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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

LONDON, April 26. (UP)
"A gigantic strategic plan
for the mobilization of an es-
timated l2OOOOOO guerilla patriots
to haraSS the Germans behind their
anti invasion defense lines from
Norway to the Balkans has been
placed in the han6s of patriot lead
ers. allied sources said Wednesday
1t awaits only the signal that al
lied troops have landed on the
western shores to be put into ef-
feet.
For the past eight weeks, the inter
allied high command has beamed
instructions to the continent day
and night in dozen languages.
Supplies have been pouring into
underground caverns for many
weeks but the tempo has been ac-
CELEBRATED with the arrival of spring.
When these millions rise in sup
port of the Anglo-American inva-
sion forces they will start the great
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Hits Policies
On Projects
Used for Power

WASHINGTON, April 26.
(UP)-The house appropria-
ton committee Wednesday
recommended that the inter-
ior department be given $751;
672.58O for its operations during the
1945 fiscal year, $9,l5l, 900 below the
amount described by Secretary of
Interior Harold L. Ickes as a bare
minimum.
Criticizing several phases of the
departments operations, the COM
mittee report to the house said be-
loW-budget reductions represented
"a very substantial cut in practi-
cally every activity of the Depart
ment.
RECLAMATION FUND
The biggest CUTS, ,342 ,000-Was
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Boshore Visions
Projects Work

project in California among others.
THE war production board re-
Gently indicated that projects which
will increase the fooc, production
by 1916 will be considered in the
War-esSential category" BaShorc
testified.
The hearings revealed that the
following reclamation projects have
cleared for construction not later
than 1916 by the WPB on recon-
mendation of the war food admin
iStration
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
$4,000 in Dope.
Suspects kabbed

LOS ANGELES, April 26. CUP)-
Two men and woman were ar
rested at Oxnard and 10 ounces of
smoking opium valued at 100000 was
seized, Joseph A. Manning, super
visor of the coast narcotic bureau,
announced.
A complaint was issued charging
the three, John W. Morse, 40; his
wife. Elsie, 40, and Kenneth F.. Will
liams, all Santa Monica, with mar
cotic act violation.
Manning said Morse and his wife
had previously served time on mar
cotic smuggling charges in Virginia
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

YUMA, Ariz.. April 26. tUP) -
Army investigators Wednesday
sought the cause of a collision of
two BPS Liberators near here
Tuesday, in which IL men died.
Seven we're in an army bomber
based at March Fitld. and two
soldiers and three civilians died
in plane from Consolidated
Vultee aircraft Corp, San Diego,
Cal.
The two soldiers aboard the Con-
solidated ship were identified as
Pvt. william l.. Davidson, Jr.,
Beaumont, Tex, and Pvt. Elwood
n. Herrmans, Houston. Tex.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
House Committee
SIushes Funds
In IckeS' Realm

made in funds for the bureau of re-
clamation. But previously approrri-
ated and unexpended monies could
be used on approved projects, the
committee noted, so that the prac-
,tical effect of this cut would be
negligible.
The report praised as of definite
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Allies Rout Jops
In InnphoI Area

patrol clashcS after more than two
weeks of hard fighting. but 1t
was indicated that the reinforced
British Imperial garrison was pre-
pairing fer an offensive.
The current skirmishing, the
communique said, lis expected TO
prelude attempts to liquidate the
enemy in that area"
On the Central Burma
front, Chinese troops were report
ed to have advanced a few miles
further down the Mogaung valley
and in the hills TO tie west, in
the dirtction of Mogaung.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Gas Blast Deaths
Mount TO Three

BELI.FL CWER, Cal, AprlI 70
(UP) Mrs. Juanita Rodriguez. 20,
was dead Wednesday from second
degree burns received VIXEN she
tried TO rescue her two children
from their burning home, She and
her mother-in-law were blown 100
feet by a gasoline explosion from
a refinery pipeline leak. The two
children were cremated and five
houses in the neighborhood were
demolished. Mrs. Mary Aelleno, 10,
the mother-in-la was In critical
condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

WASHINGTON, April rs. CUP)--
Commissioner Harry w. BaShore of
the bureau of reclamation hopes for
early war production board approv-
al of several major irrigation prof.
ects in western states, it was re-
vealcd in house appropriations COM
mittce hearings made public We'd
neSCay.
BaShore told the committee at
recent hearings that War Food Ad-
ministrator Marvin Jones had ap-
proved completion of the Friant-
Kern canal of the Central Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
BASEBALL
BY UNITED PRESS

