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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Life's High Moment

c. w. Martins history class at
Central Union High school sat en-
thralled Monday while he eXpound-
ed the lesson.
He had never in all his life been
accorded such attention, especially
from the girls in the class. He
couldn't understand why he held
their attention so well when he had
a cold in his head.
The girls stared at him fascin-
ated A pin could have been heard
tC drop if anyone had dropped a
pin. The girls maintained their in
terest in their teacher even after
class was out.
r This was OTTO much for r. r. A
little snooping was in order.
Martins cold and his stuffed
nose made him talk exactly like
Charles Boyer, the movie start
Now all Martin has to do is wear
a clothes pin on his nose and he'll
turn out the smartest history class
of all time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
House Unit Gets
Bid to Probe
Big Meat Firms
Missouri Member Sees
Move to Crowd
Out Small Companies

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. (UP)-
The house and senate small buSi-
ness committees were confronted
Tuesday with demands for an in
vestigation into charges that the
big four" of the meat packing
Industry had sought to drive small
competitors out of business and
to win higher prices at the expense
of upsetting the stabilization pro-
gram.
The inquiry yas sought by Repre-
sentative Walter c. Ploeser, Repub-
lican, Missouri, in making public
what he termed a severe indict-
ment" of the four firms-SWift, Ar
mour, Wilson, and Cudahy-con-
tanned in report by Jerome J. ia
cobson, attorney for the meat and
fish branch of the Office of Price
Administration.
Jacobson said that an analysis
of the last six months clearly re-
veals the formation of a coalition
between the big packers, acting
under the guise of the American
meat institute, and farm initiation
airy officials of the department of
agriculture"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
U.S.. Rips
Europe
From Air
Hour-Lons Flight
Of Big Planes
Follow Raj Raids

LONDON, Jan. II. (UP)
An hour-long parade Of
giant American p a n e S
streamed into Axis Europe Tues
day and Radio Berlin reported that
swarms of American heavy bombers
and Nazi fighters were locked in a
great air battle over central Ger
many.
The big bombers thundered across
the channel in waves, in daylight
follow-up to the RATS Mosquito
attack on BeSlin Monday night.
A number of radio stations in
Holland and German Immediately
fell silent and Berlin broadcast a
Transocean news agency dispatch
that American four -motored planes
attacked targets in central Germany
at noon.
LITTLE RESISTANCE
The LuftWaffe, conspicuously alb
sent during the heavy Allied raids
on the French invasion coast in re-
cent weeks, rose in strength to meet
the American bombers, according
to Transocean, which said heavy
losses" we're inflicted on the raiders.
simultaneously with the apparent
resumption of the 9th U. S. air
forces assault on the continent
after a three-day rest, strong for
nations of medium bombers and
fighters attacked the French inva-
sion coast. -...
The full extent of damage to
Berlin was revealed for the first
time since the start of the RATS
obliteration offensive with the COM
pletion of air reconnaissance pho
tographs, air ministry sources said
SPREAD DESTRUCTION
Emphasizing that their estimate
was a conservative one, these
sources pointed out that the pic
tures-taken Dec. 81 from an alti-
tude of more than 10000 feet
showed that at least II per cent of
Berlin's buildings were destroyed
in the first six major attacks, in
which about 10000 short tons of
bombs were dropped. The attacks
began Nov. 18.
Since then, $500 additional tons
were dropped in four large-scale
raids, bringing the total destruc-
ton to at least 25 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Yankees Capture
Two Key Points
In Itaiy Battle

ALLIED HEADC2UAkIE ERS, Al
giers, Jan. IL. (UP)-American 5th
army forces drove to within less
than three miles of the German
stronghold of Casino and encircled
the enemy outpost at Cervaro after
a day-long battle in the mountains
of central Italy, it was disclosed
Tuesday.
Attacking with increasing fury
on both sides of the inland road
to Rome, the Americans captured
two more key heights on the ap-
proacheS to Casino while British
units on the left flank of the 5th
army's 10-mile offensive front ad-
vanced slowly and consolidated their
hold on the bend of the Garigliano
river.
One American column struck
north of the Rome road to drive
the Nazis from the l,700-foot crest
of Mount Piperni, less than a mile
east of Cervaro. South of the road,
other American infantrymen storm
ed over Mount Trocchio and pushed
on to within three miles of Casino
for an advance of two miles.
The converging American COL
umns clamped ring around Ger
varo and closed in for a death
battle with the enemy forces hold
ing that fortress town, four miles
below Casino on the main land
highway.
Front reports indicated that the
battle was increasing in intensity
all along the 5th army front, with
the Germans putting up their
fiercest resistance around Cervaro
and in the mountains thanking the
road
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

