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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-14
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-14

for Agricultural development ac-
CURED this ST. Marc plantation. al.
ready replanted several times In
the decade OF production. az the
nucleus for IFS sisal division. Since
then. enough acreage has been
leased TO bring The 81 Mare sisal
development 10 10000 acres. COW
ering four plantations employing
1000 workers, and extending along
the riEht-of-way Of the Haitian
National Railway Ter 81 kilometers.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-14

Cpl. lohi jackson. Co,inrton.
Ia. Standing in the rear. scr, linz
NJ assistant instructors 10 the
chaplain. are: 10th or. W. l..
imo>. ~ Brunswick. Ga. aud
P't. Melvin 7. Diamond. uous-
Ton. Texas. Corporal amos en-.
listed IN The army T. months
aso. he graduated from Tm>kc-
zee institute IN 1929. Private
Diamond. selectce with six
months service. graduated from
hooker Washington High
school In Houston and j. now
serving rs The chaplaln's clerk.
Photo is. Army Signal
torps.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-14

TloTsI . he Fulioa plant.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-14
HAiTrS FOODSTUFFS
Continued from page o.

aso and has made good record
In the extensive Peitierew and
Crook plantations ut Phaeton and
'eracol IN the northeast. A few
years later some $500 acres OF
sisal COT Pciiigrew siock1 were
planted on ST. Marc cape by tliT
ST. Mare Society. private organ
ixation
The Haitian-American Society
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-08-14

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The messenger., 1943-08-01

The Board of Commissioners of the Blue Hills Fire District is con- sidering extension of it's western boundaries to Beman's Brook on Park Avenue and to the Railroad tracks on Cattage Grove Road. Such action will join the Blue Hills Districts western line with the eastern boundary of the Bloomfield Center Fire District, the latter having formerly extend ed itself to the railroad tracks.
 A son has been born to MT. and Mrs. Mario A. Crespan, 917 Tun- Xis Avenue.
 Robert Trombley, Bob Burnham, Arnold Dumeer and Eugent Pinny enjoyed a weeks vacation at Point o Woods.
 Mrs. Russell Filley, Jerome Ave-, spent late July weekend with her mother at Hamden, Connecticut.
 MT. and Mrs. Frederick Pinney and daughter, Dolores and Lois, were recent visitors at the home of MT. and Mrs. Henry Gernwich, Westboro, Mass.
 A hay-rack ride featured fare we'll party arranged for Bob Burn ham prior to his departure Tues day, August ? for Paris Island where he undertakes basic train ing for service in the Marines.
 Miss Gladys Futile spent her va cation from duties at the Dicken- son Memorial Hospital, North ampton, Mass, visiting at the Point O. Woods summer home of her grandmother, Mrs. Walter Winch. Nancy and Billy Futile have also been vacatiOning with their grandmother.
 Joseloff cottage on Burr Road is heing taken down.
 Miss Helen Watkins, recent graduate of Westbrook Junior Col lege has taken a position as dental assistant to pr. Bailey Gates, in West Hartford.
 Mrs. Gayer Dominick and sons Anthony and William, Duncaster Pd., have moved to Washington, D.C., joining MT. Dominick who took a position there some time ago.
The messenger., 1943-08-01
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cdClOnlng at Cnelr EaSC 6afCldnu summer home.
 Mrs. Leslie Goodrich, 51 Jerome Ave-, visited with her daughter, Gladys F. Goodrich of the Wo- mems Marine Corps, at the Hunter College, NY. training station late last month.
 Dr. Howard c. Greene, Mountain Ave-, spent the Fourth of July weekend on a fishing trip in northern Vermont.
 Leslie M. Bingham, 67 Jerome Ave-, recently visited his mother, Mrs. H. A. Harsh, Minerva, Ohio.
 MT. and Mrs. Lewis T. Finch, 651 Bloomfield Ave-, spent the last week of July at Madison, Conn. They were accompanied by their daughter, Ruth.
 Katie and Doris Chinkers, daughters of MT. and Mrs. Edward Chinkers, 10 Mexcur Road, are visiting relatives at Niagara Falls, NY.
 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Bingham and family, 67 Jerome Ave-, have just returned from a two weeks vacation stay at Silver Lake, Barn ard, Vermont.
 MT. and Mrs. H. B. Parmarley, Radburn, NJ. and Mrs. Joyce Straton, Jersey City, N.J., were guests of MT. and Mrs. Steward Adams, Mexcur Road, the week end of July IS.
 Miss Marion L. Pinney has moved back to the West Side, talk ing residence at 56O Bloomfield Ave-, in the Seymour development. Miss Pinney's mother and MT. and Mrs. Lorin Reid and family share the new home with her.
 MT. and Mrs. William c. Brein- ing, Park Ave-, spent part of a July vacation at the Connecticut shore.
 Miss Harriet Colt, 637 Bloom field Ave-, spent her vacation at Mont Tremblant Lodge, Mont Tremblant, Canada.
 Miss Shirley Long, Simsbury Road, Miss Celia Gostyla, West Street, Miss Ernestine T avener, Bloomfield Ave-, and Miss Elaine Humphrey, Maple Ave-, occupied Sweeton Cottage at Kelsey Point during a mid-July vacation. Their weekend guests included the Misses Phyllis king, Joan Hooking, Dorothy Capen, Betty Lagan, Harriet Lexa, Evelyn Long and Louise Szozda, of Bloomfield.
 Members of the State Guard from Bloomfield, East Granby and Hartford engaged in very in- teresting maneuvers in the vicin- ity of the Center Sunday July II.
 A daughter has been born to MT. and Mrs. Jack Farrell, 129 Blue Hills Rd.
 James L. Roache, a native of Bloomfield and for 28 years resident here, died at his home at 46 Clark Street, Hartford, Fri day, July 9. MT. Roche, an em- ployee of the Gray Manufacturing Company, was a former Grand Knight and member of Hartford | Council. KC.
The messenger., 1943-08-01

