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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
ACORNS HIKE A MILE

SAN BERNARDINO, March 28
cUP)-The Oakland Acorns now are
staging a daily one-mile hike as
special feature of the spring training
routine. Following Mondays hike,
the Acorns went through an inten-
sive fielding practice in preparation
for practice games with the Los
Angeles Angels here Wednesday and
at Anaheim Friday. Manager Dolph
Camilli said he will stress the i'm
portance of a tighter defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
KRAMER WITH BROWNS

CAPE GIRADEAU, Mo, March
% CUPJ-Pitcher Jack Kramer, who
won eight games and lost two with
the Toledo farm club Cf the St.
Louis Browns, went TO work for the
American Leaguers Tuesday after
signing lis 1874 contract. Manager
Luke SeWell expressed confidence
that Kramer would develop into a
winner.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
ORDERS EXTRA DRILLS

EVANSVILLE Ind March %
CUPl-Manager Steve O'NeiN. dis
satisfied over the hitting of tie
Detroit Tigers in their weekend
series with the Chicago White SoX.
ordered extra batting drills Tues
day. Pitcher Johnny Corsica re-
ported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Western Team
Gloves Champs

NEW YORK, March % CUP)-
Amateur boxers from Chicago Tues
day brought home the annual
inter-city Golden Gloves cham
pionship, winning nine bouts to
seven against New York youngsters
at Madison Square Garden Mon
day night. A crowd of 1860 saw
the bouts.
Chicago, needing a victory in the
final bout to avoid a tie in the
team totals, got it en- an upset
when blond Ragon Kinney Of Little
Rock, Ark, an army private from
California outpointed Jerry jack
sen, big Bronx fighter in the heavy
weight championship. Kinney won
the three round decision by a wide
margin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
SLAPS ON RULES

FREDERICK, Md. March 28
CUP Mild hammered Connie
Mack. who believes the Philadelphia
Athletics stand an excellent chance
to win the American League
pennant took firm measures Tues
day to prevent training irregulari-
ties from thwarting his hopes. He
banned liquor drinking, put a five
and 10 cent limit on poker games,
demanded prompt attendance at
meals. and established a scale of
automatic fines for violtions. He
commissioned his coaches to act as
policemen"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
SOUTHWORTH SET

CAIRO, Ill, March % up -
Hopeful that his squad will be kept
intact fer awhile at least, Manager
Billy SouthWorth Of the St. Louis
Cardinals said Tuesday that he Wac
all set for the opening Of the Ma
tional League season. The latest
arrival at camp was catcher Ken
ODea.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
SIGNS YOUNGEST PLAYER

ONTARIO, Calf, March %. (UP)
The Hollywood Stars have signed
the youngest player the team has
ever had, Business Manager Oscar
Reichow announced Tuesday. He is
Gordon Goldsberry, 16, whose first
base playing for the Ontario Mer-
chants caught the eye of Manager
Charlie Root.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
WORK "ON THE DOUBLE"

BALTIMORE, March q up
The Boston Red Sox worked 'on
the double" at their new spring
training quarters Tuesday in the
Baltimore orioles baseball park,
seeking TO make up for lost time in
outdoor work after a week Of in
door conditioning III the TUFTS col
lege cage at Medford, Mass.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
TO START ALL ROCKIES

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March %
up Cincinnati Reds Tues
day entrusted an all-rcokie pitching
trio with the job Of beating the
Chicago Cubs in the first exhibition
game OF the season between the
teams. Manager Bill McKechnie
nominated Arnold Carter, Tom De
La Cruz and Bob Malloy. Manager
Jimmy Wilson CT the Cubs plans TO
start Henry Wyse, who won 9 and
lost 7 games last season.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
SHOOTS ICE OFF WIRES

LIMA, O., March % (UP) - A
shotgun comes in handy for other
purposes besides hunting at the
Lima Tank Depot here. When ice
collected on power wires during a
recent sleet storm it threatened to
break the lines and force a shut
down of operations. So main
tenance superintendent Avery
Hastings blasted the ice off the
wires with his shotgun.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
WILL, NOT REPORT

MUNCIE. Ind, March % up
Wally Hebert, 36-year-old southpaw
pitcher, intends to remain at his
war plant job during the 1914
baseball season, Manager Frankie
Frisch of the Pittsburgh Pirates re-
vealed Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
GUARDS GET EQUIPMENT

