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Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Governor Orders
Probe at Folsom

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 90 (UP) -
Gov. Earl Warren today appointed
a special five-man committee to in
vestigate conditions at Folsom
prison as a result of weekend holi-
days enjoyed by life term bank
robber and ordered it to give him
a report within two weeks.
Warren, in a statement again
criticizing lack of action by the
state board of prison directors, said
his committee would work indie
pendently of the board which is
scheduled to start its own inquiry at
the prison tomorrow. The board
has temporarily suspended Warden
Clyde Plummer.
Both Investigations were precicipi-
tated by disclosure that Lloyd
Sampsell, serving Is years to life
for robbing a Berkeley bank, had
been able to slip out Of Yolo county
harvest labor camp, to visit the
apartment of a San Francisco
woman at least three times.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
JAPANESE, NOT
GERMANS ATTACKED u. 5.
(Santa Ana Register)

Nearly two years have passed since
the attack on Pearl Harbor. Since that
time we have been battling with the Jap
anese in the Pacific, and while our men
have done valiant work in stemming the
Japanese tide and now have started
to get back some of the lost territory, it
is obvious that we have only scratched
the outer edges of the Nip defense lines.
Since the allied war strategy called
for the defeat of Germany and Italy be-
fore the war could be concentrated on
the japanese, there was little chance that
the American and Australian forces could
do much more than fight a holding bat
tie until such time as Germany and Italy
had capitulated.
We are in no position to criticize the
allied strategy although we can't help
feeling that it was the japanese that at
tackled our nation, not the Germans, and
that the sooner they are blasted from
their stronghold the better it will be.
But it does appear that the commander
in-chief of the Army and Navy, who in
cidentally, is the President of the United
States, could, if he chose, make it clear
that General Macarthur has done mag
nificent job in the war thus far. This
could be done even though Macarthur
has been prominently mentioned as
possible candidate to oppose Mr.. Roose-
yelt at the next election.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Street fighting II
On in Changteh

CHUNGKING, Nov. 30. up
Bloody street fighting is in prog
ress at Changteh, major Chinese
defense point west of Tungting
Lake in the central China rice
bowl" with the japanese using
poison gas p-ofusely, Chinese front
dispatches said today.
The commander of the Chinese
division holding Changteh tele-
graphed Chungking he would die
before giving UP the city, where
1000 japanese were reported killed
on Friday in the sixth day of their
attack.
"a Tokyo radio broadcast heard
by the United Press in San Fran
cisco said the Japanese had driven
south of Changteh, cutting off the
Chinese escape route in that direc-
tion)
Japanese forces who broke into
the west and south gates Of Chang
teh on Thursday and Friday were
surrounded and wiped out, the front
dispatches said, while japanese ar
tillery kept up a 42-hour lombard
ment trying to break up Chinese
positions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Berlin Digs out
From Wreckuge

plies and gas and electricity
services.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Zurich newspaper Die Tat said
rescue squads, including German
troops and italian war prisoners.
were excaVating in the twisted ana
chared wreckage of office build
ings and dwellings for thousands of
persons buried alive.
Hundreds, many of them half
suffocatod and wounded, were
rescued alive and rushed to hos
pitalS and 70 first-aid tents erected
in the streets of the devastated
capital, Die Tat said.
WANDER STREETS
Thousands Of bombed-out Berlin
ers. some half-o.essed or in the
night clothes t.ey were wearing
when the crash of bombs drove
them from their beds last week,
were reported wandering the rub
-cluttered streets.
'In every corner of Berlin streets,
there are Wehrmacht field kitchens
dishing out soup to the homeless,
who were given special green tickets
to enable them to get free meals"
Die Tat said.
"Nazi organization and army
automobiles bearing signs, "catas-
trophe squad" are rushing through
those streets which have been clear
ed of Wreckage and are finding
plenty of work to do, especially
among people who have been in
jured by falling walls"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Millions of Tons
Paper Shortage

NEW YORK, Nov. % UP)-A
discrepancy of three or four million
tons between 1914 paper produc-
ton and the lowest estimates of
essential paper requirements may
be expected unless corrective action
is taken Immediately, E. w. Tinker,
executive secretary Of the Ameri-
can Paper and Pulp association has
advised the war production board.
Tinker, in a letter to Arthur
Whiteside, office of Civilian re-
quirements, WPB, called the boards
attention TO the associations report
to the Boren committee earlier this
month and urged that the inter-
national committees indication that
1850 men in pulpwood cutting op-
erations would solve the difficulty
be acted upon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Nv RICHARD w. JOHNSTON

