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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
Houses New Tax Proposal Aids
Incomes in Smaller Brackets
BY CECIL Il. DICKSON
Init News service stan Correspondent

profits taxes on defense and other
corporations, by requiring them 10
compute excess profits on all earn
ings before deducting normal
taxes. This would force corpora
tons into higher excess profits
brackets from 80 TO 60 per cent
Chairman Doughton CD OF
North Carolina said the committee
would vote on all the basic pro-
visions OF the bill beginning today
except on excise levies.
EXPERTS PROPOSAL
Ranking members said II was
safe TO predict" the committee
would adopt the compromise or
individual income tax rates. 1t was
proposed by the committees ex.
pert, Colin F.. Siam. and would
impose higher levies than the
treasury on incomes OF 100000
and more
II involves retaining existing
exemptions of $500 for a single
person, $1,000 for married and
$500 for dependents.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19

WASHINGTON. June 49,
Iower and middle bracket income
earners today awaited cheerful
news when the House ways and
means committee discards the
drastic treasury surtax proposal
and adopts a compromise schedule
of rates that will boost payments
moderately. according to predic-
tons of ranking members.
For instance, under the plan
slated 10 be approved. a single
man earning 800 will pay S97,
instead OF the 500 proposed by
the treasury and the $64 under
existing law A man earning $1,000
will pay S405 instead OF the
treasury's proposed STAB, and the
SIP under present law.
DEFENSE PROFITS
Disclosure of the new plan was
made as the committee decided in
effect TO adopt in the $500. 900,
600 revenue program the British
system of imposing sleeper excess
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
Us. Bases
.Defen I'll
Canada


WASHINGTON, June 19.-The
navy department today announced
opening of-two new air bases. one
on Newfoundland and one in Ber-
muds, after Secretary OF the Navy
Knox and Gov. Herbert II. Len
man OF New York had disclosed
TO House committee bulwarking
of United States defenses in the
north against attack by sea and
air thro' :gh Canada.
Secretary Knox and Governor
Lehman disclosed other moves for
Strengthening defenSeS in appeal
inc 10 the House rivers and har-
bors committee 10 approve speed
lily the $500 100000 St. Lawrence
waterway project.
Arguing for the project to pro-
vide 27-foot channel from the
Great Lakes 10 the Atlantic and
100000 additional hydroelectrlc
horsepower, Knox told the COM
mittee:
1T will give us shipways 1000
miles inland from the ocean and
we are already taking steps TO
insure Canada fro mair attack.
We are enlarging our air force
on Newfoundland. Oft the mouth
OF the ST. Lawrence River, and
shipbuilding facilities In the
Great Lakes can be made Sc
cure from attack"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19

Passing Of Natalie--the Most
Tragic Queen. The Once Beau
tiful Russian Girl Who Rose
From Obscurity 10 Become Con-
sort of One Mad Serbian King
and Mother Of Another. Spent
Her Last Years as a Poor Reli-
gious Recluse. Read of Her
Strange, Unhappy Career in The
American Weekly, the Magazine
Distributed With This Sundays
Issue of The Detroit Sunday
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
Call Oil Farley
To Raise Supply
For East Coast
BY ARTHUR r. HERMANN
IntI News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. June 19.--With
the East facing possible gasless
Sundays. representatives Of the
nations petroleum industry gath
cred in Washington today TO work
out production and transportation
problems to alleviate the threaten
ing gasoline and oil shortage along
the Atlantic seaboard.
Summoned 10 Washington by
petroleum co-ordinator Haro d
Ickes, several hundred officers OF
producing, refining and transpor-
tation companies will be asked 10
put aside profit considerations and
work out some means of moving
more petroleum and products 10
the East.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
Goodwill Envoy
Of Bolivia Here

A visitor from the land OF tin Is
in the city OF automobiles today
on a nationwide goodwill tour 10
strengthen the Good Neighbor"
policy Of the American republics.
He is DR. Roberto Prudencio.
professor of law at the University
of Topaz, Bolivia. Bolivia is one OF
the worlds chief Suppliers Of tin,
an essential material for defense
production.
His four-day stay in Detroit is
being chiefly spent touring De-
troit's auto plants. Speaking only
Spanish and French, he IS accom-
panied on his tours by Mrs. Teresa
Vallemare Of the International
Center, who serves as his inter-
prefer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
i've agent Of infectious-type dandruff

tive agent Of infectious-type dsndruff.
z out Of epey 10!
This germ-killing action. we believe.
helps to explain why. in q clinical test.
1870 Of dandruff sufferers II out OF
every 10! - showed either complete
disappearance Of or marked improve
ment in the symptoms Of dandruff
within a month.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19

