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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
County Is Asked
To Pay Cost
OF Duck Herdinu

A special committee representing
the duck depreciation joint commit
tee will wait en- the county super
viSors next Monday with a proposal
that the county defray expenses for
herding ducks over Imperial valley
crop fields for a Today period, it
was decided Monday night in a
meeting of the group at the court
house.
The members, after discussing the
proposed herding of the birds by
plane, decided that three hours each
day would be sufficient. Operators
of planes in the valley earlier had
agreed to charge $40 an hour for
such service.
Fifteen members of the commit
tees and interested persons attended
the meeting.
E. E. Horn, U. S. Wildlife agent,
and Bob Hart, state game commits
sion representative, agreed to &C
company the committee made up OF
l.. E. Sinclair, inland; Bill Bailey,
and Baxter Loveland, Brawley,
when it appears before the super
visors.
Horn told the meeting that Cali
fornia crop damage by wildlife last
year totaled an estimated $3,000,0C0
while the cost of harvesting the
ducks and the expenses incurred by
hunters had been estimated as in
excess of $17,000,000
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Farmers Assured
Of Plan to Keep
Mexican Workers

FRESNO, Cal Nov. 28. CUP)-
Farm leaders we're advised here
Tuesday that the Federal Admins
tration will support continuation of
the Mexican national Importation
program for farm labor in 1945, and
that California congressman will
press for immediate action on the
matter.
Congressman B. w. Gearhart of
Fresno telegraphed from Washing
ton that Congress had received the
official request from the budget bu-
reau that an uneXpended balance
of S8,000,000 in the fund for impor-
tation be made available until June
80, 1945.
Present authority expires Decem-
Der 81 of this year.
I'm the interim" Gearhart said,
"a survey of tie 1945 farm labor
supply will be completed by late
spring, at which time additional
funds will be requested for continu-
alton of the program through the
entire season.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Is Jap Vessels
ADDED to Toll
In L-uzon Raids
Weather Holds
Macarthur
Back on ley+e

PEARL HARBOR, Nov.
28. (UP),-Ground activity in
the Philippines came to ar
abrupt halt in drenching
rains Tuesday, while a Pearl
Harbor communique added
another 25 vessels to the toll
of japanese shipping sunk
OF tamaged in Fridays carrier-bas-
ed raid on the marked cap
ital island of Luzon.
General Douglas Macarthur re-
ported the rain-enforced stalemate
on the Leyte front in one of his
briefest communicates since the in
vasion of the Philippines october
20. His troops presumably were
swaiting clearing skies before clos
ing in for the final assault on the
enemy's Ormoc pocket on the north
west coast of Leyte.
"a Tokyo broadcast heard in Lon
don sale Japanese sank four Amer
ican battleships or heavy cruisers
and damaged six transports In
Leyte bay about noon yesterday,
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
County Property
Valuation Rises

With % days left in which to sell
war bonds, Imperial county passed
the half million mark Monday, hav-
ing scld $532, ,4O675 worth. Sales for
the day amounted to $50 74825.
AT its regular meeting in its El
Centro office the Imperial Irrigation
District board voted to buy 100000
worth of bonds, 100000 in Series G
savings bonds and 500 900 in per
cent treasury loan bonds.
A special performance of Some
thing for the boys" in Technicolor
at the United Artists Theater in
Ell Centre at $50 p. m. Wednesday
will be the special event of the week
in the drive. Admittance will be by
bond purchase, free ticket being
issued to each bond purchaser.
Bonds may be purchased at the
post office, the banks and, on
Wednesday evening, at the theater.
Ell Centre Police Chief Ronnie r.
Voyles announced Tuesday that his
Chinese group has sold $4,000 worth
Of bonds. Filipino, Mexican, Hindu
and Negro groups are just getting
organized.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
| Landlords Press
Claims of Low
Rental CEILINGS

