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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-25
By JACK CUDDY

NEW YORK, June 25 CUP) =
Some misinformed peSsimist ap-
parently has given Babe Ruth false
data on the current major league
attendance situation.
The Bambino, while visiting CieVe-
land Wednesday, expressed doubt
that the majors would survive the
present season. He said: 1T all
depends on how long the owners
care to keep losing money
These remarks mystified many
baseball people, particularly Messrs.
Ford Frick and William Harridge,
presidents OF the National and
American Leagues, respectively, who
are mildly gratified over attendance.
It's not as bad as expected.
NO MONEY TROUBLE
Harrage SAID last night via the
telephone from Chicago: II don't
know where Babe Ruth got his in
formation, but l can assure you that
no club in the American League
will fold up this season for financial
reasons
1.-THE American League certainly
will finish the season unless the
government begins taking fathers
with children for military service
o., unless the transportation of
players is additionally restricted
Harridge added Naturally our at
tendance viii not be up to last sea-
son, when the American League
drew close to 100000 persons.
But we are having a good year,
under the circumstances, even in
banner years, some clubs lose
money. We expect that"
In New York Frick almost dupli-
Gated Harridge's statement. He
said: "As far as attendance is
concerned, the National League
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-25

Yesterdays star-Vern Stephens,
St. Louis Browns shortstop, whose
tenth-inning single enabled the
Browns to defeat the Chicago White
Sox in the first game of double
header.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-25
l.. A. POULTRY

mixed color "a TO Az lbs.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
REDS SPRING TRAP ON $4,000 GERMANS
Youth Delinquency Grows

Nance said, so they had to hide
the mfrom school authorities"
Nance has two daggers with
blades about five inches in length.
One was taken from a white boy
who threatened a school teacher
with it because he did not like
some ruling the teacher had made
The other was taken from boy
who used it to defend himself when
attacked by another boy. He also
had two chains similar to those car
ried by the zoot-Suited Pachucos
involved in murder, robbery and
burglary in coast areas in Califor-
mia. Asked if the boys using the
chains were Pachucos, Nance said
he thought they were not, but had
u desire to initiate the violance Of
the PachucoS.
I'VE have had difficulty with
some parents because various au-
toritieS have reported to them that
their young daughters are seeking
the company of men in the armed
service" Nance said MANY of
these girls are IL to l6 years of age
and have been seen parading the
streets late at night and deliber-
ately seeking the company of serv-
icemen who are strangers to them.
Some of the parents resent the ef-
fort of authorities to protect the
girls or find it easier to let them
run wild than to control them
There are those, OF course. who ap-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05


Germany.
Andrews, born in Nashville, Tenn,
in 1884, takes over the post former
ly held by Lieut.. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, now Allied supreme
commander in North Africa.
Eisenhower's North African COM
mand is unaffected by Andrews
appointment. Presumably the Euro
pean and North African commands
will be separate from now on.
The appointment of Andrews en-
phaSizeS that the allies are going
to increase the weight of their of
fensive against GERMANY as a soft
ening up process preliminary to in
VaSiOn.
In the early phases of the war
Andrews was responsible for the
defense of the Caribbean area, in
Guiding the Panama Canal. Later
he was transferred to the post of
commander of United States forces
in the Middle East and received
the Distinguished Service Medal
for the part he played in the defeat
KorpS.
Andrews is one of the best known
air officers in the American army.
In response TO questions today he
said he planned to continue and
intensity the daylight bombing OF
Germany. American planes already
have made two raids on northwest
ern Germany. Asked if he had any
plans for interrupting the sleep of
Marshal Hermann Goering, Andrews
said he did not contemplate night
bombing by American pilots.
Il understand that somebody else
is taking care of interrupting Goer-
ingS sleep" Andrews said, refer
ring to the RAF night raids on
Germany. Il also understand that
they interrupted Goerings speech. :"
That was q reference to the raid
the British made last Saturday on
Berlin just as Goering was about
to speak in celebration of the 10th
anniversary of the Nazi party'S ac-
cesSion.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
General Jailed
As Hit.Runner

