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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28


Russian thrusts on the central
front and along the lower Dnieper
river and increasing Nazi pressure
which Berlin said cut the Leningrad
Moscow railroad in the north.
The Iranian token fighting
seemed ended with formation of a
new cabinet to deal with British
and Russian demands. The Japan
ese cabinet was faced with decid-
ing whether to stand against Brit
ain and the United States.
On the eastern front, the Rus
slams reported that they had smash
eel five enemy divisions in scattered
battles and that the central front
offensive LED by Gen. l. A Konav
was smashing through heavily-for
titled German lines.
The Konev drive, as reported by
the army publication Red Star, may
be the most important operation
on the entire front, Dispatches
from Berlin admitted that there
were countsrbloWs in that sector
as we'll as attempts by the Russians
to strike back across the Dnieper
river apparently in the Ukraine.
FIGHTING INTENSE
Konev's objective is Gomel, which
some reports indicated might have
been recapturad. but his main pur-
pose is to defeat the German Of
fenSive through Gomel and south
eastward (east of the Dnieper) to-
ward Chernigov.
Both Moscow and Berlin indi-
Gated intense fighting in the Gomel
region with the outcome in doubt.
Pressure also continued on Lenin-
3rad, with the luftwaffe contin-
lally bombing tie city's outer de-
lenses, but the Russians said they
we're stalling the enemy drive there.
In Moscow, Vice-Foreign Com
misSar S. A. Lozovsky denied Ger
man claims of the capture of Dniep-
ropetrovsk, important industrial
3-ty on the Dnieper, and said that
Ill Nazi attempts to cut the Mos
cow-Leningrad railway had failed.
German military quarters had
claimed that the MoscoW-Leningrad
railway had been cut. This report
was not confirmed by the German
Continued on Page 2; Column D
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Helen Cooley viii
Be Buried FRIDAY

Private graVeside services for
Helen Yvonne Cooley, 23-year-old
Ell Centre legal stenographer who
died early Wednesday, were sche-
duled at Glen Abbey Memorial
park near Chula Vista in San Diego
county at $50 pm. Friday.
Close friends unable to attend
the rites include Ebert o. Berry,
who recently entered the United
States Naval service and is de-
tanned under orders at Washington
d. C.
Burial was scheduled to take e
place at Glen Abbey.
Miss Cooley was stricken more
than a week ago and all efforts to
save her life proved unavailing. She
was born in Prairie Home, Neb.,
and had lived in Imperial Valley
for IA years.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Draft Board Men
freed on Bail

LOS ANGELES, Aug. % (UP)-
Two local draft board officials,
Charles Wangsness and Charles
fin, today were free on bail of $1,000
each. They were indicted by the
federal grand jury yesterday on
charges of conspiring to file false
claims on the government.
WangSness, chairman of local
board No. 218, was accused of
falsifying his wifes name on the
records and hiring her as an assis-
tant clerk at 500 a month. Grif-
Griffin. today were free on $1,000 bail
was alleged to be on the payroll
both as a secretary and as an
assistant clerk under an assumed
name for a total of $500 a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

CATION OF causes of the shortage
and means to remedy it.
In a 51-page statement to a
senate commerce subcommittee, Day-
les cited "carelessly broadcast"
charges that the shortage has been
created artificially" to foster n
war psychology. Statistics issued
by his office. he asserted, have been
challenged in the press and by men
in public lite.
"Cne cannot but wonder if there
does not lie behind these efforts
TO promote CONFUSION and spread
dlssension. some purpose, sinister
and planned, he said. Is it pos
sible that we have here an attempt
AT sabotage?
NO more vital effort than the
supply OF oil could be selected for
interference by forces antagonistic
to national defense"
Davies was an executive of the
standard oil company of California
until he became first assistant to
OIL Coordinator Harold L. Ickes.
The committee nad hoped to have
Iekes as its first witness. but ne
Is on vacation
Davies cited unsuccessful efforts
by the navy TO obtain bids on
500 600 barrels of heavy fuel oil
IN June for delivery on the east
coast as proof that a shortage really
exists.
No bids were submitted because
no company would supply the oil
unless the navy could carry it in
is own tankcrs from the gulf
coast" ne said There were not
snough private tankers TO deliver
oil TO the United States navy,
which Is expected to guard our
snores. because those tankcrs were
TOO busy carrying gasoline to mo-
forists IN the east"
The American people do not want
% play roulette with American
security as the stake" he said
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Mystery Fire Hits Plant
Using Secret Processes