plays into the hands of the German
invaders, he Soviet statement
said.
Well-informed sources here be-
lieved Russia's offer, which sug-
gested the Curzon line of 1919 as a
possible Soviet-Polish boundary,
would be the final gesture by Pre-
mier Josef Stain during the war
with the possibility that. if the
question were left until after the
war, Poland might lose much more
territory.
Russia broke relations with the
exile government last April &c after
Continued on page 6. col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
OPA Sues Fruit E ExchdnQe:
Asks for S2,500,000

set by the OPA for packers.
Two counts of overcharging and
an injunction petition were includ-
ed in the suit. Treble damages we're
sought on each count.
The first count accused the eX-
change and its subsidiaries of over
charges in direct sale to wholesalers
and retailers from Jan. IL, 1943,
to Jan. IL, 1914, totaling $791 ,034 "a
This sum trebled is $2,373,l3l.52.
The second count charged that
in auction sales between Jan. Il
and March 4. l943, the exchanges
were guilty of overcharges amount
ing to SAL ,65854. Treble damages
in this count also were sought by
the OPA.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
LandIady Draws
Fine Of $40

Mrs. Matte Abel, landlady in Ell
Centro, was ordered to pay George
Newland, a marine, $40 damages for
holding personal property of the
serViceman and his wife for two
days, records in Ell Centre justice
court showed Tuesday.
After a trial Judge John E. Simp-
son took the case under advisement
to consider evidence given in the
marines charge that Mrs. Abel had
wrcngfully and unlawfully evicted
him and his wife from a room in
a house at 6l2 Olive avenue. In
addition to the $40 damages the
court ordered Mrs. Abel to pay $5
court costs, records showed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
PRESIDENT URGES UNIVERSAL DRAFT
Bond Campaign
Start Is Set

The zero hour for the Third
Army attack in force in FL Centro
has been set for 0900 on January
18th, according to M. o. King,
city retail chairman for the Fourth
War Loan Drive
Every retail employe, from
chairman down, starts out as a
buck private. The first $25 bond
brings the rank of private first
class. Another $50 bond and one
becomes a corporal. The ladder
is climbed steadily as sales in
crease until, at $1,000 the rank of
full general is attained" Chair
man King said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

IIY.
He said his national service plan
will prevent strikes"
OUTLINES POLICY
Mr.. Roosevelt, however, made his
national service recommendation
dependent on enactment of the re-
naming four measures of a five
point legislative program submitted
to the second session of the 18th
congress. They were
L. A realistic tax law to alb
sOrb all unreasonable individual
and corporate profits.
2. Continuation of the renego-
tiatiOn of contracts law to pre-
vent exorbitant profits and to
assure fair prices to the govern
ment.
3. A food cost law enabling the
government to guarantee mini
mum prices to farmers and to
impose ceilings on food prices to
consumers, he also asked for con-
tinuance of subsidies, on neces-
stiles only at a cost of about
S1,000,000, 900.
4. Re-enactment of the stabili-
cation act of Oct. 1912 which
otherwise would expire on June
80, next. This provides for control
of wages, salaries and prices.
MIR Roosevelt also demanded that
congress resolve its controversy
over the soldier vote b. legislation
which will not leave voting machin-
cry exclusively to the states He
said state controlled machinery
would be unavoidable 1nd would
deprive the overwhelming majority
of servicemen and women of the
right to vote.
WOULD PREVENT STRIKES
Mr.. Roosevelt said national serv-
ice legislation would prevent
strikes for the duration of the
war and with certain appropriate
exceptions, make available for war
production or for any other essen
tial services every able bodied adult
in this nation. He explained that
he had hesitated for three years
on such a recommendation and
realized now that the United Ma
tions could win the war without
it. But Mr.. Roosevelt feels that
it will shorten the war and lessen
the cost in blood
1T will give our people at home,'
he explained, the assurance that
they are standing four-square be-
hind our soldiers and sailors. And
it will give our enemies demoraliz-
ing assurance that we mean busi-
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Ciuno Executed
In ItoIy City

LONDON, Jan. II. (UP)-Count
Galeazzo Ciano, former italian for
eign minister and son-in-law of
Benito Mussolini, was executed in
northern Italy today for high treas
on, the German DNB news agency
announced.
Marshal Emilio De Bono, aged
veteran of Mussolinis march on
Rome, was executed with the swag-
gering Ciano, along with Giovanni
Marinelli, Carlo Pareschi, and Lu-
ciano Gottardi-all former members
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Luce's Daughter
Dies in Crash

