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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21

uCllIo Vi lIllJCI ldl NdhCy lOdC
through the shake without panic
or hysteria and almost no excite
ment.
California Technical college at
Pasadena reported that the quake
centered in Ell Centre and was felt
in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San
Diego, Anaheim, Culver City, and
in Yuma and Phoenix N Arizona.
Professor PERI - erly, University
CT California seismotologist, said the
temblor still was in its dying
stages" at 10 am. lie described it as
quite strong"
STRONGEST SINCE lCt0
Wednesday mornings shake was
the strongest felt in Imperial VAL
ley since the disastrous one of May
l8, 1910 when nine persons were
killed, public buildings and homes
went down throughout the valley,
and the damage ran into millions
of dollars.
Immediately after the shake, Pres
ident Evan T. HeWes of the Impe-
rial Irrigation district, ordered the
whole system checked for damage
and reported that the canals, only
source of water supply in Imperial
Valley, escaped injury. A small
crack was found in a waste ditch at
Dixie heading four miles north OF
| DiXieland. The district power SyS-
tenn was MT affected by the shake.
PLASTER FALLS
A piece of plaster fell from the
ceiling of the interpreters office or
the top floor of the county court
house in Ell Centre and just missed
interpreter Ralph Carmichael as
he hurried through the door. A big
ceiling light was twisted loose III
the county auditors office but was
held to the ceiling b. electric wires.
Clay figures toppled from a shelf
IN Washington school on the east
side of Ell Centro. There were scat
tered reports of mirrors falling from
mooringS and few dishes fell tC
the floor and smashed.
Imperial Valley had every reason
to be proud of its school children
Less than a dozen children in the
entire valley cried from fright. One
little girl tainted in WeStmorland
In most schools the smaller children
were told TO crawl under their desks.
They obediently did so. Older chill
dren remained where they were
when the shake began, school Off
clalS said, except in isolated in
stances where they were marched
outside in fire drill order.
AIR RAID DRnL
IeachC.~ Lowed the same in
struction they planned to use III
case of air raid and by their attitud,
kept the youngsters from becoming
frightened and excited.
School officials pointed out that
all school buildings were made as
earthquake resistant as possible at
ter the 1910 quake and there is be-
lieved to be small chance of children
being injured if they remain in the
buildings.
Public utility companies rushed
to make an immediate check of
equipment and facilities and found
no damage to speak Of
PEOPLE CALM
Residents in many cities ran into
the streets to see what was happen
ing but on the whole were remark
ably calm.
1t was believed that no damage
resulted because the temblor had a
rocking motion and was not accom-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
U.S.Prohibition
Movement Beuun

WESTERVILLE, Ohio, Oct 2l.-
U.FD-Dr. Howard H. Russell,
founder of the Anti-Saloon League
and a veteran dry leader, said to-
day as he observed his 87th birth
day that a prohibition movement
which will abolish the sale of liq-
ucr has begun.
Congressional sentiment against
the sale of liquor in army camps
and areas surrounding army camps
is. the beginning of movement
that will go on" he said. I'VE shall
see a gradual movement that will
eliminate the liquor traffic
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21

An official test cf 1900 feet of
El Centre water main recently
cleaned and lined with cement was
an overwhelming success Tuesday
night.
Water flowed from the pipe at
rate of 480 gallons per minute. Pre-
viou3 high for the same location
and at the same time had been l3l
gallons before the cleaning and
lining was done.
To double check the improved
flow, Fire Chief Corn Reed, who
was conducting the test at order of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
HEAT WAVE STRIKES
[. A. COAST AREA

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1l-CUP)-
Scuthlanders quickly brought cut
their summer clothes this week as
sweltering temperatures and hot dry
winds hit coastal Southern Cali
fornia, raising the thermometer to
SO degrees here Monday, the sec
ond hottest day of 1912, the weather
bureau announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21

ICY o LIIIIIUCI IIItII , dooUVIdIIUII, SdIU
today before a meeting of northern
California lumbermen.
More than 80 per cent of the ma
tion's lumber shipments now are
going into war work, he said. Much
of it is being used where only metals
were considered effective in the past,
particularly in airplane and glider
construction.
"Tomorrow-that is in the tomor-
row of peace, said Cox. you will
be selling by As that you can tie
in a knot; lumber that will pour out
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21

of containers into formed shapes.
complete lumber plumbing installa-
tions, in the form Of plastics; COM
plete fabricated houses, rooms
and buildings; and completely
formed plastic houses. requiring on
ly a few minutes to erect"
There is no danger, according To
Cox, that the war demand will de-
plete the forests, Under the new
and enlightened policies Of forest
industries, timber resources Will
never be exhausted.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
Lumber to Pour
From Containers

