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Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Book Fines Hit
New Record

A new high in book fines was
collected by the Ell Centre library
in the month of December, Mrs.
Agnes Bigelow, librarian, disclosed
Saturday. More than $120 was
paid in by delinquent book bor-
roWers, records show.
The library circulation reached
6228 volumes for December, of
which one-third of the adult circu-
lation was non-fiction. This is
about three per cent above the
standards set by library officials,
Mrs. BigelcW said.
The library purchased 168 new
books and repaired more than 100
others during the month.
Service men and women and their
families are not required to give
guarantcrs or post deposits in order
to get library cards, and there is no
limit tc the number of books that
can be taken out on any one card,
Mrs. BigeloW concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Death Summons
Well Known
Hardware Man
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started working at the hardware
company delivering goods and as
general utility boy around the
store. After that he was with the
Union Hardware Wholesale company
in Los Angeles. In May 1924 he re-
turned to the Imperial Hardware
company as salesman. In rapid sue
cession he was advanced to whole
sale salesman, wholesale division
head in 1923, and in 1882 was made
manager OF the wholesale division
of the company. the position he held
at the time of his death.
His friends were legion in Impe-
rial Valley where he was known for
his happy go-lucky nature and his
love of pranks. He belonged to the
El Centro lodge of Elks and to the
auxiliary police
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Florence Swanberger; daughter,
Jean; a son, Willard B. Jr.; his
mother, Mrs. Lydia Swanberger of
El Centre; a sister. Mrs. Myrle E.
KrotZ of Glendale; and a brother,
Walter L. Swanberger of Santa Ana
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Man in Uniform
Tackles Police

In a fight between FL Centre po-
lice and Marsslino M. Madrid, 25,
in the New China cafe, 421 Broad
way, Friday night, Madrid came out
second best. so police reported.
Madrid, who was wearing an army
uniform, was refused service in the
cafe which is out of bounds to mill
tary personnel, according to the
police, and became abusive. AT
that point police were called.
Refusing to leave at the officers
request, Madrid was forcibly re-
moved frcm the cafe. In tie en-
suing scramble, one of the officers
received slight face injuries and the
ether officer damage to his uni
form.
In police court, Saturday morn
ing, Mad. id was fined five dollars
or two and half days in the city
Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Lawmakers Put
On High Speed
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surplus would be used to fill the
gap.
VETERANS ASSISTANCE
Bond issues for assistance of vet
erans and for highway construction
were called fer in bills Introduced
late Friday.
Senator Ben Huise (R) El Centre,
ant Senator Chris N. Jespersen (R)
At2 scaGero, introduced bill to SUBJ
nit S130,uoo,C03 bond Issue for the
assistance of veterans to a vote of
the people. The money would be
loaned to World War II survivors to
purchase homes, farms and busi-
nesses. If the bond issue is approv-
&C, the states fund for veterans
would total S160,00O000.
Hulse, Jesperson and Senator
George J. Hatfield (R) Newman.
were co-authors of three other pro-
posals for assistance CT veterans.
including one which would author
ize loan up to $4,000 for the pur-
chase of a small business and
companion bill to increase to the
same maximum the amount 20 be
loaned for farm or home purchases.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Arrnored Battle
RACES Along
Belgian Fronts
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men ane armor.
At the northwestern corner of the
salient, American troops pushed
ahead with increasing speed south
of 1aroche and southeast on the
road leading to Bastogne, running
into frequent road blocks and mine
fields but live other opposition.
Hives an6 Mierchamps, two miles
south and three miles southwest
of Laroche were taken by the
Yanks while British forces on Their
right flank drove into the outskirts
of Champion, three miles SOUTH
west of Mierchamps.
British Second army forces link
ed up with Lieutenant General
George S. Patton's troops on the
southern side of the salient above
ST. Hubert, which fell without a
struggle, and at last reports were
striking northeast from that town
without making contact with the
ietreating enemy.
At the center of Patton's line,
three American divisions chopped
up Nazi stragglers in the wooded
Tarohamps Wardin Doncols area
extending three to five miles SOUTH
east of Bastogne. More than 34Lt
prisoners we're rounded up in ar
American trap there and field dis
patches said thousancs of Nazi
dead, killed in a 48-hom artillery
bomfoardment, were scat tere
through the woods.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
CITY ENGINEER PRAISES
E. c. CLEANUP CAMPAIGN

