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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Legislators Eye Measures
On Special Sc ssion Lists

had conferred with him on the
proposed black market law. which
is to be introc uced in the legisla-
ture by Assemblyman Walter j.
Fourt tR) Ventura.
Dunaway, Johnson said. urged
that the law make state crimes of
selling goods above price ceilings,
buying and selling rationed goods
without ration stamps and over
drawing on ration bank accounts.
The OPA is pressing for the latter
two points and merely proposed the
price ceiling measure" Johnson said
he was informed.
johnson said there was a posi-
bility the measure might reach the
assembly floor as merely prohibi-
ton against forging or counterfeit
ing ration stamps or books and
against dealing in bogus ration
documents.
WOULD SET LIMIT
Legislative sentiment apparently
was against putting the state
stamp of approval on all OPA reg
ulations and measure prohibiting
black market transactions in any
rationed commodity" died in the
senate judiciary committee at the
end of the 1943 regular session
after passage by the assembly.
johnson said the OPA attorney
told him that large quantities OF
food had been obtained by retail
ers in excess of their rationed sup
plies by over6 RATS. Banks handling
the ration accounts honor such
overdrawn checks" but report the
draft to the OPA, 1t was explained
Federal action against such trans
actions so far is believed to have
been confined to limitation of deal
ers supplies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON, June 3. (UP) The
Allies announced Saturday that
Rome would be spared the ravagcs
CT war unless the Germans elect
ed to defend the city itself, which
Berlin implied would not be done.
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson,
Allied commander in the Mediter-
ranean, said the Allies we're in
terested "solely in the destruction
and elimination of German forces
in Italy and expressed hope that the
enemy would not make the "ill-
considered choice" of defending
Rome.
A few hours later Jhe DNB news
agency quoted Nazi government
SpOkes reporting German
measures as result of which Rome
today can be considered as a city
free from soldiers"
Both Allied and Axis pronounce
ments came one day after an ap-
peal by Pope Plus to the billiger-
cnts to spare Rome and its people
from battle.
BY all signs Rome's safety dep
ended on her own defenselesSness
and the ability of Allied arms to
exploit the successes in the Alban
hills and from them forge a deciS-
i've victory.
The battle ragged within a little
more than a dozen miles of Rome,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04

BALTIMORE, June 3.
(UP)-Agents of the FEEDER
al Bureau of Investigation
Saturday arrested IA men and one
woman on charges of participating
in a draft rejection ring which
coached prospective selecteeS on
how to feign ailments to keep them
out of military service.
The accused, including three SER
vicemen attached to the Baltimore
induction center. were promptly
arraigned and held in a total of
$4,000 bail for hearing on June
13.
The roundup followed several
months investigation, in which the
FBI was aided by the military in
telligence and army officials of the
induction station. Motion pictures
were taken by the federal agents
of many of the alleged meetings
and contacts between various fig
ures in the case.
Sale of the reflections first came
TO the FBI's attention last Novem-
ber when DR.. James S. Hens, a
psychiatrist attached to the induc-
tion center, attempted to obtain
$2500 from an inductee by offering
to coach him how to feign psyche
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
House Unit 0kehs
S1,500,0O0,o00
On Postwar Roads

WASHINGTON, June g. fUP) -
The house roads committee has
approved a national postwar roads
program calling for expenditure of
81 1,5C0000,C00 ito chart the progress
OF highway construction in this
country for the next quarter of a
century,
The bill would authorize an ap-
preparation of 81 500, 100000 for PLAN
ming, acquisition of land, and other
preparations for construction of a
40,000-mile chain of national inter-
regional highways connecting major
cities.
The legislation would apportion
funds to states on a basis of so
per cent in relation to population,
25 per cent to area and IS. per cent
TO road mileage. Previously tfef 2
three factors have been weighed
equally.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
SURPLUS FUND

SURPLUS FUND
Meantime, three interim le2is-
lative committees were holding a
joint prc-session meeting here TO
put finishing touches on a postwar
building program involving S4,-
100000 appropriation for building
sites, transfer of around $40,O0O000
of the state surplus to a conStruc-
tion reserve. and other items.
A joint interim tax committee
will meet Sunday to look over the
draft of a bill which would boost
state contributions to the teachers
retirement system by about Sl2,-
100000 a year to put the system
on a sound financial basis.
Deputy Attorney General Charles
johnson said that Ben DunaWay,
San Francisco regional attorney,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
False Report
Given Out
On Invasion

