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The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17
By THORNTON W. BURGESS

TT IS fun to play dodge when the one who is trying to catch you is a friend and it is all a game. But to play dodge when the one trying to catch you is doing it so as to have you for his dinner is quite another matter. It isn't fun then unless you are sure that you can get away, but it is very exciting. Peter Rabbit is one of the best dodg- CTS on the Green Meadows or in the Green Forest. One of the very first things Peter learned when he was a very little fellow was how to dodge.
 But never had Peter had greater need of knowing how to dodge than now. You see, he had been having a terrible fight with himself in the Green Forest, trying to decide whether to tell Buster Bear where Busy Bee kept her store of honey and so make Buster his friend, or whether to keep it to himself. If he told, Buster would be sure to make trouble for Busy Bee, for he is very fond of honey. He want ed to tell, for he was very, very anxious to have Buster his friend,
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17
From Forest to Preside

Since the ancient Egyptians, cen turies before Christ, wove, pounded and polished reeds to make sheets of papyrus, paper has been made of vegetable substances. From about 1880, the most prolific source of paper for printing has been the American forests of conifers, the spruce being the most important tree for this purpose. Virtually all newspapers are printed on paper made from a mixture of ground end chemically digested wood.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17

dinner Peter would make But when Peter finally did make up his mind not to tell, he started to turn back, for then, of course, he didn't want to find Buster Bear. Like a red flash, Reddy was after him.
 Now. you know, Peter's eyes are so placed that he can see behind him without turning his head, and the very second Reddy jumped, Pe- ter saw him and dodged sidewise, so that Reddy missed him. But Red dy is almost as quick as Peter, and in flash he had turned and Peter had to dodge again.
 'I'l get you this time!" snarled Reddy.
 "Youll be smarter than you've ever been before if you do," panted Peter, lodging behind tree.
 "Caw, cav, cawl" shouted Blacky the Crow, who happend along just then. "Go it, Peterl"
 Peter went it. He twisted his way and lodged that way, with Red dy Fox right at his heels.
 At last Peter saw a great pile of brush. If he could get under that he would be safe. He dodged just in the nick of time, and then, draw. ing a long breath, he started for that pile of brush as fast as ever he could.
 "Caw, cav, cav, caw!" shouted Blacky the Crow.
 CT. w. Burgess.-WNU Service.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17
Early Furniture-Making

Until comparatively recent times, woodworking did not exist. There was no need for it. Ancient peoples spent most time outdoors Merely eating and sleeping in the home. they used little furniture, usually preferred that to be made of metal But about 400 years ago woodwork. ing became an art; furniture mak. ing was highly profitable and it's secrets handed down from genera. tion to generation. But machinery. made furniture ended that.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17

future. In fine physical shape and looking younger than his B years, he is not blustery but strong fight CT who believes the 1940 election will decide America's future. Van denberg supported many Roosevelt measures in 1894 and even today is not unduly hostile. He was born in Grand Rapids, Mich, the son of a harness maker. Eventually he be- came publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald and was appointed to the senate in 1928. He was granted an honorary degree by the University of Michigan.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17
F&d &S6ot'sz> ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES @Y OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
''The Crack of Doom"
 By FLOYD GIBBONS
 Famous Headline Hunter

| ELLO EVERYBODY:
 Fate plays dirty tricks some of us-and to others gives all the breaks. George Keser of Clinton, Iowa, must be of Fates favorites George woke up day out of sound sleep to listen to the Crack of Doom-and he lived to tell the story
 George railroad the lads who work the railroad all to have adventure their hats Georges him in 1884, working brakeman St. P. P railroad, a Island, Iowa.
 the morning of April The night before George had had meal restaurant Nahnt of the food he atewe thinks it tainted the sick with lot of the symptoms of poisoning
 felt pretty badbut he thought feeling
 off he pitched in and worked bit freight
 brakng that and when the
 aboard her. But that terrible feeling didn't off, Instead
 it got
 George Was Sick and Went to the Caboose.
 He stuck to his job reached Le Claire Iowa, ing longer. He the called take Georges work
 George went back the caboos thankful chance But he wouldn't have that Fate had picked that for it's especial attention that the caboose to be the
 George lay bunk began dropped off into sound sleep and while he sleeping Fate began set the
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17
! NIL I E 3 A ? E $:
ARTHUR H. vANDENBERG

