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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
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Court Notes
Attendance at one of Judge John
E. Simpsons justice court jury
trials is always a delightful expert
ence. On such occasions Judge
Simpson adjournS to superior
court room where there is plenty
of space. In the first place, he
believes in smoking, permits every
I one in the court room to smoke
and Tuesday sat on the bench
placidly putting away on a corn
cob pipe.
He will have nothing to do with
tangled devices for drawing
the names of jurors. He seized
Constable Hugh Keatings hat
dumped the slips Of paper in it,
shuffled them vigorously and be-
. Kan drawing names. During the
afternoon Constable Heating was
out getting more jurors. He tco.;
his hat with him.
Bring me at hat" barked Simp-
son to the room in general. No
one moved. Bring me hat" he
snapped, glaring over the tops of
his spectacles. One of his friends
in theaudience meekly lifted a hat
from a nearby hatrack and gave it
to his honor. The hat selected at
random turned cut to be the natty
chapeau of John Stevenson, visit
ing attorney from Los Angeles. 1t
was all one to Judge Simpson.
Speak Ep!" Speak Up!" Judge
Simpson said testify to juror be-
ing question, by attorneys. THE
Continued on page 6, col. u
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wednesday, and Tokyo radio limited
the raiders may have first tented
toward the japanese mainland.
japanese military headquarters at
Tientsin said the bombers raided
Takao, on the west coast of the is
lind go miles from the southern
tip, and Ensui. The announcement
was broa lcast from Tokyo and re-
corded by United Press.
1T was believed the enemy planes
were unable to attempt a direct
attack on the Japanese mainland
because of our impenetrable de-
ferse, and carried an indiscriminate
bombing of Taiwan (Formosa)
which is the nearest Japanese terri
tory solely for propaganda pur-
poses,' the announcement said.
The Japanese admitted the raid
ers inflicted damage on land in
stallations. The first broadcast ver-
sion said damage was slight" the
second described it as negligible. y
The raid, not Immediately con-
firmed by any Allied source, was
the first against Formosa since
planes of the 14th U. S. air force
struck at Taihoku, at the northern
end of the island, last Thanksgiv-
ing day.
The Japanese announcement said
one civilian was killed and Is others
were injured in Tuesday nights
attack, and that the raiders i'm
mediately took flight" after drop
ping their bombs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Allies Recapture
Strategic Point
In Burma Thrust

LONDON, Jan. IL. (UP)-Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten's southeast
Asia forces in a strong thrust west
ward into Burma have recaptured
the strategic port of Maungdaw.
front dispatches said Wednesday, in
what was regarded here as the
orenilg move to clear the Arakan
area for large-scale allied ground
offensive.
Units of the 14th army were re-
ported battling through the jun
giles several miles south and west
OF Maungdaw on the Mayu penin-
Sula, and their immediate objective
was believed to be the Port of Ak
yah, 55 miles distant and goal of
the abortive British offensive of
1912
If Mountbatten's forces can push
down to the tip of the Mayu penin-
sula before the start of the rainy
season, several months hence, their
advance would bring the western
shores of Akyab island within range
of heavy British artillery.
Military observers here empha-
sized, however, that seizure of
Maungdaw, advance base for the
unsuccessful Wavell campaign, did
not mean the opening of the await
ed allied grand offensive to drive
the japanese from southeastern
Asia.
That all-out offensive, when it
comes, probably will be sweeping
amphibious drive across the Bay
of Bengal, aimed at the capture
of Rangoon, Singapore, or both,
these observers said.
Front reports indicated that the
allies occupied Maungdaw after an
advance of about Is miles in bitter
jungle fighting.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12

compulsory national service legisla-
ton" for these reasons:
a. 1t will not prevent strikes.
The experience of Great Britain
proves that. Britain has a national
service law. It has net stopped
strikes. In 1912 the number of
strikes in Britain was greater pro-
portionately than in the United
States.
o. 1t will not solve manpoyer
problems. The war manpower COM
MISSIONS policy committee, COM
posed of management, labor and
agricultural representatives, declar-
ed unanimously only two months
ago that the American people will
provide greater output under a vol
untary system than under one of
compulsion and regimentation.'
'3. 1t threatens to undermine
our basic concepts of democracy.
There is no real comparison be-
tween drafting men for service in
the armed forces of the country
and drafting them for service in
private industry, operating for pri-
vate profit. AS eminent an author
Continued on page 6, col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Aliens
Flee
ca mo
Search Spreads
For Escaped
War Prisoners

