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Evening star., 1942-05-08
Cripps' Aide Arrives Here

Graham Spry, personal assistant
to Sir Stafford Cripps. who accom-
panied Sir Stafford on his mission
to India, has arrived in Washington
on a special mission, it was learned
todaY.
Evening star., 1942-05-08
Johnson Ordered to Rest

NEW DELHI, India, May 8 lP,.--
Louis johnson, President Roosevelt's
envoy to India, has been advised
to rest for two or three days to re-
cover from strain resulting from
overwork
Evening star., 1942-05-08
U.S.. Bombers Again Raid
Ranqoon From India

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, May s.-Long-
range United States bombers, op-
Grating from bases in India. made
another attack this morning on
Japanese-held Rangoon, it was an
nounced today.
Many fires were started in the
target area, said a communique
from the headquarters of Maj. Gen.
Lewis H. Brereton, United States
commander. ~ -
The bulletin declared the raid
was carried out in adverse weather
conditions marked by thunder
storms and was a great success
despite opposition by japanese
fighters.
All the United States aircraft re-
turned safely to their bases, the
communique added.
Evening star., 1942-05-08
A. v. G. Announces 2 Deaths.

CHUNGKING. China. May (F1.
The American Volunteer Group
announced today that Pilot Ben c.
Foshee of Red Level, Ala, was
killed May 4 in action over Pao-
shan, and that Pilot j. E. Black
burn was killed accidentally in
training flight over Running
April %.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Council Approves
County Gravel Bid

In an adjourned city council
meeting Friday afternoon the board
rejected all other gravel bids for
new street improvement work and
accepted the offer of Imperial
County road district No 2 to furn-
ish gravel from the county pits at
sl.lO cubic yard. A saving TO the
city of several thousand dollars
was affected by this decision ac-
cording TO Stree. Commissioner
Robert Hatton.
The board decided TO ask the
Tate Pipe Lining Co. for a price
on cleaning and lining 10000 feet
of water pipe. The company has
agreed TO give free demonstration
OF the process on about 1900 feet of
pipe in the ground if the deal is
made.
The amended agreement with
the state division of public works
the widening and sur
facing Of Fourth st. was presented
and found satisfactory. The mayor
was authorized to sign the agree
ment and return IL to the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Soviet, British
Air Forces Join

tanks. it was revealed. drew blood
in the initial engagements of Mon
day. destroying at least six German
tanks and damaging others.
The Moscow communique indi-
Gated that Russian forces had stiff
ened as the Nazis drove closer to
the inner defense lines of Stain
grad
Attempting to turn the city into
a Red Verdun," the Russians were
said to have brought the German
advance to a halt-for the moment
in some of the wars bloodiest bat
ties.
In the KletSkaya sector. southwest
of Stalingrad, the Russians even
managed to improve their position
slightly. The German communique
reported that strong Russian coun-
terattacks at Stalingrad were en-
eountered but beaten off and that
north of the Volga city the Rus
slams were launching persistent di-
versionary attacks in an attempt
to relieve pressure on the approach
es 10 the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
President Puts Final
Touches on Wage Order V

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. CUP)-
President Roosevelt today put the
finishing touches on a sweeping
executive order creating an econo-
mic czar with unprecedented pow
ers to control wages, prices and
other factors in the spiralng cost
of living.
His new anti-inflation program
is virtually completed and will be
outlined to the nation Monday in
a Labor day "fireside" chat. Con-
gress will learn its details in a spe-
cial message at noon.
Barring an eleventh hour change,
the program will call for appoint
ment of an overall administrator
and a four-part board to formulate
national policy on wages, farm
prices, wholesale and retail prices,
salaries and other income.
The administrators decisions will
be final and are 10 be carried out
by existing governmental agencies,
departments and bureaus.
Speculation mounted as to Mr..
Roosevelt's choice for the all-im-
portant job. Supreme Court Justice
William o. Douglas and Gov. Her.
bert H. Lehman of New York were
most prominently mentioned. but
the possibility of dark horse
was not discounted.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Frances Niles, William Thompson Recite
Vows in Double Ring CeremonyFriday

