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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Soldier
Bill
Passes
House Votes
328.bq for
States Plan
WASHINGTON, |

WASHINGTON, Feb. A
(UP)-The administrations
fight for a special federal
ballot for absentee voting by serv-
icemen concentrated in the senat-
Friday after undergoing a stun
ming defeat in the house of repre-
SentativeS.
The house ciimaxed an 11-hou.
marathon session Thursday night
by passing, 1913 to SO bill to leave
the balloting process almost entire
/ ly up to the stateS-the same bill
denounced by President last week
as fraud" on the public and the
armed forces.
At his news conference Friday
Mr.. Roosevelt was reluctant to dis
cuss the house rebuff. He said the
situation now is more up to con.
gress than TO him. In all probability
the president said, it is the more
approximate responsibility Of con
gress than his at this time.
The measure, originally approved
by the senate Dec. 3, thus wen,
back to the upper chamber, carry
ing only minor house amendments
1t promised to complicate still fur
ther the soldier vote debate in The
senate which is considering whethe,
it should reverse itself and provide
at least limited use of a fedora
ballot.
The administration defeat ir
the house. was administered by
coalition of Republicans and south
ern Democrats. They not only upset
administration Strategy-to sta!
house action until the senate actet
on a compromise measure-but also
accepted President Roosevelt's chal
lenge to stand up and be counted
by name.
The coalition defeated an admin
Continued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

would call together all Jefferson
ian Democrats at ST. Louis, Mo.
before the middle of April.
I'VE have been working moro
than year to get everything il
readiness and we want this drive
to rid America of the palace guard
to come as bomb burst" said the
former cabinet member who broke
with Mr. Roosevelt during his Sec
ond term in the White House.
Woodring said that new dealers
would by necessity have to align
themselves again with the Demo-
cratic party. But, he added, "ii
those factions fail to relinquish con-
troll of the party and continue theil
'dictatorial tendencies the true
Democrats will take steps to pre-
vent them from using the name
Democratic party thus forcing thc
new dealers to organize party
of their own"
Asked whether the party had a
candidate that could defeat MI
Roosevelt in a fourth term, Wood
ring replied emphatically with the
names of several possibilities.
They included: Sen Harry Byro
of Virginia, Secretary of State Cor.
dell Hull, Sen. Walter F. George Of
Georgia, and John N. Garner, for.
mer vice-president.
Il am certain that any one o.
these men could defeat Mr.. RooSe.
velt,' Woodring said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Fl Centro Marine
Dies in Action

Word was received Thursday that
Warrant Officer Ray j. Robertson,
33, of the first marines had been
killed in action.
Announcement of the Ell Centre
mans death came to his family
from Lieutenant General A. A.
Vandegrift, commander of the
United States marine corps. Place
of his death was not revealed.
Robertson had been in the ma
rines nine years. He fought in
several major battles, including
Giuadalcanal. After he left Guadal-
canal he was aboard the u. S. S.
Elliott when it went down. He
reached shore with nothing but
what he was wearing. Later his
family learned that he was some
where in Australia recovering from
a leg operation. He recovered and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Craemer Enters
Senate Race

SACRAMENTO, Feb. (UP) -
Justus Craemer, member of the
State Railroad Commission and
publisher of the Orange Daily News,
will be a candidate on the Re-
publican ticket for the U. S. senate
in the May 16 primary, he told
Secretary of State Frank M. Jor-
dan Thursday.
DR.. Walter Dexter, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, pre-
viously considered a possible can
didate for the senate, announced
he would not run.
Craemer was appointed to the
railroad commission by former Gov.
Frank F. Merriam and at one time
was secretary to Merriam.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Imperial Valley
Waits Bond Show

All plans are complete for the
Imperial Valley Bond Rally at the
Imperial county fair grounds Sun
day Sunday afternoon beginning at
2:30 pm. with one exception.
I'VE are all wondering what
Brawley's act in the Valley Vode-
vii Varieties show is going to be-
County Secretary c. Ben Herring
said Friday. 1--WE anticipate a sur
prise act to top all the other per.
formances scheduled from Ell Cen
tro, Holtville and Calexico."
The biggest headache of the
county committees handling the
show has been solved, Herring said.
Jim Cox and George Dameron, Ell
Centro Elks, together with the as
siStance of that organization will
feed those participating in the
show at a barbecue Sunday noon.
Herring estimated between rs and
100 will be fed, and this problem
was causing the committees consid-
cradle anxiety.
llC I'll SCllGlO uCdlllo lluiilCu W
M. o. King, chairman of the Third
Retail Army Thursday to find out
why the retail statesmen of the city
we're not functioning have reported.
They reported that several stores
did not know what was required Of
them and all stores pledged renew
ed and more intense sales activities
to raise the required 5000 per en-
ploye in the campaign.
PLENTY OF ACTION
The county-Wid rally Sunday
consists of a display of dozen
pieces of anti-tank equipment from
the 10th Tank Destroyer unit sta
toned at Pilot Knob. Everything
from a radio-equipped quarter-ton
jeep to six tank destroyers and a
three-inch gun will be paraded and
displayed.
Military aircraft from one of
Continued on page 6, col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Lodge Resigns
Place for
Military Duty

