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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16

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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

Leroy Rumsey, formerly employ
ed by the Post-Press, and by the
Bank of America in Ell Centre, now
is 1t. G.g.D Leroy Rumsey of the
United States Navy He skipped
the ensign rank entirely. He was
sent to Boston, Mass, for a two or
three weeks course and will go
from there to Babson Institute at
Wellesley, Mass. He has been in
the Navy about a year.
Pvt. Charles Cash, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Cash of CaleX-
leo, is home on furlough from
Keesler Field, Mass, where he is
playing in the camp band. He was
graduated from Calexico Union
High school and from Central Jun
ior college in Ell Centre. He played
in the band at both institutions. He
expects to go to officers candi-
date school soon.
Frank Mousseau of Ell Centre, son
of the late Cal MousSeau, is recup-
Grating in a hospital in New York
City from shrapnel wounds he Suf-
bered at Casablanca. MouSSeau is
in the Navy and has had an eXcit-
ing time of it. He was aboard the
us. Marblehead on its historic trip
back to the United States after it
was shelled by the enemy and left
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Famed Tutor, Mrs.
Dupont's Aunt, Dies

Mrs. Norman Dupont of Ell Centro
and Robert S. Reese of WeStmor-
land left Tuesday for Los Angeles
to attend funeral services for their
aunt, Miss Sara c. Reese, famous
educator who taught in the Los
Angeles public school system for Sc
years.
The funeral was to be at the
Bresee and Gillette chapel in Los
Angeles at 1870 p. m. Wednesday,
Miss Reese was one of the fore
most educators of California and
devoted her life to teaching ele-
mentary school children how to
read and to love reading
She was a past matron of Los
Angeles Eastern Star chapter and
past grand royal matron of Amar-
anth in California.
She visited Imperial Valley many
times and had many friends in the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Tire
Quotas
Raised
Shortage Of Grade
Three e Tires Still
Exists in Area

Fears that farming opera
tions and other vital war
work in this area would be
g re a y hampered because
the March tire quota fell far
short of anticipated demands were
alleviated somewhat Tuesday when
Mrs. Margaret Foster, executive
secretary of the El Centro war price
and ration board, revealed that the
local quota had been increased.
FEW GRADE
A serious condition remains, how
ever, in the case of Grade three
tires as the quota for this type for
March was set at 55 and has not
been increased. Applications for
grade three tires outnumber the
quota by 800, Mrs. Foster said, add
ing that it would probably be April
before a larger quota is granted.
Demands in all cases exceed the
quota and applications continue to
pile up from day to day. These ap-
plicantS will be forced to wait until
after the April quota has been re-
ceived or an increase is granted.
Applications were SO heavy dur
ing the first half of March and the
quota was so low on tires needed
for farming operations that ration
board members were seriously con-
cerned with the situation and fear
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

Ill a IlpdI-SlllhlllS
Pvt. Raymond Wood of Heber IS
in an anti-aircraft squad at Oak
land he wrote friends in Imperial
Valley. He had an operation on
his feet a few days after entering
the service.
Mrs. G.. L. Dermody Monday, re-
ceived word that her brother, Car
roll Smith, former Ell Centran, has
received his commission as cap
tain, having formerly been a lieu
tenant in the us. Army Air Corps.
Capt. Smith is stationed at the Or
lando Florida, air base.
Mrs. Paul Sheltama has received
word that her son, Arthur Phibrick,
has just completed his training at
March Field, in the radio commu-
nicatiops divisions, and has the
rank of staff sergeant. Sgt, Phil
brick is a graduate of Central High
school and Chaffey Junior college
Air Cadet Kenneth Kenyon is in
the base hospital at Santa Ana air
base recovering from an operation
performed upon his eye short
time ago. He enlisted in July, 1912
but was not called to duty until
early this year His mother, Mrs.
Fred Kenyon, is stopping with
friends in Santa Ana.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

