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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Four Sentenced
For Vagrancy

Appearing before Police Judge
Lee Nuffer, Thursday morning,
were four men charged with va
grancy The police picked up the
first three in one fell swoop We'd
nesday evening for mooching on
Main street. Robert Schuell, 43,
Norway Rooms, a lettuce packer is
serving 80 days in Jail. William d.
O'Shauglnessy, 45, Ell Centro hotel,
a packer also, is serving out a SINH
lar sentence. Lee Dare, As, Valley
hotel, pleaded not guiley, however,
and his case will be heard January
8.
j. M. Reeves, "a, Yuma laborer
was given five days in Jail on an
intoxication charge. Ed Holmes. "a,
FL Centro laborer, on a similar
charge, paid a SIG fine. General
M. Hail, Alabama laborer, is serv-
ing five days.
John F.. Baker, "A, Ell Centro hotel,
is in Jail for 30 days after admitting
guilt of vagrancy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
California Crops
Too $50 Million

responding net gain % the farmer,
since labor and other production
costs in 1943 were much higher
than usual"
The service added
THE large production of field
crops in 1943 was achieved despite
many problems and handicaps en-
countered by farmers throughout
the season as there were shortages
of labor, machinery and repairs,
equipment, materials and trucking
facilities While favorable weather
conditions definitely contributed to
heavy production, the large in
crease in production of field crops
represents a noteworthy response
on the part of California farmers
to wartime needs of food and feed
crops"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

thousands of tons of boarded
foods"
Chairman Walter F.. George, CD, ,
Georgia, of the special senate post
war committee said he intended to
call VIA officials before his COM
mittee Friday to discuss the spoil
age charges.
The full catalogue of uses for
which VIA stores foods consist of
the emergency needs of the armed
forces, lend-leaSe, foreign relief,
and for Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Replying to Republican assertions
that it does not keep accurate rec
ords of storage, the VIA said it
holds in storage:
Some 5,500,000 pounds of meat,
about two per cent of the 10000
000 pounds in commercial storage.
About 246,000000 pounds of cam
ned meat and 23,000,000 pounds of
cured meats.
Butter-l08,00 100000 of the lT6.-
100000 pounds in commercial stor-
age. OF this, 30,0O0,O00 pounds are
for transfer to the armed forces.
38,000,000 pounds to the Russian
army and 100000 pounds to the
war shipping administration.
Cheese-97, 100000 pounds out Of
total commercial stocks of 203,-
100000 pounds.
Evaporated milk-5,C00,000 cases
as against private stocks OF $780,
600 cases. uN
Canned fruits and vegetables
100000 cases out of l40,000.00C
cases owned by professors and
wholesalers.
Shell eggs-l38000 cases against
private stocks OF 1921 900 cases.
Dried eggs - 100000 pounds,
virtually the entire supply.
Dried beans - 220,000,000 as
against private stocks OF 100000. :
900 pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
FIV Inrouds Laid
TO Old Gorbuqe

garbage cans, the situation steadily
has become worse"
Starting Monday we are asking
trash collectors to report every
resident who places garbage in trash
containers, or who does not Separ-
ate the garbage from the trash
Under the ordinance the property
owner is directly responsible for
failure to obey the law and will be
held responsible, but service people
are the worst offenders" he said.
However, too, we fully realize
that people have no place to dis
pose of garbage since they cannot
purchase suitable containers. Col
lectionS have been impaired due
to the muddy conditions of alleys
and pickups have been irregular, u
he continued.
Many local residents however ven-
ture another opinion. Garbage pick
ups practically have ceased and the
slow, haphazard collection in many
cases has permitted the refuse and
wastes to rot before the truck ar
rived. Speedier pickup service
would eliminate much of the trou-
BILE they believed.
Ben Herring of the Chamber of
Commerce stated that the fly in
festation is severe throughout the
valley. He thought much of it was
due to the recent rains and the
warm weather. Colder nights would
improve conditions great deal, he
believed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
RETREAT TO RUMAN|A LINE;
New Commander
Takes Over
Ho!tviI|e Post
Recently Returned
From Pacific;
Is Annapolis Man

