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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Session Measures
ST i9nature

for the May primary and 76 days
for the general election Nov. 7.
On the May primary ballot, voters
will decide for or against a state
constitutional amendment permit
ting the state to tax federal prop
erty
PRISON BILL
The prison bill, effective 80 days
after the governors signature, pro-
vides the following:
Establishment of department
of justice, headed by attorney gen.
eral Robert w. Kenny, which would
include the present state bureaus
of criminal Identification and in
vestigation and narcotics enforce
ment.
"A department of correction
under a director appointed by the
governor whose nomination and
Continued on page 6, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

SACRAMENTO, Feb. l. CUP) -
Bills providing for complete reor-
ganization of CALIFORNIA; S penal sys-
tenn and for war ballots for serv-
icemen Tuesday awaited signature
by Governor Earl Warren following
adjournment of a special session
of the state legislature.
Under the war ballot bill, the
states primary election for presi-
dental electors and candidates for
congress and state elective officers
would be held May 16. Previously
the elections were separate.
Members of the armed forces and
Red Cross and civilians working
overseas would have Sc days in
which to receive and return ballots
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Here's New Plan
For Primaries

conventions have between Feb. 7
and March II to file their nomina-
ton documents. Procedure for
selecting a slate of delegates pledg-
ed to Gov. Earl Warren already has
been started by Republican officials,
and Alfred w. Robertson, state
Democratic chairman, said party
gatherings would be held immed-
lately to select slate pledged to
President Roosevelt.
With the exception of the party
convention delegates, political can
didates would have another three
months before having to decide
whether to run under regular pro-
cedure.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

SACRAMENTO, Feb. l. CUP)-
An early political season opening
three months ahead of the usual
time will start in California next
week under the soldier voting bill
merging the May and August pri-
mary elections passed by the legisla-
ture.
Under the bill expected to be
signed Tuesday or Wednesday, Su.
perior judges will have to file dec
laration of candidacy between Mon
day and Friday of next week. Can
didates for legislative and con-
gressional offices will have to file
nomination papers between Feb. 16
and March 7.
Delegates to the party national
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Weather HaIts
RAF Bombers

LONDON Feb. l CUP) - Bad
weather Tuesday presumably inter-
rupted the greatest air offensive of
the war in which Britain based
bombers dumped more than 10000
tons of high explosive on Europe in
80 hours.
There had been no report of air
action over the continent since
Mondays daylight attack on mill
tary detectives in the Pas De Calais
area by Liberators of the United
States strategic air forces, escorted
by Thunderbolt fighters,
Berlin still was reeling under the
weight of $500 tons of bombs CROP
ped in the Royal Air Force night
raids of Thursday, Friday, and
Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Major Thucker Has Praise
For Fighters Morale

Morale of the men in the army
air force is high, they get the best
possible training we know how to
give them. and they have excellent
equipment Major Robert Thacker
said in Ell Centre recently after he
returned from North Africa and
Italy whare he conferred with
combat commanders in those theat-
ers Of war.
Major Thacker son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Percie Thacker. is a member
of the nineteenth group which was
cited four times by the President.
He has been awarded two silver
stars for bravery in action, the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross, and the
Air Medal, all won i'll Pacific ac-
ton.
He said he saw no action in Afri-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Berlin Claims
Sinking Of
Convoy Vessels

LONDON, Feb. l. (UP)-The Of
ficial German news agency, DNB
said Tuesday that U-boats sank II
allied cargo ships, totaling 12O,-
900 tons, during January. Seven
other allied cargo ships were sunk
during the month by axis units,
DNB said, bringing total allied loss
to $4,000 tons.
In addition, DNB said, U-boats
sank % destroyers, two submarines,
and three landing ships, and several
lesser warships were so heavily hit
by torpedoes that they must be
considered lost"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
ho|tviIIe T. of {
Elects Board

The Holtville Chamber of Com
merce reelected ten and two new
directors Monday night at the an
nual meeting.
Lieutenant Commander Henry j.
White discussed his experiences on
active duty and the Navy's part in
the battle offensives as a feature
OF the meeting. Ninety members
were present.
The board now includes: Murl
Elliott, Norman Hindle, John Hin
shaw, Curtis King. William Odett,
George RaineS, William Searcy
Herman Sterber, Leland Watson
and j. V. Yeargin, Dave Sharp and
Sam Webb, Jr. The last two named
succeed c. A. Butler and E. w.
Lott.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
D AMBLINe
II EpoRTER
This Is History