The greatest manhunt ever held
in the southwest was in progress
Wednesday along the California
Arizona Mexican borders with mil
itary officials assisting peace Of
ficers in a search for six italian
fugitives from prison camp in
Riverside county.
Near Ogilby in the southeastern
part of Imperial county highway
patroimen found an abandoned car
at l. a. m. Wednesday which an
sWered the description of the car
in which the Italians were said to
be travelling.
Footprints in the sand near the
car showed that the occupants of
the car had left the scene on foot,
heading northwest across the desert
toward some of the most isolated
sections Of the southwest.
Undersheriff Rodney Clarke of
Imperial county was informed that
highway patrolmen had found the
getaway car. The Marines at the
Ell Centro air station sent a plane
to search for the fugitives. MeXi-
can officials patrollsd the interna-
tional border to intercept the Ital-
iGrs if they should attempt to slip
out OF the United States.
The Yuma sheriffs office had
cars and men out searching the
desert east Of the Colorado river
in case the Italians had in some
manner slipped across the river
Undersheriff Clarke sent deputy
sheriffs and cars with trackers to
take up the trail as it led from the
abandoned car into the sand hills.
immigration border patrolmen
and cars went out to assist in the
search.
Most of the official cars used
were equipped with two-way radios
SO officers engaged in the search
may keep in touch with headquar-
terS and. with each other.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Research Experts Speed
Valley Drainage Study

citing the necessity to prove each
and every step taken so that when
the survey and tests are completed
there will be no more guess work
about proper and continuous drain
age.
Cites Main Objective
Stressing the principal problems
confronting the men in the field and
the technicianS in the laboratory
Mr.. Fox said:
IF we can get sub-soil moisture
problems down to five basic classi-
fications We will have gone far and
will be practically at our goal.
These five clasSifications into which
we would like to place lands of
this valley are: % Land requiring
no special drainage practices; (2)
Lands that can be drained ade-
quately with open drains or bitches;
CD Lands that can be drained by
sumps or wells; (4) Lands that will
require tile drainage installations:
and go Those lands that cannot
be drained or which it is imprac-
ticable to DRAIN
After two and one-half years of
surveying the valleys problem and
compiling of soil studies, Mr.. Fox
believes the job is halfway towards
placing the drainage problem on a
scientific basis and nearer the date
when the workers will be able to
designate proper systems of drain
age for most soil conditions.
Complex Situation
THE soils of Imperial Valley are
more complex than those of almost
any other part of the world" Mr..
Fox continued, land the question
of whether property can or cannot
lie drained is dependent upon soil
conditions. This makes the job of
the soil conservation service tech
nicians particularly difficult How
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12


President Roosevelt.
AFL President William Green,
a few hours before he and CIO
President Philip Murray were ex-
pected to call on the president for
a discussion of the subject, issued
an attack in which he declared a
labor daft would neither prevent
strikes nor solve manpower prob
lens.
Murray had asserted that the
labor draft was "quack medicine"
proposed by officials frustrated by
their own failures. Green denounced
it as threat to basic concepts Of
democracy.
STUDY AUSTIN BILL
Meanwhile, the senate military
affairs heard an exposition of
revised national service Qabor
draft bill by it's co-author, Senator
Warren r. Austin, (Ro, Vermont.
Austin said national service act
would provide vast labor pool to
relieve young men for military SER
vice and prevent the draft of faith
ers. He urged passage of the revised
service bill which he introduced
yesterday after President Roose-
velt's state of the union message.
Austin said his bill would be "the
most effective means of effectuat-
ing the policy of congress with re-
ga.d to the draft of fathers APP
q an OH
boiled men over 38, and all women
not already in war industry would
be included in the labor pool, he
said.
The congressional outlook for en-
actment of Austin'S bill or any
other version appeared on the whole
to be dim.
Green's statement said the AFL
"resolutely opposes enactment of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Sorny
Falls
10 Russ
Capture Cuts Vital
German Rail Line
Linking Two Fronts
LONDON, Jan. IL. (UP)

