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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
CALLS UNDERWOOD

The other side
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

All combustable material-paper,
grass, leaves. etc.-should be plac-
ed or on the rear of propery lines
for collection early in the week
Bristol said. All tin cans and 9TH
er scrap that may be converted into
war use will be picked up on the
second collection, Bristol said.
In some parts CT town colec-
tions will be made on Mondays and
Thursdays and in other parts on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
All scrap will be turned in/ the
salvage depot, Bristol said.
Meanwhile, extra city and private
crews worked continuously Monday
to wind up the cleanup drive. Aft
er Monday, extra charges are sup
posed to he made for collection of
certain materials not listed Under
the contractors contract.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
San Diego Gathers
Huge Scrap Pile

SAN DIEGO, oct l9.-U.PD-
Climaxing a three weeks newspa-
per-sponsored scrap metal drive,
more than 100000 pounds-4OOO
tons-of discarded household ar
ticles were added today to the city'S
scrap metal pile.
Approximately 225 Marine, Navy
and civilian trucks drove through
the city's streets and alleys yester-
day to collect the scrap. AFL
teamsters and other members of
organized labor joined with sailors
and Marines to man the trucks.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Big Boy hogue
Held as Robber

One of Imperial Valle%'S former
favorite boxing sons, Willard big
Boy Hogue, 81, was under $1,000
bond in San Diego Monday await
ing trial on a robbery charge.
Hogue is accused of taking $3.50
from Franklin j. Caldwell, Ell Cajon,
on the night of Oct. II after
fight in Caldwell's home. Charged
with Hogue is Homer Evans, 38, who
was said to have accompanied him.
Officers were told that Hogue and
Evans beat Caldwell in his home
and took the money after the three
had gathered for a poker game.
Preliminary examination of Hogue
and Evans has been set for october
%.
Willard and his twin brother, Will
lis Shorty, rose to national prom
inence when they became national
amateur champions of the welter
and middleWeights several years
ago. Both have now entered profess
sional boxing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Pair
Bdtddn
Two US. Officers
Escape from Foe
ByLons Voyage
BY DON CASWELL

SOMEWHERE IN AUS
TRALIA, Oct. 10. (UP)-
The perilous Odyssey of two
American officers-from Ba-
taan to Australia in 159 days-dur-
ing which they survived and fat
tened on the menace of japanese
land and sea forces, typhoons and
jungles was told today by it's heroes,
who closed their log of adventure
with much relief and rejoicing
They were Capt. William Lloyd
Osborne of 1902 S. Orange Grove
Ave, Los Angeles, an infantry Of
ficer, and Lieut.. Damon j. Cause
of Winder, Ga, air corps flier.
Osborne and Cause escaped sep
arately when the japanese took
Bataan. They met on a southern
island and then started to move
south through Japanese-infested
jungles and between islands with
the aid of small motorboat.
The two officers arrived in Aus
tralia Oct. II, Drowned and heavier
than when they left Bataan. They
Immediately notified their wives that
they we're safe
PATHS CONVERGE
Osborne was serving with a Fill
pino unit on Bataan peninsula.
When it fell he made his way with
a Filipino lieutenant and two pri-
Yates to Manila bay where he OBJ
tained a roWboat for an 18-hour
journey that carried the four men
to place of refuge near the Taal
volcano. There the men separated,
with the Filipinos going to native
village and Osborne remaining to
begin two months of planning to
escape.
Cause was helping to move sup
plies up to the front lines at Ba-
taan without knowing that the jap
aneSe had broken through when he
encountered an enemy armored truck
on the Lamoa road bridge. He hid
in the river bed all that night and
the next day, although the Japa-
neSe troops came within a few feet
of him as they washed their mass
kits.
Some time later Cause was cap
tured by three Japanese soldiers as
he attempted to reach the coast. He
was strippen and pushed into a
prisoners camp containing 300 other
Americans. A short time afterWard
he made a break for freedom. Reach
ing the beach, he swan to an an
chored boat, ducking rifle fire as
he swan. In a few hours, he had
rowed to Corregidor fortress.
MEETS WITH STORM
The row boat had fort? machine
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Flax Mill Must
Hold Election

