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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Chain Store Tax
Beaten in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov A.
U.PD-Utah voters rejected the
chain store tax bill by better than
a two-to-one margin, tabulation
of votes cast in yesterdays gener-
al election showed today.
With 600 out cf 852 election dis
trictS complete, the yes vote to-
tailed 28,26O; the mo" vote, 6l,527.
This was the first legislatice act
ever referred to the voters of Utah
and despite the fact that the l94l
legislature passed the measure and
Gov. Herbert B. Nav signed it,
the proposal, No. on the ballot,
was rejected.
The act required licenses for re-
tail stores maintained or operated
in Utah by chains having 10 or more
stores imposed special license taxes
ranging from $50 to $500 annually
for each store in Utah and from
$500 to $4,000 annually for each
store opened in Utah after the ef-
fectivc date.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Shaving Charged
To Sugar Company

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. tUP) -
Attorney General Francis Biddle
announced that the United States
Sugar Corp. and four Of its en-
ployes were indicted today by a
federal grand jurr at Tampa, Fla,
on charge sof violating the federal
civil rights and anti-slavery sta
tutes.
The indictment, charging a con-
spiracy to hold negro sugar cane
workers in a condition Of peonage,
named as individual defendants:
M E. Van Mach, personnel man
ager, CleWiston, Fla; Evan Ward
Mcleod, superintendent, Bare Beach
plantation, Oliver H. Sheppard, su-
perintendent, South Shore planta-
ton; and a Mr. Neao, superinten-
dent, Miami Lochs plantation.
Count one charged that. the de-
PENDANTS injured, oppressed, threa-
tened and intimated' negro field
workers by holding them in inyol-
untary serVitude. Count two charged
a conspiracy TO violate the federal
anti-peonage statute.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. UP)-A
mobile unit of military police, num-
bering between 10000 and 10000
men armed with machine guns and
other rapid-fire weapons, has been
formed to fight fifth columnists and
saboteurs, Col. Joseph w. Dillon of
the provost marshal generals office
disclosed last night.
Dillon told a meeting of military
and naval law committees Of the
American Bar association that the
men are equipped with fast trans
portation and arms equal to those
given combat troops.
He did not reveal where the men
are stationed, but said a training
school had been opened at Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.
While I do not want you to
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Mrs. Mary Denham
Succumbs at 81

Mrs. Mary M. Denham, "a, who
came to Imperial Valley in the fall
of 1912 and who spent the last
year and a half of her life in a
wheel chair, died in Heber early
Wednesday.
Funeral services were scheduled
at the Lemons chapel in Ell Gen.
tro at 8 80 p. m. Thursday. She will
be buried beside her husband in
Hamilton. Texas. Mrs. Denham was
born in Texas June 27, 1858. She
is survived by all but three of her
seven children.
Among her survivors are two
daughters, Mrs. Eula Briggs of Heb
er and Mrs. Jeffie Ida Rhoads of
Woodland: two sons, w. c of Haw-
thorne and Jim of Portsmouth. Va;
sister Mrs. Ida Journey of Ham
ilton, Texas; a granddaughter
Mary Woods of Heber; and six
grandsons, City Clerk Neal H. Gavin
and Wyatt Briggs of FL Centro
Otis Briggs of Heber, E. Lynn Gavin
OF Los Angeles, Earl Briggs of Tue
son, Ariz.; and Staff Sgt. Eldredge
Rhoads of Dalhart, Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Veteran Co|un1nist
Dies in BayCity

SAN FANCISCO, Nov 4-CU.P)
John d. Barry, veteran San Fran
cisco news columnist, lecturer and
traveller, died last night.
He was 76.
A native of Boston, Barry was
graduated from Harvard university
in 1888. He joined the staff of tJe
old San Francisco Bulletin in 1910.
transferred to the Call in 1918 and
had been with the News since 1926.
His daily column, Ways of the
World was popular throughout
the west.
Early in his newspaper career,
Barry wrote several successful nov
els and plays and later gained dis
tinction as a lecturer on social and
literary subjects.
Recently, he was awarded the
Judge I. M. Golden memorial med
al far outstanding achievement.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
It's Dark Hour
For Adolf Hitler

