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Nogales international., 1944-05-26

Doris Bynon: Hector Ramirez. Al
fonso Ccrtinas. Edgar Valencia,
Carlos Padilla, Manuel Lopez,
Frank Gomez, Billy Chalmers,
Frank Morales, Mike Corley, Kay
Page, Joseph Wise, Thomas Peters,
Robert Stoddard, Billy Ehringer,
Fidel Gutierrez, Santiago Arvlzu
and Eddie Rosas.
A Community Pledge: Mrs. Holt S
Fifth Grade.
Fifth Grade, Goodbye, song
Miss Decker'S Room.
Nogales international., 1944-05-26

SCHOOL PICNIC
Miss Decker's fourth grade stu
dents of Lincoln School held their
annual picnic Tuesday
Nogales international., 1944-05-26
nAfIus" MASON
JARS and LIDS

Genuine "AtIos" round Mason jars with
Sofety-Seoline Caps These jars are double
tested for strength and stroin with boiling
water and poloriscope.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Cities League
Would Restore
Old Tax Rates

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 80. CUP)-
The League of California Cities will
ask the state legislature to restore
state taxes to rates in force two
years ago and to appropriate the
entire additional revenue for public
works by cities and counties, Rich
ard Graves, league secretary, said
Saturday.
Governor Earl Warren earlier in
the week said he would favor con-
tinuation for another two years of
the tax reductions now in force.
The league board of directors
called for restoration of former tax
rates in a formal resolution, Graves
said. The league previously has
urged that $100,000,000 in state
funds be set aside for city and
county construction with the local
governments matching state funds.
Graves said the state tax rate resto-
rations would provide approximately
that amount of money.
City officials believe that the
state tax rates will have to be re-
stored anyway in another two
years, Graves said, and believe now
is the time to tax for postwar use.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
lANkS TIGHTEN DEATH TRAP in BEL LClUN|
Archbishop Gets
Regency Post
In Greek Regime
King Yields to British
Demand for Set-up
To Break Up Red Revolt

LONDON, Dec. 30. (UP)-King
George of Greece, yielding to a
blunt British demand, issued proc
lamation Saturday naming ailing
Archbishop Damaskinos as regent
of strife-torn Greece.
The proclamation was made
shortly after the archbishops secre-
tary announced in Athens that
Damaskinos had received a cable
from King George appointing him
as regent.
The archbishop's secretary, John
Georakis, said Damaskinos probably
would be sworn in Sunday. He dis
closed that the archbishop was con-
fined to his home and had been
given a blood transfusion-the first
wore that he was ailing.
The Athens announcement tai
lied with reliable reports here that
the Greek king had capitulated to
demand by Prime Minister Win
Ston Churchill on his return from
Greece and agreed to establish
regency in supreme bid to pacify
the warning factions.
Some uncertainty had prevailed
as to whether a single regent or
a regency council was contemplate
ed. The Athens report indicated
that Damaskinos alone had been
selected and the leadership of the
country was placed in his HANDS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Downey Sees River
Pact Defeated
Unless Amended

IF sponsors of the proposed Cole
RADIO river water treaty with Mexico
try to pass it in its present form, it
can be defeated
This was the statement made by
Senator Sheridan DoWney to the
meeting of the Colorado River
Water Boards in Los Angeles, ac-
cording to Evan T. Hughes, chair
man, and head of the Imperial Irri-
cation District, who returned to Ell
Centre briefly on Friday.
Hughes said the board would re-
convene January 3, but will not be
able to complete plans of action in
Washington until January 5 or a
few days later.
Downey assured the meeting the
treaty will come up for hearing on
that date, before the senate foreign
affairs committee.
What move the supporters of the
treaty may make to amend it holds
the attention of California water
authorities at this time, it was
pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

10 ueIdy UIle htu ARMY iilVdoloii Vi
Austria.
With major elements of their sec
end and third Ukrainian armies
still pinned down in the struggle
for Budapest, the Soviet advance
south of the Danube appeared to
have been stalled momentarily
about 80 miles from Vienna, where
the Germans were making a deter
mined stand on the edge of the
Gyor plain.
The Moscow early morning COM
munique made no mention of fight
ing along the 55-mile front from
the Danube south to Lake Balaton.
but Berlin said the Russians were
reinforcing their lines after being
stopped by strong German counter
attacks.
To the north, however, the Rus
slams hurdled the Hron barrier near
its confluence with the Danube
and shook their armor loose on the
Bratislava plain after a savage, two
day battle that cost the Germans
1000 casualties and As tanks.
Inside Budapest, meanwhile, one
Of the wars bloodiest street battles
ragec on through it's fifth day.
Sparked by fanatical core of Nazi
Elite guards, the Axis garrison was
fighting until death for a partially
ruined city that the German high
command itself callously wrote off
as of no further military value
except that its prolonged defense
might delay the Soviet march on
Austria.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