WITH THE U. S. MARINES AT
TARAWA, Nov. 26 tUP)-The Stars
and Stripes and the Union Jack
flutter peacefully over the shattered
cocopalmS and down on the beaches
the surf ripples among the bodies
of our dead, but here on the land
irg strip at TaraWa the SeabeeS
are working like demons.
They are working to convert the
bomb pocked Japanese landing
strip-once a major threat to our
island positions in the Pacific-into
a new air base for the planes which
will help us take a few more steps
toward Tokyo when we have con-
solidated our positions at Tarawa
and Maxim.
SWARM OVER ISLAND
The Seabees swarmed over the
airstrip while Japanese machine
gun bullets still whiStled overhead
from their last-stand positions on
the north end of the island.
Our fighter planes soon will come
in.
There still is occasional gunfire
as our. patrols mop up japanese
remnants budding in the flame
scared wreckage of their cocolog
block houses. You never can tel,
when you will run into struggling
sniper. One fired a burst OF rifle
shot at 1t. John Popham, New
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
PUBLIC SERVICE

One of this countrys thousands Of
small town newspapers has just won
libel suit which, in both its inspiration
and its result, spotlights the type Of ser
vice that the nations press renders con-
stantly, though ordinarily with less SEN
sational outcome.
The little city of Tonawanda, near
Buffalo, n. Y, is a 100 per cent war
community. That is to say, every fac
tory in that industrial community is
war plant.
Yet up to the beginning of 1912 Tona-
wanda had a mayor who was much less
than 100 per cent for those ideals that
the United States is fighting to main
tain. A banker and politician power
full in his small field his activities had
brought from the head of the FBIs Ger
man section in that area the statement.
"If Mayor Warren were only natural
lied citizen we would take his citizenship
away from him.
In the 1941 election the Tonawanda
Evening News went on the warpath
against Mayor Warren. Charles (. Hew-
lit, Jr, its publisher and editor, former
foreign correspondent and magazine
writer, drafted a full-page advertisement
which was sponsored by "Committee OF
Patriotic Republican Leaders, advising
votes for the Democratic candidate.
This advertisement recalled, among
other things, Mayor Warren's refusal to
cooperate in housing of war workers
and his statement to representative OF
the governor: "If the government was
smart it would make a deal with Hitler
now and we would all go back to making
money!
As aksresult of the News campaign,
Mayor Warren and Publisher Hewitt
agree, the mayor lost. He was defeated
by vote of 1870 to 2443 in a city which
las three Republicans for every Demo-
crat.
He sued for libel. Publisher Hewitt
sued for cross-libel.
Hewitt and his newspaper won both
suits-,as six cent nominal verdict which
left the mayor in the doghouse assessed
with all costs of the trial.
This is the sort of public service that
a small town newspaper can render,
when occasion arises. Does it pay?
Apparently it does. In an area with
around 10000 inhabitants, the News
circulation has risen since the beginning
of 1941 from 1926 to 7146.
We mention this episode not because
it is unique but because, except for its
ability to be wrapped into one-editorial
bundle, it is typical of why free press
is the truest bulwark of functioning de-
mOcracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1921
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters Testa-
mentary.
Sec 1927 Pro. Code
In the Matter of the Estate OF
CARL A. WHIPPLE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that n
petition for probate of tie Will of
CARL A. WHIPPLE, deceased, and
for the issuance to Arthur Edward
Hegberg of letters testamentary, has
been filed in this Court and that
Friday the 10th day of December
l943, at 200 O'Clock pm, of said
day, at the courthouse Dept. No 2
of said court, in the City of Ell
Centro County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when
and where any person interested
may appear and contest the same,
and show cause, if any they have,
why said petition should not be
granted.
Dated November Goth, 1913.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk,
BY Citha Lamson,
Deputy Clerk.
(No. 25) (N29-30-D1-2-3
5-6-7-8-9)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
BOOMERANG
Sacramento Be,e)

