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Evening star., 1943-06-22
Hate'Made Understanding
Brenda and George Got Along Excellent,
When They Discovered Mutual Hate

Don't tell me when it's take be-
cause my throat gets scared"
Says Fred: I'm scared before I
start
They sing the song.
Il had a frog in my throat the
whole way through" giggles Dotty
Evening star., 1943-06-22
Lugosi Revives 'Dracula'
In a Manner Of Speaking
Old Chiller Looks Like Faint Echo
OF Its Former Self at Nationals;
Miss Weidler Greeting Guest
BY JAY CARMODY.

1t may have been Just matter of time perhaps
weather other
the National Theater
this departments morbid duty that
America in 1929
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
I. 7. Acker, s.,
Dies in La Mesa
Following Illness

z. T. Acker, 35, resident of I'M
perial Valley for many years, died
at LaMesa Friday afternoon after
an illness of more than a year.
Funeral services were scheduled
at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the
Anderson Erickson mortuary in
LaMesa.
Fourteen months ago Acker sub
mitted to an operation. 1t was dis
covered at that time that nothing
could be done to save his life and
that he had only short time to
live.
Acker attended school in Holtville
and afterWard was employed by
the Automobile club and as an
automobile salesman at Edgar
Brothers. More recently he operat-
ed Acker's market on the highway
east of Ell Centre.
He is survived by his wife. Mrs.
Frances Acker; son, Robert
Tayolr, 6; his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Acker; three sisters, Maui
rine, Dorothy 10, and Claudia
Ruth; and brother, Roger, who is
with the coast guard stationed at
San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
DESERT HUNTER
He Seeks Out Minerals

ed him to find the deposits so that
is what he is doing as his contribu-
tion to the war effort.
He travels all over the western
part of the United States, he ex-
planned, is truck carrying the
tools and explosives he has to have
in prospecting.
Better take notice of those
signs" Wallace said they mean
what they say. We have to have
explosives in this work"
1t is quite natural for Wallace to
be helping in the war effort. He
is son of the late Col F.. P. WAL
lace, an old Indian fighter Wal
lace was born at Ft Benton, Mont.
FIT. Wallace, Kans., was named in
honor of his father, Wallace saiu.
IN AIR FORCE
Il was in the air force of Eng
land in the last World war;" Wal
lace said, Il enlisted in Alberta,
Canada"
1t also is quite natural for Wal
lace to be concerned with calcite
deposits and prospecting. For
many years he had been a collector
of desert ores, desert gems, petrified
Continued on page 6, col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Fowl
Survey
Begins
WPB Man Here to
Determine Amount
Of Shells Needed

Samples showing the de-
structiOn to grain crops by
birds were presented to Off
cials of the county war pro-
duction board Saturday as a
survey began to determine the
amount of ammunition necessary
to protect Imperial Valley farmers
from the largest migratory bird
flock in this areas history.
Heads of milo maize more than
so per cent destroyed were dis
played by one rancher who said
that forty of his l60 acres have been
ruined by birds.
Following the announcement Fri
day that district WPB headquarters
in Los Angeles will release extra
ammunition to valley farmers with
which to eradicate the pests, Ken
meth Vaughn, from the San Diego
office, arrived in Ell Centre Satur-
day morning to begin a survey of
the situation.
MANY MORE BIRDS
At the same time it was revealed
that a report by DR.. Ira c. Gabriel
son, director of the United States
fish and wild life service, showed
that migratory fowl have increased
nearly six times during the past
few TearS.
During the 20 to 80 year period
prior to 1912, the report stated, the
migratory bird flight numbered ap-
proximately 27,000O00 birds, while
Continued on page 6, col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
County War Chest
Goal Is $4,000

Imperial county's quota for the
combined Community and War
Chest fund was set officially at
$4,000 at a meeting of the county
executive committee Friday night,
Warren Currier, chairman for the
county, presiding.
OF this $4,000. the war chest
quota is S42,129, the remainder
being the local budgets plus q
slight overhead charge.
Ell Centro's community war chest
quota is $29,400; Brawley's, $19,8OO;
Calexico, $6,500; Holtville, $7,655,
Westmorland, $2,775. The other
community budgets have been ap-
proximated, the respective COM
mittees meeting in the near future
to accept them officially.
Those present at the meeting, in
addition to Curricr we're: Hugh
Wilcox, campaign manager; and the
following committee chairmen in
the respective towns: H. R. Andre,
Westmorland; Roy H. Womack, Ell
Centre; w. L. Townsend, Imperial;
K. K. Sharp, Holtville, Jack Sum-
ner, BraWley.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

