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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
SlMPLIFIED TAXES WILL BE
GREAT BOON TO PUBLIC
Clos Angeles Times)

The simplfied tax program proposed
by the House Ways and Means Commit
tee not only shows what the treasury
and the committee can accomplish when
they try. but will be a great relief to a
public which had forced upon it prob
lens in higher mathematics and esotaric
accounting in addition to having to pay
its taxes.
There was never any excuse Tor the
complications, most of which were de-
signed to meet contingencies which never
arise in the lifetime of the average tax
payer and to provide information which
the Treasury, in practice, seldom needs
to know. As regards the super-comph-
cations met with on the 1914 tax return,
some had the appearance OF being devised
ont of spite. That the Treasury Depart
ment. which designed the forms, hated
the features of the Ruml plan which Con-
press with public backing. forced upon
il was evident all through the tax de-
hates of 1943. The department may not
have deliberately drawn up the tax
blanks TO make the scheme unpopular,
hut at least it took no pains to popular
iza it.
However. if the Treasury sought to
nut the blame on Congress, 1t failed IN
the effort. and Congress will win the
plaudits of the public by this simplitlca-
ton. leaving the Treasury to hold the bag
full of unpopularity. =,
From appearances, the House Will pass
the tax revision promptly and Chalf-
man George of the Senate Finance Com
mitte9 predicts it will pass that body
within 10 days of its receipt. The pubic
viii hone that close examination shows
no iokers and that the new system Is all
Il is touted to be, reserving final Judg-
ment until it tries it by experience.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

The magnitude of our total war pro,
duction is now equal to the combined
war output of the rest of the world.
War Manpower Director Paul '. MIC
Mutt
In Germany the heart of the problem
Of establishing democracy is the rela-
ton of leader and follower. Germans
because they confuse loyalty with o5ed-
ience. have never learned how to criticize
their bosses.-Prof. Kurt LEVIN, L. OF
Iowa. formerly of the L. of Berlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS JUST
DON'T GROW ON TREES

:, Whatever turn postwar planning pat
Iee- terms may take, it is certain arterial high
. ways, thousands of miles of them in all
0oi. parts Of the country and across the ma
ton. are going to figure. A steadily
.ss growing, broad program for such high
~ ways was going on before the war and
e. no matter who puts forward a postwar
-. program, or no matter the cost. highways
"a, form a predominant part. And so it
-, behooveS states and communities to get
ID on their toes and formulate a unified.
cohesive plan for such projects do not
Just happen, nor are they handed out by
an aggressive group to tagging, tardy
community.
And so the gathering this week at Jac-
umba is encouraging and the movement
started there should not be permitted to
IA. drift along. 1t should be taken up at
~every turn and boosted and sent rolling
along until its weight will be a positive
20. -. and determining factor in TIE ultimate
~ highway postwar set-up. Nor should
- routings be left to chance, and certain
ly by all means, not to a stronger and
.'@ more militant, pushing and possibly self
a. ish group, or district. Imperial Valley
=, knows what it wants; knows it can't OBJ
= tain n deserved and much-needed high
s@vway program without unity in itself and
without identifying itself with an eX-
sss s pensive, far-seeing and effective tie-up.
-@s Time probably is the most demanding
factor right now. We must move swiftly,
~ constantly and circumspectly if we are
~ - not to be left out in the cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27

Grace Brownell, Ruth M Pan
osh.
SUNSET PRECINCT
Polling Place: Eastside School.
Officers: Betty Ferguson, Beulah
c.. Paris, Carrie l.. Ferguson
Thelma NJ Ryan.
TAMARACK PRECINCT
Polling Place: No. Branch Read
District Yard.
Officers: Chas L. Wieman, Geo.
H. Pellet, Frank B. Johnson,
Agnes Dahm.
VERDE PRECINCT
Polling Place: Verde School.
Officers: L. c. Hawk, Herbert j.
Bornt, Wayne BoneSteele, Opal
A Mayfield.
WESTMORLAND NO. l
PRECINCT
Polling Place: City Hall.
Officers: Bertha E. Clevenger, Effie
C. Johnson, Patty B. OStrander,
Edith Martin.
WESTMORLAND NO. 2
PRECINCT
Polling Place: Gentry Residence.
Officers: Elizabeth Gentry, Lyndall
F.. Strickland, Viola P. Raines,
Mary f. Fox.
WINTERHAVEN PRECINCT
Polling Place: Winterhaven School.
Officers Cecil Jernigan, Violet M.
Kunzler, Lincoln Johnson, Tempe
H. RhoadS.
Dated this 18th day Of April 1914.
w. j. McCELLAND.
County Clerk.
Legal No 76 "a 2l-2o)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
PERRY PRECINCT

