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Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03

the location IF an imprisoned
sarester'S millions. before she was
Eludgeoned ?nd slashed to death
IN her apartment.
Acting Police Capt William
Drury. in charge of the investiea-
ton, gave this reconstruction of
he last moments Of the glamo sous
queen Of Nick Deans gambling
cesino The Fashionable Colony club
EstolIe was placed in a chair.
evidently ~ a man she bad ad-
n'ieted TO the apartment. She wes
struck several light blows in addi-
ton 10 the crushing strokes of a
rolling pin which was found blood
tained nearby
Her ncse was broken. Her tho.
g s el1shed b. a butcher knife.
When those tortures failed. The
.GlmCnter set fire 10 her LON
houstcoat and flames licked NJ the
sffDcly limbs which had made he
Il popular photographers model.
"Shn apparcnt... staggered out
q the chair after her tOrturer. g"
DreIy said, and fell to the floor
preventing the fire from spreading
,boYe he. waistline. Eu. not until
she bad been severely burned
a.osnd the lc2s. Dr.. Thomas Car
ter, IL" cOroncrs physician. Gems
10 bear out my Theory that SIC
aaffered agony"
Il was p0~siLla. DGGy SAID. that
Mrs Carey waa tortured by some
ele who believed sic knew the
location Of fdbulou; wealth rc9ut-
od.J amIsSed by Zen, a former
member Of The Il Caponc lang
be.ore he was sent TO "A federal
Elson las. year to serve an eight
ear term for conspiracy TO eXtort
$1,000 900 f,om movie executives.
Deem was q henchman Of Willie
Bioif. former boss Of tie motion
Gicture operators union who also
F5s sentenced to prison.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. tUP)-
The treaSur% department today re-
leased a true thriller" involving a
dangerous rendezvous between A
meriCan officials and international
opium Smugglers in the mountains
of Mexico.
The story was about the smash
ing of one Of the major sources of
dope traffic in the United States
by agents of the Bureau of Narcot-
les.
Principal character was n woman
leader of the opium ring who was
known on the border as La Nacha;'
other characters were known as
the chemist" the lawyer" the
old man" and the old woman"
SUSPECTS CONVICTED
Elmer L. Trey. chief coordinator
of the treasurys enforcement agen-
cieS revealed that the rendezvous,
arranged with the help of Mexican
officials, resulted in a series OF
convictions in federal court. La
Nacha" faces charges in Mexico
Treasury officials said that her real
name is Mrs. Ignacia JaSSo Gonzales
and that she was the brains" OF &
gang making deliveries of drugs to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Atfacker Admits
Molesting Women

LOS ANGEL ES, Feb. 3-CUPl-
Identified as the molester of two
Los Angeles women. Franklin Kim
ble. %, formerly of klamath Falls
&c. confessed today that he had
attacked eight women in Klamath
Fails before coming tc Los Angeles
police said.
Kimble was identified last night
BY Vera Ward. 81 and Lila Ward.
l. III a police shoW-up as the man
who attemDted TO attack them.
klamath Falls authorities were
notified Of Kimble's confession.
police said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Dies Committee
Lease Extended

WASHINGTON. Feb. 3-CUP,-
The house rules committee today
approved a resolution CONTINUING
ioi two years the committee to IN
yest,eate m-Americsn activities.
headed by Req. Martin Dies. d.
Tex.
The resolution VAS approved
after an open hearing at which
Rep. John II. Fulger. D.. n -.
charged that the Dis committee
was seeking publicity" rathe. than
performing the function for Which
Il WIS created.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Phone 300

posal will be submitted to Congress
where it is almost certain to run
into strong opposition. not only
from organized labor but from
many groups in Congress.
The WINGS order which partially
lifts the ban on the drafting OF
fathers in some non essen
tial industries - meanwhile was
hailed in congressional quarters as
The beginning of 4 new drive to
replenish the supply Of labor in
farms and factories
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Citrus Pruning
Should Be Delayed

Farm Advisor Frank BeySchlae
Wednesday, advised Imperial Valley
citrus growers to refrain from
pruning frost nipped citrus trees
until next summer, when il will be
possible to ascertain exactly how
much damage is done
L Is wise tC refrain from prun-
ing frost damaged citrus trees too
soon after they are frosted" Bey-
sehlag said. The damage frequent
y IS less than the grower thinks.
II Is wise to get rs much result
from natural growth as possible
The nipped parts will not dam
age the trees ii left alone and may
provide food material if mmole,ted
now"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Scanning Y.
News Horizon
SUES EOR DIVORCE

