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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

'FOuIbll SIIctt lltdl Illc oOuCil Cily
limits of Ell Centro when the Leja
coupe and a sedan driven bv .Jo-
seph King, SO, Calexico, collided
head-on.
Leja suffered a possible skull frac-
ture, Robert a broken jaw, and
George lacerationS on the scalp,
arms and legs, county hospital at
taches said Monday. King suffered
broken ribs, cuts, and bruises. The
Leja family lives near Meloland.
Mrs. George Straits, 80, Ell Cen
tro, paid a 5000 fine in Ell Centro
police court Monday for drunk driv-
ing and hit and run driving Police
said she drove into a parked car
belonging to Alfonso Gonzales on
East Commercial street and failed
to stop and investigate what damage
she had done. Police later found
her in her stalled car and the Ii
cense numbers tailed with those
on the car which struck the Con-
zales machine, police said.
In another accident, their car
landed upside down in a borrow
pit 2l2 miles west of Ell Centro this
weekend when they swerved to
avoid striking parked car, Will
liam Westergard, San Diego, and
Lester Laverne Homer, Camp Seel-
ey, told highway patrolmen. No one
was injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP)-
President Roosevelt today gave
congressional leaders detailed re-
port of his meeting with Prime
Minister winston Churchill and in
formed them that within few
weeks" he will request additional
lend-lease funds to finance a big
ger flow of material aid to Britain
and her allies.
Senate Democratic Leader Alben
W. Barkley, D., KY, indicated that
the one concrete development from
the Commute meeting with the
president pertained to the new lend
lease request.
THE budget bureau is studying
the lend lease question and after it
completes it's study in all proba-
bility t-ere will be a budget mes
sage Barkley said. He added that
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Japanese Release
U.S.. Missionaries

SHANGHAI, ug. 18 UP)-Nine
American missionaries elected from
southern Presbyterian mission at
Tsingkangpu in Checking province.
China, and held incommunicado by
japanese authorities for more tran
two weeks were released Saturday,
it was revealed today.
Presbyterian missionaries here
said they had received a letter from
Miss Lillian Wells of Morristown,
Tenn, supervisor of a hospital at
Hweian in Chekiang province, say
ing she was unharmed
Her letter said she had not been
mistreated by the japanese except
that she and other Americans were
confined for week in the upper
story of closely guarded residence
with insufficient food.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

conferred with company officials.
Daniel Deans, president of local
Is of the Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers (CIO), the striking union,
said if the government took over
the plant Local 16 would expect it
to abide by recommendations of
the national defense mediation
board.
IF this is not DONE" he said,
Local 16 will release its workers
to find employment in other ship
yards and the government will not
be able to operate the plant fully"
The mediation board had pro-
posed that the company and union
sign a contract embodying modi-
fled union shop instead of the clos
cd shop originally demanded by 10
cal 16. The union accepted but the
Continued on Parc 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
KeNerrnan Un|1urt
In Auto Crash

Ben Kellerman, Ell Centre prod
uce broker reported by the United
Press last week as being injured in
a traffic accident near Merced, as
Sured Imperial Valley friends Mon
day that he was uninjured but his
Car was demolished.
In the car as passenger was Ben
Herzikoff, 48, formerly identified
e. with the produce industry in Imper-
ial Valley, who was killed in the
accident. The accident occurred on
the Golden State highway IA miles
south of Merced when Kellerman
sWerved his car to avoid hitting a
machine driven by Frank Louis
Periera, %, Merced. Highway patrol
men said Periera attempted to pass
a truck without sufficient clear
ance.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
De AnzQ Riders
Plan n ext Jount

earlier start across the desert next
year
Those who made the first trip
this year we're so enthusiastic that
dozens of other men have declared
their intention of joining the long
line of horseback riders to follow
in the footsteps of the historic band
famed in song hnd legend.
At recent meeting of the riders
it was decided to begin early in
the year to enroll riders and to per-
feet arrangements So that the ride
will coincide with the two great
celebrations, the Calexico Caval-
cade and the De ANA Days fiesta
in Riverside.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
20.30 Clubs Hold
Annual Convention

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 18-UP)
The 10Th Annual Convention of
the National Association of 2O-3O
clubs opened here today with a
special meeting of the Board OF
Trustees, directed by V. G.. Wolfe
of Orange, Cali, national president.
Business sessions of the conven-
ton will start tomorrow. Conven-
ton officials expect 500 delegates
from the civic groups 200 clubs to
attend. The conclave will end
Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

