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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Russia Sounds
Warning to
Films on Peace

MOSCOW, March 90. CUP)-
Russia warned Finland Wednesday
that by rejecting the Soviet terms
for an armistice she had assumed
all responsibilities for the conse-
quences."
The warning came from the for
eign office information bureau re-
viewing the exchanges between the
two countries after Juho K. Paasi-
XVI, former Finnish premier, eX-
tended peace feelers to the Soviet
legation in Stockholm last month.
Recalling that the foreign COM
missariat had published Russia's
terms March |, the announcement
said that Finland's reply a week
after revealed that "the Finnish
government hesitated to accept the
Soviet conditions for an armistice
without preliminary discussions.
Russia replied March 10 that she
considered the Finnish answer un-
satisfactory and called Finland's at
tention to the fact that the Soviet
proposals given to Paasikivi were
minimum and basic conditions"
THE government also stated that
it would await the Finnish gov
arnment's reply until March 49,"
the Soviet foreign office reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Eating
Prices
Sliced
OPA Orders
Cuts in
Bay Cities

SAN FRANCISCO, March
%. (UP)--Five cents will buy
a cup of coffee again in San
Francisco Bay area restaurants when
the Office of Price Administra-
tons flat dollar and cents ceilings
go into effect March 81.
If restauranteurs contemplate
charging extra for cream and sugar
to maintain present 10 cents per
cup price, OPA reminded them
Wednesday that all prices were
based on accepted practices Of April
1943
1t was indicated that similar roll
backs would be put into effect in
other areas, possibly Los Angeles,
Seattle and Detroit.
Eating costs will be trimmed at
least IL per cent by the rollbacks,
Carroll said.
The rollback was expected to
save $8,370,000 a year.
Items affected were ham and
eggs. bacon and eggs, two eggs
(any style), hot cakes. ham sand
wiches, American cheese sandwich
es, hamburger sandwiches, hot roast
beef sandwiches, fried chicken, liver
and bacon or onions, pork chops,
filet of sole, halibut, salmon roast
beef, combination salad, soup, pie
coffee and a club breakfast con-
sisting of fruit, fruit juice or cereal,
two eggs, toast and coffee.
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Craemer Blasts
Water Pact,
Farm Price Rule

Il definitely oppose any plan to
give away a single drop OF water
from the Colorado river when Cali
fCrnia and ArizCna have more than
a half billion dollars invested,
which was purported an investment
guaranteed by the government in
the Harvesting of that river
Justus Craemer, Orange county
publisher, orchardist and member
of the state railroad commission,
Wednesday SO declared to the POST
Press Craemer, who is candidate
for U. S. senator on both the Re-
publican and Democratic tickets, is
touring Imperial county in order to
acquaint himself with its problems,
he said.
Imperial county should be a vital
link in a southern bOrder-line inter-
regional federal highway connect
ing Texas ana San Diego, both from
a military defense standpoint and
as a southern California economic
improvement" Craemer declared
1T is unreasonable that San Diego
should be placed on a stub high
way from Los Angeles when this
section OF California presents one
OF the greatest areas of postwar
development and is in immediate
need of military defense route"
Referring to the proposed treatv
with Mexico in which the United
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Tomato Growers
Demand Stable
Ceiling Prices

In an effort to straighien out the
chaotic condition in the tomato
industry in California, Imperial
Valley growers Wednesday asked
the Office of Price Administration
to set definite price ceilings and
stick to them.
The growers recommended a l5i5
cents a pound ceiling for the crop
from all desert areas in California
with the ceiling to remain in effect
from Dec. to June 80, inclusive.
They also recommended retail
ceiling price of 25 cents a pound
for the same period.
Growers in the valley made these
recommenc ations because they said
they could not carry on under the
present OPA practice of changing
retail prices every Thursday morn
ing. They declared this practice up
set the natural wholesale price and
frequently forced the grower to
sell away below the ceiling price
when there was no legitimate rea-
son for them to take prices lower
than market conditions indicated
they should receive for their prod
uctS.
They hope to hear from the OPA
soon in response to their sugges-
tionS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Reinforced Nazis
Forced to Retreat
Reds Now 20
Miles From
Rumania Line

