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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01

Possibly more than half the Jap
defenders were killed. There were
no Americans lost.
Intense fires were started both
on Wake and Peale islands. The
Japs were caught in bed one minute
after midnight. Their anti-aircraft
fire, which didn't start until long
after the first bombs exploded, was
wild and the frightened Japs could
be seen in the brilliant moonlight
running madly Tor ..leir dugouts.
FIRES EVERYWHERE
In a split seconf the bombs crash
ed all over both islands. Fires crac-
killed. everywhere.
Precisely at midnight the flight
leader, Col. Wii.iam A. :.iatneny, oil
Carrinton, N. D., Tipped on his ra-
dio and called to the long line oil
planes behind him:
This is it, buys. IN gong 10 get
those yellow ----.
The nose of his plane slanted
down. The engines ro1red. There
beyond the nose of his bomber lay
Wake Island where for Is days,
one year ago, United States Mar
ines made ono of the most gallant
last stands in the worlds history.
Faster and faster the bomber
plunged in, its nose pointing at a
long row of buildings on Peacock
Point. The island was BACKED out
Co-Pilot Lit. E. H. Carey OF Gridley
Calf, was pouring coal to four
engines" and droning out the in
creased speed and the decreasing
altitude to Col. Matheny.
.OMBS TURNED LOOSE
Down and down the plane sped,
it's occupants watching on all sides
for signs of anti-aircraft fire. None
came.
Col Matheny pulled her nose up.
: Suddenly brilliant red flashes were
seen below. Then more and more.
The bomber was Streaking through
the air at terrific speed.
when are you going TO turn
loose those incendiaries?' Col. Ma
theny asked the bombardier, 1t. d.
D. Manchester, of Spokane, Wash.
Gone sir" replied the lieuten-
ant. and at that moment a huge
flash was seen.
! Planes on each wing let theirs
IL go at the same time. When the COL
IS onel turned his ship, everyone of
the buildings in that long row were
afire. No japanese was seen to run
N from them.
1t JAPS WAKE UP
= Still there was no anti-aircraft
fire.
Dozens of more bomberS began
&C to hit all sections of both islands
e Finally after what seemed an
n eternity, a few Japs managed to
). reach two ack ack guns and let &c
wildly. Shells burst fully six thou
D. sand feet above and two miles away
Is from the nearest American plane
"a Then machine guns unlimbered and
l. tracers began to hunt the planes
ID above.
l. Two searchlights popped ON be-
y low. Their beams caught the lead
l. ing plane, but almost instantly they
went out.
II Tailgunner Sgt. w C. Will oil
IS leighton, Pa. who was instructed
lie to shoot out any light that caught
n the plane in its beam, didn't ever
= deign to fire a shot at them. MOI
Continued on Page 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01

States to pass q federal alien land
law. The Imperial county group in
resolution set forth that such a
matter had To be handled in = fed
eral law as one state was helpless
to do anything effective about il.
ASSemblyman Harvey Il. Hastain
of BrsWley was delegated to intro
duce legislation in The California
assembly in this year and State
Senator George Luckey, Brawley,
said senators from other counties
were anxious to introduce the bill
in the senate and relieve him of the
task.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01

stood practically aIOnc III IHcIT us
gust with the alien land law of
California and their determination
to make II federal matter.
The 194l-42 grand jury in 1mpe-
rial county started the stampede
among legislators by introducing
'lthe federal alien land law plan to
The grand jury in ever" county in
Z she state. Grand juries, apparently
wlch closer to the realities of the
siuation than many legislators.
j ioned the Imperial county grand
10y and demanded that the state
lcislature amend the existing, in
asquate alien land law and MEM
oalize the congress Of the United
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
miles of Tripoli.
STH ARMY STALLED

miles OF 1rlpol1.
STH ARMY STALLED
The British Eighth Army, COM
prising the eastern arm OF the
giant Allied nutcracker closing on
the Axis forces in North Africa.
still was Stymied at Wadi Biz Ell
Chebir, 1876 miles east of Tripoli,
the first of three dried river beds
which cross the British line of adj
vance.
Advance units of the Eighth
Army were disclosed to be only IT'S
miles from Tripoli, the apparent
immediate goal of Field Marshal
Erwin Rommels routed Axis DEM
nants.
A Cairo communique said that
Allied planes had struck two heavy
blows at Sfax, an important Axis
supply port on the Tunisian east
coast and bombed the power sta
ton, warehouses and other build
ings.
SHIPS SUNK
The admiralty announced mean
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
Finance Co. Drops
Court Petition

