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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Boxing to Return
To Valley After
Absence Of Years
Concession Squabble
Almost Blocks Deal
But Issue Is Decided

Weekly boxing shows in
the Ell Centre baseball staG-
ium are scheduled to begin
November 10, it was an
nounced Friday by Sam Mali
boff following the city councils
agreement to lease the park for
that sport on a siX-month's ex-
perimental basis
But before the verbal fireworks
had cooled off at Thursday nights
special council meeting, III appeared
that the lonely, whistling peanut
vender (or absence of one), long
famed in song and poem. might
block the venture.
SET PRICE
In early negotiations the council
had set price of $25 night on
the stadium. but after members of
the recreational committee had
Wheedled out of Naliboff, and
Matchmaker Lew Taylor, the fact
that there is money-to-be in the
concession rights, the ante was
raised.
THAT concession is a gold mine"
chortled Sam.
How much is it worth a night?"
asked Commissioners w. A. Scheni-
man and Howard Meyers.
Fifty bucks a show" beamed
Sam.
"All right, you take it and give
us $50 more for the lease, $75
show. in other words" they added.
mot another penny screamed
Sam. II couldn't make it pay, I
donate the concessions to the city"
DOESN'T WANT EN-
"The city doesn't want them.
You'll have to take them, or no
park the commissioners decreed
But l couldn't get any peanuts
or soda pop to sell anyway. It's a
headache" moaned the impressario-
to-be.
It'll be your headache, not ours
they admonished whereupon Sam,
muttering. stormed out of the meet
ing into the street. But not for
long.
A few minutes later he returned,
and signed the lease, which in
cludes his carrying property and
public liability insurance to pro-
tect the city, and an agreement to
clean up the park after each show.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Draft DeIinquents
Being Rounded-up
In New Program
Tighter Control Over
ManpOwer Predicted
As New Rules in Effect

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15-
(UP) = frightened controls
over manpower, including
the start of a roundup of
100000 draft delinquents,
became effective today.
Selective service was sitting the
supply of draft-age registrants to
the armed forces by ordering i'm
mediate induction, beginning No
vember l, of all draft age men who
have failed to abide by draft reg
ulationS such as failing to report
for physical examinations, failing
to report changes of address, and
failing to complete and return
questionnaires within 10 days Those
who know or believe they are de-
linquent have until November to
get straight with their draft
boards.
NEW PROGRAM
Another selective service program
contemplates obtaining, prior to
induction, the physical and health
records of registrants for two
fold purpose: first, to prevent in
duction of those known to have
poor physical and mental Stamina
which might not show up at an
induction examination, and second
to make certain of the induction of
those whose previous records show
no positive cause for rejection.
New controls over the working
force result from a revised policy
announced in August by war man.
power chief Paul v. McNutt and
are accomplished through revised
area and regional employment
stabilization programs which be-
came effective last midnight The
plans are elastic but do not per-
NIT practices below certain minim-
UNI standards:
CHANGE PERIOD
IA worker cannot take a new
tContinued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15


from bridgeheads above Caputa, II
miles inland from the sea, and
seized dominating heights to the
northeast. protecting the Allied
flank and enabling Allied engineers
to throw pontoon bridges across the
Turbulent Volturno.
Across these bridges and over
ferryboats poured a ceaseless stream
of tanks, ank-destroyers, guns,
shells, and other supplies to but
tress the Fifth army's attack that
was moving relentlessly northward
toward Rome now less than 95
miles away.
COULDN'T HOLD LINE
The Germans put up fierce re-
sistance and in some sectors coun-
terattacked, but nowhere were they
able to hold Lieut.. Gen. Mark W.
Clark's force. Front reports indi-
Gated that the enemys Voltrrno
line has cracked.
American artillery on the heights
northeast of Capua was pouring
down a murderous barrage of shells
on the Germans on the plains be-
low, and it was evident that a
further enemy withdrawal was i'm
minent.
A naval communique revealed
that British naval landing craft in
the Tyrrhenian sea put troops
ashore in the enemy rear north of
the Volturno in the darkness early
Wednesday while the bulk of the
Fifth army was asSaulting the
river line from the south.
Fighting their way inland along
the line of a canal, the newly
landed troops made contact with a
Fifth army bridgehead and dug in
Continued on page 6, col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Italy May Declare
War On Japanese,
Send out Warships
Adm. Raeder Reported
Trying to Influence
Hungary Against Italy

