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Bradley beam., 1944-10-07
M/sGT. FREDERICK S. HoLBRooK

M/SGT. FREDERICK: S. HOLBROOK
 After spending six years in the Army and most of that time in the Caribbean, particularly the oblong-shaped island of Puerto Rico, M/Sgt. Fred "Fico' Hol- brook finds our present mild weather like an Alaskan winter "Fico" Chats the Spanish translation of his name) is ra- dio maintenance man with the 36th Fighter Control Squadron. An auto mechanic in civilian life, the Sergeant hopes to remain in the service after the duration, with his buddies immediately labelling him "thirty-year man." Single, "Fdco" found the Puerto Rican girls pret- ty, picked up quite a bit of the language while based on the island and after weathering tropical hurricane consid- cred our gale of few weeks ago just brisk breeze.
Bradley beam., 1944-10-07


 Podiatrist and osteopathic physician, he boasts of degrees from both the Massa- chusetts College of Podiatry and also the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy. Norman has built up a ten-year practice in Boston and was getting pretty good at his vocation when Uncle Sam beckoned to him. For one year he was at the Or lando AAB as assistant to It. Col. A. R. Shands, Jr., consultant in orthepedic surgery to the AAF at the time. He las been at this Base for nearly year work ing under Maj. J. s. Mule and has been outstanding in making casts for broken bones. Norman is one of our most eligi- ble bachelors who is looking for wife, a home and kids. When he is finally mustered out of service he intends to take PC course at the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy and resume his practice.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

medical expenses.
5. Substitution of national en-
plOyment insurance for the 81 sep
arate state and territorial systems
which exclude millions of wage
and salary earners."
1t said any provision Of hospital
and medical insurance must pre-
serve fre choice of doctor or hoSpi-
tai and professional relationship
between physicians and their pa
ticnts to maintain professional
leadership, insure adequate remun-
Grafton to all practitioners and in
stitutionS furnishing medical and
health services, and to guarantee
the continued independence of nom
governmental hospitals
The report once again reflected
the difference between the admin
iStration and congress on the sub
ject of social security taxes. The
payroll tax on employees and en-
ployers was ccheduled to have dou-
bled last year but congress, over
riding administrator protests, fro2e
them at the one per cent level. A
bill to retain the freeze for another
year has already passed the serate
and Is before the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Valley Speeds
tuberculosis
Campaign Plans
Director Stresses
Seal Sale Funds,
Hospital Program

Contributions continued to roll in
Monday as the Imperial County
Anti-tuberculosis association at
tempted to obtain a total on the
Seal sales for last Christmas sea-
son.
while we have no total yet"
said Keith Nets, president OF the
county association, I'VE believe we
are going to have the greatest total
since the association was formed
in Imperial county.
I'VE expect to need the money,
CO." Nets said. because we have
% many constructive plans made
Tor stopping the spread of tuber-
culoSis among the residents of the
county. We plan to buy flouro-
scope which is greatly needed at
the county hospital We also are
hoping to pay half the salary and
mileage of nurse to devote all of
her time to checking up on tu5cr-
culosiS patients. This plan is not
perfected as yet but the committee
is negotiating in hope half the cost
will be paid by the state"
Nets said it was estimated that
t will cost around $75,OoO for con-
,truction ard equipment of the
proposed new tuberculosis wing at
the Imperial county hospital. He
said the county board of supervisors
(CCntinued on page 6, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

Fire starting from gasoline set
off by Workmen wiped out the
Rapid Harvest company offices and
repair shops at BraWley Saturday
afternoon with damages estimated
in excess of $1,000
Workmen were soldering a tractor
gas tank from which it was pre-
sumed some gasoline had leaked
A spark from blow torch used for
soldering purposes ignited this
leaking gasoline along with a near
by open pan of gas used for wash
ing parts. it was announced by
Investigators.
The fire spread rapidly in the
building located on East Main street
outside of the Brawley city limits.
on the first call Chief Harry Stew
art of Brawley sent his farm truck
but as the building was too far from
the city hydrants city hose truck
was sent and 700-foot line was
laid to an irrigation canal.
The galvanized tin building soon
collapsed, however as stock pile
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Two Soldiers Die
In Auto Crash

