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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
The Early Bird

For some reason George Buck
lin awoke early Friday morning. He
was tired of sleeping SO decided to
get up.
He looked around in the pre-
dawn gloom for something to oc-
Cupy his time. Clad in pajamas,
George Strolled around the warm
rooms. His eye lit on the vacuum
cleaner.
He began to vacuum vigorously,
The hose on the thing finally be-
came stuck up. George. tidy soul,
took the thing outside to empty
out the dust.
WHAMi The kitchen door slam
med shut behind him. Here he was
in the cold grey dawn, shivering in
thin pajamas and exposed to the
public eye. He tried all the doors.
All locked. He absolutely refused
to knock and reveal his predica-
ment to the family. They would
have hoWled.
He began tinkering with the win
dows. At last he found an open
window behind a latched screen
He ripped off the latch and crawled
ingloriously to privacy.
Oh, for a bean shooter!
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

new congress convening Jan. 4.
But they failed to upset Demo-
cratic control in either chamber
although the Democrats face a
tight squeeze in the house where
they have an apparent majority of
only eight.
The G. o. p. took eight senate
seats from the Democrats and oust-
ed veteran Sen. George w. Norris,
Ind, Nebr., for the ninth. They
failed to run their gain to 10 when
wellington d. Rankin, Republican
candidate in Montana, conceded
defeat TO Democratic incumbent
James E. Murray.
The lone congressional race still
undecided is for the contest in Cali
fornias 23rd district where Demo-
cratic incumbent Ed Izac polled
40,867 votes to 40,704 for Republi-
can James Abbey with % precincts
unreported. The contest may not
be decided until Nov. when 1000
absentee ballots are counted.
Another mouse seat, held by
Chairman Andrew j. May, D., Ky,
of the military affairs committee. is
being disputed by the unsuccessful
G.. o. P. candidate, DR. Elmer f.
Gabbard, who charged Illegal use
of money and whiskey, ballot stuff
ting and improper counting of bal
lots" May won by 51l votes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Idaho Governor
Race Closest Yet

BOISE, Idaho, Nov 7.-CUPD-
Idaho's gu5ernatorial contest to-
day had not only the two candi-
dates on edge. but most of the cleo
torate as well.
A Canyon county error and Off
cial returns from several Idaho
counties reduced Gov. ChaS. A
Clark's lead to 81 over former Re-
publican Governor C. A. Bottolf-
sen.
The United Press count with 826
out of 846 precincts reporting,
stood: Clt,rK, 10, -; Bottolfsen
72,l53.
Late Yesterday the Canyon coun-
ty board of convasserS discovered a
2l8 vote error in BottolfSens IA
vor That counteracted a previous
160 vote error in Clark's favor
found by the Gem county board Of
canvaSSerS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

boots tassled Mexican hats
tied en- with ropes football
sweaters track shirts =.
trousers undoubtedly pilfered from
a dad with an interest in duck hunt
ing e. riding pants F.. anything
went.
But the costumes didn't inter-
fcre with the ability of the young
sterS to get the job done. Accom-
panied by some of their teachers,
the boys met at the high school in
the various communities at $50
am, Saturday some of them MUNICH
ing sandwiches that rivalled Dag
woods, and carrying lunches that
looked as though they had been
assembled for a hugh picnic party
Volunteers from boys IA years
of age on up will be sought in
every school in the county to work
in the fields next weekend, said
members of a group appointed by
the Imperial County Manpower
committee to ask the aid of the
school pupils.
IF these youngsters will help us
take care of 1000 acres now" said
Jack Strobel. farmer, I'VE believe
the emergency will be past. We
will be caught up. The weeds will
not be ahead of us. We will be
able to weather the emergency un-
til the long-sop2ht Mexican labor
erS arrive from across the border
Next week the group from the
ManpoWer committee, Hugh T. Os-
borne, School Superintendent E
Lee Hiteman. Strobel and G.. E
Spencer will talk in schools
throughout the county, soliciting
volunteers to work in the fields
The boys will work an eight-hour
day for which they will receive the
prevailing wage, so cents an hour
At present the school pupils will
work week-ends only.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

alongside their masculine school,
mates
Their feminine insistence brought
a promise Of work from Thomas N.
Finney of the US Employment
service, who declared that the Of
fer of these girls will be Utilized
to save the crops. I'VE need all
the help these youngsters can
give" he said
The soil of Imperial county's
fields has been trod by some strange
persons in some strange costumes
in the past, but Saturdays boyish
workmen topped them all in the
fantastic costume class. Cowboy
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Testimony Claims
Flynn Dubbed Girl
San Quentin Quail
Actor Will Face Court
Nov. % in Struggle
TO Escape Prison
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

