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Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10

the Farm Bureau in 1893 and on
the Farm Bureau board for num-
Der of years He also was chairman
of the AAA community committee.
Wieman avoided definite pOliti-
cal issues Wednesday, pointing out
that the campaign is not yet far
enough along for them To have
taken shape. His conversation, how
ever, Indicated a sharp OPPOSITE IN
to the present state administration $
policies.
Wieman stressed the advISahlity
of carrying competition to the Mo-
Vem5er election, rather than settling
the senate race in the primary, be-
cause such small percentage Of
voters cast their ballots 10 rule
il the primaries.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10
Bisgard Stops Off
En- Route toS.D.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. BiSgard and
small daughter, Marguerite, were
in Ell Centre a short time Tuesday
en- route to San Diego from GUAM
tico, Va.
DISCARD took a training course at
the Marine training school in Viz
ginia and was assigned to the
Marine base at San Diego until
Oct |. He is on leave of absence
from the California Highway pa
troll.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10
Harold Stricken
WEEDS in Missouri

Mrs. E. S. Stricken returned this
week from Plattsburg, Mo, where
she attended the wedding of her
son, Harold w. Strickler, and Miss
Vernita Shoemaker, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Shoemaker OF
that city.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. The Rev. d. Wright
read the double ring service.
A wedding breakfast followed the
ceremony, the brides aunt, MIS-
d. w. Sandy, assisting.
The bride is a graduate OF the
University of Iowa, at AmeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10
kcants Seek Work on New
rl,aent Of Mt. Springs Grade

Finney said. lin line with the gen.
eral policy of the state employment
service. Since the employment of
labor for the road project was
placed in charge of the state en-
ployment office in FL Centre, resi-
dents of this county will be first
on the list"
Work for carpenters, oilers, pow
der men, mechanics, drillers, truck
and tractor drivers, painters, re-
inforced steel workers, and opera
tors of concrete vibrators, drag lines
graders, and power shovels are
among the men to be needed. The
time limit on the job was set at
800 working days.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10
ROSE LEAVES TO
ATTEND CONVENTION

Mark Rose. delegate elected to
represent Imperial county at the
Democratic national convention in
Chicago. and his alternate. Cecil
Glllett. left Tuesday for the conVrn-
ton city. Rose is one of the IA
California delegates.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10

ing appetite and flow of gastric
juice; thus aiding digestion; help
ing to build energy, strength, nerve
force. 1t also helps ease periodic
distress for many women who take
it for a few days before and all
during the time Over so years
of use and popularity invite con-
tidence in CARDUI!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-10
Happy Women Secure
Help From "Bui|d-Up"

Periodical headaches, nervousness.
irritability, cramp-lkc pains of Wo-
men may come from functional
dySmenorrhea due to malnutritioni
That why these diScomforts are
80 often relieved when Woman'S
physical resistance is increased
CARDUI helps build physical re-
distance for many users by increaS-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

Murray declared that the kind of
labor unity Americans most desire
is "a unity that comprehends great
er efficiency and more continuity
III the production machinery in
American industry" and said that
the CIO, extending its collective
bargaining contracts, would con-
tlnue to make "a greater contribu-
ton" to this objective than any
other U. S. organization.
Demonstrating CIO unity on the
Murray selection. Lewis and CIO
Vice President Sidney Hillman for
got their differences to join in the
Murray nominating exercises.
Murray, 54, a vice president of
C1O since its founding, vice preSi-
dent of the United Mine Workers
union since 1920, and leader of the
Steel Workers Organizing Commits
sion since 1886, was expected to
chart a new course for CIO, plac-
ing more emphasis on organization
al and economic policies and paying
Continued on Page 6. Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

Dublnsky that Dubinskys resolu-
tlon to purge racketeers from high
AFL union places, was a lousy"
one and demanded that he with
draw it. He started swinging when
Dubinsky ordered him to leave his
table. The battle spilled into the
lobby. Fay is considerably larger
and heavier than Dubinsky.
Hours later when tempers cooled,
William Green, president of the
federation, said the alteration
had been a personal" one. Later,
When he appeared before the gar
ment workers board, he said he
had been misinformed as to the
details, but regretted the fight as
a "deplorable incident"
His revised statement was promp-
ted by Dubinsky's assertion that he
never had met his assailant, Fay.
and had had no desire TO meet
him" Green had been called be-
lore the executive board of Dublin
sky's union to explain what Du-
blnsky called a reputation of the
pledges and an attempt to scuttle
another of those the federation
made to the garment workers to
lure them back into the AFL fold
last May.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Central Student
Wins Speech Honor

