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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Bon q
Drii ! We
Cal II, j S
Leaders Call
For Early
Quota Success

Four days of active SELL
ing saw Imperial Valleys
fourth war bond drive ap-
preaching the 100000 mark
as Fridays sales topped 100000
Going into full swing with Thurs
day's martial program, Ell Centre
salesmen increased their totals over
the two previous days and directors
of the drive throughout the county
report increasing interest. In sever
al districts assurance is given that
goals will be met next week and
considerable rivalry is marking the
sales activities.
RETAIL ARMY ACTIVE
In all parts of the county the
retail third army campaign is NOV
ing steadily, according to Herb
Fawcett, chairman. He expects to
see this phase of the drive reach
ing full speed early in the week
Continued on page 6, col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

Members of the state board OF
barber examiners swooped down on
shops in Imperial county Saturday
and issued Il suspensions for viola
ton of sanitary rules.
In several instances shop licenses
together with the licenses of indivi-
dual BARRIERS were suspended, Lake
E. Young, president of the state
board of examiners, said. Six shops
in the various cities were closed.
The suspensions were issued for
violation of laws including failure
to disinfect tools after using them,
failure to use clean linen, and fail
ure of the BARRIERS to wash their
hands between customers, Young
said, In most cases, he said, the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

SACRAMENTO, Jan. %.
(UP) = Henry B. Cramer,
San Diego member of the
State Board of Prison Direc-
tors, Saturday demanded a legisla-
tive investigation of his fellow board
member, Julian Alec, of San Fran
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
Big Drive Starts
To Sweep All
NoziS From tQIv
Beacheads Established at Tiber
Estuary as Bomb ers Isolate
HolY CITY in Devastating Raids

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan. p. (UP)
Thousands of American and Allied troops striking their
greatest blow throw the Germans out of Italy landed
far behind the enemy lines Saturday and swarmed inland
from mes-long beachhead in surprise invasion which
may decide the fate of Rome
The German radio said the Allied amphibous force
spashed ashore % miles from Rome in the of the
Tber estuary and occupied the Port of Neuno, 32 miles
from the capital. But early reports here did specify
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
WPR Eases Up
On Bull Rinus

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. CUP)
The war production board has
announced that it will release
240,0G0 pounds of copper tubing
annually for the manufacture of
nose rings for bulls.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
FILES COMPLAINT

Laura r. Norton, 356 Orange,
filed complaint Of battery against
Sgt. Lee Montague, in police court
Saturday, alleging that he had
slapped her and broken her glasses
Friday night Montagues address
was given as 43l South Second
Both are Negroes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY-Generally clear Satur-
day night and Sunday. Slightly
cooler Sunday. No frost Satur-
day or Sunday nights, lowest
temperatures sc to 38 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
y AMBL!Ne
EpoR7ER
ROOk Nook

Book Nook
will you come with me and in
spect the new library?' one OF the
officers said to Colonel Karl Voel-
ter, station commanding officer az
the Ell Centro marine air station.
Col Voelter went to the library
Its a beautiful library he said
But it looks a bit odd without any
books" The shelves and cupboardS
were bare, not at all booky.
SO, Dear Public, how would you
like to put some books on the
shelves? If you have any books,
take them to the Ell Centre library
where there is big box ready to
receive them. The marines like fic-
ton and we do mean fiction.
Please, Weatierman-
Weatherman Roy Simpson is on
the spot again. If 1t rains he will
be in the doghouse without bone.
Farm Bureau members from all
parts of southern California were
to swarm ito BraWley Saturday.
They had been promised a bright,
sunshiny day. BraWley promised
faithfully to have slunny day
because the lasC time the Farm
Bureau regional meeting was held
in the valley it rained.
Things looked pad Saturday
morning. Clouds and haze all over
the place. Bright and early the
telephone began to ring in Simp-
sons office. All the calls came from
BraWley and all the callers wanted
to know if it was going to rain.
Poor Roy, he faces liquidation.
He Paid And Paid
At Rotary club in Ell Centre
there was considerable talk about
Father Edward Hutchinson's work
in taking care of servicemen strand
ed in the community. President
Earle Davis asked for personal con-
tributions from members and al
most $100 was collected.
Last Thursday Davis told club
members the fund was about gone
and suggested that the members
Continued on page 6, col, j.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23
WEATHER