The recent city-wide cleanup
campaign has produced a marked
imp ovement in the general appear
ance of the city, E. Paul Ford, Ell
Centre city engineer, said Satur-
day.
In expressing his appreciation to
the citizens of the city for their CO.
operation, Ford said that the city's
streets and alleys are showing graf
flying results from the campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Manila Drive
Gains Ground
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ports, 100-odd landing craft and
IL escorting aircraft carriers had
arrived in the gulf. Tokyo also spec
ulatec that other landings were
impending at Batangas. southwest
of Manila. and Lamon bay, south
east of the capitalD
(The Japanese Domei agency as
serted that the American forces on
the southern flank of the beach
head are moving on Aguitor (pos-
sibly Aguilar, 10R miles inlan6
on the Agno river and that ajor
ground clash on the north central
Luzon plain was imminent0
BOASTS SINKINGS
(Another Japanese broadcast sale
Japanese forces had sunk 81 and
damaged 25 American ships in the
Lingayen gulf between Jan. 5 and
10. The German TranSocean agency
claimed a japanese submarine sank
an American battleship last night
in the gulf
AT the center of the peachhead
American 6orces advanced in
strength through Malasiqui, Il
miles inland, to within six miles CT
the Agno river line on the main
highway from the Lingayen gulf to
Manila American reconnaissance
patrols already have stabbed across
the Agno river, along which the
Japanese may attempt their first
stand 90 miles north CT Manila.
Japanese resistance continued
feeble at the center of the beach
head, but sharp fighting was raging
along the eastern perimeter roughly
midway between Malasiqui and
RADON. Fairly strong enemy forces
were encountered along the Mana
Gag -Pozorrubio road eigi.. miles in
land from San Fabian and in the
hills to the north.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

Another Lost Dog
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Whitney of Sali-
mas, who are stopping at the Wig
wan hotel in Brawley, are desolate
because they have lost their York
shire terrier in Ell Centre. The dog
crawled out of their car window
while they were in cafe in FL
Centro.
This is a great dog. Whitney, who
is a world war one veteran, got this
dog while he was in England with
the merchant marine in this war.
On the way to the United States the
dog was in a shipwreck and suffered
concussion.
The lost dog is black with a tan
face and has a short tail.
The cashier at the cafe saw four
marines go past the place with dog
answering this description. They ap-
parently found the dog running
loose on the street and adopted it.
That dog isn't stray, boys, SO
please tell Whitney where he can
find it.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
u. S. Army Takes
Over Struck
Electric Plant
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the state director of selective serv-
ice for reclassification in event he
holds an occupational deferment."
President Roosevelt ordered the
war department to take over the
plant at an early hour Saturday and
Acting Secretary of War John j.
McCloy Immediately called for every
striker to resume his post at once. .
The wildcat strike of 400 main-
tenanee workers repeatedly started
over a union stewards resentment of
the company's refusal to substitute
a day shift for the overnight shift
to which he had been assigned.
McCloy said in Washington that
the Presidents action was necessi-
tated by a strike which threatened
to cripple vital war production and
damage civilian morale in commu-
nifty that is building a substantial
part of all our tanks, guns, trucks,
planes and other critical war equip
ment."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
JAP SOUVENIR COSTS
CHICAGO LAD A HAND

CHICAGO, Jan. Is. (UP)-A jap
anese water bomb which his brother
in-law had sent home as a souvenir
cost Edward Aichanowski, 13, his
right hand Friday.
The youth was taking it to school
and had set it down on the wet side
walk when it exploded, blowing off
his right hand.
His sister, Mrs. John Piloponis,
! told police her husband had ex-
planned that the bomb was used by
= the Japs to throw at soldiers wading
to shore in an invasion. Contact
'swith the water makes it explode,
she said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
Navy Recruiter
To Visit E. {.

j. K. Mitchell, navy recruiting Of
ficer, will be at the navy recruiting
station in the Ell Centre post office
Tuesday and Wednesday.
He will interview 17-year-old ap-
plicants for the navy. High school
seniors who are nearing their
eighteenth birthday anniversaries
and wish to finish their school year,
Mitchell said. are especially asked
to see him during his two days in
Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
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mosa raid to 80 ships sunk, includ-
ing two destroyers or destroyer es-
corts, and 1o4 vessels 6amaged, in
cluding a destroyer and five de-
stroyer escorts. Thirty-seven enemy
planes were destroyed and 81 dam
agec.
Nimitz also announced conclusive
evidence" had been obtained that
the 45,000-ton Japanese battleship
Musashi blew up and sank as result
Of damage inflicted on her by car
rier planes in the second battle of
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
BOUND TO HAPPEN