MOSCOW, Mar. 22. (UP)
Soviet vanguards drove
nearly half way across Bes-
sarabia to within 20 miles of
the Prut river border of Ru-
mania Wednesday after splitting
fleeing German armies with
thrust across the Balti-Cernauti
railroad.
Front reports said Marshal Ivan
S. Konevs End Ukrainian army
forces were rolling across the Bes-
sarabian plains at pace that gave
promise of carrying them to the
Prut within matter of days.
German hopes of a stand north
of the Rumanian border faded as
the Russians smashed back new
full strength enemy units rushed
to Bessarabia in a futile attempt
to restore the Nazi line, which has
ceased to exist at many points.
REACH LWOW PROVINCE
In old Poland, the 1st Ukrainian
army broke into Lwow province and
pushed down the Brody-Tarnopoi
highway to within 35 miles of the
big highway and railway junction
of Lwow itself. The defense out
post Of Brocy, SIS miles east north.
east of Lwow, was outflanked COM
pletely and expected to fall soon.
The 3rd Ukrainian army at the
eastern end of the front wedged in
to Odessa province from the east
and began battle for the rail-
way junction of Voznesensk, rs miles
northeast of the Black sea port of
| Odessa.
TAKE 40 TOWNS
Konevs forces captured 40 towns
and villages in his full-dress drive
toward the Prut Tuesday and at
last reports had penetrated more
than 20 miles beyond the Dniester
river.
The army organ Red Star called
the severing of the Balti-Cernauti
railroad, the only German lateral
line in northern Bessarabia, a
great achievement" because it was
defended by fresh German REIN
forcements.
Partisan forces had paved the
way for the successful thrust by
seizing a portion of the line in ad-
vance Of the Red army and holcing
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Patton May Lead
Invasion Force

7th Army commander. Any ideas
that the shift was a disciplinary
move resulting from the face
slapping episode in which Patton
was involved were dispelled when
the war department revealed that
Patton had been given command Of
another but unidentified army.
1t was recalled also that Gen
Dwight d. Eisenhower spoke highly
CT PattCnS ability as a combat
leader when the controversy over
his slapping CT two enlisted men
was raging last winter. In his
present job as commander of Allied
invasion forces in western Europe,
Eisenhower will need tough and
proven field commanders. And
despite the furor over the slapping
incidents, most observers here agree
Patton fills the bill.
Word of Patton's new assignment
was interpreted to mean that the
United States now has at least one
army organized as such in Britain
So far the only U. S. armies identi-
fled abroad have been the 5th and
7th Armies in the Mediterranean
and the 9th III the southwest
Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
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Scar
Berlin
800 Bombers
Rake City;
No Resistance

LONDON, Mar. 20. (UP)
Three great waves of Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberat-
ors dropped about 1,500 tons of
bombs on Berlin without challenge
from the German air force Wed
nesday in the first assault on the
cloud-shrouded city since March 9.
About GOO heavy bombers Of the
U. S. Eighth air force flew with
one of the strongest fighter escorts
ever sent over Germany in a great
armada numbering perhaps 1000
Warplanes.
American creWmen OF the four
motored bomberS reported that they
scored bulls-eyes on industrial tar
gets in the center of Berlin, and
when they left flames were shoot
ing up to 1000 feet amidst the
broken clouds above which columns
of smoke lowered
Berlin and the other parts of
Germany over which the raiders
flew were covered by nine-tenthS
clouds, and the bombers used the
overcast bombing technique.
Some fortress groups reported
that breaks in the cloucs over the
city enabled them to see grea:
patches of it, including at least one
big space pocked apparently by
bomb craters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
j. s. Airr,en Use
Quenck|ess
Incendiary Bomb

WASHINGTON. Marcr %. (UP)
American airmen are now drop
ping on Nazi EUROPE u new oOO-
pound ''blackburner' incendiary
bomb which cannot be extinguished
once il starts blazing, the war de-
partment revealed Wednesday,.
The department said the new
bomb, known also as the MTG or
'goop," was tremendously de-
structive fire agent developed by
the U. S. chemical warfare service.
1t contains a mixture of jellied oil
and finely powdered scrap mag
nesium, which, when set off by a
small powder charge, gives the
bomb its deadly effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
SPEED ACROSS BESSARAB|A
Bitter Battles
Rage Along
Hungary Border

planned as a move of a protective
nature, aimed at defending south
eastern Europe against Soviet as
pirations.
SWISS REPORTS
AS the protective occupation
made notorious by the Nazis was
reported engulfing Bulgaria and
Rumania, reports through SWitzer-
land said a miniature war was rag
ing along the common frontier of
Hungary and Rumania, where the
Nazis aggression had famed an
cient hatreds into open hostilities
Hungarian shock troops and home
guarts were reported opposing Ger
man and Rumanian forces trying to
push in from the southeast, preci-
pitating fierce battles in the areas
of Arad and Nagy-Varad.
Marshal Maximilian Won WEIGH
commander of German occupation
forces in the Balkans, was report
Continued on page 6, col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
This Chap Took
No Chances

