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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Boycott: Charged
To Force Meeting
For 'Lindy Rally

NEW YORK, June IT, (UP)-
Larry MacPhNil, president OF the
Brooklyn baseball club today accus-
ed the America First committee OF
adopting tactics resembling the
Hitler technique" to force permis-
sion for the use of Ebbets Field for
"Lindbergh rally MacPhail said
although the field had been denied
to all propaganda groups the Am
erica First committee has threaten
ed to abolish night baseball and
boycott the Dodgers
My personal views have nothing
to do win the natter MacPhai!
said. But since they have been
challenged l have no objections
to stating them.
L have no use for William Leon
ard, Colonel Lindbergh, Senators
Wheeler and Nye, the German
American bund, the Christian Front.
Joe McWilliams, Pelley, Father
Coughlin, or Adolf Hitler. 1 believe
the propaganda which these groups
are extremely dangerous in this
emergency
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17

was to be represented by a new set
of negotiators headed by Richard
T. Frankensteen. aircraft director
tor the JAW. Frankensteen sus-
pended members of the old nego-
uating committee for calling the
unauthorized strike.
CIO President Philip Murray de-
flated reports Monday night that
ne had endorsed q Red purge in
CIO unions In a letter to CIO af-
tiliates, he said the organization
would not engage in witch hunt
ing He implied. however, that the
CIO would continue to discipline
outlaw strike leaders. Speculation
over a purge" developed as a re-
suit of CIO action against leaders
of unauthorized strikes blamed on
radical uniOniStS.
The strike of AFL and Go ma
chinists in San Francisco shipyards
remained the principal labor dis
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17

+. c. Hawk. chairman of the I'm
perial County Agricultural ConScr-
walton committee, Tuesday outlined
major provisions of the 1914 wheat
marketing quota program and tho
availability of government loans or
wheat and barley.
Marketing cards, he said, permit
ting the sale of wheat without pay
rent of 49 cent per bushel psn~
altv now are being issued by the
county office to operators of farm,
il: compliance With wheat acreage
allotments or on farms where not
more than Is acres are planted t
wheat. He said the marke ting eX-
cess on al over-planJed farms j
subject to the penalty, which il
equivalent to approximately 82
cents per hundred weight.
Producers of wheat grown OF
acreage in excess of the farm al
lotment have fourth alternatives,
Hawk said They are:
l. Payment of the penalty or
the marketing excess, which is cal
culated at 40 cents per bushel CT
the normal wheat yield times the
acreage in excess of the allotment
2. Convey title to the marketing
excess to the secretary of agricul-
ture, deliver the excess wheat to an
approved warehouse and turn over
the warehouse receipts to the
treasurer of the county agricultural
conservation association.
3. Store the excess under seal
On the farm or in an approved
warehouse.
4. Place the excess in the gov
ernment loan. The loan rate on
excess wheat is go per cent of that
available to cooperators who plant
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE INVITING BIDS FOR A
WATER PUMP FOR THE CITY
OF Ell CENTRIC,

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
sealed bids will be received by the
City of Ell Centro up to and until
7:30 pm. on the 18th day of June
l941, for furnishing and installing
at the water plant of said City a
pump with electric motor which
shall conform TO tie following spec
ifications, TO wit:
! single stage centrifugal water
pump direct-connected TO electric
motor operating at 220/440 volts.
Pump to have four million (4,000,-
000D gallons per day capacity at a
total head Of One Hundred Fiji
teen 0l5) feet. Connections to
existing water mains to be fur
nished and installed with pump
by successful bidder. Electric con-
nections by the City of e. Gen.
tro. Removal of existing pump
and motor by City of e Centre.
Sketch OF existing installation and
fittings furnished upon request.
Said proposals or bids shall be
filed with the City Clerk Of said
City and accompanied by a certified
checK, caSnlerS cnecK, or lawful
money of the United States in the
sum of ten per cent of the total
amount of the bid, as a guarantee
that the bidder will, after his bid
is accepted, comply with the same
by the proper delivery and installa-
ton of said pump within As days
from and after the acceptance OF
the bid, or within such further time
as may be granted by the City Coun-
Gil. No bid will be considered unless
such check or money accompanies it
In accordance with the provi-
sions of Chapter 397, Statutes OF
1881, the City Council has ascer-
tanned the general rate of prevailing
wages applicable 10 said work or
installation OF said pump TO be as
follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Girl !
Slayer
Hunted

