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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
Marine at Base
In {. +. Holds
Travel Record

Master Sergeant James r. Price
of Ell Centre marine air station
probably has done more travelling
and fighting than most GIs in this
war.
The marine sergeant was born
January l6, 1921 at Forest Missis-
sippi. He attended school there,
quitting in 1910 to join the marines
And then his travels began. En-
listing at New Orleans, Louisiana,
he took his boot training at the
marine base at San Diego. Then
he spent eight months in infantry
combat training at Camp Elliott.
May 80, 1912, the marine was back
in San Diego preparing to sail for
Iceland Landing July 7, he spent
the next nine months on patrol
duty in scout cars. Conditions were
bad, it never getting dark three
months out of the year and the
sun going down about midnight.
Coming back to the states by way
of New York, he was stationed at
New River, North Carolina with a
scout and tank company for six
weeks and then found himself on
the overseas list again.
This time Sergeant Price sailed
from Norfolk, Virginia, and went
by way of the Panama Canal Zone
into New Zealand. After scouting
in New Zealand, his outfit moved
on to the Fiji Islands and the New
Hebrides Group for practice land
ings. Then they made practice
landings on Guadalcanal where the
GI had a real taste of fighting at
its worst with the famed First ma
rine division. He led a reckless life;
chow was pretty scarce the first
two weeks with all c rations and
only two meals day. Sergeant
Price lost II pounds in three weeks.
A member of an infantry outfit,
the Sarg said that all fighting was
done at night. Admitting killing
a few Japs himself, Price said that
dead Japs were thrown into bomb
holes and covered with bulldozers.
It rained, was muddy and wet and
the mosquitoes were terrible.
Leaving there November %, 1912.
his outfit went to the Hebrides tc
repair ship and from there to New
Caledonia. His second return to
the states was by way of San Fran
cisco, landing December 2, 1912. He
was granted a 30 day furlough and
then sent to Ell Centre for perma-
nent duty at the air station.
Sergeant Price made all his rat
ings at Ell Centre being promoted
to master sergeant February, 1914.
He likes hunting, horseback riding
and swimming and at present is
taking a correspondence course in
advanced algebra from the Marine
Institute.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
ConnaIIy HurIs Lobbying Charge

questions. I shall testify on Mon-
Gay"
A few moments later Senator
Theodore Francis Green Cd Rhode
Island, leaned over to whisper to
Connally and johnson promptly
challenged his action.
"I don't believe in secrets around
this committee table," johnson said
There may be 100000 secrets
around this table but the one secret
more important than all is that
you want to take this great Boulder
dam and blow it to hell by giving
a foreign power the water"
VOTED FOR BOULDER DAM
IT was one of your followers in
the Boulder fight" Connally pro-
tested. It was in the house then
and I voted for the project. I don't
want to blow it to hell"
Thank you." johnson said. THAT
remark is worth more to me than
any other"
Connally then explained that
Green had simply suggested that
the witness be allowed to proceed.
When representatives of the three
press associations started to leave
the room to send their stories on
the Exchange, Connally interrupted
the witness.
Now, I want the press to stay
around and hear this witness" he
said. II want them to be generous
to him. They've been very generous
to California witnesses, and I want
them to be generous to this witness.
Don't go rushing off, now
The reporters promised to return
and left to write their stories.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
Farm Employers
Neglect to
File Draft Form

