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Evening star., 1942-03-25
LOTS FOR SALE.

BUILDER WILL SACRIFICE FOR QUICK
sale lots. building permit and plans for
large apts. IN Colonial Village, Va. end
trust possible " H SCHULZ DE 64OO
CORNER LOT FACING GOVT PARK,
32nd and U pl. Sc; $1,000. Call ia.
1888 26'
SPECIAL. BUILDERS, 40 LOTS FOR FOUR
families, large lst commercial corner;
F. H. A. approved; will exchange. RE.
5216. 25'
ZONED FOR APIS, OR FLATS. 7Oxs0
Corner alley: with all improvements: 18th
place between and D ne, for quick
sale: $1,000. Call MA. 1856.
43 ACRES WITHIN BLOCKS OF NEW
War Dept, Arlington County. Zoned for
apts., will sell all or part. Call MA. 1905.
WHERE HOUSE, NO. 494s BLAIN ST. NE
would be; S100. J. LEO KOLB, INC. 1887
Wis. ave. MI. Zoo.
100 LOTS. GOOD LOCATION. ON BUS
line. all utilities available. priced to build
defense housing. Easy plans to reliable
developer. F. H. A. financing available.
", ERNEST oFFUTT. 1924 K st. NV.
81 ROW-HOUSE LOTS
In Alexandria City, improvements avail
able $3.50 each Call Ma 1905
Evening star., 1942-03-25
SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR RENT

SILVER SPRING. MD. 736 GUILFORD ST
broom detached brick bungalow, como
porch, almost new, unusually large lot
will consider selling SH. 1877 after & m
FOR CAMPS. SUMMER SCHOOL. ETC
2o-room house, sleeps 20 to 40; big shade
trees, 10 acres, water front pier bathhouse
All NrOJannpnfS q
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PRICES SIASHEDl

957 Carroll St. Takoma Park. D. g.
GEORGIA 1902.
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14-unit apt. bids, nr. 18th and Colum-
bia I'd. NV; IA units Of 8 rms, b.: 2-story
blds;; rents dow S42 90 and $40 month- 3;la1v
financed. Price. $4,000. Can buy equity
for approx $4,000. CALL MR.: DREW,
Evening star., 1942-03-25

WE Buy CARS-'38 10 ~.
Large Phila. company will positively
pay top price for any nice private car
with good tires. Call our representative.
pm. to d. 27s
Evening star., 1942-03-25

STUDEBAKER ] $40 (Champion) club Sc
dan: black finish like new, motor in best
OF condition, 5 very good tires clean in
terror; S647 BUTLER BONDED LEE D.
BUTLER INC, 1121 2lst st. NV. Dis
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

A Long Time Ago
CThis is the section section OF
the story written by Isaac A. Pear
son of Brawley. You'll have to ad-
nit he has a good memory
Part :. Chanter 1.-The japanese
grower is a thing of the paSt IN
Imperial Valley. we are ,tcld. but
in the old days the japanese farm
crs had the canteloupe industry bv
the neck. White growers could not
held a c9ndle to them, They knew
how to irrioate cantaloupes and
when to irrieate them. This is
very important in producing early
melons which receive the highest
prices. Thev could make a pcund
cf seed produce more melons thah
white grower corTd produce from
three pounds. The whole family
men. women and children, worked
in the fields during the shipping
season. they did not knew what 1t
meant to eat and sleen regularly
Thpv would turn off Yields as h1"h
&C 300 crates of rantaloupes TO the
acre on small fields and sometimes
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

of two evacuees charged with the
deadly assault of third evacuee.
The picture today, according tC
Norris James, press and intelligence
officer at the camp, was that work
ers had returned to their jobs from
the general strike which had been
N progress since last Wednesday,
but that army troops were still
pauolling unit one of the large
camp.
Head said Il "sm2ll but wcll-or-
GaniHed pro- Avis group had taken
advantage of the situation to seize
control Of the largest of the three
FostCn housing units and create the
tlikc. He said lec ders Of the
group were known to federal Off
GERS and relocation center autho:i-
ties"
The walkout affected G,500 eVac-
uees and the strategS of the pro-
Axis group was to attempt TO de-
stroy the AmericaniSm OF the
An.erican-bOm group. In this they
have failed because heads of unit,
containing a total of 5000 OF tht
amps population had the situa-
ton Under control at all times ano
Co)pcrated fully with the officials
ci the camp and federal Officers.
OF icus of the U. S. army, the
federal, state and count" govern
lnenis. as we'll as patriotic Ameri-
Can-born Japanese worked together
as a team to break this pro-AXi5
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Downey Says State
Will Need 100000
Laborers in 1943
Senate Committee Gets
Started With Hearings
INTO ManpOwer Crisis

