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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
Schools Told to
Adjust Menus

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7-tUPl-
School nutritionists must adjust
menus to meet present food shoio
ages pending organization of food
distribution, Superintendent Vier-
ling Kersey today said the depart
ment of Agriculture had advised
Kim in reply to an appeal for relief
in school cafeterias.
Federal department officers said
they recognized that adequate nu-
triton was important in school
lunches. but added it was impos-
sible to make all foods available at
the present time. .
Kersey and the 10th district oil
the California congress of parents
and teachers had sent separate
appeals to Wickard asking for es-
sential protein foods to feed more
than 10000 sch children ade-
onate hot lunches.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
California Firm
To Build Factory

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-CUP)-
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones
today announced that the Defense
Plant Corporation has executed a
war factory contract with Pacific
Tube company, Los Angeles, for
California plant facilities costing
more than $1,500,000.
DPC also increased its contract
with Krone corporation, Marsh
field, Ore, for further plant expan-
sion in Oregon. No ammount was
announced for the expansion, but
it results in a total commitment
of more than $450,000.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
RTIFI A L f
OF FICTITIOUS
NAME
(2d66 G. c.


STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF IMFERIAL)
KENNETH c. WHITE, being first
duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he conducts business IN
the City of Ell Centre. County CT
Imperial, State of California, at
Las Palmas Motor Court in said
city under the fictitious firm name
and style CT WHITES FRUIT SER
VICE.
That he is the sole owner of said
business and that his residence adj
dress i, Las PalmaS Motor Court,
Ell Centre, Imperial County, Cali
fornia.
ALMASAS
KENNETH C. WHITE.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this % day of December, 1912.
M. l.. CARPENTER.
Notary Public in and for
the County of Imperial,
State of California.
(No. 43) D24-3l, J7-14
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
BY JOHN PHILLIPS. NC

FIRST impressions OF WaShlngton'
Cities are like people: each one
has its own characteristics. its own
individuality. New York is tall
and vivaciouS; Philadelphia is short
and reserved. Los Angeles spreads
out like the delightfrily plump lady
who eases herself into the seat next
to you at the movie. accompanied
by a box of chocolates, and oozes
in all directions as evidence of Mr..
Henderscn'S restrictions upon rub
Der. In New York distances are
measured in BLOCKS; in Philadel-
phia in squares; but in Paris, to
attempt to walk around the square
before bedtime is fatal. because
there are no squares. only prob
lens in plane geometry. and you
finally get home by asking some
patient gendarme to direct you to
the Pension Racine.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
CALIFORNIA GROUP

Norris PoulsOn, former Assembly,
man, another member of the joint
committee which investigated the
SRA, and now the Congressman
from the new 18th District, and
Leroy johnson, who succeeds the
late Frank Buck from the Sacra-
mento-Stockton district, are both
here. So is Congressman Andcr-
son. from Monterey, just back from
California with subcommittee af-
ter looking into the constant ru-
mors about war production. The
Poulson and johnson offices are
directly across the hall; Congress-
man lac Of San Diego and Con-
gresham Elliott of Tulare are only
few doors away: Congressman
Sheppard whom / saw the first
day I was here, is just around the
corner. We shall have to plant a
few orange trees in the hallway TO
make visitors feel at home in this
California neighborhood.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07

The postwar prospects of private en-
terprise will not be very good unless we
do far more than we have ever done s?'
fore to avert collapse Of business.-Wil-
liam T. Foster, president. Pollak Founda-
ton for Economic Research.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07

One bomb looked like it was falling
straight into my eye, but it missed.-Sgt
Roy Sutk ?rland, WIZ machine gunned the
wings off a Stuka in Africa.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
UNEQUALLED