An atmosphere Oh COrdlallty ana
moderate optimism prevailed in
Russian, American, and British
quarters as Hull, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden, and Foreign Com
missar V. M. Molotov met for the
fifth time.
w. Averell Hartman, new United
States ambassador to Russia, pre-
sented his credentials to President
Mikhail Kalinin at the Kremlin
and assumed his diplomatic duties.
Hull conferred with his attaches,
received the Chinese and Mexican
ambassadors and the Canadian
minister, and scheduled meetings
with the Czechoslovak and Jugoslav
envoyS.
RUSSIANS IMPRESSED
The Russians were understood to
be immensely impressed by Hull'S
earnestness and precise, lawyer
like approach to problems. There
was frank, if not blunt, mutual
speaking of minds, so that regard
less of ultimate achievements, the
delegates will part with complete
understanding and knowledge of
standpoints and desires.
The conference was described as
entirely business-like, without frills.
1t will continue Sunday unless Hull's
cold gets worse.
AS the conferees prepared for
their fifth business meeting, there
was no official word on what issues
already had been disposed of, but
the negotiations obviously had
sleeded up and the continued cor
dial atmosphere indicated that sat
isfactory progress had been made.
While there was no indication
as to when the conference would
end, it appeared increasingly prob
able that the way could be cleared
for Mr., Roosevelt, Churchill and
Continued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Brotherhoods to
Take Strike Vote

CHICAGO, Oct. 23.-UP)-The
big Five operating railroad bro
therhoods de ! led today to take a
strike vote among the 100000 mem
bers working on the nations major
railroads.
The decision to poll the men,
bership on the strike question was
made at a meeting of brotherhood
officials after they rejected a four
cent hourly wage increase recon-
mended by the government.
Four of the brotherhoods had
agreed on taking strike vote yes
terday, and the fifth and largest,
the brotherhood of railroad train
men, decided to take similar
stand today.
Union leaders made it clear that
ample time remains for presidential
intervention to avert a nationwide
transportation tieup.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Count S
Words s
old
Police Official
Tes+ifies Against
YOUNG NobIeman

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct.
%. (UP)-A Nassau police
lieutenant testified today
that Alfred De Marigny,
charged with numbering Sir
Harry Oakes, said the day after
the Staying that his multi-million-
aire father-in-law should have
been killed anyhow"
In almost the next breath, De
Marigny inquired whether a man
could be convicted in British courts
if the murder weapon was not
found, the witness said.
The witness, 1t. John Douglas,
also SWore that he saw De Marigny
enter the second floor of his father
in-laW's house with an American
detective, while police were examin-
ing the murder room for evidence.
Defense Attorney Godfrey W.
Higgs set out early in the trial to
trS to prove that a fingerprint of
De Marigny found on a dressing
screen in OakeS' bedroom could have
been made after the crime.
COULDN'T GET ALONG
Douglas, who was detailed 10
guard De Marigny during the inter-
i'm between OakeS' death and the
counts subsequent arrest, said the
defendant told him that he had
never been able to get along with
his fatrer-in-law.
That guy, Harry was an old
------- and should have been killed
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

Al WftACii VIC duJuOuliO bCIiCA Oh odlt
no news of Sgt. Mitosinka's where
abouts had been received up to this
time.
He had made many raids over
Germany as a side gunner on a
BIZ. In the last letter received
by his parents, Sgt. Mitosinka said
he had had very good luck on the
raids with very little opposition.
HOME ON LEAVE
Sgt. Mitosinka has been in the
service since Oct. /, 1912 and re-
ceived his combat training at Boise,
Idaho, and Walla Walla, Wash.
Before his induction he was en-
ployed b: a trucking company at
Santa Barbara. He was home on
leave shortly before being sent over
seas.
He was a graduate of Central
Union High school in Ell Centre, a
member of the class of 1941. He
worked his way through two years
of schooling by driving a school
bus His younger brother, Dan, is
in the army air corps and is sta
toned at Miami Beach, Fla.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
B:raw|ey : woman's S
Nep|seW Is Killed

Sgt. Theodore G.. Garrett, nephew
OF Mrs. Dorothy Daily of $50 South
Fifth street, Brawley lost his life
while serving with the marines, the
United States navy department an
nounced Saturday.
The navy department included
Sgt. CARROTS name in a list of IS
casualties. The official announce
ment, sent over the United Press
wire, consisted only of the list of
names and omitted any details as
to the war theater where the death
occurred.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
EI Centran Said
Captive of kazis