State Guard units in CaleXlco, E.
Centro, and Bard Tuesday received
replacements of uniforms, arms, and
ammunition from State Guard
headquarters. The articles We're
brought to Imperial county by truck
and checked in at the headquarters
offices Of the various units.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
ANIMAL CITY SERIES

FRENCH LICK, Ind, March %
CUP)-The Chicago Cubs ana their
South Side rivals the White SoX,
will meet Wednesday in the first
game of the annual spring city
series"
Dykes said he would use veteran
Pitchers Thornton Lee. Bill Dietrich
and Oryal Grove in their first
game, which will be played before
soldiers at Freeman Field, Sey-
mour, Ind.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Training Briefs

outs with the New York Giants by
Carl Hubbell. the new director Of
the teams farm system, will begin
a series of tryouts Tuesday at the
spring training camp of the Giants.
Hubbell said the most promising of
the lot will be used to stock the
three new class d farm clubs of the
Giants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO. March 2s lUPD-Grain futures
displayed steady to Gays trend on the
Board OF Trade Tuesday.
All grains weakened on the close with
rye off X to II cents a bushel; wheat
unchanged to off X oats off X to IL,
and barley quoted off y to ] u.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
FACE SHEEPSKIN CUT

CHICAGO, March %. UP)-
Prospects that Australia, the largest
supplier of raw stocks to the United
States tanning industry, may re-
strict exports of sheepskins in the
near future were reported in re-
cent issue of Hide Leather and
Shoes, the shoe and leather weekly.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
ANGELS VS.. TWINKS

SAN DIEGO, March 28. (UP)-
The Los Angeles Angels, flushed
from TO 0 triumph over the San
Diego Coast Guard, will uphold the
fair name of the Pueblo against
their suburban parvenus, the Hol-
lyWood Stars, at Ontario.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

Sometimes think the problems faced by astronomers
are fairly simple after all.
Though they, like ticket agents, deal with time and
space they don't have to explain travellers why it's often
impossible get train accommodations for certain time.
SP. ticket agents live with such problems every day.
The plain fact there just isn't trains to
take of all civilians who travel these days.
And often ask woudbe travellers postpone trips
they I'd like to make at once.
Not only we short of equipment and manpowernot
only is travel load the heaviest in hsorybu today
much of our available space needed by service and
industry travellers Because many people must travel
during this war, many others must stay off the train.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

One of the differences between
the jet-propulsion aircraft and the
rocket-propelled craft with which
it is so often confused is that the
latter carries its cwn supply CT
liquid oxygen and has, therefore,
unlimited ceiling.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
AILMENTS PLAGUE YANKS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., March
% up Spring training ailments
plagued the New York Yankees
Tues day to bring manager Joe Nc
Carthy a change of pace in his
troubles over manpower losses and
inclement weather. Catcher Bob
Collins suffered a lame knee dur
ing a brief indoor workout yester-
day to join other incapacitated
players.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Coast
League

SAN JOSE, Calf, March %. (UP)
Eddie Adams, first string catcher
for the Portland Beavers, Tuesday
will take part in his first workout
with the team in preparation for
its game against Alameda Coast
Guard Wednesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
LYMAN RAINIERs' LEADOFF

BAKERSFIELD Calf, March 20.
Manager Bill Skiff Tuesday limited
he may place Second Baseman Billy
Lyman as leadoff man in the Seattle
Rainiers batting order. During
Mondays practice session, Skiff
praised Lyman and Infielders Bill
Gray and Jim Kruger.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
GAVIGLIO INJURED

SACRAMENTO, Calf, March %.
(UP)-The Sacramento Solons may
lose Gene Gaviglio, former San
Francisco State college student, for
several weeks as the result of his
being hit in the left arm by ball.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Utoh. Brooklyn
Meet on Naples

talent that no one gave the Indians
chance to win the metropolitan
title to say nothing of defending
their invitation crown. But Joe
Lapchick did a grand coaching job
with an outfit that featured four
freshmen
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
CAN'T READ ALL TINE

CHICAGO, March %. UP)-Will
exchange nine volumes of Shakes
peare for set of trousers, read an
advertisement in a Nazi-controlled
Czech paper in Prague, the Czech
OSlovak national council reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
DODGERS CONDITION GOOD