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5. - up
Maj. Gen. Holland Smith, COM
manding general of the fleet
Marine force for the San Diego
area, was arSsted by police
following a twO-mile chase
through the streets of San Die
go during w.lich police said his
car hit and seriously injured
sailor.
Gen. Smith was formally
booked on charges of hit-and-
run and drunk driving, the for
mer a felony when involving
injury.
Police reported the car driv-
en- by Gen. Smith shortly after
midnight, struck Alvin j. Will
der, a machinist's mate second
class. irac;uring his leg. The
general failed to stop and a
radio car nearby gave chase.
After wild dash through
dimmed -Out streets for more
than two miles, the generals
automobile sideswiped another
driven by Cass Rose. The col
lisiOn slowed his progress suf-
ficiently so that police were
able to Oyertake him.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

moon after bombing Turin and Spe-
zia. in Northwestern Italy. and the
industrial Ruhr in Germany, and
the U-boat base at Lorient, France.
during the night.
North African dispatches and
communiques disclosed that Amer
lean air force activities. paced by
formidable Flying Fortresses, had
cost Germany 81 planes-26 de-
stroyed and an equal number dam
aged.
There was little change in the
Tunisian ground situation. Ameri-
can forces, having fulfilled their
mission. retired from Sened %
miles southwest of Maknassy, ap-
parently without enemy pressure.
DAKAR TURNED OVER
Pierre Boisson, governor general
of French West Africa. said at AL
lied North African headquarters
that all the resources at Dakar.
including 100000 men who need
equipment, are at the disposal of
the United Nations and that 200,-
600 to 100000 more men could be
made available to the Allies if Of
ficers could be provided.
The Russian army closed in on
Bataisk, only 10 miles south of
Rostov. and radio reports said
Adolf Hitler's Caucasus army was
| in full retreat across the narrow
Kerch Straits under the guns of
the Russian Black Sea fleet
The Caucasus appeared to be de-
veloping vast trap for $4,000 to
100000 German troops being sur
rounded by Russians or pushed to
the Sea of Azov.
BLITZ METHODS
Borrowing from the Germans
hlitzkrieg technique of cutting the
enemy into small groups and then
Systematically liquidating each
group. the Red army was pushing
toward the Sea of Azov and there
appeared to be little hope for the
escape of the main Axis force.
There were indications that the
Russians We're getting ready to
storm Bataisk. a city that is only
10 miles from Rostov.
The fall of RoStov would unhinge
the entire southern part of the Ger
man defense line. 1t is the city
that the Germans were counting
on as a big base for what they
hoped would be a march into the
Russian oil fields. Instead, it has
become a defensive position periled
by Russian columns from the south.
southeast and northeast.
| REDS MAKE LANDING
Russian communiques carried no
confirmation of a German admis-
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Macurda TO Head
Red Cross Drive
Beginning March |
Quota Will he S12,50O
For Ell Centro Chapter
In War Fund Campaign

Malcolm Macurda will act
as general chairman for the
Red Cross war fund cam
paign which the Ell Centre
h a p ter, American Red
Cross will conduct beginning March
l.
The chapters quota for the drive
will be $l2,5O0 of which $6,7OO is to
go to the national war fund, and
the remainder to the chapter to
carry on its extensive war and civil
ian projects.
At meeting of the chapter exec
utive committee. with representa-
tiveS from the Holtville and Impe-
rial branches present, quotas for
the three communities were set as
follows: El Centre. $780, Holtville,
$2400; Imperial, $500. John Roche,
general field secretary. Southern
California, met with the group to
discuss the basis on Whic h
the quotas are set and details con-
nected with the campaign
H. R. Anderson. chapter chairman
continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

'Wnen arrested mere on DdtCefy
charge last week, left the other
city prisoners and made his way
to Brawlev before being captured
late Thursday.
The city prisoners have often been
worked by the public works depart
ment without an armed guard. Last
Tuesdar a prisoner escaped but was
later taken in CaleXico.
McCaslin was arrested in Brawley
with d. D. Pranty, 22-year-old
truck driver, Lovey Sylvester, 80,
and Myrtle Hart, %, both wait
reSSeS.
Sheriff'S officers. investigating
McCaslin's record, discovered that
he was wanted by the provost mar
shall of the Preside of San Fran
cisco as a military prisoner He had
escaped from a federal prison where
he had been serving a 10-year SEN
tence for desertion from Fort Lewis,
officers said.
After McCaslin was investigated
his three companions were taken
into custody
In Ell Centro Friday all city pris-
onerS rem led locked securely in
their cells. Chief Voyles said he
would have TO confer with Public
Works Director Walter Heinecke
about further use Of the prisoners
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Southland Meat
Quota Far Short

