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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
McNutt
Eyes
4-Fers
Says Manpower
Situation
Is Now Better

WASHINGTON, Mar. 90.
(UP)-War Manpower Chief
Paul V. McNutt, reiterating
personal opposition to national SER
vice legislation, proposed Tuesday
that crushing" manpower demands
of the future be met in part by
tightening control over AIS 80
that not even small minority will
be able to evade their duty"
McNutt told house military af-
fairs subcommittee investigating
draft Ceferments that although a
national service law would have
been helpful 18 months ago." he
feels now that "the job has been
done"
He recommended more control
over 4-Fs and uniform treatment
SO that not even a small minority
will be able to evade their duty"
But most AIS, he ado ed, already
are in essential activity.
Chairman John M. Costello, D.,
Calf, said the proposal to induct
4-F's, armed forces discharges
classified as &c or men over the
present top draft age of 38 would
be preferable to any new manpoWer
legislation.
He said another plan would be
to bring all draft deferments within
the purview of the government in
teragency committee now studying
al 4
to 26. BY studying deferments for
men up to 26. then to % and 80 and
ultimately for all registrants, he
said, the committee would free for
induction all men not truly essen
tial to the war effort.
But for the time being, the ap-
proximately 100000 present and
potential 4-F's and 1-C registrants
were being studied most closely.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Nine laps Get
Prison Terms

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 28. (UP)
- Nine e-Americans who
failed to report for a selective serv-
ice physical examination because
they did not consider themselves
American citizens Tuesday faced
three years in federal prison.
Federal District Court Judge Dave
w. Ling sentenced the Poston, Ariz
relocation center internees Monday
Seven said they felt they had
given up American citizenship when
they applied for repatriation to ia
pan, and two said they could not
consider themselves Americans be-
cause of the treatment they had
received in internment.
George Fujii, 28, PoSton internee
charged with writing pamphlets
against induction of Japanese
Americans will be tried Monday in
federal court.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Nazi Pilots Eye
Invasion Units

LONDON, March %. (UP)-Ger-
man planes made their most wide
spread raids on England and Wales
in nearly three years Monday night
in what appeared to be an attempt to
spy out and bomb Allied troops and
armor massing for an invasion of
western Europe.
The raiders appeared to have con-
centrated their main weight of
bombs on western England, with
Slighter activity being reported from
south, southwest, southeast and east
England and south Wales, though
no Sizeable force of planes appeared
over any single target.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

fAS oCI Oub, IllC fAooOCldICo SlidiIi-
bers of Commerce would name the
new organization, select a working
committee and then turn the en-
tire job over to the newly constitut-
ed group, representative of every
activity in the county.
30 ATTEND INITIAL MEET
The meeting Monday night found
80 representatives of valley civic
an6 agricultural committees in
agreement that a more unified ef-
fort be made to promote the val
ley, especially regarding its post
war development. The naming of a
committee comprising m m b r s
from farm groups, Farm Bureau,
Imperial Irrigation District, Amer
ican Legion, county supervisors,
Chambers of Commerce, city coun-
cilS, boards of education, labor, the
Bard area and the fair board, as
one that WOulc be more definitely
comprehensive in its interest, was
recommended by the group.
The meeting was called by Arno
Yaeckel, president of the Ell Centre
chamber of commerce, and Roy
Womack, Ell Centro postwar plan
ming committee chairman Yaeckel
opened the meeting explaining that
conflicting interest of the valley
communities and groups have re-
tarded the progress of the area as
whole and in view OF the ap-
preaching postwar period more har-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Big Guns
Roar at
Casino
Allies Blast
Nazi Holds
Within, Civ

A LIED HEADQUAR-
TERS, Naples, March %.
(UP)-The big guns of the
allied 5th army continued to pound
German strongpoints inside Cassi-
no Tuesday while ground lighting
all along the Italian battlefront
subsidized into series of small-scale
patrol actions.
A terse communique made no
mention of the weeks-old campaign
to rec uce Casino, which American
and Canadian army newspapers
said Monday had ended in a failure,
but headquarters spokesmen indi-
Gated that street fighting in the
town had halted momentarily while
allied artillerymen took over the
Job of battering the enemy's de-
fenses.
Allied shellfire was concentrated
again on the Continental hotel and
the Hotel Des Roses, the two main
German Notifications in Casino.
Nazi guns countered with a heavy
and sustained bombardment of al
lied positions inside the town and
in the surrounding hills.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
y. S. Bombers Rip
Nuzi AirfieIdS
LONDON, March 28. (UP)

