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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
State Livesto ck, Poultry
Industry Meets Demands

The value of all animals on farms
was estimated at S3l6,2l6,000 on
January /, although hogs, sheep,
horses and mules either lost or only
maintained value curing the year.
The service emphasized that feed
crop production in the state, al
though high, was not sufficiently
increased by other supplies to keep
pace with the growth of livestock
numbers"
Grain concentrate and protein
feed supplies became scarcer dur
ing the year, it was said, and cattle
feec ers were adversely affected by
decreases in production of cotton
seed and beet pulp.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Communist Party
Backs Roosevelt

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 90: CUP)
John Gabriel Soltis, field organizer
for the Communist party in Min
nesota, expects the party to cease
to exist as a political organization
after its annual convention at New
York, May 20. I'VE are interested
only in supporting men who will
get behind the war effort and
President Roosevelt" Soltis said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

WASHINGTON, Mar. %.
(UP) - A house merchant
marine subcommittee contin-
ued hearings on charges of exorbi-
tant shipyard profits Thursday af-
ter hearing Rear Admiral Emory
S. Land, chairman of the maritime
commission, oefend payments which
he said yield builders an average
of $1,000 profit each on Liberty
ships.
Land told the committee that
Liberty ship payments have been
cut from a maximum of $4,000
each to $4,000 due to increased
production and reduction of gov
ernment fees.
Committee investigators had said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
BY UNITED PRESS

Japanese officials, facing an ad-
mitted critical war situation" have
revoked the four month limit on
student labor conscription and
broadened the labor service pro-
gram to include both girls and boys
for indefinite periods.
The new plan was announced by
japanese Education Minister Naga-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23

with governmental operation.
CD What will happen if the
government dumps" Is billions
of reserve war goods on the
open market?
"a How will the vast war
time army of fighters and work.
ers be reemployed in peacetime
pursuit?
60 Will there be industrial
freedom in the future, or will
there be form of totalitar-
Continued on page 2, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Winter DAMAGE
To State Roads
Tops 100000

SACRAMENTO, March %. CUP)-
Charles H. Purcell, state director of
public works, Thursday disclosed
that restoration of highways dam
aged in the sno wstorm of February
10 to % will cost the state about
S3OO,O90. Estimates OF storm dam
age have not been completed" Pur-
cell said in a report to Gov. Earl
Warren, but restoration figures as
of March /, will probably approach
$3CO,000.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Jap Students Put
Into War Works

kage Okabe in q Tokyo domestic
broadcast, reported by the Office
of War Information.
Stating that education and labor
service must be a means of serving
the nation, Okabe said that both
high school and college students
would be taken out of their classes
and put to work in war industries,
"as long and as many times as they
are needed"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
Arguments Issued
On Tax Measure

SACRAMENTO March 90. CUP)-
Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan
Thursday announced that voters
pamphlet arguments had been COM
pleted for and against proposition
No. on the May 16 election ballot,
which would allow the state to tax
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
laps FLANK M0UNTBATTEN'S FORCES
No Stretching
OF Truth Here

EVANSTON, H., March %.
CUP)-Mrs. H. d. Mitchell,
Evanston, had her own idea of
the meanest person in the
world. 1t is the sneak thief,
presumably female, who stole
five pre-war, two-way stretch
girdles from the clothesline in
the basement of her home.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
y AMBl|Ne
~ EP0RTER
War Lament

War Lament
rs quittin'," a Negro girl told a
business woman for whom she had
worked eight hours each week for
rs cents an hour 1t wasn't very
hard work but it was work in a
business establishment.
why" the woman gasped, ARE
you quitting?"
rs jes' tired the girl said, us
goin to quit work.
"Of course the woman agreed,
many people are tired. I'm tired
myself most of the time. But we
can't just quit work these days
Well" the girl wen ton, rs
quittin."
What are you going to do?" the
weary woman inquired.
IT," said the girl with a giggle,
"ain't a-goin to do nuthin'."
Let's Cakewalk-
He's a rugged marine, is Tech.
. Sgt. Floyd Thomas of the Ell Gen.
l tro marine air station. He's six
feet and two. He looks like the
proverbial marine. You know,
rough, tough and ready.
Sergeant Thomas is rough, tough,
and ready but he has gentle hand
with cake batter He builds his
wife, Gladys, the most delicious
three-layer cakes you ever saw.
Continued on page 2, col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
FIFTH BOND DRIVE