Lieutenant Commander Henry j.
White, veteran of World wars No.
and 2 who has devoted most of his
life to flying, this week took COM
mand of the Holtville naval air
auxiliary station to succeed Lieu
tenant Commander E. B. Bronte,
transferred to duty outside conti-
mental United States.
Just back from Guadalcanal,
Commander White gazed at the air
station in its setting of desert
ringed by distant hills, and said,
This must be paradise" Even re-
ports of Imperial Valleys high
summer temperatures failed to
worry the new commander. Moth
ing can be as bad as the climate
I've been in," he said.
Commander White was born in
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1892 and
was taken to Europe by his par
ents in 1900. He remained there
until 1905, attending school in
what then was Austria and now
is northern italy. During this pc
riod in Europe he gained the foun-
dation for his present knowledge
of German, French, and Spanish.
He is as much at home in those
languages as he is in English.
NAVAL ACADEMY MAN
When he returned to the United
States he attended school in New
port, R. I. In 1912 he entered the
nt lie
He first started flying in 1911 at
Marblehead Massachusetts,. He flew
the first Wright chain driven plane
on floats and the first Wright sea-
plane ever to take the air. In 1916
he was graduated from the acad-
emy and served aboard the U.S.S.
Pennsylvania until the beginning of
World war No. /.
AT this time the navy had little
interest in aviation. There were
just a few. Commander White was
air minded and wanted aviation
duty, so he persuaded a friend to
take him to an admiral with that
idea in mind.
Young man." the admiral groWl-
officers such as lighthouse duty.
Get to hell back to yol;r ship He
got.
IN WORLD WAR ONE
| In 1918 he went to Pensacola,
Fla, and after graduation there,
was assigned to one of the N. c.
boats. He had extensive foreign
service in World war No. l.
He resigned from the navy and
became a test pilot and sales man
ager for a private airplane manu-
featuring company. In 1929 he was
with financial house as aviation
advisor and technics! assistant and
later as aviation salesman for still
another company. AS such he flew
throughout Europe, Asia and At
RIGA, being assigned a new plane
Continued on page s, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
WpB Aid Views
New RULINGS

John Young, San Diego manager
of the prioritieS division of the war
production board, told members of
the Ell Centro Rotary Thursday
noon that they can expect more
priorities changes in the WPA pro-
gram that are now effective in the
west coast but not yet felt here.
Young, whose trip here was ar
ranged through the efforts of Ru-
dolph Miller and Charles Small,
secretaries of the Triple-A and war
board, respectively, will address the
KiWanis club and the Associated
Chambers of Commerce at their
meetings Friday. He also has ap-
pointmentS with various individuals
at the local war board office dur
ing the day Friday.
At Rotary he explained the re-
cent changes and the program of
the war production board. He
touched briefly on the different
shortages of materials that exist
today, and mentioned that many
items available today were on the
shortage list some time ago.
While he is not connected with
the gasoline division, he says the
shortage problem, is growing more
severe on the west coast and that
he understands that the heads OF
various coast government agencies
were working on the problem now
Nearly 80 reservations have been
made for the dinner-meeting in
the Barbara Worth hotel of the
Imperial county Associated Cham
bers of Commerce, Ben Herring, To-
cal secretary said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

SACRAMENTO, Jan. UP) -
California field crops produced in
1943 had combined value of $352,-
$4,000, 20 per cent above the 1912
value and more than double the
1924 average, the California
crop reporting service said Thurs
day.
The crop value was a new record
for the state, the service said, and
resulted from both price increases
and above average production. The
average value produced from each
cultivated acre of farmland, $63 366,
also was a new record and COM
pared with $5177 in 1912 and $4068
in 1941.
The service emphasized, however,
that the increased total value of
crops does not represent a COR
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Yanks Hit kazis'
Ifa!v Defenses

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Jan. 6. (UP)-A full-scale
Anglo american offensive carried
through a 10-mile sector of the
German mountain defenses guard
ing the inland road TO Rome today
as Lt.-Gen. Mark ". Clark's 5th
army troops stormed into the key
enemy stronghold of San Vittore
behind a heavy aerial and artillery
barrage.
A commCmique revealed that the
drive began Tuesday night after the
massed guns of the 5th army laid
down one of the heaviest rolling
barrages of the italian campaign.
The breakthrough into San Wit
tore threatened to collapse the en-
tire German mountain line and lay
open the road to Casino, barely six
miles to the northeast, and the in
vasion highway stretching on be-
yond to Rome.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