Dawn Whitaker of Central jun
ior college won second place in origi-
nal oratory in the largest section
speech tournament in the United
States, that conducted this week at
Pepperdine junior college, Los An
geles.
Six hundred students from 40 Jun
ior colleges and universities in nine
southwestern states participated and
only 10 schools won places. Dawn
winnig for Central by her grafton
wv hen We Become Americans. ;"
Central was the smallest college
represented.
Two Central students were among
the $50 reaching the finals, Lorna
McCleneghan and Bernice Russell
in progression debating Miss Eta
Thomas, Central speech instructor,
was asked to speak at the meeting
of public speaking instructors held
in conjunction with the tourna-
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
FisticuffS Mar
AFL'S Convention

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. %. fUP)-
The American Federation of Labor
convention reconvened after a holi-
day recess today with its harmony
shattered by fisticuffs over an anti
racketeering resolution
Changed was the entire tenor of
the convention which heretofore
had been portrayed as a model of
trade union unity as compared with
the tumultuous sessions of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tlonS
After a brief session. at which
minor business was transacted, the
AFL recessed its convention until
later in the day Then, it was to
hear brief address by Dan Tracy,
assistant secretary of labor.
The first blow at AFL serenity
Was a fist fight between David Du-
binsky, president of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
union. and Joseph Fay. vice preSi-
dent of the International Union
of Operating Engineers. They
fought in the bar of the Roosevelt
hotel headquarters of the conven-
ton, and continued the battle in
the lobby early Thursday morning.
No one was marked. Dubinsky
had a swollen lower lip due to a ci-
gar burn.
Eye-witnesses said that Fay told
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Aid TO Britain at
Maximum, Declares
FIR, Denying Rumors
Can't Help Any More on
Present Production,
President Announces

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov.
%. (UP)-President Roose-
velt indicated today that
Americas aid to Great Brit
ain is approaching its maxi
mum level on the basis of present
national capacity to produce weap-
onS of war.
He also disclosed that John J.
Pershing, general of the armies, had
been forced by physicians to reject
an appointment as U. S. ambassador
to the French government at Vichy.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the United
States is doing everything it can
at the present time to send mate
rial aid to Britain to bolster it's
defenses in the death struggle with
Nazi Germany.
BY inference, he indicated that
the $3.50 rule under which Britain
Continued on Page 6; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Fatal Thanksgiving Accident Brings
Valley Death Toll toB; Crashes
Send Three to Hospitals in County

Thanksgiving traffic casualties
brought the annual death toll to
% and caused three persons to
spend the holiday in the hospital
Miguel Sanchez, 7O-year-old Braw-
ley resident, died in the county
hospital Friday from injuries suf-
tered Wednesday afternoon when
a car he was driving eight miles
southeast of BraWley skidded 152
feet, missed a turn, skidded 102
feet on its side, and crashed into
a tree stump. Highway Patrolman
Walter Walsh said the car was
wrecked.
Angel Castro, 81, and Dr.. Ramon
Lopez, At, both of Brawley, occu-
pants of the car Sanchez drove,
also were critically injured. Castro
suffered a wound on his head and
broken shoulder. Lopez suffered
critical head and body injuries.
The car belonged to Lopez, Walsh
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Dies Orders Raids on
Ism Headquarters in U. S.
Cities After Revelations
White Paper Says
Nazis Attempting
To Sway|ndus+ry

