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Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Ickes Confident
WLB Will Approve
New Goa! Contract
Coal Administrator Asks
Miners to Produce More
Coal: Most Still Idle

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.
(UP) Coal Administrator
Harold l.. Ickes today eX-
pressed confidence that the
War Labor Board would ap-
prove his coal mine wage contract
and called on the United Mine
Workers to produce more coal,
more coal, and more coal"
Ickes addressed the UNIV policy
committee and told them it was
imperative ito get more and more
coal out of the ground" That COM
mittee ratified the contract drafted
by Ickes and UNIV President John
l.. Lewis to end the strike of $780,
600 coal miners.
Only trickle of miners returned
to work today. 1t was not expected
that full production would be re-
sumed until Monday.
CALLS OFF STRIKE
Lewis called off the three-day
strike last night after he and IckeS
negotiated a new portal to portal"
wage agreement fixing the soft
coal miners basic daily wage at
$3.50 and increasing anthracite
earnings by 70 cents a day.
The War Labor Board must ap-
prove the contract before it can be
placed in effect for the period of
government operation.
Although the UNIV policy COM
mittee ordered the miners back to
work lat the earliest possible mo-
Continued on page 2, col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Hull, Eden Are
Expected in Cairo

LONDON, Nov.S4. TUP) - u. S.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and
British Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden left Moscow yesterday and
were due momentarily in Cairo,
where conferences were scheduled
that may lead to Turkeys entry
into the war on the side of the
Allies.
Their departure from the Russian
capital following the successful
conclusion of the Moscow confer
ence was reported by radio Moscow
early today. Turkish Foreign Min
lister human Menemenioglu and Sir
Hughe acknowledgement, Brit
ish ambassador to Turkey, left for
Cairo Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Il More Japanese
Ships Are Bagged

WASHINGTON, Nov. a. (UP)-
American sea and air forces have
bagged Ia more japanese ships
10 sunk and three damaged by
submarines and one destroyed by
plane-the navy announced to-
day.
These latest successes raised
the u. S. submarine score in the
Pacific to 339 Japanese ships
sunk, Sc probably sunk, and liz
damaged.
The vessels sunk by submarines
were two tankers, six freighters,
a large cargo transport, and a
patrol craft. The damaged ships
were two freighters and med
ium tanker.
In addition, reconnaissance
plane operating under Admiral
william F. Halsey's South Pacific
command sank a 1000 ton Japa-
nese freighter 80 miles southwest
of Cean island. That island is 130
miles east of Jap-held Nauru
in the Gilberts and $50 miles
northeast Of Guadalcanal.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
British Follow up
Great U.S.. Attack,
Hitting Two Cities
Dusseldorf, Cologne Get
BOmb-Shatterirg as RAF
Hits in Great Strength

LONDON, Nov. 4 CUP)-POwer-
full British bombing fleets smash
ed at the German Rhineland
last night and the air ministry
revealed today that a record 1000
tons of bombs were dropped in
that assault and in an earlier
daylight raid on Wilhelmshaven
by American warplanes.
LONDON, Nov. 4. (UP)-
A mighty British air fleet
smashed at Dusseldorf and
Cologne last night in a dou-
ble-barreled assault on Ger
many's great industrial Rhineland
to send the Anglo-American aerial
offensive back into high gear.
Striking only few hours after
upwards of 1000 American Flying
Fortresses, Liberators and escort
ing fighters battered the big Ger
man naval base of Wilhelmshaven
in daylight yesterday, hundreds OF
British four-engined bombers loos-
Gu d lltdNy doCSt dIouSh
on Dusseldorf, arms center and
Germany's third largest inland port.
RAID EFFECTIVE
First reports indicated the attack
on Dusseldorf was effective" the
air ministry announced.
A smaller force of -engined
bombers concentrated their cargoes
of explosives on Cologne, industrial
ca pital of the Rhineland and Ger
Continued on page 2, col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
OVERWHELMING TRIUMPH