The Peoples Finance and Thrift
company of Imperial Valley, Thurs
day Withdrew and dismissed its Pc
tition for Imperial county court
SUPERVISION of winding UP company
affairs.
Officials Of the state corporation
commission filed objections to this
method of winding up the COM
panys affairs and asked that the
state corporation commission take
charge of proceedings.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
Bus Driver Gets
Sad Harvest After
Nightmare Jaunt
George Winter Fired
By Company, Fined
S1OO in Nv. Court

Bus Driver George Bryan
Winter, 40, who collapsed at
the wheel of a stage with a
load of 40 passengers after
plotting it safely on its AZ
mile journey from INLAND to Cal
exico Christmas day, Friday had
garnered the following results:
/. He was discharged by the
Greyhound stage company, a con-
Germ with which he made good
record during the 81 years he had
been ON the company payroll.
2. He was fined sl0G IL justice
court in CaleXico on a charge of
drunk driving and given 60-day
jail sentence which was suspended
if he lived up TO the terms of pro-
baton granted him. He was placed
on probation for year and in
that time must refrain from drink
ing Intoxicating liquor and refrain
from entering places where liquor
is sold.
3. His motor vehicle operator S
license was taken from him.
4. 1t was understood that he will
be blacklisted because insurance
companies would object to him driv-
ing stages and buses insured by
them against loss or damage.
CHECKED IN
Investigations made after Winter
took his historic trip showed that
he had checked in and signed out
! satisfactorily at Greyhound and
Southern Pacific stations along the
route between INLAND and Calexico
without anyone noticing that he was
not in the condition expected of bus
drivers.
One man said Winter must have
kept himself in hand until after he
passed through Ell Centre his last
Continued ON Page 6, Col .
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01

laCJ DIS We'll do lldIiIc.
Only local stories were placed
on the list of 10 picked from the
front pages of the PostPreSS in
1912. The war and local partici-
patton in it, rationing. heroism of
local servicemcn. and all such mat
ters are national in SCOPE and were
not strictly local since communities
everywhere participated in a SINH
lar manner.
The list follows in The order OF
Importance as designated by the
voters:
TEN BEST
1.-The American canal out off
from the Mexican system and wa
ter for the first time was brought
to Imperial Valley without travers-
ing foreign soil,
2.-Evacuation of all Japanese
residents from Imperial Valley to
Poston, Ariz., for the duration oil
The war.
3.-Destru2ton by fire of two
main line Southern Pacific rail
road bridges by Latvlan, Bill
Miller, because he had grudge
against humanity.
4.-Importation of SIS Mexican
laborcrs to harvest Imperial Val
ley crops and save an estimated
S50O,O0O loss threatened because oil
a shortage of labor.
5.-ViSit of Governor-Elect Ear
Warren to Imperial and McXicali
valleys with all the international
exchange of good will across the
border and ceremonial pageantrY
MARINE STATION
! Announcement that 1890
900 Marine training base was to be
established at inland.
Arrest of CT. G.. Bennett, pres
ident of the Associated Farmers, oil
charge of conspiracy to defrauc
Continued on Page g. Col. II
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
Floods Threaten
Greater Damage

A regiment Of The Ohio State
Guard was called out late Thurs
day TO evacGate families in the low
lands around Manchester. AT Gin
cinnati. where all relief agencies
were mobilized crest of 60 feet
was expected Monday. AT Ports
mouth, the river vas rising at the
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
DO Tell

An unfortunate man who was be-
ing questioned as to his sanity.
apparently was living in a world
of imagination.
I'm ITO years DID," he said. MY
wife died 80 or 80 years ago.
had another wife in Alaska. I
don't know whether you'd call her
wife or not. l bought her at auc-
ton for a red blanket. It was a
good red blanket, too
Someone asked him how long he
had been in Imperial Valley.
"a long time" said the man as
he pointed at Mount Signal. why
! can remember the time when
that mountain was as level as the
rest of this country"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
Alien Land Law
Pressure Grows

Imperial couny's long. hard fight to get federal alien
land law adequate to meet the Japanese situation in Cali
fona became route this week with legislators through
out the state determined to take the lead in doing
thing about it. For years ral county residents
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
Russians Capture
Booty to EQUIP
Several Armies
1889 Towns. ViIIasesLiberated During
Six Weeks Offensive, ID Divisions in
Trap, 50 Routed 3I2,b5O Nazis Die