tion has increased at least 100000
since the 1910 census.
In addition, he said 100000 serv-
ice men eat the equivalent of 300.-
900 civilian meals in restaurants
every day. In hotels, homes and
apartments. military forces equal
to 10000 civilians eat three meals
daily-meals which are charged to
the civilian quota.
CoonS said estimates of popu-
lation increases since 1910 ranged
from $4,000 to 580,000
Restaurant owners have advised
him that from 10 to GO per cent
of their meals are served to serv-
ice men.
Normal conditions would call for
the Southern California area to
received 10 per cent of the Quanti-
ty consumed in the first quarter OF
l94l, DR.. Coons said, but actually
the territory is getting less than
40 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Dollar Per Day
Wage Hike 0kayed

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-(UP)-
The War Labor Board approved a
wage increase of 81 day, retroac-
tive to August Is, 1912, for 27l
CIO-affiliated miners at the Bis
bee, Arizona, copper mine of the
Shattuck Mining Co.
Under the WLB'S cost of living
formula, an increase of 36.4 cents a
day was justified. The remainder
was granted, the board reported, to
correct area inequalities. The
board said it wanted to wipe out
the rate differential between Shat
tuck Denn and the Phelps Dodge
Copper Queen mine at Bisbee.
The Shattuck Dem rate was been
.25 a day. 81 less than that of
Phelps Dodge.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Tanks, Howitzerto
Feature &c. Bond
Rally Saturday
Vaudeville Returns to
Help Uncle Sam Sell
Victory Securities

The greatest performance
since the heyday of vaude-
vile will be presented in
downtown Ell Centro Satur-
day at the war bond rally
scheduled to begin at II am. and
continue in one stellar act after
another until a late hour Saturday
night.
Latest additions to the attrac-
tions include land tanks and a
howitzer to be brought from Yuma
by 25 soldiers.
Greatest thrill of the show will
he the bomber squadron which will
drop from 10000 feet to 1000 feet
and stage an air parade over the
heads of the bond show audience at
3:15 pm. These planes will be man.
ned by navy heroes of the Pacific
now stationed at the Ell Centre Mar
inc Training station. These heroes
also will appear on the night pro-
gram.
The program beginning at IL
am. will include the Holtville High
school dance orchestra, and girls
trio; Cowboy Happy Jack; Ventri-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Accident Breaks
Up Army Convoy

A convoy CT nine army motor-
cycles was interrupted ON highway
80 and Central Valley between
Holtvillc and Fl Centre at 10: 80
am. Friday when three of the
motorcycles and car collided near
the intersection of the two high
ways.
SGT. A. Martin of the army
camp near Sidewinder in eastern
Imperial county was critically in
jured and Corp. G.. E. Petz and
Sgt. C. p. Harmon suffered minor
injuries. A. l. McNew. Holtville
lettuce packer, escaped injury when
his car and the motors collided,
highway patrolmen said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
China Celebrates
Lunar New Year

CHUNGKING. Feb. 5. - tUP)-
Free China today celebrated the
lunar new year and the signing OF
treaties with United States and
Great Britain abolishing extra-ter-
ritoriality
A band of Chinese hoodlums OBJ
sera,d this officially proclaimed
Day of Equality" by twice throw
ing stones at United States auto
mobiles in which this correspond
ent and American soldiers were
ridinG.
American personnel attended the
new years festivities in Chunk
king. Soldiers and officers were
in the crowd at the new life"
headquarters where Mayor Gen.
HOY Tsu spoke on the significance
of the new Sino-British and Sino-
American treaties.
United States soldiers viewed
American and British exhibits,
principally pictures of American
production and the war in Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Govt Pays |. Y. Rancher
40 Cents for Eight Tires

Ed Barrett, Imperial valley
rancher revealed Friday that he
had received four lO-cent war
stamps from the government in
return for eight used tires turned
in to the national rubber pool.
Three of the tires had quite a
bit of tread remaining on their
surfaces, Barrett said He esti-
mated that each would have been
good for at least 10000 mics of
driving.
The other five tires were not so
good, but still had considerable use
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Sanitation Drive
Scheduled Here TO
Eliminate Menace
Notice Given City's,
Residents Ordinance
Will be Enforced

