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Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
0PA Announces
Ceiling Price
On Mexican Beer

The Office of Price Administra-
ton has leveled dollars and cents
ceiling price on ali Mexican beer,
effective midnight Saturday ac-
corCing to Don Campbell, district
representative, OPA, San Diego. Z
The beverage has been designat-
ed into three classes, A, B and &C.
The procedure has been establish
ed, the OPA price authority said,
because Grade A beer was introduc-
ed into the United States, prior TO
price regulations, as novelty. Mex
ican beer was not considered to be
a necessity at that time because
OF sufficient quantities of domestic
brew, he continued.
Ceiling price set for Glass A beer,
wholesaler to retailer-Carta Blan-
ca and MeXicali, in the main-is
S. a case. The price includes deliv-
cry to purchasers door or to his
customary receiving point
Glass B beer, defined as beer
brought into the United States
within the past 18 months to re-
plenish a. diminishing supply of
Domestic stocks, includes IL differ
ent brands or grades known as
Maya Monterey; Pacifico; Tecate;
Victoria; Victory; ANA or De ANA:
CeNtral Corona; Coronita and Cruz
Blanca. Price has been set at $3.50
per case of "a bottles.
Class C beer is determined to be
(all other brands other than those
mentioned. Ceiling price tackled on
to B and C classes from retailer to
consumer is 25 cents a bottle.
The regulation will not affect
sales in such places as cafes, hotels
a nd refreshment establishments
where bottled contents are consum-
ed on the premises.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
vandaIs Wreck
Car AeriaIs,
Traffic Siqns

FL Centro suffered an epidemic of
vandalism during the night Friday.
and by morning at least two upset
ear owners had reported broken au-
tomobile aerials to the police, who
already were scratching their heads
over the uprooting of stop sign at
a Fourth street and Holt avenue
corner.
One of tie car owners, an un-
named lieutenant stationed at the
FL Centre Marine Air Base, told CT
ficers that he had seen two other
broken aerialS. Will Won FluSs, 664
Holt avenue, also reported the Incl
dent.
Police Chief Ronnie r. Voyles
said another stop sign uprooting
took place earlier in the week. He
attributed damage in all cases to
pranksters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

iockeying for positions preliminary
to a great clash which could be the
final battle of the war.
Lieutenant General Sir Miles c..
Dempsey's British second army rip
ped into the exposed German flank
in SHolland for gains within four
miles of Hertogenbosch, strategic
transport center, in drive to cut
off the estimated 100000 Nazis in
Holland and along the Channel
coast.
PATTON BATTERS AWAY
At the other end of the line, Lieu
tenant General George S. Patton's
armor battered forward in the Mo-
selle Valley after knocking out at
least 106 German tanks in 48 hours
of fighting.
Canadian assault forces resumed
the attack on the last man" gar
rison of Calais-bout 1000 men dug
in amidst the ruins of the Channel
port = after some 10000 civilians
were evacuated.
Il have received orders from my
fuehrer to fight to the last man,
and that is what l intend to do"
the German commander, Schroeder,
told Canadian officers during the
negotiations for the truce which
ended at noon Saturday.
.. FLYING FORTS HIT
About 800 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators with a strong fighter
escort led the air parade to Ger
many. They hit Hamm, Bielefeld
and Munster, the latter big trans
port center 70 miles east of Arm
hem.
RAF Halifaxes and Lancasters
followed them, crashing a destruc-
tive bomb load on synthetic Oil
plants at Bottrop and Sterkade.
American First army skirmishes
and artillery harassed the Ger
mans all along their front from the
Echterbosch forest down to south
ern Luxembourg without import-
ant change in the opposing lines,
while Seventh army forces on the
southern flank hammered out small
Continued on Pg 6. Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
{. T.. BUILDING
Permits Rise

Clyde Lee, building inspector, re-.
ported Saturday that valuation of
building permits issued by the city
of Ell Centre for the month of Sep
tember, 1914. totaled 500, ,765, a jump
of $37,425 over that for the same
mCnth a year ago.
To date. Lee said permit issuance
for the first nine months of this
year have reached the $134,918 mark
an up of $l06.673 over the same
Deriod in l943
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
Death Summons
Young Farmer
In Coast City