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (UP) -
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, CR r.,
Massachusetts, Friday submitted his
resignation from the senate so that
he may enter active military
service.
Lodge was expected to become a
lieutenant colonel. He has been a
reserve officer for long time and
in 1912 had tour of duty as a
major with American forces in the
East Libyan desert-before Presi-
dent Roosevelt ruled that congress-
men could not serve in the armed
services while still retaining their
congressional seats.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Job|ess Report Stirs Query

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4. (UP) -
Aircraft parts manufacturers Fri
day tried to figure out why more
than 24OO0 southern California
workers were reported unemployed
during December, when manpower
commission officials listed Los An
geles as No. critical manpower
shortage area which needed $4,000
more war workers.
c. c. Codding, general manager
of the aircraft parts manufacturers
association, said figures released by
j. r. Franks, research and statistics
officer of the state unemployment
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
4-H AIl.Stars
Selected

Meet the Imperial county All
club All Stars for 1914
Colleen Shepard, II, and Wally
Christian, 16, both seniors at Gen.
trail Union High school, Friday
were awarded the most coveted
honor the county All club organi-
zation has to offer.
They both have been engaged in
4-H club work seven years. Col
leen, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Shepard of the Acacia district, did
most of her club work in home
making, sewing, and designing.
Wally, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Elton
B. Christian of the McCabe district
did most of his work in baby beef,
flax, and swine production.
They won the honor of being
county all stars on their records
and achievements in All club work.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Two yonks "Nub''
81 Germans

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 CUP) -
Il was amazed. They just kept
falling into line"
Thus Private John Marks, Jr., of
San Diego, Calf, explained how
he and Private First Glass r. Nc
Carly of Salina, Tex, brought in
80 German prisoners in Italy. Their
story was released today by the
war department.
The two soldiers were assigned to
take two German prisoners to their
company command post during the
siege of a height overlooking the
road to Rome. Enroute McCarty
saw a German behind some bushes,
preparing to fire with his rifle.
McCarty fired first, wounded the
German slightly and took him
prisoner. He fell in line, making
three, and the party proceeded
down a winding mountain trail.
Before long one of the prisoners
spoke a few words and two more
Germans came out from behind
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Sombers Hammer
From Britain

LONDON, Feb. 4. tUP)-Strong
formations of American heavy
oombers and fighters raided west
,rn Germany for the second straight
day Friday, rounding out a week
Of unbroken Allied daylight at
acks on the continent.
Indicating that the daylight raid
was on a massive scale, observers
along the channel coast reported
that the big bombers and their
long fighter escorts thun-
dered out over the southeast coast
for fully 80 minutes.
SUPPORT YANKS
British, Dominion, and Allied
fighters swarmed out later to sup
port the American assault.
The daylight raiders followed in
the wake of British Mosquito
bombers which stabbed at Germany
Continued on page 6, col. O.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Russians Forge
Tighter Ring
On Nazi Armies

