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Evening star., 1944-10-25
Commissioners Deny
Appeal of Muqhun

The Commissioners announced
yesterday that they had denied the
request of Attorney James J, Laugh
lin for reconsideration of their order
affirming decision of trial board
which last March found Policeman
Robert j. Maghan. jr., guilty Of
drunkenness, but recommended re-
instatement.
The board also recommended .
fine of $l00. In a motion for re-
consideration of the Commissioner
order affirming the trial boards
action, Mr.. Laughlin said the Com
missioners had disregarded the evi-
dence in the case and that Mr..
Maghan was entitled to statement
of reasons for the decision.
A new branch OF the British Min
istry of Agriculture will deal with
backyard poultry farmers.
Evening star., 1944-10-25
Exfradition Is Waived
In Air Terminal Robbery

Hibbard Spencer Masters. IS. who
police say confessed cracking the
safe of the Air Terminals Service
Inc, at the National Airport Fri
day, will appear in District Court
today or tomorrow to face formal
removal order to Virginia.
Masters was arrested In the Dis
trict Saturday and held for investi-
cation pending settlement Of a juris-
dictional dispute. He was charged
yesterday In the Eastern district OF
Virginia and in a hearing before
United States Commissioner Need
ham G. Turnage pleaded guilty and
waived removal. He is held on $4,000
bond.
Masters is charged with carrying
Evening star., 1944-10-25

net as Prime Minister and Min
lister OF foreign Affairs, succeed
ing DR.. BjFn Thordarson. The new
cabinet consists Of two members
each from the Independent, Labor
and Socialist parties.
The legltion said DR.. Thordar-
sons nonlartisan cabinet resigned
after a disagreement over domestic
economic problems.
Evening star., 1944-10-25
New Prime Minister
Named in Iceland

b the Associated Presa.
A change in governments in newly
independent Iceland has been re-
ported by the Iceland Legation
here
Olafur Phors, leader OF the Inde-
pendent party, heads the new cabi-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
Woman, 113, Hoes
Garden as Usual
On Her Birthday

SAPULA, Okla. June 1-tUPl-
In a striped cotton dress Aunt
Lizzie Devers smoked her corncob
pipe and hoed in her garden on her
18th birthday.
Aunt Lizzie isn't sure which day
is her birthday. but she did not
change her dress or her routine
from May to 4. and SHE'S sure she
was born on one of those dates in
1881. sopewhere in Georgia.
She lives alone with her son in a
shack off the Sapulpa-T Tulsa high
way. Her son Henry Pinkman was
born when Aunt Lizzie was IA and
he's the only one CT her IL chill
dren that she's kept track of.
Wed Nine Times
Shes been married nine times,
but she doesn't know where all of
the eX-spouses are for sure.
They either died or walked off
and left me-" she explained, but
my third husband was really my
favorite."
Aunt Lizzie's married life began
when she was IL and lasted until
1886. She's little hazy on the sub
ject of divorce, but she's positive OF
her stand on styles.
"Wcmen wear their drecseS too
short" she said, pointing 10 her
ankle-length butterfly model dress
as her idea of skirt lengths.
No Beauty Aids
She's never been to a beauty
parlor and doesn't like housework
but prefers gardening and tending
to the pigs. chickens and cows.
Aunt Lizzie pieces quilts to trade
for hogs and calves. She produces
her cwn vegetables. meat, cheese,
butter and eggs.
II eat hawg meat three times
dav and boil it 10 pieces becauSe
have no teeth to chew she said.
Aunt Lizzie gave up coffee drink
ing when she wss les years old be-
cause she complained that the
stuff folks are drinking nowadays
isn't coffee, it's too weak
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
Melons Season
Now Under Way
OConiinned rom Page

crs are getting 500 to Sl20 a ton.
In the meantime Congressman
John Phillips telegraphed valley
growers that the watermelon cell
ing still Is being debated in Wash
ington. Conferences are being held
with the OPA and the VIA as
growers and their representatives
attempt to get the proposed ceiling
price above the cost OF production.
Ii was proposed to set the ceiling
price at S33 until July and S26
thereafter This order. however, has
not yet been put into effect, Phil
lips sale in his telegram.
While the debate goes on the
watemelons are ripening, are be-
ing harvested. and sent to market.
The season is the latest in many
years but tie price ceiling is even
later. growers declared, and they
were compelled to harvest their
melons and ship them or suffer
loss
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
LOOKS AS If THEY'RE
HERE TO STAY