DEVILS LAKE, N. D., Jan. 13.
UP)-A white Leghorn hen owned
by Mrs. Charles Lands, who lives
near here, apparently is trying to
direct its eggs to men in the serv-
ice. The hen laid an egg the other
day marked distinctly with "GI"
in brown pigment.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
3S Jap Ships
81 onked Out

the Philippines last Oct. q. The
Musashi and her siSter-ship, the
Yamato, camaged by bombs in the
same action, were the two most
powerful battleshipS in the Japan
ese navy.
FIRES KINDLED
In the opening attacks ON the
Indo-China coast, numerous fires
were kindled in the vicinity of Sal
gon, the eolony'S first seaport and
former French naval base. Es-
pecially large fires were observed
at the Thanh Son Nhut air base
north Of Saigon and at Port Nha5e.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

BOSTON. Jan. y. (UP)-Records
show that 81 babies have been
abandoned in Massachusetts, during
the past IA years. In IL cases the
parents eventually were identified.
The other waits became state wards.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

LEWISTON, Me-, Jan. 13. UP)-
Emile Charest of Lewiston glued
2267 matches OH plaster-board to
construct a window-type memorial
plaque dedicated to all four branches
of the armed forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

ible, avenging flood that will wind up
this Jap business fast, once and for all!
And let's pay for that flood with the
same grim eagerness, the same deadly
purpose that our fighting men show in
battle
The invasion of Luzon is on. Let's open
our purses-turn out our pockets-emp
ty the sock.
Now, if never before, let's make sure
that we buy at least one extra 500 War
Bond.
From the private at Lingayen to the
las. housewife on the Eastern Seaboard,
let's all of us, one hundred thirty mil
lion strong, rise up and give the Sons of
Heaven :. . hell!
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

tie
They gate US plenty

Pearl Harbor =. Wake Bataan =.
Corregidor Java Sea =. Savo Island
the worst string of defeats in Ameri-
cas- military history.
The Stars and Stripes hauled down on
American soil and the Rising Sun run
up -. captured American marines made
to play coolie and haul grinning Jap
officers in rickshas-the Sons of Heaven
have handed us the bitterest medicine this
nation ever had to swallow
NOW-LEI"S GET 'EM!-
Let's pour it on them Let's shove the
men, the ships, the guns, and the planes
over there in an overwhelming, irresist-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14
RAMBLING REPORTER

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court house without seeing DR..
Brooks.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

LARGEST BEE KEEPER
M1DDLEBURY, VT, Jan. 13. (UP)
New England's largest bee keeper
is Charles Mraz of Middlebury, who
has more than 300 bee colonies on
his farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

And here are more reasons for buying
at least an extra 500 WGr Bond
investment in the world!
g. War Bonds return you $4 for every
S3 at maturity.
3. War Bonds are convenient as cash
and increase in value to boot!
A. War Bonds mean education for your
children, security for you, a nest egg
to fall back on, come what may.
5. War Bonds help keep down the cost
of living.
6. War Bonds will help win the Peace by
increasing purchasing power after the
war.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-14

X. X. Sharpe Co.
Scheniman Paper Co.
Robert SchwOb
G. f. Scott Cigarettes
Valley Drug
Valley Auto Supply
WOmack Mitchell
Clarence Walker
Zinn & Zinn
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Andrews Field
Due 10 Become
World 'sLarqest
l5-MilIion Project
To Make Base Center
Of Air Defense