MOSCOW, Jan. l. (UP)-Conservative military obserV
estimated today the basis of Axis casualties an
nounced Soviet review of the six week old winter of
ensves that upwards of 100000 enemy troops had beer
forced out of action In series of communicates,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
Non-Wor Story
Heads News List
Va||eytes Select All American Canal
Commissioning as Best Story of,year.
With jap Evacuation in Second Place

In poll taken TO determine what FL Cenrans consider
ed the 10 best local stories in 943 they demonstrate
ed their interest in fundamentals by placing At the top OF
the list the story Of the All American canal being cut OIL
from tie Mexican system and becoming AL American IN
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
'Surpris e Attack
TerrorizeS Foe
On Historic Isle
$4,000 Pounds of Bombs Blister Enemy
Forces in Newly Revealed Christmas
Eve Onslaught by American Pilots
By OLEN w. CLEMENTS

ABOARD BOMBER OVER WAKE ISLAND, Dec.
"a (Delayed)-(UP) Huge American bombers plunged
today on unsuspecng Wake Island and pastered the aps
with 10000 pounds of bombs IN the bgges mass fad Oh
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
What a NAH

What "A Mali
An FL Centre physician met one
of his masculine patients on the
street day or two before Christ
mas.
How about giving me my an
nual check-up?" the masculine pa
ticnt inquired. Il can come up any
time
IT don't want you bothering me, =
growled the weary physician, don't
b you know I've got to have 30 ba-
bies between now and New Year's?"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01

VIC Recommend
One of the greatest airplanc spot
tcrs in all Imperial Valley is Butch
Bledsoc, tho efficient little brown
purp that rifles the Jess Bledsoe
domicilc with a rod of iron.
Long, long before anyone else
hears plane, Butch is raising the
dickens to get outside. Once in
the open air, Butch chases the
plane across tn, yard in a manner
as deadly as that of gunner get
ting bead on an Axis plane
Stopped by the fence, Butch takes
up his stand under the biggest tree
in tho yard and banks like all pos
sesscd. He thinks the plans is &
bird and will light in the tree.
That purp certainly would be &
help to some of the members Of
the ground observation corps.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
y AMBl'Ne
AZ pORTER

It's Jealousy
Happy hangovcrs to you all.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-01
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday rs, minimum
Thurs. 80; 5 am. Thurs. AZ. humid
ity 81; noon Thurs. Ga, humidity AZ;
S pm. Wednesday 81, humidity AZ.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
BY JAMES THRASHER
NEA STAT Correspondent


WASHINGTON - It's time
that something was written
about the forgotten man OF the
present liquor shortage. Like
most forgotten men, this one
has seen better days. He was
quite a guy during prohit lion.
But today he stands apart, wall
ing a-bitter threnody and wiring
ing his hands as he watches OPP
portunity disappear over the
hill.
He is the moonshiner. And
whether you are glad or sorry
about his plight, it isn't hard TO
imagine how he feels.
Times ought to be good for
him right now. Anyone no has
tried - buy whisky has found
that most retailers won't sell
unless they have known the
customer from boyhood. A few
generous dealers will offer
wo-for-one and like il deal
wherein the customer buys
bottle OF wine in order IN get a
fifth OF Old Stinko (75 per cent
neutral spirits. Failing these
sources, the average thirsty cit
lien must poke about in alleys
and byways till he finds someone
who will make him sale, off
the hip, at prices which art in
some cities at SIS the jug.
NO SUGAR ALLOTMENT
Yes, it's a made-to-order set
ting for the monshiner. He ought
10 be busy "a hours day. But
look at the fix he's in. Take SUI
gar, for instance. The moonshin-
er learned in his other active
days that sugar was the basic
ingredient of the simplest and
most potable mountain dew. But
sugar is rationed today The
moonshiner may 81 eat and
scheme and offer premium
prices, but there just isn't enough
10 be had TO put him into big
scale production.
Molasses is all sopped up for
the industrial alcohol program.
and much OF the available wheat
goes the same way. Besides,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
Rowing Reporters

