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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
All Corsica Free
Of Nozi Troops

Termoli and beat off an enemy
counterattacks
CUT RAILROAD
Fortresses ranged up to attack
Pisa while smaller planes operat-
inc ahead of the ground forces cut
a railroad line at Isernia, 40 miles
north of Naples. Wellingtons
bombed Formia in a night attack.
The Germans admitted the loss
of Corsica. Berlin radio reporting
their troops had pulled out after
losing Bastia, the last strong port
on the northeastern edge OF the
island.
But in Cos, tiny islet off Turkey
which the Germans attacked with
strong forces, British troops were
hard pressed. Outnumbered, they
had Tough the German sea and air
borne troops for three days and
Yesterday RAF planes went to theT
aid
German troops and supply col
umnS on Cos were strafed by
fighter planes which formerly had
used Cos for a base to outflank
enemy-held positions in OF her
Mediterranean islands north and
west of Turkey.
A Swedish report unconfirfled
elsewhere said that the American
Seventh army was in Italy prepar-
ing to cross the Adriatic and IN
wade the Balkans, where Jugo-
slavian irregulars were waging pig
battles against the Nazis. WASH
ington dispatch quoting officials
Just back from Turkey said the Al
lies would not invade the Balkans
this fall but might next spring
with the aid of Turkey in the war
against Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Treasury Plan
Greeted CoIdIy

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creased rates on individual incomes
above $500, $4,000 ceiling on net
incomes after taxes, repeal of the
victory tax, mandatory joint re-
turns, and heavy excise taxes on
luxuries and nonessentials.
Members of the house ways and
means committee aSsailed every
major feature of the treasury pro-
gram and were almost unanimous
in predicting that it would never
reach the house floor. The criti-
cism of MorgenthaI's program,
which he said had the full ap-
proval of President Roosevelt, was
spearheaded by Republican tax
leaders but not confined to them.
Ways and means chairman Rob-
ert L. Doughton, D., N. c., who
usually sides with the administra-
ton on basic tax questions, assert
ed that the administrations pro-
gram was ambitious" and more
than the taxpayers could reason
ably bear.
HEAVY LIABILITIES
Individual taxpayers in 1914 and
l945 will be carrying the current
tax burden plus an additional pay
ment of 124 per cent of their 1912
liability for the years 1914 and 1945,
he explained, adding:
Therefore, I feel that it would
be too much to expect them to car
ry so heavy an additional burden
as recommended by the treasury"
Roughly, the treasury's plan
would increase the present with
holding rate on individual pay
checks from 20 to 80 per cent.
Doughton said many taxpayers
have had their incomes reduced by
the war effort and still have to
absorb a material increase in the
cost of living
Any benefit which might arise as
a result of the treasurys plan to
curb initiation would be more than
offset by "unbearably increased
burdens, he added. This would
have a tendency to break down the
morale of the taxpayer, the chair
man added, at time when the
public is responding magnificently
to present and past bond cam
! paignS.
Doughton and other members of
the committee objected to the
new income taxes after the war,
asserting that it would further
complicate tax returns at a time
when congress is attempting to
simplify them.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Tax-DeIinquent
Property Report
Due Wednesday

