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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-03-06

DAS FESTKOMITEE.
Fritz els, !Sr., Fest-Prssident.
ohm P. r OF h. Fest-Sekretar.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Civilian Defense
Program Delayed
Pending Revisions

Formation of the countrywide
civilian defense organization was
held up Wednesday by order Of of
ficals heading the statewide de-
Tense group.
Civilian defense in California will
be set up according to the Quinn
bill passed by the state legislature
District Attorney Elmer Heald
member of the state council. said
Gov Olson's defense committee and
Attorney General Earl Warren's
committee are working on an ordi-
nance which every county and city
in California will be asked to pass
as one of the main phases in the
defense program.
Meanwhile, however, Sheriff Ro-
bert w. Ware, chairman of the
southern region council, and Con-
stable Hugh Keating, region coun-
ell member. are continuing with
surveys which will be necessary
when the countrywide organization
is formed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

llldUeTldlS dIlu llldClllIlc COOio.
1--WE have not depended on the
volunteer system to recruit our
army Patterson said. Are we to
refuse to draft materials needed
for the armed forces?"
Patterson appeared as the first
witness at hearings on the sweep
ing draft property proposal which
has aroused opposition in congress.
He presented it as basically the
same legislation drafted and laid
before congress in 1881 in the armys
industrial mobilization plan.
MANY machine tools are being
used in industries not manufac-
turing for national Defense" he
said.
He added that the proposed law
also would permit use of second
hand machine tools, and the requi-
sitioning of stocks of needed raw
materials in non-defense industries,
as we'll as private airplanes used
primarily for pleasure.
Patterson, who took full respon-
sibility for introduction of the bill,
which some congressman have crit
icized as permitting the govern
ment to "seize a mans watch" :"
said with considerable sarcasm:
DON'T WANT WATCHES"
The war department had no
notion of interfering with the watch
in a mans pocket. What it needs
is materials, supplies and equip
ment for the armed forces"
Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calf,
told Patterson the bill would con-
stitute a long step forward to-
wards military dictatorship, if
it were enacted.
Downey said within "a hours
after its passage, the controverted
measure would destroy many
small industrial concerns in south
ern California without compensa-
ton.
1T may be necessary to have
such military dictatorship" Down.
ey said. Our peril may be that
Continued on Page 2; Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
: Desert
Drive
Stalls
Berlin Victorious
On Diplomatic
Fron+in East
By UNITED PRESS

Great Britain's drive to
seize the initiative in the Mid
die East collided Wednesday
with a nazi diplomatic sue
cess in Turkey and stubborn pan
zer front along the Libyan frontier
which caused the British to call off
their offensive thrust in the west
ern desert.
Both London and Ankara report
ed Germany and Turkey have con-
cluded nom aggression or neutral
ity agreement which will be an
nounced formally later.
The British and Turks also agreed
the pact would carry an escape
provision under which the Anglo
Turkish military alliance remains
in effect.
1t was admitted the agreement
constituted diplomatic triumph
forS Germany as Adolf Hiler Is
known to have been urging it upon
the Turks for many months.
The British expected Germany to
exploit the achievement as indicat-
ing new break in the British Mid
die Eastern frontier and assumed
the Nazis would claim that they
now could transit German troops
through Turkey to Syria, Iraq and
beyond.
British sources believed actually
Germany was obtaining no such
rights and that the NaziS had won
more of a surface triumph than
anything else.
1t was expected also that Ger
many would utilize the Turkish pact
in bringing additional pressure on
Russia for concessions, pointing out
to the Soviet-Whether it is true OF
not-that Russia more and more is
being isolated Berlin said nothing
yet for publication.
DESERT WARFARE
The conclusion of operations in
the western desert was viewed with
mingled feelings by the British.
They felt Gen. Sir Archibald Waveil
had proved British armored troops
are at least the equal of Nazi panzer
divisions and that losses had been
Continued on Page 2, Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Lavina Provazek
Is Improving

Lavine Provazek shows improve
ment every day.
This announcement was made
Wednesday concerning the condi-
ton of the Central Union High
school girl who has been in a coma
since she was injured in traffic
accident at Boulevard last Jan. s..
She is slowly recovering after an
operation performed more than a
week ago. She now knows all her
relatives and touches them when
asked where they are standing near
her bed. She follows instructions
given her and is in very good
physical condii:on, her physician
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