1t. William r. Swanson of Ell
Centro was unofficially said to be
a prisoner of the Germans, it was
revealed Saturday
He was with the fifth army il
Italy and believed to have been
captured by the Germans at So
lano. Mrs. Swanson received the
notice from the Washington, d. C.,
department which handles informa-
ton about war prisoners. Officials
of the department said a German
Shortwave radio announcement had
been intercepted the message
carrying the information that the
Germans had captured 1t. Swanson.
Mrs. Swanson had received no Of
ficial notice Saturday as to the
whereabouts of her husband.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
SoIons' Opinions
Formed in Hotels,
Says Ore. Mayor
Portland Civic Chief
Declares Senators
Talked to Few People

LONDON, Oct. 23. (UP)-
Earl Riley, mayor of Port
land, Ore, today criticized
the five globe-trotting Unit
ed States senator's, charging
that they developed most of their
impressions of Great Britain in
their Dorchester hotel rooms.
Already he has gotten around
some himself on two months tour
of Britain as guest of the minis
try of information, Riley observed,
adding:
Nowhere did find the slightest
justification for the charges made
by the senators. They have stirred
up lot of resentment, not only
among the British, but among the
American boys here too. They re-
sent what was said, and resent It
rightly"
WITH STRANGE YEN
The British people, he said, now
know enough about America to
understand that 'those men are
not talking for America. They can.
tell the people what to think. They
don't run the country. They're just
five senators with a strange yen"
Riley conceded that maybe they
didn't talk to the same people 1
did, but l have talked to lot of
important people and none of them
seem to have seen the senator's"
II am not one of those peoJle
who sit around a hotel room a1d
come up with all the answers" he
added.
At breakfast in the GroSvenor
House, where he is staying, Riley
upset the decorum of the dining
room somewhat by ordering large
orange juice. half a grapefruit. and
eggs, Sunnyside up. He settled for
powdered egg omelet and muddy
coffee.
I've talked to all kinds of people
Continued on page 6, col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
RED ARMY CAPTURES CR|MEA GATEWAY
David George, 80,
Weds Secretary

LONDON, Oct. %. up
Eighty-year-Old David Lloyd
George, Britain's prime minis
ter in World war l, was married
today TO Miss Frances Steven
son, who has been his private
secretary since 1913.
Miss Stevenson became Lloyd
Georges secretary in 1913 after
his daughters by his first mar
riage brought her home from
school with them.
She accompanied him to the
peace conference after the first
World war. She was known as
"the blonde bewilderment" to
allied statesmen, who could not
understand how such a beauti-
full woman could be a secretary.
Miss Stevenson, IS, was mis-
tress of the school attended by
Lloyd Georges daughter, Megan.
Friends described her as "a
charming woman who believes
in women in politics, regular
meals, and fresh air."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

Premier Josef Stain announced
the capture of Melitopol in an or
der of the day, describing it as
"the most important strategic Ger
man defense center barring the ap-
proaches to the Crimea along the
lower course of the Dnieper"
Thus he sounded warning that
the triumphant army of Col Gen.
Fedor l. Tolbukhin now was poised
to squirt the 100 miles across the
Nogaisk steppes to the Perekop 18th
mus and cork the bottleneck of the
Crimea.
NOTE SIGNIFICANCE
Military observers, noting the sig
nificance which Stain attached to
the conquest of Melitopol, leaped
to the conclusion that he now con-
sidered the south end of the Ger
man line on the Dnieper as doomed,
in effect opening the road to Odessa
and the Balkans.
Russia'S highest decoration, hero
of the Soviet Union, will be awarded
to soldiers who distinguished them
selves in the Melitopol break
through Stain said in hailing the
victors and ordering that they be
saluted with 20 salvos from Mos
cows 224 guns.
Heavy losSes" Immediately
specified-we inflicted on the die
hard German garrison ordered to
hold Melitopol at all cost, Stalin's
order of the day said.
Military sources here, scanning
the daily reports of Melitopol streets
running with blood in a re-enact-
ment of Stalingrad in reverse, esti-
mated that at least 10000 Germans
must have been sacrificed in the
bid for time to evacuate the Crimea
PAYS TRIBUTE
The weight of the 12-day battle
was indicated by the fact that Stall
in paid tribute to six rifle divisions,
one Stormovik division, one fighter
plane division, two antitank regi-
Continued on page 6, col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

his neck, Peters prepared to leap.
After being announced to the au-
dience as "the only man who hangs
himself and lives to tell the story"
the veteran performer jumped from
the platform and was snapped 20
feet into the air as the rope"
stretched its length. Instead of
acknowledging the applause, Peters
dangled lifeless in midair, having
reached the end Of his rope.
An ambulance rushed the per-
former to Deaconess hospital where
he was pronounced dead.
The life-saving trick of the act.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Circus Performer Doesn't
Live After Act No. 13