WASHINGTON, March 23 UP)-
The fifth war lean drive probably
will start either the last week of
May or the first week of June, it
was learned today. The quota,
$4,000, ,000,0O00 will be the same as
for tn efourth drive in February.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
ImperiaIS Battle
India Invad ers
Nips' Sudden Thrust Threatens
S+i|welI Gain in Hukawns;
Enemy Reported Calcutta Bound

NEW DELHI, March 23. (UP)-British and Indian
forces fighting in the Somra Hill halt Japa
nese column which has invaded India a communique said
Thursday the enemy drive threatened to nulfy Chi
neseAmercan gains in the Hukawng valley of Burma 200
miles to the northeast
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-23
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 73, minimum
Wed. Al; 5 am. Wed. So, humidity
81; noon Wed. IS, humidity "a; 5
pm. Tuesday 20, humidity IL.
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Chinese Enter lungIing,
Important Japanese Base
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, June 1o.-Hard-
fighting Chinese forces have smashed
into the southern sector of Lungling
and have occupied that portion of
the second most important Japanese
base in Yunnan Province, and "a
road miles to the southwest have
established a strong roadblock south
of Mangshih, the Chinese high COM
mand announced tonight.
A Chinese spokesman at the front
was quoted as saying the fall of the
Burma Road city of Lungling, 100
airline miles from the North Burma
lighting around Myitkyina, would
Iendanger large Yunnan enemy forces
concentrated to the north.
Front dispatches said the Chinese
had pushed small spearhead with
in IL airline miles of Tengchung, 40
miles northwest of Lungling, and are
closing in on the Japanese head
quarters at Watien.
American fighters ranging over a
wide area in support of the Chinese
attacked japanese positions in
Hupeh and Honan Provinces, and
Liberator bombers in sweep off the
South China coast sank a l,70O-
ton enemy freighter and seriously
damaged 2,700-ton vessel, 1t. Gen
Joseph w. Stilwell's headquarters
announced.
Evening star., 1944-06-10

has Endorsed, provides for creation
OF a slum- clearance board to ac-
quire sites for rehousing projects
which would include more citizen
members than the bill sponsored by
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Citizens of Washington" said
Mr.. Wender, do not look on any
Federal agency or appointee as their
representatives. We do not have
suffrage. We look upon the NCHA
as Federal agency and the citizens
object to the fact they have no rep
resentatives on it. Under one of
the plans as now contemplated, the
NCHA would continue in the future
in the same way. Frankly, the peo-
Pile do not want that.
Confidence in Other Agencies.
They do have confidence in the
District Recreation Board, in the
School and Library Boards, which
consist of citizen Representatives
and yes, also, in the Board of Public
w SA4oAS ~ 40 4lOU 81 Will LIE
NCHA."
Mr.. Wender said he had been
"vilified' by some hackers of the
NCHA and protested that he had
been advised that anonymous let
ters have been sent by some one to
members Of citizens associations
declaring that the Federation, in its
actions on the housing issue, did not
represent the constituent associa-
tions.
He told the subcommittee the
Federation, in three different ac-
tions, had maintained it's stand
against public housing.
He said the public housing advo-
Gates should learn that you can't
jam anything down anybody S
throat"
Evening star., 1944-06-10
| WASPS to Get
Snoppy Outfits
Costinq $5O5