Employers on farms must file
Form 42 under the selective service
system or be ready to make replace
ments for men inducted into the
armed service. There Is nothing
automatic about the whole proceed
ure. Thus speaks Rudolph Miller
secretary of the USDA war board.
Form AZ, for farm employees only.
in simple terms. is an affidavit of
occupational classification and pre-
cedes deferment under farm occu-
pational deferments. without this
fern, selective service boards have
no other evidence that a certain
previously deferred farm employe
again should be deferred.
APPEALS NECESSARY
Miller pointed out that lack of
filing this form brings the person
up to the necessity of an appeal in
case induction has been ordered.
Two boards may consider the case
after the induction board has acted.
Filing of Form AZ properly and at
the required time presents the
whole matter in regular order un-
der the Tydings amendment re-
quiring deferments for CRITICAL farm
occupations, which includes crop
planting, growing and harvesting
and such other farm activities as
dairying and the like.
It further is pointed out that the
mere fact that a farm employe has
been engaged constantly over Pc
riod of years or months does not
eliminate the necessity of filing this
classification form.
Already, 1t is declared, failure to
file the fern has taken many from
necessary farm work and more will
follow if there is further neglect in
filing the paper.
NATURE OF FORM:
Briefly here is the operation
necessary:
This form is to be filled out by
an employer or any other person
who has knowledge of the regis
trant's eligibility for Glass II de-
ferment as a necessary man in his
civilian occupation or activity.
Evidence submitted to the To-
cal board may be included in or
attached to this form and may in
clude any documents, affidavits, or
other information.
"If the registrant is deferred the
employer must notify the local
board promptly of any change in
the conditions upon which his de-
ferment Is based, or if his employ
ment is terminated.
1.-The oath required by this fern
may be administered by any civil
officer authorized to administer
oaths generally, any commissioned
officer of the land or naval forces
assigned for duty with the Selective
Service System, any member or
clerk CT a local board or board OF
appeal, any government appeal
agent or associate government ap-
peal agent, any member or asso-
ciate member of an advisory board
for registrants, any postmaster, act
ing postmaster, or assistant post
master.
mo fee shall be charged by any
person for administering the oath
required on this FORM
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
Manila Battle
Grows in Fury

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south were roofing the japanese
from their street barricades and
ruined houses in a hand-to hand
battle that outdid in sheer ferocity
anything General Douglas MacAr-
thurs troops have experienced since
they entered Manila week ago.
THE fighting is CT the fiercest
Sort" MacArthr's communique re-
ported tersely.
(Tokyo, after announcing that all
but a skeleton force had been evac-
uated from Manila, began boasting
that the Americans had fallen into
trap in the capital. That version
appeared purely as propaganda in
yention, however, as front dispatch
es said Macarthur was moving over
whelming forces into the city and
that its complete liberation could
not be long celayed)
LAUNCH COUNTER ATTACK
More than 80 miles south of Man.
ila, equally heavy fighting broke
out around Tagatay, where a pock-
eted japanese force launched two
counterattacks against units of the
11th airborne division. Both thrusts
were beaten off with serious losses
to the enemy.
Northwest of Manila, vanguardS
of the 38th division pushed 10 miles
down the west coast of Bataan from
the recaptured Olongapo naval base
to reach Moron.
Seventy to Is miles north of Man
lila, the hare fought Pampanga riv-
er crossings at Rizal and Bongaton
finally were secured by the u. S.
Sixth division. Another 35 miles to
the northeast, the 32nd division
continued its advance up the Villa
Verde trail leading to Imugen anc
the Caguyan valley, after smashing
Japanese defenses five miles north
Of San Nicolas.
American medium bomberS and
fighters worked over the enemy in
close support of the advancing
ground forces on all sectors, and
joined in with light naval units in
a coastal sweep that wrecked great
number of small japanese craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
Yanks Hammer
Western Line

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a short distance to the other side of
the structures.
Front reports said the Germans
were rushing up reserves to bar the
Canacian breakthrough that threat
ened ito turn the soft" northern
corner of their west wall and lay
the industrial Ruhr open to inva-
sion.
Resistance was Stiffening slowly
as the Nazi reinforcements swung
into line, but headquarters spokes-
men and correspondents at the front
said Canadian and British infan-
trymen still were making good prog
resS.
FIGHT IN RAIN
Moving forward in a drizzling rain
that turned the battlefield into a
quagmire and practically immobfl-
ized their tank support, the Allied
ground troops carved out gains rum
ming to three miles and more in the
past "a hours.
In the first 48 hours of their big
push, Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's Can
adian First army forces had driven
as much as eight miles through
the bristling wall of concrete pill
boxes and tank traps protecting
Kleve and, beyond it, the industrial
heart of Germany
Field dispatches said more than
250C prisoners had been taken since
the Canadians and Britons went
over to the attack Thursday morn
ing, indicating that virtually all the
5000 to 1000 combat troops of the
German 84th division holding that
front had been knocked out of ac-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
Officers Named
BY Credit Unit

j. r. Snyder of Holtville was re-
elected president of the Imperial
Yuma Production Credit association
for the third time.
The election took place at the as
sociation's reorganization meeting
in Ell Centre Friday.
H. B. Stewart of Brawley was
reelected vice-president for the Sec
ond year and C. H. H. Small of Ell
Centre was made secretary-treasur-
er. The executive committee is COM
posed of Snyder, Stewart and
Small.
Other directors of the association
are A. H. Burr of Calexico, Harry P.
Jones of Brawley and Homer l..
Kruger of Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
State Employees
Cancel Meet

