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Detroit evening times., 1945-08-18

Spaniards, refugees from the Saar and
Moselle country, as well as French regis
terers like schoolmasters and gendarmes.
Not only were they sheltered, but they
were given new identity papers and the
like
Fabre's brother provided clothes for
the Maquis. He trudged roads for thou
sands of kilometers, collected wool,
arranged for secret spinning. dyeing and
weaving, and finally for bringing it into
the workshop for cutting and finishing.
Nearly all movement had to be at night.
There was constant danger from the SIS,
German army, the gestapo, the field
police and the miltiamen.
These brothers provided FREE
EQUIPMENT to the Maquis to the Ualus
of two million francs. One might hoUe
thought that that was great record of
resistance and patriotism.
WHAT happened? For three months
w following the liberation, the Fabre
brothers worked hard to bring the fac
tories back to normal.
There were troubles in that part of
France Things were not easy. Then
there arose group of criminals, and two
viande and Rintintin THIS GANG OF
CRIMINALS STARTED BY COLLECT
ING THE PERSONAL FORTUNES OF
VARIOUS COLLABORATORS.
This did not prove sufficiently profit
able.
On the sixth of October, 1914, the
Fabre brothers and their partner, Viguier,
were arrested WITHOUT CHARGE OR
REASON The mystery did not last long,
Rintintin arrived at the gendarmerie and
offered freedom for a ransom of two mil
lion francs. The prisoners refused.
Then Monsieur Clovis was produced,
we'll known criminal with a long record
of convictions for fraud and arson. He
came along with an accusation that the
Fabre brothers had stolen an airplane
engine from military trailer in 1910, and
had then destroyed it.
The charge Uas so flimsy that the
police commissioner and the gendarmer-
les lieutenant said they must release the
prisoners. When they heard this neUs
BarbenUiande and Rintintin rushed of
to the prefect With trumped-up charge
that public opinion demanded these men
should be kept in prison.
SO they were sent to a camp without
charge or trial, where they remained for
a month. The Republican commissioner
was disturbed at all this, and ordered their
release
But the prefect, who was a crook,
warned Rintintn. who rushed 10 the camp
with another effort to screw a ransom
from the wretched prisoners THIS WAS
AGAIN REFUSED.
Then by graft of one kind and another,
Rintintin managed to get the prisoners
transferred to another prison, where con-
ditions were perfectly frightful, something
very near the Nazi mark
Il was THREE MONTHS AFTER
THEIR FIRST ARREST that the prison
ers were able TO insist upon being brought
before an examining magistrate, and it
was SIX MONTHS BEFORE THEY
WERE RELEASED
They were received with acclamation
by the people, and carried home in tri-
umph.. But so angry were the terrorists
that they completely destroyed the fac
tories of Fabre and Viguier with bombs
This is one case of Uery many OF the
same kind. There is nothing exceptional
about it, 1T is UNFORTUNATELY THE
WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING IN
FRANCE That it should all be cloaked
under a patriotic purge is sickening.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-18

Give Yourself for each % the hrst hve
questions and for th. last question. score
o-3, dull
How many United States are
there in the Western Hemi-
sphere? ca one; (b) two;
fcD three.
2-If your friend writes that he
is sending you vicuna as a
birthday gift, " h a I would
you expect 10 get? ta) fur;
tbl Jewels, (c) musical in
Strument
Whose name is in this in
Scription In this temple,
as in the hearts Of the people
for whom he saved the
Union. the memory of ---
is enshrined forever. (a)
George Washington; (b)
Abra ham Lincoln; tc)
Franklin Roosevelt.
4-One of these m on hs is
named after a two-faced god:
ta) January; (b) February;
Ccl March.
8" Meme, meme. tekel. uphar-
sin are words ta) said by
Christ al His d g I h (b)
written on the wall at the
feast Of Belshszzar; Ntc)
given as a signal by Joseph
10 his brothers
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-18
Curious Trends in France

World (memorandum
of
cable
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-18
knowledge Test
BY DR.. SABINA CONNELLY

Give yourself 4 for each of the hrst ave
questions and for the last question. score
$40, brilliant; ia, bright; A-s. average;
0-t, dull
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
Old Auto Plates
Must Go When
New Ones Arrive