The German note was delivered
to the state department by Hans
Thomson, charge d'affaires at the
German embassy here, after its gen.
eral contents had been made known
in Berlin.
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles said the note dealt solely
with the order against German
agents. He indicated it did not
touch upon President Roosevelts
order of last Saturday, freezing
axis funds in this country.
Welles said that he could not COM
ment on the nature of the protest
delivered by Thomson. But. he add
ed, arrangements will be made to
obtain safe-conduct from other bel
ligerent powers to permit the ousted
German officials to return to their
homeland safely.
Some observers interpreted Welles
remark as indicating in this way
the officers could not DE reassigned
Continued on Page 2, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Cramer's Employees
Complete Union

Cramer's Bakery company sales
men and checkers, whose recent Or
ganization of an independent la
Dor union defied the powerful AFL
Transfers Union, Tuesday night
completed final organization by
election of officers.
Riley Mcbride was elected presi-
dent Bill Hughes vice-president
and Bill North secretary treasurer,
With the officers on a bargaining
committee will be Lawrence Hunter,
Yuma, and Leo Brinnon.
Cramer employees organized last
week after the TeamSterS Union
attempted through economic pres
sure to force them into the national
union and exact a $50 initiation fee,
SIS of which would have been a
penalty for not seeking Teamsters
Union membership sooner.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

the Teamsters used this means to
force a closed shop on Imperial
Valley agriculture, carried huge signs
in front of the 10 Teamster pickets
and later planted them in the
ground and returned to the valley.
The pickets watched the farmers
in amazement.
ANY man forced into a union
against his will is the victim of
extortion," one of the signs read.
why try to make the Imperial
county farmers help you perform
this atrocious act?"
Another read-"You are disturb
ing the business of Imperial county
200 miles away, in your effort to
force Is men into your union here
Continued on Page 2; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
District TO Make
Wage Scale Study
OF Employees Here

Directors of the Imperial Irriga-
ton district wednesday authorized
a study that was expected to lead
to a new wage scale for district en-
ployeeS.
A resolution passed Tuesday af-
ternoon pointed out the increase
in cost of living and in farm prices
and indicated that general wage
increase is necessary. The board
has in the past attempted to main
tain proper wage scale based up
on the relation of the earnings and
income of assessment payers to the
salaries and wages of employees.
The operating department was
directed to compile information to
enable the board to put into effect
q new schedule.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

CUIIIIIIS % UIIt VdIIty IIUIII fseU Oak,
Iowa, teaching mathematics until
he took over the administrative
duties of vice-principal. He received
his A. B. degree from Cornell college
and did his graduate work at U.S.C,
During his years in the valley he
has been active in a number of
civic organizations and is promi-
nent member of the Ell Centre XII
wants club.
Mr., and Mrs. Ketchen and their
two children, Kay and Don, win
leave this summer for San Diego
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

from $5O8,000 in 1885 to $873,175 in
the last census.
The types of plants included in
the Ell Centro total were listed as
follows: l creamery, cheese plant,
/ condensed and evaporated milk
plant 2 bakeries, 3 alcoholic
beverage plants, ice plants, 2 box
and crate plants, flax fiber mill, 2
newspaper publishing and printing
plants, l periodical, l book binding
plant, concrete products plant, and
2 machine repair shops.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Desert Slim Wallace May Join Most
Select Group of Defense Workers

job and was awaiting a certificate
of U. S. birth, one of the require
mentS.
Wallace expected to go into one
of the defense plants at San Diego
With a flare for the semi-scien-
tific, Wallace has proved a fascin-
ating character and story teller for
many years, describing his desert
experiences and discussing his eX-
periments with curious visitors at
his shop. AT different times Wal
lace has dabbled in many phases
of mining operations, even devel-
oping a radio device for locating
mineral bodies beneath the surface
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

Desert Slim Wallace, for many
years a colorful character and one
of Dixieland's chief and only citi-
zens, awaited proof of U. S. birth
Wednesday that he expected would
open the way for him to join coast
defense industry as one of the few
diamond tool makers in the country
Wallace, who has conducted a gem
cutting shop as we'll as a variety
of other pursuits including earth
quake recording, said there were
only about 500 men in the nation
capable of making the delicate tools
used in constructing certain engine
dies He said he qualified for the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

to establish their home In that
city.
No announcement has been made
as to Ketchen's successor.
Other teachers who have received
appointments TO the San Diego
school system for the year i94i-4
include william Raaka OF Wilson
school who has served as director
for the supervised playground pro-
gram and Miss Laura C'llstrap os
Mt. Signal Union high school.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
five RECAPTURED after Lv. JAIL BREAK
Menace 10 Peace