To me there is nothing particu-
larry impressive in the Supreme
Court Building: there was some
thing almost Majestic in the SIM
plicity of the court itself sitting in
the historic room from which it
moved. Berlin has for years been
building equally magnificent pub
lie buildings; yet where in all Ger
many we're the integrity and the
independence and the liberty which
are ours under this government?
Us just a passing thought; pass
ing in Washington!
The new congressman and his
wife are living in a little hotel
near the depot, and hunting dill
gently like lots of other people, for
an apartment. The office will be
239 House office Building and is
conveniently located. Things are
pretty much closed up over the
holidays but it was we'll to be here
early, to get acclimated, as we'll as
oriented, before the spring drive
begins
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
BUSINESS

The 18th Congress officially con-
yened on Wednesday the 9Th OF
January. at noon. From that mo-
ment California had a new END
District and it has Representative
in Congress. On Thursday. the 7th,
the President himself will address
the new Congress, and we are told
quietly to expect something I'M
portant. certainly the most Signifi-
can't address since the war began,
perhaps since the 1888 Congress. 1t
will be the first address to Con-
gress not overwhelmingly under
the control of the administration,
and it will be a Congress which the
people have told Enthusiastically to
support the President in his war
policies, end in the fundamental is
sues of the moment, but to which
they have also said they we're tired
Of waste, and Of duplication, and OF
Bureaucracy, and Of vesting leader
ship in people who lack experience
and ability and understanding.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
MEASURE FOR HEADS

In Berlin nothing is measured in
blocks, although many things could
be. inclr1ing the heads of those
natives who thought national sal
walton lay in following an Austrian
paperhanger. There everything is
"a ten minute walk, but in the
history of man nobody has ever
been able to get to the end OF his
ten minute walk in the designated
time except on run.
Paris is warm and beautiful; Ber-
lin is cold; Pittsburgh is smokey.
Boston has is crooked streets, San
Francisco its hills and its cable
cars. and Banning has the noun
tains and the desert.
Washington is a combination OF
all these. 1t is beautiful, even in
winter. 1t is city of magnificent
distances as Paris, which it resem-
bles. or of Berlin. The constant
addition of great buildings is CIV
ing it a distinction as one of the
outstanding cities of the world.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-07
TOUCH OF OLD SOUTH

Yet it retains its individuality,
its touch Of the old south. When
L Enfant laid it OFT on paper, he
intended the city to grow to the
east. and so faced the Capitol that
way. but perversely it grew to the
west. so today the main city lies
figuratively at the back door of the
Capitol.
The building Of the Department
of Commerce. too big ever to be
used and the Folly of twenty
years ago, is equalled by buildings
of the past ten years. The supreme
court, meeting Until 1885 in simple
dignity in the old Senate cham
Der in the Capitol, where the elo-
uuence of Webster expounded the
Constitution, and where his cele-
brated reply to Hayne gave us Lib
erty and Union, now and forever,
one ana inseparable", has moved
across the park to a cold marble
building 400 feet wide by 300 feet
long. which as the guide books say,
has been designed to give it dig
nifty and importance in relation
to other buildings" Yet, as one
! country congressman, l would not
have here any substitution of mar
BILE and of size and of extravaganza
for the simplicity and dignity OF
character and integrity and sanity
, land courage.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-CUP)
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton said today that rape and ag-
gravated assault have definitely
emerged" as wartime crimes and
have shown a steady upward trend
since the outbreak of war despite
the decline in other types of Of
lenses.
In a semi-annual report based
on statistics furnished by local
police departments, the FBI said
that compared with the pre-war
average for January-June of 1939-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Give 'em Ride but Be Safe, Saws Sat.

BE patriotic but play safe was
the advice given the motoring pub
lie Wednesday by Sgt. Cliff Reed
of the California patrol in discuss
ing the practice of giving service
men rides.
He urged motorists to give the
servicemen rides but warned them
it is against traffic regulations and
common sense to stop cars on the
pavement TO load and unload the
men.
by all means give the service
men rides" Sgt Reed said, but
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Allies i'm Control
Of So. Pacific Air

Lac, acknowledged last night that
an airfield at F'ubuva is Is miles
west of the base had been seized.
Tokyo said lour Allied planes were
destroyed on the ground and three
munitions dumps destroyed in a
raid on the field Monday
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Patriotism Costs