MT. and Mrs. Warrington w. Smith, of the Old House, Bloom field Ave-, are at Westbrook where they plan to spend the remainder of the summer.
 MT. and Mrs. Lloyd w. Moulton have been vacationing at Hyde Park, Vt.
 A baby daughter was born to MT. and Mrs. Tage H. Pedersen, 181 Woodland Ave-, Monday, July 19.
 MT. and Mrs. Alfred Schultz, 327 Park Ave-, announce the birth of a son on July II.
 Lawrence Washington, son of MT. and Mrs. J. Senior Washing ton, Prospect St., student at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., has been admitted to member ship in the French Choir conducted in connection with the French de- partment of the college.
 Mrs. Mark s. Bradley, Kenmore Road, is at her summer home in East Jaffrey, NH.
 Harry H. Smith, 3O3 Winton- bury Ave-, Bloomfield, Edward s. Cyrankowski, of GIanby, and John c. Moore, 61 Earl St., Hartford were convicted of auto driving violations in an early July session of the local Town Court. Smith was fined S2O and costs on a charge of violation of the rules of the road. Cyrankowski, on a sim ilar2 charge was assessed $15 and costs, and Moore was fined $5 and costs, with the costs remitted, for driving without license.
 Mir. and Mrs. Sidney A. Rome of Blue Hills Ave-, are the parents of a baby daughter.
 Mrs. Andre Janet and family, Mills Lane, vacationed at Chalker Beach.
 Miss Marion Shupe, daughter of MT. and Mrs. A. c. Shupe, 94 Elizabeth Ave-, graduated Mon day, July 19, from Morse Business College, Hartford.
 Town Manager and Mrs. John F. Ramsey spent a mid-July week end at SQuam Lake, NH.
 A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Boulais, Mills Lane.
 Nathan E. Hunter, West Gran by, former resident of Bloom field, is recuperating from an operation for appendicitis. During his stay at the Hartford Hospital Mrs. Hunter and her sons, Ken meth and Lynn, visited at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. H. R. Long, Simsbury Road.
 Frank D. Schemanski, Hart mannn Rd, died Sunday July 18. Besides his widow, Mrs. Huldah Schemanski, he leaves two sons and three daughters, Frank of Hartford, Michael of North Bloom field, Mrs. Joseph Tuper of Or lando, Fla, and the Misses Martha and Rosalie of Bloomfield.
 MT. and Mrs. Ivan Moore, GA West Street, announce the arrival of son born at the Hartford Hospital, Wednesday, July IA.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert B. Hall,
The messenger., 1943-08-01

