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Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
Tells
OF Wounds From
German SO Shell
Mrs. Fred Smith, 1856 Brighton

Mrs. Fred Smith, 1856 Brighton
has received a letter from her
brother, Lieutenant Bayard w. Rip
py. paratrooper, 1e::.ng her of be-
inc wounded in France. She had
received bare word at the time.
1t Rippy is in hospital in Eng
lane. 1t was his second encounter
with enemy fire. He suffered a
slight wound the second day of
the invasion, but soon returned to
the front. Then June 10 a German
SO fell almost at his feet Had he
been a few feet farther, he wrote
his sister, all would have been over.
AS it was both legs we're injured
severely. He crawled so yards to a
shelter where he lay nearly three
hours before he was picked up and
sent to a line hospital.
He was given the Purple Heart
after being wounded June 7.
He enlisted at Porterville. His
father, l.. E. Rippy lives on Route
2, Ell Centre.
1t Rippy expects to be sent home
soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
IRise to Remark

TO tie a bow what an opportunity
for tie NYAFBT National Youth
Administration for Bow Ties) to re-
place the now happily defunct Ma
tional Youth Administration, and
of course absorb the former EN-
ployes of the NYA. Under those con-
ditions I have nc doubt the NYA-
FBT would have the immediate sup
port of tht First Lady of Washing
ton. now better known as the First
Lady of All Places.
Think of the unlimited New Deal
poss Utilities in women'S hats. What
could be more new dealiSh in de-
sign than women's hats? A window
full of them locks just like a New
Deal Plan for the future of the
United States.
NO END TO 1T
The NWHDRRA National Wom-
ems Hat Design Regulation and Ra-
tioning Administration could en-
ploy, design and regulate to an eX-
tent that would make even the OPA
Jealous. For example, when is a hat
not a hat? If the OPA can put out
pages and pages of S-pcint and 10
point regulations to describe ham,
burger and how to bake cake,
what couldn't the NWHDRRA do
with hatsl
Is a yard of ,ibbon a hat or not
a hat? Are flowers in the hair to be
claSsed as hats? If real flowers, do
they come under the jurisdiction OF
the department of agriculture, and
if synthetic, is a certificate of nom
essential material required from the
WPB? Must Judge VinsCn decide, or
Justice ByrneS? Should Frances
Perkins be transferred to the NWH-
DRRA, in charge of the bureau of
design, or should she be left where
she is, and by the way where is She?
l rise to remark that we asked,
by our votes, for centralized govern
ment and regulations, and we're get
ting them. I'm only trying to be
helpful.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
By Congressman John Phillips

Here are a few Suggestio fol
the New Deal: This is written or
the train rclling merrily across the
fertile fields of California cal pei
cent of whose land is now owned by
/ the government, Nevada t78 pei
cent?. Utah (68 per cent?. Wyoming
as per cent?, on the way to Omaha
/ for a conference. and from there to
Washington.
With uncountable (and unac-
countable) agencies CT government
controlling every phase of life from
tie cradle to the grave for you
have to get a certificate that you're
born and a permit to be buried you
wouldn't think that anything had
been overlooked, would you?
HERE'S BIG OPPORTUNITY
Take food containers, for exam
pile: You know the standard set of
four. The big one is marked ''flour"
and the others coffee sugar"
tea" DO they hold flour. coffee,
sugar, tea, as marked? In the year
1891. a set in Lititz, Pennsylvania,
was known to have been used as
marked, but this is the only record
ed case, and it is understood that
shortly afterwards the flour con-
tainer was used for pretzels, and
the others for normal uses.
An average investigator would
discover the flour container hold
ing sugar; the sugar container half
full of salt: the coffee container
holding tea bags, and the tea con-
tainer holding the peppermintS your
wife is trying to save for next Sun
DAYS dinner, when the children are
expected home.
l don't see how the New Deal
overlooked this opportunity. The
KCA Kitchen Container Admins
tration) could offer jobs to thou
sands, among them the" investiga-
tors recently discouraged by pub
licity in this column, and others
from continuing the questionnaires
in which they asked for the names
of all your friends: how many times
YOU had visited them last year:
which church you attended; If you
had cnanSeO clluIcileS, aiiu "iic'iioi
YOU now attended more frequently.
SHOULD HOLD BACK
I probably should have saved
that suggestion until after election,
but then the New Deal may not
have the same opportunities after
November, if the Democrats and the
Republicans stage a comeback.
Then there is the problem OF bow
ties. In my youth no self-respecting
blood would be seen in public with
a made tie" We tied our own. The
thought of a bow tie fastened to an
elastic garter, snapped around the
collar was not in the groove, but
definitely. Today I find the modern
rug Guitar doesn't even know now
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Editorials and Comment