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 81. (UP)-Partly stimulated by
the war, scientists discovering many for wood
am engineering material and the numbering industry will
hold an important place in postwar economy II. J. Cox
of Eugene Ore secretary of the Willamette Val
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
w. Suit Charges
Price Violation
Buyer Seeks Treble Damages Accusing
Service Station Man Here of Selling
Used Tire and Tube Above CeiIino

James Howard Davis Ell Centre filling station operator
was the center of Imperial county first treble damage suit
involving violation of the price control Wednesday,
In suit filed in Ell Centre justice Tuesday after
noon by D. B. Roberts, attorney for Isom McGrew Seeey
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
D AMsL'Ne
EpORTER

HHHHOw -YYYOu DDDOing
Undoubtedly a small pupil in one
of Ell Centros schools expressed
the sentiment of everyone else in
the area when he said
Wasn't that a H of shake?"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21

The Tip OFF
Mrs. w. j. Thornburg and Mrs
f. E. Clements went to great deal
OF work to surprise Mrs. Earl Kraft
with a shower they were giving fol
her before she left Ell Centro to
make her home elsewhere.
AS small boys will, Ronny Thorn
burg wanted to join in the festivi-
ties. He was delegated to stand at
the door and collect the handker-
chiefs the ladies were to give Mrs
Kraft as parting gifts. He did
well. No one got by him without
handing over o package
Then Mrs. Kraft arrived, still
unaware that she was to be Show
cred with handkerchiefs. Ronny
planted himself in front of her
and demanded in a stern voice:
Say, don't you have a package?
Didn't you big 9 handkerchief
Still Reb
The decorations at a dinner par
ty given by members of the Cac-
tuS GaVel ToaStmaSterS' club the
other night were gorgeous autumn
leaves from Vermont
One look at the Vermont leaves
and Bill Outlook, We mean the
charmer with the southern accent
and there was howl of =. "Oh,
look, Yankee leaves"
Then that limb of a southern
ash enlivened the evening by fire.
quently pointing to the leaves and
whistling Yankee Doodle"
Well, that's one way to get a
southerner to whistle Yankee
Doodle"
Surprise! Surprise.
Being only civilian, RR was
puzzled no end when Mrs. Norman
E. Dupont received a letter from
the War Department telling her
"the War Department was glad to
inform her that her son, Norman
r. Dupont, had emitted in the us
Army Air Corps"
But RR wasn't half as puzzled
as Mrs. Dupont by the attention
accorded her. Her sons enlist
ment was no surprise to her. as
she had taken him to the train
when he left for the enlistment
centet.
There is no way of stopping red
tape.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
TembIor Centers
In Valley City:
No Damage Noted
Quake Felt from Los Angeles TO Ariz.
With Severes+ Motion Experiencedin in
El Centro; Canal System Undamased

Ell Centre the center of earthquake which rocked
all of southern California and part of Arizona at 924
Wednesday without nflictng fatalities mi uries
damage Of any extent.
With the earth swaying in rocking chair notion resi-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
Parliament Told
Hour Of Allied
Offensive Near
Moment Approaching for Final Phase
OfWar. Field Marshal De ecIares While
Nazis Bog Down in Russia. Japs Move
- by UNITED PRESS

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smus, premier of South
Africa, told Joint gathering of parliament Wednesday
that the hour Of the great Allied offensive is nearing
SHUTS addressed 4 unique gathering of the house Of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-21
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 80, minimum
Wed. Sc; am. Wed. so, humidity
81; noon Wed. 80, humidity 81; 5
pm. Tuesday 80, humidity AZ.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
BY RICHARD C. WILSON