Betrayed by the little Maginot
line" as France was by its name
sake, Marshal Erwin Rommel was
under assault from the south and
west, with his only apparent hope
a speedy withdrawal-if he could
beat the Americans to the Gabes
bottleneck-for a stand in the Tunis
BiZerte area.
SEIZE MAKNASSY
The Eighth army sent column
wheeling around the Mareth line to
within 80 miles of Gabes behind it,
and was fighting in the area of
Mareth village at its northeastern
end. The United States forces seized
Maknassy to reach within "a miles
of the coast.
Failing about for relief from the
closing trap, the Germans attacked
the Americans southeast of Ell
Guettar and in the area Of Hadjeb
Ell Aioun, southwest of Pichon on
the road to Sbeitla. First reports
said nothing of the weight or effect
of the attacks.
Marked Allied air superiority over
the Tunisian theater was emphasiz-
ed anew by the disclosure that 26
Axis planes were shot down yester-
day with a loss of only seven.
HITLER COMEDIES LOSS
AS the grand-scale Allied offens-
i've to throw the Axis out of Tunisia
gathered momentum, there were
signs that even Adolf Hitler had
written off North Africa, exhorting
his men there to make another
"Stalingrad stand" hopeless, and
to the last man.
The Allied Algiers radio reported
that the Eighth army had smashed
through the most strongly defended
section OF t:Ie Mareth line and cap
tured 1,700 prisoners. The same tao
tics which worked so we'll at Ell
Alamein were working again-a not
able concentration of artillery and
air power, followed up by tanks and
infantry.
At the same time Gen. Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery appeared to
have sent Wide-Swinging column
around the south end of the Mar
eth line, which in thanking it had
penetrated as far as Matmata in
the mountains.
ATTACK FROM WEST
With the American forces attack
ing from the west in the direction
of GabeS, Rommel was not expected
to undertake a lengthy stand in the
Mareth area, instead falling back
to the north to concentrate all his
armor, planes and troops for the
defense of the "Nazi Tobruk" which
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Pope Suffering
Lung Ailnnent

LONDON, March 23 CUP)-Pope
Plus temperature went down dur
ing the night and for the time
being there is no reason for
anxiety, although he is suffering
from bronchitis affecting one lung,
a Vatican City report of the Ger
man radio said today.
The Pontiff was reported to have
conferred for half an hour today
with Luigi Cardinal Maglione,
Vatican secretary of state, but re-
ceived no other visitors.
Stockholm dispatches said the
pope was seriously i'll with influenza
and doctors feared it might develop
into lung inflammation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
BRITISH 0UTFLANk, BREAK MARETH LINE
New York Holds
Prep Raid Drill

NEW YORK, March 90 (UP)
Hundreds of thousands of
New Workers were ierked out of
their sleep by wailing air raid
sirens early today, leaped out
of bed onto chilled floors, ran
to their radios and heard: "DO
not be alarmed. This is a test
black out drill"
II was the fulfillment of
Mayor F. ii. LaGuardia
promise of something unusual"
in the way of blackOut and air
raid drills. All previous ones
had been i'm the evening while
residents were up to turn out
house lichts and rush to shell
ters if in the streets. This one
started at ass a. m., when the
sirens shrieked the "blue"
signal, notifying the public that
enemy planes were approaching.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
I.V.FLax HauIers
Decide Pay Rate

Flax straw haulerS and growers
Monday night met in Ell Centre and
decided on the rate to be paid this
season for hauling the straw from
farms to the flax mill.
The wage schedule decided upon
was S2.4O a ton from to five miles
from the mill; $2.70 ton from five
to IS miles, and So ton from 10
to 25 miles from the mill.
A committee composed of Ches-
ter McNutt, chairman; Harry Will
liams, Manuel Valasquez, C. A. HUI
lett, Wade Ramsey and Argyle Nc
Laghlan recommended the sched-
ule adopted. County Agricultural
Commissioner B. A. Harrigan pre-
sided at the session.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
so Men Switch to
Essential Work

Tom Finney, head of the US.
Employment Service here, issued a
reminder Tuesday that men of draft
age have only 30 days after April
l to transfer from non-essential
work to essential industries if they
are to be deferred from military
service.
During the last several weeks ap-
proXimately 60 men have switched
over to farming or other war work,
Finney said, but he declared many
more are needed for vital occupa-
tions if agricultural production is
to be maintained at high level.
Among the industries most ur-
gently in need of men, he said, were
diaries and farms.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

