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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

elusive a naval show"
The newspaper asserted machin-
cry still was lacking to coordinate
all allied forces in the Pacific for
concentrated drive against jap
anese outposts.
IF politics are responsible for
this division of command and for
inadequate supplies sent to Mac
Arthur, then it is time to table all
the cards." the newspaper said.
Macarthur in his statement said
he had started as a soldier and that
he would finish as one.
THE only hope and ambition !
have in the world" he said, sis for
victory for our cause in the war
If l survive the campaign I shall
return to the retirement from
which this great struggle called
me"
The 62-year-old general, who
was chief of staff of the us. Army
from l930-35, retired from active
duty, December 81, 1887, at his
own request after 80 years service
to organize the Philippines COM
monwealth. When the United
States participation in the war
was growing imminent he was made
commander of us. forces in the
far east on July 26, 1941.
Macarthur took occasion to
praise Australia's contribution to
the war, asserting that mo nation
in the world is making a more su-
preme war effort"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Recreation Center
Plan br0ached for
EI Centr0 Folk

Reaction was varied but gener-
ally favorable Thursday to a pro-
pcsal made Wednesday night to
the city council that a city recrea-
tional center be established in Ell
Centre
Mrs. Alice Clarke forwarded the
plan to turn the old theatre build
ing at the corner of State and Sew
enth streets into a place where the
old and young alike could gather for
entertainment.
She suggested that the work of
renovating the building, making
changes that would be necessary
and installation of required equip
ment be financed by the city and
then the entire structure turned
over to the public.
Mayor R. w. Hatton was enthu-
siastic about the plan. He re-
of commerce secretary.
Hatton's chief fear about embark
ing on the project was that leader
ship fer it might bog down when
needed most He remembered the
town hall meetings of last summer
when those VINO had been desig-
mated to work up programs came to
him a short while before the sched-
uled starting time to tell him that
plans had fallen through. He wants
no repetition for the procedure.
Mrs. Clarke's plan calls for use
of athletic equipment, dancing and
other social recreation
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Coronado Hotel
Manager Ordered
Out as Dangerous

SAN DIEGO. Oct. 29-CUP) -
Alberto M. Campione, resident
manager of historic hotel Del Cor
onado, will leave the west coast
Sunday in compliance with the
army's order banishing him from
the western defense area las po-
tentially dangerous to the coun-
try'S security he revealed today.
Widely known throughout the
nation as a genial host, Campione
headed the hotel since 1884 and
entertained many distinguished per-
sonages, including the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt, high army and navy
officials and wealthy people from
all over the world.
Campione was born in Italy. His
father was a leading hotel man or
the European continent.
He said the Army's order came
as a severe shock" and was most
unfortunate" He has resigned his
position at the hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
BY BRYDON TAVES

GEN. MacARTHUR'S II E A d =
QUARTERS, Somewhere in Aus
tralia, Oct. %. - (U.PO - Gen.
douglas Macarthur announced to-
day that he had mo political ambi-
tions Whatsoever"
Citing a Washington dispatch OF
the Christian Science Monitor that
political Washington is largely re-
sponsible for establishment of two
separate commands in the Pacific,
partly because of conservative op-
position which launched a Mac
Arthur for President campaign"
Macarthur said:
IT have no political ambitions
whatsoever and any suggestion to
the contrary must be regarded
merely as amiable gestures Of good
will dictated by friendship"
The Syndey Daily Telegraph to-
day decried the division OF COM
mand in the South Pacific between
Macarthur and Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz, commander of the us,
Pacific fleet, and the inadequate
supplies sent to Macarthur un-
less expert military decision and
military necessity dictated these
measure.
THE first big offensive test of
strength in the Pacific found our
strategy confused by the divided
commands the editorial said.
Macarthur cannot drive beyond
New Guinea because he does not
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

airline executive told his wife, ac-
cording to her testimony, that "She
was a great beauty and wealthy and
had diamonds and castles in Eng
land"
He said she was going to Eng
land to arrange to get a divorce
and that he wanted to marry her." "
Mrs. Mckee told Judge Thurmond
Clarke.
Later, she said, Mckee comment
ed before friends that he had taken
"Muffy" to the New orleans Mardi
GraS.
MY husband said he had gone to
the ball dressed as George Wash
ington but that he was embarrassed
because his socks had fallen down, +"
Mrs. Mckee related.
When Mckee asked his wife how
to hold on to a girl of "a like
Muffy," Mrs. Mckee continued, she
obligingly told him that he might
fix up his appearance by keeping
his clothes we'll groomed and keep
ing his nails clean"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