Grant A. Bristol, Ell Cen
tro's sanitary officer, Friday
announced a vigorous cam
paign to enforce the newly
passed sanitation ordinance
in the city.
Notices to residents outlining the
ordinance in brief will be sent out
next week, Bristol said. There will
then begin a drive for endorsement
of the ordinance and violators will
be cited into court, he warned.
Agents for apartments, hotels or
courts will be responsible for their
places.
The ordinance provides maximum
penalty of $500 or three months in
Jail or a combination not to exceed
both for violation.
Under the new city laws. metal
garbage containers with tight fit
ting covers must be provided by
houSeholders.
Bristol said that it is possible to
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

contempt for constituted author
ity have increased rapidly among
young people. More and more the
juveniles are being involved in vio-
lence, foStered probably by the
violence rampant in the world"
He declared that several times
parents had asked school officials
not to annoy them by trying to
keep their children in school, Five
children from to IA years of age
were moved from one school dis
trict to another, Nance said, and
all put to work in the fields.
The parents of these children
knew this was against the law"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
D AMBL|Ne
EpORTER
Via Air Mail

This letter came to RR from
Charles L. Hancock, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. E. Hancock of Ell Centre,
who is somewhere with the marines.
Here is his letter:
Il want to thank somebody and
l hope that you will do the job
FOR me and I do not know whom to
thank.
This morning the fellow in the
neXt bunk here in the hospital SAID
Hancock. here's a damned good
book and he tossed over an old,
dirty, water stained book, loose
binder, torn out pages and all.
Il began reading and much to
my surprise, I found the story's To-
cation was Imperial Valle=. When
I finished reading, l passed the
book to the second fellow below me.
The first marine cannot see.
Il was lying here in bed, thinking
of FL Centro and home when l no
ticed a page of the book was lying
ON my pillow by my head. l picked
it up and looked at it. That little
stamp, Imperial County Free Lii
brary, Ell Centre, Calf" down in
the corner of that page brought me
closer to home than l have been
since / came into the field over a
year ago.
That book really has seen some
service and I want to thank the
spirit behind this donation"
The name of the book was THE
Desert Thoroughbred" and is about
a beautiful girl who flies across the
border to MeXicali and moved
against the glorious background of
rolling sands and copper skies"
it was pointed out on the muSty
,tContinued on PAGE 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5.-(UPl-
A comprehensive report on the
Southern California meat shortage,
showing a tremendous gain in pop
ulation and 100000 service men eat
ing in civilian restaurants daily, is
ON its way to Washington. Dr.. Ar
thur G. Coons, Southland Office of
Price Administration officials said
today.
DR. Coons said the report show
eel that Southern California civil
ians are getting less than 40 per
cent of the meat they received in
l94l and that the civilian popula-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

preciate help but many who do
not"
One case scheduled fol court Fri
day had to do with an l8-year-old
Negro boy who refused to support
the l5-year old Negro girl he mar
ried in Yuma. The girl is going
TO have a baby. The boy has a So
cial disease.
There are cases involving Mex
ican boys accused of fighting, steal
ing cars and burglary. There are
cases of young girls involved with
adult men in morals cases.
Nance recommended stricte
home discipline and work for the
youngsters as means of stopping
spread of juvenile delinquency.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

Pachuco-like fighting with knives
and chains. widespread truancy
from school, robbery, burglary and
forgery perpetrated by young boys,
and a growing. tendency of young
girls between IL and 16 years of
age to seek the company of adult
men, were indicated in a survey of
Is court cases scheduled for Impe-
rial county juvenile court Friday.
Juvenile delinquency has in
creased alarmingly since Pearl
Harbor,' said County Probation Of
ticer E. A. Nance. I'm recent
months the evidences of unrest, a
growing disregard of discipline, and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
. Hit-Run Truck
Driver Sought

Peace officers FridaJ sought a
hit and run driver whose truck
struck and overturned a tomato
loaded truck driven by Nick, { de
IL Torres, as, CaleXico, at the high
way turn east of Hcber Friday
night.
The driver of the other truck
did not stop to ascertain if Torres
was injured or to help him repair
the damage, highway patrolmen
said Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Arizonans Refuse
Curb on Marriage