The EuC ding conferences on mon
et3ry stabilization, international air
rights and international petroleum
reserves may also be expected to
blossom into full blown conferences,
with postwar regulatory bodies.
A lot of the hands across the
sea stuff is of course war effort
which may be wholly liuuidated
some sweet day-and again may
not. There is or are TIE confined
chiefs of staff unter whom func-
ton the Combined Raw Me- erials
Board. the Combined Shipping
Adjustment Board. the Combined
Production and Resources Board anC
the Combined Food Board. They
are semi-civilian and may be stick
ing around for long time, till the
world gets back on an even econ
omic keel or after.
LenC-Iease Administration and
UNRPA-the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation AdminlFtraticn
are both temporary, though they
have the largest appropriation and
the biggest staffs at the present
time. Not to be overlooked are the
Commission for the Investigation of
War Crimes and the War Relief
Control Board.
ALL FOR ONLY $50
The regular State Department
budget carries % of these interna-
tional commissions for which there
are appropriations totaling s1.341,-
900 for the next fiscal year. They
range from a mere $50 for the Gen.
tral Buerau of the ational
Map of the Wcrld or the Millior'h
Scale TO sums of $3.50 600 an5 over
per year fer the Pan-American
Union, payment to Panama. and the
International Labor Office.
Finally, there are 50-yes, so
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
Realtors Mark
Steady Call
For E. {. Homes

Ell Centre really dealers report
continued activity in the reSiden-
tial property market with a Slight
tendency to uptren6 in selling price
demands. outside inquiries appear
about even with purchase inclina-
tions of Ell Centrans. Also it is
ncted by dealers that the inquiries
for the most part are for medium
sized and priced properties and in
the higher brackets as to size and
cost
There is a renewed interest in
small acreageS and a considerable
call for larger tracts, with q moder-
ate movemen. in both claSsifica-
tions.
Among the acreage sales recently
was the SWartzlander ranch south
of Imperial which was sold through
the ClauCe Vedder agency for
$4,000.
In El Centro residential property
transfers, Herbert Lowdelmilk re-
ports the fouowing:
w. F.. Hart home, 692 Vine street
to w c. Reese, sales manager of
the Auto Gear and Supply COM
pany.
Two houses at 412-414 South
Eighth, owned by Mrs. Nellie F'roh-
ly. to w. +. Reed, connected with
the Irri7o ton District.
10 @'0:ge Kennedy property,
535 We street. to A. d. Allen, asso-
Ciqtoa W;th .ln California Fine Box
ccmG
NJ ~"'mo ~iock'5 residence 532
No:..h Eighth street to Mrs. E. M.
Dickey.
The property of Mrs. Charles
Skinner, 472 Brighton to A. VAN
Dcnberg, located at the El Centre
Marines Air Corps.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
cophoI Talk
-by-
Peter Edison

international committees and COM
missions for which there are no
appropriations but whose work is
done by people who receive govern
ment salaries. To name a few, there
are the International Plant Pest
Control Commission, the Joint Hide
Control Office, the Iceland Com
mittee and the International Lake
ef the Woods Control Board.
Everything but an International
Horse Thief Protective Association.
Where it all leads, man knoWeth
not, but it proves how very compli-
catec life has become.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
Officers Trail
Jail Escaper

Peace officers throughout I'M
perial county searched Thursday for
Lloyd Shepherd, 81, who walked
away from a county Jail chain gang
working on the court house park.
When last seen he wore light
blue work shirt and new khaki
trousers with county jail stamped
on the leg. He was described as
five feet IL inches in height, weigh
ing las pounds. His eyes are gray
and his hair is brown.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
Death Summons
Valley Man, u

John NJ. Hilficker, %. died We'd
nesday night at the home of his
parents five miles southeast of Holt
vile after a long illness.
Funeral services Will be held at
ST. Pauls Lutheran church at .
p. m. Saturday. Burial will be at
Evergreen cemetery with the Fields
mortuary in charge.
Hilficker was bern in the house
where he died. He attended Verde
elementary school until lille health
forced him to stop his schooling.
His survivors are his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Hilficker a brother,
Julius Hilficker: and an aunt. Mrs.
Ida Huberger. all of the Holtyille
area
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
STATE CHAMBER MEETING
HEARS OF DUCK PROBLEM

