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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Death Summons
Fl Centran, 81

Lewis Hill McElvany, 81, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. I. S. McElvany Of Ell
Centre, died Tuesday afternoon from
heart ailment with which he was
stricken December 20.
The funeral will be held at the
Lemons Wiley chapel in Ell Centro
at 2 pm. Friday with the Rev.
Charles H. Burrill, pastor Of the First
Baptist church, officiating. Burial
will be in Evergreen cemetery.
McElvany was born In Burleson,
Texas and came to Imperial VAL
ley in 1915. He went through school
in Ell Centro and after finishing
school, was associated in the insur-
ance business with his father in
Ell Centro.
He was a member of the Elks
lodge, the Baptist church, and the
Lions club before the FL Centre club
disbanded shortly after the war
began.
In addition to his parents he is
survived by three sisters, Mrs. Aline
Kirkpatrick of Ell Centre and Mrs.
Lorene Cor..i anu Mrs. Vera Stein
hoff both of San Diego; and three
brothers, James l.. McElvany OF Ell
Centre, Isaac S. McElvany OF On
tario, and Robert M. McElvany,
soldier who came from Camp White
at Medford, Oregon to attend the
funeral.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
AIM AT RAIL YARDS

First official reports on the in
cident indicated the Yanks were
shooting for the Berchtesgaden rail-
way yards, but there was a strong
possibility that the Fuhrer's tower
ing palace overlooking the town
also came under attack.
The raiders reported meeting a
terrific storm of gunfire from the
palace itself and the surrounding
areas suggested they had turned
their fire on that Nazi citadel.
Hundreds of antiaircraft batter
les opened up on the Yank fliers as
they dived in for the attack and
Nazi deaths head elite guards blaz-
ed away with rifles and machine
guns in a futile effort to turn the
bombers away from Hitler's palace.
NO CLAIMS ON FORTRESS HITS
There was no immediate claim
that the fortress itself had been
hit, although London Exchange
Telegraph dispatch said the bombers
had scored some hits.
Whatever the original target of
the attack was, the credit for the
first raid on a target in Hitler's
fortress palace city of Berchtesgaden
goes to an All-American force" a
spokesman said.
He revealed that the Thunderbolt
squadron was led by Major John l..
Beck, Post Falls, Idaho. Also in the
mission was Second Lieutenant
Joseph Lang, San Francisco, Calf
ornia.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

and are better fighters as result. y
Previous to the annual banquet,
the annual business meeting and
election of officers took place in
the chamber Of commerce.
Currier was reelected council pres
ident for the third consecutive year.
He also served the council as its
second president in 1924. Wigg was
reelected president and national
council representative; William Per-
kins and William C. Foss were
newly elected ce-preSio entS. George
Raine was reelected commissioner.
Argyle McLachlan was elected treas
urer. Elwood c. Griest was reelected
secretary.
EAGLE SCOUTS
At the beginning of the dinner
meeting James J. Murphy. master
Of ceremonies introduced this years
Eagle Scouts, Lonnie Wallace, Edcie
Murphy. Sid Colby, and Martin Tir-
ador, and Cub Hunter Charlton, who
led in the presentation of colors and
Pledge to the Flag Reverend Faith
er Hugh G. Gallagher gave the in
vocation. Sergeant Al G.. Dunn sale
the Pageant of America with ac-
compartment played by Mrs. c. E.
Livingston.
Currier introduced the visitors,
Ole j. Nordland gave the recogni-
tlons, and Linwood Perkins the trib-
ute to the Scout leaders.
All former recipients of the Silver
Beaver awards we're introduced.
They are Raine of Holtville, George
Cutshaw of Brawley, Norman Hun
die. Sr., and P. j. Kramer of Yuma,
and j. E. Brock of El Centro.
Special guests Of the council were
Mrs. Fannie McCrory and Ira Aten,
both of El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Full Blood Crow
Indian Wants
Golfers Place
Continued from Page u

not in sympathy with the Indians. a"
Yellowtail said he had been
fighting for the Indians" all his
life.
Il am a candidate and I can run
the bureau better than any COM
mis- ioner OF Indian affairs since
Pr""i1ent William McKinleys time"
Who was commissioner then,"
asked Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
Cd, Montana.
Il don't know" Yellowtail re-
piled, but l could do better"
1t was announced that a special
subcommittee composed of Senators
Joseph c. OMahoney. CD. Wyo-
ming; Carl Hatch, Cd, New Mex
ico, and William LANCER, (R), North
Dakota, will study a batch of let
ters and kilograms that have come
in for and against Brcphy.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
All CLUB DEMONSTRATION
ATTRACTS 40 PERSONS