This Is History
When Walter Ansaldo came across
the following quotation he hoWled
and offered up thanks that he did
not live in the good old days. These
rules were posted in a store in
Illinois in 1880.
1-Store must De open from 6
a. m. to p. m. the year round.
2-Store must be swept; counters,
shelves, and showcases busted;
lamps trimmed, filled, and CHM
neys cleaned; pens made; doors
and windows opened; a pail Of
water and a bucket of coal brought
in before breakfast. Uf there is
time to do SO attend to customers
who CALI
3-The store must not be opened
on the Sabbath unless necessary and
then only for a few minutes.
1.-The employe who is in the
habit of smoking Spanish cigars,
being shaved at the BARRIERS, going
to dances and other places of
amusement will assuredly give his
employer reason to be suspicious
of his integrity and honesty.
Each employe must pay not
less than SIS per year to the church
and must attend Sunday School
regularly.
6-Men employees are given one
evening a week for courting, two
if they go to prayer meeting.
AFTER IA hours in the store,
the leisure hours shall be spent for
the most part in reading.
If you want to get the laugh of
a lifetime, be on hand when John
Ashley, Marcus Briggs and George
Robertson get ready to take off
on hunting trip. Their costumes
will kill you.
Ashley is neat With a beaked
cap, skin-tight trousers and coat he
looks like Sherlock Holmes. All
he needs is a magnifying glass.
Briggs is not SO sleek. He might
double for a rag picker wearing
all the rags he has picked up in
busy week. If you can name
Robertson, you can have him. He's
indeScribable.
BY the way, Robertson went
hunting one day with one or the
other of his usual companions. We
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

ca or italy as he was engaged in
conferences with officers but had
had a chance to note the determi-
nation and high morale demonstrat-
ed by the air force stationed there.
For the last year he has heel
training heavy fortress combat
crews. He Yas connected with the
second air force in the midwest
where the men are trained to oper-
ate as a crew. Now he is connected
with the fifteenth wing at Boise,
Idaho, for training Replacement.
crews.
THE men in the air force know
that they have so many missions
to perform" Major Thacker said
They look at these missions as a
duty, job to do. They know when
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
French Tigers
Kin Deported

BERN, Fep. l. (UP)-The
Gestapo was reported at the
French frontier to have arrest
ed Michel Clemenceau, son of
frances first World war pre-
mier, and deported him to Po-
land. The action was taken
after Clemenceau wrote Chief of
Government Pierre Laval pro-
testing against use of "The
Tigers" name for propaganda
purposes, the advices said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Russians Cross
Esthonia Border
BY UNITED PRESS

The British radio, in a French
language broadcast recorded by the
United Press in New York, said
Tuesday that Russian troops of the
northern front had crossed the
border into Estonia, but the British
Broadcasting Corporation denied in
London that it had put out such a
report. A London spokesman for
the NBC said the company merely
broadcast that the Russians were
fighting 10 miles from the frontier.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Chinese Win
In Burma

WITH THE CHINESE ARMY IN
NORTHERN BURMA, Jan. 27 CUP
tDelayedD American rain
Chinese troops, shouting KILL, KILL,
annihilated trapped japanese
unit in a fierce bayonet charge
along the Chindwin river gorge
Tuesday.
This action clicked with a pre-
ciSion which has been the dream of
American officers since the melan-
choly retreat from Burma in 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Argentina Nabs
Nazi Agents

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. (UPD-
Argentine police have arrested five
German agents in the first direct
move to halt Nazi spy activities in
this country since last week S
diplomatic break with the Axis, it
was learned Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Powerful Armada
Backs Invasion
Of Island Bases
Strike First Blows on Territories
Held by Japs Before War;
Troops Beat HEAVY Resistance

PEARL HARBOR, Feb l. (UP)-(By Telephone to
New York)-Uned States army and navy assault forces
backed by mighty armada that included batteshps and
all other types of combat craft have landed in the Mar
shall Islands and established initial beachhead against
strong Japanese opposition.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitzs Pacific fleet headquarters
announced the INVASION the object of which to capture
the Marshall Islands
The landing forces ashore in the vicinity of Ro
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Ultimafun1 Faces
Franco on War:
Must Give Stand