) Rudolph Miller. ACP secretary, Fl
Centre and Charles Nice. Brawley
chamber of commerce secretary, de-
scribed the duck depredations prob
lens and results of their Chicago
wildlife commission hearing to
members of the California chamber
of commerce at Les Angeles Thurs
day. The chamber had invited the
valley men to present the problem
and future plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
HOW COMPLEX
Is THIS LIFE

This may be just the forewarn-
ing OF a bad dream, but don't be
too surprised if you wake up some
morning to discover that while you
slept there crawled under the bed
what may later be known as an
international bureaucracy" Brrr!
and shudder! shudder!
There's no use looking now, be-
cause the ectorlasmic thing hasn't
quite yet materialized. But there
Doesn't seem to be any escape from
it, You simply can't deliver all the
international conferences, commits
sions and regulatory bodies now "a
bornin without building up a staff
OF dry and wet nurses to look after
all the weighty grandchildren on
which the economic obstetricians
now labor. The League CT Nations
bureaucracy won't be patchin' to
what comes next.
No one government agency has all
the statistics on these interna tional
buSybodies. The best guess is that
there are between rs and 100 of
them-noW. What they cost anc
how many people work for them
are nebulous m9tters-the personnel
assigned to many of the commits
sionS have their salaries and ex-
penses paid for by other govern
ment departments and they don't
work at their international jobs full
time.
In the Department of State bud
get for the fiscal year beginning
July l there was request for an
appropriation for S2.500,000 for such
international meetings. conferences.
congresses, and less formal United
Nations cooperative enc oavors.
Congress cut it down to s1,500000,
and as such it will have to cover
such things as the proposed meet
ing of Allied ministers of education
to plan re-eduCa ton of Germany,
another session of the Interim Com
mission on Food and Agriculture
setup at Hot Springs, and some
of an International nutrition con-
ference.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
I PARTIES ON BALLOT

LANSING. Mich, June l. UPD-
Michigan will have seven parties or
the Nov. gent al election ballot,
according TO Secretary of State Her.
man H. Dignan. N addition to the
Republican and Democra ic par
ties, the ballot will contain space'
for the America First. Socialis t..
Commonwealth Federation, Social
iSt Labor, and Prohibition parties.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
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Continued frCm Page u
sea. limited but important gains
have been made by the Fifth army"
American medium bombers sup
ported the Alban hills phase of the
offensive with the largest-scale
ground cooperation attacks since
the obstruction of Casino last
March IS.
Great numbers of Mitchells hurl-
ed their bombs on German concen-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01

WASHINGTON, June l. tUP)-
The office of defense transportation
urges all government agencies to
discourage convention and vacation
travel.
Col. j. Monroe johnson, ODT di-
rector, said it had become neces-
sary to request government officials
to refuse to attend conventions not
definitely allied with the war ef-
fort because several organizations
planning conventions have request
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
War Development

Ever hear of onion honey?
We had an onion shortage which
caused CONSERVATION. So Imperial
Valleys bees have done something
about it, They are said to be max
ing onion honey.
In orCer to alleviate the onion
shortage there were lots of onions
planted in Imperial Valley. Now
we are informed. there is a distinct
odor of onions about the bee hives
in certain sections. Those bees.
apparently, have heard of the onion
shortage and are turning out some
onion honey as part of their con-
tribution to the war effort.
Will the honey taste like onions?
Did the beekeepers smell the
breath of the bees to see if they
had been imbibing of onion nectar?
How does onion honey taste?
Is this true or cid someone dream
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
SUICIDAL SURVEY

SEATTLE, June l. tUP)-Seattle
has the highest suicide rate of any
comparable American city, accord
ing to a survey compiled by sociolo-
gists at the University of Washing
ION. Methods: gas, 35 per cent;
guns, l8 per cent; poison, IL per
cent; hanging, IL per cent; and
jumping per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
FALSE teeth
MORE FIRMLY IN PLACE

Do your fal-c teeth annoy and en-
harrasS by slipping, dropping or wab-
bling when you eat. laugh or talk? Just
S'!'nklc a little FhSTEE.TII on your plates.
"hiS ulkol,ns tnon-acidD powder holds
f"lsc teeth more firmly and more com
forably, No gummy, goocy. pasty taste
o. feeling. Does not sour. Checks plate
odor' tdenturc BREATH. Get FASTEETIi
today at any drug store.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
Speaking OF Fish

