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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

1t. John +. Burnett OF Ypsilnnti
has just completed n six weeks in
tensive training course in the Mar
Inc Corps Medical Field Service
School at Carlisle Barracks. Pa. in
preparation for duty with troops in
the field. 1t Burnett received his
NJ, y. Degree at the University OF
Michigan.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15
Classified Advertising

RATES Payment consecutive insertions per hnsi
One Three Days lee Six Days ioe Ten Days Sc
Special
classified Advertising
incorrect
OF publication Telephones IO AL.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15
Musical Equipment

PIANOs-Bousht, sold, exchanged
and rented. Ypsilant Piano Co. to2
r. Michigan.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

REFRIGERATION SERVICE
Phone PASS
WASHTENAW ELECTRIC co.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

EXPERIENCED SALFSLADYi La
dies dresses and accessories. Good
opportunity, steady position.
Clark's Shoppe. l0-l2 n. Wash,
ELDERLY LADY TO care for two
children. Room, board and salary.
References. Mrs. Earl l.. Stewart
4iS Florence.
WANTED-Middle Aged Lady for
homework and care OF children,
no washings. Must be neat and
clean. Inquire at s0b ~. Park St
MAID WANTED for country house
maintained for the women en-
ployees OF the Detroit Edison
Company. Starting rate $4,000 per
week plus maintenance. Apply De-
troit Edison Co. 1000 Second Ave
nue.. Detroit.
THEY'RE SOMETHINCi-mors than
fancies and tads. these powerful
little Classified Ads.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

RECORD AND SHEET MUSIC clerk
must have knowledge OF music.
Full time. Good wages. Must com
ply with VINO. Grinnell Bros. 2lO
w. Michigan.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15
Legal Notices
PRoBATE or WILL

No. sIl3O
STATE or MICHIGAN. The Pro-
bate Court for the County Of WASH
tenaW.
Al ses sion Of said Court held
at the Probate OFFICE In the city OF
Ann ArbOr, ia SAID County. on tho
9TH day OF September 4. j. l9it
Present. Hon. Jay q. Pray. judge
or Probate.
In tho Matter OF the Estate of
susan fsuerEtsin, Deceased
Frank A. Ieuer8tcin having filed
his petition praying that an In
strument filed Ia said Court 10 Ad-
mitted to Probate as the last viii and
testament Of said deceased and that
naturalization or said estate DO
granted TO Frank A FcuerHtein. or
some other suitable person.
II is Ordered. That tho srd day
Of October. A. u. 19ii NJ ten a. m.
ut said Probate OFFICE IN hereby ap-
pointed for hearing said petition.
IL is further ordered that Pub
lie notice thereof be given by pub
licatiOn OF copy hereof for three
successive weeks previous 20 said
day or hearing In the Ypsilanti
Daily Press newspaper printed
and circulated I'm said County.
JAY q PRAY. Judge Of Probate
A true copy
Nora o. Borgert Register OF Probate
Adv b-922
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

SEPTIC TANKS
Cleaned, Built and Installed.
Modern equipment. Ask for Mr..
Burkett. Phone Ann Arbor SB4l.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15
Merchandise For Sale

sToVEs-Aii sizes in stock. A de-
posit will hold one until needed.
shaefsr's Huron 81. store. Phone
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

Jackson, Sept. 15--AP--City and
state police were searching today
for David May, 35-yeareld Southern
Michigan Prison trusty, who dis
appeared Wednesday while on
downtown assignment. lie was
sentenced from Detroit Dec p.
1889 to five to II years for utter
ing and publishing.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

AND DRY CLEANING
business, two trucks, laundry
presses, high pressure boiler,
American Laundry washer. Book
extractor, doing over $500 week
business. Phone 2446-J-2.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

WOMAN for outside and inside
credit investigation and collec-
tion for large national concern.
Must have car. Good post war
opportunities 40 hour week,
weeks paid vacation. Experience
not necessary. tipping helpful.
Straight salary plus car expense.
Telephone Personal Finance co.
bs3. 900 through $3.50. ASK Tor
Miss Hdgerman.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-15

FOR A FINE Factory Rsconditioned
Piano see our large selection.
Grinnell Brothers, 2io w Mich.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
FSA Maps Plans
For Loans to
Ex.serVicen)en