Estelle May Longacre Tuesday
sued William Leroy Longacre for
divorce, alleging extreme cruelty.
They were married in Paul's VAL
ley. Okla. August 13. 1871, and
separated at Oakland June 5. 1912.
She asked the coU9t to restrain her
husband from taking their 10
months old daughter from the iur-
isdiction of the Imperial county
court
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Knox Denies Big
Bottle Going On

ICOntlnued Prom Page =
ty-nine American and Australian
vessels have been sunk.
The japanese propaganda mach
ire went into action several days
ago and said that in the first two
days OF fighting the Americans had
lost two battleships and three cruis-
ers sunk and one battleship and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
MAGNOLIA SCHOOL.
SCENE OF MEETING

Magnolia school Will be the scene
of the Magnolia Mulberry Commu-
nifty center meeting at 1870 pm. Fri
day and the Magnolia school chill
dren Will put on the program. As
sistant Farm Advisor H. Lee Lem
derm3n will discuss Home Food
Production" The Magnolia All
club girls will serve refreshments.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03

a cruiser damage. A naval SpokeS-
man in Washington commented:
The Japanese claims of U. S.
losses was that 10 planes had been
their own losses are underestimate
ed"
The japanese report of their own
losses was that planes had been
destroyed, and they said that so
far only their air arm had been
in contact with the Americans.
ARMY ON JOE
Since the Marines sWarmed up
the beaches of the SolomonS last
summer III surprise offensive ac-
ton against the japanese, the army
has taken over the job of guarding
Guadalcanal and Henderson Field,
the airport Should the Japanese
will find themselves facing fresh
troops, eager for action.
Some Japanese still hold out on
Guadalcanal, but the American
forces. using starvation as Il weapon
as we'll as bullets. gradually has been
whiting them down.
STALINGRAD FREED
EraSing the last bit of German
resistance in the Stalingrad area,
the Red army turned toward its
next objective-the capture of Ros-
tov, which guards the entrance to
the Caucasus. A column southeast
OF RoStov was said to be only 40
miles from the city. The Red army
already had seized the town of
PavovSkata. Cslly 30 miles from the
Kushohevka railroad junction whic
is along the last avenue of retreat
for Axis forces in the Caucasus.
Farther north, on what Moscow
calls the southwestern front, the
Russians were menacing Voroshilov-
grad and the great Ukraine city of
Kharkov.
Raj ATTACKS
The battered German city of Col
ogne felt the weight of Royal air
force bombs again last night. The
British had waited until repair
work on Cologne's vital war factor
les was we'll along, and then they
struck. Thousands of incendiary
bombs and two-ton block busters
rained down on the city, which once
felt the fury of 1000 plane raid.
Five British planes were missing,
indicating on the basis of normal
losses, that at least 100 bombers
were in action over Cologne.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Stalingrad Feels
Surge Of New Life

i(ONtlnucd from PACE OneD
ard women whom the Germans had
interned. when the Red army broke
across the Don last November 10,
md encircled the city four days
later, to Gcport TO slavery.
Thousands of frozen German
bodies still Uttered the streets.
thousands more Law where they had
fallen in fortified buildings or iii
the many underground field hos
pitals where they had died of
wounds, disease or the cold
WOUNDED SOUGHT
Red armv first aid men sought in
the deep refugees those of the enc
my wounded who still lived
Salvaee s,1'l' is collected more
and more spoils to add to the enor-
nous quantities already gathered;
sanitary squads started to clean up
the streets; burial squads tried to
collect the innumeraEle enemy
dead, those soldiers native of Stall
ingrad and who had the time to
spare wandered the streets they
had freed in what a special COM
nunique issued last night called
che of the greatest battles in the
history of wars.
Three special announcements told
Of the end of the battle-an order
CT the day by Premier Josef Stain.
Supr me cOmmander-in- chief, who
himself conceived and directed the
Red army offensive and selected the
site for the break through which
freed the great city named for
in. \ proud report to "Comrade"
St2lln--' EdttIe report No. 0079
o PIN which marshal of artil-
!ery N. M. Voronov. representing
the general staff of the supreme
command; Colleen. r. K. Rokos-
soVsky. commanding the troops on
the Don front; Maj.-Gen. Telegin,
cf the Don front military council
and Lieut.-Gen. Valinin, chief of
s aft of the Don front, announcing
the victory. and the special COM
muniquc reviewing the final opera
tionS.
STAINS THANKS
Stalins orGer of the day address,
Cd to ROkossovsky and Voronov.
sid
I congratulate you and the
troops of the Don front on the
successful liquidation of the Ger
man Fascist troops encircled at
Stalingrad. I express my gratitude
10 al men. commanders and politi-
al inStrj tors OF the Don front for
the successful battle operations"
FOrty-five thousand of the Ger
mans who, the Germans insisted
we're fighting to the death, had sur
rendered in the two past days, in
Guiding most OF the generals-un-
wounded, like Paulus, who, accord
ing TO the Germans only survived
because he was unconscious and
could not kill himself. The gen.
erals walked out
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
PRISONER ESCAPES