De ANA Caballeros will ride again
next year on the long trail made
by the Spanish conqueror across
desert and mountains between Ca
lexico and Riverside, it was an
nounced Monday.
Next year the horseback riders
from Imperial and Riverside coun-
ties will leave Calexico early in
April at the close of the Cavalcade
celebration and reach Riverside in
time for the opening of the De
ANA Days fiesta there.
Everything points to'niaking this
ride an annual event and one of the
important features on the California
calendar. The pioneer venture made
this year was postponed until the
weather was uncomfortably warm
so arrangements we're made for an
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Thief on Scooter
SCoots from Law

Peace officers went all out Sunday
in a tricounty search for a 15-year-
old motor scooter rider and the ma
chine he rented in Morena.
When last seen Franklin Led
better, Is, went put putting through
Jacumba with a passenger aboard
the little scooter. The scooter, Ii
cense 21845, was found abandoned
in Yuma Sunday afternoon but
Ledbetter and his passenger were
not to be found Ledbetter was un-
derstood to be headed for Fort
Worth, Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Dutch Must Die
For Aiding FIiers

BERLIN, Aug. l8. up Five
Netherlands citizens have been sem
fenced to death by German court
martial for aiding the crew of a
British bombing plane, which had
made forced landing, in an at
tempt to escape, it was announced
today.
The persons sentenced to death
were charged with having given the
six men of the British bomber
crew civilian clothes, food and mon
ey, the Britons were captured the
same day, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Japan Offers to
Deal With Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18-CUP-
Japan has offered to supply Mex
leo with enough rayon to meet its
commercial needs If Mexico will re-
sumo sending strategic materials
to Japan, textile unionists report
ed here today.
1t was indicated that Mexico
would not accept the offer.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Thieves Take Safe,
Get $4,000

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 CUP)
= A 1,500-pound safe containing
weekend receipts approximating
$4,000, was stolen today from the
Winterland Ice Arena.
An attempt to steal the same safe
was made about a month ago when
it contained $4,000, operators OF
the establishment said, and extra
precautions were taken to protect
it.
Police said robbers rolled the
heavy strongbox from the office
to the front door on a dolley, then
hoisted it into a truck. h
The money represented weekend
receipts of the 1941 ice follies skat-
ing extravaganza.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

President Roosevelt's conferences
at Washington and the return of
the British prime minister to Eng
land to report to the empire by
radio on their conferences at sea
conceded with new German Often
sives on the Moscow and Leningrad
sectors of the eastern front. The
Nazis claimed the Russians lost
10000 men in casualties or prison.
ers in a big new trap southeast OF
Smolensk and that their mop-up
drive in the Ukraine was progressing
speedily.
In the Far East, U. S. Ambassador
Joseph Grew was reported to have
warned the Japanese foreign office
that the United States would not
relax economic restrictions against
Japan until Tokyo's fundamental
expansionist policy was altered. The
japanese press, speaking more bit
terly of America every day. again
warned the people to expect the
worst.
UKRAINE CLEAN UP
On the military front the Ger
man push to the Dnieper river in
the Ukraine was outstanding in a
series of developments, including:
/. A German cleanup drive in
the Ukraine west of the Dnieper
river and a terrific luftwaffe at
tack on Russians who, according to
Berlin, were trying desperately to
evacuate the Black Sea port of
Odessa in another Dunkirk." Mos
cow said rear-guard and guerilla
fighting still was intense in the
Ukraine area and that the main
Russian forces were being pulled
back intact to new lines east OF
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

WV NA'S "SSnNAAA bSSodoC COll6CoUCO
civilian highway traffic, particular
ly in northern California where
$4,000 reinforcements were moving
north, kept the troop truck cara
vans behind schedule.
Headquarters of the Fourth Army
was forced to freeze" the military
problem through Sunday because
the truck columns could not hold
their planned itineraries.
The maneuvers, based at the 5O,-
000-man garrison of Fort Lewis,
Wash, involve the defense of the
Washington coast from an enemy
coalition" invasion that had theo-
retically seized Hawaii
A 30-mile battlefront was estab-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Meet Our Terms If Plant
Seized Union Tells U.S..