Imperial county's traffic total
reached four thus far this year
when two soldiers from Camp Dun
lap were killed in an accident four
miles north of Calipatria Saturday
night.
Names of the soldiers were with
held by military authorities until
after their families have been noti-
fled.
In the same accident Tom James
Belvins, "a, laborer at the govern
ment camp at Calipatria, and Lee
Henry Blevins, 38. living in an auto
court in Brawley, were injured criti-
cally.
Highway patrolmen said a truck
driven by Tom James Blevins and
an army jeep driven by a soldier,
collided. The two soldiers were
thrown from the jeep and were
dead, the officers said, when other
motorists near the scene reached
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Pledges Ahead
Mark Start
OF Bond Drive
Ell CentrO, County
Workers Set
To Push Campaign
More than $4,000 already

More than $4,000 already
has been pledged toward
purchases of war bonds in the
Fourth War Loan drive which
opens Tuesday is Ell Centro and
Imperial county.
This statement was made by Arno
Yaeckel, city chairman, who also
said that special statesmen would
be out to solicit all larger pur-
chasers on the opening day.
M. O. King, Third Army chair
man, reported that 600 employe
salesmen of Ell Centro firms are
awaiting the starting gun of the
campaign TO raise S1,150,0OO which
is the city's quota in the county's
S2950,000 war loan sale.
All employees who start out with
rank of private have guaranteed
Mr.. King that they will lend the
greatest contributing effort to this
city's promise to be the first city
over the top in the county's $780,
600 drive. The city individual and
corporation quota in the drive is
$1,150,500.
The members of the Third Retail
Army will advance in rank, to be
shown by lapel badges and tags
with each bond sold. A sale of $75
will advance the individual sales
man to corporal, $3.50 TO sergeant
$500 to first lieutenant, and up.
wards to $4,000 which attains a rank
of general.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
OUTLINES VIEWS
London Greets
Eisenhower

LONDON, Jan. II. (UP)-Lieuten-
ant General Omar N. Bradley Mon
day was named senior commander
of American ground forces for the
invasion of western Europe, prepar-
ations for which were entering the
final stage following the arrival of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at the
supreme headquarters of the Allied
eXpeditionary force.
The announcement of the ap-
pointment of Bradley, United States
army corps commander in the Tuni-
sian and Sicilian campaigns, made
clear that he was not necessarily
the chief of all American ground
forces, a position still subject to
speculation.
Speculation released by the swift
Developments revolved around the
probability released by the swift
developments revolved around the
probability that the Allied armies
would open the final assault on
Germany within three and one-halt
months.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Relief Urged
On Gasoline

during the peak season which in
cludes January, February, May and
June, and with the cut in allot-
ments to the valley of 25 per cent,
based on September and October
only $4,000 gallons a month are
coming into the valley now.
According to William C. Klebe-
now, district manager of the ODT,
who acted upon advice from l.. H.
Kruger, ODT specialist who made
survey of county conditions last
week, and Rudolph Miller secretary
of the county agricultural conserva-
ton association, the cut based on
September and October sales equal
led 50 per cent.
PROMISE RELIEF
Miller and Kruger visited Off
Gals of six major oil companies
in Los Angeles Thursday and Fri
day of last week. These men adj
Continued on page 6, col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Yanks Close in
On Casino

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. IT, CUP)-American 5th
army troops massed along the banks
of the Rapido river within a mile
of Casino Monday in preparation
for a frontal assault on that noun
tain stronghold which Gen. Sir Hen
ry Maitland Wilson predicted would
send the Allied march on Rome
hack into high gear,
Striking directly into the heart
of the Germans vaunted Gustav
line, the Americans reached the
east bank of the narrow stream
which flows along the outskirts OF
Casino.
simultaneously, French mountain
troops ripped deep into the FLANK
of the German line north of Cas-
sino in an enveloping sweep that
threatened momentarily to break
across the upper Rapido at San
Ella and cut the NaziS' Atina- -CaSSi-
no supply line.
Meantime Italian-baSed American
bombers struck heavily at Ger
man aircraft parts plant in the
mountains of southern Austria.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Drives
Near
Lotviio
Reds Now Close
To Border:
Hit Supply Line

