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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26


monopolized."
THE investigation brought to
light we are facing a serious Short
age of aluminium, and that we do
not now have the capacity to over
come the deficiency said the re-
port submitted by Sen. James M.
Mead, D., N. Y.
The committee suggested that un-
less new power facilities are created,
the urgency of the need for cleo
tricity to produce aluminium may
require rationing of electricity used
in homes.
Reviewing the status OF aluminium
production capacity, the report
charged that the OPM ignored fore
casts of shortage in capacity made
by the Reynolds Metal company for
a year prior to December 1910. Reyn-
olds recently entered the aluminium
production field.
During all this tlme,' Mead
charged, the OPM had apparently
completely relied on ALCOA as a
source of information as to the
availability of aluminium.
1T is reasonable to conclude that
ALCOA had convinced OPM of the
adequacy of the supply in order
to avoid the possibility that anyone
else would go into a field which
they had for so many years sue
ceSsfully monopolized."
The committee asserted that Ger
many and the territory she controls
have production capacity of 9l5,-
100000 pounds annually and is con.
structing facilities to increase this
output to 1885, 100000 pounds by
l943. Russia and Japan now have
Continued on Page 2. Col. g.
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Robin Moor Paid
Sailors Premium

NEW ORLEANS, June rs (UP)-
Nine happy survivors of the tor
pcdoed American Merchantmen Ro-
bin Moor reached United States
soil today, more than month
after they took to their lifeboats in
the middle, of the south Atlantic
ocean.
Most of them said they had
heard conflicting reports of what
the Robin Moor was earring. Rich
ard Carlisle, Maywood, Calf, a
fireman, said the Robin Moor had
paid the highest premium offered
ON any boat-$5O a month, besides
base pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
Prisoner Found to
Be u. 5. Soldier

Edward Howard Gersch. arrested
on a drunk charge in El Centre
Wednesday night. was found to be
U. S. soldier long overdue from
lis post in FL PaSo, Texas.
He was put on a train in San
Diego and headed for Texas with
the warming that he must get there
in two days. He left the train at
El Centre and soon was in a mood
too careless for any worry about
keeping appointments with Uncle
Sam. Ell Centre police left Gersch
in charge of the military police
at Camp Seeley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26

troduced the bill in the legisla-
ture.
AS a result of the governor sign
ing the bill Immediately. the Cen
trail Union High school district wa
relieved of the necessity of rush.
ing plans for construction of the
100000 building to replace the
condemned library-asSembly build
ing and may devote more time to
plans instead of attempting to get
the money before the original dead
line went into effect.
The Central high school district
will receive $4,000 from the fund.
The Ell Centro elementary school
district will get s3,953 to help pay
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
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Italian Force 10
Join Germans

ROME, June 26 (UP)-Italy is
sending an expeditionary force to
join Germany in the war against
Russia, an official communique an
nounced today.
Italy had announced Sunday
night, after Adolf Hitler's armies
had swept across the Soviet from
Tiers, that she considered herself
at war with Russia in fulfillment
of treaty obligations to Germany.
The Italian expeditionary force
that will fight against Russia in
cludes motorized division, 1t was
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26


past, with the German blitzkrieg
forces admittedly pushing into the
Baltic states and the former Polish
territory as far as the Raranovichi
area onl.' 10 miles from Minsk, but
not yet able to assault the main
Red army defense lines on the pre-
war border
A promised Nazi statement of
sensational gains failed to material
ize in the regular daily communique
of the German high command,
which again dealt in generalities
and predicted important successes
as a result of German triumphs in
border clashes.
The German failure to produce
detailed report on progress did
not necessarily mean that the blitz-
krieg was seriously stalled by Rus
sian resistance, but it indicated that
Adolf Hitler's time table might be
disrupted in his greatest gamble OF
the war.
Soviet planes again attacked Ger
man bases in Finland. bombing Hell
sinki and repeatedly starting fires
at Abo.
Rumors which circulated on We'd
nesday that Leningrad had been at
tackled and left in flames were de-
MED in Russian press dispatches
which said the city had had only
one air alarm and no attacks.
Radio broadcast from Berlin.
heard in New York by NBC, said
Bucharest had been bombed twice
by Soviet planes.
The German luftwaffe appeared
to be concentrating chiefly on clear
ing the way for advances of the
Nazi land forces. An official news
agency dispatch in Berlin said that
German dive bombers had bombed
and destroyed Is Soviet tanks ana
transport trains crowded with
troops.
The greatest German progress
appeared to be into sne Baltic states
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
Is Charged with
Food Profiteerinq