A cool, attractive dress in youthful
styles-that can be worn for after
noon, sportswear and other summer
occasions.
Crowley s-Basement
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
LlSTERINE for Infectious Dandruff

Thrill No. syour first
puff OF Lorillard's new King
Size BEECH-NUT-a finer
blend OF the worlds choicest
tobaccos.
Thrill No. 2. is in It's
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
infectious Dandruff
76% Cases ST IMPROVED
i'm clinical test

Such delightful, easy. stimulating
treatment. Just douSe Listerinc Anti
septic on the scalp. morning and night,
and follow with vigorous and persis-
tent massage.
Listerine, the same germicide which
has been famous for more than so years
as an antiseptic gargle. kills millions
OF germs on scalp and hair. includ-
ing Pityrosporum Ovale recognized by
outstanding specialists as a causa-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19

goo greater length-be-
cause thanks TO this extra
length you get a cooler,
smoother smoke.
Try a pack. Get your
Beech-Nut bonus today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
WORK FOR REFINERIEs

Meanwhile, 10 make sure that
eastern refineries would be able TO
keep operating. Ickes obtained an
agreement with the lend-lease adj
ministration and the navy depart
ment by which United States
refineries will receive al least 50
per cent OF lend-lease oil orders
for Great Britain.
Heretofore, England has been
obtaining oil from South America
The navy is acting as purchasing
agent for leaSe-lend in securing
oil for England.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-19
INDUSTRIES STORY

Industry representatives have
asserted that the threatened short
age is due TO a lack of transpor-
tation facilities caused by the
government conscripting so Amer
lean oil tankers for the aid-to-
Britain program.
Another factor in the shortage
situation is the constantly rising
demand for gasoline and oil. both
for defense purposes and as a re-
suit OF a poor mans boom"
arising from increased Jobs and
pay rolls in defense industries.
Only yesterday, Ickes announced
an arrangement whereby three
tankers which heretofore hauled
gasoline from California TO the
east coast will be put on the much
shorter run from gulf ports.
This move will increase gasoline
shipments 10 the east coast by
more than 5000, 900 barrels a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

movement into Bulgaria and large
Nazi forces are known to be massed
in the Struma river valley ready to
strike down into Greek Macedonia.
The Germans in Berlin put a
lid of secrecy on Balkan operations
and censorship was SO strict from
Sofia that little light on Nazi plans
and preparations was shed by dis
patches from American correspond
entS.
Indications from Jugoslavia were
that Greece shortly will be facing
a common Axis front on the north
Belgrade dispatches predicted that
Jugoslavia would adhere to the Axis
or state its close sympathy for the
Axis in a day or two, possibly with
in "a hours.
Military experts in London believ-
ed Greece might not attempt to de-
fend the narrow strip of Macedonia
and the key port of Salonika.
They suggested the Greeks might
retire to a short defense line Of
about rs miles running from Odessa
on the Jugoslav frontier to the Gulf
of Salonika. This would enable the
Germans to get a foothold on the
Aegean coast but it was thought
that Salonika could not be effec-
lively defended in any event.
Turkey gave no sign today she
was prepared to move out of her
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
Radio Censorship
Through Licenses
Revealed Here

How the federal government,
through the Federal Communica-
tons commission, can and does
through its licensing power, largely
control radio station operations, and
effects of form OF censorship by
this power, was described by Frank
Bowles, heretofore co-owner of sta
ton KXO for Rotarians at the
clubs weekly luncheon meeting
Thursday.
cts hard TO get and operate on
license if you're not a New
Dealer" BoWles stated. His lengthy
further comments were not to be
quoted, Bowles said. He declared
them as 'off the record, and just
to make sure that I am not unduly
exposed, I ask you not to believe
what say
Bowles introduced Kenneth Thorn
ton, new station manager for VAL
radio, radio company which will
take over ownership of the sta
ton Monday. Thornton related
his experiences in radio and other
activities in San Diego and compli-
mented Rotarians on having "the
most friendly community I can
imagine
j. w. Pat" Glasgow, club presi-
dent, presided.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07


