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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
7q0 Tires Issued
During September

Certificates for the purchase of
100 tires of all grades were issued
by the War Price and Rationing
board in Ell Centre during Septem-
ber, report released by that agen-
cy Thusrday showed.
Grade one tire certificates num-
bered 204 while permits to purchase
1863 grade three tires were issued.
The board released 161 new truck
tires and four used truck castings.
Certificates for implement tires
numbered 81.
During that period permits were
granted for the purchase of 1863
new tubes and truck tire recapping
services were counted at 20.
Work of issuing tire certificates
was carried on in addition to the
rationing of many other items, in
Guiding gasoline, stoves, shoes, new
automobiles, etc.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Farming Activity
Gains Momentum
In Imperial Valley
Two TrainlOads of Men
Sent from Mexico Will
Arrive to Help in Work

Farming activity gathered
momentum in Imperial VAL
ley Thursday with planting
going forward rapidly and
1000 Mexican farm laborers
due to arrive before the close of the
month to help plant, cultivate, and
harvest the crops.
The first trainload of Mexicans
allotted to Imperial Valley was
scheduled to leave Mexico City Oct.
10 and the second trainload Oct.
20, B. A. Harrigan, secretary of the
Imperial Valley Farmers associa-
ton, announced Thursday. A total
of 500 Mexican men will lie aboard
each train.
MUST REPLANT -
In the meantime farmers were
faced with re-planting of approx
mately 1000 acres of lettuce, car
rots, and cabbage ruined by rain
and hot weather tive weeks ago
Farmers plan to re-plant with veg
etableS of some kind as soon as
arrangements are made.
Indications are that there will
be about 1000 more acres of lettuce
planted this year than last. Carrot
acreage probably will be about the
same as last year, and cabbage
acreage may be little more than
last year.
A mobile camp to house the
Mexican nationals now is being
erected in Heber and another is
expected to arrive late this week
to be set up in Holtville. A third
mobile camp will be established in
Calipatria later if needed. AS usual
the migratory camp in Brawley will
be utilized.
OFFICIALS HERE
w. H. Talbot, state director of
the office of labor for the war food
administration, and JuStinian earle
of the regional office of the VIA,
were in Imperial Valley this week
to see that all preliminary arrange
mentS had heen made for the Mexi-
can nationals.
Paintings of new alfalfa acreage
are underway and it is indicated
that this years paintings will be
Continued on page 8, COL A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

llOulS dlUeI Ullc ulSClOSuIt ClldC
American naval chiefs have just
concluded a Pacific war council
that American naval chiefs have
just concluded a Pacific war coun-
Gil in Hawaii, warships of power
full u. S. task force raked the tiny
islet with shell fire while planes
from an accompanying carrier
bombed and strafed the enemy.
FEW DETAILS
A terse communique issued by
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander- -in-chief of the Pacific
fleet, gave few details of the action,
possibly indicating that the task
force had not yet broken radio si-
lence and might still be ranging
deep in enemy waters, bent on a
new assault.
"A strong Pacific fleet task force,
commanded by Rear Adm. Alfred
E. Montgomery, USN, heavily at
tackled enemy-held positions on
Wake Island with carrier aircraft
and ship bombardment, commenc-
ing at dawn, Oct. 5, 1943, West
Longitude time the communique
said further details are not now
available"
The new raid, coming amid per-
sistent reports that a major United
States naval offensive in the GEN.
trail Pacific is impending, climaxed
a series of far-ranging forays stag
ed by American task forces against
the enemys island bases in the
past month.
1t was the second naval blow
Continued on Page 8, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

Inc proposed scale represented
compromise between one recon-
mended by house military affairs
subcommittee = $22 for the first
child, S18 for the second and SIG
for each additional-and the scale
approved by the senate yesterday in
legislation to tighten up on occu-
pational draft deferments. An
amendment written into that bill
would provide $50 a month for the
first child and $40 for each ad-
ditional
PASSES BILL
The senate passed the increased
allowance and tighter occupational
deferment bill last night, SO to O.,
as a substitute for the bill by Sen.
Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