Thirty-three boys and seven lead
ers attended the Alamitos All club
meeting at the j. T. Little ranch in
the Hcltville area Tuesday.
Each boy treateu an animal for
car ticks, working under the super
vision of Little and assistant farm
advisors. Little discussed and ex-
plaine dhis cattle management pro-
gram, cattle feeding methods, and
ear tick control work, demonstrating
his talk with his own animals. He
was assisted by Assistant Farm Ad-
visors Lee Landerman and Blaine
Konkright.
Other leaders present included
Mrs Little, Mrs. Frank Kumberg,
Mrs Mirabel Paul, chairman of the
Holtville area educational committee
Ike Sharp, and Walter Hanson.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

More Sport
Something new in the way OF
sport fishing was promised lmper-
ial Valley fishermen Tuesday night
when Emil OFT of the state fish and
game commission told about the
new sport fish, the ten FOUNDER,
found in Salton sea.
This fish, OFT said, used to inhabit
the Colorado river. Then it diSap-
peared. Now it has showed up in
Salton sea and promises to give
fishermen a lot of fun. 1t will take
artificial lure, OFT said, and is good
to eat. 1t seems to get along well
with the old familiar mullet in the
sea. The average weight is 10 pounds.
Servicemen around the sea killed
some of the ten Founders with bow
and arrow but the mullet were too
smart for them when using that
weapon.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Federal-Stafe
Duck Feeding
Plan Approved
Continued from Page -

game commission buc get.
Farmers of the valley wanted to
know if the land to be acquired by
the federal government will be game
refugees where no shooting ever can
be done. Day assurd them that
the land so acquired under the game
management program now ahead
would not be held as inviolate refug-
eS.
The farmers, Imperial county,
and the vegetable growers of I'M
perial Valley paid S3l88 this year
for the airplane herding expert
ment," County Agricultural Com
missioner B. A. Harrigan said. 1T
was a success as far as we can find
cut but we feel someone else should
pay the cost in the future"
IF the committee hires airplane
which fly down over the Del Rio
Duck club anG scare the ducks with
bombs and guns next year." inter-
rupted r. B. Whitelaw. El Centro
attorney representing the club and
duck hunter in the valley for 81
years, my club is going to file suit
for 81 900 damages against the COM
mittee. That duck club is our prop
erty and we won't tolerate anyone
treSpaSSing on it,
RANCH TRESPASSING
What about you hunters and your
ducks trespassing on our ranches
and cropS?" demanded L. E. Sinclair
OF Calipatria, chairman of the COM
mittee. They are our property and
We have to stand the losses the
ducks do and pay the cost of herding
them away if we are to have any
thing left"
Ducks don't belong to anybody"
said OFT.
If the cucks don't belong to any
body" said Baxter Loveland, secre-
tary of the committee" the farmers
can soon get rid of them. Because
the farmers don't want ducks on
their places -
E. E. Horn, head of federal duck
expectations work in the United
States, averted an open break by
urging the adoption of the game
management program suggested by
the cooperating federal and state
agencies. His suggestion was follow
ed.
HUNTER HAS SAY
Penny Richmond, El Centro post
master and inveterate duck hunter,
remarked that the hunters are will
ing to cooperate with the farmers
by shooting the ducks but declared
the hunters don't like to have the
ducks scared away from their clubs.
THE hunters will cooperate"
Richmond said, but we don't think
it is cooperative for the farmers anG
this committee to scare the ducks
off the clubs. 1t doesn't do any good
to herd ducks in the daytime They
should be herdeo at night"
If the planes annoyed the duck |
club owners" laughed Bill Bailey, |
vegetable grower" the herding of
ducks by airplane was success. If
the planes kept the ducks away it |
was worthwhile experiment"
The meeting broke up around
midnight with the farmers and
sportSmen still muttering their res
pective grievances and the federal
and state officials still insisting that !
the game management program will
result in satisfaction all around.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Cornered Enemy
Annihi|ated in
Manila Fighting
Continued from Page

