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The sub., 1944-01-06
Membership Drive Begins
.Munden to Hold
 Fights Locally

James Mundell plans to hold fights here in New London in the near future. The date for the first show is tentatively set as January 21. The Armory on Wash ington and Colt Streets Is the site, and the many fight followers are hoping the repairs on the building are finished In time for Jim to put on his show as planned. It Is not the easiest thing in the world to book fighters for a certain night and then have to postpone things at the last minute. Jim has had plenty of tough luck with his fight ventures, SO let's hope things go along smoothly in this New Year for our Ace Promoter.
 Mundel1 plans to have the Abelt- Pepewski go as the headliner fight. Indications are that this one meeting will be worth the price of admission alone. Definitely a "grudge' fight, since both boys are extremely anxious to have this meeting take place, and 1t might not be bad idea if Mundell used two judges along with a ref cree, cause if the fight goes to a finish, one mans opinion won't mean much to those battlers.
The sub., 1944-01-06

Many college football coaches prefer candidates who have not played any high school ball. They don't break into college competi- ton favoring old injuries received before they had reached their fHll growth and strength, and most inn portant, the college coach doesn't have to waste precious time un- teaching many f>u1ty fundamentals and sometimes obsolete systems learned while in high school.
 Here in our own back yard is an outstanding football player who has never had any high school ex perience, lack of size being the reason. In fact, when Freddie Mitchell came out for the Diesel squad after being uncovered by Gene Merritt, he still looked rath- CT small in spite of the impress sive record he had established at Connecticut State. It was soon dis covered that Fred packed l90 pounds on his trim frame, was as tough as they come, in spite of his quiet, unassuming manner, and has been the backbone of "Firp" CaW- ley's teams for the past three years.
 A fullback while at college, Freddie took over the quarterback spot for the Diesels. ('Firp' never seemed able to find a signal caller since DeRoo Quit) fine added duties may or may not have af 1ected Fred's play. It Is some times easier to give better per- foTmance physically, If the "old beam isn't constantly at work. Clark Hinkle once remarked that Mitchell could play on any pro- fessional team in the country. No, Fred never played any high school football, in fact, he didn't even see game.
 Did you ever listen to one of the fight broadcasts from Madison Square Garden and try to pick the winner before the verdict is announced? Well, don't try it, you'll be wrong. During the air. ing of the Sammy Angott- Bobby Ruffin scrap, it seemed to be Ruff fin most of the way, while Angett really had comfortable lead despite the knock down scored by RHffin in the first round. When Angott and Henry Armstrong tan gled earlier in the year at the Gar den. over the air 1t was a very close contest, while in reality Sam my was handed a good pasting. What gives with those announcers?
 Can't figure out the dearth of young basketball players in New London. Even before the war or Selective Service began, there were only a few high school boys good enough or perhaps ambitious enough to go on and play pro ball. Tony Osinski is the only local boy
The sub., 1944-01-06
VIEWPOINTS
By JOE KANE

Some of the organizers of the Electric Boat Athletic Club back in 934 Jack Hiding Allie Rsch Steve McGrath Charley Moore, O. P. Robinson, Dick Eaton Jimmy Sttt Joe Allen, Charley Newell.
 At that first meeting Steve McGrath was elected Pres ent of the Club and has held the office since Allie Risen and Joe Allen still actively engaged in the man. aQenoent of Club affairs.
The sub., 1944-01-06

ECawley, Gene Fulton, Joe Kane, Bob Hullivan, Joe Murphy, Will
 liam Barclay, Allie Risch, Tony ERinoski, Ely Chase.
 The membership card you will receive gives you the right to vote, Eelect officers, approve club policies, and take part in all club activities.
 Meetings are held on the first Tues day night of each month. Without doubt the Electric Boat Athletic Club is the finest organization of its kind in active operation today.
 Its purpose is purely t1nselfsh, and
 the results attained speak for them selves. It is the duty of the female
 as we'll as the male employees to
 show their sporting spirit and be-
 come part of this group. Let us all take advantage of the privilege ex- tended us and join promptly.
 "Why did you leave your last
 position?
 Illness. The boss got sick of me"
The sub., 1944-01-06

