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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-20

For hsri A ssnuins blue air.
cor OF faihlng beauty IN
rich yellow pold.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Fires in Hay
Stir Probe

Continued from Page u
there's a fire bug on the loose down
in that part of the county. Hope
he doesn't venture up this way"
Fires which contributed to the
move for an investigation were as
follows. V. *. CCrfman. Ted Keller
Gene higgins. Main street and the
San Diego highway; Isaac Mcbride
southeast of El Centre: Dave Ven
Gill. Holtyille: Roy z. Breedlove
HoltvilIe: Blythe Alfalfa Growers.
including Ben Bush and Clyde
Whitlock; Frank Kumberg, CaleX-
leo. and four Imperial HaymowerS
association fires. including two on
the II. D. Cortland ranches. and T.
B. Shank. whose ranch is located
four and a half miles each Of BraW-
ley and who suffered one of the
heaviest losses.
A pcesible clue. although inyesti-
gators are not the authority for it,
is that wet" MeXicans who resort
to hay stacks for sleeping places,
CaTelessly LETT burning cigarets
about or cast aside lighted matches.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Truman Charges
'Ckicanery'

WITH SENATOR TRUMAN EN-
ROUTE TO PORTLAND, Oct. 70.
up - Senator Harry S. Truman,
Democratic vice presidential nomi-
nee. charging Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
with political chicanerY.' WedneS-
day predicted that the Roosevelt
Truman ticket would carry his home
s'ate Of Missouri by 100000 to 150,-
0oO votes.
Truman said Dewey had chosen
to take sentences from committee
reports and had construed honest
criticism of mistakes as state
ment that the President was in
efficiently conducting the war The
Republicans failed to quO'e sec
ton saying the greatest job Of the
war had been done on the homo
front. he told San FranciSco's
club yesterday.
This is the mos efficiently con-
duCted war in the history Of thc
world as far as the United States
j. concerned Truman said
Truman told reporters that on the
basis Of registration figures the
Democratic ticket would carry Cali
fornia by maioity in the neigh
borhcod Of 10000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

in HOLLYWOOD when the U.S.O invited her to join an
overseas troupe that anything like this would ever happen
They didn't tell her because they didn't know either
This 'act was never any program.
She went overseas Gave show after show, many of
them to the accompaniment the thunder of enemy guns
Then one night she gave show and as usual, IT was
more than show. 1t was, to its audience, dream OF
home come true Here was a live, lovely American girl
symbol of all the girls all the boys had left behind them
A week later she was asked to visit the wounded in
base hospital and as she passed between the long
of cots, a voice, weak and shy, called her name.
She bent over the youngsters cot 81 in the audi
ence at ............," he whispered "Since then we
were in the fighting at ............. They got my
right eve In few minutes the doctors going take
out the other one It's gotta be done, they told My
girl at home looks lot like you. So if you could be
we'll the last thing I'll in this world-if you
could stay with me until-Pd be lot happier
She didn't answer. She couldn't Could you: But she
stayed there with the boys sngc-eyed gaze fixed upon
her and her hand in his until they wheeled him to the
operating room and the anaehess mercifu cone slipped
over his face and the last thing he saw, or ever
sec was her face-so much like the face of the girl at
home he loved -.
X X
But for the grace of God it could have been your boy
upon that operating table So for that boyand every boy
fighting our battles for everywhere in the world,
support the National War Fund of which the U.SO. is
one of the 70 participating agencies. You do this
by giving to your local Community War Fund For boys
in battle zonc,-and prison camps For starving Allies
and for "casuaes' right here the home front. For
everyone and everything concernedncluding your
oonsccnce-gyc give -. give NOW!
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Schools Listed
On State Funds

El Centro'S elementary school dis
trict this year receives an average
OF Sl907 per teacher unit from the
state treasury for each of the 45
teacher units on which state aid
for the district is based for 1914
1945.
This was made public Wednesday
by the California Taxpayers aSso-
citation.
The total amount paid to the dis
trict by the state this year is S85.8l5.
Average daily attenC anCe on which
this aid is based is l.415. Local
property taxes are in addition to
the amounts the state provides, as
sociation officials said.
The 1943 legislature increased
state support for the elementary
school districts in California 10 per
cent, state support for the local
elementary school district averag-
ing Sl968 per teacher unit for l943
a anc totalling S84.624 based on
43 teacher units.
In 1928. the year before the
conStitutionally required state sup
port for elementary school districts
was doubled. the state gave the To-
cal elementary district 1884 per
teacher unit, a total of S380l0.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Double Funeral
Rites Arranged