MOSCOW, Jan. II. (UP)
"A new Red offensive which
had knocked a 10-mile gap
in the German lines less than 70
developing Monday with a speed
and scope preSaging a full scale
push toward the Baltic sea.
Smashing through the densely
forested lake area of north of Nov-
osokolniki, Soviet mobile and arm
ored forces cut the trunk railway
south from Leningrad and now are
driving westward toward the Lenin-
grad-Polotsk, one of the two last
longitudinal supply arteries below
the old capital.
GA German communique reported
that the Russians were attacking
with increasing fierceness" north
of Lake linen and in the area Of
Oranienbaum, 10 miles west of Len
ingrad on the Gulf of Finland.
The new Russian drive north of
Novosokolniki was coordinated with
Gen. Ivan c. Bagramians campaign
on broad front from Vitebsk to
Novosokolniki. 1t was designed to
win important German communica-
ton lines and eventually clear the
way for synthronized push to-
ward the Baltic.
A Pravda dispatch said hard
pressed German forces above Novo-
sokolniki were fleeing under Rus
sian fire, devastating every village
in their path.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Social Security
Expansion Urged

WASHINGTON, Jan. II.
(UP)-The Social Security
board Monday urged CON
gress to provide a stronger sys-
tenn of social security, including
expansion of coverage, new types
of protection such as hospital and
medical expenses, and federal un-
employment insurance to replace
the existing state systems.
In an additional report to con-
greSS. Chairman Arthur J. Altmeycr
caleld for these five principal pro-
visions under neXpanded social
security program:
l. Old-age and survivors in
sllrance for more than 15,000000
to 20,CJ0,000 persons now excluded,
such as farm ana household work
erS, employees of public organiza-
tionS and non-profit institutions,
and self-employed persons
2. Protection of social security
rights of persons in the armed
forces.
3. Insurance against total loss
of income resulting frCm permanent
or total disability.
4. Insurance to cover hospital and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Yankees Pound
At RabauI

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. II
tUP)-Allied forces, stepping ur
their offensive, captured key Japa
neSe points on New Britain ano
New Guinea and pounded Rabaul,
the enemy's main southwest Pacific
base, with a crushing air attack,
it was announced Monday.
The marines, who took Hill 660
Friday against strongly entrenched
japanese troops, advanced down
the eastern slopes Saturday to break
the anchor of the enemy defense
line and open the way for a final
drive on the enemy's Bergen bay
positions
AS the Allied ground forces were
scoring their successes. 100 navy
and marine torpedo planes, dive
bombers and fighters battled their
way into Simpson harbor at Rabau,
in daylight and scored direct hits
on seven cargo ships, light cruiser
and one destroyer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
10000 Die in Ar9entino's
Most Disastrous QuQkes

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. II.
(UP)-Doctors, nurses and
soldiers from all parts of Ar
gentina we're mobilized for rescue
work Monday and rushed to pro-
vincial capital of San Juan, where
thousands were reported killed Sat
urday night in what may have been
the nations worst earthquake dis
aster.
Everything you can send to help
us will be too little" David Uriburu,
a federal aid official, telegraphed
from the devastated city, high in
the andes. Nobody knows the mag
nitude of what has happened here
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
BrowIey Repair
Shops Burned

of newly received retreaded tires
and carbide tanks caught fire and
sent flames mounting skyward.
Lost in the fire were two trac-
tors, a carload of new retreaded
tires, several arc wilders, some truck
blocks and motors, several trailers,
many tools and Spare parts used
in maintaining the rolling stock
of the Rapid Harvest company.
The company recently had re-
opened its repair shops in BrawleJ
at the start of the harvest season.
The firm operates sheds in Ell
Centre, Brawley, Yuma, Phoenix
with Salinas as headquarters.
Until an inventory is taken the
full extent of damage will be un-
known, Chief Stewart reported, but
will likely be in excess of $4,000.
Most of the office records werc
saved, he said.
Several firemen narrowly escap-
ed being buried in the blaze when
the building collapsed. Others suf-
fered cut hands.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Allies Advance
In Burma Drive

NEW DELHI, Jan. II. UP)--
British ground forces, supported by
strong formations of RAF dive
bomberS, have gained another three
miles in their tortuous advance
down the west coast of Burma, a
communique from Admiral Lord
Louis Mo,lntbatten's southeast Asia
headquarters disclosed Monday.
Advanced elements of the Brit
ish force were reported three miles
below the captured coastal town
of Maungdaw, less than 60 miles
from the apanese-held port of
Akyab which is believed to be the
immediate objective of Mountbat-
tens offensive.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Bulsors Prepare
For Invasion

inspecting German anti-invaSion
forces in Bulgaria's Maritsa valley
near the Turkish border.
From Lisbon came a report from
a neutral traveller that the Ger
mans were thick as fleas" in Bull
garia, though oddly most appeared
to be sailors. Parts of the Bull
garian coast have been heavily for
titled and evacuated by civilians as
a precaution against invasion from
the Black sea, he said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