PALO ALTO, Cal, Jan. il. CUP)
Anne Clark Brokaw, 19-year-old
daughter of Representative Glare
Booth Luce, Connecticut's play
ht-congresswoman was killed
in an automobile accident Tuesday
while she was returning to her
classes at Stanford university from
a visit with her mother in San
Francisco.
Police said a car driven by Kurt
Bergel, professor of German in the
Stanford army training program,
struck the automobile in which Miss
Brokaw and her friend, Virginia Lee
Hobbs, 10, were riding. The Brokaw
car spun around, the front door
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

OF the Fascist grand council who
voted il duce out of power last
July.
The condemned men, all sentence
ed to death by an axis tribunal IN
Verona Monday, were led before !
firing squad and executed shortly
before 9 am, DNB said.
The DNB dispatches was dated
Verona, indicating that the execu
tions may have been carried In the
courtyard OF the i4th century Vec-
CHA castle where the treason trials
were staged.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

flew open, and Miss Brokaw was
catapulted against a tree.
She was crushed between the car
and the tree, and authorities be-
lieved she was killed outright.
Miss Hobbs, a junior student at
Stanford, was taken to the univer-
sity hospital for X-rays.
Police said they had cited Bergel
for driving without a drivers Ii
cense, but that no charge was
placed against him in connection
with tn eaccident. He was not held.
Miss Brokaw, l8, was the daughter
of Representative Luce and the
late George T, Brokaw, heir to the
Isaac Vail Brokaw clothing fortune.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
ROUTS AUTO LOOTERS

The wave Of car-stealing for JOY
riding and stripping of cars fender
skirts, hub caps, and other acces-
sories has aroused the ire of cour-
ty citizens. In Brawley Monday
night an auto owner at 367 j
street, surprised occupants of a
black coupe who were engaged in
stripping his car The citizen fired
two shots at the couple as they
drove away. Police in Brawley and
FL Centre are looking for black
coupe with two bullet holes in the
left side.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Treasury Sets up
Bond Sale Plan

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. CUP)-
Person-to-person salesmanship will
be emphasized during the fourth
war loan drive as the result of a
nationwide survey which showed
that personal solicitation" is the
best way to sell bonds, the treasury
said Tuesday
The national quota for individual
sales in the new drive will be S.
500,000,000 out of total goal of
$4,000, 100000. The individual quo
taS by states, in millions of dollars,
include:
Arizona, 20; California, Ala; Ida
no, l6; Nevada, 7; Utah, %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
NMC AIDS MAP TRIP
TO &c THIS WEEK

War manpower commission direc-
tor of the priorities division, Roy
Ferguson, and his assistant, Lee
Cusick of San Diego will be in FL
Centro Thursday and Friday. Their
visit here, according to Tom Finnev,
local war manpower commission
representative, will be primarily in
regard to the commissions problems
IN the county and the shed labor
problems.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
ROTARIANS WILL HEAR
l.. A. SPEAKER THURSDAY

RotarianS will hear a business
mans sermon The Hand on the
Shoulder" by Russell Conwell Ross,
educational Director of the Plomb
Tool Co. of Los Angeles at their
noon luncheon meeting Thursday.
He is member of the executive
committee of Southern California
Vocational Guidance and Rehabili-
tation Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Blaze Damages
Salt Factory

PORT HURON, Mich, Jan. II
(UP)-A fire which swept through
the Marysville factory of the Nor
ton Salt company was under con-
troll Tuesday after 200 firemen
battled flames in the thIee-story
structures for eight hours.
Fred Phillbrick, company mana
ger, estimated the loss at $2,500,000
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

A Berlin dlSpatch OF tne NaZl"'
controlled Scandinavian Telegraph
bureau to Stockholm acknowledged
a landslide of German setbacks in
the old Polish state. indicating
that Adolf Hitlers armies on the
Russian front virtually had been
split.
SARNY PROBABLY TAKEN
Other Stockholm advices report
ed Nazi admission that the Ger
mans probably" had lost Sarny,
rail junction on the lower rim of
the Pripet marshes SO miles west
of the prewar Soviet-Polish from
tier.
A Berlin report of a 62-mile Red
army penetration of former Polish
territory did not specify the loca.
tion. A day earlier, however, the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Warren Studies
Session Date

SACRAMENTO, Jan. IL CUP)-
A special session of the legislature
to consider simplication of election
laws to permit soldier voting and
to debate prison reforms probably
will be called by Gov. Earl Warren
for Jan. 81, it was learned Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

local exchanges, asking treble dam
ages of $2,5OO,OOO for price ceiling
violations.
The complaint alleged the Cali
fornia and Arizona association sold
citrus fruit over regulation prices
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
COP. Selects
Chicago as
Convention Site