advance of some 1000 yards from
the starting point of the attack.
Dominion troops were in the fore
front of this action, going in with
bayonets to clean out Na2i pockets.
Visibility was excellent and we
could see to the north our tanks
debouching along the line of the
railroad.
ONLY HABITATION
To the northwest was the shim-
mering minaret of the snow-w white
mosque of Sidi Add FL Rahman,
the only habitation within sight
of the barren desert landscape
To the south the British armor-
ed forces were at close grips with
the enemy and the roar of the
guns echoed across the desert. Now
and again group of tanks emerg-
ed from the cauloron OF smoke and
dust and then dashed in again with
all guns firing.
Hundreds of prisoners have been
taken-about one third of them
German.
III must be apparent to the Ger
mans by now that this is no limit
ed offensive-but a bold and Wig
orous attack backed up by a ire
mendous weight of arms
The gap in the lines is broaden
ing daily as British forces pour
through the bulge and fan out in
to the desert. Artillery and anti
tank guns are smashing mercilessly
al the gaps defenders in support
Of advancing ground troops and
armor.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Midnight Movies
To Aid Auxiliary
Welfare Fund Here

Every motion picture theater in
every town in Imperial Valley Sat
urday night will be the scene CT a
midnight benefit show for the
American Legion welfare fund.
A full length show of pre-vieWs
will comprise the programs.
The theaters, pictures, and the
services of the personnel all were
donated for the benefit fund.
Fifty per cent of the receipts will
remain in Imperial Valley for child
welfare and rehabilitation work
among war veterans and their fam
lilies. The other so per cent will
20 to the Legion state foundation
fund for welfare and rehabilitation
work in California, the fund which
was established by Bill Dunn of
Imperial while he was state COM
mander Of the American Legion.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Reds Name Board
To Probe Crimes
OF kazi Attackers

MOSCOW, Nov 4.-(UPD-The
supreme Soviet council today es-
tablished a special state commit
tee TO investigate and establish
the facts of crimes and damages
committed in Russia "by the Ger
man Fascist invaders and their as
sociates.
The action followed the Russian
suggestion that Axis war criminals
be placed on trial by the Allies
without waiting for the end of hos
tilitiec.
The special Russian committee
was directed particularly to inves-
tigate damage TO collective farms,
public institutions, and state enter
prises
THE criminal Hitlerite govern
menl. the German army command
and their associates said an an
nolEacement by the Tass Official
News agency. bear full criminal
and material responsibility"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
sFronn where I sit
BY Jcc Marsh

THAD PHIBBs' house &c. s,ruc.. by
lightnin' couple of nights ago. The
kitchen chimney was knocked off
and the roof set on fire, and Thad
found things pretty lively and ex-
citin' for a spell. ,
The fire was soon out though,
thanks to the prompt and efficient
work of the local fire department,
as the paper says :. and / never
seen man so grateful as Thad.
Chief Ed Carey was sort of en-
barrassed, | guess, by the thanks
that was bein' heaped on him.
That's all right, Mr.. Phibbs," he
says. That's all right, sir-iha.:; !;
lOhat you pay taxes f0.'."
II
From where / sit, I'd say CHE
Eds remark seems to have q les
son in it "a lesson on the way
that taxes come back in mighty
real benefits to the people.
Take the taxes on beer, FIRM
stance-more than 2H billion dol
lars, l hear, figurin' federal, state
and local, in the nine years since
beers been back.
There was a time-remember-
when a lot of that money went
into the pockets of bootleggers and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
BY LEON KAY

CAIRO, Nov. 4.-6U.Pl-The I'M
perial Eighth army rolled across
the desert today, driving Marshal
Erwin Rommel'S forces from their
prepared Alamein defenses and
forcing the Afrika KorpS into re-
treat along the coastal road after
a great battle of armored forces.
Today's official communique re-
ported a general advance by Impe-
rial forces all along the Alamein
line except on the coastal road
where Rommerls troops were fall
ing back under constant harass-
ment by American and British
planes
HARD BLOWS STRUCK
Official reports said the full fury
of Allied striking power is being
hurled against the Withdrawing
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
RommeI Abandons
AIamein Positions
In Hasfy Retreat

CAIRO. Nov. I. = .Pa-Front
reports late today said Marshal Err
win Rommel is abandoning his Ala
mein positions and retreating west
ward along the coastal road under
an all-out Allied air attack in which
the entire British and American
bomber and fighter strength was
employed.
Dispatches from the fighting
scene said Rommel started his
withdrawal several hours ago.
The reports indicated the Axis
forces have given up their fight
in the forward desert area, pre-
sumably as a result of heavy losses
suffered in the crushing British ar
mored attack OF the past three
days.
military experts in London re-
served judgment on Rommels re-
treat but indicated that a major
Allied victory may be in the max
ing)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
il11peFiuIs Chase
Retreatins Nazis