Maximum Friday II, minimum Saturday 40; s am
Saturday SIS, humidity So; noon Saturday SO, hu-
midity 35; pm. Saturday &c. humidity g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-23

L. A. HAY-U. S. No. 1 s31-33.5O; U. s. No. 2 leafy
1. V. S3O.5c-3 $3.50; No. 2 $1,000 S3IOO Sept flax
S2.96s4
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-28

Fast moving Allied forces
last week struck swiftly and
surely TO bring the battle Of
France TO a victorious end. From
Gen. Monteomery's headquar-
fers comes the report: The end
of the war is in sight, " while the
Berlin radio, admitting Allied
victories, reports: I'VE must be
prepared for a German with
draweI from France.
In southern France Allied
might is striking deep into the
soft underbeIIy" in a drive
designed to move up the Rhone
Valley and Join Gen, Patton's
forces now advancing beyond
Paris TO less than 100 miles from
the German border.
OF The 80 divisions which
Hitler had in France and The
Low Countries three months
ago. Is have been destroyed,
Is badly mauIed; the rest are in
peril. The German Seventh
Army reinforced by the
Fifteenth, which had been
guarding the robot-bomb coast.
was pinned against the Seine.
These forces, combined with
The might Of the Red armies in
ihs east. made II Increasingly
apparent that, in the words Of
Gen. Montgomery, The end Of
The war is in sight" "
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27

of the bill except an authorization
of a dam at Table Mountain or the
Sacramento river by state Senator
Oliver J. Carter, Redting.
Millington and Carter debated at
such length that Crittenden SAID
action would be deferred on the
entire measure until either Friday
or after the matter had been con-
sidered in executive session.
Other projects outlined by Bar
t0O were.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Two Airmen Die
In Collision

HAMILTON FIELD. Calf. April
27. cUPB-HamiIton field officials
said Thursday that two wrecked
fighter planes located Is miles
northeast of Laramie. Wyo.. We'd
nesday were based at the Concord.
Calf. Army airfield.
The planes crashed last Sunday
while on a routine cross-country
combat training mission, army Of
ficers said. Pilots of the single
scatter ships were not Immediately
identified Reports from civilians
finding the wreckaee indicated they
were dead
Walt Williams, chief pilot of
Summit Airways at Laramie. re-
ported sighting the "charred"
wreckage Of the two planes in hilly
country. Both planes apparently
were going at high speed when they
crashed. he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27

the nigh tribunal agreed to put
them over until next term, Begin
ming in october, after his attorney,
who also represents Mitsuye Endo,
requested that the cases be heard
together, providing the court ac-
cepts the latter case for review.
WASHINGTON, April 81. CUP)-
Secretary of Interior Harold L. IckeS
announced Thursday that about 100
Japanese American trouble max
erS' will soon be removed from the
Tule Lake segregation center in
northern California after having
been confined in a stockade since
disturbances there last November.
GO TO ARIZONA
The men, the majority of whom
are American citizens, will be sent
about May Is to the neWly-reopen-
ed Leupp center, near WinsloW
Ariz., Ickes said. The center will
be administered by Ray r. Best,
director, of the Tule Lake project,
and is being reopened specifically
for "agitatorS" or trouble makers"
at Tule Lake.
IckeS said that aliens who took
part in the November disturbances
already have been shifted to in
ternment camps for enemy aliens,
and are now under the jurisdiction
Of the justice department.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Tribunal Defers
Jap Hearing

WASHINGTON, April 81. CUP)-
The supreme court has postponed
until next fall arguments on con-
stitutionality of the evacuation of
Japanese Americans from the Pa
eific coast after receiving a new
case challenging the power of the
war relocation authority to hold
loyal Americans of japanese de-
scent.
The new case was certified to
the high court by the ninth cir
cult court of appeals, which asked
fer instructions in making prop
e. decision"
DENIED WRIT
Mitsuye Enco, 22-year-old Ameri-
can-born woman of japanese de-
scent. appealed to the circuit court
after the northern California fed
eral district court denied her ap-
plication for a writ of habeas corpus
for release from Camp Newell in
Modoc county, Cal.
A native of Sacramento, she con-
tended that she haG. been held for
90 months in the relocation center
and that WRA regulations were de-
priving her of her rights as an
American citizen although she had
been classified as a loyal Ameri-
can.
The supreme court in March
agreed to review the case OF Fred
Toyosaburo Korematsu, Japanese
American of Oakland, Cal, now con-
finec at a relocation camp near
Topaz, Utah. Oral arguments in
his case were set for next week but
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Authorized

