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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22

fessed to Ell Centre police that they
had broke into the stock room Of
the knotty Pine. a downtown bar,
and had taken three cases of GIN
and whisky Sunday night.
Early was picked up i'll his room
at hotel by investigating officers,
who said that he was fully dressed
and lying in a semi-conscious state
across his bed as the result -, over
INDULGENCE. They found num-
Der of bottles of liquor streWn about
the room.
When BreedOVe was arrested he
denied any knowledge of the theft.
The remainder of the two dozen
bottles were found in his posses
sion.
After a late report on the theft
no word was given to the depart
ment until $3.50 pm. Monday-it was
only Il few hours until both men
were in custody.
They will Do arraiencd in JUDGE
j. f. Simpsons court next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
CaIexico T.. ofC.
Seeks Secretary

CaleXico Chamber of Commerce
directors were on the lookout for
a new secretary Tuesday as we'll as
new office building.
Don Smith, who for the past
several months has been filling the
secretary position at the border
chamber, handed his resignation to
President j. y. Womack, to become
effective January 10. Pressing per-
sonal business was given as Smiths
reason for reSigning.
Plans to move the C. of c. office
from its headquarters at the De
ANA hotel to a downtown site are
also under consideration.
The directors are to meet before
Smiths retirement goes into effect
to consider both matters.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Parker Dam Sends
Power to Coast

PARKER Ariz., Dec. %. tUP)-
Electrical power from the Parker
dam plant has started flowing and
is now supplying the Pacific south
vest war industries, it was an
nounced in Washington by Harold
l.. Ickes, secretary of the interior.
Located OH the Colorado river the
Dam has the primary purpose of
diversion of water for the Los An
9tles Metropolitan Water District.
Two 0,000-kilowatt generators at
the plant have undergone test runs
and are in commercial operation.
Others will be completed b" May
and will enable the plants capacity
of 100000 kilOWatts to generate 600
million kilowatt hours of electric
energy annually.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22

ported into the county to relieve
labor shortages in essential vegeta-
bic growing are now idle because
the harvest season is not yet in
fun swing.
Finney said that the farmers of
the vegetable area would be even
willing to short themselves of men
to a certain extent to remedy the
desperate plight of the Bard cotton
farmers.
II is estimated that a crew of
between $50 and 800 men could
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22

emma SAID JOutlY.
Those who broke through matches
and jumped into the sea without
lille jackets were machine gunned
by Japanese sailors, the survivors
said
The prison ship was torpedoed by
submarine Off the China coast
otter it left Hong Kong Sept, 81
for Shanghai and Japanese ports.
PRISONERS STARVING
Survivors whose identity cannot
be revealed but whose accuracy is
unquestioned, related the story of
one of the tragedies of war.
Aboard the ship were l 500 pris-
onerS of var. They were ragged.
disea 5ed and starving after nine
months of close confinement at
cong Kong where, they said, ap-
palling sanitary, medical and food
conditions prevailed. Many Of their
comrades had died and hundreds
were almost walking skeletons.
all prisoners were placed below
decks in cramped quarters with
barely room 10 lie down.
iOEES BLASTED
We thought that the future
might be brighter because the food
served the first day was better than
that at the prison" one survivor
said.
Late the second afternoon we
heard shouting on decks. Then the
ship shuddered under huge eXplo-
sion and began to list in a few
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Filipino General
Safe and Well

los ANGEL ES. Dec. %. tUP)-
A three-letter message relayed from
Switzerland by the Red Cross to
Mrs. Vincente Lin and her six chill
dren. today brought more Christmas
jov than will the actual day itself.
The message read Safe. Well.
Vincente." And was sent by Brig.
Gen. Vincente Lin of the Philip
pine army, husband and father Of
the anxious family.
The Inns have had no word from
Gen. Lin since April Is. They have
no idea where he is.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22

pick the l400 bales of cotton left in
the 1900 acres of untouched crops
in fou" or five weeks.
Tuesday morning Finney enter
tanned three San Dieeans interest
ed in importing Mexican nationals
into the citrus belt on the coast.
Present in his office were: Ivan
Wood, of the San Diego agricul-
tural commission; Cy Ramage, from
the board of wholesale market
growers, and Lee Pearson. from the
Santa Marguerite ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Important Dates
Called TO Mind