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10
U.P.-The National Labor Rela-
tions board today directed en-
plOyccs of the California Cen
tral Fibre corporation, Ell Cen
tro. Calf, to hold an election
within 30 days to determine
whether or not they wish to be
represented by the Truck Driv-
ers.' WarehOusemen and Help
ers' union (AFL) for collective
bargaining purposes.
The board ruled that a for
mer labor group representing
the employees, the Employees
association, had ceased to func-
ton and that the December,
1941, contract cannot operate
as bar to a new determina-
ton of representatives.
The board determined that
all warehouse, production, car
loading and general labor en-
ployees of the company. eXclud-
ing straw checkers, clerical, su-
pervisory employees and those
employees having the power to
hire and discharge, constituted
a unit appropriate for collective
bargaining.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Desert Trained Troops
Ready for Anything Now

WITH THE us. ARMY IN THE
CALIFORNIA DESERT, Oct. 10
U.PD Thousands of American SOL
diers, hardened by the tourgest des
ert training ever given by the Army,
today were ready to pit their daring
and endurance against the worst
the enemy has to offer.
With two months of maneuvers
over 100000 acres of wild terrain
in 120-degree temperatures behind
them, the men are harder and fit
ter than any I have seen during the
present emergency" according to
Lieut.. Gen. Lesley j. McNair, chief
of the Army ground forces.
The nine problems worked out by
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
.VICHy FEARS
DAkAR PERIL

LONDON, Oct. 19.-U.P0-DiS-
patches from Vichy said today that
the reported arrival of United
States troops in Liberia, on tn
west coast of Afica, was " source
CT provocation" and menace to
the West and Equatorial French
African colonies especially Dakar,
still loyal to Vichy.
(There still were no confirmation
from Washington that American
troops had landed in Liberia)
Although Vichy sources general
ly scoffed at the possibility that
an offensive against Dakar, on the
African bulge opposite Brazil, could
be started from Liberia, Fight
ing French spokesman here said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
British AirpIane
Crash Kills 70

LONDON, Oct 19.-U.PD
Twenty persons, including two in
fants and three women, were kill
ed yesterday when Royal Air
Force crashed near an airport in
the Home counties district.
The plane undershot the airfield
and crashed in flames near rail-
way station. 1t struck a number of
children playing near the station
and a number of servicemen who
we're leaving the building.
All but one of the crew were
killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Trombone Thief
On Way toPrison

San quentin penitentiary was the
goal of Carl Jack Ussery, 18-year-
old trombone thief, when he left
Ell Centro during the weekend in
charge of Imperial county deputy
sheriffs.
Ussery confessed to pawning more
than $50 trombones obtained on
consignment in towns in seven mid
west and southwestern states.
Among the paWned trombones were
two obtained from the Novak Music
store in Ell Centre and disposed of
in RedlandS and San Bernardino
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

estimate of the worth of the tires
and tubes by use of government
ceiling prices, but to the owners OF
the tires, loss was probably a great
deal higher.
There were 100 tires that went
up in dense black smoke and 70
tubes. jolly owned a number OF the
tires and all of the tubes. The loss
was partially insured.
The fire was first noticed at
few minutes before midnight Sun
day b. neighbors. When firemen ar
rived on the scene the fire was al
ready burning briSkly.
While jolly deplored the loss OF
the precious tires and tubes he was
more concerned with the loss OF
several hundreds of dollars worth OF
repair equipment, now impossible to
obtain. A mould used for retread-
ing tires was destroyed as we'll as
40 pounds of rubber for retreading
purposes.
Altogether, jolly placed his loss
at nearly $1700.
Firemen blamed an electrical
mould for starting the fire. They
said the mould had been left on and
had probably ignited rubber close by.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

the Vichy government had ordered
most cf the French fleet to the
West African port.
Fleet units there now include the
battleshp Richelieu, pride of the
French navy, three cruisers, Gloire,
Montcalm and Georges LeygUeS,
three modern destroyers, Fantas-
que, Malin and Terrible, 12 sub
marines, three minesWeepers, 10
Corvettes and other light units.
Axis propagandists shrieked pro-
tests against the reported presence
of American troops in Liberia and
professed to fear an imminent at
tack on Dakar.
Radio Berlin said it was "a pure
rape of a free state"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
navy B0MBARDS JAPS ON GljADAL Canal


They certainly seemed surpris-
ed. AS soon as my gunners opened
up, the Japanese dashed for the
trees and gave up trying to get their
planes"
we really did a thorough job"
Lieut.. James Copeland of TIN
monsville, S. c., said Copeland was
the bombardier. When we came
back to bomb Rekata two days
later, there was hardly any oppo-
sition left"
The other nose gunner was Lieut..
Hugh Mahoney of Corpus Christi.
Tex. Sgt. Robert B. Lowrie of
Scranton, Pa, was the only casual
ty. A bullet exploded in his thicl
on the third run. He kept on far
ing, and none knew he was hurt
until the danger was past. His guns
silenced the japanese battery
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