His warShips scored a second
overwhelming triumph two hours
after the battles last shot was
fired when they beat off a revenge
seeking enemy air mission, shoot
ing down many of force of 81 dive
bombers.
/ Not a single American ship was
lost in either engagement.
= The stage for the sea battle was
the northern end of the Solomons
sea about 35 miles west of Empress
Augusta Bay, where marines landed
at dawn Monday to conquer Bou-
gainville island.
When intercepted, the japanese
task force-comprising twelve units
in three groups, namely four de-
strsyerS. four cruisers and four
more destroyers-Was on a direct
course between the main enemy
base at Rabaul New Britain island,
and Empress Augusta Bay.
Their apparent intention was to
enter the bay, destroy our trans
ports and supply ships unloading
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
new FRONT TO Open SOON
HOUSE COMMIT IS TOLD
NAVY THRASHES JAPS
By FRANCIS MCCARTHY

copyright, 1943, by United Press
ABOARD A u. S. CRUISER OFF
BOUGAINVILLE, Nov. CUPl -
Outgunned but never outfought, an
american task force early this
morning handed the Imperial Japa-
neSe navy one of the soundeSt
thrashings it has yet received while
protecting transports and marines
ashore at Empress Augusta Bay
against what might have been a
devastating bombardment.
Tokyo radio has announced the
Japanese lost one cruiser and two
deStroyers in the action, but I can
say the final assessment of losses
indicated Japanese losses exceed
that figure while we lost no ships.
A three hour running sea battle
the wars longest-was brought to
brilliant conclusion by rear ad-
miral who is a veteran of the Pac..
ific war He matched his out
gunned forces against a heavier
japanese force and won.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
wahI Company
BUYS Large Ranch

The Martin Wahl Co., Inc, pur-
chased the 1000 acre Cudahy ranch
east of Heber, it was revealed
Thursday.
One of the oldest in Imperial
Valley, the ranch covers a three
mile area. 1t has been under culti-
vation for more than rs years. 1t Is
being used at present for pasture
and feeding and will be used for
that purpose for the remainder OF
the winter
1t is equipped with feed mill.
eight or 10 houses, office buildings,
and feed corrals, Wahl said. He ex-
poets to use it for vegetables next
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

tions in Imperial county was made
Oct. % by Vaughn and Miss Ruth
Glen of the civilian requirements
bureau in Washington.
Similar surveys are being made
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Seattle and In II eastern cities.
John Young, WPB branch manager
in San Diego, said. Reports OF the
testimony will be used In Washing
ton in adjusting national policies
to correct bad situations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

Local merchants in all consumer
goods fields from groceries and
meats to clothing, furniture. drugs
and hardware, we're asked to write
Kenneth Vaughn at the WPB Of
fices in San Diego in order that
the WPB and War Food Admins
tration representatives may be as
sisted in tracing reasons for poor
distribution of goods. Anyone want
ing additional information may con-
tact the USDA war board in FL
Centre.
The preliminary survey of condi-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Tax Payments for
County Come in

Imperial county taxpayers began
to pay their 1943-l944 taxes before
all of the statements had been
mailed from his office, Assessor
Collector Dan West said Thursday.
Between $4,000 and 10000 tax
statements were mailed from his
office in the last few days, the last
of them going into the mail on
Thursday.
Payments began coming in Mon
day, West said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

izing the remainder Of the $4,000
available in the quarter cent gaso-
line tax fund. The streets to be
oiled have not all been selected
but will be selected later.
1t was voted to employ c. G.
Gabrielson of Los Angeles, the same
auditor as employed to make the
city audit last year, to do the work
again this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
2 AMsl'Ne
1AEpoRTER
The Single Track

When Adm. Mischner hunts ducks
he hunts ducks.
Back in the United States after
18 months in the Solomons, Adm.
Mischner wanted to hunt ducks IN
Imperial Valley. SO he and his chief
of staff at the North Island naval
air base, Captain John Perry, con-
tacted Ben Herring of the Ell Centro
Chamber of Commerce.
They accompanied a party OF Ell
Centrans to a duck blind, arriving
there at am.
Adm. Mischner wouldn't leave
the blind even to eat and shot his
last shot of the day at 6 pm.
That's the spirit that is fixing up
the Japs in the Solomons. That
stay-with- 'em and never-give-up
idea.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
B-2q Soon Nav
Bomb Nip Cities

bomber, which is as far ahead of
those two aircraft as they are out
in front of pre-War bomberS.'
The B-29 was developed by the
Boeing aircraft company in cooper
alton with the army air forces. The
design was accomplished by Boe-
ing's engineering staff at Seattle
Continued on page 2, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

three cOuncllmen present at tne
meeting wednesday, Mayor Robert
Hatton and Councilmen p. l.. Moore
and Wesley He'll. They accepted the
resignation and went on to other
business placed before them.
Heinecke said Thursday that he
had no statement to make in re-
gard to his resignation.
The council decided to go forward
with the street oiling program, util-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

there ,and lombard the marines
ashore
The admirals orders were explicit
prevent any such occurrence.
He exceeded his orders by not
only doing just that but crippling
the imposing task force as well.
Never at any time, however, did
he leave even the tinieSt entry to
Empress Augusta Bay through
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

which a segment of the Japanese
foce might slip in the the heat of
battle.
IN UNCHARTED WATERS
The admiral could have fought
the battle in the open seat but
chose to wage the fight in mar
rover, uncharted waters near En-
press Augusta Bay in order to pro-
Continued on page 2, COL 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
What A CelebratiOn.-

