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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

him the Democratic leadership of
the New. York state assembly in
1911. He reached the governors
mansion in Albany in 1918. His de-
feat for reelection as governor in
1922 set the stage for his doomed
presidential aspirations.
At the 1924 Democratic national
convf ntion, Smiths lieutenants had
the hall dotted with hidden sirens.
At the proper moment, bedlam
broke out in old Madison Square
Garden, but even young Franklin
Delano Roosevelts nomination
SPEECH lacked the necessary magic
and the nomination went to John
w. Davis.
In 1923, the presidential nominal
ton fell in Smiths lap, and the
nation promptly settled down to one
Of the mcst partisan campaigns in
vears-Hoover VS.. Smith. Families
were divided on the iscue. and re-
ligious feeling hit fever pitch. Al
Smith was a devout Catholic.
Smith carried only eight states.
Surveying the wreckage. Smith saw
little remaining except the political
and personal friendship of such in
fluential supporters as the man who
had nominated him tWicc-Frank-
lin D. Rooeevelt.
LEFT BY FDR
Smith recrganized tie Democrat
ic national commi tee and was max
ing strides i'm the 1882 campaign
when he realized that Mr.. Roose-
velt was travelling sorarate road.
The 1882 Democratic convention
in Chicago made everything clear
Smith arrived with scattering OF
support and instantly assumed
leadership of the "stop-Roosevelt' t.
movement. Smiths clcture forced
night-long session of the convention
which remained deadlocked until
the following day when William 6.
McAdoo steered CALIFORNIA; votes
to Roosevelt.
Smith left the convention, and
his departure presaged his action
in 1886 when he joined coalition
of wealthy Democrats in the Ameri-
can Liberty League to stop Roose-
velt.
He ignored the Democratic ma
tional convention that year, and
supported Alfred M. Landcn, the
Republican nominee.
Smith became president of the
corporation which built the Empire
State Building. and he moved into
an office in The tower. far above the
sidewalks of New York. but still
within view of Oliver street, where
he got his start.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

CHICAGO, Oct. A. (UP)-
Eric Johnston, president of
the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce, believes that after this
war America may again be-
come IAN island for the pre-
servation of Democratic free
doms and individual oppor-
tunity.'
Johnston, speaking at the meet
ing of the Controllers Institute of
America Tuescay night, compared
England's rising tides of collectiv-
ism" and Russia'S determination to
remain 1.-The most collectivised
state" with Democracy in the Unit
ed States and said, Ring out de-
featism, ring in faith and self con-
ficence, America and defeat cannot
be made to rhyme"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
AMATEUR NIGHT SLATED
AT II CENTRIC USO

It's all in fun but servicemen
and women will flirt with the
gong" Friday night-amateu night
at the USOl
Plans for the affair. under the
directio nof Private James S. Nut
ter, Marine Base, include seven acts
from the base, Holtville Navy Air
Base and FL Centre.
A sing" vii launch festivities at
q y. m. and the show will follow.
Mrs. Rita Noah, program director
In charge of Junior hostesses. said
amateurs would perform from a
portable stage, donated by the Ro-
tary club.
Mrs. w F, Worth Jr will be the
accompaniSt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Johnston Says America
Is Isle Of Freedom

I'm Russia. if man gets into trou-
BILE with his employer-he may be
out of luck. In America, If a man
gets into trouble with his employer
he goes around the corner and
gets another job"
In England, labor demands that
railroads, mines, public utilities, and
even the land be nationalized. If
this trend continues, can the indi-
vidual have rightful opportunityP
l say no. the English say yes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
MCCOY VISITS CONVENTION
PLANS FACTORIES TOUR

Merwin Mccoy of the McCoy's
Office Euipment company of El
Centro and Calexico is in Chicago
attending the national stationerS
convention.
After the convention he will visit
factories through the east whose
lines he represents in this territory.
"As we are in a farming COM
munity almost exclusively, I feel
that necessary office equipment for
ranch homes could be introduced
into Imperial Valley as it has in
other farming communities if prop
er buying connections could be
made" Mccoy said before leaving.
MY trip east will be concerned
with what's new and to take on
new lines necessary to give our
customers wide selection to choose
from"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Prescription Filled
Over IS Million Times

recommended to do just two things:
relieve constipation and gas on the
stomach.
This successful prescription is now
put up under the name of ADLER
IKA. Get a bottle of Adlerika next
time you stop at your druggists and
see for yourself how quickly gas is
relieved and gentle but thorough
bowel action follows. Good for old
and young
Get Adlevikd from your druuqist today.
CLEMENTS DRUG STORE
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
RAMBLING REPORTER

