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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-01
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RULING ON ESQUIRE
SAID BLOW AT ARMY

Washington, Jan. l-(AP)-Past-
master General Walkers ruling th&:
Esquire magazine should be barred
from the second-claSS mails was
described today by Representative
Compton (R-CornD as n blow y
morale that will be of more con-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-01
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. Md.

PEOPLE HAVE curious opti-
mism that this day is really going
to mark Il new year - beginning
again. Well, this year you are
simply going to reap the awful
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-01-01

DIR. Clendcning will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Roll Increases
In Swim Class

HOLTV[LLE, June C. - Holtville
has completed the freJ week of the
Red Cross swim campaign which
opened Monday with Vance Clymer
as the instructor. The campaign
closes June 26.
Enrichment is unusually large and
the classes are progressing nicely
said Clymer who is a qualified Red
Cross instructor, sent to commune
ties desiring his services, this swim
campaign being part Of the Amer
ican Red Cross safety program.
Holtville has approximately $50
taking advantage of the opportunity
to learn swimming or life saving
30 children are enrolled in the be-
ginners' class; 20 in the intermedi-
ate and 81 in the junior life saving.
Six women are taking the Begin
ming course and six, the interme-
diate, and in addition there is an
|, evening class in swimming and
junior life saving.
|, Ell Centro is unable to have a
swim campaign this year as the
plunge is not open.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Farm Unit Hits
Fight on Co-ops

dividual farmer to provide for him.
self on his own farm
SMALL BUSINESS
Pointing out that individual farm
ing is a small buSineSS-the average
member OF a farm cooperative re-
curing the services of his organi-
zation to the extent of less than
$1,000 a year-the statement charged
that these interests, operating as
they are behind a false front, would
take from farmers the right to join
with their neighbOrs to provide
themselves On a sound basis with
the services they need.
"Such an attack threatens free
enterprise at time when two op-
posing and contradicting philoso-
phies are under test in America, ="
the statement continued, explaining
that, whereas the older and tradi-
tional philosophy called for exercise
of the individuals own strength,
initiative and industry, the newer
looks to the national government
to solve problems, meet emergencies,
and regulate the individuals eco
nomic life.
Without some means of mobiliZ-
ing their economic strength" the
statement read, farmers will be-
come either the serf of other in
terests or a ward of the govern
ment.
IF he lands in either direction,
fra 70, i,,
will be dealt a staggering blow.
The very foundation of our eco
nomic life rests on the ownership
and operation of land by the maxi
mum number OF freeholders.
The statement pointed to the fact
that in American agriculture, the
producer owned and producer con-
trolled cooperatives has been devel-
oped as a vitality important means
by which the farmer, working with
his neighborS, preserves ard exer-
cises his right of free enterprise.
Certainly it added, "if farmers
are denied the privileges of CO.
operative endeavor because of the
opposition of selfish financial and
business interests, there can be no
common ground for cooperation be-
tween the farmers of the country.
and finance, industry and COM
merce. This is a fact which buSi-
ness men everywhere should pom
der.
Citing the fact that there are
6,000,000 farms in America and that
the average farm is rather a small
producing unit with only 81 till
able acres, the Council statement
further said: Although farms as
a whole are the important produc-
ers OF basic wealth, the average
farm is a family-sized business. Yet
the individual farmer has the
same problems of buying and pro-
cessing and selling that the big
corporations have and without
their concentration of money and
facilities"
The statement said that in order
to enable the individual family
farm operator to cope with the ad-
vantages in capital, trained per-
sonnel, and research facilities of
the other great industries of the
country, the United States and all
the states in the union have passed
laws that permit organization and
operation of producer r-oWned and
producer-controlled cooperative as
sociations by farmers on cost
basis. At the same time, the legis-
lative bodies of the country have
imposed certain conditions which
safeguard both the farmer and the
public from the misuse of CO.
operatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