Axis troops in an attempt to dis
organize Rommels efforts to car
ry out an orderly retreat
The communique gave no specific
report on the great armored clash
which has been raging about IT
miles west of Alamein station and
about five miles south of Sidi ADD
el Rahman.
However, indications were that
Rommel's 2lst and 18th armored
divisions had suffered heavily un-
der the crushing blows of British
tanks which blasted through
three-mile gap in the Nazi de-
fense lines and burst into the open
desert to come to grips with the
Axis force.
GERMANS FEARFUL
Berlin described the tank en-
counter as the greatest ever fought
in North Africa and Stockholm re-
ports said Nazi officials were less
optimistic" today concerning the
outcome of the combat)
During hard fighting Monday
night and yesterday, the communi-
que said, British infantry and tanks
drove Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mels Afrika Korps west of Sidi
Add ell Rahman on the northern
sector.
In the southern sector, the Axis
forces were compelled to fall back
from their positions at DER ell Ar
garmunassib and the Heimamat
ridge, which were occupied by Brit
iSh troops.
The full force of Allied air pow
er, which included hardhitting
American planes and pilots, was
concentrated on enemy units with
drawing along the coastal road.
WEDGE DRIVEN IN
1t was in the northern-central Sec
tor that some of the bitterest tank
/ fighting of the campaign had been
! fought since Monday,
Front dispatches said the Brit
ish had driven a wedge II miles
deep and almost three miles wide
into the Axis lines at Tel el Aqqaqil
Cthe Hill of the Wicked. Aqqaqil
is II miles due west of the Alameir
station of the Hatruh-AleXandel
railroad and about five miles soutf
of Sidi Add el Harman, from where
Rommel had been sending much o
his supplies to his southern troop
near the Qattara depression.
German tanks counterattacke(
furiously in a vain effort to stem
the British advance, front dis
, patches said, but were repulsed will
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Tire Inspectors
Appointment Due

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--CUPD -
The office of price administration
today asked local price and ration
ing boards to appoint "all compe-
tent tire men" in their communities
as fee basis inspectors in its plan
for periodic tire inspections.
Such inspectors need not be ir
the tire business, OPA said, but
they should be familiar with tire
maintenance and repair. They
should have establishments at which
they can make examinations, and
equipment necessary for inspecting
the tires. 1t is not necessary for
inspectors to have equipment to
make repairs they recommend.
Inspections of passenger car tire.'
will begin Dec. /.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Next d Hours In
Desert May Decide
Control of Africa
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON, Nov 4-CUP) Tween
ty-four hours more of desert fight
ing, it was believed today, may de-
termine whether the Allies can
bring the Axis to bay in North
Africa in a sweeping campaign de-
signed TO regain control Of the
Mediterranean.
Another days fighting, it was
felt, will determine whether the
hammering blows of the 9Th army's
tanks and planes can force Marshal
Erwin Rommel into an all-out re-
treat.
1t was believed here that ROM
mel is now more thoroughly on the
defensive than he ever has been
in the 18 months or so that he has
been in charge of Axis operations
in Africa.
DEFENSE IN DEPTH
However, it was noted that his de-
fensive system probably extends all
the way back to Mersa Matruh
and until he has been driven from
this area he might still turn and
make another stand.
II Rommel is forced TO turn back,
however, it was though the Allies
may be presented with the best
chance they have ever had of mop
ping up the entire Axis positions
in Africa and bringing the Mediter-
ranean back into Allied control.
CThe German radio broadcast a
DNB report today asserting that
Nazi quarters were viewing with
attention" a big concentration of
Allied warships and transports at
Gibraltar. The concentration was
said TO include the aircraft carriers
Argus, Furious and one Of an ''un-
known type six cruisers, an aux
iliary cruiser 26 destroyers, four
submarines. one monitor, two large
troop transports, 20 freighters and
~ tankerS)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Ho|tyi||e's Gas
Ration Volunteers
To Meet Thursday

HOLTVILLE, Nov. 4-UP)-Vol-
unteers willing to help with regis
tration for gasoline rationing all
anyone wanting to ask questions
about it will attend a meeting at
the Holtville Union High school at
7:30 p. m. Thursday, those in charge
announced Wednesday.
Lee Cusick, rationing expert, will
have charge of the instruction ses-
sion, explain the rules and regula-
tions, and outline the task of those
who volunteer to help with the
registration.
Curtis King of Holtville advised
motorists to obtain their application
for gasoline forms from Martha
Muller, secretary of the rationing
board, at the Holtville Chamber
of Commerce from Wednesday on.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
BY HENRY SHAPIDO