with the Diesels at present, There are some promising boys still fool ing with the game around town. They have reached certain peak and show no improvement from there on. Instead of trying to bet ter their game by picking out and initiating some name player, they firmly believe that they could out play most name players if given a chance. After the rude awaken ing, however, they would rely on the imitation for improvement method.
 As mentioned, most Diesels are "out-of-towners." Petrovich halls from Bridgeport, Calihan from Chicago, Wallace from Simpson, Penna., Yost from Manchester, Conn, Kane from Archibald, Pa, Osinski, a local boy; Brennan from Swoyersville, Pa, Carlyle from Enid. Oklahoma.
 Add Sport Addicts - Umpire" Christy of Victory Yard Pipe Shop, and Mike Ficarra of the Elite Bar Der shop. "Christy'' is always will ing to lend a hand to help E. B. athletics along. Hasn't missed a football game in four years, and hauled out a roll of bills to shut up Paterson Panther rooters at Pa terson, N J., last year when the Diesels were trailing by seven points. He cleaned up, inciden- tally.
 Genial Mike cara never fails to ask the date of the next baS- keball game and is generally pres ent when the action begins. Un- derstand Mike was a very fast player himself.
 Ensign Roger J. Carroll, personal representative of Father McMa- hon of Holyoke, Mass, dropped in to greet the Diesels before the liar lem Yankee game at Hartford. Father McMahon sponsored the Holy Name team in Holyoke foot balD featuring Ronnie Cahill, ct al.
 AFTERTHOUGHTS- Bren- nan took over George Petrovich's spot and handcuffed Wright of the Harlem Yankees, holding him without a field, goal. Wright is really Younger, of Long Island University, and their outstanding ball-player so fr~ this season.
 Glad to note that Lou Menendez has returned to work after being hospita1ized for some time. Lou is great sportsman and usually can be depended upon to pick a winner.
The sub., 1944-01-06
Steve Tuneski Heads Committee For Annual Membership Drive

The Annual Membership Drive of the Electric Boat Athletic Club begins today The drive the three yards of the Boat Company, with agents appointed by Chairman Steve Tunes contacting all workers. The so gan of the campaign is Keep sports alive by joining the E. B. Athletic Club"
The sub., 1944-01-06

You can be mastoid of cere- monies
 "A mastoid is a pain in the ear. " See what l mean?"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
CASUALTIES IN FRANCE

From Supreme Headquarters IN Eng
land comes the first authentic announce
ment of our casualties in the invasion of
France from D-Day to July 20, inclusive:
And while this country had been steeled
to a dark picture, the figure is appalling.
The dead number almost one-third of our
total death casualties in World War one
-11,156. Listed as wounded were 52,l7O
with 6143 missing, which number will IN
crease the death list eventually.
On the British side for the period the
total is revealed at 1884 with 5646
killed. Canada lost 919 killed. Since
some of the heaviest fighting on land
and in the air has occurred since July
20, the next casualty announcement may
be expected to be correspondingly higher
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
TIE ROAD BACK
IN THE PACIFIC

(Santa Ana Register)
Just how important the island of Guam
is from military standpoint can best be
Judged by future developments. But
from the standpoint of morale, the rails
ing of the American flag on Guam once
more is an outstanding achievement.
1t is likely that the true story of the
conquest of the American possessions has
not yet been told But we certainly know
enough of the historic and heroic Sacrlf-
ices of American and Philippine soldiers
at Wake, Guam and the Philippines to
know that it will be a source of infinite
satisfaction to see the Stars and Stripes
once more waving over these American
possessions.
Further indication that the day is not
far when this desire will be realized is
the new landing of Americans and Aus
tralians under the leadership of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur at Sansopar 200
miles up the coast of New Guinea and
only 600 miles from the outer fringe of
the Philippines.
As a spokesman for General MacAr-
thur declared: THE campaign in New
Guinea is virtually completed. The
japanese, it is true, still control wide areas
between the American outposts, but these
japanese have been isolated to the ex-
tent that they no longer present any
threat to the island-hopping strategy that
is to carry American forces back into the
Philippines and ultimately to the Japa
neSe homeland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
NEW DEAL AGENCIES KEEP up
WASTE OF PEOPLES MONEY

