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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

For fear the proposed
county drunk" ordinance
might work a hardship, the
county board of supervisors Monday
instructed County Attorney Charles
c. Halliday to work it over and
present it at the next meeting.
The co-called crunk ordinance
was requested by peace officers
many months ago so they would
have a means of arresting intoXi-
eating persons found in rural areas
who might take a notion to drive
a car. They called it a safety meas
ure and asked. that it be modelled
after those in effect in other coun-
ties in California. State law gives
them no right to arrest persons I'M
less they are actually driving a car.
HOW WORDED
IF we pass this ordinance 1t will
give these traffic officers the right
to arrest a drunk Just sitting in a
car or being taken home by a sober
friend" Supervisor B. M. Graham
of Brawley said. THAT wouldn't be
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Board Studies Facilities
For tuberculosis Cases

necessity after the war. In fact it
is a necessity now and if you can
build it now it woulc be wise to do
So"
DR.. Miriam Hubbell. Imperial
county heakh officer, gave the
board statistics from records in her
office to show the rapid growth of
tuberculosis in Imperial county.
AT present there are $50 known
cases of tuberculosis in the county,"
she said, with "a of them being
treated in the county hospital. In
194l a total of 20 persons cied of
the dread disease in this county In
1912 the number was a.. In l943 it
was 81. In the first six months of
this year it was IL" She quoted
from case records in her files to
show how the disease sprea6s from
one person ito other members of the
same family and from one school
pupil or office employee to another
Continued on Pig. 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
County to Honor
All in Service

cost of such . monument. saying
they deemed it fitting and proper
that such a monument should rise
on county property so that all the
servicemen and women as we'll as
the war dead be honored for their
deeds.
PRELIMINARY PLANS
Preliminary plans call for a
bronze list of the names of the
war dead which will, of course, not
be made until after the close Of
the war when the list is complete
The names of the surviving men
and women will possibly be in
cluded OH parchment scrolls in a
recess in the monument.
Lets 60 ahead on this thing
board members agreed, land have
it all ready when the boys come
home. Let's not be years getting
it built. 1t is something that is
the county's responsibility and we
want it done right so it will be a
credit to the boys and a credit to
the county"
The determination to build a
monument has been growing
throughout the county. The Ameri-
can Legion, the Fathers of Fighters,
and all sorts of organizations and
individuals have discussed the pos
sibilities of such a thing.
County Clerk w. j. McClelland
was made a member of Boyce
Aten American Legion post COM
mittee to investigate the monument
idea. He obtained facts, figures,
estimates. and a drawing of a sug-
geSted plan for it, When board
members saw it they decided it
was time for the county to take a
hand, provide the site, and set
aside the money
1t was decided at the meeting
of the board in Ell Centre Monday
to get more suggested plans and
get busy on the construction as soon
as the weather permits this fall
The board will confer with County
Agricultural Commissioner B. A.
Harrigan, who was delegated to look
after landscaping of the court
house park this fall. so that the
landscaping will provide suitable
background for the memorial.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Bu UNITED PRESS

Premier Gen. Hideki TOTO,
who led Japan to war against
the United States, has been
removed as chief of the Japa-
nese general staff, radio To-
kyo announced Tuesday in a
broadcast heard by United
Press in San Francisco.
Coming on the heels of the resig-
nation of Admiral Shigetaro Shi-
maCa as navy minister Monday,
the removal of The Razor" from
control of the Japanese army indi-
Gated major crisis in the hippo
rese empire.
The broadcast, which gave no in
dication that TOTO had relinquished
his premiership or other govern
mental posts. said Gen. Toshijiro
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Five jap Vessels
Sent to Bottom