Already such Republicans as Her bert Hoover and Ali Landon are preparing for battle, but the party's Washington leader, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, is strangely silent. Too canny to accept a presidential nomination last year, he probably is still reticent about the party's
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17
FOR INFORMAL
 AFTERNOONS

Betty Furness, petite MetrO-Gold- wyn-Mayer actress, wears this tiny off-the-face hat in tucked pink wool crepe, designed by Meadowbrook. It Is very plain and is tied in the back with 8 simple bow.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17

stopped Comanche train orders He looked the odersbu there he missed.
 And that order had to do with certain tranon the track his usingwhich had left behind him and coming along at fast clip with stops scheduled
 How It Feels to Be in Collision
 George asleep so he didn't anything it. He had been told behind em smashed right through the caoose in which George lay smashing it to machwood Then kept right smashed up two freight cars ahead of the caboose Figure chances yourself. A sleeping Anybody who would nickel for Georges chances would throwing good
 Since the tme" he says that broke sumber The followed ening of escaping steam felt though being bodily by giant hand and thrown great distance.
 opened and sight say appan- ing Everything about seemed to be breaking The tearing from the walls and bending at sides the car were splitting and breaking The back end was crushed in The floor buckng and heavng For just blackness!"
 George long was out but when he reganed b heId him Sou He tried to rgpTe M h e & % % b %eo and see if he was bleeding, but he was pinned fast
 Then He Heard the Deadly Steam.
 held down tightly" he that only thing lay still minute and then suddenly hiss escaping steam began to for help then but the noise of the steam loud that my voice couldn't be heard
 Again George screamed and agan of threw him into panic. Hot steam engine boiler scaded many man to death and raroader knows what But this steam wasn't close George him. and finally one of the tranmen from the O. B. & e. his cries.
 whole dragging body pryng up hmbers and pushing the debris aside They only few seemed hours George fighting pressure of he that bearing down his body
 him of expected anything but man badly not fatally injured After locomotive crashes through smashing to machwod don't expect the man soe to come out unhurt But THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE DID
 him out nothing body but few scratches They took him to hospital and the doctors couldn't anything else with him either outside of bad isn't Fates whiteheaded
 cpyreht.-wNU Service
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-17

nFF the south coast of Florida O 170-mile "overseas highway" to Key West will be completed this year through an allotment of $3,- 600,00 from the Public Works ad- ministration. Where trains once passed on the famous Key West rail- road, workmen are removing rails and widening bridges to permit a two-lane roadway. When complet-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
laps on Receiving
End of bombinqs

CALCUTTA, Dec. %. Delayed
CUP - American and British air
forces are dropping five tons of
bombs On Japanese military objec-
tives in Burma for every ton the
enemy losses at random in nuisance
raids on India, Informed quarters
reported today.
Allied bombers and fighters are
concentrating particularly on Japa-
nese airfields and it was believed
that a heavy raid Christmas on one
such important base probably ac-
counted for the encmy's failure to
attack that night.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Two Planes Lost
In Alaskan Area

HEADQUARTERS, Alaska De-
Tense Command, Dec. %. CUP -
Delayed of two army Light
ming fighter planes during a bomb
ing and strafing raid Dec. 26 on
Japanese-held Attu Island was an
nounced today by Alaska defense
command headquarters.
The planes were downed as re-
suit of accuracy and intensity of
japanese anti-aircraft fire at Attu,'
the announcement said.
Lieut.. Artie A. Kayser of Oakland
Cal, pilot of one of the fighters
was rescued from a tiny island after
making a forced landing at sea
The plane had completed 300 miles
of the return flight when it was
forced down.
Lieut.. KaySer's plane also was hit
but he kept it in the air and headed
for his base. Damage forced the
plane down in the surf of an unin-
habited island. Kayser, uninjured
swan ashore in the bitterly colo
water, and subsequently was res
cued by Navy patrol bomber pilot
ed by Lieut.. j. E. Brant.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Six Missing On
Army Bomber Hop

