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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Local Option
Ruled Out

SACRAMENTO, April 8. CUPO-
A proposed local option" initiative
measure which has been circulated
for signatures since 1912 is not quail
flied to appear on the 1914 ballot
even if sufficient signatures are OBJ
tanned, Attorney General Robert
w. Kenny ruled.
The proposal for local control of
liquor sales is ineligible for a vote
for identical reasons that caused
the state supreme court to dis
qualify ham and eggs" pension
initiative last month, Kenny held
in an opinion delivered to Secretary
of State Frank M. Jordan.
Eligibility of the local option
measure was questioned by Jordan
recently when a new petition from
Merced county carrying 81 sigma
lures was offered for filing.
The court held in effect that cir
culation of initiative petitions must
be completed in the two-year period
between general elections, and thus,
Kenny said, the local option meas
ure is disqualified since its circu-
lation was begun before the last
gubernatorial election.
Signatures totaling more than
$1,000 were obtained for the liquor
proposal between February 7, 1912,
and January II, 17943. A total of
178,764 signatures now are required
to qualify an initiative measure.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Clio Unit Maps
Peace Set-up

WASHINGTON, April 8. (UPD-
War veteran members of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) called
for immediate creation of a federal
peace production board to plan,
organize and direct reconversion of
industry from war to peace.
The proposal was part of a full
employment program" adopted by
1876 UAW veterans of World War !
and II in the concluding sessions
of a two-day conference here.
The program calls for postwar
jobs and security-not normalcy."
In addition to the peace produc-
ton board, the veterans proposed:
l. A postwar 30-hour week at 40
hour pay.
2. A vast public works program
emphasizing housing-"not as a
glorified WPA but as a permanent
part of a healthy, expanding econ
omy."
3. Federal operation of govern
ment-owned plants in monopolistic
or semi-monopolistic industries or
industries strategic to national well
fare and defense"
4. Adjusted service pay, unem-
ployment compensation and social
security credit, educational and vo-
cational training, and pensions "ad-
equate to provide decent living
for veterans.
5. A political action program in
behalf of genuine liberals and
progreSSiveS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Berlin
Sector
Bombed
$50 American
Bombers'
Hit Brunswick

LONDON, April 8. (UP)
Strong formations of A
merican heavy bombers re-
sumed the attack on Germany after
a week. long lull Saturday, smash
ing at aircraft plants in Brunswick,
12O miles west of Berlin, and air.
cromes in the northwest Reich.
Nazi propagandists, in broadcasts
finding no responsible support, said
the Americans attempted to raid
Berlin" but were turned back in
fierce air battles west of the Elbe,
so miles short of the capital.
Nearly 750 United States eighth
air force bombers with an escort
of around 500 fighters broke Ger
manys longest respite of the year
from heavy bomber attack. The
lull began last Saturc ay after a
Liberator raid on southeast Ger
many.
Thunderbolts, Mustang, and Light
ming fighters of the Eighth and
Ninth air forces maintained a
shield around the bombers striking
the new blows at the German air
force.
The main assault on Brunswick,
scene of some of the heaviest air
battles Of the war, was designed
to break up repair work on the
aircraft factories shattered in pre-
vious bombardmentS, U. S. COM
munique said.
While the U. S. heavy bombers
in Britain we're giving Germany a
recess, Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators of the 18th air force in
Italy dropped 5665 tons of bombs
on southeast Europe in the week
ending Friday.
The statement from italy credit
ed gunners of the 18th air force
with cowning 270 German planes.
Lighter planes of the 18th dropped
1862 tons of explosives in various
operations, it reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
One Goodbye
Held Enough

EAST ORANGE, N. j., April g.
GUP)-Rather than go through tear
full good-byes with their wives and
children again, group of fathers
headed for induction Friday de-
clined an offer of three-day Easter
"furlough."
Alfred Rowe, chairman of selec-
tive board 13, made the offer, and
seven single or childless married
men stopped forward and accepted
it with thanks.
One father expressed the senti.
ment of the others.
Il have wife and baby he
said, land said goodbye to them
this morning. 1t was hard to dc
and just keeping out of the army
three days isn't worth having to go
through it again."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
u. S. TASK FORCE |S0LATES TRUk
GuayuIe Inquiry
States Session
In Valley Area
Special Committee of
House to Wind Up
Hearings Coming Week

