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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Planes
o Aid
Drive
Parade TO Spot
Opening Of
Selling Center

Six Marine Air Station
planes will fly over Main
street and dip their wings in
salute to the opening of the
Fourth War Loan bond booth
and parade, promptly at u o'clock
noon Thursday.
The fighter planes will come in
over the citv in formation and rec
ognition of the citys campaign just
as the Ell Centre nigh school band
led by the snappily dressed sergean-
cites begins a parade down Main
street from Eighth street, Ben Her.
ring announced Wednesday.
FORM IN PARADE
The band, and the twisting baton
twirling ladies, will form on Eighth
and march to the bond booth which
is set up in the 500 block on Main
At this location the county chair
man of the war loan drive, Herb
FaWcett will give a short address
He will be followed by talks by
Senator E. George Luckey, Mayor
Bob Hatton, Supervisor Hugh Os-
borne and Judge Vaughn Thomp-
son.
The dedicating of the war bond
booth then becomes official.
Although this formal event takes
place Thursday noon, the war bond
sales have been progressing in the
city through various. sales groups
M. o. King jr., who is acting
as chairman of the Retailers Third
Continued on page g. col -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Art Collection
Goes to n. Y.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 ,CUP)- The
Metropolitan Museum of Art has
won its long campaign for the $40
100000 art collection of the multi
millionaire banker, Jules S. Bache,
it was revealed.
Bache, 83, and owner of one of
the finest art collections in the
United States, had offered it to the
Metropolitan on condition that it
remain intact. When his offer was
refused, he set up the Bache Foun-
dation in 1897 under a charter of
New York state and it has eX-
hibited the collection since in his
Fifth Avenue home . which he
decided to the foundation with the
proviso that he was TO use it for
the remainder of his life. Whether
the mansion now would go to the
Metropolitan was not known.
Bache was following the example
of Henry Clay Frick, coal and
steel baron, who willed his price
less collection and his Fifth Avenue
mansion to a foundation so it
could be displayed intact through
perpetuity under the name Of its
donor The result was that the
Metropolitan acquired two rivals
within 10 blocks of its upper Fifth
Avenue building. It's concession to
Bache eliminates one.
The Bache collection is made up
of paintings of Bellini, Botticelli,
Raphael, Titan, Van Dyck, Rem
brandt, Gainsborough, and Reynolds,
plus various objects dart 1t will
remain in the Bache mansion until
after the war
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

"
Stormed across the lower Garigliano
river in force and advanced up the
valley floor in the face of savage
German resistance, a communioue
announced Wednesday.
Veteran British units, had been
stalled along the southern banks
of the Garigliano by bad weather
for two and one-half months,
launched their offensive under
cover of darkness Monday night.
BY daybreak, the Nazis had been
hurled from their strong defenses
at a number of points on the north
bank of the winding stream. and
the British were swarming across
the lower Garigliano valley.
WORK WITH FRENCH
First reports indicated the new
drive was coordinated with the
French and American offensive
against Casino and the inland road
to Rome, and that the British were
striking toward the right flank of
the Nazis' Casino defenses.
AS the British struck, the Amer
lean and French units, closing in
against the center and left FLANK
of the enemy line before Casino,
sent patrols stabbing into the Ger
man defenses and maSsed along
the east bank of the Rapido river
for a concerted assault on that
stronghold.
Across the Italian boot, Canadian
units of the British 9th army press
ed a savage attack against Nazi
strong points in the hills over.
looking the Adriatic coastal road
just north and west of Ortona.
PLANES IN ACTION
While the entire land front blaz-
ed into action, Swarms of Allied
fighters and fighter bombers bat
tered the enemy's front lines, and
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
spread ruin through the network
of German controlled railroads in
Tuscany.
Other Allied raiders swept across
the Adriatic to hammer enemy ship
ping and port installations along
the Jugoslav coast, while British
destroyers pounded the Nazi-held
Italian shore line in advance of the
attacking 9Th army.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Russian Press Traces British Talk
OF Peace Through Turkish Agency