LOS ANGELES, June rs tUP)-
A federal grand jury indictment re-
turned before Federal Judge Paul
j. Mccormick today charged IS cor
porations and individuals with prof
iteering a southern California sales
or foods, groceries, candies, and to-
bacco.
Tom c. Clark, special assistant to
the attorney general and chief OF
the west coast office of the anti
trust division of the department OF
justice. termed the investigation one
into arbitrary and unreasonable
price-fixing and profiteering in the
food industry in southern California.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
Boost in Water
Tolls in Valley
ko:ed as Prospect
Increased Operation Cost
Given as Reason for
Future Need

Authorities of the Imper-
ial Irrigation district Thurs
day considered the prospects
of a need for increased water
tolls.
First indication that the district
was considering such a move was
an announcement from the county
farm bureau that the matter would
be discussed by district represent
ative Saturday at a bureau meeting.
Chairman Evan Hewes probably
will be the speaker.
In calling the meeting Scott B.
Foulds, farm bureau secretary, saio
he understood that the defense pro-
gram had increased the cost of ma
terial and labor and will continue
to increase the cost still more in
the future. Because of the rainy
season last winter, Foulds said, the
district sold little water and that
depleted finances still further.
M. j. Dowd, general superintend-
ent for the district, said figures of
the possible toll increase were not
available Thursday and as far as
he knew no figures showing increas-
ed labor and material costs or the
water sale losses had been computed
as yet. Hewes was out of the valley
Thursday and could not be reached
for a statement.
Defense programs have greatly
increased the cost of materials,
Dowd said. I'VE continually notice
the increases on materials we must
have for district work.
Baxter Loveland, president of the
farm bureau directors, set the regu-
lar directors meeting a week early
this month so it will not conflict
with the July 4 weekend.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
j. 5. viii Fix
Ceiling Prices on
Tires and Tubes
Levels of June II Will
Be Used; Legislation
Anticipated

AIltlClpdCeU
WASHINGTON, June 2G
(UPl-Price Control Admin
istrator Leon Henderson an
nounced today that early
next week the government
will establish ceiling prices on rub
ber tires and tubes at the whole
sale and retail levels that existed on
June II.
The announcement followed Hen
derson's statement last night that
price ceilings for automobiles will
be established soon as a result of
Chrysler corporations failure to
withdraw recent price increases.
This is expected to force a show
down on government efforts to con-
troll prices and lead to introduction
of specific price fixing legislation
in congress.
The price schedule is an out
growth Of a rationing system ap-
piled to the crude, reclaimed and
scrap rubber industries to conserve
approximately 100000 tons of rub
ber for defense during the remaind-
Continued on Page 2; Col. ~
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Assessment Work
kearinq a Close

The staff at the Ell Centro city
clerks office is rushing to complete
all assessment work so assessment
rolls may be turned over to the city
council by Monday.
City councilman will begin July
3 70 sit as a board of equalization,
and hear any property owners
complaints about assessments on
their property. The board will
make what adjustments they deem
proper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
BY LEON KAY

BY LEON KAY
Copyright, 194l BY The United Press
NEW YORK, June 26 (UP)-This
is the uncenSored story of the bomb
ing of city that was not prepared,
When the German luftwaffe
struck at Belgrade without warning
on Sunday morning in April it
was like an earthquake, except that
an earthquake lasts only a few sec
onds. The bombing of Belgrade went
on hour after hour.
Houses fell. People died and were
They fought with their,
fists Cor precious automobile tires
ana gasoline that was more valuable
than gold. They saw their business
quarters blown to pieces anG watch
ed fortunes vanish in billows OF
gray dust from ruined buildings.
There had been an alert at 3
a. M, but it turned out to be a
practice alarm. No one really
thought the Germans would bomL
Belgrade, for it had been declared
an open city. Most of them went
back to sleep after the practice
alarm, but l stayed up to try to
put Through an urgent telephone
call TO Zurich, 1 was sitting on
chair with my typewriter on a small
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
Bombing Raid
Like Earthquake
Lasting Hours

the Balkans this
dramatic stories the had
al
the undefended
lav capital under the German airblitz in AprlD
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
Aluminium Co.
Und er Fire
Over Shortage
Senate Committee Charges Company
Hid Facts TO Prevent Others Entering
Field and Ending Monopoly