ST. LOUIS, Oct. % dUP)-Aloys
Drake Peters, "the man who
hangs himself and lives to tell the
story" hanged himself In reality
last night as he performed the
finale of his act, listed No. l3 on
the program of the firemen's wild
west rodeo and thrills circus
Peters, a 45-year-old circus vet
eran. climbed to the 70-foot balcony
for his usual finale, after perform
ing various trapeze acts for the S.
627 opening might spectators. Knot
yting a rope made of strands of
rubber covered with canvas around
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

am The wage committee is sub
committee of the farm labor advis-
ory committee and consists of Mar
tin G. Wahl, B. A. Harrigan, Argyle
McLachlan, Nelson B. Correll, and
G. G.. Bennett.
Agricultural employees and en-
ployers were invited to present tes-
timony at the hearing regarding the
prevailing wages for this type OF
work. The board was particularly
interested in the going wages paid
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Nazis Say British
Cruiser DESTROYED
By UNITED PRESS

Radio Berlin said Saturday that
German light naval forces sank a
British cruiser and set a destroyer
afire in a battle off the north coast
of Spitsbergen Friday night.
The action, which was not con-
Girmed b. Allied sources, lasted
only several minutes" and the
German force escaped damage, the
broadcast said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

circus attendants explained, is to
grab the resilient rope" just before
1t becomes taut and take the snap
with your hands instead of your
neck" They said spectators seldom
notice the movement in the excite
ment of the act.
Ernie Young, who has booked
Peters for 20 years, said that his
friend was trying out new rope
and was performing his aet from a
height 255 feet greater than usual.
Young believed that Peters grabbed
the rope, but that it lacked the
necessary residence.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Charge Reduced
Against Barber

James F., Mcclure, 80, Jacumba
barber, was finally charged with
felonious assault in the death of
Townsend Sharp, 45, former I'm
perial county peace officer, at
Jacumba last Sept. 2.
He will be tried Nov. % in San
Diego county superior court
A charge of attempted murder
was dismissed against Mcclure at
his arraignment in court this
week. He pleaded not guilty to a
second count of assault with force
likely to produce great bodily in
jury il attempting TO commit mur-
der.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Football

Lafayette, 80; Lehigh,7.
West Virginia, So; Carnegie
Tech, 0.
Pennsylvania, SS; Columbia, 0.
Michigan, 40; Minnesota, 6.
Brooklyn College, 25; Buffalo
Army Guners.
Penn State, As; Maryland, 0.
Northwestern, Is: Ohio STATED.
Pittsburgh, 18; eBthany, 0.
No. Carolina Preflight, 4; Geo.
Preflight. 20.
Camp Davis, "a; Davidson, 0.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

domestic labor for irrigating, shovel
work, hoeing, thinning, and harvest
ing of row crops. and the harvest
ing of fruit. The information Is
needed TO determine the prevailing
wage rates for the 1900 Mexican
nationals who have been contracted
by the Imperial Valley Farmers as
sociation from the War Food ad-
ministration and the Mexican gov
ernment. OF this number 100 al
ready are al work,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
PRESIDENTS COLD
DEVELOPS INTO GRIPPE

WASHINGTON, Oct. % tUPl-
President Roosevelt's cold has de-
veloped into grippe, Secretary
Stephen T. Early said today. For
the second day, Mr.. Roosevelt can
celled all appointments and kept
to his room.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
700 Jap Merchant
Ships Said Sunk
Ry UNITED PRESS

japanese merchant seamen cap
tured by the Chinese estimate that
Allied submarines and airplanes
have sunk at least 700 Japanese
merchant vessels in the Far East
this year, the Chinese Central
News Agency said Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
d A~BLlNe
EpoR1ER
A Waste of Time

