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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

plan to further include Imperial
Valley in his soaring territory.
The Ferry Command pilot from
Long Beach has been stationed in
Palm Springs and has specialized
in flying over the Ell Centre area.
He has been putting in hours of
practice in several types of fast
pursuit ships.
The pilot first appeared near the
city last Monday. He left after
several minutes of hedge-hopping
At the Ell Centre airplane spotting
post on Eighth street near Ham
ilton, he was reported via tele-
phone several times to the Army'S
spotting headquarters.
For the past week he has been
intermittently appearing to swoop
down in dives over the roof tops
in a practice strafing. attack. His
simulated dogfights gave evidence
CT remarkable flying ability.
One housewife said: IF we had
500 pilots like him the war would
he over in a hurry"
Observers at the spotting post
said that in addition to tightening
many people he had accomplished
some good
THE number of telephone calls
we received indicated that he had
at least awakened people to the
presence of airpower," said one
woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Grocers Relieved
Ar Ration Plan

les ANGEL ES, Dec. 28.-U.PD
Haraseed Southern California gro
GERS began to breathe easier today
confident that the new food IA
tiCning plan will take the pressure
off themselves and their half emp
ty shelves.
Meanwhile, Office of Price Adj
ministration executives opened a
conference to study the problems OF
rationing 200 different food items
beginning in February.
CPA officials said they expected
the point rationing system to re-
lieve the pressure in two ways:
O. Consu'nerS with boarded
foods will not be in the market for
fresh foods until they have con-
sumcd their lat home supplies
down to the level to be fixed by
the government.
90 Many householders will begin
eating up their food at home to be
able to qualify for the rationing
later.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
America Aiming
French Soldiers
HEADQUARTERS.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
North Africa. Dec. 27-DelayedD-
UPD-The United States is arm
ing Gen. Henri Honore Giraud's
French African army as rapidly as
possible, Lieut.. Gen. Dwight d. Els
enhower, Allied commander-in-
chief announced today.
Eisenhower said planes already
had been delivered to Giraud's air
force and tanks and more planes
were on the way.
Girard newly elected French
high commissioner to succeed Adj
miral Jean Francois Darlan, and
commander-in- chief of the French
lind, sea and air forces, conferred
with Eisenhower this morning at
Allied headquarters and then con-
fcrred with members of the French
imperial council
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Poultry Ceiling
Effective Soon

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. o.
tU.Po-Po I try ceiling prices at
wholesale and producer levels will
become effective in this area as
soon as Office of Price Admins
tration officials are satisfied the
industry has been informed of the
new regulations, it was disclosed
today.
Originally declared effective De-
cember l8 by Washington OPA Of
fees, the price schedules were de-
layed in transmission to the coast.
The new prices, listed in broad
claSsifications, are as follows: Leg
horn broilers. all sizes 28ia; Leg
horn fryers, 3 to lbs, 30; colored
roasters, 4 to lbs, 49, So lbs. and
over, 35; squads, per pair, S. COL
ored bullets and domestic rabbits
were not listed.
Poultry dealers estimated prices
will take effect within a few days
following conferences with OPA Of
ficials on some prices believed to
be too low for this district.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Food
Ration
Set Up
Officials Warn
IFS Unpatrio+ic
To Hoard Stocks
BY JOSEPH w. GRIGG, Jr.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
GU Government officials,
having announced that all
canned, dried and frozen
fruits and vegetables will be ration
ed next month, began a concerted
drive today to prevent run" on
available supplies Of foOdStuffs.
They appealed 10 the patriotism
of all Americans, warning that
boarding would jeopardize the war
effort and aid the Axis. They said
there would be one-third less CT
the foods to be rationed next %ear,
but enough for healthful diet.
The policy of announcing ration
ing programs in advance of their
effective date has been widely crit
icised But last night three high
officials answered that only confu-
SIGN, would result if the new program
under sthe points" system were
started without time for explana-
ton.
The rationing of canned, dried and
frozen foods was announced by
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son and followed with radio explain
ations by Secretary of Agriculture
Claude r. Wickard and Chairman
Elmer Davis of the Office of War
Information.
PERILS OF BOARDING
All three emphasized the danger
of boarding in the interval before
rationing starts and called on Am
orleans to clarity the good qualities
of their citizenship during the next
five or more weeks.
III you want to help the Axis,
one of the best ways is to hoard
food" Wickard said.
Henderson added: :" We are
appealing to every citizen to under
stand first that he must play fair
With the nations food supply; sec
ond, that there is no justification
for rushing cut to the nearest gro
Gerry and stocking up; third, that
whatever foods to be rationed he
has on hand, he will have to declare
before getting new ration book.
WEEK OF FREEZING
The new program will begin some
time in February. The foodstuffs
involved will be lrCzen for a week
before rationing starts during which
time war ration book No. 2-ba sed
on the points" system-will be is
sued.
The new ration book will have two
types OF coupons blue ones for
canned goods, including soups, and
red ones for meat which is sched-
| uled to be rationed soon, too.
The food rationing program will
apply to:
CANNED FOODS Canned and
bottled fruit juices, including spiced
fruits, canned and bottled veget-
ables and vegetable juices; all types
and varieties of canned soups.
DRIED FRUiTS-PruneS, raisins,
arricOtS, etc.
FROZEN FRUITS-C h erri e s,
Strawberries, peaches. etc
FROZEN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
agus, lima, green and wax beans;
broccoli, corn, peas, etc.
The new program specifically eX-
empts the following:
Candied fruits, jams and jellies;
Continued on Page 6; Column G.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Stores
Prevent
Rush
Ra+ionins Order
Sees Most Cities
Without Trouble
BY UNITED PRESS