A city-appointed committee pre-
pared Tuesday to submit a report
to the FL Centre city council which
will contain recommendations for
the rental and supervision of tax
delinoIent property in that munich
pality.
Authority was granted the city to
take over the supervision and
maintenance of such property by
the state on Aug. and on Aug. 26
city councilmen agreed to accept
the responsibility and a committee
was appointed to make survey
and determine where rent adjust
ments should be made.
Heretofore the state controllers
office has handled such affairs but
under terms of the "Haald bill' re-
Gently passed by the state legisla-
ture municipalities were given op-
portunity to assume control of tax
delinquent property. Whether a
municipality assumes such author
ity and responsibility depends on
the desires of members of indi-
vidual city councils.
BRAWLEY DECIDES
In Imperial county the Brawley
council likewise chose to handle its
own delinquent property.
At meeting held Friday between
representatives of the Brawley and
Ell Centre councils, the county sup
ervisors and the Imperial Irriga-
ton district a tentative plan for
distribution of rents collected was
set up. Under the plan municipal
titles would receive 55 per cent, the
county 80 per cent and the irriga-
ton district Is per cent. Before
the division is made, however. the
municipalities would be given 10
per cent of rentals and five per
cent for the sale of any property it
makes.
The El Centre council will receive
the report Wednesday night. Mem
bers of the survey committee in
clude Neal Gavin chairman; Wal
ter Heinecke, c. S. Reed, Grant
Bristol.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
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died of outright starvation, 1nclud-
ing many children. Owing to short
ages of materials of all kinds. the
victims had to be buried in their
clothes without even sheets to
cover the corpses.
walked INTO one dimly-lit shop
where l found a family sitting
around their dead child on table,
awaiting somebody to take it away.
The child had been dead for live
days.
Now that the first frenzied en-
thusiasm of liberationS from the
Germans has died down, the people
of Naples are asking Allied soldlers
for food, chocolate or any tidbits OF
nourishment. Even obviously cul-
tured and well-to-do people, such
as doctors and lawyers, look en-
viously at doughboys munching
their &C" rations, hoping for few
crumbs.
Although the weather is getting
cold, Neapolitan women are Stock
ingless asd wear thin summer dress
es. There's a total lack OF wooden
clothing of any kind. Just a week
ago the Germans forced more than
100000 people from their homes IN
the neighborhood of the port and
public works, evicting them without
notice, to find refuge where they
could.
saw hundreds gathered around
the few cafes which have reopened
hoping for some of the hot coffee
provided by the Americans. Side :
walk markets were quickly sold out
of the driblets of produce-mostly
eggplants, apples, peppers, tomatoes,
and prickly pears-which hucksters
from outlying districts began to
bring into the city.
An unexpected by-product OF the
Allied occupation was the surprise
of thousands of Neapolitans who
we're able to look upon honest por-
traits for the first time of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, Premier Josef Stain, and
Generalissimo Chang Kai Shek
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
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resses and Mitchells from the
northwest African air force-the
latter operating from Italian fields
attacked Greece Monday, cooper
ating with middle east fliers Strik-
ing at the source of the German
power whence canse the attacking
forces now &1ttling the British on
the island of Cos.
With Liberators from the middle
east joining in, the FortreSSeS bat
tied the Meridi airfield near Athens
while Mitchells raided the Argos
field 40 miles northeast of Sparta.
Other FortreSSes ranged up to
north Italy to strike for the third
time at Bolzano. adjacent to Ger
many's vital Brenner Pass from
Italy to the Reich, and knocked out
an important bridge over the Isarco
river across which Nazi supplies
and men must move.
On the ground the situation had
changed to a slower pace. Amer
lCdil lOlSCo, OuiittiAiS tsp tiiSh SiooS-
ing at the Galore river on the Fifth
army front near Benevento, cap
tured Montesarchio. % miles from
Naples, in a push that represented
six-mile advance to straighten
out lines.
Familiar enemy demolitions and
road blocks, plus isolated pockets
of rear guard elements, hampered
the Americans pounding for a
breakthrough beyond the Naples
line on the road to Rome.
The squeeze against the back
peddling German army was in eff
feet all across the peninsula and
the enemy was fighting for time
The British Eighth army on the
eastern side of Italy threw REIN
forcementS into landings secured at
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Yanks Win, AZ
In Series Opener