NEW YORK, June 3. tUP = A
false announcement by the Asso-
ciated Press that the European in
vasion had started flooded news
paper offices all over the nation
with telephone calls late Saturday.
The announcement was credited
by the AP to Gen. Dwight d. Eisen-
hoWerS headquarters and said
"Eisenhc Wer'S headquarters an
nounce Allied landings in France"
This, was followed in few minutes
by an order to withhold it from
publication and later by manda-
tory kill phrase used on press
association wires to make certain
that a dispatch is not published.
Meantime, however the announce
ment was broadcast on the CClum-
bia net work.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
BY UNITED PRESS

A strike at a Detroit war plant
and a strike threat from Midwest
truck drivers arose Saturday ON
an otherwise comparatively peace
full labor front.
AT Chicago the central states
drivers council of the AF'L team
sters union ordered strike vote
taken next week end by 10000 in
tercity drivers in ~ midwestern
states.
Union officials said that If the
strike is approved by The union
membership, it will be called against
the companies belonging TO the
Midwest Operators association. The
union claimed the association had
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Bombs
Blast
France
Americans Put
New Speed
Into Assaults

LONDON, June 3. (UP)-
The United States Eighth
air force stepped up the
tempo of its attacks on the French
invasion coast Stature ay when Fly
ing FortresseS and Liberators
smashed twice within a few hours
at German Notifications in the Pas
Gle Calais and Boulogne areas.
Lieutenant General James H.
Eoolittles heavy bombers led hun
dreds of allied planes across the
channel by daylight tocay in the
wake of a strong British night force
which divided 1900 tons of explos-
ives among the TrappeS rail juno
ton outside Paris, the French coast,
and the German chemical center of
Leverkusen.
The Americans met no German
fighters over the clouds, but some
squadrons ran into intense anti
aircraft fire, including concentra-
tions of ground rockets, which sell
dom have been encountered lovsr
the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
CLARkS Army HuRDL Is
.APPIAN Way FORTRESS
Should Change
Name TO Keep
Things in Tune

CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 3. lUP)
The wife and three babies of
Private Twobabies were visiting
him at FIT. Warren today.
The story of Private Amos
Twobabies, an Indian, and the
arrival of his wife and three
babies Friday, was related by the
Fort Francis E. Warren Sentinel
The telephone in one of the
supplemental training companies
rang. An MP solicitiously inquired
if there was a Private TWobabieS
in your outfit Told that there
was, the MP replied: We'll. tell
him that his wife and three babies
are waiting at the railroad Sta
ton"
The Twobabies really Eave four
babies, but one remained at home.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
u. s. Planes Use
RUSS an Base
To Strike NoziS

aerial bombardment Saturday on a
virtually unlimited scale.
The initial such attack was COM
rleted Eric ay when scores of Fly
ing FortresseS, with an escort of
American Mustang and Soviet Yak
fighters, landed at newly
ed bases somewhere in Russia"
after raiding Romanian targets Sc
lected by the Russian command.
Is HUGE SUCCESS
The Moscow radio reported from
IAN airdrome in the Soviet Ukraine"
that Flying Fortresses attacked
targets in Romania on the shuttle
raid, leaving bases situated in
Italy, England. or North Africa or
all of these places" 1t said the
mission was quite successful" thai
the American airmen were welcom-
ed warmly by the population, and
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Showdown Nears
On j. 5. Bureaus

WASHINGTON, June 3. tUP) =
The continued existence of 26 ex-
ecutive agencies, created by Presi-
dent Roosevelt but not approved
by congress has reached the show
down stage as the house took up a
senate amendment denying funds
for their operation.
The amendment, which the senate
tackled on to the independent Of
fices appropriation bill after the
measure had passed the house, pro-
vides that agencies created by ex-
ecutive order and inexistence a
year or longer without congression-
al sanction shall be killed. 1t is one
of several amendments on which
senate-house conferees conld not
agree.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Happy Birthday
BY LLOYD LAPHAM

SACRAMENTO, June 3.
(UP) OPA officials are
urging a broadening of a
proposed anti-black market law to
be considered at a special session
of the legislature next week to in
clude a state ban on overdrafts of
ration bank accounts by food deal
ers and other regulation violations,
the attorney generals office dis
closed Saturday.
The black market act suggested
by Gov. Earl Warren in his call for
the special session would mention
only dealing in rationed goods
without stamps and counterfeiting
or using counterfeited ration stamps
as subjects for state action.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Court Holds Wlb
Rulings as
Review Proof