Apdrews Army Air Base, Camp
Springs, Md, is slated to be the
largest airfield in the world and
the center of our air defense when
construction is completed, it was
learned today.
The field, located 10 miles south.
east of Washington, covers about
4.7O0 acres and originally was DE-
signed as fighter base for the
protection OF the Washington-Balti-
more area. At the time it opened
IN May, 1943, it was described as
the largest airport of its kind on
the continent. 1t includes Is miles
OF taxiways and four 5,5oo-foot
runways
When fully developed the project
Will cost an estimated $4,000, 900
and will include 259 buildings. The
administration building and 81 off,
GERS quarters, scheduled for COM
pletion next March, are being con-
structed at cost of $500, GOO.
The Continental Air Forces. which
now has headquarters at Boiling
Field, is preparing to move to the
new field in about two months. The
CAF, redeployment operations
headquarters for all airmen, proba-
bly Will absorb all air forces now
overseas for occupational duty, it
was reported.
The vast airbase, originally
known as Camp Springs Army Air
base, was dedicated last April in
honor of 1t. Gen. Frank M. An
dreWs, killed in an air crash in Ice
land May 3, 1943, while commander
OF the American Expeditionary
Forces in the British Isles.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Chicken, Forgotten Bird Of War,
Staging Comeback in District

The common chicken, which civil
ians almost had come to classify
with the dodo, began making a
comeback on the domestic bill of
fare today.
Almost every store in town was
able to show potentially crisp, brown
fryers and juicy broilers, thanks to
an Agriculture Department order
last Monday eliminating the set
aside of 10 per cent for Army pro-
curement.
Fifty per cent Of the shoppers
who wish to grace Sunday tables
with fowl will be appeased this week
end and by next week the supply
should be only Is per cent of nor
NAL, spokesmen for retail meat
dealers predicted.
Fred Kolker, chairman of the
poultry division. of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association,
said IA wholesalers virtually shut
down by the Army squeeze since
last December, were going full
blast" again.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Man Killed in PLUNGE
From Taft Bridge

A man identified by papers in his
pocket as Ralph S. Arrison, As,
jumped or fell to his death from
the east side of the Taft Bridge
shortly after l0:30 am. today.
Alfred E. Windsor, 20, of Upper
Marlboro, Md, a War Department
civilian driver, told reporters he saw
mans body strike the Rock Greek
drive roadway beneath Connecticut
avenue. Windsor was travelling west
through the underpass in an Army
vehicle. He summoned police.
Police investigation disclosed that
Arrison had been honorably dis
charged from the Navy in 1922 and
that he was a patient at Mount
Alto Hospital, according to papers
found on the body. His personal
effects also included card of mem
bership in District post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and a
form-reply to fan letter from Bing
Crosby, police said.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Two From D. G. Renamed
By Improved EIks

Two Washingtonians were re-
elected at the annual convention of
the Improved Benevolent Order of
the World in Philadelphia yesterday
the Associated Press reports.
William C. Hueston, 1915 Four
teenth street NV, was reelected
grand commissioner of education,
and Elizabeth Gordon, 406 M street
NV, was reelected grand daugh-
ter ruler Of the Grand Temple. sister
organization of the IBOEW.
j. Finley Wilson, 1918 Vernon
street NV, is grand exalted ruler
and was reelected last year. He has
served in that post for % years.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
Further Hearings
Promised St. John s
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 3d.
Officials of st. Johns College have
been assured further hearings on the
proposed acquisition of the college
campus at Annapolis by the Navy
Department.
Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee said he
and Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Affairs Committee would give
st. Johns another opportunity to
present testimony before members
of both committees, if the college
wished.
James V. Forrestal, Secretary of
the Navy, has approved ALLEGATION
OF s750,000 for the purchase of st.
Johns property, and the two COM
mlttees have approved negotiation
with the college for a price.
st. Johns officials have said, how
ever, that they would not negotiate
until the committees have ruled
whether acquisition of the campus
is a matter of necessity, not con-
venlence and in the national in
terest,"
Evening star., 1945-08-30
U. 5. Aid in Feeding
Europe Urged al Meeting

Representatives of more than go
organizations, acting as the result
of a meeting called by Americans
United for World Organization,
prepared today to send a letter to
President Truman urging his as
sistance in the problem of feeding
Europe.
Frank Gervasi, war correspondent
for Golfers in Europe and the
Near East, told the group, meeting
at the Chamber of Commerce Build
ing yesterday, that we still would
be fighting on the beaches of Eu-
rope If the Allies had not main
tanned their resistance to the Nazis.
Europe must be fed not as a matter
of sentiment, but as moral obli-
cation, he said.
Mr.. 'Gervasi was introduced by
Randolph Feltus, assistant to Sec
retary of the Treasury Vinson. An
other speaker was Orris Wells of
the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics.
A documentary picture of the Film
Board Of Canada-"Food- Secret of
Peace" was shown at the meeting.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. G.
Dangers in General Use Of DD7
Studied as Dealers Delay Sales

