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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
Hirohito Visits
Ancestral Shrine

BERLIN. Dec. "A. German broad
cast recorded by UP in New York
Emperor Hirohito has visited the
Ise Shrine to report to his ancestors
on the successes of the japanese
army and to ask their aid in WIN
ming final victory, an official news
agency Tokyo dispatch said today
The Tokyo newspapers called the
visit sensational, the dispatch said
because the emperor had made SIM
liar visits only on his enthronement
and the 2,600th anniversary OF the
japanese empire.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
Waocs Discharge
Strip Teuser

and talked the manager into giving
her a spot in the show.
STRIP TEASE ACT
He did not know she was a WAAC
at the time and placed her pictures
out front, showing her dressed i'll
a saronG for her Samoan Love
Dance" and in Il black evening
gown which she used in her strip
tease.
A girl friend recognized the pic
lures and military police and the
gIrlS company commander returned
her to the fort.
Miss Gregory was a professional
dancer and singer before she joined
the army.
Her act was the best one we had
At the theater," Pete De Cessna,
manager of the Casino. said regret
fully when she was taken away.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
Arnold Reveals
Secret Weop pons

RANDOLPH FIELD, Tex. Dec
IA. CUPl-Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arm
old. chief of the u. S. Army air
forces, predicts that the Axis will
suffer "paraly2ing blows" from "a
secret weapon or two" developed by
American airmen.
Arnold addressed graduates of
four Texas flying schools here Sun
day and told them that the u. S.
air forces would soon put ON a
demonstration for Hitler and Hiro-
hito, and We don't think that they
are going to like it either
He also promised that American
planes will raid Tokyo again and
said I'VE hope to make it SOON
NOT JUST ONCE
And when we do come it will
be in large numbers he said. I'VE
won't stop with one visit but we
will return again and again
Arnold announced that we have
secret weapon or two up our aer-
ial sleeves that will deal paralyzing
blows to our enemies.
Our fighters and bombers are
steadily increasing in range. speed,
tirepoWer and bomb loads he said.
Il will also state that entirely new
battleWagons are on the way"
He said that within few months
Germany and italy will be hit by
hundreds of planes dropping their
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
Union Money Fails
Despite Majority

SACRAMENTO. Dec. A. L P
Nine California labor organizations
spent a total of S374.790 in an un-
successful attempt 10 defeat prop
osition No. /. the referendum or
the anti-hot cargo and secondary
boycott. it was revealed in new No
vember 3 election expenditures re-
leased today by Secretary OF state
Paul Peek
A total of S1l0.l46 was spent by
the 10 organizations fayorin9 the
proposition. Among the larger con-
tributors to the opponents were the
California State Federation of La
Dor. Sl9l ,4c6. and Pabor's Protective
League OF Los Angeles. S86395.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
TO ATTEND VICTORY
TAX SESSION ON COAST

CoGaty Auditor Walter Carey anG
Deputy District Attorney Charles
CT Halliday will attend the Victory
tax meeting in Los Angeles this
week. Representatives OF the in
,cynal revenue department Will cX-
plain the tax and details OF col
lecting it to auditors and dls5urS-
ing departments OF AL taxing
AGENCIES
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tIOnIlnueO IIOm Fakt =
exit. when a wall of flames. sweep
ing down the corridor blocked it.
Those in front we're held by the
flames. but at the same time were
being pushed into them BY the on
rush Of the panic-stricken from be-
hind. Fighting became a general
melee. but II didn't last lona The
flames swept in over ali.
The lights had failed with the
first alarm. and the entire building
was in darkness. The radio an
nouncer VAS swept from his sta
ton. but his mlcrophone remained
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Cars Drop Into
Pavement Holes
Continued from PAGE

ricadeS?"
Many of the people Jones add
ed, have even driven cars through
these barricades and dropped into
holes. Others have just, without
thinking, stepped into them. Please
remember there is Il we'll known
theory . Editors note: This por-
tion of the letter must be deleted
because many of our subscribers
would object .rightfully to its word
ingD and I'm wondering which
category your Rambling Reporter
and the people who fell into the
holes fit into"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
EMlIE /OLA'S
DAUGHTER DIES

