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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
Unionisfs Demand
Federal Seizure
OF Another Plant

Continued from Page One)
union membership clause in a con-
tract.
Although the union expected the
navy to grant the provision, gov
ernment officials declined to reveal
their intentions.
The United Electrical. Radio and
Machine Workers (CIO) asked the
president to commander the Ohio
Brass company, Barberton, O., which
had been closed by a strike since
May %. The union had agreed to
mediation board request for re-
SUMPTION of work pending negotia-
tions, but the company said several
union demands must first be clari-
fled. In its appeal to the president,
the union charged the company had
failed to bargain in good faith.
The Pittsburgh local of the same
union had submitted a similar ap-
peal to Mr. Roosevelt last weekend
| Ill Will d SUllkt Vi OUD
members at the Westinghouse Elec-
trio company. Direct negotiations
ended the four-day walkout late
Monday, however, when the union
accepted a compromise plan for
its wage demands affecting l65 men.
The settlement gave an hourly raise
of nine cents to As workmen and
an increase of five cents to the
others.
At Detroit $500 employees of the
municipal transit system voted
Tuesday in a bargaining election
provided in the settlement of last
weeks fiVe-day strike. The strike
was an outgrowth of a jurisdictional
struggle between AFL and CIO
unions.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
| IRump Parliament
Opposes Petuin

fore their mandates expire next
May.
The present chamber was elected
in May. 1886, amidst general strikes
and the popular front landslide
which swept Leon Blum and his So
cialistS into power. The mandates
should have expired in 1910 but
former Premier Edouard Daladier
extended them to May, 1912. to
avoid a wartime election. The rump
parliament has established a perm
anent organization under former
Premier Edouard Herriot. who was
president of the chamber.
The senators and deputies have a
well organized grapevine system
for communicating bad news of the
Vichy regime to their constituents.
Most Of them are in Vichy as ref
ugees' and will keep other senators
and deputies informed of develop
ments in their home districts.
Members Of parliament have
dropped their petty partisan quar-
rels and have all but formed a solid
bloc of opposition to Vichy.
The parliamentary opposition was
backed by Communist agitation
which, despite more than 10000
arrests, has continued an extra
intense propa G anda
against Vichy, not only among
but in all strata of society.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
Repeater Back
In County Jail

Al Biffi, 63-year-old Spanish
American war veteran, was back
in the Imperial county Jail Tues
day for the umpty umth time.
Ell Centre. police found Biffi
passed out!" they said, in the gut
ter at Fifth and Main streets Mon
day night. In police court Tuesday
Judge w. H. Lorenz of Calexico,
presiding in the absence of Judge
Lee Nuffer, sentenced Biffi to six
months in the county Jail for being
common drunk.
Deputy Sheriff Park Burritt said
he was so tired of fingerprinting
Biffi that he was tempted to fill
out several dozen fingerprint and
record cards and date a new one
every time he appeared in the
morning lineup. Biffi is said to be
an ex-army sergeant and to receive
a pension.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
SoIons 10 Probe
Shortage of Gas

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nounced that the gasoline shortage
inquiry will go ahead regardless of
when or whether the full senate
acts on the resolution.
He said that commerce sub
committee had been appointed to
start the investigation pending SEN
ate action on his resolution and
appointment of a special five-mem-
Der committee by Vice President
Henry A. Wallace. If the special
committee is named, the sub-com-
mittee will turn over the inquiry
to it.
Members of the commerce sub
committee who will start the gaso-
line shortage inquiry Thursday are
Maloney, chairman; Sens. George
l.. Radcliffe, D., Md, w. Lee O'Dan-
iel, D., Tex, Harold H. Burton, r.
O., and w. Warren Barbour, r.
N. j.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
Is RECOVERING

DR.. L. c. House of El Centre is
recovering at his home after a
brief illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
Nuzis Claim Bic
City
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
led to a bitter street battle in which
a large but unnamed White Russian
city was recaptured.
The front line reports did not
indicate whether the city was Co.
mel, which the Germans took re-
Gently in a thrust endangering the
north flank of the Russian armies
n the Ukraine The central front
offensive, however, was de-
signed to relieve that German threat.
German advances also were re-
ported from the Leningrad front,
where severe transforms were re-
ported aiding the Russian defense
of their second city.
Severe fighting continued on the
lower Dnieper river and Odessa
fronts, with the Russians reporting
total destruction of Rumanian di-
vision and defeat Of two others
outside the encircled Black Sea
port. Russian war dispatches re-
peatedly emphasized Rumanian
units frequently had lost more than
half and often two-thirds of their
effectiVeS
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26

