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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Nevada Governor
BaIks on Call
Of Legislature

CARSON CITY, New. Dec. l6.
CUP)-A special session of the Ne
vada legislature would not be juSti-
fled under present conditions,
Governor E. P. Carville said today
The governors statement was
made after it was revealed Pat NC
Carran, Nevada'S senior U. S. sena-
tor had wired the chief executive
suggesting a special session to con-
slider election law changes.
Il believe every effort should be
made to give the men and women
in the service Of their country the
opportunity of voting" the COVER
nor said. He then pointed out laws
passed by the 1913 legislature were
designed to accomplish inSuring
service men and women a vote.
Il would appreciate your suggeS-
tions as to further amendments
that would absolutely assure the
ballots of men and women overseas
being properly cast" the governor
wired McCarran.
In commenting on McCarran'S
suggestions the governor said "un-
der present conditions there is
nothing to justify special session"
at this time
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Troops Advised
Of Big Show
BY Eisenhower

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers. Dec 16 (UP)-General Dwight
D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied
North African commander, told his
troops in a radio broadcast We'd
nesday night they have been assign
ed a major part in future opera
tionS.
Eisenhower referred directly to
his recent conference with President
Roosevelt.
Il have just been in conference
with the commander-in chief, he
said. your part is going to be a
vital one in the future-one thai
will require more and more work
from US"
His speech was over an Al9iers
Allied station. one Of six in North
Africa, marking its first anniversary
of operation Screen and radio
stars, including Bob Hope, Frances
Langford, Kay Francis, Mitzi May
fair, Martha Raye and Carole Lam
dis, appeared on the special pro-
gram.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Ickes AElocotes
Cos for Motion

rationing to civilians were for l.li7.-
600 barrels Gay. compared with
the present 1,160,000 barrels.
Ickes warned the Pacific coast
area that consumption must be
held to the levels of the amounts
certified for that area If We are TO
avoid depriving the military force
of gasoline needed to wage war In
the Pacific area
The 1914 first quarter certifica-
tons
District |. EAST coastl-372 900
barrels per day - down 1000 bar
rels
District ,. Middle wesD-433 900
barrels-down $4,000.
District 3. Southwest - l46 600
barrels-up 1000.
District 4. CRocky ounta in
states) $1,000 barrels-down 1000.
District 5. tWeSt coast-l3i,000
barrels-doWn 1000.
Seasonal declines in consumption
for farm use as we'll as in the use
of automobiles during the winter
months are such as to balance the
cut.
Ickes said that after farm and
other non-highway requirements
are met from the new allocations,
the motor fuel available for trucks,
buses and passenger cars will be:
District /: 341,000 barrels daily. Dis
trict 2, 374,0G0; District 3. 123000;
District 4, $4,000; District 5, 49,
COO.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Homemade Bomb
Kills 7 Bows

COVINA, Calf, Dec. Is CUP)--
Tbo teen-age boys were killed We'd
nesday night when a homemade
bomb they were working on eX-
ploded in their room at the Masonic
Home for Children.
After the blast Samuel Abrahms,
16, staggered from a room in the
boys dormitory, an arm blown
away and deep cash in his side
He died almost instantly.
Lawrence Houtz, IT, was lying on
the floor, his body completely
mangled He died at Covina hos
pital early this morning.
Superintendent John M. DoWnen
told sheriff's deputies that Houtz
was conscious when he found him
and kept moaning, 1T was all my
fault"
Roy Baker, Is, roommate of the
two dead boys, staggered out Of the
room in daze
William WagnOn, l6, another resi-
dent of the home, said the boys
were experimenting with sulphur,
charcoal, saltpeter and gunpoWdcr.
The explosion shattered windows
and blew piece of pipe through q
double wall
In the shamblcs sheriffs deputies
found book entitled Decorators
of High Explosives"
Houtz was the son of Mrs. Della
Houtz, nurse at Garfield hospital,
Alhambra; and AbrahmS was the
son of Mrs. Gladys Abrahms, Long
Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Airman's S Bravery
Saves Officer