Polling Place: Flores Property Palm
Court, North City Limits.
Officers: Clarence d. Rice. Pearl
Waggoner, Dorothy Brown Helen
potnc
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foiloIrinp colt
oridis are preseHtsi! cs interesting G0in-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27

Commerce.
Officers: j. d. Thompson, Olga
Palladine Georgia r.. Hasty,
James p. Hobbs.
NORTH END PRECINCT
Polling Place: North End School.
Officers: Frank Hewitt, Lewis II.
Boyle. Esther Dayton, Ethel Dix
on.
OGILRL PRECINCT
Polling Place: Og;Iby School
Officers Paul b. Lowe, Marion J.
Farmer, Wales r. McGinniS,
Marian l.. Allen.
PALMETTO PRECINCT
Polling Place: Palmetto School
Officers: Robert ID. Mefcefeau,
Ronald Layton, Alice Chambers,
Jessie c. Farmer.
PALO VERDE PRECINCT
Polling Place: Palo Verde School,
Officers: Matte L. Gahan, tie
E. Fitz, Wesley Foth, Mollie Het-
lin.
PASQUAL PRECINCT
Polling Place: Ross Corner Store.
Officers: Frank p. Farrar. w. G.
Ross, Pauline Temple, Lyllyan A.
Brown.
PERRY PRECINCT
Polling Place: Flores Property Palm
Court, North City Limits.
Officers: Clarence d. Rice. Pearl
Waggoner, Dorothy Brown. Helen
Bates.
RIO BENDE PRECINCT
Polling Place: H. l.. Dickson Resi-
dence, IL Mile North BraWley
on Old Calipatria Highway.
Officers: V. j. Sims, Iva McFadden.
FlCssie Van Liere, II. L. Dickson.
LOCKWOOD PRECINCT
Polling Place: Mulberry School.
Officers: Charles Smith, Herman
Taecker, Carolena A. Teel, Ida
Boaden.
SEELEY PRECINCT
Fol!ing Place: Seeley Civic Center.
Officers: Olleada 1. Diehl. Mar
guerite A. Graham, Ruby l..
WCmack, Ruby Brewer.
SOLANO PRECINCT
Polling Place: Mccoy Residence,
4 Mile Wet of Ell Centro on
Main.
Officers: Russell d. Hoy. Edna S.
Tagg, Mabel Werve, Blanche Wake
field
SPRUCE PRECINCT
Polling Place: KillingSWorth Ranch,
l Mile East of WeStmorland on
Grand Road.
Officers: Baxter c. Ioveland, Chas.
A. Newton, Lois May Bridgers,
Mary l.. Shields.
STANDARD PRECINCT
Polling Place: RChert Sperry Ranch
Mile West, y Mile North Of
Calipatria.
Officers: Victor Panosh, Faul Alvey.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
PASQUAL PRECINCT

Polling Place: Ross Corner Store.
Officers: Frank p Farrar. w. G.
Ross, Pauline Temple, Lyllyan A.
Brown
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
CALIPATRIA NO. 3 PRECINCT

Polling Place: Eastside School.
Officer: Joseph Wedlaw, Evelyn
Quincy, Ola Hamlin, Cora May.
berry.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

hereby that will be held
Imperial Tuesday. May 18th, 1914
the electors
referendum required TO submitted by the
the special election polls
the hour o'clock the hour of O'Clock PM
election be held
designated polling precinct this
seto
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted in Imperial county
superior court Tuesday to Peggy
Edna Taylor against Wayne d. Tay-
lOr.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
List of Polling Places and
Election Officers
SPECIAL ELECTION