nounced a satisfactory" agreement
had been reached by members OF
the AFL Shopmen'S union and Of
ficialS of the Consolidated Steel cor
poration of Texas ending the six
day strike at an Orange, Tex, steel
fabrication plant. The strike had
forced the Orange shipyard to shut
down because of lack of supplies.
Terms of the settlement were not
revealed, but the conciliator said
the 245 strikers would return to
work Friday. The 400 shipyards
workers were expected to be recall
ed as soon as a supply of fabricated
steel was available.
A strike of AFL Electrical Work.
ers that would have shut off cleo
trio power, light and gas in Lower
Michigan, where scores of plants are
working on defense orders worth
millions of dollars, was averted after
intervention by Gov. Murray D.
Van Wagner Representatives of
the union and the Consumers Power
Co. reached an agreement after an
l8-hour conference under direction
of the state labor board.
The dispute was over the manner
in Which wage increases should be
gra0ted, on a blanket or classifica-
ton basis.
Gov. Julius P. He'll of Wisconsin
said he had been asked by Director
William S. Knudsen of the office
of production management to confer
with officials of the Allis- Chalmers
Manufacturing Co. regarding terms
for settlement of a 44-day strike
of the United Automobile Workers
(CIO) union at the Milwaukee. Wis >,
plant. The plant had been working
on machinery for the navy and for
Continued on Page 2, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
Actress Declares
Husband Inlposter
With Crime Record
Lillian Roth Charges
Spouse Married Her to
Get Money, Property

HOLLYWOOD, March 7.
(UP)-Actress Lillian Roth
filed annulment proceedings
today charging that Eugene
Weiner, her husband With
whom she has frequently battled,
is AN impostor with a substantial
criminal record"
Her suit accused Roth, New York
importer, of marrying to "fraudu-
lently obtain monies and proper
ties" from her.
Miss Roths lawyers said the suit
probably would replace one she
brought some months ago asking
either anRulment or separate MAIN
tenance.
The complaint charges that Wei
ner claimed to be of good moral
character" at the time of their mar
riage here last Sept. Is but that she
since has discovered he was not
person of good moral character but
was an impostor of substantial GRIM
inal record" She charged further
that he has "fraudulently deprived
her of her separate monies and
properties"
The new suit was filed with the
county clerk as Weiner was sched-
uled to appear in municipal court
for hearing on assault charges
brought by his petite wife She said
he beat her, blacke.led her eyes, and
threw telephone at her.
Earlier in their romance, Miss
Roth charged Weiner broke her Jaw
with a punch in a Broadway night
club, but later they became recon-
ciled.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
Defense Activity
Delays I.V.PIans,
Mike Dowd Says

M. j. Dowd, general superinten-
dent for the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict, was back in Imperial Valley
Friday after a three-week trip,
most of which was spent in Wash
ington, D. c., Strengthening GU
points involved in completion PWA
contracts.
Dowd said all activity at the CAPT
tai is aimed at defense and that
debate on the lend-lease bill has
delayed action upon current legis-
lation. There was no way of tell
ing when congress may act upon
the department of the interior bill,
which includes a 100000 appro-
priation for the All American canal
project.
Dowd questioned Bureau of Recla-
nation authorities both in the ma
tional capital and in Denver con-
Continued on Page 2, Col 50
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

be let within a month by State Dir
ector of Public Works Frank Clark.
Deni Investment company, sue
cessful bidder on the second con-
tract, appeared to be low bidder on
the third contract as well with an
offer of $294,193 for the Is mile
Job Clyde w. Wood was second with
5000 SIT bid and Ralph A. Bell was
highest with $415,81O, the United
Press reported, There we're six bid
derS.
Normally, the contract would be
awarded within month.
The latest contract completes the
Job of unkinking the kinky Noun
tain Springs grade from Boulder
Park at the top to a point near
Miller'S Service station at the bot
tom. The first contract, awarded to
A. S. Vinell OF Pasadena, provided
Strengthening 255 miles of road at
a cost of $237 900. This was started
in October of 1888 and has since
been completed. 1t provided realign-
ment from Boulder Park to Noun
tain Springs.
The second contract, begun in
September of 1910, provided re-
alignment of 1854 miles of highway
from Mountain Springs to a point
a mile from Shepherds bridge. This
contract, which State Engineer E.
E. Wallace of San Diego reported
was about 80 per cent finished, re-
duces the number of curves from
81 to %, makes existing curves less
sharp and reduces the grade. Wal
lace expected the contract to be
finished by June.
The third and final contract pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07


