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NlRB Member Flags
House Committee

WASHINGTON, March 10. (UP)
Edwin S. Smith, member of the
national labor relations board, last
night denounced the final report
of the special house committee
which investigated labor board &C
tivities as a "disgraceful perversion
by its authors of the important task
assigned to them by congress-"
The report, which was submitted
to congress in December, criticized
many board activities and employees
and recommended broad revision of
the Wagner act. Smith was The
target of special criticism including
the statement that he exhibited "a
disturbing personal interest in and
support of persons and organiza-
tions known to be opposed to the
American system of private enter
prize
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
ITS a Privilege TO
Live i'm Imperial Valley

Imperial Valley people proud of their valley.
Nothing could better demonstrate that fact than the
overwhelming amount of slogans turned in during the
fSt two days of the PostPres slogan contest in which
dollar check given each day to the person whose
line is used at the bottom of this page.
Today's check went to NJ Hood Route /, Box 159, Ell
Centre. SO good were many of the other slogans how
ever that they will be kept file and judged against
others submitted each day. Those submitting slogans
should remember that headlines counted according
to the number of letters and slogan be accepted
which is longer than the type allows certain amount
of latitude is made possible however, through the
of different sizes of type to fit different slogans Slogans
submitted late in the morning during the afternoon
are Judged next day
1t is easy to write slogan for the valley. We have
many outstanding virtues that there is no lack of
material Count them off your fingers. Here are
just few:
Ideal winter weather.
Nations most fertile farm lands.
Freedom from flood drought
No fear of extremely high taxes
Financial stability
Assured future prosperity.
These just few. 1t shouldn't take YOU five min
utes to think of Send your slogan in now
You may win a one dollar check for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
BY UNITED PRESS

First task of President Roose-
velt's new labor mediation board
will be the settlement of strikes at
plants and projects where work is
now under way on national defense
materials.
Twenty eight strikes affected
plants manufacturing essential parts
for military airplanes. steel plants
producing special alloys needed
for bomb fuses. machinery needed
to operate gunpowder plants and
other materials needed for arma-
mentS.
An early settlement was expect
cd in the strike of building trades
workers at the Wright Field U. S.
army aviation test center at Day
ton, o. A tWo-Week dispute be-
tween the AFL and CIO over juris-
diction has delayed completion Of
work on the S1,50O,O00 project which
includes a wind tunnel and other
testing devices needed for expert
mental work on the army'S huge
bombing planes. The 400 AFL
builders went on strike in protest
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Aid Appropriation
Bill Moves Toward
Congressional 0. K.
Senate Approval Will
Follow House Action
In Record Time

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10.
(UP)-The house today re-
jected amendments to the
S7,OOO,000,000 British aid ap-
preparation bill and moved it
toward quick passage while the SEN
ate appropriations subcommittee
scheduled hearings on the measure
tomorrow.
The house rejected 162 to SO an
amendment to cut down the appro-
priation to SIS 00000,000, then turn
ed down 96 to AZ another amend
ment which would have reduced
the appropriation for ships from
1929 900 900 to $300000,000.
Only handful of house members
voted against the bill, many of
those who voted against the lend
lease program now being willing to
approve of funds for its operation.
Similar quick action is expected
next week in the senate which Is
now taking a two day recess. When
it convenes tomorrow, record S3,-
446 10000 naval appropriations bill
will be ready for action. The sem
ate appropriations committee may
report it with only minor changes
from the house version.
Little interest in the BritiSh-aid
appropriation bill was displayed by
members of the house. Only Is were
on the floor at $40 Pm, yesterday
when Rep. George H. Bender, r.,
O., concluded general debate. About
so spectators were in the public
galleries in contrast to the hum
dreds that waited in line for hours
to hear debate on the authorizing
bill.
Bender, declaring that the people
back home don't want war, charged
that the United States is deeper in
war than those present realized. He
was preceded by Rep. Vito Marcan-
tonic, American-Laborite, N. Y,
who charged that congress has be-
come a ia" congress in the man.
ner of the German ReichStag and
that it was being asked to give
money ito one gang of bandits to
fight another gang of bandits
Before a final vote was taken.
the following amendments, some
of which were rejected by the house
appropriations committee, were dis
posed of:
l. A proposal to increase the
Continued on Page 8; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