Election Officers
SPECIAL ELECTION
ALAMO PRECINCT
Polling Place: Alamo School.
/ Officers: Ira NJ. Preece, Evelyn P.
Maring. Elizabeth I. Tuttle, Sarah
Higuera.
ANDRADE PRECINCT
Polling Place; Imperial Irrigation
District Office.
Officers: w. j. Ball, Jack Osborne,
/ Evelyn Pima. Mark Bascow.
BRAWLEY NO. PRECINCT
Polling Place: White Residence,
lO4 West B Street.
Officers: Maude Mercer, Betty
Simon, FloSsie Michael, Louise
! White.
BRAWLEY NO. 2 PRECINCT
Polling Place: Warner Residence.
2l5 West G Street.
Officers: Lucy I. Warner. Marguer-
ite Lamberson, Dell M. Peter
son. Geraldine Allen.
BRAWLEY NO. 8 PRECINCT
Polling Place; Witter Grammar
School.
Officers: H. w. Paul. Edith Ker-
shaw. Lois w. Stanley, Emma
A. GuirSch.
BRAWLEY NO. 4 PRECINCT
Polling Place Brawley Union High
School.
Officers: Zoe H. Baker. Jessie NJ.
Juvenal, Lynette Hutchinson,
Belle MCGEE.
BRAWLEY NO. 5 PRECINCT
Polling Place: Ruth Reid Grammar
School.
Officers: Eugenia L. Stewart, Paul
inc Price, Nordica McFern, Mar
/ gle Harding.
BRAWLEY NO. 6 PRECINCT
Po ling Place: Faure Impliment
Store.
Officers: , .yril B. Marking, Eugene
Marsh. Ola Gabard lone F. Weir.
BRAWLEY NO. ! PRECINCT
Polling Place: Rogers Garage, 100
North Plaza.
Officers Howard Bow-cs, Christ
inc E. Bryant, Manila M. Kaetz
Betty Jones.
BRAWLEY NO. 8 PRECINCT
Polling Place City Hall
Officers Clark Plemons, Mary
Humphrey, Syble Stewart, Julia
Lauraine.
BRAWLEY NO. 8 PRECINCT
Polling Place Wear Residence,
ABS K Street.
Officers: Clara M. Smith, Olive
Mae Wear, Lucy Conners, Allie
M. Eaton.
BRAWLEY NO. 10 PRECINCT
Polling Place: Gerry Garage, So
South 3rd Street.
Officers: Watson Imrie, Elizabeth
Wal:h. Fay L. Howard, Cecil
Middleton.
BRAWLEY NO. IL PRECINCT
Polling Place: Pound Re. idence
730 A Street.
Officers: Erna M. Pound, Jessica
M. Puryear. John w. Collins,
Iorcna Beechcy.
BRAWLEY NO. IL PRECINCT
Polling Place Hucklebcrry Resid-
encc, 1l49 c. Street
Officer: Mary Hucklcbeny, Joe
Candelaria, Edith C. Payne
Dorothy Lucio.
BRAWLEY NO. Is PRECINCT
Polling Place: 996 Main Street.
Officers Cha. C. drummer, Will
liam w. WARD, Zen C. King, Lee
q. Mesa.
BRAWIEY NO. u PRECINCT
Polling Pace: Hidalgo Sckcol.
Cfficers: Luther I. Duff, Johnnie
Mae Wilson, Vcrlic Burton, Rose
Garcia
BUFNA VISTA PRECINCT
Polling Place: BIena Vista Service
Station.
C!ficer;: j. T. Little, J. w. Kemp
Susie Edwards, Myrtle Spear.
CALEXICO NO. l PRECINCT
Polling Place: No. Road District
Yard, 1908 Emerson Street.
! Officers: Harry F.. Rogers, Martha
H. Rcsaon, Josephine A. Eyraud
Laura lie.
CALEXICO NO. 2 PRECINCT
Polling Place; FL Rey HoteI, Bro
and Imperial.
Cfficcr7: Ben w. Curry, Helen
Mains. Stacey zimmerman
George E. Hermann.
CALEXICO NO. 3 PRECINCT
Polling Place: lockwood School.
officer: j. Herbert Mccoy, Clara
N. Raab, Charlotte McLachlan,
| Madeline Bli.ton.
CALEXICO NO. 4 PRECINCT
Folling Place: City Hall.
OF. icers: Gee A. DctSon, AlmeG2
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-27
COOLER STOLEN