SACRAMENTO. Feb. 10. (UP)-
The annual convention of the Cali
fornia State Employees association
has been cancelled at the request
of the federal government, James
H. Phillips, executive secretary OF
the organization, announced Friday
Instead, Phillips disclosed, a
meeting of the board of directors
will be held at Santa Cruz tomor-
row and Sunday. Officers will be
elected and action taken on pend
ing legislation affecting state work
ers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
VICTORY GARDEN COMMITTEE
STATES IMPERIAL MEET

Ell Centre areas Victory Garden
committee will meet at the fair
grounds at Imperial at pm. We'd
nesday to make arrangements for
future gardening and home canning
activities.
The county Victory Garden COM
mittee members said there is wide
spread interest in gardening and
canning activities in Holtville and
Brawley where canning equipment
is available to residents to conserve
their home garden products.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
THREE LICENSES
ARE ISSUED

County Clerk w. j. McClelland
recently issued three marriage IL
censes. They were obtained by
James Warren Stearns, 10, marine,
and Betty Mary Lakos, l8, Calexico
clerk; Thomas John McGuillan, q,
marine, and Pauline Patrick, 20,
Riverside machine shop employe;
and by James Edward Britain, %,
navy, San Diego, and Ruth Ann
Miller, "a, Chula Vista, bookkeeper
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
Farm Center Wins
Roll Goal Honors

Alamo-Verde farm center reacn-
cd its 1e45 membership quota Sat
urday. placing fourth in the race
to complete enrolment this year,
Alex Meyer, president of the Imper-'
ial county Farm Bureau, said Sat-
urday. To-.
The record this year showed Jas
per in first place, Acacia in second
place, and Spruce-Westmorland IN
third place.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11

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johnson said. IT insist on my rights. !"
Go ahead, Senator Downey." said
Connally with shrug. ASK all the
questions you want to. I want to
be courteous. I want to be fair"
WELL" said Downey with a laugh,
IT have lost all my ambition to ask
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
SUES FOR DAMAGES

Damages exceeding $4,000 were
sought by J. w. Haynes in suit
filed Friday against j. A. Beebe,
G. B. Noblett, E. T. Ward, and the
Brawley Taxi company. He asked
the damages for injuries he said
he suffered in a traffic accident
two miles north of Brawley while
in a taxi travelling from Brawley to
Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
County Democrats
Reaffirm Fight
On Water Treaty

Continued From Page One)
station stressed the need for help
ing returned veterans to complete
their educations.
Declaring that Henry Wallace is
a friend of the common people
Robert Patterson, farmer of the
Holtville area spoke in favor of his
appointment as secretary of COM
merce.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11

More than 80 per cent of the
wounded who have reached army
hospitals have been saved, and in
some hospitals the rate is almost
100 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
RAMBLING REPORTER

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Of the rationed products needed TO
make cakes.
How they did it we can't see.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
MacuINERY IAGS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. CUP) =
Farm machinery showed little I'M
provement" between July l ana
december 81, 1914, the war produc.
ton board said Saturday and will
continue to fall behind schedule.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-11
SEEKS DIVORCE

SEEKS DIVORCE
Suit for divorce was filed in I'M
perial county superior court Friday
by Emma Mary Glass against Aug
ust Glass.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
WAVELL MAKES MOVE
FOR INDIA HARMONY