u. S. forces to win the peace and
notified the Japanese that the
bombing of their homeland is just
started and is due to be intensified
A Japanese communique claimed
II ships, including a cruiser and a
destroyer, had been sunk in attacks
Wednesday through Saturday and
the official Domei agency suggest
ed the convoy's main objective was
to repleniSh Mindoro rather than
an attack on the west coast of Luz
on.
Domei called the convoy great
fleet.
Japanese planes intensified their
attacks on the convoy Thursday
night and all day Friday, sinking
four more large transports and a
torpedo boat and damaging two
other large transports. cruiser and
a destroyer. the enemy communique
said.
The communique boosted the
number of vessels claimed to have
been sunk since the convoy first
was brought uncer attack in the
Mindanao sea south of Leyte We'd
neSday night to lilo transports
and torpedo boat-and the num-
Der damaged to six, including the
two WarShips.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Inspectors Find
{. {. Eating
Places Cleaner

Sanitary conditions in the kitch-
ems of eating establishments in Ell
Centro, Brawley, and Calexico have
improved since navy inspectors is
sued warning two weeks ago with
"a few still to be cleaned up" the
inspectors told DR.. Miriam Hubbell,
Imperial county health officer Sat
urday.
On Broadway, Ell Centre, the
navy inspectors found the two eX-
tremeS of sanitation. One place was
a horrible example of filth with a
dangerous unsanitary conditions,
the inspectors said. Two doors down
the street is q cafe which is a mod
ell of cleanliness and sanitation in
spite of the fact that the owner
has a help shortage. The navy in
spectorS said it was the show place
of Imperial Valley and reveals what
can be cone. Only a few establish
ments in the three cities still are
out of bounds to Servicemen and
women because of unSanitary con-
ditions, the military men said.
The inspectors said the garbage
and flies in El Centro are creating
a health hazard and DR.. Hubbell
is to confer with city officials to
find out what can be oone.
Garbage containers without lids
and inadequate garbage disposal
combined with the fly situation are
dangerous" DR.. Hubbell said Sat-
urday. "1'he situation is worse than
it was two weeks ago. Flies and
maggotS come when the garbage
collection and disposal system is
bad. This applies to the residential
districts as well as to the eating
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
High GuggenE1ein
Official Faces
EmbezzIing Count
Held on Heavy Bail on
Asserted Theft of
Funds Up to $500,000

SAN JOSE, Cal, Dec. 80. CUP)-
William K. GrOesbeck, as, executive
CT Guggenheim & Co, dried fruit
professors, was taken into custody
by Sheriff William K. Emig for the,
alleged embezzlement of possibly
half a million dollars early Satur-
day after a five-mile automobile
chase over country roads.
Groesbeck was arrested en- the or
der OF District Attorney Edmund
Brown of San Francisco county on
a warrant signed by Bert Katz,
president of the company. He was
taken to Santa Clara county jail
and held under 100000 cash bail
or $250,000 bond.
Sheriff Emig and his deputies
reached the Groesbeck country
home shortly after midnight to make
the arrest. Finding nobody at home.
they parked in the driveway.
Groesbeck, returning home with
his wife, saw the sheriff's car and
sped away according to Emig. The
sheriff gave chase and the cars
EdCeu uOW1l MCLduSllilll dNclluc aiiu
onto two ether country roads.
Under the persuasion of Emig's
siren, Groesbeck finally halted and
surrendered.
HE told me he had been assured
everything would be taken care of
for at least couple Of more days"
Emig said.
The warrant was based on a
charge of forging a $4,000 check.
Brown said series of forgeries over
the past Is years had netted Groes-
beck at least 1898, 900, most of which
allegeoly had been invested in ranch
land
Katz was quoted as saying the
company hadn't suspected Groes-
beck's alleged speculations until
about a month ago. GrCesbeck is
manager of the company's insur-
ance department.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.
(UP)-In a move to meet
suddenly increased military
demands for small arms am
munition, the War Produc-
ton Board Saturday stopped
production of civilian am
munition and froze manufac-
turers' stocks pending devel-
opment of distribution con-
trolls.
The agency also ordered ammuni-
ton sales halted to hunters and
reduced to farmers and ranchers,
effective Sunday. The order affects
both wholesale and retail sales of
ammunition.
Officials said manufacturers had
been ordered early this month to
hold all stocks pending issuance OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Winter Lettuce
kears Peak as
Shipments Hike