WASHINGTON, June 26 (UP)-The senate defense in
vestgatng committee charged in report today that the
Aluminium Company of America "had convinced the OPM
of the adequacy of the supply of alumnum) to avoid the
possibility anyone else would go into field which they
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
RED ARMIES SLOW DOWN GERMAN bLITz
Z tN,k!Hs H;St4tf
. Fine Reception

A Fine Reception
For the Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon Thom-
as, Negro evangelist, Ell Centre is
peculiarly inhospitable city and
has very strange ways of captivating
visitors.
Reverend Thomas arrived early
Thursday morning by bus and re-
tired momentarily to the bus sta
ton rest room. Suddenly the light
went out and while the minister was
cropping around 70 find the door
someone locked him in.
1t was a puzzling situation trap
ped in a rest room! Most undig-
nified.
What happened was that the bus
station was closing for the night
and the attendants had forgotten
about Reverend Thomas.
From this point onward Reverend
Thomas relieu upon his speaking
voice for rescue and he soon got
results. Passing police heard the
racket and released him.
Unfathomable-
Until she. cached the last line,
Jane Green did quite well in fill
ing out an application for credit
at Los Angeles store. The lasi
line, however, asked for her bank
signature" and she begged down.
Nov what do you suppose they
want with Walter Havekorst's sig
nature?' she puzzled.
It's A Deal
Apparently it was a choice be-
tween seeing the sights of Sacra-
mento and sleeping in a bed, so
Milton Console chose the sight
seeing.
Milton, student body president at
Central, was en- route to Sacra-
mento as a delegate to Boys State.
He. wrote his parents:
Enjoyed. the trip up here .
sold my berth on the train for 50
and slept in chair, so now !
have 50 more to spend!"
YOwsah-
T. p. Farmer got half way thru
a police broadcast giving a descrip-
ton of a stolen car when the deep
south in him came out.
The license number" Farmer
continued, lis 6U-348, U as in -
yo,Iallr
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
Sow iet Planes
Continue Air
Raids on Firms
Berlin Admits Attacks by Russian Planes
And Raj at Many Points; Bremen
And KieI Get Heavy Bombinss
BY UNITED PRESS

Soviet Russia batted to break off twin Naz drives into
the north flank of the long eastern front today and report
ed that the Red had repused German forces batter
ing at the door to the Ukraine on the south.
Fighting continued scale probably greater than any
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
st. Louis II. 900 900 lo0-l-l-1
New York -....j = OlO Oil 0lx--4-6-O
Auker and Ferrell; Russo and
Dickey.
Cleveland ....,i 0Ol 300 6Oi-li-f3-0
Boston ...~...,i 2o3 900 800 s-i2-i
Feller, Brown and Hemsley: Harris
Ryba. Dicknian and Pytlak.
Detroit ,.e..| .,.... 900 10 002 4 90
Philadelphia m 300 O23 OOx--s-i8-O
Bridges, Giebell (2). Rowe 90.
and Tebbets; Marchildon and Hayes.
Chicago ,5...,...~...~~.1.. 100 900 0i0
Washington ................ O0f 0i0 OO0
Smith and Turner; Chase ana
Evans.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston at Brooklyn night game.
Only scheduled game.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-26
CANTALOUPES

Imperial Valley: Demand mOder-
ate, market unsettled. Carloads
fob. cash track. Std ASS jbo 36s
$l.6O-l.65; Jbo ass $l.S5-l90; 27s
$l.10-1.15.
l.. A. Hay u. 5. NO. Sl8-l9;
u s. No. 2 leafy Nv. $l7.50-1S. No.
$14.5O-15.50, Mpls. Sept. flax $1.94h4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03

