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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Gov. Chooses Tax Group

SACRAMENTO. CAL. Jan. 16-
tup)-A committee OF civil, busi-
Eess, agricultural and labor groups
organized today to determine if tax
reductions will be possible as a
.tsult of the 100000 600 surplus ac-
cumulated during the war-prosper-
Gus last % months.
Gov. EaIi Warren appointed the
committee last night and said he
believed some tax reduction can
be safely effected" by the 55th
state legislature. He named James
l.. Beebe. past president of the Los
Angeles Chamber Of Commerce,
committee chairman.
In statement accompanying an
nouncement Of the committee, Gov
ernor Warren said:
1T is tremendously important to
all the people of California that
the legislature Immediately pro-
coed to gear the fiscal system of
the state 10 the exigencieS of war.
In furtherance of this task. it
must preserve a balance of ap-
pioach which can come only
through consideration of a wide
range of factual information.
1T is ny belief that some tax
reduction can be safely effected at
this session of the legislature. The
federal burden of taxation will
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Polish .GueriI|as
Burn Villages as
Nazis RefaIiate

LONDON. Jan. 16-CUP)-Stan-
islaw Mikola jczyk. deputy premier
Of the Polish government in exile,
reported today that virtual open
warfare has broken out in Poland
between Polish guerillaS and Ger
man troops with the guerillas burn
ing IA German-inhabited villages
and the Nazi gestapo striking back
by arreSting several thousand"
Poles.
SIS elite guard troops and ges-
tapo agents yesterday began to
arrest several thousand Poles in
the Warsaw district in an effort
TO eliminate members of under
ground organizations, according to
information received here by the
Polishg overnment.
VILLAGES CLEARED
In the Lublin district, Mikola-
jczyk said, the Germans started
to clear out the whole population
village after village has been clear
ed of Poles"
He said the Germans had brought
IL Dutch, BelgianS, and NorWeg
ians as we'll as Germans to settle
these villages. The able bodice
Polish inhabitants were deporteo
to Germany for forced labor ano
the aged and sick sent to concen.
tration camps, he asserted.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
CI0 Chiefs CHARGE
Open Scandal In
Meat Distribution

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 16-(UP)
Charging discrimination" and an
open scandal in the distribution
OF meat and dairy products on the
Pacific coast, Harry Bridges, Cali
fornia CIO regional director today
demanded an ir:mediate congress
sional investigator f the food sit
uation in western states.
Bridges and Mervyn Rathborne,
California State Secretary of the
CIO forwarded a joint demand to
Washington for immediate ration
ms of meat for home and restau-
rant consumption on the west
coast.
The regional Office of Price Ad-
ninistration simultaneously dis
closed it was investigating reports
Of black market" sales of meat.
Ben C. Duniway, OPA's regional
attorney, said reports had been re-
Ceived that large retail butcher
shop operators were buying beef
direct from producers.
Certain slaughterers, Duniway
said, were reported selling to GUS
toners willing to pay more than
ceiling prices.
1T is a plain fact" said Bridges
and Rathbone. that the people on
tie west coast who need meat and
other nourishing foods inorder to
manufacture war goods and ship
them to our fronts are unable to
set them, while others of money
and leisure, able to traffic with
what amounts to a black market,
are getting all they desire.
High priced restaurants, patron
lied by the privileged few, are serv-
ing meat, butter and eggs with
little or no limitation. Butcher
shops and grocery stores in the dis
tricts inhabited by war workers
are unable to obtain these commo-
dities and restaurants in industrial
districts serving workers lunches
are likewise without them
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Lehman Appoints
World Food Aides

WASHINGTON. Jan. 16-fUP)-
Herbert H. Lehman. director of for
eign relief and I.-iabilita ton. an
nounced TODAY that field operations
of his organization will be IN
charge of 1t. Gen. William N. Has
kell. former director of civilian
protection in New York State.
Lehman also announced the
names of other principal members
Ct his staff. Francis B. Sayre. for
mer American high commissioner
of the Philippines, previously had
been appointed deputy director.
Hasken vas associated with for
mer President Herbert Hoover in
relief work after the first world
war. He also was chief of the
Anglo American food mission to
Rumania in 1919 and organized
and headed the American relief
administration mission to Russia
in 1921.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
3housewives Put
Hoodoo Sign On
Film Stars Trial
Continued from Page i