New policies governing Farm Sc
curity administration ownership
loans to veterans were outlined
Wednesday by Leonard D. Webster
FSA supervisor for Imperial county
Webster pointed out that under
terms of the "GI. Bill of Rights
veterans are eligible to benefits OF
the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant
act on the same basis as tenants
The act provides 40-year loans at
3 per cent interest for purchase OF
family-tyoe farms.
PROGRAM OUTLINED
In order that veUera.Is might ex-
perience full benefit from theil
newly established eligibility, Web
ster said. FSA Administrator Frank
Hancock has instructed him to fol-
lew four principles as outlined:
Equal opportunity to obtain
limited farm loans will be afforded
veterans. whether or not they pre-
viouSly lived in the county.
2-Should the county FSA COM
mittee-composed of three success
full farmers-determin that the
veteran requires supervisory guild
ance to succeed, he will be eligible
for a loan even if other credit is
available to him. However. veterans
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Russians Press
Riga Assaults

MOSCOW, Oct 3. tUP)-Red
Army spearheads have been driven
into the suburbs of Riga in some of
the bloodisst fighting of the Baltic
campaign and the liberation of the
Latvian capital is near, the official
newspaper Pravda said Tuesday.
The dispatch indicated that the
Russians were deploying north, east
and south of Riga for final assault
on the capital whose fall probably
would end effective German resist
ance in the Baltic states and release
huge Soviet forces for an invasion
of East Prussia.
Red Armies also we're believed re-
grouping in other key sectors along
the 13C)-mile eastern front prepara-
tory to launching a series of mighty
fall and winter cffensives. The Sow
let high command, for the first time
since the start of the summer Of
fenSives June %, reported in its
Monday midnight communique that
there were mo important changes
on any front.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

1t is somewhat difficult to
think of playing Santa Claus
in October, but if that boy in
uniform overseas is to have
his Christmas, packages must
be mailed before October Is
less than u days away
Many Ell Centrans have tried to
comply with overseas mailing stip-
ulations,' Frank Richmond, post
master, said Tuesday. We've had a
mailing rate of about so packages
a day since September Is"
He walked over to pile of be-
stickered bundles on an inside table
and selected one.
HOW TO WRAP THEM
You see," he pointed out, 'if
the package is to get through, the
sender simply must make sure that
it doesn't weigh more than five
pounds and doesn't exceed Is inches
in length or 36 inches, length and
girth combined. Not only that, but
gifts should be placed in heavy
double corrugated boxes and wrap
ped with strong paper and stout
string"
Although Richmond anticipates
only the usual late mailing rush.,
he did observe that if persons wish
ing to send packages overseas mail
ed package week to the same
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
u. s. Planes Hit
Clark Field

ABOARD A CARRIER OFF LUZ
ON, Sept. 81. Delayed-lUP)-
Wars jagged lightning struck for
the second time on Clark Field, 40
miles north of Manila, where three
years ago American Flying Fort
resses were caught on the ground
and destroyed before they could
take to the air against the rising
tide of Japanese invasion.
Today American planes returned
TO Clark Field and visited identical
destruction to japanese aircraft
based there. Carrier-hased fighters
and bombers caught the enemy en-
tirely by surprise. not only at Clark
but at its satellite fields and air.
strips in northern Luzon. ....
These were contributing factors
TO the overwhelming success of our
bombing and torpedo attacks against
shipping in Manila harbor. Enemy
fighters were able to offer only
sporadic resistance in the air.
Returning pilots said japanese
at Clark were completely demoral-
iZed."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Line GIVES Way AT AACHEk
DeodIine Neurs
For Mailing
Overseas Gifts

man curing the permitted mailing
period, they could send five. Where
as if they delay, there is the pos
sibility that but one will go.
Mrs. Lottie M. Meagher, executive
secretary, Ell Centre Red Cross
chapter, said that Christmas pre-
sents from the Red Cross, if deliver
able, will be sent to every man
overseas.
But the packages the Red Cross
sends and the packages a boys
family and friends send are differ
ent," she smiled Little personal
luxuries that the Red Cross cannot
forward can be mailed by those
who care"
GIVES SUGGESTIONS
Mrs. Meagher offered suggestions
of articles sure to please any boy
"over there photographs, snap
Shots books tgooo ones, biographies,
novels dealing with American life,
detective stories, books about his
hobby, Italian or French diction-
ary), magazines, cigarettes, good
fruit balls (mixed flavors, lemon
for tropical climates, candied fruit,
chewing gum, cheese, fruit cakes,
crackers, cookies homemade, If
possible, and we'll wrapped in oil
paper.
Canoy of all kinds homemade es-
pecially). matted milk tablets,
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
y AMBlINe
X EpoR1ER