! VfcHY, France. Aug. 26 CUP)-
More than 100 members of parli-
ament have met in rump session
here and formed themselves into
an opposition to the regime of Mar
shsl Henri PHILIPPE Petain. it was
disclosed today.
Disclosure of this new organized
opposition to the Vichy regime CO.
incided with revelation that IL pas
sengers were injured in a new rail-
way accident in occupied France
suspected to have resulted from sa-
botage. An autorail and a freight
train collided at the Carneville sta
ton south of Cherbourg.
Emergency courts. empowered to
impose summary death sentences on
Communists, Anarchists and sabo-
teurs. went into action against ter
rorists in the Paris area and it
was disclosed that Petain would
make an important speech at Il
am. Sunday in the Vichy stadium.
Observers said the parliamentary
opposition was the most formidable
and most important Of the opposi-
tion which Petain himself admitted
in his Aug. 10 speech to the nation.
The rump parliament of more
than 100 senators and deputies, de-
cided to maintain opposition to Pc
tain's efforts TO eliminate them
completely from national life be-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
Shutdown Of SRA
Without Effect

INDECENT rolls and "a dropped.
In the state as a whole there was
an increase of only 1899 county
INDECENT cases in spite of the fact
the association report said that at
the end of June when the SRA
closed its doors the state was taking
care of approximately 26,000 cases.
At the same tame approximately
5000 WPA cases we're cut off to
become a potential load on local
welfare agencies. Only 30 counties
showed an increase in the INDECENT
rolls, the association declared, while
81 had fewer cases at the end than
at the beginning of the month and
six counties showed no change at all.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26

gulf, and struck at the main Iran
oil centerS with occupation of Asr-
I-Shirin and the pipeline town of
Naft-I-Shah. All of these operations
were in the southwestern sector.
From the north, the Red army,
estimated at more than 100000, sup
plemented the operations of almost
as many British troops by advanc-
ing on Tabriz, the old caravan trade
center in the mountains. -',
Both of the occupying forces ap-
peared to be moving cautiously,ex-
cept for swift flights by British
transport planes that landed troops
to protect BritonS in the desert oil
fields. There appeared to be a def
mite effort to hold fighting to a
minimum and perhaps to persuade
the Persian Shah to negotiate
settlement that would carry out the
demands OF Moscow and London for
custer of German fifth columnistS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
Court UphoIds
Unionisfs' Guilt

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 CUP)
The state supreme court today
upheld the contempt conviction of
B. Joseph Zukas, CIO official and
former SRA employe, by denying
zukas writ of habeas corpus. Zu-
kas was sentenced to so days in
Jail for refusing to produce records
of the Tulare county local of the
CIO State, County and Municipal
Workers union at a hearing of the
Yorty relief committee last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
SimpIified Income
Tax Return Blanks
To Erase Headache