LONDON. Dec. 14-,UP' - Nine
Demise Iebclond. daughter OF the
famous French Novelist Emile Zola
dicd today in Paris. the Fr-nch
Hayas news agency reported. Nine
Lebolcnd was an authOreS5 OF chll-
drcns books and wrote bioeraph.
of her late father
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
SeanningI.V.
News Horizon
MRS. MINNIE GRIFFIN
SUCCUMBS AT 81

Mrs. Minnie Griffin. 81 pioneer
resident of the Holtville area, dice
Monday morning at the home OF
her daughter. Mrs. Blanche Sparks.
Funeral arrangements We're not
complete Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14

DES MONIES, Ia. Dec. IA. CUP
Kathryn Gregory. the Shapely
red haired WAAC who went AWOI
to become burlesque theaters
chief strip tease attraction, receiv-
ed an other than honorable" dis
charge from the WomenS Army
AuXiliary Corps today.
Col. j. A. Hoag. commandant at
the Ft. DeS MoneS training center
said the discharge corresponded To
a dishonorable one from the regu-
lar army. When the commandant
first learned that Miss Gregory had
been maneuvering on a downtown
stage in South Sea Island uni
form. he described her as Just a
girl who didn't understand her
responsibilities in the women's ar
my
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
Big Texas Ranch
Owner Succumbs

los ANGELES, Dec. IA. up
Elnerai arrangements were being
iaanr< today 70 Andrew AcEer
SUI. 4. wealthy oWmr OF the o. H
Irlsu.la ranch in MERTON, Tex.
Tne Texas rdncher died in hi,
sleep yesterday III his winter home
in Les Angr,cs.
lis brother and sister, Calvin II
lnd Fla G. Sugg, were en- route from
San Angelo. Tex.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
TRIED BY PEERS

Miss Gregory. who had been billed
as Amber DGeorg, the exotic
glamour girl direct from Holly
wood" at the Casino theater was
tried by a board of three third
officers in the WAACS. Their rec
concentrations were forwarded to
Washington and approved.
The 22-year-old dancer from Fort
Worth. Tex. Joined the WAACS
Nov. 6 and had been in training
only slightly more than two weeks
when she appeared at the Casino
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Rambling Reporter

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water pitcher she had been using
and slammed it at the bush
-Four little dead birds struck the
earth
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14

bombs not on one or two nights a
week. but every day and night in
the week" Transportation facilities,
industries and armament plants will
be bombed Arnold said, and hun
dreds of thousands of people will
have to move from ruined cities to
other localities"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14
ENEMY RELUCTANT

They will realize what 4 true
war of today means" he said. Such
is the fate that will come to both
German" and Japan"
Arnold said u. s. aircraft pro-
duction already had outstripped the
combined output of Germany and
Japan and said Americas program
contemplated doubling of the pres
cnt production figure of 1000 planes
a month. He asserted that the Axis
already had passed its peak in the
air and was on the downgrade.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14

ETHIOPIA DECLARES WAR
LONDON. Dec. l4.-tU PJ-The
Ethiopian legation announced to-
day that Ethiopia had proclaimed
a state Of war with Germany, Italy
and Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14

s Ich dainty Satin Slips in
lace trimmed and tailored
st les to show you . 4-9orc
and bias styles all sizes
some with lace and georg-
cite bra tops :, A big variety.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14

and talked the manager into giving
her a spot in the show.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-14

Hore,s tie kind Of house slipper men like
Tan kid Romeo -. Il style that hts tn
ankle . E. can be worn cut ot doors comfort
able soft feathers Evans quality will maxi
them last for years.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
TschaikOWSkY

Peter Tlyitch Tschaikowsky is the best-known, if not also the great est of the Russian composers. He was born in 1840, and though he did not at first show any great musical aptitude, his artistic fac ulties woke up when he was about twenty, and he devoted himself to music till his death in 1893. He composed eleven operas, six sym phonies, (of which the last, the "Pathetique," is the most famous) and many examples of other types of music. His "1812 Overture" written for the dedication of a church built as a memorial of the Russian victory over Napoleon, is frequently performed on popular symphony programs.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
Average California Bird
 Something of Smoke-Eater