The housing problem in Ell Gen.
tro continued to hold the center of
a highly controversial stage Tues
day.
Work on 20 houses in Hancock
Park, authorized by the city last
Wednesday, was delayed indefinitely
because of lack of carpenters. One
reason for the lack: there is no
place for the carpenters to sleep
while they build houses for other
people to sleep in. Seven carpenters
were given availability certificates
within a recent fortnight because
they could not find living quarters
in OF near Ell Centre.
Irate landlords cracked down"
on Tom Finney of the U. S. Employ
ment Service Tuesday concerning
his comments on phone calls which
set out that landlords refused to
rent at OPA ceiling rates. One man
prese nted to Finney an itemized ac-
count of weekly operating expenses
and declared he could not make any
profit unless he could charge $40
a week for his rooms. Others tele-
phoned similar views.
"Finney's reply was, 1--WE must
have workers. workers must have
a place to live" '-e 80 -- ...s
K. r. Edmunds, director of the
Rent Control Area, was not avail
able Immediately for views on the
situation as outlined in landlords
statements.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
StettiniuS Holds
S Spot|isht

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. (UP) -
The eyes of the world weary with
war will be upon Edward Reilly
Stettinius, Jr., when he takes over
as secretary of state.
AS the leader of American for
eign policy, Stettinius will inherit
the task of completing the project
launched by retiring secretary Cor
dell Hull-the forming of a world
organization, with American par
ticipation, to foster international
good will and prevent another
world conflict.
Stettinius, son of partner in the
banking firm of j. P Morgan and
himself a leader in business, will
take into his job penchant for
cutting red-tape and an air of in
formality almost strange to the
prOtOcol-iced corridors of the state
department.
WITH BIG BUSINESS
Even his critics, and there are
some, look somewhat in amaze
ment at the phenomenon that has
made an outstanding "big business
man" (U. S. Steel, General Motors
the confidante of New Deal presi-
dent and a friend of Communist
Russia, of a sentive congress-and
of big business itself.
Stettinius attended the University
OF Virginia, serving as president of
the campus YMCA, teaching Sun
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

HEADQUARTERS, Alas
kan Department, Nov. %.
(UP)-A hardy band of ar
my and civilian mountain
eers have completed a haz-
ardous climb to the wreck
age of a CAT air transport
command plane near the
summit of a 12.160-foOt peak
but none of the bodies of the 10
passengers were found, the army
announced Tuesday.
The big plane two months. ago
crashed into the mountainside less
than 500 feet below the peak and
then tumbled 1900 feet down the
icy slopes. The bodies apparently
we're scattered for more than a
quarter mile radius and buried un-
der deep snowfalls. All occupants
were believed to have been killed
instantly
Except for one motor logged at
the point of impact, the wreckage
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
County Passes
Half Million
In Bond Sales

The $40,133,926 taxable value of
property in Imperial county for
l944-l945 is up IL per cent from the
$50, It's SIT assessed value of property
in the county for 1910 l94l, ac-
cording to a survey made by the
California Taxpayers association.
Officials of the taxpayers as
sociation made an analysis Of as
sessed valuations in California coun-
ties since the United States entered
the war.
Values of property in the county
this year are as follows:
iJdiiu ..---,-'--. y oo"o'oc'
Improvements on land ... l2,l52,8
Personal property
anu money ...-...-.-.....--.---.-- S,loo'ioo
Exemptions deducted ....... 60O,252
Throughout the state the total
taxable value of property for 1914
1945 is $8,267 ,O99 1866 or an increase
of Is per cent over the $7,138,62l ,257
valuation for 1940-l94l, the survey
showed,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