Its tremendous Wiley report
ed. THAT boy Russelp is making
marvellous presentation. We now
are getting what the state depart
ment should have been giving us
all along. It's perfectly ridiculous
that the senate had to send its
own members out trooping around
the world to get this kind of in
formation" ...
Wiley said that without a doubt"
the senator's reports will Influence
and guide" senate actions in the
field of foreign relations.
The senate set aside all other
business to listen to and to ask
questions of the five men who have
just completed a 40,000-mile tour
of the battlefronts. Reporters as
we'll as the senate'S own employees
were banned.
Secret meetings. of the senate are
rare. Only one other has been
held in recent years, shortly after
the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
|. Y. Badly Treated
Declares Chamber

The Ell Centro chamber of COM
merce has lodged protest with the
editors of Time magazine over the
manner in which Imperial Valley
was treated in story concerning
the desert military training area
near here in the July 19 issue, Ben
Herring, secretary of that organiza-
ton, said Thursday.
Herring said he had corresponded
with Time editors over the story in
which the entire area between the
outskirts of Los Angeles and Phoc-
nix to the east and the Mexican
border to Boulder City on the north
was described as desert waste land
containing only few "parched
hamlets."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
yanks Take Lead
IL, Series After
Winning, ( To-
American Loop Team
Comes from Behind to
Swamp Gard Defenses

YANKEE STADIUM, New
York, Oct. 7. (UP)-Smash-
ing a crumbling Cardinal de-
fense, the New York Yankees
poured five runs across the
plate in a big Eighth inning today
to beat st. Louis, 6 to 2, before
record World series crowd of 69,990
fans.
The Yankees batted around their
entire lineup as they took advan-
tage of two Red Bird errors and
five base hits to blast the series
debut of rookie southpaW Alpha
Brazle and send the Cards back to
st. Louis for conclusion of the
classic trailing by count of two
games to one.
Showing good control, a fast
sinker and tantalizing slow curve,
the StraW-thatched rookie had given
the Bronx Bombers only three hits
and one unearned run going into
that big eighth inning.
Then the stadium fell in on him.
WEATHERS ERRORS
He had weathered two Cardinal
errors previously, chewing gum
placidly as he moved the Yankees
down, and it appeared that eight
years in the minors would pay off
after only two and one-half months
in the majors.
Fordham Hank BoroWy - who
turned out to be the winning pitch
er, apparently was a gone goose
when the Yankee eighth opened.
But Yankee alertness and power
in the clutch turned the tide his
way.
With the stands jammed with the
greatest crowd in World series his
tory, bettering the 69,9O2 figure set
in last years fourth game, Johnny
Continued on page 8, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

uoiitSOiiiCIy Z ii IL VcUcIdllS
smashed a Nazi counterattack near
the Biferno river along the Italian
Adriatic coast, and pounded for
ward in the toughest fighting of
Lneir campaign up the peninsula.
Other developments the past "a
hours that showed crescendo of
battle against Hitler's far-spread
armies included:
l. The Anglo-American Fifth ar
my closed toward the Volturno river
line above Naples with their appar-
ent main objective-and the big
gest crossing-at Capua in easy
artillery range.
CARRY OFFENSIVE DEEP
2. Flying T'ortresses, carrying the
offensive deep into the heart of
German resistance, struck at the
vital rail lines in the Venice area
for the first time, in a 1200-mile
flight.
g. Premier Josef Stain in an or
der of the day announced the cap
ture of Newell, railway junction
southwest of Velikie Luki and only
65 miles from the Latvian frontier.
Continued on page 8, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

NEW YORK, Oct. 7. = CUP)-
Chairman James L. Fly of the Fed
eral communications commission
said today that the Columbia
broadcasting SYSTEMS policy of
regulating the expression of the
views and opinions of it's news an
alysts" was curtailment of free
dom of speech,
Personal opinions, of course,
should not be aired in the guise
of news" he said, but. assuming
competency, if the statements are
properly labelled as opinion, can
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

defer pre-war-fathers until Jan. l.
Administration leaders, who charg-
ed the Wheeler bill would danger
ously disrupt Allied strategy, said
it was dead duck" with virtually
no chance of revival in the house.
The bill passed by the senate
last night would provide $50 a
month for a serviceman's wife, $50
for his first child, and $40 for each
additional child.
CThe present allowances are: $50
month for wife, $l2 for the first
child, and $40 for each additional
child
The bill approved by the senate
Continued on page 8, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

1t specifically named the Hearst,
Scripps- Howard, and Patterson
Mccormick newspapers.
In an article apparently timed
to appear on the eve of the forth
coming British American Soviet
conference of foreign ministers, the
magazine said the New York Herald
Tribune and the newspaper PM
were among those trying to offset
the poison generated by the anti
Soviet campaign"
The newspapers boast a combined
circulation of more than 1O,00O,00O
But they are at sharp variance
with the views of the masses of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Plot to Kidnap
Pope Is Baked