NATIONAL
BoSton-BroOklyn, postponed
Chicago 400 100 000-l 7
Pittsburgh 900 O05 10x-6 II c
Fleming, WySc, Hanyzewski and
Easterwood; Roe and Lopez.
AMERICAN
Phila. .................0 600 020 600 II
New York ...... 20l 030 00x--6 s G
Harris. Flores and Hayes; Boro-
wy and Hemsley.
Detroit-Chicago. postponed.
Cleveland 900
st. Louis 900
Reynolds and Mcconnell Sundra
and Mancuso.
Boston 100 00l 000-l 6 {
Washington 900 001 0lx-2 7
Terry and Conroy; Wynn and
Ferrell.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

bases now being operated under lease
by United States armed forces.
There is not the slightest question
of any cession of British territories.
not the slightest Churchill told
Commons.
His statement was made in reply
to question by Laborite Rhys Davies
in connection with the u. S. house
committees recommend alton that
the United States acquire permanent
possession of bases leased from Brit
ain.
THE house may rest assured that
there have been no developments
calling for review by the government
or the house of the existing position
in this matter, which remains un-
changed" Churchill said.
Davies asked for assurance that
Commons would be given an oppor-
tunity to debate the matter if re-
the bases should be received from
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
y AMBl|Ne
NEpoRTER

The Reason Why
Members of FL Centro Boy Scout
troop 73 make a point OF never
being late to troop meeting and
we don't blame them.
Patrol Leader Jock McQuade
wields long, lat, heavy instru-
ment known as "the swat on all
Scouts who are late.
so Dear Parents, please be a
little more understanding when
your little darlines insist upon
leaving for troop meeting half an
hour earlier than necessary.
Farmer FARMER
Ell Centro policemen don't object
to Sgt. T. P Farmer being in the
chicken and egg business. In fact,
they encourage him.
They do think it is peculiar how
ever, that he never can deliver eggs
to homes during the daylight hours.
He always forgets them in the day
time and has to drive out with them
at night.
"'Iricycle Jim" Smith thinks this
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Yankee RAIDERS HIT berlin GATEWAY
Churchill Has Emphatic No"
To Cedinq NAVY Bases TO u. 5.

LONDON April CUP)--Prime Minister
Britain cede of the British
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
II Million GueriIIuS Await
Word in Nuzi-HeId Lands

throughout Europe for the past two
years have been trained by allied
guerilla warfare and sabotage ex-
pertS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
yonks
Bomb
Japs Report
Air Raid
On Tiny Isle

American land b a S C d
bOmbers, in their deepest
penetration of Japanese wa
ters from the south or southeast,
Tuesday raided Guam, one-time
American base $500 miles below
Tokyo, japanese Domei dispatch
said Wednesday.
Nine Liberators participated in
the attack on Guam, which lies at
the southern end of the Marianas
islands, but an antiaircraft barrage
drove off the bombers before they
could damage japanese positions
the dispatch said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

PEARL HARBOR. April 26. OUP)
Seizure of Ujelang atoll, western
mcst of the Marshall islands, open
&c the way Wednesday for further
intensification of the allied aerial
offensive ON Truk and its protec-
tive bases in the CalOlineS.
The atoll, the 21st enemy-held
position in the Marshalls captured
by u. S. forces, Is only $50 miles
east of Truk and gave the allies a
potential base 100 miles closer to
the Japanese bastion.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

ADVANCED ALL LIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, April 26
CUP)-U. S. jungle troops struck
within four and a half miles of Hol-
landias main airc rome after TAX
ing a heavy toll of Japanese in
smashing the first enemy counter
attack in Dutch New Guinea, front
dispatches said Wednesday, and
capture of the airfield was believed
imminent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26

State Project New Land
To Be
irrigated
In Acres
Arizona. Gila .............................8 $500
California:
Coachella tAll-American CanaD 10000
MADEIRA Canal Central Valley 10000
Friant Dam Central Valley ......
Oregon California:
Kalamath- Oc 500
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Ever Brita.n's

quest cesn the bases should be received from
Washington.
81 will welcome all valiant quarter
Churchill reported
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 81, minimum
Wed. 50; S am. Wed. 55, humidity
46; noon Wed. 80, humidity 80; 5
pm. Tuesday 10, humidity %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-26
Valley
Youths
Killed
Die in Plane
Crashes in
Armed Service

Imperial Valleys service
flag had two more gOl d
stars Wednesday.
Evening star., 1944-06-11

since the new program was an
nounced more than week ago.
Regional VINO Director Henry
Treide promised that the program
viii be operated here with common
sense
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Children 'sMuseum
Marks Anniversary