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y, March
IS (UP)-Manager Lee Durocher of
the Brooklyn Dodgers pronounced
his squad in excellent physical trim
Tuesday and said he believed it was
better advanced in spring condi-
tioning than any other major
league team.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
HOMETOWN NEWS WAITS

PITTSFTELD, Mass, March ~
UP)- After spending a week to-
gether in a South Pacific island
foxhole, Marine Pvts. David Casey
and James Thornton finally dis
covered they came from the same
city. I'VE are so busy cut here all
the time that we don't have much
chance for asking questions" ex-
plains Leatherneck Casey In q
letter to his parents in Pittsfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
PADRES LOSE TO ARMY

SAN DIEGO, March %. UP)-
The Camp Callan nine yesterday
trounced the San Diego Padres l6
to in a nine-error game for serv-
icemen at the camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
80 ROCKIES TRY OFT
LAKEWOOD.

LAKEWOOD, N. j., March %
up - approximately 80 young
baseball players, selected for try
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
MARX ETS
D.. A. HAY

los ANGELES, March - CUPl-
HAY MARKET
L. 6. No ! extra leafy S34 50-36.50 I.
s No l S31 5O-33.50; I s. No. ! S31.5o-
$3.50; L. 5. No. ? leafy or No. , green
$50. 5O-32. so. L. s. No. > S29-3l per ton.
No. l barley hay S3o-31: No. oat hay
S37-3S
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
FEDERAL RETURN
INCREASES

CHICAGO, March %. (UP)-Fed-
eral revenue from excise taxes on
cigarettes, gasoline and liquor in
creased rs per cent from $780,
100000 in 1912 to S2,510,OOO,OOO in
1943 and state revenue dropped
from 239 per cent from $1,55O,OO0,-
900 to $1,180,0OO,O00, the Federation
of Tax Administrators announced.
The legs of butterflies are 1900
times as sensitive as the human
tongue in detecting the sweetness
of sugar.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
7 SONS OVERSEAS

I SONS OVERSEAS
CLEVELAND, March % (UP)--
Seven sons of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Kovac of Cleveland are serving
Uncle Sam on Allied battlefronts.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Markets at a
Glance
By UNITED PRESS

Stocks lower IN active trading.
Bonds lower and active; L. s. govern
rnenfs irregular.
Curb stocks lower.
Cotton barley steady.
Vheaf unchanged 10 g. cents lower.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Astronomers aren't the only ones
with problems of Time and SPACE

Our agents meet public every day and on them
falls the chore of explaining why train space sometimes
not available and when requested.
People generally understanding and patient. And
from kindly letters and comments receive, believe
ticket agents handling their difficult assignment
efficiently and well.
Evening star., 1944-10-15
The Tightening Embrace

The fall of Riga brings to an end
the decisive phase of the battle in
the Baltic area and opens the way
for a large-scale invasion of East
Prussia. For many weeks Russian
forces have been poised just out
side this part of Germany, Smelling
1t and occasionally sending recon-
naissance patrols into it, and now,
with the capture of the Latvian
capital, they can be joined by two
big Soviet armies free to strike
southwark through Lithuania. Thus
the Nazis must Immediately reckon
with yet another penetration of the
sacred soil" of the fatherland at
a time when they must also con-
tend with our Allied hammering in
their western territory, with the
possibility that new offensive may
be launched against them at any
moment in Poland and with the
prospect of an early Hungarian sur
render likely to place the Red Army
in position to march quickly into
the southern sector of the Reich
Austria. Germany, in short, is near
that point where it will be COM
pletely caught in ring of steel, in
an ever-contracting circle of fire
out of which there can be no escape,
no matter how fervently Goebbels
promises victory through German
endurance or how viciously Himmler
Uses whip and gun to check defeat
m and rebellion. The thugs and
the asSasSins of Nazidom may be
able to prolong the desperate strug-
gle, may be able to let loose an
inferno with their secret" weapons
and do-or-die resistance, but their
eventual liquidation is as certain as
the coming of tomorrow. The trap
is closing on all sides, inexorably,
like the Tightening embrace of an
inescapable doom. How far away
seem those days when it was Hitlers
custom periodically to issue exultant
proclamations about his victories
and about the impossibility of Ger
many's ever feeling the weight of
invading armies. And how bitterly
the German masses must remember
that they once believed in him!
Evening star., 1944-10-15