E! Centre police Wednesday sought
Frank Mccormick. prisoner who es-
capped from the chain gang Tuesday
afternoon. Mccormick had been
sentenced to a 30-day sojourn for
drunkenness in Jail earlier that day.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
MARRIAGE ANNTLLFD

The marriage of Leroy William
and Geneva Terry Williams was
annulled in superior court Wednes-
day on the grounds that the plain
tiff's consent to the marriage was
obtained by fraud and misrepre-
ScntatiOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
RambIingR Reporter

Continued from Page Ona)
M. Ladd, who two years ago left
his duties in this newspapers
back shop to join the Army.
This is the last paragraph in his
letter:
Tell all the gang hello and
not to eat too many T-bones or
drive over 5000 miles for their va
cations. Sayi The news has been
pretty good, hasn't it? That guyll
have to go back to hanging paper
yet"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
MEXICAN TRIED

FabI0 kJdrlgueZ. MeMCm from
below the border. went to trial
without a Jury III Imperial county
superior CJur, Wednesday on i
charge OF LIrglarizins III. CalcNlco
laundry last month.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
CAR STOLEN:
Rtl ON Erred LATER

4 1887 green sedan, registered to
Sterling OSWalt. Fl CentrO's former
police chief. was stolen in Imperial
early Wednesday morning Sheriff's
officers recovered it later the same
day IN INLAND.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
INTEND TO WED

A notice OF their intention to
marry was filed with County Clerk
W. j. McClelland Tuesday by Leo
Edward Mullen, %. sailor stationed
81 Camp Dunlap, and Grace Lucille
Esslinger, 20, of Philadelphia. Penn.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Girl Tortured i'm
Can9Iand Killing

CHICAGO, Feb. 3-oUP'-Police
found evidence tou4y tnat beau
tIful. red-haired 31-gear-old Estelle
Carey was tortured b. fire, per-
LAPS in an effort to wring from he
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Wartime NOte--

The most peculiar places are used
as bedrooms in these days of war
time shortages.
A group of Red Cross dignitaries
who visited Ell Centro recently, had
a prize list of places they had been
forced to spend the night in, even
il they couldn't sleep.
One night they slept in a NOR
que. Another night they spent in
the poOl-room of famous hotel.
They found the morgue more rest
full
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03
Labor Droft Law
Believed LikeIv

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-CUP)-
The War Manpower Commission
will ask Congress for early action
on national service legislation for
al men and women so that it can
force men outside the draft age TO
change from non-War to war in
dustries. ii was learned today.
A VINO spokesman revealed that
such a meaSura would be a neCeS-
sary "last- ditch" method of coping
with manpowec shortages as a Sen
ate appropriations subcommittee
which is studying manpoWer prob
lens summoned Selective Service
Director Lewis b Hershey TO eX-
plain new conscripti0n plans
ANSWER SOUGHT
Hershey was called originally to
discuss the possible IMPACT of draft
requirements on war industries and
agriculture. but subcommittee
members probably will question him
closely about these developments of
The last "a hours:
VINO Chairman Paul Y. McNutts
assertion that 10 out of every II
able-bodied men in the draft ace
range-l8 through 37-Will be in
the armed services by the end of
l943.
Abolition Of dependency defer
m nts in 20 occupations and SO in
tustries on April in an effort to
create new mlnpower pool for es-
sential industries
Revival of the idea of national
rervice legislation followed reports
during the last days of the last
Congress that such plans had been
dropped. But the VINO spokesman
said such a law is needed now.
NO RECOURSE
The spokesman said that the
WINGS virtual work -in-War- -activ-
ity-or- fight" edict provides no lev
erage to force men beyond the draft
age to shift from non- war to war
work. Thus, h added. the govern
ment appears TO have no recourse
except legislation TO compel work
ers 38 and older to transfer from
non-eSSentlal work.
There was no hint when the pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-03