WILMINGTON, Calf, March %
(UP)-Maybe it was gambling, but
not for Roy Ledbetter, who operated
the game.
Police who broke up the game in
parking lot near war plant said
Ledbetter's dice lacked fives or
twos. both of which figure prcmi-
nently in those lucky sevens and
elevens.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Boards Adopt
New IA Plan

WASHINGTON, March % (UP)-
Draft Tegistrants appealing from l.
A classificaticnc shall be given
regular induction physical eX-
aminations hereafter before their
cases are sent to boards of anOeal.
selective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey ordered Wednesday.
This will prevent cluttering ap-
peals boards with cases of ap-
plicants who will later be found
unfit for service anyhow. The
order provides, however, that ap-
pellants shall not be ordered to
take the physical examinations
until their order numbers are
reached by local boards in the
usual manner.
Hershey also directed appeals
boards tC give precedence 10 re-
quests for agricultural deferments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

SACRAMENTO, Mar. %.
(UP) Gov. Earl Warren
Wednesday told the state re-
construction and unemployment COM
mission and its advisory commit
tees, containing some of California S
best known figures of industry, edu-
cation and government, he believed
the commissions primary job is
to help industries and individuals
help themselves" in postwar re-
adjustment.
Declaring that the conversion of
CALIFORNIA; economy to war pur-
poses has been three or four times
as drastic as the national average"
Warren, however, said that no
planning agency of government
can ever take the place of individ-
ual and community effort" in re-
conversion.
SEES NEW FIELDS
I'VE in state government" he
said, believe facts exist which
when properly correlated and ex-
plored will inspire many new in
duStrial and business ventures with
in our state. We are convinced that
governments best contribution to
postwar planning will be to mar
shall these facts which are avail
able. to stimulate other interested
groups to explore further, and to
coordinate the tremendous program
of study and action for postwar
victory"
The governor cited statistics to
show that the state has plunged
ahead full 20 years in industrial
action" Civilian employment has
increased 40 per cent and manu-
featuring employment over 200 per
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Marines Corner
10000 Japs

ALLIED ADQUAR T E R S,
Southwest Pacific, March %. (UP)
u. S. Marines completed the en-
circlement of the Bismarck Archi-
pelago by seizing two islands in the
St. Matthias group, and American
battleships Immediately opened a
frontal attack on the 10000 Japa-
nese trapped in the isolated area
by firing 1000 tons of shells into
Kavieng, New Ireland, it was an
nounced Wednesday.
The marines occupied the islands
of Emirau and Elmusao Monday
morning, in the northernmost pen
etration Of the southwest Pacific,
bringing allied forces only $50 miles
south of the big Japanese base at
Truk in the Carolines.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Germans She'll
Anzio HOSPITAL

ON THE 5TH ARMY BEACH
HEAD, Italy, March % CUP) -
Thirty German shells burst in an
Allied hospital area on the Anzio
beachhead Wednesday, killing five
patients and injuring II others.
The German shells crashed down
in salvos CT four to seven within a
matter of minutes at least IA hos
pital tents had been riddled by
agmentS.
Each hospital tent was plainly
marked with large Red Cross, and
there were no military installations
in the area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
.38 Ship Workers
Face u. s. Count

$l,0O0,CO0 year in an extra work
racket in which hundreds of workers
were involved.
Director j. Edgar Hoover of the
federal bureau Of investigation said
those arrested were leaders in a
conspiracy whereby production tab
ulators arranged with piecework
welders to report more work than
was actually done on ships built
under maritime commission con-
tracts.
The accused are charged with pre-
senting false claims to the govern
ment, for which the maximum pen
atty on conviction is 10 years i'm
prisonment or $4,000 fine, or both
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Swiss Report
Nazis Push
Into Rumania