AS a result of an AT OIL. strike of
lemon pickerS in Ventura county
picket lines have been established
around the only citrus auction mar
ket in the west in Los Angeles land
in San Francisco threats have so
inundated buyers of our farm prod
ucts that no lemons are being Or
dered from Ventura county farmers
by San Francisco food Dealers" the
kilograms said.
kilograms were sent also to the
chambers of commerce in the two
cities, the Los Angeles Merchants
and Manufacturers association, San
Francisco Employers council, Cali
fornia Chamber of Commerce, the
San Francisco regional service COM
mittee, and the California Farm
Bureau Federation.
The farm heads told the mayors
that IF we cannot produce, PICK,
and market our farm products, we
can no longer be your customers"
and that trade, especially in Los
Angeles, will suffer.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
z Sentenced Here
ToSan Quentin

Two men pleaded guilty in SUI
perior court Friday and were sent
enced to San Quentin penitentiary
Harold Francis Dodge, Ell Centre
dry ice salesman, went to the pen
itentiaSy for threatening A. K.
Frowiss with gun when Frowiss
tried to act as mediator after a
traffict accident near the Frowiss
home west of Ell Centre. Dodge
formerly had been convicted of
car theft in the east.
Bascom Thomas Ashley, whose
burglary of the Morrow Lumber
company in Brawley was betrayed
by a screwdriven found in his car
while he was serving a county jail
sentence for a minor offense, also
went to San Quentin. He pleaded
guilty.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

ley, George Barrigan, Richard Larry,
Billy Stodart, Grady Harris, Lewis
Hall, Hudson Mitchell, John Ken
nerson, Henry Jensen, and Lowell
Hall.
The favored at Harding were Billy
Riddle, Gene Edwards, and Jack
Meagher. Other players were Billy
Potter, Jimmy Mead Kent Dyer,
Howard Kbrn, Kenneth Brodhead,
Roy Lee Hughes, Hugh Latham,
and Gene Markus.
.Favorites at Mckinley included
Pedro Arramburo, Mario Chavez,
Jack Hawkins. Other competitors
were Coy Tiller, Billy Zimmerman,
Tom Price, Frank TiCe, Billy jerks,
Chester Bradley, Billy Willis, Mar
dis Bristow, Bobbie Cooper, Cloyce
Fowler, Alan Harris, and Everett
Clifton.
Prizes include a baseball glove,
a softball, baseball caps, knives,
kites, and pen.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
Employers Help

SAN FRANCISCO, March IT,
CUP San Francisco EN-
ployers council today notified
Ventura county agriculturists the
council would do everything In
its power to aid distribution Of
Ventura county lemons i'm this
area.
The promise was made In re-
Spouse to a protest from the
Ventura county Associated Farm
ers that AFL workers, ON strike
Mt packing sheds and lemon or
chards, were attempting 10 es-
tabIish q secondary boycott.
Almon Roth, president Of the
council, wired Ventura farm
leaders that the council consid-
cred use OF hot cargo and Sec
ondary boycott an "indefensibic
labor practice which should bs
outlaweG."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
NAzIS RUSH TROOPS FOR GREEK ATTACK
CaIexican Dies in Head.0n Crash
Near Yuma; Truck Driver in Jail

dent and passenger in York's car,
suffered scalp injury, cuts and
bruises but was expected to re-
cover. She and York were en- route
back to Calexieo after visiting
friends in Yuma. Stewart and Cuba
escaped injury Alleger held Stew
art for investigation pending a
coroner's inquest to be held late
Friday by Deputy Coroner Herbert
Hughes.
York's neck was broken and he
suffered a multiple skull fracture
and other injuries.
The accident occurred on a high
way curve 200 yards from the scene
Of the traffic crash last Saturday
night in which Emily Peace, 26,
South Pasadena resident, was killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

victory for administration forces to-
day as they drove for final passage
of the bill The vote was on an
amendment by the veteran Caiifor-
MIA isolationist, Sen. Hiram w.
Johnson, r.
Johnson had challenged his COL
leagues to have the CUTS God gave
you" and adopt his amendment as
a means of fulfilling Democratic
and Republican campaign pledges
TO save from bloody grave the
boys of America"
Johnson's amendment would have
banned the use of congressional ap-
preparations to send the army out
side the western hemisphere or
American possessions, and also the
use of such funds to send the navy
into combat zones defined by the
president under the neutrality act.
The administration. won its first
major victory when The senate re-
jected an amendment to require
congressional consent for the Amer
lean armed forces to deliver or con-
voy war supplies to Europe.
The vote was So to % against the
amendment.
The vote came on an amendment
by Sen. Joseph c. CMahoney, D.,
Wyo., as modified BY Sen. Homer
T. Bone, D., Wash, and Francis T.
Malorey, D, Conn.
O'Mahoney and Maloney are sup
porters of The bill, but the amend
ment was opposed by the admins
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