and Mrs. Lorcne Boehm.
The only trouble seemed to be
that the housewifely trio couldn't
get its stories TO agree about Mis-
Forbes, the smartly dressed Secre-
tary TO a radio executive.
Mrs. Rowe said Miss Forbes want
ed 10 acquit Flynn and said so be-
fore she was made a juror; Mrs
Ponder said she wanted TO convict
him.
Il lust must get on that jury,
Mrs. Rowe quoted Miss Forbes. add
ing that she'd reported illness TO
keep from being a juror in other
cases pending and that she'd said
she could not stand il If Flynn were
sent 10 prison.
DIFFERENT STORY
Mrs Blues statement agreed in
ever; detail with that of Mrs. Rowe
but Mrs. Ponder heard something
entirely different.
Miss Forbes said to me several
times" she said, ''if we get on the
Flynn jury. we will fix him good
won't we Mrs Ponder"
Mrs Ponder added that young
Mrs. Boehm had seemed excited
about the prospect of seeing Flynn
faoe-to-face and had invited her
90 10 downstairs for a look.
Il went along 10 the floor below.
Mrs Ponder continued. but | did
MT so all the way. Mrs. Boehm
Joined the crowd around Mr. Flynn
and when she came back, she said {:
II am for Errol FLYNN in big
NAp
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Hubby Divorces
Unkissed Bride

FRANKFORT, KY. Jan 10
CUP)-Charles r. Barnett has his
tickly mustache. Mrs. Barnett has
lips untickled, and never the twain
shall meet. The also have a di-
vorcc.
The day after they were mar
ried in 1897 she wouldn't let her
70-yesr- old husband kiss her "un-
der any circumstance" because his
moustache "tickled" Barnett,
wealthy farmer refused to be
Shorn.
Both filed suit for divorce. Both
claimed cruelty. Judge ~ Port
Sims granted the divorce to the
moustached member of the family
when bride refuses to KISS
her husband the day after the wed
ding, something is surely amlss'
said the judge. He is a bachelor'
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Asa 6. Mcintosh
Succumbs at 81

Asa Guy Mcintosh, 81, who lived
in the Holtville area for 10 years,
died at Iona Linda sanitarium
Thursday.
He suffered a stroke of paralysis
last October and was taken TO the
Sanitorium. Pneumonia was given
as the immediate cause of death.
He had lived in California for 30
years and was a salesman. He was
affiliated with the Masonic lodge
at Glendora.
Among his survivors are his
daughters, Winifred of HoltVille,
and Ruth and Alice Of Pasadena; ;
his sisters, Mrs. A. T. Webber, Mrs.
Jack Heron, Mrs. A. G. ChenorWith,
and Mrs Frank Sisson; his brothers,
w. D., H. O., Allen, Gene, Marion,
and Les of Holtville; and his father,
r. H. Mcintosh of Burns, Kansas.
Funeral arrangements were not
complete Saturday but services were
expected TO be held in Ell Centre
next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Battle oil
Draws Nearer
Continued from Page =

tCODllIllltd AlOilA a-S
by tanks. advanced 80 miles and
captured the Glubovkaya railroad
station on the Rostov- Moscow line.
The towns of Borodinov and Pot
seluyev fell to the Russians in the
sweep
Germany admitted Russian gains
on the Leningrad front in the midst
of what Swedish dispatches called
the fourth day of an offensive un-
Ger Marshal Semvon Timoskenko,
designed to lie the siege OF the
northern city. The Berlin reports
said Russian attacks were partic-
ularly heavy against the fortress OF
SchluSselburg. % miles east of Len
ingrad. There still was no con-
firmation from the Russians that
they were on the offensive in that
region.
Britain's big bombefs went to
work on the German submarine
base of Lorient in France for the
second straight night. British
moonlight and parachute flares
i lighted up the scene and the RAF
showered tons of bombs on the tar
get. The attack was especially
heavy against the dock area where
/ large fires were seen.
The Australian army in
New Guinea cracked the japanese
! defense line at Sanananda and cap
tured large quantities of equipment,
q commuaique from Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters said.
The British reported they had
broken a japanese counterattack
around Rathedaung. Is miles above
/ Akyab on the Burma coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Arabs ReStiVe
AS Food DeIoved