LOS ANGELES, April 8. up
A visit to guayule nurseries at
OceanSideand hearing in San
Diego were scheduled for Saturday
as the four-man congressional
committee investigating federal
guayule projects prepared to wind
UP its To-day field trip Monday.
Only a visit to TIE Imperial VAL
ley, presumably to inspect the irri-
CATION project, remained on the
subcommittee list of scheduled
activities before preparing its re-
port for the house.
ASSEMBLING DATA
The committee is Gembling in
formation which it hopes will per-
suade the house appropriations
committee tC retract its refusal to
recommend any more funds to con-
tinue the natural rubber project
which already las cost the gov
ernment in the neighborhood of
$300O0,O00.
LOS ANGELES, April 8. (UP}-
West coast production CT guayule
rubber could make the United
States rubber self sufficient at
prices equal to those of synthetic
rubber, Rep. w. Robert Poage, D.,
Tex. declared in a press confer
ence, on his arrival with a three
man committee touring the west
to investigate the $30,000,000 fed
eral project.
WAS WAR MEASURE
The project was started as war
measure he explained. But l
believe that in time the price CT
guayule rubber would be as low
as that of synthetic rubber and
even lower than that of Brazilian
rubber
Poage said the government
bought the inter-continental rub
ber company experimentation mill
at Salinas in 1912 at the request
of company officials who said they
could nc longer keep it running.
THE government paid $1,750,000
Continued on page 6, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
London Awaits
Aviation Meet

LONDON, April 3. tUP)-Amer-
ican and British officials, who have
been consulting in preparation for
an international civil aviation con-
ference believe that problems of
postwar civil aviation may be set
tied at such a meeting, the lord
privy seals office announced Sat
urday.
The representative also antici-
pate the entry of Russia and other
countries into the conversations be-
fore the conference is called, the
announcement said.
AS a result of the agreement be-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Ord er
HuItS
Draft
New Program
Susp ends
lnduc+ions

WASHINGTON. April 8.
(UP)-The selective service
system Saturday suspended
inCuction calls for men over 25 who
are employed in essential agricul-
ture, war production, or war sup
porting activities.
Selective Service Director, Maj.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said his &C
ton was dictated by the war and
navy departments who have en-
phasized that 'the Cemand for
young men is so great that drastic
measures are necessary - even
though they may result in failure
to fill the current calls"
1.-The war and navy departments
have informed the director of selec-
tive service" the order said, that
the immeC late necessity for young
men in the armed forces is greater
han the need to Immediately fill
: Ills by inducing older men,"
HOW ORDER APPLIES
The suspension order applies i'm
mediately to men in essential ac-
tivities who have passed their Goth
birthday even if they already have
taken their pre-induction physical
examinations and have been ap-
proved for service.
Their induction is to be sus-
pended until the induction of those
in the 18-through-25 bracket has
Continued ON page 6, col d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

. Most of the destruction, includ-
ing the razing of at least 65 build
ings, was wrought at the Palau is
lands, last enemy stronghold east
of the Philippines, in a two-day
assault March 20 and 30. Yap, 270
miles northeast of Palau, Ulithi, 100
miles farther east, an6 Woleai,
nearly $50 miles east of Palau, were
attacked March 80 and 81.
NO LOSS TO U. S.
Not a single American ship was
damaged in the raid. Twenty-Five
American planes were lost, but only
18 airmen. One hundred and sixty
Japanese planes were destroyed and
81 damaged, many of them so badly
they probably never reached their
bases.
= Close on the heels OF Nimitz dis
closure of the brilliant Caroline
victory, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters in the southwest PACT
fic announced that planes and
warships from his command had
added to the toll of enemy ship
ping by sinking a Japanese tanker.
coastal vessel and II barges and
setting afire a 7,000-t ton cargo yes
sell
The latest American blows brought
the total number of Japanese ships
sunk since the start of the war to
1853, the number probably sunk
to G6, and the number damaged to
1883
The attack on Paiau knocked out
temporarily key lirk in the jap
aneSe chain of bases supplying and
reinforcing Truk, once regarded as
the enemy's Pearl Harbor, depriving
Truk of needed aid at time when
it was being brought under in
creasingly heavy air assault by
bomberS from the south, southwest,
and central Pacific.
A Japanese Domei dispatch re-
ported by the U. S. foreign broad
cast intelligence service said about
20 American Liberators had bombed
Truk Thursday morning. Two of
the raiders were shot down, the
broadcast claimed.
HOLING IN
The fact that the only capital
warship sighted, a battleship, was
torpeo oed and damaged by an A
merican submarine March % as 1t
fled from Palau was interpreted as
sign that all major vessels of
the japanese fleet now were taking
refuge in Japans inner ring of
bases against the day when they
will be called upon to defend the
Japanese homeland.
Hundreds of Give and torpedo
Continued on Page 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