WASHINGTON, Nov. %.
(UP) = The Dies committee
followed up it's disclosure of
"a purported German plan
for economic penetration of
the United States today by seeking
the records of Nazi, Fascist, Com
munist and japanese organizations
in eight cities.
A white paper" published by the
house committee investigating un-
American activities charged that
Nazi agents are seeking to gear
American economy to that of the
German Reich after what they an
ticipate will be a successful conclu
sion of the war. 1T also included
charges of far flung propaganda
efforts by Nazi agents in this coun-
try and Latin America-a trail of
activity that is alleged to have led
to the German embassy in Wash
ington and to German conSulateS
in other cities.
Shortly after tine document was
made public yesterday, Chairman
Martin Dies telephoned instructions
to his agents in Washington to be-
gin seizure of records of organiza-
tions in Baltimore, Buffalo, Boston,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Or
leans, Milwaukee, and Denver. Com
mittee attaches declined to give the
names OF the organizations involv-
ed.
Interviewed at st. Louis, Dies said
he believed issuance of the white
paper" would effectively smash"
all )plans of Nazi organizations
working in the United States. He
said he had a list of persons be-
lieved to be American agents of
the German Gestapo and that he
planned to move in upon them,
place them under oath and take
their testimony"
The Dies document may be only
the first of a series of white pa
pers" which will be issued by the
committee; others contemplated will
deal with Fascist, Communist and
Japanese activities. One committee
member said he believed the COM
mittee would follow that technique
rather than making public it's find
ings through hearings.
The mass of documents. most of
them in German, accumulated by
committee Investigators and repro
duced in the 500 page book centered
chiefly around two men. They were:
1.-Dr. Ferdinand A. Kertess, an
American citizen, head of the Chem
ical Marketing company. New York,
an American firm. The committee
said his activities, together with
those of numerous German individ-
uals and organizations, indicated
that Germany's efforts in this coun-
try were not devoted solely toward
Continued on Page 6; Column u
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
vuItee Strikers
Guilty Of treason,
Lawrnaker Says

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. (UP)-
Three house members today criti-
cized the CIO strike at the Vultee
aircraft plant in Downey, Calf,
and Rep. Eugene E. Cox, D., Ga,
charged that such action against
the government in times of emer-
gency amounted to treason.
Reps, Jennings Randolph, D., w.
Va, and John M Costello, D., Calf.
told the house the Vultee strike
was tieing up the defense program
and that the walkout was an at
tempt TO "highjack" the govern
ment for increased wages during
an emergency.
Cox asserted that the S16.000,O00.-
900 in commitments made by con-
gress for defense is "all imperiled'
if labor is permitted to strike against
the government now.
Such strikes are just as much
sabotage as to seek to break down
operations in times of emergency"
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Frenchworlen May
Win War Yet

NEW YORK, Nov. %. (UP)-
FrenchwOmen in German-Occu-
pied France treat NaZi troops SO
cOldly that the morale of the
troops has been shattered and
some have committed suicide,
two American women WHO spent
a month in German occupied
France asserted today.
The women, Miss Marion Dix,
1914 Spruce ST., South Pasadena,
Calf, and her companion, Miss
Mary Anna Barker, of Birming-
ham, Ala, arrived today from
Bilbao, Spain, on the Spanish
line vessel Marques de Comillas.
"The Frenchwomen," said Miss
Barker, "loOk right through the
Nazi soldiers and the mem can't
stand it,"
"The FrenchwOmen have been
magnificent" said Miss Dix.
"Ihey won't talk to German Of
ficers and soldiers. Even the
women of the streets are patri-
otic."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

Mrs. Ethel Love, AZ, $780, So.
Fifth street, Brawley, suffered cri-
tical back injuries Thursday after
noon. She was injured when a car
driven by her son, Herman Wayne
Love, 25 went out of control and
rolled into borrow pit a mile east
of the Shady Rest Auto court west
of Brawley. Love said the brakes
on his car grabbed when he applied
them TO miss car ahead of him.
He Was urinjured
Like a row of dominoes, a long
line Of cars bumped two miles east
Of Heber Thursday afternoon when
two cars came from behind too fast
to avoid crashing into the last in
line. Huey Dale Armstrong and
Paul E. Hill, both of El Centro,
drove the cars which came up be-
hind, said Highway Patrolman Bill
Mitchell. No one was injured. Both
cars Skidded As feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

Capture
Key City
Fascis+s Retreat
|On All Fronts,
Athens Reports
BY UNITED PRESS

Greek armies Friday seiz-
ed the big Italian base of
Koritza in Albania, smashed
toward a second important
stronghold at the town of Argiro-
castron and reported that Fascist
forces were being driven back on
all fronts.
The fall of Koritza, officially ad-
mitted in Rome, was regarded as
the first major setback for the
Axis military machine in land oper-
ations and it was greeted with wild
rejoicing in Athens and with great
satisfaction in London.
Greek dispatches said that their
advance units, supplied with food
by Raj bomber planes, also had
forced the surrender of an entire
italian battalion on the central
front, with all arms and equipment
falling to the Greeks.
The reports of important Greek
successes, however, were received
by neutral military sources with
some reserve in view of the fact
that in a long war Italy's man
power, air strength and resources
far overshadow the armed forces
of the Greeks and also of any mill
tary power that Britain might be
able to throw into the conflict at
the moment.
1t was believed the italian reverse
might have brought closer the long
threatened Axis offensive in the
Mediterranean which may have been
Continued on Page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

