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Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
Two RecitaIs SaturdayBy
Elementary Piano Pupils

Ruth Teeple Reid presented her
elementary students in two recltals
Saturday at the studio, 753 Holt ave<
nue., the first group being presented
as a demonstration by Grade l OF
class piano work, and the second,
individual piano solos.
These recitals are in the nature
of practice affairs, in which the
children learn to play in public by
playing first for their parents,
friends and for each other.
They are, however, finished affairs
in every respect, all playing from
memory, and in these two recitals
showing a marked technical devel-
opment during the semester.
The first recital opened with an
action song, the entire group TAX
ing part in singing and action, after
which scale songs were presented
by Francis Magee, Linda Cook and
Russell Kirk
These same three gave a demon
Stration of creative music after
which solos were presented by Beth
Haas, Jimmie Jennings, Jimmie
Chambers, Thad Hodgkin, Doris
Laird, Nancy Bramkamp, Bill Tyler,
Barbara Banner, jeanne Holmes,
the program concluding with a duet
by Beth Haas and Jimmy Chambers.
Members of the group unable to be
present we're: Suzanne Harris, Mark
Riley and George McFaddin.
SoloistS in the second recital were:
Lenore Allender, Nicky Bolin, Bar
bara Brandt, ROsemarie Davis, 10
Ann Dilbeck, Darrell Hampton,
Dorothy Hatch, Nancy 10 He'll, Bev-
erly Holmes, Patsy James, Francie
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
The Wins Newest Womens
War ORGANIZATION

the most important part of the
Wins program.
Official designation of tn e
housewives corps is women in ma
tional service.
Nothing could make that more
clear than the recent shocking
statement of juvenile delinquency
reported by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation" she said today.
Modern parents have lost sight
of child companionship and chill
dren are being left to shift for
themselves with dire results"
Mrs. Douglas has been named
honorary national president of the
latest alphabetical organization of
women. The Wins are sanctioned
by the Office of Civilian Defense
and the Office of War Information
and sponsored by the Ladies Home
Journal.
There will be no meetings, no
badges, no committee and no uni
forms.
THE women today have too
much to do to bother with such
rigamarole,' Mrs. Douglas said.
AS in the past, the housewife will
receive no medals and no citations. :"
But the Wins already have a
song, which goes like this:
We're not the Army,
We're not the Navy,
I'VE get the grub-but not the
gravy,
We're the dustpan crew
Standing back of you,
Fighting on the home front
Wins"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 90 1901. Pub
lished every afternoon except Sat
. urday and Sunday Saturday after
noon issue now succeeded by the
Sunday Post-PreSs. established 1885,
by the Imperial Valley Publishing
company, 625 State Street. FL Centre,
California.
Paul Jenkins. publisher A. C. John
sion, vice president and general man
ager; Catherine M. Jenkins, secretary.
WeSt-Holliday Co. Inc, National Ad-
vertiSing Representatives.
Member California Newspaper Publish
ers Associations.
Entered at FL Centre. Calf. post
office as second class matter.
Subscription rates in California. &c
per copy.
In connection with the Post Press
tSundaysl, per monts 75c paid in ad-
vance: 3 months 81. 10; 6 months
Sf.00; one year $3.50; outside Cali:
fornia 81 per month.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24

Lee Kirk, Patsy McQuade, Eleanor
Roberts, Lorraine Sims, Lorraine
Stafford, Patsy Tyler, all an older
group of students who presented
an interesting program which clos
ed with the singing of the national
anthem by performers and guests,
Francie Lee Kirk acting as conduc-
tor.
The studio was decorated in the
George Washington theme with tiny
American flags, the symbolic nat
chefs, and gorgeous bouquets of red,
white, and blue sweetpeas from the
John Kuhn gardens.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
ON THE FRONT
IN THE VALLEY

While the United States is in the
throes of rationing. and women are
indulging in hysterical buying
sprees, a letter from one of the val
ley's men, now stationed in North
Africa. may have a SOLDERING effect:
the letter is one to Mr. and Mrs
S. P. Greenwood from their son,
Ebert Lee, formerly of Ell Centre
and a graduate of Central.
My Dear Folks Back Home
boy, when I think of the peo-
pie in the States crying because
they can't get coffee and other
things. and can't get but so much
gasoline, I just think-if they could
see these pCor people here. How
lucky Americans are.
"These people can't get bit of
food nor any clothes except those
that are rationed to them. Clothes
are very scarce. I sold my civilian
shoes. which we're almost worn out,
for 1000 francs, which is about
$40. I was offered 500 francs for
the shirt that I bought in the
States. Clothes are more highly
valued tn an almost anything.
Money is nothing. All the people
would rather have chocolate candy,
soap, clothes than anything else.
"A lot of the children are SO
poorly clothed and so improperly
fed that they are sickly. The only
thing that is plentiful is wine, the
native drink, which they drink in
place of water. The water is hard
and tastes bad and as I don't like
the wine I drink orange juice or
grapefruit juice which we get in
cans.
Il am appreciating America more
each day. I can see, however, why
our enemy wants this country, as it
is so rich in land, but all fuel has
to be shipped in. For me- however,
it is the good old U.S.A."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
Methodist Church
Monthly Dinner