MOSCOW, Feb. a. (UP)-
Russian Ukrainian a + m i e S
frightened their ring of encir-
clement around 100000 to 10000
Germans below Kiev Friday and
resumed their southwark drive to-
ward the Dniester in an effort to
trap hundreds of thousands of ad-
ditional enemy troops.
The new drives put the Sovie.5S
on the march along almost the en-
tire 750-mile length of the eastern
front from the Ukraine to the
Gulf of Finland.
PUSH INTO ESTONIA
General Govorov's northern fore
es pushed up to five miles into Es-
tonia on a broadening front anc
the fall of Narva, historic railroad
and highway junction, was reported
imminent. One Soviet column slash
ed across the -Narva railway
at the Estonian border, isolating
Narva from all hope of reinforce.
ment and supply from south.
Govorov also narrowed the exit
from the German bulge below Len
ingrad to "a miles with the capture
of Luigi, "a miles northeast of Be
loye.
The Germans hurled fresh re-
serves into counterattacks against
General Meretskov's forces west O.
Novgorod at the southern end O.
the exit from the bulge, but al
were repelled with more than 8Ot
enemy troops being killed.
ON BALTIC FRONT
On the central front, the second
Baltic army advanced through Abo-
vo, 10 miles west of Novsokolniki
toward Latvia after killing mor7
than 5000 Germans in the first
three days of their new offensive.
(The Russians still had not con-
firmed the capture of Rovno, ad-
ministrative center of the occu-
pied Ukraine, and Luck, 43 miles
to the west, which the German,
announced yesterday had been evac-
uated to Red armies that advanced
up to SIS miles inside old PolandD
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Muster.out Paw
Bill Siuned

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 tUP1 =
President Roosevelt Friday an
nounced that he has signed the bill
providing mustering-out pay for
members of the armed forces.
The bill signed by Mr. Roosevelt
provides $500 for all discharged
veterans who have served overseas.
For discharged veterans who have
served only within this country,
payments would be Sl00 for those
who served less than go days and
S2CO for those with longer service.
Payments would be made at the
rate of 500 month.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
BrawIey Awaits
Big Bond Rally

A beef will be auctioned off Sat
urday afternoon at the Brawley
Bond Rally which is being held to
flag tagging sales in the Fourth
War Loan drive in that city.
The auction rally which is to
fe- ture the program also will be
h.ghlighted by the appearance of
the Laguna goth Infantry Division
16-piece dance band.
With only tWo-weeks remaining
for the drive, BraWley has not
quite reached so per cent of the
quota, according to city chairmen
in charge of the event.
Besides the auctioning of the
hard-to-get steaks and roastS, other
items are to be auctioned during
the rally which will begin at
l 80 p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

department were hardly compat-
ible" with those of the manpower
commission.
Claims of all kinds. representing
people currently unemployed in
southern California totaled PASS
last December" Codding said.
There were only 17,720 claims in
September, the month when it was
decided Los Angeles had severe
shortage of manpower,"
This MEANS" he continued, there
were 6,735 more persons on the
southern California unemployment
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

insurance rolls three months after
the area had operated under re-
strictions of No. labor shortage
region"
Codding said workers who were
still drawing unemployment insur-
ance had gone to other areas in
search of immediate employment.
UNLESS Los Angeles manufacture
ers get new contracts they might
even lost the workers they have
now" he warned. This is hardly
compatible with critical labor
shortage"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

had been back in action some time
before his death. He left the United
States in June of 1941.
During his first enlistment he
served two years in Honolulu and
two in Shanghai and trained men
for the corps ir the Carolinas.
Robertson spent most OF his
youth in Imperial Valley, attending
various schools among them being
Central Union High in Ell Centre.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Katherine Robertson of Savannah,
Georgia, a son, Ray, junior, of San
Bernardino; his mother, Mrs. Melva
Robberson his sisters, Ruby Con-
zales, Opal Williams, all of Ell
Centre; a brother, Cadet Roy Rob-
berson of the army air corps at
Amarillo, Texas; and his father,
B. C. Robertson of Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
RHODE ISLAND ACHIEVES
GOAL IN BONDS RIV

WASHINGTON, FEB. 4. IUPJ =
Rhode Island Friday won the dis
tinction of being the first state
to meet its fourth war loan drive
quota.
Rhode Islands quota was $780,
100000.
Treasury officials also announced
that Alaska has surpassed its ST.
100000 quota, with sales of "E'
bonds alone totaling $1,C04,687.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Warren Selects
Resources Head

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 4. tUP) -
Gov. Earl Warren Friday appointed
Brig Gen. Warren T. Hannum, 81,
who retired two days ago as divi-
sion chief of war department engi-
neers, as state director of natural
resources. HannCn, whose home
is in San Francisco, will assume
the $4,000 a year position immedi-
ately. He replaces William H.
Moore, who has been acting direc-
tor since the resignation of Ken
meth /. Fulton, former Gov. Cul-
bert Olson's last appointee to the
position.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
u. s. Planes Hit
Paramushiru

WASHINGTON, Feb. a. (UP) -
Two navy heavy bombers hit in
stallations on the southeast coast
of the important north Pacific
japanese base of Paramushiru or
"Wednesday, the AMY announced
Friday.
A communique said that the re-
suits of the bombing were not OBJ
served. Both U. S. planes returned
safely without encountering any en-
emy aircraft.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
SAVES STEEL PLANT