SACRAMENTO, Nov. %.
(UP)--United States Senator
Sheridan Downey of Califor-
MIA today opened a senate
hearing on manpOW2r short
ages by predicting that an addi-
tional 100000 workers will be re-
quired III California next year to
supply the armed services and war
industry.
"Pi'eliminar. figures indicate that
California will send about 275,000
men into the armed services next
year" Senator Downey said. There
will lie StEeral thousands more in
the merchant marine and coast
guard. We think another 100000
will be called by the government for
increased war work, transportation
and other essential war industries.
MORE MEXICANS
This means that women and new
workers must be secured somewhere.
One ISOLATION, l believe, is the i'm
pOrtatiOn of more Mexican workers,
even as many as 100000 or 10000,
Definitely, there should be a decen-
tralization of authority in handling
the Mexican movement, preferably
some agency or individual on the
Pacific coast with sufficient author
ity to assign the workers"
Downey emphasized that unless
there is an energetic effort from.
the government to get relief for
the west coast farmers. something
disastrous will happen"
After the Sacramento hearings,
Senator DoWney and his committee
viii meet in Los Angeles and other
Pacific coast areas. With Downey
today was senator E. w. Mcfarland
of Arizona, while Charles 'McNarr
of Oregon will ioin them later.
PHILLIPS AT HEARING
State Senator Robert Kenny.
chairman of n senate committee
Continued on Page G, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Doris Cromwell
Gets Full Fortune

SOMERVIILE. N. j., Nov 23.-
CUPD-Doris Cromwell comes into
possession of S17000,000 TODAY by
virtue CT attaining her Both birth
Gc"
Her father, James B Duke, the
Tobacco MAGNET, left her two trust
fr1ds totaling around $5l.OOO,OO0.
mainly in municipal bonds, when he
died when she was l3. She got the
first third of the principal when
She was 81 the second third when
she became 25, and today she came
into her full inheritance.
MIS-. Cromwell separated from her
husband. James II. r. Cromwell
former minister tc Canada, in 1910
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Red.Haired Woman
Victim of Murder

PALO ALTO, Calf, Nov. %
(U.Po-The body of a red-haired
woman about 30 was found in a
plowed field on and a half miles
south of he today under circum-
stances which indicated she may
have been slain.
Police reported a deep cash over
the woman'S eye, possibly the re-
suit of a bG'let, and bruises on her
hands and knees, giving rise to
the belief that she had been drag
gcd over the rough ground.
Coroner'S deputies estimated the
women had been dead about 10 CT
- hours
The body. clad in a black silk
dress was found by O"Ville r..
Rockefeller, Palo Alto creamery en-
ployee.
A large initial monogram, either
"CB" or CIR was sewed onto the
dress.
The field is just out CT the in
corporated area of Palo Alto near
DiSS road
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
REDS Open GIGANTIC WINTER OFFENSIVE
DAkAR TAKEN

LONDON, Ncv. l3.-CU.PD - A
broadcast by Radio Dakar tonight
indicated that the vital French West
African base OF Dakar and its sur
rounding territory of Senegal has
swung over to the pro-Allied adj
miniStration of Admiral Jean Fran
co.'s Darlan.
The broadcast was reported by
Radio Morocco.
(The broadcast was heard in
Canada by the Canadian Broadcast
ing corporation
If correct, the reports Indicated
II bloodleSs victory for the Allies of
tremendous strategic importance
Radio Dakar's announcement said
that Gov. Gen. Pierre BoiSSon OF
French West Africa has announced
that the colony has pledged its al
legiance to Darlan.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