SAN JOSE. Cal. Aug. %. CUP)
A quantity of magnesium burst
suddenly into flames at the Per-
manente Magnesium plant at Mon
tevista today. burning five men and
starting a fire which caused slight
damage to the new plant Two
of the injured later died
Ralph Knight, chief engineer for
Todd-California shipbuilding cor
poration, which operates the plant,
said the cause of the accident was
not determined Immediately. He
said there was no explosion and the
fire itself was very small.
knight said the FBI and COM
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

ia rate was 3388963242. Population
figures were taken from the last
federal census.
The total amount received by the
seven cities was ,5lI,259.49.
Local apportionments were a part
of the sJaCe Ooiai $1,702, 1926 avail
able to all cities and counties after
the deduction of $89,766 for ad-
ministration and $2,830 in contri-
buttons to the state retirement fund
were made.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
CI0 Named Agent
For Oil Workers

LOS ANGELES. Aug g up
The CIO International oil Workers
union today was named as bargain
ing agent for employees of the
Union Oil companys refineries at
Wilmington and Oleum by william
r. Walsh regional national labor
relations board director.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

.munist ceremony at Versailles.
An Official broadcast by Fernand
de Brinon. Vichy representative of
Paris, said that Deat's condition
was extremely critical and that La
walls condition continued serious.
The broadcast, emphasizing that
French officials and German oc-
cupation authorities were cooperat-
Ing in a pitiless purge OF opposi-
ton elements, said that no distinc-
ton would be made between right
lists and left.sts in the drive to wipe
out all terrorism. Vichy secret po-
lice already were seeking anti-gov-
eminent elements and it was charg-
ed that the Versailles shooting was
the first move in huge "Commu-
mist" conspiracy, although the as
saSsin denied any Communist con-
nections.
A record of the ceremonies at
which Laval was shot was played on
the broadcast, carrying to all of
France the sound of six shots fired
b. the assassin.
Ministry of justice authorities an
nounced that three men. condemned
to death by a special court at Paris
yesterday, had been guillotined at
the Sante prison at dawn.
A Paris dispatch said that Mrs.
Fernand de Brinon, wife of the
chief Vichy envoy to German oc-
cupation forces, had suffered a
fractured skull in a bicycle acci-
dent" in the Paris suburbs yester-
day almost at the same time as the
Laval-Deat shooting, and was in
serious condition.
The Laval-Deat case took SEN
Continued on Page 2, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

pany experts were investigating the
fire, the first accident in the $l2.-
100000 plant which went into op-
Grafton last Monday to produce
magnesium for national defense
by a secret process.
Those burned were Eugene Nc
Clinchey, Pleasanton; Donald Boni-
field Santa Clara; Myer Gallonoy,
San Jose; Neil Collins, plant super
intendent and Keith Corey, plant
McGlinchey, Bonifield and Gallo
engineer. Bonifield and Galloway
deid.
noy, plant workers, suffered third
degree burns. They were brought
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

OF tHt mOlOI NenlCle department..
The rate per capita was .2465369668
tSlightly more than "a cents)
Brawley received S3,97l.l9 based
on a population of il,7l8; El Centre
received s3.394.5z on a population
OF l0,0l7; Calexico received ST.
835.l2 on a population of 5,415;
Calipatria S60968 on a population OF
l,7e9; Holtville S6O052 on a popu-
lation of 1.772; Imperial s505.97;
und Westmor.anG S34229 on a
population of l.0l0. The per capi
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

and was principal of the campus
high school.
His travels include journeys to
China. Japan. the Philippines and
Hawaii. Gilpin had considerable
experience as football coach in
high school and college and had
experience in three major sports
football, basketball and track.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Candidate Again

SACRAMENTO Aug. % up -
! ieut Gov Ellis r. Patterson dis
closed to-day he viii be a candidate
Tor reelection ana said he expected
20 win the democratic nomination
next August very easily"
Patterson also revealed that he
will support Gov Culbcrt Olson for
reelection. although the Two split
last summer when Olson asked
Patterson 20 resign and Patterson
reported ne replied go - he'll"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Truck Runs Over
Children in Box