The common sense and pa
triotism of Americas food
merchants and housewives
combined Monday to prevent
a serious run on foodstuffs which
will be rationed under the point
system in February.
A United Press survey covering
all sections of the country showed
only isolated instances of rushes
on canned goods For the most part
the public and Storekeepers were
taking the announcement by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Claude Wickard
in stride.
One of the few exceptions was at
Washington, D. c., where grocers
reported a serious run on canned
goods. Several stores were JAM
med a few minutes after opening
with customers demanding canned
tomatoes, fruits, and peas but gro
GERS limited purchases to one or two
cans of each item per customer.
Retail grocers reported that linn
its on canned goods purchases VOL
UNFAIRLY imposed several weeks ago
were serving to restrain buyers from
boarding in some cases. The great
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Motorcycle Too
Much for Air Ace

HUBBARD, Ore, Dec. 28.-U.PO
Capt. Marion Carl, farm boy who
went to war with the us. Ma
rines and shot down II Jap planes
over Guadalcan.i knows what to
do in a fighter plane, but as far as
he's concerned a motorcycle Just
isn't bride wise.
While visiting his mother, Mrs
Ellen Carl. on the family dairy
ranch near here, the Marine ace
borrowed his brothers motorcycle
to ride to an adjoining town. On
the way he failed to negotiate a
turn at high speed and nose dived
into a field, thereoy receiving his
first bruises of the war.
The things too complicated for
me-" Capt. Carl declared.
II guess I'll let it alone"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28


Navy.
A hurry-up call for all the avail
able ambulances and doctors from
Ell Centre was received at FL Centric
police station. This was the first
inkling of the accident to reach
civilians.
1t was understood from reliable
sources that some men from the
p'ene were nut aboard another
plane and take 10 San Diego. 1t
was impossible to determine imme-
diately if the men were critically
injured or not.
Naval officers in Imperial VAL
ley were instructed to give out no
information concerning the acct
dent except to their superior Off
GERS, all of whom were in San
Diego. The public relations office
of the Navy in San Diego said the
officers were making an inves-
tigation" and would make known
their findings in a few hours.
Meanwhile undertakes were told
to say nothing about having body
or bodies from the wreck if they
had any, and the Imperial county
coroners office also was instructed
to give out no Information what
ever
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