ALLIED H E ADQUA TIERS,
Southwest Pacific, July 10. UP)-
Five japanese vessels, including a
troop-laden transport, were sunk
or damaged by Allied warplanes in
widespread attacks off Dutch New
Guinea and in the East Indies, it
was announced Tuesday.
The l5O0-ton transport, filled
with men and supplies, was sunk
off Halmahera in the Moluccas,
where medium bombers also scored
damaging near-misses on a 7O00-
ton vessel and destroyed four load
ed barges and small craft.
Four Royal Australian Air Force
Beaufighters heavily damaged and
set afire two 4000-ton merchant
transports and a small vessel off
Flores island. east of Java, Sunday
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Schlatter said.
We'll, the officers in the incor-
porated areas have that right If the
drunks are making themselves a
nuisance" Halliday said.
Il didn't think of that Schlatter
said.
1t finally was decided to delete
the clause which makes 1t unlawful
to be drunken nuisance" In a
public place in the rural areas and
confine the ordinance to the public
highways and roads Of the rural
areas.
THAT ordinance as 1t stands now
might get a lot OF people into
trouble" Graham said.
Eyes, the officers might abuse IT."
Schlatter agreed.
Lets pass II and then " they
abuse 1t we can rescind IT," Preble
mo, let's have II done over
Graham insisted.
ok Schlatter said. get u
better"
The matter was laid In Hallidays
lap.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
MexicoIi Valley
To Get Water

the Interior and he has agreed to
authorize and instruct the Bureau
CT Reclamation use the All Ameri-
can Canal beginning Immediately
for delivery by that bureau of Col
orado river water to Mexico during
the present emergency only and
under such conditions financial and
otherwise as the Department of
State may negotiate with the gov
Continued on Pig. s, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
BY NORMAN MONTPELIER

PORT CHICAGO, Calf, July 49,
notwithstanding lantern lights and
automobile headlights, the only il
Elimination in black Port Chicago.
reveal a town shattered by the eX-
plosion of ammunition aboard two
650O-ton Liberty ships being loaded
in the bay.
Casualty estimates still are I'M
official, but deputy sheriff James
Long told me tonight he believed
$50 people were killed and $50 to
800 injured. Long said he believed
the bulk of casualties was among
naval personnel.
On one of the city's main streets
a five-foot slab of Steel believed
to be a ships plate, was embedded
in the concrete sidewalk.
There is not a pane of glass left
in the town. Front doors were blown
off their hinges. I saw hundreds
of window stills blown off with their
paneS of glass.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Two CaIexicans
Hurt in Wreck

Two Calexicans were injured
shortly before midnight Monday
when dump truck overturned and
burned near the EUCALYPTUS school
on highway 80 west of Ell Centre.
Glen G. Haynes, "A, the driver,
and Rex Miller, II, suffered burns
and cuts and bruises, highway pa
trolmen said. .-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

that the increase is rapid and said
he thought the original appropria-
ton of $4,000 year to build a new
tuberculosis wing would not be SUI
flcient to handle the problem. Drs.
C. S. Brooks and Phil Hodgkins. Ell
Centric physicians, also were present
at the meeting and urged the board
to have the money reacy to build
the hospital addition as soon as ma
terials are available.
Build it just as soon as you can,"
the physicians said, 1--WE know you
can't staff it now but it will be a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Imperial countyS war dead and
the servicemen and women who
survive this war will be honored by
a memorial to be erected in the
park north of the county court
house in Ell Centre.
The board of supervisors Monday
put $500 in the l944-45 budget
to pay the cost of the monument.
The board members passed a for
NAL resolution providing for the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Charges Filed
On Stabbinq

Julian zamcra. 81, is in the
county Jail in Ell Centre charged
with stabbing and critically injur-
ing Leonora Moleno Rivas Llamas,
IS, with a pair of scissors.
The stabbing Is alleged to have
occurred on ranch south of the
county hospital Monday night dur
ing an argument over money the
woman said was due her from a
group of men for whom she had
been keeping house. She was
stabbed in the chest, side and arm.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
WorshiP Smash
At Guam Port

PEARL HARBOR. July Is. CUP)
Battleships of the U. S. Pacific fleet
were revealed Tuesday to have
joined the "softening-up" campaign
against the former American naval
station at Guam.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced that the battleshipS, in
their first action since the pre-in-
vasion assault on Saipan. 1870 miles
north of Guam, Joined with cruisers
and destroyers Saturday to give the
island its sixth naval bombardment
in a week. .t'
Following up the naval attack,
carrier-baSed planes again raided
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Guam Sunday to carry the assault
into the 18th day, and also hit
nearby Rota island for the twelfth
consecutive day.
"a Japanese Domei news agency
dispatch, recorded by FEC moni-
tors, said l6 American bombers and
fighters raided Rcta again today
Nimitz said Japanese shore bat
teries returned fire for the first
time during the naval lombard
ment Saturday, but the enemy fire
was ineffective and none of the
surface ships was damaged.
Results of the bombardment were
not disclosed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Premier TOTO Is Removed
AS Chief of Staff