Orders to discard all evidence CT
prio. motor vehicle registration
were received in Imperial county
Wednesday so motorists with 1945
plates were instructed to get rid of
old windshield stickers, metal tabs
and strips Immediately.
The new black and white license
plates must be displayed on the rear
of the vehicle. Old plates must be
removed frcm both the front and
rear of the vehicle, said Captain
Mark Hebblethwaite of the Cali
fornia highway patrol in Imperial
county.
Motorists of Imperial county who
have ordered their new plates by
mail but have not received them
will continue to display the old
plates. Hebblethwaite explained that
shipment of a considerable number
of plates to applicants is being held
up because of labor and material
shortages in the plate manufacture
ing plant. The department expects
to clear the bulk of these orders by
the middle of March.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
Navy Plans Hike
For Storage

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. cUP)-
The navy's ordnance program for
the 1945 fiscal year calls for a Is
per cent expansion in storage facili-
ties and an additional $92,02i 1892
for new construction, the house ap-
preparations committee has re-
ported.
Rear Admiral George F. Hussey
Jr., told he committee that most
of the new facilities would be per-
manent. Although needed immedi-
ately for the war, iie said, they will
be used for storing reserve supplies
and for testing and developing new
weapons after the war.
Major projects are planned at the
naval ammunition depot, Crane, In
diana, at total cost of $11 ,255, 100;
ammunition depot, McAlester, Ok
lahoma, $11, 1,789,000; ammunition
depot, Hastings, Nebraska, $4,000
900; ammunition depot, Hawthorne,
Nevada, $6,000,00O. These are pri-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
State Personnel
Fund Increase
Stirs Argument

SACRAMENTO, Feb. %. (UP)--
Members of the assembly ways and
means committee Wednesday divid-
ed along party lines on a proposed
$18l 900 increase in the budget CT
the state personnel board, with
Democrats attacking the increase as
absurd"
The board, which administers
the state civil service act, asked for
the increase for expenses during the
next two years principally to hire
IL new employees including medi-
cal officer.
Declaring that the number of
state employees has declined and the
proposed increase is unjustifiable,
Democratic Floor Leader Alfred
Robertson said it was absurd that
the budget should go up when work
has gone down"
Committee Chairman Albert VOL
lenberg Jr., San Francisco, cited
testimony of legislative auditor Rol-
land Vandergrift who said the ad-
ditional board staff would make
economies by checking more closely
on sick leave inefficiency.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
Japanese Troops
End Own Lives
In Tunnel Blast

MANILA, Feb. %. UP)-Army
officials reported that the japanese
blew up a powder magazine and
ammunition dump in a Corregidor
tunnel in a mass suicide. Scores,
perhaps hundreds, CT enemy troops
were killed.
A terrific explosion ripped sec
ton of rocky Corregidor near its
eastern end. When the shower of
stone and debris settled, the Ameri-
cans found a T-shaped crater. It
was 100 yards long, 10 yards across
the top OF the T. and 80 yards deep.
A Sixth army report received here
said $50 japanese bodies were
counted, and more obviously were
blown to bits. The tunnel was east
of Monkey Point, and had no con-
necticn with the tunnel system un-
der Malinta hill.
The Americans suffered some
casualties. Some U. S. troops were
standing over the point where the
explosion occurred. One American
tank was blown 80 yards and shat
tered.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
Educator Plans
Survey Report

bills to be placed before the legis-
lature after the survey was made
under the leadership of Colonel Al
exander r. Heron, director of the
school survey and member of Gov
ernor Earl Warren's staff.
Teachers and all persons interest,"
ed in education and school financ-
es have been invited to hear the
address.
p In calling the meeting, County
School Superintendent E. L. Hite-
man said the entire organization,
administration, and finance of the
public school system in California
was uncer survey, financed by $20,-
600 appropriated by the state legis-
lature for that purpose. The survey
required a year of work.
DR.. Strayer was employed to do
the work For many years he was
director of his univsrsity's bureau
of school organization and admin
istration. He was assisted by DR..
Alfred D. Simpson of Harvard uni
versity, education finance and re-
search expert. Assistance also was
given by the state department of
education and the larger school
systems in the state.
The speaker will outline the rec
concentrations made at the con-
clusion of the study an6i tell how
they apply to local problems.
George Burt, director of music at
the high school, will present a mu-
sical program from 7:30 pm. to 8
pm. The talk will follow immed-
lately.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
Price. Acreage
Control Seen
After War Ends