Furthermore, Bulgarian troops con-
tinued to occupy Greek territory ana
reports circulated that an arrange
ment had been made between them
and the Communistic Greek faction
known as Fam.
All this gave rise to suspicious that
Bulgaria was acting with tacit sup
port from Moscow, or at least that
its new government was attempting
to win Moscow's approval for ar
mistice terms which would enable
Bulgaria to keep part of the spoils
which it had received from Hitler
as the price Of aid in the German
conquest OF the Balkans in 1941.
Either OF these suppositions would,
If confirmed, have contravened the
Balkan policies Of London and
Washington and would have implied
Moscow's unilateral action In the
Balkan. settlement.
Bulgaria's acceptance OF Joint Al
lied armistice terms. involving evac-
uation Of all Greek territory within
the next Is days dissipates much of
the diplomatic tension that was
arising over the Balkan situation
and is hopeful augury that other
potential points Of friction may be
amicably adjusted.
Evening star., 1944-10-15
Test at Auchen

The eyes Of both the Allied ma
tions and Germany are rightfully
fixed on Aachen, because that an
cient border city OF the Reich is
becoming sort of test case whereby
the course of the war in the west
can be evaluated. Its significance
is at once strategic and psyche
logical, though the imponderables
probably outweigh the material
side.
Aachen is the first large German
city to come under direct Allied
land attack. Strategically it is an
important communications center,
several rail lines and highways
crossing at this focal point. OBJ
viouSly, so long as Aachen remains
in German hands it constitutes a
bottleneck for the Allied advance
in that sector of the front, while
conversely it's capture will facili-
tate an offensive toward the Rhine
and the big city of Cologne, less
than 40 miles to the eastward. How
ever, the fall of Aachen would not
imply the end of German resistance
in that sector. The indications are
that the entire belt of territory be-
tween the border and the Rhine has
been transformed into zone of
defense in depth" which, If held
by competent troops, will have to be
blasted through in detail. Thus,
strategically speaking, the storming
of Aachen may be considered first
step rather than major objective.
However, as already remarked,
Aachen is more than military
prize. This old city is redolent Of
history and is enshrined in German
hearts.
The Nazi objective is clear. It is
to turn Aachen into a German
counterpart of stalingrad by a de-
tense so stubborn, prolonged and
costly to the Allies, that, even
though eventually lost, Aachen will
become symbol of German deter
mination to resist to the last. But
the Allies, too, have elected that
Aachen shall become a portent.
The formal summons Of the Allied
high command to surrender or in
vite complete destruction was cou-
pied with a warning that a similar
fate awaited every city in the Reich
which resisted the invaders. Thus
the psychic gage of battle has been
mutually thrown into the physical
arena. The stern test of wills is
now taking place.
Evening star., 1944-10-15
Questions
from the Topeka Capital.


During the campaign the New Deal
will charge "again and again" that Re-
publicans delayed plans for defense and
war. It is q threadbare argument, dis
proved many times. but 1t will be used
because the New Dealers believe it Is
still effective. In repeating the charges,
the fourth termers hope the public will
be induced to overlook the fact that the
administration at this moment is woe
fully unprepared for peace.
Does the New Deal plan another WPA
as reward for returning servicemen?
viii the New Deal repay the C1O Politi-
cal Action Committee, now spearhead-
Ing the fourth term campaign, by
swinging even further to the side Of
organized labor? Does the New Deal
plan to continue wartime controls Of
business, or permit business to get back
on its own feet?
These are questions which the voters
Of America are asking. But 1t Is unlikely
the New Deal viii attempt to answer
them before the election. The strategy
Is to focus all possible attention on the
war and to black out, whenever this can
be achieved, the domestic problems
which grow increasingly complex o the
end ct the war approaches.
Evening star., 1944-10-15

skill and carried to success with unsur- $
passed holiness" o. y.
~
The ties between Germany and Jaao
pan-were not made by Hitler and Hiro-
hito. A brief announce
Mikodo's Kin ment in The Star for Oc-
A Visitor tober is, 1894, indicates
that there was an ur,7,,
derstanding between the two countries
SO years back. Prince Yamashina, o.
near relative of the Mikado, 1t was disss
closed, was In Washington with LieutAs
Una and Kosugi and "a suite Of attendo'
ants and valets," all incognito. The
members OF the party inspected the
Navy Yard, toured the Capitol called
at the Japanese Legation and prepared
to continue their journey to the Orient.
It was stipulated that the young prince
has recently graduated at the German
Naval Academy at Kiel and is now on
his way home to take part in the mill
tary movements Of his country"
Evening star., 1944-10-15
Eormosd

