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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Deserter Hunted
In Sex Staying Of
2SociaI Workers
Serial Number on Check
Leads to Search for
Suspect in Murder

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. II.
(UP) = Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents said to-
day that Robert Taylor Bal
ley of Hattiesburg, Miss, a
deserter from Fort Bragg. N. c.,
was being sought for questioning
in the rape-slaying of two Wiscon-
sin social workers.
Clinton Stein, FBI agent in charge
here, said that photographs of
Bailey, who left Fort Bragg Sept.
l, had been identified by a LIE Sueur,
MINI, bank cashier as the rough
looking man" who cashed a check
Tuesday on the account of Neil Jon
Pietrangeli, one of the slayer's vic
tins.
In cashing the check, the man
wearing a soldiers uniform gave the
bank cashier his army serial num-
Der and signed both Miss Pietran-
CELLS lame and that of Robert
Bailey" to a check for $25
Stein said the serial number was
that of Robert Taylor Bailey, ac-
cording to records in Washington.
The Washington records also
showed, Stein said, that Bailey had
stolen a As caliber army revolver
at the time of his deSertion. Author
tiles, however, have not been able
to determine the caliber of the gun
used in the Staying, because the
bullets passed through the women's
bodies.
Miss Pierangeli, 25, and Miss Dor
othy Baum. 80. both of Kenosha
were attacked and shot late Mon
da" or early Tuesday. Miss Baum
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Poole on Trial
For Murder Soon

H. A. Poole, %, El Centre shoe
repairman, will go to trial in I'M
perial county superior court Monday
on a charge of numbering Charles
Ellis, SO, Brawley merchant, in an
attempted robbery of the Ellis
store in Brawley Aug. l.
A jury will hear the evidence
presented in Judge r. D. McPher-
rims court room beginning at 10
a. m. Monday with District Attor-
ney Elmer Heald handling the
prosecution and A. c. Finney, the
defense.
The merchant, a resident cf I'M
perial Valley for many years, died
from three bullet wounds in the
stomach. Brawley police said
Poole admitted the killing but re-
ported that he denied he had been
attempting OF rob Ellis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Former Fl Centran
Holds Vital Post

Floyd G. Farrar, former Ell Gen.
tran, recently was appointed head
of the San Francisco office of the
Maritime service and Immediately
was commissioned as a lieutenant,
the War Shipping administration
announced from Washington, DC.
Saturday.
He has been connected with the
Maritime service since its inception
in 1888 when he was editor of the
Maritime Service publication. In
l94l he went to San Francisco to
install enrolling facilities for young
men wanting training in the Mar
itime service at Port Hueneme at
Oxnard. Farrar was graduated
from Wilson elementary school in
Ell Centre and attended Central
Union High school.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
That's |mprovising,
Herr GoebbeIs

BERLIN, Sept. 12-CUP)-(Ger-
man Broadcast Recorded By UP in
London) - Dr. Joseph Goebbels,
saying that I'VE Germans are fam
Gus throughout the world for being
superior to any other nation in the
art of improvisation" urged local
authorities and individuals today to
rely on self help and initiative in
the face of emergencies.
Writing in "Das Reich" Goebbels
said:
IF freight train full of potatoes
is parked in the freightyard cf a
big town suffering a potato short
age, and there are not enough
railway workers to unload them or
enough vehicles for local transport,
then the potatoes will have to be
unloaded by the public itself"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Sept. 24th Last
Day to Register

Last day to register before the
general election in November will
be Sept. "a, County Clerk w. J.
McClelland said Saturday.
Registration books are available
at the county clerks office in the
court house in FL Centre and at
the city hall in El Centro, Braw-
ley, Calexico, Holtville, Imperial
Westmoreland and Cilipatria.
The ballot at the Nov. election
not only will contain the names of
candidates for important offices but
also 18 propositions upon which
the opinion of the electorate is
needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
4 Die
In Car
era sh
. .eddins Party
Wiped Out by
Highway Accident