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (UP)-
Congress has been warned that
farm price and acreage controls
will be inevitable after Germany is
defeated, it was revealed Wednes-
day.
Vice-President Ralph w. Ohm
stead of the Commodity Credit cor
poration told the house appropria-
tions committee this was a major
reason for seeking to hike CCC bor-
rowing power from $4,000, ,000,0 900 to
S5,0C0,000
Olmstead said American agricul-
ture is due for an economic jolt be-
cause:
l. 1t has been shown that the Gu
ropean market, counted on to sup
port American farm production for
a couple CT years after the war,
will not exist.
2. Even the demand for free food
'tamong liberated countries) will be
nothing like what has been fore
cast year or two ago.
3. Domestic demand will decline
because of the release of labor from
war plants.
4. A vast surplus of foodstuffs is
in army warehouses.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
Germans Routed
In ItaIy Battle

ROME, Feb. %. (UP)-Fifth army
units routed small German forces
and occupied the village of Sene-
veglio, southwest of Casaglia, head
quarters reported Wednesday as a
series of patrol clashes flared along
the front.
Other American patrols operating
near Vergato were forced to with
draw after encountering stiff enemy
opposition.
A communique reported there had
been mo appreciable change in for
ward positions throughout the Ital-
ian front"
At the west end of the Fifth army
line, patrols encountered long
range enemy machine gun and mo-
tar fire between the SERGIO valley
and the Ligurian coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
OFFICIALS REFUSE TO ACT
ON PETITION BURNING

LOS ANGELES, FEB. %. (UP)-
The district attorneys office Tues
day refused to prosecute Eddie CAL
braith, Pasadena, real estate man,
accused of burning a right to
work" petition containing 48 sigma
lures.
Azariah Maule, Pasadena real es-
tate broker, askec that Calbraith
be prosecuted on charges of inter-
fering with petition circulation or
arson of personal property.
Maule said he gave Galbraith the
petition to read, and while glancing
at it, Calbraith asked for match.
Instead of lighting cigarette, as
he expected Maule said Calbraith
applied the match to tie petition.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28

DR.. George D. Strayer, professor
emeritus of Columbia university,
will speak at Central Union High
school auditorium in Ell Centre at
7:30 pm. Thursday. He will give
a report ON the recently completed
survey of reconstruction and reem-
ployment in the California school
system.
He will explain anG discuss the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
UCE-WESTMORLAND FARM
CENTER PLANS MEETING

An unusually fine meeting has
been planned for the Spruce-West-
morland farm center meeting at
Westmorland school at p. m. Fri
day.
After a potluck dinner Farm Ad-
visor George Winright will discuss
plant Diseases the Brawley Mems
chorus will sing, and Captain Ran
dali Henderson of Ell Centro will
show pictures taken while he was
serving with the army in Africa.
Hubert Dahm, director, asked that
all those who attend the dinner take
their own table service.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28

per cent, over 1913. 1t was higher than the year
1910 by S44 1882 ,262, Or "a per cent.
''Ihe earn'ros OF our company on invested
capital term debt and shareholders
equity-1ot only have been declining, but also
are on the low side as compared with many other
businesses. Earnings on its average invested cap
ital in 1910 were 600 per cent and in 1914 they
had declined to $40 per cent. Although costs Of
operation have risen sharply, adversely affecting
its net earnings, our company has had no in
creases in its price levels nor has it pro6ted by
its large volume of business, but to the contrary,
rates have been reduced which, since January l,
1910, have resulted in savings to our customers,
based on 1914 usage aggregating $l5,0OO,OO0
annually.
Promptly meeting as we have all telephone
requirements vital to the war effort, it is matter
of deep regret and great concern to us that the
unavoidable physical limitations of our plant
have prevented US from meeting fully the civilian
telephone demand. We dislike to tell people that
they have to wait for telephone service, but due
;o the limited quantities OF telephone equipment
being manufactured for non-war use, it now ap-
pears that we will not be able in the near future
to fill promptly all applications. The winning
OF the war III the shortest possible tlme OF course
comes first. The amounts and kinds Of equipment
which will become available to us will depend
upon the extent of and the time involved in the
shifting from war to civilian production of the
manufacture and of the manpower now engaged
in direct production for our armed forces.
Gas we now visualize our forthcoming work,
our postwar requirements will be such that it
will be necessary to make plant expenditures ag-
gregatng more than $l75,0O0, 900, an increase
of more than $25O00,OOO over the amount so
estimated year ago. The construction programs
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28