between Britain and Germany-a
report emphatically denied by the
British--emained the worlds great
est diplomatic mystery Wednesday.
All non-Russian Allied leaders
including President Roosevelt, were
completely baffled by its origin
purpose or significance. Mr.. Roose-
welt said he had no more informa-
ton than anyone else as to why
the rumor>ha been published in
MoscoW's official Communist party
newspaper, Pravda.
PLUMB PUZZLED
Mr.. Roosevelt's frankness in ac-
knoWledging his complete mystifi-
cation was considered signifieak4
since he could have dismissed the
subject simply by saying he had
no information, the accepted Wash
ington maneuyer for avoiding the
speculation that a more ample
response might bring.
Nevertheless, guessing on the sig
nificance Of the Pravda report was
heightened by the fact that Mos
cow made no immediate effort to
clarity the mystery, although it
permitted the British denial to be
published in the Soviet Union.
P.avda did not publish yesterday
and therefore could not comment
on its earlier story.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

to get the entire subsidy question
before the senate.
The life of the Commodity Credit
Corp, which administers some of
the subsidies and various other
farm-ai programs, will expire on
Feb. II unless congress enacts some
extension legislation before that
date. The subsidy issue is covered
by amendments to legislation en-
bracing such extension of the Gees
life.
The rollcall Of banking committee
members on the Bankhead bill was
Yeas-Bankhead; Sens. D. Worth
Clark, D., Idaho, Burnett Maybank,
D., S. c., John Mcclellan, D., Ark,
Charles Tobey, R., N. H., John
Thomas, r., Idaho; Hugh Butler,
r., Neb., Arthur Capper, r., Kans.,
Douglas Buck, r., Del, and Taft.
Against-Sens. Alben w. Barkley,
D., KY, Carter Glass, D., Va,
George D. Radcliffe, D., Md, Sher-
idan Downey, D., Calf, Abe Muir
dock, D., Utah, Robert F. Wagner
D., N. Y, John Danaher, r., Conn.
and Joseph c. Ball, R., MINI.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

Judge Vaughn N. Thompson,
head of the juvenile court in I'M
perial county. Tuesday night was
elected president of the Community
Council, Ell Centro organization set
up to handle juvenile delinquency
problems.
He Immediately asked all organi-
cations and groups in the FL Centro
area to select two members as rep
resentativeS on the advisory board
and send the names to him at the
courthouse.
AS recommended by the organiza-
ton committee headed by Basil B.
Nichols, the 40 persons at the meet
ing Tuesday night selected the
name Community Council as one
which would permit the handling OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Il! Centro Forms
Juvenile Unit

youth problems and anything which
might affect juveniles of the COM
munity. Nichols and his COM
mittee recommended that in gen.
eral the new group follow the gen.
eral plan of the old Coordinating
council which functicned in El
Centre before the war.
There will be an executive board
of nine members to function in ad-
di'ion to the advisory board Judge
Thompson asked the nominating
committee to select these nine per-
sons. Judge Thompson was in
structed to select his own secre-
tary.
The next meeting of the Com
munity Council will be held in the
courthouse at 8 p. IN, February /.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
5. President
Visits &c.

A. t. Mercier, president of the
Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany, inspected the system in I'M
perial county Wednesday.
He was accompanied by H. r.
Gernreich, superintendent of the
Los Angeles division. The visiting
executives were guests of Willard
D. Keller, district freight and pas
senger agent in Imperial county
This is the last leg of Mr.. Mer-
cier's tour over the entire railway
route owned by the Southern Pa
Cific company, Keller said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Stin,son Urges
Service Act

Stimson was the first witness at
the hearing on the Austin-Wads-
worth national service bill. The
authors believe their bill answers
President Roosevelt's request for
national service law which would
prevent strikes for the duration of
the war.
Stimson said that the recent
threats of coal, rail, and steel
strikes indicates industrial unrest
and lack of a sense of patriotic
responsibility" among large num-
bers of the population" The re-
suit is, he said, that the situation
has aroused a strong feeling of
resentment and injustice among the
men of the armed forces"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
There Was Trouble
FACES TRAITORS DEATH

MEXICO CITY, Jan. l9-(UP)-
An army telegraph operator, Sgt.
(2nd class Juan Gonzalez Mar
tinez, was convicted Tuesday night
of treason by court-martial and
sentenced to death by a firing
squad Martinez, the first person
found guilty of treason since Mex
leo entered the war last June, was
accused of having given confiden-
tial military information to Ernest
Strobelt, an alleged German spy,
now being held in a concentration
camp for enemy aliens at Perote,
Vera Cruz state.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 tUP)-
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son told congress Wednesday that
industrial unrest on the home front
threatens to undermine the morale
of fighting forces and called for
national service legislation to
"eoualize" the war obligation of all
citizens.
Testifying before the senate mill
tary affairs committee, Stimson
said that the voices of these SOL
diers cat the battlefronts) speak
out very clearly today in demand
ing that all Americans accept the
same liability which a soldier must
accept for service TO country"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Crooks Sought
For Crook