All four members of a we'd
ding party were killed in a
traffic accident 10 miles
west of Westmorland early
Saturday while en- route from
the coast area to Yuma for the
ceremony.
Miss Jane Hoover, 81, Lynwood.
the brideto-oe. died in an ambu
lance while being taken from the
scene of the accident to hospital
Clarence Taylor, q, South Gate
the man she was TO marry, followed
her in death 6la hours later Their
wedding attendants, Edith Evans,
25, and E. Grady Evans, "a, both of
Lynwood, were killed instantly.
Both women were thrown from
the car when it collided head-on
with an empty truck and trailer
driven by AL Foster, 81, Burbank,
who suffered shoulder injury.
Hoover and Evans. were pinned in
the wreckage OF the car, Deputy
Coroner Herbert Hughes said.
The car, which was headed east
ward. reversed itself after the i'm
pact and was headed west when it
came to rest ON its wheels. Evans
was believed TO have been driving,
Highway Patrolman Alvin Bucklin
said.
Investigation revealed that the
car in which the wedding party was
riding passed a valley bound car
driven by James Horace Truchey
Of Los Angeles Immediately before
the accident. The wedding car pull
ed out of its traffic lane, passed the
Truchey car, swept into the path of
the on-coming truck and trailer
and crashed head-on into it.
The accident occurred at 4 80
am. Saturday on highway 80.
Taylor was employed at the Vega
Aircraft company in the Los An
geles area. data in his billfold indi-
Gated. Miss Taylor had a pay check
from chain drug store.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13


as can be carried by each individual
plus pledge to turn over to the
drive all the scrap metal at home.
The program will consist of amateur
and professional entertainment.
Henry Fonda and Thomas Mitchell,
actors in the valley for desert
scenes in forthcoming war film.
are due TO put in an appearance
at the show.
The drive is expected TO be COM
pleted in two weeks and during the
campaign all scrap metal collected
early this summer will be hauled
away in order to cut down trans
portation costs.
Small contributions should be
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Legionnaires Plan
Joint Installation
AT Westmor|and

Winter activities OF American Le-
sion posts in Imperial county will
begin officially at joint installation
ceremonies for county council and
post officers in Westmorland Veter-
ans hall at pm. Monday.
Pete Ostrander of Westmor-
land. commander of the twenty
second district of the Legion, will
officiate as installing officer.
County council officers to be in
stalled during the evening include
George Townsend of Calexico, COM
mander; Mark Magee of Ell Gen.
tro. first vice commander; Mike
Zayala of FL Centre, chaplain; and
Max Brents of Calexico, post adju-
tant.
Ell Centre post officials to be in
stalled include Felix Lehman, COM
Continued on Page 6; Column II
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
BLOOD FLOWS IN STAL|NGRAD STREETS
Wildcat Strike
Hits Steel Mill

GARY, Ind, Sept. 12-UP)-
The 160-inch plate mill at the
Carnegie Illinois Steel corpora
tion's Gary plant, the largest
steel plate unit west Of the Al
legheny mountains, operated
with company supervisors today
after a wildcat walkOut affect
ing $50 men.
A company spokesman said
enough supervisors and foremen
had been put TO work in the
crane department, where
walkOut of 80 men made $50
idle on each of three shifts, so
that the mill was operating on
a curtailed basis.
Thirty cranemen, leaders and
hOOkers struck, without author
iZatiOn of the CIO Steel Work.
ers union, at 4 p. IN. yesterday,
protesting the present incen-
tive wage scale for product
above normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