In utter contemptuous defiance of re-
peated demands and appeals of the tax
payers, new deal agencies-in fact the
entire administration-keepS piing up
useless expenses. Some of these eXtrav-
agances are purely criminal. Payroll
padding, travel costs of thousands of
bureaucrats chasing about the country
without let or hindrance and prodigal use
of materials and supplies which the pub
lie SO sOrely needs.
1t matters not that these very agen-
cies pool their outcries for the people to
crimp and save and do without many
things that each three months the conn
try buys 20 billions in war bonds to
speed victory; that the tremendous tax
burden is accepted and carried without
a murmur-this waste goes on and on.
Here is a concrete example. small as
it may sound. Secretary of the Interior
1ckes a few months ago took over dirac-
ton of the Japanese internee camps.
Why, no one has been able to learn.
Ickes' department is outStandingly over
stated and with men deferred from mill
tary service while thousands of fathers
are indicted. Lately an internee in one of
these camps entered the military service.
Ickes' soft-snap brigade got busy They
had a picture made of the Jap, then
mats were struck for use in the press and
some word-slinger proceeded to write
nearly 1000 words in announcing the in
duction of the campee. Then another
set of take-it-easy workers for Ickes
neatly stapled together the six sheets
of copy (written on high grade station
ery). Another set addressed envelopes
to the press. These envelopes were not
the cheap kind that people are content
to use under war restrictions, mind you.
Oh. no. They had to be the best. Selected
for use was heavy, high grade manila
type measuring y by 912. The matter
could have been mailed in the ordinary
No 10 envelope of the less expensive pat
tern.
Roughly estimated there are 10000
daily newspapers in the United States.
and each of these newspapers got at least
one, and some two and more copies. This
list does not take into consideration week
lies and periodicals that are on the de-
partment's hand-out mailing list,
This instance of waste can be multi
piled endlessly, and this one IS almost
negligible compared to the unlimited
sweep of this criminal spending.
When will it end? Soon. The people
will not pay through the nose forever.
They will no longer ask for economy IN
the spending of their taxes. They will
throw the spenders out boots and brit
ches. When? Come fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
WHAT IS A RESTAURANT?
Sacramento Bee)

Sacramento Bee)
The definition of a restaurant as a
place where food is served to the public
seems the essence of simplicity until it is
applied to CALIFORNIA; liquor control law.
Then it becomes begged down in mass
of tachnicalities.
What constitutes bona fide restaurant
within the meaning of the act long has
been a serious bone of contention.
Some say an establishment. serving
food and drinks cannot qualify in this
category unless it dispenses a gross dol
lar value Of food for every gross dollar
sale of liquor With this premise are
many who will disagree.
The state board OF equalization, which
has been Juggling this hot issue for sew
eral years, now intends to force a show
down and has warned all bar operators
they will face license revocations unless
they also conduct an actual restaurant
service.
Aside from their personal views on
the subject, tavern owners should well
come this.
1t probably will force the issue into the
courts for a clear cut definition of what
constitutes the so-called bona fide res
taurant under the liquor law, which
would be good thing.
Law enforcement cannot be effective
until the officials know exactly what
they are enforcing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
BAD POKER
(Netroit News)

Plainly, our hope of security lies in
the terms we shall write into the new
peace. These must provide against any
possibility that we are re-creating a men
ace to the world, instead of helpful men,
bers of the family of nations. Controls
must remain in our hands which preserve
US from the folly of the indulgent poker
winner who lends the loser a stake, with
which the latter proceeds in turn to take
the winner. This is bad poker, and it
will constitute bad management if the
postwar world is to be any improvement
on the past
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY AT
PRIVATE SALE

