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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
New Farm Finance
Bill Gets BACKING
OF State Agency

The whole force of the California
Farm Debt commission will be ask
ed to work for passage of the con-
greSsional farm finance act of 1941,
she bill designed to solve the federal
farm loan problem, officials said
Thursday.
If this bill becomes a law said
]. D. Adams of El Centro, chair
man of the California Farm Debt
commission, Imperial Valley far
mers will be able to obtain loans
through the land bank commission
up to $4,000 even if the Federal
Land bank still refuses to enter
the valley field. The present loan
limit of $500 will be raised to
$4,000 and no stock will have to be
subscribed in the Federal Land
bank"
He said he was informed that the
Dill meets the approval of all i'm
portant farm organizations and the
Federal Land bank system. Hear
ings on the bill will begin early
this fall.
Adams declared that one of the
most important features of the new
act provides that farmers who have
shown good faith may remain on
their land in case of default. This
will be accomplished by making
title to the government and in turn
releasing the land to the farmer
for five years. A local committee
during the five-year period will de-
termine what part of the total loan
the farmer can pay. The land will
be resold to the farmer on the re-
duced encumbrance, Adams said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Ford Introduces
Plastic Auto Made
Of Farm Products

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steel without dentIng. Ford officials
said.
Production of 100000 cars an
nually with plastic bodies, Boyer
said, would consume at least 10000
tons of agricultural products and
$4,000 tons OF synthetic chemicals.
Moreover, it would free thousands
of tons of steel and strategic ma
terials for defense.
A completely new engine has
been designed for the car and now
is under test. Boyer declined to
reveal its specifications. 1t is now
powered by a 60-horsepower V-8
engine.
1t has WneelDaSe of l10 inches,
stands 63l2 inches high, five to six
inches less than most automobiles.
Although it now weighs 1900 pounds
Boyer said the weight eventually
would be reduced to less than one
ton, or about 1900 pounds less than
a steel car of comparable size.
Ford said he was confident plastic
bodies could be produced practical
ly and economically.
Plastic raw materials may cost
little more he said but we
anticipate a considerable saving as
the result of fewer fabricating and
finishing operations"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Odessa Cut Off.
Nozis Announce

ansk. to the southwest. There SEEM
ed to be only Slight German gains
in this sector protecting Moscow.
But on the northern front the
Germans again were eXerting pres
sure on two sides of Leningrad, a
chief Russian war industries CEN
ter.
On the aerial front. there was
less furious action due to weather
conditions but both sides claimed
advantages in the big scale oper-
atoms conducted this week.
The British Russian aerial Of
fensive against Germany was de-
scribed in London as highly effec-
tive in damaging the Nazi war ma
chine from Berlin to the Rhine ana
Ruhr valleys. while British esti-
mates of losses we're around three
per cent of 900 or 1000 planes
participating. The German losses
in the blitz on Britain sometimes
ran as high as 10 per cent. which
is regarded as an unbearable cost.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Jake Tis0n Sells
Out to Les Rogers

Jake Tison, well known Imperial
Valley automobile dealer, announc-
ed Thursday that he had sold his
interests in Ell Centre and BraWley
to his partner, Leslie Rogers. who
will assume full control of the bus
mess Saturday.
The two men have peen associat-
ed since 1925 and have agencies in
Ell Centre and Brawley. The new
firm will be known as Leslie F.
Rogers, Dodge and Plymouth Dealer
Tison said his business plans are
indefinite at present. He and his
family soon will leave for an eX-
tended vacation in the east.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
UWA Still ROWING
Over Communists

BUFFALO. N. Y, Aug. "A fUP) =
The United Automobile Workers
convention met for another stormy
session today as proposals to drive
Communistic or subversive elements
out of the organization came up
for debate.
The issue was one of the most
important of the convention. At
least 10 resolutions have been intro
duced to eliminate subversiye ele-
ments.
One proposal is a constitutional
amendment which would prohibit
Communists, Fascists and Nazis
holding any office either elective
or appointive. !: oontended that
Communists passed leaflets at the
Ford Motor Company gates during
the Ford organization drive dis
crediting our international and To-
cal officers"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Senate Completes
Action on Draft
Extension Measure
tContlnued from Page One)


