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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
Valley ! Rancher,
bb, Succumbs

Thomas Benjamin Martin, 66, ranch
er OF Imperial Valley for 25 years,
died Saturday after a long illness.
The funeral was held in Fl Cen
tro at 2:30 pm. Monday. Burial
was in Evergreen cemetery.
His wife, Mrs. Olivia Ann Martin,
of 2O3 Seventh street, Calexico, sur
wives him. A brother, Richard M
Martin, also survives him.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
Former Valley
Woman Succumbs

Pioneers of Imperial Valley will
regret to learn of the death Friday
of Mrs, Richard Kinnard, Sc, who
had lived at Banning the past two
years.
She died in a Riverside hospital
after an operation. She was born
in Colorado August 8,1888. Survivors
include daughter, Beverly Jean
Kinnard, and a son, Elton r. Kin
nard, now serving in the navy. Her
husband died four and half months
ago
Funeral services are pending word
from the son. Mrs. Kinnard had
been a valley resident many years,
having moved to Banning about two
years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
Lend.Lease Aid
Readies Allies
For Final Push

Continued on Page 6, Col. II
lend-leaSe planes, a.most 1000 tanks
and over 10000 other military mo-
tor vehicles were sent from the
United States 10 the forces of the
ether United Nations fighting the
Germans and the Japanese.
Since the beginning of the lend
lease program on March IL, 1941,
we have sent total of more than
10000 planes, about $4,000 tanks
and above 100000 other military
motor vehicles to the forces of our
allies. Of these totals, over $4,000
If the planes, over $4,000 of the
tanks and almost $4,000 of the
other motor vehicles went under
lend-lease. The others were paid for
in cash by our allies"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
u. s. Force Heads
Up APpian Way

fensive, or half way toward JUNO
ton with their comrades at the
Anzio beachhead.
Terracina had a peace-time pop
ulation of 10000 and was a popular
beach resort for both modern and
ancient Rome with many palatial
villas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
WARE APPOINTS
ANOTHER DEPUTY

In making requirements IN his
staff Sheriff Robert w. Ware this
week made Orval Walker, who has
lived in Holtville and Ell Centre
most of the time since 1880, one of
his deputies. In recent months
Walker worked for the post engin-
eer at Camp Lockett.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
vas granted in Imperial county su-
perior court to Nicholas Aguirre in
the suit against Guac alupe Chacon
Aguirre.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22

Continued on Page q, Col. II
Sunday. At Terrat.na, the Amerl-
cans had advanced "a miles from
their iumping-off point for the Of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
j. s. Takes Over
0peration of
Ward.0wned Plant

Continued on Page 6, Col. II
latest action.
The Hummer plant Walkout start
ed May after the company had
refused to comply with WLB order
to sign contract with a mainten-
anCe of membership clause. The
WLB order was issued last August
81 but the company ignored it. A
show cause hearing was held last
January and the WLB reaffirmed
its order in April. When the COM
pany continued its defiance, the
workers went out on strike.
Seizure Of the plant resulted in
none Of the fanfare that accompani-
cd the governments taking over
the Chicago plant a month ago.
In the case of the Chicago plant
the company had refused to recog-
nize the validity of the presidential
order for the department of COM
merCe to take control and soldiers
were called to enforce it.
TAKES CHARGE
Lieutenant Colonel Nelson S. Tai
tott, designated as operating man.
ager Cf the Hummer plant by Sec
retary of War Henry l.. Stimson,
six officers and a staff sergeant
carried out the presidential order.
They walked through pouring rain
to the Hummer administration
building where they were admitted
by watchman.
Talbot ordered the sergeant to
post notices designating the plant
government property and the flag
was run up the main staff.
Talbot then notified plant man.
ager John j. SaXer of the govern
ment's action, showing him his
credentials and a copy of the preSi-
dents order
SaXer said later that he had been
told by company officials at Chicago
to cooperate with the army to the
fullest extent
SaXer also turned over all books
and records of the company and is
sued orders for other officials to
cooperate fully with government
control
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-22
u. 5. Infantrymen
Wipe Out Jap
Force on Island