every man in the service wanted q
bath. Private homes, plants, Off
ces, and all sorts of buildings were
packed with lines of slightly soiled
servicemen who declared they would
rather have a bath than ANYTHING
else they could think of at the mo-
ment. When the hot water ran out
they bathed in cold water.
SLEEP IN LOBBlES
Rooms soon filled up SO accom-
modating hotel owners permitted
the young men to compose them
selves for slumber, if any, on their
lobby davenports and chairs as long
as they held out. They then per-
mitted the uniformed men to stretch
out on the floor. Dozens slept at
the Barbara Worth country club
between Ell Centre and Holtville.
The Salvation Army filled its quar-
ters to bursting capacity
Practically every hotel and ROOM
ing house in the cit- offered their
rooms at special rates for the SER
vicenen and did everything they
could to see that the men were
as comfortable as possible.
BATHS MOBBED
In response to a request from a
pastor one hotel proprietor per-
mitted two soldiers 10 take a bath
Wednesday. The word spread like
Wildfre and soon all five public
baths were full and the men waited
in long lines outside the doors for
a chance to clean up. The men kept
the paths busy all day Friday and
Saturday.
One business man encountered a
bunch of Selvicemen at gasoline
station, noting that they mopped
their faces and glared at their soiled
handkerchiefs. He took all his car
would carry to his place of bust
ness and let them use the showers.
Word of his kindness spread ana
the bathing continued for hours
with the men lined up and waiting.
BALL PARK SHOWERS
A total of 80 soldiers can battle
at one time at the Ell Centre ball
park, facilities made avaliabie uy
the city and the servicemen's recre-
alton council.
One Ell Centre minister asked
large numbers Of Servicemen what
they would like to have his church
members do for them. Without eX-
ception, he said, they asked for
baths.
A cafe owner said his place serv-
ed between 1900 and $500 a day
curing tn weekend. The place was
madhouse," he dec AIRED, but we
Continued on Page 6, Col. 3
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Tragedy Strikes
Expectant Mother

BRAWLEY, Dec. c8.-Grace Cor
tez, II, became so frightened at
the impending birth of her illegi-
innate child late Saturday night
that she ran from her home and
gave birth to the baby back of
sign board in the vicinity of Tenth
and Main streets, officers said.
Her brother-in-law, Manuel Cor
RADIO. found the child after a long
search, at Tenth and Main streets
and she showed him where the
baby was. The baby was dead and
the girl said it was dead when it
was born. A physician said the
baby apparently was a normal
child. He was unable to ascertain
if it was dead at birth Or not The
girl was not held.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
BY UNITED PRESS

Gen. Hideki Too, japanese pre-
n'ier end war lord, comnlained to
the Japanese parliment Sunday of
the difficulties under which his
troops are operating and the enor-
NOUS numbers of allied froces OPP
posing them.
He told the parliment, in a re-
port on the first year of Pacific
war, that the first phase of sur
prise attacks and lightning sue
cesses had given way to the second
phase which would be one of de-
cisive battles.
TOTO said British forces in India
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

However, due to causes which
the grand jury could not deter
mine, the herd was allowed to de-
teriorate and the animals found by
the committee are in very poor
and unsatisfactory condition"
If the board of supervisors does
not intend to run the farming op-
erations on satisfactory basis, the
committee declared in the report
this part of the work should be dis
continued
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
BrowIey Printer
Dies In Accident

Matt Alvin Harmon, 81, print
er reported missing from Brawley
shortly after midnight Saturday,
drowned in the Usage canal eight
miles northeast of Brawley after
his car angled across the highway
and struck bridge guards at the
intersection of the canal and the
Sandia railroad.
Highway patrolmen heard Ham,
mon was missing and a short time
later heard of the accident They
found lannon's body in the water
100 feet from his submerged car.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
BuuIarsLoot
Cafe in CaIexico

CALEXICO, Dec. 28.-El Cato
cafe in CaleXico was burglarized
during the weekend of $40 in cash,
500 in American bills, $500 worth
of. Mexican pesos, and $3.50 worth
of Mexican paper money.
Entrance was gained through a
back window. The money was TAX
en- from a locked drawer in the
counter. Two watches also were
missing
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
TOTO Complains Against
Too Much Allied Power

view of the continually changing
world situation, so that undisturb-
Ed carrying through of the eastern
Asiatic war was guaranteed
Adm. Shigc:ori. navy minister,
admitted to parliment that Japan
had lost one battleship, three air.
plane carriers, four cruisers. IS
destroyers, nine submarines, three
other naval craft and IS merchant
ships. totaling 100000 tons, and one
battleship, two carriers. three cru
isers, nine destroyers, one submar-
inc and 10 naval craft OF other
types damaged. He put Japanese
naval plane losses at 500.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

totaled 1000 coo men and were con-
tinually increasing.
He said that on Guadalcanal Is
land in the solomons the Japan
csc were undergoing great hard
ships in an unhealthy region, and
i'll the Aleutians off Alaska troops
were enduring almost unimagin-
able" privations and difficulties.
In China, Toto said, the Japan
csc faced 100000 Chinese and 600-
600 communist troops and an al
lied air force of 300 planes.
He said incidentally that the
Japanese army on the Siberian
frontier had been reinforced lin
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Private Struck By
Hii-Run Driver

Pvt. Grover Ash, soldier in I'M
rerial Valley CT desert training
maneuvers, was struck by a hit
and-run driver Saturday evening
in the 400 block on Main street, FL
Centric, police reported.
After treatment for a head in
jury at Ell Centre hospital, he was
released Sunday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Births Increase
Sharply in |. A.