BRAWLEY, Sept. 30.-Alfred L..
Fritz" Gieselmann, 38, one of the
northend's most popular young
ranchers, died at 1:50 pm. Friday
at Crystal Cove, Laguna Beach,
where he went following surgery
last July.
Funeral services are pending word
from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ern-
est Geselmann of ST Louis, Mis-
souri,. his birthplace, where the body
will be taken for burial
Gieselmann was active in valley
wide and civic activities of all
kinds.
He came to the valley in Septem-
ber 1882 and first lived with Dan
Weiss, county tax collector, and be-
Continued cn Page 6, Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

DOVER, England. Sept. 30. CUPo
The end of Dovers four years under
German guns was announced Off
cially Saturday, touching off a jubi-
liant celebration by thousands OF
persons dancing. shouting and sing
ing in the streets.
Soon after 10 a. m. loudspeakerS
blared the announcement that tine
mayor has received official lnlor-
nation that all long-range guns on
the other side of the channel now
have been captured"
The menace of Nazi cannon to
this capital of Hellfire Corner had
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
Chinese Press Complains
c. Europe First Policy

the defeat of Japan may be ex-
pedited."
Turning to the question of STRAIT
egy in the Pacific, the newspaper
said that in all conferences between
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and President Roosevelt the pro-
gram of Europe first" was the lead
ing topic
Now We wish to know whether
at the Cairo conference the war in
the Far East was discussed.
What We know Is the Cairo dec
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
Dover Rejoices:
Big Guns Silent

been removed by tie Canadian First
Army mcp-up of the French coastal
batteries 20-odd miles across the
Straits of Dover.
The message of liberation was
broadcast through the battered
town and the caves in the cliffs
where many of its inhabitants had
been sheltering during the heavy
bombardment of the last month.
Crowds gathered immediately to
celebrate. Flags flew from ,Jhouses
The telephone lines to London were
clogged with calls carrying wcrd to
friends and relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
Russians Use
ID. s. AirfieId

SEATTLE, Sept 80 CUP)-The
Soviet government is using a naval
base on United States territory as
rendezvous port fer trans-shipment
of cargoes and refueling of Russian
WarshipS, t h e Post-Intelligencer
said in a copyright story Saturday.
Quoting Representative Warren
G.. Magnuson, Cd, Washington, a
member of the House naval affairs
committee, the newspaper said op-
erations have been conducted Sc
cretlv at the port for more than Is
months.
Magnuson told the newspaper
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
RUHR VALLEY IS BON BE D
New Russ Thrust
Blasts Third
Route to Hungary
Third Front Nears Tartar
Pass in Carpathians;
Sweeping Plains Ahead

LONDON, Sept. 30. (UP)
The Red army opened a
third front against Hungary
Saturday with a powerful
thrust into the Carpatho-
Ukraine that carried to less
than three miles of the his
toric Tatar Pass, eastern
gateway to the Hungarian
Plains.
Swinging abreast of other Soviet
forces advancing through the chain
of mountain defiles linking Poland
and Slovakia, Rec army infantry
men preached the main German
defenses south of the Tatar gorge
and threatened momentarily to spill
across the frontier into the Carpa-
tho-Ukraine section stolen from
Czechoslovakia by Hungary.
The new offensive, extending to
more than ITO miles the Soviet as
sault line on Hungary's northern
and eastern flanks, came as Rus
sian and Romanian troops moved
against the southern Hungarian
border on a l00-mile front.
Axis reports sale the Soviets al
ready had crossed the southern
frontier at number of points and
limited that they entered Szeged,
second largest city in Hungary.
At the same time, Moscow an
nounced new gains in the attack
on Riga, capital of Latvia, and re-
ported that 10000 Germans were
killed and 1878 captured in the
Today campaign that liberated all
of neighboring Fstonia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

laration issued by Roosevelt, Chur-
chill and Chang. Since Chang at
tended the conference 1t is thought
that military affairs in the East
were surely discussed. If SO, did
Roosevelt and Churchill make any
promises? If they cid, have those
promises been fulfilled? -
THE strategy of Europe first nav
ing now been 80 per cent executed.
we now demand that both the
United States and Great Britain
turn their attention to the East
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
OPA ORDER MAKES CHANGE
IN AMMUNITION SALES

