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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
Jap So. Pacific
Bases in Ruins

AN ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC
BASE, May 18 DelayedD-UPD-
Constant air and surface battering
practically has ruined the japanese
airfields and supply bases in the
New Georgia islands northwest of
Guadalcanal, a spokesman at South
Pacific headquarters said today.
The spokesman said the bases at
Munda, on New Georgia island it
self, and on Kolombangara to the
north have been "neutralized" -
rendered relatively useless for the
enemy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
No Other Plan
Will Pass House.

WASHINGTON, May 10 CUP)--
House Republican leaders, defeated
for the third time on the Ruml
skip-a-year tax plan, nevertheless
were confident today that no other
pay-aS-y ou-go plan could garner a
majority house vote.
A few hours after the house
voted. 202 to 194, against accepting
the Senate's 100 per cent forgive
ness version of -as-you-go lcgis-
lation, a Republican leader told the
United Press:
II don't know whether we
eventually can pass the Ruml plan.
But 1 do know that they can't pass
any other plan"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
CHuRCH|L / PLEDGES TO
HELP ANN|HILATE JAPAN
Wife Gets Last
And Only Word

CHICAGO, May 19.-UP)-
For 30 days Mrs. Anna Bielchik
will have not only the last word,
but the only word. For 80 days
her husband, Simon, 55-year-
old carpenter, will occupy not
the dOghouse, but the basement
of their bungalow.
The arrangement was worked
out by Judge Joseph SABBATH
when Mrs. Bielchik sought di-
vOrcc. Bielchik said despite
their arguments he still loved
her.
The judge sentenced him to 80
days i'm the basement and en-
joined him from speaking to
his wife.
"After that you can go up
stairs" said the judge.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
II Flax Combines
Available Here

Twelve large flax combines are
available for rationing in Imperial
county, Rudolph Miller, secretary
of the USDA War board, said We'd
neGday.
Miller explained that the ma
chimes were made available when
persons to whom they had been ra-
toned relinquished certificates for
various reasons. The county quota
has not recently been increased,
Miller said.
A total of 48 new flax combines
have been allotted the district, he
stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
Joseph {. Davies
Arrives in Moscow

MOSCOW, May l9.-CUPD-For-
mer Ambassador Joseph E. Davies
arrived in Moscow today from
KuibysheV, with a message from
President Roosevelt to Premier Jo-
Seph Stain.
He was greeted at the airport by
Admiral william Standley, Ameri-
can ambassador to Russia and the
embassy staff
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
= AMBLlNe
Puzzle No. l8,752,000--

Mildred Record of the county wei
fare department was questioning a
Negro women about her living ex-
penSeS.
You know l have to have money
for my daughters egg nogs," the
Negro woman said
What do you mean?" Miss Rec
ord said in a puzzled tone.
The doctor says we have to have
money for my daughters egg nogs, =
the woman insisted.
After an exhaustive period of
questioning, Miss Record aScer-
tainel that a doctor had said the
daughter must have her adenoidS
removed.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19


girls 16 years of age and over. The
entrants in the contest will be spon-
sored by El Centre merchants with
prizes to go to the girls winning
first. second, third, and fourth
places. Each $25 bond will entitlo
the purchaser to ballot and each
BALLOT entities the holder to 10 votes.
LIST CONTESTANTS
The ballots will list the names
of the contestants and their Spon-
SorS. Those who wish TO enter the
contest may telephone Secretary
Norman Deaton at 800. Merchants
may select their entries from Deat-
ons list or enter girls of their own
selection.
The enti membership of the
ElkS lodge has been divided into
five-man teams TO compete against
each other. The team selling the
highest amount of bonds will get
a S25 bond for each man on the
team, providing the team total is
more than $25,O00
GENERAL CHAIRMAN
A. A. COle) Kaiser was made gen
eral chairman of the campaign with
Exalted Ruler Jack Tackett as his
assistant.
we have to get this drive over
between May 25 and June, l5," Kai-
ser said Wednesday. That will
mean that each member of the
lodge must work hard and enlist
the services of his family and
friends"
Additional details will be an
nounced later.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19

taken to the county hospital. They
gave conflicting descriptions Of the
man who stabbed Chavez, officers
said, which hindered the search for
the man.
Chavez died in the county hospi-
tai at Ell Centre only a few minutes
after he was taken there. There
was a cut five inches long under
his right arm and he had been so
savagely slashed and cut in the
face that his nose was almost Sc
vered.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19

restricting seven kinds of western
lumber almost entirely to essential
military needs for boxing and ship
ping. Qualification of this order
was not Immediately available and
il was feared it would create an
emergency in the shipment of I'm
perial Valleys vast perishable crop
ii 1t did apply to these foods. 1t
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
WPB Lumber Order Won't
Affect Produce Industry