Lettuce from Imperial Valley is
rolling daily to markets throughout
the nation as the winter shipping
season proceeded rapidly toward the
peak expected next month.
On Friday 132 carloads left the
valley with 60 carloads dry pack
lettuce and II iced lettuce, it was
ascertained after a check of ship
ments made in the office of County
Agricultural Commissioner B. A.
Harrigan.
Wet fields were said to be re-
sponsible for the unusually large
consignment of dry pack.
In report of the shipments it
was shown that 1913 carloads went
by rail and nine by truck.
Growers said the deal has been
satisfactory at this time with prices
at ceiling levels and the demand
exceeding the supply.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Disease Causes
jail Quarantine

Thirtyafive prisoners in one sec
ton of the Imperial county jail at
Ell Centro were quarantined Friday
night by DR.. Miriam Hubbel, coun-
ty health officer, because a former
prisoner, Lorenzo Gonzalez, has
epidemic spinal meningitis.
Gonzalez, a Mexican national, was
taken to the county Jail by Ell Gen.
tro police at 10 am. last Wednesday
because they feared he was insane.
He was transferred to the hospital
Thursday. Tests revealed his all
ment Friday. The prisoners, who oc-
cupied the same section as Con-
zalez did wren he was there, will be
ouarantineC two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Searchers Seek
Crashed Plane:
10 Feared Dead

YUMA ARMY AIR FIELD, Ariz.,
Dec. 80. UP)-A rescue party set
out from here Saturday for the
isolated Black Mesa mountain, 80
miles east of Blythe, California,
where CAT transport plane
crashed during a raging storm
Christmas Day, apparently killing
all of its passengers.
Officials OF the Yuma Army air
field said they believed 16 men were
aboard the craft which was enroute
from Tucson, Arizona, to Palm
Springs, California, when it crash
ed. The home base of the plane was
the Air Transport Command base
at Maiden Field, Maiden, Missouri.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
No Second d-Rater,
This Younqster

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. CUP)-
Representative Sol Bloom. CD,
New York, matched wits with a
10 = year old, stocking capped
urchin.
Enccuntering the boy in a Cap
itol corridor, Bloom stopped him
and asked, Are you a congress-
man?"
Me? No, I'm no congressman"
the boy said. I'm President
Roosevelt"
All Bloom could think of to say
was, glad to know you, Frank
lin."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

LONDON Dec. 80. CUP)-A severe
earthquake, probably the heaviest
experienced in Britain in recent
years, shock a wide area of north
ern England early Saturday, but
preliminary reports from the scene
indicated that little if any damage
resulted.
The shock centered in the heavily
industrialized section between Man
chester and Darlington, and many
people rushed from their beds to
air raid shelters in the belief that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Stolen Car Quiz
Faces Marines

Two marines were under guard,
one in the hospital and one in the
guard house, at the Ell Centre mar
inc air station Saturday while Off
GERS investigated the wreck of a
seCan stolen from Pasqual Maggie,
854 Olive, Ell Centro, Friday night.
The sedan, taken from in front of
the Maggie home, was wrecked at
the highway turn west of Heber ear
ly Saturday morning. The car
swerved off the highway and struck
a telephone pole. swapping it off
al the bottom, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