Methodist church members and
their families are looking forward
20 the monthly pot luck dinner
Thursday night, $50 o'clock in the
church social hal:
The program of music for the
evening includes: community sing
ing, accordion numbers by Jeanne
Delp, songs by Rosemarie Davis,
and duets by Patsy James and
Dorothy Hatch
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
Guild Conducts
Business Meet

ST. Pauls guild had business
meeting and luncheon Tuesday in
l the church. deciding to hold a rum
mage sale on March 6 and church
dinner on March 16.
After the meeting some of the
members devoted the afternoon to
making surgical dressings.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
New Babies at
.CityHospi+aI

Among the new babies at the Ell
Centre hospital are those born to ::
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Daniels, a
son, February 18, eight pounds three
ounces;
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Wilson, Feb
ruary 18, daughter, five pounds,
ga ounces.
1t. and Mrs. Sheriff. O. Gra-
ham, February 18, a boy, eight
pounds, Az ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
THURSDAY

THURSDAY
Rotary club, IL, Barbara Worth.
?ot-luck dinner, $3.50, Methodist
social hall.
Women's Union, 1889, First Bap-
tist church.
U.S.W.V. and Auxiliary, 8, Veter-
ans hall.
Motor corps, 1880, high school.
20-30 club, 1880, California hotel.
Building trades, 1880, Labor tenn
pie.
Electricl ms, 1870, Labor temple.
B.P.O.E., No. 1925, 8, Elks' hall.
Night school, -, high school.
Business clinic, 1880, Junior col
lege.
Servicemen's wives, 7:l5, Chris
tian church.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. - Mrs.
Mrs. William o. Douglas, wife of
the supreme court justice and
head of the Wins, the new Wom-
ems war organization for house.
wives, believes that child care is
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
"GrouChv' Husbands

and wives. may be suffering from sgsrsvst-
ing bowel gas, sour stomach or headache,
caused by spells of constipation. Try AD-
LERIKA. It effectively blends 8 carmina-
tivos for relief Of gas pains. and 8 laxativss
for gentle. quick bowel action. Your druggist
has ADLERIKA.
CLEMENTS DRUG STORE
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
News Items About
Valley Residents

Mr.. ana Mrs. w. H. Rhodes of
San Diego were overnight visitors
in the valley Tuesday, Mr.. Rhodes
! coming from San Diego to attend
the annual meeting of the Imperial
Yuma council, Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, Tuesday IN the Ten Thousand
club house. Their two sons are both
in the service, 1t. Warren Rhodes
land Mrs Rhodes being in Arizona,
and Howard Rhodes, taking his
training for the army air foNce at
Santa Ana.
Harry Brown, former valley resi-
dent and son of Mrs. Mary Brown
and the late Arthur Brown of CAL
cXico, has graduated from his basic
training course at Randolph Field.
TeXa5, and has been assigned to
Lubbock, Texas. for advanced fly
ing where he will receive twin en-
gine schooling. Mr.. Brown enlisted
in the U. s. ARM Air corps in July,
1912 and received his primary train
Ing at Corsicana, Texas and at
Randolph Field.
Helen Beronio, daughter of Mrs.
Jimmie Beronio of Ell Centro, has
just pledged Kappa Delta sorority
at use.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-24
csasss ssnsa,. OF Interest to Women sSss'' cas.
Churches
Schools
CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY,

State Guard, 1870, Stadium.
Troop 20, 7:15, Scout hut.
Night school, 10, Central.
Scrvicemen's dance, $3.50, Veter-
ans hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Three Jailed for
Stabbiing. Robbing
EI Centre Marine