WASHINGTON, Sept. 80. CUP)-
The Office of Price Administration
Friday revoked the % per cent pre-
MUM allowed for less-than-box
sales of ammunition for civilian use.
Maximum prices for single shells
henceforth will be determined by
dividing the price of the full stand
srd box by the number of shells it
contains. This will mean lower re-
tail prices for single shells and
cartridges, the OPA said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

al Robert Kenny, whose pre-
conference demand that the west
cease being a "crown colony of the
east and start manufacturing its
own goods from its own raw mate
rials, set the tone for the meeting
presided over Saturday mornings
sessions.
Governor John Vivian, of Colora-
committee, was scheduled to pre-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
Western States Organize
l. or ven ReconverSion

sent a strong resoluti pn calling for
the establishment of committee
of II, one from each Estate, to con-
tinue the work of the conference
and to present its program to Wash
ington.
Speakers Friday repeatedly stress
ed that If the east begins to recon-
vert while the west remains "criti-
cal area" until the Pacific war is
over, the west will find itself be-
hind the eight-ball."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept.
30. (UP)-Sixty high Off
!.ials of II western states Sat
Irday prepared to press for
western conversion to peace
)ime production on an equal
footing With the industrial
ast.
. California Attorney Gener-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
Niles Resigns
Health Post

Lawrence Niles, who has been a
deputy health officer of Imperial
county for the last nine years, Sat-
urday informed DR.. Miriam Hub
bell, county health officer, that he
is reSigning, effective October Is.
Niles lives in Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
COMPLAINTS FILED

Two divorce complaints were filed
in Imperial county superior court
Friday, Madeline Avina against
Robert AVina and one by Dorothy L..
Freeman against Harry C. Freeman.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

Revenge Is Sweet
The razzing John Kepley endured
from Fl. K. McClimans was pitiful.
While they were taking a state
guard training course, they had to
crawl half mile through the coun-
try with bullets Whizzing over their
heads.
On the day following TIE crawl,
Kepley was a solid mass of aches,
pains and groans. McClimanS called
him a sissy. and a baby and a lot of
other insulting things no state
guarder should have to put up with.
Kepley couldn't understand how
McClimanS could come out of the
1 ordeal as fresh as daisy.
But revenge is one of the sweetest
things in the world. They say every
dog has his day.
Kepley found out that McClimans
has been taking poison ivy shots
ever since he came home from camp
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
y AMBLINe
~ EpoRTER

At Last
I'm my opinion said an anony-
NOUS voice over the telephone Sat
urday, WV has arrived for the
winter. In fact, WV is here to stay
I am happy to report that WV and
RR have gotten together at last
You guess what WV stands for
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01
WEATHER

Maximum Friday lOl, minimum Sat. co. 5 am.
Saturday 68, humidity 80; noon Saturday 80, hu-
midity %; s pm Friday 98, humidity 35.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-01

L. A. HAY-U. s. No. s31- 1850; u. s. No. 2 Ieafy
l. v. SsO5O- so; No. 5000 Ssl 0O Sept. flax
$685..
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
County Farms
Need Workers

Serious implications OF the new
draft regulations on agriculture in
Washtenaw County will be dis
cussed this evening in the court
room OF the county building in Ann
Arbor at a meeting called by Ken
meth Russell, farm placement direc-
tor for this county.
With the spring work ready to be
started within two or three weeks,
farmers have already found strin-
gency in the labor market. MI.
Russell points out. He estimates
that between 400 and 500 farmers
will need help badly at that time.
At present he finds that $50 farm
boys in Washtenaw County be
tween the ages Of IS and rs are
now eligible for immediate draft.
AS an example OF the difficult
times ahead he cites the case OF
one widow with a 500 acre farm. II
the draft takes her two remaining
workers. she faces an almost i'm
possible situation. he pointed out.
Entering into the picture also is
the fact that farm machinery is in
no better condition than II was last
year and requirements are still diff
ficult.
Attending the meeting will be
members OF both draft boards OF
the county and farm leaders.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
Social Agency
Plans Future

A discussion OF postwar plans
for community agencies which
have sprung up through war needs
occupied the attention OF members
oil the board OF directors OF the
Council of Social Agencies - their
meeting Monday evening. Respon
sibilities OF the community to-
ward these groups WIS stressed
and postwar uses when wartime
support is no longer Available or
necessary, were discussed.
Dr. Francis L. Lord told OF the
progress of the committee toward
securing the visit OF state child
rIid2nce clinic here, atd H. was re-
ported that siderable progress
has been made in the search for n
site for a new Carver Community
Center building.
A membership meeting at which
all members will be present was
Planned for April II AT this meet
ing It was decided to request re
ports from group work agencies
or their present program.
Wednesday evening the youth
guidance division OF the council
will meet. at which time the speak
er will be Mrs. Myrtle Hurd, police
,goman from Jackson.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
Pupils Told
Safety Value