Desert coolers are hard to get due
to priorities and all that, but
the first report of the season of a
cooler was given Ell Centro police
Tuesday. r. c. Paulson, 725 South
Fifth, reported one valued at $35
was taken from his premises.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
French Midwife Directs Army of Her Boys
In Fighting Nozis Behind Their Own Lines

chute. A month ago Lulu" was in
hiding and weapons were sorely
needed. Planes came over and
parachuted rifles and ammunition
down in boxes like bombs.
Their Greatest Service.
II was frightened and wanted to
run away as the stun fell around,
but had to stay and get the arms
away* quick before the Germans
suspected the rendezvous" she said
She believes their greatest service
was mining the roads back of Ger
man conveys.
Her greatest sorrow was when IA
of her boys were shot on the morn
ing of June o. They were captured
in a farmhouse where arms were
hidden in the attic. The place was
taken over by the Vichy militia, who
failed to find the arms.
The madamoiselle. dressed as a
peasant woman. got through the
lines with 10 pistols. Boys in the
group operated camp in the for
est. Girls sneaked through with
arms and ammunition at night. The
SPAC, or Societe Protectrice Anto-
communists, made up of former
French war prisoners, sold out to
the Germans.
A month ago the SPAC made
some raids. Madamoiselle held of
six of them with her fists. finally
escaping the house. She lived two
weeks in the wheat fields. The
group appropriately celebrated Bas-
tile Day by capturing Gestapo mem
bers and freeing n SPAC prison.
ers.
Aids United States Officers.
Since the Americans arrived she
has obtained from local militia
headquarters her own dossier in
which she is denounced as very
red" 1t was signed by a neighbor
not before known as a collaboration.
Il will fix him." she says.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
Signal Corps Radiophoto.

I found her aiding American
oficers, urging recognition for her
boys as regular Allied soldiers.
The greatest heroine in the move
ment was nearby school teacher
who. with lighted cigarettes stuck
in her eyes. both legs broken to pre-
vent escape, after three days torture
felt her courage sagging and killed
herself by beating her head against
stone wall.
Tears in her hard eyes, recount
ing the end of her friends, mademoi-
selle led the officers today to the
hideout of a Mata Hari counter
part. lovely blond Russian with
a German lover who supplied her
with a fine German car.
Yvonne seldom accompanied her
boys on raids but hid them under
beds In her home, kept them well
armed and received them with hot
coffee after their missions. Her
force was increased today by six Ver-
sailles gendarmes. arriving through
the German lines in a charcoal
burning car stolen from a gendarme
colonel. We met them wildly jub-
liant, slightly drunk in the village
tavern inside the United States
lines. singing the tipsy chorus of
the plaintive song OF the Maouis:
Farewell village steeples, we are
going to widest Maquis as proud
eXileS far from those loving lis"
On the tavern steps the aged
town crier was beating his drum
announcing:
American sont arrives" to the
assembling village girls.
1 was captured with fellow cor
respondents and we were kissed un-
til our cheeks were red with lin.
stick despite our dusty faces. Then
we were forced" to kiss each girl
on both cheeks. A most trying aft
ernon.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
|A,9b Jap Soldiers
Die in. Vain Defense Of
Guam, 5aipan, Tinian
~ the Associated Press.