An exclusive Fifth avenue shop
Is Quitting the War Department IS
women flyers in snappy new mill
tary uniforms at $505 per WASP, a
Senate Military Affairs Subcommit-
tee was told yesterday.
Representative Morrison, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana said further that
when the taxpayers get the bill it
will total about $505, 900. He voiced
the opinion that the smart new
uniforms won't conform to Army
regulations If the WASPSs are
commissioned in the AAF as pro-
posed by the pending Costello bill
BY contrast, Mr.. Morrison said,
male flying instructors being thrown
out of jobs by cutbacks in AAF pilot
training look a bit ragged in old
khaki pants and wood tick" coats
discarded by the CCC.
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Masked Trio Abducts
Insane Asylum Inmate
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 10.-Three
masked men strong armed two at
tendants in a ward of the State
Hospital for Insane yesterday and
fed with an inmate described by
DR.. Seth s. H. Howes, superin-
tendent, as dangerous not only to
himself, but also to others"
Dr. Howes identified the abduct-
ed inmate as Melvin Matheson, 18,
OF Phoenix, who recently was COM
mltted to the hospital from the
State prison at Florence. He was
sent to prison for assault with a
deadly weapon.
Two men suspected of having par
ticipated in the abduction were ar
rested, but Matheson and a youth
believed by officers to have engi-
neered the affair were still at large
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Court NuUifies
Remorrioges on
Date of Divorce
" the Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, June 10.-Judge
Ray G. Cowan, aroused by the mar
riage of couple to new mates on
the same day he granted a divorce
set aside the divorce yesterday.
He called their action a fraud on
this court" saying both husband
and wife intended to marry other
persons Immediately when they were
in this court and they kept that in
formation from me-
Floyd Key married Miss Issa
Ivallah Woods and Mrs. Key mar
ried Richard E. Barber across the
State line in Kansas soon after the
divorce was granted Thursday.
Judge Clark Tucker of the Kansas
City (Kans) Probate Court said
Judge Cowan's action nullifies the
marriages.
The original Mrs. Key said she
was greatly upset by the decision
and doesn't know what to do until
she talks to her lawyer, She was
the only one of the four who could
be reached for comment.
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Communique
Allied Headquarters
Reports on Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, June 10.-The tert
OF this mornings communique:
American troops have captured
Isigny.
Despite unfavorable weather con-
ditions the Decentralization of fur
ther men and material was unin-
terrupted.
Withstanding heavy enemy at
tacks delivered yesterday morning
by infantry and armor, British and
Canadian troops stood firm in the
Caen area.
Our forces have made contact
with strong enemy forces near
Conde sur Seulles.
There is continuous fighting in
other sectors.
Adverse weather during daylight
yesterday confined our air activity
to limited patrols over the imme
diate battle area and to coastal air.
craft operations.
An enemy destroyer driven ashore
Oll ooIh III Jlle bTeSJ Pe0lnSQla
earlier in day by naval surface
forces was attacked and left a
smoldering hulk.
One enemy aircraft was shot
down 20 miles off Brest by anti-E-
boat patrols flying over Western
Channel waters.
Last night a strong force of heavy
bombers, eight of which are miss
Ing, attacked enemy airfelds at
Flers, Rennes, Laval and LIE Mans
In Northwestern France and the
railway center at Etampes. Light
bombers impounded enemy COM
munication in the rear of the battle
zone. Weather conditions remained
unfavorable.
Night fighters and intruder air.
craft shot down four enemy planes
over the beachhead. Coastal air.
craft are cooperating with naval
surface forces in vigorous often
sive against U-boats which are
threatening to attack our lines OF
communication to the assault area
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Canada Plans 10 Maintain
Newsprint Shipments
BY the Associated Press

6s lne Associateo PreSS.
The War Production Board yester-
day quoted Guy E. Holt, Canadian
newsprint administrator, as saying
Canada expects to be able to de-
liver wood pulp and 32-pound news
print at the current rate to United
States mills and newspaper pub
fishers during the third quarter.
Mr.. Holt made his statement to
the Newspaper Industry Advisory
Committee. He explained, WPB
said, that delivery of pulpwood cut
in Canada depends largely on water
conditions. A dry spring there
makes it difficult, he said, to tell
now what amount Of pulpwood can
be sent to mills.
A committee of United States
newspaper publishers will visit Can
ada June 20 and 81 to make a full
study of the manufacture and use
Of 3o-pound newsprint, compared
with 32-pound paper, Arthur r.
Treanor, WPB printing and pub
fishing division chief, announced.
Evening star., 1944-06-10
) Yanks AnnihiIate
So Nazis and Capture
Their Command Post
BY HOWARD COWAN,
Associated Press War Correspondent