White gladioli and ferns dec
Grated the First Presbyterian
church of Ell Centre Friday when
Miss Frances Niles, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence G.. Niles of
Imperial, became the bride of Will
liam Vaughn Thompson, son of
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson and
Mrs. Thompson of Ell Centre.
The Rev. DR.. George w Thomas
pastor of the church, read the mar
riage rites, using the double ring
ceremony. The bride was given in
marriage by her father. A tiny
white picket fence surrounded the
altar and a tall arch tWined with
ferns and white gladioli formed the
background for the ceremony. Bas-
kets of gladioli and fern flanked the
arch.
The bride made a charming pic
ture in smart suit in the new fall
shade of blue. Lovers knots in
the same shade of blue perched on
her right shoulder and at the
jacket waist line en- the left side
From her chic black hat fell a short
veil in matching blue. Her acces-
sories were blue and she wore a
corsage of white orchids.
MAID D-OF-HONOR
Miss Martha Jane Preble of I'm
perial was maid-of- honor. She
wore a brown gabardine suit witt
dark brown accessories. Her ccr-
sage was of yellow gladioli.
Warren Smith of Pomona, q
Kappa Delta fraternity BROTHER oil
the bridegroom at Pomona college
was best man. Howard Rhodes
former Ell Centran, and Cecil BY
ington. another fraternity brother
of the bridegroom, were ushers.
Prior to the reading of the mar.
riage rites a half hour of arpropri-
ate organ music was played by
Evelyn Phillips, an aunt of the
bride. Gowned in navy blue sheer
with navy blue acce sories and
wearing corsage of white garden
las, Miss Janet Thompson, sister
of the bridegroom. sang two solos
AT Dawning" and Because.
WORE WHITE FROCK
Mrs. Niles, mother of the bride
wore a fall frock in new greer
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Jr. Ten Thousand
Club Makes Plans

Plans for the activities of the
Junior Ten Thousand club for the
coming season were formulated
Thursday evening when the exc
cutive board met at the home of
their president, Mrs j. w. Bechears.
September 10 is to be the opening
meeting date, and a board member
must be chosen to take the place
of Miss Ruth Campbell who no
longer lives in the valley. Mrs. John
Kerns, Mrs. John jackson, Mrs.
John Edgar are the other members.
Social activities of the club will
have to be altered because of the
war A large number of the
members having husbands in the
armed services, it is considered
likely that war work will be more
in evidence than purely social af-
fairs. While nothing definite was
decided, a great many plans were
discussed
Those present besides members
cf the board included Mrs. Max
Soncs, 1st vice president; Mrs Stan
Atkin, 2nd president; Mrs.
John O'Quinn, secretary, and Miss
Mary Westmorland. treasurer.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Confidence Vote
High for Officials
Sans Opponents

County officials who ran un-
opposed for reelection received
high complimentary votes from
their constitunts, Imperial County
Clerk w. j. McClelland said Sat
urday.
Assessor Collector Dan West was
high man on the ticket of county
officials, receiving 4,903 School
Superintendent E. L. Hiteman re-
ceived 1888 votes. County Clerk
McClelland, 1859. District Attor-
ney Elmer Heald 4,709, Auditor
Walter d. Carey, 1850, Treasurer
George Varney, 1894, Surveyor
Henry J. Burk. 4,321, Public Ad-
ministrator NJ. d. zinn 4525, Su-
pervisor I. Schlatter of Calexico TBS.
and Supervisor Dave Vencill of
Holtvilie SOB.
The final official count for
Sheriff Robert w Ware was 1850
while his opponent, A. r. Hens.
received 989.
Assemblyman Harvey E. Hastain
Of Brawley, unopposed for re-elec-
ton, received complimentary
vote Of 1851.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06

put us in an economic strait jack
ct"
The policy-making board to work
with the administrator likely will
include at least three government
officials and two representatives
each from industry labor and agri-
culture.
Most prominently mentioned as
the governments representatives
are Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., Secretary of Agri-
culture Claude R. Wickard, and
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the
war production board.
AFL President William Green and
President Philip Murray of the CIO
have been mentioned as labor repre-
sentatives.
Industry might be represented by
Eric Johnston, president of the u.
S. Chamber of Commerce, and
James Withrow, president of the
National Association of Manufac-
turerS.
The farm representatives possibly
will be drawn from heads of ma ior
farm organizations-Edw A. o.
Neal of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, Albert Goss of the Ma
tional Grange, H. E. Babcock of
the National Council of Farmer Co.
operatives and James G.. Patton of
the National Farmers union.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Gov'tAgents Seize
142 Aliens in Biq
Roundup in n. Y.