L ~ the Associated Press. ~
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. a.
Japan's futile defense of Guam,
Saipan and Tinian cost her A.
956 troops killed-10 to l for
American lives lost in this blood
lest campaign of the Pacific war.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced the new total yesterday in
reporting new deaths in continued
mop-up operations on the three cap
tured Marianas Islands.
The Pacific Fleet commander also
reported new bomber strikes from
the Kurile to the Molucca Islands
were without aerial opposition The
raids included record blows at Hal
mahera and Boeroe Islands in the
Molucas.
4.470 Yanks Killed.
In fighting through August II, a
total of 4.470 Yanks had fallen to
secure the captured Marianas
Islands. A total Of 20,345 American
wounded and 721 missing also was
reported. Admiral Nimitz said 98l
additional Japanese had been killed
on the three Islands. Cleanup op-
erations have continued since
August 8.
The Japanese death toll, including
those killed during mopping up op-
erations for the period, August H.
II: Saipan, 25,144; Guam, 14,067;
Tinian, 5,745.
The American casualties: Saipan,
3,049 killed. 1904 wounded, 268
missing; Guam, 1926 killed, 5,765
wounded, 329 missing; Tinian, 1875
killed, 1926 wounded, "a missing.
The Navy said Japanese soldiers
are still being dug from jungles and
hideouts in the northern end of
Guam.
Other Jap Positions Bombed.
Strong Liberator forces from the
Southwest Pacific smashed ITO tons
Of bombs Sunday on Halmahera,
300 miles south of Mindanao. Ware
houses were demolished and large
explosions erupted.
otiiCA AAbCl dCOIS tllc previous udy
hit Namlea airdrome on Boeroe. 200
miles southwest of Halmahera, with
95 tons of bombs. Eight grounded
planes were destroyed or damaged.
In additional raids in the south
west, nine small japanese freight
ers, transports and coastal vessels
were sunk or damaged and 10
barges probably destroyed. One of
them was hit off the Southern
Philippines.
Bombers from the Central Pa
ciflc's 7th Army Air Force made
their first raids on Yap in the
Western Carolines and Alamagan
in the Marianas Saturday. They
also bombed Pagan, where intense
antiaircraft fire was reported.
On the same day, Navy Ventures
bombed and strafed airfields on
Paramushiro, in the Northern
Kuriles.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
nk-Conod;on Special Force
Terrifies Nozis on All Fronts
BY CLINTON b. CONCER