WASHINGTON, Feb. l. up
The Spanish government, after
four years of hide and seek diplo-
macy with the allies, Tuesday faced
a stiffened Anglo-American policy
determined to make it choose un-
equivocally between real neutrality
or an outright alliance with the
axis.
Military ana diplomatic circles
here foresaW no attempt to bring
Spain to the allied side as an active
belligerent OIL grounds that in her
present position she would be more
of liability than an asset.
But pressure already is being ap-
piled in the form of an oil embargo
to make Generalissimo Francisco
Franco guarantee that he will give
no further aid to the axis.
If such guarantees are not forth
coming, and soon, the allies were
believed ready to take action tina.
might be just short of rupture of
relations. Spain is aware that the
United Nations control the Atlantic
and would have little trouble in
blockading her effectively, cutting
her off from sorely needed supplies.
LONDON, Feb. l. (UP)-A Ger
man foreign office spokesman ridi-
culed reports that Spain might
break with the axis, as the Duke
of Alba, Spanish ambassador to
Britain, prepared to confer with
General Francisco Franco concern
ing increasing allied pressure for
an end to the latter's biased neu-
trality."
The German news agency DNB
reported that "the Wilhelmstrasse
called the rumor that Spain is
Continued on page 6, COL A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
COUPLE PLEADS
GUILTY IN COURT

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold E. Osborne
Tuesday pleaded guilty in Imperial
county superior court to charges of
pandering and contributing to the
delinquency of minor girl. They
asked probation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY - Fair Tuesday night,
Wednesday with little temperature
change. Maximum temperature
68 to ~ degree, minimum 36 to
38 degrees. No frosts Tuesday or
Wednesday nights.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
]. S. Assault T FORCES Land ON marshall S
Japan Denies
Torturing
BY United Press

Radio Tokyo, commenting on
the American disclosure that T.
700 United States and Filipino
troops had been tortured and
slain after the fall of Bataan and
corregidor, announced that there
will be no change in the Japanese
policy in regard to treatment of
prisoners of war"
The broadcast, recorded by
NBC monitors, said Japan will
never allow such false propa-
ganda to change her policy"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
CASE HANDLED BY
JUVENILE DEPARTMENT

Officials Tuesday turned the
stabbing case in a Calexico theater
during last weekend over to juve-
nile authorities.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Russia
HurIs
Charge
Press Asserts
u. S. Aid
Reaches Reich

MOSCOW, Feb. 1. (UP)-
The army newspaper Red
Star charged Tuesday that
Germany is obtaining sup
plies from the United States and
Latin America through Spanish
importers, and the official govern
ment organ Izvestia accused the
Vatican of supporting Fascism in
Italy, Spain, and France.
1zvestia endorsed an American
foreign policy association report
that a rising tide of anti-clerical-
ism can be expected in italy and
commented that the Vatican's poll
cy before and during the present
war had earned the hatred and
contempt of the italian masses"
and disillusioned Catholics through
out the world
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
TERMED DISGRACEFUL

THE disgraceful role which the
Vatican played in Hitler's and
Mussolini's Spanish adventure is
widely known" Izvestia said, call
ing Gen. Francisco Franco "the
Vatican's pet" and Franco Spain
1.-The image of clerical states in
postwar Europe"
Red Star accused Franco of pro-
longing the war by helping Ger
many in order to assure his own
position in Spain and said a change
could not be expected in Spanish
policy unless Franco is overthrown
and a democratic regime installed.
The army newspaper charged that
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01

This corner for daily
report on bond sales =.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06
Glenmont Nursery
Appreciates Toys

The Glenmont Club has again ac-
complished something important. IL
reports that the Club rummage sale
was a success, for fifty eight dol
lars was added to the Treasury.
At once fifteen dollars was set
aside for the Red Cross.
The children of the Nursery
School at Glenmont wrote a very
lovely thank you note for the Toy
Kit this Club made them. Mrs.
Laura G. Conlon, Nursery school
teacher reports that the letter is
their own composition from start
20 finish.
Feb. 81, 1914
Dear Ladies,
We send you big, mug O-for the
toys you made.
We love the bunny and the
horses. We call them Champ and
tops. We ride and ride.
vie like the giraffe and his long
neck and the three little colore1
girls.
The ball is fine. The clown is fine
and the doggie and kitty and we
love all the dollies.
We will play with them and thea
put them right back where we got
them.
Please come see US,
Goodbye,
Your kindergarten at
Genmont.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06
MONTGOMERY SIDELIGHTS
BIZ ELSIE WHITE HAINEs-

