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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Bonds Purchases
Reach S822,518

Heavy buying by two large con-
Germs sWelled the accumulated total
of war bond pulchases in the Sixth
War Loan drive in Imperial county
10 1922, Tuesday. Tuesdays sales
reached $2S9,316. Twenty-one days
were left in which to buy bonds,
and to reach the county goal CT
$2,750000. In nine days, one of which
was a holiday and one Sunday. the
county had raised somewhat more
than fourth of its quota.
Heavy purchasers Tuesday were
the Union Oil company, $35 500, and
Golden State Creamery, $25 900. The
entire creamery's purchase was
credited to FL Centro. The oil COM
panys purchase credited FL Centre
with $l2,500. CaleXico with $l0,5Oc,
Brawley with $500 and Holtville
with $4,000.
Ell Centro's Third Bond Army
composed of store statesmen who are
supposed to sell bends to customers
who enter their stores. has fallen
down on its job almost completely
Ell Centre Fire Chief Corn Reed, in
charge of the army" declared We'd
neSday.
They are not even trying to sell
bonds" Reed declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

The meeting. held in the court
house in FL Centro. ple,eed sup
port of program worked out by
the Meloland group and pres ,nted
to the California senate postwar
planning committee and now to be
ttken to university authorities.
While the Meloland station in
Imperial Valley is forced 20 oper-
ate again next year under the same
old budget. it was pointed out that
other stations and institutions n
the state have been allocated large
sums from the $24,500,000 allotted
to the university for its agricultural
work.
PLANS OUTLINED i.
1t was proposed that the school
be built in connection with the sta.
ton and operated as unit of the
California college of agriculture. The
estimated cost Of buildings and
equipment for the school was $685.
D00 Training proposed inclut ed
agronomy, truck crops, animal hus-
bandry, dairy husbandry, soil tech
nology, farm management, farm ma
chinery and shop, and physical edu-
cation to meet requirements OF state
law.
Established primarily for training
returned veterans of Worlc War No.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
(UP)-Congress had before
it Wednesday Civil Aeronaut-
les Administration recon-
mendatiOns for construction
Of 305O new airports and i'm
provement of 1926 existing
fields at an estimated cost of
$1.25O.000,000.
The CAA's airport plan. if adopt
ed by congress, would increase the
nations total of airports to 63O5
under federal-state joint financ-
ing plan. similar to the public roads
program. Construction would be
completed over a period of five to
10 years. &-t
Looking to the needs of private
fliers in the postwar period, CAA
recommended that 80 per cent of
the proposed outlay be spent on air,
ports. intended only for private
pilots.
The. CAA requested that $4,000 900
be appropriated immec lately for
surveys and Preliminary work. CAA,s
airport survey was made in re-
sponse to resolution introduced
by Representative Clarence Lea CD
California, chairman of. the house
interstate commerce committee.
Now pending In congress Is a bill
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Mother, Child
Escape Death
As Home Burns

Two damaging fires, one Whlcn
narrowly missed causing the death
of a mother and child, occurred IN
Ell Centre Tuesday night as throngs
of spectators at both fires inter-
fered with the operations OF the
department, blocked approaches to
the structures, and impeded the
firemen's efforts to bring their
equipment into action, Fire Chief
Corn Reed declared Wednesday.
Reed announced that hereafter
he will ask police to arrest spec
tators who interfere with the de-
partment at a fire in any way.
The second of the two fires, which
was by far the more serious, COM
pletely destroyed three-room
stucco dwelling in Villa Farms, just
outside the northern city limits OF
Ell Centre 1t was caused by the eX7
plosion of kerosene heater, Reed
said. who then violently denounced
kerosene heaters as prolific cause
of fires.
The fire department acquired no
names, but Reed stated Wednesday
morning that the woman, who is
the wife of a u. S. Marine stationed
at Oceanside, and her child first
fled the house and then reentereu
it apparently in an effort to sal
wage belongings, were forcibly drag
ged out of the blazing building by
an unidentified neighbor. Reed es-
timated damage at $1,000.
The first fire destroyed the gar
age at the residence of r. B. Dough-
erty, 1855 Brighton avenue. 1t was
believed to have been caused by a
chemistry set belonging to Dough-
erty's 12-year-old son. Dougherty
told Reed there was nothing else
in the garage which could have
caused fire. Reed. who estimates
the damage to the garage at $3.50,
sid 1t was ins ! ed.
The garage belonging to Don
Mayfield, Dougherty's eastern neigh
bor, caught fire from the Dougher-
Hty garage, and was damaged slight
~, Reed Said,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Landlords Draw
EdmundS' Fire

