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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21

naQ MT MIN llTSj.
NAUGHTY WORDS
Censorship, even without Will
Hays, slowed down a couple Of
scenes. Asked TO repeat the Ian
guage Tommy Dorsey used, Hall
blushed in his best movie manner
and refused because ladies were
present. You could see the influence
of the Hays training in the perspira-
ticn on Halls forehead. II took five
minutes for the Judge to finally
discover what Dorsey had said to his
departing guests.
The defense objected to the words
"cut" or "slaShed' when Jon Halls
coat was introduced as evidence. 1t
was in rags. Finally the district
attorney compromised, saying to the
jury: You will note the parting of
the weave in nine places on this
coat-in once place the weave part
ed so much that it also parted the
lining" Clever dialogue.
Outside the courtroom bobby
sockerS swooned. Not at Jon Hall
but at his nose.
A photograph of Jon Hall, taken
two days after the fight, was intro
duced as exhibit A. During recess,
it turned UP missing. The clerk ac-
cused newspapermen and phctog-
raphers of swiping it. They finally
found the evidence in Defense At
torney Jerry Giesler's brief case,
Everyone admitted it Was in the
brief case, though, because Jerry
had picked it up by mistake.
MORE DIALOGUE
GIESLER: Your hair was very
long at the time, Mr.. Hall, with very
long sideburns?
HALL (brightens up-chance to
plug pictures: Yes. Mr.. Giesler. 1t
was a picture I was working on,
Queen of the Nile
GIESLER: Not Gypsy Wildcat?
HALL: No, sir.
GIESLER: Now we have the cred
its we'll established.
If Academy Oscars are available
fer the production, here are the best
bets. Best character performance
Allan Smiley for Ills expression
when Mrs. Dorsey was claimed to
have said to him, That bum. I don't
want to even mention his name"
Dorsey will have no contenders in
| the race for the title of "Senti-
mental Gentleman of Swing" al
Though Jon Hall made a garrison
finish which found him losing by a
nose. Best acting performance: At
| torney Jerry Giesler, as usual.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
That Tears It

That Tears It
We have thought for a long time
that the FL Centre police are getting
little sissified Now we know it,
Wednesday afternoon a wee cali
escaped from a truck and was bawl"
ing like its heart would break as II
wandered along State street.
GO lasso that calf came the
order. wyatt Briggs and Les Conn,
without a rope, started out in the
police car.
They were late Some Post-Press
newsboys had cornered the calf
and were waiting for the officers
to take it in charge.
What arc we going to do with
the thing" the officers muttered.
Then Conn tremendously held
the patrol car open, Briggs gather"
ed the wee calfie in his arms, and
gently placed in in the back sea-!
of the car -
Some COW punchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Ordinance Would
Increase Fees
(NEA TeiephotoJ

Under an ordinance introduced
Wednesday night at FL Centre coun-
Gil meeting, fees for card room
operations materially will be in
creased.
Under the new system the initial
fee will be $500 instead of $500 and
the monthly assessment will be
flat $3.50. Heretofore the monthly
fee has varied according to whether
other businesses than cards is trans
acted on the premises. Also the new
fee for each table over three will be
$25. The old fee is SIS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Imperial Valley Press

Estaunsneo 1prI 20, 1901.
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
MAP TRAINING COURSE

A training school Tor the l6 farm
census enumerators sought in I'm
perial county will be held at the
El Centre Chamber Of Commerce
January 2, 3, and 4, it was announc-
ed Thursday. Anyone interested in
additional details concerning the
training school may telephone the
office Of Farm Advisor George Win
right in the court house in Ell Cen
trO
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
FUNERAL RITES ARRANGED
FOR WIDOW OF FAMED EARP

LOS ANGELES, Dec 81. up
Funeral arrangements were being
completed Thursday by relatives of
Mrs. Josephine Marcus carp, Is,
widow OF the colorful Western-fron-
tier gun-fighter, U. s. Marshal
Wyatt carp, who died Tuesday at
her home.
During the days when her hus-
band restored law and order from
Dodge City to Tombstone, Mrs. carp
was his faithful companion. They
settled in Los Angeles in the early
19G0s. He died here on January
l3. 1929.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Bisgard Moves
Up TO Major
He is Ma ior A. N. Bisgard now.