of any such action had been receiv-
ed and that crossing was highly
improbable.
The Berlin radio said that at
Saare Union and along the Rhine
southeast of Hagenau, German rear
guards harassed by both U. s. Third
and Seventh army forces were COW
ering Withdrawal OF the main NaN
forces to new lines.
The Nazis said great tank bat
tie was raging south of Saare Union.
10 miles south of Sarreguemines.
with 200 American tanks and ele-
ments of a French armored divl-
sion engaged.
GLOOMY NAZI REPORT
In one of the gloomiest Nazi
prophecies since General Dwight d.
Eisenhower opened his six-army
winter offensive, a German Trans
ocean news agency correspondent
on the western front said:
after considering all the prob
abilities for the coming winter bat
tie, one must conce6e that the Ger
mans will be obliged to give ground
and yield several places during the
attacks of the enemy who disposes
enormous quantities of material and
considerable armed forces.
The Nazis said an expected news
offensive Of the U. S. Third army
against the forefield of the west
wall is in full swing" and acknowl-
edged the retreat in the wake OF
which Patton's troops were advanc-
ing at a pace promising to carry
his entire line into Germany within
matter of days.
CLOSE IN ON MERTEN
Patton's 95th division alone was
closing against the border on a six
mile front in the area of Merten,
13 miles west of Saarbrucken, while
other units wheeled in against the
border city ON the rim of the Saar.
The 95th cleared seven sizeable
towns-O Olzing, Oberdorff, Dretten-
bach, Trombone. Remering. Helling
and Remelsang. Other units ad-
vanced three to four miles east OF
Steenberg, passing through HON.
bourg- -Hant and Seinbouse, six miles
east of st. Avoid, to within less
than 10 miles of Saarbrucken.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Russians Tighten
Offensive on
Slovakia Fronts

LONDON, Nov. %. CUP)-The Red
army broadened it's offensive front
in eastern Slovakia to more than rs
miles Tuesday Wedging five to nine
miles into the formidable chain of
mountain defenses linking the Ger
man armies in Poland and Hungary.
Elsewhere on the long eastern
front, gale-lashed rains enforced an
uneasy lull in the fighting, with
both Berlin and Moscow predicting
that the stalemate might be broken
at any time by the long awaited
Russian winter offensive.
Tough mountain troops of Gen.
eral Ivan 1. Petrov's Fourth Ukrain-
ian army hammered out the only
important gains reported in Mos
cows early morning war bulletin,
swinging their northern flank down
across the Polish border into Slo-
vakia in a bold maneuver that cut
off the southern entrance to the
Dukla pass and virtually isolated
its Nazi defenders.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Tree Clearance
Is Started on
Memorial Park

Workmen were engaged Tuesday
in digging out the trees in the park
north of the county court house in
Ell Centre as the first step in pre-
pairing the park for new lease on
life.
The trees taken out of court house
park will be planted around the
new immigration service building
recently completed on Imperial ave-
nue. near the north city limits OF
Ell Centre.
AS soon as these trees and shrubs
are taken out of the court house
park, County Agricultural Com
missioner B. A. Harrigan said Tues
day, the land will be ploWed up and
leveled and the sprinkling system
installed. The park improvement
program will go forward rapidly so
that the war memorial to be erected
there may be constructed as soon as
possible,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Social Security
Boost Urged

now being collected" Altmeycr said.
He testified that all actuarial eS-
Inmates indicated the annual cost
of the insurance system would be
at least four percent and might be
as high as seven per cent.
He said the present value of bene-
fits due those now eligible amount
cd to $4,5OO 100000. Since the res
erve fund January /, l945 will be
$4,000, ,0oO 900, he said, there will be
only $500, 100000 in the reserve
fund to meet liabilities for benefits
to 100000 persons who have ac-
cumulated wage credits but have
not yet died or reached the retire
ment age of 65.
Altmeyer conceded that payroll
tax collections at the present one
per cent level now were running at
a figure estimated five years ago
for a two per cent tax but said more
people had become insured and had
accumulated larger wage credits.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Brussels Police
0ueI Ri ioterS

barred the path to the Bourse.
A block from the Bourse the lead
ers argued with police in an attempt
to get through the blockade, but the
police stood firm while the crowds
shouted Front de Independence
and the marchers finally turned
down a side street.
The workers were led by bugler.
Apparently their only arms we're
conductors punches and the tradi-
tional horn once used to shoe cattle
from the tracks.
The demonstrators called upon
the Socialist members of Pierlcts
cabinet to resign, as the Commit
nistS did two weeks ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