LONDON, Oct. 15-(UP)
"A roundabout Swiss report
said today that Italy may
declare war on Japan soon
and send Italian manned
Italian warships to the Pacific to
cooperate with the United States
navy.
The report contained in a Bern
dispatch to the Stockholm Svenska
Dagbladet, followed by two days
the Italian declaration of war on
Germany, her former axis partner.
The dispatch said the expected
declaration against japan had been
preciptated b; Japanese aggressive
ness against italian interests and
citizens in the Far East. Italian
warships were reported in readi-
ness to sail for the Pacific.
RAEDER IN HUNGARY
Another Svenska Dagbladet dis
patch, this one from Budapest, said
that Grand Admiral Erich Raeder,
former commander in chief of the
German navy, had arrived in Buda-
pest in an attempt to persuade Hun
gary to declare war in Italy under
Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio.
Unconfirmed reports reached Lon
don that Ildefonso Cardinal Schus-
ter, Catholic Archbishop of Milan,
had warned that he would ex-
communicate any Italians who de-
nounce their fellow countrymen to .
Nazi or Fascist authorities.
The Cardinals action was expect
ed to prove strong deterrent to
the Nazi-Fascist campaign to round
up pro-democratic elements and
Badoglio supporters in occupied
northern Italy. Many of those al
ready arrested have been executed
after perfunctionary trials, or none
at all.
LACK OF RECRUITS
The German high command in
Italy, faced with an almost COM
plete lack of response to its calls
for recruits for the German army,
has offered high salaries to all
Italians who will enroll voluntarily
within the next 10 days, Italo-SwiSs
frontier reports said.
Privates were offered up to 1,275
CONTINUED on page 6. col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

The battle of the Volturno river
was on. Across the water, wham-
ming away at the British and AM
ericans with mortars and machine
guns, were the Germans. Beyond
the Germans was the road to Rome
This was the toughest German
resistance the Fifth army had met
since the bloody days on the Sal
emo beachhead, when the enemy
threw everything in the book at
our troops in an attempt to break
our toehold. The Fifth army took
plenty of punishment in the fight
ing that was climaxed by the
moonlight crossing of the Volturno
on Tuesday night. But it also dish
ed out plenty.
MASSES ARTILLERY
Gen. Mark Clark massed an over
whelming weight or artillery-500
guns in one sector alone-to soften
up the Germans for attack across
the Volturno. Hot steel arched and
screamed over the heads of the
Americans and British who were
forcing the river in rowboats,
dingies, heavy assault craft, and
the amphibious trucks which SOL
diers have nicknamed Ducks" 1t
didn't take much Imagination to
know that plenty of German blood
was being spilled on the far banks
of the Volturno.
This was critical hour in the
drive for Rome, and the top men
came up to see that everything
went according to plan. Gen. Sir
Harold Alexander, commander of
all Allied ground troops visited
Clark's headquarters. The two of
them inspected all sectors of the
Volturno front.
The Volturno is about 100 yards
wide in most places, but in some
sectors it is narrower and it was
there that the tough Fifth army
men waded up to their waists to get
at the enemy The Volturno runs
swift and cold and the German
mortars and machine guns chop
Continued on page 6, col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
5q3 Yanks Lost
In Fortress Raid

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-(UP)-
A total of 593 Flying Fortress crew
members were lost in the American
raid on Schweinfurt in Germany
yesterday, but at least half of them
are believed to be alive as prisoners
of war, Gen. Henry H. Arnold
chief of the army air forces, said
today.
Aerial reconnaissance pictures re-
vealed that the plant producing so
per cent of the bearings for the
German war machine was at least
half incapacitated by the United
States heavy bombing fleet which
suffered Americas greatest single
loss of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Genera! Tito in
Cairo for Talks

LONDON, Oct. 15.-CUP)-Gen.
Josip (Tito) Brozovich, leader of
Jugo-Slav partisan armies, has
visited Cairo for important talks
with British commanders-possibly
to plan an eventual Allied Balkan
invasion-private advices said to-
day. ae
Brozovich, 50-year-old former
shoemaker whose troops are wag-
ing growing war against the Ger
mans, was reported to have seen
Russian representatives at the
same time. There was no indication
he conferred with King Peter, ex
lied Jugoslav Monarch who is in
Cairo
AS result of the talks, it was
said, the partisan army had been
reorganized into floating divisions"
capable of swift movement to strike
at the NaziS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Crime
Nul.z;iis
Flee
Sovie+s Pound
Last Rail Line
From Peninsula