ALBANY, ". Y, juno Is (UPj
The state parole board ruled
today that Fritz Kuhn must
be regarded as 4 hazard TO the
public peace ard security" and
denied the former German
American Bund leaders, applica-
ton for a parole from state pris-
on.
The parole board met at the
Clinton state prisCn III Danne-
mora, where Kuhn has served
Is months OF Il two and one
half to five year sentence for
larceny Of bund funds and forg-
cry. He was convicted OF the
theft of Si217 Of bund funds
and altering the. sCeiety's records
10 cover the theft.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Director Divorces
Enqlish Actress

HOLLYWOOD, June 18 CUP) -
British film star Ilena Sylvia was
divorced today by Otto Ludwig,
film editor, who testified that his
wife refused to leave England fol
Hollywood.
Ludwig told Superior Judge Harry
Archibald he believed his wife was
in Britain at present.
"She said she thought it better
for her to live in England because
of her profession" Ludwig told the
court.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

the only other city IN The county
included in the census, was 1878, IT'S.
In making the census, the Ell Cen
tro Chamber OF Commerce was in
/. formed, the government included
! the produce packing sheds in an
other type of business and will an
nounce those totals later. Only cities
of 10000 population or more were
checked in the business census made
by the government more than a year
ago.
Brawley, also included in the 1885
business census, showed an increase
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

In less than nine hours all five
fugitives again were behind the
bars in the Jail at the close of man
hunt in which federal county, and
city officers took part.
Emil Gerek, 38, Polish alien ar
rested at Blythe May 81 with $4,000
worth of stolen jewels, financed the
break by giving ErneSto Hesse, So
year-old crippled trusty, five small
diamonds he had hidden in seams
in his clothing. Hess smuggled parts
of 10 inch hack saw into the jal
Friday. When the fugitive five left
Hesse behind, he told Sheriff Rob-
ert w. Ware, he threw the gems into
the toilet in his cell. Ware ordered
the plumbing searched in an effort
to recover. the gems. ts
The five who slipped from the
Jail between 3 and, am. were
Gerek; Heinrich Sobczak, Al, Ger
man seaman held by immigration
officers since his arrest Jan. 8; Mario
Atkinson, 80, arrested by the i'm
migration officers who found he
had no draft card on May 81; MI
guel Morales, 80, Mexican waiter
arrested by immigration. officers
June Z; and Conception Aguilera,
81, arrest by the same officers at
Calexico June 13.
BREAK DISCOVERED
Pit Hamilton, night watchman
at the Jail and court house, dis
covered the rope of blankets dam
Cling over the wall on the southwest
side of the jail when he made his
rounds at 4 am. They were not
there, he said, when he made his
rounds at 3 am. Hamilton told Night
Jailer Dale Nice and the hunt be-
gan.
In the upper center cell on the
top floor of the Jail 13 prisoners re-
fused to accompany the five men In
their break for freedom. They never
had told of the work the five were
doing on one of the bars in an iron
grating in the ceiling of the cell.
CUT BAR TWICE - I51s
The men had used the hacksaw
to cut twice through one-inch bar.
When they removed the bar they
had space 81 inches long and IL
inches wide: They were boosted
through the opening into the attic.
There they pushed out one section
of the skylight, laid the wire in
forced glass on the roof, and helped
each other to the roof, pulling the
blankets up after them.
On the roof they crept along a
wall around an inner court, using
the rope of blankets to keep them
from slipping into the court yard.
Next they dropped over the high
wall on the blanket rope into. the
Shrubbery. There they waited until
they had chance to slip away in
the darkness.
ALL RECAPTURED
Gerek was found in field south
OF Ell Centre with all but tiny
spot on one shirt sleeve covered
with watermelon vines. Aguilera, the
last to fall into the net spread by
the officers, was caught shortly after
noon attempting to thumb a ride
southwark from his stand on the
highway south of Heber. All we're
caught in the Ell Centre area.
Robert John Muller, 26, Polish
seaman arrested with Gerek at
Blythe, did not accompany the fug-
itiveS even though he was an in
mate in the cell from which the
break was made. Florida officers
are enroute to Ell Centre to take
Gerek' and Muller back to Florida
to face trial on charge of stealing
the jewelry from their former en-
ployers, wealthy Florida residents
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18