'mentS OF transport, COInIneTCldl anu
private flying for the next five
years.
A preliminary draft of master
plan, prepared by the board at the
request of Civil Aeronautics au-
thority. when finally completed was
expected to influence ALLEGATION of
public funds, the United Press re-
ported.
New services recommended in
cluded connecting Los Angeles with
Imperial Valley and San Diego with
the east.
In airport communications, the
valley was set down for class three
field along with Bakersfield, Berke-
ley, Sacramento, Stockton and Fres-
no. This class was next to the larg-
est proposed and was defined as
suitable for medium sized transport
planes. CAS- means of comparison.
the present field at San Diego is
rated as class two, adequate for on
ly small transport and large COM
mercial and private planes)
The valley was mentioned again
in the boards report regarding Sec
ond priority recommendations. Ad-
ditional airports we're recommend
ed for the valley along with Sacra-
mento. San Bernardino, Fresno, Red
Bluff, Bakersfield and Stockton.
after present fields are brought UP
to higher specifications.
Prof. Samuel c. May of the Uni
versity of California, chairman of
the planning board said that if the
boards program were adopted in
full, every important city in Cali
fornia would be served convenient
ly by regularly scheduled trans
port airlines. New services would
connect San Diego with the east,
San Francisco with Eureka, Los An
geles with Imperial Valley, and the
major cities of the central valley
with both Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Army to Buy
Horses Mondav

1t. Col. F. w. Koester, officer in
charge, will be in Imperial Valley
Monday to inspect horses for sale
to the U. S. Army. according to
b. A. Harrigan, county agricultural
commissioner.
All valley horse owners wishing
to sell animals to the government
must have stock on hand at the
Imperial fair grounds late Sunday
or early Monday morning, Harrigan
said.
Horses must be from four to eight
years old. gelding, Is to Is hands
high, weight 975 to l150 pounds
and be of bay, brown, black or
chestnut color.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Cafe BrawI Lands
Man in Jail Here

Andrew (Haywire Slim Elliott
was behind the bars Friday await
ing charges expected to grow out
of the stabbing of Joe Slovak, El
Centro cafe operator.
Elliott mot to be confused with
Andrew j. Elliott who drove cattle
through Imperial Valley before re-
clamation began and is still resi-
denD was arrested after a scuffle
in the Slovak cafe at 457 Main
street.
Police said Elliott drew a knife
and struck Slovak in the abdomen
when Slovak tried to evict him.
Slovaks condition, meantime, was
uncertain following an operation.
He is in Ell Centro hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Pea Pickers at
Work After Strike

CALIPATRIA, Nov 22.-Approxi-
mately 400 pea pickerS were back
at work today after a walk-out
Wednesday and Thursday because
of a reduction in wages.
The walk out, quiet and peace
full affair, occurred when Sham
Singh, Lala Singh and A. Hauser
announced they had cut the wages
from 11s to Ii cents a pound The
pickers went back to work as soon
as the 11s cent wage was put back
into effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

selectees. Chairman John Donohue
introduced Mayor Robert Hatton,
Legion Commander Mark Magee
and G. B. Smith. boards legal
advisor, who gave the five advice
on how to conduct themselves dur
ing the year of military training.
THE army is like the desert, "
Donohue said. 1T gets in your blood
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22


(CIO) and Vultee executives when
they resume negotiations today.
The negotiators late yesterday
had agreed on a wage clause for
a contract, the crux of the strike.
Early settlement appeared immi-
nent. Then Simpson inserted pro-
vision which would bind the union
not to walk out during the two
year contract Union representa-
tives refused to accept the proposal
and refused to submit it to arbitra-
ton. Richard Millar. president OF
Vultee, and two other company
officials left the conference.
The union also had rejected
provision requiring further disputes
to be submitted to a third party
for arbitration, but did not refuse
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

to submit the proposal TO arbitra-
ton
I'VE submit that the right TO
strike is something that cannot be
arbitrated," Wyndham Mortimer.
international representative OF the
UAWA. said.
Millar said he "felt these propos-
ais were absolutely necessary TO
continuance of defense production.
The wage scale upon which the
company and union had agreed
would establish base Of 62Is centa
an hour for employees who had
worked more than 90 days. Begin
ners would receive 55 cents an hour.
instead of the previous 30 cents. and
receive a ~ cent increase after 30
days. They would be paid the base
rate after 90 days.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
South-End Volunteers on
Way to Army Training