For an extra surge of power to
start your motor on coldest
days, and for dependa BILE
service over a longer period of
time, equip your car now with
this big, super-power battery.
Heavier, larger plates.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Rise in Child Delinquency
Blamed on Broken Homes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Nearly three-quarters of the war
time increase in juvenile delin-
quency, DR.. Winfred Overholzer.
superintendent of St. Elizabeth's
Hospital, told delegates to the war
time institute of the American Home
Economics Association yesterday, is
due to broken homes.
Describing these homes as those
where either the father has gone
into the armed forces or the mother
was working in industry, DR.. Over
holser said supervised recreation
was a partial solution to the prob
lem. He emphasized however. that
it was only partial solution, adding
that communities must organize to
combat the problem.
The four-day conference at the
University of Maryland at College
Park was limited to persons in
vited because of transportation re-
strictions. Three delegates each
from the 48 States and represent
atives of Cuba and Puerto Rico
attended.
George Radin, special represent
ative Of the Yugoslav government,
also spoke on family life in pre-
war Yugoslavia and reconstruction
plans which preserve family values -
Today's final session will be de-
voted to a round-table discussion of
home economics, with no formal
speeches scheduled.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Mrs. F. D. Richardson
Dies in Fairfax Home
Attorneys Wife Active in
Social and Civic Affairs

Mrs. Fred D. Richardson, prom
lnem in Fairfax County social and
civic circles, died today at her home
in Fairfax after long illness.
Mrs. Richardson. whose husband
is a prominent Fairfax County at
torney, was member of the Fairfax
Garden Club. and was a communi-
cant of Truro Episcopal Church
Active in civic affairs. she had
been Red Cross worker for a num-
ber of years
In addition to her husband she is
survived by two daughters, Mrs.
George McAtee, whose husband is
stationed at an Army post in Ne
braska, and Miss Phyllis Richardson
Of Fairfax; brother, Robert J. Nc
Candlish of Hancock, Md, and two
sisters, Mrs. Ralph K. Tallant and
Mrs. Robert D. Graham, both of
Fairfax.
Mr.. Richardson's father and grand
father held the Office of clerk of the
Fairfax County Court for los years.
The father, the late F. w. Richard
son, died several years ago, and was
succeeded as clerk of the court by
John Whalen. Robert j. McCand-
llsh. jr., her nephew, is the delegate
to the Virginia General Assembly
from Fairfax County.
Funeral services will be held at 10
m. Wednesday at the home, with
burial in Fairfax Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
laWRahonm;g

Blue coupons, Book 2-K, L and M

Blue coupons, Book 2-K, L and M
coupons remain valid through
July 7.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, etc.
Stamps marked j, K, L. M and N
are good now and will remain
valid throughout June.
Sugar-Stamps Nos. Is and 16 in ra-
ton book No. l may be used to
obtain sugar for home canning.
Each will be good for 5 pounds
through October 81.
Families needing more than 10
pounds of sugar per person for
home canning must make appli-
cation to their ration boards for
all over this amount.
For regular allowances Of sugar
for general use coupon No. 13 in
book l is good for 5 pounds
through August IS.
Coffee-Stamp No. "a is valid for
l pound through June 80.
Gasoline-Pleasure driving is forbid
den to holders of all types of gaso-
line rations.
Existing 1T" allowances of gaso-
line must last their holders
through July Is.
No. S A coupons are good for 3
gallons each through July 81.
B and c coupons, good for az
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
ShoeS-Stamp No. 1s is good for one
pair through October 81.
Fuel oil-No. S coupons are valid for
10 gallons through September 30.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Lack of Gas for Spraying Trees
Curtoi|s War on CoterpiI|ors
One Of Four Machines to Be Operated,
Mosquito Control Program Continues

Washlngton's caterpillars have
been given a new lease on life by
the shortage Of gasoline.
District officials say that the city's
four big tree-spraying machines have
been immobilized so far this season,
but ways nave been found to put one
of the four machines into service.
District officials draw a distinc-
ton, however, between a caterpillar
and a mosquito, since the latter is
a disease carrier as we'll as a
nuisance. AS a result the mosquito
control program will go on, though
1t requires both gasoline for city
trucks and fuel oil to be spread in
catch basins and other places where
mosquitoes breed
If many public spaces take on an
unkempt appearance through lack
OF cutting Of weeds and grass, this,
too, is blamed on the gas shortage
plus some shortage of manpower.
Engineer Commissioner Charles
w. Kutz, after a conference with
Clifford Lanham, superintendent of
trees and parkings, said "neces-
sary" operation of District gov
ernment vehicles would continue,
but that in view of the necessity
of reducing gas usage by 40 per
cent many operations would have
to be curtailed.
Mr.. Lanham revealed he had re-
ceived many protests that cater
pillars were infesting the shade
trees, getting so thick in some areas
that the pests were crawling into
their houses.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
South Is Improving
lis Industrial Position
Educator Declares
IVA and New Deal Aid
Held Responsible for
Areas Development
By the Associated Press