The Washington Better business
Bureau has undertaken an investi-
cation to guide merchants in the
sale of the insecticide DDT after
numerous inquiries on possible dan
gers in its indiscriminate use.
Fear that i'll effects might fol-
low improper use of the compound
has led some District of Columbia
merchants to withhold it from sale,
1t was said.
Recently the powerful insecticide
was released for general use. Pre-
viously it was widely used by the
armed forces in malaria control and
to battle typhus. In the scramble to
get into production, it was said. some
manufacturers failed to label the
insecticide adequately and this has
inspired caution among retailers.
In Midlist Among Poisons.
"We expect to handle it as soon
as we know more about it," the
spokesman for a drug chain said
today. "We know it's selling to beat
the band, but we can't afford to
take a chance"
A department store official also
said his company hesitated to offer
it for sale until it had more infor-
nation about it's effects.
Informed of the retailers caution
here and the Better Business Bu-
reau interest, DR.. Fred c. Bishopp,
the Agriculture Departments as
sistant chief of entomology and
plant quarantine in charge of re-
search, said projects are contin-
uing to test DDT for various pur-
poses under varied conditions.
We've perhaps been a little in
clined to be overcautious and to
lean backwards in our statements
in connection with this outstand-
ing insecticide," he said. Il would
say, however, that it occupies a
middle position as to toxicity to
humans in comparison to other
well-known insecticides"
Absorbed by Skin.
DR.. Bishopp said it is more poi
sonous than pyrethrum and rote-
none but less poisonous than nico-
tine, arsenicals and f1uorides, which
are used, likewise, in gardens to
kill insects.
He said DDT powder is nom
poisonous unless. taken into the
stomach, but that when dissolved
in kerosene or oil and used as a
spray can be absorbed by the skin
and cause i'll effects in men and
animals.
1t serves as a nerve poison for
insects, and apparently has the same
effect on humans, as evidenced by
muscular tremors noted in some
cases, which may last for several
days, he said.
In case DDT is used as a spray
he said wearing mask might be
wise to prevent inhalation.
Evening star., 1945-08-30
ST. Elizabeth 5 Raises
Daily Cost 10 District
Patients by IS Cents

An increase of IS cents in the
daily fee for District patients at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital was disclosed
today by Robert L. Mudd, District
auditor.
The fee will be raised from 50 to
$2.45, and will increase the esti-
mated cost of the Districts share
in the hospitals operation by $780,
600. The Districts annual share in
the disqualification cost is estimated
at approximately $500 900, includ-
the increase.
This annual cost is in addition to
fees paid by guardians or hospital
lied persons who have the financial
means. Approximately TOO persons
now pay varying sums fixed by
court. Their total payments this
year were $449, ,483. Only in a few
cases will the increased cost be
passed on to the inmates.
S162 Annual Rise Per Patient.
Mr.. Mudd said that the District
pays to the Federal institution only
the cost of patients committed by
the District government. On the
basis of the new increase the an
nual cost of hospitalizing a patient
will be 1882, an increase of $162,
of which about one-sixth will be
able to pay any part from personal
funds.
In setting up its budget the Dis
trict government figures it will have
1000 patients at the hospital during
the year. The Federal Government
estimated its annual appropriation
on $500 patients and allocated
$2,114,400 for this year Hospital
authorities said an additional Fed
eral appropriation would be neces-
sary to pay the costs incurred
through the Federal Pay Act.
Mr.. Mudd said, although no di-
rective has been received to increase
the charges for District patients, he
had been informed it will be ordered
in few days by the Budget Bureau
on recommendations of the Federal
Board of disqualification. Bills are
being mailed to those individuals
paying full charges, retroactive to
July l, he declared.
Reason Given for Increase.
The increase was directed, he said,
because Of the additional costs
caused by increased salaries and
overtime pay under the Federal Pay
Act, increased costs Of food and
medical supplies.
A contributing factor to the. in
crease, Mr.. Mudd said, was the
projected transfer from the hos
pital Of several hundred servicemen,
thereby enlarging the cost of caring
for the remaining patients.
The 81 daily rate was established
January |, 1874. Up to that time
the rate had been 81 90.