'dlllclluUlcIJS W Gllc oldUtI dilti-
sabotage measure TO specifically
protect labor's rights to strike and
picket. They lost and the bill was
passed "a to 5.
A telegram to the Post-Press from
Senator E. George Luckey read:
Senate bills 877, 974, 975 and 976
out of committee with do pass rec
concentrations.
This meant that the senate labor
committee, of which Senator Luckey
of BraWley is q member, had given
it's approval to hot cargo, open
shop, legal responsibility and anti
coercion measures.
The hot cargo bill outlaws the
secondary boycott and makes 1t
illegal for employees to refuse to
handle goods because of dispute
between some other employer and
his employees or a union.
Bill No. 974 outlines that all
employees have the right to deter
mine freely whether or not to be-
long to labor organization. Bill
No. 975 sets forth that all collective
bargaining agreements between en-
ployer and employees shall be en-
forceable at law and any attempt
to cause a violation of a collective
bargaining agreement shall be un-
lawful. This was aimed at making
labor groups as we'll as employers
live up to agreements.
Bill No. 976 deals with freedom
of employees from interference, re-
Straint or coercion from any source
in designating their representatives.
At the same time, the senate
committee tabled a measure, sup
ported by labor, which would set
up a State Labor Relations board.
The anti-sabotage bill, which now
goes to the assembly, makes the
crime a felony, imposing terms as
high as 10 years and fines up to
$4,000 for conviction of sabotage
or attempted sabotage.
Voting against the bill were Sens
Oliver Carter, John FOLEY, Robert
Kenny, John Shelley. Shelley's
amendment to specifically protect
the rights of labor to strike, picket
and distribute pamphlets on roads
lost 80 to 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

Alex B. Bonilla. Eliazar A. Burrola,
Mineo Kobayshi, Felipe Ramirez,
Harold G.. McNeilly, lee r. Bran
son, Glen F.. Harrell, Manuel B.
Felix, Charles w Geyer
The three alternates are Arthur
Dobhins. EveJett J. FroDp and
Eugene w Downing.
Departure of the southend men
Wednesday night will bring TO l07
the total of men that this board
has sent to the army for a year.
Departure next week of the north
end men will bring that division
to a total of "a.
The next call. which will DC
effective between April 7 and IL,
will take II men from the southend
district and q from the northend,
bringing the grand totals sent 10
l24 for the southend and l2l for
the north.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Grand Jury Gives
Views on District
Bills at Capital
Agency Recommends Two
Measures, Urges Third
Should be Dropped

Imperial county gran d
jurymen were on record Wed
nesday as:
Approving passage of Sen
ate Bill No. 734.
Urging elimination of Senate Bill
No. 1875.
Recommending rewriting of Sen
ale Bill No. 755.
The three pieces of legislation,
affecting Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict affairs, are under study at
Sacramento preparatory to being
placed before the legislators.
The grand jury's position was out
lined in resolutions presented to
the Imperial Irrigation District
board late Tuesday.
No. 1874, which drew unqualified
approval, clarifies existing law and
specifically gives district boards
power to fix an additional sum to
be paid to the president of the
board, subject to termination Of
change from time TO time at the
will of the board"
The grand jury believes that
said legislation will tend TO COM
pensate the president of the board
for additional duties which he will
necessarily have to perform as such
president and will tend to prevent
financial loss on the part of the
director serving and acting as pres
ident."
Elimination of Senate Bill No.
735 was recommended because, the
grand jury explained, other legisla-
ton made it no longer necessary.
Wording of Senate Bill No. 755
drew the jury's criticism. Said bill
755 should be moro definite and
certain as to its aims and purposes"
the resolution declared.
The bill, aimed at permitting the
district board to appoint one men,
Der to an executive capacity, g. is
Continued on Page 8, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Man Dies Under
Wheels Of Train

A mystery was solved at an in
quest in BraWley late Tuesday
when Southern Pacific trainmen
explained how Pablo Benitez' man
gled body happened on one side of
the railroad tracks at inland Sat-
urday while two bundles he carried
just before death were on the op-
poSite side.
While two trains stood on the
tracks, trainmen said, they saw a
man carrying two bundles stop be-
side the trains and throw the un-
dies through the space between two
cars. He was not noticed again un-
til one of them saw body beside
the tracks as the trains left the
inland station. Apparently he
jumped for a hold on the moving
train and missed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
President Creates
Mediation Board
For Defense Work

WASHINGTON, March 10. (UD
President Roosevelt today created
n IL member national defense
mediation board to settle labor dis
putes arising in defense production.
The president, who signed the
order just before leaving on vaca-
ton will appoint chairman from
one of three members representing
the public. Four members will re-
present labor and four members
will represent management.
Membership of the board was an
nounced as follows
Representing the public Clarence
A. Dykstra, president of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin and now selec-
tive service director; William H.
Davis, chairman of the New York
Continued on Page 8, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
VaIIeyites Warned
Erosion Greatest
Danger to World
Federal Official Tells
Ell Centre Audience
Need fer Conservation