Growers and shippers of Imperial
Valleys perishable produce indus
try heaved sighs of relief Wednes-
Gay when 1t was revealed that War
Production Board restrictions on
lumber were not designated to
impose restriction on shippers of
perishable fruits and vegetables"
The WPB issued an order May 6
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19

was estimated that It required i25.-
100000 feet of "shook" every year
to provide crates and boxes for the
perishable fruits and vegetables
grown In the valley.
Representatives of the National
Wooden Box association In Wash
ington contacted the WPB and had
the original orGer clarified
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
The Perfect Hat

Only short time ago Ortha Con-
sole, who is attending school in
Los Angeles, went shopping with
a friend The friend was inter-
estcd in purchasing hat, but for
some reason was wearing a tUrban
which she refused to remove. So
she tried the hats on Ortha.
Finally they found a model that
looked SO we'll on Ortha that the
friends decided to buy it without
trying it on. Ortha took another
look at herself in the mirror.
So they both bought one and now
arc wearing duplicates.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
Officers Seek
Mystery Killer

Search for the mystery killer who stabbed Jesus Chavez
to death in Brawey Tuesday night spread into remote
of Imperial and Mexicali Valleys Wednesday with
investigating officers handicapped by conflicting descrp
tions of the wanted man.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19

BY UNITED PRESS
NATIONAL
Cincinnati ................. 900 0
New York ...................... 200 0
Vandermeer, HeuSSer and Muel-
Ter; Lohrman and lombard.
st. Louis ............. 100 90
Brooklyn ........................ 900 90
Lanier and w. Cooper: Macon and
Owen.
Pittsburgh 100 600 900 00-l 9 o
Boston ....00l 900 600 OIL 8 0
Rescigno and Baker; Andrews and
KluttZ.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
Fiqht While Blood
In Veins. Declares
Brituin's Minister
Cheering American Congress Hears
Ally Chief Promise TO Wage To+aIW
Against Ruthless Enemy Of the Pacific

WASHINGTON, May 49, (UP)-Brtsh Prime Minis
Winston Churchill today promised cheering American
congress that Britain will fight alongside the United States
against Japan whie there breath in bodies and while
blood flows through veins"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
ydnk Columns on
Attu Join Forces
laps Cleared from Vital Ridge on Isle
In AIeu+ians; Early Finish to Battle Now
Forseen as Enemy Wi+hdraws Troops

WASHINGTON, May 10. (UP)-Japanese forces on
Attu island rereatng under of steady ad
by two American forces which executing d
pincers movement, the navy revealed today.
1t said advance patrols of the American columns
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19

1t was in May last year that
campaigning in Russia burst into
full fur, carrying the Germans to
Stalingrad and the Red army back
westward almost to the Dnieper. All
signs we're that this May again
would bring major fighting.
The Russians reported that they
had smashed 40 German defense
positions on the front below Lenin-
grad the major Soviet prize within
closest range of the Nazi grasp.
Moscow also said the Soviet, had
encircled and destroyed an import
ant concentration of German tanks
and trucks in an unSpecified sec
tor.
JAB EACH OTHER
AS the armies jabbed back and
forth from Leningrad to the Cauc-
aSuS the NaziS said the Red army
was masSing in three vital regions
-Leningrad, Orel at the junction
of the central and southern fronts,
and in the northwest Caucasus
for full scale cffensiveS.
A German communique reported
strong Soviet attacks against th2
Kuban bridgehead in the Caucasus
and in the Izyum area southeast
of Kharkov. The Germans counter
attacked it said,
The record breaking Allied air
offensive against Europe swept down
tie stretch of full week Of nom
stop attacks. Long range British
fighters striking at Nazi communi-
cations during the night damaged
20 trains and barges on the Seine.
BOMB DOCKS
Flying FortreSSes escorted by
Lightning fighters bombed docks
and shipping at Trapani in Sicily
blowing up one ship and plaster
ing land objectives witt explosives.
A strong force Of medium tsmb-
erS struck out from Afican baS IS
at Pantcleria, between Tunisia and
Sicily, hitting two small ships and
leaving fires in the dock area and
at an airdrome.
The heaviest Allied blow of the
Week-long offensive was the Royal
air force blasting of three big dams
Continued on Page 2, Col. Il
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
81 Centro EIks Will Buy
Huge Bomber with Returns
Of Bond-Buyins CamPaisn
Fra+ernaI Organization Announces Plan
OfGisan+ic Project; Popularity Contest
For Girls, Other Comp etition Included