HOLLYWOOD, N Ov. Z.
(UP)-Errol Flynn and the
San Quentin quail, also
known as Jail bait, will meet
again in court November % for his
arraignment in HollyWood's first
major criminal assault case since
the days of Fatty Arbuckle.
Charged with triple assault upon
two girls of high school age, Flynn
is being held on $1,000 bail for a
trial which could result in his bel, I
sentenced to SO years in prison -
and San quentin at that.
Sixteen-Tear-o Peggy Satterlee
is the girl who said he sometimes
called her Jail bait" and sometimes
the San Quentin quail" She accused
him of taxing her to the cabin Of
his yacht, Sirocco, boosting her on
the bed so she could view the moon
through the port hole, and then
subjecting her to treatment no
family newspaper could describe.
She said he forced her twice to sub
nit, after he had taken two vita
min-B injections from a physician
he called ."Hypo Ned
Betty Hansen, who is ono year
older than Peggy, and who came
from Lincoln, Neb., to Hollywood
to be a movie star, mentioned no
pet names. She said merely that
Flynn took her to the bedroom of
Bel Air mansion and had intimate
relations with her, without ever re-
moving his shoes.
Flynn listened, dead pan, to four
days of testimony b. his youthful
accuSers. Then, when Judge Byron
J. Walters held him for arraignment,
Flynn issued a statement in which
he said he had every confidence of
being freed.
So, apparently, did his fans. Every
mail brought this writer letters
concerning the case from through
out the country The writer's in
cludcd school boys. married women
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The movement apparently was to
prevent the enemy from getting
those forces into shape for a pincers
drive against the field, with col
umns advancing from both east and
west.
The advance found the troops
crossing the Malimbiu river, a few
miles south of Koli Point on the
north coast of Guadalcanal. That
is close to where the Japanese re-
Gently landed their forces.
A new air attack on American
positions was made Thursday by 27
enemy aircraft and escort fighters.
Clouds prevented American planes
from engaging the attackers but
our airfield and installations we're
not damaged"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

Tray SATURDAY 10 nelp prevent WIN
terhaven from being Topped from
California and annexed to Yuma,
Ariz., rationingly speaking, that is.
Secretary Ben Herring of the Ell
Centre chamber telephoned Addison
Housh, one of the headmen of ra-
tioning, and asked him to do sonle-
thing to aid Winterhaven and not
force residents of the Bard area
to travel to Yuma for all their ra-
tioning business.
II already hss, recommended that
the Office of Price Administration
put on a full-timc, paid clerk, .
Housh said. Housh pointed out that
some of the other smaller cities
in Imperial county have no full
time paid clerks either.
The whole muddle started when
the Winterhaven rationing board
resigned in body because the OPA
wouldn't give them full-time paid
clerk. The OPA apparently got back
at the board by ordering Winter
haven and the whole Bard district
included in the Yuma rationing
area.
To date. however. there seems to
be no indication that the reSigna-
tions had been accepted b. the
OPA. Some of those supposed to be
in the know declare that the w
terhaven board had not been abol-
ished and others, just as much in
the know, declare that it has b2en
In the meantime, residents of the
Bard area chung fiercely to their
status as Californians and braced
themselves to endure what undoubt-
edly will happen to them if they
have to take the leavings from
YumaS allotmentS of rationed
goods.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Truck
Worrv
Laid
Monumental
Vehicles Assured
Of Enough Gas

Sufficient gasoline for all
motor car and truck driving
in Imperial Valley will be
forthcoming, whether COM
mercial vehicles have receiv-
ed their Office of Defense Trans
portation certificates by gas ration
ing time or not
So declared Lee A. Cusick, price
administration office representative
Saturday in eradicating the fear
expressed Friday that no gasoline
would be available for trucks if
ODT certificates had not arrived
on schedule.
Passenger cars, CuSick said, re-
quire no certificates, but will receive
their gasoline allotments direct
through the established OPA chan
nelS. While trucks will receive their
ration from the same channels, they
are supposed to have received GER
tificateS of necessity from the Of
flee of defense transportation as re-
quirement for eligibility.
1t has been generally believed that
IllIc ID IlOC SulllCleIlI JllIle IOT Ille
ODT applications to be passed on,
and certificates received before ra-
tioning goes into effect, thus caus-
ing fear that commercial vehicles
will be left gaSleSs. This would be
the result if the ODT instructions
are carried out to the letter, as in
terpreted by Rudolph Miller. con-
lservation ASSOCIATIONS secretary who
was designated to help farmers fill
out ODT applications.
The CuSick announcement assures
operators that as long as the ODT
applications are pending, rationing
boards are instructed to see that
ample gasoline is provided to cover
necessary operation until the claim
has been recognized or refused.
There has been much confusion
on this question" Cusick said. This
is now being eliminated. No person
need fear that he or she will be de-
prived of essential gasoline. 1t
will be forthcoming and the entire
Continued on Page 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08


