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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Sweeping Drive
Hits Jap Bases
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tempt to preventa the Jpanese air
forces from aiding their hard
pressed troops at Cape Gloucester.
On New Guinea, Australian
troops advanced another five miles
up the coast of the Huon peninsula
to Blucker Point, a staging point
on the enemy'c barge supply route
to Rabaul.
American plane3 and warships
battered enemy installations on
Bougainville island, and Radio To-
kyo said carrier-based planes also
attacked the nearby japanese
stronghold of Shorthand island.
United States fliers also were on
the attack in central China and
Burma, sinking two large japanese
boats on the Yangtze river and
shooting down four and possibly
five of SO japanese planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Valley Shipments
Approach Peak

Car loadings, the barometer of
the packing season, indicate tha.
Imperial Valley is daily approach
ing the peak lettuce season. The
Southern Pacific reports rs cars
Tuesday and IA cars Wednesday
leaving the valley, total of 325
cars being shipped up to Wednes-
day night.
Also leaving the valley were three
cars of grapefruit, and car of
tomatoes and car of peas.
The season is still behind last
year due to the recent rains and
paintings. Last year "a cars were
shipped on the 29th and a total of
518 cars had been shipped by
December 29th as compared to 25l
in 1943.
The Imperial Valley lettuce mar
ket was about steady Wednesday.
Crates ASS. iced pack, mostly $500.
Dry pack, ass S2.75 to $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
EI Centrans Map
18th Bond Drive

Plans for participation of Imperial
county's Retail Third Army n
S1,950,000 Fourth War Loan drive
were perfected Wednesday after
noon during a conference between
treasury officials and H. w. Faw-
cett, Imperial county War Finance
chairman and M o. King, retail
chairman for Ell Centro as we'll as
other city's representatives.
Treasury officials in Washington
have requested retailers through
out the country to sell 5000 per
capita in war bonds during the
Fourth War Loan. The conference
was called to explain the program
to the leaders in the Imperial
county drive.
Imperial county's quota of $780,
900 compares to $3,232,00 in the.
Third War Loan drive. 1t will be
remembered that this county was
first in Southern California to
reach its goal in that drive.
John McNeece, will be campaign
chairman for the drive in Ell Centro.
Dorman Stewart, will be chairman
of the Imperial city drive, succeed
ing Bill Townsend who had re-
signed. Joe Higuera, of the Bank
of America in Calexico, will head
up the drive there following the
resignation of Dr. T. E. Bartholo-
NEW.
According to Bel. herring, secre-
tary of the Ell Centre Chamber q
Commerce, this new drive is being
we'll planned and should be more
successful than the last in that it
is geared for a whirlwind campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
BOARD WILL CONSIDER
BEESEMER PARDON

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 80. UP)-
The state advisory pardon board
next Wednesday will consider the
pardon application of Gilbert H
Beesemyer, imprisoned in 1890 for
grand theft in connection with an
$1,000 900 Los Angeles Building and
Loan embezzlement case. Secretary
Paul Yarwood announced Thurs.
Beesemyer, now 81, and employed
by the Livingston Chemical COM
pany of Baltimore, Md, applied for
a pardon last February He was an
officer Of the Hollywood branch of
the Guarantee Building and Loan
Association of Los Angeles and the
key figure in the defalcation case.
He was sentenced to an aggregate
OF 40 years, but was released on
parole in 1910
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Russians Chase
Fleeing Nazis