Speaking OF Fish
That must have been some deep
sea fishing trip. AUX Ambort, Jack
Fraser, Carl SchooSS, and Fritz Al
CerSon went out on a barge.
Aux developed seasickneSs and
Fraser had to act as nurSemaid
part of the time. Fraser and SchooSS
each caught an 11-pound fish and
figured up until the last minute
that they woulc, be able to divide
the money in the fish pot between
them. And then some rank amateur
pulled in a 12-pound one and car
ried off the whole pot.
just beginners luck.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
FUND OKEHED BY HOUSE

WASHINGTON. June l. tUP) -
The house Thursday approved by
voice vote and sent tc the senate
81 ,l04,5i1, e14 supply till to finance
the labor department federal Sc
curity agency, and related inde-
pendent offices in fiscal 1945.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
yonk Big Guns
Heard in Rome

trationS in the Lake Albano area
and blew up several ammunition
trains and dumps. Frascati and
Marino. north of Lake Albano, also
were hit heavily.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
RAMBLING REPORTER

Continued frcm Page II
from the cabin. They smell ter
rible."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-01
ODT Would Cut
PorIey Travel

ed government speakers as a means
of iustifying such meetings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17


 military advantages, SO painstak- ingiy won. will be Jeopardized." Even as the order was being read. the company reported that 5000 workers reported for work on the first shift today.
 Meanwhile the next move was eg- pected from the meeting between the governor and union and eoTD- pany officials.
 Attending the emergency meeting in the governors OfIices were Arthur Ward, president of the union; union attorney Charles Suisman: O. Poin- er0y Robinson, vice president and general manager of the company, and Edward Schneider, company labor attorney.
 Baldwin said he hoped to set up an arbitration board to settle the fOur-day strike the union called, despite a vote by the rank and file against a strike, on the grounds it had 3s outstanding grievances against the company, Baldwin said, have agreed not 10 leave his office until some agFee' meDt is worked out.
 At Groton yesterday, the com. pany turned down a union offer to end the strike fl the management would agree to make retroactive to July 23 any wage adjustments aps proved by the War Labor board, Robinson said some ! 800 Hnen hee returned to work and he hoped the situation would "eoDttnue to iIn- prove"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

precarious but they did not want refuge in Switzerland for fear Of Teprisals to their families,
 The Bern dispatch said a Maquis officer together with a German of- lieer had contacted Swiss aIthori- ties regarding internmept and hos- pitalization Of 600 serious wounded Germans at Eyian.
 Bern dispatches also reported that villages throughout TIaute-SaV0ie appeared deserted with so many men between l6 and 60 years Ol age joining the liberation movement that factories were closed.
 The same sources said that Ger man forces in Savoy were greatly reduced by the departure of the i57th German Division immediately after the Allied landing from the Mediterranean. The division was as- signed to patrol the region between the Swiss border and GFepboel,
 Military circles, Madrid dis patches said, estimated that the Germans had concentrated some 300000 reserves between M0ulinE and Lyon iD the past two days as Q result Of increased Maquig activities
 The reserves chiefly were diyis stons withdrawn from southwest France where only skeleton f0rna- tiops were left, Communications south Of Lyon were said to be ip poor condition because of Allied hombings and underground activity.
 4 supreme headquarters e0Hl- mupiqle, iD announcing the capture of the l70 Breton towns, said sey- eral hundred prisoners had been taken around Paimp0l where the Germans were eneiFeled by patriot forces, Numerous prisoners and a considerable amount of war mateTs ial were taken at Quimper, one 0t the towns seized yesterday.
 The e0mmupiglle noted that pav tFiot action had .gulckened'' throughout central and southern France with the Germans suffeyS ing increasingly severe casualties,
 Reports reaching Madrid from vleby, ssid . number Of prominent Viehyites were packing sulteases sDd filling the gasoline tanks Of thelE ears, ready to race to the one or the ether 0f two neutral from tiers,
 These sources said some French officials still were attempting to convince Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval to leave Vleby, but t wRs said they were de. teTnined 10 hold out to the bitter end, Several ministers were report ed eTl route 10 Metz and Nancy.
 4 Paris radio broadcast, heard "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

i had been interpreted as dirnming hopes that foreign policy could be kept out of the current political campaign.
 With the start of the conferences only five days of. Chairman Tom Connaily. D.. Tex, of the senate foreign relations committee. reveal cd that the ''real conference at c higher level" would follow the com ing security talks by tgo or three weeks. He predicted that a treaty shaping a world peace organization would be agreed on by fall.
 The administTation's foreign pol. icy leader in the senate. which must affirm any treaty for U. s. partici- ration in a new world organization. said that i've aim to have a league Of nations. or whatever you want to call it. that's a going concern be- fore the end of the var"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