The third anniversary Of the
founding of the Children's Museum
of Washington, 4215 Massachusetts
avenue NV, was observed yester-
day with a large all-day party at
which members and their young
friends, some accompanied by
parents, were entertained.
The event which furnished the
most fun, according to Miss Matilda
Young, director. was the appearance
at II am. and again at 2 pm, of
Abraham Hurwitz with a bagful of
tricks. Hurwitz, professional
magician. came here from New York
where he regularly entertains
youngsters for the Department of
Recreation.
Ice cream and cake were fed to
Is youngsters whose birthdays fall
In June, and they had their own
show at which 14-year-old Guy
Glossbrenner, head of the magi-
clans club, who lives at 1886 Fulton
street NV, turned on his own rou-
tine of tricks as sleight-of-h -hand
artist.
Miss Young had called for gifts for
the museum to mark the day. Mr.
and Mrs. Henri Killing, 6816 Massa-
cf1usetts avenue, Woodacre, Md,
donated an upright piano and there
were gifts of rabbits. white mice,
guinea pigs and homing pigeons
as well as books and phonograph
records. A Western saddle was
pledged.
The first meeting of committee
TO start the children's museum was
held June 10, 1941. The museum
was opened February 20, 1912.
Evening star., 1944-06-11

meet to be permitted to hire work
ers without going through the en-
ployment service?
The Washington VINO Labor
Management Committee already has
decided that all job-seeking work
|ers, both men and women, will have
Ito 60 through the employment serv-
ice to be channeled to jobs where
they are needed most unless special
hiring arrangements are made with
individual employers, associations or
union hiring halls.
Priorities Group VIII Meet.
Tomorrow at pm, Washington's
new Manpower Priorities Committee
viii hold Its first meeting. Com
posed Of representatives OF 10 Fed
eral agencies, with Acting Washing
ton VINO Director Ernest v. Con-
molly as temporary chairman, the
group viii study the labor situation
here.
When 1t decides which employers
have the most urgent work to be
done and which need workers most,
1t will recommend to the Washing
ton VINO Labor-management COM
mittee what employment ceilings
should be fixed and which employ
ers should be granted a priority on
procuring additional workers.
On Wednesday, the Regional
VINO Labor Management Commit
tee, covering the District and four
States, will meet to set minimum
standards for operating the new
program and on Saturday the
Washington Labor Management
Committee is scheduled to answer
the questions Washington workers
and employers have been asking
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Draft
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induction. The Army stopped TAX
ing limited servicemen June /. The
Navy has not been taking any of
them through the draft.
On the score of choice of service,
it was understood that at present
the chances of the ordinary draft
age civilian getting in the Navy
are fairly slim. Right now, the
Navy's daily quotas in the District
are being virtually filled with men
under rs employed at the David
Taylor Model Basin, Naval Ord
nance Laboratory and Naval Re-
search Laboratory and now being
drafted.
It previously had been disclosed
by The Star that the Navy was
not asking deferments for its youth
full scientific geniuses" but was
asking for their assignment back to
these Navy plants in uniform.
Under the new induction system,
men still will be given three weeks
between their preinduction exami-
nation and actual induction. The
new regulations also specify that
men can be sent for induction even
though more than 80 days had
elapsed from the time of their pre-
induction physical examinations.
Evening star., 1944-06-11

the aid of the Home and School As
sociation. The lunch table was set
under the trees overlooking the
playground. There boys dug bitches
to solve a persistent drainage prob
lem and built new pitchers mounds.
'I'm all through" Josephine Koll.
ner, IA, said. A hand reached out
and dragged her into the science
laboratory to wash instruments. One
crew cut old auditorium curtains
into blackout shades for the visual
education room. A camera team
wandered about recording the clean
up for the school annals. A few
hummed special songs, including
We've got brushes" written for the
occasion. Nearly everyone else was
out OF breath.
The students wanted to 60 back
to work after lunch but Miss Backus
sent them home. The playground
and auditorium crews plan to finish
their work after school next week.
And Robert Pinkham has to find
all the boltless chairs in the balcony.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
3 Committees Meet
This Week 10 Draft
D. {. Manpower Rule,

