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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
DEGREES GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted Allen c. Dean in his
suit against Bessie A Dean Friday
"A similar decree was granted Hugo
~Welisch in the suit against Mary
10 Welisch on the grounds of ex-
.treme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

> "A homemaker whose encyclo-
pedia set was always out of order
painted narrow diagonal stripe
across the entire set. Now if one
book is put back where it dcesn't t
4elong. it's Immediately evident for
The stripe" doesn't fit.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
DEATH FUNERAL
NOTICES

WILLIAMS, Paul G., 38, died
THURSDAY at the Valley hospital,
Holtville. Funeral services will be-
held at the Lemons Chapel at
4:3O pm. Sunday. Burial will be
in Barter's Creek Cemetery, An
derson county, South Carolina.
Survivors are his widow; three
children; a sister, and three
brothers. 3-l3
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
MUST TAKE "GATF"

WASHINGTON, March II. CUP)
Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., va,
told the members of the house to-
day that if they can't take it,
the house of representatives is
no place to be fooling around" His
admonition came after Rep. John
Taber, r., N. Y, accused Woodrum
of "villifying" him and questioning
his patriotism during cebate on an
appropriation item. Taber said he
had just been trying to save the
country some moneY.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
],Seanning |. Y.
/ News Horizon
SUIT is FILED

- Geneva L. Olinghouse Friday sued
Glenn w Olinghouse for divorce,
alleging extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

:, Mere than 10000 men are buried
IN TIE 5-acre National Military
cenetery in San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
MARRIAGE ANNULLED

The marriage Of Richard D. Ro-
rhester and Donna Rochester was
annulled in Imperial county supe-
srior court Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Cards of Thanks

THANK YOU. Because we cam
not thank each of you personally
we take this way of telling you
how much we appreciate your
kindness at the time of our late
bereavement and your sympathy
for our son who is missing Only
those who have shown similar
loving kindness when needed it
can understand our feelings to-
ward all of you.
Mr. and Mrs. d. E. Green
WE WISH to express our thanks
for the kind sympathy and many
floral offerings Of our friends
at the time Of bereavement over
the death of our son, brother
and husband, Chester II. Mabry.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. d. Mabry
Earl Mabry
Ray Mabry
Mrs. Ruth Mabry
Penicillin must be concentrated
about 10000 fold to obtain the
pure drug from the broth on which
the mold producing II grows.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted Pau
.line Gilbert from Arthur Roy Gill
soert in 1mpel-s. C1@nty superior
court Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
NEWSMAN DIES

LONG BEACH, Cal, March Il.
(UP)-Karl Philip Frederick, 55, for
20 years suburban editor of the
Long Beach Press-Telegram, died
at ST. Mary's hospital after an i'll
ness Saturday. Frederick came to
Long Beach from Lincoln, Neb.,
where he was state editor of the
Lincoln Journal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

The average distance per bus
passenger in the United States is
50 miles, as compared with 108
miles for the average rail coach
passenger.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

Mt. Shasta, California, is the
third highest mountain in the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

Production of about 1000 neW
busec is scheduled for 1914.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
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The Valley settler., 1944-10-13

cased in a shiel6 Of grease l/4 inch thic that stuck liko glue. I worked 5 hours steady on it as 6id the rest of the company befnre it passed inspect on. Now I con take the whole thing apart on6 assemble it in less than min. IT hcre sure is lot of work in the ar ay. 6 A.M. up, 6:lO inspection, shoes shi ned, bed ma6e, washed, an9 dressed, 6:3o chow, to 7:5o minor details, 8 to ll:3o marching, II to l2:3o chow, l to 1:3O details, l:5O to 5 6rills, lectures, G.I. issues ,clothinG ,gos masks, gun, etc. That is just tho routine to get us accustome6 tc the regular training beginning ton- 1row. I am lones one as heck for some wore from home so If you can spare the time, please Write
 Sincerely,
 = Graham
The Valley settler., 1944-10-13