Continued on Page 6, Col. u
ualtieS TO 3,042.
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portable radio. Why not find out
what I could? So / sent Tex back
to the barracks to get it.
"When he returned, / had fair
reception when / took it outside the
steel hangar door.
''It cracked with rumors-some
already true, some not yet true.
They reported a big concentration
of Jap ships off Luzon-Manila was
expecting an air raid every minute
bombs were reported already
dropping on Clark Field. under
stand that early false report reached
the States.
.It was curious" said Kurtz,
standing right outside that hangar
door, looking at Clark Field in the
mid-morning sunshine and hearing
the radio in my hand saying that
bombs were dropping on it. It was
crazy, and yet it made us appre-
hensive.
"A classmate of mine at Randolph
Field who had been flying one of
two old Douglases we used for trans
portation to Manila had just pulled
up and got out, and he was listen
ing beside me. Now he said, nerv-
ously, why in hell don't we get out
of here and save these airplanes?'
I could see he was thinking not only
of the planes, but of our necks as
well.
'sI said to him, What the hell,
now, old man. take it easy-we're
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Mrs. Elmer Anderson who is conva
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And speaking of "reminiscences
the recent death of Laurant, the ma.
gician, billed as The Man of Many
Mysteries recalls nearly thirty years
ago when he appeared on Blufftor
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s9YI
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QyEEENS yEE DIE =
. NOO
W.N.u.F FEATURES

been loaded with bombs, as she
had been scheduled for camouf1ag-
ing that morning. Only the orders
that now came seemed conflicting
as those final hours slipped away.
First came one countermanding
the camoufaging. Seemed some
thing was afoot, and they couldn't
wait for it. Instead we were to
load bombs, SO we TAXED over to-
ward the ammunition dump. Then
Bill Cooke, who was to be running
back and forth all morning with con-
flicting orders, came screaming
down the field. Take her back to
the hangar; they want the camou-
faging finished by all means!'
presently came another order for
me and two other planes of this 30th
Squadron to unload our bombs and
insert cameras. Nothing more than
that, but it was clear they were
preparing us now for reconnais-
sance over Formosa.
II didn't then know that our little
field only reflected what was going
on at Manila Headquarters, where
our Air Force General Brereton had
been up long before dawn and was
at big conference all morning. OF
course it's very easy to be wise
after the event.
"And of course, even though Pearl
Harbor had been attacked, our
American Congress had not yet de-
clared war, and perhaps it was too
great responsibility for our Philip
pine command to strike back when
someone might argue that war did
not exist technically.
"Cheap people can laugh at this
now, but General Brereton did not
laugh then. But he insisted that,
even granting the Japs might not
invade our islands, yet they would
never leave us striking force in
tact-a Navy or an Air Force in
the Philippines which might move
in on the japanese flank.
General Brereton knew our posi-
ton at Clark Field was so danger
Gus that if we did not at once strike
at Formosa, we could probably nev-
er strike at all. He wanted per-
mission to make reconnaissance
flight over there, so we could at
least see if the Japanese were max
ing preparations to strike us. Sure
ly, now that they had hit Pearl Har-
Dor, it would be only minor neu-
trality violation to fly close enough
to Formosa to take a few pictures.
Consequently the rundown on
this wasn't complete; Headquarters
said, well, maybe this would be pos
sible. Wait and see.
Back on the standby with Old
SO, couldn't then know this was
why had been ordered to jerk her
bombs, reload her with cameras,
and rush the camoufage in the hope
that permission would soon come. !
only knew big things were moving,
and suddenly ! thought of my little
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Mt. Cory

Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Kramer at
tended the funeral of Elmer Runkle
in Findlay, Sunday afternoon. They
also called on Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie
Nonnamaker.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Kramer were
recent callers on Mr.. and Mrs. A. j.
Hoyer and Mrs. Elizabeth Miller in
Findlay.
Mrs. Laura Ghaster and daughter
Ruth spent Thursday in Findlay and
called on Mrs. Emma Ausfahl and
Mrs. Jennie Ghaster.
Mrs. Clark Beagle and daughter
Genevieve moved from the A. E.
King farm to town and moved into
the King property on West Main
Cross Street.
Mrs. Paul Bauman of Findlay call
ed on Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Kramer,
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Bessie Guin and Sara Guin
of Findlay were week end guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Roach in Cleve-
land.
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lescing at the Bluffton hospital was
cheered the other day when fine lot
of Florida oranges arrived, being sent
by her former friend and neighbor,
Mrs. Esther Owens Wagner now liv-
ing at Eustis, Florida.
DR.. and Mrs. Clair Green of Ma
rion, Ind, have recently purchased a
new home in that city where DIR.
Green, an osteopathic physician has
established a large practise. Both
are natives of this vicinity, Mrs.
Green being the former Miss Eliza
beth Kohl, daughter of the late f.
d. Kohl north of Bluffton.
It looks pretty much like Bluffton
college affair-that dinner given re-
Gently by the u. S. Automatic Cor
poration of Amherst, Ohio, to 81
members of the employees committee
who had charge of big Christmas
party during the holidays. Altho the
dinner was held at Oberlin Inn, home
town of OberEn college nearby, the
POSTMASTER, Joe Ignat and the speak.
er of the evening, Don Smucker are
Bluffton college products. Joe, affa.
BILE and irrepressible known in his col
lege days here as the pride of Fair
port" is one of the executives of tht
Amherst company while Don, yes
he's a minister but prefers to be jus
Don Smucker-without the title O
reverend. Don's after dinner tall
centered about his pre- war travels
thru Russia and other European coun
tries.
1t isn't all. work and no play il
the south Pacific war area, according
to letter written by Raymond
Duffman to his nephew james
Strunk. Raymond, son of Mer
Duffman is in charge of a meta
working shop with 36 men employ
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tent flap, stepped to the opening.
We watched him look up.
Navy, hell Here they come!
"We turned over tables in the con-
fusion of piling out of that tent, but
we're not yet frightened rats, we're
still human beings, still organized.
'"There they came, the drone ris-
ing, right over the hill as Don Gibbs
had predicted they would-in an
enormous v of V's, three VS. in all
and about twenty-five Mitsubishi
bombers in each V, at about $4,000
to $4,000 feet altitude-coming right
at us.
IT heard a scuff1ing and looked
around to see that l was alone ex-
cept for Lieutenant Glenn Rice-he'd
been detailed as Photographic Off
Ger and was grinding away with
his camera at that v of VS.. The
rest had all taken shelter in big
drainage ditch near by.
81 stood there because thought
it would be five or ten seconds more
before they came to their bomb
release line, and ought to see the
CLINT of their bombs turning over
as they came out OF their bomb
bays-they seem almost to pause
under the plane before they start
down-several seconds surely before
I saw that CLINT, and then would
be time to jump for the ditch. Mean
while | wanted 10 see what kind of
pattern this formation planned to
lay down over this field, just as,
many times before-back in the dry
bed of Muroc Lake in California, our
practice bombing range in the Mo-
jave Desert-rd watched forma-
ton of our own to see how good
thew ware
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summer chautaqua program under a
big tent on the Grade school grounds.
What are Bluffton boys over in
Europe and the Pacific war area
thinking of-well, right now the top
subject of interest is the Pirates
chances in the basketball tournament
which opens at Celina, Thursday
night. The boys, always glad to get
the Bluffton News are extra anxious
and some mothers are sending news
paper clippings in air mail letters to
reach far away sons sooner than the
regular mail. What the boys here
are thinking is how to get gas for
the round trip.
Bluffton's monthly trash collection
is larger in the winter says Lee Coon,
who is in charge. This is because of
the volume of ashes included in the
collection. Largest volume for the
winter totalled 33 loads collected a
month ago.
Tourists who made the trip to Flor
ida by train this year are more for
tunate than those who motored there
and now find themselves without gas
to get home. However, those travel
ling by rail can't be choosey as ia
when they will retlm north, says Me-
Bogart who with Mrs. Bogart arrived
last Thursday after more than q
month in the south. Mel says he
didn't expect to return so soon, but
you arrange your plans according tt
times when train reservations are
available-not according to your con
venience.
Speaking of Florida, comes word
from Ed Diller, who with the Oliver
Lochers are at Lake Worth this win
1
ter, saying that Notwithstanding all
restrictions, tourists and soldiers are
plentiful and farmers making money
Belle Glade, small nearby town
shipped 400 carloads of vegetables the
past week, Diller writes. Of this
number celery led with 10S cars; cab
bage next with 104 cars. There We're
40 carloads of potatoes; 10 carloads
of beans; 10 of lettuce; 8 of radishes
and the balance mixed vegetables.
Last Saturday hung up record
when the temperature rose to 73 de-
grees and if your memory's good, you
will remember that just a year ago
this coming Friday-March 3, 1943
the temperature dropped to eight be-
low zero.
Mrs. Elmer Anderson who is conva-
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Ma~%
DeMosoI