In September, 1910, Adolf Hitler is
sued the following statement:
"If the British air force drops two or
three or four Kilograms of bombs, we will
drop $50, 1SO, 800 and 400 Kilograms
and more in a single night If they say
they will carry out large scale attacks on
our cities, we will blot out theirs. We
will stop the work of these night pirates,
so help us God. The hour will come
when one of us will crack and it will not
be Germany"
A year later, he promised to retaliate
blow for blow until this criminal falls
70 pieces"
Well how stands the record?
Take the figures given out by the Brit
ish air ministry for the four weeks end
ing October 26. During that period, the
Raj dropped 1900 tons of bombs on
Germany, Germany dropped 16O tons OF
bombs on Britain. An additional 5000
bombs were deposited in the reich by
American Fortresses.
Now who is going to crack?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Sc ubees Swarm
Over ! oruWu Isle

York. and me the other night as
we headed for our foXholes in
anticipation of a Japanese nuisance
raid. He missed US by inches bur
plugged Seabee, Fireman 1st
Glass c. r. Wilmer of Maxwell, Ia,
in the foot.
This dispatch is written while
folks at home are sitting down TO
platters Of Thanksgiving turkey
We share that spirit of Thanks
giving Most of all, we are thank
full to be alive. But for the chance
of battle we would be in one of the
five cemeteries on the island,
hanging grotesquely from the barb
ed wire in the surf or lying among
the wounded who have been taken
aboard ships en- route hack to hos
pitalS.
WUNDED LEFT
The wounded left too soon to see
the ceremony at noon Thursday in
which the Stars and Stripes and
Union Jack were hoisted over the
island, but l think they know more
about what those emblemS stand
for than any of us.
Maj, Gen. Holland M. Smith,
commander of the amphibiouS
forces, flew down from Maxim to
see the flags hoisted. The British
Union Jack went up along with
the emblem of those Americans
who bought the island back from
the japanese with Marine blood be-
cause TaraWa was a British man
dated island before the japanese
seized it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
UNCLE JOE

Louis Bromfield, the eminent novelist
and practical farmer, has turned news
paper columnist. The other day he wrote
a piece about Uncle Joe,' which ex-
plored and explained the growing popu-
larity of Premier Joseph Stain with
the ordinary, crossroads American.
1t was a good piece. But along in the
middle. Squire Bromfield says this:
"And Uncle joe hasn't gotten into
muddle like the one in North Africa and
the one in Italy. He hasn't played ball
with Darlans and Badoglios He has al
ways had policy ready when the emer-
gency arrived
Let's see, wasn't it Uncle Joe" who
played a little ball with his Nazi neigh
bors while France fell and England rock
ed under the blitzkrieg- And didn't I'm
Gle joe have handy policy Of friend
ship and non-aggression with those same
Nazi neighbors? And didn't the policy
look a little Intellectual when the neigh
bors moved in, almost to the gates OF
Moscow and Leningrad?
Or was that two other guys named
Joe. ft
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

There is nothing clever or cute IN ef-
forts to evolve kid codes to evade the
spirit of censorship designed to keep
hazards from the paths of those you
love.-Maj. Albert J. Stowe, Army mill
tarv intelligence section.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
NAZIS SAY RUSSIAN
LOSSES 3,50G,000
By UNITED PhES3

The Berlin radio said Monday
that Russia had lost at least 3r50O,-
90 men in the last six months, at
tributing the estimate TO captured
"high ranking Soviet officers
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

think we can make the Germans fold
up, but l don't think we can make the
japanese fold up. We've simply got to
crush them. Well be fortunate to end
it in three years.-Rear-Adml. Ross L.
McIntire, Navy medical and surgical bu-
reau chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
LEGAL ADyERIISEEENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1920 In Probate
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
Oy3 pROVVNG WILL

OF PkOVlNO WILL
In the Matter Of the Estate OF
BEN r. DANTELSON, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
petition for probate of the will of
Ben R. Danielson, deceased, and
for the issuance to Ruth E. M.
Danielson of Letters Testamentary
has been filed in this court and
that Friday the 10th day of De-
cember, l943, at 200 o'clock pm.
of said day at the court room OF
Department Two Of said court, in
the City of FL Centro, County of
Imperial State Of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, at which time and place
all persons interested in said estate
are notified to appear and contest
the same if they choose.
DATED November 23rd, 194J.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
BY Maxine Console,
Deputy Clerk
(No. 23) CN25-D6 inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