owners, but met opposition from
federal officials, labor union leaders
and the California State Grange.
CALLS FOR EXEMPTION
The bill would exempt the Gen.
tral Valley project from the settled
policy of the department of interior
in projects of this kind, federal
reclamation officials said.
Application of the preeSnt law
limiting users of project waters to
owners of 100 acres or less would
result in the possible breakup OF
large land holdings in California
valleys, witnesses testified.
Joseph Deuel., California Farm
Bureau federation official, said that
farmers owning more than 100 acres
Will not agree 10 strip their acreage
to that size in order to get water
He said that preceuenJ Tor eXemp-
ton from the requirement already
has been set in the ColoradO-Big
thompson project in the Platte river
basin.
Marion ClawSon, department of
agriculture expert, said that 95 per
cent of California's farms are 160
acres or less, with the remaining
D per cent holding from 40 to so
per cent of the total acreage.
SEES DRAWBACKS
Deuel. countered, however, that
completion of the Central Valley
project would be endangered by re-
fusal of large land owners to sign
water contracts under the existing
acreage limitation.
Opposed to acreage limitation, in
addition to Deuel., were Harry
Barnes, manager of the MADEIRA r.
rigation district; State Senator
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Buck Private
buCked Ike.

HOLLYWOOD, April 8. UP)-
The whole company gasped, but
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower only
grinned when a buck private
corrected him, Sgt. Robert Tow
ner, South Bend, Ind, disclosed
in a letter Saturday.
The incident occurred recently
when Eisenhower was reviewing
an airborne division in England
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and It. Gen. Omar M.
Bradley.
Churchill inspecting a mortar
layout, askeda buck private the
range of the mortar.
Before the colder could reply
Eisenhower supplied the informa-
tiCn.
Tie private corrected him and
then gulped.
Eisenhower grinned.
Look soldier he said. You
wouldn't makea liar out of me
for 10 yards, would you?'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Groups Differ
On Small Farms

SAN FRANCISCO, April 8. (UP)
The senate military affairs sub
committee hearing on west coast
war problems Saturday was sched-
uled to turn to the Monterey har-
Dor project, after day-long testi
mony on the Central Valley Water
project Friday involving sharp
clashes between advocates of large
and small farm holdings. Senator
Downey is conducting the hearing
Proposed removal of present legal
barriers to use of water from the
$500 100000 Central Galley project
by farms over 160 acres in size was
approved by representatives of the
State Farm Bureau federation, ir
rigation districts and large land
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Ban Announced
On butane Use
As Motor Fuel

WASHINGTON, April 8. CUP)--
A ban has been ordered on use of
liquified petroleum gas as motor
fuel in automobiles following re-
ports that the government was act
ing against film actors allegedly
using the liquified gas in their cars.
The ban was announced by Dep
uty Petroleum Coordinator Ralph
K. Davies, who said it was neces-
sary because of increased military
and industrial requirements for
gases such as butane and propane.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Plane Crashes,
Six Killed

SEATTLE, April 8. tUPD-Six
persons were killed Friday when a
Pan American Always single
engine plane crashed while making
a regular scheduled flight from
Nome to Fairbanks, Alaska, company
officials announced today.
No communication was received
from the plane after the pilot had
reported everything normal" five
minutes after the take-oef, they
said. Searching parties found the
plane approximately 10 miles cast
Of Nome.
The dead included three native
AlaSkans and Theodore Seltenrich,
Fred Moller and the pilot, Captain
Robert L. Bulls. Their addresses
were not available.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Americans Push
Ahead at Anzio

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
pies, April 8. (UP)-American COM
bat patrols have extended the AL
lied beachhead below Rome with
the establishment of strong point
in the north-central sector after a
grenade battle, it was announced
Saturday.
The new strong point northwest
of Padiglione, nine miles above An
zio slightly strengthened the Fifth
army's position in the beachhcad.
German haraSSing fire continued
over the. entire beachhead front
while artillery, tanks, and mortar
answered shell for shell. A British
destroyer was revealed to have
joined in the bombardment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

the governor said he considered mill
itary suspension of civil habeas
corpus writs no longer necessary for
the public safety.
Edward j. Dennis, special as
sistant to Attorney General Francis
Biddle. sought to prove that martial
law. including suspension of civil
writs, was still necessary by intro
ducing the proclamation of a state
of emergency issued by the COVER
nor February 3, l943.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Isles Governor
Scouts DunQer

