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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
Valley Soldiers
Write o. Fronts

on an airdrome which had been oc-
cupied, up until about five days be-
fore We moved in. by the Germans,
and there were about 100 acres of
new potatoes out there to be had
Just for the effort of going out and
digging them. A Frenchman came
around one day and We started
shooting the breeze. I with the lit
tie bit of French I have picked up
since being over here. and he with
fluent French (which l couldn't un-
derstand) and fluent sign language
(which l could understand. We fl
nally made a deal and, armed with
a pitch fork and a gunny sack, went
out and proceeded to dig about 30
pounds of SpudS which the ferries
had so kindly planted for the
French and the Americans He was
quite a character. Not being salts
FLED with merely digging the spuds,
he insisted on carrying them back
TO our billetS. OF course, we re-
paid him for his efforts so that he
wasn't working for nothing. He
showed up around there several
times afterwards and each time he
brought us some apples.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
Arrests Blast
Gas Black Mart

NEW YORK, Ncv. Is. up
Twenty-eight men. including an al
legged former leader of an inter-
national automobile stealing syndi-
cate, were photographed and finger
printed Thursday by police who be-
lieved they had broken one of the
largest gasoline black market gangs
in the nation.
Among the suspects was Gabriel
CBla Blal Vigoritc. Police said Vigo-
fito, who served 10 years in a fed
eral penitentiary for transporting
stolen automobiles, and James
Buck Murray who has a record of
several arrests but no convictions.
were the alleged gc-betweenS for
distributors of stolen coupons and
gasoline station operators arrested
in the raid.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
PEOPLE ACCEPT YANKS

When we first came to France
the people were rather cool towards
Us. I guess that they figured we were
going to be cruel. overbearing, and
arrogant. the way the Germans
were. But now they are extremely
friendly towards us. One can very
easily see that they had very hard
time of it during the occupation.
One man told me that before we
came they were allowed 80 grams
of meat a week per person and two
packages of tobacco per month. Ihe
tobacco was sufficient to make gu
cigarettes SO you can see they
couldn't do much smoking. Even
now YOU see some old men gong
around looking for cigarette STUBS
from which they roll their cigarettes
People will give almost any price Tor
a package of American cigarettes l
heard of one case where person
paid 1000 francs (S20) for pack
Unbelievable, isn't 1t?
yesterday I was fort u II I
enough to spend a pass in Paris.
While there I visited the Cathedral
de Notre Dame which. in my esti-
nation. is one of the most marvel
Gus works of architecture in the
world. I also went inside and, While
it is still wonderful in there, every
thing Of value has been stored down
below in the vaults. I am not going
to try to describe it because if you
are interested you can get a much
better description out of any ency-
clcpedia. Also saw the Palais de
Justice. Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel
Tower. Colonne Vendome and the
Louvre. They are all sights which
are well known all over the world.
We'll, I suppose that by this time
YOU are so bored with reading this
letter you probably wouldn't read it
if it were any lCnger, so will close.
Here's hoping that the war will be
over soon so that all Of us fellows
can come back home again"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
The Bogpipe

The true origin of the bagpipe is lost in rusty
years of antiquity. Ii was probably introduced
into the British Isles by the Romans The High:
land Scots adopted it an instrument for martial
music. The baGpipc and kilt were banned from
I74S 1850 by England after the battle o {
Culloden. Later it was restored to Scotland and
became world renowned the Highlanders S
traditional musical instrument.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
From Pacific comes this letter:

From Pacific comes this letter:
I'm getting along fine" Corporal
WAYNE Purdy wrote his father, Bert
Purdy of El Centro, from the Pa
cific area.
Not a lot to say, just the same
old CAB. Still working every day
See a show every night. Bop Hope
was here with Frances Langford. l
almost fell on my face at the sight
of a woman. Hope was at his best,
really quite the killer. I also ST.
Jack Benny and Carol Lands. She
was so far away from where l was
hanging in a tree that it only tore
down my morale instead of building
it up.
I've already received all the local
papers from June 20 on. Boy, l sure
get a bang out of them, usually
read each one over a couple OF
times. I keep a few of the mar
riage Write-ups that appear in OF
Interest to Women every day. From
the looks of things the old home
town will soon be known as the
City Without Women also enjoy
the Friday papers with write-ups
about servicemen. You know, I see
guys names every time they are sta
toned in the South Pacific but for
some reason I haven't had the luck
TO run into any of them over here.
Well, the war isn't over yet. I'll
probably see a lot of places and
maybe I'll run into some Of the
home town boys yet
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
VERDE Al CLUB MAPS
PLANS FOR SEASON