LONDON, March 28. (UP)
- Hundreds of American
Flying Fortresses struck at
German air bases in France for
the second straight day Tuesday,
bombing four big fields As to 165
miles from Paris in three directions.
Up to 500 Fortresses protected by
a like number of United States
fighter planes famed out over
northern. central and eastern
France TO attack NaZi airdromeS at
Chartres, Chateaudun, Rheims and
Dion.
KEEP AT IT
The new attacks carried for
ward 1t. Gen. Carl A. Spaatzs cam
paign of attrition against the Ger
man air force cay after 1000 A
merican planes had blasted nine
German bases in France. The deep
est penetration by the Fortresses
carried to Dijon. l65 miles SOUTH
east of Paris and only IS miles
from the Swiss border.
The other targets were ChartreS.
As miles southwest of Paris. one
of the German fields attacked
Continued en- page 6, col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

Four hours after the fire had
been discovered, ambulance crews
and rescue squads still were carry
ing out the bodies of the dead and
the unconscious forms of those over
come by smoke. -.
The fire broke out at 11:55 pm.
MonCay night and Immediately be-
came SO intense that firemen work.
ed two hours before they we're able
to control the flames. Water from
firemen's hoses continued to send
up streamers of kissing steam long
after the flames were put out.
OTHER HOTEL FIRES
Three times earlier Monday eve
ming, firemen were summoned to
fires in other small hotels and
rooming houses in the same district.
In all cases, they were extinguished
before any serious damage was
cone.
Police believed all fires were the
work of an arsonist. In all Of them
a definite odor of gasoline or kero-
sene had been noted.
The blaze was one OF the most
severe in the last 10 years, police
said. The district in which the Am
sterdam is situated is one OF pawn
shops, saloons and cheap rooming
houses, nearly all of wood con-
structien and ready tinder for a
blaze.
The Amsterdam fire broke out in
all four floors at the same time and
spread with lightning rapidity. For
the two hours the flames were at
their height, the downtown area Of
the city was overcast by rosy glow,
reflected back by nearby skyscrap-
erS.
SHIPYARD WORKERS
The hotel contained about 50
rooms, according to police records.
most of which were occupied by
sleeping shipyard workers. Many OF
them fled to the nearest windows
and attempted to land in nets held
beneath them by firemen, One
woman was believed to have broken
her back when she landed.
One man, Leslie Mckinney, 30,
Negro stevedore employed by the
U. S. Marine Corps, saved his life
Continued on page 6, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Deserter Draws
Bad Check Term

CHICAGO, March %. tUP)-Jack
Hefton. 90, a soldier, who deserted
from the F't Custer, Mich, rehabili-
tatiOn center. was sentenced by
Judge William J. Campbell to two
years in a federal penitentiary Tues
day for passing worthless checks OF
more than $4,000.
Although the complaint showed
only the $4,000 in bad checks pass
ed in this area, federal Investigators
said he had passed checks for more
than $4,000 in Kansas. Arizona
New Mexico. California, Texas, Il
linois, and Michigan while posing as
captain in the army air forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Storm Warnings
Given on Coast

LOS ANGELES, March %. CUP)
Coastal storm warnings Tuesday
were ordered hoisted from Ocean
side to Point Pueneme for "a hours
as the weather man predicted storms
at sea and a Santa Ana windstorm
inland.
AS the dry desert air showed into
the Los Angeles area at dawn Tues
day the humidity dropped to 20 per
cent, almost one-fourth of normal
for that time of day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Allies Blast Two
More Jap Ships
Off Wewak Coast
HEADQUARTERS

A LIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, March %. CUPo
Allied airmen have blasted two
more Japanese supply ships off the
Wewak coast of New Guinea, raising
their toll of enemy shipping in the
past two weeks to 25, it was re-
vealed Tuesday.
A communique described the ships
as 1,0O0-ton freighter and coast
al vessel, which were destroyed Or
seriously damaged together with
seven bargeS near MuSchu island
Sunday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
kuriIe Islands
Hit by yanks
AN ADvA NEED ALEUTIAN

