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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27

LONDON, Sept. 81. (UP)-Nearly
1000 American Flying Fortresses,
Liberators and fighters smashed
Wednesday at war plants and rail
yards in the Rhineland and western
Germany in widespread soften
ing-up bombardment ahead of the
Allied armies.
More than 100 heavy bombers
escorted by Mustangs, Thunderbolts
and Lightnings dropped explosives
through a heavy overcast on tank
factory at Kassel, rail yards at OPP
pau, synthetic oil and chemical
plants at Ludwigshafen, rail yards
and an industrial plant at Cologne,
and an ordnance depot at Mainz,
RAF medium bombers, mean
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27

cludes four members of the legiSla-
ture, authorized its executives to
prepare site specifications" which
would cover availability of water
and other factors and to submit
definite proposals at later meet
ing. 1t was indicated the board
would be guided but not bound by
the department of institutions To-
cation recommendations
A $4675,00 legislative appropria-
ton for site acquisitions included
$1,lOO,000 for the institutions. The
remainder is for sites for office,
college and other buildings in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento,
Fresno and San jose and the board
authorized its chairman, Finance
Director James S. Dean, to employ
apprais erS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27
Super-F FortreSSeS Hammer
Anew at Jup-Mdnchurid

In Loyang and Kaifeng, cities in
the Japanese occupied portion of
China, military targets were attack
ed.
Enemy antiaircraft fire in all the
raids was reported weak, the COM
munique said, and fighter opposi-
ton was light.
The 18th air force said issuance
of the information here, more than
"a hours after the attacks, first were
reported, was delayed by difficulty
of communications with China bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27
Dies Prober Hits
AT PAC Leaders
As 'Conlnnunistic'

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. CUP)-
Chief Investigator Robert E. Strip
ling of the House committee on un-
American activities charged We'd
nesday that the CIO National Polit-
ical Action Committee is not a labor
group but part of the revamped
blueprint of the Communist party
to take over and destroy the Ameri-
can system of government by TAX
ing over a major political party"
TeStifying before subcommittee
canned by Chairman Martin Dies,
Cd, Texas, to investigate political
activities of the CIO and its Politi-
cal Action Committee, STRIPPING
said:
In doing this the PAC is receiv-
ing the active assistance of all the
fronts and organizations which
rally around the Communist move
ment.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ACT
1T also is receiving the active as
SiStance of a number of officials
and employees CT the federal govern
ment, and the bill is being paid by
the members of the CIO who are
misled by certain Communist-in
spired leaders"
STRIPPING charged that on June
IA the CIO-PAC was changed to the
NCPAC to "circumvent the provi-
Sions of the Smith, -Connally act
which prohibits contributions by
labor unions to political campaigns.
OF the 14l members on the new
committee, he said, "over 80 per
cent have had affiliation with the
Communist party or its front Or
Continued on Pg Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 81. CUP)-
Governor Earl Warren Wednesday
called for celebration of national
newspaper week in California be-
tween October l and 8 in a proc
lamation paying tribute to the re
markable wartime record of the
American press"
The text of the governors proc
lamation follows:
California newspapers will, from
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27
Newspaper Week
Set in State

LOS ANGELES, Sept a. up
Stanley W Larson. president OF the
California Newspaper Publishers
association. has called for observ-
Continued on Pg. 3, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-27
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 104, minimum
Wed. II: 5 am. Wed. 70, humidity
so; noon Wed. SO, humidity 48;
pm. Tuesday 101. humidity 81.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Admiral on Bike Returns
Gobs' Salute in Bermuda

HAMILTON, BERMUDA. - Rear
Admiral Ingram C. Sowell, COM
mandant of the United States naval
operating base here, was pumping
along on a bicycle, just like any COB
off on liberty, posing a problem for
the men at the base.
They did not know whether to
salute, but decided to stick to regu-
lations, and got back a snappy
salute from the admiral as he ped
aled ahead of his big limousine, in
which his epauletted aides were
seated.
Admiral Sowell, who is athletic,
uses Bermuda's main means of trav-
ell in going from his office to his
quarters for lunch, combining rel
else and pleasure along the mile
and-a-quarter route. He is the first
commandant seen awheel at the
base.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Service Deaths From
Wounds Less Than 3 Pct.