Verde All club met at the Verde
school Tuesday TO make plans for
their individual and club projects
and future activities of the club.
1t was arranged for ice Omlin to
discuss swine production and Steve
Campus to discuss the feeding of
dairy calves at the meeting next
Tuesday.
Once again the club members will
supply the Verde school cafeteria
with the vegetables they produce in
their garden on the school grounds.
They have an eighth of an acre in
garden and are planning to enlarge
it soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 10. CUP)-
California's general fund cash sur
plus dropped $4,72l,667 from the
September 80 total to $68, ,423 ,874 on
October 81, State Controller Harry
B. Riley's monthly report showed
Thursday.
General fund revenues deposited
in the state treasury since July
totaled $71,611 ,044, or $14,230, ,233
less than these received in the COM
parable 1943 period, the report said.
Liquor taxes increased $1,845, ,189,
inheritance taxes $1,076031, motor
vehicle transportation taxes $274,-
1888, gift taxes $8774, private car
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
States Surplus Cash Drops

taxes $6704, and sundry other reve-
nues $6l6,3l6, Riley reported. How
ever, insurance companies taxes
dropped $7,443,716, retail sales and
use tax $3,768,l16, bank and corpora
ton franchise and corporation in
come taxes $3,737916, personal in
come taxes $3,054,617 and motor
vehicle lin lieut." taxes $53,C30.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16

The following letter was received
from Is Walter W Pool of Impe-
rial. who now is in France:
Editor,
Imperial Valley Press.
"El Centre, Calf.
Dear Sir:
You will no doubt be very sur
prised to receive a letter from me
but nevertheless here 1t is and there
IS nothing you can Go about it eX-
cept throw it into the waste basket.
And I sincerely hope that YOU do
not do that. This IS the first letter
I have ever written to a newspaper
Sc it will probably be pretty lousy.
Don't expect too much. The first
thing want to say Is that for about
ten months I have been receiving
the Press and enjoy it very much.
However, there are a few things
that would like TO say about it.
The first thing is that those copies
which go to the fellows overseas
should be wrapped a bit more Sc
curely. I notice that some OF the
copies which I receive have been
TIED together with string somewhere
en- route and all that the string IS
holding is the address. am posi-
tive that some of the issues have
failed 10 reach me.
Another thing is the Friday is
sues regular feature. Our Men in
Service. Could you rake up enough
news to run that feature, say, twice
a week? I enjoy that feature more
than I enjoy all OF the rest Of the
whole paper because it tells me
what some of my friends are doing
in this and other parts OF the
world.
New, I shall endeavor to tell you
a little about myself as you are no
doubt wondering who I am and
where I come from. My home is in
Imperial. where my mother, Mrs.
Olga Pool. is now living. have been
in the army Just short of three and
one-half years, CT which more than
two years have been spent overseas.
My outfit spent about p months in
England and has been in France
about four months. They have been
long months. too, being so far away
from home. And I must say that l
shall be very glad when cid Hitler
gives up and the powers that be
tell us that We can 60 home again.
Perhaps it won't be so long, after
all
InCATInN GIVEN
Since being in France we have
been moving almost constantly. We
have been stationed near: st. Mere
Eglise, BayeauX, La Haye du Putt.
Chateaudun, lie Mans, and the
place where we arc now censored.
France. in places, is very beautiful
and scme of the places remind me
very much of the Valley. The por-
tons in which We have been are
mostly agricultural districts and
they raise quite variety OF prod
ucts. At one place We were stationed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16

The Fighting Gators" of 1944-
University OF Florida football squad
is composed of 36 Floridans, with
the ether five men hailing from
California, Texas and New Jersey.
The squad averages IT'S pounds and
is composed mostly of 17-year-o -olds
Just out of high school. All fresh
men are either returned servicemen
or 4-F'S
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16

the report said.
California has farther to fall be-
cause it climbed higher" than other
states, Heron said, adding that the
state also has less to fall back
upon, most of its war industries
having been built where no fac
tories stood before"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16

In 1910, before the United States
entered the war, passenger train
miles totaled slightly less than "a
billion. In l943, the figure was al
most 88 billion, or an increase Of
more than 269 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16
new \ kind Of +
ASPIRIN tablet
doesn't upset stomach