LO1N DOIN, dl. Il. (OT
The Russian first army of
the Ukraine has stormed and cap
tured Sarny, key rail junction
35 miles inside old Poland, cut
ting the German-held trunk rail-
way linking the southern and north
e n fronts, Soviet Premier JOSEF
Stain announced Wednesday.
Stain issued a special order of
the day commencing Vatutin for
the capture yesterday of Sarny,
which he called a large rail juno
ton and important German defense
base"
The vanguard of Russian forces
driving far west of the pre-War
Polish frontier stormed into Sarny
and crushed German resistance af-
ter forcing the formidable SlucZ
river fortifications.
By ca pturing SarnT, on the Vino
Rowne and iev-Warsaw railroads,
the Russians forced the Nazis to
rely on the road through Kowel
80 miles westward fer lateral trans
port.
Other Soviet forces to the south
east were maSsing before the Bug
river for a full dress push toward
Rumania.
Express my gratitude to your
troops for their perfect military
operations in the fighting for the
liberation of the town of Sarny,
Stain told Vatutin.
He ordered them saluted with II
salvoes of Moscow's 124 victory can
non.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12

ObviouSl: believing the great aer-
ial onslaught to be the first Ameri-
can daylight thrust at Berlin, the
Nazis revealed tactics and weapons
they had been saving for the de-
fense of their battered capital.
The Nazi command threw ins)
the struggle destroyer" smoke
screens and broadside rocket she'll
ing in desperate attempt to checi.
the hundreds of Firing Fortresses
and Liberators flanked by mora
than hundreds of Thunderbolts and
Lightnings as we'll as a new type of
long range fighter.
The London Evening News, as
serting that American losses were
believed to exceed 60 planes-a rec
ord 60 U. S. heavy bombers were
lost in an October raid on Schwein-
furt-estimated that the German
losses might be four times as great.
The news said United States pi-
lots estimated that the Nazis may
have lost as many as 300 aircraft
all told.
While the German high command
was claiming 1876 raiders downed and
the destruction of further enemy
planes probable" authorities were
checking official reports from air
bases in Britain and were expected
to issne communique at any time.
Speculation that the toll of Ger
man planes might exceed. 300 re-
volved around the record figure of
BOT destroyed in the double raid on
Schweinfurt and regensburg las
Aug. II.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12

ever, it is felt that development of
soil Sampling equipment and labora-
! tory procedure will bring additional
benefits to the valley other than
pointing the way to correct DRAIN
age problems. After our exhaustive
experimentation and research work
is completed, there will be the as
surance that drainage will be car
rled on in more successful.
scientific and efficient method than
is now being employed"
At present, Fox pointed out, the
Irrigation District with it's years of
drainage experience is making the
best possible suggestions, but it is
their years of experience guess
against our laboratory guess. While
the soil office is still mainly con-
cerned with laboratory experiments,
we have had those experiments
checked by actual field work, and
have proved several important facts
regarding the soils and water satur-
alton and water drainage in the
valley" he said
some conclusions
The soil experts have determined
no wfast the water will flow through
various strata underlying the soil.
both vertically and laterally They
have arrived at these basic eonclu-
sions: That water doesn't flow in a
straight line to the tile drainage OF
open drainage: that while 1t goes
deown through the soil to the drain
line, the more distant from the tile
line the point is, the more water
tends to curve toward the tile: that
in many cases it is found the water
even penetrates the clay strata to
the less resistant sandy strata below
and then flows horizontally until II
GENES to point below the tile and
then comes back up through the
Continued on page 8, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12

said, land as long as the ducks are
not wasted. The federal and state
officials in charge of game con-
servation insist that the ducks be
distributed among the friends of
the hunters or turned over to in
stitutions so there will be no waste.
This saves meat ration points,
Shooting of ducks on Salton Sea,
in sloughs, or along rivers is not
permitted The extension of the
season was permitted to protect
food crops during the war emergen-
cy.
Whitelaw also said there was suf-
ficient ammunition available to the
farmers but they probably could
not get all they wanted at one
time. 1t would be necessary, he said,
to pet small quantities at time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Ruling Stresses
Duck Shooting

Tell the farmers of Imperial
county they may shoot ducks or let
their friends shoot ducks day and
night until February 10 as a result
of emergency action taken by fed
eral and state fish and game Off
cials,' r. B. Whitelaw, Ell Centre
attorney, said Wednesday.
Whitelaw said he noticed the
farmers of Imperial Valley believed
hunters were not permitted to shoot
ducks after the close of the usual
duck hunting season but such is
not the case this year.
There is no limit placed on the
number of ducks which may be
shot as long as the shooting Is
done in the fields where the ducks,
are destroying crops" Whitelaw
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
U. s. Hammers
At RabauI