AN ADV A need ALEUTIAN
BASE, March 26.-DelayeU CUP)
Army and navy bombers dropped
tons of explosives on the northern
KurileS again last week, hitting for
the first time the small island of
One-Kotan, % miles south of Para
muShiro.
AS in previous raids this month";
the Japanese sent up no aerial re-
sistance. They waited out the raid
while bombs crashing into garrisons
on Paramushiro and One-Kotan il
Illuminated the bleak, snowy islands
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

with 100000 candle power flashes.
Valuable reconnaissance photo
graphs were obtained.
The bombers course on Kurile
raids took them from one hem
isphere to another. In the latest
attack, they took off from their
Aleutian base on Saturday, dropped
their bombs on Sunday after cross
ing the international dateline, and
returned to their base Saturday.
One army plane making a special
flight westward failed to return and
no trace of it has been found, it
was reported there.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Jugo Partisans
Seize Island

LONDON, March %. CUP)-Jugo-
slav Partisans, aided by Allied air
ground and naval forces. captured
the island of Hvar. rs miles below
the Dalmatian port of Split, it was
announced Tuesday, to give the
Allies possible base for an inva-
sion of JugoSlavia.
A communique from Marshal
Josip CTito BroZovichs headquar-
terS said the 35-mile long island
was seized by units of the 26th Jugo-
slav Partisan division and a de-
tachment of commandos.
The island was captured after
three days of fighting, it was an
nounced. About 100 German men
and officers and "FasciSts" were
taken prisoner.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Nation Gets More Butter,
Cheese But Less Meats

WASHINGTON, Mar. 28.
(UP)-Civilians will get b.
100000 pounds more butter
and 90,000,000 pounds more of
cheddar cheese in April, May, and
June than they did curing Janu-
ary. February, and March, but
their meat allotment will be re-
duced 606,000 pounds, the War
Food Administration announced
TUESDAY.
The extra portions of butter we're
made possible, VIA said, because
the government still has enough
of last years butter to meet lend
lease end military requirements.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

Meat allocations will 80 down
from their first quarter high of
5,O9l,30O pounds to 4,4S3 200 pounds
for April, May and June.
The VIA said civilians may eX-
pect a good supply" of potatoes
during the next quarter, as well as
spinach. lettuce, carrots, beets. cit
rus fruits, canned beans, tomatoes,
certain fresh and frozen vegetables,
eggs, and milk.
Civilian quotas of 435.0O0, 900
pounds of evaporated milk and A.
100000 pounds Of condensed milk
will remain the same as last quar-
ter.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

However. rationing officials said
the increase was not enough to
change the present high point value
of butter.
Cheddar cheese is due for big
jump, because of a boom in pro-
duction which is expected to reach
total of 800,00O,0O0 pounds for
the entire year. The civilian alloca-
ton will jump from 100000 dur
ing the first quarter of the year to
120OO0,000 during Tile second quar-
ter.
Swiss, Italian. and limburger
cheese quotas will go down from
100000 to 44,200,O0O pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

Monday Federal Judge Ben Harrison
ordered the liquor returned follow
ing an agreement between the gov
enment and the liquor owners.
Milton P. Duffy, chief of the foods
and drugs department, made the
seizure but declined comment pend
ing a hearing.
The owners of the liquor said they
understood it was being held for
chemical analysis.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Cavalry Horses
To Be Auctioned

SACRAMENTO, March %. CUP) -
The state department of agriculture
Tuesday announced it had been in
formed by the U. S. treasury depart
ment of auctions between March &c
and April %, including Camp
Lockett, Campo, II a. M, April 8
300 head.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Health Officials
Seize Whisky

SAN DIEGO, March %. CUP)-
California state health department
Tuesday reported seizure of 5000
cases Of blended whisky which Mon
day had been ordered returned to
its owners by the federal bureau
of internal revenue.
The liquor, valued at 100000, was
seized last month by federal agents
who claimed it had been sold in
violation of federal regulations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Russ Seize Prut CROSSING
To Sweep into Bessurubiu

mania and former headquarters OF
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's drive
down the Prut valley brought the
rail junction of Iasi under artillery
fire and cut one of the few remain
ing roundabout rail lines of retreat
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