4COntlnueu 1lCm rage ~
missed one of his laying hens and
found a young red rooster running
around the place So the big Hi-Y
and Tri-Y banquet will consist of
eight young fryerS and one old hen.
Maybe the hen had young ideas.
Good Medicine
All the patients at the diSpenSary
at the Ell Centre marine air station
felt much better Sunday.
And no wonder.
Mrs. Mark Cook. who lives west
of FL Centre, gave them preScrip-
ton cor cheer. She took dozens of
beautiful roses frc;n her garden, ar
ranged them in containers. and put
them in the disponsary where the
patients could see them.
They're Just like the roses that
grow at home" the patients agreed
Any Port, Eh?
A sailor decided to go in for
AWOL and took off from San Diego.
His conscience began to hurt him
at Tucson, Arizona, SO he turned
back west.
When he reached El Centre he
hunted for special police to sur
render to. None could be found.
The contrite sailor went to the
USO to see if anyone there could
find him a special policeman. No
one could at the moment so the
sailor was given a job of carpenter
work while awaiting the police.
Something should be said here,
such as, make hay while the sun
shines, any port in a storm, or some
such.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

To-day we are 135,000,00O Ameri-
cans. Our industrial might measur-
ed by any ardstick-plant capacity,
skilled employees, natural resources,
or scientific development-overshad-
ows any other country or combina-
ton of them. With all this momen-
tum, dynamic power and resilient
strength, can't we achieve real vic
tory in American"
The basic difference between the
United States and Russia, Johnston
said, is that in Russia there is one
employer-the state, while in Amer
lea there are millions of employers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
We HAVE The TIRES PROVED B,
3BILLIQN
MILES :;; :;;;:; :;;;::::::: :;;;;;:: ;;;;;;;:

Tow GOOD are the
;ll-synthetic Silver
towns we have in
stock? Here's the
answer-proof sup.
piled by essential
drivers. he hun
1reds ofthousands of
all-synthetic Silver.
towns sold by B. F.
Goodrich have al
ready rolled over )
billion miles, accord
ing to the most con-
servative estimate.
Hundreds of letters
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
FARM BUREAU TO MEET

Directors and alternateS of the
Imperial County Farm Bureau will
meet in the court house in Ell Cen
tro at 1:30 p. m Saturday for the
October business meeting. The bud
get committee will present the 1945
budget for discussion during the
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
WESToyER PLANS VISIT

Judge Harry c. Westover, collector
of internal revenue, Sixth District,
viii arrive for a brief stay in e
Centre the afternoon of October II.
James E. Marable, deputy in charge
of Imperial Valley District. an
nounced Wednesday, Westover is
scheduled to address Brawley Ro-
tarians at u noon the same day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
SUE FOR DIVORCE

Two divorce suits were filed in
Imperial county superior court
Tuesday. One was filed by Kathryn
Gilliland against Jack c. Gilliland
and the other by Darrell w. Abel
against Ramona V. Abel.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted in Ell
Centro Tuesday to Hermione john
son in the suit against l. N. john
son.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Death Summons
Al Smith, TO;
Rose 10 Power
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and. wet-eyed. announced his death.
This is the last of a great man. =
he said. He was real man.
great father, great American"
Dr.. Sullivan said he had had "a
severe relapse" at $50 a. m. "ac-
companied by acute heart failure"
Hospital authorities sent at cnce
for Father Healy and Smiths chill
dren. Healy arrived just as he died
and the Children-Mrs. John War
ner. Mrs. Francis j. Quilliman, Wall
ter Smith and Arthur Smith-came
a few minutes later. His sister, Mrs.
Mary Glynn, and lis old friend,
John j. RaSkob, the motor magnate
who helped him finance the worlds
talleSt structure. the Empire State
Building, were with them. A third
son. Captain Alfred E. Smith Jr..
is on duty with the army in the
South Pacific.
A grandson. Private Ar h u T
Smith Jr. SoCn followed along with
the husbands of the daughters and
the wives of the sons.
DR.. Sullivan said the immediate
cause of death was the lung con-
gestion which developed Monday
night and acute heart failure" The
cause of Smiths long illness, he
continued. was intestinal and liver
disturbances" He was 20.
GRIEVED OVER WIFE
Those who had known Alfred
Emanuel Smith intimately over the
years said that he never recovered
from the shock OF his wife's death.
Mrs. Catherine Dunn Smith. the
woman who bore him five children
and watched his political career
build up from Tammany leader
to tie governors chair at Albany
and reach its eminence as his
partys presidential candidate, died
on May 4, 1914. of pneumonia after
a five weeks illness.
Smith went into virtual retire
ment then. He took no part in the
1914 presidential campaign, either
for or against his one-time political
enemy. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The
Happy Warrior of other years was
virtually a political ghost l6 years
after he had unsuccessfully bid for
tie presidency on the Democratic
ticket
Al Smith was born December 80.
1873. in an Irish community on New
York'S Oliver street. His birthplace
was only a short distance from the
ith street Tammany wigwam, home
of the political creed that there
would always be coal in the cellar
for a vote on the line.
STARTED OUT AT A
At IA he quit school to help out
at home after. his fathers death.
He made a brief try at running his
fathers teamster business, then
found a Job in the Fulton Fish
market before deciding that politics
was his field.
At2 he went on the public payroll
as clerk in the office of the New
York commissioner of jurors. Short
" afterward, he met and began
courting Ca Uterine Dunn, the
daughter CT a moderately prosper
Gus ships chandler.
Smith was earning S75 month
when he married Miss Dunn. They
moved into a small flat and began
their life together.
Smith travelled politically upward
fast as far as he could CO. His abil-
ity and wide acquaintance brought
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04