crowd laughing and she could have
moved them to tears just as easily.
"The unwilling ceremonies took
place out on the lawn where the
crowd clustered around Dave Lewis
concealing him from view and al
most from hearing. That is all
that We're not clustered around
Senator (Blair) Lee, and 1t. Comm.
William H. Lamar. Aide de Camp
George H. Lamar was also among
those present and the fast fading
sunlight made long shadows as the
crowd melted and left these three
standing on the courthouse lawn
the representatives of the progress
sive future along with the newly
uncovered memorial to the dead
past"
The memorial if we remember
correctly, was moved to its present
position when the new courthouse
was built. The mention of Owens
Ordinary, possibly later Hunger
ford Tavern, recalled to us the ex-
citement caused by the destruction
of the old Russell house-for the
preservation of which the OAR.
once started to gather funds-but
because convinced that it was new
er the much talked of Hungerford
Tavern, tho it had gone by that
name for years. 1t is still a moot
question-one which Miss Mona
Thompson has promised will be
solved in her forth coming history
of the town.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06
AMONG THE
HOMEMAKERS

How did you like the Homemak
ers "pin up girl last week? TIL,
genial Mr.. Kingdom gave Mis-.
Turner that title. So many OF hel
friends wanted papers with Miss
Turner's picture that we had quits
run on them.
Recreation Work Good
AT Club meetings during the past
month Miss Turner had a chance
to hear about the success of thJ
work of the project leaders WIN
carried the Recreational meetings
in February, she thinks much credit
is due them for the manner in
which they put it over.
Several mothers reported using
the games in parties given for their
children, or in Sunday Schools.
Two churches have written asking
for port folios such as the leaders
had. Many clubs had new forms
OF home recreation at their meet
ings this month.
LaytOnsville Club
The regular meeting of the Lay
louisville Club was postponed last
week because of Holy Week. The
meeting will be held Wednesday IL
at 7:30 p. M. at the home of Mrs.
A. w. Hines, with Mrs. P. T. Fitz-
hugh hostess. The response to
roll call will be Famous Lovers
From the Past"
Mrs. Messer will give the demon
stration on remodeling furniture.
Silver Spring
The Silver Spring Club has lost
so many members to War work
that they decided at their meeting
held at the home of Mrs. Thomas
Van Vliet to hold a membership
drive. On April IL, members of
this club and the Wheaton Club
will meet with Mrs. Pack at the
home of Mrs. Alma Smith for a
demonstration on rug making.
BrOwningsville Supper
The Browningsville Homemakers
Club have had difficult time this
year financing their Club house.
The club is to have a Supper on
April 8 at the Browningsville Club
Hall.
Mrs. Mary Williams is chairman;
Mrs. Leannah Day and Mrs. Iris
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06

Gladhill are on her committee.
They will start serving at a p. M.
For sixty-five cents you have baked
chicken and dressing, plain or
oyster, and Ham. peas, stewed to-
matoes, potato salad, homemade
hot rolls, pickles, jelly and coffee.
This is neighborhood of good
cooks.
Travilah-Darnestown
There was an unusually large at
tendance at the Travilah- Darnes-
town Club on March 9th. Mrs.
Thomas Kelly, Mrs. Murrill, Mrs.
VIM. Gassaway and Mrs. Sumner
Wood were hostesses.
Mrs. Edwin West, Chairman of
the Home Nursing Group gave an
excellent report of the success Of
that project. The club voted to
establish a sickroom loan closet.
Mrs. Sterling Bowman reported
that she would have a short lecre-
ational program at the next meet
ing.
New members enrolled at this
meeting were Mrs. Harry Brodie,
Mrs. H. B. Fawley, Mrs. Lawrence
Arundel, Mrs. Samuel Welsh, and
Mrs. Thomas Anderson.
Mrs. Walter Pack, asked for the
cooperation of the Club in making
a survey for All girls Clubs in
this area. Mrs. Paul Gulbertson
was asked to look into the need
and interest in the Darnestowm
Area. Mrs. Morris Gurevich and
Mrs. Samuel Welsh offered to sur
vey the Travilah- Potomac, Area.
Mrs. Welsh was active in All
Club Work back in Ohio.
Mrs. Thomas Kelly's home is
furnished with lovely old furniture
that made the talk on "How to
Good Design and Line in
Furniture" more interesting.
Madame Chu Entertained
Mrs. Donald Roberts entertained
Mrs r pavton Whalen Mra T
Leo Clagett, Mrs. Aldo RATA, and
Miss Edythe Turner at tea Friday
afternoon to meet Madame Chu
Shih-Ming, a Wellesley College
classmate of Mrs. Roberts. Madame
Chu has a keen appreciation of
rural life in America and has talk
ed to groups of Homemakers in
Minnesota, Maryland and Ken
lucky.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06
Mrs. Whitehurst's
Book Is Popular