KEARNEY, N. j., Aug. 18 CUP)
Chief Patrick Dolan of the Hud-
son county police said today that
United States army detachments
were preparing to move into the
strike bound Federal Shipbuilding
and Drydock company plant here
when and if the president orders
it taken over
Dolan said units of the second
coast artillery from Fort Hamilton,
Brooklyn, would be established in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

a parking lot outside the sipyards
if the government decided to take
possession and resume construction
of $493, 100000 worth of navy and
maritime commission vessels tied
up by 12-day strike of 10000 work
erS.
Reports of possible imminent ac-
ton b. the army were circulated
while thousands of CIO pickets par
ticipated in a mass demonstration
at Che plants gates.
Maj. Joseph S. Mayer of the sec
ond coast artillery was said to have
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Soviet Harvesters
Racing Panzers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-(UP)-
Soviet wheat combines are racing
Nazi Panzer divisions in the Uk-
raine with the result still not
clear" the office of foreign agri-
cultural relations reported today.
1t now appears probable that Rus
sia has succeeded in harvesting
most of it's Ukraine wheat, but
whether it can be removed from
danger will depend upon the over
burdened Russian railroads.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

Norton, who has had ranching
interests in the valley since his ar
rival in 1901, had been in i'll health
for many months.
He was one of the most energetic,
public spirited, and progressive of
the valley pioneers. He represented
Ell Centre in the county government
fight in 1907 During that same
year he played the baritone horn in
the Ell Centro brass band.
Norton was elected to the city
council of Ell Centro in 1910 and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

served as councilman until 1913,
three of the Years as mayor. He
was Imperial county recorder from
1911 to 1914.
During his life Norton was af-
filiated with Ell Centre Masonic
lodge No. 384 and with Signal chap
ter No. 276 of the Eastern Star. He
was past patron of the Esatern
Star.
He is survived by his wife and
other relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18

lished in southwest Washington for
the imaginary war against an enemy
assumed to have established a land
hold at Grays harbor and driven
two spearheads inland toward the
capital at olympia and the city of
Centralia. The enemy panzer col
umns were reported" at oakville.
80 miles inland on the way TO Cen
tralia, and at McCleary, on the way
TO Olympia.
The Fort Lewis garrison OF $4,000
men is already in the field on the
battle line from Oakyille 10 Me-
Cleary and reinforcements we're
being rushed in from other western
states
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Z R1;St4ts t%'t74s

Censored
Bert Lemons, EN- route to Sunday
fishing grounds at Moreno Lake,
stopped in the carly hours at the
mountain retreat of Bert Under
wood "Wan'ta go fishing?" he ask
ed. The answer was a foregone con-
clusion. Underwood stumbled sleep
lily toward the car.
San Diego grumbled Under
wood Il took em over there and
Forgot to bring 'em back" He climb
ed into the car.
"What're you going to fish WITH"
Lemons persisted. And what're you
going to tell the wardens? They're
particular about little things like
licenses"
Underwood just grumbled. But
arrived at the lake, he produced a
pole that was spliced, patched and
repaired beyond belief. No tackle.
No hooks. just the pole. you've
got plenty line and few hooks. 4"
he told Lemons grumpily. You
don't need all that fancy stuff
What happened after that must
forever remain behind the curtain
of censorship-but somebody got II
bass on that trip. And Bert Lem
ons said WE caught them."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Proof Lacking

Proof Lacking
T. P. Farmer, desk sergeant over
at the ECPD, is no end worried
these days. Am I, or aren't T. is
the question bothering him, and
with plenty of cause. The govern
ment has just told him he can't
prove that lie was born.
. T. p, it seems, had to get a birth
certificate to obtain the federal Ii
cense necessary for operators of the
] police radio system. The county in
Texas. where Farmer had believed
he was born, sent along lot OF
D information purporting to show that
he really was born. Farmer for
warded the information to WASH
q ington. Washington rejected it.
So that's why T. P. has been
pinching himself every five min
utes or so-just to make sure he's
still here.
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Sunday Drivers
Conquer Troops

CENTRALlA Wash, Aug 18 (UP)-The 100 600 Officers
and men of the Fourth Army moved into southwest Wash
ingon today to repe imaginary invasion after losing
their first battle to Sunday drivers
The largest games in western history were impeded
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
John Norton, I.v.
Pioneer, Passes

John Norton Imperial Valley pioneer former Ell Centre
mayor and Imperial county recorder from 1911 to 1914
died Sunday in the Iona Linda sanitorium from heart
attack Funeral services will be at the Little Church of the
Flowers in Forest Lawn Memorial park in Glendale at
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
-four Critically I'M njured
, As Cars Crash Heod-on
I'm 81 Centro Accident
Two Crashes. One Drunk Driving Case
Feature Weekend in Valley Traffic;
<. 6. Woman Fined $500 in Police Court