Continued from Page One)
tax returns for the first time next
year under the new lowered eX-
emptions voted by the senate COM
mittee-s750 instead of $500 for
single persons, and $500 instead of
$4,000 for married couples.
Charts would be computed by the
treasury and posted in public places
such as post offices. A taxpayer
would be able to look up the brack-
ct giving his income and find I'M
mediately what tax he has to pay.
The rates are computed roughly
allowing an average 10 per cent
deduction for contributions. inter-
est, etc.-and in most cases the tax
could be reduced slightly by any in
dividual computing his levy in the
usual way. But the treasury theory
is that many taxpayers would pre-
fer using the charts in order to
save time and headaches.
The finance committee, meantime
prepared to study excess profits tax
provisions of the pending bill.
Only one other change affecting
the bills yield was made by the
senate committe during the first
days consideration of the 1885,
100000 house bill. 1t instructed the
treasury to draft an amendment de-
signed to eliminate the tax adyant-
age existing in eight community
property states. Such an amendment
would bring into the federal treas
ury an additional 100000 an
nually.
The two ChangeS-thc lowered
personal income tax exemptions
and elimination of the community
property tax advantage would
raise the total of the house tax bill
to $500, 100000 Secretary of the
Treasury Henry lMorgenthau Jr
originally asked for more than So
500,000000 in new revenue.
The tax base in existing law and
under the bill as passed by the
house reached down to single per-
sons earning more than $500 year
and married couples with an income
of over $4,000. Reduction of the ex-
emptions to $3.50 and $1,000 respec-
lively, will have these effects.
Bachelors earning more than
Sl4,42 a week will have to pay taxes;
married men will be subject to fed
eral levies if they earn more than
S2884 week
In the community property amend
ment the committe sought to re-
quire persons in the eight states
having community propery laws to
file returns covering the amour:
they earn. At present in the states
of Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, New
Mexico, California, Idaho Nevada,
and Washington husband may as
sign half his income to his wife so
that each would pay taxes on half.
The advantage is that under this
method-Which cannot be followed
in the other 40 states-each spouse
is able to pay lower Surtaxes than
if the income were reported for one
of them in a lump.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
CASE DISMISSED

Mrs. Walter Groebli Of e Centro
Tuesday dismissed a charge that
her husband threatened to throw
her and Sybil Kyes, a waitress in
the Groebil cafe, out of a second
story window last weekend. She
dismissed the case before Groebli
was scheduled to appear in El Gen.
tro justice court for a preliminary
hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26

Adjustment of the SRA in I'M
perial county last July failed to
boost the number of indigents re-
ceiving aid in July.
This fact was revealed Tuesday
in a digest made by the California
Taxpayers association.
INDECENT cases in Imperial county
totaled go on July 81, the same
total on June 30. During the month
of July "a cases were added to the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
RAILHEAD TAKEN

FouowIng the Russian evacuation
of Novgorod, south of Leningrad
the Germans reported capture OF
. the rail junction of Luga, about
go miles west of the city That rep
resented a cleaning up of Russian
resistance that endangered the en-
circlement of Leningrad, according
to Berlin dispatches, which also re-
ported heavy fighting around the
Estonian capital Of Tallinn.
The Germans reported five Rus
san vessels, including a destroyer,
had been sunk while trying to boil
star the Tallinn defenses while Mos
COW reported that the Red fleet
destroyed large number of enemy
tanks, motorized units and cavalry
by a surprise shelling along the
coast. presumably near Tallinn.
PROGRESS IN IRAN
Only the first phase of British
Russian operations in Iran was re-
ported but it was indicated that
progress Of two Russian columns
from the north and of British fore
es moving into the southwest was
British land, air and naval forces
along the ancient trade
routes of Asia Minor seized seven
axis ships at the Persian gulf port
of Bandar Shapur, overcame oppo-
sition at Abadan, where the Eu-
1rates and Tigris flow down 10 the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
0.F.Haun Near
Death Following
Sudden Illness

Continued From Page One
resuscitator was applied but slowed
as soon as it was removed.
Haun failed to regain Conscious
ness.
He has been in the jewelry busi-
ness il Fl Centro for more than 10
years, arriving in Imperial Valley
with his wife and sons Immediately
after he sold his store in Dinuba and
purchased one in El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-26
TAKES FRENCH
LEAVE

Lorenzo Rivera, II, committed to
the county jail for vagrancy in e
Centro, slipped away from the court
house garden crew Monday morn
ing and disappeared. He had a three
months sentence to serve.
Evening star., 1941-08-21