News From Our Service Men
 Rex Ehrhert was visitor in Pc liner on Thursday.
 Jack Lee was seen on the stre cts of Palmer this week.
 letter from Graham Bell: to
 Mrs. Dorothy Bell.
 Camp Rob inson, Arkansas f. Dear Dorothy,
 You are probably surprise6 to hear from me. I am now in the Army, stationed in Arkansas. I like 1t in some ways, in others I cont But I try to make the best of everything and get along fairly
 When was "abductee" it was at Fort Srelling. I then had $1O. with me, having left SIS. with Grace, $2o. to Wayne ana $2oO. witl Nom. I got my shots, unif orm", cl thing, lectures, shoes, details and K.F. I was there 10 days. Then they get bunch of us to- gether en6 shipped us to the hot test place have ever been, (wheW) Arkansas, I am g1ae I didn't get shipped to Texas. I have been here approximately 8 days. I sure have learned lot of stuff in that time. It came pretty easy to me though as I was in the Palmer Home Guards for awhi 1e. We have been issued our packs, gas masks an6 rifles. The rifles were in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-31

Cons ore Front Line Fighters! Our
Army, Navy, and Air Force demand
prodigious quantities Of steel-and-
tin cans. So the cans we have at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-31

home today are fewer than in peace
time. After Victory, cans will be
back-better than ever. Meanwhile,
please turn empty cans in for salU0ge.
Evening star., 1944-05-14

a thousand-mile jaunt by the
holder of an "a" card is news;
50 are the prices paid for dia-
monds at New York auc ton sales.
But none of this is typical of
the American home front. True,
there is lavish spending by some
people who are getting money out
of the war. But most of us are
not in that position. We make
what we have do; suffer shortages
and restrictions cheerfully.
Over and above these chang
es, are the deep scars that war
has brought. For almost every
man in camp or on the fighting
front, there is an anxious family at
home. Many young wife has gone
home to live with her parents. His
allotment money is not enough
and the wife goes out to work.
Changes at Home
AND all the time, there is the
unremitting, night-and-day anxi-
ETY., the nerve strain of wonder
ing, and worrying. and trying not
to worry. about the boy on the
fighting front. For the parents and
wives of men overseas, that nerve
strain is in some ways harder to
bear over here than over there -
for there" is so far away.
All this is what homefront
America is like. Of course. to a
man returning from active duty
the difference is very great be-
tween the appearance of life in the
United States and the appearance
of life in England, Africa, Italy,
the Pacific islands or Burma.
We have escaped the violence
of bombs and fighting on the home
soil. Our cities and towns are un-
SCARED - somewhat runover at
the heels, shabby for lack of paint.
less efficient than formerly because
little by little civilian equipment
is breaking down. But to the re-
turning soldier, we seem untouched.
But here is final word to you
who are fighting for this country
YOUR country - and this peo-
pie YOUR people: Keeping your
country and your people the way
they are preserving them from
agonies of war on their native soil
is one thing you are fighting for.
Released by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Do some civilians get
your goat? Don'tjudge
all of them by a few -.

0UR men returning from the
" war seem to get false i'm
preston of life on the home front.
Often they express shock at what
they see here. They resent strikes
II and think them more frequent
than they are. They are critical
of civilian complaints about petty
inconvenience" - but forget that
most people do not complain. 1t
seems to them that life over here
is as self-indulgent as ever.
But this is not really true. What
misleads a soldier home on fur
lough is one of two things. Either
he ssisinterprets. as typical of our
everyday way of life, the gooc
times and good food his family and
friends provide for him at great
personal sacrifice. Or he mistakes
the behavior of a small number
for the attitude of the rest of us.
False Inpxession
HERE is an example of how our
effort to give Johnny Doughboy
on leave the best time he ever had
may create a false impression.
Recently a young couple who ex-
pected a serviceman to spend the
week end with them saved their
ration points for steak; got tick
cts for a good show; organized
small party; gave up the idea of
getting some things they had
planned to buy so that they could
spend the money to take their SOL
der visitor to a night club. The
soldier seemed to enjoy it.
Yet later they learned - from a
letter he wrote his wife and which
she showed them not dreaming it
referred to them - that they had
left him under a wrong impression.
"It's funny" he wrote, but the
people at home don't seem to be
particularly worried about the
war. They spend money lavishly.
They aren't bothered much by
rationing. They eat well. serve
steaks. go to shows and appar-
entity have only small notion OF
what the guys in the Army and
Navy are going through"
Most Don't Complain
SAID the husband afterwards:
"I'd like to have written him that
sprees and steaks and cocktails
are the very rare exception.
81 didn't write the letter."
he added. "It would have
sounded like complaining. But
wish there were some way to let
our BOYS know that we appreciate
their sacrifices; that we are wiling
to make our own.
The actual complainers and bad
actors against whom our men on
leave feel resentful are only very
small minority. 1t is the news OF
the few strikers in one war plant
which fills the hearts OF our re-
turned men with bitterness. Inc
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
"American Dreyfus" Dead