Rommels forces virtually had
been cut to ribbons in the 13 days
since Lieut.. Gen. Bernard Mont
gomery started his offensive Some
10000 prisoners or more already
were counted in British hands, an
other 5000 Italians were reported
atcut ready to surrender as soon
as the British could find time to
rake them in.
What was left of RommePs Ger
man units was located more than
200 miles west of the Alamein bat
tleground in three clusters close to
the Egyptian -Libyan frontier. Part
of the force was at Btu BUG part at
Soloum and part at Halfaya pass.
American and British planes we're
dumping tens of bombs on the
Germans by the hour and the main
British armored forces were hack
ing the German armoied forces
ing the columns along the coastal
road to bits while truck-borne I'm
perial troops smashed forward for
the cleanup
HIT FROM BEHIND
The British had high hopes that
they would hit Rommel from be-
hind and close a net around his
forces from which few would es-
Sape.
Meantime, speculation on the i'm
minence of more Allied blows
AGAINST the Axis in drive to win
fss control of Africa and the
Mediterranean was at a height,
stirred by reports of concentrations
of warships, transports and planes
at Gibraltar.
American planes continued to
strike at the Axis supply lines across
the Mediterranean and the Royal
Air Force carried out another heavy
attack on Genoa.
The massing of major Allied ma
val and transport forces at the
western Mediterranean entrance
suggested that an amphibious at
tack behind the Axis lineS-posSi-
bly, in Northwest Africa-might be
imminent.
GERMANS DESPERATE
The plight of Rommel's Afrika
Korps was growing mere desperate
by the hour.
A wide swinging British desert
force was racing for the Egyptian
Libyan border, hoping to cut off
the Nazi retreat at Halfaya pass
and prevent Rommel from making
another defensive stand.
There was growing doubt that
Rommel would be able to escape
the encircling moose of British ar
mored forces which was driving to
cut him off.
The bag of Axis prisoners had
, reached 10000 and more were COM
| ing in faster than the British
could count them. Another $4,000
Italians, the men CT the Folgore
Brescia, Trieste, Bologna and Tren-
, to divisions, we're cut off az the
south end of the battlefield and
were believed about ready to give
up the fight.
The imperial communique listed
$50 tanks and 400 guns captured
and said the number of trucks
taken ran into the thousands.
AIRPORTS TAKEN
, The Daba and Fuka air landing
grounds were in Royal Air Force
! hands. The Allied planes we're OPP
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

for Grade Two tires If their tires
cannot be recapped. This grade
includes tires with retail list
price no higher than IS per cent
of Grade One tire prices. 1t also
includes damaged new tires, tires
marked factory seconds" by man.
ufacturers, all new tires manufac-
tured before January 1, 1898, and
"changeover tires which have gone
less than 1000 miles but which have
run sufficiently to wear off mold
marks
Car owners with monthly gaSo-
line allotments in excess of 1000
miles will be eligible for the best
Grade One tires If their castings
are not recappable.
All mileage book holders will be
eligible for new inner tubes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
BRITISH SPEED TO CUT R0MMEL s RETREAT
JAPS PRESSED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7-UP)-
American forces defending vital
Henderson airfield on Guadalcanal
island have advanced several miles
to the east, while other American
units have repulsed enemy attacks
TO the west of the field
A communique issued by the navy
revealed that the successful east
ward advance-carried out by army
troops-occurred Friday, Solomons
time.
only light enemy resistance"
was encountered during the east
ward march, the communique said.
1t took the American troops several
miles beyond the lines they held
before the japanese recently landed
ground forces east of the airfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08


its quota will accommodate, it must
decide among the applicants ION
the basis of relative Importance to
the war program, public health and
public safety"
Car owners whose gasoline al
lowance is $50 miles a month oil
less will be eligible for purchase
of Grade Three tire provided
their castings are unfit for recap
ping. Grade Three tires include
used tires, recapped tires, and new
tires made OF reclaimed rubber.
These tires will be available to
those who hold only book as
we'll as to those who have both A
and B books, OPA explained
Passenger Car owners who get
gasoline for more than $50 miles
but less than 1000 will be eligible
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
All Passenger Cars to
Be Eligible for Tires