A double funeral will be held in
Ell Centre late this week for Mrs
Pauline Stout. 38, of Holtville, and
her uncle. John Hill. so, FL Centre
mail carrier, their deaths having
occurred Tuescay.
Mrs. Stout died in a Calexico hos
pital and Hill in the naval hospital
in San Diego Hill was a veteran
of World war No. l. Mrs. Stout had
lived in Imperial Valley 10 years.
The survivors include Mrs. Stout'S
husband, Merton *. Stout; son.
Eugene, and her mother, Mrs. Lulu
Baker of CaleXico; Hills wife, Mrs.
Merle Hill; ano his daughter Bever-
ly; and his sisters. Mrs. Frances
King. Mrs Minnie Reed, and Mrs.
Sadie Self, all of CaleXicO. Mrs.
Fred C. Daniels of Ell Centro, and
Mrs. Mary Casner of HoltYille.
Hour of the double funeral will be
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
FOLIO CASES DROP

ULID tASES DROF
SALT LAKE CITY, OF. 10. tUP)
Utah has reported II cases Of in
ian.ile paralysis 50 far this year,
IS compared with 400 in 1943.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
u. s. Planes hit
Anew at MoniIu

Continued from Page j
tne Philippines assault with a ser
les of low-level raids on northern
Mindanao Monday
Roaring in over the enemy motor
convoy on a highway north of Val
encia, the fighters destroyed 60
trucks and six staff cars and dis
persed mounted cavalry troops with
many casualties, then went on to
attack Cagayan anC Matina air
5romes. One enemy bomber was de-
troyed on the ground. airdrome in
jtallations were damaged and near
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

by small craft we're hit
Cagayan Is a major air and naval
base on Macajalar bay on the north
ern coast of Mindanao.
Nimi,z south Pacific forces were
revealed belatedly to have strength
ened their hold on the eastern ap-
proaches to the Philippines with an
unoppoSed landing last September
20 and d on Uhthi atol a coral
ringed island eroup 900 miles east
of Mindanao and 400 miles north
east of America occupied Peleiu in
the southern PalauS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
HORSE ROUNDUP BY PLANE

KEMMERER, Wyo., Oct. 18. CUP)
A new-angled idea is planned for
roundup of wild horses on the little
Colorado desert, northeast of here.
The horses will be hazed into wide
spaced enclosures by airplane. after
which horseback riders will take
over and run the animals into COR
rails.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
RAMBLING REPORTER

Continued from Page u
I've got on Charlie WileyS pants.
saw clean pair hanging behind
the door in the office and thought
they were mine"
Why didn't you change them,
then?' the friend went on.
III wear them until they're dirty
and then send them to the clean
erS," Lemons admitted. II just want
to get my moneys worth out of
them"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
Pooh! Pooh!

Pooh. Pooh!
Merwin Mccoy had a high old
time at the National StationerS'
convention in Chicago. especially
when he was on Phil Bakers Take
1t or Leave 1t Program" AS most
of the questions were on books and
authors, Mccoy was in his element.
Books are his business.
He breezed through the questions,
including the $32 question.
Then came the S64 question, Who
is Winnie-the-Pooh in Mines
book?' Mccoy didn't know.
Winnie-the-Pooh, dear readers. is
a bear. If you don't believe it, ask
most any child.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

In the year 1900 an official in the
Dutch East Indies commented on
the Chinese practice of wrapping
oranges individually to improve
their keeping quality.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
EAGLES LODGE VOTES
S150 TO WAR CHEST

At their regular meeting Tuesday
night. Fl Centre Eagles voted to
contribute $3.50 To the current War
Chest drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
CATTLE MISSING

Robert r. Schwab Tuesday told
Sheriff Robert W Ware that Il
head of cattle. six COWS and five
calves, are missing from the Tam
arack ranch in the Imperial dis
trlct. S
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18
The Act that Wasn't on
the Program
Houy it feels to hold a soldiers hand
vhen he's being bhnded-torever!

