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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Dr.. Gob|e Hurst
LeavesE.C.;New
Board Men Named

DR.. Goble Hurst Wednesday night
resigned as a member of the high
school and elementary school boards
in Ell Centre and Thursday County
School superintendent E. L. Hite-
man appointed George Kirk to take
his place on the high school board
and H. Gallagher on the elementary
board.
The resignation of DR.. Hurst was
not surprise as it was known that
he had moved his chiropractic offic-
es from Ell Centre to Pasadena and
would not make his home in Ell
Centre hereafter. He had been a
member of the high school board
and president of the elementary
board.
ATTENDED SCHOOLS HERE
DR.. Hurst attended the schools in
Ell Centre and for seV>al years
after he finished school saS CHR
opractor with offices in Ell Centre.
He has opened offices in Pasadena.
While in school he played an i'm
portant part in athletics and after
ward retained his interest, assisting
many boys to engage in athletics
and fostering healthful athletics
and physical development programs
in the city schools.
Mrs Hurst and their small daugh-
ter preceded Hurst to Pasadena
and he joined them there this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
French Hepcots
Worry Germans,

LONDON, March 4. = (UP) - A
French version of hepcats is driving
the Nazi occupation authorities
crazy, according to Paris under
ground reports to the Fighting
French here today
Thousands of young Parisians,
the reports said, are joining Swing
clubs. They call themselves Ia
zua" French for Hide -Ho"-
and their chief aim in life is to
worry the Germans, which they do
in variety of ways
The boys wear a French kind of
zoot suit and the girls have spe-
cial ribbons in their hair.
CHIEF WEAPONS
Their chief weapons against the
Germans are wise cracks and whis-
pering campaigns.
They disseminate news from
British Broadcasting Co., broadcasts
by word of mouth. They gang ur
in the streets when Nazi troops
are marching and puncture the
tires of German trucks.
During Nazi newSreelS they
cough or sneeze, and in the cafes
they discuss the rigorS of the Rus
sian winter. They CRATE German
ears with an exaggerated Anglo
Saxon accent.
OFTEN ARRESTED
They often are arrested, but sell
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

illciiiy.
AS the offensive swept into its
second week. Allied land, sea and
air forces were revealed to have
shattered a big Japanese convoy
off New Guinea, sunk or destroyed
16 Axis ships in the Mediterran-
eor ond pressed within three miles
of Faid Pass in Tunisia.
PICK UP RAIDS
The American planes picked up
by day where the Royal Air Force
left off by night after a heavy
raid on Hamburg, Germany's sec
ond city, which rocked under
blockbuster assault two nights aft
er the heaviest attack on the war
on Berlin.
The admiralty revealed that Brit
ish submarines hacking at Axis
supply lines to Tunisia had destroy
ed seven ships and damaged nine
more in widespread attacks. 49,
The submarines also crept in to
the Italian shore to shell a ship
yard on the Gulf of Genoa, scor-
ing hits on two vessels, and to
fire on an Italian train.
Reports from North Africa indi-
Gated that the Allies now were
poised for big push against the
Sfax-Gabes bottleneck in South
Tunisia, while Marshal Erwin
Rommel was reported shifting his
strength into the Mareth line
against the anticipated assault by
the British Eighth Army.
BIGGEST PUNCH
The biggest punch delivered
against the enemy was credited to
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air
forces, which inflicted a major
disaster" by destroying a powerful
japanese convoy of % ships, kill
ing an estimated $4,000 Japanese
troops in the battle of Bismarck
Sea.
The victory off New Guinea un-
derlined the steady and highly sig
nificant growth of Allied air power
now enabling the United Nations
to hold the upper hand on many
fronts.
The air blows brought the war in
the Pacific back into the London
headlines for the first time in
weeks, taking the play in some
newspapers even over the big Rus
sian success at Rzhev and London's
air raid.
OPEN PATH
1t seemed plain that the Jap
anese losses were sufficient to i'm
mobilize further their positions in
the South Pacific and possibly to
open the way for new land often
sives by Macarthur and more is
Continued on Page 8, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Fire Dept Makes
12CaIIs in Month

