA, Alaska, May l =
(UP)-Ice cakes flOated down
the Tanana river to the Boring
sea today, symbOlizing new
wealth for lucky guessers who
shared in the Today division
of an $4,000 pool.
And the drifting ice dashed
the hopes of some $4,000 other
bettOrs. They were the ONES
who had picked a date later
than April 30 for the annual
breakup of the ice.
For rs years, Alaskans have
been buying 81 tickets for a
chance to guess the day, the
hour and the minute that the
ice on the Tanana in central
Alaska would break. 1t happen
ed yesterday at 1928 p. m.
Mike CoOney, manager of the
betting pool. announced that the
holders of 10 tickets would share
in the $4,000 wagered this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
RecreationaI Drive
Collections Grow

Ell Centres goal of $4,000 to fl
nance a broad recreational pro-
gram for service men here was a
little nearer realization Friday,
when Campaign Treasurer Hazel
Gallagher reported total collections
to date of $3542.
Townsfolk are showing a COM
mendable spirit of cooperation in
the effort, Gallagher said, and he
predicted the drive would go over
the top within the next few days.
The money is to be used to carry
on the volunteer work of maintain
ing the service mems canteen on
Maint street, to pay off an exist
ing def on the Camp Seeley SWIM
ming pool and to install coolers
in the recreation hall at the camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
EICentroC.C.
ToName Directors

Ballots for the May 8 election OF
FL Centre chamber of commerce
directors we're being mailed to all
members Friday.
The chambers nominating conf
mittee announced list of 16 nam
eS from which the membership
will select eight to fill the board
vaCanies. They are:
DR.. Sem Bacon, William G. Du-
flock, William A. Gullett, Stevens
II. Harris, C. r. Hayden. M. j. Hor-
ton, Harold w. Hunt, G. A. Irving
Walton B. Johnson, George F,
Kennedy, Louis B. McManus, E. C.
Missildine, r. p. Moore, l.. M
Moore, Ken Thornton and Arno G.
Yaeckel.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

failed to bring forth any Axis men
ton of Japan except for a blanket
reference to the allies OF Germany
and Italy, but this failure appeared
to signify nothing except that To-
kyo always has pursued and may
be expected to pursue an indepen-
dent policy of collaboration when
it benefits both ends of the Axis.
The japanese ambassador was
at Munich, only 10 miles from Salz-
burg and presumably was advised
of Hitter ussolini meeting.
AS the conference was held, the
war at the northern gateway to Aus
tralia appeared to be approaching
decisive stage, and more than
1000 miles to the northwest of that
theater, japanese forces drove to
within barely Is miles of ancien:
Mandalay in Burma. Allied COM
manders predicted an imminent
showdown in the Australian area.
The usual Axis propaganda state
ments regarding the brotherhood OF
the Axis and agreement on political
and military strategy to achieve
victory was broadcast by the Ger
man radio following the Hitler
Mussolini meeting, which was at
tended by Axis military leaders.
PLENTY TO DISCUSS
There appeared to have been
plenty for the Axis leaders to dis
cuss, however, including:
How to wrest the offensive from
the Red army and start the long
expected German drive into the eau
casus this summer.
How to guard against Allied air
and Commando raids or even an in
vasion on the western European
front.
How to crush growing guerrilla
warfare, sabotage and unrest in
Axis Europe.
How to offset the weight of Japa-
nese successes in the Far East or to
make use of them in attempting to
fight growing Allied war strength
in Europe.
What the conference-or rather
Hitler-decided was described by the
German radio us a closely guarded
secret but it was obvious on this
occasion the Axis strategists did moi
have to worry about the possibility
of interesting the Allies in peace
proposal. They were faced, instead
with growing public demands in
allied countries for an offensive
action against the Axis.
BOLSTER MORALE
Behind all of the elaborate prop
uganda camouflage spread over the
meeting by Axis broadcasts prob
ably was an attempt to restore the
confidence of the Nazi-dominatec
people, especially in Italy. in ulti-
mate victory and to bolster the posi-
ton of Mussolini in a restless, hun
CRY and war-weary country.
The visit of Gen. George C. Mar.
shall, USA, to London and persis.
tent talk of an Allied invasion o.
Europe, backed by mounting Ameri
can production and intensified all
raids by the Raj, were further de-
signed to crack the Axis morale a,
we'll as its war machine.
Thus Hitler may have felt tina
it was necessary to regain thu
psychological offensive before h,
could expect to regain the militar.
offensive and he fell back on tn,
Axis conference formula that hat
preceded important military devel
opments and kept the Allies guess
ing in other years. But this tim,
Continued on page column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

AL mlQ-HlOrIllrlB Tie loss WAS eStl-
mated at $2,5OO,0O0. The blaze ragged
out of control along l0-mile front.
Gov. McGrath declared martial
law in West Greenwich. Coventry
and Scituate shortly after 9 am.
on advice of Adj.-Gen. Peter Leo
Cannon to give military authorities
a freer hand in dealing with the
emergency.
While more than 5000 soldiers,
sailors and volunteers battled the
blaze, new fires broke out at Bowen
Hill in Coventry and at Escoheag-
both points outside the immediate
fire zone. Authorities said both these
fires apparently we're OF incendiary
origin, as were the Is previous ones
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Accident Breaks
SoIdier'sLeg

f. ID. Morris, Camp Seeley sold
Ter, suffered a broken leg at LAC
a. m. Friday when he was struck
by an automobile driven by jim
Slusher, Ell Centre automobile deal
err. near the intersection of the
Brawley and San Diego highways.
Morris was taken to Ell Centre
hospital. and later transferred in
an army ambulance to Camp See
ley.
Slusher told Officer Lloyd Ed
wards that the soldier, apparently
trying to thumb ride to camp
was standing on the paved slab
and that his dark clothing, COM
bined with the glare of other cars
made it impossible for him to see
the NAH. Slusher was not blamed
for the accident
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
FIRE SWEEPS THRU
PLANE PARTS PLANT

CHICAGO, May /. (UP) Fire de-
stroyed two large buildings at the
aircraft parts division of the Pull
man Standard Car Manufacturing
Co. today, causing $4,000 damage
and a delay in war work until the
structure can be rebuilt.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

which yesterday merged into the
conflagration.
Immediately after declaring mar
tial law. Gov. McGrath left Proyi-
dence by automobile TO survey the
fire, which threatened to develop
into the worst forest fire In south
ern New England history.
The flames were racing toward
Exeter after blackening between
40 and As square miles OF woodlands
In western Rhode Island, destroying
large portion OF l,750,000 feet OF
stored hurricane lumber. and level
ing a number OF farm buildings ana
camps.