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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-21

death of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar
For during battle Collingwooc
wrote to his wife:
Tell me, how do the trees
which I planted thrive? Is there
shade under the three oaks for
q comfortable Summer seat? Do
the poplars grow at the walk
and does the wall Of the terrace
stand firm ?"
Cunningham may not have writ.
ten any such letter.
GARDEN IN HAMPSHIRE
But there is an old house in
Hampshire, built centuries age
and standing opposite the ruins OF
a palace built in 1929 by King
Stephen for his brother, Bishop
Blois of Winchester, where Cum
bingham lives and where his roses
grow.
The admiral is better known
than his army officer brother. but
Sir Alan has had a distinguished
military career.
An artilleryman. educated al
Cheltenham and the Royal Mill
tary Academy at Woolwich, Cum
ningham served throughout the
last war and for many years be-
fore this new conflict began was a
member of the faculty of the
Imperial Defense College.
His own biography in the Brit
ish Who's Who lists his hobbies
as hunting and fishing.
GERMAN VETERAN
Against these two redoubtable
brothers stands a 50-year-old Ger
man veteran of the last war
Maj. Gen. Erwin Rommel, selected
by Adolf Hitler to command Ger
man and Italian forces in North
Africa after Marshal Rodolfo
Graziani demonstrated his inabiI-
ity to cope with the desert troops
of Gen. Sir Archibald p. Wavell.
A native of Wurtemberg, ROM
mel went into the army at the
age of 10 and served with German
mountain troops in the last war.
He distinguished himself at the
famed battles of the Izonso and
was awarded the Pour lie
Merite, ;" the highest medal that
Imperial Germany could bestow.
He led the first troops to smash
the northern reaches of the Magi-
not Line in the present war.
The aerial aspect Of the COM
bined push, meanwhile, is COM
manded by a man whose name
also begins with the letter c.
and, indeed. closely resembles the
name Cunningham.
No relation to the Cunningham
brothers, an air vice marshal
with the oddly spelled name OF
Arthur Cunningham directs the
Raj bombers and fighters now
supporting the drive into Libya.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Barn, Equipment.
Barley Destroyed
By vencin Fire
Cows, Calves Driven
Out of Danger When
Blaze Discovered

Fire which broke out in
grain at the Vencill dairy
southwest of Ell Centro early
Friday morning partially de-
strOyed 5000 sacks of barley,
the dairy barn, most of the dairy
equipment, and a large supply of
tools.
Earl Vencill, dairy owner. said
the damage was approximately
$1,000.
Safe from the fire were 100 milk
COWS and 20 calves in a corral near
the barn. They were driven to a
nearby field as soon as the fire was
discovered and Friday we're located
at neighbor'S barn.
Buddy Estes, driver employed by
Vencill, discovered the fire when
he drove into the yard shortly after
2 am. He awoke Mr. and Mrs. Ven
GILL and the task of removing euuip-
ment began.
Vencil praised the help of tele-
phone operators who reused CITY
ana county crews under Walter
Helnecke and C. P. Oswalt. Pump
ing equipment which they operated
was responsible for saving part OF
the grain.
At least $4,000 was reported coy-
cred by insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vencill said they
nelieved the fire must have beer
smoldering in the grain for long
time III the corrugated iron build
ing before it broke through the
roof.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Project Children,
Motorists Asked

School is out! Protect children
from injury in traffic!
From now on Imperial county's
$500 school children will be al
the mercy of the motoring public,
Sgt. Cliff Reed of the California
Highway patrol said Friday. 1T is
the duty of the motoring public to
drive so carefully that none OF
these children will be injured
Children should be and are
taught to watch traffic and take
care of themselves. But children
forget in their interest in their
games. Adults must remembers"
More children will be pl,HinG h)
the streets and walking along high
ways in the summer than during
the winter, Reed declared, and mo-
torsts should keep an eye out for
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Valley Melon Deal
Heightened by 10
Days; Market Good
Three Factors Extend
Season, Give New
Outlook for Crop
It's a privilege TO live in
Imperial Valley