CHICAGO, Jan. 10. UP)-Po-
lice Wednesday were looking for
a shepherds crook which some
crook stole from the automobile
Of Stephen A. Haboush. Haboush
said he doubted that the crook
could get very much for the crook
which he used to tend his fathers
sheep when he was a boy in Pal
eStine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

The dispatch also said that the
state department has been inform
ed that the Nazis engineered the
Ramirez revolution in Argentina
and that Germany is lining up
other South American countries
against the United States.
From behind a wall of censor
ship. which for months has be-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
RECORD NUMBER OF BABIES

CHICAGO, Jan. 10. (UP) - The
Chicago Lying-in Hospital an
nounced that 3.8l3 babies were born
at the hospital in 1943, the largest
number Of deliveries in its 48-year
history. Births increased IL per
cent over last year. Three sets of
tripletS and Al sets of twins were
born. The all-time record month
for births was established in Oc-
tober when 375 babies, or two babies
almost every hour Of the day and
night, were born.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Allies Strike for Rome:
Reds AnnihiIate Nazis
House Approves
Muster Pay

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. CUP)-
The house Wednesday passed a
mastering out pay bill which would
give discharged veterans of the
present war from $100 to $500 to
help them make the adjustment
back to civilian life.
House passage came after over
whelming defeats of attempts to
increase benefits above the amount
recommended by the military af-
fairs committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
BOGUS STAMPS SOLD

WASHINGTON. Jan. 19-(UPD-
The French committee of national
liberation Wednesday warned
stamp collectors that counterfeit
French stamps bearing an over
print "Battiment de Ligne Richie
lieu" are being sold. The commit
tee said the counterfeiter has been
arrested by French authorities.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY-Continued fair, little
change in temperature Wednes-
day night and Thursday. Slightly
cooler nights with light local
frosts. Lowest temperatures 81
10 81 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. (UP)
The New York World-Tele-
gram said Wednesday in a
dispatch from Washington that the
U. S. state department has been
warned by sources inside Argentina
that Hitler has prepared a future
haven" for himself in that South
American country.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

LONDON, Jan. 19. (UP)
The Russian press We'd
nesday published Britain's
denial of a Pravda dispatch re-
porting rumors of British
peace negotiations, together with
a London newspaper report that
Adolf Hitler had tried to send a
peace offer to the allies through
Turkey.
The Communists party organ
Pravda, the government newspaper
Izvestia, and the army journal Red
Star all published summaries of
the British foreign Offices refuta-
ton of the Pravda peace rumor.
ON RUSS-POLE DISPUTE
In another field of United Ma
tions relations, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden told commons that
the British government still saw
grounds for hope for a favorable
solution" of the Russian-Polisn
deadlock, the outstanding threat
TO Allied unity
Cur prevailing desire is to bring
about friendly settlement between
the two countries, and this achieve
ment would be of utmost conse-
quence to the future OF Europe
he said in reply to questions by four
members of the house.
Meantime, the Russian press, ap-
parently attempting to offset Brit
ish indignation over Pravda's sep
arate peace" dispatch, reprinted to-
day a London newspaper report
that Adolf Hitler had attempted to
send a peace offer to the allies
through Turkey.
FOLLOW TREND
Political sources believed that
Moscow authorized publication Of
an Ankara dispatch from the Lon
don Sunday times in an effort to
take the sting out of Pravda's story
by showing that the Soviet press
was not alone in printing peace
rumorS
Bearing out this theory, Radio
Moscow said the Sunday Times dis
patch was being republished in
Russia under the headline, British
correspondent on peace proposals of
the Germans
. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (UP)-
The Russian n-disseminated rumor CT
discussions Of a separate peace
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Army Releases
Control of
Railway Lines
Eleven-cent Pay
Raise Okehed;
Steel Men Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 CUP)-
The nations railroads returned to
private management Wednesday as
he administration. closing the
books on the critical rail wage dis
nute, faced a new labor crisis in
the campaign of the United Steel
Workers (CIO) to break the little
steel wage formula.
The government, which seized the
railroads December 81 to prevent a
strike, relinouished control Tuesday
midnight. shortly after President
Roosevelt had announced settle
ment of the 16-month old dispute
involving 100000 non operating
rail employees.
STEEL DEMANDS ON
Almost coincident with Mr..
Roosevelt's announcement, another
critical labor case was brought to
Washington by the United States
Steel Corporation, which asked
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins to
refer the steel workers demands
to the War Labor Board. The USW
has taken the lead in the CIO
drive to force a revision of the
little steel wage ceiling.
The incorporating case was set
tied in union-management agree
ment providing wage increases of
nine to IL cents an hour and ap-
proved by Sterilization Director
Fred M. Vinson. The dispute be-
gan Sept. 25, 1912, when the unions
asked raises of 20 cents an hour
The case was considered by two
emergency boards and was before
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
Drive Breaks
Enemy Line
CIark's Army Pushes
Across River and
Sweeps Along Valley