CHICAGO, Jan. IL CUP)-The Re-
publican national committee Tues
day unanimously selected Chicago
as the site for the 1914 COP Ma
tional Convention.
The committee voted to open the
convention June 26.
j. Russell Sprague, Republican
committeeman from New York, in
troduced resolution proposing that
the 1914 meeting be held here. The
resolution pointed out that the Of
flee of Defense Transportation had
asked that the convention be held
in a centrally-located city, such as
Chicago.
ASSURES ROOMS
Silas Strawn, chairman of a
Chicago Citizens committee, as
sured the national committee that
ample hotel and meeting facilities
would be available during the week
of June 25.
There was much talk about can
didates as the committeeman and
state chairmen gathered Monday
night to hear Rep. Charles Halleck,
R, Indiana, give a straight from
the-shoulder talk on what lies
ahead of the Republicans in the
coming elections if they want to
win.
Halleck laid down what COM
mitteemen regarded as a blueprint
for the party's 1914 campaign. In
addition to anticipating the probable
Democratic argument of don't
change horSes-in- the-middle- of
the-stream," the Indiana congress-
man presented arguments on why
change should be made now.
WOULD RETAIN LEADERS
First, he gave the solemn as
surance that none of the military
leaders would be removed from
their posts if Republicans cap
tured the White House.
Speaking of Gen George Mar
shall, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Ad-
mirals Ernest King and William F..
Halsey, Halleck said:
Before adjourning, the committee
adopted series of resolutions in
Guiding one approving both the de-
claration of foreign policy and the
declaration on domestic policy
adopted by the G o P postwar ad-
visory council at a meeting in
Mackinac Island Mich, last Sept. 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II.
(UP)-The Office of Price
Administration filed suit Tuesday
against the California Fruit Grow
ers Exchange, 25 district exchange
corporations and IS unincor)orated
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Names Censored

Names Censored
RR is certainly sorry to hold out
on the Dear Public as far as names
in this deal go. 1t would be too, too
good with the names.
The conversation was about CAL
vim Coolidge.
when Coolidge was president of
the United States" one of
the men began.
Coolidge was never president
of the United States" the other
man interrupted.
HE was, too, president of the
Continued on page 6, col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Under A Cloud

Weatherman Roy Simpson had
better watch his thermometers.
He's been dishing up too 1nuch
nippy weather. If he isn't careful
he'll become decidedly unpopular.
Isn't it a good thing. ....... for him
that he isn't around so we can
blame him for what happes in the
way of weather in Imperial Valley
every summer?
Even Roy couldn't take such
.abuse.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Marines Expand
Attacks on
Pacific Fronts
By UNITED PRESS

American marines hunted down
beaten japanese remnants in the
jungleS of northwestern New Brit
ain Tuesday as the Allied aerial
offensive against Japan'S Pacific
strongholds struck with increasing
fury from the Dutch East Indies
to the Marshall islands.
General Douglas MacArthur's
communique revealed that marine
forces striking out from their New
Britain invasion beachheads around
Cape Gloucester had piled up more
than 1000 enemy dead along the
jungle tails and were hunting down
and killing isolated japanese troops
in the area. Marine casualties since
the beginning of the Cape Glouces-
ter offensive were placed at less
than l5 per cent of the enemy
total
PLANES SINK BARGES
Allied planes and torpedo boats
continued to hammer at Japanese
transports attempting to reinforce
and supply their beleaguered New
Guinea and New Britain bases,
sinking % barges over the week
end at least seven of them loaded
with enemy troops.
American troops in the Saidor
area of New Guinea moved steadily
southwark along the coast, while
an Australian column advanced
northward from the Huon penin-
sula, closing in on a trapped force
of several thousand japanese.
AUSSIES ADVANCE
Far to the northwest of Austria
liza, Allied raiders hammered the
Japanese airdrome and barracks al
kendari, in the CelebeS, shooting
down six and probably 10 of 13
intescepting enemy fighters.
In the central Pacific, U. S. army
and navy bombers intensified their
"softening-up" attacks on the Mar
shall Islands with four bombing
raids over the weekend, sinking
two enemy vessels, wrecking two
japanese planes, and damaging
shore installations on Wolfe, Kwa-
Jalein and Mieji atolls.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
p AMBLINe
~ EPORTER
Hello Grandpa!--