an lnOldn uTdUeT Ill hIIZOlli, oUpti =
intendent of a Navajo reservation
in the northern part of that state,
and q member of the Arizona terri
torial legislature.
Friends arranged for funeral ser
vices at the Fields chapel in Holt
Vile at 3 pm. Wednesday and for
burial at Terrace Park cemetery III
Holtville.
Long ago Messenger and John
Kavanaugh of Holtville had been
closest neighbors" in the Tonto
Basin in Arizona, living at one
time so miles apart. Kavanaush re-
called many of his friends activities,
TOOK UP FARMING
Messenger was in Imperial after
he first arrived in Imperial Valley
and was engGg I'd in land levelin9
and farming. In 1904 he became
interested in a farm northeast OF
Holtville and in 1919 displayed a
stalk of corn 20 feet tall that he
had grown on his ranch.
He was a member Of Holtvllles
first city council after helping get
the town started. He served as city
councilman from 1903 TO 1911. III
1905 his son, Marcus A., was born,
the first white boy TO be born III
Holtville. The son now is a lieuten-
ant III the United States Navy and
is stationed at Pensacola, Fla.
Throughout his life Messenger was
prominent in Democratic politics ana
was we'll known for his political
activities in both California anG
Arizona.
BUSINESS INTERESTS
Old timers ememGcr the livery
stable which Messenger built l..
Holtville in 1908. He bought some
nice horses and new harness ana
buggies which early residents hired
TO drive around the valley on buSi-
ness and pleasure trips. Messenger
operated a feed yard i'll connection
with the livery stable and later wa
the founder of the Imperial Valley
Milling companT in 1913. III late
years he had no connection witt
the company but was interested i'll
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Trial of Damage
Action Continued

Illness of Judge Vaughn N
Thompson of Imperial count% su-
perior court Monday resulted in
continuance in the trial of the
S315,0CO damage trial filed by jim
my Gene Phillips against the Cali
fornia Electric company. Judge
Thompson was said to be suffer-
ing from n severe cold.
Tho trial which began a week
ago and continued all last week was
expected TO be resumed next Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Drunk Sets Fire
To Hotel Mattress

Sidney Parfait Jr 27-year-old
Marine from Camp Dunlap. was re-
leased from Jail Monday morning
en- tie promise that he would make
good the d'maCe incurred when he
set fire to a mattress in the State
hotel Saturday night.
In addition to the mattress. n
rug and his shoes were burned. Par
fait told officers. who booked him
on Il drunk charge, that $50 he had
placed under his pillow also went
up in smoke.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
City Moratorium
On Taxes Effective

El Centro's moratorium on taxes,
designed to aliCw .eSidentS to re-
deem delinquent property without
excessive payments, went into ef-
feet Monday.
Under the ordinance passed re-
Gently bv the city council, the NOR
atorium will extend until April 27,
1913. No more than Is per cent
interest plus the taxes can be
charged on back taxes more than
three years delinquent.
BY paying the taxes plus the Is
PER cent interest and other costs,
the property will be declared clear,
City Clerk Neal Gavin said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

That appeared to indicate that
Dakar-the best defended and
strongest base on the West African
coast-had fallen to the Allies as
the fruit Of the pClitical-military
collaboration of American army au-
thorities with Darlan.
The swing of Dakar and Sene-
gal to Allied allegiance would leave
only TuniSia of Frances African
possessions outside Allied control
and there a force of Americans
British and French were reported
attacking the QUEER siege lines has
tily erected by the Germans to pro
tect Tuis and Bi2erte.
It's swing to the Allied side woulC
mean that the entire West African
coast with the exception OF Spain,
Rio de ORC colony is in Allied con-
troll
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

AlgierS.
a. Gen. Eisenhower in his last
report states that the French In
their cooneration with our move
ment in Tunisia suffered heavy cas-
ualtieS ON Nov 10
Although the communiuue refer
red to casualties in the initial land
ings," it was explained that IL wns
meant to cover the period from the
eommencemt I OF landing opera
tions early In the morning OF NOV
g up until the end OF hostllities IN
Morocco and Algeria but did not
include subsequent losses In aerial
activities anG ~ Tunisia.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