TAMPA, Fla, Dec. 30.-OP)-
Six persons, including a 36-year-
old member of the Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps, have been missing
aboard a medium Army bombers be-
tween Tampa, Fla, and San An
tonic, Texas, since Monday, mill
tary authorities said today.
The WAAC is third officer, Flea
nor c. Nate, SO, of Willmette, ILL.,,
wife of Maj. Joseph c. Nate, 80,
who was also a passenger on the
missing craft.
Others aboard were Second Lieut..
William A. Booth, 81, Lexington,
Mass, Pilot; Flight Officer Ray
mond J. Jewett, %, Pittsburg, Calf,
co-pilot; Second Lieut.. Edward E.
Stevens, 90, Bethesda, Md. neviga-
tor, and Staff Sgt. A. Kennedy, 80,
Cambridge, Mass.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
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Allied Wedges Cut
Jap Beaehhead on
New Guinea Coast
BY BYRON TAVES

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, AUTRALIA, Dec. 30,
-CUP)-Two expanding allied
wedges in the Japanese beach head
near Buna threatened today to is
olate forces still holding out near
the western end of the main Jap
anese air strip.
An enemy strong point contain
ing Is bunkers was reduced yes
terday, an allied communique said.
This was in irregular area south
east of the Buna Mission which
had been bypassed in the early
stages of the beach head fighting.
In eastern New Guinea, where
the Japanese less than six months
ago had free hand and were plan
ming a thrust still nearer to Aus
tralia, the enemy had left today
a strip of jungle and swamp one
and three eighths miles long and
only 1900 yards wide at its wild
est.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Man, Wife to Die
In Gas Chamber

RALEIGH, N. c., Dec 30.-North
Carolina today prepared to execute
a man and his wife on New Years
Day. Execution will be in the gas
chamber.
Daniel and Rosanna Lighter
Phillips of Gastonia, are the pair,
and almost on the eve of death
each declared faith in the witch
craft of Africa and expressed faith
that voodooism would save them.
They were accused of the axe
murder of Harry F. Watkins, "a, a
wealthy landlord of Durham
county
Rosanna, a scarfaced mother OF
two children, who sang and played
on her 26th birthday, last Christ
mas Day, said, that man has me
crazy as a bedbug right now and
swear I amt had nothing to do
with no KILN"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
WEDGES ADVANCE

This beach head extended from
the mouth of Entrance creek, near
the village of Buna, to the end OF
the airstrip from which the Jap
anese had been pushed back.
The allied wedges were working
toward Gairopa point from the east
and west, in pincers movement.
The eastern wedge, moving between
strip, expanded its salient yester-
the beach and the enemy's all
cay The western wedge, pushing
through cocoanut groves and gar
dens, was about 500 yards from
Gairopa point, still meeting stiff
opposition.
Gen. Douglas MacArthurS ar
tillery units were active all along
the Salients, silencing number
of guns including pom poms which
the Japanese were using for the
first time in New Guinea.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Wealthy Woman
StarYes to Death

DARIEN, Conn, Dec. 30.-U.P0
Miss Mary Burton, 54-year-old &C.
centric who owned property and
securities worth $4,000 and in
herited $4,000 from her fathers
estate this year, was found dead of
malnutrition and exposure yester-
day in her Broom house.
Miss Burton lived alone, wore
shabby clothing and would not as
sociate with neighbors. A gas me-
ter inspector who found a door to
her house open, with water seeping
from broken pipes, discovered the
body
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Delay Possible In
New Rationing

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-(U.P.
Price Administration officials said
today they did not anticipate any
delay in the rationing of canned
goods and processed foods, but that
delay was possible because of the
difficulty of printing thousands of
rationing forms.
In replying to published reports
that actual rationing, now set for
sometime in February" would be
delayed until March because of in
ability to get the forms printed,
an OPA spokesman said that not
all the forms are necessary to get
the program started.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
State Increases
Travel Allotment

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 30.-U.P0
State employees whose duties re-
quire them to travel about the state
were given break in meeting the
higher costs of living when the
State Board of Control today ap-
proved increases in their expense
accounts.
Constitutional officers and de-
partment heads, now limited to So
daily for expenses, henceforth will
be allowed $40 while other en-
ployees were given an increase from
ST to So. In both instances the
amounts will be divided equally in
payment for hotel rooms and meals.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Citrus Production
Above Last Year