He is jor A. N. Bisgard now.
1t was learned Thursday that the
former member of the California
Highway patrol squad in Imperial
county, has been advanced from the
rank of captain to that of major.
He is stationed at the e Centro
marine air station but at present
is at Miramar. He expects, however
TO be back for the holidays.
Major Bisgard has been stationed
at El Centro since his return from
the Pacific area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Liberafors Bomb
Two Airstrips

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUART-
FRS, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 81. CUP)-
Army Liberators of the Pacific
strategic air force bombed airstrip
installations on Two island in the
Volcano group Tuesday in the 18th
consecutive day of the naturalization
offensive against enemy bases south
of the Japanes homeland, Admiral
of the Fleet Chester w. NimitZ an.
nounced Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
PILOT MEETS DEATH
IN POWER DIVE

SANTA ANA, Cal, Dec. 81. CUP)
The pilot Of fighter plane from
the F. Toro marine air base here
was killed instantly Thursday when
his ship power dived into crash
three miles northwest of Lake Els
more. The plane, one OF q formation
of four which went into the dive.
failed to ccme out and streaked for
the earth, digging a 10 foot hole and
exploding into flame. The pilO's
name was withheld pending notifi-
cation Of next of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Too Loud Talk
Is Undoing

SOMERVILLE Mass, Dec. q up
When a woman loudly berated q
tobacco store clerk who told her he
had nc cigarets, state tax inspector
Joseph Cacciatiore stepped forward
to explain the shortage and dis
covered she already had III pack
ages in a shopping bag.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
RAMBLING REPORTER

Continued from Page One)
ing a better than better job az
firemen.
These are the boys, remember,
who man the rural fire truck.
Thank you, boys, and a desert
lily bouquet to each of you.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
RETAINS BOARD POST

Ell Centre city council Wednesday
night reappointed Jasper Travers to
the city planning and zoning COM
mission for three years.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
LAND LEASE RENEWED

FL Centre city council Wednesday
night renewed for one year the lease
Of c. E. Pitzer on 80 acres of farm
land in the northeast section OF the
city
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
Yankees Pursue
Last Of laps
In Leyte Mop.Up
CONTINUED from Page On

tContmued from Page One)
anti-aircraft batteries Tuesday.
The 77th division, which landed at
Ormoc cnly u days ago, captured
the Leyte stronghold OF Libongao in
a four-hour advance from Valencia,
while the First Cavalry division
moved south to within mile of the
77th after seiZing Kananga.
The enemy abandoned l54l dead
in his retreat Tuesday, Macarthur
revealed.
LEAVE VAST SUPPLIES
Overrun in the ccnverging ad-
vances were sufficient Japanese
supplies to last the army six months.
Among the loot were vast quantities
of rice, millions of rounds of small
arms ammunition, machine-guns.
artillery and shells.
MacArthur's bomberS, ranging
over Philippines and other South
west Pacific waters, scored direct
hits on a 6000-ton transport 300
miles west Of Manila, set afire a
IOOO-ton freighter off Mindanao,
and destroyed CT damaged a small
freighter, another unidentified yes
sci and three fuel barges off Borneo.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
SURETY BONDS

SURETY BONDS RENEWED
Ell Centre city council Wednesday
night renewed the surety bonds COW
ering Ia city employees for the
total amount of $4,000. Cal Rector
was the insuring agent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
NAfS HOLD CITY

/
NAiS HOLD CITY
! At the southern end of the Nazi
| drive American forces still held the
Luxembourg border town of Ech-
ternach under severe Nazi pressure.
The American forces at Echter-
mach, SHAEF reported, have been
reached by relief columns after
fighting a desperate battle against
German panzers which surrounded
them.
A second American group is sur
rounded in the vicinity of st. With
cut there Was no fresh information
on their position.
For the third straight day Allied
air forces were virtually grounded
by bad weather which held them
! impotent to join the battle against
the Nazi panzers.
The German DNB news agency
said Lieutenant General George S
Patton was wheeling his TIL ir
army northeastWard from the Saal
llOlll " iliSCI Llit IilICdG CduScu Dy
the lengthening salient which the
| Germans have rammed out along
the identical route they employed
in 1870 and l940
Front dispatches did not make
clear whether command of the Lux
embourg sector had been shifted tC
Patton. Such a move might be nec-
essary if the gap slashed between
the northern and southern elements
Of the First army has cut COM
munications from Lieutenant Cen
eral Courtney Hodges headquarters
with the Luxembourg sectorD
GERMAN WEDGE FIRMS
The northern shoulder of the
German wedge appeared to be firm
! ing up under stern measures taken
by the First army. American forces
were beating back Nazi efforts to
crack through the Stavelot, NAL
medy, Butgenbach triangle which
protects the great supply center OF
Liege.
A front dispatch filed by United
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Clerf, five miles west of the from
tier.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21