MOSCOW, Mar. 20. (UP)
Russian mobile forces fan
ned southwark through Bes-
sarabia Tuesday. seizing the Prut
river crossing before Iasi, German
defense baStion of northeast Ru-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

II was Tops
The telephone rang Saturday af-
ternoon in the Ell Centre head
quarters of the irrigation district
Evan II. HcwcS, chairman of the
district board, was the only one
in the place. He answered
MY iceboX is off so there must
be something wrong at my house,
a woman sale. Il wish you'd send
a repairman out right away" He
promised to do the best he could
explaining that most of the men
were off duty Saturday afternoon
who is this?" the woman asked
This is Evan Hewes," he said.
Oh said the woman, oh" and
hurrieoly banged up the receiver
HeWes telephoned the office that
looks after repairs, gave the name
and address of the woman with
the blacked out icebox, and asked
that a repairman be sent.
ITS Saturday afternoon" the
girl in the repair office said,
couldn't you wait until Monday?"
Il certainly would appreciate it
If you would send someone out at
once" Hewes said patiently, "thc
boys are around somewhere. They
expect to go in case of emergency
The girl went on about Saturday
afternoon and finally asked who
was talking
This is Evan Hewes," he said.
OH" sputtered the girl, "OH!
III call someone right away"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Meet Launches
Postwar P an
For All Valley
Initial Steps Taken to Speed
Comprehensive Program for
Nearing Reconstruction Period

Definite and far-reaching plans for Imperial Valleys
postwar plans and operations launched Monday night
at meeting in Ell Centre Chamber of Commerce. When
fully developed and in operation, the program would
brace each and every section of the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
Blaze in Hotel
to
ArSonist Gang
Officers Find Odor Of Kerosene
Gasoline in Series Of Blazes;
'Shipyard Workers Among the Dead

SAN FRANCISCO, March %. (UP)-Culmnating
series Of mysterious hotel fires which broke sporadca
ly in San Francsco south of Market district last night
the New Amsterdam hotel almost entirely gutted in
blaze early today which the lives of at least % peo
pie and injured 22.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
SENTENCED TO JAIL

Alfonso Ruiz, who escaped from
county chain gang Tuesday. was
sentenced to the Imperial county
Jail for year. He pleaded guilty to
the charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
D 4Ms!!xs 41n!M!e
Oleandcr Bureau

Oleandcr Bureau
OleanderS are hereby presented
to 1t. Edwin G. Noble, commanding
officer of the California State
Guard. unit at Bard.
The Bard State Guarders passed
one of the finest inspections of any
unit in the state of California.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 80, minimum
Tuesday 40; 5 am. Tuesday Sc, hu-
midity 20; noon Tuesday 66, humid
ity "a; S pm. Mon. 7S, humidity 13.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-28

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.
(UP)-War Manpower Chief
Paul V. McNutt, reiterating
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
Military Motif Will Be
Missing From 1914 Toys

CHICAGO.-There will be few mil
itary toys and games under the
Christmas tree this year, but their
absence will be nc sign that the
alley battalions have laid down their
arms and embraced pacifsm.
1t will mean simply that the toy
makers, who are business men, have
surveyed the market and found
American small fry have enough
ordnance and military apparatus to
NOV down Hitler, Hirohito, and the
gas house gang for too many months
to make Christmas tommy guns
profitable.
There will be lots of pull toys
little ducks on strings, for instance.
The idea of this toy is that the child
pulls the string, thereby inducing
the duck, which is on wheels, to
follow him. Juvenile furniture will
be featured, along with educational
blackboards and books. Some short
ages have been foreseen, deriving
from a lack of metal for toys. But
the toymakers promise a toy for
every child this year, and apprehen-
sion over shortages is somewhat al
layed by the foresightedness of
many big department stores which
placed 1914 Christmas orders last
December.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
TREWIN