were making ready for the final blow
now in progress. Likewise it generally is
believed that the turn of the tide should
permit relaxing of rules. Still further,
there is a growing and insiStent demand
for a change.
The American press has performed
100 per cent in meeting every needed
rule and its cooperation and care have
had no small part in the success of pre-
paredness and attacks. And it still occu-
pies that position, but it also recognizes
that some of these rules now are kept in
force arbitrarily and refusal to cut
red tape or to conform to the shifting
situations.
That some of these rules stem direct
from officials and the administration
makes the abSurdity of them more APP
parent. The time is come when the pub
lie is entitled to be on its own and not
treated as a child or even as unreliable
and untruStWorthy.
Many times information arbitrarily
withheld from the American people was
disseminated without restraint from for
eign capitals.
At least the various units or areas OF
authority should be operating under
uniform rule.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
TIME TO TEMPER SOME
ARBITRARY RULES

With the war now in its winning stage
and with the intense fighting and train
ing under way which naturally tend to
increase casualty lists in all respects;
with parents, friends and other relatives
more anxious and concerned than ever,
and with almost every need for precau
tions to prevent the enemy obtaining
valuable information" it seems that
the time has come for either banishing
entirely or tempering some Of the rules
of secrecy that have obtained
Among these rules is one that to
great extent applies locally and has to
do with withholding information from
the press on accidents in the air. Various
military units or areas formulate their
own rules In some, be it said, the COM
manders apparently believe that those
most closely concerned are entitled to
full and immediate information and it
is given at once In other areas secrecy
enveops such incidents and at times
weeks may pass before official informa-
tion is given out notwithstanding that
hundreds, even thousands may know Of
the accident
Few will not agree that it was neces-
sary at the early stages of the war and
on through the period when the allies
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

August 81, 1874
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that fif-
teen days after the date posted,
the undersigned proposes TO sell
alcoholic beverages at these prem.
iseS, described as follows:
500 Broadway FL Centre
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying to the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license (or
licenses) for these premises as fol-
lows:
ON SALE BEER AND WINE
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license (s) may file
a verified protest with the State
Board Of Equalization at Sacra-
mento, California, stating grounds
for denial as provided by law. The
premises are now licensed for the
sale Of alcoholic beverages.
MIKE c. MIRANDA and
CLAUDE c. ORR
mo. 44) Aug. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE REQUIRED BY
SECTION 2466 CIVIL CODE OF
CALIFORNIA

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned HAZEL L. BERSCH is
transacting business in the City
of El Centro, Imperial County, Cali
fornia unCer the name OF HAZEL >.
That said place Of business is 10
Gated at Sis Main Street.
That the name in full and the
place of residence of the persons
interested in said business is:
Hazel L. Bersch residence ad-
cress 6O4 El Centro ST., El Centro
California.
Dated this 23rd day of August
1914.
HAZEL l.. BERSCH.
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SPRECKLES SEES SUGAR
RATIONING EXTENDED

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 81. (UP)-
Sugar will remain rationed for the
duration of the war and at least
two years afterward, Ronald Hayes,
Spreckels Sugar Co. merchandising
manager declared Thursday.
Beet sugar production was cur
tailed orastically in I943 and 1914
because Washington officials de-
layed announcing their sugar pro-
gram but 1945 paintings will in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF IMPERIAL)
On this 23rd day CT August, 1914,
before me L. Lee Nuffer, a Notary
Public in and for the County of
Imperial, State of California, per-
sonally appeared Hazel l.. Bersch,
known TO me to be the person
whose name is subscribed to the
within instrument and acknoWledg-
&c to me that she executed and
signed the same.
In Witness Whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my
Official seal the day and year first
above written.
L. LEE NUF FER,
tSeaD
g. Notary Public in and for
said above State and
County.
NO. 45) (A3l-S -S7-l4-2D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
MANY never
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACKACHES
This Old Treatment Often
Brings Happy Relief

Many sufferers relieve nagging baekacbe
quickly, once they discover that the real cause
Cf their trouble may be tired kidneys
The Kidneys are Natures chief way Of tax
ing the excess acids and waste out of the blood.
Theyhelpmos people pass about3 pints a day
poisonous matter TO remain in your blood, it
may cause nagging backache. rheumatic
pains, leg pains, loss Of pep and energy, get
ting up nights, swelling, pufbness under the
eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or
scanty passages with smarting and burning
sometimes shows there is something wrong
with your kidneys or bladder.
Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills. used successfully by millions for over 40
years: They give happy relief and will help the
waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31
crease materially" Hayes said.