WASHINGTON, June II CUP)-
The war department turned over
the services of its intelligence di-
vision to local police today in an
attempt to find the stranger and
attacker of pretty Jessie Elizabeth
Strieff. 23-year- department clerk
and amateur aviatriX.
Three army intelligence officers
conferred with police this morning
as demands were heard in con-
gress for an investigation of Dis
trict of Columbia police methods.
There have been four unsolved
slayings recently in the capitals
residential area.
Miss Strieff's body, clad only in
Shoes and sport socks, was found
yesterday in the garage of Dewitt
C Croissant. professor emeritus OF
English at George Washington
University. Croissant is vacationing
The discovery was made by his
maid.
The talented Des MoineS, Ia,
brunette had been raped. police
said, and 2 blue mark, half-an-inch
wide about her threat, showed that
she had been strangleo, perhaps
with a rope or knotted handker-
chief. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald said she apparently had put
up "a terrific struggle against her
slayer. Fingernail marks showed on
her fare A Abra cionc were found on
her back and legs. She had been
dead at least eight hours before
the body was discovered.
Police are questioning the 55-
year-old colored janitor of the
apartment house IN which Miss
Strieff shared rooms with another
government worker. The apartment
is near the Connecticut avenue
shopping district - Washington's
Fifth avenue-and in what once
was a wealthy town house section
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Fire Sweeps Hay
Storage Properly

MESA, Ariz,, June II CUP) -
Damage estimated at S250,00O to the
Tremaine Alfalfa Ranch and Mill
ing company south of Mesa was
caused today by a fire that swept
the property.
A two story building, its ma
chinery and grain contents were
destroyed by the blaze, believed tc
have been caused by spontaneous
combustion. Eaight railroad cars on
o nearby siding were destroyed. Nc
one was injured.
The fire broke out with an eX-
plosion on the second floor and the
flames spread rapidly through the
building before firemen from the
Gilbert Fire department could ar
rive.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Oldest California
Judge Succumbs

SAN FRANCISCO, June II. CUP
Superior Judge Frank Dunno of
the San Francisco superior court
died today at his home in San An
selmo after a short illness. He was
10.
Dunno was the oldest superior
court judge in point of service in
California. He remained active on
the bench until two weeks ago.
Court attendants said he had been
ailing for several months.
Dunno was elected justice of peace
here in 1892. Four years later he was
elected to the superior court and
he served as a judge of that court
continuously for As years until his
death.
Among the trials at which he
presided were the San Francisco
municipal graft cases of 1906 ant
the trial of Warren K Billings il
the 1916 Preparedness day bomb
ing
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Sacramento Begins
Housing Survey

SACRAMENTO, June II CUP)-
Anticipating an influx of approx
mately 1000 civilian workers to the
9rmy's giant air depot at Mcclellan
Field here, authorities today were
surveying the CITY for homes ard
apartments in the s20-45 rental
bracket.
More than 1900 civilian mechan-
les and other types of employees =
ready are at the field The peak
strength of more than 5000 work
ers was expected to be reached
within the next few months.
Army authorities and civic lead
ers were attempting to obtain suf-
ficient housing at reasonable prices
through a voluntary rental clear
ance bureau, but if this fails, fed
eral authorities will be asked fol
an immediate housing project neal
the air depot. according to Lieut.
Col. John Clark, field command
ant.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Oil Operators to
Fight Price Cut

LONG BEACH. Cal, June II
up The California Stripper
Well association today was gather
ing data from small well operators
throughout the state to support op-
position to a reduction in crude
oil prices tentatively set for July l.
Questionnaires were mailed by
The association to California oil
operators asking information on
production. expense and revenue OF
wells having a daily output of 25
barrels or less. This data will be
placed before Leon Henderson. of
the office Of price administration
and civilian supply, who would re-
store crude prices to the level of
prior to May %.
Two hundred independent oil op-
orators of the Los Angeles basin
We're urged by association officials
at a mass meeting last night to CO.
operate with the campaign against
the price reduction.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Stamp Collectors
May Obtain Cachet