A UNITED STATES 9th AIR
FORCE TROOP CARRIER BASE,
June 10.-Glider pilots returning to
this base yesterday reported that
1t. Robert Campbell. Seattle, Wash,
and two parachute troopers wiped
out So Germans with hand grenade
and a machine gun and captured a
Nazi command post a mile and a
half south of Ste. Mere Eglise.
Intelligence officers were piecing
together the details and seeking to
identify the two troopers.
The glider pilots, n of them, land
ed behind enemy lines in the first
48 hours of the invasion of Nor
mandy. Technically they were sup
posed to return immediately to base
for more troops and supply carrying
assignments, but they got caught
up in the swirl of battle and fought
alongside the troops they had
landed.
Nazi Chutists Captured.
: The pilots were full of stories of
the awful price exacted from the
Nazi hordes which infested the
fields south of Ste. Mere Eglise and
those dropped from the skies in a
small-scale German parachute troop
landing.
OF 200 Nazi parachutists, 13 were
taken prisoner. The others died at
the hands of American parachutists
who stood in the open firing and
shouting defiance into the skies.
Flight Off1cer Robert (Red) David,
Indianapolis, and five parachutists
Communicated tank and roamed
the woods, knocking out five pill
boxes.
Another Robert Campbell, this one
from Sigourney, Iowa, was knocked
fiat by six .30-caliber machine gun
bullets as his glider landed, but he
was unhurt. His fax suit saved him.
Nazi Snipers Prowl Around.
Flight Officer Leo j. Cordier, East
Hartford, Conn, and his crew un-
tangled their jeep from the wreck
age of a glider and used it to carry
the wounded to a first-aid post a
half mile away. They spent the
night lying awake in foxholes as
German snipers prowled about. The
next day Cordier said he was with
Flight Officer Charles Dobeneck,
Jeannette, Pa, when they saw four
Germans coming up the road.
I'VE got down behind fence and
drew a bead on them" he said.
Then we saw couple Of CTS be-
hind them. One was tired and had
an unloaded Garand, and he was
making German carry it,"
1t. Lambert Wilder, Bogota, N. j.,
who landed behind the beachhead
about am. Wednesday, found a
Nazi mortar Is feet from his land
ing craft. He and 13 air-borne
troops scrambled to cover, set up
their own guns and swapped fire
with the Germans, while the crews
of two crashed gliders reached
CO fet1y
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Court Suspends Captain
OF Wrecked Transport
Rp The AxSnniatnh prass

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10.-A
Coast Guard court of inquiry yes
terday suspended the masters Ii
cense of Capt. Joseph c. Chambers
al, of San Gabriel, Calf, after de-
claring him negligent in the ship
wreck of the Navy transport Henry
Bergh on a Farallon Island of the
Golden Gate May 81.
The court acquitted him of a
charge of incompetency.
1t. Robert E. Burns, board presi-
dent, recommended that first Of
f1cer's license be issued to Capt.
Chambers at once. He can appeal
the courts verdict within 80 DAYS.
Evening star., 1944-06-10
RommeI Noted
Ideal Spot for
Allied Londinq'
BY NOEL MONKS,

Representing the Combined American and
British Press.
Distributed by the Associated Press.
WITH THE BRITISH FORCES
BEFORE CAEN, June 9 Delayed
When Marshal Rommel inspected
this sector of the Atlantic Wall two
months ago he remarked, this is
just the ideal spot for an Allied
landing. 1t must be strongly forti
fed Immediately"
Every able bodied French man and
woman was conscripted into making
beach Notifications and putting up
obstacles in possible landing fields.
Fortunately Rommels defense pro-
gram was only half completed when
we landed.
The mayor of the village near
Caen who told me this today added
with twinkle in his eye, some of
us saw to it that the British knew
the state of the defenses."
Evening star., 1944-06-10
Japs Claim Destruction
Of New Guinea Beachhead
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Japanese news agency Domei
quoted South Pacific front war
correspondent today as saying a
fierce japanese attack after 10 days
of preparation had smashed COM
pletely the American beachhead at
the estuary of the Tor River in
Northern New Guinea, routing a
full division of American troops on
the beach line.
The broadcast said an "overpow-
ering counteroffensive" got under
way May 27, and that "the debacle
was so complete that the enemy
sustained more than 5000 dead and
wounded" in seven-day battle
from which remnants barely man
aged to escape to the island of
Wadke" off the New Guinea coast.
There was no Allied confirmation
of these claims.
Evening star., 1944-06-10
| They're Vips, Pips
Or Just Sips to
| |AFC Workers