I'll never complain about the
heat again. was the vow taken by
Sgt. Martin Weiss, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ D. Weiss of the area north
of Imperial, after he returned to
Imperial Valley from the Aleutians.
He was with the infantry there fer
two years. On June % he will re-
port at Camp Shelby, Mississippi,
for taste of hot weather to con-
trast his Alaskan experiences.
Mrs. T. CT. House of the area
southwest of Ell Centro has an un-
usually military family. Her huS-
band is veteran of the Spanish
American war and she has three
sons in this war Her oldest son
is Staff Sergeant Elmer B. House
who is with the army in the Aleu-
tianS. Staff Sergeant James S.
House is with the marines in the
south Pacific. Second Lieutenant
Henry House is serving with an
amphibiouS unit of the marine
corps.
Lieutenant Marvin R. Walker, 877
Fern avenue, Holtvl.ie. is new par
ticipating in his final training as
a member of Flying Fortress crew
at the combat training school at
Pyote, Texas. He is pilot and
before entering the service was a
student
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Our Men i'm the Service

OStrander, son of Mr.. and Mrs. P.
E. Ostrander of Ell Centre. He is
with an army anti-aircraft unit He
has been away from the mainland
for two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Liberty Vessel
Defects Aired

WASHINGTON, June 16. up
A special inquiry board which IN
vestigated defects in welded mer-
chant ships disclosed Friday in an
interim report that 432 vessels out
of 1898 studied suffered breaks Of
varying degrees.
The board, convened by the late
secretary of navy Frank Knox af-
ter recurrent reports that Liberty
ships were cracking apart, made its
report to Krc"'s successor, James
V. Forrestal
1t said that there were SIT o2ca-
sionG in all on which fractures oc-
Cured among the affected ships
but large proportion of these v.2re
of a minor nature. 1t added that
contrary to popular impression Hull
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

WASHINGTON, d. c., June Is
Rising to defend American farmers
against certain business and finan-
cial interests" that would deny them
the right to use their producer
owned and producer-controlled CO.
operatives on a cost-of doing -busi-
ness basis, the National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives has issued a
statement declaring that the pres
ent attack on farmer cooperatives
will strike home to three out of
every five farm operators in Amer
lea.
Farmers set up these coopera-
tiveS because they needed them, y
the statement said in citing the
benefits of farmer co-ops. They
use them to provide services they
need to carry on their farming op-
erations-services that in most cases
would not be practical for the in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

dividual farmer to provide for him.
self on his own farm"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

Among the Americans in the
South Pacific is Sgt. ROLAND w
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
SAD PARTING

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 16
CUP)-Mrs. Letha Edwards and
Mrs. Myrtle Ochs telephoned the
OPA when they discovered a case
of catsup on their doorstep recent
ly. The OPA could not explain the
found article, but offered to take
it off the women's hands. The wom-
en- replied they didn't see any need
TO part with the rationed catsup-
they just wanted to report it. The
matter finally was cleared up when
a salesman for a wholesale supply
firm appeared and explained he had
delivered it to the wrong door-the
catsup rightfully belonged to a
cafeteria owner, who lived nearby.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

Second Lieutenant Earl Wayne
Thompson, marine, who is taking
advanced training after receiving
his commission. He is located at
QuanticO.
Second Lieutenant Earl Wayne
Thompson of the marines has re-
ceiVed his commission upon compile
ton Of officer training at the ma
rine base at Quantico, Virginia. d, He
will now attend advanced classes at
the base. He was a platoon SER
geant and was commissioned from
the ranks. His wife lives at 1875
South Sixth street, FL Centro
James B. C. Wong El Centro
Bluejacket, was graduated from
the aviation ordnance school at the
naval air technical training center
at Norman. Oklahoma. He received
the rating Of seaman first class. He
enlisted in Los Angeles last No.
vember and was assigned to the
air technical center in January.
He now will be assigned to active
duty.
One Ct the paiiert- n an all
service hospital somewhere in Eng
land is Pvt. Willard L. Burnes Of
El Centre.
Among the Americans in the
South Pacific is Sgt ROLAND w.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Truckers Demand
Firm Seizures