Observation-Disclosures than 3 per
cent of the men wounded in battle die
after being admitted to a hospital
now.
Reporting this, Maj. Gen. Norman
T. Kirk, the army's surgeon gen.
eral, noted it was less than half
the fatality rate of IA per cent in
the first World war.
Much of the credit, he said, is
due to the fact that the army has
taken surgery to the front lines.
Auxiliary surgical groups, each
composed of more than so teams
and, like fremen, ready for instant
duty at any required spot, are in
the battle area.
A general team may consist of a
general surgeon, an assistant sur
geon, an anesthetist, a nurse and
two surgical technicians. They take
their own equipment with them-in-
Struments, tents, steriliZers, auxil-
larry power units. In addition to the
general teams, there n other spe-
cialist groups such as those to do
orthopedic, nerve or brain surgery.
Kirk also attributes the low hos
pital death rate to the use of blood
plasma together with whole blood
when needed, sulfa drugs, good
nursing care and rapid transporta-
ton to base hospitals.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
NOTICE OF SALE OF TAX TITLE
PROPERTY BY THE COUNTY

By order of the Board of County
Commissioners of Yellowstone Coun'
ty, Montana, entered on it's minutes
of the 21st day of February, 1914
the Board will on March 25th, 1914
beginning at 1920 o'clock A. M
of said day, at the front door OF
the Court House in the City of Bill
lings, in Yellowstone County, State
of Montana, offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder all the
right, title, interest, estate, lien,
claim and demand of the State of
Montana and of said County of
Yellowstone in and to the follow
ing real property and the Board
determined and fixed the fair
market value of the property at the
amount set after the description:
said real property having been re-
appraised by the Board and will be
sold subject to grazing leases Gov
ering said property, which leases
are on file in the office of the
County Clerk and Recorder of yell
lowstone County, Montana, where
they may be inspected by interested
parties, and said real property will
also be offered for sale subject to
a reservation and exception unto
Yellowstone County, Montana, its
successors and assigns, forever, six
and one-quarter (6A) per centum,
of all minerals, including oil and
gas, produced and saved from said
real property:
(1) The Southwest quarter
(SWA) of Section 20, Town
ship 4 North, Range 81 East,
M. P. M. .-...-----~-.~-.$280.00
(2) Lots 1, 2 and 8 and the
NEA of Section Is, Township
4 North, Range 81 East, M:
P. M. .~--~--~$477.44
81 The West half of the West
half (WRWh) of Section 26,
Township ( North, Range rs
East, M. y. M..--~~..$320.H0
Such sale will be for cash, or on
such terms as may be approved by
the Board, provided, however, that
if such sale is made on terms, at
least twenty per cent (20%) of the
purchase price shall be paid in cash
at the date of sale, and the re-
mainder may be paid in install
ments extending e a period of
not to exceed five years, and all
such deferred payments shall bear
interest at the rate of 40 per an
Dated February 21st, 1914.
GEO. G.. OSTEN,
date First Pub. Feb. 23, 1944-3tJ
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Higher Buying
Seen After War
u. S. Chamber of Commerce
Finds Spending Will
Be on Big Scale.

Observation-Disclosures by the
American public, after the war, viii
be far in excess of those estimated
last December by the United State:
Chamber of Commerce, the cham
Der reports on the basis of a new
survey of this prospect.
At the same time, the department
of commerce released a report by
one of its specialists which seemed
to support this view.
The chamber of commerce based
its conclusion on polls which it made
in December and within the last few
weeks. These, it said, showed that
the number of families now planning
to buy one or more major articles
within six months after the return
of peace had increased from SO per
cent to 81 per cent of the nations
total.
Higher Estimate Detailed.
The chamber summarized the re-
suits of its current survey as fol-
lows:
"3 ,675, 900 families, compared with
$3.50, 600 in December, now intend
to buy automobiles to cost $780,
500, 600, compared with 1881, 000,-
900.
"The household = appliance field
shows an increase in buying inten-
tions from $3.50, 1876, 900 to 81, 215, 910,-
600, with the greatest jump occur
ring in radios and electric kitchen
mixers.
Overall home = furnishings pur-
chase intentions show only a nomi-
nal increase from SOS, 905 900 to
Sill, 410, 900.
Zone million five hundred and for
ty thousand families-an increase of
so per cent-intend to build or buy
a new home within six months after
the war is over. The prospective
investment has risen from an esti-
mated SIS, ZOO, 900, 900 to 81, 184, 300, 900.
"Seventy-two per cent of the peo-
pie say they feel they are at least
as well off financially as a year ago,
a drop of l per cent. The figures,
broken down, show the following
percentages for the two surveys:
East, IS per cent now, and SO per
cent a year ago; Middle West, IA
per cent and 72 per cent; South, 70
per cent and rs per cent; Far West,
per cent and rs per cent"
More Buy War Bonds.
Its second survey, the chamber
said, showed that the percentage of
persons buying war bonds and
stamps had risen from SO to 76. 1t
revealed also that while the per-
,entage of those putting money into
life insurance had declined from So
Sc per cent, "the percentage 60
-g to savings account windows has
'isen from 81 per cent to 26 per
"But only Is per cent of the ma
ions families are saving for a spe-
,iic purpose" the chambers re-
bort continued. Gwen so, that fig
is six points higher than a year
lgo. Despite the evidences that
many people intend to make imme-
late major postwar purchases,
most of them are not, on the basis
# present savings, counting on pay
ng cash.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Order $1,000 Pay
Lid ON Farm Work
State Boards to Be Set Up
To Hold Hearings.