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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-21
HOLLYWOOD
sY FRSkINE JOHNSON
NAUGHTY WORDS

wouldn't have been a fight at all if ]
had hit him first"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

tcontlnued from Page D that American troops occupied Pontarlier, 34 miles due east or Arbois and only Q few miles rom Switzerland.
 At that point the Americans. At tho present pace, would DO less than 48 hours march from the German border near Mulhouse, where the Rhine separates the black forest and the Vosges mountains,
 Tn the drive to Arbois, the Amer" leans sealed off more than half the Franco. Swiss frontier against the remnants of tho 18th army still in the 9aone Valley, with French forc- eS of the interior east of Pontarlier guarding one Of the main routes Into Switzerland.
 From Pontarlier another 50 miles advance north would carry the Americans to Beifort ct the begin. hing Of the pass, % miles west or Muihouse on tho French side of the German border.
 Push East
 Although the main U. s. forces were thrustlng toward the gap, one column pushed east from Lons.Le' saundier to within lb miles of Lake Geneva and captured st. Claude internationally known for the manu' facture of smoking pipes. .,.
 At Desancon tho Americans VIII reach the main highway running through the Doubs river valley ana have access to the strategically- important Rhone-Rhine canal lead" ing to the Belfort gap,
 Tn their drive north toward the Third Army, the French troops on. countered virtually no opposition as they occupied diVry, i've miles west of Chalon and Alley, 10 miles north,' eAat of Chalon on the west bank of tho 9Aone within one mile or itb confluence with the DoubS.
 At Chalon, the French were moro than 7D miles north Of their last real reSlstance point at Lyon, which was cleared of the enemy three days ago. Chalon, with Q peacetitne popu- latlon of 2e,000, is the site of . Schneider MetAllurgical plant where submarines and fast motor boats were manufactured.
 Destroyer BoInbardment
 A eommunique disclosed that the U, 6, Destroyer Ludlow bombarded enemy Strongpoints along the Medi' terraneafi coast between Cape Mar tin and Monaco, near the Italian border, with livery good" results,
 The action took place Monday! the communiquc said, with . total of 360 rounds being fired into the German batteries and troop con. centrations. The afinouncenien. said there was some Fetaliatson from shore batteries, but gave no further details. !.
 There have been no reports os American troops. operating along the coast since last week when they captured Contes, seven miles from Italy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

| ueEround, Richards reported i'm. pedlng Allied cir support in the heaviest fighting the Thlrd Army has done since it sped into eastern France.
 The latest reports indicated that It. Gen, Courtney N. Hodges first army was finding the going easier In the push across the Mouse in great strength--A drive which lf enc tirely successful would roll up the flank of the German forces taclng petton's army,
 First army troops were reported pushing beyond Namur, Dlnant, 0lvet and AuohampS The four spearheads were pointed at Luxeni- hourg and the Rhlneland, and that thrust from Auchamps already was Inside the Ardennes forest,
 Far to the west, Allied ground and air forces attacked the dle.hard enemy garrlsonS In Brest and the French channel ports with Q fury that presaged the early conquest oi those by.passed German strong. holds,
 Push Siege Lines
 While hundreds of Allied planes shuttled overhead unloading block busters and Augmentation bombs on the cornered Germans, American troops pushed in their siege lines on Hrest and Canadian veterans storm- ed into Houlogne and Calais and approached historic DunkerQue,
 But the decisive battle of western Europe was shaping up swiftly on the borders of the Reich where the American ist and 3rd armies were pouring tanks, troops and guns across the last water barriers be- fore the Rhineland,
 Berlin said heavy fighting wa raging along 0 front or more thar 200 miles from the Belgian Norl Sea coast to the Lorraine gap, ane the Allied march admittedly hat slowed ct number of points, par tlcularly in the American ist ant Sd Army sectors.
 Patten Across MOselle
 Front dispatches said, however that It. Gen. George s, Pattons SrS Army was across the Moselle II force and advanced clements haG taken hills from which they eoult look down into Germany,
 All accounts indicated that th' NaEis were fighting an increasingly stiff delaying stand on the ap brooches to the S:egfried Line, bu the Moselle and Mouse barriers were preached and the principal diff ficulty hNmpering the American drives appeared to be that Of sup plying fast-moving columns.
 Headquarters spokesmen were confident that battered Nasts hae neither the men nor the will te make Q successful stand on tht siegfried Line or any other barriedi on tho road to Berlin,
 They revealed that German casu' alties In the battle of the west Al' ready exceed Bo0,000, excluding thou' sands killed by French MaquiS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