LOS ONGELES, Dec. 28.-U.P)
An unprecedented birth rate in
crease Of q per cent in Los An
geles county was reported today by
Robert G.. Webster, registrar OF
the vital statistics division.
Webster pointed out that with
only few days to go there have
been 500 more births this yeal
than in 1911. The figures do not
include Los Angeles, Pasadena
Long Beach and Beverly Hills.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Hot Pilot Won't
Be Back Agoin

FL Centre bid adieu to its ''hot
PILOT" Sunday afternoon with min
gled emotions, including a general
expression of relief.
1t was learned Monday that the
Army flier. who for the past week
has been flying low. stunting and
streaking across the sky, does not
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
BIG navy Plane CRASHES AT SALT0N SEA
Joe PaIooka
Missing

Joe PaIOOka is missingl
Not in action, this time, but
somewhere along the Christ
mas mail front.
The PaIoOka comic strip fail
ed TO arrive at the POst-Press
office i'm time for Mondays is
sue. II will be published as
soon as replacement mats ar
rive from syndicate headquar-
tiers.
PalOoka, missing, is nothing
new TO PalO0ka-but it's hard
on the editors. However. he'll
be back soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

Blood stains on the canal bank
showed the point where Hammons
body struck the earth after being
thrown from the car.
Force of the impact pushed the
bridge guard six inches out of line,
highway patrolmen said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

: SCfaCeSlc towns OF SOlOneCZky, 10
miles west of Stalingrad, and Biru
| kov, several miles to the south of
Solonetzky, thereby increasing the
pressure on the entrapped Ger
mans
In Washington the Navy an
| nounced that army fighter planes
had bombed and strated supplies
dropped by the japanese in an at
tempt to aid their forces on Quad
alcanal ARM planes also attacked
japanese installations on Kiska in
the Aleutians, the Navy said.
Despite severe weather, the Red
army advance continued
! In the Middle Don section alone
it was estimated that the Red army
had freed between 10000 and $4,000
/ square miles of territory and thou
sands of German troops had been
pushed into small triangle east
of the Rostov Voronezh Moscow
! line.
GERMANS IN HOLE
The Russian ring grew tighter
around the % trapped German div
lsions in front of Stalingrad, origi-
nally upward of 100000 men. Rus
sian advances southwest Of Stain
grad in the last "a hours have made
the position of the Germans in
creasingly grave,
Communiques and dispatches re-
ported Russian advances in these
Sc tors: Middle Don, Southwest-Stal-
! ingrad, northwest Stalingrad, Stall
ingrad city, Caucasus and central.
! London heard that a working
agreement was about to be reached
between Gen. Charles DeGaulle,
leader of the Fighting French, and
Gen. hoIi Honore Giraud. high
commissioner of North Africa who
was chosen to succeed Admiral Jean
Francois Darlan. DeGaulle and Cir
aud were said to have been in COM
munication for the last AZ hours
and already have pledged their will
on the Axis.
FRENCH GET ARMS
/ The next step, it was said, would
be to bring DeGaulle and Giraud
into a personal conference, and re-
ports persisted that eventually De-
Gaulle would go to Washington to
! confer with President Roosevelt
Allied headquarters announced that
American equipment rapidly was
being provided for Giraud'S North
African army.
Wet terrain still held ground &C
tivity to a minimum in the Tuni-
sian theater of war, but over the
weekend American planes contin-
ued to hammer at Axis communica-
ton lines. Bombers and fighters
struck at Bizerte and SfaX on the
east Tunisian coast and Flying
Fortresses sank three ships and
Continued on Page 6, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

that one instance showing the I'M
satisfactory manner in which the
EARNING angle has been handled"
concerned a herd of hogs.
Some very we'll bred and valUa-
BILE hogs were purchased" the re-
port said. Some sows also were
purchased for breeding purposes
and very satisfactory start was
made to carry on this undertaking
at the county farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
y AMBl'Ne
l\EpORTER