Patterson told thousands of cheer
ing workers assembled in a field
adjoining the sprawling plant that
the four-motored B-24 bomber they
were building was destined to play
an important role in Americas Of
fenSive against the Axis.
Edsel Ford said Willow Run has
become "a symbol of Americas pro-
ductive genius" Notwithstanding
what he describen as premature
publicity on the progress of the pro-
gram at this plant" Ford assured
Patterson and the workers that Will
low Run is operating ION schedule"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

ctDopoAAoAoi tiioAA5C III biiO ooohii-
grad battle lines in the last "a
hours. However, a Moscow radio
report heard by the Exchange Tele-
graph agency III London said NaZi
troops had fought their way into
Stalingrads streets and then had
been thrown out. A German radio
report claimed that the Red army
had been compelled Ito retreat fur
ther to the center" of the city.
The British Broadcasting compa-
ny quoted the Moscow radio as re-
porting the situation at Stalingrad
as critical" and said heavy fighting
was in progress for an important
height.
The Germans continue to launch
mass attacks, but so lar nave been
unable to break through" the BIC
said in a broadcast recorded in New
York by CHS.
Estimates indicated the Germans
had massed force of possibly l.
000. GOO men for the climax of their
drive on Stalingrad. They were
backed by hundreds of tanks and at
least 1000 planes. The exact size of
the Russian defending army was not
known but presumably numbered
several hundred thousand troops.
AIR WAR INACTIVE
The air war in western Europe
was inactive, presumably due to
bad weather, but British reports
indicated that the increasing weight
of Royal air force attacks are bear
ing heavily on the German popu-
lace.
The Uazi high command reported
that Russian counterattacks, design
ed to break the weight of the Ger
man attack on the Volga river city,
had been Tended off in battles rag
ing among the Stalingrad fortifica-
tionS.
A report from the usually unreli-
able Vichy radio, attributed to An
kara, said that the Germans had
crossed the Volga at some unspeci-
fled point on the Stalingrad front.
Moscow revealed that the Rus
slams have launched another diver
sionary attack, apparently of con-
siderable strength, in the Leningrad
area. Soviet troops were said to have
advanced six miles in a smash at
Gingavino. six miles south of Schlus-
Selburg.
In the Caucasus. where a Nazi
column is pushing on toward the
GroZny oilfieldS, the first autumn
SHOWS were falling high in the
mountains. However. the Germans
still were advancing and the fall
of NovoroSSiSk, Black Sea naval
base, was acknowledged by Moscow.
six days after it had been first
claimed by Berlin
JAP SHIP SUNK
Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported
a success by Allied planes which
attacked two Japanese deStroyers
off the southeastern tip of New
Continued on Page 6; Column %
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Chinese Hostess
Commits Suicide

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Pup
The body of Mrs. Alice Wong,
former Chinese nightclub hostess,
was found slumped in her hope
chest last night among the clothes
OF her wedding trousseau. A half
empty bottle of poison lay at her
feet.
Coroner's deputies termed Mrs.
Wong's death a suicide. Her hus-
band, William, shipyard worker,
discovered the body. He told po-
lice he believed his wife killed her.
self because she was respondent
over a quarrel that started prior to
their elopment to Reno in June.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

officials said. It's motor was en-
bedded in the concrete floor. The
rest of the plane skidded along the
floor for a short distance. after
striking at an angle.
Officials said the planes gasoline
ignited, but the air-raid precau:ion
unit in the plant quickly extin-
guished the fire, and kept injuries
and damages to a minimum" De-
bris was cleared away within two
hours, and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation Immediately opened
an investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Crashing. Burning Plane
Kills Eleven i'm Factory

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 12-(UP)
The mounting death toll of a
burning Army plane that crashed
through the roof of building at
one of the Curtiss- Wright corpor-
atoms plants reached IL today and
it was feared that nine of 38 in
jured persons would die.
Among. the critically injured, it
was reported, was j. Bertram Bur-
nell, 33, the pilot who was testing
the plane, and who bailed out late
yesterday when it caught fire high
above Buffalo airport
Frank Ryan of suburban Ken
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

iiau tlieii WeouiilS pldllS competed.
They intended to leave on an ex-
tended honeymoon tonight.
But Chief of Detectives e. w.
Yoris announced on the eve of the
wedding that Gwinn had confessed
Thursdays daylight holdup of a
large Seattle department store.
A tip led police to question Gwinn
after a bandit robbed the stores
payroll office of $700 in midafter-
noon
He had thrust a neat typewriter
note at Miss Anne Jensen, the pay
roll clerk. 1t said II have three
accomplices who are prepared to
cripple or MAIN anyone who sounds
an alarm. All four of us are armed
with automatic pistols equipped with
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
'Pasteboard Tanks
To Fool Enemy Get
1ryout on Desert
Mecharized Dummies to
Be Used in Feints
To Divide Attention