Rent Control Chief r. K. Ed
munds returned to Ell Centre from
San Diego Wednesday, and led off
with statement supporting U. S.
Employmf mt Service Chief Tom Fin
ney on the subject of landlords re-
fusing to rent their rooms and
apartments unless they can charge
what they please" #s-..
There are too many landlords in
FL Centro who are eager to help
service men, but whose idea of help
ing service men is to take advantage
CT their necessity by charging them
as much as possible" Edmunds de-
clared.
The day after the Post-Press
carried the story of landlords be-
ing sentenced to six months in Jail
in San Francisco, our office received
40 new registrations" Edmunds said.
"TheSe landlords had" been renting
rooms without registering, which in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
yonks
Move
On Roer
Advance Gains
IN Heavy
Front Fighting

PARIS, Nov. 20. (UP)-
American armies captured
six anchor towns of the yield
ing German defenses before
the ROar river line athwart
the road to Cologne Wednes-
day in hard won but steady
advances along a 16- mile
front.
Lengerivere, K0slar, FrenZ,
Jungersdorf, Kleinhau, and
Hurtgen fell in bitter fight
inc TO the American Ninth and First
armi ineXorably clamping an as
sault arc on the near approaches OF
Duren and Julich, tTSS- bastions OF
The Roer river line Lenperivere was
the biggest barrier on the road to
Duren.
PATTON MOVES UP
To the south, Lieutenant General
George S. Patton's Third army was
within sight of the end of its Grive
acrofs France, with the left wing
already slugeing through Germans
Continued on Page 2, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Soviets
Cross
Danube
Armored Force
Swe ep Toward
Austrian Line

LONDON, Nov. 20. (UP)-
Russian arm Or e d columns
slashing across the Danube
100 miles below Budapest,
were reported battling into
the Hungarian stronghold of
PEGS Wednesday in a new
thanking sweep toward Lake
Balaton and the Austrian
border.
simultaneously, the Soviet Sec
ond and Fourth Ukrainian armies
linked up in solid 90-mile front
across the flooced mountain roads
of eastern Slovakia and northeast
ern Hungary and crushed slowly
wrstw aatt .,ag4inst tbitter enemy rev.
sistance.
Berlin military commentators re-
ported without confirmation that
furious battle was raging on the
immediate approaches to PEGS, 100
miles south southwest of Budapest.
The enemy reports said three Soviet
tank formations were converging on
the city after forcing a new cross
ing of the Danube % miles to the
east and capturing the west bank
city Of Mohacs.
There was no immediate inc ica-
ton whether the Soviets were try
ing merely to draw off enemy re-
serves from the Budapest area or
we're bent on a full-scale drive for
the Austrian frontier. PEGS lies 55
miles below Lake Balaton, and
sweep around the southwestern COR
nor of the lake would put the Red
army spearheads within 40 miles
of Austrian soil.
Berlin said maSse6 German artll-
lery and flax batteries Knocked out
Is Russian tanks on the outskirts
of PEGS. thwarting a Soviet attempt
to break into the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Shells Rake Shore
Points at Will
Tokyo Boasts
Of Sinking
Eight Vessels
BY WILLIAM b. DICKINSON

A L L | E d HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Philippines, Nov. 90.
(UP&-American destroyers
and other naval units sailed
boldly into Ormoc bay, heart
of the Japanese pocket in
northwest Leyte. and bonn
barded shore installations
for an hour and a half with
out drawing answering fire,
it was announced Wednesday.
The naval forces a so
searched a wide area of the
Camotes sea off northwest Leyte be-
fore and after the bombardment
Monday night for enemy ships at
tempting to reinforce the doomed
Leyte garrison, but none was found.
TOKYO CLAIMS RAIDS
Meanwhile Tokyo radio claimed
the japanese have begun heavy
counterattacks against American
forces in northern and central
Leyte.
Japanese broadcasts recorded by
United Press in San Francisco as
serted the CapoOcan- -Colasian high
way running near the shore of
Cariaeara bay was severed" Men
day night and that American forces
were trapped" in the Managasnai
and Limon sectors.
In the Carload sector south OF
Ormoc bay, the unconfirmed enemy
broadcasts claimed, Japanese troop
were "hammering" the Second Bat
talon of the Seventh Divisions )
Third Regiment after forcing tn !.
Americans into a 12-mile retreat
from Baybay harbor to the out
skirts" of Caridad)
FIRES KINDLED
United Press War Correspondent
Ralph Teatsorth. who was aboard
one of the participating destroyers
said large fires were kindled in the
sea and air base of Ormoc by the
Continued on Page 2, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
JOBS Vow Death
To yunk Pilots