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers,
Jan. 10. (UP)-The British arm of Lieuten-
ant General Mark w. Clark's 5th army
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
n uzis Race
For Baltic
Bloodiest Battle
Of War Rases
In Double Thrust

MOSCOW Jan. 10. (UP)-The blood
lest battle Of the war was reported raging
deep in GermanY'S defense belt west of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19

JdllKS smashed tnrOuSn the NaZl
line in the wake of an artillery
barrage SO devastating that it left
enemy troops literally speechless
The pulverizing Russian push
south of the Baltic town of Oran-
ienbaum, coordinated with another
strong drive that penetrated the
Nazi right flank south Of Lenin-
grad, opened the long-awaited Sov-
let offensive designed to roll back
the besiegers of Leningrad to the
Baltic.
CRACKS STRONG DEFENSE
Front dispatches said the north
ern column was advancing steadily
through the worlds most formid-
able defense zone, taking one con-
crete blockhouSe and one fortified
village after another while mobile
guns blasted enemy gun emplace-
ments and firing points.
SWarns of Soviet fighters and
Stormovik assault planes strafed
and cannoned German infantry as
they emerged from trenches and
forts for futile counterattacks.
Dispatches reported that the in
itial Soviet artillery barrage, loosed
by hundreds of massed cannon, was
the most destructive ever laid down
on a battlefield. German prisoners
brought into one Russian command
post had been numbed speechleSs
by the shelling.
SOUTH LINE
Nearly 700 miles to the south,
the Soviet first Ukrainian army
cut the Rovno-Shepetovka link of
the double-trunk Warsaw-Kazatin
railway, forcing the Ge mans to
fall back $50 miles southwest to
LwoW for their next major feeder
railway into southern Russia.
The double-edged thrust at either
end of a 110-mile sector west and
south of Leningrad put the Rus
slams on the offensive all along a
winding 2,000-mile front from Len
ingrad to the Black sea, and OBJ
servers confidently predicted that
by spring the Germans will have
been driven back into the Baltic
states, Poland, and Rumania.
The Soviet high command an
nounced its twin penetrations of
an area, which the Germans have
been fortifying steadily for more
than two years, in a communique
last night, on the first anniversary
of the lifting of the 5l5-day Ger
man siege of Leningrad, with the
clearing of a nine-mile corridor to
the east
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
D AMBL!Ne
EpoRTER
The Ultimate

The Ultimate
Roy Magness, Office of Defense
Transpoctati ton man in Imperial
county, is firmly convinced that
he has reached the peak, the pin
nacle of all time.
A man came to his office the
other day and asked him to straight
en- out bill of sale on truck.
Il can't do that" Magness eX :
planned. Il help make out applica-
tions for gasoline, tires, and parts
but I have nothing to do with bills
of sale"
oh, yes, you do" the man said.
"They told me at the highway
patrol office to come to you and
you would straighten out my truck
bill of sale!'
Yea Gods, and little Hebble-
thWaites," Magness muttered as
he grabbed the telephone to call
Captain M. P. Hebolethwaite at the
highway patrol office.
Silence Is Golden
OF course, no one wishes Bill
Outlook any i'll luck but you should
have heard his Toastmaster friends
when Bill showed up with a bad
case of laryngitis They were glee.
full, no less.
He is now known affectionately
as Whispering Bill and there are
those who hope to call him "Whis-
pering Bill" for many long day.
Away Back When
A. T. Mercier, president of the
Southern Pacific looked around Ell
Centre Wednesday with consider
able interest.
He remembers this fair city when
it was called Cabaker. He remem-
bers seeing the name of the as yet
unborn town painted in white on
the side of a boXcar which was
the only building of any sort on
the site of Ell Centre, standing
forlornly III the middle of field.
Things" said Mercier, have
changed"
If that isn't a marvel of under
statement, we never have heard a
human voice.
There Was Trouble
Mrs. Harold Liebert felt mighty
sorry for her husband when he in d.
jured his finger while inspecting a
car.
That's a bad wound" she said,
Giving Iliebert all the Sympathy in
the world. You had better go to
a doctor and take some lockjaw
treatment" Liebert began to look
wicked.
"Lockjaw treatment won't be nee
essary for me- Liebert said, while
edging toward the door, but I'd
like to have you take some
He isn't getting much sympathy
around home now.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-19
FOLLOW TREND