A Bolt, Bolt
Thelma Henry knows what she
wants, even if she can't name it.
IT want bolt!" she informed a
clerk at an Ell Centro hardware
store the other day.
Fine, was have a lot of bolts, y
replied the clerk. What size and
what kind?"
"A bolt for a cooler" Thelma
explained and relaxed as though
that solved the problem.
The clerk quite naturally pressed
for more details but it only drew
Thelma's scorn.
"If I we're man I'll bet I'd
know!" she said and that made
the clerk feel even more foolish.
Finally when they were about TO
give the whole thing up as bad
job Thelma wandered about the
= counters and pounced upon an OBJ
ject.
Here's the bolt!" she cried tri-
Continued on Page 2; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
D AMBL!Ne

TOuchy Subject
AS Sam Kimball's talk progressed
at a Toastmaster's meeting this
week the reaction of the audience
heartened him. Remarks that he
had though just ordinary were
"going over big Any reference to
the Carolinas brought particular
response.
What Sam didn't know was that
j.. the audience kept watching Bill
Outlook and Bills face got redder
and redder. The more Sam men
toned the dilapidated condition OF
homes in the Carolinas the redder
Bill got, Bill being a fervent parti-
san of that section of the country.
When Sam, describing sights on
q bus trip, mentioned that he had
left the Carolinas and travelled on
to the real south, Bill came with
in an ace of bursting. When the
talk finally ended Bill was all for
. starting the Civil War all over
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Manufacturing
NORTH 2 Million

The United States department of commerce .Wednes-
day announced that the annual value of Ell Centros 2l
manufacturing plants exclusive OF the produce packing
sheds, So, ,256.
Imperial countys total was S. 1874 900 and Brawleys
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
ketchen to Leave
&C. High School

D. w. Ketchen, vice-principal of Central Union high
school since 1884 has resigned that office to accept posi-
ton teacher of mathematics in the San Diego high school
SYSTEM it learned Wednesday.
Ketchen has the faculty of Central 1927
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Valley Farmers
Picket Pickets
Delegation Lends Action to Protest
Against Labor Union Pressure on Plant
Where Employees Voted to Remain Free

Thrty-five Associated Farmers were back home in I'm
peral county Wednesday after pcketng the Teamsers
union pckets at the Gidden flax mill at Buena Park Tues
day protest against picket line around plant where
there labor trouble The farmers, enraged because
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Berlin Protests
Consulate Order
German Note Further Step in Rapidly
Deterioratns Relations; U. S. Borders
Closed to Nazs Desiring to Leave

WASHINGTON, June 18. (UP)-Germany today for
maly lodged protest with the United States against the
closing of German consular offices propaganda agen
cies in this country, charging violation of u Sherman
treaty of commerce and friendship signed in 1928
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
'Draft Pro- perty
Battle Launched
In Senate Group
powney Charsea Bill Would Destroy
Numerous Small Business Firms Now
Operating in Southern California Area

WASHINGTON, June 18. )-Undersecretary OF
War Robert P Patterson today urged the senate military
affairs committee to approve the departments conro
verted raf property" bill rather than have defense
cies rely on volunteer' system for obtaining needed
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
Diamonds Used
! TO Bribe 1ruStv
Before Getaway
Federal Prisoners Saw Way Out Of
County Jail in Biggest DeIiveryfor
Six Years; Jewels Thrown into Sewer