Four persons suffered critical injuries in traffic acc
dent in Imperial Valley during weekend otherwise char
acterized by only minor outbreaks of violence
Charles K Lea and his two young brothers, George Is
and Robert, 49, critically injured Sunday night on
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE

LEfhoOE
Chicago ............ OH DOL 000-4-7-0
New York -. 200 003 10X-6-8-0
Passeau & Mccullough; Schu-
macher & Danning.
Cincinnati . 460 002 001-13-14-2
Philadelphia . 1870 010 000-5-11-8
Moore, Beggs & West; Beck, Har-
man. Hughes & Warren.
Pittsburgh -. O20 900 102-5-9-1
Brooklyn ........... Ol3 010 001-6-12-6
Lanning, Wilkie, Dietz, Butcher
Baker & Lopez Fitzsimmons &
Franks, Owen.
Chicago .............. 100 600 000-1-4-1
New York ..... 0l0 030 30x-7-13-O
French. Scheffing; Helton g.
Hartnett.
Cincinnati ...... 900 900 401-5-8-0
Philadelphia -. 003 900 0O1-4-9-0
Thompson & lombard; Podgaj-
ny & Livingston.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
Far East Tense
AS Japanese Lay
Plans for Battle
Germans Take Red Naval Base, Iron Ore
Center as Soviet Army Attempts to
Hold Forces Intact During Retreat
- BY UNITED PRESS :

War tension mounted rapidly in the Pacific Monday as
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill safely
back in their home capitals acted to speed program of
American British and Russian collaboration against the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-18
TEMPERATURE

Maximum Sun. 1O3, minimum
Mon. IS; 5 pm. Sun. 100, humidity
81; 5 am. Mon. rs, humidity 62;
Noon Mon, 10S, humidity %.
LA. hay; u. s. No. l S17.50-18;
u IS. No. 2 Ieafy 1. v. Sl6.-17; No.
2 S14.50-15.50; Mpls. Sept. flax
$1.85.
Evening star., 1941-10-09

their own unions of Federal workers.
The constitutions of Mr.. Stew
ards organization and of the A. F.
of L. and C. I. o. Federal service
groups contain bars against the use
of the strike weapon in govern
ment. but all are constantly seeking
reforms in Government service,
which has expanded rapidly during
the defense emergency.
Collective bargaining in the Gov
ernment has its recognized limita-
tions and that is why Mr.. Steward
says it is a mechanical impossi-
bility" to bargain the way employers
and employees do in private enter
prise.
Functions of Union.
AS he views it, there are many
things a Government employe or
ganization can do in what he calls
collective negotiation" with de-
partment chiefs.
There are such matters as hours,
leave, retirement, compensation and
other phases of working conditions,
as well as policing the administra-
ton of laws and regulations affect
ing Government service.
But because department chiefs
don't hold the purse strings as pri-
vate corporation chiefs do, organ
lied Government employees cannot
present and enforce salary demands
the way unions do in private in
duStry.
Your out is to 60 to Congress"
Mr. Steward said
Back III 1918. when he became
president of the N. F. F. E, Mr.
Steward went to Congress to begin
long-drawn-out fight for the
Classification Act, which was finally
enacted in 1923.
Act Fixes Salaries.
The act classifes the jobs here in
the Federal service and fixes the
salary limitations. 1t created
definite relationship between jobs
and the salary paid for work per-
formed, and any broad scale changes
cannot be obtained by collective bar
gaining in the usual sense.
Instead of picket lines and mill
tant labor action, Government en-
ploye organizations can do their
collective bargaining by drafting and
supporting legislation to remedy
Government salary conditions and
lobbying for its passage in Congress.
The Steward organization started
out in 1917 under an A. F. L. char
ter, but withdrew from the A. F. L.
ranks in 1881. The A. F. L. set up
the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees in 1882, and in
1887 a group split off to form c. I.
O.'s United Federal Workers of
America.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Junior Chamber Honors
Three Committee Heads