It's Logical
A puzzled i:own decorated the
brow of Billy Allen, 4-year- old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Allen of
Holtville. He was listening in
tently while ADULT members of the
family talked about his Uncle Jack
being soldier The puzzled frown
deepened rapidly.
why is Uncle Jack a SOLDIER"
Billy asked.
He was caught in the draft,
said one of the adults.
WHY didn't he keep the window
closed?" inquired Billy.
The Dear Boy
1t was with q great deal of pleas
IRE that RR recently revealed
Deputy Burritt's first name to a
waiting world Bun'ritt's famous eye
lashes fluttered frantically when it
was revealed that his first name
really is wilbur
You should have seen the Bur-
rift eyelashes 60 into double time
l when he read this notice on the
bulletin board at the county sher-
ifs office:
wilbur means wild boarr"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
100000 Germans
I'm Russian Trup
Red Army Takes Offensive on Six Land
Fronts While Air Activity Intensifies
In Far East. Over Tunisia battle-ground
. BY UNITED PRESS

The ring around % German divisions trapped before
Stalngrad tighter Monday the Russians went
the offensive six fronts
Front dispatches said the Red army had captured the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
'Censors Clamp
Lid on n eWS Of
Fatal Accident
One Known Dead; Police Receive Call
For AmbuIances Doctors; Officers Mum
Pending Announce from Superiors

navy plane crashed in Salton Sea Sunday morning
with at least killed and at least two injured it
revealed before the accident became military secret
Strict military censorship amped down shortly
after the crash of the plane which said to be of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Operation Of
County Farm Hit

Sandwchcd among the suggestions made bv the I'M
pera county grand jury the annual report filed Mon
day. was recommendation that the board supervisors
>Srun the county farm proper basis or rent the
~enre farm to reliable farmer under lease agreement
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
Beds At Premium
For Service Men

Military snol cd peacefully in hotel Hobbies and
ception rooms of public buildings throughout Ell Centre
during the Christmas holidays FL Centrans sought to
bed down thousands of visiting soldiers, Marines and sal
lors. Bathing facilities at a premium Apparently
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

, lie Retired
Early Christmas morning an E.
Centran headed for Yuma in sta
ton wagon loaded with packages
He picked Up one soldier at Fifth
and Main streets, another at the
CITY limits and two more about a
mile out of town.
The boys in the back of the wag-
on had to sit on the floor. Sud-
denly the driver noticed that the
boy in the seat beside him was lis
tening to a conversation going on
in the darkness in the back of the
machine. Suddenly the boy in the
front seat shouted:
Hi. yah. Al? Going home?"
Thereupon there was regular
reunion. AL, the boy in the back
and the one in the front seat had
lived neighbors in Yuma practical.
ly all their lives. Neither knew
the other was in the army. Both
were going home for Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

Note
- The Guy Weakley family had
planned a quiet day at home
Christmas. The quiet didn't last
long until the telephone rang.
- Can you tell me where George
gBurt is?" feminine voice asked
anxiouSly. I'm his sister. I sent
him message telling him l was
going to arrive Christmas morning.
He must not have received it as he
isn't here to meet me- remem-
bered he told me you were the su-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 3
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday 50, minimum
Monday "a; am. Monday 40, hui
nudity 81; noon Monday SO, humid
ity 81; pm. Sun. So humidity "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-28

WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
(U) - Government officials,
having announced that all
canned, dried and frozen
fr,litc n,ad uanet hlec uill he ratiQn-
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Mrs. Mary J. Edwards
Dies in Silver Sprinq

Mrs. Mary Jordan Edwards, 88.
one of the first women to attend
Cornell University and sister of the
late David Starr Jordan, the first
president and founder of Leland
Stanford University. died yesterday
at Falkland Manor in Silver Spring
after long illness. She was born in
Gainesville, N. Y.
The widow of Edward Junius Ed
wards. Mrs. Edwards lived in Min
neapolis from 1880 until three years
ago, when she came to Silver Spring
She was active in women's organi-
cations in the Universalist Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Edwards Bailey of Arlington, and
Mrs. James E. Shaw of Huntington,
Long Island, and three sons, Arthur
j. Edwards of Montclair, N. j.;
Junius D. Edwards of Oakmont, Pa .
and P. Paul Edwards of Oakland
Calf
Funeral services were to be held
this afternoon at the Warner E
Pumphrey funeral home, Silver
Spring, with burial in Minneapolis