PITTSFIELD, Mass, Aug. %
CUP) = Three children playing
house in a large cardboard box
in street were crushed to death
today beneath a two-ton produce
truck.
The victims were: Shirley Hall, 4,
her sister Rita, 2, and Lawrence
Doyle, 4.
Police arrested the truck driver,
Richard j. Herbert, about 35, a
local produce dealer, on reckless
driving charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

p. d. O.
frankie Lee Kirk, small daughter
\ of MI and Mrs. George Kirk, has
been wei, schooled in modern
phraseology and all the conversa-
tional short cuts adopted by the
New Deal
Her mother heads the P.-T.A. at
Harding school. In her fathers
office she frequently hears things
referred to by their initials a la
the New Deal.
In the midst of a busy morning
George was called to the telephone.
Frankie Lee said:
Daddy, will you come home and
take mother to the B. P.?'
Take her where?" George de-
manded from the fog which envel-
Continued on Page 2, col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

was wheat and unauthorized by
the international union officers"
He said that John Doherty, re-
gional director of the steel workers
organizing committee (CIO) was
flying here from Chicago to plead
at mass meeting this afternoon
for resumption of work.
The conciliator revealed that pre-
yious work stoppages at the plant,
which diminished production by
$4,000 tons, had been investigated
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

to San Jose hospital in critical
condition. Collins and Corey suf-
fered slight burns of the hands
and were treated at the plant first
aid room.
Knight said the fire occurred In
what he described as the tablet
ROOM He said the magnesium
flared into flame unexpectedly
during experimental work not re-
lated to normal operations"
The fire spread over an area
of $50 square feet but II was ex-
tinguished within a few minutes
he said. The damage was slight. u.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

Case Solved
The whole staff at the district
attorneys office read with inter
est one of those diabolical vacation
post cards sent by C. G.. Halliday
1t was post postmarked Point Arena,
1t said
THE catch shown on the other
side of this card represents only
part of the important business
which has occupied my time on
the Mendocino coast for the last
10 days. 1t shows I go in for
big ones. Notice that I am the
tenth man from the end. Outside
of whale meat, my diet has con-
sisted of salmon and veniSon."
On the opposite side of the card
was a great lump Of something
and g line which said the lump was
a rs pound whale.
PS.-There were only eight men
Ain the picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Farmers Face No
Labor Shortage

SACRAMENTO, Aug. % (UP)-
Frank Buckner, farm placement
representative of the California de-
partment of employment, today
declared there was no serious Short
age of farm labor in the state
although there were a few local
"stringencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

by federal bureau of investigation
agents.
There's something wrong out
there Dewey said.
The strike broke out early today
among the 500 scarfers and picklers
who were said to resent alleged
company delay in adjustment of
wages as provided in a contract
signed IL July.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Oil PIan Critics
Called Suboteurs
Ickes' Deputy Declares SinisterP'o+
May Lie Behind Charges Gas Shortage.
ArtificiaIIy Created for Propaganda

WASHINGTON, Aug % (UP)-Deputy Defense Oil Co
ordnator Ralph X. Davies declared today that sinsel
and planned" sabotage may lie behind the multiplicity
of misnformation surrounding the gasoline shortage
the coast lie the first witness in senate nves
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
500 Bdr Jobs to
10000 L-oborers

DETROIT, Aug. 27 (UP)-A strike by 500 workers in
Ecorse ant of the Great Lakes Steel Corp today threw
10000 employees out of work defense orders the
strikers refused to let any pass their picket line.
Federal Labor Concator James Dewey said the strike
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
!. Y. Gets $4,000
In License Fund

total of S25,9876 went to Imperial county and seven
of its lies from the motor vehicle license fee apporon
ments for the quarter ending last June 30.
Based a population of 55,740 Imperial county was
allotted $1472S12 it announced Thursday by officials
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
D AMs!!Ne AAn!mte
EpoRTER

Naughty Boy
Shame on the man who signed @
friends name to a classified ad-
Vertisement he wanted inserted in
the Post-Press. 1t read in part:
"Wanted-Three lady passengers
for trip to Oklahoma. Blondes pre-
lterred."
The practical joker paid for the
ad, but listen, Homer. it's against
the law. Come and get your money
back.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Russ Onslaught
Coincide with
.Jopdnese Crisis
Moscow. Berlin Report Strong Soviet
Thrusts on Vital Central Front While
War Developments . Slower Elsewhere
BY UNITED PRESS :

The Red army counterattacked Adolf Hitlers armies
the front Thursday Iran apparently captuated
occupation by Britain and Russia cabinet crisis moved
Japan close a vital decision in the Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
Pro-AxiS French Launch
Reign Of Terror Against
Growing Communist Plot
Laval Assassination Attempt Followed
By Fierce Purge of Free French. Reds;
Three Lose Heads for Terrorism