Proof that the average California bird has all of the smoke-eating qualities of the big city fireman is being furnished to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the Univer- sity of California. A number of badly smudged avian specimens from the citrus belt of Southern California have been received at the museum, together with much first hand evidence to show that the birds kept right on with their singing and their household chores in the thick of the black, billowing smoke from the orange grove smudge fires dur ing the record cold snap.
 Running birds, house wrens, thrashers, warblers, goldinches, sparrows and towhees were seen fitting about from one smoke cloud to another during the smudging pe- riod, their bodies black with soot, but they showed no outward evil dence of being bothered. Unlike the big city firemen, they were un- able to remove the grime after the smudging period had passed, for it worked into their feathers like a dye. Many may be seen in South- ern California disguised as black birds, while many others have gone on their migrations still bearing this evidence of their experience with the citrus smudge fires. The mott, however, is expected to bring back their feathers in their natural hues.
 The scientists in the museum ex- plained that the limitations of in stinct and the necessity for home building in the old haunts prevented the birds from flying away and es- caping the smoke. But why the thick, choking smoke caused no apparent rise in the mortality or the conduct of the birds, is a question that the museum staff would like to answer.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13

his glasses. polish them nervously, adjust them and stare again in her direction in a dazed sort of way.
 AS soon as her heart ceased its nervous futter and the blood stopped pounding in her ears she re- alized that her three companions were talking about Joe and the big blonde. They had not recognized Ethel.
 'I see Joe Peel has Bernice Car rier in tow tonight. I wonder how that happened" one of the women said.
 Why, don't you know? Bernice was one of Joe's old girls. She was crazy about him"
 Why didn't he marry her? She was a handsome girl"
 She's got over it-I mean, looks. Why, Joe told my husband he never got so tired of girl in his life as he did of Bernice. She was pure saccharine. You know the kind? She let him boss the life out of her, even let him tell her what to wear. He liked purple, and she wore pur- pie to please him."
 'I wonder if that's the reason that little red-headed wife of his al- ways wears purple. By the way, I don't see her tonight!"
 'She isn't here If she was she'd look like purple pansy. You couldn't miss her."
 The conversation drifted off into other channels.
 Ethel wished she could vanish in thin air.
 The rest of the meal was a dream to her.
 Ethel had slipped out, intending to go home before anyone recognized her. She was putting on her coat when Joe appeared.
 Where you going, Ethel?" he asked in his dearest voice.
 "Home," Ethel managed to say.
 Nothing doing, darling. You are going to stay right here and meet the folks. I want you to rescue me from that dumb Dora I had to sit beside. If you don't help me get rid of her Tll-why, I'll hang my self. Say, baby, you're the sweet est thing I ever saw in that black. You look like a duchess or some- thing. Gosh! I'm proud of you. I'll tell the world I'm proud of my wife's good sense-"
 There was a demure sparkle in EthePs blue eyes.
 Will you love me, Joe, if I still refuse to wear purple?"
 Say, if I ever catch you wearing purple again Tll-say, will you for give me? I've been a blind fool. But here comes some of the crowd, and the old girl leads the way. This is what happens only once in a lifetime. Miss Carrier, meet the lit- tie wife"
 To her dying day Ethel would never forget the pride that sWelled Joe's voice.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
Always 54 Degrees

It can be truthfully said that M m m oth cave in Kentucky breathes only once year. In the summer the air outside the cave is warmer than the air within. These conditions are reversed in the win ter months. Cool air rushes out of the cave in the summer and into it in the winter. It matters not what the temperature is outside the cave. the temperature inside always re- mains at 54 degrees.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
Surnames in "Ett"

"Ett" is a dininutive ending fre- quently used with surnames which have their origin in baptismal names. It can generally be stated that names ending in "ett' were originally nicknames. Most ire quently this ending is found in names of French origin; but 1t sometimes occurs in names of other nationalities as well, says R. T. Pat terson, Director of the Media Re- search Bureau of Washington
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
Paints Were Edible

