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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
yoHXsoN 5fsx!Ha in Hollywood

Sparks deserves a campaign TO get
him back into motion pictures. He
IS one of the funniest men on the
screen. And it's a sad commen-
tary on the film business that he
can't get a job
TOO PERFECT
Just the other day, for example,
Ned met an old friend, a writer
working on Bing Crosbys new pic
ture, Going My Way"
Gosh, Ned, am I glad to see you,
said the writer 'I just wrote a
new picture. Righ down your alley.
Part of an atheist. You'll be ter
rifle. Send your agent over to
Paramount"
Ned thanked the writer for the
tip and the next day his agent
went to Paramount. Understand
you've got q role written with Ned
Sparks in mind for Bing's new pic
ture?" said the agent.
Yes" said the Paramount spokes-
man, They're testing eight actors
for the part"
But they wrote it with Ned
Sparks in mind!" protested the
agent
Cant help it, said the Para
mount man. Cant do a thing for
you. They're testing eight actors. =
Couple of days later one of the
eight actors got the Job
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
Negro Passes
On in CaIexico

Last rites for Edmond Pegg, %.
Negro, who died last Saturday, were
scheduled at the Hens chapel In
Calexico at 2:30 pm. Sunday.
Pegg had been employed for many
years by the Calexico street and
park de epartment, retiring from this
work only a short time ago. He was
first employed by the city in 1919.
Rev r. D. Moore of the Second
Baptist church will officiate at the
funeral rites. Burial will be in Mt.
View cemetery.
Pegg is survived by a son, James
Walter Pegg; two daughters. Mary
Bedford of Newport, Ark, and
Mamie Wilson of La Jolla. eight
grandchildren, and three great
grandchildren.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
FL AG
OVER THE
PL. o W

are quoted. It's really very SIM
pie one.
The board acts on it at the first
thursday meeting after you sub
NIT it and, if we approve it, you
are in the clear to buy your lumber
on Friday.
When you come in to apply, be
able to give an itemized list and to
supply the cost of construction, in
Guiding labor and all materials.
If the cost is less than ten dol
lars, you don't have to fool with any
forms at all or consult us.
Copper ware for new farmstead
wiring or power line connections
is about the same proposition. You
make applications to the war board
and it is approved or rejected with
out any further red tape.
Both lumber and copper are on
a quota basis and when the county
quota is gone, that's that.
Conservation Of our soil is of
concern to the war board even
though we may not have mentioned
1t in this column until today.
Drainage and land leveling are
among the most important con-
servation items.
Perhaps we don't do very much
about them actively and conscious
ly but we certainly have them in
mind whenever we approve an ap-
plication for a Be Ge scraper or
Tor pump to remove drainage
water.
Last spring. during California
conservation week, we sponsored a
drainage meeting that avs attend
ed by about $50 farmers and per-
haps something similar will be
done next year.
But whether it is or isn't, the
point we wanted to bring out is that
conservation of the soil of Imperial
Valley is thread that runs through
the fabric of almost every activity
OF your county war board
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21

OUR MEN IN SERVICE ST H
Major Lyman w. Tondro, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Tondro of Ell
Centre, has been ordered to report
to San Luis Obispo Immediately
where he has been assigned to
duties as a director of ordnance.
Another class CT aerial trigger
men to guard army air force bomb
ers was graduated this week from
Harlingen aerial gunnery school at
Harlingen, Texas, and among the
graduates was Pvt. Willard E. Lay
man, son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. E.
Layman of El Centro. He qualified
as sharp shooter of the sky.
Along with his diploma Pvt. Lay
man received pair of aerial gun
ners wings.
PFC. Dale L. Beeler of the marine
base in San Diego is visiting his
grandmother, Mrs. N. o. Young of
Ell Centre, his wifes relatives, Mr..
and Mrs. H. Jones, and other rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. William N. Ander-
son Of CaleXico received word that
their son, Air Cadet William D.
Anderson, is attending pre-flight
school at the Santa Ana army air
base. He was at Kearns, Utah. and
at the Montana State university at
Missoula. He expected to be trans
ferred soon to one of the army air
training center3 on the west coast
for more training.
1t. Alfred Tagg, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Tagg of Ell Centro, was
sent to Ft. Custer near Battle
Creek, Mich, to attend a provost
marshal school for three months.
When he completes the course he
=. expects to ben sent back to Topeka,
Kans, to Winters General hospital
where he has been in charge of
trucks and ambulances. He has
been stationed at Topeka for a
year.
1tlle OSWalI, SUI VI u oIeiHiiS
OsWalt and graduate of Central
Union High school, is visiting rela-
tives and friends in Imperial VAL
ley. He is connected with the navy
Viz training program at the Uni
versity of Southern California. He
has three more semesters' work be-
fore he completes the course.
Two Imperial Valley boys joined
the United States marine corps this
week. They are DOlOyes Flores
RivaS, 10, son of Rafael Ruiz Rivas
of the Meloland store, and Pete
Molina Sumava, Jr., 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Sumava. ST., of 82l
East Seventh, Calexico. Rivas at
tended Yuma High school, and was
employed as truck driver before
entering the service. Sumava at
tended Holtville Union High school
\ and was employed as farm labor
Yer before he entered the service.
They will go to the marine corps
base at San Diego Nov. 2 for their
recruit training.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
winright Releases
Livestock Meeting
Schedule for l.V.