"Unless Imperial Valley
conquers drainage and ero~
sion there will be no soil here
in which to help grow food
for a starving world where
everything, even liberty and gold,
will be sold for something TO eat"
said Dr.. w. C. Lowdcrmilk, assist
ant chief Ct the u. S. soil conserv-
alton service, in an address in Ell
Centro Tuesday night
To illustrate the devastating raw
ages Of wind. drainage, and water
erosion Dr.. LoWdermilk showed pic
lures taken in Europe, North Africa,
the Near East. and the United
States in $4,000 mile trip to
study soil for the U. 6. department
of agriculture.
You will have plenty of water
in Imperial Valley" he said, but
no soil unless you develop drain
age along with irrigation. This
great agricultural area will be as
barren and useless as the soil in
the Promised Land and the Near
East where the soil eroded away
to bedrock on which nothing can
grow and othing can feed. Irriga-
tion erosion is deadly
He declared that many of the
areas he studied were irrigated
areas similar to Imperial Valley
and showed what unwise steward
ship of the land can do to once
fabulously fertile sections.
The trees and covering shrubs
and grasses were cleared or eaten
away by the goats and sheep of the
earlv users of these lands" he said.
This permitted the soil from the
slopes to wash into the valleys. The
land then continued its downward
Continued on Page 3. Col q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
JURORS lNDICT
YELLOW HORNET

ERIE, IA, Mar. 10. CUP)-JameS
Willard Porter, 18, who called him
self The yellow Hornet today
was indicted by a federal grand
jury in connection with sending a
$1,000 cxtortion letter to actress
Betty Cradle.
The mild-manned, sickly Wash
ington, Pa, youth was indicted on
three counts charging he deposited
three threatening letters in the
mail for Miss Cradle last Deem
Der. Porter was arrested in January.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

MSetllWllllt, HlSll llOill Gllt oOuII-
end division affected in the same
call will leave for camp Wednesday
night by train. Thirty-two will
board a Southern Pacific train in
Ell Centre for Los Angeles at 7:45.
They will ride in a special sleeping
car. Last group to go had to double
up in berths, but there probably will
be enough space available this time
to provide a berth apiece.
The northend men who will leave
next Tuesday were:
Elden E. Barker, Clyde F.. Har-
wick, Leonard H. Wright. Ocie Jer-
nigan, OroVil B. Hanson, Emmitt
Owens, Elmer Yoohum, Bruce e.
Gothard, Louis o. Henry, Orval E.
Plumb, Jesus Servera, Joe Aranio,
Eutimio S. Torres, George H. Pate.
Robert j. Mack, Ebert L. Newton.
Manuel r. Padilla, Frank Demele.
Leopold G. Mata, Nevin L. House,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

mite position on the Bankhead bill
affecting government loans on cot
ton, corn, wheat and tobacco, which
is before the committee.
He agreed with Bankhead on The
need for reducing cotton and wheat
acreage and suggested that wheat
acreage, now 55OOO,OOO, be cut to
50,OO0,000 and that cotton produc-
ton, now running about 100000
bales should be brought to between
100000 and 10,000,000
Wickard said that he thought it
would be "inavisable to reduce our
corn acreage" which now is be-
tween 88,0OO,OOO and 10000, 900 acres.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
28 Strikes BuIk
Defense Orders

against employment of five CIO
electricians.
Informed quarters at Washington
said the war department was con-
Sidering taking over construction
work at the base if settlement is
no reached promptly.
A threatened strike of AFL op-
Grating engineers that would shut
off all power in the st. Louis mel
ropolitan area was postponed pend
ing conferences with federal con-
ciliators and OPM officials. Plants
in the st. Louis area are working
Continued on Page 8: Column q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

able and my recommendation to-
the council will be that it be ac-
cepted.
Decision in this matter hinges
upon the fact that 1 do not be-
lieve Cox has received the support
during his time in office that he
deserved, or that another man
might receive. Personally, I have
no criticism for the manner in
which Cox performed his job
In regard to what he meant by
support, He'll elaborated:
Several factions have failed to
give Cox the cooperation and sup
port that I believe he deserved de-
spite effort on his part
Coxs resignation PROBABLY will
come up at Wednesday nights reg
ular council meeting and indica-
tionS were that it would be ac-
cepted
Regarding successor, He'll said:
There has been several other
candidates considered. but there
has been no decision reached, what
soever."
Rumors of dissention centering
on the police chiefs position have
been widespread for several weeks,
but this was the first official indi-
cation of a change.
Chief Cox took office last spring
following city elections at which
three new councilmen were named
Robert Hatton, Wesley He'll anc
Charles Bratton. He succeeded j
Sterling Oswalt, police chief fol
many years, whose resignation hac
developed into an issue of the elec-
ton campaigns.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Storm Misses
Coastal Area