LONDON, Mar. %. OUP)
Swiss advices reported
bloody fighting along the
border of Hungary and Ru-
mania Wednesday, and other sourc-
es said the Germans were occupying
Bulgaria and Rumania in a des-
perate bio to bolster the Balkan
defenses against the Russian army.
A German foreign office spokes-
man, quoted in dispatch to Bern,
said that the matter can be eX-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Arnold Stresses
Need for FIiers

WASHINGTON, March 90 CUPD
Urging enactment CT legislation
to give regular army commissions
to women pilots, General II. II
Arnold, chief of the army air forces,
said Wednesday he expects in time
Ito have every male Amy flyer out
of the United States and overseas
fighting"
I'VE must provide fighting mer
wherever we can, replacing them
with women wherever we can
whether it be in factories or towing
airplane targets or wherever it ma
be-" Arnold tcld the hcuse military
affairs committee.
He said the air force is doing its
part by using women pilots TO
ferry planes from factories to
modification centers and depots,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

HERMISTON, Ore, Mar.
%. (UP)-A terrific eXplo-
sion Tuesday night at the
Umatilla Ordnance Depot in east
ern oregon killed six civilian work
ers in one of the many "big-as-a-
house" underground storage rooms,
Col. A. F. Buyers, commandant, an
nounced Wednesday.
Names of the victims were with
held, pending notification of next
of kin.
Col. Buyers said there was no
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Mental Patients
Now 24,b54

SACRAMENTO, March % up
Population of the states mental
hospitals reached an all-time high
of 24,654 patients on Feb. %, Mrs.
Dora Shaw Heffner. director of in
stituticnS. said Wednesday in a re-
port to Gov. Earl Warren.
The total number of patients was
about two-and a half per cent
greater than the number in in
stituticns year before, Mrs.
Heffner said.
She added that overcrowding was
approximately 20 per cent on the
basis CT revised" estimates of
capacity.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Ordnance Plant Blast
Kills Six Workers

The "igloo" was about SO feet
long, 30 feet wide and IL feet hign,
used principally for the storage of
huge bombs, such as 1000 pound
"blockbusters" used in aerial bomb
ing. 1t was the first accident on
the huge military installation since
1t was opened for service in Decem-
Der, 1941.
The reservation covers about 10
square miles.
Col. Buyers said a preliminary
estimate indicated damage might
run between $4,000 and 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Safety Measure
Proves Fatal

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March
% (UP'-Engineer c. NJ Childers,
looked flom his freight locomotive
window and saw that the two
trains were gcing to bump. He
jumped just as the two engines
collided headon nine miles east of
here. Childers was killed None of
the other trainmen was hurt
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Japanese Army
Invades India

NEW DELHI, March %. CUP)
Japanese forces have invaded IN
dia at several points along the Indo-
Burmese frontier in a drive toward
the British-held road and supply
center of Imphal. a communique
disclosed Wednesday.
Striking westward across the
Chindwin river, the japanese were
slogging through the wild and
mountainous district of the Somra
hills tract fringing the eastern bor-
der of India.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Explosion Kills
y Yank Troops

LONDON, March %. CUP)-Unit-
ed States army headquarters an
nounced today that 20 American
soldiers were killed and eight in
jured when explosives were set off
accidentally during training some
where in England No details were
given.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

WASHINGTON, March % CUP)
- News that Lieutenant General
George S. Patton, Jr, is tc COM
mand a new Allied army prompted
unofficial speculation Wednesday
that the colorful former 7th Army
chief may lead one of the touch
landing operations in the ccmii 9
western European invasion.
Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch,
Jr., who headed the army forces
that replaced the marines on
Guadalcanal, succeeded Patton as
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

cent-three to four times the ma
tional average, he said.
The state, he said, has laid a
foundation for a program of public
works to cushion the transitory
shock" of conversion to peace
through earmarking of portions of
tax revenues and freezing of sur
pluses. He declared that state con-
Struction would meet real needs,
not j.. create wasteful and unnec-
essary work.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Warren Urges State to Map
Own Postwar Plans Now