The bill lifts the restriction of
100000 on the number Of men who
may be conscripted for training and
service at any one time.
Under the bill the service period
of any person now in the army
including selectees. national guards
men and reseryists-may be eX-
tended Is months. Congress, how
ever reserved the right to give
President Roosevelt authority to ex-
tend the service still further when
ever it declares that such extern
sion is in the interests of national
defense"
1t reserved the right TO revoke
the newly granted 18-month ex-
tension at any time by concurrent
resolution.
The bill also raises the pay of
army enlisted men from $50 a
month to $40 Selectees, guardsmen
and reservists will get the $40 in
crease after serving y months;
regular army men Immediately on
enactment of the bill provided they
have served y months. The pay
rise. however. will be in effect only
for the duration of the national
emergency.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Army Construction
Funds Wasted Says
Senate Committee

Continued from Page One1
were called for the purpose OF cre-
ating an army the report said.
No allowances were made Tor re-
creational facilities. guest houses
for Mama and Papa and visiting
sweeties. or for high-priced and
high powered sewage disposal
plants
The report concerned Fort Leon
ard x. Wood. Mo, Fort George c.
Meade, Md, Indiantown Gap. Pa,
Camp Blanding. Fla; Camp Stew
art Ga, Camp Hulen. Tex. Camp
Wallace. Tex. Camp Davis, N. c.,
and Camp San Luis Obispo Calf.
All nine camps. the committee
explained. were erected on cost
plus-fixed-fe basis.
Those cantonments which the
war department let upon lump-sum
contracts were erected more cheap
" and with less difficulties" the
report said
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Ariz. Sheriff Gets
Aerial Possemen

PHOENIX, Aug. IA. (UP) = A
Sheriff's posse of the air composed
of deputized citizen pilots was
formed last night by Sheriff j. Lon
Jordan of Maricopa county.
The posse will be used in desert
searches for lost persons, locating
stolen automobiles, tracking down
fugitives and checking location of
range fires, the sheriff said.
Posse members are: A. Lee Moore.
captain, DR.. Clyde J. Barker, DIR.
j. G. Shackelford, Arthur C. An
derson and John Rockwell of Phoe-
nix and Walter Butler of Buckeye.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
1st0iI Tanker to
Sail for Russia

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA. CUP)-
Defense Oil Coordinator Harold L.
Ickes announced that the first
American tanker assigned to carry
aviation gasoline to Russia would
sail from Los Angeles today.
Ickes said the tanker, one OF
four American ships assigned to
transport gasoline across the Pacific
as part of this country's assistance
to Russia, would carry $4,000 bar
rels of the aviation fuel.
Ickes also declared that new rigid
steps" were imminent to restrict
gasoline consumption in eastern
states.
Reporting that gasoline sales III
the east went up eight per cent
during the first week of the filling
station curfew, Ickes said, he may
issue a statement later in the day
on his next step.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

CONTINUED from Page one)
ditch defense of the grain port OF
Odessa and perhaps of the Dnepro-
petrovsk industrial region, although
the main industries are on the west
bank of the Dnieper and may be
abandoned.
The important military factor at
the present stage of fighting in the
Ukraine, however, was the ability
of the Red army in the south to
remain intaet-that is, to Illustrate
the German objective of destroying
this army as a fighting force-and
then to set up a strong defense OF
the great Donetz power and indus
trial basin.
SMOLENSK LOST
On the central front, the Russians
admitted the loss OF Smolensk which
the Germans had claimed since July
Is and said they had bombed Bry-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
SENATE APPROVES
APPROPRIATION CUT

WASHINGTON, Aug. II. tUP)-
The senate by unanimous voice
vote today approved the action OF
its appropriations committee in
trimming s1,234,oOo 900 from the
supplemental defense appropriation
bill and sent the $500, 900 900
measure back to the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Praise Delegates