WASHINGTON, June 5. (UP) -
The justice department soon will
ask dismissal of all Montgomery
Ward & Co, suits challenging the
validity of War Labor Board orders,
it was understood Saturday.
Such action will be based on
Fridays decision of the court of
appeals for the District of Colum-
bia that WLB decisions are not
subject TO court enforcement or
review.
Justice department officials, jubi-
liant over the decision, interpreted
it as an approval of the administra-
tons position in the Ward cases
and other legal contests over the
validity of WLB orders.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
SKIPPER OF SUNK VESSEL
DENIES MARITIME COUNT

SAN FRANCISCO, june 3. tUPD
Capt. Joseph c. Chambers. skip
per of the S. S. Henry Bergh, Sat-
urday pleaded innocent to charges
OF Incompetence and negligence In
allowing the transport vessel to
wander from its course and ground
on the Farallones Wednesday with
1000 naval personnel abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
OPA Alters Price
On Vegetables

Average price for cabbage will be
about four cents per pound. with
very slight variations in different
parts of the country, OPA said.
New retail ceiling prices for snap
beans will be between Is and 18
cents per pound, while field grown
cucumbers will sell for IL to y
cents per pound through June Is,
and for nine to 10 cents from June
Is to the end of the month. Hot
house cucumbers will sell for about
% cents pound.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
100000 Truckers
Wait Strike Poll

failed TO comply with a WLB or
der for an hourly wage increase
of seven cents.
At Detroit, a walkout by 5000 Cay
shift workers crippled production
of tank engines for the army al
the Continental Motors company
plant The strike was In protest
against the company's dismissal o!
three union stewards.
AT Washington. leaders OF strik-
ing Greyhound bus employees told
the WLB they would ask union
members to resume operations ~
soon as possible. They have bccri
on strike since May 20. tying up
Greyhound bus service 10 the north
from Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Nazi Ace Dies,
Berlin Reports
By UNITED PRESS

announced Saturday that Major
Friedrich Karl Mueller, "one of
our most gallant and daring fighter
pilots died heros ceath."
The radio dispatch. reported by
the federal communications COM
mission, said Mueller, commander
of a fighter squadron has scored
140 air victories.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
US0 Considers
Move to Open
Kenyon Plunge

An effort to work out suitable
arrangements for operation of the
Kenyon Plunge under a USO pro-
gram will be made according to
Miss Goldie Carter, New York USO
representative who arrived in FL
Centre Friday evening.
Miss Carter, who is director of
fielc operations of the YWCA and
USO, said that the need for an
outdoor program in conjunction
with the usual USO activities is
recognized for this area and if an
agreement can be reached with Mrs
Kenyon the USO will obtain the
services of qualified personnel to
operate the swimming pool.
ON INSPECTION TOUR
Making an inspection tour of
western USO facilities, Miss Carter
was joined in Los Angeles by Mrs
Clara Alcroft, Southern California
supervisor for YWCA work in USO
They met with Fay Andrews, El
Centro director, and Mrs. Rita
Noah. staff assistant, in checking
the facilities and observing activ-
tiles of the program in Ell Centro
I'VE are looking forward to the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Yankees Follow
To Rome
Bv-Pass Main
S+ronshoIds
On Appian Way
By ROBERT v. vERMILLION

"A - L. L T. ~ I1EADolO An
TIERS, Naples, June 3.
(UP)-The Fifth army by
passed the beleaguered fort
ress of Lanuvio in a fighting
advance up the Appian Way
to the outskirts of Genzano Satur-
day, and the allied command re-
piled to Pope Plus with a pledge
to spare Rome from battle unless
the Germans defend it.
American artillery pounded Gen.
zano, Is miles southeast of Rome
and halfway between newly-cap-
turec Velletri and the papal sum-
mer home at Castel Gandolfo. in
preparation for imminent assault.
German small arms fire from Gen.
zano was diminishing, but heavy
guns emplaced III the Alban Hills
above hurled rolling barrages on
the Appian Way.
DRIVE THROUGH HILLS
Mt Castellaccio. five and half
miles north of Velletri. fell to Amer
lean troops driving through the Ale
ban hills between the Appian Way
and the Via Casilina.
American forces at Valmontone.
10 miles northeast of Velletri, struck
out west along the Via Casilina, the
other main road toward Rome
against fierce enemy opposition.
Another American column rolled
southeast from Valmontone along
the Via Casilina toward junction
with Eighth army forces pushing
on through Ferentino, 18 miles
away. and a French column driv-
ing through the hills south of the
highway
WOULD SAVE VATICAN
AS his armies closed in on Rome
from positions as close as l3 miles
Continued on Pg. 6. Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Russ Stop Nazis
On Rolnania Line