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7.-(UP)-
A Fascist PLOT to kidnap Pope
Plus was balked at tile last min
mute by the Germans who were
afraid of world reaction, a Bern
dispatch to the Stockholm Tid-
ningen said today.
Fascist extreists, including
Roberto Farinacci. former party
secretary, wanted to hide the
Pope i'm safe place to prevent
the Allies from "using his person
for propaganda purposes"
Catholics in Italy were said TO
have feared for the POpe's safe
ty ever since Sept. 13, when he
was isolated In the Vatican by
German troops.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Officer Unhurt
In Chute jump

Captain F. S. Hoffecker, jr., of
the Ell Centre marine air station,
escaped rnhurt when he baled out
of his spinning plane two miles
north of Meloland Wednesday af-
ternoon.
The accident occurred while Capt.
Hoffecker was making routine
training flight.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Network Branded by Fly as
CurtoiIing Speech Freedom

over its policy of limiting COM
mentators to strictly factual news
presentation.
''The ban on free comment by
news analysts places them, and the
radio industry, at a serious disad-
vantage vis-a-yis the newspapers
and other media" Fly said
But he deplored the stealth
with which some so-called COM
mentators can move from tile field
of legitimate news into an appeal
to the great virtues OF the company
and its principles and ideas"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
RUSSIANS FIGHT Way ACROSS DN|EPER
ITALIAN MASS ARREST

shameful As days following July 25
must be wiped out inexorably," a
special proclamation said in con-
nection with the arrests.
Backed up by German bayonets,
the campaign was aimed at all
Italian classes. Among the victims
were senators, diplomats, news
papermen, high army officers,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

hardly see the reason why they
should not be aired"
1T is little strange to reach the
conclusion that all Americans are
to enjoy speech except radio COM
mentators, the very men who have
presumably been chosen for their
outstanding competence in this
field
Fly, addressing the radio execu-
tive club of New York, did not
mention CHS by name. He spoke
of zone network" and it was OBJ
vious he was referring to Columbia
which is the center OF controversy
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

prominent industrialists, and form
er Fascist leaders.
Among the prisoners were Volpi
Di Misurata, former minister of
finance; Vittorio Cini, multi
millionaire president of the inter
national worlds fair scheduled at
Rome in 1912; and the husband of
Lydia Borelli, actress sometimes
called Italy's Pearl White"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

the American people and contradict
the general line of American for
egin policy which stands for
strengthening of collaboration with
the Soviet Union" the magazine
said.
1t named the New York World
Telegram, Chicago Tribune, New
York Daily News, and New York
Journal American - representing
reactionary, defeatist and isolation
ist circles whose anti-Soviet CAM
paign is designed to throw suspi-
cion on Soviet foreign policy'-as
the leaders of the anti-Soviet press
in America.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
CAL FATHERS 60 SOON

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 7.-tUP)
- California pre-Pearl HarbOr
fathers in nOn-deferrable Occu-
patiOns looked forward today to
less than three more weeks of
their present exemption from the
draft.
1t. Col. Kenneth II. Leitch,
State director of selective serv-
ice announced yesterday that
fathers will be inducted starting
Oct. rs. For the first three weeks
of this month only childless men
and single men are being called
although national selective serv-
ice headquarters okayed the
father draft on Oct. l.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

BERN, Oct. T. (UP)-Frontier
reports said that thousands of
Italians were being rounded up to-
day in mass arrests prompted by
Benito Mussolini in retaliation
against those who manifest their
JOY after his arrest last July 25.
All of these traitors who acted
morally against Fascism during the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Envoy Recalled

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-UP)
Argentine Ambassador Felipe
A. Espil. who has represented his
government here for more than
IL years, has been recalled to
BuenOs Aires, Espirs office said
today.
Ii was understood that he
will not return to Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
u, S. Newspapers
Suid Anti-Sov iet

MOSCOW, Oct. T. (UP)-The trade union magazine
War and the Working Class charged today that large
section of the American carrying on an anti
Soviet campaign (which fully corresponds to the interests
of Adolf Hitlers agents"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Enemy Fails to
Halt Eighth Army
On Italian Front
Reds Announce New Success in North
Part Of Front; Flying For+resses Strike
Deep into Nazi Land, Hi++ino Venice