BRUSSELS, Nov %. CUP)-An
estimated 5000 postal, telephone and
other workers struck in Brussels
Tuesday and demonstrated in the
streets against the government of
Premier Hubert Pierlot.
The strike crippled the public
utilities, but its first phase passed
without serious incident despite
noisy manifestations by marching
workers.
White helmeted police stood by
barbed wire barricades and trucks
parked axle to axle in front of
government buildings. The march
ers gathered in side streets and pa
raded back and forth while police
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Peace
Jobs
Viewed
State Launches
Move to Ban
Dole Repetition

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 20.
(UP)-The state reconstruc-
tion and unemployment COM
mission Tuesday disclosed it
is sponsoring a study of pos
sible means of providing un-
employment relief in the
event work shortages become
acute in the postwar period.
The study is expected to result
in formal legislation to be sub
mitted to the legislature at the
session beginning January 8. OIL
ficials of the agency said. 1t Is being
conducted by project committee
headed by DR.. Arlien johnson, OF
the University of Southern Calf
ornia.
v. B. Stanbery, chief of the COM
missions technical staff, said that
it was felt that bottom cushion
may be necessary after the war for
some economic groups and that even
in event of high employment state
relief is most effective for different
economic levels, and may recon-
mend a specific type of administer
ing agencl. .#
Large sums were dispensed in a
direct cash dole by the state relief
administration between 1884 and
1941.
Col. Alexander r. Heron, director
of reconstruction and re-employ-
ment said plans now under consid-
Grafton are designed Ito avoid the
developments which subjected the
old state relief administration to
criticism"
I'VE are agreed it would not be
an in and out things' he said, "but
should be an orderly setup to be
used only in case of emergency. We
are planning for it as an emergency
not necessarily expect, but one
which has 10 be provided against"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. (UP) -
Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of
the social security board urged the
house ways and means committee
to scrap proposals for freezing the
payroll tax at its present level to
avoid impairing the financial sound
ness of the old age insurance sys-
tenn.
Altmeyer was the first witness
at committee hearings on proposals
to halt the automatic increase in
social security payroll taxes sched-
uled to go into effect January l..
The present tax of one per cent
each on employers and employees
will double at that time unless con-
gress acts.
There is no question that the
benefits PROMISED under the present
federal old age and survivors in
surance system will cost far more
than the two percent of payrolls
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Santa Rosa Pilot
Credited With
Death Of RonlnleI

SANTA ANA. CAL, Nov. %. CUP)
A 20-year-old Santa Rosa, Califor-
mia, fighter pilct Tuesday was be-
lieved to be the Allied fighter who
killed Nazi Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel.
Films released by the army air
corps shows bullets from Lieutenant
Harold o. Miller's Thunderbolt pur"
suit ship pouring into German
staff car, the only German staff car
shot up on July "a, the day the
Nazi radio says Rommel was hurt
fatally in such a strafing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Raj Smoshes Nuzi Canals.
Hur| Bombs Upon Berlin

spearheaded Monday nights Vide
spread attacks on Germany, CENTER
ing the bulk of their explosive load
on Neuss, just west OF Dusseldorf,
and Freiburg. east OF the Rhine
about 40 miles southeast OF Stras-
bourg.
Freiburg is one OF the main as
sembly points for German supplies
moving into the Rhineland front
opposite the American Seventh and
French First armies. Ncuss. a june
tion point for railway lines running
TO Aachen. Cologne and Munchcn-
gladbach, had assembly yards cap
able OF handling 2300 freight cars
a cay.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

LONDON, Nov. %. (UP)
A great sky fleet of $50 or
more British heavy bombers
lashed at two Rhineland rail
road centers and other for
ward supply bases for the
German armies of the west
Monday night, while a strong
diversionary force of Mos
quito raiders dropped scores
of two-ton blockbusters on
Berlin.
AT the same time. belated an
nouncement revealed that two pick
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

ed squa6 6rons of RAF heavies breach
ed the vital Mitteland and Dort-
mund- Ems canals last Tuesday
night in a daring double blow that
partially crippled the German sys-
tenn of military communications at
critical moment in the western
campaign.
In one of the boldest and most
successful canal-busting missions of
the entire war, the British fliers
blasted enormous holes in the canal
walls and choked off the flow of
waterborne traffic moving over those
routes to the western front.
An hour-long parade OF Raj
Lancaster and Halifax bombers
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