The latin name for those pests
may be 'Musca Domestica' to you,
but have better name for them,
Grant A. Bristol, city sanitation
officer said Thursday.
The fly condition has been de-
plorable, but their breeding is the
result of deplorable conditions over
which we have no control" he said
in commenting upon the severe fly
infestation that has been veXing
Ell Centro inhabitants the past few
weeks.
For several years we have made
a drive to rid the community of fly
breeding places, namely, the un-
sanitry garbage containers by in
voking the city ordinance which
empowers us to condemn improper
containers" Bristol continued. But
since the government has discon-
tinued permitting manufacture of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

ilul quay.
Gen. Nikolai F.. Vatutin's troops
were reported bearing down against
Vinnitsa, one of the few remaining
first class rain and highway juno.
tions of the western Ukraine still
in German hands, on broad front
unhinged by the capture of Berdi,
chev to the north.
VinnitSa is on the east bank of
the Bug river and 20 miles north
east of Zhmerinka, key junction
on the Odessa Warsaw railroad. the
last German-held trunk line out
of the Dnieper bulge.
SWINGS SOUTHWARK
Vatutins main operations on the
western rim of the Kiev salient
now appeared to have been swung
southWestward in a bid for control
of the vital network of railroads
and highways webbing the south
eastern part of the western Ukraine.
Official reports still failed to
mention any movement westward
in the area west of Novograd Vol
ynski and Olevsk, where the Rus
slams stood at the prewar Polish
border.
The progressive loss of KY COM
munications centers was constantly
restricting the Germans ability to
maneuver forces for countering the
Red army thrusts.
Descending upon the Berdichev-
Shepatovka railroad in considerable
strength along broad front, Vatu-
tin was able to intensity his push
against vinnitsa as well as prepare
for a thrust into the western
The Russian successes south and
southeast of Belaya Tserkov were
opening new phase of the CAM
paign, the immediate objective of
which was the elimination of the
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Japanese Attempt
Last Move to
Hold New Britain
Rush Heavy Forces
TO Island as
Aussies Move Up
By UNITED PRESS

japanese resistance along
the northeastern rim of New
Guinea was reported crum-
bling under combined Australian
American offensive Thursday, but
front dispatches indicated the enc
my was rushing reinforcements into
the New Britain area for a last
ditch defense of that invaded island
General Douglas Macarthur :
communique revealed that a force
of several thousand Japanese troops
caught in a New Guinea coastal
trap between American army forces
in the Saidor area and Australians
driving northWard across the Huor
I peninsula, were beginning to disin-
tegrate.
AUSSIES MOVE UP
With the Australians rounding
the corner of the peninsula to with
in 10 miles of the American force
the japanese were abandoning huge
quantities OF supplies and equip
ment in a scramble TO escape the
closing jaws of the allied pincers.
Their situation appeared critical
if not hopeless, since trackless
mountains barred their escape to
the west and allied naval power
controlled The sea lanes leading
eastward to New Britain.
On New Britain, there were signs
of stiffening japanese opposition
and a spokesman at Adm. William
F.. Halsey's south Pacific headquar-
ters said enemy supplies and troops
were streaming southwark into New
ireland and the eastern end OF
New Britain.
The spokesman revealed the Jap
aneSe were using fast combat ships
to bring in their reinforcements
rather than the slower transports
which have proved easy targets fol-
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Woman Lawmaker
viii Retire

MILFORD, Ill, Jan. 6. (UP)-
Representative Jesse Sum-
ner, Republican, Illinois, said
Thursday she wGlld not run
for re-ele ion because "the
White House has usurped the
powers of congress"
Miss Sumner, serving her
third term in the house, said
that "mOst of the major gues-
tiOns of policy are now decided
by the White House instead of
congress-"
about all a rank and file
representative can do now is
try to keep informed and when
colossal blunders are made urge
that they be corrected" she
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
WFA Officials Deny Count
O. Wostoge in Foods

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. CUP) -
The war food administration
Thursday denied charges of Re-
publican congressman it had per-
mitted excessive spoilage of food
held in reserve for emergency use
The agency revealed that its
larder was stocked with over a
quarter billion pounds of meat,
more than hundred million
pounds of butter and nine million
cases of canned fruits and veget-
ableS ready for military use, lend
lease or relief purposes.
The VIA said that losses due to
Spoilage amounted only to 2-100
of one per cent of its total pur-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

chases between March, 194l, and
December, 1943-which, it declared,
would amount to less than ST. on
every $1,000 worth of purchases.
The agency added that its share
of food in commercial storage was
the smallest of three major cate
gories-the largest being privately
owned food for civilian use and the
next consisting of stocks owned by
the armed forces.
The VIA statement was a direct
reply to the Republican food study
committee which accused the
agency of gross waste and ineffi-
cheney and said it would ask con-
greSs to force the VIA to release
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Knox. Stimson Eye
Soldiers Vote