SANTA ANA, Cal, Dec l6. up
"A marine gunner dangled head
down from his circling plane 10
minutes Wednesday to drop a life
raft TO a pilot struggling in the
ocean below
Pfc. j. p. Shelly edged out of his
observers seat and over the side
of the plane and fought battering
propeller blast to dislodge and drop
his ships life raft to Lieutenant
H S. Hedrick, whose plane had
crashed and sunk Immediately.
Lieutenant Hedrick's radio-gun-
ner went down with the plane.
The ocean crash was one of three
marine crashes which killed two
air1nen.
A marine pilot died when his
burning plane rocketed through a
house near El Toro air base and
exploded. Eight occupants of the
home were only slightly injured
Lieutenant Donald j. Arone,
strangling in his parachute lines
after his plane crashed, was revived
by a medical officer who applied
artificial respiration.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
OF STOCKHOLDERS OF EDGAR
BROS. COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given that pur-
suant to the provisions of the by
laws, the regular annual meeting Of
the stockholders of the above named
company will be held at the office
of the company in Ell Centro, State
of California, ON Tuesday, the 18th
day Of January, 1914, at the hour of
8 o'clock pm. of said day.
AT said meeting five directors will
be elected to serve for the ensuing
year and until their successors are
duly elected.
The annual business statements of
the office will be received and acted
upon and such other business as
may properly come before the stock
holders meeting will be transacted.
Dated at FL Centro, this 10th day
of December, l943.
EDGAR BROS. COMPANY,
BY A. +. La Fontaine, Sec'y.
mo. 30D CDl6-23-30: J6-l3)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
{. {. CounciIman's S
Wife Succumbs:
Was Civic Leader

Mrs. Norah Balfour Fawcett 58
wife of Councilman II. w. Faw-
cett of El Centre, died "Wednesday
night.
She had been an invalid more
than Is years. Death came to her
while she was a patient in an e.
Centre hospital. Mrs. Fawcett had
been in { coma several days before
she died
Funeral services have been ar
ranged at the Lemons funeral
chapel in El Centre at 2:30 D. m.
Friday with the Rev. FIR. Edward
Hutchinson vicar of St. Pauls
Episcopal church, officiating. Burial
will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Fawcett played prominent
part in civic affairs before she was
stricken almost 20 years ago.
She was born in Belfast, north
Ireland, and had lived in Imperial
Valley 26 years.
Survivors include her husband: !:
two daughters, Mrs. Margo Thomas.
who is in New York City en- route
to San Juan Porto Rico with her
husband. and Miss Jeanie Fawcett.
a student at the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles. son. Her.
bert James tBert) Fawcett of FL
Centre; two sisters, Mrs. Fred
Coates of La Due, Alberta, Canada,
and Mrs. Maud Campbell of Bel
fast, North Island; brother, Adam
Woods of La Due, Alberta Canada,
and four grandchildren.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
USES Finds Jobs
For Veterans

All returning Imperial county dis
abled war veterans have been
placed in essential war work and
are carrying on their war against
the enemy from lathes, guard posts
and offices, Tom Finney, manager
of the United States Employment
Service, said Thursday.
"A committee recently appointed
by Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director
of Selective Service has batted
1000 per cent in the rehabilitating
OF veterans to date" Finney said.
Other members of the re-employ-
ment committee with Mr.. Finney as
chairman, are: willard Tyson, Ell
Centre; Paul C, Cook, Calexico; L.
A. Harris, Holtville and Dick Neff
Ell Centro The purpose of the
committee is to advise and assist
returning disabled veterans, honor
ably discharged, with special atten-
ton given those incapacitated by
wounds.
To date Is to 20 have returned
to the valley and every man who
has applied to the USES has been
placed in essential work. A soldier
with one arm is now doing guard
duty. a sailor with an abdominal
wound is doing clerical work. Others
are placed in positions best fitted
for their physical condition, Finney
said.
The local USES offices has inter-
viewed more than 500 men dis
charged from Camp Lockett. Ac-
cording TO referral cards every man
has been placed in an essential
war job. In each case the men are
referred to their USES office near
est their home.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
What's This
Reform Wave?