may well be the largest for the first few years
after the war that our company has ever eSneri-
enced and they viii require an extraordinary
amount of new capital, the yearly amounts f.
nanced being dependent upon business and eco.
nomic conditions and the availability to us Of
material manpower and money.
sour company has the duty and obligation to
welcome home the men and women in uniform
and SO to direct its operations that it plays its ef
fective part in providing full employment for
them Immediately upon their return. We have
given that assurance to our personnel. We
have also the community responsibility so to
handle our affairs that the veterans of the war
will, on their return, have and hold all that the
cause of freedom signifies. To be capable of
doing its full part, our company must, of neces-
sity, be able financially to offer the employment
opportunities which not only create hope and
enthusiasm for the future, but also make for
home and happiness through work and liveli.
hood for willing hands,
''We have before us not only the responsible.
ity, with all OF its exactions but also the oppor-
tunity to continue to render ali indispensable
service, with constantly improving standards, to
a great section of great democracy, conceived
and dedicated to the public service. To serve as
it should, our company must continue to contrib
ute to make our Nation and the world better
place in which to live In so doing, we go for
ward with the firm belief that great service, ef-
ficiently and economically rendered, will con-
tinue to be received and recognized in accord
ance with the ideals and traditions of the great
est of all human enterprises-the American way
of life."
For the Directors,
>R%.~-<~N
President
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
GI PRIZES GERMAN HARP

RUSHVILLE, Ind, Feb. %. CUP)
"A small German harp will be PFC.
William Talbert's favorite souvenir
when he gets home. When he sent
the musical instrument home, he
said that it had been in his shirt
pocket when a German machine
gun bullet glanced off of it, instead
of going through him. He had been
shot through the elbow few min
utes before by another slug. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
FUNERAL RITES CONDUCTED
FOR Ell CENTRIC INFANT

Last rites for Linda Dean Dicker-
son, 7-month-old daughter CT Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest N. Dickerson of the
Ell Centro area, who died Monday
in an Ell Centre hospital, were held
at the Hens chapel in Ell Centro at
10 a. m. Wednesday.
Reverend Father Edward Hutch
inson of st. Paul's Episcopal church
cfficiated at the rites. Burial serv-
ices were to be in Olive Wood cem-
etery in Riverside at $3.50 p. m.
Wednesday.
The baby died after an illness of
three months.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
LEGION POST ARRANGES
WESTMORLAND CEREMONY

On Thursday the Boyce Aten
Post No. 25, of the American Legion
here, will hold an initiation meet
Ing at Westmorland in the Legion
clubhouse. The members of the
ritualistic team are Henry Wood
bury, commander; Elmer Head
first yice-commander; Mike zavala
commander of the 22nd district;
Bob Ware, past commander; John
Kepley, chaplain, and H. K. Nc
ClimanS, Sergeant-at at-armS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
GETS FINGERPRINTS BACK

HAGERSTOWN, Ind, Feb. %.
UP)-Wilfred Knapp was happy
when he heard he could have his
fingerprints back. Judge Gustave H.
Hoelscher ruled that Knapp's re-
quest be granted. After Knapp was
proven innocent of grand larceny
charge, he asked for his finger
prints, since he was not law violat-
or anC, didn't want them on file.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
new BOOKS
Books Released February 28, 1945
FICTION

FICTION
They Dream of Home" by Niven
Busch; "Gun-Johnnies of Texas
by w. D. Hoffman; Dear Dead
Professor" by Alison La Roche;
"Meddling Maverick" by Tom West;
Hit and Run, by Alice Duer Mil
Ter; No Bones About 1t" by Ruth
S. Wallis; Brook Willow, by Nela
Garner White.
NON-TlCTION
How to Raise Rabbits for Food
and Fur" by Frank G. Ashbrook;
Tall Tale America" by Walter
Blair; Bernard Baruch" by Carter
Field; Chemical Analysis of Foods
ano Food Products" by NJ B. Jac-
obs; Situation Normal by Arthur
Miller; Foreign Policy Begins at
Home" by James P. Warburg;
Roots in the Earth" by P. A. War
ing and w. M. Teller.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
TOWN PLANS STORM CELLAR

GREEN FOREST Ark, Feb. %.
CUPl-This small Ozark town has
twice been visited by destructive
storms. So the Green Forest Lions
Club, looking forward to the COM
ing tornado season. is consider
ing proposal to builc a public
storm cellar-complete with rest
rooms. The cellar would be about
80 by so feet and would be placed
in the center of the town square.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
PICKS RIGHT STORE