Supreme headquarters spokesman
said that the time was at hand for
Marshal Karl Won Rundstedt, after
four days of indecision, to make up
his mind whether to pull out of the
Belgian-LuXembourg bulge or renew
his onslaught.
PRESS ADVANTAGE
Un6er relentless American pres
sure the Nazis were reported herd
ing their tanks back from the peri
meter of the salient and replacing
them with infantry, but whether
the armor was merely regrouping
for new attempts was a matter of
conjecture.
Lieutenant General George S.
Patton expanded the frontage of
his Third army attack on the south
ern flank from 35 to AS miles and
seized a six-mile stretch of the
German border at the base of the
salient, according to official re-
ports as of Friday morning.
Battering forward as much as six
miles north of the Bastogne- Libra
mont railway line, Patton's troops
seized five towns grouped southwest
of Bastogne and threatened to nip
off the southwest nose of the pocket.
One of Pattons spearheads pre- bed
northward in the Compogne sector
beyond Bastogne, where it wcs a
dozen miles or less from Lieutenant
General Courtney H. Hodges First
army troops chewing into the
northern flank of the SALEM in
the Grandesnil area.
GERMANS REPORT
A German Transocean disrat h
from Rundstedts headquarters said
the pressure on the salient was be-
ing increased from both sides by
the appearance of reinforcing divi-
sions
THE American counteroperss ions
are aimed at bringing a decision
and hitting the German offensive
wedge at it's base," the dispatch
said.
1t said more than half the Amer
lean forces on the western front
haC' been concentrated against the
salient, and claimed that 10 u. S.
divisions "have been badly mauled."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

ence of which has not been con-
firmed by any American source
was carrying supplies an6 reinforce
ments rather than attempting q
new invasion venture.
A Tokyo broadcast in italian,
beamed to Europe, said the convoy
had reached Mindoro, and that
only eight or 10 transports of an
original about 80 made port"
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz mean
time returned to Saipan from an
inspection tour of Pacific forward
areas and warned that I'VE should
be prepared to invade Japan by
assault" He said that Japan def
initely will have to be occupied by
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Avery Beats Army Heads
To Job in Seized Store

ment Store Employees Union, CLIO,
said the army seizure "has no mean
ing until some way is found to put
War Labor Board directives into
effect"
There probably is no provision
for the army's making a contract
with the union," he said, but We
should have some sort of agreement
under which we can operate"
Levy and other union leaders
planned to meet late today with
Major General Joseph w. Byron,
the officer in charge of the seized
Ward stores.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

over whether he or the officer nam
ed by the war department is the
actual operating head Of Wares IA
cilities in the cities included in the
presidential order.
All day Friday, the day after the
seizure, Avery remained in seclusion
and a Wards vice president refused
the army's request for certain of
the company's books on the grounds
that Avery would have to be con-
suited first.
Meanwhile, Leonard Levy, inter-
national vice president of the Unit
ed Retail and Wholesale Depart
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Severe Quake
Hits England

German bombers were attacking the
area.
Seismolcgist j. J. Shaw of the
West Bromwich observatory said the
tremor was "a severe vibration for
this country"
Buildings in Manchester were
shaken violently and many residents
were tumbled from their beds.
Houses in Bramhall. Ia miles from
Prestwich, were lifted two or three
times during the brief tremor, some
of them rising two to three inches
from the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
P-38 Fighter
Pilot Killed

ONTARIO, Cal, Dec. 80. CUP)-
Second Lieutenant Robert F.. Parry
EEK, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was killed
when his P-38 fighter plane spun to
earth and burned, Ontario army air
base officers announced Saturday.
Colonel John "a o. zahn, COM
manding, said Paryzek, 81, was on
routine combat training flight when
he crashed Friday two miles east of
Santa Ana, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
81 Veterans
Obtain Jobs

Eighty-seven veterans of World
War II have been placed in jobs by
the Ell Centre office of the U. S.
Employment Service, Tom Finney,
manager, announced Saturday.
This was 100 per cent of all vet
Grams who applied for jobs during
the month, Finney said, because, so
far, no employer in Imperial county
has refused to give a veteran a job
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Col. ChamberIin
Gets New Post

Mitchell Convalescent Hospital,
Campo, Dec. 30.-Colonel Frank IT.
Chamberlin, commander of Mitchell
hospital will leave Monday for Fort
Washington to assume duties as
surgeon of the post there. He will
be supervising surgeon of the medi-
cal surgical and engineers training
center in that vast installation.
Colonel Chamberlin came to Nit
chell last August and has been in
charge of the activating of the
former post into the present con-
valescent hospital.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles e.
Fitzsimmons, director of the hospi-
tai division viii be acting COM
mander until successor to Colonel
Chamberlin arrives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

CHICAGO, Dec. 80. (UP)
Sewell very, defiant
chairman of the board of
Montgomery Ward and COM
pany, strobe briskly into his
office Saturday, arriving at
the mail order firm well a.
head of the army officers
assigned by the government to oper-
ate Wards plants in seven cities
under a presidential seizure order.
Avery's appearance raised the
possibility of an early showdown
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
WEATHER FORECAST