When you need
quickr relieffron1
pain, do you
hesitate to take
aspirin because
it leaves you
with an upset
stomach? If so,
this new medi-
cal discovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-16

SUPERIN, is ''just what the doc
tor ordered" for you.
Superin is aspirin pius-contains
the same pure, safe aspirin you
have long known-but developed
by doctors in a special way for
those upset by aspirin IN its ordi-
nary form.
This new kind Of aspirin tablet
dissolves more quickly, lets the
aspirin get right at the job of re-
lieving pain, reduces the acidity of
ordinary aspirin, and does not ir-
ritate or upset stomach-even after
repeat doses.
Tear this out to remind you to
get Superin today, so you can have
it on hand when headaches, colds,
etc, strike. See how quickly it
relieves pain how
fine you feel after SuoroSs..d byN
taking. Atyourdrug- Good HSo,.s.sPins/ J
gist's, 15e and 39e. >S..:.a-s
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The messenger., 1944-07-01
g: a94S@z SZ 2 "f%? TIE BOYS xSs': ON z8zRA
 ~ THE WAR fRoNfS1

Camp Chaffee, Arkansas.
 Corporal Martin Dexheimer who has been located at Thermal, Cal ifornio, is now at Meriden, Mis- sissippi.
 Upon completion of her basic training at Hunter College, New York City, Virginia Goodrich Hayes of the Waves was made Seaman 2/c and was sent to Thermal Island, San Pedro, Calf.
 Marion Jackson of the WAC has been moved from Wendover Field, Utah to Sioux City, Iowa.
 John Joyce is located at Fort Mcclellan, Alabama.
 Flight Officer Paul c. Krickor- off is now located at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was stationed form erly at Bakers Field, California.
 Sergeant Wesley Birge has been transferred from Shreveport Louisiana to Fort Sam Huston, Texas.
 Air Cadet Robert Painter has been transferred from San Anton 10, Texas to Chickasha, Oklahoma.
 Corporal James Pires has been moved from Chandler, Arizona to Camp Looma, New Mexico.
 Francis Verrillo is another local boy in training at Fort Mcclellan, Alabama.
 Norman Webber, who has been with the M.Ps. at Fort Custer, Michigan has been granted a medical discharge and returned home the first of the month.
 Coxswain Edward B. Durway of the Navy is stationed at Fort Pierce, Florida. He has made sev- eral eventful trips across the big pool.
 James R. Willis, a former resi- dent of Bloomfield and graduate of the local high school, is a Sea- man 2/c in the US. Navy and gets his mail via the Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California.
 Ensign George Futile of the Navy is stationed in Norfolk, Vir- ginia at the present time. He re- ceived his advance training at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and has been located there until recently.
 The ladies of our subscription department have been rewarded with the addresses of two local service men they had been trailing for many months. One is that of Lionel Tulin who has been in the Coast Guard for more than a year and and half and has seen service in Iceland and Greenland as we'll as several points along the Amer ican Coast. He will get the Mes senger through the Fleet Post Off, flee, New York City. Another name long missing from our lists is that of Albert Dinellio. He has been located finally in the US. Army with a New York APO number.
 Herbert Stiles of the Coast Guard who was sent to San Diego, California few months ago has now been transferred to San Francisco.
 Francis Slamon has been moved from Camp Devens, Massachus- etts to Camp Banding, Florida.
The messenger., 1944-07-01