NEW YORK. Sept 5. CUP)-P. E.
Foxworth, special agent in charge
of the New York office of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation. an
nounced today that l42 aliens were
arrested in raids yesterday on sew
eral hundred homes in New York
City.
FBI agents seized shortwave ra-
dios. cameras, guns, and ammuni-
ton in the raids, which were said
to have been the second largest
roundup of aliens in the district
since Pearl Harbor.
The prisoners included ll6 Ger
mans, % of whom are women, II
italians and Is japanese The group
of women was the largest number
to. be arrested in any of the alien
roundups. Foxworth said.
The raids yesterday brought to
1902 the total number of aliens ap-
pretended in the same area since
Pearl Harbor.
All of the Japanese arrested had
attempted to be repatriated, Fox
worth said. and four admitted they
were illegally in the country. One
had large collection of maps OF
the Pacific area and a number OF
detailed maps of the Pacific coast
area.
Among the Germans, virtually all
belonged to one or more of Nazi
INSPIRED organizations, Foxworth
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06

with black accessories. Her cor
sage was of white gladioli and red
rosebuds. Mrs. Thompson, mother
of the bridegroom, was gowned in
a colcred ensemble with which she
wore black accessories. Her corsage
was of rosebuds and heather.
The wedding ceremony was per-
formed in the presence of so rela-
tiveS and intimate friends of the
young couple. After the ceremony
the group attended wedding re-
ception in the blue room at the
Barbara Worth hotel. White glad
ioli were used as decorations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson will
spend their honeymoon in the
Thompson cabin in the mountains
west of Ell Centro and later will be
at home to their friends in their
apartment On Melrose avenue in
Los Angeles.
WEDDING GUESTS
Cut-of-town guests at the we'd
ding included Mr. and Mrs. John
Phillips, maternal grandparents of
the BRIDE Mrs. c. D. Niles paternal
grandmother; and Evelyn Phillips,
the brides aunt, all of Los Angeles:
Mrs. Cecil Byington and Warren
Smith. both of Pomona; Mr.. and
Mrs. Herl Thompson of San Cab
riel; William Latin paternal grand
father of the bri -: Jom; Mrs. Lois
Wright, his aunt: and Dorothy and
Wilbur Wright his cousins, all of
Pomona.
The marriage was of great inter-
est in Imperial Valley because it
joined two of the valleys best
known residents and consummated
a school romance. The bride was
graduated from the high school in
Imperial, attended Central Junior
college in Ell Centro, and later stud
led home economies at the Frank
Virgins school in Los Angeles. The
bridegroom was graduated from
Central Union high school in FL
Centre and attended Pomona COL
lege at Claremont where he was
affiliated with the Kappa Delta
fraternity. He is now employed by
an aircraft company in Hollywood.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Rationing Board
Gets Instructions

Instructions for maximum price
regulations for services are incor-
porated in OPA amendment l65
received Saturday in the Ell Centre
price and rationing headquarters.
Purveyors of services are requir-
ed TO list all the services supplied
in March 1912 together with their
prices during that month. A descrip-
ton of rates and price methods
should follow together with a state
ment of customary allowances and
discounts.
Service price schedule should be
sent to the nearest price admins
tration office by any proprietor
opening a new business at least 20
days in advance of opening, the
amendment states.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Board Begins Tire
Survey in Valley

AS requested by the department
of agriculture. the county USDA
war board Saturday set about max
ing survey of Imperial Valleys
truck and farm implement tire
needs for the winter as well as a
tentative survey of necessary farm
automobiles.
Sam Payson. board employe, has
been allocated to this work and
will visit all rationing boards of
the county as well as all imple-
ment and automobile dealers.
From the ration boards state
ments of the numbers of tires re-
ceived in the interval since April
1912 will be gathered together with
data regarding t.c orders from
qualified tire users which could
not be filled each month for lack
of sufficient quota Dealers will
be able to furnish information re-
garding normal sales of imple-
ments and tires for farm use in
194l prior to rationing
Responding to the request of
L. c. Hawk, USDA war board
chairman for the county. Rudolph
Miller obtained data TO show that
there are 4642 work horses and
mules in the valley, 100 of them
work horses and young stock and
1900 mules. In addition, there are
about 1850 saddle horses in the
county. but these. the board con-
siders worthless for farm work
In any event. the board deemed
the number of work horses and
mules utterly inadequate. since SO
fewer than fou- hoses or mules
would be required to farm each $50
acres.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
COUGHS Back Here
After Marriage Of
Daughter, Sarah

Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Couch are
back in Imperial Valley after at
tending the wedding of their
daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, and En-
sign Frank Miller Scoonover of
Berkeley and San Francisco. the
ceremony taking place at the Ep-
worth University Methodist church
in Berkeley, August 18.
The wedding was an informal
one, taking place in the evening
the Rev. DR.. Frey, pastor of the
church, reading the service.
The bride wore a teal blue tail
ored suit with feathered turban.
Red buttons decorated the suit and
she carried an arm bouquet Of
gladiolis in a matching shade. Her
matron of honor, her sister-in-la law,
Mrs. John Couch also wore tail
ored suit in the new shade of dull
blue with accessories in wine red,
her bouquet being lovely shade
of pale yellow gladiolis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
CANCELLED ENGAGEMENTS

The President cancelled all en-
gagements yesterday to work with
his special adviser, Judge Samuel
Rosenman of New York, on details
of the program as well as his mes
sages to congress and the nation.
Informed quarters said the Presi-
dents order undoubtedly will entail
rationing of additional commodities
as we'll as extension of price control
to virtually all items relating to
the cost of living.
Farm prices, it was believed, will
be fixed in most cases below the Ito
per cent of parity floor provided
in the price control law. This could
be done through use of the Presi-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
BEGAN CURSING

When I arrived and rang their
bell. Major Wenstrom came out on
the porch and began cursing at me
again. I told him not to get ex-
cited, and then he drew his gun
and fired I ducked low and push
ed Wenstrom's hand down =.
and that probably saved my life.
Then 7 guess I drew my own
gun. after I was wounded, and be-
gan firing. I don't know how
many times I fired, but I tried
only to wound him in the shoulder"
Major Hammett told the jury he
vas not aware that Mrs. Wenstrom
lad rushed between the two ex-
oldiers and received fatal wounds
until after the shooting was over"
Mrs. Wenstrom died the next day
from her wounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
MEETING CALLED

N. C. Smith, chairman of the I'M
perial Valley salvage committee in
charge of the scrap metal drive,
Saturday announced meeting of
all committee members in the Elks
hall in Ell Centre at 8 p. m. next
Friday night. Plans for coordinat-
ing the scrap metal drives in the
county will be made and possibility
of duplication of effort eliminated
as far as is feasible.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
TOLD VERSION

Still suffering from the effects
of bullet wounds he received in
the groin during the gun duel April
2 on the porch of Major Wenstrom's s
home, Major Hammett told his
version of the fight to the jury yes
terday.
Major Hammett admitted that he
and Major Wenstrom had quarrel
ed over operation of the Santa Bar
bara Hcme Guard unit.
Hammett said that, on the day of
the shooting, he telephoned Major
Wenstrom about an article he had
given local newspaper criticizing
my plans for organization of the
guard. He was furious that I dis
agreed with him and cursed me
over the telephone
4 wanted to talk things over
with him." Major Hemmett stated,
and I wanted to peacefully settle
cur differences, so I agreed to come
over TO his home.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
IN SUBURBS

However, a dispatch from Zurich
quoted German sources as reporting
Nazi troops had entered two north
western and one southwestern sub
urb of Stalingrad. and London
sources doubted that the Red army
would be able to save the city.
The situation at Novorossisk also
was reported to be critical with
some reports indicating that the
Black Sea port might fall at any
moment.
Berlin claimed the capture of
Taman, small town on the Taman
peninsula across the Straits of
kerch and the frequently inaccur-
ate NaZi radio at Paris said the
Germans were at the approaches of
NovoroSsiSk.
In the southwest Pacific the jap
anese occupied several small islands
OF the lesser Sunda group west of
Timor. Apparently the move was
precausion against Allied attacks
on the Japanese flank. The islands
protect the japanese positions in
the Dutch East Indies.
An Allied plane bombed a Japa-
nese cruiser southeast of New Gui-
nea and Tokyo claimed that an
American air base at Linling in Chi
ma was attacked.
There was another minor out
break in Belfast with some gunplay
in the city streets as Irish Republi-
can army elements continued to
demonstrate against execution of
one of their members.
Vichy's censorship was tightened
but from Fighting French sources
in London came reports of 300 Jew
ish suicides in the course of the
anti-Semitic campaign of the last
few weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06

Continued from Page One
fronts assumed a slightly more op-
timistic hue.
ROMMEL PUSHED BACK
In the Western desert. Cairo re-
ported. the forces of Marshal Erwin
Ronmel we're thrown back by a
sudden Imperial attack which drove
them farther to the west in the
third withdrawal of the last few
days. Three strong German counter
attacks we're beaten off.
American tanks and American
tank crews were giving a good ae-
count of themselves in the most ex-
tensive armored operations United
States forces had yet engaged in
the desert A force of Is American
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Scanning |. Y.
News Horizon
CALLED TO RIVERSIDE