Turn the page quick If you
want to. This isn't pleasant. 1t is
true. And every true American
should read it.
1t happened to that young,
lovely film star, Louise Allbritton.
They didn't tell her that day
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-18

Bodies for school busses released
for delivery during the first half
OF 1914 totaled 2681-a great in
crease over the 288 allowed during
all OF l943, WLB figures show.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-08
s:~' Sss, TO-?

!. ON which ISLAND IN the Admiral.
~ group B., Npmuic alrIlCld%
: Furr,.. needs water Tor growth:
tru" or false"
z. What is the ". r. a..
! The Gotta Canal O., IN Norway.
Sweden ur Denmark
=. Who was King of Belgian dur
Ing the first World War"
&. The source OG ln,cCd oil is cot
tor C'd. flax cCd. or hcmpScCd'
:. The name of the symbol &. Is
HsiCliSE. aInpCrsaud. or amhcrGris?
tjawDco IS grass. tree. or
shrub
y. Nncn VIII the nest census Of
population iu the L. S. be taken"
10. What term is applied to col
lege or university by its graduate?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-08
REVIVAL TO BEGIN
AT SPRING VALLEY

l;n-"a' services are 80 begin at
Spr . Valley Methodist church to-
morIoH night and continue through
Apu' rs n was announced today.
Re" T.. Il. Cicgg. pastor of the First
Methodist church of WarrCutuu. will
assist the pastor. Rev. q. ". Nathl-
son. Tho public is cordially invited
o. attend.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-08
MARRIAGE LICENSES
FOR TWO COUPLES

Marriage licenses were issued 10
tw" couples yesterday at tho reg
is'cr of deeds Office. Those obtain
ing licenses were.
james ". Lewis Henderson. and
LcSsIc Mac Mrtl. Oxrord. colorcd.
Jessie White ard Christine Hen
dcrsOn. Cplorcd. both of Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-08
AROUND TOWN
SPFFDING CASE

Alton y. Hall. white. was tried to-
day IN recorders court for speeding.
Prayer for Judgment was continued
upon payment Of costs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14
State Incomes
Gain Over 3
Rise SD Per Cent
Despite Wartime

CHICAGO-U.P-The Public
Administration Clearing House
has announced that state tax col
leCtions have risen despite war
time restrictions, the states COL
lecting about SIS, 400,000,000 in
tax revenues during fiscal 1914.
This amount, which includes
payroll taxes, represents an in
crease of So per cent over l943
and 1877 per cent over 1889.
Excluding payroll taxes, col
lectionS in 1914 totaled S4,l00,-
100000, the increase over l943
amounting to 81 per cent. This,
however, lags behind 1912, when
the rate of increase was 1874 per
cent.
Considering the period from
1887 to 1914, total tax cOllec-
tons gained approximately 90
per cent. Revenue from corpor-
ate and individual income taxes
the latter in part due TO impo-
sition of the tax in II states in
l937-increased most. Among
excise taxes, steepest rise was
in tobacco tax collections, also
due in part TO lie & 81 a tiv e
changes. Motor fuel, property
and estate taxes are the only
groups yielding less in 1914 than
in 1887.
General sales and gross re-
ceipts taxes also increased mark
eddy. The increase amounted to
rs per cent as compared with 6
per cent last year.
Tobacco tax revenues TO states
increased by S17,000,000, but
liquor tax revenues declined by
$13, 100000.
Sharpest increase in tax col
lections in any state during 1914,
32.1 per cent, was reported for
Florida, due to higher gas tax
revenues, new cigarette tax
and a siX-fold increase from
pari-mutuel betting. Washington,
Wisconsin, New Jersey, New
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14
Coffee Import
Honors Attained
By New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS Ia dip

NEW ORLEANS, La. -U.D-
In a report on the progress Of
the Port of Embarkation, Z. O.
Jewell, general manager of the
Board OF the Port, announced
that New Orleans has become
the leading coffee port of the
United States.
Over half the nations coffee
imports presently are moving
drought this port, and by the
end Of the year ii is expected
that 100000 bags Of coffee
will have been received here,
Jewell said. This will be an all
time record.
Although no federal figures as
TO port landings have been avail
able since l94l, the port man
ager pointed that freight car
loadings, reflecting the volume
Of export, import and coastal
traffic, in the past year totaled
$4,000 cars for this city.
Rentals of port commission
properties on the Industrial
canal brought in 100000 during
the past year, representing six
times the income from this
source 10 years ago, the report
revealed.
Jewell said that the port COM
mission is looking forward TO
the conversion Of war industries
in the industrial canal area to
peacetime production and ex-
poets to see New Orleans con-
tinue to be developed "as a
great shipbuilding and ship re-
pair adjunct TO the expanding
commerce of the port"
The Port Commission is con-
tinuing to plan for free trade
zone, Jewell concluded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14
BY ROSETTE HARGROVE
NEA staff Correspondent