SACRAMENTO, Aug. IA. tUP)-
Leaders of the California American
Legion today praised the 23rd an
nual convention just concluded III
Sacramento as one of their most
successful, serious and largest meet
ings.
Resolutions approved by the con-
vention took cognizance OF the
critical future facing the country.
One denounced Communism ana
Nazism equally, although the COM
mon purpose of destroying Nazism
seems to require that the United
States furnish war materials and
financial aid to Russia"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Maritime Bonus
Plans Discussed

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA. up
Discussions of proposals for war
bonuses for crews of American mer-
chant ships continued today be-
fore representatives of the U. S.
maritime commission and the labor
department.
Maritime commission officials said
the talks were being held with
representatives of ship owners and
licensed officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Historic Confob
At Sec Results
In World PoIicv

Continued from Page One)
world civilization arising from the
policies of military domination by
conquest upon which the Hitlerite
government of Germany and other
governments associated Herewith
have embarked
In this connection, the statement
said, the two leaders made clear
the steps which their countries
are respectively taking for their
safety in the face of these dam
gers"
Other than the mention of Ger
many" the Rooseyelt-C Churchill dec
laration "on which they base their
hopes for a better future for the
world did not name the Axis ma
tionS.
To further the immediate prob
lens of the prosecution of the war,
it was disclosed that Lord Beaver
brook, one of the British conferees,
would proceed to Washington for
further talk with American officials.
He presumably will accompany MI
Roosevelt back to the capital.
The announcement said that
Beaverbrook. who is British minis
ter of supply, also would talk over
the supply problems OF the Soviet
Union"
OTHERS TAKE PART
Only Mr.. Roosevelt, Churchill and
Beayerbrook were officially id@ntl-
fled among the conferees.
II was assumed that American
Lease Lend Administrator Harry
Hopkins was present at the meet
ings and that he, too. would return
to Washington to help speed the
tempo of u. S. war-aid. Prior to
the Churchill Roosevelt meeting,
Hopkins had talked over Russian
aid problems with Premier Stain in
Moscow.
The president is still at sea, but
is expected back here this week
end.
American military leaders be-
lieyed to have been present at
Roosevelt Churchill meetings were
Gen. George c. Marshall, chief of
staff of the U. s. Army; Maj. Gen
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the U.
S. Army air forces; Admiral Harold
r. Stark, chief of naval operations;
Admiral Ernest j. King, commander
of the U. S. Atlantic fleet; and Maj.
Gen. James H Burns, Hopkins
right-hand man in the lease-lend
agency.
MILITARY PLANS LAID
Presence of high army and naval
men at the conference indicated
that the military situation had
been canvassed, possibly including
future disposition of forces. The
official announcement gave no de-
tails.
The discussions, it was apparent,
included the problem of Japan in
the far east. Britain, the United
States, Australia, China and the
Dutch East Indies have been coop
Grating closely in anti-JapPnese
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

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extra, if you drive the average amount.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
MANY never.
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACKACHES
This Old Treatment Often
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

moves OF an economic nature.
Diplomatic observers read into
the Roosevelt Churchill declaration
of the restoration of conquered
countries an almost direct appeal
to the people of France to continue
their resistance to many of the
moves of the Vichy regime.
These observers also believed that
the declaration, foreSWearing "ag-
grandizement,a represented a for
NAL remuneration of any British or
American imperialistic aims which
the Axis powers frequently have
accused the two of harboring under
the guise of spreading free demo-
cratic doctrines.
FIRST CONFIRMATION
The White House announcement
of the meeting confirmed for the
first time that Mr.. Roosevelt and
Churchill had met at sea for "sev-
eral conferences" The exact loca-
ton of the meetings was not dis
closed
The announcement said that the
president and the British prime
minister considered the dangers to
world civilization arising from the
policies OF military domination by
conquest upon which the Hitlerite
government of Germany and other
governments associated herewith
have embarked"
The joint declaration, made pub
lie in Washington, London and
Ottawa simultaneously, said that
the president and the prime minis
ter deemed it right" to make
known certain common principles
i'll the national policies of their
respective countries, on which they
pinned their hopes for a better
future for the world"
Evening star., 1941-07-20
The Pool VS.. the Tub
By Christopher BHiopp.