The biggest Imperial county Jail break in more than six
years occurred at am Wednesday when five federal prs
sawed their out of cell the top floor reach
ed the roof through skyght and dropped over two
story wall a rope of knotted blankets
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
BASEBALL
BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago ................ 010 GOO 020-3-5-l
New York ...... 020 900 000-2-10-2
Lee & G. Dickey; Chandler 81 Ro-
Sar.
Detroit ... ........ 600 030 011-5-11-0
Boston ............ 900 100 010-2-8-3
Rowe e, Tebbetts; Harris, Ryba
& Pytlak.
Cleveland -. 072 l01 210-14-17-0
Philadelphia .... 010 100 000-2-4-2
Feller & Hemsley; McCrabb, Dean
e. Hayes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BROOKLYN .......... 900 900 00l-1-5-1
Chicago ......... ..... 113 900 00x-5-8-0
Hamlin, Kimball. Tamulis & Owen;
Olsen, Olsen & Mccullough.
Philadelphia ........................... 900 90
st. Louis ....,...... .............--.... 202 03
Blanton, Pearson & Livingston;
Lanier & Mancuso.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-18
CANTALOUPES

Imperial Valley: Demand fair;
market weaker Carloads fob. cash
track Std Ass jbO 36s S1.50-1.75;
jb0 ASS S1.75-2; 27s S1.10-1.25.
L. A. Hay U. S. 30. S18-19;
U S. No. 2 leafy Nv. S17.50-18. No.
$l450-15.5O; Mpls. Sept. flax S1.83H
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-26

in the Sunday School, 1S0. At
the Rally Day observance in the
Sunday School in 1922 there were
1,16S, with ITS in the Busy Mems
Bible Glass and 81 in the Young
Mems Glass. An augmented or
chestra under the direction of C.
E. Seiss rendered special music.
Rev. DR.. Plummer was finishing
his first successful year as pastor.
Auctioneer Knadler sold in Kee-
dysville the Daniel Line farm of
1892 acres, near Keedysville, to
Edward Poffenberger at $107 per
acre.
Elmer N. Funkhouser, of the
firm of r. J. Funkhouser and Co.,
left for Vermont to inspect
stone plant.
o. p. BOhman, manager of the
Hagerstown Motor Co., was on an
extended trip through the North,
visiting jamestown, N. Y, his for
mer home, and also points of inter-
est in Canada.
The Robert Kennedy Memorial
Church at Welsh Run, Pa, voted
unanimous call to Rev. Edward A.
Shook, of Laurelville, Ohio. He
was a native of Maryland, being
born near kee-Mar.
Miss Virginia Keller, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Keller, The
Terrace, left for Penn Hall, Cham
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-26
"NAvY .-.
,INTELLlcE"~E

Is 1t necessary to be a high
school graduate in order to en-
lis, IN the Navy?
No. Navy enlistees need not be
high school graduates. All appli-
cants will be given an examina-
tion containing approximately 100
questions. A grade of so per cent
or better on this examination is
sufficiently high to pass the Navy
educational standards. However,
a high school education will be
valuable to the seaman during his
Navy enlistment.
III enlist in the Navy or Naval
Reserve, 1OiH / be sent to a
Navy Trade School,?
All new recruits are sent to one of
four Naval Training Stations and
after a training period they may
take examinations for entrance
into Navy Trade Schools. Those
recruits who pass their examina-
tions with sufficiently high grades
are sent to Navy Trade Schools
before assignment to the feet.
While attending these schools,
they will receive regular Navy
pay and free schooling valued at
$500.
What is the greatest possible
pay l can expect to earn during
my first term of enlistment?
1t is possible to earn as much as
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-26
LIE T T E r s
To The Editor
Editor Hagerstown Globe:

Editor HagerstOwn Globe:
/ have been noticing that there is
woeful disregard on the part of
many motorists of dimming their
headlights upon meeting another
car. This law went into effect on
June l. Also we have observed
that while quite a number of driv-
ers very rarely dim their lights,
the lights are excessively brilliant
and glaring.
The writer, in driving to Hagers--
town recently over Route 40 from
BoOnsboro, met many cars. The
most of them had headlights so
bright that any one meeting them
just had to take leap in the dark
until the suspense was over. And
we are safe in saying the same
thing applies to any highway at
night, anywhere in the county. II
you get by under these circum-
stanes, well, O. K, but you really
take big chance in the face of
the binding lights of dropping into
ditch alongside of the road or of
striking some obstruction that
might be there.
The bill regulating glaring head
I lights is known as House Bill 103
and has been enacted into law as
Chapter 423, of the Articles of 1941.
Drivers, however, on dual highways
are exempt from the requirements
of this State law. Otherwise the
law carries fine of $5 for the first
offense and from $40 to $25 for sub
sequent convictions.
OBSERVER.