Valley stamp collectors will be
interested in the news that cachet
is to be issued in two colors COM
memorating the first flight of the
worlds largest bomber, the Douglas
Biz from Glover field, Santa Mon
lea, to March field Riverside.
The bomber will carry air mail
and collectors wishing to obtain this
cachet must send their requests,
with names, addresses and six cents
to Douglas Biz Bomber, Mayors
office, Santa Monica, said Frank
Birkhauser of the l. V. Stamp ane
Coin club These requests must be
in by June 81 and the flight will be
made the following week. Birkhauser
is sending in requests from club
members and will be glad, he stated,
to send requests for other collec-
tors if they notify him in time.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Judges End Trial
Set For July nth

PHILADELPHIA, June II CUP)-
The second conspiracy trial of re-
tired U. 8. Circuit Court Judge j
Warren Davis and Morgan S. Kauf-
man, Scranton attorney, was listed
tentatively today for July IA
Charged with conspiracy to OBJ
struct justice and defraud the
United States in connection with
the bankruptcy proceedings of WI
liam Fox, former multi-millionnaire
motion picture producer, their first
trial resulted in a jury disagreement.
The tentative date for the second
trial was announced after Judge
Hugh Dean Mcclellan, 65-year-old
Boston district court jurist, was
named to preside by retiring Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Daughter Of Sect
Member Dies

GILROY. Cal. June II CUP)-
Louise Ford, 14-year-old high school
girl, died in Wheeler hospital to-
day Of an illness for which her
family had refused to permit medi-
cal attention because of their re-
ligious beliefs.
Her death came a few hours after
Superior Judge William James over
rode the family objections and had
the ailing girl removed to the hos
pital The family made no attempt
to interfere with the deputy sher-
iffs who carried her from her home
to the institution.
Death was due to pneumonia and
to an infection with which she was
stricken last week. Doctors at the
hospital had given her little chance
to live when she was brought to
the institution early this morning
She was placed in an oxygen tent
Immediately on arrival.
The father, Price Ford, WPA
worker, had adamantly refused TO
permit doctors TO examine or treat
her on grounds such treatment
would violate the principles of the
sect with which the family, a ref
ugee group from the Arkansas dust
bowl area, was affiliated.
We have had illness before and
we have always cured them by pray
ing" Ford said. I'VE hope To pull
her through"
Judge James intervened, however,
after the Gilroy Dispatch, local
newspaper, had taken the initiative
to have the girl removed from her
home.
A complaint was signed by Police
Judge Leon Thomas holding the
girl was not receiving proper med
ical attention. Deputy sheriffs rush
/. ed the complaint to James home
in Palo Alto after midnight and the
jurist signed the order for her hos
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Man With Three
Wives Convicted

SACRAMENTO, June i CUP)-
Accused Of having three wives CT
the same time during August of
1910, Fauna Morris, 81. service sta
lion attendant. today was under
conviction OF bigamy by superior
court jury.
Two OF his wives We're il court
at the time the jury returned its
verdict OF guilty. They We're Louise
Brown. whom Morris married il
North Carolina in 1888, and Peggy
Reynor of Sacramento, whom he
married in Reno in February 1910
Not present was the third wife,
Olympia Montero, married to Nor
riS in Nevada August q. 1e40.
In addition to being charged with
bigamy. Morris had been serving a
Jail sentence on a accusation Of
failure to provide for the minor
child of Miss Reynor.
Morris will be sentenced Friday
by Judge r. T Coughlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17

all shipments except those to Brit
ain. Maxwell is considering the re-
quest and said President Roosevelt
would decide whether to stop ship
ments.
Customs officials, at the request
ol Ickes, yesterday prevented the
shipment of $4,000 gallons of low
grade lubricating oil by asking the
shippers not to sell oil to Japan.
The japanese Tanker Azuma Maru
arrived in Philadelphia recently to
take on the cargo which was pur-
chased from the Sinclair Consoli-
dated Oil company and the Stand
ard Vacuum Oil company.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17

Tuesday and Wednesday. There was
no indication when the remaining
troops would be removed. The army
Communicated the plant June 6
under orders from President Roose-
welt
At Washington. the national de
fense mediation board scheduled d
hearing Tuesday on the dispute.
Negotiations had been suspended
when the strike was called. The
United Automobile Workers tCIO)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Calvert A. Moody
Home for Visit