Mrs. Wann Wilkerson of Oakland
CANT, who is spending some time
IN Montana receiving medical treat
ment, spent from Wednesday until
Friday as a guest of Nh. and Mrs
Dallas Cunningham.
= Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Grubs and son
Charles attended the Aberdeen An
gus show and sale in Billings Thurs
day.
Margaret Beslanowitch of Round
up spent the week end at her home
here.
Amos Flood was a business Wis
ltor in Billings, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs and
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Kappel attended
the party and dance in Park City
Saturday night given by Florence
Cole honoring Mr.. and Mrs. Osa
Games and Bert Mitchell, former
residents who are here visiting the
Mitchell sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Peter and
children spent Sunday at the Nick
HerOld home.
Mrs. Amos Flood and sons John
and Patrick were calling at the
Fry home in Park City Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs and
Mrs. Kenneth Shay attended the
funeral services for w. C. Brock in
Park City Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freddy Beslano-
witch of Billings were here for the
pheasant hunting season Sunday.
Robert Beslanowitch, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Beslanowitch was
here this week visiting the Kappel
families. He is in the marines and
has been in service overseas for
time and is now on a fur
Mrs. William Killebrew spent
Sunday at the George Sparks home.
Word received from Tony Bongi-
ami is that he is now stationed at
Camp Robinson, Ala.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
Fear of Raids by Yanks
Changes Worship of Japs

NEW YORK.-Because of the dan
ger of U. S. air raids, Jap authori-
ties in Korea have abandoned the
use of a siren to summon the popu-
lation for twice-a-day compulsory
worship of Emperor Hirohito, it was
disclosed by a broadcast over the
controlled Keijo radio, reported to-
day to the Office of War Information.
Trumpet calls and the rendition of a
song called "On to the Sea" have
been broadcast at z a. m. and noon
by local radios as a substitute for
the siren, which has been restricted
to use as a raid warning "in order
to be prepared to meet the raids Of
enemy planes" said the Keijo broad
cast.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01

The White Horse school pupils
and their teacher Mrs. Hattie Cloyd,
held a Halloween party and weiner
roast Friday at the school house.
Out of door games were enter
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. G. Adams have
returned from a visit in Helena
with his brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. K. Robinson. Their
son, Larry Adams, spent the week
ir Park City with his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sands.
Mrs. Kenneth Olson returned
Monday from the Deaconess hos
pital in Billings with her infant
daughter, Rosa Lee Ann, born Fri
day, Oct. 20.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
1t Costs rs Cents to
Wake Hotel Operator

FLORENCE, COLO.-Harry Ev-
ans, operator of a hotel here, figures
it's worth a quarter for him to
have to get up in the middle of the
night and answer what he terms in
n questions such as he has recent
ly been pestered with.
Now Evans has invented an alarm
system, whereby he can be
awakened only by the would-be in
terrogator ~depositing a quarter.
When the coin is deposited it sets
off an alarm which awakens Evans.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
Don't Throw Flowers at
Allies, Dutch Are Told

LONDON, ENGLAND. - A warn
ing to the Dutch people not to throw
flowers, fruit and other offerings at
Allied troops was broadcast by Ra-
dio Orange, the Netherlands news
agency reported. The b~roadcaster
explained that there had been sew
eral cases in which enemies and
traitors had used the populations
demonstrations to conceal explosives
IN flowers and fruit thrown at Allied
troops.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
Laurel Happenings

Margaret Fink spent the week
end in Columbus the guest of her
cousin, Donna Jones.
Mrs. w. w. Teeters spent the
week end in Reed Point where she
visited her mother, Mrs. Kate Crit
fifth, and her sister, Mrs. Emmett
Cverfelt.
Miss Virginia Shay, dietician in
a hospital at Richland, Wash, spent
her two weeks vacation with her
mother, Mrs. Ethel Shay and rela-
tives and friends. When Miss Shay
left Tuesday for Seattle, her moth
err accompanied her for a visit.
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
The Outlook SAYS:

Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Erb and
daughter, Shirley Ann, have return
ed from Seattle and are spending
several days with his mother, Mrs.
Carrie Erb before moving to their
home at 618 Third avenue where
they will reside.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Phillips have
as their guests, Mrs. Phillips bro
Their and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Hackert and family of
Powell, Wyo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cloyce Platz and
children of Livingston were guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Platz.