Schedule of the general livestock
meetings in Imperial county next
week were made public Thursday
Assistant Farm Advisor George
Winright.
At 1:3O p. m. Oct. q the group
will gather at the Nash and Flem-
ing ranch on the West road north
of Calipatria. Turn left at an eX-
tension service sign on West road,
Winright said, and go to the first
house, the gathering place for the
meeting. The visitors will study
the permanent pasture plots and
the cattle, paying particular atten-
tion to gains made by the cattle on
feed from the various plots.
AT HUNT RANCH
At 10 a. m. Oct. % the meeting
will be held at Hunts ranch No. 8
ranch seven miles straight east of
Heber. At 1:30 p. m. the same
day the group will go to the Virgil
Corfman feed yards half a mile
south of the McCabe school. At
2:30 p. m. that day the meeting will
lie held at the Henry Worthington
feed yards a mile and half west and
half mile south of the air port
road in Imperial.
1T is expected" Winright said,
that DR.. Elmer Hughes, extension
service specialist in hog growing
will be present at the meetings to
confer with growers on hog feed
problems.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
BY the Imperial County USDA

Dy tllE 11llJClldl SOullJy O0DA
War Board Information Editors
Only one subcommittee of the wal
board remains to be discussed. The
meat rationing committee.
When 'sojourning soldiers and
sailors" and marines became SO
numerous thlt our restaurants
didn't have enough meat to go
around, lot of complaints were
registered. AS result, federal
agencies asked for our help and we
set up the committee.
The idea was to determine the
amount of meat Imperial Valley
should receive to make the per-
capita meat supply in ratio to the
supply in other counties and other
states.
Apparently the committee did a
good job because neither the pro-
ducers nor consumers here have
howled very much lately, while in
some other counties the situation
is not at all satisfactory.
just about any problem affecting
brought before the county war
board. If really tough job comes
up, we'll probably set up a SUBJ
committee to do the work.
Manpower, lumber, copper wire,
farm construction, bale ties, bur-
lap, bags, conservation of agricul-
tural resources, fertilizer, farm
machinery and ammunition are
only a few samples of the things
we act upon as whole or through
our committees.
Lumber and copper wire are in a
different class from most of the
others because final action can be
taken right here.
If you need softwood lumber for
necessary maintenance and repair
or new construction Excluding
dwellings, essential to the food pro-
duction program" you fill out the
form from which the above words
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
5.Month-0Id Baby
Girl Succumbs

Funeral services for Linda Crow
ell, five-month- daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Marshall Crowell, former
Ell Centrans, were scheduled at the
Lemons chapel in Ell Centre at 2
pm Friday.
The baby died in San Diego, pres
ent home of the CroWell family, on
Wednesday. Her twin sister, Brenda
Far, died Is hours after birth.
The Rev. Mr.. Thomas C. Cum
ningham will officiate at the rites.
Burial will be in Evergreen ceme-
terry.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20, 1901.
Published evenings except Saturday
and Sunday, in combination with the
Sunday POST-PRESS, by the Imperial
Valley Publishing Company. 625 State
St, FL Centro, Calf.
Paul jenkins, Publisher
and President.
A. c. Johnston. icePresident and Ad-
vertising Manager; Mrs. Logan II.
Jenkins, Secretary.
Member United Press, California News
paper Publishers Assn, West Holiday
Co, Inc, national representatives,
Rates, Cncluding Sunday Post-Press)
Single copy Sc; carrier paid-in-ad-
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Outside of California $1.00 per month
flat.
Entered at El Centro. Calf, post
office as End class mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21