Tuesday, February 20 i. ;. that extra
day you get almost every four years
you're really a day older but it
doesn't count on the years of your
age it was the birthday of the
late Abe Spangler, ex-mayor j. it's
supposed to be the day when girls
may claim the right to propose :.
but with what's left being too young
or too old, there wasn't much doing
!. and if you thot Marry Doats was
honey, here's one coming: Who
put the Twinkle in the Eye of Dame
Van Wrinkle while Rip Van Wrinkle
Ripped of Forty Winks good news
the next batch of milk bottle caps
your milkman gets will have that lit
tie wire staple which was war cas-
ualty-no more jabbing and tearing
balky bottle caps with milk spatter-
| ing all over the kitchen-sad part
about it was we never realized how
important that little half piece
of wire was until it was gone {. .and
then there's the story going the
rounds about the Bluffton woman who
won "a bridge prize-but hid her light
under bushel and didn't want it told
-. housewives cycling those little red
and blue tokens with mingled curiosi-
ty and musement-what'll be next
!. and the mayors office crowded or
Monday and Tuesday waiting for help
in making out income tax reports
next Monday is the last day the depu-
ties will be in Bluffton-and there'll
be lot Of folks who will not get to
see them but you gotta file by
March Is just the same and speak
ing of income tax-one Bluffton man
who had it all figured out that he
wouldn't have any tax to pay was sur
prised and irked when he learned
Monday that he would be nicked for
$50.
i
| Entrance of Frank j. Lausche, may
or of Cleveland into the race for the
Democratic nomination as governor of
Ohio, recalls to many Bluffton people
that Lausche was protege of the
late Cyrus Locher, native of the Set
tlement who later became a leading
Cleveland attorney, Cuyahoga county
prosecutor, a member of Governor
Donahey's official family and later u.
S. Senator.The current number of the
American magazine contains bio
graphical sketch in which Locher's
name appears.
And speaking of "reminiscences
the recent death of Laurant, the ma
gician, billed as The Man of Many
Mysteries recalls nearly thirty years
ago when he appeared on Bluffton
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ed. For recreation they have movies
every night, baseball team on
which the former Bluffton youth
plays center field and third base.
Also on recent hunting trip he
brought down a wild bull, found
bananas and pineapples and drank
water from bamboo stalks.
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Want to learn
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fWomen in essential war industry
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Service.
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@.wAirE
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER 1: The story of the famous
18th and 7th Bombardment Groups, OF
Lieut.. Col Frank Kurtz and his Fortress
crew in the tremendous air campaign
that saved the day for the United Nations
In the Southwest Pacific. Lieut.. Kurtz,
who was pilot of the old Fortress. known
as The Swoose," which escaped from
that fatal day when the Japs struck He
pedals to the wreck of Old SO. finds eight
OF his crew lying in an irregular line.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
THE STATE OF OHIO

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
THE STATE OF OHIO
Allen County, SIS.
Estate of George HI. Barnes. deceased.
Monroe S. Amstutz of Blutfton, Ohio,
has been appointed and qualified as Executor
of the estate of George III. Barnes, late of Al
len County, Ohio. deceased.
Dated this 18th day of February, 1914.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
46 Probate Judge
We could all get to heaven if we
were given credit for our good in
tiontions.
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SLAPTAS kCMl-
TETAS LIETU-
yOJE S

IS Stockholmo pranesa
apie Kaune isikurusi slap
ia Vy1iausi Komiteta Lie
tuvos laisvinimui ''Vy-
riausias Komitetas Lietu-
val Vaduoti" vardu..
Sis komitetas vientalsiai
nusistates nepripazinti io-
kios svetimos okupaciios
Lietuvoje ir kovoti uz lai-
sva, nepriklausoma Lietu-
va.
Komitetas rupinasi susi-
siekti ir palaikyti rysius su
Amerikos Lietuviais.
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PLYSO DARBO
PARTIJA

New Yorke peleita sa-
waite skilo Americas Dar-
DO partija, kurios 100000
.balsu pagelbejo Preziden-
tut Rooseveltui laimeti rim
kimus 1910 metals.
Skilimas ivyko del komu-
nizmo klausimo. DeSinie-
il atsimete nuo komunistu.
IS tos- partiios oficialiai
iSsitrauke David Dubinsky,
prezidentas moteriSku ru-
bu siuveju unijos. Ia par
tia, jis sake, yra komunis-
tu partija.
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PENKlU MIl-EJCNU DoLARlU KARo
BONU VAJAUS REIkALE