Continued from page II
Berdichev me, while shock units
of armor and ski battalons stole
through the forests, infiltrated the
enemy rear, and destroyed numer-
Gus German garrisons they isolated
Tommy gunnerS swarmed in be-
hind pace-setting tanks where the
German lines were preached, thrust
ing deep into the enemy defenses
and undermining vital strong
points.
The focal thrusJS were the drives
by, Vatutin in the Ukraine and Gen.
ivan c. Bagramian on the Baltic
front, where his Siberian veterans
were battering the defenses of Wit
ebsk, with Gen. Konstantin RokoS-
sovSky strikin. Il southern White
Russia.
GIANT PINCERS
1t all shaped UP a, concerted
effort to execute a giant pincerS
movement and squeeze the Germans
into the Pripet marches and east
ern Poland. encircling powerful
NdIl al hits DGlNGtll NlAllC INlioSld
and the central Ukraine.
At the same time the Russians
were engaging strong force inside
the Dnieper bend, where they lash
ed out in a new offensive west of
Zaporozhe. It promised to develop
into a full dress campaign to clear
all the lower Ukraine.
Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's army
of the Ukraine captured more than
900 towns and villages in one of
most sensational triumphs
of the entire war which rolled the
demoralized Nazis back toward old
Poland and the Balkans.
The Soviet onrush put to flight
IA German infantry divisions and
eight tank divisions, including the
once vaunted armored unit bearing
the name of Adolf Hitler, Stalin's
order reported
Among the scores of major Ger
man strongholdS toppled by the
was Kazatin, key rail
junction midway between Kiev and
the prewar border of Rumania, the
order of the day said.
Kazatin is 38 miles south of Zhit-
omir, rail hub vital to the transport
and defenses of all the northwest
Ukraine, the Notifications of which
were reported under direct assault.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
GIANT TIDE IMFERlLS
REDONDO BEACH

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 80. (UP)-
Emergency crews stood b. Thursday
as a new six-foot tide lashed giant
breakers against boardwalk homes
at Redondo Beach, smashing win
dows and ripping out huge sections
of a concrete promenade.
The mountainous combers, larg-
est in three years, furiously pound
ed the half-mile strip north of the
Redondo pier and caused police to
eVacuate one resident when waves
threatened to undermine her home
The breakers accompanied a
three-day wind and rain storm
which soaked the loWlands and
blanketed heavy snow in the noun
tainS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
WOMAN HELD IN
COUNTY JAII

Mrs. Mary Jane Skinner, 10, was
in the county Jail in Ell Centre
Thursday on a charge of failure to
provide for her two children. The
charge against her was filed by her
mother, Mrs. Nella Rollin of Holt
vile. Bail for Mrs. Skinner was
set at $500 in Holtville justice court
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
HINDUSTANI HELD
ON ASSAULT CHARGE

Moor Din, Hindus tani farmer, was
held in the county Jail .1ursday on
a charge of assault filed against him
in Imperial justice court by Sher
Ali, another HindLstani. Officers
said they had an argument over
some chickens.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

A war wife who has encountered
a good deal of smugnesS and
thoughtleSSnesS among wome
whose husbands are still at home
suggests that the latter wives ask
themselves these questions:
Do you invite a war wife for din
ner in your home at least once
month, and make her feel that you
are having her for herself and not
just because you think she needs
cheering?
Do you refrain from irritating
her by such rem&lks as, Il think the
men at homo are having it just as
hard as the iren in service. Joe
has not had Saturday off in
months"
Do you check the impulse to
elaborate en- the wonderful time
you and your husband had celebrat-
ing your wedding anniversary
when you know the war wife spent
her last anniversary going to q
movie with another woman?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Germans View
Early Invasion
ss~oe&eseEovsSss9ES5shQ

to France in anticipation of the
invasion.
The German Siegfried line, which
was built before the war along the
Franco-German border, has been
reconditioned and extended to the
North Sea for use in event the al
lies penetrate across France or the
Low Countries, the newspaper said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
BAR MEETING
Is POSTPONED

The Imperial County Bar associa-
ton postponed its regular monthly
luncheon meeting scheduled for
Friday of this week to January 7,
twas announced Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
DIVORCE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted Margaret Moreno from
Alfonso Moreno Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
WRITER TELLS OF RAIDS

The Berlin correspondent of the
Stockholm newspaper Dagens Ny
heter telephoned his office that
fires were visible "over the whole
horizon" with a big smoke pail
lowering overhead.
Heaps of ruins around my office
block the street, where my car is
blazing" he said. Traffic halted
by the raid shows no sign of re-
suming."
He reported it was impossible to
estimate damage"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
DON'T BE TOO CRITICAL

Do you realize that she may feel
resentful toward you if your criti-
cize the behavior of another war
wife, since you can't possibly fully
appreciate the problems of Wom-
an left alone?
Do you stop yourself before you
have told her about the husband
of a friend of yours who had his
arm blown off in Sicily?
Do you remember always to. ask
about her husband when you see
her on the street or at parties, and
do you really listen when she starts
to tell you news of him?
Do you realize that she probably
won't find anything funny in hu-
morous remarks about the women
her husband may be meeting?
If you can say Yes to all of
those questions-you needn't worry
that you're irritating the war wives
of your acquaintance.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Romona M. AmbroSio Wednesday
sued Edward Ambrosio for divorce,
alleging extreme cruelty.
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RAMBLING REPORTER