Among the cadets now stationed
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21

at the army air force pre-flight
school for pilots at San Antonio
aviation cadet center in Texas is
Aviation Cadet Fred Higginbotham
of Ell Centre.
Homer Spear has been advanced
to first class ..lacniniStS mate, 1t
was learned in Ell Centro Thursday.
He is stationed with the United
States navy in Panama.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
WHITE CONDITION GOOD

ROCHESTER, Mimi, Oct. 21.-
UP)-Mayo Clinic physicians re-
ported today that William Allen
White, rs, editor of the Emporia
(KanD Gazette, was in good condi-
ton although not completely out
Of danger" after an abdominal
operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
GETS PURPLE HEART

NEW DELHI, Oct. 20.-CUP)-
The first purple heart awarded to
a war correspondent in the China
Burma-India theater was presented
today to Walter Briggs of the Unit
ed Press, who was wounded last
February in Southwestern Burma.
The award was ordered by Lieut.
Gen. Joseph Stilwell.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
VALUATION UP

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 21.-UP)-
Assessed valuation of property in
California subject to local taxation
has risen nearly quarter of a bill
ion dollars in the past year, Harry
B. Riley, state controller, disclosed
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-21
LULU WINNER

NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Oct. 21
UP)-Lulu Costantino, 1874, New
York, defeated Joey Rivera, 1872,
Puerto Rica (1O.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
U-B0AT BASE
IS SMASHED
AT L0RIEN1
British Send Two Raiding
Parties Over Last
Night

LONDON, Feb. l5.-Royal Air
Force planes unloaded more than
a thousand tons of bombs on the
German U-boat base at Lorient last
night in two attacks. the Air Min
istry reports.
Stirling, Halifax and Lancaster
bombers participated in the twin
raids, and bombers and fighters
smashed detectives in France and
Holland again today with Mosquito
bombers hitting railway workshops
and engine sheds at Tours.
When the last bombs were
dropped over Lorient, the dock
buildings and installations were
being eaten up by flames with red
smoke billowing across the target,
returning pilots reported
The Raj new deadly Typhoon
fighters were credited with shoot
ing down four Fockewulf 1905 in
the flights over the channel. Two
British planes were reported miss
ing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
JAP FLEET
JUST FLED,
50L0M0N5
Saw What II Was Up
Against, Decided Not 10
Reinforce Units
BY NORMAL BELL
Associated Press Correspondent

WITH THE UNITED STATES
FLEET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,
Feb. 15.-The Japanese Navy. after
apparently extensive aerial scout
ing of the strong United State 5
Pacific Fleet, refused to give bat
tie in the final stages of the fight
for Guadalcanal, thus the Pacific
Fleet has greatly reduced the i'm
portance of the Jap fleet and be-
Titled the Jap claim that the Nip
pons stopped the attempt to re-
inforce Guadalcanal on their own
initiative.
Apparently the Nipponese fleet is
kept for protection of its New
Britain and Shorthand bases north
of Guadalcanal after finding out
the strength of the American foe.
An explanatory bulletin, broad
cast to the crew of the warship
to which I have been assigned,
stated the enemy was out in
force, without doubt, but after
finding out what it was up against,
withdrew instead of reinforcing
Guadalcanal"
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BATTLE5Hlp
RI(HELIEU
HEADS LIST
Cruiser Several Desfroyers
Are Also DoCked on
East Coast

NEW YORK, Feb. 15--The 49,
O00-ton French battleship Richie
lieu, crippled but still far from i'm
potent, slid into New York harbor
last Thursday after lodging pack
of submarines in the mid-Atlantic
and riding out the toughest gale
that many of her crew had exper-
fenced.
The 7,6O0-ton French cruiser
Montcalm, six-inch gun vessel
which like the Richelieu had been
based at Dakar, made most of the
Atlantic crossing with the battle
ship and is berthed at Philadel-
prlia.
Censorship only today permitted
the disclosure of the arrivals which
included several French destroyers,
based at an undisclosed eastern
port.
French Statement
At press conference announcing
the arrival of the vessels, Vice-Ad-
rniral Fernard, chief of the French
Naval Mission to the United States,
said "the ships arrived at certain
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
Southernmost Anchor OF.
German Offensive Line
Attacked, Captured
UNCONSTITUTIONAL IS
ALSO SEIZED BY RUSS
Nazi Troops Are Reported
Driven 10 Westward
in Broad Retreat
tBy Associated Press