A reminder of important dates
in the daily lives of the public was
made Tuesday by the Office of War
Information.
Dates mentioned were:
January date on which en-
ployers start Withholding percent
victory tax on amount of employee
salaries in excess of 1924 per year.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
New Gas Program
Drafted for East

WASHINGTON, Dec 22.-U.Pl
Heads of three government agen-
cies are drafting new plans to meet
east coast gasoline and fuel oil
emergencies for submission to sta
blilzation director James F.. ByrneS
at a second White House confer
enCe tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Wartime Ideas

Mr. and Mrs Andy Preble were
up to the minute with their Christ
mas greetings this %ear. A govern
ment post card was decorated with
a bis " and through the W"
these words were written:
Seasons greetings, less the card.
We took the cash difference and
bought you a stamp" A war stamp
was attached.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22

Inc fIttl uIEly CdpCuiCu uiio'ii'i
big town in the middle Don sector,
where they had been driving toward
Millerovo. important Junction on
the Voronezh- RoStov rail line.
While the Russians surged for
ward. encouraging news came from
North Africa where Lieut.. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was reported
to have worked out plan to unite
his forces in TuniSia with the Brit
ish Eighth Army now chasing the
Axis Libyan remnants across Tripo-
litania
Dispatches from Allied headquar-
ters said supplies were being moved
up for grand assault on the Ger
man and Italians once Field Mar
shall Erwin Rommel'S harrled troops
mad joined other Axis forces in
TuniSia
The Allied TuniSian armies were
rapidly gaining equality and per-
haps superiority in the air, and aer-
ial combats had taken sudden
turn in favor of the British and
Americans.
Air power was paying off also
in Burma where Royal air force
fighter planes again attacked the
Japanese base at Akyab in support
of Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's
.ritish-Indian army which was
within 45 miles OF the city.
TOWN UNIDENTIFIED
Attention on the Russian front
centered about the big town which
the Soviets announced they had
captured in their smashing offenS
i've.
Although the Soviet noon COM
munique did not identity the cap
tured town, it might be Millerovo
which is an important junction.
Should the Red army reach RoStOv,
4 giant trap would be closed on the
German Rumanian forces which
surged to the gates OF Stalin9rad
and then were thrown back.
The Germans, realizing how des-
perate their situation would be if
the Russians captured Rostov, start
ed heavy counterattackS southwest
of Stalingrad in an attempt to halt
the Soviet offensive.
Us GRAVEYARD
United Press Staff Correspondent
Henry Shapiro, just back from 4
trip to the Stalingrad sector, de-
Scribed the vast battlefield i'll the
second of his series of exclusive dis
patches. He said the ground around
the Don river bend was a big Axis
graveyard and that the Red army
was collecting large stores of equip
ment abandoned by the Germans
in their retreat. Rumanian troops
suffered heavily. Shapiro reported,
ana a captured Rumanian colonel
predicted that home morale would
drop shortly when the fun extent
of the disaster became known.
lOVANCE IN TUNISIA
The fortunes vi the United Ma
tons were on the rise elsewhere,
too French troops in TuniSia push
ed ahead and were reported to be
only 80 miles from the important
east coast reinforcement port of
Continued on Faye i, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Burd Cotton AreoFuces
Shortage Among Pickers

BARD Dec 22.-Cotton growers
of this area today looked forward
Ia rcliei from growing labor
ahortage by transfer OF $50 to 300
0deXican nationals from the FL Gem
trO area.
Tom Finney. United States en-
ployment director for Imperial
county, and b A. Harrigan. county
agricultural commissioner, met with
growers Tuesday afternoon to dis
ouss the possibility OF bringing the
nationals into the cottong growing
belt
Many of the 787 MeXicans i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
East Gets Break
I'm Frigid Wave

est period of sustained sub-normal
weather in the history of the Bos-
ton weather bureau. Almost all the
areas Scanty fuel oil allotment was
drained and ration boards attempt
ed vainly to cope with household
e!S demands ior supplementary
SUPPLIES.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Farm Subsidies Go
On Scrap Heap as
Price Peg Favored
Experiment Abandoned
When Henderson Gets
Walking Orders