RHEIMS - Although the Ger
mans drank over sixty million
bottles Of champagne during the
four years they occupied France,
there is still enough left TO sup
ply practically the whole world
when people start celebrating
the end of the war. Stocked in
the centuries-old cellars of the
Champagne district are 140 to
$50 million bottles. Moreover,
these are nearly all vintage
wines. Growers were determined
not to waste them on the hated
Germans and had earmarked
them for the liberating armies
and peace celebrations.
In 1910, Hitler's champagne
Fuehrer", Captain Klaebisch, ar
rived in Rheims with the ad-
vance troops, to requisition rela-
lively small quantities for the
conquerors Of France. Later, the
champagne syndicate, made up
Of $50 winegrowers, was inform
ed that they would be expected
10 supply mass quantities Of
champagne for troops of the
Reich. Beginning January, 194l,
Rheims was to supply 100000
bottles weekly, the bulk of
which, incidentally, was to 60 to
the Luftwaffe and the Navy.
The following year this figure
dropped to around 100000
bottles weekly, or roughly 49,
100000 bottles a year. This rep
resented two-thirds of the an
nual production, or normally
what France exported in peace
time.
M. Robert Hode:, secretary Of
the syndicate, pointed out that
champagne merchants could al
most have predicted the success
sive campaigns of the German
army from the shipping lists
they received periodically. "For
instance" he said, eve were
asked to send an important con-
signment to Lydia which COIN
cided with Rommeps big-scale
offensive in the desert. A de-
mand for 10000 bottles for ship
mcnt to Rumania was sent in
short while before the invasion
of YugoSlaVia. Nothing but
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14


NOT CONNOISEURS
Fortunately, the Germans are
not connoisseurs and we man
aged TO get rid of our immature
or indifferent vintages, retaining
the good years for our postwar
trade"
Fortunately for the wine
growers, the war has left little
mark on the district. OF some
$4,000 hectares approximately
$4,000 acres) producing the
famous wine only a few hundred
have suffered any damage.
These vineyards happened to be
situated near a flying bomb fac
tory the Germans had built in a
tunnel between Rheims and
Epernay which our Air Force
and the Raj tried to bomb out
of existence.
The Allied armies now fight
ing in France are just as appre-
ciative of champagne as the Ger
mans. Over 100000 bottles a
month are being supplied 20
American and British units. This
is just about half the quantity
the enemy drank, but does not
include what is being sold to
transient troops. 1t is an every
day occurrence in Rheims TO see
army trucks lined up outside
such we'll known establishments
as Veuve Cliquot, Piper Held
sleek, Mumm and Lanson, load
ing up with champagne.
Champagne is an expensive
luxury in France today. While il
is still possible to buy a good
vintage champagne for $50
francs (three dollars at the
present rate Of exchange) there
is a purchase tax of Is per cent
and restaurants, cafes and night
clubs have TO add another 10
per cent TO the initial price. So
far the Government has refused
TO reduce either of these taxes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14
Sinking Peak Ruins Crops

Mount Erapuca, in the Copal
Zone of the Honduras, is sinking
at an alarming rate. Agriculture
on the sides of the mountain is
being ruined and more than $40
acres of cornfields have disap-
peared.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14
Rowing Reporters
NOT CONNOISEURS

French champagne would do L
celebrate their victories.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14

York, California and Louisiana
registered gains of more than 10
per cent.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-14
Well Yields Frozen Oil

Frozen oil is exuded by we'll
in Walden, Colo, so cold it keeps
the pipes covered with several
inches of ice even in the hottest
sun.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17
ESQ Miles of Pie