hHeAHHHFtf#H 8RN German gllhdrawsl have destroyed mol than 1000 trucks and baFges, 5000 railway ears and bet loeemes tiyes,
 "All Of this sounds optimistic ape there Is no reason to disguise sAe fact that the trend Of military ASs fairs is favorable" McCloy said,
 ''Phe Germans seem definitely 0D the t0b0ggan,s he added,
 McCl0y announced that total American Army casualties tn all theaters whose negt Of kiR had been notiled by July 20 were 2A4, 776-46 let Killed, lI3,077 wounded, t2'l0s missing and t3,2Ob prisoners 0f way,
 These Included only part Of ths French casualties which MeGloy announced 0f the wounded, he said, h79be haVe returned to 9uty,
 A Navy casualty list Teleafe6 t0s day showed 6l6ee announced eass llRlties t9 date f0T the Navy, Mas FiDe corps ana Coast Guard bring Ing the notified total Cor All seFvs Ice including the Army 10 2ee,4TA. However, thls d0eS not include 2 large psFt ef the casualties inelu9' ing ee. ibe killed. lei,70e Wounded, suffered to date In France ena the Mariana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

the latter had just left town for a weeks trip through the south.
 Mir. Roosevelt looked tanned and healthy after his fiye-week inspee- ton tour, which took him through 2i states and as far into het Pacific as Hawaii and Alaska. He seemed well resed to correspondents who talked with him during the aboard train news conference.
 PoiEting mp the importance Of his conference with top Pacific com manders at Hawaii where he in- spected the huge forces and vast in- stallations built up during the two years and eight months since Japan- csc bombs blasted that island base to a virtual nullity he said one of the first items on his future agenda will he coming operations in the Pacific.
 This remark bore out belief that he had laid plans for new and powerful blows against that Japan. csc in his meetings with Admiral Chester Nimitz. commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, and General Douglas Macarthur. Allied com mander in the Southwest Pacific who. Mir. Roosevelt promised will return to the Philippines.
 Mir. Roosevelt seemed unperturbed. during his news conference oboard the train, about some critics who said his now-concluded trip had political motives. Instead. he foe cussed his attention on the war. problems Of reconyersion at home and the planning of future war 
 He plans to confer almost imme. diately with his cabinet, his cons gresisonal leaders, General George c. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff. Admiral Ernest J. King. Com marder Of the United States Fleet, Secretary of War Henry l.. Etimson. Secretary of State cOrdell Hull and within a matter of days, the Pacific War Council which has not met since shortly after the President returned from his winter eonfer- ences at Cairo and Tehran.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

the Fourth War Loan drive.
 As these quotas in all previous drives, were established on a per- capita basis as to earning powers etc, Waterbury actually attained what would be normal quotas fl the recent quota was so established. However, the recent total was rais- ed oyer and above this ratio.
 Raymond Tracy, U s. Treasury representative today declared that the city, despite its failure to meet it's quota, had shown an intensive support Of the war-effort by its ate tainments.
 Mir. Moran although expressing disappointment that Waterbury should meet with it's it's first "fail- ure" in an effort of this type stated that he was fully eognizant of the handicap of the heavy quotas and feel that the city has maintained its high standards"
 Local industries, retail nerch- civic. religious and fraternal or. ganizations as well as individuals today were made recipients Of high praise from these war bond author. ities for their splendid efforts dur ing the last drive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-17

N0|~%NN@AA@A'AA Allles Co destroy many Of the mine utlds. During the Allied aerial. na- val and rocket bombardment. a number of pine trees were set afire. thus firing the grass ia the fields. AN it burned. the minellelds were set cR.
 Underwater mines and obstacles generally were destroyed by the hombardment just preceding H.. Hour.
 What is still more important, American troops pushing inland - % miles in some sectors - havnt found any substantial fixed defenses other than dug-in strong points at road iunctures.
 Sergeant Theodore VoutSaras, Los Angeles. who helped subdue one of these strongpoints, told me: We just fired a few rounds of field ar tlllery and then went in after them with basookas and automatic guns. After a quarter of an hour of light ing. the Germans came running out with their hands held high.
 "A few minutes later" Voutsaras continued ''as We were marching the prisonlers down the road, two more ferries came out Of the strong point crying in German: Hey, walt for us. We're surrender ing too"