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan.
u UP - U. S. forces were re-
vealed wednesday to have COM
pleted a third airstrip on Bougain-
Vile for intenSification of the
aerial blockade and bombardment
of Rabaul, 26O miles to the north
west, Japans Little Pearl Harbor"
of the southwest Pacific.
In their latest forays against
Rabaul, Solcmons-based heavy, tor
pedo and dive -bombers shot down
81 and possibly 26 of SO intercept
ing Japanese planes while blasting
Vunakanau and Tobera airfields,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique said today. The runways
and anti-aircraft positions were
hit, and one parked enemy plane
was destroyed. Four Allied planes
were lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12

"We are making marked
progress toward completion
of a research program to
guarantee adequate drainage
of Imperial Valley lands,
declared w. w, Fox in charge OF
a long-sighted undertaking set up
by the U. S. Soil Conversation Serv-
ice and the Imperial Valley Irriga-
ton Testing labora aories, land our
ultimate goal of waking the valley
the nations outstanding food bowl
rapidly is taking shape"
Reviewing the huge task, Mr.. Fox
outlined the steps already taken and
the plans for the immediate future
to accomplish the main purpose,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Testimony Opens
In ACnstefter
Trial on Assault

A Jury of t.lree men and nine
women Wednesday heard the open
ing testimony in the assault and
battery case of Paul 1mhoff against
Ed .Achstetter, secretary treasurer
of the Transfers union local TO
which Imhoff belongs.
First witness for the prosecution
was Paul Imhoff, truck driver en-
ployed by Wilson Maroon, who sign
ed the complaint against AchStetter
after the two engaged in a fight
at Seeley last November. Imhoff
testified that his jaw was broken
and his teeth loosened by blows
from Achstetter. He said he re-
membered nothing after the first
blow and did not become conscious
again until he was in a dentist S
office where work was being done
on his teeth. He testified he spent
seven days in a hospital as a re-
suit of the injuries suffered.
lMHOFF TESTIFIES
Imhoff testified that all he re-
IlCiilDClCt hClloCcOocl odyillS w INN
was did you load that truck yes
terday?' He told him he did Then,
he testified, AchStetter struck him.
Johnny Doyle Crabtree, the Sec
ond witness called by the prosecu-
ton, said he walked past Imhoff
and Achstetter after Achstetter
called to Imhoff to stop. Crabtree
said he walked a few steps and
then heard Achstetter say, "Imhoff
you've been asking for this" When
he turned, Crabtree testified, I'M
hoff was on the ground.
Paul went to the ground" Crab
tree testified, then AchStetter
picked him up with his left hand
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
SETS SESSION DATE

SACRAMENTO, Jan. II (UP)--
Gov. Earl Warren Wednesday an
nounced in letters to state legisla-
tors he will call them into special
session Jan. 81 to consider soldier
voting problems and reorganization
of the state prison system. With
the exception of permitting rati-
fication of city and county charter
amendments, he will limit the ses-
sion to election and prison subjects,
Warren said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Ex-Germqn Count
Nobbedby FBI

NEW YORK, Jan. II. pf'-
Wilhelm Albrecht Won PY Schulz
Gennant Won Rautter, ~ former
German count and a eturahzeo
American, was held in$2o'ooo pan
Wednesday on charge OF secretly
sending military iporma'"h 10
Nazi agents while thfUnitN teS
was at war with GrmanS Ese
Won Rautter, arpsted Ius .Ipy
FBI agents at his home IN trooA-
lyn, pleaded Innocent TO carges
of cons piracy toviolate the ePion-
age act and Vail was SET Pe1ding
a hearing jar. 25 before u D tom-
missioner Jacob A. Visel. II
The former German noplfan
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12

was accused of sending vital war
information in letters to Francisco
Esteves, at Lisbon, and Walter Hir-
eel in Switzerland between June l,
1912, and May /, l943. Esteves and
Hirzel also were named in the in
dictment with Won Rautter.
Won Rautter assertedly transmit
ed such information as airplane
and diesel engine production, ship
ping statistics, labor conditions and
conveys by writing in invitible inks
between typewriter lines of in
occuouS appearing letters, telling
of the stock market, skiing events
and topics about Winston Church
i'll. The letters were intercepted by
censors.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Mightiest Air Raid
Races Across Reich
yanks Break Through
Desperate Defenses
To Strike at Berlin