MOSCOW, June 3. (UP)-RedI
army troops smashed series of
strong Germans infantry and tank
attacks in the Iasi area of the Ro-
manian front and took a heavy toll
of enemy men and material, al
though a communique acknowledge
ed Saturday that the Germans had
driven a slight but unimportant
wedge into the Russian lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
StiIweII Gusts
jap Forces

CHUNGKING, June 3. (UP)-
Lieutenant General Joseph w. Still
wells troops slowly closed the ring
around the isolated japanese gar
rison at Myitkyina Saturday, with
Chinese and American columns
driving from the north and south
against rail and shipping centers
in northern Burma. and airCrome
ChinditS approaching from the
east.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04

WASHINGTON, June 3. (UP) -
The Office of Price Administration
today set new retail ceiling prices
ON cabbage, snap beans, and field
grown and hot house cucumbers.
Cabbage will be increased APP
proximately 3/10ths of cent a
pound above prices prevailing dur
ing June, 1943. Substantial reduc-
tions from last years prices were
set for cucumbers and somewhat
smaller reductions for snap beans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

EASTERN COMMAND,
u. S. Strategic Air Forces,
Russia, June 3. (UP)-The
first American shuttle raid
involving the use of bases in Rus
sia opened up all axis Europe-in-
cluding previous blind spots to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04

who first announced the Baltimore
arrests in Washington today, iden-
titled three servicemen on the staff
of the induction center as major
figures in the alleged conspiracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
BASEBALL

NATIONAL
Chicago 600 600 000-0 5
BROOKLYN ...l....... .2l1 coo 00x-4 8 !
Wyse, Alderson f8) and Holm,
Kreitner 80; Melton and Owen.
Cincinnati . 900 900 004-4 7 z
Boston ........ 100 l02 0lx-5 Q 2
Walters, Ferguson % and Muel-
ler; Hutchinson, Javery 90 and
Hofferth.
st. Louis ....... 900 900 3ll-5 8
Phils sdelphia COZ 100 00O-3 o
Wilks and w. Cooper; Gerheauser,
Hamlin and Finley,
AMERICAN
New York oil O0l 600 100 ca Is ]
Cleveland 1lO O0l 900 10" l-5 l6 Q
Bonham. johnson uO Turner
1O) Zuber and Garbark: Smith.
Heving 90 Kleinc lCp Klieman
Q0 RCsar.
bostOn ..--.---....-..- o3u vi
Detroit 100 90
Hughson and Wagner; Orrell'
Mooty 90 and Richards.
Washington .. 900 0l0 2G0-3 0
Chicago 202 OO1 00x-5 l3 2
Wynn and Ferrell; Dietrich,
Maltzberger CD and fresh.
Philadelphia 100 $50 ECO II 3
st. Louis .......... ..2O6 OBS 0lx-l7 II l
Flores, Hollingsworth (5) Schieb
60 and Hayes; Potter and Man.
cusco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Fifteen Held as Leaders
In Draft Ring

neuroSis when he came up for his
physical examination. Hens was
convicted and sentenced to five
years Imprisonment.
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
Rome's Fate Lies
.InNuziS. Hands

and certainly it must be decided
within a few days whether the city
would or could be spared.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
p HAN1!nte AMsL!Ne
NEpoRTER
It's Diplomacy


Bob Smiths astonishment knew
no bounds when he saw a small
boy standing in the lobby of the
Ell Centro theater calmly smoking
a cigarette.
Il wonter what a good theater
manager should do in a case like
this?" Smith asked himself while
trying to recall if there was rule
in the rule book to help him.
Boy said Smith finally as he
gazed down on the lad, "hOw old
are you?"
I'm II years Old the boy said
taking the cigarette out of his
mouth with flourish.
You came into this theater this
afternoon on 12-cent ticket"
Smith said. but if you're going to
smoke like an adult you've got to
buy an adult ticket
The boy stopped smoking and
hasn't been seen smoking there
since.
Happy Birthday
You should have seen the olcan-
ders anC Whatnot which we're pre-
Scnted to DR.. John G. Pace on his
birthday anniversary by his office
staff and other employees in the
county health department
How old are you, Doc?" LaWr-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04

!. Ethiopian College
!. Pope Leo Nv Wall
/. Governors Palace
/. Vatican Gardens
. Pope Plus Nv Casino
/. Picture Gallery
!. Museum Entrance
!. Museums
. Court of the Pine
. New Wing
/. Printing House Cour..
+. Library
/. Belvedere Court
!. Power, Heat Plant
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04
WEATHER

Maximum Friday SO, minimum Saturday SO; am
Saturday 66, humidity IL; noon Saturday SO, hu-
midity "A; pm. Friday SO, humidity &c.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04