WASHINGTON, Dec. p.
(UP) - Food administration
officials cared about
ready today to discard most
farm subsidies in favor of
higher food price ceilings.
A strong move to drop subsidies
as q means of keeping down food
costs followed closely the reSigna-
ton of Price Administrator Leon
Henderson, their chief supporter
Ceiling prices on wholesalers and
retailers could be raised to permit
higher prices to farmers whose
products are not directly controlled
by OPA ceilings. Sen. James M.
Mead, D.. N Y, strong admins
tration supporter, has predicted that
the government will act soon Ito
improve the agricultural price STU
alton both by lowering costs to
the farmer and by increasing some
farm prices.
BYRNES RECONSIDERS
Farm organization leaders and
many congressman are opposed to
tiic SUI >iuico. ne agriculture Qe-
partment never has liked them. Food
professors have insisted the were
doomed to failure. Economic stabil-
ization Director James F. Byrnes.
who was said to have supported
Henderson'S views, now is expected
to reconsider subsidies and possibly
order their abandonment.
Some subsidies, such as those to
keep down food costs and to help
small meat packers stay in business.
are expected to be continued Farm
aid, such as loans, purchase pro-
grams and soil conservation pay
ments, would not be affected. Like
e, officiasS said, direct sub
SIDES may be mate from time to
Continued on Pace 8. Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Mrs. Jack Dempsey
Will Get Divorce

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-U.Pl-
Jack Demnsev and the former
Hannah Willipme have parted for
GOOD" and she will obtain a divorce,
it wNs revealed TO-DAY
Arthur F. Driscoll representing
DemnSev. said:
THE DcmpSeys have parted This
time it's final. Mrs DEMPSEY will
get a divorce 1t will not be in New
York state, however"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
D AMBL'Ne
EpORTER
No Trade ms

No Trade ms
MIS- Aaron Afford was selecting
a salt which was to be II Christmas
Giit. She had her young son. Mi
chael with her. Michael fidgeted
whilr his mother tried on suit atte'
suit. Finally lie reached the end OF
hi patience
Mother" he said sternly, you're
spending all the Christmas money
On YOU and won't have any left To-
9xhe 'eSt of US Here, put on YOU
Clothes. where's your dress? Did
you trace it in?"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
to
Drink ence

Two former San Diego residents
tried to do away with the evidence
of their crime but Tuesday morn
ing they were still "a quarts short.
Raymond Early, a barber, and
Thomas BreedloVe, a cook, con-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
i1pelivercd On Time

My Cnristn'Ns '''c@~'-i $500 o""l
' 'imail and was all wrapped up
IL soldier . u4L.o..n, o-.4A Mis-.
a. j. Burke. She referred to her
son, Corp. Robert Burke. who ar
lived 70: . surprise visit from Camp
>...r;Cn. Colo.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22

any person, or oppre scd because
he does work for a person of his
choice on his own time .
Il propose to see that civil
service employees shall not be solicit
ed for campaign funds for state Of
ficerS -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Sent COD

Herb FaWcett was talking about
q long distance conversation he had
ad with a man in New York. Herb
looked wise when he saw the ex-
preston with which this remark
WAS greeted.
Il spent his nickel" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Say hat Again

Here is a copy of the prize letter
received thus far by the Ell Centre
selectiVe service board
Dear Board know you won't
want to draft me because I'm going
TO have Il baby soon"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
.Japs Let 1000 Starving
Prisoners Die as Ship
Goes Down in Chino SEQ
Survivors Relate Tale of Horror After
Being Machine sunned by Cap+ors when
Leaping Into Water From Sinking Vessel
: BY ROBERT =. MARTIN

SOMEWHERE IN WEST CHINA, Dec. 81. (Deayed)
(UP)-The japanese let 800 TO LOCO British and Canad-
soldiers weakened by brutality die aboard torpedOed
and sinking prison ship survivors who have reached Free
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Housing Shortage
Solution Sought
Federal OfficiaI Here Urges Families
To O pen Homes TO Single Workers at
Marine Station; Project Considered

M H. j. Driggers, National Housing Agency representa-
tive, arrived in Ell Centre Tuesday morning and appealed
residents open their homes to unmarried civilian
structon workers who will maintain the Ell Centre Marine
air training station The NA from Los Angeles told
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Big Town Taken
In Don Sector
Bv Soviet Drive
Russians Threaten Ros+ov While Allies
Lay Plans TO Join Forces in Africa
For Major Assault on Tunisia Lines
Hv UNITED PRESS