Children OF Ypsilanti are learn
ing the Importance OF an educa-
'tional safety program this week
following visits OF Capt. II. {.
Berry of the Safety Legion Of
America. who is visiting schools
to demonstrate his program. Capt.
Berry warns against riding "doa-
bic" on bicycles. "hitching' sled
rides to cars. riding bicycles with
out lights, and crossing streets
without observing traiilc signals.
He emphasizes his lectures TO the
children with true and false QUIZ
cards.
Capt. Berry Is conducting a spe-
cial slogan contest here, with
prizes for the best safety slogan
consisting OF three first aid outhts
in saddle leather cases. These
will 90 TO a student in 81. john s
parochial School to child In the
group from the kindergarten
slough the third grade in the city
schools, and to pupil In group
from the fourth grade through Jun
Tor high scho'. also in the city
schools. Any Ypsilanti child may
become a member OF the Safety
Legion. Children up to the third
grade may receive their member
shin cards from their teachers, and
older children may procure their
cards at the police station. capt.
Berrys program has the support
OF Chief OF Police Dan +. l.. Patch
as we'll as that OF school authorizes.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21

Washington, Mar. 2i-1NS- An
inter-agency committee Of produc-
ton, manpower and military otfici-
ais sought today 70 draft the list
OF must" war programs in Which
key workers under 26 years OF
age would be deferred despite the
demands of the armed forces for
young combat requirements.
AS a starting point. the commit
tee agreed to accept the list OF urg
ent war programs worked out by
WPB's program bureau which in
cludes landing craft, bombers.
Mica. some chemicals, electronics.
bearings, high octane gasoline and
synthetic rubber.
Other programs may be added
as the discussions progress. The
OPT has requested protection for
key transportation workers and the
same treatment also is sought in
respect to coal mining and lumber
ing.
Decision This Week
Officials indicated that the list
should be completed and the ma
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21


the Kansas outlook thusly.
1T looks now as though Kansas
is preponderantly Republican. J
don't see how the Democrats, war
or no war, can carry any Of the ma
jor offices. see no chance what
ever OF Roosevelt carrying the state
or the Democrats winning any ma
jor office from governor or senator
down 10 the state ticket Il looks
solid Republican IN Kansas today"
Explains Trend
Schultz. who Is noted for his 20
litical sagacity in Kansas politics.
explained the Republican trend as
follows:
This COP trend is due 10 gen
eral resentment toward 50 much
regulation and regmentation. The
farmers are mad at the Administra.
ton for many reasons. The people
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
Agriculture
Fund May be
Made Lower

Washington, Mar. 2i-lNS-The
economy minded House Appropria-
tons Committee slashed ninety.
three million 500 thousand dollars
from the l9i4-45 Agriculture De.
partment supply bill today. includ-
ing rejection OF fifty million dol
lar budget bureau request for
federal school lunch program.
Total amount recommended in
the bill. including $685., 24+.l92 In
direct appropriations. was s567,-
S95.779. or s403.. $3.50 under the
1914 amount and s93,520.737 be-
low the budget proposals.
The committee knocked out com
pletely budget bureau requests for
twenty eight and half million
dollars In direct appropriation and
an authorization OF ninty-seven and
half million dollars OF Recon
struction Finance Corporation
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
Gas Rates Refused For Ypsilanti

Ypsilanti Board OF Public Works
and city council Monday evening,
faced by a war emergency in the
gas department, decided to increase
rates as stop gap" expedient
until natural gas can be obtained
at the close OF the war.
With a deficit OF nearly 10000
last year, the city officials had to
decide between substituting the de-
partment or increasing the rates
to make II self sustaining They
chose the latter as the best bust
ness expedient. They pointed out
that cost of labor has increased ap-
proximstely sIe,0e9 year and
that the cost of coal has been set
nearly a dollar a ton higher than
in the pre-war period. With the
plant requiring between $4,000 and
1900 tons of coal yearly, these
two items alone are causing con
siderable problem.
With anticipated equipment add
ed to this, with its consequent
extra drain on management and
labor, the department had reached
a point at which 1t was necessary
to adopt a new policy. Both the
Board of Public Works and the
council members felt it was fairer
to increase the rates of the gas
user than it was to spread the
whole on the tax roll for user and
NON ucer alika IN nav
It is estimated that the average
user will have to pay from so to So
cents more per month.
This will make the rate for the
first 200 cubic feet s125 instead OF
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
Nearly Entire
Tax Roll Paid