PHOENIX, Feb. 5. - CUP)-The
Senate today killed the proposed
three-day marriage law in the
state of Arizona by voting as a
committee of the whole that the
bill be postponed indefinitely.
An expected debate on the meas
ue failed to materialize.
The bill-introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator James E Minotto of
Maricopa coGnty-provided for a
three-day wait between the appli-
cation for a marriage license and
the performing of the marriage
ceremony after the license had been
granted
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

as the l7-;ear-old Betty Hansen
and the 16-year-old Peggy Satter-
lee, who accused Flynn.
You jurors, of course" he said,
"are not required to believe any
thing as jurors that you would not
believe in the ordinary walk of
life And l must insist that you have
an abiding conviction to moral
certainty before you reach any
decision"
Judge Still considered the first
OF three points of statutory rape.
this one presented by Miss Hansen,
who said she submitted to the movie
hero at a Bel Air dinner party.
PROOF NECESSARY
Even if the evidence shows that
this Betty Hansen did place herself
in such a position that an act of
sexual intercourse did ensue," he
continued, that is no eXtenuating
circumstance in this case"
Judge Still warned the jurors that
mere opportunity for a criminal
attack to take place was not suffi-
cient to create a legal probability
that such an incident did occur.
California law in such cases also
recognizes that there is an oppor-
tunity for free play of personal
malice and vengeance. he added.
FEAR OF PROSECUTION
Under the state law abortion is
felony" Judge Still said. IF you
believe that Miss Satterlee is guilty
of such an act. then you have the
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III a personal notice" InSeTOed
IN a Washington newspaper, Ran
die said: Il will not be responsible
for any debts, other than those
contracted by myself personally
His wife, Mrs. Helen Aileen Ran
die. whose ability as a pianist was
once disparagingly commented upon
by the l7-year-old high school boy
she is accused of fatally shooting,
may remain in the county Jail until
the April term of the supreme court
or at least until action by the
grand jury.
Mrs. Randle beat Allen Wiley
over the head with an old shoe some
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

time ago when he said her piano
playing was sloppy, probably be-
cause you have dishpan hands. ''
Wiley was an accomplished pianist
and a close friend of Randle.
Last Saturday when Wiley enter
ed family argument" between the
Randles and, according to a witness,
called Mrs. Randle something mo
woman would stand for" he was
shot in the stomach.
Mrs. Randle was quoted by police
as saying the shooting was acci-
dental. During the same argument
she shot her husband in the left
leg with the same 30 caliber rifle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

"--V VIO''o"tJ I1OoV VtttOC uPPIO IOIJI III
tion bill which would prohibit use
of any treasury funds during the
1914 fiscal fear-which starts July
for the purchase of silver under
the 1884 or 1899 Silver purchase
acts.
The amendment - sponsored by
Celler-waS adopted tentatively l66
to 103 on teller vote, with Repub-
licans lining up solidly behind it.
Celler told the house that under
the silver purchase acts 100000 900
ounces of silver have been accumu-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

tires in for scrap rubber instead OF
sending them into the government
stock pile of used tires he would
have received $l20 more The eight
tires weighed 100 pounds and deal
ers were paying l cent pound for
scrap rubber.
Barrett explained that the only
reason he had taken four OF the
tires off his car was because he
had to put diversified ones In their
place.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

left in them, Barrett said.
Il told them to send me what
they were worth in war stamps.
The other day I received an en-
velope containing four stamps, q"
Barrett disclosed
He gave the stamps to some
neighbor'S children.
Barrett was resigned to accept
ance of the stamps
I'm getting used to things like
that now he said.
If Barrett had turned the eight
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05

lated in government vaults at West
Point, N. Y, where it is useless
and furnishing"
Silver is Stacker metal-I want
to put silver in uniform and make
it fight" Celler shouted.
He said continued government
purchases of silver at an artificial"
price of I'LL cents an ounce will
benefit only 10000 miners and
pot-bellied mine-owners in six or
seven western states"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Hubby Renounces
Wife in Staying

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb 5. (UP)-Ulmo S. Rande, III
socially prominent horseman and real estate operator
served notice today that he longer would be responsible
for the debts of his 3lyearOd attractive third wife who
is charged with murCer and attempted murder.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-05
Andrews u. s.
Chief in Europe
Appointment Places Stress on Aerial
Warfare to Soften Enemy for Invasion;
New Lead er is Middle East Veteran
- BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

LONDON, Feb. 5. (UP)-Lieut. Gen. Frank NJ. An
dreWs, veteran of the Panama Canal command and the
Middle East became commanding general of United States
forces in the European theaer today promptly pedg