Ell Centro Elks announced gigantic bond selling cam
pagn Wednesday and pledged themselves to sell enough
S175,000.
Most stirring feature of this 2Oday BuyABomb drive
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
Food Conference
Opens: Champagne
Served Delegates
President Greets U.N.
Representatives; Press
Still Barred from Meet

HOT SPRINGS, Va, May
10. (UP)-The International
Food Conference, officially
blessed by President Roose-
velt and chriStened in cham
payne. today began it's search for
a way toward better nourishment
of all mankind.
The Presidents greeting to this
first United Nations conference, de-
claring that the Allies must and
will work together in peace as we'll
as war, was read to the opening
plenary session last night.
The champagne occurred when
Chairman Marvin Jones and others
of the delegation were hosts to the
43 other delegations at a brilliant
reception yesterday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
The Orphanagc-

Away in the middle OF J.e night
the M. C. Pinncll family was awak-
ened. There was pitiful wall, a
Continued on Page 3, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
May Offensive in
Russia Expected
Nazi, Soviet Armies Mass for Great
Drives Along Extended d Russian 'front.'
All Signs Point for Big Action Soon
BULLETIN

LONDON May 49, (UP)-American Flying Foresses in
daylight raid Germany hundred
of high incendary bombs submarine
Ke Flensburg rounding
assault Axis
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
SPECIAL PERMIT

Under special permit from the
state of Virginia, the American
hosts were able to serve champagne,
whiskey, Martins, Manhattans and
old fashioned cocktails as well as
the convention tomato juice for
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
= BY UNITED PRESS =

Russian and German armies massed in key sectors of
the long Soviet front Wednesday traded punches which
each side insisted feelers preliminary to major Of
fensive blows by the other.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
REMEMBER THESE DATEsl
Gdzolina

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No 5-VaIld March 22-May p
Shoes
Stamp No III pair I'll June l6.
Coffee
Stamp No. 23-1 lb. to May 81,
Sugar
Stamp No. 12-Good for 5 pounds unui
May ~
Canned Goods
Blue Stamps G, II and in Book good
Til June !.
Meet
Red Stamp f. F. G and II good till June l.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-19
BASEBALL

BY UNITED PRESS
NATIONAL.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Clear Blocked
County Roads
Cors. Buses StoIled
in High Drifts

Marine City highway near
Meade was open TO traffic today
after drifting snow stalled at
least 40 cars there late Satur-
day and early Sunday.
Further north. drifts were
even higher, some of them IL
feet high. On Van Dyke, two
Detroit-bound BUSES were STALL
ed for two hours early Sunday
along with 100 cars.
Wreckers from Romeo finally
freed the BUSES, but owners Of
the cars sought shelter at AL
mont, Inlay City and Romeo for
the night.
Virtually all Macomb county
roads were open TO traffic today
although snow removal crews
were still hard at work.
Il, Roseville, the colder wealth
ell averted a flood threat. Base
ments in the II Mile road Sec
ton were flooded late Saturday
afternoon and many intersec-
tons were under water.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Claim Youths BOUGHT
Beer for Girls Il, "A

Three Ware township
youths were free on bond today
after they either stood mute or
pleaded innocent to contribut-
ing to the delinquency of min
ors on arrangement before JUS
tice Donald j. Parent.
They are: Roy Hunter, 10,
8404 Hillenburg avenue, Cen
ter Line; Samuel Oswald, 10,
8411 Hillenburg, and Clifton
Ford, %, 1925 Ford avenue, Van
Dyke.
Troopers from the Center
Line State Police post charge
the men gave beer and liquor
to three girls, aged IL, IA, and
16, on Feb. /.
Trial was set for Feb. 16.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Center Line Youths
Face QUESTIONING
Juveniles Admit
lootine Stotions

Two teen aged Center Line
youths faced questioning by
juvenile authorities today after
they admitted footing two auto
mobile service stations.
Police Chief Elmer Fleshig
said the boys, aged 13 and IL,
admitted taking S135 in Ca
madam money, Al pennies from
the Weddel and Kern station, 10
Mile road and Van Dyke, early
last week.
Fleshig said the boys also
took lead pencils and cigarettes
from the Scharf Service Sta
ton, Sherwood avenue, at 10
Mile road.
A broken cap gun left behind
at the Scharf station led to their
arrest, Fleshig said. The boy, 10,
had previously admitted taking
S13 from the Liberty Theatre,
Van Dyke avenue near Warren
boulevard, last Dec. %, the chief
added.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Fractured Hip
Leads 10 Death
Jeonetts Schroeder
Sueeumbs at 86