was announced. and apparently pre-
pared the way for the statement.
Tojo's declaration on the Saipan
crisis was contained in a special
statement broadcast to the home
empire and recorded by FEC moni-
tors.
The loss of the central Pacific
stronghold in Japan's inner de-
lenses had caused Emperor Hiro-
hito concern" TOTO said. anc as
Continued on Pig. s, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Announcement that there
were 40 new cases of tuber-
culosis discovered in 1mpe-
rial county in the first six months
of this year caused the county
board of supervisors Monday to look
favorably upon a request that
money be provided for still more ia
cilities for caring for sufferers at
the county hospital.
Keith Nets. president of the I'm
perial County tuberculosis and
Health association, told the board
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

WHITE NIdISIIdI NUIISUdITIIII n.
Army was speeding through Vidoml,
Is miles north of BreSt Litovsk, two
other Red armies moved up REIN
forcements of men, tanks and mo-
bile guns for a smash into East
Prussia, Germanys easternmost
home province.
The German: counter-attacked
repeatedly in an attempt to wipe
out the Soviet bricgehead across
the Niemen river on the Lithuanian
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Mexicali Valley farmers
are to receive needed water
from the All American Canal
to save up to 100000 acres of
cotton and corn.
Authority to release the necessary
acre-footage was received TUESDAY
morning by Chairman Evan T.
Hewes of the Imperial Valley Irri-
cation district in kilograms from
Secretary of State Hull and Interior
Secretary Ickes.
Granting of this authority was in
response ito urgent kilograms sent
July Is to the two secretaries by
Chairman HeWes in which he set
forth the Immediate need to send
the water down the river to be
picked up at the Alamo canal head
in the valley.
STEPS TAKEN AT ONCE
Immec lately upon receipt of the
kilograms steps were taken by the
district to get the water flowing,
Hewes announced He estimated
that a full head will be available
to the distressed farmers within
twelve days.
1t is set forth in the orders from
Washington that the water is to be
served only curing this present
emergency in the neighboring val
ley and that negotiations will be
undertaken with the Mexican gov
eminent for payment for water and
for installations to release it.
HULL'S TELEGRAM
Evan T. HeWes,
President Board of Directors,
Imperial Irrigation District,
Eel Centre, Calf.
In reference to your telegram
July Is regarding the water supply
problem in Mexicali Valley I have
today requested the Secretary of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Bottle
At st. 10
yanks Regain
Lost Ground;
.Nazis Stubborn

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
AEF, July Is. (UP)-The Ameri-
can first army captured bitterly
defended st. LO Tuesday in a
triumphant climax to its toughest
battle of the French campaign
which cracked the German ring
of iron around the Allied beach
head in Normandy.
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, July Is. (UP)-
American siege forces bat
tered back into st. Lo Tues
day for the second time in
two days in extremely violent
fighting which Melted subur-
ban Ste. Croix de Lo, a mile
due east from the heart of
the Normandy keystone base.
Supreme headquarters an
nounced that United States
shock troops stood firmly in
the eastern suburbs of St.
Lo, central hinge of the Ger
man defense line in France,
and had brought the artarial
highway northwestward to Periers
under small arms fire from ridge
200 yards above it and about mid
way between the towns.
Official and field reports Incl
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Umezu had succeeded TOTO as chief
OF the general staff.
Earlier Tokyo had quoted TOTO as
saying that the American conquest
OF Saipan. 1900 miles from the
Japanese capital, had thrust upon
Japan IAN unprecedentedly great
national crisis"
LOSS ADMITTED
The loss of the key Marianas Is
land was admitted by Japan only
a few hours before Tojo's removal
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
YUMAN ARRESTED
IN WINTERHAVEN

George Wiseman, 50, Yuma resi-
dent, was arrested in Winterhaven
on a charge of furnishing liquor to
Indians. He was taken to the I'm
perial county Jail at Ell Centre to
await court action.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
FACES TRIAL

VCEo NAL
A. C. Bumgardner, Ell Centre
charged with stealing watch from
Phil Mastenbrock, pleaded innocert
in Ell Centre police court Tuesday.
He asked for a jury trial The time
was set for 10 O'Clock next Tuesday
by Judge Lee Nuffer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Reds Move
On Warsaw
Mile-an-Hour Advance Puts Polish
Plains Under Artillery Fire;
Vast Forces Ready Prussian Drive
Blu NJ. s. HANDLER