considered by the board, residents
will be required to separate garbage,
trash or waste material and rub
bish.
The city will collect both trash
and rubbish but the taxpayer must
pay individual fees for carting Off
rubbish. which includes large tree
limbs, grass trimmings, bricks, earth
and certain other commodities II
the ordinance is passed.
The council authorized purchase
for $564567 of a truck to collect
trash The members agreed that a
packer-tTpe body that will COM
press waste material would be the
best type of conveyance. The body
will be mounted on a three-ton
truck.
All rubbish will be carried away
by other city trucks now in opera
ton at a cost to the householder
asking the service, the ordinance
provides.
Although the question of collec-
ton CT garbage was not brought up
at the meeting, indication was that
it will be let out for bid by individ-
ual contractors. The present garb-
age collector, Y. Pilibos, had told
an informal session of city officials
that he is not interested in the col
lection of trash but would bid on
garbage collection.
Henry Har.<j, property owner,
came before the board to protest
any additional charge for the COL
lection of garbage although no plan
for increased payment for the SER
vice had been announced by the
council.
Harris demanded that if an addi-
tional charges are tackled" on that
he be given a guarantee by the coun-
Gil that the tax rate would be cut
Continued on Page 8, Col. A
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

ing the fight to the enemy. In Rus
sia the Red army was on the de-
fensive at most points and in the
Solomons American land. air and
sea forces fought to break the
strength of huge japanese attack.
The situation:
WESTERN DESERT-The eighth
army offensive was proceeding
cautiously with greater Nazi tank
forces being drawn into battle the
air arm pounded axis concentrations
without stop, hampering Marshal
Erwin Rommels efforts to counter
attack; five axis supply ships were
sunk enroute to Tobruk with badly
needed supplies, including Gil and
gasoline.
SOLOMONS - Marine and army
forces battled to hold off a strong
japanese attack on vital Henderson
airfield Guadalcanal island, with
the Japanese believed to have nu-
merical superiority; American and
Japanese naval forces patrol the
waters around the islands, each side
apparently maneuvering to drive
home a knockout punch, if possible; ;
in the air American planes, aided
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bomb
erS. stu appeared 10 mold an edge.
RUSSIA-Red army troops, driv-
ing forward in the TuapSe area,
found Nazi soldiers frozen to death
in the Sub-zero weather; Nazis
claimed the capture of Nalchik,
southwest of Mozdok; heavy Ger
man attack at Stalingrad was beat
EN- off with 1000 to 5000 German
casualties.
A Pearl harbor dispatch suggested
that Japan has massed all the naval
units which she can spare from
home defense duties in an effort
to deal a death blow to the Ameri-
cans in the Solomons. The exact
size of the U. S. naval task forces
in the area is not known but it was
apparent that the Japanese had
sent numerically superior fleet
against them.
On land the japanese numbers
were greater than the Americans
but the difference was not believed
SO marked.
u. S. CONTROLS AIR
The Japanuese were estimated to
have landed between $1,000 and
10000 men on Guadalcanal island.
The American marine and army
force was said at Pearl harbor to
be somewhat smaller than this.
With control of Henderson air.
field the Americans still had DOM
ination in the air around Quad
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
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Wage
Plans
Drawn
Control Agencies
Set Up to Curb
Boosts in Pay