port complete satisfaction; MARI Of them
are confident they will get at lea,: a, much
mileage from all-synthetic Silve:rowns as
they ever got from pre-war tires.
So, see us at once ifyou are eligible for
new tires. If inspection shows you need
them, we'll fill out and handle your ap.
plicstion for these broren B. F. Goodrich
all-synthetic Silverowns.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-04
Is IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. Ada Schultz, postmiStress at
Seeley, became i'll Monday and Is
patient in an Ell Centre hospital.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30
Building Permits

Mine building permits were approved at the council meeting Monday:
 Emil Knudsen-moving build- ing from Jessie Nelson property to rear of Kodiak Fountain.
 T-5 Pat Wright-76 by 46 it. &wo.story addition to house on Shelikof, for apartment house. ;$11.0G0.
 Henry Neseth addition of neom, $640.
 Wm Worth-bathroom addi- &ion $500.
 Walter Sippreii-addition & Improvements to house on Sheli- kof, 5000.
 Thomas Frost-porch on re- sidence, 5000.
 Mrs. Wm. Fitzgerald - im- proyements to residence, $400.
 Al Miller storeroom for Vic- story cafe, $100.
 Harvey Gundlach-building son Jessie Nelson propery, $250.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30
Sees First Movie

Michael Naumoff, II, who has been a patient at the GM hos pital since July 2, receiving treatment for an accidental gum shot wound, and who got his first taste of ice cream at the hospital, added another first to his list Sunday. He was taken to a motion picture by Mildred Davs, hospital nurse, and it was the first he had ever seen.
 He said he laughed so hard at Donald Duck that he almost cried.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30
Card Of Thanks

We wish to thank all the boys who kindly participated in the transportation of the body of Margaret Mikulas and also those who attended the funeral.
 Mrs. Lucy Gregorloff
 and family
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30

The schoolyard is to be scrap- ed of large boulders and 8 coat ing of sand is to be spread in play areas, as the result of ac- tion of the council Monday night.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30
At The Churches

tjreek Russian Orthodox Church
 Rev. Gregory Gleboff A cordial invitation is extend- ed to all members of the church to attend the services.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30
PRAISE CHAPEL

Rev. John Marshall Sunday School 10:40 Morning Service 11:40 Sunday Evening Service 7;00
 Classes for young people Mon. & Fri. evenings at 700 Studying the life of Christ Glasses for young children
 Monday afternoons at 3:45
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30
cOUpONS

Coupons are given with each purchase of one dollar in our grocery and meat departments and al the end of each month twelve such coupons are purchased by us at prices of from Ten to Thirty-fiye dollars value each 10 total of S175OO.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30

Be sure to save your coupons and compare their numbers with the list on display at the first of month in our
 Grocery Department
Kodiak mirror., 1944-09-30