CHICAGO, June 16. (UP) = The
central states drivers council of the
AFL teamsterS union Friday de-
manded that the government seize
l12 mid-western trucking firms to
enforce a war labor directive of
last Feb 7 which granted 10000
drivers a II per cent wage increase.
Dexter L. Lewis, director of the
council. said the strike authorized
by a vote of the membership in II
ctates last week end would be called d
soon unless the government acts to
enforce the WIB order.
Lewis said the strike will AFFECT
10000 drivers directly and at least
25O,OOO drivers indirectly, paralyzing
the motor transport industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

fractures are not confined TO fih-
erty 81. rs but are shared by other
types of vessels
1t said that cracks in about 95
ships were potentially serious 20
vessels suffered complete fractures
of the strength deck and of those
five broke completely in two. Two
of the complete breaks occurred
while vessels were still in builders
yards.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

At Randolph Field, Texas, Second
Lieutenant Fred Higginbotham, sen
of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond l.. Hig-
ginbotham of Ell Centro, recently
reported for training in central In
structors school. This school, the
is a function of the AAF central
flying training command. Selected
flierS are taught the technique of
flying instruction so they may go
to flying fields throughout the
country as instruCtt"s Cf aviation
cadets.
Lieutenant Commander Fred Fer
guSon, former manager of the Bar
bara Worth hCtel in Ell Centro,
visited friends in Imperial Valley
last weekend. He is stationed with
the navy in the Long Beach area.
News from a ninth air force troop
carrier base in England was to the
effect that Pvt. Stephen A. McClard,
formerly a truck driver for the
Oasis Nursery in Ell Centre, is on
duty there. He was inducted into
the army January IT, 1943, and
went overseas for foreign duty in
October last year At present he
is assigned to the motor pool section
Of the headquarters squadron of a
troop carrier command. Pvt Nc
Clard is a graduate of Central
Union High school and played cn
the school basketball team for sew
eral seasons. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. McClard. live in Ell
Centro as is his wife, the former
Wilda Zofer. His brother, Pvt Will
liam E. McClard, Jr., is assigned
to an engineering corps.
Staff Sergeant George R. Harris,
Jr., has been awarded the Air
Medal with Two Oak Leaf clusters
and has received the Purple Heart.
He is waist gunner with a bomb
ing crew in England and the last
report received by his family in
dicated that he already had been
on 81 missions. His wife lives at
1925 Olive. Ell Centro He is son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George R. Harris,
ST., of Ell Centro.
Pfc. Lewis Nichols, son of Mrs. L.
j. Stewart, is home for a visit with
his family and friends in El Gen.
tro. He is stationed at Lincoln,
Nebraska.
James Wendell Neel, graduate CT
Central Union High school, is ex-
pected to reach El Centro soon for
visit with his grandparents Mr..
and Mrs. E. J. Skipper He is a
first class pharmacist mate in the
navy and has been in the south
Pacific for l8 months. His brother,
Bob Neel, who is with the army in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

the northern part of the United
States, planned to go to San Diego
so the two could visit Imperial VAL
ley together
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

Oscar Beadle, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Beadle of Holtville, is a member of
an army air corps ground crew sta
toned in England. He has been
in England for almost a year. He
attended school in Ell Centro and
Holtville. At one time he delivered
papers for the Post-Press.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Lehman's Son Is Killed
In Air Crash in Britain