The American Dreyfuss" is dead. Unlike
his French namesake, he died before he was
exonerated.
He was Oberlein M. Carter Pneumonia put
a stop to his long fight to clear his name
week after his eighty-eighth birthday an
niversary.
The Associated Press has this to say of
him:
He was graduated from west Point with a
scholastic record second only to that of Rob-
ert E. Lee. In 1899, he was convicted by court
martial on charge of defrauding the Gov
eminent in letting contracts for numerous
river and harbor improvements A sentence
dismissing him from the Army, imposing a
fine and ordering him to be confined at hard
labor for five years swept him from London,
where he was a military attache of the Unit
ed States Embassy, to a cell in Leavenworth
penitentiary.
He had won fame as director of a s., $780,
600 engineering project at Savannah, Ca, and
had been appointed Army engineer of the
Nicaragua Canal Commission.
He served his sentence but during his long
attempt to clear his name he claimed he had
incurred the ennnity of a powerful politician
by refusing to agree to recommend Nicaragua
instead of Panama as the location of the
lsthmian canal The case was subject to twen-
ty-seven reported decisions of the Federal
courts and four times it went before the Unit
ed States Supreme Court. In 1899 the House
Military Affairs Committee voted to invali-
date the conviction and to vindicate Mr.. Car
ter. He hoped to receive the same action in
the Senate"
sometime ago he announced that he would
suspend his battle for exoneration until after
the war. He had no wish to interfere with
the war effort
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
No Smoke

Into the pleasant rather vague sounds Of
tuning Up for the new world symphony
Of postwar products there comes q loud and
fortnight fanfare sounded by the biturainous
coal industry and q stove manufacturers They
don't promise to snatch any new and mysteri-
GUS source of thermal energy out Of the blue.
They just say they have new coal stove
that won't smoke, and also will require so per
cent less fuel and lot less tending.
This is good news, and in saying so we
don't mean to disparage the postwar world
Of new materials and new comforts That
world is going to be wonderful, and it can't
come too soon to suit us. But it won't be
here tomorrow. And meanwhile it should be
comfort to the more than seven million fam
lilies who still heat their houses with stoves
that something better is in store for the imme-
date postwar future
We hope the new coal heaters and cookers
will do all that the designers say they will
to which everyone who ever cussed a smoking
base burner or kitchen stove will probably say
amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
A Wise Selection

The redeeming feature of the closing session
of the National Democratic Convention was
the nomination of Sen. Harry S. Truman as
the party's vice presidential candidate. This
is true not only because it brought defeat to
Vice President Henry A. Wallace, weakling
Senator Truman will bring strength to the
democratic ticket in the November elections.
In the event of President Roosevelts re-elec-
ton this is an important consideration. 1t will
be well for the nation to have a strong man
in second place in case an emergency arises
in which he would have to take command.
The fear of having Mr.. Wallace in the
White House under any circumstances which
had become nation wide, is now allayed
There is visible reason to doubt that Mr..
Truman would discharge the duties of Presi-
dent credtably, if he were called upon to do
so.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
All Signs Point To Hitler