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.
(UP)-Machinery for nation
wide enforcement of sweep
ing wartime salary and wage
regulations, promulgated
this week, was set up today by the
treasury and war labor board.
AS the WLB met with directors
of the l3 wage hour administration
regions to formulate plans to put
part of the program into effect, the
treasury announced establishment
of salary stabilization unit to con-
troll salaries not under WLB juris-
diction.
Assistant Secretar% of the Treas
ury John l.. Sullivan said that seven
regional offices of the unit would
be opened within a week" in New
York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago,
Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Seattle. Four to seven more such
offices probably will be established
later
The regional Wage-hour directors
were summoned here by WLB Chair
man william H. Davis to arrange
for handling employer queries on
all wages and on salaries of less
than $4,000 a year through the more
than 100 Wage-hour offices scattered
throughout the country.
Davis expected the necessary ma
chinery to be set up for operation
in about 10 days. He asked that in
the meantime employers refrain
from submitting applications for
salary or wage increases for their
employees.
Sullivan <aid that the top limita-
ton on net salaries, fixed at $25,-
900, would permit gross salaries OF
at least $4,000 next year. The gross
could be larger 5.nce the wage regu-
lations also permit the deduction
of life insurance premiums, fixed
obligations and certain charitable
contributions, as well as federal
taxes, before arrival at the $25, 900
net.
Lawyers retained exclusively by
one client are covered by the regu-
lations, he added, even though at
torneys generally are in the pro
fessional" category exempted from
the regulations.
Dividends paid to employees will
not be regarded as part of their
salaries but the germ salary does
cover commissions" paid to such
workers as statesmen, he said He
Continued on Page 8, Col. A.
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said:
1T can't be helped. If hundreds
of thousands of taxpayers defaulted
the government could not afford to
destroy the taxpayers"
George said he regarded adapta-
ton of the pay -as-you-go principle
one of three essentials in the next
tax bill. which he said cannot be
considered before the new congress
meets in January. The others, he
said, are compulsory savings and
if the treasury insists on new addi-
tional revenue-the sales tax.
The sales tax" he said, "is a
way of budgeting your liability"
While the sales tax is an un-
popular levy in peace time, George
said, it might become a popular
wartime tax because of the ''terrifi
burden on any type of direct tax"
which calls for big outlay at n
given time.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Livestock CEILING
Called Too Low

Keep key men and the livestock
industry or production will be cut
down to sucn an extent that food
shortages will become more import
ant than military problems de-
clared Loren Bambert of lone,
president of the California Cattle
mems association, in BraWley We'd
nesday.
He told members of the 1mpe-
rial and San Diego divisions of the
association that it is vitality neces-
sary to have representatives of the
AGRICULTURAL and livestock groups in
Washington to give officials the
facts before ceiling prices are set.
Ceiling prices on beef are not
hugh enough in the face Of the
rising price of feed" Bambert said,
"Officials in Washington must be
told that they are endangering the
future of this country by failure to
recognize this fact
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Head Wife in G.
Hurem' TeStifieS

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29-(UP)-
Mrs. Evelyn Mckee, who prefers a
divorce to her role as head wife
in harem," today accused her hus-
band, a 54-year-old American
Always executive, of asking her
advice on how to hold a girl of
"a"
She testified in her divorce trial
that her husband, Mark 7. Mckee,
told her he wanted a divorce So
that he could marry the 24-year-
old girl whom he called 'Muffy," "
and described as the wife of the
second wealthieSt man in Eng
land"
"Muffy," Mrs. Mckee said, was
Marjorie Froind, a model.
Mrs Mckee said her husband con-
fessed a love for Miss Froind after
he had been confronted with a
magazine story showing the model
en- route to England by air. The
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

u CGllte, Jtd, COCOd dllu Quiet DcNci
ages, canned and fresh meats and
canned fruits and vegetables.
1T is serious shortage" w. d.
Hadeler, executive director of the
California Retail Grocers associa-
ton, said. 1T seems that people
are buTing up any item which has
been associated with the word 'ra-
tioning'."
BEVERAGES OUT
Since announcement coffee would
be rationed beginning Nov. 30, gro
Gerry stores throughout the state
have faced q run" on coffee and
tea, Hadeler reported Many con-
sumers also were buying up large
stocks of beverage substitutes for
fear they would not receive enough
coffee under ration quotas.
Nearly 40 per cent of San Fran
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Alaskan Highway Open to
Trucks for Entire Route

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-U.Po
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son announced today that the Alas
kan highway is now open. to truck
traffic, for its entire length Of 1871
mile.
StimSon said trucks started carry
ing munitions and material to
troops in Alaska this week.
Formal opening of the highway
will probably take place Sunday,
November Is, at the Alaskan Cana
dian border, he said.
Ten thousand soldiers divided
into seven Army engineer regi-
ments and 1000 civilian workmen
under direction of the Public Roads
Administration completed the job
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Allies Assemble
Bomber Armada TO
Smash Jap Bases
Air Offensive Aims to
Force Enemy to Rely
On Carriers Alone
BY HAROLD GUARD