Acreage in the Sacramento Valley
beet area in l943 was 10000 and in
1914 was $4,000 while in 1912 it had
been 10000, Hayes said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-31

EDITORS NOTE: The fOiiOUing edit
Orials are presented as interesting Opin-
ions UOiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
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20 PERSONS NABBED
ON LIQUOR CHARGES

WINSTON SALEM, Aug. 27-iR
Twenty persons have been ar
rested in the smashing of an illicit
liquor ring that has funneled 1000
gallons of white whiskey a week
into Winston-Salem and Salisbury,
federal and alcohol tax unit Off
Gals announced today.
Also seized were two automo-
biles. a truck and various guam
titles of liquor.
The officers described it as one
of the largest cases in this section
since restrictions of sugar went
into effect.
All were charged with conspir-
acy to violate the internal reve.
nue. law by handling non tax paid
liquor.
Three of the persons arrested
were women.
All were arrested in Forsyth,
Wilkes and Rowan counties.
Those arrested were Bog Gwynn,
Betty Lawrence, Glenn Transou,
Walter Steele and Reuben Brown
of Winston-Salem; Marvin Bell,
Claude Bell, Glenn Bell, Turner
Bell. Mildred Bell and James F.
Masten of Wilkes county; Clar-
ence Cartner, Floyd Snyder, E. D.
Hall, S. B. Beck, Mrs. Nora Nc
Cubbins, MS. Alice Russell, E.
H. Trexler, C. T. Trexler and Will
Harris of Rowan county.
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HOBBS FUNERAL
SET FOR II A. M.

Funeral services for Second Il.
Graham K. Hobbs, Jr., %, of Ra-
leigh and Wilmington, who was
killed in an airplane crash Friday
night, will be held tomorrow morn
ing at IL o'clock from the Church
of the Covenant, with full military
honorS.
Lieutenant Hobbs was among the
eight members of the Army Air
Force who were killed in the crash
of two four-engine Liberator bonn
bers near Murfreesboro, Tenn, on
Friday night.
He was a son of Col. and Mrs.
G.. K. Hobbs of Raleigh and was
born in Wilmington. His father is
on duty with the Army in the Pa
cific. Lieutenant Hobbs was serv-
ing as an instructor on B-24 bonn
bers at the Army Air base, Smyr-
ma. Tenn. An alumnus at Carolina
when he entered service January
10, 1s43, he received his commits
sion and pilot wings upon compile
ton of advanced training at Moo
DIV Field, Valdosta, Ca, October l,
1913.
Surviving are his parents; two
brothers., Sgt. Pemberton Hobbs
and Pvt. Albert Hobbs; both OF
Camp Lejeune,' and his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. w. H. Pember-
ton of Wilmington.
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Red Forces Pour
Into Oil Region
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page Onc)
only IL miles from me Russians
who seized Rar,nicul-Sarat.
The Germans were said to be
trying to marshall their troops in
the Ploesti area at the 700: OF the
Predeal pass in an effort to es'
cape through the mountains into
Pennsylvania. Fut Bucharest said
Ron. anidn troops at the other end
of the pass, at Brasov, had disarm-
ed the enemy in that area and s.
cured the town.
Targ oviste, % miles west OF
Ploesti, along with its airfield, was
captured by Romanian troops
speeding the advances of the Rus
slams, the Bucharest announce
ment said.
Roraanian gunboats sank two Ma
ri motor torpedo boats, captured
two and damaged ten out OF a
German convoy of 40 attempting to
flee up the Danube. Bucharest said.
In the disputed province OF Tran.
sylvania, the northern part OF
which was taken from the Roman
ians and given to Hungary in ls4o
by the Germans, the Bucharest
bulletin said that Germans, rein
forced by weak Hungarian ele-
ments, have tried to cross the bor-
der" They were repulsed with hea-
Wy losses, it added.
On the Estonian front Moscow
announced the capture Of so locali'
ties by Gen. Ivan Maslennikov' S
Third Baltic Aarmy, including Tslr-
guliina and Igaste, seven miles
east of Valga, and Hargla, 16 miles
southeast, also were seized.
North of Valga the Russians,
driving straight westward toward
the Gulf of Riga in an effort to
split Germany's two imperilled
Baltic armies, captured Pikasilla
on the south shore of Lake Warts
Jar:,, 81 miles from the sea.
Northeast and east of Praga,
Warsaw's eastern suburb, the Rus
slams said they had improved their
positions. Berlin also told of heavy
fighting west. of the Vistula river,
south Of Warsaw, where the Sovlets
have built up powerful bridge
head aimed at German Silesia.
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LANDLORDS PAY
$7330VERCHARGE