Five more Imperial Valley men
were enroute TO Los Angeles Friday
to join the fast-increasing ranks
of the first peacetime conscription
army in the United States.
The five men-all volunteers
left Ell Centre by bus to connect
with train at INLAND. They will
follow the same route that six
volunteers from the Northend sell
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
STATE ENv|SAGES BIG AIRPORT HERE
New Str Ike Nav
Hamper Defense

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Nov. %.
(UP)-A strike today threatened
10 Terminal island shipyarls
building naval torpedo boats and
mine sweepers unless a wage
increase is granted members of
the ship carpenters and caulkers
union, AFL affiliate.
If it should matcriaEze,
strike in the shipbuilding indus
try would be the second in little
more than week to tie up
Pacific coast defense contracts.
The union is seeking a mini
mum of S1.12M an hour, instead
of so cents, for skilled labor; IS
cents and hour. instead of 62h,
for common labor, and double
pay for all over 40 hours a week.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Emergency Covering

Some enterprising hat salesman
ought to dog the footsteps of DR..
r. C. Clemons at the next football
game and he'll probably make a
sale.
DIR. Clemons was troubled with
cranial chill Thursday afternoon at
the Calexico-El Centro game and
canvassed the nearby crowd for
emergency help. The only lid he
could promote that fitted him was
one belonging to Geraldine john
son.
That hat had feather on it and
was a bit rakish even for a football
game, when worn by member of
the brawnier sex.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Help

Help
Thursday afternoon we saw Milo
Foster and at that particular mo-
,ment would rather have seen Milo
than gold strike.
No need to go into the sorry
story of how we happened to be
three or four miles west of Imperial,
but we were there. There with
a car out of gas and nothing to
amuSe ourselves but a half a hundred
white-faced heifers across the way
who gave us a curious once-over
and then went back to eating.
We walked the miles to Imperial
and it was worse than 36 holes
of golf Milo rescued us there for
which we are his debtor An OLE
ander won't pay that debt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22

eetive service district took Tues
day.
This brings to IL the number of
valley men who have left for in
duction centers, making up the
countys first quota. Other quotas
will be assigned later
A brief ceremony at selective SER
vice headquarters in Ell Centro
marked the e-taking of the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Handicap Needed

Handicap Needed
The mail bag produces, in answer
to that item the other day about
solving the problem of Germany
by planting cotton and letting the
Oklahomans take over:
eff you put dairy in Germany
they would have TO have Rambl-
ing Reporter to sling the bull :"
We're afraid we'd be a bit out
classed in Germany - after all
they've got Goebbelsl We know our
limitations.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
= AMBl|Ne
III EpoR1ER
Down To Earth

Down To Earth
Desperately RR was seeking copy
for this motheaten column Friday
and accoSted a friend:
"Hreak down and give us a
rambler" we pleaded. you're al
ways seeing something funny"
The friend replied
"I was seeing something funny
yesterday Thanksgiving but they
We quieted down now"
CYeh, you're right we weren't
kidding about the desperate
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Go Turns Down
Truce at vuItee

DOWNEY. CAL Nov. %. (UP)-One disputed point
proposed Walkout moratorium-today apparently was
delaying settlement of the Vultee Aircraft factory strike
MAJ Sidney Simpson of the department said would
offer proposal to representatives of the United
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Vice-President of United Mine Workers Since
1920 Elevated to Leadership of Industrial
Union; Retiring Chieftan Keeps Pledge

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Nov. 22. (UP)-Phlip Muir
ray unanimously elected president of the Congress
of Industrial Organizations today and promptly protested
against Roosevelt administration pressure o force shot
gun agreement with the American Federation of Labor
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-22
Valley High on
List IL, Great
Development Plan
Planning Board Sets Up Program Urging
Public Ownership. Quick Improvement
Of 1873 Landing Fields in California

Imperial Valley high the list of recommends
ons for airport and airline facilities released Friday az
Sacramento by the State Planning board
The board recommended public ownership and improve
ment of arpOrts throughout the require