SOMEWHERE IN NEW
GUINEA, Oct. %. (by cour-
ier)-(UP)-The biggest Al
lied air striking force ever
assembled in New Guinea is CON-
centrated in a drive to smash every
Japanese air base from the Admiral
ty islands southwark, it was revealed
today.
The growing Allied bomber force,
it was said, will be expanded to an
even greater extent shortly.
Objective of the air offensive
now in almost continuous operation
is to smash the japanese air bases
used for attacking the southern Sol
onions and force the japanese to
rely entirely on carrier-based craft
to support their attack on the Amer
leans on Guadalcanal.
Rabaul is the main target of the
Allied attack, it was said, but other
major objectives are Lac, Salamaua,
GaSmate and BUN.
AS 1t. j. ID. Howard, Bishop, Tex,
put it on returning from the latest
attack on Rabaul:
1T looks like we've got them
spread out and we want to keep
them that way
The newest Rabaul smash was
carried out by light force of fly
ing fortreSses.
At least two Japanese ships were
damaged, one of them possibly
light cruiser or destroyer The planes
encountered strong anti-aircraft fire
and many searchlights but all re-
turned
The flight was led by Maj. Allan
Lindberg, Westfield, N. J.
I'm pretty sure we got one ship
because there must have been
very close miss and l saw column
of smoke" Lindberg said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Cargo Plane Ready
In Sixteen Months

POSTCN, Oct. 90 29-tUP)-Henry
J. Koiser, west coast shipbuilder,
said today that the first of his
Giant cargo planes-"at least twice
the size of the 70-ton Mars" -
will be ready for its test flight l6
months hence.
There is no question that the
cargo ships will be success" Kais-
er said after arriving here to ad-
dress the associated industries of
Massachusetts, wartime conference
tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

in private lille TO enter the govern
ment service will face a tax crisis
next March Is, George predicted,
because they will have heavy liabil-
tiles under the high 1912 rates and
low current incomes with which
to meet them.
What may happen to many in
dividuals during the war will happen
in a decree to all individuals after
the war;" he said. II think it is i'm
perative to adopt some pay-as-you-
earn principle to avoid a disaster.
Unless we do, at the end of the war
there will be such drop-off of
income as will bankrupt the govern
ment and result in terrific default
ing
Asked what the governments
course should be if hundreds of
thousands" of taxpayers found it
necessarY to default on taxes be-
cause of insufficient income. George
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Legion to Help in
Military Training

Men interested in receiving pre-
liminary military training may re-
port at Veterans Memorial hall in
Ell Centro Monday, Tuesday. Thurs
day, and Friday nights when Boyce
Aten post of the American Legion
will offer training course.
Competent officers and non-com-
misSioned officers will drill men
OF all ages between 7:30 p. m. and 8
p. m. in the basic training they
will need when they enter military
service.
This preliminary training will
help the men fit themselves for
better grades in the service after
they enter and put them in line to
earn more money for their families,
Legionnaires said,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

in slightly over six months" Stim-
sen said.
They pushed forward at the rate
of eight miles a day, bridged 200
streams, laid a roadway 25 feet be-
tween bitches, and at the highest
point between Fort Nelson and Wat
son Lake reached an altitude of
42l2 feet.
Thousands of trucks will run all
winter carrying soldiers and sup
plies to Alaskan posts. Plans are
under way to haul strategic raw
material southwark on the return
trip.
THE bridges are of simple con-
Struction and will go out when riv-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

ers start moving in April. How
ever, other bridges will be waiting,
ready cut. with machinery TO set
them up. on every river bank. and
detachments of engineers station
ed along the route will put them In
Immediately.
"All materials for the Alaskan
road came from the immediate vi
cinity of the places they were used.
Timbers were cut in forests be-
side the road and gravel for the
surfacing was scooped out OF river
beds and mountainsides."
The road runs from Dawson
Greek. northwest OF Edmonton, 10
Fairbanks"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Caiexican Gets
Highest Honors

