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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Actress Divorces
Mickey Rooney

HOLLYWOOD, May G0.-CUP)-
Actress Ava Gardner, who three
times had threatened to divorce
Mickey Rooney, went through with
it today and obtained default de-
cree from the pint-Sized motion pic
ture star.
Mickey didn't want any home
life she testified tersely before
Judge Thurmond Clarke.
"On two different occasions he
left me, saying that our marriage
was a mistake"
Judge Clarke awarded the decree
by default on her general charge
of cruelty. She asked no alimony,
and no community property was
listed in her complaint.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
President Asks II
Billion Dollars
For Army Expense
More than 100 Billion
For Both Army and Navy
Expenditures Expected

WASHINGTON, May 20.
(UP) = President Roosevelt
today asked congress to make
a total of S71,S9S, ,499,70O
available for army eXpendi-
lures during the next fiscal year
beginning July l.
This figure represented an in
crease of more than $4,000, 900
in the tentative army estimate
which Mr.. Roosevelt sent to con-
gresS in January.
With the $4,000 100000 navy bill,
this will mean an army-navy bud
get of more than $l00,000,000. 900
for the 1914 fiscal year.
OTHER AGENCIES
Expenditures by other agencies
concerned with the war will push
the total war budget beyond the
100000, 100000 figure that Mr.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Former U.S.FIeet
Commander Dies

PALM BEACH, Fla, May 90
tUP)-Admiral Henry Aristo Wi
ley, USN, retired, who was COM
mander-in-chief of the us Fleet,
1927-l929, died today at a Palm
Beach hospital.
He was 76 Death was attributed
to hardening of the arteries.
Admiral Wiley returned to active
service in June, 1912, but had been
ill much of the time since then.
He was graduated from the us.
Naval Academy at Annapolis in
1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
NO INTERPRETATION
BrawIey Schools
Hold Graduation

Brawley High school and Junior
college commencement exercises
will be held Friday hight, O'Clock,
in the high school assembly court,
the first graduation to be held this
year for the high schools and junior
colleges of the county.
Brawleys school term began one
week earlier this year than any 9TH
er, and consequently the closing
date is earlier.
Calipatria High schools COM
mencement is May 25; Imperial'S,
May %; Calexico's, June 3: Central
and Douglass High schools, June
3, and Central Junior college,
June |.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Kaiser Asks Heavy
Extortion Penalty

OAKLAND, Calf, May 20.-oUP)
Henry j. Kaiser, shipbuilder and
industrialist, today urged Congress
to pass legislation providing the
same penalty for labor racketeering
and extortion as is now in eXis-
tence for kidnapping"
II see no difference in the crime"
said Kaiser. kidnapping usually
involves the life of only one person,
while this involves the lives and
safety of many workers and their
families
Kaiser issued a statement in con-
nection with an indictment return
ed Monday in New York charging
Joseph S. Fay, international vice
president of the Union of Operat-
ing Engineers (AFLD and James
Bove, international vice president of
the Hod Carriers and Common La
borers Union of America, with eX-
tortion and conspiracy to eXtort
sos, 900 from contractors firms, in
cluding the Henry j. Kaiser & Co
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

Editors note: This story was
passed upon by the command OF
Camp Seeley.)
BY DON SMITH
Thousands of gallons of gasoline
burn up each month in speeding
United, States Army motorized
equipment half a million miles over
the sands of Imperial Valley in
never-ending, 24-hour-a-d oper-
ationS!
That's the story of the work of
the Armys ordnance test command
at Camp Seeley.
STORY BEHIND STORY
But the story behind the story
the reason conveys of huge vehicles
rumble over the districts high
ways and desert tracts at speeds
that exceed the limit fixed by law,
reveals that a true necessity exists
for the operation and offers ex-
planation TO Imperial Valley resi-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
LID, City Blame
Each Other Here
For Lack of Water
City Endangered By
Lack of Water With
Which to Fight Fire