State Senator EG Fletcher, San
Diego, said he was going to stir
I'D all the row I can TO see that
we get more favorable treatment in
this bill. think 100000 people in
the San Diego area have been treat
ed unfairly. We still are waiting for
the government to spend one cent
in San Diego"
The committee was asked to vote
its approval of immediate passage
of the measure by Seth Millington,
Gridley, ana 70 approve all sections
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
legislative Co ommittee
Rows on Water Projects

SACRAMENTO, April 81. up
A joinc legislative committee on
water problems has withheld recon-
mendations on an S92O,0OO,000 flood
control bill before congress, and
State Senator Bradford Crittenden,
CRD. Stockton. said further con-
sidaration of The measure would be
in executive session.
A. NJ. Barton. executive officer OF
the state reclamation board, tolc
the committee that the bill author
izes construction when critical ma
terials are available or in the i'm
mediate postwar period slOO, 100000
worth of projects in California
which ultimately will cost S407, $751;
600. Local interests. Barton said,
will be asked to furnish 37,500,000
of the total amount. The projects
IS outlined by Barton include:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 70, 1901.
Published evenings except Saturday
and Sunday in combination with the
Sunday POST PRESS. by the Imperial
Valley Publishing Company, 625 State
St, II Centro. Calf.
Paul JENKINS. Publisher
and President.
A {. Johnston, VIce-President and Ad-
vertising Manager; Mrs. Logan II.
jenkins. Secretary.
Member United Press California News
paper Publishers Assn. West Holiday
Co. Inc, national representatives.
Rates. Including Sunday Post-Press):
Entered at III Centro. Calf. post
office as 2Ed class nlsp
Single copy SC; carrier paid-in-ad-
vance: ! month, 500; months.
81. rs; months. $5 25 4 year. $1,000
BY Mail: ! month. S1.00; 9 months
$3.50; q months. $3.50; ! year. $500.
Outside OF California T1.D per month
flat.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
RATION TOKENS FIND WAY
INTO MANY SLOT DEVICES

NEW YORK, April 27. up -
New uses reported Thursday for
the red and blue ration tokens
American transit association Of
ficials said the tokens are show
ing up all two frequently in fare
boxes around the country. New
York washing machine manufac-
turers reported that housewives
have found the tokens work in
apartment house machines. P. S
the tokens also jam up the mach
ines-cften in the middle of the
wash.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Order Relieves
Onions Dearfh

WASHINGTON, April 27. CUP)-
A new indication that the winter
onion famine is over came Thurs
day in a war food administration
order lifting all restrictions on
shipments from the IL principal
producing states.
Since last August, civilians have
received only very small supply
of onions under the WA orcer
which diverted most of last years
crop to the army and dehydrating
plants. 3,
This order is being terminated
now. VIA said, since only a few
hundred cars of last years crop
remain to be marketed, and pros
poets indicate the early 1914 crop
will be the largest in history.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
ORE BOAT CREW MISSING

CONNEAU, O. Aprll =. IUPI-
Ten crew members Of the Great
Lakes ere carrier James Reed, are
missing Thursday after the boat
sank in a collision with the steam
or Ashcroft in Lake Erie 20 miles
ncrth Of here. TIE boat normally
carries SO men.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27

100000 CT damage ir the 1887
38 and 1910 flood would have been
reduced approximately so per cent
is Shasta had been completed at
the time.
Crittenden before calling off the
hearing said that Millingtons and
Carriers dispute was the same old
fight we have had for years be-
tween people who will be bene-
fittd by projects and these who
will be hurt"
William Pierce of the Solano
county water council, in the COM
mittee's next hearing said that sal
unity in the lover delta region OF
the Sacramento river was greater
than it had been in other years
of comparable rainfall and runoff.
He said it was "problematical'
whether increased water releases
from Shasta cam would "be d
cure-all for our area"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
OFFICIAL TO SPEAK

W. G. Marders, ASSISTANT State
leader of All clubs, will speak at
joint meeting of the McCabe-
Eucalyptus farm center and All
club at McCabe school Friday night
at o'clock. His subject will be
Local, State and National All club
Work. Assistant Farm Advisor Lee
Landerman will discuss War time
All Recorcs and Supplies" A mo-
ton picture will be shown.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Assistant Store
Manager Advances