When Schram takes over the 946, ,O00-a.year Job, he won't be as green at this sort of thing as he would have you believe, even though he has never owned more than 100 shares of stock in his life. fie has traded in grain in Chicago, as any big farm operator has to, and the Pit can be just as big a rattlesnakes' nest as the Exchange. Also, he brings to the job Q genius for or. ganiSing and 6 head for business.
 Take 6 look at the list of jobs he leaves in Washington.
 Chairman Of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which has lent some Sl3 GOO, ,000, 900 to help rec habllltate business.
 Assistant Director of PrIoritieB in OPM. one of the toughest jobs in tic whole defense setup.
 President of tho Defense Plant Corporation, which has financed $000000, GOO worth of new produce tive capacity for government orders
 President of the Electric Home and Farm Authority, which finances installation of gas and electric ap. pliances in homes and farms.
 A member of the Federal Pow CT Policy committee, government advisory body on oil power ques- tions.
 A member of the board of trus. tees of tho Export. Bank of Washington, 0 $76,000, 900 corpora ton to stabilize U. s. foreign com- merce.
 Director of the Federal National Mortgage Association, $i0,000, 900 corporation to facilitate financing of sound rental housing projects.
 Director of three important gov- ernment corporations controlling raw material supply for national de- fense effort, the Defense Supplies Corporation, Metals Reserve Cori1- pany, and Rubber Reserve Company.
 Director of Federal Prison 1n- dustries, Inc, which has jurisdic- ton over vocational work and employment in U. S. prisons.
 Tho man is, of course, c farm horse for work. He is slow moving, almost Q plodder. He isn't bottle. neck, but he takes problems and goes over every detail of them be- fore hc gives his opinion. His big ears never miss c thing they hear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03
Master Salesman! National Periodical Pays Tribute to Executive Genius of Late "Jimmy" Waters, Former
 Resident of Waterbury

Jimmy" Waters. fabulous auto. mobile eftreprcneur, and oile.time resident of Waterbury, who died from 6 heart attack last May 10th at his home iil WoodSidle, Califor. mia, Is the subject of 6 iilAgnifl- cent tribute in the current issue of "SaleS Management" magazine.
 Jimmy" had reached the 2onith of his meteoric career at the time of his death; had acquir- cd tho distinction, aS DeSoto and Plymouth distributor in San Frail- cisco, of being tho ChrySler Cor- poration's biggest customer, Since 1929 his organization had sold the incredible amount of more than $70, 0,000000 worth Of new and used cars.
 He was the owner of apartments on Park avenue, New York and Mob Hill, San F'rancisco, super exclusive residential area, and of a palatial country estate on the San Francisco Peninsula, where he raised thoroughbredS for rae. ing. He was in the habit of tray. cling crosS-country by plane in the neighborhood of fifty times annually.
 Because of the not inconsider- able volume, and because of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03

responsibilities of hiS position "Jimmy' found it necessary to engage a number of associates, but the chief burden of labor fell upon his shoulders. It was his contention, religiougly maintained, that Q sales executive should be the inspirational source, and the directive energy from which oil activity emanated.
 Al the time Of his death nc was fin the midst of a promotion scheme which by all criterla rated with those of the late P. T. Bar mum. Concerning this Sales Management" states, "on blue and gold posters (CaliforniaS colorS) ilc announced Worlds Biggest Bonus Bonanza now $B0,000'."
 The captions on the placardS were Q modest way of saying that three separate drawings would be held on March 3i, May 2 and June 3, at which mechanics, salesmen, stenographers, book keepers, and clerks employed by any Desoto or Plymouth dealers operating with the James F. Waters organization, would be al- lowed 6 certain number of draw ings in ratio to the number Of cars they sold. The $50,000, orig finally set at $35,oo0, would be dis- tributedl among the holders in winning tickets.
 The drawing scheduled for March 3i has, Of course, already been held. It lacked none Of the clements of pomp and pageantry of 6 medieval court. Drum ma jorettes were present in pulchri- tudinous plenty. Fifty men car- ried sacks weighing 65 pounds each. and holding $l,000 in silver dollars. From this amount win- ners received their prize-money. Tho bonus board was ten feet high, and extended for 60 feet along the length of the ballroom.
 The contest will continue in spite of Jimmy's death, but some of the attendant glamour will be gone. The spirit that conceived and executed promotional schemes on a scale so grandiose that 1t Is scarcely likely to be duplicated, still motivateS it's successors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03