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innocent little jaunt He knows
very we'll that he isn't wasting tires
and gasoline by running around
the country. The truck was going
anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Named Again

Named Again
The Imperial county Jail is called
various things on letters written
to prisoners.
Wednesday a letter was delivered
there which bore the name of
prisoner and the words, County
Jile.''
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Endless Raids
Rip Berlin

CContinue1 from Page II
engined bomberS struck under the
cover of clouds on one of the dark
est nights of the year, and reports
reaching Sweden said destruction
was spread throughout the sprawl
ing metropolis, third largest city in
Europe.
Crews report that the bombing
was concentrated and that large
fires were seen with smoke rising
TO more than $4,000 feet" an air
ministry communique said.
The nights tonnage boosted the
total dropped in eight major attacks
since Nov. 18 beyond l2,000-ap-
preaching the halfway mark in the
10000 tons which it has been esti-
mated will be required to erase
Berlin from the map.
20 PLANES LOST
Twenty bomberS were lost in the
Berlin raid and in subsidiary Mos
quito attacks on central and west
ern Germany and northern France,
as well as mine-laying operations.
Hardly had the big night raiders
returned than large formations of
heavy bombers - probably Ameri-
can Flying Fortresses or Liberators
and other waves CT fighter r-bomb-
ers swept across the channel in
daylight in the direction of the
French invasion coast.
However, it was not clear i'm
mediately whether their targets lay
along the coast, where 5000 Allied
planes battered supposed rocket
gun installations Heo. "a, or farther
inland.
The RAF hit Berlin Wednesday
night on the third anniversary Of
the big Nazi fire raid on London,
when huge sections of the central
city were levelled by l,500 fires,
including six conflagrations, but
the RATS tonnage exceeded the
Luftwaffe's b. six to 10 times.
WRITER TELLS OF RAIDS
The Berlin correspondent of the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Let's Be Discrete

Notwithstanding Hayden Sears
statements to the contrary, RR lsn-
derstands that the Toastmasters
club refused to entertain a vote
censuring his comments to the
ladies at the clubs ladies night
program, not wishing to indicate
that he had any popularity with
the ladies at all.
P. S.-That must have been a
dilly of a speech.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
. SO THEY SAY

II spring finds us still begged
down in Tunisia, the enemy will
have won valuable time and a
considerable victory. - London
Daily Mail.
The last session was known as
the war Congress. This5will be
the victory Congress. Victory Is
our goal.-Rep. Joseph w. Mar
tin, Jr.
There is a deplorable tenden-
cy among us Americans to cling
overlong to youth. Is anything
more ludicrous than the mid
dle-aged woman who tries to
act kittenish or the middle-aged
man who dresses and acts as
college boys are supposed to but
seldom do outside the movies?
DR.. Frank H. Ferris, Cleve-
land.
Your efforts have contributed
greatly to the success in many
actions of your submarine in
sinking or damaging much en-
envy shipping. - Adml. Chester
w. Nimitz to Lieut.. Chester w.
Nimitz, Jr.
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spades. then led a low diamond
toward dummy, finessing the
ten. West, in trouble for an
exit, chose a heart, and the
queen, king and &C fell to-
gether. The club king was led
and East won. A heart was re-
turned, dummy winning and
Crawford discarding a club.
Next Crawford led club to
the queen and returned a dia-
mond for a finesse of the jack.
But East still had q stopper
against the fourth round. So
dummy's last heart was led for
North to ruff, then the last
trump was led and East was
squeezed in diamods and clubs.
Crawford made five-odd, the
extra trick giving him a top
score.
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SAVED LOT OF TIME