Doctor and Mrs. Francis Brewer and family of Danbury, Conn.,, are spending the summer at the Kohler residence on Tunxis Avenue. They will locate here if they can lease a suitable home. Dr. Brewer is the medical staff of Pratt & Whitney.
 A new hot water heater has been installed in the kitchen of the Par ish House and double swinging screen doors have been hung at the foyer entrance to the lower hall adding much to the comfort of those serving dinners there.
 Gene and Glenn, the nationally famouse radio team, have parted company after IA years on the air waves. Gene, who also took the part of Jake and Lena, is Gene Carroll in real life and has a home on Wash Brook at the foot of Haviland Road.
 Mrs. Richard Keller, Knollwood Road, went to Fit. Riley, Kansas, last month to attend the wedding of a cousin, an Army officer.
 Mrs. Ralph C. Wiley, 738 Bloom field Avenue, has been appointed a director of the Prosser Public Library to fill the unexpired term of Mrs. Florence Koinicki, who has moved to Glastonbury. This is the second time within a few months that vacancy has occurred on this board. Mrs. Ira B. Barnard, of North Bloomfield, was recently as- signed the place vacated by the death of Mrs. Eva Jensen.
 Marion L. Pinney is chairman of the women's division of the local War Finance Committee which will direct the third war loan drive to start September Q. Mrs. Leslie Bingham and Mrs. Charles $. Snyder are co-chair- men. Mesdames Ralph J. Els worth, Frederick E. Pinney, Will liam B. Hubbard, F. Basil Austin, r. Willard Tull, L. Coates Colt, md J. Doyle Dewitt and Miss Lydia Wadhams will assist.
 During July permits for the building of chicken coops were is- sued to Joseph Suschana, New terry Rd., H. Descoteaux, Park Ave-, Edward Hamilton, Rock well Ave-, c. L. Fairclough, Bloom field Ave-, A. P. McGrath, Tun- vis Ave-, and Albert Smith, Wood land Ave Permits for new sheds were granted Joseph Salach, Mar guerite Ave. and Brennis H. Tyr rell, Prospect St. and Fred Christ ansen, Newberry Rd., was given permission to build an addition to his garage.
 Dr. Alfred L. Burgdorf, Dun- "aster Road, has been elected chairman of the advisory meat committee of the Hartford County War Board.
 Bloomfield residents names for possible jury service in the Super ior Court of Hartford County for the ensuing year are: Frank Barnard, Mrs. Ira B. Barnard, Mrs. Peter V. Boysen, Mrs. Har- old Brown, Robert s. Capen, Mrs. Andrew E. Carr, Mrs. Francis E. Carroll, William J. Cooley. ThOn1-
The messenger., 1943-08-01

The Board of Police Commits sioners has just announced the ap- pointment of MT. Bowen as the Bloomfield's first chief of police. It is expected he will take over his new duties immediately and will soon move his family here.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Japs Marked {.
Chaplin to Die

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. May r.
tUPl-JoSeph c. Grew, former
US. ambassador to Japan, has dis
closed that japanese political as
sassins planned to kill movie actor
Charlie Chaplin as far back as
1886 in order to cause a war with
America
Grew made the disclosure in an
article titled Political Asassina-
tions in Japan written for the cur
rent issue of the Harvard Alumni
Bulletin. The ambassador said he
and Chaplin, who was touring ia
pan at the time. were marked for
death during the aSSaSSinationS of
February 26. 1886.
Grew reported that at the trial
of the assassinations involved in
the February 26 incident" the
judge asked a defendant why Chap
lin had been included on the death
list.
Chaplin is a popular figure in
the United States and the darling
of the capitalist class. We believed
that killing him would cause a war
with America the defendant said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Chaplin Protege
Sent TO Jail

HOLLYWOOD. May I2.-UPl-
Red-haired Joan Barry. former
Manhattan drama student and pro-
tege of Charlie Chaplin was in jail
today on a 3G-day vagrancy charge
for lettering near the comedians
home.
A call from the actors home
summoned police.
Il love Charles Chaplin very
much,' the 22-year-old New York
er said. He said I had great dra-
matte ability"
Chaplin's representative said Miss
Barry was under contract to Chap
lin from June 1871. until June 1912.
when she asked that her contract
be terminated
She said she confronted Chaplin
in his home Friday. upbraided him.
and tainted. She awoke outside.
she said.
She was given a 90-day suspend
ed sentence in January for loiter-
ing at Chaplin's home.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
photographer Dies
In Border City

Earl Giles Wilson. "a, Imperial r.
rigation District hydrographer at
CaleXlco, Gied IN the border city
Tuesday.
Funeral services will be at the
Lemons chapel in FL Centre at 230
pm. Thursday, with the Rev. Mr..
George H thinner, pastor of the
Calexico Baptist church, officiat-
ing. Burial will take place at EV-
ergreen cemetery
Wilson was born in Ohio, March
II, 1889, and had lived in Impe-
rial Valley for % years. His home
was at 915 Paulin avenue, CaleXico.
His survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Eflie Wilson: two daughters,
Cletta A. Napier CaleXico, and
Dovie L. Bevins, imperial, two sons,
G. A. Wilson of Winterhaven. and
George N. Wilson of the United
States Navy, and a brother, Roy c.
Wilson Of Monterey.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12