Spread your butter thin :. !.
if you have any butter.
Imperial Valley civilians
faced a butter shortage Mon
day which will become more
acute as there is possibility of the
weekly supply being cut from $4,000
pounds to mere 5000 pounds.
Some Distributors mad no butter
for their customers Monday. Others
prorated what they had among their
customers.
Imperial Valley began feeling the
pinch of War Production Board
order which OH Nov. 20 froze SO per
cent of all butter in cold storage
in the 35 largest cities in the United
States Twenty days before the order
was issued cold storage holdings
were about 100.000000 pounds less
than the supply year ago.
The butter shortage also was said
to be felt in some military centers
in California with some camps hav-
ing one meal a day with no butter
being served
Since only a small amount of
butter is made in Imperial valley, it
is neceSSar" to bring in butter from
other states to fill demands of local
trade. Under present conditions,
authoritative sources said, it is esti-
mated that all grocers and restaur-
ants will receive so per cent or less
of their normal butter requirements
, and that butter rationing eventually
will result.
Large demands for Lend-LeaSe
and the armed forces cut into the
available supplies of butter in the
United States and the consumer
purchasing power has increased per
capita butter consumption from 10
pounds a year to II pounds a year.
Many dairy farmers Z. .oducing cr2am
and manufacturing cream have left
the farms for the army or defense
work and those who remained at
home have had to sell part or all
of their herds because of the ShCrt-
age of farm labor.
1t was recommended that the pres
ent supply be prorated to purchas-
ers and that everyone spread butter
thinner so that everyone may have
some.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

Mixed 10y lties-
1t seems tc us that Mary Marvin,
baby daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
reginald Knox, Jr., is going to have
difficult time pleasing both Papa
and Mama.
You see, it's this way. Papa at
tended the University of California
and Mama attended Stanford Uni
vcrSitv On SATURDAY., Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Loud invited a group
of friends to their home to listen
tc the Stanford California game.
papa Knox dressed his little dau2h
ter up in a blue dress and yellow
soX to carry out the California COL
ors Mama noX was Mortified. Her
loyalty to Stanford demanded that
she dc something. She hastily add
ed red bow to Mary Marvin's cos
t,sne and the baby toddled arouno.
all during the game happily dis
plavine the colors of both schools
Wonder what will happen when
il comes time for Mary Marvin to
90 away to school.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

communique No. 247:
Il. The war department TODAY
released the estimated report Of
United States army and navy cas-
ualties resulting from the initial
landings in the North African oper-
ations
-. The next of kin will be noti-
fed by telegraph as soon as casualty
lists are received, after which the
lists will be released for local pub
hcation.
"3 The major army losses were
suffered in the capture of Oran
ana Casablanca. Only few losses
occurred III the operations around
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
MARTINIQUE
GUARDED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-CU.Po
A defense and economic agree
ment which will make it unneces-
sary for the United States to occu-
py Martinique and other French
islands in this hemisphere was an
nounced today by Secretary of
State Cordell Hull.
Hull said the agreements of 1910
and 1871 have been continued as a
result of successful negotiations re-
Gently concluded in Martinique.
The principal purpose of the
agreement, Hull said, is to assure
American security. A secondary
phase concerns the economic life of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
IT, s. Losses Only $50 in
Tokinq French No. Africa

WASHINGTON, Nov. :3-lUP'-
American occupation of North Al
rca was accomplished at the cost
OF 3G0 deaths in u S. forces, the
wal department estimated TODAY
Losses incurred in the occupation
were listed in a commmlque as fol-
lows
u. 6. army. killed $50; wounded
oc0' missing $50.
u. $. navy. killed TO- wounded
l50. missing $50
The probability was that most
of those reported missing were
drowned. the war department COM
munique said.
Partial text of war department
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

the people of those islands.
Hull said he was not quite in
position to give full details CT the
agreement
The new arrangements with the
French islands were negotiated by
Rear Admiral John Hoover, U.S.N.,
and Samuel Reber, assistant chief
of the State Departments European
division. in conversations with Ad
miral Georges Robert at Martini
que. The conversations have been
in progress since last spring.
The agreement was concluded
without any contact between the
United States and the Vichy gov
eminent of France.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

thC COllntV he0Ith VcplfJmtnJ Im-
mediatciy began to take precautions
to help prevent spread of the dis
caec. The bab,'s brother was taken
from school and the Van Der Lin
den house quarantined.
Close supervision of all school
children by teachers and the school
NUS, began Immediately. Colds and
all other illnesses suffered by chill
dren should be given attention and
care by parents was urged in order
to prevent occurrence and spread OF
communicable diseases.
Mrs. Mary Jane Neal, FL Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Strike Of Jap Evacuees
At Poston Center Broken