WASHINGTON, Jan. 49, CUP)--
The Russian disseminated rumor CT
discussions of a separate peace
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-10-26
423 MILLION POUNDS
OF TOBACCO is SOLD

Raleigh-More than 423 million
pounds of flue-cured tobacco have
been marketed in North Carolina
warehouses during the present
marketing season, according to
J. A. Winfield, market newsman
of the N. c. Department of Agri-
culture.
A total of 702, 267 ,691 pounds of
flue-cured tobacco have been
marketed with Georgia and Flori-
da sales accounting for approx
mately 122 million pounds; South
Carolina approximately 1875 mil
lion; and Virginia approximately
80 million pounds.
Producers sales during August
and September in North Caro-
lima accounted for 90 per cent of
the total gross sales stated Win
field. On this basis North Caro-
lima producers have sold about
389 million pounds of tobacco
during this season which repre-
sent SO per cent of North Caro-
lina's estimated flue-cured crop
of approximately 73O million
pounds.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-10-26
BIG TOLL OF BLAST
VICTIMS rs RISING

Cleveland - Weary searchers
probed charred ruins of a So
block East side area this week for
bodies of the, dead, while living
refugees trudged slowly back to
what was left of homes shattered
by thunderous blasts and raging
flames of a liquid fuel gas storage
plant explosion.
Casualties from the disaster,
which struck at the East Ohio Gas
company plant at mid afternoon
Friday, rose to SO dead and 104
missing. Many Of those listed by
missing persons bureau at
county morgue, however, may be
found among the unidentified
dead.
Coroner S. R. Gerber, directing
the search at the scene of Cleve-
lands worst catastrophe and one
of the nations major disasters,
said lit may be days" before the
rubble gives up all it's dead.
Seven victims remained in crit
ical condition in hospitals, and
165 others were being treated fol-
less serious injuries.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-10-26
Americans Are Given Warm
Welcome By ALI Filipinos

New York,-William J. Dunn,
CHS radio correspondent, this
week broadcast this account of
the welcome Filipinos are giving
American forces on Leyte island:
Never in my widest dreams
did I expect to witness scenes
such as those which greeted
American troops returning to the
Philippines.
Little children, hardly three
years old, certainly not old en-
ough to have a memory of any
days before the Japanese occupa-
ton, shouted and danced in the
streets of Tacloban. They waved
two fingers in the famous ''V'
sign and shouted in piping voices:
"Vic-tor-ee, vic-tor-ee."
The first Americans to enter the
city were greeted with mingled
laughs and cheers. What cheers.
They were almost inarticulate be-
cause of the emotion behind them.
Filipino women, dressed in their
colorful costumes which are a
vivid combination of the Orient
and Occident, waved from every
window and every doorway. Old
men threw smiling salutes at
everyone in uniform.
Most of the Americans never
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-10-26
HORSES SUFFER FROM
TOOTHACHE, VET SAYS

Raleigh-Horses have tooth
aches, just as human beings do
but the horse usually has to suf-
fer through it because his owner
does not know what is wrong
with him, according to DR.. Will
liam Moore, head of the N. c.
Department of Agriculture Vet
Urinary division.
In order to help out any horses
bothered with toothaches as the
winter comes on, DR.. Moore at
tempted to list some symptoms:
The horse may object more than
usual to bridling, may eat more
slowly, leave part of its meal un-
eaten, or jerk its head quickly
from the trough when starting to
drink.