LONDON Jan. IL. (UP)-Massive Amer
lean raidipg fleets were believed today to
have shot down a record number of German
planes-more than 300-i.a the biggest al,
battle ever fought over Germany whicr
London newspapers estimated cost them
more than 60 planes.
The German high command claimed 1876
American planes were destroyed including
124 four-motored bombers, in the great
battle fought five miles above the Reich.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Greek Harbor
Air Bombed

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers. Jan. IL CUP)- Allied day
and night bombers struck heavy
double blow at the Greek harbor
Of Piraeus, main supply port for
the German armies in the east
ern Mediterranean, a commune
que disclosed Wednesday as the
Anglo-American Fifth army in
central Italy closed in slowly on
the Nazi mountain stronghold of
Casino.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY-Clear Wednesday night.
Variable high clOudiness Thursday.
Slightly higher daytime tempera-
lures. Continued cold at night
with light to moderate frosts i'm
wind protected areas. Lowest tenn
perature about % to 80 in the
coolest spots.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
FARM CENTER
WILL MEET

The Acacia farm center will meet
at the Acacia school at pm. Fri
day. Assistant Farm Advisor George
l.. Winright will discuss Spring
Shows and Beef Cattle" A motion
picture will be shown. An old time
fiddling and dancing party will
conclude the evenings program.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Allied fIierS
Hit Formoso
Toxic Reports Raid
Sixty Miles from
South Tip of Isle

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. II. (UP)-Al-
lied airplanes operating from China bomb
ed'two japanese bases on the enemy island
stronghold of Formosa Tuesday night, the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
Labor Heads Rep
Presidents
Service ProgroEr,
Murray end Green Receive Call
To Attend White House ParIey

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. (UP)-The American FEEDER
alton Labor Wednesday formally joined the Congress
of Industrial Organizations in vigorous opposition to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-12
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 65, minimum
Wed. 35; 5 am. Wed. al, humidity
81; noon Wed. go, humidity az;
pm. Tuesday SO, humidity 25.
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-26
HUGE PROFITS

Figures compiled by the bu-
reau of agricultural economics
show that wholesale levels have
increased so to 81 per cent and
profits have gained about 100
per cent" Gillette asserted ~
the close of am agriculture SUBJ
committee hearing
'Tn the meat business. sales
have gained about i3 per cent
and profits are up over 200
per cent"
casey recommended that fed
aral agencies 'Dc compelled "a
leave more Of the choice meats al
home
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-26
DiSgOrgsd
Sub That Sank in 80 Raised
From Colorado Lake

CENTRAL CITY. Colo. Jan. 26
QNS)-An experimental Subma-
rine which had lain on the bottom
of Missouri Lake i'm the Rockies
for more than - years was
raised yesterday by a heavy der
rick.
N The ancient sub. built Of wood
wnd covered with iron Shceting.
was built by r T. Owens in the
autumn of 1898. The ship sank
when launched.
The ghost OF Missouri Lake" is
% feet long, four and a half feet
deep and five feet wide She Will
he placed on display at Central
City historic gold camp of early
Colorado.
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-26
Packer Charges
Food BungIing
On Home Front

WASHINGTON Jan. 26 INSl
Bungling on the war food
front, with bureaucratic ineffi-
ciencies creating wholesale waste
and threatening to empty The
American larder, was charged be
fore Congress yesterday.
Senate committees, inyeStigat-
ing total wars unavoidable raid
on the nations ice box, heard
testimony of skyrocket proliteer-
ing. discrimination against The
American consumer IN favor of
lend-lease and vast meat spoIlage
because Of claimed failures on the
part Of federal agencies 10 make
marketing adjustments.
Detroit evening times., 1944-01-26
PACKERS CHARGES

George a. Casey. Philadelphia
packer, accused federal bureaus
of exporting most choice meats
overseas under lend-leaSe and
leaving poorer cuts tor home con-
sumption. lie appeared before a
Senate banking subcommittee.
J r. Meek Of the Virginia
agriculture department told the
committee thar millions of dollars
worth of meats have gone to
waste for lack Of adap'abihty in
The marketing picture
Go President Philip Murray
told a Senate labor subcommittee
That living costs have Jumped AL
most 80 per cent since January.
l94l, and charged that the bureau
OF labor statistics gives the people
a misleading version Of the rise
in prices. Acting Bureau Commis-
sioner a. r. Ihnrlcks defended
his agency'S work. but admitted
IFS methods were not perfect.
Senator Gillette Cd of Iowa
sand food handlers and diStribu-
tors are making enormous profits
ont Of the war buQIn