Ell Centrans were up in
arms Thursday because the
city was without water for
several hours Wednesday
night and for more than an
hour there was no water in the
mains for use in case of fire.
City officials blamed Imperial Ir-
rigation district officials and I'M
perial Irrigation district officials
blamed city officials. Some residents
blamed one group and some the
other group. All residents agreed,
however, that such situation never
must occur again and demanded
that the city and district work to-
gether to prevent Ell Centre being
a waterless city even for a Few
moments in the future.
BASIC CAUSES
Investigation revealed that the
basic causes Of the waterless condi-
ton of the city undoubtedly were Ell
Centro's increase in population and
the prevalence of Victory gardens
boosting the demand for water,
combined with a new district plan
of shutting the water out of the
lateral canal which feeds the city
system during a two-day cleaning
period every month.
Nevertheless the city was in dan
ger Wednesday night. The city
pressed a powerful pumper from
the fire department into service
and pumped water into the mains
through a fire hydrant SO there
would be some water available in
case OF fire. The pump also was
used to force water up into the big
storage tank so it would run down
and prime the pumps so they would
start after having become dry. City
Public Works Director Waiter Helm
ecke said.
BELOH LEVEL
Heinecke said that the water in
the settling basins at the plant
must be at a certain level before
the pumps will carry it into other
basins in the settling process used
at the water plant. The water We'd
Continued on page 2, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Camps for Axis
Captives Made

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP
Prison camps have already
teen established in the United
States in sufficient numbers to
care for all the Axis prisoners
captured in North Africa that
will be received by this country,
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson disclosed today.
Plans for the disposition of
prisoners and their use for farm
work, as well as other types of
labor permissible under the ar
ticles of the Geneva convention,
are being studied by the war
department., StimSOn said.
However, these prisoners are
not being brought here to re-
place our own labor" he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Fierce Battle in
Montenegro Mts.

LONDON, May E0.-(UP)-Jugo-
slav guerillas are locked in a bitter
battle with a new German eXpe-
dictionary force in the Bosnia and
Montenegro mountains. Jugoslav
sources reported today.
The Nazis, they said, have burn
ed seven villages and killed hum
dreds of patriots in trying to break
their resistance
The battle in the Bosnian noun
tains was admitted by the German
radio, which said Nazi troops and
SIS units had been sent out to sup
press armed banditry." Reports
received here said the battle had
been going on for five days with
heavy casualties on both sides.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
AMERICAN
Pleasure Drivinq
In East Stopped

WASHINGTON, May 20-CUP)-
The 100000 motorists in the area
from Maine to Virginia face harsh
Notwithstanding denial of gas
oline for the duration-if they
drive for pleasure after noon to-
day.
Price Administrator PrentiSS M
Brown slapped the new ban on nom
essential driving on II eastern
states, the District of Columbia,
and eight eastern counties of West
Virginia last night.
There have been reports for days
that the gasoline supply situation
IN the east was becoming serious.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
HOUSE PASSES NAVY
BILL WITHOUT DISSENT

WASHINGTON, May 90
(UP)-The House today pass
ed the $4,000, 100000 naval ap-
preparation bill. Not a single
dissenting vote was recorded.
The vote, which was $50 to 0.
was taken soon after the House
convened at noon. Debate was
concluded yesterday.
Included in the measure
largest naval appropriation in
histOry-was S9,000,000,O0O for
new ship constructions; $1,000
100000 for aircraft, and $1,000
100000 for naval ordnance.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

flame.
One charred body and a flaming
parachute fell outside the tank, but
the plane and possibly five to 10
other occupants burned fiercely in
side the tank.
The public relations office of the
9th service command said the plane
was from Tarant Field, near Fort
WORTH Tex.
Witnesses saw the big ship. ap-
parently in trouble. flying so to 100
feet above the prairie, then smash
with terrific, flaming impact against
the wall of the gas reservoir.
The plane carried through the
wall Of the tank and dropped in the
bottom. An estimated 100000 Gu
bic feet of gas went up with a roar
Flames leaped $50 feet over the
tank.
Frank Krantz, greenhouse keeper
in Marquette Park, and Joseph
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
65TH BERLIN RAID
1000 ChrysIer
mpIoyes Strike
BULLETIN

ed striking members of the United Automobile Workers (CIO)
Detroit
the number involved in the city
DETROIT, May 20 (UP)-A "well-organzed strike"
by employees of the Chryser Corp spread to 900 work
ers today the company announced calling out by the
United Automobile Workers (CIO) of 1000 employees at
the Dodge main plant Earlier, approximately 1000 work
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
16 Merchants TO Sponsor
Girls i'm Bomb er Contest