Centre, is stationed with the ma
rines at Camp Pendleton, near
Cceanside. He is with an amphi-
bian tank corps.
Jack Kinne. former employee Of
the Bank Of America in Ell Centre,
has become al aviation radioman
third class, at an aircraft carrier
repair base ON the cast cast. He
wrote friends in Fl Centre that he
visits New YORK City and Boston
frequently.
Tom Osa. Fred Robertson and
Bill Patterson are at the Y1sna air
station training in the ground force
Of the Army Air Corps They were
transferred there from the Phoenix
station. They are able to spend
Week-ends in FL Centre often, since
their transfer to Yuma. Frank w.
Aker, who also was at the Phoenix
station, was transferred to Colo
RADIO.
pvt. Walter Bucket. son Of MI
and Mrs. Fred Bucket of HoltVille
arrived in North Africa not long
ago after a trip from the United
States. He IS doing radio code
work with the Army Signal Corps
He wrote his parents that he has
seen no white people since his ar
rival in North Africa His brother
Cpl. Raymond Buckel is with the
army ordnance department in
Australia. He wrote that the Aus
tralians are very kind to the Amer
lean boys. He said the weather Is
hot and they have plenty of ice
cream and soft drinks for refresh
ments. Their brother in law,
James A. McKeen, formerly with
the Valley Trucking company, is
IN army diesel training
school in Detroit. He was trans
ferred there from Fort Knox.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12

portant communications lines. Al
lied refugee government sources re-
ported.
According to the refugee govern
ment sources, guerilla forces in
Jugoslavia. Greece, Albania. Bull
garia. and Rumania have completed
plans for action coordinated with
an Allied invasion, devoting special
attention to cutting the Axis main
lines.
The German radio reported that
American naval forces were moving
against the French islands of Mar
Unique and Guadeloupe. while Brit
ish West Indian troops repeatedly
were being sent to Dominica, be-
tween the American outposts Lon
don and Washington were silent on
the reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12

Milton S. Damron, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Don Damron of FL Cen
tro. passed his examinations at
Thunderbird Field No. 2, near
Phoenix. and is ready for his ad-
Yanced training in the Army Air
Corps. He hoped to be sent to some
California field for this advanced
training.
Among the men on furlough in
FL Centre is Sgt Forester Kim
brough. son of Mrs E. M Watson.
He is stationed with the Army Air
Corps at Kirkland Field Mrs. Kim
brought accompanied her husband
to Ell CentrO.
Latest news from Charlie P.
Thomas, employed in the office at
the Robertson 81 Duringer office
before he entered the army last
August s. is that he has been pro-
NOTED to sergeant. He is in the
corps headquarters of the opera
tionS and training section of the
army at Sherman, Texas, a town
of 10000 population. His wife IS
with him and they are living in a
small house in Sherman
o
Pfc Marvin Patterson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. c. H. Patterson of I'm
perial and a former Imperial Irri-
CATION district employee, is home
on leave from Camp Adair, Ore.
He Is in the engineering battalion
and has been stationed at Camp
Adair since last December.
PVT. Bill Orta, who used to be a
member of the California State
Guard unit in Brawley, is stationed
with the medical corps at Torney
hospital at Palm Springs
Cpl. Randall Henderson, Jr., son
of Lit. Randall Henderson of Ell
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Rivers Rampage
In MiddIewest

Continued on Page 8. Col i
and Tany counties near the Arkan-
sas border At Hollister, Mo. in the
Lake Taney Como region. five feet
Of water was reported in the streets.
IN Indiana, flood waters propel-
led in part by high winds threat
ened wheat crops in the White and
Wabahs river valleys. The crest of
the Wabash was passed at Bluffton
Tuesday but the river continued to
rise at Logansport. Lafayette and
Nineennes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
HITLER GONE WEST

Hitler himself was reported to
have gone to the west" of Europe
He was changing his commands and
speeding his Notifications in appar-
ent expectation of an imminent at
tack.
Quaking Italy was reported by n
clandestine European radio station
to have evolved compromise par
ty' whose representatives had dis
cussed terms of a separate peace
with the Allies. The report had no
responsible confirmation. however.
If an invasion attempt is made
through southern Europe. 100000
guerilla fighters could be rallied to
strike at the Nazi rear and cut i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Hundreds Offer
To Hell p Boy