BY the Associated Press.
A UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE, England, April lit. Peter
Lehman of the United States Air
Forces, son of former Gov. Herbert
H. Lehman of New York, was killed
several days ago during acrobatic
maneuvers in a fighter plane over
his home base, 1t was learned today
The airman was rs years old. His
father returned to New York last
night from the Middle East, where
he went on Relief Administration
business and suffered a knee injury
in alighting from a plane at Cairo.
NEW YORK, April II tP).-Lt
Peter Lehman, son of former Gov
Herbert Lehman, was killed in an
overseas crash on March 81, a
spokesman for the family said today
1t. Lehman joined the Royal Ca
madam Air Force September %, l941
after he was turned down by the
American Air Force because he was
married
1t. Lehman married Peggy La
shanska Rosenbaum, daughter of the
former concert singer, Hulda La
shanska, and the late Harold A
Rosenbaum, June l6. 1888. They
have two children.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
MAP on Page A. J
the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 11.-Russia's
4th Ukrainian Army stormeo
down into the Crimea from two
directions today in a drive aimed
at completely clearing South
Russia of the Axis invaders.
Meanwhile, Gen. Rodion Y. NAL
inovsky's Sd Army smashed te
within 6 miles of Ovidiopol, escape
bottleneck through which the rem
nants of the Nazis' Odessa garrison
were fleeing toward Romania.
The 4th Army under the COM
mand of Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin
was attacking in the Crimea along
a 75-mile front from the Perekor
Isthmus, at the northwestern cor
ner of the peninsula, to Sivash Bay
on the northeast, field dispatches
said.
In two days, Russian commu-
nique declared, Gen. Tolbukhin's S
forces advanced more than u miles
through strong German defenses to
kill $500 enemy troops and capture
another 1000 About IL German
divisions (perhaps 100000 mem
were believed isolated in the Crimea
Reds Cross Two Rivers.
To the northwest, another Red
Army simultaneously crossed the
Siretul and Suceava Rivers in Ro.
mania, the war bulletin announced
and reached a point less than s
Evening star., 1944-04-11
III. ). Forces Control
Most Of New Britain,
Macarthur Says
Jops Abandon Gosmoto
And Cape Hoskins for
Last Stund at RubouI
BY the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, April IL
American forces control most of
New Britain, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced today. The
Japanese have abandoned sup
ply and fuel bases at Gasmata
and Cape Hoskins and are in
full retreat eastward to Rabaul
for a last stand.
The Japs have lost around TO-
600 men dead and wounded since
American soldiers and marines
opened the New Britain campaign
in December with landings at Arawe
and Cape Gloucester, Gen. Mac
Arthur said.
A headquarters spokesman esti-
mated the loss of one-ffth of the
$4,000 Japanese strength on the
island at the start of the cam
paign, leaving 10000 to man ma
chine-gun positions and pillboxes
for the final fighting around Ra-
baul, enemy base which has beer
blasted by thousands of tons OF
Allied bombs in recent months.
Jap Casualties Heavy.
Since soldiers of 1t. Gen. Walter
Krueger's 9Th Army landed al
Arawe December Is and the ma.
rines' invasion of Cape Glouceste,
on the western tip of the island
December 26, japanese casualties
have been 232 prisoners and 4,67s
abandoned dead, with wounds
starvation and disease more than
doubling this figure, Gen. MacAr-
thurs communique said.
The communique today said 81
tons of bombs were poured on air.
dromes, supply dumps and gun posi-.
tons at Rabaul in the latest of daily
assaults on the base.
Allied aerial blows from Boeroe
Island northwest of Australia tc
Woleai Island in the Caroline grour
were reported in Gen. Macarthur!
communique Bombers dropped 40t
tons of explosives in the operation!
Saturday and Sunday.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Wherry Asks Single Agency
For Price, Food Controls
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska, Re-
publican whip and member of the
Senate COP Steering Committee.
declared today that Congress should
center Government controls over
pricing, rationing and food produc-
ton in a single agency to eliminate
the present confusion and contra
dlction in policies"
Senator Wherry said he would
submit to the nine member Steer
ing Committee proposal that the
group back such a consolidation
either as separate legislation or as
an amendment to the pending bill
to continue the Office of Price Ad-
mlnistration and the Price Control
Act.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Investigations 10 Hold
Spotlight as Congress,
Convenes Tomorrow
OPA, leuse-Lend and
'GI Bill Of Rights
Are Major Measures
BY the Associated Press.