LONDON Oct 7.-tUP)-The Russian front blazed
end to end today when the Red
Dnieper river number of quidad
ationa in the Caucasus
man lines in Onsaughts below Lenningrad
On the middle reaches of the Dneper,
revealed the Russians forced the
at least three of town of
Pereyaslvl southeast chug.
By UNITED
German forces struggled Thursday to hold river lines
N the Italian and Russian fronts against gathering Allied
rmed might but lost desperate bid stall the British
eighth army Aided bv naval guns, Gen. Sir Bernard
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Navel Offensive
Looms i'm Pucific Z
Sha++erins Blow at Wake Island Seena as
indication that Great Blows Soon TO Be
Struck by Our Sea Forces in East Waters

PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Oct. 7. (UP)-The shatter-
ing American and air bombardment of Japanese-held
Wake Island Tuesday dawn pointed today to mounting
offensive designed to roll back the enemy from his
Pacific outposts Striking with dramatic speed only "a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
Bigger Allotment
Virtually Assured
Senate. House Military Affairs Group
Favor More Money for Families Of Men
In Service; Fathers Soon TO Face Draft

WASHINGTON Oct. T. (UP)-The house military af-
fairs committee today approved bill to increase the gov
ernment allowance for children of in the armed
forces to $25 month for first child $40 the second
child and SIS for each additional child.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07
u AMsl|Ne
1\Ep'o,:)RTER

This Is Tops
You know what moron is,
don't you?" one Ell Centran asked
another.
Cant say I do was the re-
SpOnSe.
"Morons come from Morocco"
said the Ell Centran.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

History Repeats Again
Imperial Valley residents should
never say that we are having an
unusually hot fall. Frank Bowles
remembers at least one year that
was as bad if not worse than this
He said the fall of 1917 was an old
SiZZler.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

Perfectly Logical
The members Oh the Junior class
at Central Union High school are
perfectly logical in their selection
of class officers.
They elected Mae Cash as their
class treasurer.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

Perfectly Correct
Her first days at school were a
thing of the past for six-year-old
Sue Gillett, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Myrel Gillett
What do you do at School?" a
relative asked Sue.
"Oh, nothing" said Sue, lust sit
and sweat"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-07

Maximum Wednesday 1O4, minimum
Thurs. 65; 5 am. Thurs. SO, humid
ity ~; noon Thurs. 98, humidity 80;
pm. Wednesday 100, humidity 81.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Marguerite Chapman
Frightens a Man
With a Death Scene
HOLLYWOOD


Marguerite Chapman has a death
scene in Appointment in Berlin" at
Columbia and she scared her diTec-
tor, AL Green, half out Of his wits.
In the set of an old weather.
beaten Dutch church, Marguerite
and George Sanders have sought
shelter while eluding the Gestapo.
A kindly pastor invites the fugitive
pair to relax after their narrowing
ride across the border.
Their security is short-lived. A
Nazi plane, lowering overhead, spots
them and ICONS down. Now comes
the moment for Marguerite Chap
man to die. AS she steps through
the vestry door, a shot rings out and
she crumples silently to the floor.
"Cut!" calls Director Green meth
odically THAT ought to do it." A
couple of minutes later he turns and
looks at the death spot. Marguerite
Chapman has failed to get up. Green
rushes over. lifts her head in his
arms and asks frantically. whats
the matter?"
Marguerite opens one eye. Don't
talk to me, you mortal" she says
I'm dead. Dead tired"
Whereupon she closes her open
eye and continues to rest.
Re!eascd by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc.)
Evening star., 1943-05-02
LONDON.

boNOOlN.
The Russian playwright Eugene
Ilyin. who is now in Great Britain,
has dramatized Tolstoy's War and
Peace" and 1t will be produced here
soon under the supervision of Ed
ward Stirling, who ran the English
Theater in Paris from 1922 until
the fall of France.
Ilyin, who was for many years
associated with Stanislawski at the
Moscow Art Theater, has con-
densed the novel into a three-act
play of four scenes with II char
acters. It has taken him more than
nine years to complete the job.
That is one of the most ambitious
theatrical undertakings in prospect,
but there are others which unoues-
tionably will attract special atten-
ton from the thousands who have
kept the British theater fiourishing
for two years.
The adaptation of John Stein
beck's short novel, "The Moon Is
Down." opens provincial tour in
a couple of weeks, and will come to
London the middle of May.
Then there is, another cycle OF
reviyals-especially light operas and
musical comedies. One of the hap
piest first nights this spring was
that of The Merry Widow" q few
weeks ago. Cyril Ritchard, chief
support Of Beatrice Lille In big
Top" last year and one Of the all
star cast Of John Gielgud's produc-
ton of The Importance Of Being
Earnest" q little later, stars with
Madge Elliott In q quite good ver-
sion of the Lehar show.
New also are revivAls OF "show
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Exhibitors Protest, but War Films Seem 1mplacable