Wednesday was a great day for
Gar Anderson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Anderson. 1t was great
day because Gary was celebrating
his third birthday anniversary.
He walked around the house,
thinking things over. Yes, it was
a great daT and should be treated
In the grand manner.
Gary found some matches ana
Llithely set fire to bed and de-
stroyed the bed, the springs, the
mattress, and all the bedding.
Oh. well. man has to do some
thing exciting on his birthday.
p. S-The next time he does
such a thing Carr gets spanking
even if it is Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
It's Inevitable

Spanish class was going great
shakes at night school at Central
Union High school. James B. Ran
kin was putting the class through
its PAGES.
Everyone who makes a mistake
on a word will have to repeat 1T
three times" he said. Every miss
means you have to say it right
three times"
Most of them missed in the row
ahead of Hazel Livingston.
When it came her time she
said the word and said it right but
automatically said it three times.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Shortage Survey
Conducted Here

Imperial county selected of the four west
for study in War Production Board survey
Thursday and preliminary survey of the already
has been m
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Heinecke Quits
AS p w. Chief

Walter Henecke, public works director of Ell Centre
since May of 194o rendered his RESIGNATION to- the city
council at the meeting in city hall Wednesday night.
His resignation presented in letter in which he
said it would become effective JAN g. 1914 There
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

Plunging forward 10 miles over
the rugged Italian terrain in SO
hours, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomeryS men seized the most i'm
portant communications hub in the
entire region. ...s
B.; swarming through Isernia the
British laid open the German de-
fenses for a thanking swing either
way or both, menacing the entire
defense line touted as the most
powerful below Rome.
FOLLOWS DRIVE
The Isernia triumph-the city was
taken at 3 a.m.-folloWed a COM
bined drive by the Eighth and Fifth
armies which cleared the Maltese
mountains. Isernia is 40 miles due
north of Naples and 80 miles from
Rome.
An official spokesman said in
announcing the capture that its
Importance cannot be overeSti-
mated" since it controls the road
network supplying a considerable
area of central Italy.
followed b. a few hours the dis
closure that Americans and Brit
ish of the Fifth army, surging for
ward five to eight miles on a 40
mile front, had overrun MasSico
ridge and crumpled the key west
ern positions of the German line.
The enemy now has yielded the
western anchor and the central
hinge of his defensive line" a COM
mentator said.
In effect the capture of Isernia
meant that the allies had taken
the southern half of the Little
Rommel" line, with the key inland
position of Venafro flanked to the
north.
RUNNING BATTLE
The announcement of the victory
was made at a special press con-
ference. 1t came after a running
battle through the mile-long main
thoroughfare bisecting the town.
Rolling forward on a 40-mile
front, Fifth army troops took 27
towns and villages, won positions
commanding the German retreat
path across the Garigliano river
plains, and stood aStride the main
Continued on page 2, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Eighth Army Unhinses All
German Line by Capturing
Strategic Town Of Isernia
Mon+somery's Men Plunge Forward 10
Miles Over Rocky Terrain TO Take
Settlement; Fifth Army Pushes Ahead

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers, Nov. a. (UP)-
The British Eighth army captured the vital road junction
of lsernia today unhnging the German defense line IN
central Italy while other Allied forces the shat
tered fragments of it's western section.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
Military Parade
Will Begin Drive
In &c. Saturday
500 to March in Big
Exhibition for War
Chest: Band Is Coming

Imperial Valleys greatest
wartime parade will wind
through the streets of Ell
Centre at 2 pm. Saturday as
the opening event in the COM
munity war chest drive to raise
S29 400.
More than SOC men from the arm
ed forces will appear in the line
of march with military equipment,
the massed colors of veterans or
ganizations, bands, and school chill
dren's, and marching units OF all
kinds.
This big parade probably will be
the last spectacle of its kind to be
held in the city until after the
close of the war.
MEET AT COURT HOUSE
The paraders will assemble at
the court house and line up west
on Main street. The parade will
move at 2 pm. and go east on
Main to Fourth street, south on
Fourth to State, west on State to
Seventh, and disband at Seventh
and State.
Supervisor Hugh T. Osborne will
be grand marshal of the parade and
will lead the line in a California
Highway patrol car piloted by Sgt.
Cliff Reed. Then will come the
splendid Camp Lockett band sent
by Brig Gen. T. K. Brown.
Next in line will come the Ell
Centre marine air training station
unit which will consist of 16O men
under arms as provided by 1t. Col.
T. j. McQuade The Camp Dunlap
Continued on page 2, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04