The only way to insure anybody's peace
is to insure everybody's peace, through
a cooperative world order, in which the
United States is both too important and
too weak to be left out.-President Dixon
RYAN Fox of Union College.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloming edit
0ridis are presented as interesting 0pm'
,0ns uoiced BY editors elselchere. Ihey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

Private enterprise must show its init
iative and genius in reconversion if it
is to live in the United States and If
widespread unemployment and govern
ment are to be avoided.-A. F. of l..
statement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

auucr meulum DOmDefS Oh the
United States Eighth air force
raidcd the German airfield at
Chievres in south Belgium near
Mons today after British MOsqui-
toes struck at western Germany
by night.
LONDON. Nov. 90 (UP)-Blitish
Mosquito bombers pounded western
Germany last night while Berlin,
taking advantage Of q two-night
respite from attack, Subdued fires
that had ragged for more than n
week and dug in bombed ruins for
its dead and trapped.
The speedy tWin-engined Mos
quitoes picked up the Allied air Of
fensive against Germany as fog
grounded the RAF bomber COM
mand's four -engined heavyweights
for the second straight night. All
returned safely, as did other bomb
ers engaged in routine mine-laying
operations.
Large formations of Allied day
light bombers swept across the
southeast coast at intervals for an
hour this morning to put the Of
fensive back on an arCund-the-
clock basis. Targets wele not dis
closed Immediately.
CROSS CHANNEL
The daylight raiders later were
identified as medium bombers op-
Grating in deteriorating weather. n
number of Allied fighters also cross
ed the English channel.
Reports from Europe indicated
the Germans finally had controlled
huge conflagrations kindled during
the RATS record nine-day often
sive against Berlin and we're turn
ing TO the mammoth task of re-
storing transportation, water sup
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

We never know when the war is going
to end. But there is no chance that the
Axis enemy will be destroyed this year.
British Minister of Information Bren-
dan Bracken.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10
March Of Events
BY BENJAMIN DeCasseres

ONE Of the greatest weak
~ neSSes of democraCies like
ours Is that because of its funda-
mental principles II breeds and
sustains its Gestroyers. We give
totalitaran plotters and propa-
gandists a oil Of rights so that
they can undermine US.
Horace Kallen in his scholarly
two-volume study entitled Art
and Freedom DUEL. Sloan and
Pearce). says that all totalitar-
ians say. IN effect, 10 all free
>ocracies
On your principle you must
tolerate and protect Us, although
you thus enable us ultimately to
abolish your principles and TO
set up our own In their place"
That is one reason why the
Communists have 50 suddenly
become Star-spanEled- bannerites.
It's the Trojan horse, Mr. kallen
says. further. that all advocates
of a slaveoCraCy say 10 US:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10
DINNER
Camera OHi-C0rnPrHpd
205-Lb. Heavyweight
Astounds Mr. Boer
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

wandered Madison Square Garden last month to
watch Jimmy Bivns and Tami Maureo bust anothers
seams but really got interested in preliminary fighter Gil
Sormquist of Texas
Gil inches with his hair plastered down. And
believe Rpleys adjustable teeth Gil weighed 251 pounds
his flat stockings.
That's plenty of in Texas. That's just about
higher thicker than other fighter who ever appeared
in Madison Square Garden in earnest.
Well they registering Gil with flashlgh bulbs and
getting him autograph totem poles when there COM
motion the freight side of the ring
and sistern, you are not going to absorb TINS
But something bigger and heavier than anything ever saw
climbed into the II Ben Moroz of Philadelphia
Moroz made Gil look like raoned caviar Ben was feet
inch tall and weighed 295 pounds with nobody in his lap
y Ben and Gil shook hands the highest up ever saw
Then they work each other and pretty good
too plenty of landing space in
that field of the biggest feet ever saw with shoes
on. And they stepped nothing but the floor.
Gil looked like the better fighter until Ben parked a
bagul of knuckes Oils chnstrap in the fourth round And
down went Gil think things and count his money
Either Of these lads looked better than Camera
those other giants Of yeseryear Banum could have done
okay with Ben and Gil as long they standing
That's the trouble with fellows that big. Like Ben Frank
lin empty sack they tendency sag in the middle
lsi5. Kng Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10
Clean
Teeth
BY Dr. Logan CIendening