According to history, paints made in early colonial times were edible. Boiled rice, skinned milk and salt were among the raw materials used in making homemade paints. Early American cookbooks contained for mulas for making the various colors desired.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
}ecyd &86os,sz.> ADVENTURES CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
Stretching His Luck" By FLOYD GIBBONS
 Famous Headline Hunter

HELLO, EVERYBODY:
 Teddy was a wing walker You know, one of those birds in flying circus who does things the wing of plane you wouldn't try your paror They must need money mighty bad, you tell your neighbor.
 Teddy always a rnt That's he wanted as little weight possible there covered wings of those Jenne the using right the war They weren't built for walking his
 old he began to look around
 Something that them kick hanging your never pays to play the other fellows But he
 We'll sir it flying playing Iowa that Teddy the idea looking he watched human fly scale the opmost story the fly attached window sunk his teeth the other Teddy the stunt got the And would when he pulled it plane thousand feet in the air
 Human Fly Showed Him the Trick.
 When the fly himself invited him to Maybe they hoisted couple enough to tell Teddy how
 Before he went to bed that night couple of brand tubes flying he rigged them had been fastened end of Then, climbing his teeth and kicked the
 The darn thing stretched his the tube couple feet higher and everything fine.
 Day after day Teddy regousy practced strengthen the put the front teeth that bdgeWo six weeks later Teddy 10
 Before further had better tell Davidson of Gaesburg H. They still call him
 He all of that afternoon September n Ill., where the flying circus putting it's show making
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Teddy Tried It Out in Moline.


 Especially Teddy He was going to their out with brand deatdefyng stunt performed for the occurred to him then this would be the time The inner tube fastened securely the the of the Jenny And everything off according schedule u Teddy began lowering himself down that wrgg slippery fabb length of rubber.
 hen," Teddy says I my luck too far"
 learning painful simple physics!
 figure of body miles hour the the Teddy added thirty forty pounds the weight of that big rubber band.
 That started stretching stretching Teddy like thing slipped fought it!"
 The i stretched, the a wing walker bright hang had that practice. hold? Could hold? What he going do about it? Teddy he dumb climb back That probably too busy holding
 We'll sir of I of And i became After rassng for ten minutes with that flexible his tired.
 Then His Bridgework Gave Way. He slipped Finally he had to let himself could his teeth into the attached to the Tapping clamped The limp with
 His head forced back he the stretch aarmngly gusts wind put his body There feet of between him and the landing In practice, it had stretched than three Teddy tried relax the plane cd fifteen hundred the grandstand His aching arms folded resting for that long climb safety He wasn't he could do it. But he ted to dwell the idea for long There wrench crunch of pain in Teddy's face.
 The bridgeWok that Teddy had crushed! The of the moutpee however tucked they gripped Still gripping nchng his along that thing twisted tough tubing had strange We'll and girls there proonging agony.
 says, by margin decided then and there to be satisfied with old bag of tricks" Teddys Those artificial his vanished into thin during the minutes he struggled that rubber All the buy a set
 The wing walker says, stretch my again"
 @-WNu Service
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HIS OLD GIRL
 s By ETA WEBB c Associated Newspapers WNU Service.

IIX YOU'LL wear your purple Y chiffon tonight, Ethel"
 Joe Peel said as he
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-13
Coral Garden in the Pacific. Sea Gardens of the Tropics Are
 Replete With Lovely Growths

Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington D. C.-WNU Service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-04