Legislating may give way
largely to investigating when
Congress reconvenes tomorrow
for a session leading up to the
national political conventions.
With committees of both houses
charting explorations into nearly
every phase of the war and post.
war picture, final disposition ap.
peared likely for little more thar
a half dozen major measures.
Legislative interest was concen.
trated on three principal bills tt
be sandwiched in between appro,
|priation measures for governmental
departments.
Price Control Heads Calendar.
At the top of the calendar i
legislation prolonging the wartim,
price control and economic stabili
zation program to prevent its ex
plration June 30.
Virtually every one on Capito
Hill comedies need for extendin,
the program, but fireworks wer,
sputtering over proposals to bal
subsidies and to reduce the list O
controlled articles.
Sharing the spotlight with tn,
OPA bill are proposals to extens
the lease-lend program for anothe,
year and a S3,500,OOO,O00 Senate
approved "GI bill of rights" meas
ure to provide educational, unem
ployment and other benefits for vet
Grams of this war.
Behind the scenes a fight wa.
shaping up over the question OF
bringing up the antipoll tax issue
Iagain.
Southerners Fight Bill.
Administration forces in the Sen
ate, tentatively committed to bring
up House-approved bill prohibit
ing the collection of a poll tax as 8
requirement for voting in Fedora
elections, are being besieged with
Southern demands to let the matter
drop. Acting Minority Leader White
of Maine and other Republicans say
they will vote to break threatened
filibuster to permit action on the
bill.
Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee will open it's inves-
tigation into the liquor shortage, anc
|other committees vii! continue their
inquiries into the postwar problems
Iof oil, aviation and communica-
tions. A report by the Truman
Committee or its investigation O.
the cracking of some Liberty ships
also is in the offing.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, April 11.-A sec
ond determined attempt by the
japanese to take Kohima, North
east India strong point, ap-
peared in the making. today as
the Southeast Asia Command an
nounced the enemy continued to
press in on that area and sharp
patrol actions inflicted casual
ties on the japanese on the near
approaches to Imphal, main
Allied base.
Patrols along the Imphal- Tiddim
road south of Imphal were in con-
tact to point we'll down the road
from the edge of the plain while
in the northeast it was estimated
that fighting was going on to 10
miles from Imphal itself.
The enemy proddings around
Kohima, which guards the approach
to the Bengal-Assam railroad at
Dimapur, 35 miles away, seemed to
indicate he would try to bypass the
town in case the second attack fails.
Shipping was reported along the road
to Dimapur.
Heavier fighting was reported in
Central Burma where Indian troops
landed by glider and plane in the
area of Katha and Mawlu were
spreading deep behind enemy lines.
This operation already has cut rail
and river communications serving
the japanese who are facing the
advance of American Chinese forces
of 1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell from
the north. Now these air-borne
Chindits aim at destruction of COM
|munications behind the japanese
Indian offensive which would have
a serious effect when the enemy re-
Evening star., 1944-04-11
| Warren to Dewey:
Keep Frog-Jump
| Race on the Level
BY the Associated Press.

SACRAMENTO, Calf, April IL
Shades of Mark Twain and frogs
with buckshot ballast have beer
reused by Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia in a polite letter to Gov
Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
Not that Gov. Warren actually
believes there will be any shenan.
igans when a championship frog.
jumping contest, arranged by the
Federated Boys Club of New York
is held in New York April %.
But just to keep the record
straight, the California Governor
in notifying Gov. Dewey yesterday
that California would have an entry
added these precautionary words:
There was a report out here ir
the West that 1t was a couple OF
smart New York boys who some &c
years ago devised nefarious
scheme by which buckshot was usec
in an illegal manner to increase the
certainty OF gambling profits in .
particularly historic contest Of thai
day."
1t was Mark Twain, Gov. Warner
reminded, who exposed the practice
Of feeding certain of the frogs with
buckshot to weigh them down.