The triumphant Red Army troops
smashed into Rostov Sunday, thus
selling the southernmost anchor OF
the German defensive line.
After a violent onslaught the
Red Army also captured Vosorshil-
ovgrad to the north to sweep Oh
through the Don basin, driving the
enemy westward In broad re-
treat.
The seizure of Rostov on the
Don, gateway to the Caucasus, and
Voroshilvograd, both important in
dustrial centers of the Don Basin,
is the browning achievement OF the
Soviet's current campaign since the
recapture of Stalingrad.
Moscow heard the great news
Sunday over the city radio and
telephones rang over the metropo-
lis as joyful citizens called the
news to one another.
! The radio station played stir
ring Red Army marching tunes.
The German radio acknowledged
the fall of both cities only few
hours after the Russians issued the
official communique. The German
radio said German troops evacuat-
ed in methodical fashion in the
course of broad strategical move
ments.
Now the whole defensive line in
southern Russia is crumbling rap
! idly.
Sunday night the Moscow COM
munique reported the Red Army
forces were only seven miles from
| Kharkov.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
RABAUL IS
ATTACKED
BY B0kBER5
Two-hour Raid Is Made on
japanese Naval Base
in New Britain

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Feb. 15.-In the
greatest mass bomber raid carried
out by the Allied Nations in this
war theatre, more than 80 heavy
bombers rained upwards of so tors
of explosives and $500 incendiary
bombs early yesterday on the jap
anese naval base at Rabaul, New
Britain.
Four waves of Flying Fortresses
and Liberators attacked the city
and its harbor for more than two
hours.
Huge and numerous fires were
started, the official communique
stated, and it is known several
ships in the harbor were heavily
damaged.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
.GERMANYAND
ITALY UNDER
AIR ATTACKS
Co|onge Raided al Night as
Is Milan, Naval Base
at Spezid

LONDON, Feb. 15-RAF squa-
drons bombing Germany and italy
in double barreled assault, at
tackled Cologne and Milan last
night and the Naval Base at Spe-
zia on Italy's west coast, 100 miles
south of Milan, was also raided by
British bombers.
The British Air Ministry in an
official report said great weight
of explosives and incendiary bombs
we're dropped on detectives in Col
ogne and heavy attack was made
on Milan and large fires were OBJ
served in the industrial area Elev-
en- of our aircraft are missing"
Several waves of planes attacked
Milan.
A Rome broadcast picked up here
says heavy damage was done at
Milan, 16 persons were killed and
several hundred injured.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
NAzI TANKS
MAKE BREAK
IN AFRICA
Armored Division Force
Through Americans
al Faid Pass

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 15.-Ger-
man armored forces, believed to be
those of Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel, have smashed through Ameri-
can positions west of Faid Pass
for 20 miles, endangering the AM
erican anchor at Gafsa, farther to
the south.
A United States spokesman said
the German tanks overwhelmed the
American artillery positions guard
ing the westward exit of Faid Pass
and that the Nazi tanks, possibly
SO of them, branched out to the
northwest and southwest after the
initial attack at am. yesterday
Gafsa is a rail town so miles
southwest of Faid Pass. This city
and the surrounding area is re-
ported to be in danger of being
cut off by the spearhead of the
NaZi division.
Sources here said 1t is assumed
Gafsa might soon be evacuated.
An Allied communique announced
the enemy has launched attacks
by tank, infantry and artillery,
supported by dive-bombers" in the
Faid Pass area, and added, heavy
fighting took place and is con-
tinuing."
Meanwhile, the British Eighth
Army moved slowly ahead along
the coastal road toward Ben Gar
dane, Is miles inside the Tunisian
border. Air activity from the east
was sharply curtailed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
STOCK QUOTATIONS


NEW YORK, Feb. Is. - Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 4, American Can
82A, Anaconda 27A, Bethlehem
Steel 59k. Commonwealth a n d
Southern 1916, Curtiss Wright 8,
General Motors 48, International
Harvester 81, Kennecott 31%, New
York Central IL 7f8, Northern Pa
cific 812, United States Steel So,
Pound $404
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
The following are today's Dow
Jones averages: industrials 1880
rails 1890, utilities 1927.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
BOMB JAP
BASES In
50L0k0N5
Shorthand Islands Hit -Nips
Lose Eight Planes.
We Lose Six

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.--Amcri-
can airmen bombed a Japanese
cargo ship and shot down Gig hit
,Zeros at the cost OF six American
planes in raid Saturday on the
strategic Shorthand Islands in the
northwestern Solomons.
Four American planes were lost
to enemy fighters, and two were
shot down by Jap anti-aircraft
fire, the Navy said.
The Navy affirmed previous re-
ports from the Southwest Pacific
that ground troops killed 6,066 Japs
and captured 127 in the final 25-
Gay drive on Guadalcanal.
Resistance encountered ON the
Shorthand Islands raid indicated
the enemy is strengthening posi-
tons there. The Japs sent up a
force OF As Zero fighters to inter-
cept the American assault.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
Nine ARRIVE
FROM SOUTH
THI5M0RN|NG