CHICAGO, May =. = tUP)-Of-
fers of blood to help save the life
of 2-year-old Tommy James, dying
from a rare streptococcus viridans
infection, poured into the Children's
Memorial hospital today from all
over the country.
Physicians prepared to give the
child a pint of blood from one DON
or who said he had recovered from
the usually fatal disease. Another
donor will stand by to give addi-
tional blood if it is needed. Hun
dreds Of other persons throughout
the nation have offered to donate
theirs.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Slavery Charged
To German Govt

LONDON, May y oUP)-Russian
Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov
in a note to ali foreign diplomats
n Moscow, charged that the Ger
man government sponsored SyS-
tematic deportation of hundreds of
thousands of Soviet civilians into
slavery in Germany last winter,
the Moscow radio said today.
The Soviet government con-
siders it is duty to bring to the
knowledge of Ell nations the facts
REGARDING these acts of unheard of
brutality and declares that retalia-
tion will be unavoidable, the radio
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
FORMER RESIDENTS
VISIT Ell CENTRIC

Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd CoHett.
former residents of FL Centre,
visited Mr.. and Mis-. J. E. Burns
Tuesday while en- route from the
home of their daughter in San An
tonic. Texas. to their home in San
Jose. The left Wednesday morn
ing for San Diego as the next leg
of their journey homeWard. Cornett
and Burns were partners in the
shoe business in Ell Centro for sew
eral wears.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Ray Johnson Is
Field Director

Ray d. Johnson of Santa Monica
formerly of Eel Centro. has been
assigned as an assistant Red Cross
field director at Camp Young, In
dio. A. l.. Shafter. Pacific area
manager for the Red Cross, an
nounced recently.
johnson will assume. his new as
signment after training period at
Red Cross national headquarters in
Washington, DC. johnson practic-
ed law in Ell Centro and for the
past three years, in Santa Monica.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Funeral Service
Slated Thursday

Funeral services for Fernando
Garlic. l5-year-old son CT Mrs.
Maria Carrillo of CaleXico, We're
scheduled at the Catholic church
in CaleXico at am. Thursday.
The boy died Wednesday morn
ing. Burial ritco al Mr.. View ceme-
terry will be in charge Of A. r.
Hens, Calexico and El Centre
funeral director
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
MADE DIRECTOR

IN 1918 he was elected a director
of the Imperial Irrigation district
and held this position until 1916.
when the district was re-organized
and a bankers committee took over
the management. He was returned
to the office in 1921 and remained
in office until 1882. serving as board
chairman in 1881 and 1882
He was one of the leaders instru-
mental in saving the valley $1,000,
600 in the purchase of the district
system from the Southern Pacific
railway company. As president of
No. water compan". Brockman
arranged to purchase water directly
from the Mexican receivers of the
district. thus breaking the hold the
railroad company had on the resi-
dents of the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
STORMY TIMES

Thereafter came stormy times with
law suits. recall petitions, exonera-
tionS. deliberations, and hotly con-
tested political fights. Brockman
rode out all the storms in a calm
and undisturbed manner.
At one time Brockman was the
only rancher who had a plane on
his ranch for use any time he need
ed it.
Broekman is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Alma Brockman; two daugh-
terS. the Misses Ruby and Ruth
Brockman. three sons, Stuart of
Los Angeles. Harold of Calexico, and
Captain Warren D. of the ferry
command. who is stationed at Nor
rison Field at West Palm Beach,
Fla; and four grandchildren.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
20 NAZIS KILLED

Sievsk area southwest of Oreh-
Seventy Germans killed. more than
80 trucks destroyed and big guns
silenced.
Volkhov Front south OF Lenin-
grad)-One hundred Germans kill
ed. seven dugoutS and six block
houses destroyed by artillery fire.
Leningrad Front-TWo enemy in
fantry companies wiped out, several
prisoners taken. and enemy dugouts
blown up by hand grenades.
The midnight ccnmunique an
nounced that 35 planes were shot
down in air combat and q by anti
aircraft guns against a loss of only
Il Russian planes during the pre-
yiouS a hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-12
Death Takes W.
Brockman Tuesday

Continued on Page s, Col. u
time of his death. Because of the
importance of water in the develop
ment of the valley. Brockman made
a study of it and soon was recog-
nized as an authority In spite of
this interest, however. he always
was more interested in ranching
than in anything else.