soli, four miles north-northeast, at Vetta La Croee, seven miles noreh- east, and at Monte Domino, seven miles northeast of PontassleVe.
 Adrlatlc
 In tho Adrlatie sector about iG miles southwest of Rimini, British and Indian troops captured Monte San Giovanni, three miles west of Tavoleto, which Is i2 miles Inland They also crossed the ventena river and pushed to within e mile of the town of 0emano, reportedly strongly held by the Germans,
 Other British troops in the Alpe Della Luna section of the Apennines captured the village of Il Monte nine miles west of MereNtello,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
Dewey Opens
 Campaign
tcontinusd from Page D

NSUHtHuou LFom Eese D as confer with party leaders aIong the route.
 The itinerary. with the Electoral College strength of each state, in- cludes:
 Sept 7.-Philadelphla. Pa, first speech (3S).
 Sept e-Louisvilis, KyY second speech dD.
 Sept o.i0-Lanslng, and OwcSSo, Mich, party conferences (iN.
 Sept ii-Des Moines. Is, party conferences l0). & 4.
 Sept i2.I3.ib-valentlne, Neb. party conferences (O.
 Sept. ie-Coeur D'Aiene, Hdnfo. party conferences @.
 Sept, ie-eeattle. WaShy third speech, (e).
 Sept io.-PoFtiand, ore, fourth speech (O.
 Sept. 2is-san Francisco. Calf. fifth speech (2O).
 Sept. 22,-Los Angeles, Calif.. sixth speech.
 Sept. Oklahoma City, okia., seventh speech (i0).
 Before leaving New York, Dewey conferred with John Foster Dulles, his advisor on foreign affairs and National Chairman Herbert Brow neil, jF,
 After his meeting with Dulles he told . press conference that he felt progress was being made toward flonspAftisan American paTticipas ton in an International ofganiza- ton for world peace. He said, n response to . question, that he will discuss foreign policy curing the campaign,
 Dewey started his campaign swtmg apparently well rested after 6 week ct his pawiing, N. F., farm where he put the finlshing touches on the lPhiladoIphia and LouIsViile speeches. In addition to Mrs. Dewey, the campaign party included Elliott V. Bell, New York State Superintendent Of Banks and his closest political adviser; It. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, U. 6. Army (Fetired) commanding ofgicer Of the New York Guard; Paul E. Lockwood, Dewey's execus tive secretary; Jack Flanagan, as- slstant secretary to Gov. John W. DEickeF, the vice pFesldential nominee; half . dozen national committee research stan members. and more than 50 i1ewgpapet, sm6lA ilewgFeel adil magazine ccfTesp0ns dents and photcgEAphRfa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
Women Out For Dewey

Louisville, Ky, Sept. ! = (U.P.)-. An estimated 300 delegates to the first WaF.tirae meeting of the Nas tionai Federation Of Women's Re- publican Clubs open sessions today on vote getting strategy they are confident will bring out the dlstah baiioters to make November [ ap overwhelming COP V.Day.
 Pre.eonventlon huddies have beer going on since last night in gener. ally smokeless hotel rooms and ct ] D. m. Mrs. W. Glenn sutheFs of Chi. cago, Federation president, wlil poupnd the gavel calling the twe' day assembly to order.
 Tho meeting reaches its climay Friday when Governor Thomas N Dewey's tfangseontinental campaigi train pulls into town with the pres. idential candidate and his wife Dewey will address the federation and the public friday night in the Louisville aFmory.
 Plans for the convention call for accent on work end softspedal on EAhiHVFl N4Ebf 31WlSKb 6SCt9kVdt
 "We'Ve asked teh delegates k leave their evening dresses i1 moth balls and to forget about orchids, she said.
 Larger Strength
 For the first time in history the women Of the country have c larger potential voting strength than the iflsn. It ig estimated that women will east 60 DOT cent Of the total vote and it Is our job to get them to go Republican"
 But Mrs. Guthers, mother Of an Army Air Force bomber pilot now iFi Corsica and wife of c disabled veteran Of the last war, Is not let. ting the Federation membership c6 with just voting.
 "This year our women must do many of the tasks often left to men" sho said. We must see that our friends end neighbors register. We must help at the election boothl and isi any needed campaign capa" cities"
 Mrs. suthsrs reported an unprece. dsnted feminine interest in govern" inent.
 We aFo aSking each Of our mem. beFS to engage at least one person ia c political discussion each day and to awaken that person to the need Of voting and voting Repubii. can," she explained.
 "Each Of our clubs has c teies phone committee which phones friends and neighb0rs and caiiG their attention to important radio programs. Often they set together to listen in and discuss the broad cast aftsFwaTdg."
 These and ether votespEovoking tactics will be discuGsed At Q forum led by Mrs, Kethefine Kennedy Brown, Of Dayton, O., vice-chaifs man Of the Republican National Committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
lon Asin' of |Asin' Bulsur
toOnlInued IrOm rasa D