tCon..nued from Page ID
the Americans Knocked out several
machine-gun positions at the Uni
versity Medical school and routed
the Japanese from two other build
ings on the campus.
The Americans also pushed
through the Army Navy club and
the ruins of the high commissioners
house on the bay front, but ran into
steady fire from pillboxes anc
bunkers around the latter building
The japanese also were raking the
American positions with mortars
and small arms fire in the Manila
hotel.
Despite the advantage of good de-
fenses behind strong Notifications,
the japanese were losing heavily.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81. (UP) -
Ratification Of the proposed Mexican
water treaty is vital to this country's
whole program of information CO.
operation, assistant secretary o.
state Dean Acheson said WedneS-
day.
He appeared before the senate
foreign relations committee to urge
ratification.
1.-THE United States is now NOV
ing into an era of increasingly in
innate contact with foreign nations
in fields which run the gamut OF
military, political, economic and Soc
ial relations of the most complex
variety" Acheson said. 1T Is an era
during which our country must ex-
ercise full leadership CT cur efforts
and our hopes are to bear fruit.
But what assurance can there be
for anyone, in this country or out,
that we can even begin to measure
up to these problems if we cannot
settle the most rudimenary type OF
olia eral problem that can ever arise
in the field of foreign relations,
namely a border problem arising
from the fact of geographical pro-
pinquity?"
He said Mexico's claims on the
Colorado river-settled by the treaty
at 100000 acre feet of water an
nually-have been a source of con-
tention between the two countries
for 10 years.
The present treaty, he said, "is
fair and hard-headed solution to
an increasingly troublesome situa-
ton" The government simply could
not afford to let this question of the
waters of the Colorado river con-
tinue unsettled to plague our rela-
tions with Mexico for years to come,
he said.
Should the treaty not be ratified,
Acheson said, the United States
would have no choice but to submit
the matter to arbitration if Mexico
desired it.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
ALLERGIC TO KHAKI,
GI GETS CIVVIES BACK

CAMP MAXEY, Tenn, Feb. 81.
CUP)-Being a:.ergic to wearing
Khaki changed Private Albert l..
Van Derscheuren from soldier to
civilian, but it cid not change the
Army's uniform.
Whenever Pvt. Van Derscheuren
wore khaki a rash developed on his
body. The Army, after consulting
medical authorities, decided that it
would be cheaper to dispense with
his services than to orc er uniforms
of another shade and texture. So
Van Derscheuren is out and khaki
is still in.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Fire Chief Urges
City Cleanup

An appeal for an early spring
cleanup tc clear away fire hazards
was voiced on Wednesday by Fire
Chief Corn Reed, of the Ell Centre
fire department. -
The Ell Centre depar' slent, as is
true with fire departments all over
Anne: lea, has been handicapped by
the loss of members who have
joined the armed services, Chief
Reed pointed out, adding that there
is a mounting toll CT destruction by
fire throughout the nation.
I'm view CT this situation" con-
tinued the chief, lit is especially i'm
portant to take all possible steps
to prevent fires"
Chief Reed has set Monday az the
beginning Of a cleanup week and
urges full cooperation.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
PIN-UP SERVICES, TOO

BOSTON, Feb. 81. (UP)-The New
England Telephone & Telegraph
Co. recently dug down into its files
to help two GIs get in touch with
their pin-up girl. It seems the SOL
diers had snapped the girls picture
down South. They got her telephone
number, but neglected to get her
name. So, asking the girls permis-
sion, the telephone company obliged
with name and address.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
TWO FIRES DOUSED

The Ell Centre fire department on
Tuesday responded to two alarms.
Fire of undetermined origin broke
out at a framewood residence at
224 Olive avenue about $3.50 pm.
The occupant of the home is Mrs.
Mary Cruz. The damage was slight.
Firemen eXtinguished a blaze in
motor car at 1858 South Sixth street,
caused by battery short-circuit on
Tuesday evening"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
NAMES BOARD MEMBERS

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 81. CUP)-
Governor Earl Warren has an
ncunced five appointments to the
NAPA state hospital board of
trustees.
The new trustees, all of Napa,
included: Washington Mannering,
Mrs. Elizabeth King Robinson, Ed
win R. Hennessey, Eugene L. Web
Der and DR.. Dwight H. Murray.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Lemon Juice Recipe
Checks RheUm ufic
Pain Quickly