The Wilmington rent co,.
area placed second among o,h.'
areas in Eastern Nor+h csro1a.
in July in The amount of rent o,,
charges refunded to tenant. 'et'
was announced yesterday h.,
Raleigh District OPA. Tbs t me
refunds were $733.37. '0'al
Overcharges on rents in ,,
under rent control in all eo s.eas
North Carolina caused lanJ Tsetn
to refund a total of 1885 70 Wy,
ing the month of July. NO''
George W. Jeffrey, OPA dist,;..
rent executive, said that M ton ".
should pay his rent without Da a.
manding a receipt for his r VT.
each month. This receipt he s. nv
may be checked with OPA "a r Nv
termine whether the Landlord VI We
overcharged the tenant Or mt 10y
The Fayetteville rent cnn+..,
area led all others in July with y
total of $o26.l7 overcharges. Tbs
Durham area refunds totalai
$267.25, and the Goldsboro arsa
mad refunds amounting 10 S5a
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few yards to the left of the
road. The road bridge itself
had exploded from an unex-
planned cause a few hours be-
fore. Two vehicles were hit by
other mines within a radius OF
Is yards - one a Red Cross
jeep, the other a truck carry
ing Powers and other soldiers.
Near the beach stood the
castle OF Henry Clews Of Wall
Street fame. A soldier who had
spent the night there said it
had been the scene Of "a pref
ty rough little scrap"
''W'e shot at it when the Ger
mans were inside and then we
got inside and they shot at us"
he said.
Within Cannes itself there
are some signs of struggle
manifested by the barbed wire
entanglements, which had been
yanked off the streets, and
hurriedly constructed barri-
cades. French civilians who
were busy showing the sol
diers where the mines were
located. said the retreating
Germans forced them to dig
holes to plant the destructive
weapons.
1--WE were angry when they
made us put them here" one
said, "but now we are glad.
We can show you where they
are"
All along the streets and the
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BIS BOMBING UNIT
AWARDED CITATION

ROME, Aug. q. - up - The
32lst bombardment group has re-
ceived a presidential citation and
battle streamers, it was announc-
ed today by Allied headquarters.
The veteran BIS force which
served through the Tunisian, Sici-
liam and Italian campaigns is COM
manded by Col Richard H. Smith
of Belle Meade Park, Nashville,
Tenn, and has flown more than 500
combat missions.
It was the first group to operate
from Italian soil and was the first
to fly from the United States to
an overseas base in a single mass
flight. The group has shot down
eight enemy fighters for every
bomber lost.
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MANILA REPORTED
BEING EVACUATED

b. LONDON, Aug. 27.-R'-The
German news agency, DNB, in a
broadcast Of Tokyo dispatches,
said today that "the town OF Ma
g Mia is being evacuated" but the
context of the broadcast indicated
the evacuation was limited to CT
Williams unnecessary to strictly ne
cessary functions OF the Phlllp-
/, pine capital
Japanese fear of air attack ap-
parently motivated the sweeping
measures, which possibly applied
chiefly to women and children.
The broadcast was recorded
both by the Associated Press ana
Reuters.
"The town of Manila is being
evacuated and a number OF re-
strictions on passenger traffic
have been issued by President Lau-
rel, the Japanese puppet in the
Philippines).
W mo one will be allowed to en-
ter Manila effective Aug. Is.
"Permission to stay in the cap
ital will be granted only in cas-
es of absolute necessity.
Severe penalties will be infllct-
ed on those disregarding this Or
der
With Gen. Douglas MacArth-
urls bombers raining bombs on the
Halmahera stepping stone and Da-
vac in the south Philippines, and
with Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz
establishing strong positions to the
north, the japanese evidently fear
ed imminent invasion.
- (Tokyo radio said in a broad
cast recorded by the Federal Com
munications Commission that the
committee in charge OF the evac-
uation of citizens" from Manila
"has discussed the ACCESSIBILITY OF
closing the principal hotels and
transferring elementary schools
and charity houses to places re-
moved from The capital.")
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With The AEF
RY KENNETH L. DIXON

