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Smyrna times., 1944-12-07

Some fun. After a week here my
fever went down and 1 am now al
lowed to circulate around the hos
pital. 1 am convalescing if you
please, and I'm feeling pretty good.
Expect to get out sometime this
week.
Haven't much to tell you except
that there seems to be a change
taking place. We understand that
we will fly the famout ats Texans
in Basic instead of the BIB. This
used to be the ship flown in ad-
vance training. We are all for
this as the ATS is some airplane.
We don't know where we will
take our Basic. Some of the boys
will have to be moved out of Good
fellow Field because it is not able
to handle our entire class. I will
let you know my new address as
soon as possible.
Regards,
John
A-C John M. Fleming
A. S. N. 42082399
Section E
Goodfellow Field
San Angelo, Texas
Sorry to learn that you have
had a go at the hospital, John, but
just as glad to hear that you are
on your way out, fully recovered.
The word infection can mean most
anything; therefore it is pleasure
to have your assurance that the
worst was not bad. Would not
want anything to hold you back on
your Basic Training for the world.
I've been so long getting this
letter of yours into print that I
was a bit afraid that your next |
letter, announcing your change of |
address would arrive before I was
in the clear. Well. don't ever let |
that mean anything to you, John.
At times the mail is quite heavy; |
then again it's light; so just write
in and give us the news; we'll get
around to publishing the letters at
the very first opportunity. Ad-
dresses are in the preferred class.
They get immediate attention and
are printed in the very next issue
following their arrival. We do
this so that the greatest numbers
Of people can keep in touch with
DUR Service folk.
Drop us a line and tell the folks
how you like flying the AT-6's by
this time. They should be fast
enough to hold your attention
while you are in the air, and keep
your mind off of paying post cleo
lion bets.
Keep up the good record John,
and let us know how things are
going out your way. We're all
pulling for you, and wishing you
every success possible.
Through the kindness of Mrs.
Harry r. Jones, Townsend, Della
Smyrna times., 1944-12-07

Through the kindness of Mrs.
Harry R. Jones, Townsend, Della
ware, we are publishing letter
received from her brother, T-5
Hunter w. Jones who is now serv-
ing in an Amphibian Tractor Bat
talon somewheres in the Pacific
Area. Hunter Jones it will be re-
membered is a former Smyrna res
ident.
Smyrna times., 1944-12-07

Pvt. William E. Moore
A. S. N. 329565O3
Hdq.> Bty. Detachment
Fort Dearborn, New Hampshire
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
December Proves
Busy Month
In 0PA's Office

The Ell Centre office of price ad-
ministration kept all departments
busy during December according
to the monthly report issued Sat-
urday.
The miscellaneous panel issued
certificates for 141 stoves auto
mobiles, 6 bicycles. Also 96 shoe
certificates were issued.
The tire panel issued certificates
for l34 Grade l passenger tires,
465 Grade 3 passenger tires, 1893
tubes for the above classification.
The panel alsso issued 165 tires and
159 tubes for trucks as we'll as nine
tires and 26 tubes for implements.
The gasoline panel, according to
the report issued the following
number of books for each class:
A-110; B-395; C-864; D-4;
E-26; RIG; T-84 books and
10000 Strip T. coupons.
There were 81 requirements of
lost books III and w during the
month, 30 were Book w and 81
were for Book III. The office is
sued 443 new book four and 1856
new book three.
Industrial users received 27,030
meats and fats points and insti-
tutional users were given 1,157,325
points. Institutional users also re-
ceived 771328 processed food points
and 36,419 pounds of sugar. In
dUStrial users were granted 6,720
points in processed food and 49,
943 pounds of sugar.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Mother Of &c.
Woman Dies

Mrs. Lucy Ann Graves, 80, mother
of Mrs. Gladys L. SWingle OF Ell
Centre, died Friday at her daugh-
ter's home.
Funeral services will be held at
the Lemons chapel in Ell Centre at
3 pm. Sunday. The body will be
sent to Madrid, Iowa. for burial.
She was born in Luther, Iowa,
February 8, 1860. She came to Ell
Centro IA months ago.
Mrs. Graves was a member of
the Unitarian church in DeS MoineS,
Iowa, and a past matron OF the
HaWkeye chapter of the Eastern
Star in Iowa.
She was we'll known in Ell Centro
as she and ler late husband, Alvin
A. Graves, spent their winters in
California for many years. They
celebrated their SiXty-third we'd
ding anniversary in Ell Centre Feo-
ruary 6, l942. Her husband died the
following September.
Survivors include two daughters,
Mrs. Swingle and Mrs. Elma Odem
of Beverly Hills; two sons, Mark r.
Graves Of Duncan, oregon, and
Ivan H. Graves of Minneapolis,
Minnesota; a brother, Ivan Saun-
derS, Marcola, Oregon; 10 grand
children, and four great-grandchil-
dren.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Unit Will Study
Farm Equipment