VICHY, Aug. % (UP)-Three convicted of terror
ism guotned in Sane prison at Paris today and an
official broadcast warned France that the in
tended to crush all terroriss result of the shooting
Pierre Laval Marcel Deaf and others anti Com
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
TEMPERATURE

Thur. II; 8 p. m. Wed. 80, humidity
81; a. m. Thur. 80, humidity 60;
Noon Thur. 81, humidity 81.
L. A. Hay: u. S. No. l S17.50; u. ).
No. 2 leafy 1. v. S15-15.50; No. 2
$12-13; Mpls. Sept. flax S1.94.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
.SKIERS BELIEVED
BURIED IN SLIDE
Rescuers Digging Into Mound
Of Ice In Attempt To
Rescue Quartet

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 1-R--
Four skiers we're believed buried by
a snowslide today on the preclpl-
tious north wall of Little Cotton
wood Canyon in the nearby Was
atch mountains.
Edwin S. Stott, manager of a
lodge at the Alta winter resort,
near which the slide occurred, said
some rs rescuers YER digging in
to a mound in ice, snow and earth
in an attempt to reach the trapped
skiers.
Three hours after the avalanche,
a piece of broken ski was recover
ed, Stott said.
Efforts to ascertain which among
an estimated 1900 holiday skiers
at the resort were those buried
were not Immediately successful.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
UNUSUAL PICTURE is
OFFERED AT THE BIJOU

Based on a Collier Magazine
story by Richard Connel, Brother
Orchid which plays today at the
Bijou theatre is a rib-tickling sa-
tire on big-shot %gangsters. Robin
son, as the head of the John
Sarto Protective Agency,'A gets a
bad case of hurt feelings when his
henchmen rub OUT a member OF
a rival gang without even sending
him, Robinson, a memo. Worse,
they were guilty of bad taste in
pulling the crime at Molly Madi-
gan's Cafe, with the result that the
police closed the place. Nov,
where's a guy going to get some
decent corned beef and cabbage?"
the big shot plaintively demands.
The program also includes a car
toon, Granite Hotel" d the
latest News. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Many Solons Praise Reserve
Systems Monetary Proposals

ed the recommendations as "by
and large very WISE" y
He said he heartily approved
the proposal to end the President S
monetary powers, contending that
they constituted a sword of Dam
ocles hanging over the financial
system"
He also approved the suggestion
that more revenue be obtained
through taxation, asserting that
lone means of avoiding imitation
is to levy heavy taxes and not
have such a wide gulf between in
come and expenditures"
Representative Crawford (R-
Mich.), a member of the house
banking committee: II think it's
the most constructive step the
board has taken since it was re-
created in 1888. I hope that con-
gress will enact the necessary
legislation to enable the board to
command the control necessary to
remove destructive imitation pos
sibilities. 1t will be highly con-
structive in creating confidence
among BUSINESS men,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
MARRIAGE MART
B00MS AT RENO
Eight Times AS Many Persons
Married Than Divorced
There In 1910

RENO, New, Jan. 1-R-Thls
divorce capital did a record smash
ing marriage license business in
1910, eight times as many persons
being married than we're divorced
here during the year.
County Clerk Elwood Beemer
said 1898 licenses were issued
compared with previous highs OF
II, O61 in 1889 and 8,033 in 1898.
On the other hand suits for di-
vorce filed under the law requir-
ing a residence of only six weeks
were fewer than those filed in 1880
when a residence of three months
was necessary.
Divorce suits in 1910 totaled g.
314 compared with 2,427 in 1880.
1t marked the third successive
year that filing dropped under the
figure of ten years ago.
Beemer said the heavy increase
in marriage licenses was the re-
suit of the law passed in California
in 1889 requiring medical exam
nations Of persons applying for
licenses, but that the federal con-
scription law helped the squirt in
1910.
The slump in divorces was
caused by an increase in the num-
Der of cases filed in Virginia City,
Minden and Carson City where
court costs are less.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02