oS t0e ASSoCld leQ HreSS.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. June
21.-H. Clarence Nixon, lecturer in
social science at Vanderbilt Uni
verslty, says that the South, while
experiencing remarkable develop
ment under the New Deal, is still
holding the shorter end Of the ma
tional industrial stick.
But the handicap is in the South,
not in the New Deal" writes Mr..
Nixon in the current issue of the
Virginia Quarterly Review.
Mr.. Nixon, a native of Alabama,
who has held teaching posts at Iowa
State College, the University of Mis-
souri, and at Tulane, believes that
the South is at last escaping from
its long-standing differential of op-
portunlty, but that mo New Deal or
other Government in Washington
alone can realize upon that en-
larged opportunity for the region.
The South or Southerners have some
responsibility for action. The re-
gion must furnish its own leadership
and craftsmanship"
In the Tennessee Valley Author
ity, Mr.. Nixon continues, the South
has the regional ace of the New
Deal and he bases this opinion
partly on his experience as an ad-
wiser in the early stages of the IVA
program and partly as a landlord
dealing with FSA tenants on his
farm in Alabama.
The IVA serves the South and
the country. as we'll as the United
Nations, in the South" he says. 1T
has perhaps been directly respon-
sible for the development in the
South OF more war industries. ex-
cluding shipbuilding and textiles,
than any other one factor.
The IVA is universally accepted
for significant role on the postwar
development of the South. 1t will
continue its emphasis on the diversi-
fed production of quality goods in
industry, on the proceeding of foods
Tor an improved agriculture, and
on the development of the scenic
resources of the region which
already has a tourist crop that in
value suggests rivalry with cotton"
: The AAA's stress on soil improve
ment and conservation has reaped
gains that had been advocated
largely in vain-for hundred years,
he said, adding:
THE New Deal, for whatever rea-
sons, has brought about an un-
precedented soil-saving in the South,
where more land has been wasted
by man than in all the rest of the
country"
Evening star., 1943-06-21
BY GEORGE KENNEDY,

Hello said the man in dirty
cotton pants and wet open-collared
shirt plastered 70 his broad shoul-
ders, as a party inspecting the Vic
tory gardens at Landon School in
Bethesda approached him. He got
up and shook hands with a slow
wide smile, I'm Milo Perkins" +"
he said. and turning to the little
figure in blue, 5ti,l on her knees
with trowel in hand, and this is
Mrs. Perkins
The director of the Board of
Economic Warfare has one of the
best Victory gardens this reporter
has seen in Metropolitan Washing
ton. Spaces between the rows of
heading cabbage and luxuriant
broccoli were raked clean as a grav-
elled path. Tomato plants were
growing high without support of the
poles next to them
1t is his first garden. Although
he inherited his fathers farm near
Houston. Tex, tenants have always
tarmed it.
Getting ready fol- the contest?'
he said, No We just take a lot
OF pride in this garden"
Recalls Death of Son.
That was evident as he showed
his visitors arouna, plant by plant.
When my son was killed last
MONTH he said, Il stayed home
a week. I spent most of the time
working in the garden. AS occu-
pational therapy, l can recommend
it."
Second 1t. George Perkins, Ma
rine Corps pilot, had returned to
training after furiough home with
his newly acquired shoulder bar and
wings. He failed to come out of
a practice bombing dive.
Mrs. Perkins asked, DO YOU know
what these are? They're black eyed
peas. We are the only ones know
of with black-eyed peas in their Vic
tory garden. We just love them"
1t was not the first tragedy for
Mr.. and Mrs Perkins. She pointed
out the schools activity hall, the
@'AiAo AsetAiNolHli CI hlllS. IL. Me
mortal. Their othel child, an older
son, was killed five years ago in a
train wreck in Montana
You see she said, this school
is very dear to U.S."
Mrs. Perkins works in the office of
the school. Glasses will continue
through the summer she said. I'VE
arc trying to give these youngsters
high school diplomas before they
are drafted"
Asked her husbands age, Mrs.
Perkins volunteered her own. Milo
is 43 and I am 49," she said.
The photographer had unpacked
his camera. All right" said Mrs.
Perkins, with one concession to
vanity. I'm going to take off my
glasses although I won't be able to
tell radish from a turnip without
them"
They were quite cheerful in their