Twelve calls were made during
February by the local fire depart
ment, according to information re-
leased by that agency Thursday
in it's monthly report.
Firemen made l18 building in
srections during that time.
They extinguished three dwelling
fires and two automobile blazes.
There we're two fires in business
establishments in the month, the
report showed, one a hotel fire and
the other a newsstand. Two trash
fires were put out.
Two false alarms were turned in
which necessitated sending out
equipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

Transcontinental & Western Air,
Inc; United Air Lines Transport
Corp; and Western Air Lines, Inc
In its show cause order the
board said the amount of traffic
on all classes carried by the air.
lines between July and November,
1912, was not appreciably less
than the traffic carried during the
same period in 194l, although the
lines operated fewer aircraft last
year.
The board said also that the
average pay load carried on each
plane during the latter part of
last year substantially exceeded
the pay load carried during any
preceding period, and that passeng-
ers and express revenues for each
mile flown were "correspondingly
increased
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

NdIlSy.
Barrett, who during the time he
has worked in the valley has resid-
ed in Ell Centre, revealed Thursday
that he has accepted a position as
United States government represen-
tative to assist the Chinese Com
mission of Hydraulic Affairs in reg
ulating waterways for primary nav
iGation.
HULL LETTER
His appointment to the post cam G
in letter from Secretary of State
Cordell Hull which he recently re-
ceived.
Hull informed him that he had
been appointed after the Chinese
government asked this nation for
the services of an hydraulic engineer
for waterway regulation who would
pay particular attention to retarding
floods and preventing soil erosion.
Barrett has had previous expert
ence as an engineer in China, going
there in 1924 as consulting engineer
for large construction firm. He
remained there until 1895 when he
returned to the United States For
some time he has served in the
irrigation division of the department
of agriculture. Prior to his assign
ment in Imperial Valley he was en-
gagged in flood control work in other
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Woman Takes Too
Much InsuIin;; Dies

BRAWLEY, March 4.-Mrs. Pen
ney Ernst, 20, wife of marine cor
poral stationed at the Ell Centro
Marine Air Training station, died
en- route to the BraWley hospital
late Wednesday from an overdose
of insulin.
She was said to be suffering from
diabetes and was taking inSulin, the
treatment often recommended to
those suffering from the disease.
She took too much of the insulin
Wednesday afternoon, physicians
said, and became violently i'll. She
died before she reached the hospital
for treatment.
Mrs. Ernst was staying in a hotel
in Calipatria while in Imperial VAL
ley to visit her husband, who re-
Gently had been transferred from
Camp Dunlap to the station at Ell
Centre.
Red Gross officials and Deputy
County Coroner Frank Raney found
her husband and we're assisting him
in arrangements for burial
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
City Takes Over
T Trash Disposal
Within City Limit
Hatton Asks Citizens to
Stc1 Pilirg Rubbish in
Alleys; Business Handled

After April the city of Ell Centre
disposal of trash within the city
limits but garbage will continue
to be hauled by private firm. it
was decided at a meeting of the
council Wednesday night
City clerk Neil Gavin was instruct
ed to advertise for bids for garbage
collection while the councilmen ask
ed c. w. Heinecke, director of pub
lie works, to prepare to take over
the work OF picking up shrub and
grass trimmings.
ISSUES APPEAL
At the same time Mayor R. w.
Hatton issued a strong appeal to
local residents to refrain from plac-
ing large piles of trash in alleys
with the expectation that the city
would dispose Of them. He said
trimmings from trees and many
other types of trash should be haul
ed away by property owners as it
was not the duty of the city to COL
lect material of this nature. A three
month contract with the c. j. Lyons
company for picking up both gar
bage and trash will terminate on
April l.
PROPERTY SOLD
Several small parcels of city
owned property were ordered sold
after bids had been received on
them. After this the council ac-
cepted the monthly report of the
fire and police departments.
Demands totalling $3767 were or
dered paid after they had been ex-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
District Employees
Declared Essential

Imperial Irrigation district en-
ployees Thursday were placed on
the same status as employees in
war plants and instructed not to
leave district employment without
first obtaining a properly signed
certificate of availability.
This announcement was made by
Thomas N. Finney, director of the
United States Employment service
in Imperial county. District en-
ployeeS were placed under this new
classification by the federal govern
ment because the district system
is essential to the war effort in pro-
viding water for agriculture.
Finney said that pproximately
TOO district employees must get an
availability certificate from the dis
trict or from him before they will
be permitted to change employ
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Gov't'Asks Cut
I'm Airline Fares