approximately five per cent of
Ypsilant's taxes are unpaid. it
was reported by City Treasurer
Mabel ]. Stadtmiller in a report
accepted by the City Council Mon
day night. The total amount Of
taxes collected was $2S0.591 Sc,
and the unpaid amount was $l3,-
622.32, the report stated. The
1913 city tax levy was s294,300. and
the amount spread on the tax, rolls
was $294,334.44. The total penalty
collected was $32s.S2.
The amount spread in personal
taxes for the year was approxi-
mately $6S.23077. OF this amount
all was collected with the excep-
ton of one item OF 1881, which
was termed by Mrs. Stadtmiller as
uncollectable, for after a great deal
of effort it was learned the man
has gone out OF business, entered
the armed services and has not
been located.
No taxes have been accepted in
the city treasurers office for the
past week, as all tax rolls have
been turned over to the county
treasurer in Ann Arbor for col
lection and payments now must be
made there.
The total valuation in the city
OF Ypsilanti for the 1913 taxes was
$l3,SS3, 700. OF which real estate
valuation was s12,074,S25, and per-
sonal valuation was s1,SOS.S75.
During the year Mrs. Stadtmill-
er has sent $41.57147 in county
taxes to the county treasurer The
county general spread was sif,-
692.lS. and that which was unpaid
amounted to S3.l2O.71.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
Three Jurors
For Lonergan

New York, Mar. 21-lNS-Three
Jurors we're in the box today as
the second session OF the murder
trial OF Wayne Lonergan enter
ed its second day, and It appeared
that the remainder OF the week
will pass before there are any
fireworks.
Then cafe society will be sum-
moned to the witness stand to ties
tify In the young RCAF aircrafts-
mans fight for his life as he an
swers the charge that he bludse-
oned his beautiful heiress wife, Pa
tricia. 10 death in her fashionable
Beekman Hill apartment.
with obvious reluctance, Assist
ant District Attorney Jacob Cru.
met. at the request OF Defense At
torney Edward V. Broderick, gave
the names Of men and women
whom he expects to testify against
the pale play-boy.
Most OF the prospective witness
es already have been IDENTIFIED
with the lives Of Wayne or Pa
tricia, and the listing OF their
names occasioned little surprise.
Lonergan listened impassively
as Grumet reeled them off. Many
were fair weather friends. Others
were servants in the magnificent
apartments where Lonergan was
welcome-untll the Staying.
His friends called him "Lonnle'
in the gay days before last Octo-
Der. And sometimes they called
his dear Lonnie". Now most Of
them swear they hardly knew him.
and never really liked him.
Only Jack March, amateur ten
mis- player and young man about
town. has sworn eternal fidelity
to his pal OF better days.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-21
COP. Lists
Its Delegates

The Republican county conven-
ton at Ann Arbor, Monday, named
the following delegates and alter.
mates to the state convention at De-
troit, April 20. The first name is
the delegate and the second the al
ternate.
Those who attended the convention
elected delegate and an alternate
DELEGATE from each OF the various
districts OF the county. Delegates
were chosen as follows:
Ann Arbor:
First Ward-Clyde Flemming and
Walter r. Garthe; Second Ward.
first precinct Charles Preketes
and Harold Finkbeiner: Second
Ward. Second Precinct Floyd C.
Moseley and Mark Mayne; Third
Ward, L. A. Tape and George Sid.
we'll; Fourth and Fifth Wards
Horace Frettyman and William J.
Saunders; Sixth Ward-Herbert
Wagner and Mrs. Lucille Menefee.
Seventh Ward. first precinct-How-
ard Beatty and Glen L. Alt; second
precinct-Joseph Hooper, George
P. McCallum; third precinct-Ros.
coe o. Bonisteel and Leonard J.
Young.
Ann Arbor Township; John W.
Rae, Ann Arbor; Mrs. James Ing.
lis. Ann Arbor; Bridgewater, Saline
city and township. Erwin Klager,
Saline; Alvin Gross, Saline; Dex.
ter. Mortified and Webster. Clare
Cahill, Whitmore Lake, and Carl
Mast. Dexter; Freedom. Manchester
and Sharon. Hollis Farley. Man
chester. and Bennett Root. Manches.
ter: Augusta and Ypsilanti Town
ship: John Cosner, Willis. and Miss
Marina r. Osband. Ypsilanti; Lodi
and Pittsfield, Daniel Ellsworth.
Ypsilanti and william Lindermann
Ann Arbor RID: Lima and Scio.
Al Trimble, Leigh Luck. Chelsea;
Lyndon and Sylvan. Fred Broesam-
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