AN AMERICAN ADVANCED AIR
BASE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,
Get. l0-CUP)-(Delayed) Capt.
Carl E. Wuertele, 28, of Denver, be-
lieves that flying fortress is a made
to-order job for machine cunning
japanese shore installations.
Hopping just over the trees on
Santa Isabel island in the Solomons
on Sept. 13, he ordered the gunners
to oDen up everything. The results
were: four seaplanes set afire on
the bay, another shot down, shore
battery Silenced and many Japanese
killed.
There were lot of Japs around
the beach and in the coconut grove
bordering Rekata Bay" he said.
I'VE saw four planes on the water
and at least three Japs wading
out to get them.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
U.S.. 'Airpower Blindness
Before War Floyed by owl

in the early days of the Pacific
battle was the complete lack" of
afraid warming systems. The
Philippines system was disrupted by
fifth column agents before it had
once functioned.
5. The United States medium and
light bombers are the best in the
world.
6. Firepower and protection of
American fighting planes are equal
in all cases and in many are su-
perior to that provided by our AL
lies and the enemy.
7. The japanese Zero" plane is
spectacular as a flying machine but
Continued on Page 6, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Assessed Values
Increase in w.

Imperial county's assessed valua-
ton as of Sept. 7 this year was
$38,184,371, State Controller Harry
B. Riley announced Monday.
The county's taxable wealth thus
increased S1,863,917 from last years
assessed valuation of $36,320,45
The Indebtedness of the county as
shown by the controllers report was
$1,000,000.
Combined assessed valuation OF
CALIFORNIA; s So counties was report
ed to total $7,679 $685. ,379, in increase
of 1923, 768,514 over that of year
ago. The combined Indebtedness
amounted to $154826,865, a drop
of 1894, ,582, Riley said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

and the new TX" ration-a fun
meal in a tiny box.
They slept in beds abandoned by
scorpions and sidewinders. They
kept their firearms oiled and their
rolling stock I'm tip-top shape under
the most adverse conditions.
Men who can take this can take
anything" is the way Maj Gen.
Alvan C. Gillem, Jr., maneuver dl-
rector, summed it up
They probably will have their
chance soon. According 10 Lieut..
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Army
deputy chief of staff. they viii be
ready for offensive action In 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Democrats Rally
Tuesday Night

Democrats of three counties will
rally in Ell Centre Tuesday night to
prepare for the coming election
and hear prominent Democrats dis
cuss the campaign,
N. E. West, candidate for con-
gress, will speak on Congress and
It's Needs" Helen Gahagan, ma
tional committeewoman, on Cali
fornia Presents a National Picture
in the War Emergency" Judge
Harry S. Westover, formerly of
Yuma, will discuss the campaign;
and Mrs. Claudia Worswick, of the
state women's division, will speak
on Divide And Conquer"
The rally will be held in the main
dining room at the Barbara Worth
hotel at 7 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19


communique said no recent troop
activity or enemy landings on Quad
alcanal have been reported.
1t added that Allied heavy bomb
ers repeatedly attacked the strong
force of enemy warships, transports
and cargo ships gathered in the
Shorthand island area. This is about
260 miles northwest of Guadalcanal
These actions, however, have been
announced by Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur in Australia.
The U, S. naval bombardment of
Japanese positions on Guadalcanal
occurred during the morning of Oct.
II Gsland time) and heavy explo-
sions and fires were caused among
ammunition dumps.
That night and early the next
morning, Japanese naval forces
shelled our installations on the is
lands north coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Draft Law Worries
San DIEGO Farmers

SAN DIEGO, Oct. l9.-(U.PD-
Drafting of 18 and 19-year-old
youths will aggravate an already Sc
rious farm labor shortage in San
Diego county. County Agricultural
Commissioner Dean F.. Padmer
warned today.
I'VE have had to depend on
school children TO save valuable
crops in the vicinity of Escondido,
Julian, Encinitas and Grossmont in
recent months" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