WITH THE U. S. ARMY
ON I H E CALIFORNIA
DESERT, Sept. II. (UP)-
Cardboard t a n ks, looking
surprisingly like the real
thing, made their debut today in
the army's desert battle maneuvers.
Camouflage experts of the U. S.
army corps of engineers expect
the pasteboard panzers to prove
just as troublesome for the enemy
as if the wooden guns and plastic
bodies were steel.
They are constructed in detail like
popular and potent tank used
in armored units and are designed
to fool even the expert scout,
whether he is in the air or on
the ground
I'VE don't intend to try to run
over an enemy with these fakes"
said the engineers captain who de-
signed and built the nations first
company of pasteboard tanks. "The
idea is that we can put these
phonies on a jeep = the army's
quarter ton truck-and fool even
the smartest foe as to our real in
tentions."
The tanks" are as fast and as
maneuverable as any of the mech
anized ground equipment, and they
cost only a small fraction of what
he government pays for land bat
tleships. A whole company of them
can be built in a short time.
IF an enemy sees company of
tanks driving at his flank" the
captain explained, you can well
bet that he's going to shift some
defense forces to a position to stop
them. So, if real tanks are not
to be spared for feint, why not
use fakes? The enemy can't tell the
difference.
Gums shifted to keep pasteboard
tanks at bay are just that many
guns taken away from the front
where they would be of value
against the tanks that are going to
hit where 1t hurts.
Wen move the phoney tanks
into a position for attack, allow
them to be seen, feint and with
draw. If necessary we can run
just as fast as anything he sends
after u.s."
The pasteboard panzers will have
crew of two men-a peep drive
and an assistant driver. They will
Continued on Page 6; Column %
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

more and another worker, San Sha-
lala, 40, of Buffalo, were killed at
their work when the plane burst
down upon them like meteor Les
ter Glenn. of Buffalo, an Army in
spector, died shortly before mid
night Frank Warda, Joseph Shio-
limo, Martin Till, Salvatore Palmeri
and Carlson Raugh, of Buffalo, and
Paul Chase of Glens Falls, all Cur
tiss- Wright employees, died before
dawn.
The plane tore an ''unbelievably
small" hole in the roof company
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

PaCCtTSOl, GOV. MufTay D. Van
Wagner of Michigan, Edsel B.
Ford, president of the Ford Motor
Co.. and r. J. Thomas, head of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
spoke at ceremonies dedicating the
$5,O00,O00 highway system to the
vast bomber plant.
At the conclusion of the ceremon-
les Henry Ford, 70 year old automo-
tive pioneer was introduced amid
thunderouS cheer from workmen.
Ford, making one of his rare ap-
pearances on public platform, said.
Il can't talk, but l do want to
say-'thank you"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

silencers."
Miss Jensen ruffled through bills
of large denominations and pushed
some small bills and waste paper
into the sack the bandit had hand
ed her. He then asked her to return
the note.
Gwinn confessed in the presence
of his father. Gardner j 0winn,
Seattle contractor, and detectives
reported they had found the holdup
note in the young mans pocket
The youth had worked az the de-
partment store during vacations and
knew the routine OF the payroll Of
flee.
He sent Miss Hayward note ex-
planning: Il did II for us."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Burglar losses
Loot Into Trees