MOSCOW, July IS. (UP)-Soviet tanks and mobile in
fantry plunged to within 6 miles of Warsaw Tuesday in
a mile advance that carried almost to within
ery range of Brest Ltovsk gateway to the Polish plains
threatened oufank that key fortress north
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
y AMBlINe
IMPORTER


This note came Tuesday.
Dear r r You are look
ing for a flower to take the place
of oleanderS. 2 You want
something akin to an orchid. ten
der, exotic, fragile. 3 You
want something native to the Colo
RADIO desert. Well, how about the
famous Night Blooming Cereus' ?
| 1t blooms one night in the
year. 2 1t is very fragrant and
celestial. 3 . 1t Is revered by
whites, Mexicans, and Indians. 4
The Mexicans call it 'Reina de
la Noche' or the Queen of the
Night"
There is another good one. What
do you thing of that?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Award Department.
Until we get this flower business
settled. we will award all of the
suggested ones to those who are
in on the plan to get an Imperial
county monument 10 our war dead
and servlcemen and women.
SO to all of you we hereby award
a bouquet of appreciation composed
of night blooming cereus, a desert
lily, desert Verbena, and a spray
of palO verde.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

Down the street came Lawrence
Niles plotting somewhat small
model coupe 1t was a frail look
ing vehicle dwarfed by his size. He
punched the horn button.
WOW!
The thing has below that is as
Continued on Pig. 6, Col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 113, minimum
Tuesday 80; S am. Tuesday IS, hu-
nudity 33; noon Tuesday ITO. hu-
nudity "a; 5 pm. Monday los,
humidity II.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-07
Changes in City Charter
Recommended by Committee

the next spring election. Expan.
sion of the Mayors Charter Com.
mittee was recommended TO in
clude three itional members
who shall be citizens at large.
Points mentioned as a basis for
considering possible changes were:
to make the assessor an appointive
job instead of elective, change the
charter election rules so that petit
tons for candidates are admissible
at a later date than seven weeks
preceding the election, provide for
new form OF permanent Planning
Commission, set up a Department
OF Public Works. set up a Board OF
Public Utilities, create Parks and
Recreation Commission TO take the
place OF two separate commits
sions, provide for a central pur-
chasing office and pooling OF tools
and equipment. provide for mod
ern accounting and finance proce-
dure. set up an adequate hospital
administrative system, place all
traffic control and maintenance un.
der the police department. and
consolidate other closely related
functions OF local government.
The Board OF Commerce Munici.
pal Affairs Committee is made up
OF the following residents: Luman
Seamans. chairman; Fred Green
street, r. II. Schill, II. u. WILDER,
Kenneth L. Leighton. James Warn
er. ID. VI. Silkworth, T.. A. Mellen-
camp, and a. Seedorff
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-07
Film Dispute
Stalenated

Hollywood. Oct. ZAP - The
jurisdictional dispute between two
American Federation of Labor film
studio unions went into It's third
day today. A meeting Of union
members was held last night at
which no action was taken to vote
a strike or end the walkout or
more than $50 set decorators, paint
ers and machinists at two studios.
Edward Musa. business repre-
sentative OF Local 1921, Screen Set
Designers, Illustrators and Decora-
tors, said the work stoppage would
end when the National War Labor
Board orders the workers to return
to their jobs.
Possibility OF government action
was seen when the Department OF
Labor Cancellation assigned Com
missioner Earl j. Ruddy to the
case.
Were not mad at anybody and
are ready for any Cancellation ef-
forts" Herbert Sorrell, president
OF the conference of studio unions.
told reporters. He said this was
the view OF other union officials at
the meeting last night Of Decora-
tors and set designers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-07
Restrictions in
Mailing Probable

Washington, Oct. 7--INS-- Rep.
Anderson CD N. NJ, chairman of
the House committee investigat-
ing campaign expenditures said
today he will recommend drastic
restrictions on the free mailing
privileges of congressman as a ma
jor controversy swirled around the
use OF franks for distributing po-
litical literature.
Anderson made this disclosure
as Republicans hurled angry
charges against President Roose-
Welt after the Chief Executive
stated that three million postcards
bearing speech by Rep. Busbey
(R) H., were printed free" at the
government printing office. The
cards, which attacked the admin
istration. were subsequently mail
ed under the franks OF IL repre-
sentative and one senator, all
Republicans.
The White House later asserted
that the President had 'inadvert-
emily" and "in error" interpolated
the word free" in his prepared ra
do speech Thursday night in which
he quoted statistics made public
Tuesday in a statement issued by
Anderson.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-07
Seven Escape
From Prison