was covered by more than 10 feet
of snow. Most of the planes pas
sengers were servicemen enroute to
the states for leaves and a search
of the area turned up such personal
articles as a cap, an army blanket,
and furlough papers.
Forty-four men led by Grant
Pearson, chief ranger at Mckinley
Park, and Bradley WaShburn, AAF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Seurchers Reach Planes
Wreckuqe, No Bodies Seen

consultant and director of the Bos-
ton Museum of Natural History,
made up the expedition that started
october 10. Six forward camps had
to be established and the party en-
countered 50-mile an hour gales
and temperatures as low as 33 de-
grees below zero. The party was
supplied from the air, with entire
camps dropped at some points.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
WINRIGHT TO SPEAK

Postwar Farm Prices" will be
the subject of talk by Assistant
Farm Advisor George Winright at
Eastside school at pm. Thursday
when the Eastside-Sunsetf farm GEN.
ter meets. During the evening the
AAA election will take place, it as
announced Tuesday by Frank NC
Cowan, center director.
supreme headquarters said no word
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

Roer river 81 miles west of Cologne
ano forged an assault arc around
the fortified city of Julich, while
to its right the first army won two
thirds of Langerwehre, last strong
hold before Duren.
FRENCH CROSS RHINE
French reports circulated that Al
lied troops had crossed the upper
Rhine north of Strasbourg, but
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
WEATHER FORECAST

Continued fine weather Tues
day night and Wednesday. with
daytime temp natures around ~
degrees. Cool at nights with light
frost Tuesday night; lowest tenn
perature 32 degrees. No frost by
Wednesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Third Army Nears Great Fortress
As Nazi Mass Retreat Beqins
In Cologne Sector Americans Put
Arc Around Pivi+cI Ju!ich;
French Reported Across the Rhine

PARIS, (UP-Leutenant George Patons
and extended the Third front in the rich
to 26 miles.
PARIS, Nov. %. (UP)-Lieutenant General George S.
Pattons Third spurted forward two to five miles
toward the German border Tuesday 60me 'front.' the
center of which overrunning the outposts of Saar
bucken less than 10 miles from the great frontier fortress
The American Ninth army drove two edges to the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
y AMBLINe
EpoRTER
We All Do

We All Do
where's Pinky?" inquired Argyle
McLachlan, thrusting his head into
9. A. Harrigan's office.
DO you mean Red Harrigan?'
froWned Art Sinclair.
Yes, Pinky," said McLachlan with
his usual poker face.
Did he mean Red has faded?
lt3A Still Done
Deputy Sheriff Bob Jensen hunt
ed around Ell Centre for two rural
elementary school boys who had
been missing since am. Monday.
He located one in movie house and
one in a pool hall.
Here is part of Jensen's report:
Found the boys and took them
home. 1t is my opinion that they
will be eating their meals in a
standing position for approximately
one week due to the probable ten
derness of that portion of the anat-
omy commonly used to sit on"
Not Fair
There is a lot of off the record
giggling in some circles in Holtville
these days about dilly of mas
querade someone pulled off.
If anyone knows the true story
Continued on Page 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 20, minimum
Tuesday 35; 5 am. Tuesday Al, hui
midity 76; noon Tuesday 81, humid
ity so; 5 pm. Mon. 68, humidity n.
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stovs' furniture HiEhsS' prlce' paid
.tet7st 20 Supply var work'rs Dir.
PL 1900
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SETTER prices paid Tor your car.
running wrecked or Nth cracked
motor TY S-T22i Res. IA $50
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AN ELEC REFRIG AND WASHER
Gusfsrtssd Almost new vacuum
cleaner included with brand new 2
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.uiies brand neV preVar gas ranges.
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AUTOS wanted from private oWntrs
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sLWINC MACHINES

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BOATS AND EQUIPMENT
TIRES AND ACCESSORIES

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Any size Samples. Si7. Mitchell
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