airplaneS, the owl said: The best
the public can expect, and the best
it will get, is that on average the
equipment of the Allied air forces
shall be superior to the equipment
of the enemy
HOPES SHATTEREE
The report, N preparation for
nearly four weeks, shattered hopes
and predictions that the defeat Of
the Axis would be fastened by abA0-
Lutte Allied superiority in all types
of aircraft. 1t warned of future
battles to be lost and crushing
defeats" that may be suffered and
asked Americans to indulge to
the full their genius for critical
analysis"
Here are the highlights of the
32-page report.
L. The navy went to war with
considerable quantities of obSoles-
cent planes and thus suffered losses
which could have been avoided.
2. The army aircraft score in the
Pacific is better than the enemy.
But it could have been improved
if the services had been more or
the alert for Japanese treachery or
had more accurately forecast the
performance of Japanese aircraft.
3. Basic specifications for United
States aircraft now flying in COM
bat areas were laid down five years
ago. Some are badly designed or
iii matched" against the enemy
equipment and some now in action
have definite deficiencies even with
in the purposes for which they were
designed.
LIGHT BOMBERS BEST
a.. The most disastrous" factor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
HoItviIIe Takes
Scrap DriveLead
With Imperial End
El Centre in Third
Place in Totals for
Victory Metal Push

Holtville perched firmly
atop the scrap metal heap in
Imperial county Monday for
collecting $50 tons and help
ing boost the county grand
total to 2,217 tons.
During last weekend Imperial
county residents put in their most
concentrated collection drive and
hauled in scrap metal from far and
wide to add it to the collection to-
tails.
Latest figures on the collections
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

highly armored and motorized un-
its proved also a revealing test for
American equipment, pronounced by
Lieut.. Gen. Jacob l.. Devers, chief
of the armored force. as superior to
that of any foreign power"
The Army vehicles survived a
diet of extreme heat, sand and dust
while both military and civilian au-
tomotive engineers studied every
phase of their behavior.
AS for the men who manned the
tanks, tracks, gun-carriers,
supply and ammunition trucks,
peeps, jeeps and scout cars, they
lived on a gallon of water day
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
GRAND TOTAL

The drive is going along satisfac-
torily," said Nolan Smith, chairman
of the county salvage committee,
land in addition to providing the
scrap metal needed in the war eff
fort, the money from the sale of the
scrap will be used for local projects,
in most instances for canteens for
service men. In Bard the money will
be turned over to the Red Cross
chapter there. Each community de-
cided what to do with the money
paid for the junk and tried to put
it to the best possible use
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

II others. He said that it was not
clear whether the decoration was
posthumous or not. If not, Juvenal
must be alive.
Mrs. Juvenal has not heard from
her son since February. Then she
received a letter from him at Mich
OILS Field, six miles from Manila.
At the time the war department
notified her that her son was miss
ing in action Mrs. Juvenal express
ed the hope that he might be still
fighting against the japanese in
some guerilla band
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Cleanup Rules
Laid Down Here

City officials called upon Ell Cen
tro citizens to separate tin cans
and other metals from trash and
barhage on the last day of the
cleanup campaign. Monday.
Grant Bristol, city health inspec-
tor, said that the metal will be
turned into the scrap campaign for
use in building weapons.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
BY ARTHUR r. DEGREVE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-UP)-
The office of war information, re-
minding that the United States
had paid with defeat and blood for
its determined blindness" toward
airpower during peace, reported to-
Gay that the United Nations all
force is not nor is likely to be SUI
perior to the enemy in all categor-
les.
In its long awaited report on the
performance of American military
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

morning she was told that Rob
ert Juvenal" had been decorated for
bravery in rescue work during the
attack on Manila.
Charles E. Hamilton, Mrs. Juve-
nails brother who for several years
was a linotype operator for the I'M
perial Valley Press, phoned her
from Los Angeles shortly after mid
night to tell her that he had heard
the announcement on a news broad
cast.
Hamilton told her that a Robert
Juvenal" had been decorated with
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
By UNITED PRESS