Mrs. jeanette Schroeder, 30,
descendant of pioneer Macomb
township family. died at 1920
p. m. Sunday at ST, Joseph's
hospital where she had been
confined for l8 days.
Mrs. Schroeder, who lived at
1l2 Huron street, entered the
hospital after she fractured her
hip in fall
She was born in Macomb
township, Jan. 6, 1857, the
daughter of John and Hannah
Card. She moved TO Mount
Clemens % years ago.
Surviving are a daughter. Mrs.
Alice Murphy. with whom she
lived, another daughter, Mrs.
Edgar Stevens, of Mount Glenn
ems; two sons, John Gerald, Of
Mount Clemens, and Bert
Schroeder, of Detroit; brother,
William Card, of Mount Glenn
ems; six grandchildren and three
Observation-Disclosures.
The body will lie at the home
where services will be held
Wednesday at 2 p, m. with Rev.
Alfred Landon. pastor of First
Methodist church. officiating
Burial will be in Clinton Grove
Cemetery under the direction of
Duncan B. Hubbard.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Production


But only a visitor is impress
ed by the fierce tempo of the
place and only a visitor would
wonder how men and women,
bone and muscle, could stand
up day after day in a place like
that and come back gladly to
work.
The workers don't wonder. II
is just another job to them. Some
wear goggles, some don't. Some
wear oxygen masks, some
don't.
There's Cliff Williams, a mol
der, short, stocky and 40, who
has worked in the plant since IL
wa opened in the late 192Os. All
that time he has been a tenor in
Cleveland's famed Orph 3
Chorus. He has a pale face and
bright brown eyes.
1.-THE smoke doesn't bother
me-" he says, except on muggy
days when 1t lies low. Then il
stings my eyes a little. I've
worked every job In the foun-
dry.
THE noise doesn't bother us.
We get used to it till we don't
think of it.
''In fact, the noise helps ne a
little because I'm a short-wave
fan. and when 60 home at
night and turn on the radio the
static may bother my wife but
not me at all"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
0ver.Exeriion
Proves Fatal
Thomes Ferris, So,
is Heart Victim

Thomas Ferris, SO, of 40
Lawndale avenue, died Sunday
at 1920 at his home from
heart attack induced by over
exertion in shoveling snow, Cor
oner Howard V. Groesbeck rul-
ed today.
Mr.. Ferris, an employe of a
Detroit packing firm for 35
years, had lived in Mount Glenn
ems for the past six years with
a sister, Elizabeth. Also surviv-
ing are another sister, Mrs. Mary
Lewis. Of Grand Rapids, and a
brother, John, of Mount Glenn
ems.
Funeral services will be held
from the home of a niece, Mrs.
John Esch, Of 2916 Gladstone.
Detroit, at time to be announc-
ed later by LaCroix e. Groes-
beck,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Russia
Continued from Page One

SOntlllueu ITOHn rage OHc
designed to isolate both Rostov
and Kharkov.
The Germans were reported
rushing thousands of reserves in
to the breaches in their lines in
an effort 20 stem the Soviet
flood, but dispatches indicated
the giant Russian offensive was
crunching forward with unpre-
cedented speed for winter
campaign.
The Russians were turning
their guns on Rostov for the Sec
ond time since. the Germans
first captured the city on Nov.
%, 1941, at the peak Of their
invasion thrust.
The Germans held the city
only week on that occasion.
The Russians withdrew across
the Don, regrouped and rein
forced their armies and stormed
back into the city Nov. 20.
NAILS FALL BACk
The Germans withdrew along
the north shore of the Sea OF
Azov, but returned with over
whelming power in the 1912
summer offensive and recap
tured Rostov on July %. A large
pare of the city it believed to be
intact since the earlier battles
for it were comparatively short.
Now the Russians are battering
at the CRATES for the second
time.
The speed of the Russian Of
fensive presented the possibil-
ity that Gen Vatutin's army
might attempt to smash south
ward from the Kramaorskaya
region to the Sea of Azov and
trap thousands of Nazi troops
behind Rostov.
The German forces still re-
naming IN the Caucasus were in
great peril. The Red army al
ready has pocketed one group
between Azov and Veisk and the
onl salvation for the large forces
in the krasnodar and Novoros-
six areas is evacuation by sea
across the Kerch straits.
The Russian Black Sea fleet
has been reported on the aleart
for this contingency.
(The German radio said, how
ever, that 1.-The evacuation of the
Kuban region between the Ros-
TOW and Taman Penins a
bridgeheads was carried out
without enemy pressure" and all
war materiel was removed or
destroyed
Far to the north, the town of
Fatezh between Kursk and Orel
was announced recaptured by
the Russians, who thus cut the
road between the two important
German defense centers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Sorority Plans
War Stamp Drive
Hove q Heort Doy'
Set for Soturdoy