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8 CUP) =
Formation of a special committee
to plan for purchase by farmers of
surplus war equipment, such as
jeeps and trucks, after the war was
announced Saturday by Lyman
Lantz, assistant state director of
agriculture.
The 12-member committee will
cooperate with a previously ap-
pointed farm labor housing COM
mittee which is studying a plan by
which farmers would get a first
option to purchase surplus defense
housing, Lantz said
A survey by the agriculture de-
partment, Lantz said, disclosed a,
widespread demand for the housing
and surplus equipment by farmers
and was well received" by federal
housing authorities.
Lantz will serve as temporary
chairman of the committee. Both
the housing and equipment COM
mittees will meet in San Francisco
next Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. tUP)-
Draft boards Saturday began sched-
uling their IA registrants for pre-
induction physical examinations
which were ordered Friday by selec-
tive service as a elimination to a
long fight BY congressman to elimi-
nate the hardships that accompan-
led induction day phySicals.
Under the new ruling, LAS will
be given the official army-navy
medical examination at least 21
days before they are called for
induction. The period might be as
long as three months or more. The
period between examination and
induction is definitely expected to
be heightened when sufficient
pool of men acceptable for service
is built up to meet draft calls.
A regiStrant who previously was
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Vanderbilt Dies
In n. Y. Home

NEW YORK, Jan. 8. CUP)-Wil-
liam K. Vanderbilt, IS, millionaire
explorer. yachtsman and railroad
official, died at his home early
Saturday of a heart ailment.
Vanderbilt, grandson of the
founder of the New York Central
railroad and a present director Of
the system, had returned here be-
fore Christmas and was believed re-
cuperating.
He suffered a relapse Friday and
died at 1892 O'Clock Saturday morn
ing. With him at the time were
his wife, Rasamond. and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. William j. Wharburton.
Another daughter, Mrs. Muriel Van
derbilt Phelps, was notified at her
San Francisco home
Vanderbilt probably was best
known as yachtsman. having or
iginated the famous Vanderbilt cup
competition. He also was one of
the early pioneers in automobile
racing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
SpangIer Views
Regular COP
Campaign Plans

CHICAGO. Jan. 8. CUP)-Harri.-
son Spangler, chairman of the Re
publican national committee, said
Saturday the party probably will
not shorten its wartime presiden-
hal campaign because we believe
the Democrats are already conduct
ng theirs"
Spangler said the national COM
Inittee. which begins a two-day
meeting here Monday, probably will
set the date for the national COP
convention in June, around the
usual time" The campaign of the
usual duration, he said, would not
interfere with the war effort if it
is conducted properly.
ON HIGH LEVEL
1T is not the length Of the cam
paign that is important but the
manner in which it is conducted -
he said. THE Republican party,
you may be certain, will conduct its
campaign on a level that will not
interfere with the war effort We
do not want brass bands and flam-
boyant politics"
Delaying the convention until
August or September, he said, would
interfere with the soldier vote,
because we agree that 60 or 80
days will be required for mailing
ballots to servicemen overseas"
Meanwhile, observers speculated
significance on a statement by Wen
dell Willkie, who said at New York
that he was interested in no parti-
cular city as convention site. Will
kie's followers have opposed selec-
ton of Chicago as the convention
site, observers said, in the BELIEF
the city is a stronghold of isola-
tionist sentiment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Mrs. Hoover Dies
Of Heart Attack
In New York CITY
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former first lady was content to
remain in the background, she had
been a constant companion of Mr..
Hoover ever since they met in 1898
on the campus of Leland Stanford
university, where both were study
ing geology. They were married the
following year and spent their hon.
eymoon in China, where Mr.. Hoover,
as a young engineer, had been ap-
pointed an adviser on mining to
the Chinese government.
WORLD TRAVELLERS
BY the time their first son was
four years old, they had travelled
around the world three times,
sometimes living in tents, and were
in Tientsin, China, during the Boxer
Rebellion.
Outside of her activities with the
Girl Scouts, of which she was ma
tional president in 1922, Mrs. Hoover
never was in the limelight while
she was the first lady of the land.
indicative of her retiring nature,
Who's Who gave only nine lines
to her biography, describing her as
a translator and a member, officer
and honorary officer of many edu-
cational and philanthropic organiza-
tons
The death of Mrs. Hoover left
five surviving wives of former pres
idents. They are Mrs. Thomas j.
Preston, the former Mrs. Grover
Cleveland; Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson: Mrs.
Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge.
WASHINGTON, Jan. g. CUP) =
Secretary of state Cordell Hull
Saturday sent his and Mrs. Hull's
condolences to former president
Hoover over Mrs. Hoover's death
Friday. I'VE together with all the
numerous friends and admirers of
Mrs. Hoover will always remember
her as a woman of the highest
ideals who throughout her long and
distinguished life, gave unselfishly
of her splendid talents to the serv-
ice Of the nation" their message
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
. Guardians Of -
War Production Quality