Early eyewitness and press re-
ports said as many as 10000 per-
sons lost their lives in the series
of temblors which struck suddenly
and violently through Is or more
towns within a 50-mile radius of
San Juan, where 80 per cent of the
buildings were levelled.
First government figures, tele-
graphed to President General Pedro
P. Ramirez of Argentina by Interior
Minister General Cesar Luis Per-
linger at San Juan, were more con-
servative, placing the number Of
deaths at 500 in that city. Perlinger
said 900 were Injured seriously in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
COPENHAGEN POLICE
HELD BY GERMANS

STOCKHOLM, Jan II. tUP)-
The Danish press service reported
Monday that German occupation
forces had interned the entire po-
lice force of Copenhagen, totaling
about 5000 men.
The press service said the Ger
mans were expected to put their
own police force in charge of all
police stations in the Danish capt.
tai
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

ly, 1t is not calculated to increase
the confidence of the average Soviet
citizen in Britain.
The dispatch, from Pravda's own
correspondent, said the conference
was held secretly at one of the
coastal cities in the Pyrenees lying
along the border of Spain and
France.
The report was attributed to I'm
formation in reliable Greek and
Jugoslav circles" at Cairo.
THE meeting had the object g
the elucidation of terms of a separ-
ate peace with Germany it said,
1T is believed the meeting was NJ
without results
Pravda is one of the most re,
sponsible and serious of the Sovie.
newspapers. 1t seldom publishes
mere wild rumors, and probably is
one of the worlds least sensational
newspapers.
The dispatch was dated Jan. II
and was published only Monday,
indicating. either transmission de-
lay or careful consideration of the
desirability of publishing it.
The dispatch from Pravda's own
correspondent said:
According to information in re-
liable Greek and Jugoslav circles,
two leading British personalities
recently conferred secretly with Rib
bentrop at one of the coastal cities
in the Pyrenees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
Washington Joins
London to SCorn
New Peace ParIey
London Cites Pact
With Soviet to
"Win War Together

WASHINGTON, Jan. II.
CUP)-The British embassy
Monday authorized a spokes-
man to describe as complete
ly false and without basis a
Moscow report that high British
officials had discussed terms for a
separate peace with German For
eign Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop.
The spokesman said he had been
authorized on behalf of the embassy
to deny emphatically the report
which came from Cairo and was
published ia Moscow.
The state department said it had
no information or comment about
the Russian report.
1t was pointed out that Britain's s
20-year mutual assistance pact with
Russia pledged that neither would
make separate peace with Ger
many. This pledge was renewed in
the U. S.-British-R Russian -Chiness
declaration signed last fall in Mos
cow. Nothing has arisen to cause
belief that the British have any
idea of going back on their word.
1t was noted also that the Rus
sian dispatch was a round -abou.
matter, quoting Greek and Jugoslay
sources about a meeting that was
supposed to have occurred along
the Spanish French border.
LONDON, Jan. II. CUP)-Author-
itative sources said Monday that
a report in Moscow of a meeting
between two leading British per-
sonalities and German Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
to discuss peace terms was without
foundation"
Authorities said they had no
knowledge of any such meeting, and
were completely mystified" by the
Moscow newspapers report from
Cairo. They expressed surprise that
Pravda would publish such a dis
patch.
Official British quarters said any
suggestion of meeting with Rib
bentrop was ''ludicrouS."
Lord Halifax, the British ambas.
sador, later authorized this state
ment:
There is not a word of truth in
the story. People who believe II
will believe anything
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
u AMBl|Ne
~ EpoRTER
Second Fiddle