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-U.PD-
All passenger cars will be eligible
for recapping services or for re-
placement tires under the nation
al mileage program, effective No
vember %, but motorists will be
limited by quotas to be assigned to
rationing boards, the Office of
Price Administration announced to-
day. Thus all motorists may not
get tires.
However, OPA warned that a
board may refuse to grant an ap-
plication for new tire IL official
inspection indicates the applicant
has abused or neglected the tire
he seeks TO replace.
Local boards will not be permit
ted to issue certificates In excess
of their quotas. When a board re-
ceives more valid applications than
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

tiOnS about nm III tne divorce CeS-
timony, but it said his reputation
and standing as diplomat had
been damaged by Mckee, 54, wealthy
vice president of Pan American
Always.
The suit said Mckee had called
de la Fuente an epithet which was
overheard by Shirley Peden. a
friend of de la Fuente and schoolgirl
chum of McKees daughter, Cynthia.
It also accused Mckee OF saying
that de la Fuente "is a ------ 1890
and all South Americans are the
same"
De la Fuentes transfer to the
Peruvian legation at Costa Rica was
announced a week ago, but he has
remained here.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
He Can't Subtract

Remember when Homer jenkins
scoutmaster of Boy Scout troop No
II in Ell Centre? He moved to
Compton not long ago and now is
scoutmaster of troop 80 in Comp
ton.
Jenkins wrote to the members
o! troop II and suggested that
they meet some Sunday at point
half way between the two towns
and have an outing Of some kind.
Il think it would be good idea" :"
he wrote troop II, "if we would
meet in Pomona"
What jenkins needs is a new
measuring rod to check up on this
half way business.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08


His name was mentioned In tes-
timony again yesterday at the Nc
Kee divorce hearing by two OF Me
KEGS children by a former mar
riage.
Muir Mckee, l6, MILWAUKEE, Wis,
high school student, said he wan
dered into his fathers bedroom one
morning and saw de Ia Fuente and
Mrs. Mckee breakfasting In bed.
II said, Good morning. and they
said. Good morning.. he testified
Julian Mckee, 10, said ne had
served Mrs. Mckee and de la Fuente
tomato juice under similar circtm-
stances at least three times. He
wept under cross examination and
Mrs Mckee ran from the COURT
room in tears.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Football

Notrc Dame Is, Army 0.
Calf. st. Mary's !, Duquesnc l.
Navy I, Pennsylvania 0
Penn State 1S, Syracuse Ii
Fordham 13, LSU 26
Lafayette 10. Rutgers Is.
Boston College 2s, Temple 0
BOwdoin IL, Maine 6.
Moravian 81, CCNY 0
Georgia IS, u. of Florida 0
Cornell l3, Yale 7
Ohio state 50, Pittsburgh 10
Delaware 19, SwarthmOre
Vermont ID, Norwich 10
North Carolina 43, Davidson !
Minnesota 0 Indiana Z
Iowa 6 Wisconsin 0.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Community Chest
To0pen Nov. 18th

Ell Centro's annual Community
Chest drive will begin November
Is with an all-out program to keep
peace-time agencies functioning in
wartime.
Organizations to be aided by the
solicitation of funds include the Boy
Scouts, Salvation Army, Campfire
Girls, Hipass Health camp, Welfare
Board, T.W.C.A., and the Society
for the Hard of Hearing.
Efforts will be made to reach
the goal of $11,125 during the week
of November l6 to 81, so that
time of the volunteer solicitors will
Eot be taxed llnduly.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
L.V. Traffic Toll
Mounts to Thirty

Imperial countys 1912 traffic toll
reached 80 Saturday with the death
or Carl E. Clark, who broke his
neck in an accident on Mt. Springs
grade Thursday night.
Clark, a native of Tennessee, had
been working on various defense
projects in the west and appar-
emily was en- route to Tennessee
when the accident occurred His
neck was broken when his car
crashed into a canyon wall mile
and half west of Shepherds
bridge.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Negro SoIdierto
Face Rape CHARGE

Charles Bradford, 26, Negro cook
and Camp Seeley soldier, was head
ed for an army court martial Sat-
urday for brutally injuring a Ca
lexico woman in attempting to rape
her.
In spite of her jaw being shat
tered in the Negro's first brutal
blow. the woman managed to Whis-
per:
MY son is in the army, too"
After that, the Negro said while
being questioned. he let her go. The
woman Saturday still was unable
TO identify her attacker. The Negro
was arrested by representatives of
military officers and customs border
patrolmen.
The attack occurred last week
end in CaleXico.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
PROHIBITION
STRIKES AGAIN