Calvert A. Moody, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Moody of El Centro, ar
rived home Monday night for a
visit while he awaits a call to the
United States Air corps where his
brother, William Moody, already is
lerVing
Calvert was graduated from San
lose State college Friday, receiving
lis Bachelor of Arts degree in in
dustrial arts. William is with the
e2nd observation corps at the Sa
linas air base
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17

pitalization.
The deputies then returned &c
the Ford home. They asked the
father if he would give his consent
without the formality of serving
the warrant. He refused and the
warrant was served.
Ford made no effort to interfere
as the deputy sheriffs carried the
girl out on q stretcher and took
her to Wheeler hospital where Or
Leon Melkonian took charge of the
case.
Louise was placed in an oxygen
tent. Melkonian called in two other
doctors for consultation.
1t was understood she had a tenn
perature of LOG degrees when ad-
mitted.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
ON TRIP EAST

Harold Robinson, son of Deputy
Sheriff Sebe Robinson and Mrs.
Robinson, and Bill Yates of Calexico
left Imperial Valley early Tuesday
morning Tor an automobile trip
east.
Yates will go to the air corps at
Mitchell Field, Long Island, and
Robinson to the Westinghouse COM
pany at Pittsburgh to do special
work for which he was selected while
he was a student at the University
Of California at Berkeley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Aluminium Scrap
Campaign Delayed

WASHINGTON, June II cUP)-
Patriotic citizens were asked by
defense officials today to defer
collecting scrap aluminium until the
week Of July IA when a drive for
old pots and pans probably will be-
gin.
Officials revealed in some areas
"sharpsters' already are posing as
legitimate government purchasers
and buying up scrap.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
DRAFTEES MAY
BECOME 'CHUTISTS'

WASHINGTON. June Il up -
The war department. said today Sc
lectees. who have completed basic
training at infantry replacement
centers. will be permitted to volun-
teer as parachute troops Previous
ly. parachute troops had been re-
stricted to soldiers of the regular
5rmy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Troops Quit Plane Plant

pue hampering defense production.
Strikers rejected President Roose-
velt's request Sunday to resume
work. Harvey Brown. international
president of the AFL machinists
union, called the AFL members to
mass meeting tomorrow night to
reconsider their action.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
BY UNITED PRESS

Federal troops began moving out
Of the North American Aviation
company plant Tuesday and nego-
tiations on wage demands of the
workers whose strike halted produc-
ton of military planes for four days.
With the Inglewood, Calf, factory
operating at its normal pace, Lieut.
Col. Charles E. Branshaw announc-
ed that 1900 of the $3.50 soldiers
stationed at the plant would leave
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
U. S. May Ban All
But British Oil

WASHINGTON, June II (UP)-
The United States may prohibit all
oil shipmentc-eXcept those to
Great Britain-from the east coast
in an attempt to overcome partial
ly a threatened shortage on the
eastern seaboard.
Defense Oil Coordinator Harold
L. Ickes has recommended that
Brig. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell, eX-
port control administrator, con-
sider the advisability of stopping
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
DEATH CLAIMS
ARIZONA PIONEER

PHOENIX, June II tUP)-OIney
O. Pendergast, widely-known Salt
River valley rancher and member
of a pioneer family, died yesterday
at local hospital following a heart
attack. He was 81. Pendergast was
a 32nd degree Mason and Shriner
The Pendergast district was named
after his father, Charles Fender
CAST.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
WEATHER

Southern CalifOrnia.-Fair Tues
day and wednesday except night
and morning low cloudiness coastal
area; somewhat cooler coastal val
leys and west portion MojaVe desert
Wednesday.
u. S. Weather Bureau Ell Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO BONDHOLDERs


all bonds various I'M
and not paid for
of Providing with future
herewith:
District to 63e
bearing numbers to 1iIo
numbers to 549
Imperial School District bearing numbers to I5'
called
presentation, except numbers cancelled
California Statutes which provides
for payment within thirty
registered mail then their numbers
being held for
them applied TO the next payment
Centre, Calf, June II, 194l.
Treasurer Of Imperial County, Calf
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17

snip w 4 so
Time is based Jpn eight hours
for each calendar day except
ing Sundays and legal holidays,
and overtime Shall be paid at
the rate of one and one-half
times the above rates.
Said bids will be opened and con-
sidered by the City Council at its
regular meeting TO be held on the
said 18th day of June, 1851, at 7:30
pm. OF said day at its chambers al
the City Hall of said City, or at
such subsequent meeting TO which
the consideration OF said bids may
be continued. The City reserves the
right to reject any OF all bids.
DATED this 10th day Of June,
lgsi.
NEAL Il GAVIN,
City Clerk OF the City OF
III Centre. =
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-17
Classification