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned Guardian of the Estate
of RICHARD RUSSELL MORR, a
minor, will sell at private sale to
the highest bidder upon the terms
and conditions hereinafter men
toned, and subject to confirmation
by said Superior Court on the 18th
day of August, 1914 at the hour of
ten o'clock am, or thereafter with
in the time allowed by law, in the
office of Eugene Glenn, Esq, $50
Bank of America Building at Sixth
Avenue and Broadway, City of San
Diego, County of San Diego, State
of California, all right, title, inter
est and estate of said minor, and
all right, title and interest that the
estate of said minor has acquired
by operation of law or otherwise
in and to that certain real and per-
sonal property situate in the Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
described as follows, to wit:
The Southeast quarter (SEA)
of the Southeast quarter (SEA)
of the Northeast quarter (NEH)
of Section 8, Township l6 South,
Range IL East, S.BM. accord
ing to the United States Gov
ernment official plat of resur-
vey approved March Is, 1909
and on file in the United States
Land Office at Los Angeles,
California. This land is regis
tered under the Land Title Act.
Furniture in residence situated
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
PROPOSAL FOR BIDS FOR THE
PURCHASE OF TAX DECIDED
pROpERTY

Notice is hereby given that bids
for the purchase from the City of
Ell Centre of the tax decided prop
erty hereinafter described will be
received at the office of the City
Clerk of the City of Ell Centre at
the City Hall in said City up to and
until 500 O'Clock pm. of the 10Th
day of August, 1914, and said bios
will be opened and considered by
the City Council of the City of Ell
Centre at the next succeeding
meeting, or at such subsequent
meeting to which such considera-
ton may be continued. The City
reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
Said property is described as
follows:
Lots Is and Is, Block 49, Town
site, City of Ell Centre.
NEAL H. GAVIN,
City Clerk of the City of
Ell Centre.
DATED: August 7, 1914.
CNo. 90 (A-O
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

on the above described real
property.
The terms and conditions of
sale are:
Cash In lawful money of the
United States, or such cash and
credit as may be approved by
said Court; .-..
10eo of the purchase price to
be paid at the date of sale, and
the balance on confirmation of
sale by the Court.
Written bids or offers are invited
for said property and will be re-
ceived in the aforesaid office OF
the attorney for said guardian. or
may be filed in the office of the
Clerk of said Superior Court, or
delivered to said guardian person.
ally at any time after the first pub
lication of this notice and before
the making of said sale.
DATED: August 1, 1914.
BANK OF AMERICA MA
TTONAL TRUST AND
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
AS Guardian of the Estate
of RICHARD RUSSELL
MORR, a Minor
BY: c. E. DeROCHIE,
Trust Officer.
Bank of America Building.
Sixth and Broadway,
San Diego l, California.
EUGENE GLENN,
Attorney for Guardian.
(No. 2O (A2-15 incl.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. $500

Estate of JOAQUIN RAGAZA.
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, M. d. zinn, Public Ad-
ministrator, as administrator of the
estate of Joaquin Ragaza, deceased,
to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said de-
ceased, that within six months after
the first publication of this notice
they either file them with the neces-
sary vouchers in the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for the
County of Imperial, or exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers to the
said M. D. Zinn, as administrator
of said estate, at 207 Bank of
America Bldg. in Ell Centre, Cali
fornia, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
of the said estate in the County of
Imperial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California
this 22nd day of July, 1914.
M. d. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate OF
JOAQUIN RAGAZA,
Deceased
! (No. 19) J24-31, ALA
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
16-YEAR OLD GIVES FINAL
POLISH To SUPERFORTS