{ M.
Representing the Combined American Press.
WITH THE 1st SPECIAL SERV-
ICE FO RCE IN SOUTHERN
FRANCE, Aug. 22.-Censorship re-
lease of the presence in Southern
France of the joint Cana
dian lSt Special Service Force TO-DAY
partly lifted the curtain on one of
the most hush-hush organiza tions
in the United Nations warbag.
1t is hard-Striking spearhead of
specialists in versatility who are
trained in snow warfare, amphipiors
warfare, mountain warfare. air-borne
warfare and bitter infantry might
ing.
Vlsualized by one of Lord Louis
Mountbatten's advisers and born IN
a moment of conversation between
Gen. George C. Marshall and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill at Cheu-
ers, county residence of the Prime
Minister, April 9, 1912, the lst Spe-
clal Service Force was activated at
Helena. Mont, July 20 of the same
year. 1t was under the command of
37-year-old Maj. Gen. Robert Fred
erick of San Francisco, now an air.
borne task force commander, then a
lieutenant colonel working with
Gen. Eisenhower in the War De-
partments operations and planning
section.
Used on World Wide Basis.
Like the goth Air Force, which has
been operating against Japan, the
list Special Service Force. whose
men call it simply THE Force" IS
employed on worldwide basis. be-
ing attached to various armies at
the discretion of the combined
chiefs of staff.
AT its inception it was intended
for air-borne sabotage in Norway or
the Carpathians. At 1:3O m. Au-
gust Is, l943, the specialists were
frst into Kiska in the Aleutians.
At 1:30 am, exactly a year later,
they struck in Southern France.
Between those times they had
surged from mountain top to noun
tain top on the winter road to
Casino, in Italy. and appeared at
the Anzio beachhead, where they
terrorized the Germans for 80 nights
OF black-faced raiding before spear
heading the breakout, to be the
first into Rome. There Gen. Fred
erick left them for his present Job.
1t. Col. Robert Burhans of Lam
sing, Mich, son of Michigan State
College professor, who had winter
warfare training before going to
Washington's Army intelligence Sec
ton. became second in command
before activation of the force.
Picked Tough sMen.
AS plans for the force developed
simultaneously with a winter weap-
on wherewith the idea began-the
weasel" tracked carrier for snow
Gen. Frederick and Col. Burhans
sent out a call to Army camps in
the Western and Southwestern
Evening star., 1944-08-22
Restatement Expected
From Bulgaria Today
On Position in War
ey the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 22.-The Bull
garian government Of Premier
Ivan Bagrianov, apparently
thwarted in attempts to get out
of the war on any basis short
Of unconditional surrender and
return of annexed territories, is
expected to restate its position
again today through Foreign
Minister Parvan Draganov.
There was some belief In London
that Draganov, in a scheduled ad-
dress to the Bulgarian Parliament
this afternoon, might even announce
at least a limited break with Ger
many, although Ankara dispatches
indicated the Bagrianov govern
ment might feel the time was not
ripe for such q step.
The Parliament has been in al
most continuous session since Pre-
mier Bagrianov declared last week
that his people desired peace.
In a dispatch from Ankara. Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Richard
G. Massock suggested that a forth
right Bulgarian action toward throw
ing out the German garrisons might
hinge on Russian offensive in Ro-
mania-an attack which Berlin has
claimed already is under way, but
which Moscow has not confirmed.
while the Bulgarian Army con-
ceivably could eject the Germans in
a crisis brought on by a Russian
offensive in nearby Romania," Mr..
Massock wrote, the Bulgarians are
expected to act in a way calculated
not to offend the Germans before
an Allied force is ready to move in
and occupy the country"
Mr.. Massock said the best avail
able reports in Turkey indicated
Britain and the United States, with
the acquiescence of the Soviet
Union, have refused to bargain with
Bulgaria for her exit from the war.
Bulgaria and Russia are not at war.
Mr.. Massock said election of
German troops from Bulgaria was
said to be one of the major Allied
demands. Sofia reports to Turkey
indicated that about 5000 Germans
remain in Bulgaria, that the Ges-
tapo continues active. and that the
Nazis control many strategic points,
such as airfields.
In broadcast reported last night
by the Federal Communications
Commission, the Greek government
in Cairo declared Bulgarias pro-
fessions of desire for peace were
like the lamentations of a thief
who has been caught in the act !"
Return of Greek Macedonia by Bull
garia is point at issue.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
Yonk Flyer Finds
Bombers Safer
Than ScoffoIds
By the Associated Press,

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Aug. o.
Sergt. Carl E. Loar of Hampton,
Va, was unscratched after Al mis-
sions against the japanese as a
gunner on medium bomber.
Then. one day in New Guinea. he
was on scaffold working on a new
mess hall. Three Jap Zeros came
over on a strafing raid. One shot
the scaffold out from under him, and
in the fall vertebrae was broken.
Sergt. Loar is at the Air Forces
redistribution station here. and his
back still is under medical treat
ment.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
Nazi Admiral Ends Life
4 Days Before Invasion
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ST. EUTROPE, France. Aug. o.
Admiral Siegfried Wieder, 55-year-
old commander of German marine
forces in Southern France ano
charged with the defense of naval
establishments from Nice to Perpie-
nan, committed suicide in this vii
lage at the outskirts of Aiken
Provence four days before the Allied
invasion.
The acmirals French secretary
found the body in his study at noon
August II after hearing a shot.
The flag atop the villa housing
Admiral Wieders headquarters was
dropped to half staff and all serv-
ants were prevented from entering
the villa for whole day until it
was made known" the admiral had
Succumbed from "a heart attack"
French resistance leaders said
they heard the Germans had
planned to kill Admiral Wieder be-
cause it was believed ne was impli-
Gated in anti Hitler plotting.