R0, Ohio, praised "the good in
tentions" of governors who have
sought to solve the soldier vote
problem through special sessions
of their legislatures, but said that
despite these good intentions our
soldiers are not going to be able
to vote unless the congress provides
them with simple, uniform fed
eral ballot"
The Knox-Stimson statement was
issued in reply to an inquiry from
the council of state governments,
and was made public by the coun-
Gil.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. CUP) =
The war and navy department
Thursday called for uniform legis-
lation for the entire country to
facilitate voting by members of the
army forces in this years elections.
Secretary of navy Frank Knox
and secretary of war Henry l..
Stimson warned that the services
could not administer effectively
diverse procedures" of the 48
states las to 100000 servicemen
all over the world in primary, spe-
cial, and general elections
Representative George Bender,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
u. s. and British
= Firms / foce
Mono poly Count

Gowan (Lord McGowan), chair
man of the board, and Henry Mond
Goed MelchetD, deputy chairman
and Imperial Chemical Industries
of New York, Ltd, New York, ICI s
American agent
Biddle said the complaint charges
an international conspiracy affect
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
MONEY LENDER CONVICTED

RENO, Jan. 6 (UP>-A conviction
was obtained in a justice of the
peace court here in the first
prosecution brought for alleged
violation of Nevada's newly enacted
small loans act. A jury of six and
six women found Willis A. Nc
Mahon guilty of charging excessive
interest on loan of SIS. 1t was
alleged McMahon's interest charges
totalled more than 400 per cent an
nually while the state law limits
annual interest to II per cent.
Justice of the Peace Harry Dun
seath will pass sentence Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
MOTHER GETS HER
CHILD'S CUSTODY

Lois G. Brown Wednesday was
granted custody Of her son in I'M
perial county superior court and
the child's father, Henry Salot,
ordered not to molest her or the
child or to attempt to take tenn
porary custody of the child without
an order from the court.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06


Japanese"
In lengthy report that contain
ed the first detailed disclosure of
war aid to Russia as well as OBJ
vious answers to congressional crit
les OF len1-lease, Mr.. Roosevelt
emphasized again that the program
would save American lives and be
an important factor in shortening
the war.
THIRTEENTH REPORT
The report, Mr.. Roosevelt's 18th
on lend-lease, was transmitted to
the secretary Of the senate and clerk
of the house 70" formal preSenta-
ton after congress reconvenes next
Monday.
THE coming year will be year
of decisive actions in the war the
president said in a letter of trans
initial. BY combining their strength,
the United Nations have increased
Continued on page 3, col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY-Clear Thursday night
and Friday with moderate winds.
Little change in temperature Fri
day. Cooler Thursday and Fri
day nights but little or no fr0sts.
Temperatures generally above 50
degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
= AMBlINe
~ EpoRTER
He Understood

Wednesday Cnlef of Police Ron :
ME Voyles received a letter ad-
dressed this way:
This is the chief palease, care OF
FL Central, cal"
The letter went on the say, Can
YOU find where is my husband. l
want to know is he diod or live
l want you to fine him for me-
Chief Voyles probably has COM
piled with the last request.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Not Like This

City Fireman Warren Nice was
demonstrating a fire eXtinguisher
to Undegsheriff Rodney Clarke
With Clarke standing close by, Nice
showed how the eXtinguisher work
ed.
Never do this" said Nice, flip
ping the eXtinguisher.
A stream of soda and acid fire
extinguisher fluid deluged Clarke
from head to foot.
mo, I won't" Clarke drawled as
he headed for a complete change
OF clothing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
President Cites
Lend i dse as
Way, 20 Victory
Report 70 Congress Announces
$3.50 .553, GOO Advanced;
Major Portion Went TO Russia

WASHINGTON, Jan 6. (UP)-President Roosevelt,
reporting to congress that American lend lease expendi
day that the major offensves agreed upon at Cairo and
Teheran would peed the day of victory and the uncon
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
A DOuh.c purnOSe-

A bench near the BraWley rail-
way station has big sign over it
which urges the public to Give
the SerVicemmen a Lift or words
to that effect. Frequently the
bench is filled from end to end
with galaXJ of sidewalk tobacco
artists and "curbstone lawyers
Perhaps these men served in
some other war. who knows?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
Russ Army Nears
Last Escape
Route Of Enemv
Reds Cut in Between Dnieper Bend
And Balkan Frontier TO Add
Peri! to Million Nazi Baf+Iers