Ell Centre merchants rushed to
get under the wire Thursday in
the Elks popularity contest and by
noon 16 had decided to act as spon-
Sors of the girls to participate in
Che ElkS Buy-a-Bomber campaign
Meanwhile 400 members of the
FL Centre Elks lodge were enlisted
in 80 bond-selling teams. These
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

from $25 up. Each individual Il
limited TO $4,000 worth of series
"E" bonds a year Ballots for vot-
ing in the popularity contest may
be obtained from bond issuing
agencies such as banks, the post
office, theaters and the like. Bal
lot boxes will be at the issuins
agencies also.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

teams will sell series e. bonds in
their drive to run the grand to-
tai up to $l75,000, the price of a
medium bomber The campaign
will begin May IS and end June
is. Series e. bonds may be pur-
by individuals only, not by
companies or corporations They
come in denominations running
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

company alleged? was mot living
up to a rule about transferring
workers from one job to another
within the plant"
He added that the company de-
nies this emphatically and looks
upon today's walkout as plain sab
otage'
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

erS at the jefferson and Kercheval
plants walked out to protest failure
of the War Labor Board to approve
new provisions in a proposed con-
tract between the company and
UAW.
A management spokesman said
the Dodge workers were called out
by the union on grounds that the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Bomber Crashes
Into Gas Tower

CHICAGO May 20. (UP)-A four-motored army Lib
orator bomber flying low and blind through unfavorabe
weather, plunged into 15Ofoot Illuminating gas tank
two miles from the Chicago Municipal airport today,
immolating plane and in towering pyre of gas
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Americans Tuke
Strategic Pass
On Northern Isle
Enemy Driven into Compact Area
Near Chichasof Harbor; Naval Guns
E-ie| |p Subdue Japs in Stubborn Fight

WASHINGTON May 90 (UPl-U. S. forces on Attu
have captured vital Sarana Pass the eastern end OF the
island and are poised annhiae the remaining Jap
anese defenders trapped in the Chchagof harbor
the navy disclosed today Except for isolated snipers
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

Never, an automobile testing lane
official in the park, saw the ship
flying about so feet high crash into
the side of the towering gas tank.
"The plane appeared to be in
trouble" Krantz said. Il saw it hit
the side of the gas tank and flames
leaped $50 feet high. l ran and
turned in the fire alarm"
Charles Anderson, foreman at
the Peoples Gas Light and Coke
company, said the plane fell inside
the gas tank.
10 OFFICERS
FORT WORTH, Tex, May 20.
tUP)-AuthOrities at the Fort
Worth Army air field said today
that a B-24 bomber that struck
Chicago Illuminating gas tank
was manned by crew of IL Of.
ficers and enlisted men.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Big Planes Again
Roor over Europe
Berlin Bombe d 4+h Time in Week. 73
Axis Planes Destroyed by Mounting
Raj, US. Aerial Pressure on Continent
= Ry UNITED PRESS

Big formations of Allied bombers and fighters roared
Europe again Thursday in sustained offensive which
within the last "a hours had hit Berlin for the fourth time
in week and destroyed least 73 Axis planes in and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20

'lrOund SarClnla ana SICILY.
Observers on the coast of Eng
land saw two fleets of raiders sweep
ing eastward over the channel. Lat
er, four flights of Royal air force
Westbound fighters flew over the
coast.
UNDE. FIRE
The Germans and Italians were
under fire from the Baltic to the
Mediterranean, while in the east
the aerial campaign reached ali
acute stage. Moscow said the NaziS
were flying as many as 1900 sorties
a day over the Kuban bridgehead of
the northwest Caucasus, while the
Red air force pounded relentlesSly
at the enemy all along the front.
Bombing b. day and night,
ceaselessly and continuously, hour
by hour, until the war is Won--that
is the program we have prepared
for Germany" Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden told d British aud
ience.
Stung to a burst of propaganda
buster, the NaZiS also loo.ed to
the future. They said the feeble
thrusts at London on recent nights
were only a taste of things to
come" and at the proper time their
raiding fleets would attack Italian
again with greater violence than
ever before to teach a lesson to
those who are jubilant about the
British terror raids against Ger.
man women and children"
65TH BERLIN RAID
Light and speedy Mosquito bomb
ers gave Berlin its 65th raid of the
war last night and its fourth in a
week. Other RAF formations hit
air fields and railroads in France
Continued on page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
p AMBl|Ne
(\EpoR1ER

Slightly MOssy-
Grass is growing in front of the
Ell Centro police station.
The police are too g. er oc-
cupied to NOW the grass SO the place
won't look as though it is about
to fold up.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Lewis Application
For Reinstatement
In AFl. Surprises
UNIV Head Petitions to
Allow Miners to Come
Back Into Former Fold