Netredamas galmybes atsakyti j paklausimus at
skra II manvdanas kad daugelui rup tie patys kau-
sinai ku1ias jau caves daugei pakausinu, Suomi
teikiu atsakyma visu interesantu zinai per spauda
Ar Amerikos Iietuviai gals kredta uz pirktus Ka-
rO Bonus per Lieuviu Komteta? = Atsakymas: Taip
bonus pradedant Vasario 16ta ir baigant Balan
dzo 80 diena Karo bonus gali1na prkt visuose pas
tuose bankuose Savings and Loan Draugijose ir Lie
tuviu Ronu Kon1itetams tarpininkaujant
Kad Amerikos Letuviai gautu pima kl'edita butt
mai yra eikainga vis ir vsur pirkti karo bonai uze
gistrrot Lietuvu Bonu Komitetuose arba Centre apa
6iole SO rasto nluodytu adresu). Us
Vizi Americas pastai, Bankai il Savings and Loan
stagos prna ietuviu kredtan atspausdintas specia-
les apilacijas If atkarpas apikacu s pazynleimu ad
honas gIa pirktas, kponai e1azinami hosa nrkejui
kad gaetnet priduot hong registraymo Konlitea1ns.
Ame.ikos Lietl1viu kreditan karo bonus ga'na mar
duct ir Letuyians. Paw. pir1nutne gauta Anler-
kos Lietviu leditan bonu aplikaca S. F. Gudu tarE
ninkaujant uzpild6 If bona $500 nuprko Pulknlnkas
Freddy Rosell Irving N. j. knis yra vedes Letuvaite
Boreilkaite
AS aplankiau daugeli banku palilldamas po keleta
SntQ apzaciju so Letuvu Vajaus. Howard Savings
Institution banke dilhantis Vincas Grmaauskas pa
emes 100 apkaciu pareSke pasilupins kad butu vsos
sunaudotos New Yorke Pennsylvania Exchange Ban
ko zdninlas Raymond Baublis taipgi pazadejo savo
cavo parama. Manau kad r visur kitur tas pat gama
rast Tode vsi vsur skubai dirbkite il bent 20 viena
karo bona prkite.
Visas s500OOOO Karo Ronu Vajaus rekalais la-
sykit
NATIONAL WAR BOND COMMITTEE
Americans of Lithuanian Descent
$500 Superior Ave, Cleveland 3, Ohio
314 Walnut Street, Newark 5, n J.
A. S. TREcIOKAS, Pirm.
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KARo zINios

RUSAI apsupo apie 2O0,-
600 naziu Odesos srityje,
kuria verziasi is Vokieciu
atimti. Isstume nazius .jarl
is daugelio to fronto dalies
miesteliu ir kaimu.
Odessa Rusai apsupa is
triiq pusiu.
Rusu armijos izygiavo j
Rumanijos zeme, az Besa-
rabijos sienos. Paeme ellie
kaimu.
Rumanija kalba apie ka-
70 paliaubas SUI Alijantais.
Rumanija smarkiai bonn
bardavo ir Amerikos lex
tuvai.
PACIFIKE, A m er ike
ciai, sunaikino 2S8 Japonu
lektuvus Naujoj Guinejoj,.
AllJantai smarkiai atakavo
vel Japonu tvirtove Truk
sala.
Keletoje salu uzblokuota
100000 Japonu kareiviu ir
j.ems gresia mirtis. Jiems
pagalbos priduoti negali.
Salu apielinkese raskan-
dinta vel keliolika Japonu
laivu.
Burmoje, musiuose Anne
rikieciu vadovaujamos ar
mijos su Japonais, ismus-
ia 5000 Japonu kareiviu.
Japonai ismusti atgal j
kalnus.
ITALIJOJE, italy ka-
revival uzeme kita Vokie-
ciu aukstuma, kurioje jle
laikesi kovose prizes Alijan-
tus.
Anzio pakrastyje Britai
buvo pastumti atgal.
Naziai skelbia atsieme
is Aliiantu visa Casino,
kuris jau pirmiau Ameri-
kos bomberiu suardytas.
Amerikos lektuvai per
klaida numete bombas ant
sveicarijos miestelio prie
Vokietijos sienos, uzmusta
keliolika zmoniu, nuostoliu
padaryta uz apie Is milijo-
nu dolariu. Tuos nuosto-
Illus Amerika atlygins.
Kovo Is d.. atakuojant
Casino, klaidingu patai-
kymu nusauta Is Alijantu
-kareiviu, paskelbia Gen.
Eaker.
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Karo BonQ Vajaus Mas -Mitingas Pittsburght

DETRCITE = Masiniame Mitinge Bonu ispar-
Quota uz apie $40. 900; auku surnktal s421sO.
PITTSBURGHE - Masinis Mitrgas rengiaEnas
sekmadieni, Balandzio Is d;ena.
KITL MASINIAI MiTINGAI: Clevelande !
Ralandzio 10; An1sterdame Balandzio q d.;
Chicagoe = RaIandzio 23.