LONDON, Oct. l5.-The Mos
cow radio said today that the Red
army had driven the Germans
from a chain of hills west of the
Dnieper. German forces entrench-
ed on the heights had blocked
the Soviet advance, which was
resumed after the capture of the
barrier in an unidentified sector.
MOSCOW, Oct. 15-(UP)
German occupation forces
were reported preparing to-
day to- withdraw from the
Crimea to avoid entrapment
by Russian troops, which are clos
ing in swiftly from captured Zap
orozhe against the only land exit
from the Black sea peninsula.
Front reports said the German
defenses of the entire southern
Ukraine were on the verge of COL
lapse after the fall of Zaporozhe
industrial stronghold on the Dniep-
er bend.
Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
army was reported pouring through
tn breach in the aporozhe-M Nell
topol -Crimea line in a race down
the Dnieper toward the Perekop
z Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
allied 'LEAP-FR0G' LANDING SUCCEEDS
MILK SUBSIDY
DATA NOT HERE

issued, officials here say it has not
reached Ell Centre.
War food administration officials
in Washington have agreed that
milk production now is the nations
number one problem, and the state
conference was scheduled to ascer-
tain methods and means of aiding
CALIFORNIA; dairymen.
Recently announced subsidies,
retroactive to Oct. l, were estab-
lished at from 35 to 5 cents per
hundCredweight of milk and to 6
cents per pound of butterfat.
At a meeting Los Angeles last
month, the state granted dairymen
permission for one cent quart in
crease in milk przces, which was re-
fused by the office of price ad-
ministration.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
FDR Opposed to
Tariff on Natural
Rubber After War
President Is Against
Protective Barrier
For Synthetic Industry

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is
UP)- President Roosevelt
today vigorously opposed
any postwar tariff on natur-
al rubber to protect the new
American synthetic rubber industry.
Mr.. Roosevelt told a press and
radio conference that he favored
the cheapest possible tires. The
best way to get them, he added, is
to make them out of natural rub
ber from rubber trees and the new
plants such as Guayule and Cryp-
tostegia. A postwar tariff on rub
ber therefore would not be sound,
he said.
Mr.. Roosevelt also announced to-
day that unit will be set up with
in the office of war mobilization,
headed by James F.. ByrneS, Ito
deal with war and postwar adjust
ment problems" This unit will en-
deavor to develop a unified govern
ment program for conversion of
war plants and disposition of pro-
ductive facilities.
PLACED IN OFFICE
THE work." Mr.. Roosevelt told
his news conference, has deliber-
ately been placed within the office
of war mobilization to ensure that
such reshaping of our war pro-
gram as may be required will be
carried through with a view to in
creasing the effectiveness of our
war effort.
while we must prepare for nee
essary postwar adjustments, this
preparation must not interfere with
the long and hard war programs
which are still ahead of us
Byrnes, at the suggestion of Mr..
Roosevelt, met yesterday with the
heads of the concerned war agen-
cies to discuss problems of terminal
ing or revising war contracts lin
the light of the changing demands
Continued on page 6, col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

tits, accidents causing deformities,
scars or crippling from burns, con-
genital defects such as cleft palate,
hare lip, club feet dislocated hop,
wry neck, curvature of the spine,
bad posture, flat feet, bow legs,
cross eyes whichc cannot be cor
rected with glasses, or other Grip
pling tendencies.
Anyone knowing of children suf-
fering from these or similar defects
should report to the county or
school nurse in his or her district
These clipics are part of state
wide plan to provide treatment for
children who need 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

With announcements of 35 to So
cent milk subsidies and scheduled
conferences of dairymen bouncing
around the state over telegraph
wires, officials of the Ell Centro
office of the county war board still
were in fog as to what is or what
might be happening.
Several days ago an announce
ment of the milk subsidies was
made from the Berkeley office of
the board, but SO far no word of
the action has been received by
valley officials, they said,
Friday, State Director w. j.
Cecil announced that a statewide
call has been issued to dairymen to
meet in Fresno on Oct. 81, to dis
cuss feed costs, ceilings and other
phases of the milk production in
dustry. but if such call has been
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