1.-THE Home of the Green
IApple Pie" is the sign
on a Seattle cafe that has
lived up to its name. The
place opened in 1920, and
has. kept a year-by-year
record of its groWth-
The apple pies that have
been cooked in this eating
place would make a stack
Is times as high as Wash
ington's Mount Rainier,
which is 14,409 feet high.
If laid side by side, they
would span $50 miles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17


many, Hitler must be won
dering where he'll go when
the boys reach Berlin.
One Of the places he'd bet
ter strike off his list is Tory
Island, whose 800 inhabi-
tants are all blazing mad at
him.
Because of Hitler and his
war these irate citizens have
been unable to elect a king
and have a private war of
their own, which an election
always involves.
The election, a hilarious
free for-all, fought with
weapons as well AWeEdk,
is the most exciting and
memorable event in the lives
of the islanders and, until
Der Fuehrer botched up the
works, il took place regular
ly every six years.
For weeks after the poll
ing, citizens would go about
their business with split
lips, sinners and other I'm
slightly and uncomfortable
badges of battle. But they
always took the result of
the voting with good grace
and swore allegiance to the
new monarch, whose word
was law. One thing, how
ever, he couldn't do-levy,
or collect, taxes.
Tory Island is seven miles
off the northwest coast of
County Donegal, Ireland.
The trip from the mainland
is SO dangerous that, as
often as not, the ship would
be wrecked by the severe
storms that regularly infest
the region.
In fact, most of the crude
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

implements with which the
natives till the soil-and a
good deal of their furniture
is made of wood and iron
Salvaged from foundered
vessels.
Life on the island is pref
ty dull today without either
wrecks or elections. Ships
have more important places
to go nowadays than the
risky trip to the island, and
the inhabitants can't hold
an election because there
isn't a quorum available TO
mark the ballots.
When war came a good
many of the islanders went
off to Ireland. Scotland and
England TO engage in war
work, and with restrictions
on travel there's no way
they can fetbaek Until Hit
Ter is polished off
The last ruler Queen
Mary Mary Herrity in pri-
vate life-dicd in 1910 and
a relative of hers has been
reigning in her stead. but
only in a semi-officiat Ca
pacity.
For a time the people had
under consideration a plan
of mailing ballots to the
absentee citizens, but the Is
land Committee. a sort of
council, vetoed the idea since
such an election would have
none of the old-time flavor.
Having waited [ n US long,
they've decided TO stick il
out until Hitler is no more.
But even If Der Fuehrcr
hadn't upset their age-Old
traditions the NaZi chief still
wouldn't have been wei
coined there. For one of the
boasts of the island is that
it has never harbored a rat.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

The restaurant passed its
one-million mark August "a,
1897, and is now working
on the last half Of the sec
ond million.
During their hours in the
Kitchen, the pie makers av.
erage two pies per minute.
Every year they use more
than three carloads of
apples, $1,000 pounds of
flour, and over six tons of
shortening. An average day
calls for sweetening with
100 pounds of sugar.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17
Schick Blades
are back!

Yes. you "gift wrap" il yourself
But we can tell you in advance that
nothing says %Merry Christmas"
faster than a package of Schick IN
jector Blades-seyeral packages
liz he's a special favorite! They're
the keenest shaving blades that
ever groomed a mans face and
they're the only blades that make
il possible for him To use his sw 40
Schick Injector Razor again.
Only a Schick Injector Razor
owner can fully appreciate this
gift and he'll appreciate il every
blessed morning he shaveS. No
combination of safety razor and
blades provides so many exclusive
shaving advantages!
While we're still unable TO get
the material for new razorS lex.
cept for the armed forces)-we're
now supplying all military and CT
william demands for the blades. So
don't pass up a sure-hre winner
under the Christmas tree-a gift
that shows how well you know
your mana cart A
ridge of Schick In JEA
jeCtor Blades. lR1H
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

NOEITH the Allied Ma
N< tons closing in for
w the kill in Ger
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-09-06

Mrs. Kiaer je bivsa Alice
Damrosch, najstarejsa hci Wal
ter Damroscha, slavnega glas-
benika in ynukinja James G.
Blaine, nekdanjega drzavnega
tajnika. Ona je pripravljena,
da DO sorodnikom in prijate-
ljem vojnih ujetnikov povedala,
kaj Rdeci kriz vse stori "a
ME.
Lahko boste stavili tudi vpra-
sanja, ma katera boste dobiIi
odgovore, da Sc vam bo razjas-
milo, &c yam ne bo kaj razum-
ljiyega. Mrs. Kiaer pride il
glaynega stana Rdecega kriza
il Washingtona. Bila je tudi
predsednica neWyorske mladin'
ske ige in aktiyna je v drugih
raznih organlzacijah.