Steiner, and family of Bloomfield Avenue.
 Robert w. Daley of the US. Navy, who is at Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, is Seaman 2/c.
 David H. MacIntyre has com pleted his training at Treasure Island, California and as been as- signed to the S.S. Lyra.
 Corporal Henry Wyman and his brother, Frederick, of Fort Jack son, S.C., were among those wso spent recent furloughs visiting relatives here.
 Upon completion of a June fur tough, Warren Bogardus has re- turned to the 647th Tank Destroy CT Battalion.
 Ed Bachman of Simsbury, but a native of Bloomfield, and Winston Waite were home recently on fur lough. They are both at Camp Wheeler, Georgia and came home together.
 Harry Christ of the 66th Cavalry stationed at Camp Robinson, Arkansas is spending a furlough at home.
 Angelo Gilli of the U.s.s. Ath- erton is home on leave.
 Harold Pitt of the SINUS. Training Station, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, is visiting with relatives and friends here.
 Augustin Curado has been made a Sergeant and moved from Gal weston, Texas to Winfield, Kan sas. Curado was inducted May a year ago and prior to going to Galveston had received training at Gulfport, Mississippi.
 Corporal William E. Gates of the the Air Forces is now stationed at Fort San Marcus. He previously trained at the New England Air craft School in Boston and just recently at Coffeyville, Kansas.
 Walter Malinosky of the 273rd Infantry, stationed at Shelby, Mississippi, is home on a brief furlough.
 Clement Gilli, who enlisted re- certly in the Merchant Marine, is now receiving training at Sheeps- head Bay, New York. He is the third member of his family to don a service uniform. His brother, Angelo, is with the Navy in for eign waters. His brother, Peter, is overseas with the Army.
 Fred Griffin of the Army Trans port Service has been made a Ser geant and assigned to New York APO number.
 Staff Sergeant Vincent Hood of the 2O3rd Field Artillery, Fort Jackson, S.C., is among the most recent visitors here.
 Leonard House has a new New York APO. He is attached to the Armed Reconstruction Forces. His brother, Technical Sergeant Robert s. House of the M.P., also has d New York APO.
 Sergeant Truman Latimer, IT,, is stationed now in Boston, Mas sachusetts.
 It. Paul Malinosky, who has been at Columbia, sc. awaiting a per- manent assignment since receiv-
The messenger., 1944-07-01

field High School, Arnold DuMeer, home on furlough was also there:
 Wilbur Purinton of Haviland Road has just been commissioned a End Lieutenant in the Quarter master Corps of the United Seates Army. Upon entering the service in November, 1942 he went to Camp Croft for his basic and cadet training and received his commission after completing the officers training course at Camp Lee, Virginia. Mrs. Purinton was present at the graduation exercises and had the honor of pinning the newly won bars on her husband.
 Second Lieutenant John B. Car valho was one of eight officers of the Connecticut State Guard who recently attended a four day State Guard Officers School at Fort Devens conducted by the Army's First Service Command.
 Ensign Virginia Banning of the Waves has been home on leave from her duties in Washington, DC.
 William c. Scott of the Seebees was home on short leave last month while recovering from his recent trip to the hospital.
 Walter Bavier is at Fort Riley, kas. Harry Krist is also there.
 Ray Bavier is now at F'reemount Michigan serving as guard of German prisoners. We are told Ray married a WAC on June 30, but we have not yet learned her name, or the place of the wedding.
 It. Ruth Banfield's address is now Bowman Field, Kentucky where she is having a six weeks special training at the Air Force school of aerial evacuation. After this Ruth will be serving on plane in charge of six or more wounded men being evacuated from battle areas. Aerial evacua- tion nurses are the only women allowed by the US. Army to serve in forward battle zones. The planes in which they fly are not allowed to bear Red Cross flags and the trips back from the battle lines to hospitals hundred of miles away are rigorous and dangerous. Ruth says that her training at Bowman Field is stiff, but adds, We have good times and, I like it."
 Among the pictures of Greater Hartford servicemen and women displayed in Sage-Allen's show windows is the familiar face of Bob Walsh. We know he is a Ser geant now and stationed with the Signal Corps in New Guinea-but We've been seeing him on Main street all this week.
 Corporal Joseph E. Pireas wrote us from the air transport command at Camp Luna, New Mexico last month but said he expected to be there only about si weeks. Pires has spent 27 months at Williams Field.
 Carmelo s. Partesano, son of MT. and Mrs. Paul Partesano of 745 Blue Hills Avenue, a student in Aeronautical Engineering at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. has been awarded scholarship
The messenger., 1944-07-01