He said that an early determine
ton of federal policies on postwar
problems be urged because of their
important effect on the states
plans. However, he said:
I'VE cannot sit back and wait
until fec eral policy has been deter
mined and announced. The Pacific
coast states have pressing obliga-
ton to make their own plans, and
the same time have an equal obliga-
ton to help to shape the federal
policy :"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

fire after the explosion in the un-
derground "igloo" and there was
no evidence of sabotage. The blast
ripped huge hole in the ground
but none of the nearby storage
facilities was damaged.
Store windows in nearby Hermis-
ton were broken, and the blast was
heard in Pendleton, SO miles to the
east. Resic ents of Spokane, Wash.
Lewiston, Ida, and Moscow, Ida.
within 200 mile radius, felt the
shock In varying degree.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

towing targets for ground crews and
planes, and is starting to use them
in the training command.
AS WASPS they have a civilian
standing, he said, but should be
part CT the army and given bene-
fits service men and women have.
Arnold told the committee that
the need for fighting men Is so
severe that the air force has re-
turned to the ground forces some
$4,000 men who were available for
air service
He said they were "feme OF ihc
best qualified mentally and ply
Sically' for flying, but the need OF
the ground forces was so great that
it was thought best to let them 90
instead of holding them TO await
their turn to get into flying schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Mdrine Station
TO Get Chapel

tract of the M. M. Sundt company
of Tucson, Arizona, which was
awarded the $2,118,OOO contract for
constructing barracks. housing faci-
lities, and other buildings. Final
decision in this matter, however,
had not been made wednesday.
Additions to and new runways,
parking areas. and taxiways already
are under construction at the sta
ton on a contract of $l,768,56
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
u AMBl|Ne
u EpoRTER
What's In A Name

What's In A Name
While legal minds discussed his
official designation, w. F.. North,
Sr., stood by anG listened.
Various names were suggested,
such as agent for tax decided prop
erty, county representative in ham
ding tax decided property, and su-
pervisor of tax 6eeded property
District Attorney Charles G. Hal
liday and County Clerk w. j. Nc
Clelland at last went into huddle
They emerged with the right des'
ignation for North. 1t was "coordi-
nator."
I've been christened," said North,
looking down his nose.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

The navy department approved
construction of chapel at the Ell
Centre marine air station in the
amount of $4,000, it was announced
from Washington Wednesday
FUNDS for construction CT the
chapel will come out of the $4,-
$4,000 allotted for improvements
and additions at the station 1t
was expected that constructing the
chapel will be added to the con-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Superlative Superlative-

Imperial Valley always has been
a place of superlatives, the biggest
this, the biggest that, the hottest
=. the lowest . . and all that sort
of thing.
This super duper iGea must be
characteristic of us all.
At the Office of Defense Trans
portation in the USDA War board
office in Ell Centro a man filed an
application for gasoline for his
truck.
He asked for sufficient gasoline
to fuel a two-ton truck to travel
$4,000 miles in the next six months
hauling hay.
Super -super-super-s r-super-super.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22

BALTIMORE, Md, March %.
CUP)-Thirty-eight employees of the
Bethlehem Steel company's Spar
rows Point shipyard were held
Wednesday on charges of defrauding
the government of more than
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Oleanders Again


All Saturday afternoon All
Saturday night Until l am.
Sunday :. All day Sunday -.
Mildred Rhinehart and Margaret
Foster of the ration board office
in Ell Centre struggled all that time
with gasoline coupons and applica-
tionS. They mailed out more than
LOCO ration books. They had to take
the responsibility so they did it.
Oleanders to you, Mildred and
Margaret, for rushing the stamps
to those who need them.
And while we're on the subject,
oleanders to the volunteers and
paid staff at the ration office.
We're glad we don't have to put UP
Continued on page 6, col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 73, minimum
Wed. Al; S am. Wed. So, humidity
81; noon Wed. IS, humidity "a; 5
pm. Tuesday 20, humidity IL.
Bradley beam., 1944-07-29
IS Air Forces Now -.
 In Operation

sible attack on the continental U. s. Today, although they still main tain a defensive force, their main job is the organizing and training of air units for overseas combat.
 The four. continental air forces operate through sub-commands or wings, each of which supervise air bases of particular type or in a particular area.
 Headquarters of the First Air Force is located at Mitchell Field, Long Island, N. Y. Maj. Gen. E. O'D. Hunter is the commanding general. The First Air Force was organized in January, 1941, as tho Northeast Air District and was re- designated as the First Air Force on April 9th, of the same year. It's function is specified as organiza- ton and training of bomber, fight CT and other units and crews for assignment overseas; participation with Army Ground Forces in com- bat training maneuvers, and pro- vision of units and planes for de- fense of the continental United S+o%oo