Three factors combined
this week to offer prospects
for an Imperial Valley melon
deal heightened by 10 days
beyond usual dates.
TIE factors were: weather, late
production elsewhere, and late
paintings in Imperial Valley.
Continued cool weather already
has given the melon deal a different
complexion from normal seasons
by eliminating the high peaks. Mel
on shipments SO far have been mark
ed more by steady regularity than
the usual spurts.
With about $500 cars of the COW
cred melons already gone off to
market, the trade could look for
ward to about 1000 cars of uncovered
yet to go. marked by the best
quality in five or six years. Author
tiles differed somewhat on how
late substantial shipments will con-
tinue, but concensus pointed to
July 5 or TO- The deal usually is
considered "over" in late June.
Not only top quality melon, but
a strong market marked the deal.
Prices were So to $3.50 as compared
with $l.50 to $500 a year ago and
$125 to $1.5O a year before that,
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

dent will bring German American
diplomatic relations to a break will
depend on the extent to which Ber-
lin and Washington are able to
agree on exactly what happened and
who is responsible for what. The
incident is aggravated by the prob
ability that up to So members of
the ships company and passengers
lost their lives.
In Berlin, German authorized
source said tonight the Robin Moor
according to reports of it's mani
fest from abroad - carried goods
classified as contraband by the Brit
ish and therefore on the German
contraband list"
The Nazi declaration that the Rob-
in Moor carried alleged contraband
followed an assertion by German
spokesman that Germany will
continue to sink every ship with
contraband for Britain, whatever
its name-Robin Moor, Exmoor or
what have you"
A basis for formal United States
charges was contained in a report
to the state department by Walter
J. Linthicum, American consul a.
Pernambuco, Brazil, who interview
ed II survivors yesterday. U. S. Vice
Consul Philip P. Williamson. who
also interviewed the survivors.
starts for Washington tomorrow by
airplane to make a complete report.
Linthicum cabled that the sur
vlvors reported they were permitted
to enter life boats before the Robin
Moor was sent to tne bottom of the
south Atlantic with torpedo amid
ships, then some 30-ood shells" The
vessel sank stern foremost "in about
% minutes"
The conSuls report revealed that
none of the surviving seamen was
among those who, at the submar-
ines demand, had gone to the sub
marine before the Robin Moor was
sunk. But Linthicum added:
'"lhere is no doubt in the minds
of the survivors that the commander
and the submarine we're German,
although the latter had no visible
markings other than the name Lor-
rlcke or Lorickke and a figure de-
scribed as a laughing COW both
painted on the coming tower.
The commander spoke to the
men in poor English
The evidence also reveals that
the Robin Moor had the American
ensign and U.S,A. painted on either
side and an Illuminated flag flying
from her stern :"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

~, fOlJVllle, was SllSuuIy ulJulcl
when his car and one driven by
w B. Afford, Al, immigration Of
cicer from Lubens, Texas, collided
three miles east of El Centre. Fri
day morning Boil filed slit for
S8,40O damages against Afford.
Collio was standing between his
pickup and a car belonging to
Benny Piante while hooking them
together, While he was working on
the hook-up, Highway Patrolman
Tillman Daley said, Frank OSa of
Ell Centre drove his car into the
back of the pickup, pinnins Collie
between the pickup and the Piantc
car.
Force of the impact broke both
Collio'S legs. The two machines had
to be pulled apart before the Fill
p!no could be released between the
locked bumpers.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Child Injured in
Auto Accident

Three year-old Lee Fitzhush, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Fitzhugh Of
Ell Centre, had a bump on his head
Friday but was otherwise unim-
pressed by a near automobile acci-
dent Thursday evening while he
was riding with Chan Livingston
When a car swerved in front of
the Livingston machine and Living
ston was forced to make sudden
stop, the child was thrown into the
dash board, suffering head cut.
The other car was later identified
as belonging to Hilbert Pluvoy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

In Syria allied columns were re-
ported camped just outside DamaS-
Gus awaiting the outcome of nego-
tiations in which 1t was hoped
peaceful entry into the ancient city
could be arranged. The French con-
tinued to claim that strong resis-
tance is being put up. The British
headquarters at Cairo offered no
details on the operation other than
to report it is going forward with
progress.
British long range bombing planes
wrecked many industrial buildings
and started large number OF fires
during the night in the heaviest
raid of the war on Germanys vital
Ruhr-Rhine industrial area, an air
ministry communique said.
Other planes raided Brest, the
French naval base at which the
battered German $4,000 ton battle
ships Scharnhorst and GneiSenau,
and a 10000 ton heavy cruiser be-
lieved to be the new Prinz Eugen,
are sheltering.
The air ministry reported tonight
that British coastal command
plane torpedoed a Nazi pocket bat
tleship off Norway this morning.
Germany has two pocket battle
ships left in service-the Lutzow and
the Admiral Scheer.
Raids were made also on the Bel
gian invasion port of Antwerp and
the great Dutch port of Rotterdam,
oil storage center, the communique
said.
Loss of seven British bombing
planes was admitted. Eight had
been lost in great raid the night
before on the Rhine Ruhr area.
Hundreds of tons of heavy bombs
were hurled on objectives essential
to German war industry, it was
said, and many fires blazed in the
area.
The attack was made by every
large" force of planes of the bomber
command, authoritative informants
asserted.
1t was the second straight night
Of mass attacks on the Ruhr- Rhine
district.
On the previous night British
planes had raided Dusseldorf for
the 3Oth time and Duisberg for the
28th time, and, according to Of
ficlal reports, had started big fires.
Despite the vigorous offensive of
the Royal air force against Ger
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