1t. Glenn Earl Darrough grad
uated with highest honors award
ed to his class of 1900 officer can
didates at Fort Monmouth, New
Jersey, recently, his parents, Mr..
and Mrs C. A. Darrough, CaleXico,
learned Thursday.
For achieving such a high stand
ard. Darrough was presented with
a gold wrist watch by the COM
manding officer at the training
school.
Darrough was employed at an El
Centro drug store before joining
the Army.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
PLEAD FOR AID IN S0LOM0NS
ONLY ONE AIM IN LIFE
But Politics Still Hamstring Macarthur

command the naval forces neces-
sary His defense of New Guinea
may yet be embarrassed for the
same reason.
THE first phase of the Solomons
offensive directed by the other half
of the Pacific command ended I'm
satisfactorily because it was too ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Victory Booth to
Sell War Bonds

A red, white and blue Victory
Booth, where stamps and bonds
will be sold, was opened Thursday
morning at the corner of Main and
Sixth streets.
The Victory Maids, Junior college
girls, will keep the booth running
from early morning until night
on every day except Sunday.
Cne of the girls, Virginia Nc
Ncece, had sold a $100 bond by noon
Thursdar
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

The OPA ruled that no board
serving a community of less than
10000 population, could retain a
clerk paid by the OBA, the rule TO
go into effect October 81.
Members of the board are t. j.
Worthington, chairman, and Will
liam r. Quick of Winterhaven. and
Henry Morly and Stephen Ford
CT Bard.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29

Those competent to do this i'm
portant work are employed" said
William r. Quick, board member,
"and we can't get volunteers to
do the work for nothing. The build
ing is free and the lights are free.
The four board members are will
ing to do the work for nothing, but
we haven't the time to do all that
clerical and office work along with
everything else we have to do
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
A Way Out

Dscussin of coffee rationing
was going on among group of
coffee drinkers.
They lamented that they soon
would be limited to cne cup day.
I'm not worried about it," COM
mented Mrs. John w. Adams. 1T
won't bother me-"
You mean you went mind be-
ing limited to one cup of coffee
a day?" gurgled the other members
of the group
NO" she said calmly. I'm 60
ing to get a big cup"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Ponicky Buyers
Clean Out Stores

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. tJP4--A-.pape Of consumer
buying approaching panic proportions in areas to-
day created retail shortages of several ratonable
modities in California.
Hardest hit by consumers rush were grocers stocks
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
City Will Haul
Waste Materials

The City of Ell Centrete took responsibilities
nesday night when councmen voted to take collection of
waste material away from the garbage contractor and
entered contract to clean and cementne 1860 feet
of city water mains. Under city ordinance being
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Pay AS You Co
Tax Plan Urged

WASHINGTON Oct 20. (UP)-Charman Walter F.
George d. Ca the senate finance committee said today
adoption of payas yo-go principle in tax law imper
avc avoid disaster and wholesale bankruptcy after
war Many persons who have given up large incomes
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Bourd Quits for
Lack ofCIerk

WINTERHAVEN, Oct. 29.-The Winterhaven price
and raonng office closed Thursday because board
members resigned in body Wednesday night protest
to the Office of Price Administrations refusal to pay
hoard clerk
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
The Mover

The Mover
The wind was playing merry hob
with everything Wednesday.
Waving a dust cloth in hopeless
attempt to keep ahead of the dust
in her home, Mrs. Rudy FroWiss
said in disgust
"Of all days, the neighbors pick
ed tc have two tons of silt dump
ed in their yard. OF course they've
only got one ton now. The other ton
blew into my house"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
D AMBlINe
(\EpoR1ER
Happy Birthday.

When r. E. Daniels returned to
his desk in the bank after lunch
Wednesday, he found a great big
red apple and a birthday card on
his desk. He thought it was mighty
nice of the girls in the bank to
remember his birthday anniver-
sary.
He then sat down at his desk
and pulled out the middle drawer
Inside was a beautifully wrapped
package and another card
We'll, II be -" he gasped in
aStonishment. Then working like
house afire, Daniels swiftly open
ed one desk drawer after another
tc see if there were any packages
there.
He thought 1t might be a shower
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
Big Battles Rage
On Three Fronts
Full Fury
ImperiaIs Advance Slowly on Desert;
German Soldiers Freeze in Russia;
Americans Need Materials in Pacific
BY UNITED PRESS

Major battles-wth the results still in doubt-raged
Thursday in the Soomons in the Western desert of Egypt
and along the long Russian front.
On the desert front United Nations forces carry
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-29
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday "a, minimum
Thursday 48; am. Thursday 81
humidity IS; noon Thursday 73, hu-
midity 38; pm. Wed. 6S, hum. 38
BANK DEBTS