StrawS i'm the Wind
While Max Brents was on train
going to the American Legion con-
vention. he met one of his former
Oklahoma school mates, devoted
New Dealer.
I'VE haven't anything else to do, "
suggested the New Dealer, 80 let's
poll the car and see how they are
going to vote in November" Brents
said the poll showed there was one
New Deal vote in the car.
just then the Negro porter en-
tered.
who are you going to vote for
Roosevelt or Dewey?" the New
Dealer asked the porter.
Dewey" said the porter. Just
then the conductor walked through
the car
who are you going to vote for?"
demanded the New Dealer once
again.
Dewey" said the conductor.
To date, Brents said, his school,
mate is the unhappiest man occu-
pying a seat on the rolling stock of
the railroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

foxholes behind the Siegfried pill
boxes.
Backed by an intense artillery
barrage. German pressure forced
temporary American Withdrawal in
the vicinity of Havert, IL miles
northwest of Ubach. but the lost
ground was regained.
After heavy fighting the enemy
was driven from a dense woods in
the vicinity of Paenberg in the
Ubach area, and the village itself
was occupied this morning. 1t was
around Palenberg that the stiffest
German resistance was encountered.
VIOLENT FIGHTING
Northward from Aachen 81 miles,
on the left wing of the offensive,
violent Fighting was going on
around Overloon, II miles south
east of Nijmegen Overloon was "all
but surrounded" official advices
said. with fierce street battles in
progress.
The small town of Merkstein,
about 2la miles southwest of Ubach
was directly threatened by U. S.
infantry swinging southwark be-
hind the Siegfried defenses.
Counterattacks at the outskirts
OF Aachen were repulsed by U. S.
infantry. The radio-control,ed tanks
Continued on Page 8. Col %
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Mexican Worker
Found Slain;
S700 Cash Taken
Body Is Found in Field
Victim Was Irrigating;
Officers Search for Slayer

American and Mexican Of
ficers searched hide-outs on
both sides of the internation-
al boundary Tuesday for the
slayer of Jesus Alvez, As, irri-
gator who was found slain
on the Taylor Milling COM
pany ranch southeast of Ell
Centre Monday night.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware said the
Mexican's body was found shortly
after / p. m. Tuesday lying face up
near the spot where he had been
irrigating. C. Marlborough, ranch
foreman, found the body.
The Mexican had been robbed of
$7co in $40 bills which the ranch
foreman said he had been carrying
in his pocket.
Alvez, saiu to have entered the
United States illegally, had been
struck on the head and strangled
with blue bandana found knotted
around his neck, Ware said. In
vestigation also showed that the
Mexican's eyes were black and puffy,
and there was wound on his right
temple. Dirt and grass had been
thrown on the murdered mans
head and were caught under the
knotted bandana.
No weapon was found. Ware said
the mans hat was found 80 feet
from the body and a handkerchief
six feet away. Water was running
in the bitches and an unlighted
lantern was found nearby. The left
pocket of Alvez's shirt was ripped
down the side and the button was
gone. No money was found on the
body, Ware said.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marlborough went
to a show Monday night but one
of their relatives, who was at home,
reported hearing call for help
about p. m. Nothing unusual was
noticed around the house at that
time, however ware was told.
The ranch is south of the Bar
bara Worth golf course. Alvez had
been living with four other Mexi-
cans half a mile from the scene
of the killing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Polish
Army
Quits
Home Force Out
Of Munitions;
Truce Reported

LONDON, Oct. 3. (UP)-
1t. Gen. Tadeusz Komorows-
XII, commander in chief of the
Polish home army, announc-
ed Tuesday that his forces
ceased resistance in Warsaw
Monday night after exhaust
ing all their supplies and
ammunition.
The Polish command gave the Or
der to cease fire at 8 pm, ending
the German-Polish battle of War;
saw which began early in August
when the underground army came
out of hiding and challenged the
occupation forces in the streets of
the capital.
Komorowski's communique clear
ed up the contradictions in reports
of the situation in warsaw as broad
cast by the German radio, Moscow
advices. and earlier communicates
from the heaC quarters of Komo-
rowski, who had been known as
General Bor.
Warsaw has fallen after exhaust
Eng all supplies and ammunition on
the 63rd day of the struggle in the
face of overwhelming enemy super
iority," KomoroWski's communicate
said. "On October 2 at 1000 hours
(8 p.ml orders were given to cease
fire"
In the face of other reports that
the Polish forces in Warsaw had
surrendered to the Germans, Kom-
oroWski said earlier that ITEM
porary truce" hao been arranged to
permit evacuation of civilians from
the heart of the capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
War Chest Drive
Awaits Start