to defend himself and his country
in wartime if he has had a chance
to try out his knowledge and i'm
prove it in closely simulated war
conditions"
One incident of quick thinking
was demonstrated by truck sup
ply convoy of the 1st Cavalry Brigade
from Fort Bliss, Tex.
Finding itself surrounded by en-
emy tanks, the convoy went into
action with rifles and machine guns
and blocked the road with a truck
and water wagon.
Cooks Bag 80 Tanks.
Just enough room was left for
enemy tanks to pass, but the armored
division found it led them straight
into muddy bog, making their ma
chimes useless and pretty easy to
capture.
Meanwhile, scouts located two
abandoned 1O5-millimeter howitzers
and two other big guns which were
placed at each end of the truck
column. Altogether the cooks and
supply men were credited officially
with bagging 80 tanks, including
8 made helpless in the mud trap.
In another meneuver, an armored
tank division scout car zig-zagged
at 40 miles an hour through dense
underground into enemy territory,
surprising and "annihilating" two
squads of hidden infantrymen.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
| Army Shoes Give
farmer Away
As Infantry Spy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WITH THE ARMY IN
SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON,
Aug. 21.-Dressed as a farmer
to spy out enemy positions, an
Army private was detected by
his regulation shoes.
Pvt. Roy w. Noye of Kanka-
kee, Ill, was assigned to scout
patrol duty in the West Coast
maneuvers. He decided on a
lone wolf espionage mission.
Disgusting himself as a
farmer, the rookie penetrated
enemy lines and fairly bulged
with information when he was
captured just as he started to
return to his own lines.
A civilian Pvt. Noye ques-
toned about the disposition
of enemy forces proved his un-
doing. The civilian actually
thought Pvt. Noye was a spy
and hurried to the nearest
Army post TO report.
The disguised private in
sisted he was out hunting his
COWS but he slipped and called
the lieutenant sir. Then his
questioners spotted the regula-
ton Army shoes which Pvt.
Noye had neglected to discard.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
War Games Givinq
Troops Chance 10 Test
Their Initiative
Quick Thinking Enables
Army Cooks to Bog
Tanks in louisiunu
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMP POLK, La, Aug. 21.-The
Sd Army's war games in Western
Louisiana are giving soldiers from
truck drivers to generals a chance
to test their initiative and fighting
ability.
Answering what he said were re-
cent criticisms against the useful
ness of such maneuvers. 1t. Gen.
Lesley McNair, Army chief of gen.
eral headquarters staff, declared
they were worth many times the ex-
penditure involved and gave officers
and privates alike real opportunity
to prove their soldering ability.
Quick Thinking Example.
IF there is any sense at all in
teaching a man the rudiments of
military training in a comfortable
camp, Gen. McNair asserted, ''it GER
tainly follows he will be better able
Evening star., 1941-08-21

voluntary mobilization of amateur
radio operators for defensive aid in
the current West Coast war maneu-
vers of 100000 men.
Two hundred operators are coz
operating in secret radio espionage
network by which the defending
forces learn of troop, mechanical
and motorized movements long be-
fore they couud be ascertained by
normal channels. The radio plan
was developed by Maj. Gen. Kenyon
A. Joyce, commander of the 9Th
Corps Army, and has proved par
Evening star., 1941-08-21

turned to office for two-year term
also were John E. Swift, Boston,
deputy supreme knight; Joseph F.
Lamb, New Haven, secretary; Luke
E. Hart, st. Louis, advocate; the
Rev. Leo M. Finn, Bridgeport, SUI
preme chaplain, and DR.. Edward w.
Fahey, St. Paul, supreme physician.
Charles K Walsh, Wichita Falls,
Tex, succeeds David F. Supple,
San Francisco, as supreme warden
and John A. Flanagan, Baltimore,
replaces Edward Ryan, Spokane,
Wash, on the Board of Directors.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Amateur Radio Operators
Cooperate in War Games

WITH THE ARMY IN SOUTH
WEST WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 tP)
The Army is trying for the first
time, apparently with success, the
Evening star., 1941-08-21
CuIIuhun Reelected
K. of 6. Treasurer

D. j. Callahan OF Washington
yesterday was reelected treasurer
of the Knights of Columbus at its
59th annual convention in Atlantic
City. A native of Portsmouth, Va,
he is a former president of the
Board of Education and the Rotary
Club here and Is a member of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Francis p. Matthews, Omaha,
was renamed supreme knight. Re-
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Winter Relief Drive
Advanced in Germany
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 21.-Germany's
winter relief campaign will open
September /, one month earlier than
usual, D. N. B. reported today.
The news agency said that In
addition to street collections, vol
untary contributions from salaries,
wages, etc., will be retained" for di-
rect payment to the fund.
Evening star., 1941-08-21

ticularly valuable in the wild Olym-
pic peninsula forest area. The civil
ian operators include farmers, forest
rangers, State patrolmen, water
patrolmen, fishermen, Coast Guards
men and others.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Mexicuns Raid Warehouses