lHESE young women from
school and college are the type that
help stand guard over the standards
of quality in the war production of
Chrysler Corporation.
BY means of precision instruments
and spectrum photographs these
women are able to analyze pieces of
steel, aluminium or magnesium alloys.
If the chemical composition of these
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Leader Stresses
T. of T. Activity

Charles Bramkamp, Ell Centre,
second vice-president of the Asso-
ciated Chamber of Commerce, ex-
pressed his opinion that the I'm
perial Valley Associated Chamber
of Commerce should be the strong
chamber in the county with an Of
flee and full-time secretary to CO.
ordinate the activities of all local
chambers instead of being sub
ordinated to the community or
ganizationS.
Bramkamp'S remarks were made
after he had welcomed the mem
bers to Ell Centre fer their meet
ing at which they heard John
Young. San Diego War Production
Board manager of the priorities
division
Although Bramkamp suggested
that the president appoint a COM
mittee to study the possibilities of
a stronger central chamber, Allan
Witter, BraWley, president of the
associated group failed to follow
up his idea and appoint members
to make the survey at the meeting.
In one OF the committee reports,
Zen Herring, Ell Centre, secretary
of the local chamber, stated that
the aviation committee had been
informed by the Western Air Lines
that the army was still holding up
the line through Imperial Valley.
Air line officials were in Washing
ton now trying to expedite the in
auguration of the new air route, he
said.
Young, who was introduced by
Witter, spoke on WPB problems.
He said many strategic materials
were loosening up and that more
repair parts were becoming avail
able.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
WPB Aid Stresses
Man Power Needs

Shortages in war materials for
the war effort, in general, no longer
exist, but rather the shortages are
now in the manpower field, John
Young, San Diego manager of the
priorities division of the War Pro-
duction Board told KiwaniS club
members Friday noon at the lunch
con meeting in the Barbara Worth
hotel.
Sufficient raw materials exist fo-
the war effort-there is enough
steel and cooper, but shortages
continue, and will continue, in
lumber, rubber and gasoline the
speaker said.
Lack of available manpower and
the heavy labor turnover are the
chief problems, stated Young, and
he cited a new ruling now in effect
which reduced the labor turnover in
San Diego to four per cent per
month.
Materials for service work for the
repair, maintenance and operation
of equipment are available in Suf-
ficient quantities, he declared, and
steps are being taken to cut red
tape so that materials can be made
obtainable.
Young also predicted that the
coming year will see more civilian
goods available.
Rudolph Miller was chairman of
the day and w. H. Tyler, jr., pesi-
dent, presided.
Tuesday, at ladies night dinner
meeting, 7 o'clock in the Barbara
Worth hotel, new officers will be
installed. 1t is anticipated that the
lieutenant governor for the district
will be present for the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Gas Distributors
And OPA 10 Meet

Gas distributors will meet in the
FL Centro Chamber of Commerce
offices, Monday, at 10 a. m. with
enforcement, officers of the San
Diego Imperial OPA district. ac-
cording to the local office Saturday
morning.
The meeting will advise the dis
tributors of the tightening of ration
controls and it will be explained
that a strict accountability of ra-
ton coupons will be enforced from
this date. This is to prevent black
marketing as well as to aid in the
combating of gasoline shortages, it
was pointed out.
Gasoline distributors will be
forced to cooperate more closely
with the dealers in regard to cou-
pon legality, the El Centre office
reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Droftees Await
Pre-PhysicoIs