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. PUP
-Filipinos who refuse to submit to
Japanese domination in the Philip
pines are being executed on sabo-
tage charges, and Americans out
spokenly anti-Japanese before Pearl
Harbor still are held in the damp
dungeons of ancient Fort Santiago.
American repatriates from Ma :
Mia with whom l renewed acquaint-
ance aboard the Gripsholm en- route
from the Orient, said Filipinos had
been executed for failure to coop
crate with Japan's new order" A
smuggled copy of the Manila Tri-
bune reported 13 natives sentenced
to death for cutting a military
communications line.
The malicious act of this group
is proof that there still are groups
of Filipinos who don't understand
the real intention of the Japanese
army" the japanese authorities said
in announcing the death sentences
in the Tribune.
LOYALTY REMAINS
Whatever the japanese plan for
the Philippines, my friends from
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Roosevelt Goals
Impossible, Thinks
Production Chief

WASHINGTON. Aug. 12-tUP)-
Production Chief Donald M. Mel
son believes that it is virtually i'm
possible to attain all of President
Roosevelt'S war production goals for
1912 and l943 and still maintain the
necessary balance in the produc-
ton program. his associates said
today.
They said Nelson and the United
Nations chief of staff were con-
fronted with the difficult choice of
letting production fall below the
Presidents goals or of sacrificing
production balance They prefer
the first alternative. deeming the
second vital to the success of the
war program.
On Jan. Mr.. Roosevelt asked
for 1912 production of $4,000 planes.
$4,000 tanks, 10000 antitank guns
and 100000 tons of new merchant
shipping. High WPB officials ex-
planned that those goals included
but few Of the items necessary
for equipping, for example, a fight
ing force such as that now engaged
in the Solomon islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Ariz. Range Dry,
Cattle Shrink

PHOENIX, Aug. IL CUP) - Cat
tie on Arizona ranges have only
browse and last years grass upon
which to feed, the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture said today in
its monthly range and livestock re-
port
Calves are holding their own, the
report said, but in some localities
cattle have begun to shrink. No
contracts for fall delivery were re-
ported.
AT present" the report said,
only browse and last years grass
are available for stock. Browse is
none too palatable due to hard
ness of plants and the accumula-
ton of dirt"
AS a whole ranges are very dry
and the water problem is becoming
serious The report said, however,
that cattle are holding up very
well and calves are still growing
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Jops Institute Reign Of
Terror Against Fill pinos

Manila said their arrogance had
made the average Filipino mere
staunchly attached to the United
States. The army of occupation
hasn't made friends with the ma
tives; thousands of Filipinos are
jobless, their currency is inflated
and prospects of obtaining funds
for rice and other necessities are
poor.
Japanese officers have taken over
the best homes, and have been par
ticularly harsh in dealing with such
Americans as Roy c. Bennett, the
former Lexington, KY, newspaper
man who was editor of the Manila
Bulletin, and Ford Wilkins OF Min
neapolis, who was sis news editor
Both are among those held in the
fort dungeons.
Carl Mydans, staff photographer
fer Life magazine, and Mrs. Mydans
are in the civilian camp at Santo
Tomas university. American busi-
nessmen who joined the navy and
subsequently were captured, are in
termed on Cebu island. Among them
are Sam j. Wilson of Philadelphia.
William Pearce of Chicago. brancn
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Votes Repudiote
Isolation Issue

( Clevenger, John NJ. Vorys, Charles
H. ElSton. J. Harry MeGregor and
Thomas A. Jenkins-all Republican
pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists -
Tailed margins as high as four and
five -one over opponents.
RADIO MAN WINS
Nebraska 1CSter May. Omaha
radio news announcer. was conceded
the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton by Rep. Harry B. Coffee, who
had called his pre-war isolationism
dead issue
Idaho-Sen. John Thomas, in
cumbent Republican, led two op-
ponentS who had charged Thomas
with pre-war isolationism. by wide
margins. Rep. Compton 1. White,
ex-isolationiSt, appeared to be the
winner in the first district con-
greSSional Democratic primary. Rep.
Henry Dworshak. r., was unop-
posed.
Arkansas - Former Congressman
John L. Mcclellan won the Demo-
cratic senatorial nomination =
tantamount to election-in a run
off primary against Atty. Gen. Jack
l.. Holt.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
BY UNITED PRESS