The only information direct from Germany
is Hitler's assurance that the coup directed
against himself and the general staff has been
blocked and that the Army will go on with
its job.
From other sources it is said hundred
generals and high ranking officers have been
Inundated for alleged participation in the plot
and that thousand other persons ere under
arrest. It does not take much imagination to
foresee the determination of them all at
Hirnmlers convenience.
At the same time independent sources re-
port two divisions in East Prussia either IN
revolt or on the verge Of it and that naval
units at Kel and other ports are in mutinous
frame of mind.
AS long as free agents are prevented from
reporting what they know and see there Is
no possibility of learning the true state OF
affairs within the Reich, but there Is no sound
reason to doubt that the line is being drawn
sharply between the Nazis and the Prussian
element in the armed forces of Germany and
that the outcome will be governed by the
strength each can muster for showdown.
For the moment, Hitler and his Nazis ap-
pear to be uppermost. Whether they can re-
main in control beyond the moment is moot
question
The significant aspect Of the situation, cloud
ed though it be, is that Germany's armed
forces are in a state Of unrest which bodies
no good for Hitler.
Instruction, which had more to do with
the collapse of the Roman Empire than any
thing else and which brought an end to Kaiser
Wilhelm's ambitions in 1918, bids fair to close
Hitler's career even before his forces can be
defeated in battle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
This Recognition Due

The National Association of Manufa ctl1rers
has come to the defense of the white collar
worker, whom 1t calls the forgotten man"
IN the governments frozen salary scheme
In the Associations weekly publication
strong editorial appeal is made for recoen
ton OF these 'homefront indispensibles" who
have been virtually overlooked bv Washing.
ton.
The editorial says that for them there were
no magic formulas Of salary adjustment
schemes in the avalanche of official direc.
tives, nor Fair Employment Practices Com
mission to protest government-created dis
elimination against vital segment of the
production scheme"
Ihere was time when white collar was
mark Of distinction, it continued, when if
denoted security and progress, marked q rel
atlVlty between the wage scale in the shon
and the office salary schedules, and svno-
oohzed management recognition of uniform
wage and salary principle.
But application of that principle is ham.
pered today by biased administration and con.
fusion OF controls, by inconsistent and fire..
quently contradictory wage and SALARY sta.
olhzation regulations, war manpower regu1a-
lions and indescribable red tape" it said
And chief victims of this lack Of coordin. q.
'lon between bureaus and agencies is the
white collar worker"
by and large, while enlightened manage
nent is alert to the gravity of the problem,
the editorial said their policies and practices
can go only so far, the ultimate answer living
IN the removal by government of its own dis
elimination against the sa1aried worker which
compels management to make fish of one
group and fowl of another.
Some millions Of white collar workers viii
say thank you for this welcome recognition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
Shark, Sawfish Found
In Mcaraguan Lake

Within five minutes the fisher
man from the north had a strike.
In a few more minutes he had
subdued a 158-pound shark, too
large for the alcohol drum in which
specimens were to be shipped to
the Museum. But strikes came
easily, every five to ten minutes.
Three sharks were caught for the
Museum, weighing SO, rs and 48
pounds They are the first COM
plete specimens of Nicaragua
fresh-water sharks in any scien-
tific institution.
Museum specimens assured,
Marden rugged a light salt water
rod with 6-ounce tip and $50 yards
of 9-thread line CT Id. tesD on a
small reel, and went at it again.
Same place, same bait, but this
time it was different!
Five strikes were lost before the
hook bit deep enough for the fun;
then the well-hooked shark quick
ly ran toward the limit of the 49,
yard line. The two paddlers in the
dugout canoe upped anchor and
padded after the fish, thus saving
the line and the sport.
This shark took me exactly two
hours to boat" Marden writes,
land when I finally gated him
we were three miles down the San
Juan"
So numerous are the sharks that
bathing in deep water in Lake Mic
aragua is suicidal pastime. Yet
in Lake Managua, few miles
northwest. they are unknown. The
sharks are savage man-eaters and
rarely does a year pass they do
not take at least one life.
color ard black and waite pic
lures accompanying the Geograph-
&c article verify Marden's lioht-
tackle catch-a 112 pound male
shark, six and a half feet long.
They also show one of the enur-
NOUS saWfish.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
Get Together