Each of the three stars has been
different in many ways and. alike
in few, which has provided the
c. U. writer's with not only lot
OF fun but with enough variety to
keep the three shows from running
afoul of too similar treatment.
Common to all of these stars,
houses after World War I we'd be
inclined to agree with the producer
who insists that a good war picture
can be a successful picture, even
in peacetime.
It's interesting to observe, too,
that out of the films Of this war, as
out of the films of the last, are
emerging host of new male stars
and leading men. The great differ
ence now is that stories of this war
are being brought to the sceen while
the conflict still is raging and many
of the new personalities are going
into the service almost as soon as
they've made their celluloid debuts.
If they score sensationally, as some
undoubtedly will, the fans simply
must chew their nails and sit back
waiting for their temperance after
the wars end.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Coming Attractions


of play:
opening tomorrow night.
CAPITOL-"Eangmen
Brennan; starting Thursday
EA7LE-Happy Go-Lucky" with Mary Powell
starting Friday.
Freedom" with Roand Russell and Fred
MacMurray. 't-
LITTLE Somewhere Cummings
ing Wednesday,. ....5-..
METROPOLITAN the Wild Wind"
and Ray Adiland. ...s.:
PALACE-"Hello Frisco Payne
PIXCorregidor with Otto Landi; starting
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Midnight Oil Burns Fiercely
Tolstoys War and Peace Being Tailored
AS Three.Act Production in England
By Russell Landsfr0m

Boat" and ''The Vagabond King"
pleasant enough with their scores
which seem not to go stale, but not
as pleasant as ones memories of
their originals. The Desert Song"
closed recently after run of several
weeks.
Richard Tauber is here in an
operetta sort of thing called "Old
Chelsea" new in name but not in
idea. Most of the critics have
agreed that it is an undistinguished
copy OF. Viennese light operas.
The International Ballet is re-
hearsing two new ballets, which will
be included in It's imminent London
season. The first is "Everyman," !"
based on the 18th century morality
play, which Is being produced by
Leslie French, the Shakespearean
actor who appeared as Feste in the
international Ballots Twelfth
Night" last fall. The choreog-
raphy is by Mona Inghsby and the
music by Richard Strauss, arranged
by Ernest Irving.
The second is Lola Montez," with
Eaona 1nglesby dancing the title
part OF the famous courtesan. Harold
Turner Is responsible for the cho-
regraphy; the music is being es-
pecially written.
Most of the producers are dick
ering for new shows, hoping that
there will be space for everything
and that casting will not prove too
difncult.
The boom In. the fourth year of
the war matches anything Of its
kind In the last war.
One group Of theaters, controlling
(See IANDSTHON. Paso E-z)
Evening star., 1943-05-02
HOLLYWOOD.

I1Odb WoOD.
"All want now is to marry, have
children and stage another great
success in pictures" said Pola Negri.
The number one glamour girl of the
Hollywood 20s was eating a
vegetable lunch with me, and not
looking, acting or talking in man.
ner to be expected from one who
was probably the most tempera-
mental, tempestuous actress of
Hollywood history. For one thing,
the girl had just recovered from a
severe siege OF ptomaine poisoning.
For another, she is living in q small
apartment without q maid OF her
own. For still another, her words
were spoken In = soft purr. And
she was on time for our luncheon!
Miss Negri was worried-about her
mother.
"She Is the only thing I have in
the world" she said, who in her
time has had everything IN the
world. II have not heard from my
mother since the Germans occupied
the South Of France where my
mother Is living in my house at
Cap Ferrat. That is four months
ago. / got my mother, uncle, aunt
and nephews out of Poland just .
few days before the Germans
marched In. My nephews are now
In England with the fighting Poles.
Miss Negri left Hollywood 10
years ago, after one Of the most
successful careers In motion picture
history.
II made 5000, ,0oo.' she told me
softly. .But money-what Is money?
It has never meant very much to
me-