will prevent dental carries.
Tooth decay in the United
States is certainly one of the
commonest conditions.
Less than 2 per cent of the
population escape it entirely.
THE two structures of the
Il tooth which are attacked
first by decay-the enamel and
the dentin-have very little
blood supply.
They. therefore, cannot bene-
fl from the defense which
follows good nutrition and other
forces used by the body else
where 70 combat the influences
Of bad health.
Measurements show that the
amount of nutritive material
passing into the dentln is about
one-tenth of the amount which
reaches the bone. and the en-
amel receives only about one
tenth Of the amount passing 10
the dentln.
IN OTHER words, the re-
Il sistance of the body cannot
play so important part in
resisting or preventing dental
decay as il does IN other dis
eases.
The breakdown or decay Of
CARBOHYDRATE food stuffs on the
surface of the teeth is un-
doubtedly the primary cause OF
dental carries.
This is proved by the fact
that the areas on the tooth
surface where Carlous cavities
develop are those in which food
acCumulates.
Also. enamel can be broken
down only by the action of acid,
and protein foods such as milk
or eggs, do not give rise 10 such
acids.
TIVE prevention of carries Is
L just as important as its
cure
The Chinese rule used 10 be
that they rinsed out the mouth
after every meal.
We can brush our teeth with
a good tooth brush twice a dav.
The eating of fresh fruits and
vegetables helps 10 improve the
appearance of the teeth and 10
clean out food particles.
But once more. 10 repeat our
primary thesis, the teeth should
have a complete housekeeping
BY a competent dentist twice a
wear.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10

THE logic Of your association
that Is. free speech and free
press il the logic Of suicide. We
aCquiesce in II because by its
means YOU will destroy your
selves without affecting us. For
YOU must protect us while We
are free to prosecute you
MIR. KALLEN states I h Z
vi many liberal thinkers tell
us outright that If free society
had the power II has not the
right 10 assure. 10 defend and TO
enhance It's own survival and
growth. -
He says that II freedom is 10
survive We must arm ourselves
in its defense and as passion
ately fight for ~ as those who
would destroy that freedom
That Is precisely what this
column has pointed out for
years. We must put teeth IN
the bill of rights We must
make II active and positive.
We must outlaw and destroy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10
War Books
Thrilling

needed TO beat back the Japs,
but that little never came.
A ND there is a message to
"A America from the intrepid
correspondent, who does not
think that the Japs are super
men, but that:
There Is no reason to believe
as yet, however, that even a
series of serious defeats will
break down the morale Of
Japan's armed forces.
Possibly one crushing blow
after another might produce
such an effect; but from all the
evidence In the first year of war
IL seems moro likely that tho
japanese will fight vigorously
and unfiinchingly until an over
whelming weight of steel and
explosives smashes their ships,
shipyards and munitions fac
tories and completely destroys
their power to resist"
HIS idea of the way Japan is
H to be beaten Is summed up
as follows:
81 believe that when our big
bombers can cruise over the
japanese islands night after
night, spreading death and fire
and bringing the horror of war
home to the islands themselves,
there will be such widespread
terror and panic rs to seriously
disrupt the life of the country,
now devoted almost exclusively
to feeding the imperial war
machine"
Copyright. 1913. by King Features
Distributed by International News Services
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10

best book on The Life Of Billy
Mitchell
La Kllgallen's piece. The
Magic Monicker. in Golfers, is
a lesson in success.
Concerns Choo-Choo Johnson,
Candy Jones and Dusty Ander-
son, the ConoVer models.
Coasters hear Frances Lang
ford and Jon Hall are apart
Fred Allen is dickering to do
a film for Hitchcock
The new excitement at the
Havana Madrid is Amelia Var
gas, a sizzler from Cuba.
Mrs. Howard DietZ (he's the
Metro exec is a pneumonia vic
tim in Boston.
Betty Walker, newest Of the
Powers models, has had three
offers for shows.
She is a gift from Swamp
East, Mo.
The Pennsy has started using
women conductors. and az least
five Broadway song writers are
toying with song entitled
Casey joan
THE Big Time Hes a Right
L Guy, from Something for
the Boys
The best book about Norway.
Theodore Brochs The Noun
tains Wait"
Broch was the liberal mayor
Of Narvik.
Mission 10 Moscow" con-
vincer that truth IS more ex-
citing than fiction
Vince CurranS Salhes a.
Club Is.
Peter DonaldS racon'euring
on the Can You Top This?
air show
BY all means Next Of Kin. -
a BritiSh-made film showing