CHUNGKING, Nov. 80. CUP)-
American filters who parachute from
B-29 Superfortresses onto japanese
soil after bombing Tokyo will be
killed on the spot by angry Japa-
nese." a Domei news agency dis
patch said Wednesday,.
Threatening renewal of atrccity
slayings of United States pilots, a
Domei political commentator called
B-29 crewmen "Savages," towards"
and "Albino apes" and warned that
death awaits them if they bail out.
The frenzied outburst, broadcast
by Tokyo radio and heard in China,
was one CT the most violent Japa-
nese reactions to the Superfortress
raids originating from the Marianas
bases.
The Domei commentator referred
to the "cowardly Yankees" and
savage American airmen' and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Forts Wipe Out
Nuzi Oil Plants

perate defense against increasing
assaults at the heart of the Germn
war machine.
A few hours earlier Halifax and
Lancaster bombers hit the arms,
industrial and rail centers of Essen
and Neuss after one of the strong
est Mosquito bomber forces ever
sent out had attacked the Nazi
party shrine city OF Nurnberg.
The Mosquito raiders struck Nurn-
berg shortly after 7 p.m... sending
a great weight OF two-ton block
busters crashing down into the Nazi
shrine city. Returning pilots said
their first bombs went down in a
tight concentration and touched off
tremendous explosion ON the
ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

2. the school would also be open to
anyone interested.
1t is proposed to increase the
staff at the station to include a
director, agronomist, animal nus
bandryman, truck crop specialist,
farm foreman, laboratory techni-
clan, secretary, and six full-time Ia
borers.
BUILDINGS PROPOSED
The plan includes requests for
huilc ings estimated to cost 500, ,l02,
purchase of additional land at an
estimated cost of $4,000, and equip
ment to cost $l3,475, totalling $l35.-
577. Estimated. cost Of personnel
would be $3O,480 year.
In explaining the program Argyle
McLachlan said that the members
of the Meloland group stuoied the
situation and agreed that veterans
and the general farming situation
in Imperial Valley best could be
served by the expansion of station
activities and equipment and estab-
lishment of the school.
POINTS TO SUCCESS
The Meloland group presented the
following facts to prove the value
the Meloland station has been to
agriculture in the southwest. I'm
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Grocery Company
Loses $4,000
To Sdfe.Crackers

Safe-crackers took $1,000 in cash
and $1,000 in checks from the Manila
Grocery company, 486 Broadway, Ell
Centre, some time Tuesday night or
Wednesday morning. Ell Centre Eo-
lice announced Wednesday. The
robbery was discovered Wednesday
morning when the company's staff
came to work.
Entrance was forced Though the
rear door, police said. The safe was
tipped on its back. The combination
ON the outer door was broken off.
and the ints rior lock was "jimmied'
with some kind of instrument. police
said.
Deputy Sheriff Bob Jensen. fin
gerprint expert, spent Wednesday
morning in a search fer tell-tale
clues.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Plans for Yu|e
Cheer Speeded

Final plans for making Christmas
happy time for patients in the
army, navy and marine hospitls in
the Imperial county area were made
Tuesday night at a conference OF
Red Cross camp and hospital COM
mittee members, the American Leg
ion and auxiliary, USO representa-
tives. and representatives of the
armed forces.
Christmas boxes will be present.
ed TO each patient in the nine mill
tary hospitals in this area. six oe
them being in the Imperial county
area. Between SO and 60 Christmas
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
NAzI DRIVEN FROM COLOGNE STR0NCH0LDS
County Group Takes Steps
For AqricuIturuI School