lldJ SeCOllQ IIOllJ Was seen Ill lWO
developments - the completion OF
the biggest army maneuvers ever
held in Britain and the use of
speedy mosquito bombers as Long
range fighter planes.
TEST SYSTEM
The maneuvers by combined Brit
iSh and Canadian armies was the
most impressive of the two for it
was the first time home armies had
tested a system for closer land-air
cooperation, such as that success
fully proven b. Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery and Air Marshal Sir
Arthur Conongham in the mid-eaSt.
The army field tests also showed
two other outstanding developments
"a large-scale demonstration of Of
fensive rather than defensive fight
ing, and methods of combating eX-
tenSive demolition such as would
occur in an invasion of the conti-
nent.
FITS PICTURE
The use of mosquito bombers as
long-range bombing escorts fits in
to the picture, especially in view of
CONTINUED on Page 6, Col, D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Here's New Hiuh
In Cooperation

LONDON, March 23 (UP) =
Cooperation between the Royal
Air Force and the United States
Air Force i'm Britain has reached
a new hiCh, Air Marshal Sir
Arthur Harris, chief of the Raj
bomber command, disclosed to-
day. Speaking at luncheon of
American correspondents, Sir
Arthur said of Maj. Gen. Ira c.
Eaker, chief of the Eighth U. S.
Army Air Force:
"When General Eaker stays
at my home he kisses my wife
the same as I do, and l like it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

move on the grounds Director Paul
Scharrenberg In Governor Warrens
cabinet was a former union labor
official and would be a disturbing
factor in the farm program.
The program appeared to be for
the senate to pass the amended bill
and let the assembly fight 1t out.
Governor Warren told his press con-
ference today he was confident
Scharrenberg would fit in the pic
ture because his department was
concerned with the subjects Of
housing, safety, hours. wages. child
labor and other factors In the re-
cruiting and placement OF farm la
Dor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
D AMBl|Ne
NEpoR1ER
Who Helped WhOm?-


Francis Landreth is one of the
most enthusiastic Of those who have
gone into the business of keeping
COWS. Mrs. Landreth always says
she helps her husband in this
worthwhile war effort.
How are you getting along in
the COW business?" a friend asked
Mrs. Landreth.
"Oh, fine" she said. Il help
Francis with the cows"
How many did you milk last
night?' the friend asked.
-Four" she said.
How many have you got?' the
friend asked.
Five" she said.
What in the world was your
husband doing while you MIXED
four cows?" the persistent friend
went on.
oh" she said, "he fed the
calves"
How nice of Francis" muttered
LON Thompson, Ito put pans in
front of the calves while his wife
Continued on Page 6, Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Remains of Man
Found on Shore of
Sea by Soldier
Sheriff Officers Say
Bones Found by Service
Man Are Human

The skeleton of a man was
brought from the shore of
SaltOn sea late Monday after
it was discovered by Wallace
Jabloniski from an army
camp in the area.
Physicians summoned to exam
inc the skeleton said it was of a
white man about 80 years of age
who was six feet tall. 1t was be-
lieved to have been in the water
all winter.
FOUND BONES
Jabloniski found the bones when
he left his camp for a swim in Sal
ton sea Sunday. 1t was mile west
of Sandy Beach, lying close to the
water, Deputy Sheriffs Alfred Lyons
and Peter Klyne said.
Capt Lance d. Booth provided
men and two jeeps to help the dep
uties get the body out from the al
most inaccessible spot where it was
found The bones were found about
10 miles from the camp.
The deputies were checking the
Continued on Page 6, Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

Win was holding catsup bottle,
trying to open it with a knife. The
knife slipped and stuck him in the
chest | didn't think much about it
at the time"
She said she got some bandages
and antiseptic but saw that Spencer
was bleeding freely and calling a
doctor.
That was about l 80 am. 1t was
about 4 am. when Dr.. Edison P.
Bacon got there. Win suffered con-
siderable from shock and loss of
blood"
When Detective 1t. Clyde Brown
heard Mrs. Spencer's assertion that
Spencer cut himself accidentally
while opening bottle he said:
HE must have been standing on
his head. THE wound in Spencer's
chest slants downward"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