making whisky from wheat Is a
complicated process. You've got
to stay around and keep stirring
the mash. and such combining
work makes you particularly
susceptible TO capture by the
gendarmes.
Corn? Well. corn just amt.
Then there is the matter of
equipment. Copper is scarcer
than three-dollsr Scotch. So are
tin boilers and cans. Sore re-
sourceful moonshiners, having
scraped together a few in redi-
ents and a couple of cans to
cook their mash in, have used
automobile radiator as con-
densers. The rest might jus. as
we'll use their cars for that pur-
poses too, because transportation
is another headache.
In these days OF gas and tire
rationing, the world isn't beat
inF a path TO anybodys door
step, for better mousetraps or
Jersey lightning And rationing
hits the moonshiner even worse.
I. has 10 have an awfully good
excuse to get more than the
minimum of fuel and tires, and
it's pretty hard to lie fast and
convincingly enough tc fool the
rs ton board. % he just doesn't
make deliveries.
All these factors adj IN to
tn, rather surprising fact that
illicit whisky-making is at its
lowest ebb since repeal. Alco-
hol Tax Unit figures show that
the gradual decline from the
end of prohibition took a sharp
drop after sugar rationing be-
came effective. In the Louisville,
KY. district, for insta ice, gal
Ions of seized mash decreased
from 1889, 400 in 1885 to l0l,-
obZ IN fiscal 1870.
Another strike on the moon
sinner is the fact that the In
ternsl Revenue officers are still
after him. It's the OPA's bust
ness to chase down the violations
involving taX-psid liquor, with
the help of local police and,
W hen circumstances warrant,
the u. S. Marshsls office. And
the OPA Is running aroLnf in
circles, trying to keep up with
all the latest resourceful didoes
OF alleged hoarders, price-hik-
ers and bootleggers.
But the revenooers. all 400 OF
them, are just waiting for the
moonshiner to stick his head up.
They are preparing for all
eventualities, including the re-
appearance OF prohibition MODS.
They are doing il quietly. The
Notre Dame coach never mails
the Army coach diagram of
his plays before the game. And
the revenooers aren't telling the
press or the public or NE moon
sinners what's cooking. But you
can bet something is.
All in all, il looks like long.
cold winter for the be-. in the
Blue Ridge and the Ozarks and
d lot OF urban Easements.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09
f. Olson
Heads Lodge
Jefferson to Fete
Officers Dec. Is

ST. CLAIR SHORES - An
event OF Importance in the his
tory of jefferson Lodge No. $50.
r. e. A. NJ, of this village, will
take place Thursday Dec Is,
when new officers will be in
stalled with elaborate ceremon-
les at the lodge hall, 1l-Mile and
Harper, al 8 p. m.
Edward NJ. Olson, newly elect
ed worshipful master, who sue
ceedcd Charles Smith, will be
installed al ceremonies conduct
ed by Eugene A Wallihg, past
master of Friendship Lodge and
Past Commander of Damascus
Commandery, who is a brother
in-law of W. NJ. Olsen. Earl
Richards and Charles Hanson,
past masters Of jefferson Lodge,
will assist Walling.
The lodge rooms have been re-
decorated and entertainment
and refreshments will be on the
evenings program. The public
Is invited.
, Other new officers elected are:
Edward H Thomas, senior war
den; Albert A. Foote. junior
warden; j Hanson, treasurer;
Walter M Rogers, secretary;
Gerald A. Smith, senior deacon,
and Wallace Royce, junior dea-
con.
] Among the appointed officers
are John Tyrrell, chaplain; j.
Fred Smith, Tyler; Charles
Smith. Marshal, and the follow
ing stewards: T. Armstrong, A
Carmichel, w Chowan, H. Cook.
i Dallier. J. Dunkley, c. Skin
Her and J. Vonltter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-09

In 1910 our output of aviation
sasoline was approximately
6l9, 100000 gallons, or about
enough TO operate 1000 Of our
transport planes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
WAC Slain In Hotel

Indianapolis, Aug. 30 - (UP)- Army authorities today investigated the mysterious death of WAC Cor poral Naoma L. Ridings. 32, Warm Springs, Ga. whose half-nude body was found in hotel room Saturday night. apparently slashed with a broken whiskey bottle.
 Investigating officers refused to release details after g. preliminary investigation indicated the pretty Camp Atterbury WAC, former physiotherapist at Warm Springs, was murdered.
 discovered Corp. Ridings body five hours after she checked into spend a weekend leave at one of Indian apolis' largest downtown hotels. Her body was found lying, nude from the waist down, in pool of blood near the door, Deep cut wounds gashed the head, throat and wrists.
 Police Sgt. Fac Davis said brok- en whiskey bottle was the only wea- pon found in the room which could have inflicted the gashes. Six full coca cola bottles also were found in the room.
 Authorities were believed search ing for an unidentified dark haired woman dressed in black" in connec- tion with the staying. Two bellhops Alfred Bayne, Jr., and Robert Vol fington, told officers they saw such 8 woman in the room during one of several trips to the room to bring refreshments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
Torture Boy In Boston