Preparations for the annual War
Chest financial drive reached a
peak in Ell Centro Tuesday with the
announcement of committee chair
man delegated to hancle the various
phases of TIE campaign beginning
October 8.
Jerry Robertson, area chairman
for Ell Centre, and AL Missildine,
campaign manager, Tuesday COM
pleted the list of chairmen. The
list follows:
w. A. Scheniman, budget; Emile
Faure, special gifts; Russell Haas
finance; Ken Thornton, publicity;
Jack Fraser, business district; Sher-
if Robert Ware, government en-
plOyes; Everett Shaw, employees;
Rudolph Miller, rural solicitation
Mervin Mccoy, armed forces; Guy
Weakley, public schools; A. L.
Spring, racial groups; and Shields
Charlton, associations and clubs
r. w. Barrigan, Sr, president of the
Central Labor council, will represent
labor on the committee until coun-
Gil members select a chairman.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

The major blow followed one de-
livered Monday by mere than 1900
heavy bombers against transport
centerS of KasSel, Hamm and
Cologne in north Germany. and
was the seventh attack in the last
nine days.
Fighter planes escorting h e
bombers during the nine-day cam
paign numbered more than 5000,
making the total sorties of bomb
ers and fighters around $4,000, or
an average CT nearly 1860 per day
for the Eighth Air Force alone.
The Second Tactical Air Force, it
was announced today, flew more
than 1000 sorties Monday in close
support of ground troops In Holland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Plane Crashes
End Five Lives

VICTORVI ARMY AIR
FIELD, Cal, Oct. 3. CUP)-Army
authorities Tuesday investigated the
crash of a medium type bomber
which claimed the lives of three
persons, one of them a member of
the WASPs.
The plane, on a routine combat
training flight, crashed and burned
Monday in the Moiave desert, 25
miles west of the Victorville army
air field where the three victims
were stationed.
!. Dead were: ~
Lieutenant George d. Rosado
San Diego, California.
Miss Marie NJ Michel, WASP,
Washington, D. C.
S/Sgt. Gordon l.. Walker, crew
chief, San Bernardinc, California,
and John Day, oregon
MARCH FIELD, Cal, Oct. 3. CUP)
The army Tuesday announced the
deaths of two men killed Monday
when the Ventura twin-engine
plane in which they were riding
crashed while flying over the field
on a routine trip.
Dead were SISgt. Benzil A. Rada-
baugh, Grafton, West Virginia, and
Pfc. John A. Stiles, OWego, New
York
Eight other men in the plane es-
capped with minor burns and in
iurieS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
PIONEER BANKER DIES
IN LOS ANGELES, IS

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3. UP)-
Southland business leaders Tuesday
mourned the death of John H. Grit
fin, rs. pioneer banker. who sue
cumbed suddenly Monday at his
home.
Griffin had been associated with
the Security First National bank
since 1895.
During his so years of banking he
managed many California estates,
including those of the famed Henry
e. Huntington, and Griffith j. Grif-
fifth, donor of Griffith observatory.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
CAR LOOTER CARRIES
OFF FAMILY LAUNDRY

w. A. Fourman, 442 Len Rey ave
nue., literally had lost his shirt
Wednesday after someone-he told
police-stole the family laundry
from his automobile Monday night.
Mrs. Fourman and their daughter
picked up the laundry in Imperial
and then parked back of an Ell Gen.
tro theater When they returned to
the car after seeing the movie the
laundry was gone.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

Postwar construction plans in
Impe rial county and its cities will
be whipped into countrywide form
in time for presentation to the
state senate postwar construction
subcommittee which will meet in Ell
Centre october 90.
Representatives of all political
subdivisions will meet in the super
visorial chambers in the court house
in Ell Centre at 3 p. m. october 10
to coordinate all Ire plans into one
countrywide unit covering the needs
and plans of the various communl-
ties.
State Senator E. George Luckey
of Brawley is chairman OF the SEN
ate subcommittee and asked the
beard of supervisors to invite rep
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

ment begins with an operation
which crushes motor nerve branch
eS in the paralyzed limb by mech
anical separation of the muscle
fibers
The fibers respond to the separ-
alton by generating new growth
which gives the limb new muscular
power.
DIR. Billig said the method has
been used on some 500 persons in
the Los Angeles area. In addition.
some 40 paralysis victims in Phila-
delphia have been operated on at
st. Luke's and Children's Medical
Center.
The paralysis treatment discus
sion highlighted the opening ses-
SION of the three-day assembly.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
a SSESSOR-COLLECTOR
Il ETURNS FROM TRIP