HONOLULU, April 8. CUP)-Ter-
ritorial Governor Ingram Stainback
declared at federal habeas corpus
hearing Friday that he believed
Hawaii has not been in danger of
invasion since the battle of Midway
in June, 1912.
TeStifying at hearing for LLOYD
Duncan, shipyard worker seeking
release from provost court sem
tence for asSaulting marine sentries.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
BOARD ISSUES 1859
GALLONS OF GAS

The Ell Centre War Price and
Rationing board issued coupons for
TAB ,595 gallons of gasoline in March
besides 292,839 gallons issued on
deposit certificates.
Mildred Rinehart, clerk, said that
during the month a total of 9,450
"B" coupons were issued, 26,968 c.,
1881 e., 1904 "R", and 97,85l
"T'.
Consumers who use bank de-
posit bulk account, including farm
ers and truck operators, received
issuances of 292,839 gallons during
the month.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
'4b Jap Vessels
Sunk in Raids
From Air, Water
Sweeping Drives 200 Miles West
Of Main Base Cripples Enemy;
I2!4 Nip Planes Crash in Battles

PEARL HARBOR, April 8. (UP)-Destruction dam
aging of 46 japanese ships and 24 planes by huge u S.
task force in the western Carolnes-Americas biggest
naval victory of the believed Saturday have
driven the fleet into its inner strongholds and
completed the at least temporary naturalization of Truk
offensive base,
A communique from Admiral Chester w. Nmitz Fri
day disclosed that the powerful naval striking
assembled in the Pacific sank 26 Japanese ships, in
cudng three warshps and damaged Is Others of them
pnes
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Ca|exico Airman
Held Missinq

Staff Sergeant Victor M. Armen-
dariz, son of Mrs. Guadalupe Ar
mendariz of Calexico, is missing in
action in the southwest Pacific, his
family was informed officially Fri
day.
He is a heavy bomber aerial gum
ner and had completed 10 combat
bomber missions against the enemy
a week before he was listed as
missing. No other details were in
cluded in the official message to
his mother.
He enlisted in October 1912 and
was sent overseas in December of
the next year. His brothers, Gus
and Salvador are in the army. A
sister, Mrs. Carroll Smith, lives in
Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

tween the Anglo American govern
ments that international control
should govern a considerable field
of technical matters, the officials
made arrangements Tor continual
ton of the conversations on this
subject.
u. S. Assistant Secretary of State
Adolf A. Berle, Jr., and Edward
Warner, vice chairman of the civil
aeronautics board, arrived in Lon
don this week to discuss postwar
aviation with British authorities, in
Guiding Lord Beaverbrook, who is
lord privy seal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Error Spreads
Headaches"

CHICAGO, April 8. CUP)-h few
days ago stranger walked into a
north side drug store and said he
had headache. The druggist gave
him an envelope supposedly con-
tanning aspirin. Liter he discovered
he had erred and given the GUS
toner an envelope containing two
tickets to oklahoma" his shoe ra-
tion STAN pand all his food and
gas stamps. Whereupon the drug
gist started taking aspirin for a
headache of his own.
Friday, the stranger retuprned
with the envelope and al Its con-
tents, still complaining of the head
ache. He identified himself as
John A. Killenberg and the grateful
druggist gave him an aspirin treat
ment on the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Yankee Becomes
An.Time Ace

LONDON, April 8. UP)-Captain
Don GENTLE of Piqua, Ohio, became
Americas all-time ace of aces Sat-
urday when he was credited Off
cially with having destroyed 27 Ger
man planes. surprising the World
War I record of Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker. Gentle flew his
Mustang fighter on escort duty with
the Amerincan bombers in action
Saturday and was reported to have
shot down three more German
planes for an unofficial total of 80.
These three must be acted on by
the claims board.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Youngsters Plea
Wins Reward