Now that the national conventions Of both
major parties have named their candidates
and adjourned it will be greatly to the adj
vantage of each for all factions therein to
forget their quarrels and procede with the
campaign for their favorites election without
further acrimony. Nothing can be gained on
either side by keeping wounds open.
During the months preceding the conven-
tons there were probably as many republi-
cans opposed to the nomination OF Mr.. Dewey
as democrats opposed to President Roosevelt
And it is equally probable that the protestants
were wholly sincere in their views. But no
good could be gained and possibly great harm
done if they nurse a grudge now.
Many Of the older voters will remember
what happened when Theodore Roosevelt
vention when he couldn't run it as he wished
and started his Bull Moose movement which
split the party wide open. The same thing
could happen now if the malcontents particu-
larly in the Democratic party should persist
in their rebellion.
It would be regrettable if there should be
a split in the "Solid South'' which holds the
balance of power in the party. This power
represents the South's chief political asset If
it is destroyed by internal friction the South
can have no reason to hope for fair deal,
whoever is elected president.
The need in this troubled period of time
is for solidarity. 1t is quite as necessary
among republicans as among democrats, in
the interest of decent campaign. On this
basis alone can the war be prosecuted to an
early and successful termination and our do
mestic and foreign economy be soundly es-
tablished after the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
Big Increase Noted
In Applications For
Enlistment In Wacs

Applications for enlistment IN
the Women's Army Corps in Wiz
mington increased 100 per cent dur
ing the first two weeks Of July, az az
compared with the same perloq Ill
June, Lieut.. Helen Lamb Madde"
of the local Army Recruiting ss'
ton, said yesterday, ,..
Lieutenant Madden attributed "'
increase to two specific 1acl".'
one increased war news ana Nv
lures of the invasion influencing
women to think more deapF "
their responsibility t. help lP'''
one overseas.
The second is placed on ao'o, VI,
cation recently received I ..;..
Washington to enlist women WIZ
certain civilian experience u a. !,
tend Army specialist courses II
related fields.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
German Captain Denies
Murder Of Prisoners

ON THE CAEN FRONT IN
ORMADY, July 20 -Oelayed)
-1REStanding stiffly erect, the
German Kapitan replied with ex-
plosive "Nein' when asked if he
hao ordered the British wounded
and prisoners shot to death.
Now prisoner himself, the Kan
ltan had been accused by his own
fellow captives Of ordering the ex-
ecutioa of British soldiers after
trey surrendered.
What happened. he said, was that
his battalion was marching from
Paris to the Normandy front short
Nv after 'D-Day'' and he told them
You are going to fight for the
glorious fatherland. You are going
to triumph for the fuehrer You,
Will take no prisoners.
He insisted "it was only a pep
talk"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23

A stranger than fiction fish story
of sharks teeming in fresh
water lake in Nicaragua-is told
in the National Geographic Maya
zine for August 1914 by Luis Mar
den, Geographic staff writer and
photographer, who went to the Cen
trail American country with type
writer and camera to get story
about the land and its people.
AS an extra chore, at the re-
quest of DR.. Alexander Wetmore,
assistant secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution, the correspon-
dent undertook to send back some
specimens of Eulamia nicraguen-
sis for the United States National
Museum.
This Lake Nicaragua shark with
the long name is the only shark
found in fresh waters, so far as
science knows. Sawfish, tarpon
and other big saltwater species
also live in this oval, 100-mile-long
lake, los feet above the level of
the nearby Pacific. Biologists be-
ieve it was a bay of the Pacific
until an earthquake heaved up land
to lock out the sea. Streams and
springs in this region of very heavy
rainfall gradually turned the lake
water fresh.
Jettisoning his Virginia trout
stream ethics, Marden proceeded
to catch three specimens of the
shark for the National Museum
by the time-tested method of the
region First. he caught slivery,
five-pound machaca (Brycon den
tex on fly rod. batting his hook
with fried banana.
Then fishing in eleven feet of
water from an anchored canoe,
within sight of the San Carlos
docks, he baited heavy, chain
leadered shark hook with large
chunk of the matches. and cast his
stout, sashcord fishing line into
the water.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
Deaf Admits Civil War
Raging Within France

LONDON, July %. r. AaI IN
Deaf, arch collaboratonI9' .,.
minister of labor in the Vlcfy a,
binet, admitted in paris @c..
broadcast tonight that there y 4s.t
vii war" in France and san" NJ,
French forces of the interior s s
wrecking transport and dlsoIS'''
ing the food supply. ..or.,
In TRADE against the en- nsst
of the French underground XVII
said his Vichy militia IS l-si ;aiist
''to impose respect for the so'-''
and national order.