:Sure tnelr company lldu dSocl ocoiS
been forced to put upon them to
ioin the AFL organization.
Members of the new union, one
of the smallest ever to pit Its
strength against the sprawling sta
ture of the 1eamSters' pledged
themselves Friday against unnec-
essary strikes and Walkouts. They
declared their organization was
completed in a fight for self pres
crvation.
AS members of legal union, they
are entitled to the full protection
of the Wagner Labor Relations Act.
AS individual workers without any
union affiliation, they were at the
mercy of the Transfers Union and
without power to bargain with their
employer.
THREE CHOICES
HoldoutS for a number Of years
against unionization, the Imperial
Valley Cramer employees, together
with a small group from Yuma, had
three choices:
l. Accept Teamsters Union DOM
ination and pay a double-sized inia-
ton fee as a penalty for their long
holdout.
2. Face possible loss of their jobs.
3. Form an independent union to
bargain collectively with the COM
pany!
Leading up to independent union
ization, authentic sources revealed,
was a situation in which officials
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Labor Prepares 10
Purge Communists
From Loca! Unions
President Warns Raids
Between Rival Groups
Cannot Be Tolerated
by UNITED PRESS

Nationwide efforts to set
tie defense labor disputes
were intensified Friday as
the CIO and the AFL prepar-
ed to purge themselves of Com
munists, subversive agitatorS and
other radicals lest their influence
dead to abandonment of the con-
ference table and use of the bayo-
net"
President Roosevelt warned labor
organizations to stop raiding each
other for membership and asked
government agencies to watch such
jurisdictional strife.
The strike at the big North Amer
ican Aviation plant in InglcWood--
broken by $500 soldiers at President
Roosevelt's order-pfecipitated Or
ganized labor's cleanup drive.
CIO President Philip Murray re-
portedly planned to match the gov
crnment's campaign against sub
versivc labor agitaUors who foment
outlaw strikes.
I'VE know there arc Communists
Continued on Page 6; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Advisor Named for
IngIewood Plant

WASHINGTON, June 13 CUP)-
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
today appointed Eric Nicol as ci-
william advisor on industrial rela-
lions to Lieut. Col. Charles E.
Branshaw, air corps officer, who
took charge of the Strike-bount
North American Aviation Co. plant
at IngleWood, Calf
The terms of President RooSe-
velt's executive order last Monda"
ordering the army to take over and
operate the plant provided that
Stimson should appoint "a compet-
ent civilian advisor on industrial
relations.
Nicol an administrative assist
ant to Sidney Hillman, OPM asso-
ciate director. previously had been
connected with the bureau of the
budget and had been an industrial
relations and personnel advisor in
Philadelphia.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

WASHINGTON, June 13 CUP)-
The automobile industry today fac
ed the possibility of rigid controls
by the government, on prices ask
ed for 194l and 1912 models and
further curtailment of civilian pro-
duction.
Five leading automobile compan-
les, who have increased their prices
from $40 to $52 in the last month,
have been asked by price control
Administrator Leon Henderson to
voluntarily withdraw price in
creases Immediately.
Price officials said that if Hen
derson's request were ignored the
government would have to create
price ceiling on all new cars at
levels prevailing before the in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

Jerrold Seawell, the SRA would
end at the end of one year.
SRA employees transferred would
take competitive examinations and
assume civil service status.
Olson also agreed, it was said,
to permit counties the option of
contracting with the state for local
control of relief. Under this set-up.
the state would pay two-thirds of
the cost and the counties one-third,
the identical provisions of the in
tegrated return-relief-to- coun-
ties bill by Senator John Phillips
which was vetoed b. the governor.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Ex-I. Y. Rancher
Dies in Accident