AAciHi1 ioyai, pculdITlClaT, Will eX-
anime the children for the state, an
examination which is made with
ort cost to the children or their
parents. Local physicians were in
vited to take their patients to the
clinic for examination. Parents
should consult thir own physicians
before taking the children to the
clinic and if possible the parents
should be present when the child
rem are examined.
Children under 81 years of age
are eligible If they are suffering
from deformities caused by infan-
tile paralysis. diseases of the bone
such as tuberculosis and osteomyel-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

%
The announeeipent, disclosing
high staff personnel which will work
under Mountbatten in the forth
coming drive on Burma, said that
1t. Gen. Sir Henry Royds Pownall
of the British Army would serve as
chief of staff.
Wedemever served here as as
sistant to the assistant U. S. army
chief of staff, operations division,
from June, 1912. until his present
assignment. Mountbatten was NAM
ed to his present post at the Quebec
conference between President Roose-
velt and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill.
VETERAN OF WAR
Pownall, who will be So November
10, is veteran of the last war and
was chief of the general staff with
the British Expeditionary force in
France in this war. In 1910 he be-
came inspector general of the home
guard. The same year he was ap-
pointed general officer in command
in Northern Ireland and became
vice chief of the Imrcrial general
staff the following yeAr.
Pownall was made commander-in-
chief in the Far East at the end
of 1941 when he went to Singapore.
On January Is, 1912 he was ap-
pointed chief of staff to the sup
RENE commander of the southwest
ern Pacific during the Allied retreat
in that area. Since March IA, 1912,
he has been force commander in
Ceylon. -.
Wedemeyer, a native of Omaha,
Neb., had the unusual experience of
attending the German war college
in Berlin from JULY, 1886. to Aug
ust, 1888. He is graduate of the
U. S. Military Academy and of the
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Shutdown Ends
At Copper Plant

SALT LAKE City, Oct. Is UP)-
Full-scale production by the Utah
Copper Company, operator of the
nations largest copper mine, re-
sumed today with settlement of q
labor dispute that stopped work for
10 hours.
Production resumed when the
company, at the request of the Ma
tional Mediation Board, recognized
the Railway Employees Depart
ment American Federation of Labor
as bargaining agent for workers
in the company's rairoad shops.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

given probation for two years and
ordered to serve rs days of each OF
four months In the San Diego
county Jail and pay s700 court costs.
Polhamus Is TO be allowed his lib
erty from the twenty-fifth day of
each month until the first OF the
following month so that he may
continue his duties as Yuma police
chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Yuma Council Fails to
Eject Chief from Office

Isaac Polhamus, 54, will be per-
mitted to officiate as chief of police
of Yuma even though he spends all
but five or six days out of each of
the next four months in the San
Diego county Jail, it was revealed
Friday.
This week he was granted a writ
of prohibition in Yuma county
superior court permanently re-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

ton of speed law
Officers warned that severe PEN
alties would be served out to any
found guilty of the practice, which.
they said would end up in some
serious accident If allowed to conN
tinue.
Revocation of gasoline ration
books for speeding violators is also
possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

straining the Yuma city council
from proposed move to declare
his office vacant. Last week the
Yuma council voted to declared
Polhamus' office vacant in view of
the fact that he was convicted in
San Diego superior court of con-
tributing to the delinquency of a
l4-year-old girl in his custody.
The Yuma chief of police was
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Gasoline Book Of
Ranc1er Revoked

Earl E. Nielsen, Calexico vege-
table grower, had his supplemental
gasoline ration coupons revoked for
ninety days in action taken this
week by the OPA following a hear
ing in Calexico before Alec L. Cory,
hearing officer from San Diego.
The rancher was charged with
driving sedan to Denver. The
order referred only to supple
mental coupons and made no men,
ton of his A book.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15

down cars, some of the lads are
asserted to be able to obtain genu-
inc racetrack speeds.
A number of complaints, officials
said have been received during re-
centdayS of excessive speed tests
by spirited young ones in several
of the outlying districts.
Thursda% one youth was taken
into custody and charged with viola
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Here's How Allies
Crossed voIturno
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY, Oct. 14-(UP)
The beamed brightly strip of water 100 yards
wide of the Fifth Army-some of them wadng with
rifles and tommy guns held high above their headspung
ed into the stream
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Clinic for Valley
Children Slated

Physically handicapped children in Imperial county
will have the opportunity for examination at the state
county diagnosc clinic in the health department in the
court house in Ell Centro from to pm October 25
DR. Samuel Mathews, Orthopedic specialist, and DR.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
Young S peeders
Face Cruck-DoWn