A second and revised edition of
peace and Postwar Planning
written and compiled by Mrs. John
L. Whitehurst, president of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, has been so favorably re-
ceived that its distribution has now
gone into thousands of copies.
1t gives information on why the
peace of Versailles failed-our
foreign relations from 1931-1941,
the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic
Charter, the Senate postwar reso-
luton and the various proposals
for world peace.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06
WOMEN'S CLUB
NEWS
Rockville Inquiry Club

With the exception of a new re-
cording secretary, all the officers
of the Inquiry Club were reelected
at meeting held March 9th at
the home of Mrs. Hugh Thompson.
President, Miss Edna E.. Hauke;
Vice-President, Mrs. Bradford N.
Headley; Treasurer, Mrs. Willard
Belt; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Dan Louthan; Corresponding Sec.,
Mrs. Rowan Erb; Directors, Mrs.
Ernest L. Billiard and Mrs. Brawn-
er Nicholson.
Mrs. Madeleine Fennell gave a
very interesting account of her
work in connection with juvenile
delinquency. Like Father Flanagan
of Boys Town, she thinks there is
no such thing as a basically bad
child.
The April 10th meeting will be
omitted. The next meeting will be
on April Oath, with Mrs. Lucy
Barnsley and Mrs. Dan Louthan as
hostesses.
Our Hobbies
Did we tell you that The Wednes-
day Club of Sandy Spring found
so many interesting things to bring
to their meeting given to "hobbies"
such as Chinese collections and
Miss Emma Stabler's collection CT
fans, that they had to continue it
to another meeting?
Current Comment
The Current Comment Club list
as their outstanding event, a talk
by Mrs. w. C. Faulkner whose nus
band was attached to the American
Embassy in Rome where they lived
eight years. They were informed
after War was declared. Mrs.
Faulkner has many interesting
reels of pictures, among them some
closeups of Mussolini in his hey
day.
The Faulkners were exchanged
and she is now teaching languages
while her husband is in England.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-06
GIRLS All CLUB
NOTES
POOlesville

On Friday the 31st Mrs. Walter
Pack attended the Poolesville Girls
All Club. Twenty-one girls were
present with their leader Mrs. Rus
sell Umstead. They are working
on a clothing project. Mrs. Pack
discussed with the girls in their
Food for Freedom program asking
them to realize that they need to
help produce by working in the
family vegetable garden, second by
learning to can and store food and
lastly by careful preparation of
food.
Mrs. Umstead reports that eight
new members are to be added to
this Club.
Glen Echo
Friday evening Mrs. Walter Pack
and Miss Turner attended the Glen
Echo All Club. Mrs. Claude Nor
ton, who is the mother of Mrs. Rus
sell Umstead, is local leader. This
Club is unique in that it is made
up of boys and girls, carrying a
Food Project, learning to make
quick breads.
The Club meets every Friday
evening under Mrs. Norton's lead
ership after Choir practice. Three
meetings a month are work meet
ings and the other is a business
and recreational meeting. At each
work meeting two boys and two
girls give a demonstration. This
Friday the teams made Soy Flour
Mullins.
Cedar Grove
On Saturday Mrs. Walter Pack
and Miss Turner discussed with
Mrs. Julian King plans for the
Cedar Grove Club. 1t was decided
to hold their meeting from 10 A. M.
to IL Noon on the fourth Saturday
of the month until school closes.
Clarksburg
The extension workers also met
with new group at the home OF
Mrs. Louis Lancaster. Mrs. Russell
King and Mrs. Theodore Jordan at
the March meeting of the Clarks-
burg Home Makers Club. had offer
ed to make a survey of the MEM
bers Of girls who would be inter
ested. Fifteen girls were ready
and eager to start a club and Mrs.
King and Mrs. Jordan said they
would act as local leaders meeting
twice month with the girls. The
Assistant Agent will meet with the
Club every first Saturday of the
month until school is over.
1t was fortunate to have present
several girls who had been MEM
bers of the Clarksburg All Club
three years ago. Jane Warfeld,
Mildred Price and Grace Smith had
been excellent Club members so
could help in getting the group
organized. Officers elected are
Jane Warfeld, President, Pegge
Lancaster, Vice-President; Phillis
Vern, Secretary; Lois Wilkerson,
Treasurer; Grace Smith, song lead
or. The Club voted to carry the
Quick Bread Project.