The time element was also i'm
portant. Instead of waiting six
months or a year for the con-
struction of barracks, the Army
was able to move right in. A lot
of the fixtures were sold at pub
lie auction, and that money was
applied toward refitting the no.
tells for Army use.
Purposes to which the Army
is putting all these hotels falls
mainly in four classifications
Nearly 100000 of the $4,000
rooms secured have been assign
ed to the expanding Army Air
Forces for schools and dormitor-
les. Five thousand rooms are
used by Signal Corps schools g.
0CJ as hospital wards, and most
of the other 1000 are being fit
ted as training schools for the
WAACS.
Of the 473 hotels which the
government leased, nearly all
were in east coast resorts. Mi
ami alone surrendeed 1928 hotels
with 10000 rooms OF the Army
Air Force. In st. Pete there
were IS, in Atlantic City At, AS
bury Park three. The WAACS
took over % hotel in Des Moines
and % in Daytona Beach.
The Army started moving in
even before the leases were
signed. In leasing two hotels in
Grand Rapids, Mich, for in
stance, the Army began taking
over, room and a floor at
time, several days before formal
transfer. The final guests were
routed out of bed at 1880 one
morning and half an hour later
soldiers started attending class
es in improvised laboratories.
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. IN HOLLYWOOD

Forward" she's a movie actress
who is undressed by souvenir
hunters.
It's a good thing Mischa Auer
is Russian born. He just had to
memorize the names of 40 Rus
sian composers for his featured
song in Paramount Lady +,
the Dark The number begins:
There's Malichevsky, Rubin
stein, Arensky and Tschaikow-
sky, Sapellnikoff, Dmitrieff,
Tscerepnin, Tryjanowsky, Stra-
whisky and Gretchaninoff, Rum
shinsky and Rachmaninoff."
TABLES TURNED
ADD signs of the times: For a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff CorreSpOndent

EXCLUSIVELY yours: That
long simmerinc offstage feud
between Bette Davis and Miriam
Hopkins will emery into an on
stage battle in their new War
ner picture, odd Acquaintance
They've just written a hair-pull-
ing scene into the script. We're
betting on Bette. ;. Lucille Ball
does not know whether she's
coming or going as far as strip
teasing is concerned. In "Du-
Barry Was a Lady" she does a
strip tease in reverse, starting
with scar lie. and ending up with
a hustle costume. In Best Foot
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
ROYALTIES

KANSAS CITY - The Kansas
City Public Service company,
whose streetcars and buses arc
tinkling in S1,000,000 a month,
now has an extra 80 cents.
A letter accompanying the gift
explained:
II took six people downtown
in my car and figure | beat you
out of your fares, so am reim-
bursting you -.
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

play ground for the movie stars
but now a general hospital.
AT Miami the 400-room ex-
elusive Miami Biltmore and the
280-room Nautilus, both Air
Force hospitals.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, the 500
room Eastman, likewise a gen.
eral hospital.
AT Augusta, Ga, the 300-room
Forest Hills, and at st. Peters
burg, Fla. the 263-room Don
Cesar, both general hospitals.
Biggest deal in this bunch is
the purchase of the Stevens for
something under So, 100000. The
Army thinks it got bargain. A
few years ago the Stevens had
a S15,000,000 mortgage on it,
an today it would have cost
$c0,000,00O to duplicate, provid-
ed the critical building materials
could be secured. 1t was apprais-
at S7,000,000, with storage
building thrown in. But the Ste
vens has long been a financial
Jonah to its hackers. 1t went
through bankruptcy in 1896 and
did squeeze out some dividends
on its reduced valuation.
The eight hotels purchased for
hospitals were acquired for a
total of just under SAP million,
which was SIC million und r
appraisals.
What the Army figures as its
biggest economy was the saving
in critical materials. Plumbing
for hospitals with a combined
capacity of 10000 beds simply
wasn't to be had. Pipes and
structural steel were needed for
ship building and even if such
materials could have been allo-
Gated, Army engineers doubt if
they could have duplicated the
facilities for equal or less mon
ely.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
CHECK THOSE TIRES

Motorists have been slow about having their tires
checked At the hallway mark Dec. 81 less than one
out Of four had complied This hos piled tremen.
dous burden upon the inspection stotons for this
month.
The OPA soys fIoty thot neither gasoline ration
books tire requirements will be issued in future
to those who do not have their tires inspected by the
end of February. There is going to be grand rush
ia the lost few doys. Nobody who has waited this
long is wse-but only the really foolish will deIoy
longer
Better have those tires checked today
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
EXIT

EXIT
SHAWNEE, OkLA.-An in
voluntary exit from the city
swimming pool damaged his son
to the extent of $4,000, claims
Oscar T. CroWnover in a suit
filed against the city.
The petition said Kenneth
Crownover, 18, had dived into
the pool to uncap drain.
Kenneth and the water en-
erged from the 200-foot-long
pipe together-he'd been drawn
into the opening.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY VIM. +. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

