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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

to 1916, working at any Job he could
find to remain in school He is
survived by Mrs. Clapper and by a
daughter, Janet, 20, and a son, Will
liam Raymond, II.
From the University of Kansas,
Clapper went directly to the Kansas
City Star, shifting shortly to the
United Press Associations with
which he remained until 1888. Dur
ing his long service with the United
Press, Clapper made a reporter S
reputation for himself in Chicago,
Milwaukee, st. Paul, New York and,
finally, here in Washington. From
1873 to 1923 he was night manager
and chief political writer in the
UP Washington Bureau. In 1929
Clapper became manager of the
Washington Bureau, position he
held until he joined the Washing
ton Post in 1888 as special writer
From the Post, Clapper in 1896
went to the Scfipps- s-Howard papers
as political columniSt.
1t was as a newspaperman that
Clapper was and wanted to be
known.
NOTABLE FIGURE
Here Clapper became a notable
figure in journalism. Through his
years with the United Press, the
Post and finally the Scripps-
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
Kaiser
Plant
Burns
Mystery Fire
Destroys
Coast Pl ant

PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. 8.
(UP)-G Guards Thursday
were posted around ruins of
the Iron Fireman Manufacturing
plant-builder of engines for Kaise'
Liberty shipS-as officials puzzled
over the cause of a $2,500,000 fire
that destroyed the war plant on
the west bank of the Willamette
river. 1t was the most costly fire in
Portlands history.
Nearly 400 sWing-shift workers
fled before rapidly spreading flames
as exploding acetylene tanks has
tened destruction of the several
buildings comprising the plant, site
of the territorial prison in the
1850's. One wall of the old peniten-
tiary was still in use as side for
one of the structures.
Five persons were injured-tWO
company employees and three fire
men-and one of those employees
was nearly trapped after he return
ed for clothing and a tremendous
draft created by the heat slammed
the main entrance door shut behind
him.
Company Vice President E. C.
Sammons, who said probably $780,
900 worth of equipment could be
salvaged from the $2,500,000 plant.
was uncertain whether the factory
would be rebuilt. The defense plant
corporation had invested 100000 in
the shops.
Loss included "a Marine engines,
valued at nearly 100000 each, and
the firm had 70 engines yet to
deliver under its contract.
The plant employed 1,245 per-
sons.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

straight night. The Mosquito tar
gets in western Germany were not
announced.
Probably 600 four -motored bomb
ers of the United States strategic
air force smashed at Wilhelmshav-
en-, naval city of $4,000 packed with
Uboat yards, repair and fitting
depots, barracks, ammunition and
fuel stores.
An estimated 500 long range
fighters of the United States Eighth
air force escorted the bombers in
their round trip flight of 700 miles
or more.
The Stockholm newspaper Nor
gon Tidningen reported from Bern
that 100000 workers were thrown
out of work by damage to factories
in the latest series of AT raids on
Berlin
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

sending additional equipment for
the big show at the fair grounds.
The six-tank destroyer units or
iginally promised will be supple
mented by more of the army's lat
est tank combat equipment. Two
M-2O armored command cars, a
half-track armored personnel car
rier, an armored scout car that will
tow one of the army's latest 3-inch
anti-tank guns, and fourth ton
jeep, fully radio equipped will be
on parade.
An added feature will be permit
ting of the public to inspect and
speak over the short-Wave radio
unit on the jeep, Secretary Her
ring said.
Col. J. V. Cole, commander of the
Tenth Tank Destroyer unit at Pilot
Knob, will be on hand, the COM
Continued on page 3, col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

LONDON, FEB. 3. (UP)--'
The allied-controlled Cairo
radio said Thursday thar
Fifth army troops have broken
into the streets of Casino and
that the fall of that Nazi held Ital-
ian stronghold is expected momen-
tarily.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
| giers, Feb. 3. OUP)-American tanks
and infantrymen have all but en-
circled the fortress town of Casino
at the center of the Germans shat
tered Gustav line, it was disclosed
Thursday, as other allied 5th army
forces extended their beachheadS
below Rome in the face of in
creasingly-heavy enemy counterat-
tackS.
Striking swiftly to implement
Tuesdays break through along a
four-mile segment of the Gustav
line above Casino, the Americans
filtered into the outskirts of the
town late yesterday, while other
titled village of Terrele, five miles
to the northwest
Front reports indicated the Amer
leans already may. have cut across
the Via Casilina above Casino and
closed a death trap around the
Nazis remaining in the town.
French and American troops
have moved so far through the
mountains north of Casino thai
this enemy stronghold is threatened
seriously" the communique said.
A front dispatch from United
Press war correspondent James E,
Roper revealed that a suicide band
of Nazi gunners held out inside
Casino late Wednesday night, un-
der murderouS fire from American
artillery, mortars, and riflemen
! drawn up on the northern and
northeastern sides of the town.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