A swim in a nice cool swimming pool
is regarded as refreshing and relaxing
at the close of hot summer day. A
shower is customarily required of per-
son before entering. But if the shower
is taken in serious and wholehearted
manner there is not much reason for
getting into the pool. Therefore, fore
sighted persons employ shower as they
would a finger bowl, merely moistening
the ends of the fingers.
Having thus paid lip service to the
sanitary regulations, one is ready to
enter the pool. Choice lies between
plunging in at the deep end and expert
encing one concentrated shock from the
icy water, or creeping in at the shallow
end and being shocked inch by inch.
Pools are constantly surrounded by
people trying to decide which is worse.
The issue may be conveniently settled by
playful friend giving a push from
behind.
Since pools are popular there is no
lack of companionship. The question
resolves itself into finding a body of
water not already occupied and of suff1-
cient volume to immerse the person.
Most inviting is the shallow, or nursery
end, where bold little tots splash about
and tinlid ones cling to the necks OF
their parents and scream in terror, con-
vinced that their parents have taken
them to the pool to drown them. A de-
tached bather may make himself most
useful rescuing overbold tots from the
bottom and restoring them to mothers
who "only took their eye off them
minute"
But life saving eventually grows
monotonous and, to escape further acts
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Science Keeps Mall Grass Green

crabgrass. The bluegrass would not only
be more vigorous but also the crabgrass
wouldn't be able to spread over the thick
mat
Dr. Monteith believes that the process
of working with nature to defeat crab
grass instead Of helping it get the jump
on the permanent grass can be applied
as successfully to private lawns as to
public parks.
He admits that growing grass in Wash
ington is chore, for this Is the border
land between the cool-loving bluegrass
of the North, which suffers from Wash
ington summers, and the Bermuda grass
of the South, which can't take Wash
ington winters.
Even so, he contends, lawn owners
could do better job Their first mis-
take is overwatering. Start watering
two weeks after you think you should, he
advises, but water the grass thoroughly
when you do.
Lawn owners get the urge, he points
out, to revamp the lawns in the spring,
when the flowers start opening. They
scratch around the lawn, seed and
sprinkle. The grass they get is crab
grass; the seed they SOW is completely
smothered.
He advocates doing the raking and
seeding in September. 1t means cutting
up all that lovely grass, but, he consoles,
it's crabgrass anyhow.
He also advises against such extremes
in landscaping as steep terraces. The
water runs off and drains away more
rapidly for one thing and for another
the grass on the slope is going to get more
heat, particularly if it faces the intense
afternoon sun.
For the city as whole, with its 1000
acres of turf, DR.. Montieth believes in
facing head-on the problem of border
land grass and looking at it this way:
The visitors who come to their Nations
Capital do most of their sightseeing in
the spring and fall. He believes, there
fore, that If the grass looks a little off,
color in the summertime, it is not as
important as If 1t were to look bald in
the tourist seasons.
II you can nave the grass looking
green and lush all the year round. he
contends, it's better to sacrifice, to some
extent, the summer appearance of the
city parks so that the marble buildings
Will be given the frame of green they de-
serve when the visitors are here to see
hem.
In his experimental plot at Arlington,
DR.. Monteith is working on a grass that
will stay green all year. But until that
grass gets beyond the experimental stage,
he will continue to propaganda for
nursing along the bluegrass in the sum-
mer, even if it does look brownish, so that
it may be green in spring and fall.
And for the first time, he's ready to
predict now that this fall, when the
crabgrass curls up, the city's most con-
spicuous grass carpet, the Mall, will have
stood the test.
The Mall, where science gambled, will
be green.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