II you suffer from rheumatic. arthntIE or
neIrltis pain try this simple inexpensive home
recipe that thousands are using. Get pack-
age OF Ru-Ex Compound a two-week supply.
today. Mix It with a quart OF water. add the
Juice OF 4 lemons. It's easy. No trouble at
an and pleasant. You need only tablespoon
fuls two times a day. Often within 4s hours
- sometimes overnight - splendid results are
and II you do not feel better. return the
empty package and Ru-Ex will cost you notli-
ing 70 try as 1t is sold by your druggist under
Compound Is for sale and recommended by
Clements Drug Store and drug stores everywhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

While high-speed machines can
turn out kitchen matches at the
rate of 1,226,000 an hour, single
match is actually a year IN the
making due to the time necessary to
"season" the wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

II you're putting up new kitchen
curtains, see that they can't fly into
the gas flame and cause serious fiie.
Tie them back tecurely, if they are
not flat, Window-tight curtains.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
cKUA 7RRITATIONS OF
on1N EXTERNAL CAUSE

Eczema, acne pimples, simple ringworm,
letter, salt rheum, bumps (blackheads),
and ugly broken-out skin. Millions re-
lieve itching, burning and soreness of
these miseries with thissimple home treat
ment. Black and White Ointment goes
to work at once. Aids healing, works the
antiseptic way. 25 years success. 10c,
25c, SOC sizes. Purchase price refunded
if you're not satisfied. Use only as di-
rected. Vital in cleansing is good soap.
Enjoy Black and White Skin Soap daily
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

Shipments and receipts of bulk
liquid cargo in U. S. ports ap-
preached 100000 long tons during
1914. This total excluded military
cargo.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

Bethlehem Steel Co., biggest
heavy ordnance maker, estimates
that the battleships and cruisers
CT the U. S. Fleet can fire big
shellc at rate of six times as fast
as Germany's ability to produce
steel of similar tonnage.
One reason men no longer clear
American forests to make way for
food crops is that 100000 acres
once used tc grow feed for work
animals now grow food for hui
mans. Tractors and trucks have
materially reduced the horse and
mule population.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Acheson Defends
Water Treaty

WASHINGTON Feb. FL. tUP)-
The senate foreign relations COM
mittee Wednesday concluded the
hearings it has been holding since
January 22 on the proposed Mexi-
can water treaty.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
RAMBLING REPORTER
Continued from Page ID

Serves him right. we say, he has
been a little careless with the clouds
and wind this winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Yankee Bombers
Rake HitIer's
Fortress Home

Continued from Page d
entire area.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Guide to New Books
For Young Readers

The Big Fire, by Elizabeth Olds
tHoughton: s2)-Story and pictures
take the reader to a fire and explain
how It's extinguished-also how the
same job was done in years agone.
Boys Can Have Fun Foremost.
$1.49-S1 98) How.
John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot
by Ann We'll (Bobbs-Merrill. 81 5o1
The boyhood of the sixth President
of the United States.
Take the Children, by Dorothy n,
King Morrow: $1.50)-Six children
from as many different countries are
homeward bound from the United
States. Their tags get mixed up, and
that makes this little book some-
thing to play with as well ais to
read. Can you get the lost travel
ers Strengthened out?
Necessary Nellie, by Charlotte
Baker (Coward-McCann; s2.50)-A
little white dog is adopted by five
children. who can't keep her unless
she proves she's necessary" A good
story with good pictures for readers
from about to IL.
Mystery Of the Logging Camp. by
Dickson Reynolds (Nelson) Some
body is stealing logs from Peter
Larsen's employer, and he and his
dog Pooch have a lot of exciting adj
ventures trying to solve the mystery.
For the 10-to-l4 group.
Jasper and the Watermelons, by
George Pal diamond; $D-Another
character from the movies PUP
petoons."
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Susie 10as confident Red
Would find no changes in her"
ILLUSTRATION BY Star Stan Artist
Glib Crockett.

Susie sat impatiently by the front
window, trying to read so that the
time would pass more quickly, as
she awaited the ng-hoped-for re-
turn of Red. He was a very special
friend, and now, after three years
OF soldering, he was coming home,
honorably discharged because of
wounds received in Europe.
Having prepared very carefully
for this day, Susie was confident
Red would find no changes in her
She had dabbed a little cologne
behind her ears, but only enough
so that a faint fragrance surround
ed her. Red didn't like scents. He
had never said so, of course, though
occasionally he wrinkled his nose
in his own adorable, inimitable way
when she used it, but Susie under
stood, and so she never used more
than slight bit
Watching the clock slowly count
away the time, Susie grew more
and more excited as she realized
that at last the day had come. All
through those three long years she
had dreamed of this day, and now
that it had come she could not
quite become used to the idea that
soon Red would be here, in this
very house, and they would be able
to 90 back to the old way of life
they both loved so well.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Thoughts
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Edith VeneSky, II,