WASHINGTON.-In a move I'M
%precedented in all American farm
history, a wage control program for
agricultural workers., with maxi
mum ceilings of $1,000 a year, has
peen ordered by Marvin Jones, war
food administrator.
AIDS of the administrator, who dis
closed the plan, said War Food adj
m%lnistration labor offices have been
directed to set up state farm wage
boards to hold hearings and estab-
hSh maximum wages.
These groups would function much
IN the manner of the War Labor
board in determining the ceilings for
industrial workers. Shortly after the
1912 wage sterilization act was
passed. Sterilization Director James
+. Byrnes put farm wages under
the supervision of the VIA but Of
ficialS did not consider it necessary
to take any immediate general &C.
ton toward control.
Now however, farm wages have
N~SSlhSN TIE HlSllGSb punt III SO
years. Many workers have gone
into war plants. Those who have
remained on the farms have re-
ceived what amounts to a blanket
deferment from selective service.
There are few restrictions on their
transfer from one farm to another.
Thus they are in a position to bar
gain.
This, it was disclosed, has played
a big part in leading the VIA into
the Unprecedented wage-control pro-
gram.
The farm wage boards will be in
structed to set ceilings only for
specific types of work or farm OPP
erations for certain designated
areas. Wages considered substand-
ard will not be affected. However,
ceilings below the $4,000 level may
be set if boards consider it neces-
sary.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Cuffs, Pleats, Pockets
To Be Cricket in Britain

LONDON.-British men who can
afford the price got good news re-
Gently.
The wartime or "austerity" re-
strictions on mems suits were lifted
on February /. After that date men
were able to buy clothes that have
trouser cuffs, double-breasted coats,
four pockets in the vest and buttons
on the cuffs of their sleeves.
Hitherto, a tailor who was will
ing to blink at the rules would make
trouser legs too long and all that
the customer had to do was to take
them back after the suit had been
made and have the trouser legs
shortened by the making of cuffs.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08

budgets be increased in the sums
of 100000 and $4,000 respec-
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED BY THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, MON
TANA, That a public emergency
exists, which could not have been
reasonably foreseen at the time of
adopting the said budgets, and is
furthermore occasioned by the limi-
tations imposed by the above Chap
ter SO of 1887 Session Laws, that
there is hereby added to and ap-
propriated for the Budget for Burial
of Soldiers and for Cattle Slaugh-
tered the sums of 100000 and
$4,000 respectively for the present
fiscal year,
AND Biz 1T FURTHER RE-
SOLVED that notice is hereby
given that a public hearing will be
held on March 10, 1914 at ten
o'clock A. M. of said day, in the
County Commissioners office in the
Court House at Billings, Montana,
at which time and place any tax
payer may be heard for or against
the increases of said budgets; and
that a copy of this resolution be
ordered published in the Laurel Out
look, the official newspaper of yell
lowstone County, Montana, on March
8, 1914.
The foregoing Resolution is
unanimously adopted by the Board
of County Commissioners this 9th
day of March, 1914.
BOARD OF COUNTY COM
MLSSIONERS OF YELLOW
STONE COUNTY, MONTANA.
By CHAS. E. WICKS,
Chairman.
C. M. YERRINGTON,
Commissioner.
G. w. FENTON,
Commissioner.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Saddest of Messages
Trailed by Good News

BOSTON.-The Hyde Park Thorn.
tons had a dramatic weekend with
a happy ending.
First the family received the sad
dest of all messages: eve regret to
inform you" The information was
that Lieut.. Daniel P. Thornton, %,
was missing in action in the India
China-Burma area where he was
serving with the air force.
Within an hour after receipt of the
message, his young wife, who was
uniformed of its contents, was
taken to Carney hospital and gave
birth to a son.
Then came another message from
the war department that Lieutenant
Thornton had landed in friendly ter
ritory and was safe.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
WPA 8-Year Spendings
Total Nearly Is Billion