Rushing to get the new job con-
troll program in effect in the Wash
ington area by July /, three
committees win meet here this week
to help work out the regulations
Washington workers and employers
will have to follow when the new
system goes into operation.
Appeals for Nation wide support
OF the program, meanwhile, were
made by Undersecretary Of War
Patterson, Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy Bard, Charles E. Wilson,
War Production Board vice chair
man; AFL President william Green,
CIO President Philip Murray and
Margaret A. Hickey, chairman of
the War Manpower Commissions s
Women's Advisory Committee.
Gives Program Sendoff.
Also giving the new program q
sendofi, War Manpower Director
McNutt, in a speech at Muskegon,
Mich, declared that IAN able bodied
man owes 1t to his country to VOL
unteer for active duty on the tough
est industrial fronts"
Before the end of this week,
Washington employers and workers
should know generally the answers
to these questions:
How will employment ceilings,
limiting the number of workers an
employer can hire, be fixed? In
what order will employers be sup
piled with workers? How many
jobs can worker refuse before his
choice of jobs runs out? What con-
stitutes justifiable refusal of a
job by worker? With what en-
ployers and groups will the United
States Employment Service make
hiring arrangements? What con-
ditions will an employer have to
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Solicitor General 10 Speak
AT Columbus U. Exercises

Charles Fahy. Solicitor General,
viii speak at the Columbus Uni
versity commencement exercises at
8:15 pm. Wednesday at the May
flower Hotel.
william e. Leahy, president OF
the university. will present degrees
IN law and accountancy to 40 grad
yates OF its night classes.
George 4. Herring, chairman Of
the Board Of Trustees. will preside.
The Rev. Joseph r. Flynn, G. 8. r..
will deliver the invocation. Harold
r. Jones. vice president, viii award
the prizes.
Columbus University was started
after the last war by the knights Of
Columbus to afford vocational OPP
portunities to returning servicemen.
Evening star., 1944-06-11

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Graduating Glass Scrubs School as Farewell Gift

Two hundred members of the
graduating class cleaned Alice Deal
Junior High School yesterday as a
class present.
They donated SITS to buy cleaning
materials. With younger students
excluded, the 200 assembled at
am. yesterday to get orders from
90 teacher-foremen and Miss Ber-
tie Backus, principal.
Permission for girls to wear
slacks had been granted There was
also a clause about boys dressing in
formally. Not shirttail was tucked
in. Pant legs were. rolled UP. Col
lars were rolled down. The girls wore
shorts, slacks and halters. A few
girls wore dresses-old dresses.
The foremen divided them into
crews to do odd jobs that the
short handed custodial staff never
has time for nowadays. Robert
Pinkharn, Is, for example, drew
bolt-and-nut assignment. He was
to examine 500 chairs in the audi
torium for missing bolts. Boltless
chairs were to be marked on a
chart.
Cora lie Marty, Is, led the piano
crew. She wiped pegs fastening
piano strings. Somebody else pol
ished the piano seat and third
washed the keys.
Margaret Forbes, Is, polished
brass.
Glad Mother Doesn't Know.
'Im glad my mother can't see
me-" she said. Shed have me do
ing 1t at home"
John Lockwood, 13, formed a crew
of two with Carolyn Hutchins, IA,
to wash outside steps at a rear
doorway.
Carolyn scrubbed with foot
long brush and John washed away
the dirt.
I'm little tired" said Carolyn.
"But it's fun"
Sarah Virginia Fly, daughter of
Chairman James L. Fly of the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
climbed on ladder to scrub walls.
Margaret WEIGH clipped yards of
grass on the lawn. Miss Backus led
the front entrance crew, which
washed the green doors and then
padded barefooted while scrubbing
the steps.
eff catch anybody marking this
now" said Mary 10 Walsh as she
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Wunqer Heads Alumni

HANOVER, N. H, June 10 R.-
Walter Wanger, Hollywood pro-
ducer and a graduate of the class
of 1915, was elected president today
Of the Dartmouth College Alumni
Association at the close of two
day gathering of alumni officers.
Ben Ames Williams, 10, Boston au-
thor, was chosen vice president.
Henry E. Atwood, '13, of Minnea-
polls, was elected president OF the
Dartmouth Alumni Council.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Stute Officer to Gruduots

1t. Charles w. Carr OF the vir-
ginia State police. stationed in Ai-
exandria, viii be among tbs a. po-
lice officer students completing
four-month course IN trafiic police
administration at Northwestern
University. Evanston. III. next We'd
nesday.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Party Names Radio Chief

Appointment of j. Leonard Re-
tnsch, of Atlanta, as radio director
Of the Democratic National Com
mittee was announced yesterday by
Paul A. Porter, director of publicity.
Mr.. Reinsch is taking a leave of
absence from his duties as man.
aging director of the Cox Radio
Stations in Atlanta. Miami and
Dayton.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Race Dispute HuIts Mill