SIMLA, India, June u. Up
New step in negotiations for the
formation of a new national gov
eminent for India vas taken to-
night when British Viceroy Lord
Waven conferred Unexpectedly with
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, president
of the powerful all-India Moslem
League.
Jinnah returned from the con-
ference amiable but uncommunlca
tive on whether he had been asked
bv the Viceroy to yield from his
earlier adamant position that. his
organization should have the sole
right to name the Moslems who
will serve on the proposed execu'
tive council.
Jinnah's claims have been cyl.
lenged by Mohandas K. Gandhl and
the all-India Congress party which
claims to represent large Mos
lem membership although conced'
ing that the organization is sA'e'
dominantly Hindu.
This morning, India political
leaders conferred with the Viceroy
for an hour on Lord Wavelps pro-
posals for virtually all-1ndiar
government and then adjourned
until Friday amid speculation that
agreement on all points might have
been reached.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
SENATORS PROMOTE
PLOESTI CONQUEROR

WASHINGTON, June q - IN
The Senate voted a promotion to.
day for the gener whose bombers
smashed the Ploe sti Oil fields in
Romania, one of the great blows
at the Nazis in the Balkans.
Confirmation was by voice vote
on the nomination of Maj. Gen.
Nathan F. Twining to be Lieu
tenant General. Twining has been
Strategic Air Force commander in
the Mediterranean, operating out Of
Italy.
The senate also confirmed ap-
pointment of Col. Harry Vaughan,
aide to President Truman, as
Brigadier General.
Eleven other major generals were
voted three-star rank, including
John R. Hodge, Oath Corps COM
mander in the Pacific; Ennis c.
Whitehead, air officer under Gen.
Douglas Macarthur; Matthew B.
Ridgway, Alvan c. Gillem Jr., Troy
H. Middleton, Willis D. Crittenber.
ger, Charles P. Hall, Raymond S.
McLain, Leroy Lutes, Robert c.
Richardson, Jr., and John E. Hull.
Confirmed as Major Generals
were E. Gladstone Plank, Lauris
Norstad, Clovis E. Byers, Donald
w. Brann, Lawrence c. Jaynes.
Ray T. Maddocks, Edward M.
Powers. Stanley L. Scott, George
H. Decker. Harold M. McQelland,
Edward P. Curtis and John M.
Franklin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
clustering Bilbo Blasts
EEPC In Mild Filibuster

WASHINGTON, June ~ - u
For three hours and 80 minutes to-
day, Senator Theorodre G. Bilbo
said he didn't want the FEPC in
any shap or form. And he said if
any Senators think this is a fill.
buster, show tomorrow and really
hear one.
From 1888 until 4:3e, Bilbo dron-
ed on about the Fair Employment
Practices Committee, charged it
was trying to fuse white and Negro
races and those who were for it
only wanted the Negro vote. He as
a Mississippi Democrat didn't need
it.
He insisted it wasn't filibuster
but it sure looked the part. 1t had
so much the air of one that Senator
Mcclellan (D-Tenn) and majority
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
CONGRESS FIXES
new FOOD POWER
Quotas OF Non-F ederal In.
spected Slaughterers
Abolished

WASHINGTON, June u. ~
Congress today prepared new pow
ers and duties for Clinton P. An.
derson to use in control CT the
nations food supply after he be-
comes Secretary of Agriculture.
A senate-House conference group
agreed to include what Anderson
wants on food pricing in legislation
extending price controls one year
beginning July l. the same day
the New Mexico represa 'ative sue
ceeds Claude Wickard in the cabi-
net.
There were these other develop
ments on the fcod front:
a. A House subcommittee. re-
porting CRITICALLY on an investiga-
ton ce the War Food ADMINISTERS
ton, instructed Anderson to pro-
vide periodic reports CT progress
Of remedial measures.
~ The House tentatively ap-
proved an ALLEGATION Of STA 500,
900 for OPA for the fiscal year
starting July l. A move by some
Denav Gratis to boost the figure S.
eco, 900 was defeated 93 to Al, when
Chairman Cannon O-Mo) and 9TH
er Appropriations committee
members declined to support 1t,
Republicans did not make an ex-
pected attempt to reduce the
amount, which is $11, 100000 less
than last years ALLEGATION.
The new food pricing provlso re-
ouires approval of the Secretary
of Agriculture on all OPA price
orders on processed foods and agrl-
cultural commodities including
wool and cotton. This would re-
ouire his approval on meat prlc-
ing.
Anderson sat with the conferees
and favored the plan as a SUD-
stit,,te for much broader House
approved amendment by Rep. An
dresen (R-Minn). This would have
allowed the Secretary OF Agrlcul-
ture to bypass economic stabillza,
+;on D;rector William H. Davis on
food pricing.
Senator Wagner D-NY) told re-
porters however the new provlso'
still subject to formal ratltlcasion
lC.;,,,od m, Pare Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
MOBILE MAN AGAIN
EATS LIGHT BULBS