M. L. Foxworth, assistant man.
ager of the Sears Roebuck store in
Ell Centre for the last Is months,
has been promoted to the store in
Santa Ana.
Al Dalton, who has been aSso-
ciated with the store since it open
&c for business in Ell Centro, was
made assistant manager to take
FoXworth's place, Store Manager Al
Missildine announces.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
DISTURBER FINED

Walter Myers, q, Negro, was fin
ed $50 in police court for creating a
disturbance in local theater last
Saturday afternoon, Judge Lee
Nuffer also sentenced Sidney Paine,
A, TO 10 days, for intoxication
Benjamin r. Lemon, 35, 673 Holt.
paid $40 fine on the same charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
COUPLE OBTAINS
MARRIAGE LICENSE

Edward Jack StebbinS, %, ma
rine, and Grace Marcia Gilbert, %,
member of the marine reserves, OBJ
tanned a marriage license in Ell
Centre Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
ErOiect

Project AUTHORIZATIONS
Kern River isabella
Resarvoir) .................s S 100000
Kawea &, Tule Rivers 4,6OOOOO
Kings River and Tulare
Lake Basin ..-.,....-...-..-- l9,I00,oO0
Lower San joaquin Riv. l5,055,OOO
Mercad Stream Group 100000
Stony Creek G. Table
Mountain -. 100000
Nillington said sit is absolutely
necessary that we not jeopardlze
the entire bill by Withholding ap-
proval of the Table Mountain dam
He said he represented the en-
tire Sacramento Valley without
dissent from Red Bluff to San
Francisco Bay
I'VE have lived under a flood
menace all our lives" Millington
declared. and we want it solved y
He said he was speaking fer the
newly Sacramento VAL
lev flood control association.
Carter said he wanted the COM
mittee to specify in resolution
that you neither approve nor
disapprove the Table Mountain
+ dam"
If you take affirmative action
en- the whole bill" Carter added
you are putting another nail in
our coffin
Millington and Carter disputed
the acreage of Shasta county which
would be inundated by the low
level Table Mountain structure
ard whether or not construction
CT Shasta dam had solved lower
valley flood control problems,
Millington's argument was sup
ported by Bartcn, who declared
Il want to point out with all
the emphasis at my command that
Shasta dam won't solve the Butte
Basin flood situation
Frank Kochis, official Of the U.
S. army engineers, said that some
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
FOR ITCHING OF
MINOR SKIN RASHES

get this medicated powder. Contains IN
gradients often recommended by many
specialists for simple rashes, diaper rash
and chatting. Mexsana sootheo and forms
coat of protection on tender skin.
Costs little. Always demand Mexsana.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
Dog She Bailed Out
Takes Her Into Court

1t was the coy glance of a black
female Seottie that caused Mrs.
Dorothy Edwards. SO, of 1927
McKinstry, to appear before Judge
George T. Murphy in traffic and
ordinance court 10 answer a
charge that she permitted a dog
to run al large and annoy passers-
by by jumping on them.
Several neighbors had COM
planned of dog of uncertain an
.eestry making life miserable near
Mrs. Edwards home and told po-
lice that the dog belonged to Mrs.
Edwards. This Mrs. Edwards de-
MES emphaticaliy, and explained:
"Your honor, 1 have a female
Scottie and-well, there are a
lot of dogs hanging around the
house. This dog in question Is
one OF them and I would be just
as happy as the neighbors If he'd
go away. l had kept my dog
locked up SO that she wouldn't
have puppies, but she's going
to have some anyway"
Mrs. Edwards said that the po-
lice had taken the dog TO the dog
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
William Mara
Joins Bendix

William A. Mara. private sales
director for the Consolidated-Vul.
tee Aircraft Corp. in Detroit, has
resigned to join Dendix Aviation
Corp, it was learned today.
Mara's position with Bendix was
not announced.
Bill Mara, as he is known
throughout the aviation indus
try, is one of the pioneers of
flying. He joined the late Eddie
Stinson in the formation of the
Stinson Aircraft Co. in Wayne
and was in charge of sales for the
Stinson Co. since 1926.
When Consolidated took OVER
Stinson. Mara went with thu
company as vice president of thk
Stinson division for Convair. Just
a few months ago he was named
director of private sales for the
entire corporation, with headquar.
tiers at the Wayne plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
State Liquor
Out Of Hook