Jack SOFA Savala, 80, and Baude-
lio Zermano, %, Ell Centre MeXi-
cans, were held in the Imperial
county Jail Monday on charges of
stabbing and robbing Donald E.
Dyer, marine stationed at the Ell
Centro air training station, last
April 7.
The marine identified Savala and
Zermano as the men who, April 7,
offered to take him from an Ell
Centro cafe to the marine station,
took him in the opposite direction
from the station and refused to let
him out of the car or turn back to-
ward the station. Dyer said the
three fought in the car when they
refused to let him out and they
later did stop the car and continue
the fight beside it. He said they
stabbed him, robbed him, and left
him beside the highway.
Dyer was taken to a hospital and
when he recovered sufficiently, he
began the search for his aSSailants.
He found them in FL Centre dur
ing the weekend, and then called
the police.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Tunisia Victory
Is Blow at TOTO,

CHUNGKING, May 10 tUP' -
The Allied victory in Tunisia con-
stitutes a serious blow To Japan.
the Chinese army organ Sac Tang
Pao said today.
THE sudden collapse of Axis
forces in Africa must come 10 Tojo
like a thunderbolt from the blue,
the newspaper said. From now on
TOTO must give up hope that two
forces Of aggression from west and
east can ever meet anywhere in the
world"
The Allied forces in China and
the southwest Pacific have taken
advantage of the Tunisian victory
by opening counter offensives, the
editorial said
The enemy not only will en-
counter stubborn resistance in
these two theaters but will be
frustrated in the attempt 10 exploit
resources in occupied regions and to
develop communication lines be-
tween them.
1T is first necessary that the
Allies crush Axis strength in the
Mediterranean and Atlantic III
order TO bring the war to the Axis
homeland on the European con-
tinent," the paper commented.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
25-Pound Canninq
SUGAR Limit Set
Continued from Page |

NSOllllllutu llOIll TdSc
to be granted only in the relatively
few cases where this large amount
OF fruit will be canned and pre-
served"
Last year there was no top limit,
and some housewives got as much
as As pounds.
To obtain the extra sugar for
canning, the housewife should ap-
ply in writing to the local ration
board. There is no special form, un-
less she plans to sell the home
product. The application may be
made in person or by mail, and
should contain the following:
IA copy of war ration book
one for eacn person for whom home
canning sugar is sought.
2.-The total number of quarts
or pounds of finished fruit to be
put up.
3.-The amount of sugar to be
used for making jams and jellies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Labor, Congress
Hit OPA Plan
Continued from Page /

that the opinion of 200 OPA inves-
tigatorS was unanimous that food
price costs in mining communities
was approximately the same as
these in comparable communities.
but that substantial price viola
tions were found.
As OPA's latest campaign 10 stop
the spiraling cost of living began,
there were these developments:
!. Price Administrator Prentiss
NJ. Brown announced in a radio in
teryieW that top prices for beef, veal,
lamb and mutton will become effec-
tive throughout the country on May
II: promised the housewife that
regardless of where she lives, she
soon will know exactly the top price
she may be charged for every essen
tlal fOod-.-.Io ed or unratiOned.
2. George Meahy, secretary treas
urer Of the American Federation of
Labor. an advocate Of rolling back
prices to last May, charged that
It is not enough TO snip off a pen
ny here and two cents there when
basic food items have gone up 20.
% or 80 cents per pound" Of the
proposed S3OO,COO,OOO subsidy pro-
gram TO allow a 10 per cent roll
back of meat, butter and coffee
prices, Meah% said it was peanuts
compared with the s96,00O,0000
being spent annually for war pro-
duction.
3. Chairman Clarence Cannon,
D, Mo, of the house appropriations
committee, expressing congressional
indignation about the plan to by
pass congress in the subsidy pro-
gram by obtaining funds from the
Reconstruction Finance corporation,
limited that he might lead a fight
TO amend future RFC appropriations
to prohibit such uses. Congress has
steadfastly refused to approve sub
sidy programs, he said, because
they are "unsound and un-Ameri-
can"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
LEGISLATORS Give
Warren All Asked