MOSCOW. Nov. 4.-(U.P)-The
Red army, after almost a week of
steady retreating, held today a pow
erful German drive toward the oil
fields of Grozny and the roads
that lead to the wealth of the south
ern Caucasus.
The Russians had admitted no
German gain for the last "a hours
southeast of Nalchik, in the east
ern Caucasus. From there, with
divisions of infantry, marines and
hundreds Of planes and tanks, the
Germans are trying to hammer
their way to Grozny, 90 miles
away, and to Ordzhonikidze, so
miles away, where the Georgian
and Ossetic military highways
across the Caucasus mountain be-
gin.
TANK BATTLE FOUGHT
Southeast of Nalchik, Soviet
troops fought heavy defensive bat
ties against tanks and infantry"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Nevadans Prohibit
Inheritance Tax

RENO, New. Nov. 4.-(U.P0-
Nevada voters today had written
into the states constitution an
amendment which will prohibit the
state legislature from ever levying
an inheritance or estate tax.
The amendment, which merely
emphasizes a practice which has
been in effect since Nevada was ad-
mitted to the 1onion in 1c64, was
adopted by an almost to l mar
gin.
The vote from pit of the states
289 precincts was: yes-5452; No
l419.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04

biir.I Pigs. But today iVa coming
right back to the treasures Of the
nation, the states and the local
communities . for the benefit Of
everybody.
1 .
Some goes, for example, to pay
for the things Uncle Sam needs to
fight the war with for tanks
and ships and bombers. .
Quite a lot goes for things like
public health, and education, and
good roads and the like. b.
And some Of it, l surmise, has
gone to support the fire company
that gave Thad such goad service
&c other night.
To moderate folks, vino like a
friendly glass Of beer now and then,
there's sort of satisfaction in
knowing that right nOlo this bever-
age of moderation is furnishin' me
public treasures well over a mil
lion dollars every single day.
That's quite a lot of money-es-
pecially nowadays when Uncle Sam
needs every cent ne can get hold Of.
&s M4.4x
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
CIimox Of Egypt
Fighting Nearer

cd of attack for the first nine days
was so methodical and unhurried
that a tedious campaign appeared
in prospect.
Now. however, Cairo dispatches
indicate that he has shifted sud-
denly from the world war tactics to
something like a modern "blitz,"
with swift, open desert warfare in
DrOSDect
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE
OF the United Press War Desk

The battle of Egypt has ap-
preached its climax sooner than
most observers had expected. 1t
became evident Wednesday that 1t
Gen. B. L. Montgomery. British
commander, has started a supreme
effort to smash the Axis forces
under Marshal Erwin Rommel
The British offensive now is in
its 18th dag. Montgomery's meth
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
MEETING THURSDAY

Ali growers of ROW crops in I'm
perial county were asked Wednes-
day TO attend the meeting Of the
agricultural war manpoWer meet
ing Thursday at 10 am, in the
court house Problems concerning
the use ef the available labor sup
ply will be discussed.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
BREAK EXPECTED

Montgomery apparently has
thrown in the full strength Of his
armored force, hitherto held in
check while infantry, artillery. and
the air arm paved the way for the
assault. 1t looks now like a decisive
test in which the British Imperials.
by sheer weight backed by air su-
periority, have a chance to break
the backbone Of Axis strength in
Africa.
It cannot get be said that Rom
mels strong frontal defenses be-
tween the sea and the qattara de-
preston. have been broken. How
ever. they have been cracked and
the British evidently have broken
through in considerable depth at
one point. at least, below the coast.
Incomplete Cairo dispatches speak
Of one three-mile gap where the
British are approaching the open
desert.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Mobile Units to
FiQht SuboteurS
=ss* s7e'Nfs~~'''''- '-

think me an alarmist," he said, Il
can tell you that We can expect the
rising of a fifth column in our
population with any external effort
on our country by the enemy"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
DECISION NEAR?

It may turn out to be that the
first phase of the battle was the
hardest. once he fortified outer
line of the Alamein defenses is
broken, the British should be over
the hump" and able to force a de-
cision in the desert.
It is now clear that the often
siye was expertly planned over
many weeks. Not the least import
ant was the aerial blasting Of Rom
mels supply lines and bases, par
ticularly the Libyan ports.
It is a question whether Rommel
will be able to replace tank and
motorized losses, which already are
reported to have been heavy in q
big armored battle west Of FL Ala
mein. The Axis also may be short
of oil and lubricants. The prelim-
inary British sea and coastal bomb
ings were directed especially at
tankers, apparently with consider
able success.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
Reds Make Stand
On Grozny Road