Generally clear and sunny
weather over the week end and
through Monday. Slowly rising
daytime temperatures Sunday and
Monday with maximum tempera-
ture ~ degrees by Monday. Cooler
at night with light to moderate
frosts. Minimum temperature 20
to 80 degrees i'm coolest spots
Saturday night and Sunday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Post t-Wor Plans
Make HeddWuv

Forward steps were taken in I'M
perial county'S postwar program
Friday night when the countrywide
committee met with Senator ELECT
Ben Hulse, Assemblyman e | e C t
George Buffers and retiring state
Senator E. George Luckey for COM
prehensive discussion of projects and
methods of procedure. S ems t OR
Luckey is chairman of the interim
committee which has completed a
survey CT the state by counties That
committee will present its report to
the incoming legislative session in
January.
All in attendance agreed that
considerable headWay was accom-
plished in determining what must
be done if Imperial county is to
share in the state surplus funds
which may be distributed to cities
and other political subdivisions for
postwar projects. This program
aims partly to enable the construc-
tion of needed improvements, partly
to finance employment and stabilize
business during the reconversion Pc
riod.
PRESSING NEEDS
The legislators joined in giving
the meeting the following opinions: {:
l. The postwar plans of any po-
litical subdivision must be submit
ted to the senate committee on post
war planning in time for presenta-
ton to the senate when it recon-
venes Cn January 8. 1t will take a
battle to secure consideration for
any plan submitted after that date.
2. All plans must be as definite
and concrete as possible, as to their
nature, purpose, cost, materials, la
Dor and equipment.
3. Plans, to receive consideration
at all, must be necessary. Plans for
convention halls, ball rooms and
other ornamental institutions are
out
4. The political subdivision must
be prepared to match state funds,
and it must be prepared to carry
out its projects during the reconver-
sion period (from Immediately fcl-
lowing the enc of the war until a
date perhaps one or two years dis
tanD. No political subdivision would
be permitted to wait for the cost of
labor, materials and equipment to
fall.
Whether the state may appropri-
ate any funds at all to a political
subdivision is a question still to be
decided by the courts, the speakers
said. An adverse decision there
would send the whole project of
state aid packing, and throw the
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

The board previously had an
nounced the tax on f943 incomes.
collected in four installments during
1914 at lowered rates decreed by the
legislature. will produce ss,000,00
more In revenue than iD43 coIiec-
tions on inan -e-'cs4l laccraes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
1000 u. 5. Planes
Hit Reich Front

LONDON, Dec. 80. CUP)-Two
thousand American bombers and
fighters flew through adverse
weather to hit Germany for the
eighth straight day Saturday, max
ing a concentrated attack on rail
bridges and freight yards just be-
hind the western trent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
FEDERAL HOUSING AGENT
ARRANGES T.. c. FARLEY

r. W. Briggs, REPRESENTATIVE OF The
national housing agency, San Fran
cisco, has wired the Ell Centre cham
ber of commerce that he will be in
Ell Centro for a meeting with I'M
perial county housing interests on
Friday, January II, at p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
State Sales ak
Income Mounts

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 80. CUP)-
The board of equalization Saturday
estimated that 1914 sales tax COL
lections will total $140,000,000, the
highest in state history in spite of
reduction in the rate from e per
cent to 2le per cent in effect this
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
DEATH SUMMONS FATHER
OF JOHN r, McNEECE

John F.. McNeece, 83, father of
John B. McNeece of El Centre, died
in his sleep in San Diego at mid
night Friday.
Funeral arrangements were not
complete Saturday.
McNeece spent every Christmas
and most of the holidays with his
son in Ell Centre for many years
and had many friends in Imperial
Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
WPB Freezes Ammunitions:
Farmers, Hunters Hit

WPB said it has asked all deal-
ers to take all possible steps to
conserve their stocks" in addition
to stopping sales TO hunters and
reducing those to farmers, ranchers.
and public protection agencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31

a formal freeze order. This action
was confirmed December % Now
in process of development are for
NAL distribution controls to con-
serve ammunition stocks for most
essential uses.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-31
Armored Russ
Forces Push
Toward Vienna
Germans and Hunsarians Battle
In Budapest to Delay Red
Smash Out A|ons Danube Valley

LONDON, Dec. 80 (UP)-Russian armored divisions
broke the rOn river barrier and drove through
the Danube valley toward Bratsava and Vienna Saturday
while in Budapest thousands of Naz and Hungarian troops
fought for the fifth straight day in suicidal battle