A Waste of Time
First graders at Mckinley school
were studying their school room
under the direction of Evelyn Beat
ty. There was picture of the
room drawn on the blackboard. Mrs.
Beatty gave each child a pencil and
paper.
Nov draw apicture' of yourself" !"
she said to the children, "and we
will paste the picture in the correct
seat on the blackboard"
"It's no use to give me a pencil
and paper piped up David Mali
bOff, I'm no artist
Just An Oversight 80
The marines, bless their little
hearts, are yer? particular about
the art they include in their mag
azine. All art must be leg art.
tScantily clad gals with super legs)
One of them picked UP a magazine
and began to look through it. Leg
art. Few clothes.
"Oh, look" he shouted suddenly,
pointing at daintily dressed girl
heres mistake. The gals got
clothes on!"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Hu|IHos Cold but
Meets Continue

MOSCOW, Oct %. (UP)-Secretary of State Cordell
Hull suffering from slight cold today but able
carry his full schedule of meetings cmaxed by the
fifth business session of the conference among the foreign
ministers of America, Russia and Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Wage He earins to
Be Held i'm &C.

Prevailing rates paid domestic agricultural labor
for harvesting in Imperial Valley will be Investigated by
the county farm wage board at aday hearing at the
court house in Ell Centre Wednesday,
The official investigation was scheduled to begin at 10
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Sgt. IA. Mitosinko
Missing in Action

Mr. and Mrs Aug Mitosnka of the Ell Centro area re-
ceved the tragic this week that their son. Sgt Martin
Mitosnka. has been missing in the European since
Oct 8. =s.t. II. H
They received a telegram from the war department
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
MelitopoI Falls
TO Soviet Arms
I'm Great Drive
10000 Germans Believed Killed in
Defense Of City and Thousands More
Are Trapped in South; I+aIy Is quiet

LONDON, Oct 23 (UP)-The Rec army captured
Metopo gateway to the Crmea today after 12 days of
the most fighting since Staingrad scattering the
powerful German defense line between the Dneper bend
and the Sea of AzOV.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Swedish Airp|ane
Shot Down; Break
With Nazis Near
IL of 13 Persons on
Board Transport Die
AS Result of Crash

LONDON, Oct. 23. (UP)-The
Swedish air lines company an
nounced today that plane service
between Great Britain and Swed-
en- has been cancelled indefinitely
as a result Of the destruction of
one of its passenger planes by an
unidentified warplane last night.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. %
(UP)-A new crisis in Swed-
iesh- German relations threat
ened today following reports
that an unidentified war
plane, presumably German, shot
down a Swedish passenger plane
off the west coast of Sweden last
night, killing II of the l3 persons
aboard.
cThe Swedish aerotransport Of
flee in London identified one of
the passengers killed as DR.. T. C.
Hume, an American clergyman. His
home town was not given on the
aerotranSpOrt records
CDR. Hume was said to have been
enroute to Sweden in connection
with reconstruction and relief work
in Europe, as an official delegate
of American protestant churches }
The airliner crashed in flames on
the Swedish island of Holloe, in the
Skagerrak about SIS miles north OF
Goteborg, after being under attack
for 10 minutes.
News of the disaster caused a
Continued on page 6. col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

Prospecting the west for deposits
of calcite used by the military for
range finders and bomb sights is
the present occupation of Frank H.
Wallace, known in Imperial VAL
ley since 1919 as Desert Slim of
Dixieland.'
optical calcite is necessary for
the bomb sights and range finders,
Wallace said, because of its re-
fractory qualities. Thus far no.
thing has been found to take its
place.
"Calcite deposits are found all
over the country" Wallace explain
ed, land the government wants to
know where they are. The U. S.
bureau of mines has my prospect
for the deposits. I am licensed by
the department Of interior. When
I find a deposit of calcite, the gov
ernment tells some company, and
the company mines the calcite and
sends it to some defense plant to be
cut into bombsightS and range
finders, I've been doing this work
since 194l."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
WEATHER

Maximum Friday IS, minimum Sat. 40; am.
Saturday So, humidity SO; noon Saturday 81, hu-
midity 38; pm. Friday 80, humidity 3O
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
NEAR SURFACE

Calcite is sedimentary deposit
and is close to the surface of the
earth, Wallace said while display
ing several sample of the white
substance. Calcite is soft and may
be scratched easily. The cutting of
calcite is not as difficult as dia-
mond cutting, an art Wallace said
he learned in the Netherlands, Bel
gium, and Germany many years
ago. He is an expert at cutting
diamonds and cleaving the calcite
but the government, he said, need
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

l. A. HAY-U. S. No. 1 S31-335O; U. S. No. 2 Ieafy
I. v. sso.5o-S25o; No. $sO.5O-31.5O; Sept. flax
$2.96M.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

tTotal Cash. Checks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two FL Centre Banksl