SEATTLE, Sept. 12-CUP)-Will-
lam B. Morris, 81 year old diary
worker, was held today on open
charges while police climbed trees
looking for assorted jewelry Nor
ris told them he tossed there.
Morris, questioned concerning two
recent burglaries, told police he
took jewelry from one home and
tossed it up in the trees"
Police recovered several hundred
dollars worth of bracelets and neck
laces, hanging from twigs.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Boy Of 1bFaces
Trial for Murder

ELKO, New, Sept. IL - (UP) -
Floyd Loveless, 16 year old escaped
inmate of an indiana reformatory,
late today was held to answer for
district court trial on a first degree
murder charge.
Loveless is accused OF having ia
telly wounded Constable A. II. Bern
ing of Carlin on August 20 when
Berning attempted to arrest Love-
less. Time for Loveless' trial in
district will be set later.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Professor Turns
Thug for Fioncee

SEATTLE, Sept r. (UP)-Rodney Gwnn "a unver-
sity instructor and of prominent Seattle family plan
ned to be married today until police jailed him for robbng
department store to get "a start in married life
GWinn and his fiancee Miss Ruth HAYWARD Of Seattle,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Bombers Pledged
To Raid Tokyo

WILLOW RUN, Mich, Sept. 12. -Undersecretary
of War Robert p Patterson today hailed the Ford bomber
plant symbol of Americas productive might and prom
ised that or2 day SOON huge bombers produced Willow
Run 'will jam the air roads to Tokyo and Berlin"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Film Stars Will
Aid Scrap Drive
Big Rally at Fairgrounds to Openly.
Waste Metal Collection Campaign as
Committees Swing Into Ac+ion Here

Imperial Valleys scrap metal drive will begin Monday
in municipal and rural with big rally hghghted
by the appearance of motion picture location
in the valley scheduled at the county fair grounds We'd
nesday night. Admittance to the big show at the fair
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Critical Hour at
Hand for voISo
Industrial CitV
Germans Driving Deeper Into Defenses
With Massed Force Of Million Men
Thrown Into Climax Of Big Drive
By UNITED PRESS

German forces Saturday appeared to be driving deeper
into the Stalngrad deenses with indications that the
critical hour in the battle for the Voga key city was
at hand. The official Russian communique indicated no
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE

st. Louis ........... 020 900 00O-2-8-l
Brooklyn ............ 0l0 600 000-l-5-l
Lanier & w. Cooper, Macon, Da-
Wis & Owen.
list GAME
Pittsburgh ............ 0l0 900 000-l-9-2
Boston .......... 900 900 00X-4-6-O
Gornicki, Conger, Strincevich &
Phelps Tobin & Lombardi
-2nd GAME
Boston 0
Hallett & Phelps; Javery & Kuttz
Cincinnati ...... 0l0 100 020-4-6-l
Philadelphia .. 100 900 000-1-7-2
Riddle & Lamanno; Lapihuska &
Livingston, Bragan.
AMERICAN
New York 100 $50 600 7 7 0
Chicago ....... 900 900 00l- 8 3
Crandler and Hemsley; Wade,
Haynes and Dickey. Perme.
Washington 900 0
st. Louis loo 0
Scarborough and Early; Hol-
lingsworth and Hayes.
Philadelphia 900 002 0
Detroit 900 1903
Savage. Harris and Swift; Ben
ton, Trucks and Parsons. Reibe.
E,oston ...-....CG2 002 004-- 8 IA l
Cleveland ...... 100 oil 021- 6 8
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

IL Still Goes
Sheriff Robert W. Ware went to
San Diego to bring to Imperial
county a Marine wanted for some
thing or another The sheriff and
his prisoner stopped in Jacumba for
dinner.
They sat down at a counter. Di-
rectly opposite them sat eight or
nine sailors.
Sen" said the sheriff, "how
many sailors would you say one
Marine could whip?'
The Marine looked the sailors
over carefully before he said:
Three"
Are you Sure?" persisted the
sheriff. And did you know was
sailor in the last World War;"
ITS still three said the Marine
with a dogged lock at the officer
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
D AMBLINe
EpoR1ER
The Barricade-