Mrs. Robert Doig OF Mclolant
wrote this poem and we understand
she had good reason TO do so. Sh'
was inspired.
When my husband and l
First fell in love,
We billed and coOcd like
Some turtle dove.
But after the honeymoon
1 learned the worst;
l began to notice
I didn't come first.
For his secret love,
He revealed one day,
From his closest friends
He'd kept hidden away.
For all of his life,
Or SO now it seems,
He's had those game cocks
In all of his dreams.
He bought few beauties
And built lovely pens;
How he coddled those roosters
And raved bout the hens.
He'd toss them and stroke them
And carry them about.
If he'd treat me like that
7 ppver would pO,it
He takes my best cups
For their drinking and stuff.
There's nothing too good
Or half good enough.
For those cocks are priceless.
Oh, just watch them fight!
And no one sleeps
Till they're all In at night.
They have special coopS
And a nice swinging roost
To strengthen their legs,
Give their wings q boost.
iiC Peoo hiJ pVop pullb
On the exercise wheel
And if I make a fuss
I'm a heck of a heel!
When he gets Grit and Steel"
Gt's his Bible, of course,)
He can't hear when I talk
Though / yell myself hoarSc.
Each edition is priced,
1t is read through and through.
Even baby wants the book
Bout the cock doodle doo."
So after 10 years
or his Greys and his Blues.
His Claiborne's and RoundheadS,
And Doms that can't lose,
I've just leadned to take
Them all in my stride,
And play second fiddle
And be satisfied.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

Imperial county will be
$4,000 gallons of gasoline
short of the supplies noces-
sary to keep the crops moving to
market according to an Office of
Defense Transportation survey
made here the past week.
Under normal conditions Impe-
rial county uses approximately l.
100000 gallons Of gasoline a month
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17

LONDON, Jan. II. (UP) - Bull
garia called up all reserve officers
and ordere a p. m. curfew for
Sofia Monday in what appeared to
be an attempt to control a popu-
lation made panicky by increasing
ly heavy air raids and the threat of
an Allied invasion of the Balkans.
The Stockholm Tidningen report
ed from Bern that Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering at present was
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
TEL WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY - Considerable hig h
clOudiness Monday night, decreas-
ing Tuesday. Slightly cooler Tues
day. Little change in night tenn
peraturcs with Orly light local
frOsts, lowest temperature 81 to
81 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
SIGNS WAR DECLARATION

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. (UP)-
President Alfonso Lopez of Colum-
bia Monday signed the United Ma
lions declaration in President Roose-
velt's presence at the White House
making his nation the 34th to SUBJ
scribe to the pact
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
,Pravdo Says High British
Heads Meet Ribbentrop:
Brings Emphatic : Denio|s
MOSCOW Publication Declares
Conferences on Separate
Terms Obtain Some Results
- BY M. S. HANDLER
United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Jan. 1.-THE Communist party organ PRAY
da exploded bombshell in Allied diplomatic quarters
Monday by publishing Cairo dispatch which said two
leading British personalities recently German For
egn Minister Joachim Ribbentrop discuss terms
of separate peace with Germany"
Unless the is denied immediately and cOnvncnp
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17
RUSS EYE ALLIED PEACE WITH GERMANY
Soviet Rejects
Polish Offer
On Border Pact
Action Indicates
Exile Regime
Considered Outlaw

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ii. (UP)
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
said Monday that the United
States had offered to help bring
about a resumption Of diplomatic
relations between Poland and the
Soviet Union, but that to date
no reply has been received from
Moscow.
LONDON, Jan. II. (UP)-
Russia Monday bluntly re-
jected the Polish exile gov
ernments proposal that they nego-
tiate a new common border and
limited that only the establishment
of a new Polish government can
bring solution of the crisis.
The Russian reply took British
quarters by surprise and Polish
spokesman, recalling that the exile
government had suggested the two
western allies as mediators, said
it was slap in the face, not only
to Poland, but to America and
Britain
OUTLINES VIEWS
The statement does not seem to
indicate much understanding be-
tween the big three at Tehran, =
Continued on page 6, col. 3
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-17


the quakes and 1000 received lesser
injuries.
Reports from the city sain San
Juan still was without light, power,
water, and telephone and telegraph
communications. Emergency medi-
cal operations were performed by
lamplight and fires were raging ont
of control because of the lack Of
water. Roads within the city were
blocked by huge piles of twisted
walls and debris. An infantry col
umn of federal troops joined local
soldiers in digging for victims trap
ped in the ruins and in standing
guard against pillage.
Up to 10 pm. Sunday night the
earthquake area still was being
shaken by intermittent mild trem-
orS.
All available trains and planes
we're carrying food, clothing, medl-
cal equipment and blood serum W
the area from Buenos Aires, Men
doza. Cordoba and from across the
Andes ind CHE. After an emergency
cabinet meeting late yesterday
Ramirez and several OF mis- minis
ters were reported ready TO leave
for San Juan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. n. tUPl-
The American Red Cross will rush
supplies TO Argentina for the earth
quake stricken city OF San Juan al
soon as needs are known. White
House press Secretary Stephen 7
Early revealed Monday.