Proof that Imperial coun-
ty played a leading part in
the home food production cam
paign in 1943 appeared in the an
nual report of the California Home
Food Production committee which
was released Thursday.
There were $500 home vegetable
gardens in Imperial county in
1943 with $500 of them on farms
and 5000 in the towns, it was re-
vealed in the report compiled by
the agricultural extension service.
There are 16,400 homes in the
county, a total of 11,464 on cities
and 4936 on farms. These figures,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
yonk Planes Rake
Ndzi Sub Bose

LONDON, Feb. 8. (UP)-.
More than LOO American
heavy bombers and fighters attack
ed the big German naval base of
Wilhelmshaven Thursday in the
third major United States daylight
assault on the Reich within a week.
The powerful daylight attack on
Wilhelmshaven probably Germany's
largest submarine base, followed
a thrust at Germany by British
Mosquito bombers for the second
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
WRA Denies TuIe Uprisings

'TULE LAKE, Cal, Feb. 3. (UP)-
Reports that recalcitrant Japanese
internees broke warehouse windows
by throwing pieces of coal in a
new outbreak at the Tule Lake seq
regation center last week were
denied Thursday by war reloca-
tion authority spokesman.
There was coal-throwing cpl
sode, the spokesman said, but it
was confined to "by-play" among
internees. They threw the coal at
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
TanI<-Supported Forces
Sweep Over MarshaIIs
Reach Hear
OF Isles;
Enemy Slain

PEARL HARBOR, 7. H.
Feb. 3. (UP)-U. S. marines
and infantry, backed by
tanks and the heaviest air
and naval bombardment of
the Pacific war, have seized half
of the last enemy-held airfield in
Kwajalein atoll in the heart of
the Marshalls and begun battles Of
determination against japanese
remnants, from dispatches said
Thursday.
With the only enemy oppositio~.
in strength confined to a shrink
ing pocket at either end of the 66-
mile-long atoll complete conquest
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
POLICEMEN GET REST
AS CRIME" WAIVERS

The El Centric police department
has had a quiet week
The most exciting things that
have happened according to Desk
Sergeant T. P. Farmer were the
reports of two stolen bicycles ano
an upper dental plate turned in al
the office.
Wednesday Joe Slovak, 862 Holt
took the teeth to the station hav-
ing found them in the 100 block or
South Fourth street.
Two bicycles were reported stoler
from schools Wednesday. Thomas
Berkshire, IT'S Olive, Wilson schoo
and Dale Lofter, SGT Hamilton, higt
school are the owners.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

LONDON, Feb. 3. (UP)-A mass
evacuation Of Tokyo's 100000
residents is in full swing, in an
ticipation of large-scale allied air
raids on the Japanese capital,
the German DNB news agency
said Thursday in a dispatch from
Tokyo.
(U. S. government monitors
earlier this week recorded Bata-
via radio announcement that civ
ilians also are being evacuated
from Kyoto, a city of more than
100000 inhabitants, and Yokosuka,
a naval station 13 miles south
west of YokohamaD
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
Talked Little
Too Much

RYE, N. Y, Feb. 3. CUP) - A
girl employe at the Milton Point
Shipyards has decided not to
change her name until the war
ends. Her name is Mary Victory.
Despite leap year, she said she
would resist all temptations to
get married for the duration. The
next day she received Is proposals
by phone and mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

ty committees Workin
food production proble
These figures show
est Imperial county I
in the production of f
the food shortages
time," Assistant Fe,,b,
George Winright saiGsv, F
California has a p
100000 Victory Gar
years total of 915,725
tural extension service
versity of California
port showing that ther,
scores of meetings this
southern counties. 1t al
cided to urge home ga,
increase the size of their,
year, both in cities and OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
2 4Mst!Hs 4s"s4ts
This Is Hist0r

This Is Histor.-
The scene is in Honolulu in th>
spring of 1888.
One of the reporters on a biz
neWSpa per in that city was dele
gated to meet incoming steamer.
and interview prominent person;
from the Orient who migt be
aboard
About an hour before the Tatsuta
Maru was scheduled to dock one
morning, the reporter was refused
permission to go on board. Hl'
press card, one which always hac
been successful in getting him on
board before, did him no good wher
he tried to get on the tender to
take him out to quarantine. The
FBI, military intelligence, and po-
lice told him he could not visit thf
vessel but refused to say why. So
he got aboard the big japanese
liner without benefit of the tender.
He was threatened with everything
in the book when he tried to climb
aboard. He was sent back to shore.
The reporter worked on the story
all day and at II pm. that night
handed the yarn to his editor.
"The story was about the find
ing of line drawings of every ship
in the United States fleet on the
Jap ship" the reporter said Thurs
day in FL Centro. I'm addition there
were the number and the names OF
all American personnel at Pearl
Harbor. There were complete color
illustrations of the proposed future
attack on Pearl Harbor"
He was forbidden to put the story
on the wire for the rest of the
world and it did not appear in any
Honolulu newspaper. The reporter
almost wept as he tried to explain
why the residents of the United
States should be told what had hap
pened. But the military and civil
authorities squashed it.
They told me it could not be
printed because it would offend the
Japs,' the reporter said sadly.
BAH
Nothing But Truth
Millicent June Greer, five-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. F.. w
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

clothing and food through their
"block leaders" He said he had
no information concerning the re-
ported demands"
The WRA representative said a
group of Japanese "playfully" toss
ed coal at one another when they
were released from stockade con-
finement to unload coal from a
spur track. He said no warehouse
windows were broken.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

each other, the spokesman report
ed, and subsequently were called
on it and bawled out"
There were additional reports
current here that japanese inter-
nees had submitted new demands"
on the war relocation authority ad-
ministration.
The WRA spokesman, however,
said the internees frequently re-
quest privileges and additional
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
FARM BUREAU ROLL

Imperial Count Farm Bureau
membership totals Thursday were
100 more than ever before at this
time of year, Secretary Scott B.
Foulds announced. The total men,
bership in Imperial county reached
$40 Thursday, Foulds said. The
quota for the county this year is
86O.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
THE WEATHER
FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL

VALLEY Generally cloudy
Thursday night, Friday morning;
showers Friday morning, clear
ing Friday afternoon. Somewhat
cooler Friday. No frost Thursday
night and probably none Friday
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

CThese figures for the most
mart represent "E" bonds soidJ
For convenience In totals
Brawley includes inland. Call
patria and Westmorland, Holt
Vile, Winterhaven and El Cen
tro, Imperial9
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03

Nothing But Truth
Millicent June Greer, five-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.. w
Continued on page g. col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
WEATHER

Maximum wednesday "a, minimum
Thurs AZ; am. Thurs. 46, humid
ity 10; noon Thurs. 65, humidity 81;
pm. wednesday II, humidity 46.
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Watch

This corner for daily
report on bond sales
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-03
italian
City
7otters
Rome Outpost
Is Within
yarks' GRASP

LONDON, Feb. 3. (UP)-
The allied-controlled Cairo
radio said Thursday thar
Fifth army troops have broken
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
THREE COMPANIES
GRANTED CHARTERS

RALEIGH, Aug. o. up Three
certificates of incorporation were
filed today with the Secretary OF
State:
The News, of Hillsboro, to print,
publish and manufacture newspa-
pers, magazines and books: au-
thorized capital stock $4,000, SUBJ
scribed stock $500 by Harry s.
Large and Sue P. Large, both OF
Hillsboro; J. Roy Parker and J.
Roy Parker, Jr., and o. ]. Coffin,
all of Chapel Hill.
Clinton Tractor and Equipment
Company of Clinton, to maintain
and operate a general farmer sup
ply and equipment business; au-
thorized capital stock 100000, SUBJ
scribed stock $500 by T. Mel. Carr
Jeff D. Carr and G. M. Britt, all
of Clinton.
Southern Recording company of
Hickory, to operate a general dis
tributing, wholesale and retail bus
mess in all kinds of sound record
ing Instruments; authorized capt.
tai stock 100000, subscribed stock
$500 by Norman S. James, A. Alex
Shuford, Jr., and Bailey Patrick,
all of Hickory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
AIR BASE PRIVATE
HELD FOR ROBBERY

Pvt. Robert Emmett Clark, %,
of Indianapolis, stationed at Blue
thenthal field, was arrested yes
terday by local policemen, who
charged Clark with breaking and
entering Batson's Service station
at 18th and Market street the
night of August Is, when $25 in
cash and gasoline and fuel oil
coupons were taken.
Clark was turned over to the
military police, who are holding
him on charges of storebreaking,
larceny and receiving.
Identification of the alleged
thief was made possible by dis
covery of fingerprints found on
broken window glass at the es-
Enlistment, the officers reported.
Entrance to the filling station
was made by breaking the front
window.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
Border Belt Prices
Show Mixed Trends

FLORENCE, S. c., Aug. 22-R
Fair lemon leaf increased cent
pound, low lemon demon side)
jumped three cents, common
orange leaf decreased two cents
and low orange Tugs dropped
three cents today on the border
belt tobacco markets, the War
Food Administration reported.
The volume of sales was heavy,
with Jugs, laf and clusters max
ing up the bulk of offerings. Yes
terday the South Carolina markets
sold 3,569,308 pounds at an aver
age price of 1884 cents. North
Carolina markets sold 1920, 1872
pounds at 43.78.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
180.-Legal
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PRELIMINARY CERTIFICATE OF
DISSOLUTION

To all Whom These Presents May
Come--Greeting:
WHEREAS: It appears to my satisfac-
ton, by duly authenticated record of
the proceedings for the voluntary dissolu-
ton thereof by the. unanimous consent
of all the stockholders, deposited in my
office that THE BULLOCK HOSPITAL,
INC, a corporation of this State. whose
principal office is situated at No. 221
North Front Street. in the City of Will
mington County of New Hanover State
of Norh Carolina MARY Bell H. Bullock
being the agent therein and in charge
thereof, upon whom process may be
served, has complied with the require
ments of Chapter Statutes. entitled Cor
porations," preliminary to the issuing of
this Certificate of Dissolution:
NOW THEREFORE. I, Thad Eure. Sec
rotary of State of the State of North
Carolina, do hereby certify that the said
corporation did, on the 18th day of Aug
ust 1914 file in my office duly executed
and attested consent in writing to the
dissolution of said corporation, executed
by all the stockholders thereof which
said consent and the record of the pro-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
Clio MEN CHARGE
VOTE INSTRUCTION

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 22.-tA
Joseph Beck, who resigned as
a member of the Political Action
Committee of Local 872, Interna-
tional Union of Mine, Mill d
Smelter Workers (CIO), said to-
day minutes of meetings and
documents in our hands prove
definitely that we were instructed
to vote Democratic straight down
the line from president of t h e
United States to state representa-
tives."
T. Paul Thomas, secretary, and
Vaughan Haslam, member of the
PAC of Local IS at Bauer, and
Beck, of the PAC local at Tooele,
resigned Aug. IL and stated in let
tiers to committee leaders that
mo one has the right to demand
that we vote straight Demo-
cratic ticket"
Presidents of the locals, in let
tiers made public yesterday by J.
Frank Marble, president of District
Union No. 2, denied they had die.
tated how the union members
should vote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
BEING PROGRESSED

First 1t. Harold W. Wells, %,
of Wilmington, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Wells of 1706 Ann
street, returned from service out
side the continental United States,
d is now being processed
through the AAF redistribution
station, Miami Beach, Fla, where
his next assignment will be de-
termined. AS a B-24 pilot, Lieu
tenant Wells flew 80 missions dur
ing six months in the European
theater, winning the Distinguished
Flying Cross and the Air Medal
with three Oak Leaf clusters. He
is an alumnus of New Hanover
High school and the University of
North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
PENDER COUNTY %,
HAS POLIO BAN

AS Fender county reported its
first infantfle paralysis case, DR..
H. w. Stevens, county health Off
Ger, yesterday announced an i'm.
mediate ban upon the gathering Of
children under the age of 16 in
public places.
AS the occurrence of the polio
myelitis case was in the rural
area far removed from any heav-
appropriated section, DR.. Stevens
said there was no reason for pa--
ents to become alarmed, as the
possibilities for a wide spread
epidemic are exceeding rare"
Diagnosis was made of infantile
paralysis by DR.. N. C. Wolfe of
Burgaw, attending physician to
Sarah Hunt, six-year-old daughter
of c. T. Hunt of Currie.
Arrangements were made by
the Pender County Health depart.
ment for admission, treatment ana
transportation of the patient o
the emergency hospital in Hick-
ory. DR.. Stevens said SPEEDY
transportation and disqualification
of the case assured earlier treat
ment of the paralysis that had set
in, therefore a complete recovery
will probably result"
Notices of a restriction upon
children were posted throughout
Fender county by the Health de-
partment, which notified theaters,
churches and other public gather
ing places of the ban. The notice
read that "due to the prevalence
of infantile paralysis, all children
under the age of 16 are prohibited
from attendance in public places"
DR.. Stevens requested that all
mothers make an effort to keep
their children at home and away
from crowded public places. He
also said that an effort should be
made by every mother and house
wife to eradicate flies from their
homes and fly breeding places as
cit is we'll known that infantile
paralysis may be contracted
through the fly
In letter to Mrs. w. H. Young
of Burgaw, chairman of the In
fantile Paralysis fund of Fender
county, DR.. Stevens thanked the
committee for its quick antivities
in obtaining an ambulance and
transporting Pender county's first
polio case to the emergency hos
pital in Hickory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
Former Judge Returns
From Federal Prison

WHITEVILLE, Aug. % - Paul
Williamson, former judge of re-
corder court of Columbus county,
has returned tc Whiteville from q
federal prison in Petersburg, Va.
after having served approximately
As days of a six months sentence
imposed in Federal court by Judge
Meekins for violation of the OPA
act. According to J. K. Powell,
attorney for Williamson, Judge
Meekins has ordered the sentence
stricken out.
Williamson was originally
sentenced to one year but prior to
beginning his term, the sentence
was reduced to six months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
MANY DECORATIONS

Capt. Russell c. Dellinger, of
Wilmington and North Miami,
Fla, has recently been presented
with the Air Medal and six Oak
Leaf clusters as pilot aboard
a 18th AAF B-24 Liberator. He
entered the armed forces in April,
1912, and has been overseas since
September, 1913. A graduate of
New Hanover High school, Captain
Dellinger was formerly employed
by the Ethyl-Dow Chemical COM
pany. His wife lives in Whining
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
RETURNED TO POST

Cpl. B u r t o n
Potter has re-
turned to h i S
post at Camp
Maxey, Texas,
after a visit with
his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. B.
Potter, and other
relatives. H i S
wife, the former
Dorothy Carlton,
accompanied him
from Texas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
KILLED IN ACTION

WH1TEVILLE, Aug. % - Sgt.
Louis Westcoat, %, husband of
Mrs. Lula Paul Cook Westcoat Of
Whiteville, has been killed in ac-
ton in France, according to in
formation received here yesterday
by Mrs. Westcoat from her hus-
bands commanding officer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
IN STATES

Pfc. Gilbert M. Savage has ar
rived safely in the States for a
30-day furlough with his parents,
M. and Mrs. R. L. Savage of
Castle Hayne. He has served 80
months in Hawaii.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23

James L. Jack
son, carpenters
m a t e second
class, has mott
fled his wife of
1917 South Sixth
street, Of his safe
arrival in the Ha-
Waiian islands.
He was employ
ed by the Will
mington police
department as a
motorcycle pa
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
Donald

E. M a t heWs,
i n j u r e d in
France July 9,
is reported re-
covering nice
ly, considerin.
his injury, and
now is in a
hospital some.
where in Eng
land. He is the
S o n Of Mrs.
E | i zabeth T.
of 800
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23

BRONZE STAR
Capt. James C. Thornton, Jr.,
has been awarded the Bronze Star
medal by Major General Walter
M. Robertson for gallantry in ac-
ton in France. He is the husband
of Mrs. Mildred N. Thornton of
Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-23
180.-Legal

ceedings aforesaid are now on file in
my said office as provided by law
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. l have
hereto set my hand and affixed my
official seal at Raleigh, this 18th day
of August, A. D. 1914
|. THAD EURE,
Secretary of State