The Barricade-
Fer several days, Park Burritt has
had difficulty in getting his car
out of the driveway at his home on
Eighth street.
Street crews have been engaged
in digging up the dirt preparatory
to spreading oil or something and
frequently Park has had to wait
until equipment moved out of the
way. One time he had to maneuver
his car spectacularly to get around
n spectators car left parked half
way across the Burritt driveway
while the fascinated spectator
watched the road scrapers at work.
Saturday morning Burritt came
out of his house and looked anx-
iouSly toward his driveway. Heaped
in great ridges and stacked in neat
piles, the dirt formeda perfect bar
ricade across the Bulritt driveway.
ITO heck with it," gritted Park
and he walked to work.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13
WEATHER

Maximum Friday, SO, minimum Saturday So; pm.
friday 80, humidity 1S; am. Saturday 62, humid
ty Al: noon Saturday 81, humidity Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-13

BUTTERFLIES Angeles extra 46c; grade A cream
62Isc; manufacturing milk Size; route gathered
cream 48c.
L. A. IIAY-U. s. No I S23-23.50; u. S. No. 2 Ieafy
L. V. S2i 80; No. Sl9-l9.50; September flax
S2.42a.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-29
7 Tacomans Joined
Army Here Saturday

Enhstments in the Tacoma re-
cruiting office Saturday numbered
81 out OF which seven were Taco
ma men. according TO Capt Cecil
NJ. Rhea. The enlistments brought
the total for the month to PIG in
the Tacoma office, compared to 81
for the preceding month.
Tacoma men who enlisted are
as follows: Paul s. Faust, 40. hus-
band OF Mrs. Ola d. Faust of Ri. ?
who entered the air force special
lists corps; Frank Drahorad. so. son
Of Mrs. Anna Drahorad of 5616 So
Durango. who enlisted IN the air
force: Dodson B. GRAPHICAL, 81, OF
3l3 No. J st, who entered the alr
force: Charles F. Gilbertson. D.
son OF Albert f. Gnbertson of Rt
5, who entered the air force. Carl
Cooper. ~. Of 21e St Helens ave,
who entered the transportation
corps. Lyle z. Coker. 25. son Of
George +. Coker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-29
Car Thieves
Nearly Cause
Bad Accident

Only good luck prevented a
serious accident Sunday night at
South Tacoma way and NJ st.
when two youths who had been
attempting to steal a car jumped
out and let IL roll down the NJ st.
hill and across the highway.
The car was being taken from
the Fisher Motors yard at that
intersection when an employe,
Glen Sparks. drove up to look
over the place. The two boys, de-
scribed as about 16 years old.
leaped from the arabout half
way up the hill and fled into the
brush.
Crossing the drive. the car
crashed into the Foster 4 Kleiser
building Sparks found the COM
pany office also had been ran
sacked. Apparently nothing was
taken but a ring Of about 20
car keys.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-29
Schedule Meetings
Thursday, Friday

Women Of the Bible Presbv-
terrain church will meet az fol-
lows:
Gospel Group l viii meet Thurs
day, AT the home of Mrs. Roy T.
Brumbaugh. 1928 No. Fife st
Luncheon at 1890 Mrs. n. f.
Bingham win preside at the BUSH
ness meeting following. and Mrs.
Ida May Swift Will teach the Bible
lesson.
Gospel Group 6 will meet Fri
day with Mrs. w. G. Combs. 1874
Mckinley ave. Pot-luck luncheon
at 1890. The hostess will preside
at the business meeting. and will
introduce Mrs. F. DuPuis who will
conduct the Bible study and Mrs.
f. A. Livermore the mission
lesson.
Gospel Group : viii meet Thurs
day with Mrs. p. L. Peterson. 3s17
Fawcett ave. for dessert lunch
con at 1890. Mrs. J. A. Cook.
president. viii be in charge Of the
afternoon meeting, and the Bible
study will be conducted by the
hostess