It. Colonel w. O. Thomson
 It. Colonel w. o. Thomson, who has been Supply Officer of the Tenth Air Force in India for sev- era] months, has been advanced to the position of Assistant Chief of the Supply Division of the Air Service Command for the entire China, Burma, India war theater.
 Colonel Thomson is the ranking officer of Bloomfield service men and served at several Army air bases in the United States before going abroad. He has four broth CTS in the Army the youngest of whom, It. Edwin w. Thomson, flying fortress navigator, was re- ported last month as missing in action on a flight over Germany.
 James Miller is getting his basic training at Paris Island, sc. Raymond Lestoric is at Port Eads, Louisiana.
 Upon completion of his basic training, James l.. Perkins has been sent to Corpus Christi, Texas. He now has the rating of Seaman 2/c.
 Among the current visitors at home was E. c. Tavener of the 253rd Infantry stationed at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi.
 Louis Samsel, Seaman 1/c, form erly of the U.S.S. Weehawken, has been transferred to San Francisco, California. He formerly held a New York APO.
 Harry Winter of the Air Forces has been made a Sergeant. Our latest address stations him at Camp Mackall, North Carolina.
 Aviation Cadet Francis Zito has been moved from Glen View, III. to Corpus Christi, Tex. He trained previously at Chapel Hili, NC. and Londonville, NY.
 After training tricks at Samp- son, NY. and the Keystone School of Radio Bedford Springs, Pa., Francis H. Caswell has been given an assignment at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.
 Edwin I. Taylor is now a Tech nical Sergeant. Before being given his New York APO assignment, Sergeant Taylor trained at Sey- mour Johnson Field, NC. and Drew Field, Tampa, Fla.
 Robert Spillane of the Navy is home on a short leave.
 Dominic DeMeo has been made Corporal in the Signal Corps at Camp Crowder, Missouri.
 Nicholas Marinnaccio of the Tank Corps stationed at Fort Ben ming, Georgia is now Corporal.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-29
Red Army
Continued From Page l

southeast, while across the Dan
ube TO the northeast Marshal Ro-
dion MalinovSky mounted a
powerful smash at the Nazl
Hron river defense line.
There was evidence that Rus
sian vanguardS may now be
fighting on the weStbank of the
Hron, whose confluence with the
Danube, west of the great Dan
ube bend, has already been out
thanked by Tolbukhln.
Komarom has several big rail
way and highway bridges across
the Danube and of the six rail
lines radiating from the city,
four lead to Vienna.
Fighting down the northwest
ern slopes of the Vertes noun
tainS, Russian troops reached
points less than 10 miles from
Komarom, while another Soviet
force advancing along the Dan
ube river highway captured We
hiclcS. Formidable groups of
r u 5 i a n self-propcllcd guns
stayed in the forefront with the
hard-driVing infantry.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-29
Sees Possible Curb on Aid for Crippled Afflicted
Warns That Other State
Programs to Come First

LANSING, Dec. % - up -
Various forms of public and pri-
vate health insurance and Social
Security payments may curtail
State expenditures for the care
of crippled and afflicted chill
dren in the postwar era, DR..
Carlton Dean, medical director
of the State Crippled Children
Commission, said today.
He said the effects of such
programs and possible extension
of them were difficult for the
Commission 10 gauge so it could
determine the size of its pro-
gram after the war. Already, he
said, hospital and health inSur-
ance have made a sizeable dent
in the Commissions case load.
Our load, especially that for
afflicted children" Dean said,
rises directly as employment
decreases. disqualification insur-
ance and unemployment COM
penSation and similar programs
have reduced our case load in
recent years and are the main
reason why we do not expect
our load ever again to reach the
heights it did in the past de-
cade."
Dean estimated the afflicted
children case load would not
rise higher than 10000 cases
year in the postwar era, COM
pared with the 1889 peak Of
$4,000 cases, $500 cases last
year and an estimated 5000 cas-
es in the current fiscal year.
He said he did not think the
crippled children case load
would go beyond $500 cases,
compared with the 1885 peak of
year and an estimated $500 for
the current year.
Dean said the States register
of crippled children now has
reached 1902 cases, its highest
on record. The low point under
existing laws was II ,O64 in June
of 1899.
The director asserted the Com
mission had been able to dag
nose a record number of cases
this year despite wartime trav-
ell shortages and the fact that 10
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-29
Theut Prepares
to Turn Over
Keys to Jail

Sheriff Elect Harley Ensign
will receive the keys to the
county Jail and to the offices at
No. l Broadway, from the hands
of Sheriff Jacob F. Theut during
informal ceremonies scheduled
for the basement Of the Hotel
Medea at midnight Sunday.
Ensign, who for four years
has served as Theut's under
sheriff, will be congratulated by
the present sheriff and his many
friends, during the session be-
ginning at 10 p. m.
Sheriff Theut last night was
the object of a testimonial din
ner sponsored by Warren town
ship supervisor Earl Tallman
and at which Ensign was the
guest of honor.
Among the large number of
officials and other guests who
spoke were John Gibson, State
Chairman of the CLIO. and
r C h ard Frankenstein, vice
president of the International
Automobile Workers. T h r e e
servicemen, veterans of South
Pacific warfare, were introduced
and guests we're entertained by
floor show.