toontinued groln Page D soflA, end that tho government inc medlntely notified Russlan, Britain end the United States of lt8 action.
 London diplomatic sources had no confirmation ok the reported declar. alton of war, but it was understood that Bulgaria had merely notified Russia that she considers herself At war with Germany,
 RomAnla, tho first Of the Axis partners Co desert the sinking NABl ship, already was At war with the Reich and Bulgarla's detectlon would leave Hitler with only Hlns gary and revolt.torn SlovakiA ot the five satellite states that entered the war with him,
 Finland sued for peace lest week and gave the Naxls until Sept, le to leave the country or be interned,
 United Press Dispatch from An- kara quoted Bulgarian diplomats ae saving that Russia had demanded that Bulgaria break relations with Germany, get rid of the NasL troops In the country grand xugoslav partisan troops right Of passage through Bulgaria and cooperate" with the partlsans.
 Moro RumoEs
 A Bulgarian telegraph agency broadcast intercepted by BEG Mon. itors in London said Sofia had broken with Germany and NaGl Minister Adolf BekerlO was prepars Ing to leave for Berlin,
 The agency reported that the Bul. gars had severed relations with Benlto Mussollni's Fascist govern ment of Northern Italy and with the puppet croatian and slovals regimes,
 Radio Sofia said the last German troops remaining on Bulgarian soil had been disarmed and interned in compliance with 0 Russian demand,
 Hulgarias last hope of success. fully straddllng the fence between Germany and the Allies collapsed when Russia declared war on her Tuesday night. Moscow maintained Q grim silence on tho Bulgars' ap. peal for ari armistiee and continued to mass troops and arrior along the Danube river frontier.
 Berlin Reports
 Berlin said the Red Army already had invaded Bulgaria, but Moscow dispatches indicated the Russians were marking time on the border, giving the Bulgarian erriy and peo- pie an opportunity to take matters Into their own hands and bring their country into the Allied camp,
 A formal Bulgarian declaration of war against the reich was believed almost certain in view of RusSia's determined stand,
 (An NEG broadcast from Cairo said there was c possibility that Premier Constatln MuravievS eRbi' net might be replaced by 6 new gov- crnment headed by George Diini. troy, Bulgarian Communist leader who was tried and acquitted by Q German court for conspiracy in the relchstag flre)
 Bulgarian's break with the reich came as Hitler struggled to hold together the fragments of his once. formidable Balkan coalition by ordering a Hungarian delcaration of war against Romanla.
 Hungary, the most Bteadfast of QermanyS satellites, appeared to have been produced into the new conflict by Berlin as 6 show of solidarity against the spreading Allied fronts, Observers regarded the Hungarian move as creating little change in the Balkan military situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

Koiso took cogniHanco Of these attacks, which he said "Are likely to increase in frequency and scale"
 Possible Tank Landing
 And" he continued, i've might do well to consider the possibility oi Americans landing on our own home soil"
 Japan has reached the point where she must turn from the de-. fensive to the offensive, koiBo said, and, In an apparent attempt to bol. Ster morale, clalmel Japanese forces "are pobed Fosolutely for action to crush the United States and Britain soon,"
 However, ho quickly added, the full resources of tho entire empire would have to Do mustered and oil military and internal functions completely integfated.
 "The war in greater East Asia ., b c war for which we have been compelled Co rise for the very OK. istencO and defense of our empire" D sald, "and, nt the same time, . war whose great object fS to realize the rennais6ance Of great East Asla.
 'ft is indeed c war in which the life or death Of the Yamato race ig at stake. Furthermore, it is 6 great war to decide the destiny Of the oils billion people of East Asia"