WASHINGTON, March up
The Civil Aeronautics Board to-
day ordered II mator domestic
air lines to show cause why their
passenger fares should not be re-
Guced by 10 per cent. The lines
must reply within IS days.
The boards action followed a
series of recent orders setting a
standard 03 mill per pound mile
rate for carrying mail. In each of
these orders the board had said
it would give early consideration"
to a passenger rate reduction.
The lines affected by the pas
senger rate order; American Air
lines, Inc; Braniff Always, Inc;
Chicago G. Southern Air Line, Inc;
Delta Air Corp, Inc; Eastern Air
Lines, Inc; National Airlines, Inc. /;
Northwest Airlines, Inc; Pennsly-
Vdnia Central Airlines Corp;
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

'dlSclOSed today.
The woman fell down the steps,
tripping an elderly man. They roll
ed down the steps and brought down
many others, the ministry said. The
entrance soon jammed and it was
impossible for those below to eS-
cape.
Bodies piled up several deep and
most of the victims suffocated.
The accident occurred after the
air alert had been sounded. 1t was
established that there were no signs
of panic before the accident and
that no bombs fell anywhere in
that district during the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

from the arms OF her father as he
was carrying her from their flooded
house.
NO DAMAGE HERE
In Imperial Valley, however, the
showers were light and no damage
resulted. In general there was no
damage to agriculture, County Agri-
cultural Commissioner B. A. Harri-
gan said.
Total rainfall for the storm in
Imperial Valley was "a of an inch,
bringing the total since Jan. to SO
of an inch, the Imperial Irrigation
district reported Thursday. The rain
was general all over the valley.
The downpour in the Los Angeles
area drove nearly 300 persons from
their homes in low-lying sections
Of the city and automobiles were
stalled throughout the county.
LIGHTNING STRIKES
One man was treated for shock
when lightning struck a street car.
A radio station was knocked off
the air temporarily by another bolt.
At least half a dozen storm vic
Tins, rescued from flooded homes
by deputy sheriffs in roWboatS, re-
quired hospital treatment for ex-
posure. officers said.
Man, deputies, stripped almost
to the skin, worked in chill water
to aid others to safety from flooded
zones.
A sagging treStle over a flooded
wash caused a sloW-moving inter-
urban street car to spill over on
its side The motorman and two
passengers were hospitalized
WORKERS DETOUR
Warplant workers, coming off
shift, found themselves forced to
detour and were delayed in reach
ing homes.
At one point, automobile traffic
was slowed by mud which oozed
onto the highway.
Local flood conditions were inten-
sified at another point by the break
ing of three debris basins, sending
cascades Of water down hillsides.
deputies said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Aged Man Dies;
Victim of Heart
Attack Near Track
Wanderer Succumbs to
Attack While on Rail
Line Near HOltville

An aged itinerate died from
a heart attack beside the rail
road between Ell Centro and
Holtville Thursday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Wasson and Robert Wasson of Holt
vile were driving east in their car
and saw the old man sitting beside
the railroad cleaning his pipe. They
saw him clutch his chest and noticed
he appeared to be gasping for
breath.
GO TO ASSISTANCE
They went to his assistance and
sent for help. The old man, about
rs or 80 years of age, was unable
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Labor Difficulties
Still Unsettled:
Shed Crew Strikes
Labor COnciliatOr Due
Here to Iron Out Work
Problems at Ice Plant

Labor difficulties at the
Imperial Ice plant in Ell Cen
tro were expected to be iron
ed out Thursday night when
a government labor conciliat-
or was due to arrive for confer
ence with the employees, company
officials, and representatives of the
National Labor Relations Board
Plant employees walked off the
job Wednesday and still had not re-
turned to work Thursday afternoon.
Apparently a dispute between an
employees association and the Team
sters union will be aired at the con-
ference Thursday night and a deci-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
First Aid Classes
ToBe0rganized

Organization of a standard, and
an advanced first aid class will be
effected next week if sufficient per-
sons, 18 or 20 in number, enroll
said Leo DeCelles, first aid chair
man for the Ell Centro Red Cross
chapter Thursday.
The standard class will take place
Monday and Wednesday evenings
starting on Monday of next week
ard will be two hours in length
7.3O-9:30 in Wilson school. Miss
Blanche Charles will be the instruc-
tor.
The classes are open to both men
and women and registration must
take place this week, either by call
ing Wilson school or the Red Cross
headquarters, said DeCelles.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Doctors Commend
Health in Army