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 10 (41.
The tin plate mill of the Tennes-
see Coal, Iron &c Railroad Co., at
Fairfield was 80 per cent idle today,
and company spokesman blamed
a dispute over "a racial matter" !"
About 1000 are employed on the
plants three shifts.
Evening star., 1944-06-11
Plan Hobby Exhibit

A hobby exhibit win be held june
~. 28 and 40 ct the Arlington
Recreation Center, $3.50 Wilson
boulevard. 1t was announced yester-
day. Persons desiring to enter ex-
hibits have been required to ccn-
tact the director OF the center
before June as.
Evening star., 1944-06-11

wiped stairway tile from the first to
the third floors, "it won't be funny"
Robert Boteler headed the canteen
crew, laying out hundreds of sand
wiches, soft drinks, plates of potato
salad and ice cream prepared with
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
Saluation Army Chief
To Install Director

Brig. Gen. W. W. Bouterse, reg
1onal supervisor of the Salvation
Army, will arrive in Wilmington
from Charlotte on Monday to Of
ficially install Capt. Dan B. Car
tin as new director of activities
here.
Gen. Bouterse will be present for
a welcoming supper which will be
held Monday night at the Saliva
ton Army headquarters home. 215
South Front street, then he will
leave for few days inspection of
the Harbor Island USO club which
is under the armys supervision.
Capt. Cartin arrived here last
Tuesday from Union, S. c., and
will be joined by his wife on AL
gust LIST. New activities will not
begin until that time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
State To Get Aid
In Road Building
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Of the cost of any state highway
program during the first postwar
fiscal year. The $3.50 basis under
which the highway program oper-
ated before Pearl Harbor would
prevail during the second and third
years of the program.
= Bonner called attention to por-
ton of the report which sets for
the plan under which the post war
highway bill was considered as
follows: "An urgent need exists
for developments of a program
which, after the war, will over
come deficiencies in the road sys.
tenn, catch up on construction and
reconstruction deferred during the
emergency, and meet the nation S
aticipated transportation require
ments. Recognizing the sovereign
ty of the states, the federal pro-
gram shall preserve intact the
principle of federal aid which has
characterized road legislation for
nearly three decades, allocating
funds among the states by formu-
Ia matched by state funds, and
administered by the public roads
administration in coordinate rela-
tlonship with the states. The pro-
gram must encourage continuance
Ct competitive bidding on con-
struction and major reconstruction
projects, under the private con-
tract system.
Projects approved for federal aid
shall conform to definite CLASH
fication of road systems, so that
improvements are made on a Sc
lective basis, to meet transporta-
ton needs.
Congress should enact all neces-
sary postwar highway LEGISLATION
In single, comprehensive bill.
The bill recognizes the obliga-
ton of the federal government to
provide leadership after the war
In the development of highway
transportation facilities essential to
the general welfare and to the ma
tional defense.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
OPA Beer CEILINGS
Take Effect Todav

Maximum OPA prices for bee,
and ale sold at retail either in con
4,iners or on draught in New Han.
oyer county became effective to.
dsv after registration and group
Justification of beer dealers yes.
terday at the War Price and Ra.
tioning Board office.
One hundred and eighty-nine re.
4aiIers registered at the price divi-
chm office yesterday and approx.
,,atelv 20 more dealers are ex-
rected to register today officials
IF the local board announced.
The OPA order divides all retail
sellers INTO three price groupings:
Group 1B, Group 2B and Group 3B.
Justification of retail outlets de-
nend upon prices charged during
he base period of april 4-10, 1943.
Premium beer in 12-ounce con-
t.iners will sell for 25 cents in
Group 1B, 20 cents each in Group
qB and II cents each in Group 3B.
Non-premium beer will sell for 20
cents in Group 1B, Is cents in
Group 2B, and - cents in Group
3B
Quart sized premium beer or
the 32-ounce container, will sell for
40 cents in the lowest price Group
3B As cents in the Group 2B, and
% cents in Group 1B. Non-premium
beer, in quarts, will retail at IS
cents in 3B. 40 cents in Group 2B,
and IS cents in the top classifica-
ton, lB.
On-draught beer, retail outlets
in Group 1B will be allowed a maxi
mum of seven cents for six-ounce
containers, and one cent per ounce
plus two cents for containers of
eight ounces or more. Retail out
lets in Group 2B and 3B will be al