the deep end. Midway the swimmer will
come within range of a group of youths
vying with each other to see who, with
running start, can fly farthest through
the air before striking the water. A few
minutes experience will convince the
most resolute that there are pleasanter
occupations than serving as a human
target for the 1.-THE bodies of youths
hurtling out of space.
The adventurer will lose no time in
passing on to the deep end, that section
of the pool monopolized by the brown
and brawny habitues of the diving board.
A person whose only pool accomplish
ment is the breast stroke may expect
little consideration from experts whose
minds are centered on the proper execu-
ton of the haf-gainor, the half-twist
or the full-twist. He proceeds at his own
risk.
1t is now time to beat hasty retreat
before being decapitated by jack knife
or crushed under a swan dive Some
degree of safety may be obtained by hug
ging the side of the pool, hoping to reach
dry lard without being torpedoed from
below by the inevitable amphibian seeing
how many times he can swim the length
of the pool under water, or rammed by
a muscular exponent of the Australian
crawl.
What all swimming pools lack. and
what they greatly need, are red, green
and amber lights, boulevard stop signs,
speed limits and policeman to handle
the traffic. Until such Improvements
are introduced it will be more refreshing
to swim in ones own bathtub and, fol-
lowing the example of intelligent people,
utilize the pool only as an excuse to sit
in comfortable chair, in bathing suit,
with cooling drink in one hand.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Bv Miriam Gutenberg.

On Washingtons most famous green
sward science gambled with tradition
and won.
1t was in May when the rain refused
to come.
Lawn owners rushed to their hoses.
The Office of National Capital Parks was
ready to do the same. The grass on the
Mall must be saved.
But A. E. Rabbit, hired by National
Capital Parks two years ago to wrestle
with the problem of moth-eaten greens,
said no.
AS the grass on the Mall went off,
color. as day after day the drought con-
tinued Mr.. Rabbit kept right on say
ing no.
1t was not until the drought had al
most run its course that Mr.. Rabbit al
lowed sprinklers to shower the thirsty
Mall.
For all its thirstlness, however, the
grass on the Mall didn't die. 1t came
back, all of it, with good color.
Just how great a victory that was will
be illustrated when fall comes and the
Mall is a lush green carpet instead OF
bald-spotted, shabby stretch OF off-color
greens and browns.
If the Mall had been doused with
water, as many lawns were, crabgraSs
would have sprung up and spread like
an octopus over the Kentucky bluegrass.
The Mall would have had its green car
pet-until the first touch Of cold weather.
Just when the cool-loving grasses were
barely holding on, the crabgraSs, which
thrives in summer heat and gets its rich
est encouragement from frequent water
ings, would have stamped out the per-
Evening star., 1941-07-20
By Henry Gem mill.

to all naval stations and some large
Army hospitals.
1t Is not being stored now; it is used
almost Immediately. AS our military
might expands, mishaps occur. Men are
burned, lose blood in plane crashes, are
shocked in accidents with tanks or other
mechanical equipment, or-as in civilian
life-become seriously ILL., Blood plasma
is the answer which science has discov-
cred only recently. The national mill
tary demand now exceeds the supply ano
more donors are needed here.
Becoming a blood-brother is simple il
you are between the ages of 81 and so
and are in good health. Phone the Red
Cross at National 54OO ask for branch
244, the registration bureau. You will
be given an appointment at the donor
center.
Walking in preferably after meal
of fruits and vegetables, not fats, you
will find the center operated by staff
Of expert Navy pharmacist mates, di-
rected by Capt. Dallas G. Sutton, COM
manding officer of the Navy Medical
School. The young men in white have
worked their jobs down to quick rou-
tine, even TO their jokes.
This customer is getting mighty
blue!" eXclaims one mate to another, as
ne bends over the donor.
How many stitches will We need tc
take?" asks the second.
Donors grin, for the precious fluid /!
being extracted without either bluenes'
or stitches, and with scarcely twinge o.
discomfort