WASHINGTON.-The Work Prof
ects administration spent III ,136,-
743, 1893 in WPA funds and So, 1897, 49,
1894 in sponsors funds during its
eight-year existence-from June 30,
1885, to June 80, 1943-and supplied
employment to $500, 900 persons, Ad-
ministrator Philip B. Fleming said
in a report transmitted to congress.
Designed to provide emergency EN-
ployment, WPA has been l~iquidated
under direction of the President.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
RESOLUTION AND NOTICE

WHEREAS, in accordance with
the Provisions of Chapter SO of
1887 Session Laws of Montana, the
Board of County Commissioners of
Yellowstone County restricted the
expenditures to be made from the
1943-44 county budgets to a sum
not exceeding by ten per cent, the
amount expended during the pre-
vious fiscal year, and
WHEREAS, the 1943-44 budgets
for Burial of Soldiers and for Cat
tie Slaughtered have now been ex-
hausted, and
WHEREAS, the increase of ex-
penditures from said funds has been
due to an increased expenditure
which could not have reasonably
been %foreseen at a time of adoption
of said budgets, and
WHEREAS, it is hereby deemed
necessary for the proper conduct of
the County's obligations that said
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Slot Machines
Now Go to War
Profits Go to Special Fund
Instead of Pockets of
Night-C Club Owners.

A FIGHTER-TRAINER BASE IN
NORTH AFRICA.-Have you heard
the story of the three one-armed
bandits? Well, they're in the army
now-three mechanical Robin Hoods
who still rob everybody who comes
their way, but the dough goes back
to the guys in uniform.
The bandits" are three slot ma
chimes which back in 1912 were
emptying the pockets of a group Of
soldiers in Waycross, Ga, who were
being conditioned before going over
seas as part Of the 18th Air Force
service command.
There were so many slot machines
in the fun spots of Waycross that
the good citizens decided they had
become a threat to the morals of
their soldier guests. So a group pc
titioned the sheriff to step in, and the
machines were confiscated and TAX
en- out of circulation.
Visitor Gets Bandits.
But shortly afterward the sheriff
received a historian army officer.
His request was brief, but apparent
ly eloquent, for a few days later one
dime and two nickel slot machines
were doing a landslide business in
the post exchange at the nearby
army base.
Instead of lining the pockets Of
night-club owners, however, the prof
its went into a special fund for the
soldiers. Within a short time the
machines had purchased a washing
machine, an electric iron and many
other convenienceS not considered
basic army equipment.
Then the men were sent overseas
to North africa. Along with them
went the three slot machines, packed
in innocent-looking crates. For
weeks they provided entertainment
for the troops and profits for the or
ganizational fund, but when the Ger
mans made their break through at
Kasserine pass the service com
mand unit was called upon to move
hurriedly and the coin grabbers
were left behind with another outfit.
Turn Up in Officers Club.
Now they have turned up in the
officers club of a unit training fight
pilots.
Mess officer of the unit is Lieut..
James Cooper of Birmingham, Ala,
who once was a high school football
star and who surrounds pilots in his
outfit with one of the most ornate
clubs in the North African theater.
The three Woodworking little slot
machines have paid for it all-the
wood bar, the handsome
brown leather chairs, deep-piled
hush-hush rugs and even the card
table. They also have eliminated the
need of mess fees for the officers and
help buy many little "extras" for
the enlisted men.
"a scarcity of nickels and dimes
operations for a WHILE"
Lieut.. Cooper explained, "but that
was remedied. One of the fellows !
turned up one day with some metal +,
Uses he had made. From then on
he slot machine business doomed,
and our profits have been tremen-
The take" from the three ma
,hines was approximately $3.50 a day
the monthly net is close to S., 900.
All of it goes for those little extras
hat make the difference between sat-
SIZED and Every satisfied" soldiers. !.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Sometime to See

When bus passengers see the bare
foot of Miss Marguerite See of juno
ton City, Kan, driver, they usually
ask why. cts a habit since my tri-
cycle days" the ~26-year-old Kansan
explains. by wearing only one
shoe I can do a smoother job on
the clutch"
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Posture Important

For the bed patient as for the
well person, good posture is impor-
tant. In all positions, the back
should be kept straight. If the pa
tent is permitted to have his head
raised, three pillows should be used
in such a way that the chest is held
high and the neck and back in a
straight line.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Describe GrOuDS