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. lUP)-
Senator Patrick A McCarran, Cd :,
New, Friday telephoned the Cali
fornia attorney generals office here
that the possible sending of the un-
finished Geneva, Utah, structural
steel mill to Russia has been avert
ed The possibility that the un-
finished $18OOOO,OOO plant might be
sent to Russia was described as
very real" by the Nevada senator,
who said that the transfer had been
averted definitely for the present
and possible permanently.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
us FLEET ENTERS JAP BASE
Suicide Note
Stirs Hunt

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4 CUP)-
Police started a $4,000 treasure
hunt, inspired by Tailor Steve
Nichols, who wrote a bitter note
to his wife and then asphyxiated
himself in the bathroom of his
home. You were golddigger
all your life" Nichols wrote to
Mrs. Myrtle Nichols Now I'd
like to see how good you really
are These walls are hiding $17,-
900. Start digging"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Strong Invasion
Armada ReudieS
ThruStS on Truk
>HoIds Biggest
Base East Of
Stra+eqic Port

PEARL HARBOR, L. H.,
Feb. 4. (UP)--The biggest
invasion fleet ever assembled
in the Pacific has sailed into
and occupied Kwajalein Ia
COON, Japan's main naval base cas-.
of Truk, a front dispatch disclosed
Friday as U. S. army troops mopped
up the last battered enemy troops
on KWajalein island.
Rear Admiral Richmond K. Tur-
ner, commander of the amphibious
forces, ordered all troop transports
and most of the supporting war
ships into the lagoon-the worlds
largest-in the heart of the Mar
shall islands SO that the surround
ing reef would protect them agains.
Japanese submarines.
SAIL INTO LAGOON
Left Erickson, representing the
combined Allied press on the joint
expeditionary force flagship, said
the ships entered the lagoon on the
second day of the invasion Tuesday
while marines and army troops still
were battling desperately-resisting
Japanese at either end of the Sc
mile long Kwajalein atoll.
The dispatch did not mention
whether the vessels encountered
any opposition, but it was presumed
that the terrific preliminary bomb
ardment had wrecked any Japa-
nese ships still in the lagoon and
knocked out enemy coastal batter
LEFT TO STARvE
Erickson indicated that the Amer
leans might not bother to invade
the other atolls in the Marshalls.
Cut off from their main supply
base at Kwajalein, the enemy gar
risons may be left to starve, Erick-
son said.
An American army regiment has
overrun the airfield on KWajalein
island, the last airstrip in the atoil
remaining in enemy hands, ann
overwhelmed a tank trap position
to the east, Erickson reported.
ADVANCED A l. l. I E d HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Feb. 4.
(UP)-An allied land drive against
Japanese forces holding out at
Madang and Bogadjim was pre-
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Anti-New Deal Party Pends

CHICAGO, Feb. 4. (UP)--
Harry II. Woodring, former
secretary of war in the
Roosevelt administration, told the
Chicago executives club Friday that
a meeting of "anti-neW deal Demo-
Gratis" will be held soon with the
aim of preventing the reelection
of President Roosevelt"
He addressed the club following
a two-day organizational meeting
with members of an anti-adminis-
tration democratic faction at which
representatives of 23 states assem-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Warren Signs
Prison Bill

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 4. UpD -
Gov. Earl Warren Friday signed a
prison reorganization bill passed
Monday ky The state legislature, and
renewed statements that he plans
to apply civil service principles in
appointing wardens and director
of corrections,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

bled to lay plans to "oust new deal
erS."
THE continuance of another
four years of the present policies
will mean the end of our American
way of life" Woodring said in his
address. I'VE already have the be-
ginnings of a totalitarian govern
ment established in Washington
under the guise of winning the
war"
Woodring, former governor of
Kansas, declined to divulge details
of the meeting but said it probably
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

the trees, surrendered and fell in
line. Every few steps the Germans
spoke up and a few more would
come out of the bushes, hands
overhead
BY the time the command post
was reached the two members of
the 36th Texas" division had 80
prisoners
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Wallace Arrives
For |. A. Speech

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4. CUP) -
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
arrived in Los Angeles Friday for
whirlwind tour of aircraft plants
and shipyards and speech on post
war America Friday night at a
win the war" rally.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
FACES CHARGES