1T was pure accident" Mrs
Spencer said in a statement that
gave police their first detailed ac-
count of the incident.
The stabbing last wednesday night
sent Spencer to the naval hospital
in Long Beach where his condition
was reported to be improving. Navy
officials SO far have refused to al
low civilian authorities to see Spen-
Ger or talk with him.
Mrs. Spencer said she was out
last Wednesday night until mid
night with friends in Santa Monica
when I came home I couldn't
wake Win up. l had no key, so l
went to the back door and punched
in a glass"
He woke up then, she said, and
they decided to have something to
eat.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

cy OF dlSDandlng the guard ana en-
couraging volunteers to form local
units much on the order of the old
national guard. They would be used
only for emergency duty in case of
a disaster or attack.
Equally overwhelming passage
seemed assured in the upper house.
The military action came shortly
before the special session convened
this afternoon for its third day of
discussion on proposed food and
fiber production act. The senate was
ready for floor action after adopt
ing an amendment giving the state
director of industrial relations vot-
ing power on the farm council.
Farming interests opposed the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
FITS PICTURE
kiska Feels 21st
Raid in March

WASHINGTON, March 23.-(UP)
American airmen, maintaining
their one-a-day average of attacks
in the Aleutians, bombed Kiska
twice on Sunday and started a large
fire, the Navy announced today.
These attacks by Army heavy and
medium bombers brought the
American air raids on the Japanese
tase so far this moonth to a total
of 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

WASHINGTON, March 23.-CUP)
The United States now has ma
val operating base at Casablanca,
Morocco, and has established a
West African sea frontier force, the
Navy revealed today.
Rear Admiral John L. Hall, Jr,
Of Wilmington, Va, is command
ant of the naval base and COM
mander OF Tie sea front forces.
These disclosures were made in
a Navy announcement that Hall
and six other naval officers have
been awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal by President Roose-
velt for their services in the North
Africa landing operations last No
vember.
The Navy withheld details as to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
NAVY HAS BASE
IN CASAbLANCA

uses 20 which the new base and the
sea frontier forces are being put.
1t is known, however, that Casa
blanca served as a naval base for
French forces and is equipped to
handle ships ranging from the
smallest type to big, modern bat
tleships.
Hall had served as acting chief
of staff of the commander of the
western naval task force which par
ticipated in the occupation of
French Morocco He was decorated
for organizing the sea frontier
forces in less than two weeks after
the Moroccan landing and for pre-
venting sabotage during operations
at Casablanca, SfaX, Fedala and
Port Lyautey.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Americans Clear
New Guinea Area
Of Japanese Nest
500 Enemy Troops Killed
Or Taken Prisoner by
Gen. MacArthur's Men
: N MACARTHUR'S M

GEN. MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Austria
liza, March %. (UP)-Allied
forces clamped a tight hold
on a long stretch of New
Guinea's north coast and river val
leys today, after cleaning out Jap
anese nests that could have been
used in an effort to renew south
ward offensive.
A communique from Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's headquarters said
700 japanese soldiers were killed
and 100 others captured in occupy
ing the Mambare area, 40 to so
miles north of Buna.
VALLEYS INFILTERED
Valleys of the Ambasi, Kumusi
and Opt rivers also were infiltrated
b. Allied troops-ending any chance
the japanese had had to use the
area and coast to land reinforce
ments and amaSs materials for a
new drive.
Military quarters here have eX-
rected a new move from the Japa-
nese that might strain limited AL
lied resources. The Allied successes
nj New Guinea, coupled with con-
tinued air attacks on Japanese
bases, were calculated to Illustrate
such a move.
HUNDREDS DIE
disease and starvation were work
Continued on Page 6, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

ifornia was due to a lack of par
entail control, training and direc-
tion, galvanized the county proba-
ton committee and a committee
from the county ministerial aSso-
citation into action.
NEW AMENDMENT
AS one of the first steps in the
new plan, District Attorney Elmer
Heald drew up an act to amend
the welfare and institutions code
to make it legal for probation Off
GERS to prevent unaccompanied ju-
veniles from crossing the interna-
tional border into Mexico.
Heald said he will send the bill
to State Senator E. George Luckey
and Assemblyman Harvey E. Has
tain and ask them to int oduce it
in the legislature.
BECOME UNLAWFUL
The bill would make it unlawful
for any minor boy or girl under 81
years of age, to cross into Mexico
unless accompanied by parents or
legal guardian. Any minor who
would violate this law or attempt
to violate it would be subject to
the jurisdiction of the juvenile court
and the probation officer shall have
power to take the minor in charge
and take the minor into juvenile
court. The judge of the juvenile
court shall have authority to issue
a detention order, if desired, pend
ing a hearing in juvenile court.
John Plover, state supervisor of
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Point ]
&, uts
Due G
OPA Expected to
Lower Ration Point
Values on Foods