SAGINAW, Mich, Sept. l5.-UP)
Seven n-year old Edward thinner
got a spanking today for plunking
a. stone from his slingshot right in
Der Fuehrers face.
1t wasn't because his father had
any objections to Edward smacking
Hitler. The face happened to be
spread on a movie screen and the
damage was $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
Sex Crimes Soar Since War Start

1941, rapes increased l0.5 per cent
for the first half of 1912. and 2S..4
per cent for the first half of i9s5.
In the same periods, aggravated
assaults, which include assaults
with intent to kill, shootings. cut
tings, stabbings, maimings and
scaldings were up 8.5 per cent In
l942 and 1873 per cent in l943.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

stop off the pavement and avoid
creating a traffic hazard. 1t is
Just as easy to stop off the pave
ment out of the way as it is to stop
on the pavement in the way of traf-
fic. The servicemen won't mind
catching up with you"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
DIVORCE GRANTED

A fial divorce was granted Tues
day in Imperial county superior
court to John Richard Nutbrown
in his suit against Josephine Nut
| brown.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
PRIME OBJECTIVE

Rabaul, believed to be the prime
objective of the twin drives started
through the Solomons and New
Guinea by Gen. Douglas Macarthur
June 30, lies about 400 miles from
the most extended Allied positions
in both sections.
Allied air patrol range, the south
Pacific spokesman said, made it
impossible for the japanese to send
in reinforcements because no size
able enemy naval force could remain
south of the supply hub at Rabaul
more than "a hours.
He acknowledged that som e
ground fighting continued at New
Georgia and Vella Lavella-both in
the central Solomons-but said they
were held firmly He said the isolat-
ed enemy garrison would be allow
ed to sit and get hungrier" on
Kolombangara island.
The communique said Allied
troops cut through two enemy
strongpoints west of Lac in the
Markham Valley and overran two
others along with village near the
Busu river where Australian artil-
larry was trading blows with Jap
| anese guns.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15
ALLIES ATTACKED

The advance on the east put the
Australians only a mile from the
Malahang Airdrom Japanese
planes attacked Allied troop posi-
tions while Allied medium bombers
nit back in retaliatory raid, prob
ably exploding ammunition cached
at the mouth of the Markham river.
cTokyo radio, after denying for
several days that Allied forces had
been able to win positions around
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-15

A L L I E d HEADQUARTERS
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. IS
-CUP)-Allied Air power has won
control of the sea routes all the way
from the Solomons and New Guinea
to the major enemy base at Rabaul,
New Britain, south Pacific spokes-
man said today.
New and smashing blows are
being made ready for the Japs in
the south Pacific sector" the
spokesman was quoted in dis
patch from Francis L. Mccarthy,
United Press correspondent at AM
phibious force headquarters.
The dispatch followed a COM
munique which revealed that Allied
troops had advanced on two sides
of besieged Lac in New Guinea and
that the bulk of the enemy troops
routed from the captured base at
Salamaua to the southeast had
been destroyed.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

sent out a call to dssentcrs.
When no one cried Hold on. there. You
can't do this! 'Taint legal!' they went ahead
10 join the heirs and their respective nheri-
tances.
The whole thing was over and done with,
the happily welded couples had gone home,
the courtroom doors were closed.
And then Claire let out her squawk.
II ii is needed, il may prove TO be one
of the most rewardng cries a lady ever
uttere1 because the value of the prize which
she and the other widow are now contesting
has been estimated at 1900 600. y
The whole estate amounts to more than
that considerably more, but a lot of it is
sunk in trust funds which even the magic
open sesame" of the Arabian Nights prob
ably couldn't open-let alone ladys unmagi-
cal squawk.
The 81 500 900 seems 10 be the only part
which may (if the aforementioned obstacles
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