VENTURA, Cal, Feb. a. tUF)-
Lloyd Barker, 18, San Bernardino
youth, Friday was held by Ventura
sheriffs on charges of illegally
wearing a uniform. Barker was
picked up in Oxnard last night by
the shore patrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY-Gencrally clear Friday
night, Saturday. Rising tempera-
lures Saturday. Much cooler at
night with local light frosts by
Saturday night. Lowest tempera-
ture 30 degrees in coolest places.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
TROPHY STOLEN

PALO ALTO, Cal, Feb. 4. CUP)-
The Stanford ak, traditional big
game" trophy, was stolen from the
university sanctum sanctorum Fri
day for the first time since 1899
when the symbol O. victory was
smuggled from the campus under a
girls dress.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Ntsos4ts 1%,t7Hs

A Dirty Deed
The plan for making the court
house park in FL Centre look less
like the tag-end of a bad year is
status quo. In fact, it looks as
though it is to be status quoed to
death.
On January 90 the Ell Centro city
council and the county board OF
supervisors told their respective le-
gal departments to get together and
untangle the legal phases and find
out what, if anything, had hap
pened to a reversionary deed the
city held for half of the park site.
Milton Zinn became weary of
waiting for peep out of the legal
departments, one or both. Along
with his duties as member of the
Ell Centre Chamber of Commerce
committee delegated to see If the
park can't be improved by the city
even though it belongs to the
county, Zinn thought he had the
right to inquire about things.
Have you and the city attorney
park deal?" Zinn asked District
Attorney Charles G.. Halliday.
There's nothing to get together
about" zinn quoted Halliday as
saying. II know the deed exists.
My mind is made up about the
deed That stopped Zinn.
Have you found that reversion-
airy deed the city is supposed to
hold on half the court house park?"
Zinn asked Ell Centre City Attorney
Dorsey Whitelaw.
II didn't know it was lost Zinn
quoted Whitelaw as saying. That
stopped Zinn again.
Zinn, as an irresistible object, has
7met Halliday and WhitelaW, COM
bined to make an immovable OBJ
ject.
Poor old Milt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Allied Bombers
Strike TouIon

LONDON, Feb. 4. OUP) - Radio
Vichy reported that Allied bombers
raided Toulon, site of the great
French Mediterranean naval base,
Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
START PROBE

. SANTA ANA, Cal, Feb. 4. CUP
Federal bureau of investigation
officials today began investigation
of alleged irregularities in the office
of post quartermaster Col. j. j. Ca
nella, Santa Ala army air base.
Canela had been restricted to quar-
tcrs by military authority.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Bottle
RdzeS
yanks Regain
Foo+hoId
After Defeat
A FORWARD COMMAND
POST NEAR CASSINO Feb

A FORWARD COMMAND
POST NEAR CASSINO Feb.
4. (UP) = American troops
were driven from the streets of
Casino this morning after a terror
filled night fight against over
Whelming odds, but they surged
back into the ruined town in the
afternoon and are now locked in a
death battle with the Nazi garrison
Twice in the past IL hours this
village has changed hands, and the
battle is surging back and forth
through the streets at this moment
to the accompaniment of a thun-
derous barrage from massed Amer
ican and German guns.
U. S. BIG GUNS TALK
American gunners are hurting
tons of high explosive shells into
the German positions in the south
ern end of the town and the Nazi5
are countering with a continuous
bombardment of our troops in the
northern end.
Between them they are beating
the stone buildings of this noun
tain town into dust.
All Thursday night American in
fantrymen battled from house to
house under murderous fire from
hundreds of Nazi machine guns
and mortarS that made every streeJ
corner a death trap.
At daybreak, our advanced ele-
ments were forced to pull back anc
reform
TANKS BEAT FOE BACK
They charged in again at break
fast time behind a spearhead of
Continued on page g. col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
SAILOR KILLED

VENTURA, Cal, Feb. 4. tUP) -
One sailor was killed and four in
jured when tank truck crashed
into the car in which they were
riding and then sped south.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04
Crackle! Cracklc. CrackIe.

The Is members of the county
war board were having solemn
session. That is, it was solemn un-
til someone brought out big bag
of peanut brittle.
Immediately there was noise in
the room that resembled machine
gun going lickety split. Crunch!
Munich! Crackle! Everyone had to
gulp and swallow before asking or
answering a question.
Where did you get that peanut
brittle, war board?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-04

For convenience in totals
Brawley includes inland, Cali
patria and Westmorland; Holt
Vile, Winterhaven and Ell Gem
tro, ImperiaD