Recalling the 1O0-me-an-hour clubs that plagued
Officials in other parts of the state during the past
Ell Centre police were called Thursday night to break
a race meet" between youths assertedy making a
course out of the 400 block Brighton avenue
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
US Gen. Becomes
MountbuttenAide
Gen. PowneI| Of Britain Is Chief of
Staff for Burma Drive; Deputy Post
Goes TO Mai.-Gen. Albert WedemyeI

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15-(UP)-Major-Gen. Albert
Coady Wedemeyer Of the u s. Army has been appointed
deputy chief of staff to Lord Louis Mountbaen
Allied commander in southeast ASIA the War Department
announced TODAY. #.sss i
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
voIturno Line Of
Germans Cracks
Ard Foe Retreats
Domination Of Heights Allows Allies
TO Send Tanks. Heavy Artillery Across
River Nazis Fall Back Several Miles

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Oct. Is -(UP)- The
Fifth Army aided by leapfrog landing behind enemy
lines has sent the Germans reeng back five miles
from the Voturno river line all the way from the west
coast to the Apennne mountains it announced today
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
y AMBl'ne
~ EpoRrER
The Marauder-

The Marauder-
There's going to be murder.
sGenevieve Kenyon will be the
murdereSs.
A big black cat will be the victim.
The motive for the murder is the
cats fondness of live chicken stolen
from the Kenyon chicken pen in
the dead of night.
First the flock had 20 chickens.
Then 18, then Is, then IL, then
nine and SO on until at the last
investigation the flock had dwind-
led to a little over half dozen.
But I'll have to hand it to the
cat" Mrs Kenyon said. Hes the
smartest cat 1 ever heard of. He can
get into a pen 40 mattr how tight
we make it, But he is stupid about
leaving feathers all over the yard
as clues"
The coroners verdict undoubted-
ly will be justifiable homicide in
these days of eggs worth their
weight in gold.
nuSn, lie SLll-
Dave Roberts must have some
kind of a silencer that we never
heard of. At the recreation coun-
Gil hearing anent the boxing shows
in the stadium, Robrets bitterly op-
posed permitting professional box
ing shows in the stadium.
There's too much noise and con-
fusion about these professional
shows" Roberts declared. 1T would
be much quieter and there would
be less confusion If W had amateur
boxing, football, and baseball
OF course, the spectators at
amateur boxing shows, football and
baseball games all whisper when
they get excited!
Oops, There
RR thought he was doing a good
deed when he presented the library
at Camp Seeley with a modest col
lection of murder mysteries, who
dun-itS" ana regular old hair lift
ing books
DO you want some more?" RR
Continued on page 6, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-15
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 100, minimum
Friday 81, 5 a. m. Friday Ga, humid
ity Sc; noon Friday 80, humidity
%; p. m. Thurs. SO, humidity "a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-30

Livestock prices at the Detroit
Stockyards finished al the low
point of the week. Swine declined
25c during the period, vealers lost
SOC on the final session and COM
mon lambs closed unevenly lower.
In the cattle alleys. cows found re-
liable outlet all week as plain
steers dragged from Tuesday on.
CATTLE-weeks salable receipts. 1000
Fed steers and yearlings brought steady 10
Csc higher prices on the initial session with
good grades showing most st. myth. But
the advantage on good steers was later
erased and common To medium offerings
encountered narrow outlet from Tuesday on
and finished weak TO 25c lower. The meager
supply OF cows sold actively al steady 20
strong rates. Although demand for bulls
was by no means broad. hnal quotations
stood unevenly steady 10 25c higher com
pared with last weeks low close. The few
stockers and feeders on offer held steady.
Actual top fro the week was SIS % on
good 10 lOw-choice 1913 1O75-ib. fed steers.
Next highest price was Si6 10 while bulk
OF the fed steer crop graded medium and
good sold manly within S4Hi6 limits.
Common 10 low medium killing steers found
takers Al Si2 70 i3 IS. mainly xl2 35n 10 50.
Mixed medium 10 good hefers brought xif
~ IS. common and medium kinds Sii ~
- 80. Beef cows buked al $40. 75u - SO.
only odd good cows claimed. si2.75H 10.
Gamer and cutter cows sold largely ~
81 50m 10 so although some very thin light
cannerS dropped 10 81 and below A few
good sausage bulls scored 1913. most
bulls sold downward fr IN 1880 medium
grades bulked al si2ai3 as cutter and