So it's not surprising to find Claire attack
ing these same obstacles with the enthusiasm
of Don QuiXote attacking a windmill
AS regards the agreement recognizing
the legality Of Cliffs Nevada divorce she says
that she was badgered into signing that by
his refusal to live up 70 an earlier agreement
to pay her $4,000 year alimony as well as
by some highly defamatory publicity charg-
ing me with infidelity"
The, latter, which she says he inspired,
wore me down physically until finally 1 exc
cuted the agreement"
Cliff had obtained the divorce in question
at Mnden, Nevada, in 1885 on grounds of
cruelty, deserton and infidelity, accusing her
in the last connection, of carrying on with a
mysterious Prince Alexis supposed to be
a Russian nobeman."
Claire in England at the time. appearing in
musical comedy called The Gay Divorcee"
refused, she now asserts, TO play the part of
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

4 /RS. CLAIRE LUCE SMITH traded kisses with her
n n husband the late millionaire playboy Clifford
Warren Smith, for five years and lawsuits with
him for three
After that the world knew, they were hap
PLY divorced Cliff settled down with beside
domestic hearth which he had built up the
of the old Claire, musical comedy star devoted
herself TO her public
But the above quoted ditty suggests the of
the people is not unlike the effect liquor
others which may be why they call IL the bar of JUS
tice.
Sometimes one little affidavit just leads to another
as seems have been the with Mrs. Claire Luce
Smith.
For now two years the payboy's death she has
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

bar again. announcing
that she is his one and
only widow and calling
for drinks all around.
not on the house but
on his estate.
Whatever the re-
suits may be for her,
or for the estate. or for
Mrs. Charlotte Fantoni
Smith Hackett. who is
under the impression
that she is Mr.. Smiths
only widow, the law
yers ought 10 love IL.
It's always happy
days for them when
one of these drink buy
ing impulses strikes a
layman
w q m en- generally
are less conscious of
obstacles than men are,
and this seems 10 be
especially true when
the litigious mood is on
them.
In asking the New
York court TO recog-
nize her as the genuine
Widow Smith, Claire,
for instance. is faced
with obstacles which
might stagger a mere
man or at least a
mere layman
In the first place.
way back in 1885. she
signed an agreement in
New York state recog-
nizing the validity of
the divorce which her
husband had previously
obtained from her in
Nevada. and which she
herself had previously
questioned.
This "A gree m en- I
would appear TO make
her nothing IL not a
genuine grass widow.
But il is not the only
obstacle. There is be-
sides the plain fact that
the legal time for list
ening TO objections to
the q istrib bu ton of
Cliffs state h as
passed.
Just as there comes
"A point at a wedding
w here the minister
looks around and in
tones: IF any man
can show just cause
why they may not law
fully be joined togeth-
or. let him now speak,
or else hereafter for
ever hold his peace
SO, too. in settling the
Clifford Warren Smith
c $ / "A te, the trustees
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

y
Claire now labels the whole
proceeding illegal, declaring that
it was "in violation of the public
policy and statute laws Of the
state Of New York"
It was, she says, "an attempt
to change the marital status then
existing between my husband
and myself by purporting to give
extra-territorial legal effect to a
decree Of divorce which had no
such effect"
Thus, she thinks she wasn't
the only one 10 suffer from the
agreement: New York State
suffered. too. And it's for New
York States sake as much as
her own that she wants the whole
thing set aside.
So much for that obstacle.
Obstacle number two she at
tacks in a way that is daily be-
coming more familiar: the war,
which is being blamed for so
many different kinds Of delay,
was responsible for her delay in
coming forward to claim her
widows rights.
She was stranded in England
when Cliff died in 1910, she says,
and in addition TO the very hec-
tic and depressing conditions
existing in England, l was en-
gagged in travelling about enter
tanning troops through the Brit
Ter government auspices. More
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

ish Isles under government auspices. More
over, the lawyer who had represented me in
the United States was dead
an March of 1912. left England for the
United States travelling by boat in a convoy
which took approximately one month TO reach
the United States. Shortly after my arrival
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