Out at the airport the Air Trans
port Command workers have their
own code for priority passengers
who buzz in and out on world wide
missions.
A president, prime minister, four.
star general or Hollywood queen
for example, is a "VIP'-short for
very important person -
PIP" is the word for brigadiers
rear admirals, secret ENJOYS ano
such. They're pretty important
persons"
A colonel this is strictly off the
record may have eagles on his
shoulders and ribbons on his chest
but he's just another SIP" fol
purposes of the code.
In other words, slightly i'm
portant person"
Evening star., 1944-06-10
HOUSING
Continued From First Page)

taken by some District groups on
the slum redevelopment bills.
Wants Policy of Segregation.
The Federation spokesman argued
that some colored leaders agree that
there must be policy of segrega-
ton IN the housing program.
Earlier. he told the subcommittee
that some friends Of public housing
had done great disservice to their
own cause" and that the NCHA was
victim of its own friends" and
that the public agency was receiving
kiss of death"
Later, after he had made his as
sertions regarding Mrs. Roosevelt
and her "nonsegregation" views, he
was asked by James C. Wilkes,
counsel for the Home Builders As
sociation of Metropolitan Washing
ton, if he had intended the kiss of
death remark to apply to Mrs
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Wender replied that he had
but he added the reference was not
to Mrs. Roosevelt alone"
Speaking Time Limited.
| Senator Burton, who at one point
earlier had reminded Mr.. Wender
that a number OF other witnesses
were waiting to testify, broke in tc
say that he would grant the wit
ness but five minutes longer and
that if he hadn't finished he would
have to submit the remainder of his
remarks in writing.
Mr.. Wender, agreeing to conclude
within five minutes. voiced a pro-
test against the disfranchisement ot
Washington residents and declared
they resent having no citizen rep.
resentation on the NCHA. The
Tydings bill, which the Federation
Evening star., 1944-06-10
|Southerners Seeking
Quick House Action 10
Boost Cotton Price
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press. -
Senate passage of the OPA
extension bill embodying the
hotly debated Bankhead cotton
amendment brought a prompt
drive by Southern legislators to-
day to push a duplicate textile
price a d djustment provision
through the House.
The move came amid fresh pre-
dictions BY administration leaders
that If it succeeds. President Roose-
welt will veto the price control
measure as inf1ationary. A veto
would force Congress to enact a
new bill or a temporary extension
of the existing stabilization legis-
lation, which expires June 30.
A coalition of 10 Republicans and
20 Democrats overrode administra-
ton opposition to pass the rider
by Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama late yesterday. Repre-
sentative Brown, Democrat, of
Georgia, author of its House twin
amendment, announced he would
try to get a House vote on the
issue today.
House Considers Own Bill.
Like Senator Bankhead's, his
proposal would tie textile ceilings
to a parity price for raw cotton
and assure millers their operating
costs plus "a reasonable profit"
Also, as in the final Senate version,
the War Production Board would
designate the essential textiles to
which the new price formula would
apply.
The House is considering its own
extension bill and ultimately both
measures will 60 to a conference
committee representing the two fac
tions.
Much of the week-long debate
centered around the Bankhead
amendment. Senator Maloney, Demo-
crat, of Connecticut, declared 1t
would wreck price control and open
the way for the ravages of imitation" "
The OPA held it would boost
SAochAAAAS 1spto w COAlculAACIc AlAOl z
than $3.50 ,000, 900 year and lead to
other demands for price concessions.
But Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio, accused the OPA of having
deliberately exaggerated the dam
gers of imitation "as Justification
for arbitrary power" Other propo-
nents said it would spur production
of scarce, low-price cotton clothing
as well as raise the market price of
cotton.
Price Administrator Bowles, who
has vigorously opposed the Bank
head amendment, had no comment
on the Senate's action at his press
conference today.
Clears Way for Pay Raises.
Without a record vote, the Senate
also adopted an amendment by Sem
ator Wiley, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin resembling the War Labor
Boards veto power over wage in
creases, where the employer and
employe have reached a mutually
satisfactory agreement and the re-
sulting compensation does not ex-
ceed $3.50 a week or 81 $50 a year.
Senator Wiley estimated the
amendment would affect about 20,-
600 900 white-collar workers.
Also without debate, the Senate
adopted q second Bankhead amend
ment to raise from 80 to 95 per cent
OF parity the Government loan rate
on cotton, corn, wheat, rice, tobacco
and peanuts.