~. Sistine Chapel
20. Raphael Galleries
20. st. Damascus Court
80. Papal Apartments
81. Post Office
80. Belvedere Palace
33. Garage
"a. Machine Shop
IS. Newspaper Office
Sc. Vatican Parish Church;
81. Gate of st. Anna
80. Swiss Guards Barracks
80. Ancient Wall leading to st.
Angelo Castle ts
stOric buildings. As the battle fol
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-04

1. A. HAY-U. S. No. l 31-33.50; u. S. No. 2 leafy
l. v. S3o.5O-325 No. 2 $1,000 -S3I.OO; Sept. flax
s2s6N.
Evening star., 1944-02-01

Is to be married to Pvt. Manson
Parker Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Manson B. Smith of East Hebron,
N. H.
Miss Hewey is senior at the
University of New Hampshire and
Pvt. Smith, who is now stationed
at Fort Custer, Mich, is a graduate
of Holdeness Academy in Plymouth,
N. H, and attended the University
of New Hampshire before entering
the Army.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
The Navy and the Coast Guard
Join interests in the announcement
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Millard
Gillespy of Paris, ILL.,, of the en-
gagement of their daughter, Ensign
Carolyn Gillespie of the Naval Re-
serves, to Ensign Robert Clark
Browning OF the Coast Guard Re-
serves.
Ensign Browning is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Browning of
Washington. He was graduated
from the Webb Institute of Naval
Architecture in New York and is
at present stationed at the Coast
Guard Headquarters.
Ensign Gillespy attended Nc
Murray Women's College at Jack
sonville, Ill, and George Washing
ton University and is member of
Beta Sigma Phi. She is at present
assigned to the Navy Department.
No date has been selected for the
wedding
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Mrs. Walter Nash
Will ArviUe Here

Mrs Walter Nash, wife of the
New leland Minister, will arrive
here tomorrow, accompanied by
Mrs. John Reid, who came with her
by sea from New Zealand. They are
now en- route by train from the West
Coast and will be met here on their
arrival by the Minister and MIR.
Reid.
Mrs. Nash joined the Minister in
New Zealand some months ago
when he went home on a special
mission and was delayed there for
some weeks by the illness of the
New Zealand Prime Minister. He
returned to this country some time
ago, but Mrs. Nash remained for
a still longer visit in their home
country.
Mr.. Reid was formerly connected
with the New Zealand Mission in
this Capital and was associated with
Mr.. Nash at the time the Legation
was created
Evening star., 1944-02-01

Miss Gillespie
Selects Date
For Wedding

OF unusual interest in Washing
ton is the announcement made today
by Mrs. Julian Gillespie of the
engagement Of her daughter, Miss
Mary Howard Gillespie, to 1t.
Laurence Sanford Critchell, jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Critchell of
New York and Los Angeles.
The wedding of Miss Gillespie and
1t. Critchell will take place Febru-
ary 10 in the Walter Reed Memorial
Chapel.
The bride-elect's father, the late
Mr.. Gillespie, was commercial at
tache of the United States Embassy
in Turkey at the time of his death
several years ago. Miss Gillespie
was graduated from the National
Cathedral School for Girls in l941.
She attended Notre Dame. She is
a member of Zeta Tau Alpha So
rority and an honorary member of
Phi Pi Epsilon.
1t. Critchell attended preparatory
schools in this country and in Paris
and Cornell University.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
vy Lease Bride
OF Mr.. Horton
1t Home

A prettily arranged wedding was
that of Miss Ivy Virginia Lease and
Mr.. William Henry Hickman Hor-
ton, jr., which took place last eve
ming. The ceremony was performed
at the home of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry G. Lease, the
Rev. Bernard Braskamp, pastor of
the Gunton Temple Memorial Pres
byterian Church, officiating at 8
o'clock
Mr.. Lease gave his daughter in
marriage. Her wedding gown was of
aqua blue crepe and she carried a
white prayer book to which was
fastened single white orchid. In
her hair she wore cluster of white
blossoms.
Mrs. Charles B. Spring, jr., sister
of the bride, was matron of honor
and Mr.. Raymond Streeks was best
man. Mrs. Spring was dressed in
tangerine-color crepe and she car
ried an old-fashioned bouquet with
a cluster of matching flowers in her
hair.
Mr.. Horton, who is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Horton, and his bride left
on short wedding trip following the
informal reception. Mr. Horton will
return to duty with the Navy and
his bride will return to Washington,
where she will make her home with
her parents for the remainder of the
war