HeIIO VraHUpa!-
OF all the hysterical individuals
in all the world we point TO Bill
Costello as the hystericalist of all.
He has good reason, we admit.
He's grandpa, a new experience
for him.
Aren't you eXcited?" a friend
asked Mrs. Costello.
NO" she said II haven't time
Bills doing it all"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Russians Drive
Swings Far
Into Old Poland
Advancing Reds Rapidly Close
In on Ukraine Capital as
German Armies Suffer Division

LONDON, Jan. II. (UP)-German sources reported to
day that the Red army had driven 62 miles deep into ole
Poland attacking the key rail junction of Sarny from
directions, and threatening to encrce Rovno th
NaZ administrative capital for the Ukraine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
Message Calls on Congress
To Enact Law Calling All
Men dnd Women to Service
Proposes Program as Guarantee
Against Strikes in Industry;
Hits Proposed Tax Plan as Weak

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. (UP)-President Roosevelt
his third wartime state of the union message congress
proposed Tuesday enactment of national service law
drafting every abe-boded and woman-with appro-
pirate exceptions for service essential indus
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
THE WEATHER

HE WEATHER
FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY. Fair Tuesday night
and wednesday. Little change in
day temperatures Tuesday. Slight
ly warmer Wednesday. Continued
cold at night with light to mod
crate frOsts. Lowest temperatures
around 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-11
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 66, minimum
Tuesday 33; am. Tuesday 43, hu
midity 10; noon Tuesday go, humid
ity So; pm. Mon. go, humidity 25.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-21
WyandOtters Shoot Seasons
Deer Limit On First Dny

Ranging in size up to a 12-point
buck, Wyandotte hunters shot their
seasons limit of one deer early We'd
nesday, November IS.
Thornton Bates of 6O2 Kings
highway, killed twelve-pointed in
the afternoon of the opening day.
The deer was the first that Bates
had shot and was bagged at Canada
Greek Ranch in the northern part
Of the state.
Out only three hours Wednesday,
Jack Sieloff, 1896 Walnut. killed
his first buck near West Branch.
Sieloff, who has never hunted deer
before, used a twelve-guage shotgun
to kill a six-point buck which
weighed 40 pounds. He was accom-
panied by his father, William Sic
loft, 545 Orchard.
A five-point deer was shot by Len
DombrowSki near Iron Mountain
the same day.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-21

All Metal ...... 888 893 1853 3 l
wy. Chem. SO. 867 864 867 l 2
wy. Chem. No. $40 888 827 2 /
Sharples $500. GOT $40 1913 3 o
McCords ........ 875 7S3 s1s 03
Diamond Screw $50 TAB 1876 l 2
Wyan. Tool =. 785 781 CTS 2 !
Team Standings
All Metal ........... Is II 843
sharples ............ 18 IL 83s
Wyan. Chem. West :. 18 IL 835
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-21

Tale and eau de toilette
in whimsical, earefree
fragrance. Gift boxed for
IN enchanted Christmas!
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-21
Sport Shots
by
Harry Whitlow

The gentleman took my advice.
Stinko Speed Ray Miller, the champ
of the famous speed skate meet
last winter, is practicing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08
LITTLE PEOPLE
OF THE USO


The big shots Z have
gotten the headlines,
but these fox have
won tie hearts of the
boys on the warfronts.
For their exciting
story, turn to Page 4
By LOUIS BERG
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Washington Dogs Garner Good
Share Of Richmond Awards

10 reserve winners bitch for his IN
terlude OF Dorick, a 9-month- old
puppy. Interlude was later shown
In the children,s handling class by
young Morton. who piloted the pup
through her PAGES so well that he
won first place in difficult class.
James Flaherty had the winners
bitch In collies In his Lochreagh
Spring Time. Reserve winners dog
went to Beech Tree Farms Powells
King Bruce. Little Florence Mont
fort also got reserve winners rib
bon for her German shepherd, Faust
|of Parrylin: In Shetland sheep dogs,
1t was another reserve to Beech Tree
Farm for their tricolor bitch, Beech
Tree Mara.
Altogether more reserve winners
ribbons probably travelled to WASH
ington from this show than any
other nearby dog show. AL Gardiner
got two Of them, one for his airedale
dog. Maralec Duke Of Renidrag, and
one for the bitch, Lady Solitaire OF
Renidrag. Mrs. Joseph Tash's Bed
lington. Bopeep's Blue Brigadier, was
best Of breed, az was Fred Sherrys
Irish terrier, Defense Bond Of Del
win. w. A. McIlwaine also took
best OF breed with his chow, Oh. Lao
Tang OF Chung Kuo. In Schipperkes
|Myra Habicht's Ragamufiin was re-
serve winner. Mrs. Habicht was also
the breeder Of the winners' bitch,
Habicht's Faith In Victory.