Russian troops drove toward RoStoV the gateway to the
Caucasus Tuesday and their offensive Threatened to
isolate Axis in the southern sector and collapse the
entire enemy front in that theater.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
WurrenC Cracks
Down on Politics

SACRAMENTO, Dee. %. (UP)-E. H. Christian, chair
Of the state personnel board ana former Alameda
county state senator, definitely will be reapponted
when his term expires jan 49, Governor Elect Earl Warren
told newsmen today Warren said he was determined 'o
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
Now We Know

We just found out that Park"
is not Deputy Sheriff Park Burritt's
first name and that he has first
name. His first name is Wilbur"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-22
WEATHER

Maximum Monday ~, minimum
Tuesday 50: 5 am. Tuesday 62, nu-
Nudity 50; noon Tuesday 81, humid
ity "A; pm. Mon. 60. humidity 63.
DAM .aEDsTG
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 5-Newspaper
correspondents and photographers
who suffered the dangers and priva-
tions of the desert alongside Brit
aims fighting forces in order to tell
the story of the second battle of
Libya won the praise of the War
Office today for a dangerous Job
we'll done.
TT will be realized said the
tribute, that both correspondents
and photographers have to be as fit
as combatant troops and it is clear
that on this, the first time 1t was
possible to give them a real chance,
they and everybody connected with
them did their jobs we'll"
Three Associated Press corre-
spondents, at various times, were in
the thick of the fighting.
One of them, English-born God
frey H. p Anderson, was captured
late in November by the Italians
and still is their prisoner.
Edward P. Kennedy, a native of
Brooklyn and former member of the
staff of The Washington Evening
Star, was with the British forces
which made the Axis garrison at
Bardia hoist the white flag Friday.
A veteran of the first Libyan cam
Evening star., 1942-01-05
| More ENJOYS
Elevated to
|

Agreements for raising to the rank
of Ambassadors the diplomatic en-
voys exchanged by the United States
with Paraguay. Bolivia and Ecuador
we're announced by the State De-
partment today.
The department said this move
gives formal recognition to the in
creased importance Of the Coop
erative relations with the countries
involved.
The Ecuadorean envoy here, Capt.
Colon Eloy Alfaro, was given am
bassadorial rank in 1896 for the
duration of boundary negotiations
between the governments of Ecuador
and Peru. Under the new agree
ment, the Ecuadorean mission in
Washington will be maintained here
permanently as an embassy.
Bolivia and Paraguay were the
only remaining South American ma
tions whose legations here had not
previously been raised to the status
of embassy. Several of the Central
American countries, however, con-
tinue to maintain legations rather
than embassies.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
British War Office Praises
Newsmen for Job in Libyu

paign. he moved forward with the
British advance forces and was able
to compare this offensive with that
of Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell a
year ago. Mr.. Kennedy flew with
Sir Archibald to Crete soon after
British forces entered the Greek
Italian war.
Preston Grover a native of FARM
ington, Utah, was rushed from Istan-
bul to Cairo and thence to the
front to replace Mr. Anderson and
1t was he who not only accompanied
the British at the occupation Of
BARGE but actually slipped ahead and
greeted them at the gates.
Journalistic tactics were as care
fully prepared by the British as
their own military plans. AS a re-
suit. newspapermen were not in the
thick of much of the fighting. One
truck bearing correspondents and
photographers, in fact, was blown
up by a land mine.
At the very start. small groups
were taken out from Cairo 50 that
Axis spies would not be tipped OH
by their departure that the cam
paign was imminent.
When the fighting got under way,
their films and dispatches were given
priority on r. A. F. planes between
the front and Cairo.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Seven Nazi Generals
Out Or
Trying 10 Quit
Widening Split With Hitler
Soid to Involve Guderion,
Leeb and Rundstedt Now
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fress.
LONDON, Jan. 5.-A reliable
foreign source tonight reported a
widening split between Adolf Hitler
and his generals over the back
firing offensive against Russia.
This source said that Field Mar
shal Gen. Walther Won BrauchitSch
was the third Nazi Army leader
either to resign or be fired by Hit
Ter.
The others were Field Marshal
Gen. Fedor Won Book, commander
of the central front in Russia, and
Col. Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz, who
asked for his discharge even before
the campaign began.
Gen. Blaskowitz was said to be
living In Paris as a private citizen.
One of the main leaders in the Po-
lish campaign. he arranged the
capitulation terms for Warsaw.
When Hitler decided to invade Rus
sia, the general said he wanted
no part Of it." this informant said.
Information from an "irrefutable
agent abroad" also said that Gen.
Oscar Won Niedermayer. chief of the
eastern department under Won
Brauchitsch and a stanch admirer
of his superior, also had been dis
missed.
There also were unconfirmed re-
ports that Field Marshal wilhelm
Ritter Won Leeb, commander of the
Lenizgrad front; Field Marshal Gen.
Karl Rudolf Won Rundstedt. COM
mander of the southern front. and
Gen. Heinz Guderian, commander of
the panzer divisions on the central
front, had asked to be relieved of
their commands gecause of disagree
ments with Hitler and his military
Yes men," Field Marshal Gen. Wal
ter Won Reichenau and Gen. Alfred
Jodl.
The dispute between Won Brau-
chitsch and Hitler is very old, they
said. Hitler was reported to have
insisted on a continuing assault on
Moscow when the field marshal
recommended a Nazi withdrawal to
winter line running from Narva
on the Estonian- Russian border to
Smolensk, Bryansk and Kharkov.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Summary of Todoy's Star