MOSCOW, Jan. 6. (UP)-Russan forces driving to-
ward Rumania have thrown the Germans back upon Vim
nsa, bason of the Bug defense line only 20 miles
from the last practical escape for 1000 900
Germans in the Dneper bend front dispatches reported
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
He Just Began

Red Mitchell was most instructive
at ToaStmasters club when he gave
his talk on THE Opening Portion
of a Speech"
At the close of this mastery af-
fair, club members agreed that his
speech was marvellous even if it
had no opening portion.
Well, boys, can we always prac-
tice what we preach?
No, we can't.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 81, minimum
Thurs. 81; am. Thurs. 81, humid
ity 81; noon Thurs. 63, humidity so;
pm. Wed. 65, humidity SO.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
| National Junior Golf
To Help Game After
War Is PGA Plan
By the Associated Press.

BY the AssoclAted fress.
PORTLAND, Oreg., Nov. 28,-The
men who make golf business fore
see tremendous postwar boom In
the sport. And they're preparing for
it, too, not only from the stand
point of sale of equipment, tutoring
of new players and construction of
courses, but also in a long-range
way.
This idea, backed by the Profess
sional Golfers Associa tion, is to have
national tournament for boys un-
der 18 years of age Fred Corcoran
of Boston, tournament bureau man
ager of the PGA, is responsible for
the plan. But the trouble is that
the PGA has no jurisdiction. It's
up to the United States Golf Asso-
citation.
Practically every State golf asso-
citation affiliated with the USGA
sponsors junior tournaments within
its province, but there never has
been one Of national scope.
Corcoran's proposition is to found
a national championship. His idea
is to have the various USGA branch
associations hold their sectional
championships as usual, then send
their kid champs to the national
event-if the USGA only will estab-
lish one.
Golfers themselves, or those inter-
ested in the game, are the ones who
can put this over. His scheme: You
write to your Congressman when
you want civic action, SO why not
get busy now and send word to the
USGA at New York headquarters to
foster a national tournament for the
juniors? The youngsters are the
backbone of the sport; the more in
it the bigger it will grow.
In the meantime the pros will be
using their influence to put the plan
across. They know they are helping
their own business by encouraging
new tournaments and young golf
ers.
Evening star., 1944-11-28

and modification OF the B-2s won
him commentator from the 10th
Air Force Command, Including Gen.
Henry H. Arnold and Brig. Gen.
Kenneth B. Wolfe, then head OF
the world-girdling force.
Owned Air Works In Chicago.
Mr.. Stupar, pioneer In the avi-
alton industry, owned and operat-
ed the Stupar Air Works in Chica-
go from 1909 to 1912. From 1926 to
1910 he was, successfully, chief en-
gineer for the Chicago Air Works,
manager Of the airplane factory for
the Standard Airplane Co., New
Jersey, and organizer Of the pro-
duction engineering and estimating
departments at both the Long Is
land and Buffalo plants Of Curtiss-
Wright Corp.
In 1910 he became Bells CO.
ordinator Of production and two
months age became director OF In
dustrial planning.
Evening star., 1944-11-28
Two Bell Aircraft
Officials Killed in
Wright Field Crash
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 28.-Carl
A. Cover, 81, vice president of Bell
Aircraft Corp. and manager of
the firms Georgia division, and
Max Stupar, 50, Bell industrial
planning director, were killed
yesterday in the crash of their
twin-engined cargo plane at
Wright Field.
Col. Frank w. Wright. field COM
mander, said Mr.. Cover, one-time
chief of the Army Air Forces Ma
teriel Command aircraft modifica-
ton branch here, was plotting the
plane, en- route from Marietta, Ca,
to Buffalo, N. Y.
Col. Wright said the plane struck
"a high-tension wire on approaching
the field and crashed into . curb near
the landing strip. Both men were
killed instantly.
Manager Of Marietta Plant.
Mr.. Cover, q pilot for 26 years
and formerly in charge Of testing
and development for the Douglas
Aircraft Corp, was manager Of Bells
B-29 Super Fortress plant at MARI
eta, Col. Wright said.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Minnette M. Cover of Santa Monica
Calf, and two children. His father
Is H. A. Cover OF Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr.. Stupar, a native OF Austria
and former Curtiss- Wright Aircraft
Co. associate, is survived by his
widow and Ave children.
Mr.. Covers work in development