OF milk by the American Red Cross
TO children has been favorable but
that has not kept a large part of
the people, especially Arabs, from
asking: Where is all that food
and clothing You promised?"
The Allies do mean to keep their
promises, and will do so as soon as
the commander-in-c chief considers
it advisable to divert shipping from
immediate military needs.
AS Harold Macmillan, British
minister to North Africa, and Vice
Admiral William A. Glassford, Jr.,
head of the American military mis-
sion to Dakar. have said in recent
days, the diversion of small per-
centage of shipping to food and
clothing would improve the atti-
tude of the native population.
But a high policy decision has
been taken: First things come first.
In this case. the first thing is mil
! itary supplies to finish the Tu-
niSian campaign. Besides. if the
amount of shipping to North At
rica were doubled, there would be
only limited port space
Economic experts have decided
| that the need for distribution of
free clothing is small. There is
plenty of money in North Africa,
even among destitute looking Arabs,
but nothing to buy. For instance,
at a recent dinner party, beau
tifully dressed society woman was
much more enthralled over the gift
of a bar of soap than over a bou-
quet of two dozen roses.
Richard Allen of the American
Red Cross said large shipment OF
American second-handed clothing
was en- route for sale at controlled
prices. The food problem, however,
has two aspects: putting on sale
articles not produced in North AT
rica. and rehailitating internal
transportation SO native foods may
be shipped to the cities.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Stress Placed on
Local Authority ..
Continued from Page y

the attorney general and two repre-
sentativeS each of city governments,
county governments, the senate and
the assembly.
All of the administrative staff. in
cluding the two principal state dir
ectors. would be responsible to the
governor through the councils exec
utive officer.
The bill also would REQUIRE the
governor to divide the state into
civilian protection regions and to
appoint staffs to work with cities
and counties in the development OF
mutual aid plans within the regions.
Establishment of IAN adequate
system of emergenc" communica-
tions" throughout each region and
between regions is declared to be a
major project for the council.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Jap Pilot Found
ToBe Woman

ASBURY PARK. N. j.. Jan 10
tUP)-CoXSwain James A. Prince
revealed that one of the japanese
pilots who crashed their planes
against the aircraft carrier Hornet
was a woman.
The plane piloted by the wom-
an crashed into the Hornets ele-
vator." he said. There wasn't
much left Of it or the pilot, but
the reports that the doctors had
confirmed that the pilot was a
woman was the subject of much
conversation among us survivors. -"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Imperial Masons
To Install Chiefs

IMPERIAL, Jan. l6. - Imperial
lodge, No. 800, F. and A. M, will
install new officers Monday night,
8 o'clock, at a closed meeting TO
b. held in the Imperial Masonic
temple.
Officers TO be installed are: Mil
ton 3. Griffin, master, Clyde E.
Rodgers. senior warden; Clayton
c. Rodgers, junior warden; Will
liam Webb, treasurer; Henry G..
Miller. secretary; George Varney.
chaplain: Ernest B. Fargo, senior
Ceacon; Burton McKinnon. junior
warden Edward 2. Ceilings. mar
shal; George Parr, senior steward ;
George Cordile. junior steward
William Rorrshuck. tyler
Charles H. Knights, inspector for
the l08th Masonic district, will
act as installing master: Charles
E. Sones. as master of ceremonies;
Or. r. e. Clemons. master of FL
Centre ladge. No 384, as installing
organist. After installation re-
freShments will be served
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Woman Guilty
Of Stealing Boby

year-old soldiers wife for kidnap-
ing Gary Botsford and set her
sentence at one year.
Upon hearing the verdict Mrs.
Lussier raised her hands to her
face, then composed herself quick
ly Her Soldier-husband. on leave
from Fort Knox, KY, attended the
trial
Mrs. Lussier stole the baby from
his carriage parked in front of a
Waukegan store while his moth
er, Mrs. Stewart BotSford, was in
side shopping.
During the trial yesterday Mrs.
Lussier testified she lad heard
the baby crying and Lad picked
him up to comfort him.
II walked him to step his cry
ing" she said II don't remember
anything else from the time I pick
ed him up until the time l sud-
denly came to myself in front of
the Y.M.CA. Then I didn't know
how to get him back or from which
carriage I had taken him"
At the end of the trial George
w. Field, assistant states attorney
said, mo matter how many years
she NAV spend in an institution
they will never equal the agony OF
that black night spent by the par
ents of this little child" The day
after Gary was kidnapped he was
found unharmed at the home OF
Mrs. LrSsier's sister in Zion. III.
Paul M. Larose. defense attorney
told the jury: This woman always
longed for a child of her own, but
nature forbade. Her entire actor
in this case you have heard is the
result of an over-developed sense
of motherhood"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
MeIo!and Center
Fills Drive Quota