WASHINGTON, Mar. %.
(UP) Point rationing of
canned foods has worked
better than some officials
anticipated.
The results have been so good
that substantial reductions in point
values will be possible next month.
A month ago-during the pre-
ration rush-it was worth a house
wife's life to get some types of
canned foods. Today, after three
weeks of rationing, it looks as if
the problem is to get housewives
to resume buying items on which
point values have been high.
BIGGEST CUTS
The new point values for April
were expected to be announced
next Sunday. The biggest cuts, it
was understood, will be made in
canned fruits and fruit juices, par
ticularly the larger sized cans which
have been virtually immobilized on
grocerT store shelves.
Other high-point items which
probably will be cut are canned
grapefruit, pears, peaches, pine
apples, berries. and fruit salad.
Low-point items which have sold
we'll probably will remain unchang-
ed or may be moved slightly up
wards.
A list of more than 200 point
values of meat, canned meats and
fish, butter, cheese. cooking fats,
and cooking cils will be published
tomorrow in preparation for ra-
tioning of those items March %.
MAKES EXCEPTIONS
All stocks of butter, lard, mar
garine, shortening, cooking and
salad oils, canned meats and can
ned fish are frozen" on grocery
store shelves until March 30. But
OPA authorized district offices to
grant exceptions in the case of
butter, fats and edible oils for
hardship cases. OPA described
"hardShips" as, for example, local
institutions where butter is being
produced SO fast that it would spoil
where a consumer is in serious need
of butter, such as a patient for
whom a physician has prescribed a
diet containing butter
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23

Now you see it-nOw you don't.
These remarkable action photos
show small Canadian corvette
right sinking an Axis U-bOat
somewhere i'm the North Atlantic.
Az the left the sub, which had
tOrpedOed a United Nations
freighter a short time before,
surfaces for a gun duel. The
corvette landed a depth charge
nearby. Exit sub. (Official Royal
Canadian Navy photos released
through Universal Pictures for
"COrvettes i'm Action" Passed by
Canadian censOr.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
House Votes to
Abolish Guard

SACRAMENTO, March %. (UP)-The California
semb today voted 62 to and sent to the the Nc
COllister bill to abolish the state guard and up
system of "home guard units in local communities.
The legislation conforms with Gov Earl Warens poll
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
D, A. Drafts New
Boundary Rules
Ministers, Probation COMMITTED Ask
Legislative Action on Heald's Bill
To Prevent Minors En+erinq Mexico

Coordinated efforts to halt the of increasing
juvenile delinquency reached critical stage in Imperial
county Tuesday when interested parties asked the Cafor
MIA legislature for help.
officials report that approximately 90 per cent
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Spencer Stobbinq
Said Accid ent

SANTA MONICA, CAL, March %. (UP)-Mrs. Lillian
Spencer told police today that the mysterious stabbng of
her husband Cmdr Earl Winfield Spencer, retired naval
officer and first husband of the Duchess of Windsor
when he tried to catSup bottle with knife
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Invasion Seen in
Large Moneuvers
British Air. Ground Forces Work in
Close Cooperation; Mosquito Bombers
Used as Long-Range Bomb ser Escorts

LONDON, March 23. (UP)-British air and ground
forces working toward closer collaboration develop
ing today the for fulfilling Prime Minister Win
stOn Churchils promise of fuscae invasion of Nazi-
occupied Europe An indication of the imminence of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Americans Rush
To Trdp Rommel
In Small Pocket
Nazis Throw Heavy Armor into Fray
Against Onrushins yanks to Prevent
Blocking Of Escape Lane TO North

LONDON, March 23 (UP)-The Mareth line stood
broken and outfankad by the British Eighth today
leaving the Axis army of south Tunisa in desperate
dilemma American troops raced for the to cut its
nOrthWard retreat
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
9ki SEE|R @2gE Ea2Xfz HSz

in a near-sinking condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 78, minimum
Tuesday 48; am. Tuesday So, hu
midity 63; noon Tuesday IS, humid
ity "a; pm. Mon. 20, humidity AZ.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-04-29

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