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 16 tUPl
What with the housing short
age and such, the following ad-
vertisement appeared in Newark
Evening News:
'Newspaperman, 40, wants warm
room and good board. Essex
County Timid Irish personality.
Gentle to animals. Will even mind
the baby occasionally during the
manpower situation. Never could
understand what to do with ra-
ton books Sick of eating in
super-deluXe lunch wagons. Likes
to ding on the piano five minutes
a day. Clean when laundry per-
mits. Prompt payment. Excellent
references. Please tell all in first
letter"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Grocer Pays Fine
On Meat Fraud

LOS ANGELES, Dec 16. (UP) -
Raymond Putnam, Redlands groc-
cry clerk, Thursday paid a $500
fine after his conviction On charges
Of receiving quantities Of govern
ment owned meat and other food
stuffs.
Putnam, together with stee /
worker Edmond T. Boaz, and his
wife Helen, also Of Redlands, was
sentenced by federal judge Paul j.
Mccormick. Boaz and his wife were
fined $50 and placed on years
probation.
They were arrested last Novem-
Der by FBI agents, who charged
the trio and eight army men from
San Bernardino county sold food
destined for army hospitals.
Army courtsmartial sentenced two
soldiers to five year terms, and the
others to six months hard labor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Kidnapped Doctor
Tricks Captors

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16. up
Two soldiers and their woman COM
panion were held Thursday on
charges of kidnapping and robbery
because their victim used his head.
DR.. Robert j. KoSitchek, re-
Gently released army captain, was
held up at gun point, forced to
drive to a remote area, then bound
and gagged and thrown from his
car
When they were gagging him, DR..
KoSitchck objected to using his
own handkerchief on grounds it
was dirty. One of the soldiers vol
unteered his.
Il knew DR.. Kositchek said,
the soldiers serial number would
be on the handkerchief.
San Bernardino, Cal, police next
day arrested Privates Lowell Han
son, %, and George jerks, 80, both
AWOLfrom Camp Roberts, Cal, and
Mrs. Jean Simpson, 33. All were en-
route to Las Vegas, New, in the
doctors car, which they planned
to sell to recoup gambling losses.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Group Speeds up
Recreation
Building Plans

In a resolution adopted Wednes-
ady afternoon the FL Centre Rec
reation Commission invited the
Federal Security Agency to obtain
the Fox West Coast theatre build
ing and the United Service Organi-
zation to operate the proposed
servicemen'S center
Members of the commission and
Chairman w A. Tondro met with
Wayne A. Neal, FSA field repre-
sentative from San Diego, and
Harry T. Hall. USO desert area
representative.
Applications are being made for
the conversion of the old Imperial
theatre as a recreation center. To-
gether with the applications will
go letters from commanding Of
ficers of the valleys military in
stallations, which include: Camp
Lockett, Camp Seeley, Ell Centre
Marine Air Station, Holtville Naval
Air Station, Camp Dunlap, and
Sandy Beach Coast Guard station.
Letters from these officers must
SllON lIldl lllS plOpoStu CSIlICA 10
essential to the war effort.
The cost of conversion and reno
waiting the building estiated at from
5000 to $4,000 will be borne by
the FSA through funds set up for
that purpose. The trained person.
mel to be furnished by the USO
will be paid by that organization.
Mr.. Neal stated that uses of the
building following the war are
taken into consideration in the re-
conversion.
Chairman Tondro left Thursday
for Los Angeles where he will visit
until after the Christmas holidays
He announced at the meeting and
later at the meeting of the city
council that he plans to see the
owners of the building and the Fox
West Coast corporation officers.
The city council voted full sup
port of Mr.. Tondro and his COM
mittee Wednesday night in their
regular meeting. The council also
to Tondro additional au-
thority to act in his contracting the
old theatre building owners.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
NURSES AIDES APPEAR
AT GRAND JURY DOOR

Judging from witnesses seen en-
tering the grand jury room Thurs
day, court house observers ad-
yanced the belief that grand jurors
are investigating some phase of
conditions at the Imperial county
farm.
Several women known to be Red
Cross nurses aides who have been
assisting at the county hospital,
were noticed waiting in the corri-
dor before the door of the grand
jury room. A stack OF what ap-
peared to be books and records
we're taken into the grand jury
room by a known employe at the
county farm.
Grand jurors and witnesses all
are sworn to keep secret all hap
penings in the grand jury room
during any investigation. Their
findings are made public, even
when they file no indictment, at
the time they file their annual
report.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Germans Confess
Mass Murders

KHARKOv. Dec. Is. tUPl-Three
members Of the German army
pleaded guilty before Russian
military court Thursday to COM
plicity in the mass murder OF thou
sands of Soviet civilians and war
prisoners during the Nazi occupa-
ton of Kharkov.
The defendants, all facing death
sentences, threw themselves on the
mercy of the court on the second
day of their trial-the first prose-
cution of German war criminals by
any tribunal of one of the United
Nations
THE DEFENDANTS
The defendants were. Reinhardt
Retzlav, 35. a native OF Berlin and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Fire Destroys
Cafe in |. A.