Meloland Farm center was the
first one in Imperial county to
complete its i943 farm Bureau
membership quota. it was announc-
ed SATURDAY. +; Scott 2 Foulds.
secretary CT the Imperial County
Farm bureau
Alex Meyer of Meloland appear
ed at the Farm Bureau in the
court house before noon Saturday
with checks and money to COM
piete the quota. The drive was
made by the membership team this
week
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Meat Rationing
UrQed Immediately

DENVER, Jan l6.-tUP)-ClvlI-
ian meat rationing must be started
at once to avoid a critical meat
shortage, it was declared today by
President Frank S. Boice OF the
American National Livestock as
ISOLATION.
Boice. an Arizona cattle rancher,
told the 46th annual convention OF
the livestock group that IAN in
tolerable situation" is developing
because of packed limitation orders.
F. E. Mollin of Denver, executive
secretary of the association, at
tackled the manpoWer situation in
a report to the convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Ell CENTRIC GETS
ARMY PROMOTION

Raymond F. Labrucher1e. StaIiOh-
ed with the armed forces in the
Panama Canal Zone. was promoted
from the rank Of private TO tech
nician fifth grade. it was announc-
ed Saturday by army officials. He
entered the army a year ago. He
is a brother Of Mrs. Rose D. Bryant
Of 773 State street. FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
keLicenses
Issued Sunday

Bicycle licenses will be issued all
day Sunday at the FL Centre police
station, Patrolman Jack Tackett,
who has charge Of their dlstribU-
ton, said Saturday.
Tacket set a February Is dead
line for obtaining the metal tags.
He said response TO the announce
ment that licenses are available
has not been pleasing Price OF
a license is 25 cents.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17

WAUKEGAN, Ill, Jan. 16.-UP)
Mrs. Anne Tyrrell Lussier, whose
attorney said she was suffering
from frustrated mother love-" was
convicted today of kidnapping g.
month-old boy November "a.
After debating 10 hours, jury
of eight women and four men re-
turned verdict against the 90
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17

/ Reeder. Beverly Hills; DR.. A. C.
Harrison, Santa Paula; Mrs. f. T.
Hale, San Diego: Mrs John Stearns
Thayer, Los Angeles: Mrs. Charles
A. Maclean. Jr.. Pasadena; Preston
HotchkisS, Los Angeles; Roscoe l..
Patterson, ViSalia; George Shell
meyer. Sacramento; Richard Graves
and a member of the Congress of
Industrial Organizations to be
named.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
RESIGNS FROM
RATION BOARD

Mrs. Anna Strickler of El Gen.
tro, resigned from the clerical staff
of the El Centre rationing board,
where she was employed for the
last eight months. She was in the
sugar and coffee rationing depart
rnents and assisted in other depart
ments at the ration board head
quarters in the FL Centre city hall.
Mrs. Strickler plans to rest for a
while
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
RFD CROSS DIRECTORS
MEET MONDAY

Red Cross directors VIII meet
Monday night, 7:30 O'Clock, at the
Ell Centre chapter headquarters for
their monthly session. H. r. An
derson. new chairman, will an
norace committee appointments for
the year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17

continuance of the present yield
OF income"
Members of the governors tax
alton committee are J. F. Sullivan.
Jr.. San Francisco: Thomas c.
Meagher. San Francisco; DR.. Won
7 Ellsworth, Berkeley; John F.
Brady. San Francisco; Leland p.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17

grow greater and greater, and we
must lessen the state tax burden
wherever we can.
However, we must give equal
consideration to the fact that the
present financial position is the
product of abnormal times and
that there is no guarantee of a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
ARTICLES FILED

Articles of incorporation were fill
cd Friday by the Grace Evsngeh-
cal Lutheran church of El Centre.
J F. Waterman. Sam Turner. A.
Richter were listed as directors
end church trustees with Alvin H.
Siemsglusz as president, and J. F.
Swain as secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Rambling Reporter

Continued from Page II
at the intersection OF Fourth and
Main streets.
Oh, well. DO YOU have to men,
ton that the fish were there the
time of the big flood?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
BY PHIL AULT

ALGIERS, Jan. l6,-tUP(-The
first effects of Allied economic aid
to French North Africa we're be-
ing felt today. but the bulk of the
population still waited for concrete
evidence that Allied promises to
help really will mean something
The reaction to the distribution
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
DECREE GRANTED