CHICAGO, March 4.-UP)--The
American Medical association prais-
ed the army medical service today
for its remarkable record" in low
ering the army'e death rate, eXclu-
sive OF battle casualties, to its low
est point in history while under
going tremendous expansion.
During World War I, one patient
of each three with meningitis died:
now only one in 20 dies" said an
editorial in the Journal of Anna.
"Venereal disease is substantially
less than during the first World
War and the syphilis rate is the
lowest in the history of our army"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
80 ENEMY VESSELS SUNK OR DESTROYED
Texas Workers
Abandon Strikes

AUSTIN, Texas, March A.
GUP)-GOv. Coke X. Stevenson
today made public an agreement
with Texas labor leaders signed
March 2 barring all strikes,
slow downs, lock-Outs or work
stoppages of any nature in
Texas for the duration of the
war.
So far as is known here, this
is the first such agreement
made between state and
workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Air Executive to
Come to EICentro

j. w. Charle5viile, newly appoint
ed assistant to the president OF
Western Air Lines, will arrive in El
Centro next week on a brief busi-
ness trip.
Western Airlines has adopted a
tremendous program of expansion
COMPANY officials said, and since
Ell Centre is a proposed port of call
for the company, Charlesville wishes
to become better acquainted with
the situation in Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

bullets and torpedoes the last
chapter of a two-day assault that
erded a japanese attempt to re-
inforce and supply their forces
in northeastern New Guinea.
The radio man of an American
Flying Fortress made this last re-
port to his base at dusk:
Sighted from 5000 feet three
cargo ships, two> destroyers, one
large and one small, remaining as
the last vestige of a 22-ship con-
voy, all cargoers afire, smoke ris-
ing 5000 feet Large destroyer
moving slowly with heavy oil slick
pouring out from stern. Small des-
troyer low in water with hole in
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Reds Take All
Vital RaiILine

LONDON. March 4. - (UP)-A
special Soviet communique said to-
night that the Red army has clear
ed the Moscow -Rzhev- Velikie Luki
rail line of German forces.
The Russians reported the cap
ture of Olenino, 80 miles west of
Rzhev on the rail lime to Velikie
Ijlki
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Total Destruction Of jap
Convoy Greatest Victory

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA
March 3-Delayed)-CUP)-Am-
erican and Allied air forces based
in New Guinea earned their great
est victory of the war today when
they destroyed a 22-ship japanese
convoy steaming toward Lac and
left the BiSmark Sea stained with
enemy blood and strewn with
wleckage of ships and planes.
American Billy Mitchell bombers
caught the enemy mapping by
sneaking in 80 low you could catch
fish with your propellers" to bomb
the convoy over a 15-mile eXpanse
oil water.
STORY TOLD
The story was told by pilots
just back from writing with bombs,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

dom can any evidence be produced
against them, although it was re-
ported that three recently were
shot as hostages for going too far.
To aid the anti-Nazi jive move
ment, the report said, the BIC
has started special programs for
their benefit in the early morning
hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
starboard at water line
FIRST TO LOCATE

StarbOard at water line.
FIRST TO LOCATE
Australian Beaufort torpedo
bomberS went out first in the light
cf the waning moon to locate the
CONVOY. They sighted one group
of four ships and the rest were
spread out over Is miles, steam
ing a southerly course off Cape
Gernards, east of Lac, into Huon
Gulf.
From then on, FortreSSeS, Mitch
ellis, Havocs, Kittyhawks, airacob-
ras, and lightenings swarmed over
the doomed convoy.
Every plane of one Mitchell
group except one got at least one
hit on a different ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

week. he said. was l02 per cent
with illegitimate absenteeism nc.
counting for GA per cent.
Land urged congress to take pre-.
ventive action" He said that mere
consideration of the problem by
the committee was having salu-
tary effect already.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04

Land said shipyard absenteeism
in December, 1912. caused a time
loss of IA to l8 per cent. He added
that a maritime commission anal
ySiS of 2,389,000 man-hours lost be-
cause of absenteeism in one week
of January, indicated that more
than half of the total was "illegiti-
mate" The total time loss for the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
TOO Cargo Ship ps
LOST Edch Year Y