ton and is expected to approve
soon the measures on freezing
funds, which include a S25,000,000
war catastrophe fund and Sl6,000,-
900 for bond redemption.
After enacting the pension bill,
however, Warren learned a new fed
eral law will prohibit California
pensioners from earning extra mon
ey in agriculture without having it
deducted from pension checks. At
his request. the Senate ordered a
three-member delegation to Wash
ington TO protest the discrimination
against California.
Warren also signed the S67,000,-
000 in tax cut bills, including rid
er measure lowering county con-
tributions to pensions from $40 to
S5 but excepting the truck tax;
the record-low budget of 451,000,-
900, approximately $100000,000 be-
low the previous biennium; the
100000 temporary farm food and
fiber bill and S1,500000 permanent
food production bill; extending
benefits of the Veterans farm and
home purchase act to Veterans of
World War II: reorganization of
highway commission; repeal of the
three-day gin marriage" act; and
abolition of the State Guard and
setting up home guard units.
The Legislature went on a spend
ing spree despite Warren's caution
against appropriating for anything
but wartime and essential needs.
Meaures likely to go through in
cluded Sl3,500000 for surveys and
rights of way preparing for post
war highway building; Veterans
program of S30000,000 to go on
the ballot for home and farm pur-
chases; S2000,000 revolving fund to
go on the Veterans program start
ed. and S50000C for Veterans edu-
cation; S500,000 for child care GEN.
ters; S2,500,000 to cities and coun-
ties for civilian defense; S500000
workmen's compensation for civil
lien defense workers.
The state would go into the red"
if Karen signed all the appro-
priation bills so those in doubt,
totaling about S33,O00000, included
S9,000.030 for elementary school
teacher salary raises, S12,000,000 for
teachers pension system raise,
100000 for repair of flood dam
age, and miscellaneous funds for
state colleges and institutions.
Important reorganization bills
passed abolished the part-time un-
employment insurance commission
for a full-time board, gave the gov
ernor fCll control over social well
fare. gave the mining board more
authority, enlarged the highway
commission, and created an eco
nomic planning commission for
postwar needs
MOST IMPORTANT
Most important of the seven con-
stitutional amendments qualified
for the 1914 ballot were the annual
Legislature, expense money for leg
islators, request to raise pay of five
state elective officers, and exemp-
ton from taxation of property of
religious and charitable organiZa-
tions.
Education bills include the addi-
ton of Santa Barbara State college
as a branch of the University of
California, permitting religious edu-
cation during school hours but off
school property, freezing average
daily attendance totals for rural
high schoo, and establishing an
aeronautical college at U.C.L.A.
Another measure tightened up
provisions of the criminal conspir-
acy law to act as a weapon against
racketeers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Reporter

Continued from Page u
grams so addressed. The eyebrows
went up all over town. The Whis-
pering began. Was the man sec
reilly married? Was that man about
town, that bachelor so elusive,
hooked at last?
Wade became t--sperate. BY dint
of some good old Carolina detective
work, Wade found out that Mr. and
Mrs. Wade H Ramsey now live in
FL Centre also. 4H
He made such a to-do about the
thing that Gordon ScFiveps. Sem
Bacon and Ben Herring appointed
themselves a committee to see if
they can't get Wade married off.
YOU know how 1t is, misery loves
company.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Friends Saddened
AT News Of Death

Friends in El Centro were in
formed Monday of the death of Mrs.
Laura Bergen, ga. in Los Angeles
last Friday.
Mrs. Bergen is the mother of
Mrs. H. K. Gucy) Barker and Mrs.
Charles Ward, whose husbands are
we'll known in the produce indus
try and who have spent many seas
ons in Imperial Valley. Mrs. Bergen
had been bedfast for more than a
year. having suffered a stroke of
paralysis.
Funeral services were scheduled
at Pierce Brothers chapel in Los
Angeles at II am. Tuesday.
Mrs. Bergen is survived by her
two daughters; three grandchildren;
and three great grandchildren.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
7 Bombers Crash:
4 Airmen Killed

POCATELLO, Ida, May 10 up
-Four army airmen were killed and
four others believed safe today fol-
lowing crashes of two four -engined
Liberator bombers based at the
Pocatello air field.
The huge planes were flying
from Biggs Field, Tex, to Pocatello
One crashed in northern Arizona
early Saturday. killing its four crew
members. The other went down
late Friday so miles south of Bur-
ley, Ida, but its crew was reported
safe.
Killed in the Arizona crash were:
1st 1t. Luther A. Ponath, Sacra-
mento, Calf.
End It. Atillio j. Dogliotti, Santa
Cruz, Calf.
Master Sgt. Louis NJ. Baum
gatner, Nashville, Kan
Tech. Sgt. Jack H. Keller, New
York City, N. Y.
Names of the men safe in the
Idaho crash were withheld b. army
officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10