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rely on pitching against Cardinal
speed and power, turning the tables
ON the COCK kids from st. Louis.
Crosetti, playing his 18th year
with the Yankees. started that WIN
ming inning off by smashing a
steaming line drive that Blondy
Kurowski. at third for the Cards,
could only knock down. BY the time
he recovered the ball and made his
Deg, Crosetti was on first base.
cookie Billy Johnston hit a single
through second and Frankie romp-
ed on to second. Keller went out
on a short fly to Musial and both
Yanks held their bases.
WILD PITCH
Then, with Gordon up, Ianier
tossed a wild pitch that struck the
plate, bounced off Catcher Walker
Cooper's shinguard and went 80
feet in the air. Cooper scurrled
around in circles looking for the
ball and it rolled back toward the
backstop.
Meanwhile, Crosetti and Johnson
Were under way and all the- need
was red uniforms to look like vaunt-
ed base-running Cardinals. Before
Cooper could recover the ball, Gro
setti swept over home plate for a
3 to lead and johnson was perch
ed on third Gordon struck out,
and big Bill Dickey. another Yankee
veteran, singled to short center to
send johnson home and end the
days scoring.
Grinning in the jubilant Yankee
dressing room, Manager Joe Nc
Carthy said he would start Ernie
(Jumbo) Bonham. his fork-ball eX-
pert, in the second game tomorrow
Billy The Kid Southworth said
that he would rely on either Mort
Cooper, bellwether of his pitching
ST. or rookie southpaw Alpha
BraZle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Death to the
White Man Is
Nip Torture Cry
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mander of the Komai Tai, and the
headquarters platoon commander
with the sword came from the Of
ficers' mess.
The time has come The pris-
oner of war totters forward with
his arms tied. His hair is cut
close. / feel that he suspects what
is afoot. but he is more composed
than I thought he would be.
without more Ado, he is put on
the truck and taken to the place OF
execution. The prisoner of war
sits beside the chief surgeon and
about 10 guards accompany them.
THE noise of the engine echoes
along the road in the hush of twi-
light. The sun has set. Columns
of clouds rise up before us. Dusk
has descended all around. I glance
at the prisoner; he seems to be
prepared. He gazes at the grass,
now at the mountains and the sea.
we arrive at the execution
ground. The Komai Tai command
er faces the prisoner and says:
"'You are to die. I am going to
kill you with this japanese sword
according to the Samurai code
when the Tai commander says
he will allow the captain two or
three minutes to prepare himself
for death. hear him (the prison.
err humble something whic n
sounds like one.
THE Tai commanders face is
stern Now the time has come. The
prisoner of war is made to sit on
the bank of bomb crater which is
full of water. The precaution is
taken of surrounding him with
guards with fixed bayonets.
But the prisoner remains un-
shaken to the last. When I put
myself in his place, the hate en-
gendered by this daily bombing
yields to ordinary human feelings.
The Tai commander draws his
favorite sword, the famous Osa-
mune. The sight of the glittering
blade sends cold shivers down my
spine.
First. he touches the prisoners
neck lightly with the sword. Then
he raises it overhead. His arm
muscles bulge. The prisoner closes
his eyes for second, and at once
the sword sweeps down.
"Shh-it sounds at first like the
noise of the cutting, but it is act
ually made by blood squirting from
the arteries. The body falls for
ward.
Everybody steps forward as the
head rolls on the ground. Dark
blood gushes from the trunk. All is
over. There lies the head like a
white doll l felt just now were not
personal pity but a manifestation
of the magnanimity that becomes
a Chivalrous Samurai."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Labor Council Buys
Block Of Bonds

The Imperial County Central
Labor council started Ell Centro to-
ward its October war bond quota
Tuesday by purchasing $4,000 worth
of certificates from the chamber
of commerce.
The labor organization also in
vested considerable money in bonds
during the third war loan which
ended on october. 2.
Ben HerrjDg, secretary of the
county war bond committee, said
the october quota has not yet been
established here.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Naples Emerging From Starvation

Previously they had seen only gro
tesque Fascist cartoons.
IT never knew they looked ike
that" was frequent comment
among the knots of people VINO
clustered around posters which
were pasted on walls around the
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05

Poetic Injustice
The other day Frank Console re-
ceived this tender poem in a letter
from his daughter, Ortha.
Daddy, Dear, you'll never guess
What / have in mind as write
this mess.
Or ma;be you do know what I'm
going to say.
Yep, / need a ten spot right away.
I'm such a miser / can't Spare 1t.
But you're SO rich you can bear it.
l want to go see my old room
mate.
If you'll come through we'll make
a date.
know I'll be getting a check
right soon,
Cause my Pop is the best this
side of the moon.
fRR's note He sent the
check)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
To ATTEND CONVENTION

The Imperial county board OF
supervisors Monday gave DR.. E. b
Godfrey. county health officer,
permission to attend a convention
of California health officers IN
Sacramento Oct. 10, 20, 81. war
and public health problems will be
discussed.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Living Cost Will
Go Down-FDR
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we are very proud" the president
wrote.
"And while / express my gratifi-
cation for what you have done in
the past, I. know that you will bear
with me the expectation and the
challenge that American labor will
do more and more until every nee
essitY is met, until every battle is
fought, until the victory is won and
the peace established.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
TO START WORK

Imperial county supervisors Mon
day signed a contract with the
United States biological survey and
the state of California for carrying
ON the predatory animal control
program in the county. The coun-
tvs share of the cost is $1,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
Scanning ".
News Horizon
SIZES FOR DIVORCE