- WASHINGTON, March 4. (UP)-Asserting that "the
egmate absentee is first cousin to the Stacker" Chair
man Emory s Land of the maritime commission told the
house naval affairs committee today that abseneeism i'm
Slpyards is costing the country Liberty ships year
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Valley Engineer
To Work i'm Chin u
Department Of Agriculture Employe
Here Accepts Appointment TO Assist
Chinese in Intricate Water Problems

Soon leaving for China to aid that warning nation in
solving of its complex inland navigation problems will
be Willis c. Barrett United States Department of Agricul
ture empoye who for the last year and half has con-
Quoted extensive study of drainage problems in Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Child Dies In
l.. 4. Roinstorm
Valley on Edge of Severe Downpour;
Rain General Over Southern Calf.
Area With No Damage Reported Here

Imperial Valley showered Wednesday night and
Thursday by the edge of rainstom which deuged
the Los Angeles the second big storm of this year
A six months old baby girl Ruth Corella, drowned in
her home in the Los Angeles area, when she slipped
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
M'Arthur Planes,
British Subs Hit
Enemy Conveys
Japanese Armada Of u Ships Sinks off
New Guinea Coast; Flying Forts Return
To Bomb targets in France. Germany

LONDON, March 4. (UP)-American Flying Fortresses
back into the great Allied air offensive against
Europe today smashing by daylight at two key hubs
of Adolf Ifitlers communications systematic docks at
Rotterdam and railroad yards at Hamm in western Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
178 Die: 80 Seriously
Injured as Crowd Ponics
In London Bomb Shelter
'Hundreds Trapped When Residents &c
Berserk After Woman With Baby.
Bundles Trips on FIiqh ht Of Stairs

LONDON, March a. (UP)-A middle aged Woman car
ryng baby and armoad of bundles tripped flight
of steps leading subway shelter during last nights
air raid and started panic in which 78 persons were kill
ed and 60 injured seriously the Home Security Ministry
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
Another Victim

Another Victim
We have heard little about the
deep holes in the Ell Centro pave
ing the water pipe cleaning process.
Thursday it was different. High
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
D AMBLlne
1\EpORTER
Divide With Them


Do you have any extra horse
shoes, badminton sets, card games
checkers and similar things?
That's good. Telephone the Ell
Centre Chamber of Commerce and
Secretary Ben Herring will see that
they are taken to Camp Seeley
where they are needed by the new
ordnance group recently moved in
there. Captain Milton Glickman said
the men would like some magazines
also.
Old Resident
Mrs. Mar Butler, Negro, has been
a resident of Imperial Valley for
35 years and is one of the valley S
greatest boosters. She has 16 chill
dren all living. The oldest child is
IS years of age and the youngest
is % years of age.
She is an example of cheerful
ness and during her residence in
the valley has made a host of friends.
Diffused Lighting
Beware of buying any boats off of
Fritz Anderson.
This admonition comes from the
ranks of fishing, camping and boat
ing companions of the said Fritz.
Seems Fritz has had a cabin
cruiser over in San Diego waters
for many years. Deciding to drop
the hobby for wartime reasons, he
dismantled the craft. Just as the
process of getting the motor out had
been finished along comes a storm
and sinks the hull Tor hulk, as the
case may be-.
Word was sent to him hastily that
his fine boat was submerged.
Fritz demonstrated no emotion.
Eventually the truth came out.
The boat looked SO much better
under water than it did above wa
ter, that he had sold it bmerged
las was" for twice what he expected
to get out of it in its original status.
Another Victim
We have heard little about the
deep holes in the Ell Centro pave
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-04
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday IS, minimum
Thurs. So; am. Thurs. 81. humid
ity 88; noon Thurs. IS, humidity rs;
pm. Wednesday 65, humidity 55.
RANK nEEzITS
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-25

STRATFORDON-AVON. Eng
land-UP-William Shakespeare's
birthplace was painted red by van
dals during the night. The vandals
daube1 the word Bacon" in red
letters two feet high across the
Shakespeare Memorial Theater
and on the front and back OF the
tower memorial. SINE persons
maintIin that Francis Bacon wrote
the plays attributed to Shake
speare.