WASHINGTON, May 20.
(UP)-Surprised labor lead
ers today tried to evaluate
one Of the strangest moves in
the recent tangled history of
organized labor - John L. Lewis
petition to return his United Mine
Workers union to the American
Federation of Labor.
Some labor quarters predicted
that it might be the beginning of
a movement the consequences Of
which would equal if not overshadoW
Lewis break from the AFL seven
years ago to form the Congress of
Industrial Organizations.
NO INTERPRETATION
There was no authoritative inter-
pretation of Lewis move, and
guesses ranged from those that
viewed it as an attempt to strength
EN- both the UNIV and AFL, to
those that saw it as political STRAIT
eg,;. A few believed that Lewis
might be seeking a solution to his
deadlock with the War Labor Board
over his dispute with the bituminous
Continued on page 2, Col. Il
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
Just Wasted

to fold up.
Just Wasted
Russell Yeager is waiting around
for the navy to call him. He has
done everything the navy has told
him to do thus far. Officers just
haven't told him enough things to
do. Officers told him to get his uni
forms several weeks ago. He did so.
Officers told him to go home and
wait. He did So He's still waiting.
II go in the closet every day and
look at my uniforms that have be-
come tattered and moth eaten from
waiting" he said sadly. I've be-
come as tattered and moth eaten
as they have just hanging around
waiting. l guess we are going to
grow old together"
Slips Don't Count
Imagine Mrs. Glenn Kieffer's de-
light when she received word that
her husband would pass through
inland Wednesday while en- route
by train from Florida to Santa Ana
in line with his duties as an army
lieutenant. The Wendell Waterman
family took her to inland at 3 am.
to meet 1t. Kieffers train. He was
Mt on it.
Mrs. Kieffer was frantic. After
changing plans dozen times, she
Continued on page 2, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
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Brooklyn ...-..--- 800
M. Cooper and W. Cooper; Mel
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First Game
Chicago ............. 900 coo 000-0 4 l
Philadelphia .-O10 00l 10x-3 8 0
Lee, Wyse and Hernandez; Fuchs
and Livingston.
Second Game
Chicago ..........- 90
Philadelphia 90
Barrett and Todd; Gerheauser
and Padden.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-20
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 90, minimum
Thurs. go; 5 am. Thurs. 65, humid
ity So; noon Thurs. 95, humidity 8;
5\p.m. Wednesday 81, humidity II.
BANn DEBTS
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30

All those IN service, their families and
friends, are urged to inform Dribbles
Editor of new. or changed, addresses. Keep
him supplied with interesting news items
The success. and continuation. Of this new
Service column will depend largely upon
this kind of cooperation.
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30
BRIEF SMYRNA
LANDING NEWS
Budget of News and Person
ais Cleaned About Smyr-
na River " harves
CITIZENS MAKE VISITS

Smyrna Landing, Sept. 20 Mr..
Fred Pettyjohn of Georgetown, Mr..
Harold Jackson and son Jack of
Wilmington, were Sunday visitors
OF Mr.. and MISS. F. Jackson. Jack
Jackson iso ne of our Navy boys
and has been at sea for the past
seven months. This is his first fur
Tough, so he came to visit his grand
father, and tells him he likes Navy
life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert George and
son Larry, spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dayton Pierson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Slaughter
and son Bunny of Middletown, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Hilyard Of Clay
mont were Sunday visitors of Mrs.
Louis Gaulke.
MIR. and Mrs. T. c. Gibson and
family of Boothwyn, Pa, spent Sun
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Sickman.
Mr.. Harry Davis, who has been
visiting relatives here, has return
ed to his home in Chester.
Mrs. Earl Scott and sons of Mid
dletown, Miss Mildred Davis of
Chester were Sunday visitors of
their mother, Mrs. Emma Davis.
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30

The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service held a covered dish
luncheon at the home of Mrs.
George Bradley on Wednesday.
The friends of Miss Betty Handy
were sorry to hear of her illness
last week. She is in the Methodist
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Mrs. May Scott visited her broth
er and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Pearson over the weekend.
Mr.. Kermit McGinnis and Martin
Mitchell spent the weekend with
their families.
Mrs. Minerva Pleasanton is
spending several days in New York
City.
Mrs. Ada Reihm and Mrs. Eva
Beth visited Wilmington on Tues
day.
DR.. and Mrs. Hobart A. Hare are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of a son at Kent General Hos
pital on September goth. Mother
and baby are doing fine. Mrs. Hare
will be remembered as Miss Grace
Sylvester.
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30
COAL GROUP TO
SET POLICIES
Advisory Committee Named
to Discuss State Coal De-
livery Problems
TO INSURE HAULING