called up for induction did not
know until the day he reported
whether he would be physically ac-
eptable. Many men quit their jobs
and wound up their affairs only to
discover that they were physically
ineligible and had to undo all the
preparations they had made to
leave civilian life.
Many congressman were outspok-
en- in demands to rectify that situa-
ton, and a provision was written
into the recent so-called father
draft" law requiring draft boards
to grant physical examinations to
men whose induction will occur
shortly who requested them.
The new ruling not only puts
this law into effect but goes even
further, setting up pre-induction
examinations as the regular policy
rather than making them depend
ent on the request of the regis
trant. RegiStrantS in classes other
than IA whose induction is not far
off also will be allowed to ask for
pre-induction exams, thus insuring
fullest selective service compliance
with the law.
TO EXTEND TIME
Selective service said that while
under its order men may be in
Quoted as early as 81 days after
they receive their pre-induction
physicals, the period will be eX-
tended as soon as a large enough
pool of physically acceptable men
has been established.
Local boards will at once start
ordering physical examinations for
a substantial number of men in
la in addition to ordering men
to report for induction to meet
the normal January call of the
armed forces.
The number of examinations will
be increased month by month to
enlarge the pool and to extend the
time between the registrantS pre-
induction physical exam and his
induction.
Also, any man who wishes to
speed his entry into the armed
forces may request immediate in
duction prior to the time of his
examination, in which case he will
! be inducted at once.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09

vital metal compounds falls below
the rigid standards demanded - the
report goes in and any defective piece
promptly goes out.
Busy at widely different tasks in
Chrysler Corporation are some
twenty-nine thousand other girls and
women from many walks of life and
with varied amounts of schooling.
They are helping to replace men
called to the colors by the war.
This picture gives but small
glimpse of the vast research and
laboratory background, en-
ploying hundreds of men
and women experts, that aid ~s~s
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Civilians Warned
On Less Gasoline

the California oil and gas aSSocia-
tion announced Saturday.
Gasoline supplies already are
short and are growing shorter"
Taylor said. Military authorities
will be taking 98 out of every 1870
8arrels produced this year as COM
pared with last years demands for
73 barrels"
The army demand amounts to rs
per cent of the years supply and
about one-third of 1910 civilian
consumption.
Despite the fact that gasoline
production is now 80 per cent
greater than in 1910, Taylor de-
clared. reserve stocks of motor fuel
which have kept civilian supplies
above critical levels soon will be
exhausted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Z Valley Soldiers
Listed as Wounded

Two Imperial Valley boys, both
of them MeXicans, were wounde d
in action in the Mediterranean
area, the war department an
nounced Saturday.
PFC. Manuel F. Ruiz of BraWley
and PFC. Pete G. Romero of Cal
exico were listed among the 491
United States soldiers wounded in
action in the European, Mediter-
ranean, Pacific, and southwest
Pacific areas.
The Brawley boy is a son of
Theodore B. Ruiz of 1862 street
and the Calexico boy is son of
Mrs. Jesus Romero of TIA Third
street.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
ONE CHARGE LEADS
TO ANOTHER

Leroy Norman, 80, l73 Orange,
Negro, who was charged with bat
terry on complaint of Levi Gentry
%, 123 East He'll, Negro, Frida.'
appeared in police court morning
and was released on S25 bail. Before
being released Norman entered an
assault complaint against Gentry,
who was also released on S25 bail.
Hearing of the case will be held
later. L. j. Hull, Al, on an intoXica-
ton charge paid a $40 fine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
Pop Goes The Keller

OF which you may be proud.
Pop Goes The Keller
Pop" Keller showed up at his
office Saturday fresh as a daisy
in spite OF a terrific golf game
PLACED to celebrate his seventy
fourth birthday anniversary Fri
day.
Granting the SO years difference,
and more experience in golf than
his opponent, Pop" spotted Hayden
Sears a stroke-a-hole in the birth
day match at the Barbara Worth
Country club. The Rev. Mr.. Sears
did not divulge his score and gave
as his reason for dropping out
twearily?) after "a holes that he
had to play baseball with his young
ster teams at the stadium.
When the pairing was broken
Pop" was just warming up. He had
shot an even 100 on the first s
and was headed fr an identical
second score on the second, in spite
of the heavy wind. Rev. Sears ad-
mitted that perhaps the reason he
was willing to give up" early was
that he covered twice the territory
that Pop" did. That 74-year old
kid Smacked EN- straight down the
fairwayS while the Rev's. clubs had
a habit of kicking the pill first to
one side and then TO the other.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09