SEATTLE, Aug. 7. UP)-"When
I get through with my work on the
Boeing Superfortresses they're ready
to fly" boasts a 16-year-old high
school youth, one of the thousands
of pupils spending win the War
Vacation" at vital plants.
AS final inside man on Renton
bombers, 4-foot 11-inch Georg g e
Bann, armed with polishing cloths
and a vacuum cleaner, is one of
the few people who can say they
have given the B-29's a real clean
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
Ernie Pyle
Marches With Irfantrymen
In Big Push for Paris;
July Is Is Historic Date

might smother the credit due the
infantry. I teamed up with the
Fourth infantry division since II
was in the mic die of the forward
three and spearheading the attack.
The first night behind the 'front.'
lines I slept comfortably on a cot
in a tent at the division command
post. and met for the first time the
fourth's commander-Maj. Gen
Raymond O. Barton, a fatherly
kindly, thoughtful, good SOLDIER.
The second night I spent on the
dirty floor of a rickety French farm
house, far up in the lines, with the
nauseating odor of dead COWS keep
ing me awake half the night.
The third night I slept on the
ground in an orchard even farther
up. snugly Cug in behind hedge
row so the 88s couldn't get at me so
easily. And on the next day the
weather cleared. and the attack
was on. 1t was July 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
TOOK MATCHMAKER's OFFER

HILLSBORO, N. H.. Aug. Z.
(UP)-A jolly old matchmaker and
one of the founders of this hamlet,
Col John Hill said he'd give 100
acres of good farm land if the first
girl and the first boy born in the
new village would wed and settle
there. They may have been Pc
cuniary, but John McColley, the
first boy born in January, 1742, mar
ried Elizabeth Gibson, the first girl
born in May of the same year
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
MUSIC HATH CHARMS

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. T. CUP)
Warden r. B. Conner of the Okla
homa penitentiary at McAlester has
received authority from the state
board of affairs to purchaae musical
instruments from the prison can
teen fund for musical training OF
inmates of the institution.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
NAZI SOUVENIR

CONNEAUT, Ohio, Aug. 7. CUP)
Bill Dombrosky. 12-year-old Con-
neaut youth, is the proud owner of
German soldiers overseas cap. He
found the cap along the New York
Central railroad tracks and believes
it must have been discarded by a
Nazi prisoner en- route to confine-
ment camp. Though overseas, Bill
figures the German won't need the
cap. 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07

If you don't have July Is pasted
in your hat l would advise you to
do so Immediately. At least paste 1t
in your mind. For I have hunch
that July 25 Of the year 1914 will
be one of the great historic pin
nacleS of this war.
1t was the day we began mighty
surge out of our confined Normandy
spaces, the day we stopped calling
our area the beachhead, and knew
we were fighting war across the
whole eXpanSe of Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
ON FINAL VICTORY MOVE

From that day onward all dread
possibilities and fears for disaster
to our invasion were behind us.
No longer was there any possibility
of our getting kicked off. No longer
could it be possible for fate, or
weather, or enemy to wound us
fatally; from that day onward the
future could hold nothing for us
but growing strength and eventual
victory.
For five days and nights during
that historic period 1 stayed at
the front with our troops And now,
though it's slightly delayed, 1 want
to tell you about it in detail from
day to day, if you will be that pa
tient.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

If we make peace with them (the Junk
ers) and recognize their authority, we
shall help them re-make Germany, which
has twice in a generation submerged the
world in blood. We have beaten Hitler
Let US beware of the German general
staff.-Leslie Hore-Belisha, English NJ.
P
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foliOWing edit
OridlS are presented as interesting opin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
SkIN-RASH TORTURE
NOW RELIEVED
FOR MILLIONS

To case the nagging itch of minor skin
rsshes-heat rash, baby's diaper rash
countless families sprinkle on Mexsana.
the soothing, medicated powder. Like
millions of tiny sponges it helps take up
moisture on skin, a frequent cause of heat
rash. Mexsana contains ingredients often
recommended by many specialists for
the relief of these miseries. Yet this COM
forting absorbent powder costs little,
and there's even greater savings in the
larger sizes. Sold everywhere. Buy big
economy package today and keep it
handy. Be ready to get quick relief from
these discomforts by using Mexsana.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-07
THREE JUVENILES HELD

THREE JUVENILES HELD
Three juveniles who smashed a
window at Jenkins Jewelry Store
585 Main street. on Sunday evening"
were sent to the Imperial Deten-
ton Home in Imperial and will ap-
pear before Judge Lee Nuffer in
police court Tuesday morning.