PCSTON, Ariz., Nov. 23-CUP)-
w. Wade Head, director of the Colo
RADIO relocation center here. said
today the general strike among
japanese evScuees which had been
in progress since Wednesday, Nov.
IS, was ended toda.. although army
troops still patrolled one large un-
it of the camp.
Head said the disturbance arose
following q protest over the arrest
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
School Holiday
Begins Wednesday

Thanksgiving vacation will
begin at 2 pm, Wednesday.
and schools in I'll Centre shall
not resume until the following
Monday morning, Superintend-
ent Of Schools GUY A. Weakley,
said Monday.
Many of the high school stu
dents will take advantage of
the extended holiday to work
in Imperial Valley lettuce and
vegetable fields to help reduce
the farm labor shortage.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

group without hloodshed or loss of
property" Head said.
COfficials at the camp said some
of the strikers were american
born, although they were said to
be a very small minority of the al
legged pro-Axis group
Head commended highly the
patriotism of loyal American-born
japanese evacuees in aiding to
break the strike.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

school nurse. said that no child with
q cold be allowed to go to school,
These children should be kept at
home and away from contact with
others. BY this means not only colds
but other diseases may be kept to
a minimum and illness among civil
ians and the military will be re-
duced
superintendent Guy Weaklcy OF
the FL Centre schools Monday as
sured parents that should any ad-
ditional cases occur, the public will
be informed Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
~. Butter Supply Cut
From 5000 to 3000Lbs.
y AMBllNe
NEpoR1ER

A New System
Freddie Ray. 4-year-cld son of
Mr. and Mrs. c. " Harris, had been
taugh to tell his age by folding his
thumb across his palm and spread
inc out the four fingers.
This went on for some time. Then
Freddie Ray became tired of the
same old system. The other day
when friend asked him how old
he was. Freddie Ray said crisply;
"Onc finger down and the rest
up"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
VALLEJO LAUNCHES
SHIP FOR BRITISH

VhIrF-O Cal, Nov 23-(UPl-
The II. M S. Duff slid down the
ways at Mare Island navy rard to-
day. the second ship of her type to
be launched in the past AZ hours
here Mrs. Bert F.. Barr. wife of
quarterman shipfitter in the yard.
sponsored. the Duff.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
yeur-O|d lnfunt
Paralysis Victim

Larry Van Der linden, yearold son of Mr.. and Mrs
Bruno A. Van Der Linden of 682 Orange avenue Ell Centre
Monday found to be suffering from nfante paralysis
spite of the fact that the unfortunate youngster Is
of Dreschoo age FL Centre school authorities and the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
CoIorfuI Pioneer
FIGURE Succumbs
n. }. Messenger Dies at 80 After Life
Spent on Frontiers Of West as Leader
In { Community Development Activities

Holtve lost another Of its pioneers Sunday in the
death of H. j. Messenger, who died in rest home in Ell
Centre at the age of S3 years
Messenger called pioneer by profession. Before
he arrived in Imperial Valley in April of 1903 he had been
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

the planes to spare for the north
ern action, one officer said
/ The belief is general that the
lack of landing strips on KiSka and
Attu is a great handicap, because
Aleutian harbors are stormswept in
winter. making it difficult for Zero
seaplane fighters to land and take
off
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Jops Inactive in
AIeutiun Islands

HEADQUARTERS, Alaska Defense Command Nov. 23.
(UP)-Because the japanese made only hafheared at
empts reinforce Kiska with combat planes air Off
today expressed belief the enemy may hope that violent
storms of the outer Aeutans will protect them through
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23
Nuzis i'm Russia
Face Great Trup
AS Drive Opens
Soviet Troops Slash at German Rear in
Effort TO Cut Off Foe at Stalngrad
And in Caucasus; Big Advance Noted
. Gy UNITED PRESS

Red army troops rolled forward Monday in 4 double
development manouVer that threatened to slash
munctionS both of the NaZ siege forces at Stalingrad
and the German armies in the Caucasus
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-23

lllt Nlllltl.
The fact that American fighters
proved superior to the japanese,
blasting them from the air early il
October may have caused the enc
my to realize the futility of attempt
ing to meet our air forces untH they
achieve superiority officers declared
Apparently the Japanese haven't