the Russian neon cOmmC1lqu2 SAID.
Soviet artillery blazed away at a
concentration of the enemy, killed
over 200 infantrymen, and destroy
ed three tanks
On one sector southeast OF Nal
chik, the Russians destroyed IA
German tanks and II planes yes
terday
Front line dispatches reported
that large scale fighting had brok-
en- out again in an industrial dis
trict cf northern Stalingrad, al
though the noon communique did
not indicate heavy assaults.
ATTACKS REFUSED
IN the Stalingrad area, So
Wet unit repelled two attacks and
wiped out over 200 of the enemy,
and destroyed three guns and five
heavy machine guns" the commu-
niuue said. "A Soviet company re-
PEELED infantry attacks for "a
hours and DESTROYED three tanks.
The enemy withdrew after haevy
losses.
Northwest of Stalingrad, Soviet
troops fortified their positions. On
one sector, Soviet units dispersed
and partly wiped cut about two
companies (400 men,"
Thirty thousand Germans, 40
tanks and swarms of planes at
tackled the industrial area yester-
day, trying to recover ground lost
to Soviet cornterattacks. The Rus
slams beat off every attack, killed
1000 Germans and Wrested more
ground from the enemy.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
WAR
INDUSTRY
100000

To meet the growing requirements in the coming
industry must give five million employees
and the An additional 100000
working classified unemployed will
service to swell the figure 62300000 Chart shows
tie manpower picture today will be year from
for workers. of whom will from civilian
work included n top chart
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
BOMBERS IN FIGHT

Hue formations of British and
American bombers were roaring
continuously over the coastal road
west of Sid ADD el Rahman, droN-
ping tons of bombs on the jam
med columns of Axis trucks and
troop transports streaming to the
west.
United States and British fight
er squadrons were thrown into the
battle. smashing at the Daba-Fuka
road and attacking every Nazi ef-
fort to provide an aerial cover for
the withdrawal.
TANKS ABANDONED
The Germans, front reports said,
abandoned scores of broken and
damaged tanks on the battlefield
at Aqqaqir where the British ar
mcred forces fought Rommefs 18th
and 21st armored divisions in the
greatest tank battle of North Af-
rica.
Front observers said Rommel ap-
peared to be trying desperately to
pull out as many tanks as possible
to provide a rearguard cover for his
retreating infantry.
These observers speculated
whether Rommel has enough left
after the terrific battle
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
PANZERS IN ACTION

Across the no mans land of scrub
and sand were Marshal Erwin
Kommel's combined panzer forces
the 2lst and 18th armored divi-
sions.
The Nazi panzers counterattack-
ed while we watched but were held
off by our antitank guns
The positions where the battle
was being fought represented an
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
WAS GRAN . MA RIGHT
AB OUT THE s
COLD FACTS

For colds coughing, to reduce shifting
nasal congestion, chest muscle soreness
pioneer Grandma put faith in home
medicated mutton suet and hot flannel.
lent modern medication with the mutton
suet base. Penetro never fails to function
2 ways. Aromatic vapors go inside with
every breath-outside it comforts like
warming, soothing plaster. Rubbed on
chest and throat, it works fast. Try
Penetro and agree Grandma had the
right idea" 25c, double supply Csc.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04

No. 5 ofa Series
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04

Copyright, 1912, Breping Industry Foundation
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-04
BY RICHARD d. MCMILLAN

WITH THE BRITISH IN THE
WESTERN DESERT, Nov. 3-De-
layed-(UP)-It looks like dark
hour for Adolf Hitler in Africa
tonight. I have been watching
the battle from an observation
post, inside a damaged crusader
tank within sight of the shining
white mosque at Sidi Add Ell Rah-
man.
The post is on what is known as
Hill 27-at the northern corner
of the area in which the Imperials
have broken through the fixed Nazi
defenSes of the Alamein line.
German dead lay only few
feet away atop the knoll and the
battlefield all around was strewr
with wreckage, including two Brit
ish tanks which were blown up in
the Nazi minefields.
SNIPERS DIG IN
German machine gunners and
riflemen were sniping at us from
dug-in positions only a few hun
dred yards away and to the south
about a mile and a half distant
the tank battle was being fought in
a tornado of sound, volcanoes of
smoke and wirlwinds of dust.
Suka dive bombers flew over the
battlefield at low elevations, DROP
ping their packets of bombs. One
landed Immediately behind US as
we watched the enemy planes
scurrying away through a barrage
of our antiaircraft fire which burst
all around them
The grey German planes had
black Swastikas painted on their
fuselages and they looked like
watercolor painting against the
blue African sky.