MEMPHIS, June q -iR- The
food situation is really getting
tough-Babe Benning is eating light
globes again.
Il had sort of sworn off this
glaSs-eating business" the 35-year-
old Mobile third sacker said today,
but this year I've gone back to it
little bit"
Steaks are not so plentiful in
Mobile" he added, tossing a
leather-lined tongue into his left
cheek.
Benning said there were times
back in the '30s when he'd store
away three or four bulbs day
and then follow up with couple
Of vine glasses for dessert.
Every town he hit they made
him do a repeat performance OF
the trick he learned from a circus
Performer as kid.
Glass-eating requires no special
constitution, says Benning-just
good teeth to chew the glass into
small bits.
But it started getting a bit hard
on my teeth," he asserted, $50 l
:spered off.
But I've eaten few this year,
mo red points, you know"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
TOBACCO DEALERS
SEEK WORLD MART
Plan Coordinated Program
To Reclaim Trade Lost
During War

RALEIGH, N. c., June 27.-P-
A coordinated program looking to
the reclaiming Of world markets
for American tobacco, some OF
which were lost temporarily be-
cause of war, was mapped here
today by the executive committees
Of the U. S. Tobacco Association
and allied agencies.
The executive committees held
business sessions preparatory to
the general meeting tomorrow OF
the Tobacco Association, CONTROL
ing agency in the auction tobacco
system. President L. L. Gravely
of Rocky Mount is scheduled to
give his annual address at tomor-
rows meeting.
The USTA's auction sales com.
mittee recommended that tentative
opening dates for the various flue-
cured tobacco belts adopted at
Danville, Va, on June 5, be for
mally approved tomorrow at the
organization full meeting. How
ever, the committee recommended
that the tentative Dec. II opening
date for Virginia fire-cured mar
kets be moved up to Dec. 3.
The tentative opening dates for
the various belts are: Georgia
Florida, July "a; North and South
Carolina Border Belt, August /;
Eastern North Carolina Bright
Belt, August 81; Middle Belt, Sept.
IL; Old Belt, Sept. ID; and Vir-
ginia dark fire cured, Dec. 8.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
Dutch Premier Plans
German Retribution

LONDON, June 81. - P) - A
Dutch policy of insistence on full
reparations from Germany and a
determined purge of former Nazls
in the political and economic re-
construction of the Netherland was
outlined tonight by Premier Will
liam Shermerhorn in radio
broadcast.
The recently-appointed premier
said prosecution of the war against
Japan was "the foremost task OF
the new cabinet"
Holland is preparing the biggest
festival in so years for Queen Will
helmina who will return to Amster-
dam tomorrow. The city will take
a holiday to celebrate the return
of the Queen who left her country
after the Germans came and fled
to England to continue the fight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28
Dance Hall Casanova
Courts Death To Repay

to my wives" Hardly said. That
ought to take care of things"
Hardy's troubles began yester.
day when his most recent wife,
Mrs. Dorothy Belts Hardy, had po-
lice track him down in a dance
hall because he made off with $500
of her former husbands insurance
money. Then two other eddie
aged women produced marriage
licenses to prove they, too. were
married to the handsome former
boiler Inspector and never had
been divorced.
They multiplied when police be-
gan checking marriage records and
found out he'd had at least No
and maybe four other wives.
ooh, I've married lots of wo-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-28

leader Barley OF. Kentucky decid
ed to seek compromise.
Mcclellan pleaded that the situat
ion was h r e ling war
agencies appropriation bill, night
sessions might be necessary, ano
even then the fiscal year might end
without cleaning up the money
measures.
Bilbo said ne couldn't help, it;
those who wanted to stick funds
for the FEPC into the war agency
bill were to blame.
So Mcclellan threw up his hands
and moved to recess until noon to-
morrow. Bilbo will still have the
floor then.
"a n d like Tennyson's brook,
can run on forever" Bilbo said
The problem developed into a
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