Returns from four of five state
primary elections Wednesday show
ed incumbent congressman, with two
exceptions, winning over opponents
who had charged them with pre-
war isolationism. Voting in all
elections was light
Elections we're held in New York,
Ohio. Nebraska. Idaho and Arkan-
SaS.
NEW YORK - Rep. Hamilton
Fish. R. neutrality-suspicious. pre-
war isolationiSt. won the Republican
nomination in the 26th congreSsion-
al and President RooSevelt's home
district. by better than a two-to-
one margin over three opponents.
Wendell L. Willkie. titular leader
of the Republican party, said the
fight for his elimination must con-
tinue."
In New York City, Rep. William
B. Barry. attacked as a pre-Pearl
Harbor isolationist, was renomi-
mated in the second congressional
district Democratic primary. In
the Goth district, Rep. Vito Mar
cantonio accused of following the
Communist party's hands Off pol
icy. won the Democratic, Republican
and American labor party nomina-
tionS.
Ohio-Rep Martin L. Sweeney.
D.. Cleveland. who defended his
former isolationist record, conced
ed the Democratic congressional
nomination in the goth district to
Michael A. Feighan Reps. Cliff
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Jealous ParoIee
Wants Pardon

SACRAMENTO, Aug. IL up =
Herman Sexton of Oakland, wants
to be able to defend himself
against the Japs the next time the
need arises
He applied to Gov. CulbertOlson
today for a pardon or communal
ton of sentence which would re-
lieve him from parole restrictions.
Sexton. who said he was at
Dutch Harbor with the merchant
marine wien the Japs attacked.
explained that he didn't grab a
rifle" with the rest of his ship
mates because he was reluctant to
violate parole restrictions against
using or possessing firearms. In
stead. ne carried water to cool a
gun. he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
MARINES GO INLAND

Unofficial reports from the south
west Pacific battlefront gave pic
ture of the American marines bat
tling their way inland ON the Solo
mons-with bayonets and grenades
under savage japanese air bomb
ings and machine cunning.
The japanese we're believed to
be putting up desperate delaying
battle, while they rushed reinforce
ments of troopships and planes to
the battle zone from their other
Pacific bases.
The difficulties OF the occupation
lay partly in the fact that the Amer
leans had the guns of their warships
but no land-based fighter planes
to protect their attack, and their
land-based bombers were compelled
TO strike from 1000 or more miles
away. The japanese, on the other
hand, had Zero" fighters and
bombers in the Solomons.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Ameri-
can and Australian air squadrons
continued to support the SolomonS
attack. smashing at japanese bases
along a 2,700-mile front to prevent
a diversion of enemy air strength
TO the SOlomonS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
laps Refuse Safe
Conduct for Ship

WASHINGTON. Aug. IL UPD -
Red Cross officials todav held no
immediate hope of sending a cargo
of relief supplies to American pris-
oners of war in Japan because the
Japsvese goax nmo!lt has failed
to guarantee safe conduct for a
ship.
Chances for obtaining safe con-
duct in the future were described
as "discouraging
Under the Red Cross plan. par
GELS may be sent only to prisoners
who have been officially identified
by the provost marshal generals
office in Washington and whose
closest relatives have been notified
Only about 1000 have been SO
identified thus far.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12

manager for the Palmolive Peet Co..
and Hubert MCGOWAN of Seattle.
who was with the American Presi-
dent Lines.
Former Manilans said the day
after Corregidor fell the systematic
looting of American shops and
hcmes started. Seven Japanese
steamers were docked at Manila and
into their holds went electric refrig-
orators, washing machines, radios.
household furnishings, and thou
sands of tons of rice.
The booty was brought in for
days and piled in lines that extend
ed two blocks from the docks. Re-
Gently, however, the piers have been
idle and spilled rice is growing lux
uriantly btWeen the woodn boards.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
COURT PROCEDURE
is POSTPONED

H. A. Poole, %. FL Centran ac-
cused of numbering Charles Ellis
in Brawley the night of Aug. /
and scheduled TO enter his plea
to the charge in superior court
"wednesday. will not plead to the
charge until Friday. His attorney
A. G. Finney, asked for the con-
tinuance so he could complete
reading of the transcript of testi-
mony taken at the inquest and pre-
liminary hearing in the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Food Prices MAY
Rise Under New
Price Regulation