Roosevelt Hish School.
Have you ever wished that you
were not,
But much better some one else
And then thought How silly! I'm
glad to
Be myself?
Have you ever dreamed many dreams
And had them all disappoint,
Then realized that useless dreams are
Like pencils without points?
Have you ever thought that, in the
past,
You had acted wrong.
And then thought How silly-the
future is
Where my thoughts belong?
Have you ever thought what others
think
About all things and, most of all,
bout you,
And then thought How silly! I can
make their thoughts
In what say and do?"
Have you ever cried and thought
your tears
Would make the picture clear
again,
And realized then the sun is blurred
When looking through the rain?
Have you ever done as I've just done,
Questioned another's thought?
For If you have, you, too, have
learned
The lesson I have brought.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

Many a farmer, peacefully plow-
ing his field, finds that his plow
has turned up one or more arrow
heads. Such a discovery may make
him think back to the time when
many fields were covered by for
ests in which Indians hunted.
From tales we hear we might
suppose the Indians did little ex-
cept fight, but that would be mis-
take. Most tribes were peaceful.
The greatest work of the warriors
was to supply food for the tribe.
Squaws and children did the work
of raising crops = corn, peas,
squashes and so on-but meat was
the leading item of diet. To obtain
meat the men went forth on hunt
ing parties.
Now and then, to be sure, there
were fights between tribes. The
chief causes Of such warfare were
disputes over hunting grounds.
After the coming Of the whites
the Indians struggled to keep their
old hunting grounds from being
taken away by the settlers. 1t was
a losing struggle, as you know.
In the Lake Superior region In
dians used copper, which they
found close to the surface OF the
ground, and natives of Mexico, Cen
trail America and Peru were well
acquainted with the use of metal.
In general, however, American In
dians were living in the Stone Age
before the arrival OF people from
Europe. They used tools and weap-
ons OF stone.
ArrowheadS, spearheads, knives,
axes, hammers and tonallawks are
among the objects which were made
from stone. Flint was favored by
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Civic Calender
Ten Associations
Meet This Week

Ten member bodies of the Fed
GRAFTON of Citizens Associations will
hold meetings this week.
James w. Lauderdale, peoples
counsel, will address the Brookland
Citizens Association on Public
Utilities"
Mid-City citizens will hear Capt.
Walter H. Thomas, newly appointed
head Of police precinct No. 2, speak.
Election of officers will be held
also.
Schedule for the week follows:
Monday.
Notwithstanding Methodist
Church, Fourteenth and Lawrence
streets NE, pm.
Georgetown-St. Johns Hall,
Potomac and o streets NV, 8 pm.
Hillcrest - East Washingto o n
Heights Baptist Church, Branch and
Alabama avenues Sc. 8 pm.
Mid City - Thomson School
Twelfth and L streets NV, s pm.
North Capitol-McKinley High
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Uncle Rays Corner

many tribes. but quartzite also
proved an excellent material.
Indians did fine work on arrow
heads. In some places there were
quarries where Jumps of stone were
lifted and thrown down so they
would break into pieces. Then the
pieces were shaped with the help of
bone or stone tools. BY pressing
bone against flint. the workers were
able to break away bits Of stone until
they obtained the shape desired.
Rib bones of elks, deer and buffa-
loes were popular for use in arrow
Matchmaking. The bones were cut
to size and were given sharp edge
or point. Sometimes the tip of a
deer antler was used instead of a
piece of bone.
It is known that mastodons and
mammoths roamed this continent in
past times. Whether all these beasts
died out before the Indians settled in
North America Is question which
has not been settled.
In 1872 q Pennsylvania farmer
picked up a piece of stone with a
strange picture carved on 1t. A
beast with the shape of an elephant
is shown, along with the figures of
three men. One of the men Is shown
with a bow, and seems to be firing
an arrow at the beast.
Nine years later piece Of stone
which fitted to the first piece was
found. Some men believe the cary
ing was done by an Indian who
lived when the hairy elephants
which we call mastodons roamed
about. Because the parts were found
in q region where the Lenape. or
Delaware, Indians lived, this relic Il
known as ''the Lerape stone.r