Boston, Aug. 3O.-(UP)-Five- year-old Harold P. Fuller Jr., was reported near death at hospital today as result of internal injuries suffered at the hands of young hoodlums who tortured him in a South Boston cave.
 Police said the assault was remin- iscent of the notorious Jesse Pom eroy case of the 1870's which in- volved torture attacks on several boys and girls in South Boston and the deaths of two of the victims.
 Young Fuller was f1ospitalized Saturday after staggering onto Old Colony Boulevard, bleeding from multiple wounds and minus his trousers and one shoe. Both his eyes were discolored, there were contusions on his head and face, and hospital examination revealed internal injuries which doctors said must have sesulted when SUCK was inserted in his body.
 Police said Fuller, son of Navy Yard worker, was seized by a group of older boys, carried to the cave and stripped of his clothing. After gagging him and binding his hands behind his back. police said, the hoodlums tortured him.
 A weekend police investigation resulted in no arrests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
liftG Gas Ban Wednesday

Washington, Aug. 30-(P)-The east coast pleasure driving ban will be lifted Wednesday, it was learned today.
 Officials of the Office of Price Administration said instructions re- garding lifting of the ban had been sent to local officials. They revealed this in response to inquiries con- corning 8 statement in Boston of Regional OPA Administrator Ken meth B. Backman that he had been informed by Washington that the ban would be lifted Wednesday.
 Reliable sources said the order would become official when 1t is filed with the federal register prob- ably today.
 There has been considerable doubt whether the ban would be lifted. A series of pro and con statements by OPA and Petroleum Administra- ton for War officials had left east ern motorists skeptical whether they would be allowed soon to use their gallon -and-a-half "A" ration as they chose.
 Removal of the ban was indicated two weeks ago by OPA officials when they cut gasoline rations in the midwest and southwest. But Chester Bowles, acting price administrator, said the pleasure driving restrictions could not be removed unless motor ists adhered to 1t strictly to the end of August.
 There was no indication that the value of gasoline coupons would be increased in the east in the near future. Action on this matter prob ably will be reserved until Ickes has made his last-quarter alloca- ton of gasoline supplies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
Trouble And Disturbances In Bulgaria
BY JOHN A. PARRISS

Limited Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Aug. 30-(UP)-Anti- German demonstrations were re- ported today to have broken out in Sofia after the sudden death of King Boris III left the nervous Balkan monarchy facing Nazi de- mands for all-out Axis cooperation.
 The Bulgarian people demand that Premier Bogdan Filov step out to make way for 8 move toward peace, radio Algiers reported, add- ing that restiveness in the Balkans engendered by Boris death had spread to Hungary and Rumania.
 Loss of Boris was viewed as po- litical calamity by the German peo- pie, inasmuch as he was not onsl the country's strongest man but a staunch Axis friend, an exchange telegraph disptach from zurichc said, quoting Berlin advices to the Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
 Troops on Guard
 The Daily Express, in a dispatch from the Bulgarian frontier. said crowds were dispersed outside the German legation in Sofia and that the area around the building was blbocked off by troops.
 London radio reports said the demonstrators shouted down with Germany" and i've want peace"
 A council of ministers headed by Premier Bogdan Filov controlled the country pending a meeting of the national assembly to name regen- cy for the new king, six-year old Simeon II, a grandson of King Vic-
 (Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
Denounces "Wild Yarns " About U. s. Foreign Policy

writers and commentators were guilty of inaccuracies" in discussing his departments activities and that such comments gave aid and com- fort to the enemy. He did not spe- cify the reports but it was assumed that he meant accounts of both the departments policy toward occupied and enemy nations and the intra- departmental disagreements which led to Welles' resignation.
 Reports of Resignation
 Resports of Welles resignation were unofficially confirmed last week with revelation that he had written letters to ambassadors of foreign countries here telling them that the president had accepted 1t. MT. Roosevelt probably will an- nounce the change and possibly plans for Welles futue as well as Welles' successor this week.
 Berle's defense of state depart-
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