NotionoI.
Plot theory blasted in wreck of train
carrying gold. Page Az
New Army registrations due next
month. Page Al
Otis Skinner. dean Of theater, dies
at age of 50. Page Al
Kelland to direct publicity for
G. o. P. Page Ais
Justice official asks fair play for
aliens here. Page A-13
Defense bond sales doubled in
month. Page A-l3
Leaders meet to convert auto indus
try into war machine. Page Az
Congress prepares to hear huge war
requests. Page Al
Washington and Vicinity.
Penny milk program opened today
in 64 schools. Page B-1
More than $500 Is reported loot of
weekend thieves. Page B-1
Cemetery lot salesmen INDICTED in
fraud. Page AS
Single funeral service for three boys
who died In bay. Page AS
DR.. Phillips breaches last sermon at
Epiphany Church. Page A-l2
One dead, several injured IN week
end traf1ic accidents. Page B-1
Wardens may take over guarding
small schools. Page Al
d. c. orders income taxes paid in
domiciA disputes. Page B-l
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Reds Advance
as Miles in
Crimeu Area
Earlier Story on Page A-1)

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. Jan. 5.-The Moscow
radio tonight broadcast q dispatch
to the newspaper Red Star declar-
ing that Soviet forces in the Crimea
had advanced about IS miles.
An oficial communique later said
a number OF additional populated
places on the main front have been
occupied by Red armies which in
fiicted new and heavy losses on the
Germans.
The army papers correspondent
on the Crimean front reported that
having dislodged the Fascists
from the Kerch area by q violent
blow and putting the Fascists to
flight. the Red Army troops are
following close on the enemy's heels.
Some units have advanced 70
kilometers In two days. dislodging
the Fascists from town after town.
Our units have captured rich tro-
phies."
A supplement to the ofncial COM
munique said:
Our air force on January 4 dis
persed and annihilated more than
three regiments of infantry, de-
stroyed 100 trucks loaded with
troops and supplies and shot down
Al German planes with q loss OF II
Soviet planes.
Our units operating on one OF the
sectors of the Western Front during
one days fighting drove the enemy
from l3 localities on another
sector our men annihilated more
than 600 officers and men and cap
tured three heavy guns In .
new raid our forces occupied a rail-
way junction in the rear OF German
lines.
Our men blew up German train.
destroyed rail communications be-
tween two important points and re-
pulsed a German attack on one OF
the Sevastopol sectors. Germans
left 600 dead on the battlefield.
Evening star., 1942-01-05
Santa Anita Winter Meetinq
Called Off Because Of War

Col. Stroh told me they would
take under consideration our appl-
cation and those of other sporting
enterprises, but that there would
have to be an improvement in condi-
tions," said DR.. Strub. He said that
at the present time there was no
improvement, and that. rs a matter
of fact, conditions were worse"
Santa Anita will be kept open to
owners and trainers who wish to re-
main and directors will make it
available for defense purposes, if
needed. Money collected for tickets,
memberships, nomination fees and
taxes will be refunded within q week
or 10 days, DR.. Strub said.