ex-salesgirl and model for an exclusive New
York dress shop.
SO at this point there was one Mr.. Smith
and two contestants for the honor of being
his wife, or to put it another way, The Gay
Divorce was really WIFE except in Nevada
or so she says.
And it was to clarity Claire's unclear
status, as well as the equally muddy one Of his
new bride, the former goes on, that Cliff got
her to sign the agreement
According TO its terms, she was TO perform
a fast legal maneuver known at a "nunc pro
tune" a deception play through the center Of
the line, with the present pretending to be
the past
In other words. though she hadn't been in
Nevada or submitted TO the divorce, she says,
the nunc pro tune made it look though she
had.
And in return for this concession, she
alleges Cliff agreed TO strike out his charges
Of infidelity-leaving mysterious Prince Alexis
out in the csld-and resume payment Of the
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10
$l;80Q,000j
But
Who IS Sh

Once a woman
GIFTS to sum
There amt no way
To make her stop.
She's a kind OF legal
live bug doin'
A courtroom version
Of the Lindy Hop.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

a divorcee-gay or otherwise in real life.
The suit was Cliffs baby entirely, and as such,
she intimates, baby which, while legitimate
enough in Nevada, might be considered some
what illegitimate elsewhere
Then the situation was further complicated
by his abrupt marriage TO Charlotte Fantoni,
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-10

1913 by American weekly Britam Reserved
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-01-29
NORTH AFRICA:
Mud Enemy No. l

Mud and recurrent tropical rains
had continued to make anything but
air activity virtually impossible on
the Tunisian North Africa front.
While optimistic estimates predicted
better weather by early February,
other forecasts heightened the rainy
season until March.
But four-way threat to the mar
rowing African coastal region still
in Axis hands was steadily develop
ing as Allied aircraft attacked Ger
man and Italian bases over 600
mile area.
From TuniSia a French column
was reported to have cut across into
Tripolitania some 300 miles below
Tripoli. Another French column
from the Lake Chad area was NOV
ing north. On the east the British
eighth army under Gen. Sir Bernard
Montgomery was pressing the rem
nants of Marshal Rommel's forces,
while in Tunisia the American, Brit
ish and French forces were prepar-
ing for the time when the weather
would permit them to take the Of
fensive against Bizerte and Tunis,
remaining Axis strongholds on the
African Mediterranean coast.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-01-29
CORN CEILINGS:
Spur Meat Production

Although Food Administrator
Claude Wickard had been steadily
urging farmers to increase meat,
dairy, poultry and egg production to
meet war demands, the price Of corn
had been rising to a point where
farmers found it more profitable to
sell than to use the grain to feed
cattle, hogs and chickens.
Moving to stabilize corn prices, the
OPA under instructions from Stabi-
ization Director James F. Byrnes
imposed ceiling at January 9th to
18th prices for go days, promising
permanent ceilings later. Declar-
ing that these ceiling prices were in
excess of 100 per cent of parity
when taking into consideration AAA
benefit payments, officials said the
ceilings would establish price rela-
tionships at which farmers would
find it profitable to feed, thus pre-
venting shortages of vitality needed
foods.
As observers had expected, the
government action produced roper
cussions. Livestock feeders were
pleased, since grain prices were sta
bilized; corn growers, whose profit
incentive for maintaining record
production was reduced, expressed
displeasure.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-01-29
RUSSIA:
Decision at RostOu?

Military strategists eyed Rostov,
key communications city at the
mouth of the Don river. Here, they
felt, history would be written in
weeks to come that would deter
mine whether Hitler's Russian ad-
venture would be complete rout or
merely disaster deferred.
Toward Rostov converged the re-
treating Nazi armies from the south,
east and north. Toward Rostov, too,
moved the advancing Russian ar
mics whose successful winter often
sives had badly upset Nazi tactical
calculations. Here the struggle would
reach decisive stages.
Continued gains of the Russians
in the Caucasus south of Rostov-
gains which carried them beyond
the strategic rail city of Georgievsk
in incredibly short periods-suggest-
ed to some observers that the Ger
man armies were retiring with vir-
tually no resistance to the Rostov
area. These observers pointed out
that at Rostov the Nazis might make
as bitterly stubborn a resistance as
the Reds had at Stalingrad north
west on the Volga.