; COMMUNITY BAPTIST Kodiak, Alaska Rev. Gregory s. Morony, Pastor
 Services for
 Sunday October 1 dQ:l5 Sunday School. Classes for
 all ages.
 ll:15 Morning Worship
 Sermon:
 :. "The Blood-Marked Door" 6;30 Christian Fellowship League ! Intermediate, High School : and Young People'sgroup 7: 30 Evening Gospel Hour
 Hymn-sing l
 Led by Edgar Burress ! Sermon:
 [ ''The Beroean Distinction" Tuesday:
 ;. 7:l5 Boy Scouts Troop 625 "Wednesday,
 : 3:3O Children's choir :, 4:30 Junior choir 7:30 Vesper Hour. Prayer Fellowship. Bible Study. Book of Hosea. 3:35 Church Choir PUBLIC READING AND
 RECREATION ROOM Open: Daily l to g pm
 Popular magazines, games s
 etc. In church social room S
 Public invited to visit at S
 any time. x Free Public Circulating Library X Books may be secured by X asking at the parsonage X next to church. x
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
RED TROOPS DRAW NEAR
 BE55ARABIA
Two Soviet Drives Making Speedy Progress to
 Odessa, NikoIaey

MOSCOW, March 16.-The whole central sector of the German front in southern Russia appeared in a state of collapse, the Russians said, as Marshal Konev's Second Ukraine Army drove relentlessly toward Ru- mania, advance units of his troops reaching positions less than hun dred miles from the frontier
 The Rumanian frontier, as defin- ed by Moscow, is the border set up in 1940 after Russia annexed Bessarabia. Actually, according to official Russian reports, Soviet ad- vance Red Army troops are within 30 miles of the Bassarabian border.
 Field dispatches said two great Soviet drives are making speedy progress toward Nikolaev and Odes- sa, and the Germans are falling back in confusion to these poten- tial evacuation ports. Some Rus sian units are reported about 100 miles north of Odessa, while Nix olaev is virtually cut off from the Black Sea by Russian big guns cov- ering Bug Lake below the city.
 The Germans are apparently in danger of losing the most northern of the two remaining railways in their hands which run back into Bassarabia from Slobodzeya. On the Odessa -Lwow line, the Soviet re- ports say. their troops are only 20 miles north of the junction.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
GH05T(ITY IN NHAND50F
 ALLIES NOW
Resistance Continues Until Artillery Hd CTS
 Germans in Hills

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 16--Covered by thunderous artillery barrage, the Fifth Army infantry and tanks plunged into the ghost city of Cas- sino but Allied Headquarters said this advance by continuing German resistance from the ruins left by yesterdays record aerial lombard ment and enormous destruction wrought by the weight of some 2,500 tons of bombs. actually delayed the Allied armored forces.
 Frcm the surrounding hills the Germans started laying down heavy mortar fire to hinder the sappers struggling to clear the de- bris.
 Late this afternoon progress is reported however both in the de- vas.ated city and in the hills to the northwest as troops drove over piles of wildly churned rubble left in history's most concentrated air attack
 Several hundred British and Am erican artillery pieces are pounding the enemy in the Cassino sector and other targets are also under bomb- ardment.
 Allied Air forces took crack last night and early today at railway and other targets in Sofia, Capital of Bulgaria.
 Heavy and medium bombers at- tackled successfully on the beach, head below Rome. Allied ground forces are also on the move. taking two German defense points and holding them against forceful en- emy counter-attacks.
 L.. Gen. Baker, Commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces called the Cassino bombardment "fumigation" and expressed belief la few enemy defenses are left in- tact
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
! Dead, 7 Hospifalized
 As Result of Stabbin0
 Affray ai Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March l6.-- Two victims of last Monday nights stabbing, aftermath of drinking party in cabin, died overnight and James H. Cox, 49, farmer, has been arrested by the City Police and held in the Federal jail on $4,000 bond on an assault charge committed prior to the deaths.
 The dead are Willard McCann, AT, brother of Mrs. Gertrude Pelle of San Francisco, and James c. Ivan, 46, restaurant worker.
 Two others Tn the hospital are John P. Harth and an unidentified
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
HARD BLOWS
 ARE STRUCK
 IN DAYLIGHT
Terrific Smash Made by Air Force in Two Days of
 Aerial Invasion

LONDON, March 16. = Bearing down on southern Germany Ill great strength, United States heavy bombers struck another hard blow in quick sequence to the record night attack of the RAF which hit Stuttgart, Munich and other tar gets with more than 1000 four-en- gined bombers carrying over 3,36o tons of bombs. It is the strategic Air Forces second aerial invasion of Germany in as many days.
 The first detailed accounts cf the smash came over the German radio, which said widespread falls of snow and cloud conditions caused grea. difficulties in getting the fighters off the ground to meet the onslaught.
 Nevertheless, German reports said fierce air battles took place aloIg the bombers' course over eastern France and western Germany.
 Similar radio accounts yesterday, however, dwindled off into empha- sis on the cloudy weather, and It developed that only small defen- sive force was able to meet the challenge when the Americans bombed the aircraft production cen ter at Brunswick with the loss of three heavy planes.
 Today's sally is officially describ- ed as in great strength in con- trast to yesterdays medium force whose fighters downed 36 enemy fighters. The bombers yesterday claimed none.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
TRUkRAIDED BY B0MBER5
 0FU.5. ARMY
Airdrome, Installations, Ammunition Storage
 Areas Are Hit