CANNES, France. Aug. 25.-
(Delayed)-(R-Thls capital
city of the worlds eternal chill
dren of sunlight - the rich,
fashio1>able wanderers Of count
less cosmopolitan sets = stands
silent and almost deserted to-
day as the Seventh Army's
doughboys roll on toward TIA
ly's famed Riviera.
Taken after the German gar
rison general twice decided to
surrender and twice changed
his mind, the city to which Ma
poleon fled from Elba and Jim
my Walker from New York
shows some damage from bonn
bardments, but not as much as
might have been expected.
Fighting for the city was spo-
radio but spottily intense. Cpl.
Robert Powers, Baton Rouge,
La, pointed to spots where
trees and shrubbery were whit
tied down by mortars and ma
chineguns along a road enter
ing the city. ,---..-r
And they. planted mines all
around,"- he said. "They did
not get to plant as many as
they wanted because they fl
nally ran out in a hurry, but
still there's plenty. Better stay
in the middle of the road"
He'd hardly finished speak
ing when some luckless French
civilian set off two mines a
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First Lieutenant Luke w. Boney,
Jr., rs, was killed in action in
France on August 7, according to
a War Department message re-
ceived by his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Luke w. Boney of Wallace.
LUKE" as he was known to
his friends. spent all of his early
life in Wallace. He was graduated
from the local high school in 1884.
He. graduated from State college
in 1888, at the age of 20, with
degree in textile manufacturing.
Immediately following graduation,
he was employed by S. Slater &
Sons, Inc, Slater, S. c., as a
supervisor. During early 1910 he
was transferred to an associate
mill, Carter Fabrics Corp, at
South Boston, Va.
Lieutenant Boney entered the
service September, 1871, receiving
his basic training at Camp Lee
and Fort Eustis. He was later
transferred to Maine and attached
to the Coast Artillery. During June
of 1912, he was selected for off,
ce-'s candidate school and trans
ferred to Camp Davis for tram
ing, receiving his commission there
on October %, 1912. He was pro-
NOTED to First Lieutenant on May
l, 194S. He was attached to an
anti-aircraft company and trans
ferred to England, and later to
France, where he was killed afte:-'
only having been there foz short
| time. Other details are now lack
ing.
In addition to his parents, ne is
survived by his sister, Mrs. James
H. Foyles of Wilmington.
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SEGUARA READY
FOR FOREST HILLS

SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, Aug.
27.-LR-Francisco Seguara, the
two-fisted tennis player from Ecua,
dor, won the Meadow club cham
pionship today in his final tune
up for the U. S. Nationals at For
est Hills late this week.
Playing steadily all the way, Sc
guara defeated Naval 1t. Dor
McNeill, 1910 U. S. champion, rs.
2-6, ga, 81.
McNeill was brilliant part of tn;
time but lack of condition brough'
his downfall. After dividing the
first two sets, the former Oklaho
ma City athlete took 2 to leae
in the third. Seguara, however
took the next four games in a row
and Mcneil was through.
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FEW FLYING BOMBS
HURLED AT LONDON

LONDON, Aug. 27-tR-The Ger
mans sent over brief attacks OF
flying bombs shortly after mid
night last night and again at dawn
today causing some damage and
casualties.
The brief flurries marked the
only robot attacks on the capital
and southern England during the
last so hours. Anti-aircraft batter
les and fighter planes attacked the
missiles successfully.
Some got through, however, flat
tening houses and blasting build
ings in the business district. There
were number of casualties.
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Germans Bomb Paris
In Night Attack
Continued from Page One)

came the crump of heavy bombs.
The snudder of conclusions ran
through buildings, and plate glass
crashed into the street.
1t sounded as though there were
many raiders above. Antiairc-att
guns cracked, and there was even
some small arms fire from the
streets as some planes came over
very low to pick out targets.
Frightened people, already un-
strung by the battle which broke
out during Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's victory parade yesterday
afternoon, ran into buildings and
pressed into doorways for protec-
ton. The babble of angry voices
arose.
1--WE never used to be frightened
when American and British planes
came over" woman said, but
with the Germans it is different.
We knew the Allies would not
bomb the city itself. The Germans
are angry because they lost
Paris"