LOS ANGELtE, Dec. f6 up
The Stevens Cafe Nikabob, swanb
Los Angeles restaurant, went up in
flames early Thursday at loss of
more than 100000 in furnishings
and equipment.
Cause of the fire was undeternin
ed, but firemen said it probably
started when one OF the guests
dropped a cigarette and failed to
pick it up.
There was no one in the building
at a. m, approximate time of the
blaze
Witnesses said flames so feet high
enveloped the one-story structure.
Everything was destroyed but the
kitchen.
The fire started in the dining
room and spread to the cocktail
lounge, completely destroying a new
shipment of Christmas liquor.
Eight fire companies controlled
The blaze within matter of
minutes. smashing in the glass
front of the restaurant and spray
ing water throughout the interior.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
BLAST, BLAZE SWEEP
BOMB CASTING PLANT

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. Is. CUP)-A
$l,0o0,0O0 fire, accompanied by ex-
plosions felt seven miles away,
swept through the Austin Bridge
company, factory manufacturing
bomb castings Wednesday night. and
firemen still were fighting the blaze
Thursday.
Flames. led by magnesium, leaped
more than 100 feet into the air,
illuminating the sky over the en-
tire vicinity. The glow was visible
at Decatur, Tex, Ga miles away.
Officials said no one was killed or
injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Tired Kidneys
Often Bring !
SIeepIess Nights

Doctors say your kidneys contain 10 miles
of tiny tubes or filters which help TO purify tho
blood and keep you healthy. When they get
tired and don't work right in the daytime.
many people have to get up nights. Frequent
or scanty passages With smarting and burning
sometimes shows there IL something wrong
with your kidneys or bladder. Don't neglect
this condition and lose valuable, restful sleep.
When disorder Of kidney function permits
poisonous matter To remain in your blood. il
may also cause nagging backaehe. rheumatic
swelling, pufiiness under the eyes. headaches
and dizziness.
Don't waiti Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help
Gus waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16

WASHINGTON. Dec. Is. CUP) -
Petroleum administrator Harold L..
Ickes Thursday curtailed allocations
of civilian gasoline for all sections
of the country except southwest
during the first quarter of 1914,
but said these lower amounts will
meet reduced winter needs.
The new allocations sent to the
office of price administration for
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
SOLVES PROBLEMS

BRUNSWICK. Mc.. Dee 10 up
When his home was destroyed by
$4,000 blaze Firc Chief Harold
Rickcrson moved with Ms vile and
brother in law into temporary
quarters al the fire station. This
ne said. vii keep me hand TO the
telephone for emergency calls and
II also adds a much-needed perma-
nent man % the departments
staff"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
ARTIST KILLED IN BURMA

NEW DELHI, Dec. l6. 'UP)-
Lucien Lebaudt, 65. Life magazine
artist in the China Burma India
war theater has been killed in a
plane crash, it was announced to-
day.
Lebaudt. of l407 Cough ST., San
Francisco, Cal, was the first war
correspondent to be killed in a
plane crash in this theater. Lebaudt
was the second Time and Life, inc,
correspondent killed in the east.
Melville Jacoby died in plane
accident in Australia in 1912
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16

a member of the 560th group OF
the secret field police; Hans Ritz
81. of Marienwerden, an assistant
company commander in the Ger
man army. and Wilhelm Langfeld
So. a native of Frankfort AM Main
who is captain in the Nazi
counter-espionage service.
On trial with them was Mikhail
Bulanov, a 26-year-old Russian ac-
cused of acting as chauffeur for
the German murder wagon" in
which Russian civilians were said
to have been aSphyxiated during
the Kharkov terror.
Bulanov and the three Germans
signed formal confessions of their
guilt in which they described their
participation in the mass atrocities.
which Moscow newspapers said re-
suited in the deaths of more than
$4,000 Russians.
TELLS OF CRIMES
Langfeld testified calmly today
that he had almost beaten Rus
sian woman to death in the pres
ence of her young son. and then
had shot the child TO make him
stop crying.
Asked by the court how many
people he had sentenced to death
on false charges. Langfeld medi-
tated briefly and then replied
about 100"
He said German guards turned
dogs loose among the
Russian prisoners shortly after the
latter had received their rations,
and stood by while the dogs at
tackled the prisoners.
Retzlav's confession admitted he
had participated in the murder
wagon" Staying Of Russian civil
Ians.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
MINING DRINKS"