appointment of a Solid Fuels In
dustry Advisory Committee which
will assist the District Office of the
Office of Defense Transportation
with the handling of coal delivery
problems was announced at Dover
by Clarence E. Keyes, district ODT
manager. The advisory committee
comprises: Leon Walker of Will
mington, chairman; ]. w. Brosius,
Wilmingtonfi j. T. Elliason, Jr.,
New CASTLE; Wright Barnes, Sails
bury Nd, and D. M. Kellum, Weir
wood, Va.
Will Meet Thursday
A meeting of the Solid Fuels In
dustry Advisory Committee will be
held today Thursday at 2 p. m.
in the board room of the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce. Or
ganization of the committeeman
and a preliminary discussion of
problems will be included. Mr..
Keyes and Richard Sutton, examin-
er from the Dover district office,
will attend. Mr.. Keyes said that
the purpose of the committee will
be ITO try to insure and provide in
cooperation with industry, labor,
and all interested governmental
agencies adequate and equitable
transportation and distribution of
solid fuel by motor truck coupled
with continued and necessary con-
servation of such motor truck IA
cilities." The. policy set down by
the national ODT office in Wash
ington, Mr.. Reyes said, suggests
that the committee work in con-
junction with the War Manpower
Commission, the Solid Fuels Adj
ministration, and the Office of Price
Administration.
Tri-State Area
Some of the problems facing the
committee which will assist the
ODT in an area comprising the
three Delaware counties, eight !
Maryland counties and three Vir-
ginia counties, include joint action
and cooperation on deliveries, sup
ply, manpower and prices. Mr..
Keyes explained that the problem
of prices was particularly difficult
one in that If inuo1yad +bo ooe+ &c /
retail deliveries. He further ex-
planned that coal dealer whose de-
livery points nearby and with easy
access to the coal bin has consider
ably less labor epense than the
dealer who must make long hauls
and use two or three men to
truck because of long carries once
the delivery point is reached.
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30
KENYON NEWS
NOTES OF WEEK
Personal Mention and Social
Items and Other Parties
Reported About Town
COMMUNITY INTEREST

One hundred and thirty-three
dollars was cleared on supper held
Friday evening, Sept. oath.
The w. S. of c. S. will meet with
Mrs. Harry Faulkner on Wednes-
day evening, October 9th.
Miss Ethel Carey of Wilmington,
spent the weekend with her sister,
Miss Eva Carey.
Pvt. Davis Numbers, who has
been transferred to Philadelphia to
a training school, visited his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Numbers
over last Saturday night.
Sgt. and Mrs. Fred Dawson of
Camp Forest, Tenn, spent part of
last week with his grandmother,
Mrs. Emily Dawson and aunt Mrs.
Alice Biges.
Miss Ethel Wilds of Smyrna,
spent the weekend with Mrs. Ed
ward Hughes.
Mrs. Houston Wilson of Milford,
has been visiting her parents, DR..
and Mrs. E. F. Smith.
Pvt. James Bishop of Virginia,
visited his father, Mr.. James
Bishop, ST., on Sunday.
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30
Radiant Living
WHO DRIVES
MY CAR?
BY
Rev. Charles Milton Griffith

A father was driving his car
through the night. The cold win
ter's storm was blowing against
the car. The roads were danger
ously slippery. Against him lean
ed the head of his little son, asleep.
The trustfulness of the lad in the
safe driving of his father awoke
serious thoughts in the mans mind.
He began to wonder whether or
not, when he became wearied at
the end of life's day, there might be
some Shoulder upon which he too
might lean in utter trustfulness.
Another question came into his
mind as he drove carefully through
the treacherous darkness. II won
der Who or What is driving my car
through this darkness which men
call life?"
Questions like these however are
not asked by men to whom the
23rd Psalm speaks. These men are
assured that God is,t hat He is a
Shepherd worthy of utter trust.
These men expect to dwell in the
house of the Lord forever"
Every man who has observed
carefully the claws of an animal,
the wing of bird, the fin of a fish,
and has noted how perfectly adopt
ed each creature is to the environ
ment in which it lives, can never
arrive at the conclusion that there
Is no God, without doing violence
Smyrna times., 1943-09-30

to his own intellectual judgment.
Observing men know what
Wordsworth had in mind when,
walking one day through the beau
tiful valley of the Wye, and seeing
in Tintern Abbey a primrose bloom
ing upon rock, he spoke to it,
saying: Thou art become to me
the Court of Deity!"
Let every man study his own
body, its formation, its functioning,
its automatic repair and upkeep,
and he will be assured of the fact
that there exists a Master Mind.
L know Who is driving my car
through the darkness. 1 lean my
head upon His Shoulder in utter
trustfulness-and go to sleep.