IMPERIAL, June 13.-Friends and
relatives here received word Friday
OF the death of Earl Hall, formerly
rancher in this area, in Ukiah
from injuries suffered in traffic
accident
Funeral services and burial took
place in Ukiah last Monday.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
G. Hall; two sons, Richard and
Wilford; two daughters, Cherry
Darline and Natha; his father. H.
G. Hall of Beaumont; three broth
ers, Walter of Imperial, Ray OF
Colousa, and Clinton of Oklahoma:
and five sisters, Mrs. Andy Robin
son and Mrs Luther Green of I'm
perial, Mrs. Estill Woods of Ell Cen
tro, and Mrs. James Fuller of Ven
tura.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
vichy Launches
Anti-JeW Drive

VICHY, June 13. CUPD -
Xavier Vallat, French commits
siOner of Jewis1 affairs, tonight
reported discovery OF IL purported
Jewish plot against Franco Ger
man collaboration and annuunc-
ed establishment of new anti.
Jewish statutes winch will be
cOordirated with the European
statute which Adolf Hitler in
tends to enforce uniformly thru
out the continent"
The new French anti Semitic
DEGREES were signed by Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain and will
be published tomorrow by the
official Journal.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

creaSes went into effect.
The companies warned by Hen
derSon were the Ford Motcr COM
pany, the Chrysler corporation, the
Nash-Kelvinator corporation, the
Stadehaker corporation, and the
Hudson Motor Car company. Of
ficials said that other companiea
mad withheld price increases or
still were considering them.
Henderson's office said no plans
have been made concerning pos
sible reimbursement or other price
adjustments charged purchasers
who have paid the inflated prices
for automobiles. No price controls
on The used car market will be
considered, it was said, until next
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Howard Martin
Dies at Compton

Funeral service for Howard Mar
tin, former Imperial Valley resi-
dent and brother of U. L. Martin
of Ell Centre will be conducted Sat-
urday morning from the Morelant,
Mortuary in Compton, California
Martin died Wednesday evening.
Survivors include two brothers,
U. L. and P. T. Martin of Ell Centre
and one son, Paul, of Compton.
Howard Martin made his home
il the valley for several years and
has many friends who will be sorry
to learn of his death.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

a OoliliihobCc VI icBloldJOio ocJ W
work drafting compromise relief
bill on the basis Of concessions by
opposing factions. Another meeting
will be held later today and men,
bers expressed confidence e-ere
would be agreement and adjourn
ment of the 54th biennial session
during the weekend.
AS outlined by the conferees, the
governor agreed to abolition of the
state relief administration and
transfer of its personnel and duties
to the state department of social
welfare, although no time for the
change was set. Under terms CT
the compromise" bill by Senator
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
-Four jailed After
Strike Violence
Claims One Life
New Texas Law Faces
First Test After
Labor Outbreak

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June
13. (UP)-Four men today
faced strike violence charges
in a flarc-up which claimed
one life and provided the
-irst test of Texas new law making
Use of force in labor disputes a
felony.
William F.. Patterson, 40, Dallas
carpenter, died in a hospital of
buckshot wounds, few hours after
a similar charge was lodged against
him.
Patterson and Clarence Brandt,
San Antonio, we're wounded, police
said, when a shotgun blast inter-
rupted the Stoning of the home OF
Continued on Page s, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
RAF LAUNCHES GREATEST RAIDS OF war
LID ON AUTO PRICES

season" when curtailed production
NAV exert pressure on the entire
market.
A further cut in automobile pro-
duction NAV result from the order
to thirteen sheet and strip steel
mills, which produce steel for au-
tomobiles, trucks, refrigeratorS,
metal furniture, pleasure boats, and
other consumer items, to give first
call on the production of plates
for ships, railway cars and other
urgent defense production. The
Ford Motor company was one of
The companies asked to convert its
production while the other IL COM
ranles produce steel for the auto
mobile industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Soldiers Battle
Big Brush Fire

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal. June l3
CUP)-A brush fire battled by 500
soldiers from Camp Roberts was
Under control today. The flames
got out of hand while soldiers were
burning off dry brush on the Camp
Roberts reservation and swept
over $500 acres yesterday and last
night.
No structures were burned. A
wide ploughed firebreak protected
the frame buildings of the camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

-; =. f70f V'FVfOrI PIUCttu-
ingS against Bridges ended yester-
day and Judge Charles Brown Sears.
New York, took the case under ad-
Visement. His report is expected
in August.
Most of the government testi-
mony came from an intensive in
Vestlgatlon of the labor leaders
activities by the famed FBI. But
what many hearing observers re-
garded as one of the strongest links
OF the government case apparently
arose from a casual question to a
witness who was asked whether he
had any social contacts with Bridges.
In response to this question, Har-
y Lundeberg, head of the AFL
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13