Foreman sl.00 per day more
than the journeyman
rate for the craft in
Volved.
Laborers General or con-
struction including all
labor not herein separ-
ately classified on all
types of construction
Laborers Concrete workers,
loading, wheeling or
placing aggregates or
concrete or IN annual ]
tamping ........-...................
Laborers Operators and ten
ders of pneumatic and
electric tools, vibrating
machines and similar
mechanical tools not
separa te ly classified
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-23
BY HILL

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-tR-If you
are n who fears the spirit of
rugged individualism may be slip
ping, you will be heartened by
some recent striking indications to
the contrary.
Name the ruggedest individualist
you can think of, and he will pale
into a Caspar Milquetoast beside
some of the specimens that have
been popping up. For instance
A Chicago man refused to regis
er for the draft on the ground
that he had seeded from the
union, established the Kingdom of
Alexander and was dickering
with the state department for some
land to rule over. $50.
A Baltimore man filed a petition
to renounce his citizenship on the
ground that he had discovered a
new source of energy, and here
after wished to be known as Con
queror of the Domain of Tangible
Dynamics of the High. Seas" 49,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-23


Colonial NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in Well-spaced houses and pictur-
esque gardens-is brought wildly
to life in a miniature village, the
only one of its kind in North Caro-
lima, which has been painstakingly
fashioned by Miss Elizabeth Nc
Key. Richmond has one on the
same order of its period just before
the Civil War, and Boston also
boasts one. But as far as could
be learned, Miss McKoy's of Will
mington is the only other in this
section of the United States.
At present it fittingly rests in
the public library for citizens of
the now prosperous city to view
and contemplate the changes ap-
proximately 200 years can bring.
II enough contributions are re-
ceived to pay for the expense in
CURED in making it, Miss McKoy
will turn the work over to the
library permanently.
The muddy Cape Fear borders
the side of the layout, which is
about six feet by eight feet, with
eight short streams jutting up into
the town proper. When high tide
boosted the water level, boats even
went as far upstream as the fish
market on Market and Second
streets.
The deep white sand on the
streets slowed ven the jogging
wagons. The houses of the town
were packed solidly together in a
strip of four blocks square along
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-23

points of the sides with a circular
bed in the center.
In fact, gardens were the order
of the day for 20 existed within
the thickly settled part of town.
Pine cones on Miss McKoy's mimi
allure village represent lockwood
and shurbs in the gardens. The
flowers have moss for foliage and
bits of colored paper for blossoms.
The entire central part of the
block bordering Front and Market
streets was divided into five gar
den plots laid out near Jacobs
Run which passed through it. One
large garden took up half the block
where the Carolina theatre now is.
Scrub oak and brush grew in the
gardens. Blueberries and chinqua-
pins Haunted Americanism beside
real English violets and imported
roses.
The population of Wilmington in
1765 at the time Of Miss McKoy's
village was less than 1000 persons.
Fears were troublesome, and deer
and wild turkeys plentiful. The
streets were lighted by whale oil
lamps. Much cotton was shipped
represented by tiny cotton bales
made by Miss McKoy. Even the
tWo-Wheeled carts, the general
mode of conveyance, have been
put along the wharf.
Such was colonial Wilmington,
and thus cleverly portrayed by
Miss McKoy. Certainly hers is an
exceptional piece of work for the
city which will grow in importance
with the wears &
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-23
Capella Choir Will
Sing at Williston

The Winston Salem Teachers
college A Capella choir will give
a recital at the Williston Industrial
school auditorium Sunday after
moor at $3.50 O'Clock under tn e
auspices of the Winston-Salem
Teachers College Club of Whining
ton.
The choir appeared here in 1899
and the recital Sunday is to ap-
pear as a part of the program of
the Southeastern district of n e
W.S.T.C. alumni association, meet
ing here on the same date.
The public is invited to attend
the program. There will be no ad-
mission charge