A number of queer designations
have been given animal and bird
groups. For instance it is: a covey
of cartridges; a hide of pheasants;
a wisp of snipe; a fight of doves or
swallows; a muster of peacocks; a
siege of herons; a building of rocks;
a brood of grouse; a plump of wild
fowl.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Manila Hemp

Abaca, known also as manila
hemp" is vitality needed by the navy
and Merchant Marine for heavy
rope. When the Japanese took the
Philippine Islands, the United States
lost its foremost source of this ma
terial.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Women Drivers

Now that hundreds of women have
proven entirely capable of driving
buses on the West coast and in other
war production areas, major lines
in all parts of the country are hiring
women to pilot the highway stream
liners.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Mulberry Trees Increase

Mulberry trees, source of food for
the silk worm, have multiplied from
10 million under cultivation in 1910
to more than 80 million in Brazil.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
LEGAL NOTICES

1lON III COMfEL SOrNf I<ttNOE
OF PROPERTY PURCHASED
UNDER CONTRACT
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF
MONTANA IN AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF YELLOWSTONE.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF JOHN BERMES, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given that Mil
ton Bermes, having filed in this
court his petition praying for an
order of this court directing Mel
vim N. Holiness, as administrator
with will annexed of the estate of
the above named decedent, to make
a conveyance and transfer of GER
tain real property belonging to said
estate to the said Milton Bermes,
and described as follows, to-wit:
The Eh of Section 90 in Town
ship 2 North of Range "a E.
of the Montana Principal Meri-
dian, and containing 800 acres
more or less, according to the
United States Government sur
vey thereof,
in accordance with the terms of a
certain contract in writing between
said decedent and the said Milton
Bermes, the time and place of hear
ing of the same has been fixed by
an order of said court for Friday,
the 31st day of March, 1914, at the
hour of 10 o'clock A. NJ, at the
courtroom of said court in the
courthouse at Billings, Montana;
and all persons interested in said
estate are hereby notified then and
there to appear and to show cause,
if any they have, why the said petit
ton should not be granted.
For further particulars reference
is hereby made to said petition on
file in my office.
Dated at Billings, Montana the
9th day of February, 1914.
(SEAL) A. w. STOW, Clerk.
(Date First Pub. Feb. 16, 1944-4t
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08
Crowds Eye His Tie;
IL Really Is a Bear

KNOXVILLE, TENN. - Rufus
Wells attracts a lot of attention
when he goes downtown.
His South American honey
bear, with a head and neck like
a weasel, likes to hang onto his
shoulders and eat candy.
Wells picked the bear up in
Venezuela when it was two days
old.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08

FOR SALE-Household goods. Mrs.
T. j. Hard, 313 Montana Ave.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08

FOR SALEA-wheel trailer. Ben
Behrendsen, 2 miles south Of
town. 3-1-2tp
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-08

FOR SALE-Beautiful upholstered
couch; steel construction, inner
springs, bedding compartment,
makes into full bed. Mrs. B. NJ.
Harris. 1tp
Evening star., 1944-02-17
In Nearby
Suburbs

Mrs. C. Nelson Bean gave a val
entine luncheon yesterday, enter
tanning at her home in Ashton
Heights. Her guests included Mrs
Charles Bardwell, Mrs. James Far
ley, Mrs. Walter England, Mrs
Robert Baldwin, Mrs. Golden Dag
ger, Mrs. Clarence Warner. Mrs
Willard Mcdonald, Mrs. Wexford J
Massie, Mrs. William w. Roche and
Mrs. F. r. Mitchell, all of Arlington
and Mrs. T. Hill from nearby Mary
land.
Mrs. Martin R. Rodgers also was
hostess at a luncheon yesterday
entertaining at her home in North
Arlington.
Mrs. Robert Acorn was another
hostess at luncheon yesterday, her
party being given at her home in
Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Donald Gardiner, also OF
Chevy Chase, had guests at lunch
con yesterday.
The Postmaster OF Silver Spring
and Mrs. William E. Bowman gave
a dinner Tuesday evening for the
latter's mother, Mrs. M. C. O'Brier
Castle of Laurel, who celebrated
her birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Leo Dunn was hostess to q
small group of guests at luncheon
Tuesday at her Takoma Park home
for her aunt, Mrs. Neil Clark OF
Matosca. Va, formerly of Silver
Spring, before Mr.. Clark became ar
instructor at Camp Lee. Mrs. Clark
is visiting her sister, Mrs. William
Moreland, in Washington.