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 80. CUP)
Estimated citrus production for
1928 will exceed last years crop
by six million boxes, the u. S. De-
partment of Agriculture reported
today.
December crop reports indicate
143, 100000 boxes of citrus will be
Grated this season compared to 49,
100000 last season.
Merritt A. Clevenger, Pacific re-
gion administrator for the Agricul-
tural Marketing Administration.
urged civilians to use the abund-
ant citrus fruit and to conserve
other, relatively scarce foods needed
for the armed forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
1894
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
Notice of Time and Place APP
pointed for Proving Will and Hear
ing Application for Letters Tesla
mentary.
In the Matter of the Estate of
SARAH JANE DICKERMAN, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given that a Pc
tition for probate of the will of
Sarah Jane Dickerman, deceased
and for the issuance to Earl j.
Dickerman and Eunice Mae Burns
of letters testamentary, has been
filed in this court, and that Friday,
the 9Th day of January, 1943, at
200 O'clock pm, of said day, at
the courtroom of Department 2 of
said court, at the Court House in
the City of Ell Centre, County of
Imperial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, when and where any per-
son interested may appear and con-
test the same, and show cause, if
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted.
Dated December 18th. 1912.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS,
Deputy Clerk
No. 45 d 30-J 10, inc
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
NIMITZ VISIT TO
s. +. DISCLOSED

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 80. tUP)
The navy permitted disclosure to-
day that Admiral Chester w. MINI
itz, commander in chief of the u
S. Pacific fleet. visited the San
Francisco area recently. Admiral
Nimitz attended to official duties
and visited with his wife and
daughter. Mary. who live in Berke-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
NAVY PLANE CRASH
KILLS TWO MEN

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 3O.-U.P)
Ensign Shirley F. Summers of
Byron, Calf, and Roy Newman,
aviation mate third class of Mid
land City, Ala, were killed Tues
day when Navy plane piloted by
Summers crashed near Creeds. Va.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN

While the Bun abeach head was
being slowly eliminated, measures
were taken to prevent the Japanese
gaining toe holds farther up the
coast to the northwest, between
Buna and the japanese bases at
Lac and Salamaua.
Australian and American patrols
were active q round the mouths of
the Kumusi river, 1875 miles north
west of Buna, and the Amboga riv-
err, 975 miles northwest. In both
sections small enemy patrols were
killed or captured. Douglas A-20
attack bomberS strafed the Amboga
area and the native village of Lo-
kanu, which is occupied by the
Japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
BOMBERS ATTACK

Allied Catalina patrol bombers
attacked last night the Japanese
airdrome area at Kavieng, on New
Ireland, dropping 250-pound bombs
on hangers, runways and dispersal
areas. One of several large fires
burned for more than an hour; the
pilots said.
The japanese put up a heavy
anticraft barrage.
All planes returned, as did the
medium bombers which attacked
the runway of another airport at
Gasmata, on the southwest coast
of New Britain
Consolidated Liberator bombers
attacked the Lac airdrome, start
ing fires in the dispersal bays.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30

LOST-Billfold, black plastic, con-
tains Soc. Sec. card, So. Dakota
address, drivers license, Missouri,
and money. Please return to John
sons Store, Ell Centre Reward.
Mrs. William Habeck. IL
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30

A POST-PRESS WANT-AD can get
you that house or apartment you
want. just call 300, and give the
Ad taker all the particulars
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30

WILL PARTY driving grey pickup
who found boys bedroll Dec. 30
southwest of Ell Centre please re-
turn roll and brown blanket
marked Stull to 512 So. 7th. Re-
ward. 1871
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30

WILL PERSON who picked up paper
bag in j. C. Penney with seven
pairs of ladies shorts please re-
turn to 1856 Brighton. IL
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
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Evening star., 1942-02-03
Mas Warns Against
Stopping War Short
OF Japan S Defeat
Sees U. S. Finished
If Empire Industriolizes
Slave Labor Of Orient