WASHINGTON, May 10. CUP)-
The supreme court today upheld
federal communications commits
sion orders regulating chain broad
casting which the National Broad
casting company and the Columbia
Broadcasting system had challeng-
ed.
The court had heard the case once
before, after the southern New
York federal district court had dis
missed the complaints of the two
radio companies. The high court
at that time sent the case back for
further proceedings. These proceed
ingS were held and the district
court upheld the commission.
The case centered about contracts
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
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over $4,000 and estimates ranged as
high as 100000.
Thousands of Germans were cut
off in the north by a bitter night
time American tank, artillery, and
infantry assault that prevented the
enemy from reaching the east coast
and resulted in unconditional sur
render OF the Axis forces Sunday.
a dispatch from c. r. Cunningham.
United Press correspondent at the
front, disclosed
Front dispatches emphasized that
the Allied planes were meeting no
opposition and that even over Pan
telleria, where two raids by 100 Al
lied craft in two days left huge COL
umns Of smoke rising 1000 feet,
there were no enemy fighter planes
IN action.
American medium bomberS also
attacked the village of Soliman. on
the zaghoun-Cap Bon front. where
the best NaZi troops were still
fighting fiercely. The pilots re-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
No Newsprint Cut
Before October |

WASHINGTON, May 10 up -
War Production Board Chairman
Donald M Nelson notified the
house interstate and foreign COM
merce committee today that no
further restrictions upon the use Of
newsprint by newspapers and maya
zines are in prospect before Oct. /
Nelson's report added, however
that 1T is impossible to forecast at
this time what action will be
necessary beyond the third quarter
ot this year"
The report disclosed that the
federal governments print paper
requirements had been reduced by
3I0,044 tons TO 42l, ,O2l from a figure
OF 73l ,O65 tons submitted Feb. 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Sub Attacks
Japs' Coast
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destroying q roundhouse and caus-
ing heavy damage, while other for
nations struck at communications
to the north.
Gen. Douglas MacArthurS head
quarters reported flareup OF
ground skirmishing near Salamaua,
New Guinea. with considerable
fighting in progress. Australian
troops ambushed a Japanese party
of about 60 men, and accounted for
a third of them.
Allied planes pounded enemy posi-
tions along the coast and ranged
out over other island bases, while
seven Japanese bombers hit at a
settlement near Darwin on the Aus
tralian coast.
In the first American attack on
Canton since November, Is japanese
fighter planes were shot and five
more probably were destroyed. The
Americans lost one medium bomber.
A Dutch submarine operating
with the British navy sank 1900
ton japanese supply ship in the
Malacca straits between the Malay
peninsula and Sumatra.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Girl Hangs Self
On Mothers Day

HOLLYWOOD, May 10-(UP)-
Donyce Lucille Baer, a. whose sew
enth suicide attempt proved un-
successful, hung herself on Mothers
Day in the garage Of her home, po-
lice reported today.
In a four-page note addressed to
Dear Everyone, the young girl
asked that her body be cremated
and that the silver bracelet on her
arm be left there.
She listed as her reasons for SUI
eide the difficulty Of keeping up
with school work, lack of friends,
and a past terrible happiness
which could not last"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
Invasion Jitters
Strike at Axis
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tCOnJlQueO lIONl rage i
smaller islands are Pantelleria and
Lampedusa, bot,l Italian, lying 35
and 80 miles, respectively, from the
Tunisian coast. Sicily is 90 miles
from Cap Bon, at the extremity OF
the Tunisian peninsula into which
the survivors of Axis power in Afri-
ca are today herded for slaughter
or surrender.
That stretch Of water between Tu-
nisia and Sicily is L..e S-;ilian strait.
1t evidently is the Allied intention
10 control it by taking Sicily and
making the 90-mile narrows a safe
thoroughfare for a shortened supply
line TO the Middle East Heretofore,
supplies TO the Middle East have
had TO go all the way around Afri-
ca. Shortening the line by opening
the Mediterranean will, in effect.
almost miraculously increase Allied
merchant marine tonnage and naval
escort vessels available for convoy
service.
Washington was full of weekend
rumors that the second front was
only a matter of hours-today or to-
night. II may be. But more cautious
speculation took into consideration
the probability that the British
French and American forces which
finally drove the Axis armies toward
Cap Bon must pause for bit now
TO reform, refuel and remount.
Belief that a ground troop opera
ton against Sicily was coming up
was supported. somewhat, by an un-
explained shift in the United States
field command in Tunisia. Lieut..
Gen. George S. Patton commanded
the American second corps from the
peirod after its defeat at KasSerine
Pass until April l6. Patton's name
suddenly dropped out Of the COM
muniques.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-10
County Gets Is
Pressure Cookers

Imperial county has received an
allotment Of IS pressure cookers and
Rudolph Miller, secretary of the
county U.S.D.A. War Board, said
Monday that they would be ration
ed to housewives who will use them
for canning foods.
Ration certificates for the cook
ers will be issued at the U.S.D.A.
War Board office, Miller said.
Manufacturers were recently
granted material for the manufac-
ture of such cookers. some of which
have already been made.
CALIFORNIA; quota was set at
10000.