NAPLES. Dec. 10 up - Allied
military government police recently
uncovered a batch of black mar
ket" wine. Il contained procaine.
drug. and high octane gasoline.
believed stolen from military sup
plies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
SPELLED NAME OUT

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 up
Elizabeth Strickland, Airline Reser-
valion cmploye, answered phone
call from San Diego, last night.
This is 1t. Col. James Roosevelt, -
said a voice.
How do you spell that, please?'
Miss Strickland asked
The son of the President gulped,
then spelled it out.
Miss Strickland insists it was d
very bad connection.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
DIES ON COAST

Word was received in FL Centre
Thursday of the death of Elmer
C. Stickler 62, long a resident of
Imperial Valley. He died after
brief illness in a rest home in San
Diego last Oct. H. He is survived
by three daughters. Mrs. Myrtle
Hodges. Mrs. Leola Roma, and
Miss Margaret Stickler, all of San
Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
Vinson Battles
Congress on
Rail Pay Raise

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. CUP -
The administration Thursday OPEN
ed d last-ditch move to prevent
enactment of legislation which
would allow an eight cents an hour
wage increase for 100000 nom
operating rail workers, despite a
strike call already ordered by $780,
600 operating railroad employees.
Economic stabilization director
Fred NJ Vinson said the senate
approved Truman resolution, which
would invalidate an agreement be-
tween the incorporating brother
hoods and railway management for
the eight-cent raise, was IAN as
sault" on the administrations war
time stabilization program which
would break the little steel formula.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-16
FOLLOWS STRIKE VOTE

His appearance before the house
interstate com mcrce committee
came less than "a hours after the
operating brotherhoods were re-
vealed to have voted to strike Dec.
20 unless their wage demands are
met.
II the strike materializes, it was
believed certain the government
-weuld take over the railroads and
operate them. How the walkout
could be averted unless the admin
istration backs down in its op-
position to the increases was
question which plagued officials.
Vinson was the final witness
prior to a committee vote on the
Truman resolution, which was eX-
pected to be approved. The senate
passed it by a one-sided IA to a
vote.
The resolution proposes that
congress shall act as an admins
trative agency and approve a wage
Increase that violates the wage
sterilization program, Vinson said,
adding:
IF congress dislikes the wage
stabilization program, let it repeal
or amend the (stabilization) act of
oct. 2, 1942. The pending resolu-
ton seeks partial treatment for
he benefit of particular group.
.UTLIN-tS Jews
He said tie mere fact that the
railroads and the Is incorporating
brotherhoodS agreed to the eight
cent an hour wage increase in no
way affects its compatibility with
the wage stabilization program II
the contract automatically became
effective, he said, that program
would soon be a nullity; it would
exist only on paper
The Stabilization act, he said,
does not exempt railway employees
or any other group Of workers and
any proposed wage increase-irre-
spective of how it came to be pro-
posed must meet the require
ments of the wage stabilization
program
This, he added, was the answer
to assertions by railroad union
spokesmen that railway wage ad-
justments did not have to be
squared against the standards of
the wage stabilization program"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-06-19
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Evening star., 1943-01-22
Your Income ox
No. 1e-Dividend Income

Persons receiving dividends of this
character are usually advised by the
corporation as to the amount which
it considers to be non-taxable as a
return of capital. 1t is appropriate
for the taxpayer to enter In his re-
turn the amounts received in ac-
cordance with the advice by the cor
poration, but 1t should be borne in
mind that the determination of the
taxable amount may be subject to
revision as result of official audit
of the corporations return.
Dividends on share accounts in
Federal savings and loan associa-
tions on share issued prior to March
%, 1912 are exempt from normal
tax. put must be included in surtaX
net income for surtaX purposes.
Dividends on share accounts with
respect to shares issued on or after
March &c, 1912, are subject to both
normal tax and surtax.
For taxpayers on cash basis, that
is, reporting income as received, and
expenses as paid, dividend income
is reported as received. Dividend
income is considered as received
when the dividend check Is received,
irrespective of when the taxpayer
may cash the check.