Sailors union of the Pacific, SAID
he once had been invited TO Bridges
nome for supper. Also present, he
said, was Sam Darcy, former Cali
fornia Communist leader. Darcy In
vited him to join the party and
said Bridges was a member, Lunde-
berg testified. Llindeoerg said
Bridges admitted membership and
urged Lundeberg 10 JOIN too.
On examination Lundeberz
said he had failed TO mention ths
incident i'm conversations with gov
ernment representatives on two
previous occasions but had told
about ii only when asked about so
cial contacts with Bridges.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
RAF Air Traininq
School Planned

PHOENIX, June l3. CUP) - A
$350,000 air training field will be
constructed l8 miles east of Phoenix
as a school for Royal air force
pilots, Civil Aeronautics Authority
officials informed Southwest Air
ways, Inc, today.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Bids Considered

LOS ANGELES, June 13 CUP)-
Bids were being considered today
for construction of the Santa Fe
dam, longest earth-filled dam in
the world, which will stretch for
more than four miles across the
San Gabriel river below the mouth
of San Gabriel canyon near here.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
CITRUS CONTAlNER
MEASURE PASSED

SACRAMENTO, June 12-(UP)-
The senate passed and sent to the
governor today the. Kepple bill to
require lidded containers for citrus
fruits.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
y AMBlINe
X EpoRTER
Land of Big Feet

Land OF Big rect
Seated in the grandstand at the
fairgrounds Thursday night, a
pleasant gentleman whose name We
didn't catch made a remarkable
disclosure.
Did you know that a chaps
feet grow bigger in Imperial VAL
ley than anywhere else?" he re-
marked.
We replied that if that was the
case we'd feel rgiht at home and
he went on:
Yes, it's a fact. l don't suppose
it would affect a person who was
just travelling through, but if you
stay here very long it's make 'em
grow!'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
RAIN HAlTS GAME

COOPERSTOWN, NY, June 13
'UP)-The Cleveland Indians nos
ed the Cincinnati Reds 81 today in
an exhibition game that was called
after SIX innings had been played
through a steady rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Olson Agrees to
SRA Compromise
(Addiional Story on Page g.

SACRAMENTO, June 13. (UP)-The legislature and
.Gov. Culbert Olson neared compromise the future
of unemployment relief today, with indications the SRA
will be abolished.
After lengthy conference in the governors office
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Handful Of i. v. Workers
Defies Powerful Union
Defeats Squeeze Play
'Cramer Employees Form Independent
Group After Coast eams+ers Pressure
Company TO Force E| Centro Sisn-U p

Cramer's Bakery company statesmen and checkers III
Imperial Valley Friday slipped out of an AFT Ieamsters
Union squeeze play by organizing independent union
1t was gesture by which the men defied the entire
weight of the gigantic Teamsters Union and resisted
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Bumpers Shotter
FiIipino's Legs
Another Man Injured in Second Crash
On Valley Highway. Files Damage Suit
For $84O0 Morning After Accident

Both Badomero Coo's legs were broken shortly be
fore noon Friday when he pinned between the bumpers
of truck and highway 80 five miles west of E
Centre. ~ :,
Twelve hours before the Colio accident MerVin Boil
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
FDR Will Protest
Steamer SinkinQ
Torpedo and 30 Shells Sunk U. S. Ship;
Germany Declares Vessel Carrie d Cargo
Of Contra band Voices Defiance

WASHINGTON, June 13. (UP)-Short-of-wa protests
to Germany and demands for demnity and apology
the likely developments following the charge that the
American steamer Robin Moor sunk by Naz submar
inc with torpedo and "some 30-odd shells"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
Syria Campaign
Approaches End.
Reports Indicate
Maxi Pocket Bat+Ieshi p Victim Of
Torpedo Launched from British Plane;
Vital German ndus+riaI Areas Hit

LONDON, Juna 49, (UP)-Whie British long range
bombing planes carried out their heaviest raids of the war
Germanys vital Ruhr- Rhine industrial area vague
ports today indicated the Imperial invasion of Syria is
drawing to rapid end.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-13
estimony Puts
Bridges on Spot

Pan FRANClSCO June 13. (UP)-Fve minutes NJ,
] testimony that apparently reached the govern
tIe only ACCIDENTALLY may be the means of refnrnnc
harry Bridges California CO director to his native Ans
1TaIa as an undesirable alien, it was Indicated TO-DAY