LOS ANGELES. Jan. s. CUP) -
Civilians may expect only 80 out
of every l30 barrels of gasoline pro-
duced in 1914, Reese H. Taylor, oil
company executive and chairman of
the public relations committee of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
YANKS BOMB FLORENCE

LONDON, Jan. 8. tUP) - The
German-controlled Paris radio said
today that an Anglo-American air
force had raided Florence, Italy,
causing many casualties and severe
damage. 1t did not indicate when
the purported raid occurred.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
How Dry l Am

=
It's a tradition at VAL board
meetings in El Centro that Sam
Robinson gets thirsty at pm.
and demands time out for coke. At
the meeting this week there were
80 fertilizer men in the room. 1t
looked like a big bill to Sam. He
was slowly dying of thirst when the
30 visitors left at pm.
Pete Hixson rushed out and hand
ed a girl in the office money to buy
drinks for the war board. Just
then Red Harrigan walked in.
"Pete'S money is no good" Har-
rigan said. Here, take this monel
and buy the board and all the girls
in the office a drink 1t was al
most enough money to treat all
the fertilizer men.
Cts a shame Red didn't arrive
earlier. He could have been stuck
for all of them.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
u. U.S.PIanes Hit
RabauI BASE

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two Japanese planes were shot
down in ensuing battles.
Tokyo radio, quoting dispatches
from the south Pacific, said a total
of $50 planes attacked Japanese
bases around Madang, New Guinea,
during the period between Dec. 81
and Jan 4. Fifteen planes were shot
down, Tokyo asserted.
Tokyo also reported Liberator
bomberS raided Lib Island, north of
KWajalein atoll. in the western
MarShalls. The japanese claimed
one of the planes was shot down,
and that no damage was inflicted
BY the raiders.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
LICENSE ISSUED

Thurston j. Grassland, 25, navy
man, and Jeanne Criss, 20, Ell Cen
tro secretary, obtained marriage
license from County Clerk w. J.
McClelland Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
SINK TWO U-BOATS

LONDON, Jan. 8. CUP) - Royal
navy sloops sank two German SUD-
marines in the north Atlantic with
in eight hours recently the ad-
miralty announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09

in guarding Lhrysler Corpora,lvn
quality. 1t is a vigorous guardian
ship which demonstrates itself in
the exceptional wartime service of
some seven million Chrysler Corpo-
ration cars and trucks in the hands
of owners.
1t insures high standards of quality
in enormous quantities of fighting
equipment (from big tanks to small
ammunition) now being built by
Chrysler Corporation for the use of
officers and men at the battlcfronts.
TUNE IN MAJOR sowts EVERY
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09

OBTAIN LICENSE
A marriage license was issued in
El Centre Saturday to Private
Floyd B. Seymour, 35, and Maggie
Lucille Brown, 81, Indio resident.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
RAMBLING REPORTER

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people in it like that is something
Of which you may be proud"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09
RAID BUN

Thirteen planes raiGed BUM, on
the southern tip of Bougainville,
yesterday, Tokyo said, claiming one
plane was shot down.
"a navy spokesman disclosed at
Guadalcanal Saturday that a third
air field has been placed in opera
ton in the Bougainville area at
Treasury Island, within short strik-
ing distance of BIN and Shorthand
ISlandD
The last officially .sr-rted air
raid on Rabaul was Wednesday
night, when planes from Solomons
bases strafed gun positions and
dock installations. and destroyed
two troop-loaded barges.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-09

ADVANCED A ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 8.
CUP)-Ranging from the Solomons
to New Ireland. New Britain, and
New Guinea, allied airmen demon
strated their aerial superiority in
the southwest Pacific by heavily
damaging Japanese shipping, in
stallations and airdr0mes, it was
announced Saturday.
General Douglas Macarthur )
communique, reporting that fight
ing had died down on the south
eastern front of the American
beachhead at Cape Gloucester, said
the raids included an attack We'd
nesday night on Kavieng by med
ium units which pounded the air
drome and other installations.
Kavieng, located at the northern
tip of New Ireland, only 80 miles
northwest of Raoaul, New Britain,
is a strategic enemy harbor and
supply base.
The raid was the 18th successive
night of attack at Kavieng.
Night patrol bombers attacked an
enemy cargo ship and a destroyer
above Cape Matanalemn, New Ire
land, and Solomons-based aircraft
damaged an inter-island steamer
near Mussau island, 100 miles north
vest OF Kavieng.