Guy, fldySIOullu bllcCIOl Dill ftdd-
ka said.
Elimination contests at Washing
ton, Wilson, Harding, and Mckinley
schools left only the best talent to
compete in the grand finals. Each
school has its favorites to win but
the pupils are alert for dark horses
which may pull ahead in the rush
rof competition.
Favorites at Washington were Joe
Dominguez, Milton Gentry, and
James WEIGH. Other contestants from
this school were ClaGde Bell, Bob
Bugs, Morrise Davis, John Nadia,
Alfredo Maglenty, r. b. MCGEE,
Richard Mejias, Charles Orosco,
Dale Rodriguez, Henry Scott, Her.
man Sotelo, Isiah Wagner, and Earl
Willis.
Wilson school favortes were Ned
West, Henry Sanders, Clarence Mich
OIL Other contestants from this
school were Robert Murphy, Kit
Carson, Everett Dickey, Ernest Cor
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

One dead, one injured and one
in Jail was the tally taken Friday
after a three-car traffic accident
three miles west of Winterhaven
Thursday night.
Merton Phillip York, 40, Calexico
hotel clerk, was Imperial Valleys
seventh traffic victim since Jan. l.
He was instantly killed Thursday
night when his car crashed head
on into a truck driven by William
Stewart of Phoenix, who attempt
ed to pass a car driven by Emil
Cuba of Yuma. Highway Patrol
man A. G.. Alleger said Stewards
truck was four feet over the center
line when it sideswiped the Cuba
car and met the York car head-on.
Loyce Henri, 81, Calexico resi-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
District Measures
Gain Approval

The California senate water re-
sources committee Friday reported
favorably on two of State Senator
E. George Luckey's bills affecting
Imperial Irrigation district affairs.
One bill provided that the sal
aries of irrigation district directors
are exclusive of the compensation
received for services other tn an
those of a director.
The other gave the directors
power to establish divisions or de-
partments for operation and man.
agement of the district and to
classify district employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

vides for 1.3 miles of highway from
the point where the second contract
ends to beyond Shepherds bridge.
1t includes construction of a new
bridge to replace Shepherds.
Wallace estimated it would require
about a year for completion of this
last contract.
Sometime next spring the entire
project will have been completed,
providing mileage reduced to ap-
proximately seven and a half miles,
curves and grade materially cut
at a total cost of about S85O,O00.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
Strikes DispIease
Roosevelt Where
Unions battIinq

WASHINGTON, March 7. (UP)-
President Roosevelt declared today
that he is absolutely opposed to
jurisdictional labor strikes that are
holding up several phases of the
national defense program.
The president said he feels the
country as whole can not ap-
prove in any way, shape or form
jurisdictional strike such as the
AFL walkout at Dayton, O., which
has slowed down work on the Wright
Field expansion program.
He added that while he was alb
solutely opposed to the jurisdic-
tional type of labor conflict, he has
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

doubles it's population. Nearly 1000
men are quartered there now, as
well as nearly that many horses.
The one-year men will plunge
directly into intensive army train
ing as soon as they have received
equipment, physical examinations
and permanent quarters. Friday
was taken up with giving the men
typhoid NEGOTIATIONS.
Army authorities reported the
new men were in high spirits and
particularly glad to escape the cold
weather of Illinois.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
502 Draft SeIecfees Arrive al Camp
See!ey, Glad to Escape Midwesten
Cold; Training Gets Under Way

Glad to leave the cold weather
of the middle west, 500 selectees
bedded down at the Seeley army
camp Friday and sampled Imperial
Valley sunshine after their arrival
by train Thursday evening.
The selectees, who were indicted
into the army recently in Illinois,
were met at the Seeley station by
the 18th u. S. Cavalry band and
brough to the camp site by truck.
They arrived in two special trains
Camp Seeley was more active Fri
day than ever before in its history.
Arrival of the selectees more than
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07
"a iir
Expects
Rush
Biggest Crowd Of
Exposition Sc en-
For Weekend

IMPERIAL, March T.
Imperial county fair officials
prepared Friday for a mass
invasion" of Imperial Valley
folk over the weekend as
clear skies and warm sun prom
ised a full program for Saturday
and Sunday.
Largest weekday crowd of the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-07

present showing of the annual agri-
cultural exposition visited the fair
grounds Friday and a record night
attendance was anticipated for Fri
day nights Japanese and amateur
programs.
Highlight of Saturday and Sum-
day programs is the horse show
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