American attacks upon Formosa
may be the beginning of the end
of japanese occupation of that i'm
portant island, owned by China for
many centuries before the war lords
of Nippon annexed" it in 1895. If
the island were returned to its
legitimate proprietors as part of the
settlement following victory, justice
would be done. 1t happens that it
has been from what they call Tai
wan that the Mikado's minions have
obtained much of the material for
the building of the army and the
navy with which they have at
tempted to conquer the whole of
the Orient.
Formosa was named by Portuguese
mariners who visited it in the latter
half Of the sixteenth century. They
found it beautiful. and it still is
attractive for its majestic mountain
ranges and its broad and fertile
valleys. An elongated oval or, as
the official Japanese guide book says,
shaped like the leaf of a tree"
seven hundred and seven miles in
circumference and nearly fourteen
thousand square miles in area, it
supports population of at least
five million, perhaps seven or eight
million people, engaged in farming,
mining, numbering and manufactur-
ing. The climate, as might be ex-
pected under the Tropic Of Cancer,
is tropical and rainy, but not un-
healthful. To the heat and the
precipitation the island is indebted
for its luxuriant vegetation. Few
other parts of the earth have so
rich flora.
Even more interesting, however, is
the human picture of Formosa. The
japanese residents of the island
are a small minority, possibly half
a million, concentrated in the
neighborhood of the mines in the
northeast and on plantations on the
western coast plain. Far more
numerous are the Chinese t.im-
ported" from Fukien, Kwantung and
elsewhere on the mainland. Agrar-
ians, industrial laborers, artisans,
merchants and professional people
teachers. for example-are included
among the settlers of comparatively
recent arrival. The generality of
them crossed the Taiwan Strait,
ninety miles wide at its narrowest.
very much as Europeans migrated
to America during approximately
the same period.
But the authentic Formosans are
not newcomers. No one knows for
certain when the. aborigines came.
There seems to have been two dis
tinct waves of them-the Pe-pa-
hwan or "subdued savages," as they
are denominated by the Japanese,
and the Chin-hwan or wild saw
ages" The former are organized
into about five hundred tribes, have
adopted Chinese manners and Gus
toms and are relatively peaceable,
while the latter, some one hundred
and forty-six different groups Of
them. are head-hunting mountain
Evening star., 1944-10-15
Campaign Distortions

The White House statement ac-
cusing Governor Dewey of distorting
official speeches and similar matter
by lifting sentences out of their
context makes a persuasive case
against the Republican candidate.
No one will be naive enough to
believe, however, that either Gov
ernor Dewey or the Republican
party has a monopoly on the
familiar political practices of dis
tortion and Misrepresentation.
When Governor Dewey at Okla
homa City, for instance, quoted the
President to the effect that he was
happy that the circumstances of
the moment permitted us to spend
our money on bridges and boule-
wards rather than huge standing
armies and implements of war he
left himself open to charge of
distortion. For Mr.. Roosevelt made
that statement in the speech in 1887
in which he advocated the "quaran-
timing" of aggressors. The address
was intended to arouse the country
to the menace from abroad, and,
while it may truthfully be said that
the Presidents reference to bridges
and boulevards had the unhappy
effect of "toning down" his own
warning, the fact remains that it
was a forward-looking speech and
that its import was misrepresented
by the single excerpt which Mr..
Dewey quoted.
But the Democrats, In preferring
this complaint against Governor
Dewey, come into court with hands
that are something less than clean.
Those who like to rake over the
ashes of the past can go through
MIR. Roosevelt's speeches and find
inconsistencies, promises and In
situations which are something less
than the whole truth. Older voters
will remember placards distributed
in the 1892 campaign which charged
without a vestige OF truth that
President Hoover was not an
American citizen. One finds q
comparable pattern in the Oft
repeated charge in this campaign
that Governor Dewey is a mere
front man" for the discredited
reactionary elements Of his party.
The simple truth seems to be that
these distortions and misrepresenta-
tions In both camps are inevitable
concomitants Of our political CAM
paigns. However much we may
decry them, they viii be with us
until after the votes have been cast.