A storm. which threatened to
bring additional rainfall to the
Pacific Coast area earlier in the
week, moved eastward Wednesday.
bringing nothing more serious than
scattered cloudiness to Imperial
Valley
The weather forecast for SOU
thern California. including Imperial
Valley, was cloudineSs Wednesday,
clearing Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

OF agriculture Claude Wickard that.
cotton, wheat, corn and tobacco
farmers had cooperated with exery
request of the department for acre
age reductions only to be left TO
the mercy of market conditions,
while the government had fixed
minimum wages and m aximum
hours for labor
wouldn't you like to see him (the
farmer) strike for a year?" Sen.
. John H. Bankhead, D., Ala, asked
Smith.
Il would, l would" the veteran
South Carolina Demrocat replied.
Wickard declined to take a def
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
JUCCSLAVIA READY
TO SIGN PACT t?)

BUDAPEST, March 10 up
German sources claimed tonight
that Germany and Jugoslavia
have reached agreement on all
points and that Jugoslavia will
sign the tripartitc pact Mar. 26.
These NaZi sources said they
had received information from
Belgrade that the JugOslavs
would adhere TO the Axis pact
at a ceremony coincident with
the visit of Japanese Foreign
Minister Y0sukc MatSuoka tn
Berlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Scion Advocates
u. s. Farm Strike

WASHINGTON, March 10. (UP)-Senate Agriculture
Committee Chairman Ellison D. Smith. D. S. c. today ad
vocated farm strike for year to force the
to take steps that agriculture would not be left to the
eXgencies of the market Smith complained Secretary
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
y AMBLINe
~ EpORTER

Team Play
Concentration SO strong that they
failed to heed o-hoo-ing' friends
who passed in a motor car, grlpped
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Nuffer the other
afternoon.
They were noticed fishing III a
canal, Mrs. Nuffer fishing from a
bridge and Allen down below. AT
a glance it looked as though the
latter was batting the hooks and
Mrs Nuffer doing the fishing!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Lonely Mote

Lonely Mote
Unpopularity of Mote Dizney as
a golfing champion isn't a per-
Sonal matter at all, his friends cx-
planned this week.
The trouble is that Mote played
in the Brawley tournament and
in the first round was eliminated by
a gentleman who plays golf only
once year. He also was eliminated
from the consolation flight by an
other gentleman who also takes
GOWN his clubs only on annual
occasions.
We're afraid to play with Mote
now because he might accidentally
beat one of us, and what blow
to our regulations that would be-"
Fred Miller explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
BrawIey's Draft
SeIectees Listed

Names of 80 men, 20 of whom will leave Brawley
March 25 for years army training, announced We'd
nesday by the northend Selectve Service board
The quota calls for 20, but Clerk w c. Rgge provided
additional three in of absences.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Officer Submits
Resignation to
City CounciImen
Commissioner Declares Hell Move to
Accept BIames Lack Of Cooperation
By Several Factions for Middle

For second time within year, Ell Centro slated
Wednesday for a change in the police chief.
Police Commissioner Wesley He'll, questioned regard
ing reports that change impending, made this state
ment The resignation of Police Chief H E. Cox is avail
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
Anti Sabotage Bill Wins
Senate 0kay: Committee
Favors Hot Cargo Plan
Luckey Advises VaIIeyi+es 4 Measures
ToResu|a+e Labor Practices Voted
FavorabIy by His Committee

Organized labor Wednesday viewed its worst setbac
of the 941 legislature in senate passage of model anti
sabotage act and committee approval of series of import
ant labor bills the United Press reported from Sacra
mento. Three leading labor groups united in seeking
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

Minister Sukru Saracoglu today,
somewhere in the Near East.
Eden has just completed confer
enccs at Cairo with Iraq represen-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19
FinaI Victory in
Africu Innnni inent
British Within 70 Miles of Railroad
Which Provides Italians with Last
Vital Ethiopian Communication Line
= By UNITED PRESS

Great Brtains drive to Wrest East Africa from the
hold of Italy appeared to be nearing its final phase We'd
nesday the British and Germans ockeyed strategic
position the Balkan front.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-19

Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
was reported in London to be in
conference with Turkeys Foreign