Chairmen of three committees of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
received special awards last night
in recognition of the efficiency of
their groups during the past year.
Those honored at a meeting in
Heurich'S gymnasium were Lyle
ORourke, Selective Service Act
Committee; Gordon Rule, Luncheon
Program Committee, and Earle
Hough, Membership Committee.
The awards were presented by
Richard K. Lyon. Millard F. West,
jr., president of the chamber, pre-
sided at the session, which was ad-
dressed by Brig. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, selective service director;
Fred A. Smith, president of the
Washington Board of Trade; Capt.
Roswell P Rosengren, former presi-
dent of the United States Chamber
of Commerce, and Minor Hudson,
former president of the junior
chamber.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
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MUSIC.
Pop concert, National Sympho-
ny Orchestra, Victor Herbert pro-
gram, Riverside Stadium, Twenty
sixth and D streets NV, $3.50 o'clock
tonight.
EXHIBITS.
D. A. r. museum, Memorial Con-
tinental Hotel, Seventeenth and D
streets NV, open Mondays through
Thursdays, $50 am. to 4:30 pm;
Saturdays, $50 m. to l pm. Gal
lery talks, Wednesdays, IL am;
Fridays, $3.50 pm.
DANCE.
Ladies' night entertainment and
dance, Lebanon Masonic Lodge No
7, large ballroom, Willard Hotel, 8
O'Clock tonight.
MEETINGS.
Federal Bar Committee, May
flower Hotel, 5 o'clock tonight.
Rea Chapter, Disabled American
Evening star., 1941-10-09

Governments Defense savings pro-
gram in the District. The sooner
we realize that each of us must get
Fundamentally behind this effort,
the sooner we will be through with
it ALL"
Mr.. Williams headed the Board
of Trade in the l939-l940 year. He
is member of the Board of Cover
nors of the Washington Building
Congress. a director of the American
Security & Trust 4 =. and vice presi-
dent Of the Fri'% Beall & Sharp
hardware firm.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Collective Bargaining
For U. 5. Employees
Held 'ImpossibiIity'
Luther Steward, N. F.F. {.
Head, Cites Differences
From Private Industry

BY the Associated Press.
Collective bargaining between
Federal employees and their Gov
ernment bosses the way it is done
in private industry is a mechanical
impossibility," in the opinion of
Luther c. Steward, who has been
the leader of a Government work.
ers' organization for nearly Is years.
Mr.. Steward is president of the
oldest general organization Of Gov.
ernment employees, the National
Federation of Federal Employees. 1t
is affiliated with neither the A. F.
of L. nor the C. I. O.. which have
Evening star., 1941-10-09

flower Hotel, all day today and
tomorrow.
DINNERS.
Reciprocity Club, Mayfower Hotel,
$50 o'clock tonight.
Business Advisory Council, May
flower Hotel, $50 o'clock tonight.
LUNCHEON.
D. c. Bankers Association, parlors
A, B, c, Willard Hotel, 12:45 O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1941-10-09

of the District
of Columbia De-
f e n S e Savings
Committee. H. L.
Rust. chairman
of the commit
tee, a n n ounced
yesterday.
In agreeing a to
take the post,
Mr., Will a m S
commented:
1T IS a prlvl-
lege to do my
part, as every
citizen must, to
a d v a n ce the
success of the
Evening star., 1941-10-09

Veterans, Mayf1ower Hotel, o'clock
tonight.
Alliance Club, Hamilton Hotel, 8
o'clock tonight.
Lamba Chi Sorority, Wardman
Park Hotel, 8 o'clock tonight.
Bituminous Coal Division, Carlton
Hotel, 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
CONVENTIONS.
American Retail Federation, May
flower Hotel, all day tomorrow.
Kiwanis Capital District, May
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Cooking School Planned

A cooking school sponsored by the
Woman's Society of Christian Serv-
ice of the Lewis Memorial Methodist
Church will be held at the church,
Fourth and Hamilton streets NV.
at 8 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Williams Will Head
Defense Savings Group

Lawrence E. Williams, former
president of the Washington Board
of Trade, has accepted the chair
manship of the business division
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Virqiniu U. Alumni to Msst

The District Chapter of the Uni
versity of Virginia Alumni group will
meet at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
Mayfiower Hotel. Dick Fletcher,
director of freshman athletics, will
speak.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-01-02
Gaithersburg
F. F. A. COoperates

The Gaithersburg F. F. A. CO.
operates with many organizations
around the school and community.
Ed Fry and Charles Stiles helped
in distributing Christmas toys and
packages for the Christmas Oppor-
tunities, and in this way, helped
the Student Council, Inter-School
Council and Welfare Agencies.
William Walker, Robert Rock and
Henry Mateny have been helping
the Home Arts girls in preparing
curtains for darkening the old
gymnasium. The purpose of dark
ening the gymnasium is to make it
possible to show movies.
Bob Stiles, Harold Morris and
Ed Fry make up a committee to
work with other chapters to or
ganize a county F. F. A.
The F. F. A. chapter has organ
lied a basketball team. They
have secured some games with
some of the local chapters and
would like to secure some more
games with local organizations.