Maximum Wednesday 85, minimum
Thurs. AZ; am. Thurs. As, humid
ity 38; noon Thurs. 80, humidity 25;
5 pm. Wed. 81, humidity 18.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-04
N Nuzi
Retreat
A Rout
Cossacks XIII
Thousands Of
Crack Grenadiers

MOSCOW, Nov. 5. (UP)--
S a r swinging Cossack
horsemen brought the Dniep-
er estuary within their grasp
and sent the greatest rOut
The Valley settler., 1943-10-22
P.T.A. ROUND TABLE, CONTINUED.

Miss Gura lni ok, spoke next and sold
that parents were often to busy
and unable to watch children ell Of
tho time and that the people Of the
community should cooperate and make
it their duty to wetch all children
end try to insti11 a sense Of pri
in school sec omp1 shments. Some cos
cs require moro authority than the
parents and tee cheers can exert,
then some agency Of the law should
be called upon to help. Good studsn
is can help by shamein Offenders
and should be given praise for thei
work. Children who feel that parent
90 not give approval to their acts
become worse than they would be 9th
orVise, should praise children for
the GOOD things that they co.
Mrs. Draper, spoke next, soid that
child spends most Of time in home
and that unless home is pleasant an
'nvireme.nt good, that child gets
ronG iduas ebout life,. parents
should watch children and show them
the right WY.
The Valley settler., 1943-10-22

In conc 1us Ion, Mrs Don Payne, gave
q summary Of facts and made the
recc omendeti ons Of the group.
Excuses from school or classes,
should not be requested unless octu-
ally needed, and called attonti on to
G large number Of req ons tlet are
not adequate to comply wi tn the law.
The fami ly should use every means to
encourage attendance and 5000 scholor
ship. Nothing should come first when
the education Of the child is being
cons idered. Keeping chi ldron out Of
school for nay reason exce1 illness
is really unlawful end parents can
pros ed if they willfully evude
the law. Every excuse made, sh ould
state definate reason parents and
teachers should carefully check the
requests and 6 limit should be Put
on number Of excuses ellowed.
Childorn should be confined to school
7grounds from time Bus arrives in
morning until it leaves st night.
Present pre- ice makes checking very
difficult and child should not be-
allowed to take advantage Of it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
Continued from Page One)

couldn't see exactly what had hap
pened," the publisher continued
.'You could hear people shouting
and crying and in the below-freez
Ing temperature their voices echo
ed and re-echoed in the night.
Wood told of an expectant moth
er whose legs and thighs were
badly mangled and who kept say
ing IT won't lose my baby, ! won't
lose my baby, God help me, !
WON'T
''She had more spunk than I've
ever seen in a woman before,
Wood said. "A short time later
= doctor came up and examined
her. gave her a sedative and told
her that her baby would be born.
Thank God, she said"
Wood said makeshift flares had
been used to stop two south-bound
freight trains after the first wreck
and that he and others frantically
endeavored by the same means to
warn the northbound engineer.
MANY of the passengers were
servicemen en- route to their homes
for the holidays. Wood estimated
half the dead were men in uni
form. Most of the injured in the
Fayetteville hospital were service
men. Soldiers, sailors and marines,
who had escaped with little or no
hurts. milled about tn streets
there seeking transportation. The
American Red Cross set up well
fare and inquiry centers at Fay
etteville and Lumbertcn to handle
Identification requests, and arrang-
ed to list dead and injured.
Mrs. H. A. Oliver of the Lum-
berton Robesonian, ar.ong the first
to reach the scene, said three rear
coaches of the southbound Tamil
ami West Coast Champion were
derailed in the first wreck. This
was DldII1eQ VII d DlVfAS1i AoAA NJ ~
G. Sibley Of Wilmington, a vice
president of the railroad. Six coach
es of the northbouna Tamiami East
Coast Champion we're derailed and
some telescoped in the second
smashup. Mrs. Oliver added.
The temperature was around III
degrees and four inches of snow
blanketed the little valley in which
the disaster occurred. Mrs. Oliver
said when she arrived the injured
were begging for help and water.
Some bodies, covered with sheets,
Law in the snow along the right
of-way.
First aid was given the injured
by civilian defense workers, SOL
diers, Army nurses and other pas
sengers. Physicians from nearby
towns were hard at work before
dawn attending the suffering. A
Catholic priest administered to the
dying, and a Methodist preacher
Helped in distributing coffee and
doughnuts to survivors.
Military police stood guard about
the scene of the wreck. At the
Red Springs mortuary the military
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
At Least SO Are Killed
In Coast Line Accident