WASHINGTON. Aug PUP
Wholesale and retail prices of food
products may rise by about one
and one-half per cent under ar
alternative pricing method" an
nounced today by the office of price
administration.
The new plan. designed to relieve
distributors who suffered hardShipS
under ceilings set at the level of
March. will probably so into effect
in mid-Septomber.
OPA Administrator Leon Hend-
erson, describing the necessity for
the action. said:
"OPA's use of March as its cell
ing price month caught food dis
tributorS with many selling prices
based on cost of inventories bought
months earlier. Replacement costs
had risen in the meantime for many
items. Hence. these distributors
could not restock. except at the risk
Ct cash loss. This squeeze if not
relieved would have forced low
price distributors - both wholesale
and retail-to drop important lines
of food products with the result that
the food would have moved to the
consumer through distributors with
relatively high ceilings. The consum-
ing public, under these circum-
stances. would have found only sup
plies of high margin goods on store
shelves and counters
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Marines Driving
Inland at 1uIoqi

fourth day of the anti-British up
rising touched off by the arrest of
Mohandas K. Gandhi after the ALL
India Nationalist congress party
had approved his call for nation
wide passive resistance.
The death toll exceeded so as
British troops and police battled
growing mobs of rioters with guns
and tear gas and the demonstrators
fought the police with knives. From
the trouble centers of Bombay. New
Delhi, Poona. and Ahmadbad the
rioting spread to other areas in
cluding Madras. Cawnpore, and
Mask.
The situation in Bombay had
quieted momentarily after the
deaths of IA persons, but broke out
again Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
RACING FORM
BAN LIFTED

CHICAGO, Aug. II fUPD - A
day police ban on the sale of
racing forms and scratch sheets
was partially lifted today when
Mayor Edward J. Kelley allowed the
sale of the daily racing form be-
cause he didn't want the windy city
TO be regarded as blue nose"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
Scanning Y.
News Horizon
HaRTS RETURN
FROM VACATION

Mr. and Mrs Willem Hart re-
turned to the valley Tuesday from
q vacation in the San Diego noun
tains and on the coast. The Harris
had planned a much longer time
out of the valley. but were called
back by Mr.. Harris work.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
MOTOR CORPS TO
MEET THURSDAY

The Ell Centre Red Cross Motor
corps will meet with Adjutant Lii
lian Fleming at 68l Brighton av-
enue at 7:30 pm. Thursday First
aid practice will be the order of
the evening and those who take
the training will receive credit for
the work.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
LORA MORDAH
IN HOSPITAL

Miss Lora Mordah is in the FL
Centre hospital where she had an
appendectomy Friday morning. She
is improving rapidly and can now
have visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
SEEKS DIVORCE

Suit for divorce was filed in I'M
perial county superior court We'd
nesday by Francisco Cisneros
against Ruben Cisneros They were
married in FL Centre July 5. 1899.
She accused him of extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Edna Verlie McCaslin Wednesday
sued Fred McCaslin for divorce,
alleging cruelty. She said they
were married in Yuma Jan. 81, 1888
and he left her last July 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
PLEADS GUILTY TO
FORGERY CHARGES

Willie Slater, Negro. Wednesday
pleaded guilty to seven charges of
forcing checks on which he wrote
the name of Sam Cox, rancher of
the Brawley area.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
VISITS VALLEY

Ralph French. former Imperial
county deputy district attorney who
is now an investigator in the attor-
ney generals office. visited Neal
Gavin for several days this week
in El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce decree was grant
ed in Imperial county superior
court Wednesday to Keith D. Stu
art in his suit against Lima L.
Stuart
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
SHORT VACATION

Mrs j. E. Wilson took the chill
dren, Mary, Martha and Raymond
out of the valley over last weekend
for a short vacation in San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
OBTAINS DIVORCE

Effie Cleveland Wednesday was
granted a final divorce from Ar
thur Cleveland.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12
REDS SCORCH EARTH

REDS SCORCH EARTH
On the Russian Caucasus battle
front the armored forces of the
Germans continued their over
whelming of Soviet defenses around
the Maikop oil fields, amid the
smoke of Russian scorched earth
destruction that laid wholesale
waste to villages and towns, struck
closer to the Russian fleets Black
Sea bases and pounded along the
fringe of the Caucasus mountain
foothills to within IT'S miles of the
Grozny oil center and the Caspian
sea.
RIOTS IN INDIA
The bloodshed and rioting in In
ola grew steadily worse on the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-12

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ses must be reckoned with, because
OF the difficulties involved in such
an island invasion.