WASHINGTON, Jan. / Up =
A number of members Of congress
applauded today the federal re-
serve systems monetary recon-
mendations, but a general consen-
sus was unobtainable because most
legislators were absent from the
city during the holiday.
Senator Adams (D-Colo.) said he
was Thoroughly in accord with
the recommendation that the Presi-
dents power to devalue the dollar
be allowed to expire. This author
ity, he said, had been the "occas-
ion for uncertainty in economic
standards"
Because the President was able
to change the gold content of the
dollar by the mere issuance Of an
ORDER there had resulted a pos
sible instability of the dollar" he
asserted.
He said he would like to see the
American dollar take the place the
English pound used to have as a
measure of value throughout the
world"
Senator King (D-Utah) describ-
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. Up -
Churches were asked today by the
Rev. Paul D. Moody, director of the
general committee of army and navy
chaplains, to extend their hospitality
to soldiers and sailors and help es-
tablish a Safeguard against evil in
fluences."
1.-THE church has, the greatest op-
portunity in this crisis" Moody said
in a New Years broadcast to the
armed forces. For in the neigh
borhood of the camps there is much
to do. Churches can unite in fur
nishing centers to which men on
leave can come and find a welcome,
a place to write letters, to read, and
the sort Of acquaintance
which are a safeguard against evil
influences, for the forces OF I'M
Righteousness, which from time i'm
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
REUTHER'S PLAN IS
HELD IMPRACTICAL
Defense Production Ex-
perts Point Out The
Difficulties

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-R)-Ihe
Peuther plan for utilizing automo'
i've industry facilities to turn out
500 warplanes a day was reluctantly
termed impracticable today by high
defense production experts.
The plan, calling for use of now
idle automobile plants and machinery
to step up aircraft production, was
fathered by Walter Reuther, direc-
tor of organization for CLOS United
Automobile Workers at General
Motors plants. 1t was submitted to
President Roosevelt by Philip Muir
ray, CLIO chief.
Mr.. Roosevelt said then that it
was receiving serious consideration
but today defense experts Who de-
clined to be quoted by name listed
these obstacles:
1. The difficulty of obtaining suf-
ficient machine tools, either new or
old.
2. The impossibility of obtaining
sufficient aluminium products in the
six months preparatory period before
the projected start of 500-a-day plane
production.
3. The fact that automobile plants
already were being assigned MAJOR
defense jobs-the production OF thou-
sands of engines and Of other parts
for $500 bombers to be assembled IN
four middlewestern plants.
a. Lack of immediate armament
for so great a number of planes as
the U. A. w. plan contemplates.
Production experts said they were
reluctant to find fault with the plan
because it demonstrated the desire
of labor to contribute to the defense
program.
But they added that the practical
difficulties made it impossible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02

"MOIINTED POLICE" MARKS
RAU EY THEATRE PROGRAM

That brightly burning star OF
genius which has guided Cecil b.
DeMille to fame as a motion picture
producer-director has nothing on the
light used by the starring cast OF
DeMille's new picture for Paramount
North West Mounted Police" which
opened last night at the Bailey thea
tire. For Gary Cooper and Madeleine
Carroll are starred, and the starring
players seen included Paulette God
dard, Preston Foster, Robert Pres
ton, Akin Tamiroff, Lynne over
man, George Bancroft, Lon CLANCY
Jr.. and Walter Hampden!
An unsurpassed list, it is the big
eest cast DeMille has ever offered,
a cast suited to the epic proportions
of this picture, and n competent
to deal with its big story, the fact
that this is the. masters first all
Technicolor film and the other fast
aspects of the production.
If the reception accorded the pic
ture yesterday at the Bailey is any
criterion, it might be said that 1t
contains enough thrills for any five
average pictures, just as it's cast has
enough stars for any five everyday
films. More than that, the picture
has two love stories, one a triangular
affair with beautiful Miss Carroll as
the lady, and the other a romance or
whatever one might call it between
a tempestuous indian girl who IS
about as wild as the north woods
and a mountie.
Northwest Mounted Police" will
continue at the Bailey through Sat
l1rd az
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-02
Churches Are Asked To Extend
Welcome To Soldiers, Sailors

memorial prey upon soldiers and sail
ors are not asleep or Indifferent to
their evil opportunities"
Col. William R. Arnold, chief IT
army chaplains, said that it was re-
assuring to note that all of the re-
ligious groups of the nation are rep
resented in our defensive forces and
that men under arms shall have
every facility to practice their re-
ligion."
The Rev. Robert E. Mccormack,
speaking for those Of the Catholic
religion, made a plea for charity,
fraternity and unity" among the
men of the armed forces and DR..
David De Sola Pool, speaking for
the Jewish faith, urged that they be
guided by the standards of peace
and not by the demoralizing stand
ards OF war;"