An niterlocutory divorce was
granted in superior court Friday
to Retha Bellflower in the suit
against Earnest Bellflower. She ac-
cu5ed him of extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Scanning !. Y.
News Horizon
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted in
Imperial county superior court Fri
day to Cenith M Hefner in her
suit against E. Hefner.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Mary L. Sparks Friday sUed Will
liam E. Sparks for divorce. She
said they were married in Merced
June II, 1920, and separated JAM
uary lc, l943.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
'tIFED TO DUTY
WITH L.. ;. NAVY

Frank Nesbitt. chief clerk al the
Security First National bank in El
Centre. left for San Diego Friday
to report for duty with the United
States navy. He enlisted in Septem-
Der but just received his call to duty
this week He expected TO be trans
terred e Ncrtcll "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
EMPLOYED AT
FILTER SERVICE

Ray Measures, employed at the
Womack garage for many years,
now is associated with w. E. Davis
at the Oil Filter Service company
at 1881 Main street. FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Jsps CONFESS LOSSES

up The japanese radio. in new
summary" of aerial losses in the
South Pacific since last August, to-
day acknowledged 2l9 japanese air.
E,snes we.e si.ot down i! combat.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17

" -
ou dished it out with a head start by treachery
now we're going how you take it,
We're gangng up on you, Tojo in way you and
YOUR Nazi friends don't understand.
Spreading like wild6re from coast to coast and
from Canada to Mexico is Payroll Savings Plan
get that, Tojo? Not conhscation -sapfngs.
BY the tens of millions, workers and employees of
plants in every of country cooperating
with their unions and with management.
OF their own free WW they're agreeing to put ten
pcrccnt-a dime from every dollar-of their earnings
H. United States WAR BONDS.
Every payday the plant management sets aside
this ten percent, then each time it adds up to S875,
the worker gets his Bond
See, Too? Hundreds of millions of good U. S.
dollars going into the planes the tanks, the guns
and the ships blast you right out of your sandals
And We're paying for it the workers and en-
poyers . :. the farmers, doctors, lawyers all of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
INTEND TO WE'D

A notice of their intention TO
marry was filed with County Clerk
w. j. McClelland Frinday by Dovle
Leroy Smith. 10. FL Centre machin-
list. and Mary Pauline JenckS, l6,
also of FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
SHE'S GETTING ON

HUDSON, Mass, Jan. 16.-CUP)
In her latest letter to relative,
Mrs. Elvira Sampson, l04, includ-
ed this sentence: Il find that 1
have to use my glasses when 1 write
now"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17

us of our own free will, lending it, from our pay.
And-because this is the american way of doing
things building our own financial security
too, against the day when the war will be over
when we've shown you what decent, clean, free
people can do.
Every year those War Bonds of increase in
value, Tojo until, after years, Uncle Sam hands
us back TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS for every
$l8.75 we invested in beating yon
Get it, Tojo? 1t isn't the Jap wa", the Nazi way
the Fascist way.
It's the free american uay!
So when you see those clouds of planes over your
troops, your ships and your factories when the
tanks come at you splitting lead-and our good Amer
ican boys get you on the run remember, We're pay
ing for it-Smth and Harrigan, and Cohen, and
Godowsky, and Leblanc, and Havlek, Americans all,
in a free country.
SO take it, Too-you asked for it!
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
.sM@szM 8

&NF1
=. BY investing in War Bonds YOU
Up provide the planes, the ianks,
i;,e guns and the ships we must have
to survive and conquer.
z. You prove that you are patri-
Otic American.
3. You aid the morale of our ight-
ing men, by showing them that the
entire Nation is behind them.
4. You prove to our enemies that
we are United People.
s. You protect your own financial
future, as every $1S.75 you invest
in War Bond brings you back S25
in 10 years. You make the worlds
safest investment, by buying IA
share in the worlds most powerful
country.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-26
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON

Exclusively yours: Hollywood's
latest feud is between MGM and
Laraine Dag. She's seeking to
break her contract to accept an
RKO offer following her hit oppo-
site Cary Grant in the soon-to-
be-released From Here to Vic
tory" RKO would like to give
her a glamor girl buildup. Laraines
complaint is that she has never
been given a chance on her home
lot, despite loan-out hits in MY
Son. My Son" and Foreign Cores
pondent"
Shortage of turkeys in Southern
California brought out a discus
sion of substitutes for the tradi-
tional holiday fare on the set OF
Universay's Captive Wild Woman "
How about a ham?' Evelyn Ank-
ers suggested to John Carradine.
why should I have ham on my
table" replied Carradine, when
there's one at the head of it?" -. .
Promised and hoped for Lou Co.'S
tello's burlesque of Sonia Henie on
ice skates in oh, Doctor.