point of accomplishment, "McLach-
Ian said, "it is the best in the ma
ton"
l. In the early history of the
Meloland station, considerable work
was done with deciduouS fruits, the
negative results having saved COM
mercial growers thouSanCS of dol
lars because the station tests proved
they were not feasible.
2. Trial of 100 varieties of grapes
resulted in recommendation of the
Thompson Seedless variety in 1919.
This variety is now used almost ex-
clusively by commercial growers in
Imperial and Coachella Valleys.
g., Findings from early trials of
citrus fruits influenced establish
ment Of Marsh Seedless grapefruit
as the stancar variety in this sec
ton.
4. Extensive trial Of olives re-
suited in recommendation of the
Mission and Manzanilla varieties.
5. tMeloland station was the first
10 QeNelOp d SdJlSl ldCpOly iIiClliOO VI
roofing date off shoots. Much work
was done by the station on date cul-
tivation,e processing, packing, and
by-proeucts. The best varieties for
this section have been determined
because 1T should be remembered
that this is the greatest potential
date growing region in America
6. The first successful crop OF
rice in Imperial Valley was produc-
ed on the station in 1920. The Blue
Rose variety was introduced by the
station and recommended to grow
erS.
7. Meloland strain of milo was
purified, increased, and distributed
by the station in 1923. 1t was ac-
claimed the highest producing
strain of grain sorghum in the coun-
try. Double Dwarf milo originated
in Imperial Valley and is widely
used because it is we'll adapted tc
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
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said:
''Woe be the fate of the America
savage who after blindly bombins
Tokyo attempts TO parachute to
safety because he will be killed on
the spot by the angry Japanese
people"
An unknown number of the pio-
neer Tokyo raiders, who dropped
the first Allied bombs on the enemy
capital in April, 1912, were executed
by the Japanese. The executions
were first announced by President
Roosevelt on the second anniversary
of the Doolittle mission and were
later confirmed by Tokyo radio.
The enemy broadcast. acknowl-
edged that capital punishment was
meted out" to some OF the fliers
captured. The war department list
ed 10 men as prisoners. presumed to
be prisoners or missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Good Samaritan
Act Costs (. {.
Man Car, S100

Harry Lett. Ell Centro Auto Court,
was held up and robbed of his
Plymouth coupe, 500 in cash, his
wallet and important papers a mile
or more west of the city Tuesday
night by man he had undertaken
to accommodate, Lett told Ell Centre
police.
Lett was picked up and taken 10
police headquarters by Edward
Sublett. Lett told police that, as he
was leaving a pool room in Ell Gen.
tro Tuesday night man sitting at
a neighboring card table asked him
for ride, and that he agreed to
help him.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

itself is a serious offense.
so far there are only two cases
in Ell Centro where landlords have
positively refused to rent except at
their own piice, but great many
more are threatening to do SC. Our
only hope of dealing with them is
through an appeal to their patriot
ism, through education and public
ity. The newspaper is about the
only instrument we can rely on to
get results,
What the landlord does not seem
to under stand is that rent control
is not concerned with the element
of profit. 1t is designed TO keep liv-
ing quarters within reach of service
men and war workers, to combat in
flation, and to sustain the war ef-
fort
I'VE certainly are net going to
help anyone profiteer,' Edmunds
concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

Tokyo radio, in a broaCcaSt re-
corded by United Press. reported
the apparent raid at approximately
8:12 am. tPWT) while the planes
were overhead but there was no
immediate confirmation from Off
cial American sources.
AT the end of routine news
broadcast shortly after micnight,
Japan time, the Japanese announcer
said:
"A minor formation of enemy
planes penetrated the Tokyo area
little before IL o'clock on Novem-
Der 20. Japanese interceptors are
now giving a hot reception to the
enemy raiders"
Both previous B-29 raids on Tokyo
were daylight missions.
The Japanese report of new
raid on their Imperial capital city
came shortly after a Domei news
agency commentator warned that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

American savages" who parachute
from B-29s onto Japanese soil will
be killed on the spot" by angry
Japanese people
Todays Tokyo racio raid alarm
was recorded by United Press, San
Francisco. The enemy's preliminary
announcement of the attack was in
line with the enemys apparent new
policy of reporting raids while they
are in progress.
Tokyo was blasted by Superfort-
resses Friday, November "a, and
Monday, November 81, in the OPEN
ing of a systematic aerial campaign
to smash Japan's War-making ma
chinery.
Targets in the raids were the
Nakajima airplane factory, the To-
ko-Yokohama waterfront and other
selected military objectives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

LONDON, Nov. 30. (UP)-More
than 1000 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators, escorted by an equal
number of fighters, attacked the
bic oil refinery at Misburg, freight
yards at Hamm, and other targets
in northwestern Germany Wednes-
day following a heavy British bomb
artlment of Nurnberg, Ansen, and
NeuSs.
The attack on Misburg was the
tenth and possibly the final shat
)tering blow to the vital oil works,
,one of the largest in Germany.
! The swarms of Mustangs, Thun-
lderbolts and Lightnings were sent
hlong In the expectation the Nazi
auftwaffe would offer another des-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

OTTAWA, Nov. 20, (UP)
Parliament resumed open
debate Wednesday on Prime
Minister Mackenzie Kings
motion for a vote of conf
dence with increased predic-
tons by informed sources
t h a t King S government
would survive.
Both opposition leaders and MEM
bers of Kings own liberal party
declined to discuss the eight hour
closed session which ended shortly
before midnight in which Defense
Minister A. G.. L. McNaughton was
questioned at length on the govern
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