Dan Wiost, assessor collector OF
Imperial county, is back home after
his annual trip to his old home in
Arcadia. Kansas, trip which
turned out to be a survey of the
political trends in the states through
which he passed.
He declared he expects Kansas to
go 2 to l for Dewey and thinks both
Texas and Oklahoma also will swing
to Dewey. West did neglect his po-
litical Investigations long enough to
ascertain that Kansas expects to
harvest the greatest ccrn crop in
many years.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
1000 FortreSSes
Hit South Reich

LONDON, Oct. 3. CUP) More
than 1000 American Flying For
tresSes and Liberators, escorted by
nearly as many fighter planes, at
tackled military transport factories
and airdrome facilities at Nurn-
berg, Gaggenau, and Giebelstadt in
southern Germany Tuesday.
Some of the targets were covered
by clouds and were bombed by
means of instruments, the U. S.
strategical air force announced.
The objectives included a tank
works at Nurnberg. heavy truck
factory at Gaggenau, IA miles south
southwest of Karlsruhe. and the
German air force station at Giebel-
stadt, just west of Nurnberg.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
ForrestaI. King
Confer at 5. F.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3. cUP)-
Strategy for the forthcoming cam
paign in the Pacific was mapped at
a meeting held here recently and
attended by Adm. Ernest j. King,
commander in chief of the u. S.
fleet, Adm. C. w. Nimitz, command
er of the Pacific fleet and Pacific
ocean areas, anc Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal, the navy announc-
ed Tuesday
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Postwar Group
Speeds Plans

resentatives of all political subdi-
visions within the county to attend
the hearing at p. m. october 20 so
tie senate may know the nature of
the public works projects which
should be included in the senate
plans for California.
Supervisors decided it would save
the time cf the senate subcommit-
tee if preliminaries were ironed out
before the hearing and coordlnated
into comprehensive whole.
The plans in California, Senator
Luckey's letter to the supervisors
said will be arranged to provide en-
ployment in all parts of the state
when the war ends.
Each subdivision was asked to list
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Senators Would Freeze
Eastern War Plants

agreed to scrap an equal amount of
old plant space.
Calling Capitalization "basically
anti-capitalist," McCarran said in
an introduction to the report that
the Ill states produced IS per cent
of the nations manufacturers in
1899 and since then have received
the bulk of new war plants includ-
ing the cream, of plants converti-
BILE to preacetime production.
In contrast, the report pointed
out, the II western and 10 southern
states received "disproportionately
large number" of war plants scarce
ly recontroverible on any appreci-
able scale to time production"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
Al Smith Suffers
Critical Illness

NEW YORK, Oct. 3. (UP)-For-
mer Governor Alfred E. Smith was
still in very grave" condition Tues
day at Rockefeller Institute hospital
where he has been a patient since
September %. His physician, DR..
Raymond P. Sullivan, said Smith
had shown a slight improvement
Monday.
He was visited during the day by
members of his family and Catholic
church dignitaries. John j. Raskob,
induStrialiSt and friend CT the 1923
Democratic presidential candidate,
saw him briefly.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

of population in the east that would
come if the government plants were
permitted to be added to present
private industry would create IAN
octopus that would blight the rest
of the country and reduce the south
and west to misery"
The committee. which is investi-
eating industrial centralization, said
in special report that plants in
these states-New York, New Jer-
sey. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware
Rhode Island, Ohio, Michigan, and
Illinois-should be sold or leased
only If industries buying them
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03
SPRUCE WESTMORLAND
FARM UNIT TO MEET

Spruce -Westmorland farm center
will hold its first meeting of the fall
season at Westmorland school at
8 p m. Friday, Glenn Walker, chair
man, announced Tuesday.
Rudolph Miller OF the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration will give
the latest developments In the duck
control program In Imperial Valley
and Baxter Loveland. president of
the Imperial County Farm Bureau.
will discuss the highlights OF Farm
Bureau accomplishment during tins
summer.
Election of officers will take
place during the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-03

to the ninth annual assembly of
the U. S. chapter of the Interna-
tional College of Surgeons.
The new treatment the Billig-
Van Harreveld method, was out
lined by Lieutenant Commander H.
E. Billig, Jr., researcher at the
California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena.
According to DR.. Billig, the treat