Waldine E. Garlick Monday sued
Alonzo j. Garliel Cor divorce ask
ing for support for their twin sons.
She said they were married IN
Santa Ana May 10, 1912. The twins
we're born last Feb. %. Garllck is
in the service. she said and is sta
toned at Hemet.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-05
OFFICIALS WILL
ATTEND MEETING

]. B. Miller, justice of the peace
of Brawley. and Lester Cochran
constable at Westmorland, will at
tend a convention of justices OF
the peace and constables in San
Francisco Oct. 7, 8. and 8.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
Eight Quiinieis
Await Tourney
Bothers Matched
with Royal Oak

Mount Clemens High School S
basketball team, w h &c h will
make its district tournament de
but against Royal Oak on Sat
urday. VIII play either Port HUI
ron or Fcrndale the following
Friday if successful against Roy
al Oak.
Port Huron and Fcrndale arc
in the upper bracket of an eight
team field, In The lower bracket
the Hazel Park, Van Dyke, Pom
tiac and Catholic Central of De-
troit.
The district meet opens to-
morrow at Fcrndale, with Pom
tiac and Catholic Central clash
ing in the first game at $50 p.
m. Van Dyke and Hazel Park
meet at 7;45, while the night
cap starting at 9 brings together
Port Huron and Fcrndale.
The district finals will be
played on Saturday, March 20.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
Wings Battle
Leafs Tonight
Con CIineh Title
with Victory

DETROIT. March II Up
The Detroit Red Wings can
clinch the N a on Hockey
League championship, { h e r
fourth in a decade, by defeating
the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight
at Olympia Stadium, and you
can wager the Detroiters won't
string out this important move.
A year ago the Wings were a
game from clinching the covet-
ed Stanley Cup but Toronto
came along with four success
sive victories to snatch it away.
With four games remaining.
the Wings have a three point
lead on the second-place Boston
Bruins, who have two games
left. A tie tonight would give
the Wings at least a share Of the
title.
Detroit has beaten Toronto
three straight times TO seize a
4 to 2 advantage i'm victories
One game was tied. The two
clubs play again at Toronto Sat
urday and here on Sunday. The
Wings close their regular season
a week hence against Chicago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
Ortiz kayoes
Sa|i(a in 11th
Mexicon Dominates
Fight All the Way

OAKLAND Calf. March II
- Up There's no disputing
Manuel Ortiz clear title to the
world bantamweight champion
ship-not after the pasting he
gave challenger Lou Salica last
night.
The shifty. hard seeking lit
tie Mexican from FL Centric,
Calf, cleared up the 118-pound
title question by stopping the
ex-champ from Brooklyn in the
18th round of a 15-rounder that
was Ortiz fight from the start.
Ortiz won the title from Salica
in Hollywood last August, and
only the New York state athletic
commission refused to recognize
him as champion because the
fight went only II rounds in
stead of Is. Ortiz had been &C
copied by the National Boxing
Association and the Al states in
control.
Salica, a master boxer, had To
call on his IL years of ring eX-
pcrience to save himself from a
worse beating. Ortiz had the
eoge in every round, battering
his aging rival with fearful
assortment of blows TO the mid
section and face.
A bowling crowd Of 1000
paid Sl0.323 to see the fight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
Ocean Wave to Run i'm Arkansas Derby
Blind Athlete
Completes in
Mat TOURNEY

PHILADELPHIA, March IL
P)- The University of Penn
sylvania's sightless Samson - a
blind man who'd rather wrestle
than eat - enters the Tourna-
ment of Champions tomorrow
for the first big test of his So
far sensational career.
Blind Fred Barkovitch, unde-
feated in SIS consecutive scholas-
tic and intercollegiate bouts,
moves into the two day, Both
annual Eastern intercollegiate
Wrestling Tourney, TO grapple
with the best men from nine big
time colleges and try TO prove
that eX-star Bob Altman, now a
Philadelphia lawyer, isn't the
only Penn man who can grapple
and win in the Eastern without
the help Of vision.
Barkovitch, a 1913 FOUNDER
who won 48 at the Overlook
School for the Blind and seven
in his first collegiate season,
had weak vision at birth. Then,
when he was an innocent by
SANDER in a stone fight during
his childhood in Wilkes Barre,
Pa, his right eye was put out by
stone He still can see very
dimly from the left. but has to
have his lessons read to him.
Despite his handicap, he hopes to
be a physical instructor and
wrestling coach.
Aggressive, elusive and eX-
ccptiOnally strong in the ring,
he'll be up against men with
more experience and better col
legiate records during the week
end. In his weight class are
Penn States Charley Ridenour.
who as a l2l founder was vot-
cd the outstanding wrestler of
the 1912 tourney; Harvard's Ed
Gid, unbeaten in his three bouts;
Nays Charley Joslin, and Le-
highs Bob DeLong, losers OF
only one each.
Il hope I'll be able to make a
showing" he says. ITS my first
big test, and Id rather wrestle
than eat"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
Sportsmen Asked
to Sell Shoteuns
to Government