was tense and nervous as the three
planes roared in toward the low
sand dunes.
But as the first bursts of fax spat
at them, and, Sergt. Golay's voice
came over the inter communication
phone with the words give EN- hell,
captain!" Capt. Kegelman said he
lost all his tenseness.
It was just as well that he did, for
before he got home again he was
to see the other American crew
crash when hit by a shot from Nazi
fax tower, and his own plane just
miss the same fate.
One shot struck Capt. Kegelman's
right engine, ripped oil the whole
front of it. Down went his plane,
down, down until 1t brushed the
ground, sending up q shower Of
sparks and dust.
The men in the plane held their
breaths as the pilot miraculously
yanked it back into the air, righted
it and plunged on ahead on one
motor.
Nazi Guns Silenced.
AS the plane staggered along, the
German gunners in the flax tower
poured a stream of fire toward the
crippled bird, but Capt. Kegelman,
nevertheless, flew headlong at the
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Roosevelt Sends Panama
Independence Day Message
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt sent this Pam
amanian independence day message
yesterday to President Ricardo
Adolfo de- La Guardia of Panama:
Il offer to your excellency and
to the people of Panama the sincere
congratulations of the Government
and people of the United States on
this anniversary of the independ-
ence of Panama.
"Since the celebration of this &C.
casion year ago, our two countries
as partners in the defense of a COM
mon cause, and of the New World,
have taken significant and positive
steps against enemies bent on the
destruction of our right to exist as
free men.
Upon sending these greetings 1t
is gratifying to contemplate the sin
cere friendship and cordially that
characterize our cooperative ef-
forts"
Panama asserted it's independence
from Colombia on November 3, 1908,
and 10 days later was recognized by
the United States as an independent
nation.
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bomber pilot was posted to an RAJ
squadron. On hts arrival there, some
Of the men thought he looked "a
miliar.
Haven't We seen you before7'
they asked.
Eyes, you have" grinned the New
Zealander. II was the pilot of one
Of those planes that collided in the
blacmess over your 'drome q couple
Of months ago. / jumped at SOC
feet and luckily the chute opened in
time. You boys picked me up and
that drink was q ife-saver.
II remember this squadron, al
right"
Two days after I left this air
drome, the commanding ofacer and
all the top men of the squadron, in
Guiding the new arrival, failed tc
return from q raid.
But It's not all too serious, this
air war.
Take Paddy Newton Paddy, a
tail gunner attached to an RCAF
night bomber station, returned safe
ly from q particularly dangerous
raid one night, but half an hour
later broke his collar bone in spill
from his bicycle while riding to his
hut in the blackout.
mo Future in Flying"
there's no future in. flying
that's the standard expression
around the airdromes as the lads
kid each other and joke about
death.
There's no future in BICYCLING
that was Paddy's version of the say
ing after his fall into ditch.
Another example OF the Mocha
lance:
This crew had just bombed Osna-
bruck in the Western Rhineland
They had caught hell frcm the flax
and one motor was gone. They
were nursing the craft across the
North Sea when the captain warned
his crew that they might have tc
ditch"
Put yourself in the position OF
these boys in the half disabled
plane. Picture facing the prospect
of hours tossing about in tiny
rubber boat in the sea-and ever
that only if you're lucky enough te
survive the crash landing.
Each of the flyers recalled the
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tower and silenced their guns with

tower and silenced their guns with
his own.
Capt. Kegelman and his men got
back to their airdrome safely.
They were Americas pioneers ir
European air fighting in this war
the first of the USAAF to taste the
wrath of the Hun when he Is at
tackled over ground he has stolen
and is trying to keep.
Since then, since last July 4
American airmen have participated
almost daily in sweeps across the
Channel to prove their mettle as
fighters.
That July 4 sortie was fight
and a good fight, but all OF the
danger isn't over France; some OF
it's right in England, both in the
air and on the ground.
There was the time light bomber
coming back to its Midlands air
drome after a raid, struck high
tension wire strung from steel tow
ers near the 'drome. The only
damage to the bomber was that
the wire sheared of the top of its
glass nose.
They'd Seen Him Before.
In 50 doing, however, the wire
snatched out the navigator, who was
in the nose. He was killed.
There was the time New Zealand
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saying there's no future in flying,
and here 1t was-about to happen.
Everybody was making the last
minute preparations for q crash
landing in the sea; all were tense.
Suddenly over the inter-com-
munication phone came the voice
of Jock McDougal, the tail gunner,
saying:
We'll, chaps, thank God I haven't
paid my mess bill"
AS matter of fact, the plane in
which this light-hearted lad rode
didn't crash. 1t finally made its
way back home. And when 1t
landed, there was a man waiting to
greet Jock.
It was the mess president-the
man who collects the bills.