The major danger to the future ol
the Nation, Representative Mas
Republican, of Minnesota said yes.
terday. is the possibility that the
United States, weary of war an6
sacrifice by that time, will, on the
defeat of Hitler. leave Japan to hel
own devices in the Orient.
,"If we lose everything in the
Pacific we're through as a
Nation" Mr.. Mas told the members
Of the Washington Building Con-
gress at luncheon meeting at the
Mayflower Hotel
If the United Nations, fatigued by
war, stop with the defeat of Ger
many and her satellites, Mr.. Maa,
warned, Japan will industrialize the
Orient and. with slave labor, will be
able to undersel us in any country
In the world, including our own, NO
matter what tariff barriers we raise
Then, he said. we will be through as
an industrial nation and in three
generations will be reduced to
peaSantry."
Pictures Alternative.
The alternative, he said, is a war
in which the United States fights
back across the Pacific step by step
retaking our island outposts and
ultimately destroying Japan, so she
can never rise to threaten us
again"
If we carry on with determination
until all the Axis powers are de-
stroyed, Mr.. Mas said, we have il
in our power to bring order out OF
chaos for the next 800 or 400 years
He cited Pearl Harbor as an ex-
ample of the destruction that can be
waged by carrier based bombers
the type which might some day raid
Washington.
Secs Bombing for Capital.
I'm my opinion Washington will
be bombed" he said, painting a
picture Of the chaos that might be
wrought by twilight raid when the
Capitals streets are jammed with
traff1c. Mr. Mas recently returned
from a trip to England, where he
gained first-hand knowledge of
bombing techniques and their re-
suits.
Far greater damage can be done
in one raid in Washington, he said
than in month of raids on Lon
don."
One aid in winning the war, which
he proposed. is establishment OF
airplane factories in Australia to
eliminate the necessity for shipping
fighter planes from this country to
the Far East via the long and dan
gerous sea route. Shore-based air
craft, Mr.. Mas said, will be a de-
termining factor In winning the war
Evening star., 1942-02-03
BY G.. D. HORNER.

German appointment of Vidkun
Quisling as Prime Minister" Of Nor
way does not alter the fact that
Quisling is a "usurper who speaks
only with his foreign masters voice
and not with the voice Of the Nor
wegian people" Norwegian Minister
Wilhelm Morgenstierne said here
yesterday.
The only legal and constitutional
government representative Of Nor
way is that located temporarily in
London under King Haakon, Mr..
Morgenstierne emphasized at spe-
cial press conference called to dis
pei any confusion that might exist
in American minds about the status
of Quisling.
"A new title for Quisling does not
in any way alter the fundamental
facts OF the situation" the Minister
pointed out. "He could not last one
hour in Norway today without the
help of the Germans. He Is sitting
on German bayonets entirely"
Sees Declaration Of War.
Suggesting that one purpose Of
the Germans in naming Quisling
Prime Minister" might be to have
him sign a peace treaty with Ger
many and declare Norway at war
with the United States, Britain and
their allies, Mr.. Morgenstierne said,
'it is the Germans. and not the Nor
wegian people, who would do such
a thing"
The Minister released the text Of
a statement issued by his govern
ment in London, declaring that any
settlement Germany may make
through Quisling 'is a settlement
with Germany's own representative"
without any legal significance.
At least SO per cent of the Nor
wegian people, Mr.. MOrgenStierne
Evening star., 1942-02-03

ton" for the cuisling appointment.
Mr.. Morgenstierne said shat = Just
another chapter Of the great Quis-
ling farce"
RedgneA In 1o4o.
There IL no Supreme Court
worthy Of the name in Norway to-
day." he continued. The Supreme
Court resigned to q man in De-
cember, 1910, In protest to the arbi-
trary Quisling actions. A new So
called supreme court was appointed
by the Germans from among un-
knowns, and they have been carry
ing out German orders ever since. /"
The Minister said that by Quis-
ung's own estimate, his party had
only $4,000 members in Norway, less
than per cent Of the population.
Concentration camps are being filled
Evening star., 1942-02-03
QuisIing, as Prime Minister
Is Echo of Hitler, Says Envoy
Moreenstierne Declares 'officior Represents
Neither People Nor Legal Government

said, are loyal to their government
in London that is carrying on the
fight against Germany, and Ger
man pressure in support Of Quisling
only increases their hate Of their
foreign masters"
Referring to Nazi announcement
that action of the Norwegian su.
preme Court gave legal justifca-
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Number Is on All
Ketchikon Auto Tuas

By the Associated Press.
KErCHIKAN, Alaska. - Super
stitious Ketchikan drivers keep q
careful lookout for black cats and
rabbits feet.
Territorial car licenses assigned
here begin with the number 1901
and 60 up through the 1300s. A
frequent plea As licenses were
bought was, Haven't you some
other number you can give me?"