TRINIDAD, Colo. April 8. CUP)
-Eo die Mantelli wrote the follow
ing letter to the city council:
"On March 16 I paid $1.10 for a
license for my dog. On March 90
the dog died. My mother won't let
me have another dog, so I am ask
ing you to refund my $1.1O."
The city council overlooked a
statutory provision and refunc ed
the municipal dog tax to the boy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

ing gun club"
Lynton told the commission that
revenue last month was nearly
triple that OF March. i943. The
commission collected $4,000 in
March compared with $l34.475 dur
ing the corresponding month OF
last year. he said.
The commission authorized trans
fer OF s450000 TO the general fund,
and state park and beach funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

to protect scenic and recreational
attractions of the beaches.
Decision as to sufficient" dis
tance was left up to Executive
Secretary Carlyle Lynton.
The board also authorized nego-
tiation of lease with Victor j.
Canepa. San Francisco, for 437
acres at 500 per acre of tideland
north of Paradise Cove near San
Rafael for the purpose of develop
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Bomber Crash
Kills Eight

TONOPAH, New. April 8. UPD
Three Officers and five enlisted
men were killed when a Liberator
bomber, on combat training mis-
sion, crashed and burned near here
Friday night, Col. Jacob w. Nc
Crillis, commandant of the Tono-
pah army airbaSe announced Sat
urday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

MOSCOW, April 8. CUP)-T'he
Red army was reported Stature ay
to have smashed an attempt by a
German column to escape from
Odessa while Soviet artillery ham
mered the suburbs preparatory to
Storming the big Black sea port.
Military sources said any last
ditch German effort to hold Odessa
alreacy was doomed, and left little
room for doubt that the bells of
the city's ancient cathedrals soon
will clang out victory peal.
Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky had
forged an arc OF steel around thee
sides of odessa, and was pounCing
at the city gates with a determina-
ton that signified his re-entry to
Continued on Page 6, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
State Land Commission
States Oil Lease Bids

SACRAMENTO, April 8.
(UP)-The state lands COM
mission late Friday authoriz-
ed advertisement of bids for lease
of tidal and submerged lands ad-
jacent to oil fields at Santa Bar
bara, Mesa and Summerland with
the proviso that wells and other
surface installations be removed a
sufficient" distance from beaches
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Russians Smash
To Czech line:
EncircIe Odessa
LONDON, April 8. (UP)*

LONDON, April 8. (UP)
The Red army striking
across southwestern Poland
has reached the Czechoslo-
vakian border, Premier Josef
Stain announced Saturday nisht
in an order of the day.
Marshal Gregory Zhukov's forces
defeated the Germans in the foot
hills of the CarpathianS and
smashed on the border along a 125
mile front.
Premier Josef Stain ordered "a
Salvoes from 324 guns to celebrate
the newest triumph of the Red
army. Heretofore that salute to the
Russian troops has been used only
to commemorate the capture of
Kiev, the lifting of the siege of Len
ingrad and the Red army reaching
the Prut river, which is the Ru-
manian border.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
D ANGLING 4.1!n!s
Debated

Debated
All the Ell Centre firemen real
lied the Importance Of having the
office of civilian defense in the
fire hall. They were especially i'm
pressed by tie fact that an Off
cial civilian dcfonsc telephone was
installed there.
The instrument was installed a
week ago. But it didn't ring. Day
after day and night after night
they waited for the thing to sound
off.
Saturday morning Clyde Lott, @.
Bennett, Woody Rcutt, SWede
Johnson, and Jersey Birchfield
were sitting in the office. Sud-
denly the defense telephone rang
with a loud peal. There was 100
per cent rush to answer it. Ben
nett grabbed the receiver.
office of COvilian Defense" he
said Importantly.
Sorry. wrong number said a
voice weakly.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

War Duties
Since he has been secretary of
the Ell Centre chamber of COM
merce, Ben Herring has had some
odd things to do. They get odder
all the time.
The other day Ben received a
letter from Mrs. Lillian Buttles of
Fresno. She requested the cham
ber of commerce to get a birthday
cake and deliver it to Pfc. Anne
C. Mexican, a marine reserve sta
Continued on Page 6, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
WEATHER

Maximum Friday "a, minimum Saturday S. am.
Saturday 60, humidity 48; noon Saturday 10, hu-
midity AZ; pm. Friday 80, humidity 23 49,. -.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09
Getting Eeven

Getting Eeven
Some people wondered why Ell
Centro Police Judge Lee Nuffer
wanted to know the name of the
police judge in San Diego. We
know. Nuffer had a parking
ticket presented to him in the
coast city.
Don't laugh. Imagine how many
zillionS of times Nuffer has he =
to listen TO motorists trying to
fix traffic ticketS. Here was his
chance to get even.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-09

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