For the fourth time, John r.
Crawford of Philadelphia was
one of the winners of the ma
tional board a-match team-of-
four championship. His team
won the title in 1887 and 1888
and 1899. Now his name goes
back on the cup for the fourth
time.
Crawford is one of the young
est and most daring of our pres
ent champions. Todays hand is
an example of his style. Sitting
North, he cashed three rounds OF
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SALVAGE
ARKANSAS CITY, KAS. -
Grocer Lee Circle, after 20
years, has found his billfold.
A janitor, searching a school
building for scrap metals, dis
covered it.
Circle lost il while attending
Junior High school, Nothing in
1t but receipts, he said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-14
BACK TALK

SYRACUSE, N. Y.-Patrol-
man Charles Dawson, answering
a routine call at a home, knock
ed on the door and a voice said
Hello"
He answered, and after this
was repeated several times, the
voice said come on in" but the
door was locked. After while
he looked in a window.
He had conversed Is minutes
with a parrot, he said.
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OH, A CRIMINAL.

DENVER-Police considered
waving prosecution after thief
surrendered a pair Of pants he
had stolen from a car.
Then they found he also had
10 pounds of coffee.
They booked him.
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. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK - Patrolman
Neidelman was assigned TO put
on his skates and make sure that
no skaters were injured on the
ice at Van Cortlandt Park Lake.
Onto the ice glided Neidel-
man. He collided with another
skater, emerged with a broken
nose.
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HARD TO EXPLAIN

BLAIR, NEB.-Pfc. Gordon
Kempcke, erstwhile Blair farm
youth, finished his tests as a ski
trooper at Camp Hale, Colo, in
fine shape. He swung past
boulders and stumps like a vet
eran and swooping to the end of
the course gracefully spun
around and skidded to stop.
Removing his skis, he began
walking back. He stumbled and
fell.
On furlough now in Blair, he's
recovering from a broken knee
cap received in the fall.
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1T WAS LOADED

PALM SPRINGS, CALF. =
The high school bought used
cash register for its cafeteria.
A student pressed one of the
keys, experimentally.
The drawer popped open
displaying S3.65 in nickels,
dimes, quarters and half-dollars.
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HE FEELS BAD

CHICAGO - Francis Oeler-
ich, an official of firm of mo-
lasses dealers, feels pretty bad
ly. He reported to police that
he had lost 1913 &C" gasoline ra-
tioning coupons, good for 772
gallons of gasoline.
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CHOOSY

CHOOSY
SALT LAKE CITY - A thief
liked the suit he found in S. j..
Astrican's hotel room, so he
stole il.
He detached the suspenders,
though, and left them on the
bed.
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BOX OFFICE BOOM

BOX OFFICE BOOM
So movie attendance figures
have jumped to 1873 million a
week, a new high in the history
of celluloid entertainment. No
wonder we've had to stand in
line lately.
There's plenty of dust but no
mud in he Bataan she'll hole
scenes in Paramount s so
Proudly We Hail" Which has
left Prop Man Oscar Dau the
unhappiest man in Hollywood.
Says he: mo mud and it's war
picture. I've been in Hollywood
30 years and nothing like this
ever happened to me before.
There just wasn't any mud dur
ing the Bataan campaign.
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BY PETER EDISON

Somebody will probably want
the matter investigated before or
after the war is over now that
the Army has become the worlds
biggest hotel owner and opera
otr. Statler and Harvey and the
other chains are pikers by COM
parison, for Uncle Sam has in
his possession, either by pur-
chase or lease, more than $4,000
r,oms in 484 hotels-bridal
suites and all.
When and if an investigation
does come, Army men have their
answer for all the long-term
leases and outright purchases of
some of the biggest and most
luxurious of hotel properties in
the country.
And one thing is sure, they ii
be morally backed up by many
of the owners and mortgage
holders, for with travel curtail-
ed and vacations away from
home not quite de rigeur nova
days, a lot of resort people were
interpreting the handwriting on
the walls of the empty lobby as
an ultimatum to fold up.
Only nine of the 404 hotels
were purchased outright, and in
cluded among them are some
of the most de luxe white ele-
plants outside an Indian mahar-
ajahs zoo. To arguments against
these purchases, Army men an
swer that the purchase prices Of
these nine were so low that it
was cheaper to buy than to
lease. The list: