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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Leaders Stress
Dangers Of
Hawaii Attack

HONOLULU, March 30. CUP)-
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander of the Pacific fleet, and
Lieutenant General Robert C. Rich
ardson, Jr., army commander for
the Hawaiian area, warned in affi-
davits filed in federal court Thurs
day that Hawaii was still in i'm
minent danger" of Japanese inva-
sion and had been ever since the
December 7, 194l, sneak enemy at
tack.
Beth Nimitz and Richardson con-
tended that continuance of martial
law and suspension of the write
cf habean corpus were necessary
for the prosecution of the Pacific
war.
Their affidavits were filed as
part of lengthy brief in which
counsel for Honolulu County Sheriff
Duke p Kahanamoku, famous Wal
kiki swimmer and surf rider, asked
dismissal of petition for a writ
of habeas corpus that sought the
release of civilian war worker
jailed by military court.
The case was the second within
less than year to challenge di-
rectly the existence of military law
throughout the Hawaiian territory.
Counsel fer the war worker, Lloyd
c. Duncan, charged that martial
law no longer existed in Hawaii
and said Duncan should have been
tried by civilian court.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Raj Raids Hit
Reich. France

LONDON, March 30. (UP)-RAF
bombers spread destruction through
France and western Germany We'd
nesday night in the wake of a day.
light pincers assault that hit Axis
Europe from the French invasion
coast to jittery Bulgaria Wednes-
day.
British-ba heavy bombers con-
centrated their block busters on
targets in France, Halifaxes hitting
railway targets at vaires, Is miles
east Of Paris, while a small force
of Lancasters attacked an aircraft
engine works at Lyon.
Twin-engined Mosquito raiders
dropped fire and demolition bombs
on Kiel, Germany's biggest naval
base, and the western Reich dur
ing the night. One bomber was lost
in all operations from Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
House Committee
Speeds Draft
Of 4.F Rosters

WASHINGTON, March 80. tUP)-
A house military affairs subcommit-
tee moved ahead Thursday in the
task of preparing limited national
service legislation to force 4-F draft
registrants into non-combat work
battalions or essential industry.
Conceding that voluntary methods
have been unsuccessful in forcing
into war work an estimated 100000
4-F's now in non-eSsential jobs,
Chairman John M. Costello, CD +,
Calf, said his group would present
legislation for compulsory pro-
gram to the full committee about
mid-April, when the congressional
Easter recess ends.
CITES MEASURES
Costello said the bill would re-
fleet recommendations by under
secretary of war Robert P Patterson
and assistant secretary of the navy
Ralph A. Bard that the proposed
new non-fighting units should not
be entitled to bonuses, free lifetime
disqualification, or veterans en-
ployment benefits. The measure, he
said, will include these features:
/. Establishment OF an auxiliary
working corps, probably under Sc
lective service control, to replace
able-bodied younger men in war in
dustry with physically deferred
(4-F) draft registrants.
2. Place administration of the
industrial replacements directly in
the hands of local draft boards.
3. Provide for gradually stepping
up of the non-deferrable ace groups
SO that after men under 26 have
been taken from essential industry
the 4-FS can be used to replace
others up to % and 30.
d. Provide disability compensa-
tion and possibly family allowances
for men taken into the work corps.
FOLLOWS LUCE BILL
The plan is modified form of a
limited national service bill offered
by Rep. Glare Boothe Luce, CR.)
Conn, except that it would affect
only men up to the top draft age
of 81. The Luce bill would also in
clude childless married men from
38-45.
Rep. John J. Sparkman, CD, Ala.
a member of Costello's group, said
he thought it would be inadvisable
at this time to force into essential
war work men who are not subject
to induction.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

Bombed
At Anziio
One Wounded
yank KiIIed.
II Injured

"A l. l. | E d HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, March 30.
(UP)-German fire bombs,
turned an American hospital area
OF the Anzio beachhead into a
bloody shambles Wednesday night,
climaxing a night and day of sav-
age patrol fighting and artillery
exchanges on the three major Ital-
ian fronts.
Screaming in over the waterfront
under cover of darkness, forma-
ton of Nazi bombers dropped high
explosives aand incendiaries across
the port area in an apparent at
tempt to blast allied military in
stallations and shipping.
Two American field hospitals
came in the Nazi line of fire and
were blasted and burned by a half
dozen incendiaries that fell across
cluster of tents crowded with
wounded men and medical corps
personnel.
One wounded American soldier
and ward man were killed when
an incendiary mace direct hit
on the surgery ward in which they
were sheltered. Five other wounded
soldiers and nurse died from in
Continued on pg. 8, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Crippled Child
Left 10 StaIve

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.
tUP)-Police Thursday asked lola,
Kansas, authorities to take into
custody Mrs. Louise Flack 28-year-
old mother of a seven year old Grip
pied child, whose starved body was
found in a deserted San Francisco
apartment
Captain of Inspectors Bernard
Mcdonald said a hold" order had
been sent to Police Chief Harry
Gardner of lola authorizing him
to detain Mrs. Flack while local
investigation of the case here was
continued.
The child, Dolores, Dee Dee"
Flack died of malnutrition while
food in plenty lay almost within
reach of her helpless hands, an
autopsy showed Thureday. The
mummified body was found We'd
nesday night.
Mrs. Flack told Gardner earlier
that her husband, Marvin Flack,
left San. Francisco in January, 1943,
to take a construction job in Alas
ka. She said she left San Francisco
last month.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Utah Senator
Backs Mexico
Water Treaty

WASHINGTON, March 30. CUP)
Senator Ebert d. Thomas, Cd, :,
Utah, told the senate Thursday
that hearings will be held soon by
the foreign relations committee on
the treaty allocating to Mexico a
share Of the Colorado river waters
Although Senator Sheridan Dow
ney, DJ, Cal, recently objected
to the ratification of the treaty
Thomas pointed out the seven
other states affected by the treaty
do not oppose it. He said he per-
sonally felt it should be promptly
ratified"
He said the record of treaty neg
citations which would be presented
before the committee would lead
the senate to the same conclusion.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Southern Floods
End Seven Lives

we're receding in the highland
areas, but the floods continued to
rise along the lower stretches as
tributaries poured their burdens
into the principal rivers.
Three soldiers drowned in Ken
lucky when their truck was swept
off a bridge.
Three perSons were drowned in
northeast Mississippi where the
Tombigbee river rose more than Is
feet in "a hours.
AT Columbus, Ga. Doyle Mat
thews, 81, drowned when his boat
crashed against a submerged tree
in the swollen CEattahoochec river.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
7 Babes
Perish
In Blaze
Trailer Home
Burns After
He later Blast

Two small boys burned to
death in a trailer house in
an Ell CentrO auto court
Thursday morning when a kero-
sene stove exploded and sprayed
them with blazing oil.
The mother, Mrs. ]. c. Clinken-
beard lighted the stove in the house
trailer about tbs am. Thursday
and went outside, leaving her two
sons, Chester, two and half years,
and Lester, year old, in bed as
leep. She was outside only a short
time when neighbors saw the fire,
Ell Centre firemen said.
The whole interior of the ply
wooc house. trailer was ablaZe in a
second. The heat was so intense
that no one could get in to rescue
the children.
Almost crazed with horror and
grief, the mother was placed in
charge of a physician and her hus-
band was summoned from Yuma,
where he had gone to work, Deputy
County Coroner A. T. Lyons said.
Lyons said this was the third
trailer fire in Imperial county in
less than three months which has
resulted in deaths. Within that
period four persons burned to death
in the Holtville area, one in the
Calipatria area, and the two VIC
Tins in Ell Centre Thursc ay.
Most of the Clinkenbeard pos
sessions which they had brought
from Salinas were destroyed in tie
fire
Funeral arrangements were not
complete Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Churchill Wins
Confidence Tilt.

LONDON, March 80. (UP)-
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
won an overwhelming vote Of con-
fidence Thursday when the house
of commons reversed, 425 to %, a
ballot defeating his coalition gov
ernment on minor issue.
Commons registered virtually COM
plete support of Churchill in the
showdown on which he had in
sisted as a test of his leadership
and the fate of his cabinet.
The vote was on an amendment
TO the education bill to provio C
equal pay for men and women
teachers. The house approved the
amendment Tuesday, lit to ll6,
over government opposition.
Thursdays vote was on a motion
that the disputed clause in the
education bill should be eliminated
from the measure.
Throughout the debate, Churchill
sat in one of his dourest moods on
the front bench, but smilingly ac-
knOWledged the cheers as he left
after the vote.
His only intervention came when
he rose and warned members:
Until we are fortified by a vote
of confio ence from the house, TAX
ing the form of deletion of this
clause, the government does not
feel entitled to embark upon prom
iSeS."
His remark came when it was de-
cided that the debate could not in
clude constitutional issues which
some members wanted to inject.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

"A beTllu cOInnunlQue reported
the evacuation" of Cernauti, third
city of prewar Rumania in the
northeastern province yielded to
Russia along with Bessarabia in
1910.
SKATER NAZI DEFENSES
The collapse of German resistance
at Cernauti shattered the Nazi
communications vital to the de-
fenses of southeastern Europe and
laid open the way for a whirlwind
advance by the rampaging Russians
into Rumania proper.
Alt ugh Nazi propagandists
termed the loss of Cernauti an
evacuation" Moscow reports of
violent street fighting in the city
of 10000 made it evident that the
German garrison was overwhelmed
by the great Red army offensive
pulverizings the enemy oefenses of
the entire southern front.
A Stockholm dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph said other
Russian forces southeast of Ger
nauti had plunged across the Prut
into Rumania proper and were bat
tling in the streets of Iasi, vital Ru-
manian rail junction some miles
west of the Bessarabian border.
80 MILES TO HUNGARY
Cernauti, most important COM
munications center west of the
Prut and south of old Poland, fell
to Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's
Continued on page 8, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Wheat Shortages
Face Country

CHICAGO, March 30. (UP)--The
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
said Thursday, in discussing "scme-
what CT crisis in the livestock feed
situation" that feed production
Will drop to about 20 per cent be-
low January L if yields are normal
and farmers plant according to
government agency suggestions.
a reduction in feed supplies will
force several overall farm adjust
mentS, the bank said. A reduction
IN lower type hogs and beef animals,
and low producing hens was recon-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Yanks Keep Up
RabauI Raids
HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific, March 30. OUP)
American bombers, maintaining
non-ctop offensive against iso-
lated japanese positions in the Bis
marck archipelago, penetrated in
tense ti-aircraft fire ever Ra-
baul Sunday and Monday to de-
stroy 80 buildings at the cnemy's
battered New Britain base, it was
announced today.
Tokyo radio said 1873 Allied planes
hit Rabaul again on Tuesday, add
ing that six of the craft we're shot
down and four heavily damaged"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

ATLANTA, Ga, March 30 CUP)
AT least seven persons are dead
and hundreds were homeless Thurs
day as flood waters sWirled through
villages and across farm lands along
every river from North Carolina
to Mississippi.
The sun Shone Thursday for the
first time in several days in the
Grenched southland and streams
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
County Registrations
For Primaries Lac

to vote at the consolidated primary
on May 16," McClelland said. 1T is
better to telephone or visit the
county clerks office in the court
house in Ell Centro before that
date to see if your registrations
are in ORDER" the official points
out.
The tren6 of registrations in I'M
perial county follow the state trend
where registration is said to be
approximately a million short of
what it should be.
Records in the county clerks
office revealed the following regis
trationS:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Aircraft Holds
Postwar Key

INGLEWOOD, Calf, March 30.
CUP = Aircraft manufacturers
"streamlined management policies
can stabilize the United States
postwar economy, w. G. Clos, War
Production Board field operations
representative, said Thursday after
tour of North American aircraft
plant. The U. S. cold level civilian
goods production at $4,000, ,O0O, 900
a year by using the diversification
and streamlining methods in air.
craft manufacturing, Clos said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Two California
Fliers Killed

LA JUNTA, Colo, March 30. (Up)
Names of three men who were kill
ed Thursday by Col. Roy D. Butler
training plane crashed at the Rocky
Ford auxiliary field were announc-
ed Thursday by Col. Roy d. uBtler
commandant of La Junta army air.
field
The victims we're Second 1t. Ken
meth A. Marquis. 90, CT Centralia
Wash; Cadet Deniel Patrovich, "a,
of Vallejo, Calf; and Cadet Warren
c. Owen, 20, of Burlingame, Calf
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

mended.
The rapid disappearance of wheat
stocks carries with 1t threat that
flour and bread raticning may be-
come necessary, Tie survey said.
1t estimated that by the end Of
June approximately 00.000GOO
bushels of wheat, of which 100 00o.-
600 to 50,0O0,00O bushels will be
imported, will have been used Tho
1943 carry-oyer OF 6l8.000.0O0 btish-
els will have been reduced TO 3D0.-
100000, IAN unccmiortably low
level"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Voters Urged
To Register

SACRAMENTO, March 80. CUP)
Secretary of State Frank M. Jor-
dan Thursday again urged Califor-
mia residents to register to vote in
the May 16 primary election, de-
claring that current registration Is
at least 100000 below normal.
Preliminary reports early this
month set registration at 2,765,817
in the state, the lcwest total in
ii years.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Official registration in I'M

Official registration in I'M
perial county is approx
mately half of what it was
in the fall of 1910, it was revealed
THURSDAY.
County Clerk w. j. McClelland
said the total of names on the
registration Imperial county books
as of March Q this year was 10,526.
In the fall of 1910 the registration
was 20681.
April 6 is the last day on which
persons may register If they wish
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Stimson Admits Defect
I'm italian Cumpoiqn

WASHINGTON, Mar. 80.
(UP) - Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson, discussing
the battle of Casino, Thursday
said that "the simple fact is that
the Germans stopped U.S."
He said the failure at Casino
would be severe setback only if
we cid not learn our lessons
Under no circumstances should
the Italian campaign be thought
of as test of allied power" he
added
StimSon said our efforts to take
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
CAPTURE GATEWAY TO BALKANS
Thunlped Calls
On Phones

PITTSBURGH, March 80. CUP
Authorities accused NeWson
Williams, a cteamfitter. of making
96 phcne calls to Albany, N. Y,
his home, fer five cents each by
directing well-placed thumps on
the coin box to simulate the
sound of money being deposited.
They said the tolls should have
,een S195.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Search Pushed
For Fliers

LUKE FIELD, Ariz., March 80.
CUP)-Se earch was underway
Thursday for four fliers missing
since Saturday when their three
planes encountered high winds. All
we're believed to have made forced
landings when their gasoline ran
out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Tire Shortage
Still ACute

WASHINGTON, March 30. CUPp
William r. Boyd, Jr, chairman
CT the petroleum industry war
council, Thursday said he had been
informed by Rubber Director Brad
ley Dewey that no relief is in sight
for the civilian automobile tire
shortage, and that even greater tire
cCnservatiOn is now essential.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

McClelland pointed out that the
total for 1914 is the total obtained
in the spring while the totals for
the other years were obtained in
the fall. He said he expected the
registration to pick up some before
the November election as that Is
usual for Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
J fIiers Feared
Dead in Crash

FAIRFIELD, Calf, March 30.
CUP)-WitnecseS reported Thursday
a large army plane crashed at
Tul!e, south of Suisun, Calf, short
yafter midnight Wednesday.
First reports indicated seven oc-
cupants killed in the crash and
three escaped
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Germans Loose
Holland Floods

LONDON, March 80. CUP)-Sev-
eral more areas in southwest Hol-
land have been flooded by the Ger
mans, apparently fearing an i'm
minent Allied invasion, Dutch cir
cleS said Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

Casino had subsidized for the time
being" and said that the Germans
showed again that they are obsti-
nate and effective soldiers who do
not quit when they are ordered to
hold key post at all cost"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
STOLEN TRUCK FOUND

Stolen from m front of place of
business at $50 a. m. the Martin
National Bakery truck was recov-
cred at $3.50 a. m one mile west of
Holtville Naval Air Station Thurs
day. morning. The Holtville police
phoned the discovery of the truck
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
0r|ando's S Death
Denied by kazis
BY UNITED PRESS

The Nazi-controlled Rene radio
denied that Vittorio Emanuele Or
lando, World War I premier of
Italy, had been executed by Ger
man occupation authorities in
Rome.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Nazis' Repu|sed
AT Casino

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN
ITALY, March 30. (UP)-German
troops have been repulsed with
heavy losses in two strong attacks
inside Casino, it was disclosed
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
TO SET CLOCKS AHEAD

PHOENIX, AriZ.. March 30. IUP)
Midnight marks the time for the
Arizona clock to be set ahead an
hour again under the new ruling
passed by the 16,n special session
of the legislature, or mountain day
light saving time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

He refused to elaborate on why
the italian campaign was not a
test OF allied power. Only limited
numbers of troops were put into
the operation, the bulk of them be-
ing held for the western invasion.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
FORGE CHECKS

The Out Door Packing Co., 1873
Main, reported to the Ell Centre
police Wednesday that four checks
which had been stolen from their
office Saturday night had been
forged and cashed in local stores.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
TO SURVEY SHIPPING

NJ. ]. Brown, commissioner IN the
domestic trade department of the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
will be in Ell Centre starting April
6 to make weeks survey of ship
mentS of produce to that city.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Germans Blasted
From CernQuti
I'm Double Thrust
Onrushins Reds Sweep Within
30 Miles Of Hungary Border;
Rumania Leaders Hint Qui++ino

LONDON, March 30. (UP)-The German high COM
mand acknowledged Thursday the loss of Cernaut capital
of Bcovna province and key gateway to the Balkans
Russian assault troops who stormed the Prut
charged into the city in a two-Way pincers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
It's Spring Again

uS Spring AGAIN.
There never was spring in I'M
perial Valley that the fish stories
didn't start. The first warm days
make the fishermen, and those who
can't fish SO well, start to think
about good old catfish.
First of this years catfish Stor-
les was told by Fisherman DanSkin
at Seeley. He reported the catch
of a fourteen and a half pound
catfish.
Happy fishing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
y AMBlINe
(\EpoR7ER

Yum! Yum! YUM
Remember Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Young? She was the former Inez
Smith.
Well, she wrote to a friend in Ell
Centre and said her husband was
stationed at Banana River, Florida,
and she was living at Cocoa, Flori-
da.
What a banquet. They are what
we haven't any of hardly.
P. S.-We know that's wrong.
Or Else
Ensign Marlin w. Lovelady wrote
his wife that he is going to vote
this year in spite of being overseas
and all the rec tape anyone can
think Of.
I'll wade through yards and
yards and yards of red tape" he
wrote. III vote or else. Red tape
can't smother my vote"
BY the way, Ensign Lovelacy
said that the Red Cross in the re-
gion where he is goes out of its
way" to make the servicemen feel
at home and is doing wonderful
job
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30
Practically Universal

Penny Richmond, Charlie Small,
Aux Ambort, and Earl Anderson sat
in the waiting room at the selective
service board headquarters in Ell
Centro. They were waiting to be
interviewed by the board about
men being considered for the draft.
A young man from HoltVille,
whose number was up, dashed into
the waiting room. He glanced at
the "has-been" warriors and then
gulped in surprise:
you guys up for the draft, too?'
Too late! Too late!
(Ccntinued on page 8, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-30

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-26
ILLINI PUNISH
WILDCATS, %-6

EVANSTON, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-tR-
That Negro flash from the Univer'
sity of Illinois campus, Claude
(Buddy) Young, combined with
Don Greenwood today to hand
Northwestern's hapless Wildcats a
25-6 humping in the Western con-
ference finale for both clubs.
The defeat, coming in drab,
dreary setting as $4,000 fans SILVER
ed in a cold wind whipping across
Dyche stadium, closed one OF the
most disastrous seasons in modern
Northwestern history.
The Wildcats, so often a power
in the Wetern Conference, failed
to win a circuit game this season
although they tied Minnesota only
in 1912, in recent years, has that
occurred.
Young, who scored The first
touchdown of the game on lateral
from Greenwood, failed to break
loose for a long run, but when he
tailed again In the second qua--
ter. he tied the all-time Illini re-
cord Of 10 touchdowns set in 1924
by Harold Red Grange. He was
in the game only a few minutes
in the last half.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-26
Ferguson And johnson
Win Bouts At Stadium

Greensboro's Paul Country
Ferguson rose from the canvas in
the first round here Friday night
to floor his opponent three times
and gain a sixth-round knockout
victory over Young Babe Hunt, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, in the main event
of a six-bout boxing card at the
Legion stadium arena.
Hunt sent Ferguson to his knees
with a hard left hook to: the head
but the Greensboroian regained his
feet almost Immediately to stag
ger Hunt with right to the kidney
and left hook to the jaw. Though
the Brooklyn boy was not adverse
to mixing it up" Me-guson held
a decided edge throughout the bat
ting and added the finishing touch
with a well executed left hook.
Ferguson says that this was his
307th match and that the card COM
pares with the best he had ever
witnessed. He is surrently sta
toned with the Coast Guard at
Charleston, S. G.