DETROIT, March IL -(P)-
The Army asked favor Of
Michigan sportSmen today.
The sportsmen were asked TO
donate or sell their pump and
automatic 12gauge shotguns for
use in Army training and by
plant protection officers.
The Army said il would pay
top price of S42 so for such
guns.
Brig Gen. A B Quinton. Jr.,
chief of the Detroit Ordnance
District who announced the re-
quest said the Army has "ur-
gent need for the guns.
State Police posts throughout
Michigan will receive the guns
during the period March 1927.
Here are some particulars:
Barrels must not be shorter than
% inches or stocks shorter than
- inches. The Army doesn't
want guns with cracked or split
stocks. G. forearms nor gun
with loose bolts or Damascus or
twist type barrels.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
The Monitor-Leader
THURSDAY MARCH ! lo43 PAGE !
First BASE Troubles
Plague Giants Again
PAGE IA

obtained last winter from the
Cardinals, recently was CLASH
fled IA and yesterday Hank
Leiber. whom Manager Mel OFT
was counting upon as fill-in at
first. notified the Giants he had
retired to chicken farming.
The irony of the situation is
that the Giants got both Mize
and Leiber a year ago princl-
pally to protect themselves
against the drafting of Babe
Young. their regular first base
man in l941.
Young remained with the
club all through the 1912 sea-
son. finally finishing in center
field, but has since been called
to service. Mize and Leiber both
are married, but have no chill
dren. The former expects to be
called for induction at any time
and the latter has decided to
stay on his Arizona farm and be
classified &c, essential agricul-
ture.
The Giants so far have made
no important move to get first
baseman, saying that they will
wait until Mize passes his final
physical examination. T h e y
think there is a possibility he
might be rejected because he
bleeds excessively when cut.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-11
Wright's Colt
Also Will Race
al louisville
Calumet Farms Colt
Will Compete in
Kentucky Derby

NEW ORLEANS, March IL
Up Ocean Wave, Whirlaway'
and the nine other Calumet
Farm horses CHARTERED here will
leave for Hot Springs late this
week or the first of next week.
The object of the trip is to have
the Wave carry Warren Wright's
silks in the $4,000 added, mile
and furlong Arkansas Derby
at Oaklawn Park March q.
II had long distance confer
ence with Mr.. Wright, who is in
Miami, and he told me to 60
ahead with whatever plans I
had, said Trainer Ben Jones
last night. Il think Ocean Wave
deserves a crack at the Arkan-
sas Derby, so I'm taking our IL
horses there. | don't know vet
whether or not Ocean Wave will
have race at Oaklawn before
the March q event; he's plenty
frightened up right now, but I'll
know better about that later" I
Meantime, Ben reports that
his son and assistant, Jimmy,
still has 30 other Calumet horses
in Miami. 1t is planned to have
that lot and the IL that are 60
ing to Hot Springs all join in
Kentucky later, in time for the
racing at Louisville.
when Louisville ends, we'll
be getting rid Of some Of our
horses" Ben says. Under pres
ent day conditions, IS or 80
h orses at the most will be
enough to have racing through
the Summer, and we'll do some
wedding out in the Spring"
The Arkansas Derby, nominal
tons for which closed yesterday,
Will serve as another stepping
stone for the hard-luck wave in
his campaign leading up to the
Kentucky Derby, which can now
be referred TO as the "trolley-run
for the roses" 1t will keep the
handsome chestnut colt at razor<
edge along the way and also give
him chance TO gain some con-
ISOLATION for his nose defeat in
last Saturdays Louisiana Derby,
setback which his trainer and
MANY observers attributed 10 bad
racing luck.