Mrs. w. C. Costello left FL Gen.
tro Saturday for Riverside, called
there by the illness of her father,
H. w. Hammond. former owner of
the Imperial Valley Press. Ham
mond had his appendix removed in
an emergency operation performed
Friday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06

The Santa Barbara county grand
jury last night ruled that Major
Hammett's duel with Major Wen
strom was in elf-defense and was
"justifiable homicide"
After only five minutes of delib-
Grafton, the grand jury returned a
verdict not to prosecute Major
Hammett, stating that, lin view of
all effects and circumstances sur
rounding the case, the death of
Major and Mrs. William H. Wen
strom was the result of self-de-
fenSe."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
MadriII Funeral
Services Sunday

Funeral services for Jesus Ma
drill, 7-year-old CaleXicc resident
who died at his home Friday, will
be held at Our Lady of Guadalupe
Catholic church in CaleXico at 10
a. m. Sunday
Madrill lived at 536 Blair avenue
Calexico, and had been a resident
OF Imperial Valley for Il years. His
survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ana
Marie Madrill, and several sons
all living in California. Burial will
take place at Mt View cemetery
with A. H Hens, mortician, in
charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
BEST MAN

Mr.. NJ c. Barnett served Ensign
SeoonoVer as best man.
At the reception which followed
at the Berkeley City Women's
club house. Mrs. Couch received her
guests in a smart frock of black.
her accessories and bouYardia cor
ssge in white. The club house was
decorated in flowers and greenery.
the long buffet table being lighted
with tall tapers.
The bride is well known in FL
Centro where she finished high
school, going from here to Wood
burys in Los Angeles and later get
ting her degree at the University
of California. She has been en-
ployed for some time in an i'm
port-export house in the bay city.
Mr.. Scoonover has lived most of
his life in Berkeley where he also
was graduated from the university,
later being employed in the same
business house as his wife, where
they met He is now an ensign
in the u. S. Navy and is stationed
At San Francisco. He expects to be
transferred shortly for additional
training at Northwestern univer-
city or Harvard, but Until tn Navy
notifies him definitely, he and Mrs.
Scoonover will be at home at 425
San Mateo Drive, San Mateo.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Court ExoneruteS
Mojorin Shooting

SANTA BARBARA Cal, Sept. 8
UP)-Mai. Buell. Hammett, of the
California Home Guard, today was
exonerated of any blame for his
gun duel with Maj. William Wen
strom, who died with his wife in
the hail of bullets exchanged by the
two men six months ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
VISIT FRIENDS

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Mann and
two sons are on vacation in the
Los Angeles area. They plan to
visit in Ventura and Oxnard where
they have relatives. among them,
George Mann, who is now at home
after having spent a year in a
sanitarium in Ventura. George is
a former valley resident.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted in superior court Fri
day to Ethel Mae Baker in her suit
against Vane Carlyon Baker on the
grounds that he had been commit
ted to on institution for the insane
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
Rambling Reporter

Continued from Page One)
been captured by the Japanese
Gallagher hurried to his letter
files. Yep, he had written Wake
instead of Midway.
Bushes from Mr. Gallagher.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
GOES TO SCHOOL

s. Earl Shaw, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. Earl Shaw left this weekend
for Los Angeles where he will en-
roll at Woodbury's School of Busi-
ness. Earl was graduated from Cen
trail Junior college last spring and
will study advertising.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
MOVE TO LOS ANGELES

Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Perry who
have been residents of the valley
a number of years, have moved to
Los Angeles. Mr.. Perry was con-
nected with the Post-Press Print
Shop.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
TO RETURN

Mrs. Reginald Knox and her in
FAINT daughter. Mary Marvin, expect
to return Monday from Balboa
beach where they have been the
guests Of Mr.. Knox's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. r. L. Knox of Pomona
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
WILL FISH, CAMP

Fishing and camping in the Bis
hop district is the outing planned
by Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Measures,
who with daughter Charlene left
Saturday. They plan to be gone
couple of weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
OBTAINS ANNULMENT

Marian Pontrelli's marriage to
Ralph Pontrelli was anniled in I'M
perial county superior court Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-06
NEGRO INJURED

William Hudson, Negro, employe
at Sears Roebuck company. is re-
covering from an injury suffered
this week when a can of oil dropped
on his foot.