Letter Bag
This letter came recently. We pass
it on 10 you.
ITO The Rambling Reporter:
After reading your article in the
Rambling Reporter awarding bou-
quetS to the people who are res
ponsible for the rural recreation
dances in Veterans Memorial hall,
| wish to thank you for it, also 10
add my compliments regarding those
dances. These dances are rare, clean
fashioned fun and entertainment
with good music and refreshments
which makes them a good place
to go and take the whole family
May there be more of them! And
you--RR-deserve a very large bou-
quet of lilies also, for writing about
Continued on Page 9, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Cunudo'S Premier Faces
Test i'm Parliament

and the situation was described as
tense"
AT Port Alberni. b. C.. some 100
"zombies" (active seryicemen's name
for home guards marched In the
streets carrying banners proclaiming
Wen be Zombies Forever" ana
Down with Ralston and his gang"
Col. j. l.. Ralston. former defense
minister, resigned in protest OF the
governments earlier refusal To Inn
pose conscription.
However, spokesmen for Canada's
Pacific command headquarters ~
Vancouver declared they hold "coss-
plete control OF all camps and char
acterized reports OF the soldier re-
volt as exaggerated
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

ment'S intentions of conseripting
10000 men TO reinforce fighting
forces overseas.
Demonstrations by youthful men,
bers of the home guarc, still insist
ing that they not be sent into fight
ing zones, continued as the closed
session ended.
A Saskatchewan home defense
unit, attempting to board a train
in Terrace, b. c., to take up garri-
son duty in an un-armed west coast
defense zone, was threatened by
armed pickets of another unit. No
shots were fired. but military
spokesman said the Saskatchewan
unit remained in Terrace. All liquor
stores and beer parlors were closed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
100 Farmers and Businessmen Set Out
Expansion Plans for MelOland
.Bv MARGUERITE BROOKS =

Dissatisfied with having the Meoand agricultural ex-
pertinent station treated sepchd of the University
of California and financed with crumbs left over after
ALLEGATIONS to other areas than 100 farmers and
businessmen Tuesday night endorsed plans for extending
the valuable work done the station and approved nstt
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Generally cloudy wednesday
night. Decreasing clOudiness by
Thursday afternoon. Windy
Thursday and somewhat cold
er. No frost "Wednesday or
Thursday nights.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
CONGRESS Scans CAA Call
For Big Airports Project

od proposed by the CAA.
In the CAA report California is
listed for l74 new airports to cost
S37 ,893, $3.50; and 1877 for improve
mentS, $l9,018, $40.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Il AnBllNe
EpoR1ER

Genuine Loyalty
Los Angeles county is at the head
of the list as the greatest agricul-
tural producing county in the United
States" John Kubler admitted Tues
day night. But Los Angeles county
couldn't be at the top of the list
without all the Imperial Valley hay
they put through their cows
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29

introduced by Representative Jen-
nings Randolph CD, West Virginia,
for a $1,000 100000 airport construc-
ton program under joint feceral-
state backing, similar to the meth
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
Tokyo Hit Again.
Soys Jap Report

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. %. (UP)-Tokyo radio said
Wednesday minor formation Of enemy planes presum-
ably B29 Supeortesses based in the Maranas appeared
the Tokyo shortly before midnight November
30 Wednesday, rokyo time) in what appeared to be the
third attack Japan's capital city within week.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-29
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 76, minimum
Wed. SO; am. Wed. 43, humidity
II; noon Wed. 66, humidity 3S;
pm. Tuesday 20, humidity 36.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-05
Doubt Refund
By Nash Ke|v.

Although rcnogoustion proceed
Ings for Nash kelytnator Corp. for
the fiscal year ended Sept. 30,
1919, have not been started, the
company does not believe q PROVE
sion for a refund Of profits 10 the
government VIII DO required. aC-
Cording 10 George w. Mason,
president Mason pointed out that
no refund Of earnings for previous
fiscal year was required and that
profits for the 1913 year are con-
sidered not 70 NJ excessive"
Major output is entirely in the
aircraft field and includes 1000
horsepower Pratt & Whitney en-
gines. MISUNDERSTANDING propel-
lcrS and Sikorsky Helicopters,
Mason stated
lie said the company was plan
ming for conversion 10 pcaCctime
products. although without inter
fering with war production. add
ing that contracts with the gov
eminent called for removal Of
government facilities and IN many
cases government inventories.
within a reasonable period after
contract termination