Declaring the sugar stored in fed
Grad warehouses near Tlaxotalpan
Mexico, is for the public and they
are the public, Communists have
been raiding the places and taking
away the sugar.
Evening star., 1941-08-21

Brilliantly modern! 6
tubes give full 8-tube
power. 6 automatic tun.
ers. Cleaning walnut"
plastic cabinet. Built-in
loop aerial.
SsIoor~O pInss;< @0i
Evening star., 1941-08-21

During recent freak cold spell
in Argentina hail did great damage
to crops near Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Soldiers Play Wounded
10 Give Doctors Practice

WITH I'd ARMY IN ARKANSAS
Aug. 81 Op.-Soldiers turned actor.
today in the I'd Army's mimic war.
fare, pretending by the dozens tt
be wounded, to give the medica
troops practice in handling casual
ties of warfare.
Each medical unit was ordered tt
go through a session of handling
casualties as $4,000 men of the 7th
Army Corps set up defensive posi-
tion.
Stretcher bearers secured the
"battlefield' for the wounded,
placing them on stretchers and car.
rying them to first-aid stations.
There Army physicians went
through the motions of examination
and determining the pretended in
jury. Those theoretically shot were
tagged by the umpires.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07
Men Dislike
Show-Off
Girls

GETTING AWAY from the
practical details of identifying,
let us put the show-off under
the microscope, the girl who
insists upon being the life of
the party. Everybody knows
one of her. She isn't popular
with women because she takes
attention away from them. And
here is what a man has to say
on the subject:
I've been paying court to one
of those smarties for the last
two years; now have resigned
as Sutton No. /. She wears me
out with her electrifying chat
ter; used to try to keep up
with her and hand back the
smart cracks, but it is too much
trouble.
I've come to the conclusion
that I like the old shoe type.
A man calls on her, SlumpS
comfortably in a big chair. has
a chance to tell her what
great teller he is, which is a
mans favorite occupation.
/ also discovered that the
show-off type isn't always kind
and considerable, but makes
bright remarks that may hurt
the feelings of other people. No
man can endure a girl who has a
bitter tongue, no matter how
bright she may be-"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07
Take The Time
For Beauty.
Says Star

WORKING GIRLS often ex.
cuse their lack of beauty and
grooming because they haven't
the time. But Barbara O'Neil,
whom you will be seeing next in
Shining Victory" would advise
them to make time by taking
little short cuts to loneliness.
For instance, there are some
of her own little tricks that are
worth consideration. If Bar
bara's hair needs a tighter curl
but she has only 20 minutes in
which to do it, she quickly turns
up the ends in curlers,. steps
into a warm bath and the steam
from the tub does the work.
Then each morning, before
leaving for the studio, Barbara
dips her finger tips in warm
olive oil. dons white cotton
gloves and while driving to
work her lovely hands are soft
ened and groomed for the studio
manicure. You can make up
your own quick steps to beauty
IL you're really in earnest about
II. she claims.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07
In Alaska

In Alaska, sightseeing at such
stopovers as Ketchikan, you
would want light weight clothes.
Ideal frock for days at Skagway
and Juneau, where it's COM
fortably warm, is the adorable
print, a flewer and plain striped
rayon crepe with another
pleated skirt, in caramel yellow
and navy, SASS. CAL clothes in
sizes $40
A yellow casual hat and a
dreSSier navy bonnet. two pair
of navy shoes. for walking and
dress. a navy bag and navy
fabric gloves are the accessories
suggested with this basic ward
robe. And remember, it's grand
for Easter as well as YOU vaca-
tioni
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07

ARE YOU young career
girl? Well, if so. you'll GER
tainly be interested in the latest
in contests. A downtown depart
ment store is announcing a
MISUNDERSTANDING competition
for you with prizes better than
any you might win in a radio
quiz!
The problem? To describe a
career girls wardrobe that will
do triple duty-be perfect for
business, for after office hours
and for vacation trip Since
most career girls are vitality in
terested in their Summer vaca-
ton and buy their Spring clothes
with it in mind, it won't be diff
ficult to concentrate on this
idea.