Arrivals here from Seattle this
morning were John Mccormick and
r. j. Sommers.
From Southeast Alaska ports in
coming passengers were B. w. Ar
mold, Coils Druley, Harold Conrad,
George Hayes. Bernard Hoffman,
A. E, Lind and Ernest Stewart.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
SENATE PASSES
FOUR MEASURES
AFTERNOON meet

The Senate passed four bills this
afternoon including House bill No.
8 which repeats the law prohibiting
persons earning 5000 a month or
more with the Territory from TAX
ing outside employment.
Other measures passed included
Senate bill No. 4, sponsored by Sen
ator, Hjalmer Nordale, to clarity
the Territory's position in connec-
ton with claims against deceased
persons estates; House joint mem
orial No. 2 urging Congress to act
on bill to pay net salaries to U.
S. Commissioners; House bill No. IL,
relating to filing of birth certi-
ficates.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-15
BY JACK STiNNETT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-It may
be Just talk, but Washington hears
That there will be little change
in OPA policy or personnel now
that Prentiss M. Brown has taken
over the reins from Leon Hender-
son. Brown has indicated one OF
his primary detectives will be to
make clear to the public why price
control and rationing must be en-
forced. Brown is almost as popular
with Congress as Henderson was
unpopular, and observers say that
the absence of Congressional criti-
cism will go far toward giving the
new administrator the kind of pub
lie favor he will need to put over
the price control and ration pro-
gram.
That the ban on pleasure driv-
ing" is to be made nationwide Re-
ports on effectiveness of the pro-
gram in the IT eastern states and
District of Columbia are not in
yet but indications are that it has
done more to save rubber and gaso-
line than anything else that has
been devised.
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Fire RACES al Dawson
Creek; Block Destroyed;
; Dead, Scores Injured;
Dynamite Store Explodes

DAWSON CREEK, B. c., Feb. Is
"A toll of three dead, six missing
and between 125 and 100 injured,
is the casualty list counted from
the raging fire that wiped out one
entire block of this war booming
railhead town Saturday night.
The raging fire was punctuated
by a terrific explosion as the
flames found stores of dynamite.
Most of the injured were only
slightly hurt, struck by fiery de-
bris from the dynamite explosion
which shook buildings six miles
away.
Nine seriously hurt were flown
to Edmonton Sunday as United
States transport plane was quickly
converted into an ambulance.
Three United States Army doc
tors arrived here by plane to aid
the first aid trained American Red
Cross nurses and set up emergency
facilities.
Cause Unknown
The fire is believed to have
started in the bank from an I'M
known cause and raced uncon-
trolled for three hours y. +
The entire block Of buildings, in
Guiding hotel, lumber company,
telegraph office and other premis-
es were levelled before the fire
fighters, aided by United States
fire fighter equipment, brought the
flames under control
The first estimate of damages
were placed at $4,000.
Dawson Greek is the southern
terminus of the Alaska highway
and the supply base for tn S
northern wartime project, 345 miles
east of Edmonton.
Teemed With Excitement
The town was teeming wi h
northern construction workers when
the fire broke out. Scores OF per-
sons seeking Saturday night ex-
element crowded the scene. The
Dawson Creek Hotel and other
buildings in the affected block were
soon evacuated.
The Northern Alberta Railway
for which Dawson Creek forms the
northern terminus, used locomotives
to bring water on cars to the fire
scene.
Dynamite ExplOdes
Hundreds were crowded around
when flames licked into the ware
house where the dynamite was
stored. The resulting blast showered
flaming debris in all directions and
some of the crowd suffered burns
but most of the bruises were Oh
heads and bodies including frac-
lures when many were struck by
debris which knocked them down.
The blast shook buildings in
Poucecoupe, B. c., six miles south.
1t is not known how the three
victims met death and they were
not Immediately identified. Neither
could details concerning the six
missing persons be learned imme-
diately.
The Dawson Hotel. Frontier Lum-
Der Company's yard, Dominion Gov
eminent Telegraph office and other
premises were burned to the
ground.
The wires from the Northern AL
berta Railway telegraph office,
across the street from the block
destroyed. were found intact and
the operator worked with Edmon-
ton throughout the night handling
scores of messages.