mounted machine guns, as add
tional bodies were brought in.
One of the injured taken to the
neutrality-suspicious. Army air base
hospital died. Another, an uniden-
titled girl died in Lumberton
hospital.
w. B. Holmes Of Richmond, Va,
conductor of the northbound train,
said the shock of the collision
threw him almost to the ceiling
of the passenger baggage car
where he was counting his tickets.
IT got out, and when I saw the
wreck, I ran two or three miles
to Rennert from where 1 telephon-
ed the Coast Line offices in Rocky
Mount" he related.
The first call tor assistance went
out from the radio Of police car.
It brought ambulances with ooc
tors and nurses and workmen with
acetylene torches shortly after the
wreck.
Southbound trains were detour-
ed by way of Fayetteville, Ben
nettsville, S. c., and Florence, S.
c., and northbound from Florence
to Rocky Mount, N. c., by way
of Wilmington, W hile wrecking
crews strove to repair track DAM
age.
An estimated thousand feet of
trackage was torn up, with heavy
rails bent and twisted into various
shapes, witnesses reported.
Railroad Officials said they hoped
to open the southbound tracks to
traffic tonight. They did not pre-
dict when the northbound track
would be reopened.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
Ex-Sailor Plunges
IS Floors To Death

NEW YORK-A young man walk
ed to the observation deck of the
Empire State Building today, toss
ed away a cigarette and dived
over the guard rail. His body land
ed amidst a throng of Christmas
shoppers 86 floors below. Navy dis
charge papers identified him as
William Lloyd Rambo, %, New
York.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
LaGuardia Ayers
Drink Is A Curse

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-kR-F.
H. La Guardia today told a meet
ing of the New York Clergy asso-
citation that he thinks drink Is a
curse, that there are too many
saloons in New York, that he loath-
es brewers and gin mill keepers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
British ATS Ranks
Now $4,000 Strong

LONDON, Dec. IS. -R)- The
ATS British equivalent of the
WACS) are $4,000 strong. Nearly
5000 are serving in the Middle
East, United States and East Afri-
ca, Mrs. L. Y. L. E. Whateley,
director of the Women's Auxiliary
Territorial Service estimated to-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
Pioneer In Comic
Publications Dies

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Dec.
16. -R)- Arthur T. Leon, rs, pres
ident of Cupples and Leon com
pany, a firm credited with being
the first to publish comic strips
in book form, died today. The
firm first published Cluster
Brown in book foIn, followed
with others and sold an estimated
IS, 900, 600 copies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17

A birch tree with 200,0 leaves
will give off between 700 and 900
gallons of water in a single sum-
mer day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17

Antarctica has enough ice to
cloak the entire earth in an ice
coat 120 feet thick.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17

Vines for producing wine were
first planted in South Africa in
1858.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17
Golden CLASH

Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volume of the
Week.-Longfellow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-17

Politeness smooths wrinkles.
Joubert.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-21
First Individual Directory
For Ypsilanti Now Off Press

trys service identified by initials
to show their branches Of service.
Ypsilanti now has l24 different
varieties Of business. the publishers
found. These groups are catalogued
in the directory classified from
Abstracts Of Titles to Yarns.
Just as in peacetimes. the latest
lpsilanti City Directory will be
sent % the free-reference Directory
Libraries OF other cities, the pub
fishers announced The Polk or
ganization is now arranging to
establish outoftown directory ser.
vice at the Npsilanti Board OF Com
merce. and the latest directories OF
nearby cities soon will be available
there for public reference, 1t was
stated
Dennis Abbeg and Casimir Zyla.
both Willow Run employees. are first
and last on the new Ypsilanu ros.
ter. "Warlike" family names in.
clue Arms, Cannon. Sword. Camp.
Ensign and Majors Among the
name oddities are Panther. Pan
cake Goodspced, Longnecker and
silyerblade.