WASHINGTON, March 16.-- Army bombers attacked Truk shortly before dawn yesterday, hitting airdromes, installations and ammunition storage areas on two islands at the big Jap naval base.
 The Navy said explosions and fires resulted.
 The attack was carried out under heavy anti-aircraft fire with only one of our planes be- ing hit.
 All planes returned to the base at the same time the Navy an- nounced.
 New attacks by Army and Marine planes were made on other Jap bases in the Mid Pacific area, including assaults which brought hits on ammuni- tion storage areas and a radio station on one unidentified en- cmy base in the eastern Marshall Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16

soldier.
 All four were stabbed in the abdomen with a hunting knife.
 Police Chief George Norton said the four intervened in fight be- tween Cox and a native girl who rebuffed his attentions.
 The police were called by na- tive boy and they followed Cox in car for several blocks, then ar rested him and the girl, whose clothes were mostly torn off
 An inquest on the dead convenes today and the Grand Jury convenes Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
vAPNYARKA CAPTURED

LONDON, March 16.-In a spec ial order of the day, Stalin tonight announced the Red Army troops have captured vapnyarka. cutting the Lwow-O Odessa railroad. A vig- orous attack by tank and infantry formations smashed the railroad junction, 25 miles east of the Bes- sarabian border. This cut the most important link" between the Black Sea port of Odessa, leading north ward through zhmerinka and carv- ed a new gap Tn the Germans es- cape route in the lower Ukraine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
LAST CITY COUNCIL MEETING, PRESENT
 ADMINISTRATION

With Mayor Harry I. Lucas; re- gently returned from Washington, D. C., presiding at the City Council tomorrow night, the last meeting of the present administration will be held in the Council Chambers of the City Hall.
 Routine business will be discussed at the session which is scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
G0pER5
 ELECT OFFICERS

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Re- publican members of the Senate have ratified unanimously the pres ent setup of officers organized as a steering committee with Sen. Taft at the helm; Senator White retained as Acting Leader in the place of the late Sen. McNary: Senator Van- derberg, Acting Conference Chair man; Senator Wherry as Whip, and Senator Burton, Conference Secre- tary All officers are only for the present session of Congress which ends in January.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
DETROIT DOCTOR
 E SENTENCED 10
 16 YEARS, PRISON

DETROIT, March 16. Federal Judge Edward Moinet today sen fenced pr. Fred Thomas, Detroit obstetrician, convicted of conspiracy to violate the wartime espionage act, to l6 years in a Federal Prison
 Dr. Thomas is one of eight persons indicted on charges of espionage and conspiracy, convicted two weeks ago by a Federal jury. The six who pleaded guilty are awaiting sem tencing. Charges against the eighth, Bertrend Stuart Hoffman, Merchant Marine seaman, were dismissed on the grounds that he was mentally incapable of understanding the charge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-16
LARGE FIRES
 STARTED BY
 WEWAk RAID
Base Supplying Mddang Is Heavily Raided-Eight
 Jap Planes Downed

ALLI E D HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March l6. For the fourth consecutive day Liberators, Mitchells and Bostons roared over Wewak, New Guinea. on Tuesday, dropping l74 tons of bombs and downing eight enemy planes.
 The tonnage brought the four day total to an excess of 500, and the number of planes shot out of action to more than TO.
 Wewak is the big air supply base for Japan's crumbling ground po- sitions in the vicinity of Madang 200 miles to the southeast.
 The reports also announced that the Australians in the Mintjim Valley south of Madang have reach ed a fine road leading to Bogadjim, Madang's main defense outpost.
 Smoke after the Wewak raid from the blazing fuel dumps rose 5000 feet and heavy damage WIS inflicted and many gun positions were silenced, the communique said.
 Bougainville and other Northern Solomons positions from which the Japanese recently launched heavy assaults on the American airbase at Empress Augusta Bay, were blasted Monday with l23 tons of bombs, and the raiders also poured eight tons of explosives on stead fly crumbling Rabaul
 
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