Editor, Tall Tower Topics am receiving the here It certainly is great to know what's going at home when you're thousands of miles away. Fort Ben- ming is much nicer place than Camp Banding, Florida but it is extremely hot even at night when the cool breeze should be blowing Perhaps you have read of the dry spell the south is suffering from? Well, have -ngside seat. There is swimming pool here, but 1t has been closed due to the water shortage until further notice It's tough break for Two Waterbury boys and they will return to their units at Camp Banding They are Robert MacNchols lieutenant of Company H., and Walter F. Warpucankas, lieutenant of Company Both left Waterbury for Fort Bennng while the National Guards were stationed at the Field Street arnory Give my regards to the gang at the Democrat Lieutenant uing, Georgia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03

That gives you ail idea of the revolution that must have taken place in the room where the Board of Governors Of tho Stock Exchange came to It's decision to offer its top job to this 4B-year-old farmer who is still part owner of a 5000.acrc place near Hlllview, Ill. pop. 600), about 60 mics north Of St. Louis.
 He didn't even know any of the members Of the committee that came down to Washington to give him the bid. He didn't know they were going to ask him. He doesn't know who suggested his name and he doesn't want to.
 General suspicion was that Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce and former Reconstruc ction Finance Corporation chairman, made the nomination, but Jones denies this. He was, as a matter of fact, recom- mending a couple of other fellows who didn't get the job.
 The worthy Exchange committee, however, didn't pick the good name of Schram out of a crossword pug zlc. They knew exactly what they were getting and that's why they picked him, from 6 list Of perhaps 50 men whom they thought could worthily succeed wonder boy Blll Martin, now drafted and doing his year in an army camp.
 WON'T BE
 A "FIXER"
 It took Schram some time to dee eide. He didn't want to accept the job If traders thought they would be getting someone who would act as & fixer with the government, go-between who, because of his eight years iii high government office, might come down and make the Securities and Exchange Commis- sion lay off.
 He didn't want the job on the basis of the way the Exchange was organized at present, either. There was, 1t seemed, too much control by the board of governors and not enough control by the president of the Exchange himself. To make a job of that kind work, he believes, one man has to have the authority and be responsible. So, If they could change things around little
 The committee went back to con- sider and found that they could.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03
New Stock Exchange Head Has Never Seen It

there are too many business men who don't appreciate the problems of government, the handling of bile lions of dollars in . show window, without abuse of powers and trying to do lt from the approach of COG operation with business. Schram himself says he has been working at this cooperation of government with business ever since he came to washington. As on example, he points to the job that REQ has done.
 While many people will deny that REC has been c cooperative influence, Schram emphasizes how REQ has implemented the lending institutions of private business. He has brought this out In the few speeches he has made, insisting that REC was not lending agency itself even though it has loaned from si2,000, ,o00, 900 to 9lS,00o, ,000, 900.
 The new boss of the Stock Ex- change thinks tho coming of a lot of business men to Washington for tho defense effort Is 0 good thing both ways, but particularly good for the business men because 1t ace quaints them with the job of goV- ernineft.
 There have been rumors in Washington that Schram leaves the government because he Is unhappy, because he cannot be his own boss, because there iS too much having to play off-ox to Jesse joncs's lead. Openly, Schram has always express cd a great admiration for Jones as R man who could go ahead and do something that should Do done. Scfram has also followed the Jones pattern in the multiplicity Of his cfl- deavors, for aside from the Pres- ident, there Is no man In Washing ton with more jobs than Jones, who has i7, running from Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Ad. nlinlstrator on down.
 If Jones feared Schran as a ri- val, he could have boosted his sub- ordinate for the Stock Exchange job, but, as mentioned previously, Jones was supporting Q couple of other fellows.
 Regardless Of the gossip, Farmer schram got the job and goes to the big town in an effort to set in order tho house of what the country rec gards as tho smoothest collection of city glickcrs on earth. Pretty good for . boy born In Peru, Indiana, where his parents, both in their e0's still live. "rhats the life" says their Bon.
 As for himself, he's taking this Stock Exchange job for three- year term. If they don't like him, before or after that tilne Is up, lic says he can always get back to 1 TIiilview.
 WILL WEED WALL STREET
 Talking about these things with Schram, you get the Idea that all problems reduce themselves in lis mind to tho simple terms of farm CT. You have to have good tenants and good managers, or everything will go to weeds. Maybe there are weeds growing in Wall Street, along with the grass that was supposed to grow at 42nd and Broadway.
 At any rate, tho Stock Exchange is run-down farm land today, with volume of shares, instead Of sacks Of grain, and seat prices, instead Of acreage, selling at tho lowest levels since 1915.