LANSING. Sept. 28-Michigan
ransomed 100000 worth Of
state whisky today after sending
a special messenger armed with
a S55.571 state check TO the Star
Transfer Co. of Grand Rapids,
haulers OF the states liquor
supply.
The ch e * represented the
companys charge for hauling
costs since June which the state,
this week. had decided to with
hold, claiming the company owed
$4,000 through breakages and
shortages.
Yesterday. the company. with
out warning, refused TO haul
state stocks and impounded the
whisky in its private warehouses
in Detroit, refusing to reopen
unless paid.
After a hurried conference,
Gen. Louis A. Kunzig, liquor con-
troll commission business manager.
Auditor Gen. Brown and the at
torney generals office elected to
pay.
Now that we have paid, We
will certainly expect the COM
pany to do likewise" Brown
said, anticipating a court suit.
The Star company recently lost
its long term hauling contract
with the state and has been op-
Grating on a day-to-day agree
Tnpnf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
Ford Plant Shut
As $50 Strike

The new pressed steel building
at the Ford Rouge plant was
closed completely this afternoon
when 2,520 workers walked off
the job after two union shop COM
mitteemen were suspended for
30 days for allegedly using OBJ
scene language in an argument
with a foreman in the presence
Of women employees.
A spokesman for the Ford
Motor Co. said the stoppage
threatened production in several
other Ford plants.
Those on strike included lao
production workers in the press
shop and 600 nonproduction
workers in the turbo-supercharger
division.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
Fire Kills Boy
And Burns ;

The youngest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Jedenasty was killed
and three other members of the
family were severely burned early
today as flames swept through the
attic of their bungalow at 1905
Brockton.
The boy, Jerome. 9, died from
asphyxiation before firemen were
able TO climb a flaming staircase
TO find his body in an attic bed
room.
His sister, Margaret, Is. was
seriously burned when she tried
TO fight through the flames on the
stairway and rescue him before
the firemen arrived. She is in
Receiving Hospital.
Also in serious condition at Re-
ceiving Hospital are the boys
brother, Joseph, ID. and his
grandfather Constantine Golem-
breWSki, 90. They were sleeping
in the attic with Jerome and were
burned before they could make
their way TO the first floor.
Margaret was sleeping in a bed
room on the first floor with her
mot her, Stella. The mother
escaped without injuries. The
father, Joseph, was absent.
GolembrewSki awoke, choking
from the smoke, and with the
help of his grandson, Joseph,
made his way TO the head of the
stairs where he called 10 Mar
garet for help.
The two descended TO the first
floor and Margaret then tried TO
battle through the flames on the
staircase 10 reach her brother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
HUNT FOR CAR

Checking the movements of re-
Gently paroled burglars, detectives
discovered that Ceremuga had
purchased a car after his release
from prsion.
With description and the
license number of the car. scout
crews throughout the city were
placed on the alert.
The capture was made only
after police had pursued Cere-
muga for more than a mile.
When seized, Ceremuga had in
his purse two railroad tickets for
Denver and Sl93 in cash.
CefemHga's companion in the
car, who gave her name as Betty
Merrick. 20. OF $50 Midland, High
land Park, also was held for
investigation of breaking and
entering, although she was not
implicated in the thefts by Cere-
muga.
The chase began at $50 this
morning when Patrolmen Albert
ksdau and Herbert Clark OF the
McGraw police station saw Cere-
Rugas car whizzing past Liver
Vols al Michigan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
FORCED TO CURB

Kadau and Clark sped after the
fast-moving auto ard at Michigan
and Braden they forced the fugi-
tiveS 10 the curb and searched
the car.
In the back seat they found a
loaded 30 caliber revolver. four
suitcases containing clothing. a
portable radio, d portable RADIO
photograph, five dozen new golf
balls. two golf bags containing
new clubs. three boxes of cigars,
new pen and pencil set, three
pocket watches and one wrist
watch. gold ring, d portable
typewriter and two cameras.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-29
Times Photo

pound and that she had to pay TO
get him out. believing it was her
duty as long as the mongrel and
her Scottie were friends. She has
also bought a license for the dog.
Mrs. Edwards told the court
that the mongrel didn't make her
home his permanent residence.
'He just comes and goes"
she said.
Judge Murphy adjourned the
case for a week with the instruc-
tons that Mrs. Edwards had bet
ter take the dog back to the
pound