Jackson, Mich. Oct. ZAP -
State police in Michigan and bor-
dering states joined prison guards.
Jackson police and sheriffs Off
GERS in widespread search today
for seven longterm convicts who
escaped from Southern Michigan
Prison near here last night, appar-
emily in the course OF a prison mo-
vie show.
Their dragnet centered, howey-
er, near Grass Lake. about 10 miles
east OF here on U.S-l2. where three
OF the men ran a stolen car into
ditch and fled into field Matt
Make. one Of the 80 guards assist
ing In the search, said the car was
stolen just inside the city limits, a
mile southeast OF the prison. No
trace has been found OF the esca-
PEGS.
BY using saws. a pipe cutter and
a bar spreader the men made their
entrance into an unused cell block
and their exit through a cell win
dow in the southern wall OF the
prison. only four feet from the
ground. Warden Harry II. Jackson
said the escape area was the least
lighted by tower searchlights. He
also explained that the prison was
short 35 guards on the night shift.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-07
Many Attend
Smith Rites

New York, oct. 7-INs-Alfred
f. Smith today received formal
tribute from his nation and his
church as the Catholic funeral serv-
zee was solemnly carried out Al;
ST. Patrick's Cathedral where his
body lay in state.
From 9 p. m. yesterday after.
noon, all night long into the early
hours OF this morning, an endless
stream OF mourners walking three
10 six abreast filed past the coffin
OF the man who was four times gov
ernor OF New York and preslden.
tial candidate IN 1928.
Rich and poor, citizens OF all
faiths and political opinion paid
their respects to their beloved AL
Smith, born humbly on New Yorks
Lower East Side, risen 10 a nation.
al figure, the happy warrior" who
wore brown derby.
They came at the rate OF $4,000
an hour.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-07
Cologne Plain Objective OF
Two American SpearIlealIs
Twin Drives
10 Miles
Apart
~ Aasoclated Preaal

Two American First Army spear.
heads Is miles apart smashed
against German Notifications today
In ad rive TO break out into the
Cologne Plain and the Mime Valley.
Northeast OF Aaachen the Amer.
leans In the sixth doy OF their Of
fensiye drove a half.mile north Of
captured Beggendorf and expanded
their salient by thrusting a mile
and a half down the road southeast
from Ubach. A Nazi infantry coun.
terattack In strength was repealed.
Headquarters made no reference
TO the new drive which front dis
patches said speared 10 miles into
Germany from the Murtgen forest
TO within six miles OF Duren and
20 OF Cologne.
Clearing weather permitted the
Allies TO throw I'm vast numbers OF
planes. and the Germans hurled
aircraft into the battle In greater
numbers than they have allowed
themselves for weeks.
To the south u. s. Third Army
doughboys won a solid hold on the
northeast and southeast corners OF
Fort Driant after n week OF bloody
hghting for that main bastion be-
fore Metz. Near Sivry. north OF
Nanny. the enemy gained some
ground In a heavy counterattack.
Make Local Gains
u. s. Seventh Army forces In the
south made local gains In the
Vosges foothills In their drive to-
ward the Belfort Gap.
In the north there was no Allied
word on the German report that
the British Second Army had cross
ed the Neder Rhine In Holland
west OF Arnhem. Northeast OF Nj.
Jmegen British and German troops
were locked In heavy hghting be-
tween the Neder Rhine and the
wall.
Canadians broadened a foothold
across the Leopold Canal In Bel.
GUM and drove over the Dutch
border.
A large part OF the Peloponnesus
IN Greece already was clear oi
Germans, and British invasion
forces advanced toward the Ishmus
OF Corlnth. gateway TO Athens.
Pour Across
Russian troops poured across the
Romanian frontier on 75.mlle
front. The powerful attack over.
ran 100 communities In Hungary.
which also is menaced from the
north along the Czechoslovak Dor.
der.
The Rcd ARM was less than 100
miles from Budapest.