DULUTH. Mimi, Feb. 90. (UP)-
Don Ehlers, proprietor of a foot
comfort shop here, was cleaning up
one night recently when he heard
a scratching on the front door. He
opened the otoor and a lame pheas-
ant walked in. The bird was turned
over to the ZOO.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE

GARY, Ind, Feb. 28. (UP)-The
birthday present which Miss Hen
rietta Schoon, overseas Red Cross
worker, treasured the most while in
Australia was to hear a voice call
Henrietta" When she turned, she
saw her sister, 1t. Margaret Schoon,
who had just landed with the Army
Nurses Corps. .
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28

marily for new ammunition maga-
zines.
At Pocatello, Idaho, the armos
finishing shop will be expanded at
cost of s3,500.000 to provide q closer
source CT armor plate for ships In
the Pacific war At present. Hussey
said, most of the armor has to be
shipped from eastern factories.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28
FARM BUREAU TO
MEET SATURDAY

Directors of the Imperial county
farm bureau will meet in the court
house in Ell Centre at / 80 p. m.
Saturday for their March business
meeting, Secretary Scott B. Foulds
announced Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28

'There is no period throughout its entire his.
tory which is comparable to that OF the last FIVE
years, 1910 10 1914, inclusive, in its tremendous
expansion which, through its aIl.out war effort,
has required gross plant additions aggregating
more than S276000,000, with the net result that
at the end of the year the investment in its tee-
phone plant had reached the huge total of S65l,-
669. 9.670, or onethird more than it was OH Janu.
AIRY |, 1910.
''Since January l, 1910, our net telephone in
crease has totaled 640, ,223 telephones or 80 per
cent-a fve-year period unequaled in telephone
demand in the history of our company. Our net
telephone increase for the year was only 1883
telephones, considerably less than for any year
since 1888, and compares with the l943 net in
crease of l87,O02 telephones, the highest of rec-
ord. There at the end of the year
224,573 pending applications for main tele
phones, 90 per cent of which were for residence
service.
'Toll and long distance calls reached record
total of more than 289 100000 calls, an increase
of more than 100000 calls, or IL per cent,
over l943, which year - the previous all.time
high--was 81 per cent over 1912. Since January
l, 1910, the volume of this traffic has increased
l24 per cent The longer haul calls, originating
in and destined beyond our territory, have in
creased almost ten.fold from 10000 calls in
1910 to more than 1887 900 calls in 1914
''In the last five years, due to the tremendous
volume of wartime traffic and the unprecedented
telephone demand, the number of our employees
has increased 1886, or as per cent. The number
of employees on our payrolls at the end of the
year was 43,534, the highest of record
''The payroll for the year was an all-time high
and exceeded hundred million dollars, totalng
$l04,043, ,347, an increase of $40 3O6, GOO, or II
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-28

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Bradley beam., 1945-08-04

REPRESENTATIVES plenty Wednesday afternoon the baseball diamond had the five hours the Base EAT-n GI and their the food Open House Dance Hall with Open House Day Ladies serving from the Windsor Locks USO and JWB.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-09-15
THE WARS over; NOW FOR THE FIGHT!

this contributed To the ef-
feetiveneSs and efficiency of
our armed forces in the field.
But all hasn't been sweetness
and light Starting with Con-
gressional wrath over the debaele
a. Pearl Harbor. resentment IN
various degrees has been pilang
up for four years.
Some of these irFitaliOns are
purely personals the w'elter of
complaints from constituents.
principally about Selective Serve
zee or discharges or assignments
to duty: OF perhaps a lack of
Difference. real or assumed. when
members II Congress were viSit-
ing military establishments &c
the war fronts. Even President
Truman. as chairman 81 the Sen
ate War investigating Commit
tee. was given the Arny's brush
off when he tried 30 inquire into
the staggering expenditures on
that military secret. the atomic
bomb. There's no Indication that
he resented q. bat there a good
example Of how such irictions
arise.
Other matters involve more Sc
Ysoale rharufe- waste and lnpfft
cheney. the Alcan and Pan Amer
ican highways. the Canol OIL
/ Project. and q number II canton
ments
Discrimination with rcdcploy-
ment and the Army and Navy
/ lnsistcncr that each had o. he
maintained practically a. all un'e
highs e. fight the onc-iront val
against the japanese sent the
Congressman home mumhhna