BALTIMORE, Nov. 7. - (UP0-
Ten-year-old H. j. Terry a pupil
at the Oscar school in Jefferson
county, Oklahoma, will watch from
a safe distance tomorrow as some
one else christenS the 1O,000-ton
Liberty ship Will Rogers with a
bottle of sparkling champagne.
Officials at the Bethelehem-F Fair
fax shipyards would give no rea-
sen why earlier plans to have
young Terry himself swing the bot
tie had been changed but these
two factors probably had something
to do with it:
l. The Women's Christian Tenn
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08

perance union frowns on youngsters
handling bottles of spirits, even for
christeningS.
2. Seamen and shipbuilders con-
slider any vessel christened without
the use of alcoholics as a hard
luck ship"
Mrs. Ida Ramsey, president of
the District of Columbia Women's
Christian Temperance union,
wasn't even sure TerryS presence
in a christening capacity would
be a good thing.
They're just educating children
to come close to champagne that
way" she said. Its just the be-
ginning"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Seeing The World

Life on the ocean wave and per-
sonal participation in the battle Of
the Solomons were the ideas flying
around in James Potters head
when he enlisted in the u. S. Navy
two weeks ago Sea duty was what
that Ell Centran was pining for
Beaming from ear to ear and
already scenting the salty tang of
spray breaking on some far away
island, he was sworn in.
He immediatelv was shipped to Ell
Centre for training
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
SCHOOLS MEET CRISIS
Students Wage War on |. V. Weeds

Schoolboys of Imperial county,
$50 strong, worked in the fields
Saturday in a patriotic attempt to
save the crops endangered by the
wartime labor shortage.
Meanwhile, 40 Ell Centre school
girls Indignantly wanted to know
why they, too, could no do their pa
triotic duty by working in the fields
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
0utdoorLights
Out for Duration

Wa SHINGTON, Nov. 7.-tUPo-
The War Production Board today
asked city officials, civic clubs
chambers of commerce, merchants
and citizens generally to dispense
with outdoor decorative lighting
this Christmas to conserve criti-
cal materials, electricity and man
power.
WPB did not ask that indoor
Christmas lighting, either in homes
or in stores, be eliminated, how
ever.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
| Izuc's Election
Still Undecided

WASHINGTON, Nov. up
With all but one congressional
race in Tuesdays general election
now decided, the Republican party
today had run their gains to nine
senate and "a house seats for the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Turn About

Turn About
Election day Mrs. Frank Proscal,
whose husband works for an elec-
trio company, went to Solano pre-
cinct west of Ell Centre.
She found she had been listed
as an electrician.
Later in the day Frank showed
up at the same precinct to cast
his ballot. He found he was regist-
cred as a housewife.
I'm going to go home and tell
nv wife to get to work." said Pros
CAL
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
D AMBLlNe
IMPORTER
OIeanders To YOU


RR does not possess oleanders
sufficiently beautiful to present to
the Ell Centre Sergeanettes for
their splendid conduct at the foot
ball game Friday night.
The girls demonstrated that they
can keep their heads when they
are under fire.
Ill hammered spectators started
fight on the field while the Ser
geanettes were drilling at half
time. Other spectators, equally as
i'll hammered as the fighters, poured
onto the field.
While police struggled to clear
the field, the dainty little Sergean-
cites went on with their intricate
drill winding in and out among the
crowd without missing a beat.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
SIonder Charged
In Divorce Case

LOS ANGELES, Nov. T. (UP)-Max de la Fuente for
Peruvian consul name has been mentioned fire.
queny the contested divorce suit of Mark and Evelyn
McKee, demanded 100000 today in sander suit against
Mckee De la Fuentes suit made reference to allega
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
River Rotionin9
SndrI Increases
EICen+ro Civic Body Urges Against
Placing Win+erhaven-Bard Area Under
Arizona Rule; OPA Receives Protests

Wntorhaven's rationing board muddle in such an
unmitigated snar Saturday that Old Man Raonng him
self couldn't tell whether the little city the Colorado
river had a ratonng bo"rd or not.
The Ell Centre Champer of Commerce Jumped into the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
Fleeing Germans
B lasted to Bits
BY Air Fighters
Remnants Of Nazi Army Located on
Esyptian-Libyan Border; Mediterranean
Moves Indicate Big New AIied Blows
. BY UNITED PRESS

The Imperial 9th army drove Marshal Erwin Romme's
battered forces back to the fringe of the
border Saturday amid growing indications that blows
against the fall in the African Medterran