Japan paid with three more crulS-
ers Monday but put additional pres
sure behind her all-out effort to
re-take Guadalcanal island in the
Solomons, while half world away
the Russians at Stalingrad stubborn
ly relinquished another small slice
of the city to the Germans.
The Japanese cruisers were hit by
General MacArth1r's bomberS off
BUN in the northern Solomons.
where the enemy apparently was
concentrating a major force to back
up the attack on Guadalcanal. In
addition to hits on the cruisers, the
American airmen reported probable
hits on large seaplane tender, sew
eral ships and seven flying boats.
There was little fresh news on
/ the Solomon encounter. However, a
London newspaper dispatch from
Pearl Harbor suggested that the
outcome of the battle might deter
mine whether the Americans would
find it possible to push north
against the japanese or the Japa-
nese to push south toward New
Zealand and the vital Australasia
supply line.
This report said the japanese may
have as many as 250,000 troops con-
centrated at Truk, their major base
in the Marshall islands, ready to
drive south if the attack on the
Solomons should succeed.
RUSSIANS YIELD
At Stalingrad the Russians had
yielded more ground in the batter
ed city to constantly attacking Nazi
forces. However, there appeared to
be no major change in the situa-
ton.
The German air force broke many
weeks of virtual inactivity Monday
by ranging over southern Britain
in a wide series of hit and run at
tacks. More than 20 East Anglican
points were attacked, briefly and
lightly for the most part. and Lon
don had three daylight alerts. Anti
aircraft guns in the environs went
into action and bombs fell in the
vicinity of the metropolis.
There was no explanation of the
sudden activity by the luftwaffe,
The fact that most of the attacks
we're directed against rural areas
and small towns suggested that the
Germans might be hitting for troop
camps and airfields.
AFRICA WATCHED
the possibility of an imminent AL
lied offensive in Africa stirred axis
propaganda sources.
There was no concrete indication
that an Allied move in Africa would
be forthcoming but the axis radio
made evident that the enemy was
Continued on Page 6, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Reds Fall Back
Under Nozi Drive
Thru StdIin9rod
Results on Two BattIefronts Hansin
Balance While Propaganda Centers on
Possible Allie d Offensive in Africa

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (UP)-Amercan naval ves-
sells heavily bombarded japanese positions on northwest
Guadalcana while u. S. airmen hammered steadily at
every ship and shore concentrations in the SolomOns the
Navy announced today. Disclosing that 90 enemy
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Denoted Again

Denoted Again
Since Mrs. George Thomas, wife
of the pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Ell Centro, started serv-
ing two shifts every week as an OBJ
server for the aircraft warning SER
vice she re-orga nized her home on
a wartime basis. All observers in
the Aircraft Warning service are in
the army, she was told. SO she inn
mediately went military.
"She even makes me salute her."
the Rev. DR.. Thomas complained.
Hes just a yard bird now she
said briskly.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Blaze Destroys
$1,000 in Tires
Repair Shop Set AbIaze by Electrical
Mould; Loss Estimated at Ceiling
Prices But Motorists Suffer More

The nations rubber supply had diminished Monday
after fire destroyed 900 worth of tires and tubes Sun
day in ramshacke building that was being used as re-
pair shop at 1913 Woodward.
The of the building Tweed Jolly. arrived at the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Hope Stirs for
SGT. Bob JuvenoI

Faint hope that her given up for dead still be
alive stirred in the heart of Mrs Jessie NJ Juvenal,
Brawley, Monday
Sgt Bob Juvenal is missing in action in the Philippines
the war department announced last May. Yet Monday
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

Who Dunnit?-
who Stole Half Duck?" is the
name of a real, live, mystery thriller
that has Ell Centre city employees in
its grip.
Someone presented Mayor Bob
Hatton with a cooked duck on the
half shell. Oh, no, we mean with
half cooked duck. Just as Hizzon
ner was ready to eat the succuient
tidbit, he was called to the tele-
phone in another room.
When he returned to his duck
there was nothing left but some we'll
picked bones.
Oh, we'll, it served him right for
being so darned long winded on the
telephone.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
Bad Luck jolly

bdU IItftN july
Tweed jolly hereafter will be
known as the Bad Luck Kid
He held a poker hand of aces and
queens Saturday night and was Just
ready to draw a full house when
the fire alarm sounded. He not
only didn't have time to draw but
il was his repair shop and tire col
lection that was burning merrily.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19
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(\EpoR1ER
Watch These Adults

Watch These Adults
There was mutual trust on all
sides at the Central Junior college
reception for Freshmen.
They were playing Hollywood
bridge for entertainment and Louise
Allen was officiating as one Of the
dealers. She took the word of ali
and sundry who had five cards in a
row. Nobody questioned anybody.
Mrs. Glenn Kieffer, wife of the
Junior college dean, was the first
adult to get in the game.
And the first time she said she
had five cards in row e. . . Louise
questioned her cards.
We must watch these adults, my
dear.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

Maximum Sunday 81, minimum
Monday Sc; 5 am. Monday SO, hu-
midity 81; noon Monday So, humid
ity 81; pm. Sunday 85, humid. "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

Tweed Jolly. arrived at the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-19

SOMEWHERE IN AUS
TRALIA, Oct. 10. (UP)-
The perilous Odyssey of two
American officers-from Ba-
taan to Australia in l5Q daYS-dur-