A war-savings stamp drive
Will be sponsored on Saturday
Feb. 10, by Beta Sigma Phi, bus
mess girls sorority, 1t is an
nounced today.
Calling their drive "Have a
Heart Day." the sorority has ar
ranged for a corps of members
OF young Women's club and a
group of Mount Clemens High
school students TO sell lO-cent
and 25-cent war savings stamps,
fastened to Valentine hearts.
Mayor Donald r. Westendorf
today expressed his hearty en-
dorsement of the drive to aid
the war effort.
Il urge every Saturday shop
per to buy at least one stamp, in
the Have a Heart" campaign"
he said.
Johanna Braun is general
chairman of the project. Stamps
are being obtained through Har-
ry Malbin, chairman Of the re-.
tailers' sale of war bonds and
stamps. Kenneth Hill, president,
Of the Optimist Club, is chair
man of supplies.
Members Of the club are pre-
pairing the hearts to which the
stamps will be attached. Partic-
ipating groups are st. Peters So
dality of Our Lady, Girl Re.
serves, Presbyterian Westmin-
ster Guild, Fidelis Circle of Zion
Evangelical church, BIN Junior
Sisterhood and a group of high
school students.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Explanation
Continued from Page One

(Ontlnueu from rage OHc
military and lend-lease pur-
poses.
For 1943 the War Production
Board estimates sole leather and
reclaimed rubber will be avail
able for only 335, 100000 pairs
of civilian footwear, including
slippers and infants soft-soled
shoes which are not rationed.
This compares with about 440,-
100000 pairs for 1912.
only one possible alternat-
i've to rationing was advanced.
That was TO compel manufactur-
ers to produce shoes that would
be so unattractive that people
would not buy them unless abb
solutely necessary even
then. experts in the industry
doubted whether such measures
could do more than postpone the
need for rationing.'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Australia
Continued from Page One


suffered Saturday at Wau, were
inactive.
OF the force of planes which
attempted TO attack the Wau
airdrome Saturday, American
fighter planes shot down p
fighters ana three bombers and
anti-aircraft gunners destroyed
two more bombers. In additions
II Japanese fighters and three
bombers were said 10 have been
seriously damaged and possibly
destroyed.
Only few Allied planes were
damaged during the battle which
ranged far and wide over the
mountains between Wau and the
sea and not single Allied flier
or plane was lost
The japanese attack apparent
ly was intended 10 Illustrate the
concentration of Allied air and
ground strength in the Wau re-
gion. where Allied forces could
menace both Salamaua and Lac
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Churchill
Continued from Page One

The Prime Minister, home
from significant conferences in
Casablanca, Cairo, Adana and
Algiers, showed he was wasting
no time as he met with Ministers
within few hours of his arrival
for discussions which continued
we'll into this morning.
He reached England yesterday
in an American-built Liberator
bomber flown by his American
pilot, Capt. William Van Der
Kloot of Sarasota, Fla. He came
to London by special train, be-
ing greeted at Paddington Sta
ton by Mrs. Churchill and other
members of his family, govern
ment officials and diplomats.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
NaZiS Arrest
Giraud'S Wife

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 - (P) -
The British radio, in a broadcast
recorded today by CHS, report
ed that the wife Of General Hen
ri Honore Giaraud, high COM
missioner for French North and
West Africa was arrested recent
ly in France by the Germans.
The British radio did not give
the source of its information.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Agricultural Agent
Attending Farm Farley

County Agricultural A & n t
William Murphy and representa-
tives of various county grain ele-
vators were in Inlay City today
attending a clinic meeting at
which problems of food produc-
ton, grain marketing and the
status of the public and labor
relations were discussed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-08
Flames Damage
Gabriel Residence

Fire, apparently caused by
spontaneous combustion, damag-
ed home at AZ SEQ boulevard
occupied by James Gabriel at
2:15 am. Sunday.
Fire Chief c. Edward Willert
said firemen fought the flames
for a full hour.