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Today In History

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1874-Die, in 63rd year, in
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1894 number of children
rescued from starvation and i'll
treatment at New York institu-
ton = clergyman-manager con-
victed and imprisoned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
Draft Has It's
ChuckIes, Too

You remember me. l was in your
office on the 18th. I'm George
Smith.
That's just a sample of the dia-
monGs in the rough that glitter
through the hundreds of letters
accumulated at Selective Service
headquarters in Imperial Valley
since inception of the army train
ing program last fall.
The letters from registrantS come
in ut 10 or 20 a day and there
is scarcely mail without a laugh.
There was the one the clerks are
still chuckling over. the lad who
asked that he be placed in Glass
3 because of responsibilities.
My house burned down, some
one stole my automobile and ran
off with my girl, and I've lost
my job.
Although it would appear that
this gentleman had just been sew
cred from his responsibilities, the
Gods were kind and he turned up
physically unfit.
There is always some fancy spell
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
Schenck Sentenced
ToSerye Years
In Federal Prison
Film Executive WeepS
At Punishment for Tax
Evasion; Fined $4,000

NEW YORK, April "a.
(UP) Joseph M. Schenck,
chairman of the board of
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
corporation, today was. SEN
fenced to serve three years in fed
eral prison and fined $4,000 on his
conviction of charges of income tax
evasion.
Joseph H. Moskowitz, his eastern
representative and co-defendant,
was given a year and a day in prls-
on and fined $4,000
In addition to the fine, the 3d.
year-old Russian-born film execu-
tive. who started his business car
eer as a clerk in Chinatown drug
store on the BoWery, is liable to
pay more than 100000 in back
income taxes and penalties.
Both Schenck and Moskowitz. a
$50 ,0OO-a-year executive who acted
as his employers financial secre-
tary, received considerably less than
the maximum possible prison terms
but were given the maximum fines.
Schenck'S face was controlled
with emotion as Federal Judge Gro
yer C. Moscowitz announced the SEN
tence as lin the public interest
Tears welled into his eyes and one
trickled down his face.
The film magnate was convicted
of evading $236,O00 in income taxes
for 1885 and 1886, and MoSkoWitz
was convicted of helping him to de-
fraud the government in the return
for 1886. Both were acquitted on
conspiracy charges and on the 1887
count in the original indictment.
With Schenck were his brother
and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs
Nicholas Schenck; Sid Grammar
Hollywood theaterman. and Arthur
w. Stebbins, SchenCks nephew.
Judge Moscowitz imposed the pre-
else penalties asked by U. S. Attor
ney Matthias F. Correa and describ
ed it as IAN unpleasant duty"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
Treasury Suggests
One Billion Dollar
Slash in Expenses
Three and Half Billion
More to Be Raised by
Proposed Tax Increases

WASHINGTON, April "a.
OUP) The treasury today
suggested congress cut non
defense expenditures as much
as S1,OOO,OO0,000 and raise
SO 600, 100000 in new revenue by
imposing drastic surtaXes on mid
die and lower middle class incomes
and a general increase in all other
taXeS.
The specific new tax proposal was
presented to the house ways and
means committee by Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury John L. Sui
livan, after Secretary Henry Nor
genthau, IT,, had prefaced it with
a declaration that the American
people are willing to pay that small
price" for security against aggres-
sion.
Morgenthau also suggested con-
gress could pare non-defense ex-
penditures by at least $1,000, 5000
without sacrificing relief or old age
security programs.
Morgenthau said economy could
be effected in federal aid to farm
ers: that congress has raised TO
$3.50, 100000 farm parity item orig
inally budgeted at S212,000,000 by
the administration.
The treasury tax plan, calling
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! Trapped Gunman Kills Self While
Companion Surrenders Following
Mystery Call onN Y. .Racketeer

NEW YORK, April "a CUP)-A
gunman, trapped at the wheel of
stolen car, committed suicide to-
day and policeman was wounded
in a gun battle that followed the
efforts of three thugs to break into
the apartment of Frank Erickson,
race-track bookmaker, in the New
York Athletic club.
One gunman was captured while
a third man escaped.
The motive for the attempted
entry was not clearly determined
The gunner carried wire, cord and
gags. Erickson, who is wealthy, is
known not to carry large sums of
money. His apartment is on the
10Th floor, which, police said, would
make kidnapping difficult.
Erickson. who has been at the
top of Mayor F. H. LaGuardias S
purge list" for years, was in con-
ference with several persons when
the three gunmen appeared out
side his apartment They raped on
the door and rang the bell, but got
no response. Mrs. Katherine O'Brien,
65-year-old maid, looked out of q
room across the hall to sec who
was calling.
The gunmen wheeled on her
and demanded a passkey. Mrs. o.
Brien refused and fought so vigor-
ously when one bandit tried to hold
her an accomplice smashed the butt
of a revolver on her head,inflict-
ing a cash that required four
stitches.
Mrs. OBrien screamed, The BAN
dts forced the service elevator op-
orator to take them to the street
level. Mrs. O'Brien telephoned an
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24

OUT OH pIOJSCOo dC oiiS iio'J Ne'eAoJ
er base and at the naval training
station. They demanded pay raises
from the Simpson Construction Co.,
the contractors, ranging from rs
cents to ST. day.
K. G.. Bitter, secretary OF the
AF,L labor council, said union lead
crs had anticipated a walkout OF
$4,000 or moro workers this morn
ing, but that for the time, at least
the strike was being confined to
the Simpson jobs.
Work was still proceeding OH a
cruiser craving dock and on a
30O0-unit housing project at Kear-
ney Mesa which also employs AFL
labor. Likewise the $10,000,000 army
replacement center project at Tor
rey Pines was unaffected.
Bitter said the designation of
which projects would be struck was
"a matter of the workers making
up their own minds
When no favorable word had
come from Washington regarding
set of recommendations drafted
by navy, marine and army officials,
the men walked off the job quietly
at am. (PST). They set up picket
lines. but the contractors made no
attempt to continue work, SO the
pickets dwindled to a small num-
ber and the projects we're almost
deserted.
Lyman Sisley, a federal concil-
iator, arrived from Los Angeles N
answer to a plea which Hitter had
telephoned to the feoeral concilia-
ton office at Washington, D. c.. at
3 o'clock this morning. Sisley called
conference with union, navy and
contracting company officials.
Housing projects affected by the
strike were being rushed to cope
with the great influx of national
defense workers which have crowd
ed San Diego SO badly that spe-
cial survey was made OF the town.
asking families to move into fewer
rooms and rent part OF their homes
Only yesterday it was announced
that Is large trailers would be NOV
ed in by the Farm Security Admin
istration-the first of some 900
trailers which will furnish emergen-
cy shelters until houses can be built.
The walkout followed two weeks
of negotiations. The union said the
scale of wages demanded was that
which was already granted by the
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'lllty uSClOcu W Cdii oiiStSCo AhAAi
self. In that case, they indicated
he would be questioned at the Mon
day session.
There was some talk the defense
would seek a recess when the gov
ernment finishes, but there was no
formal application made. Judge
Charles Sears, presiding examiner,
notified both sides that he would
require that briefs be filed within
80 days after completion of the
hearing, an indication of speedy
decision on the deportation issue.
The seventeenth witness was Will
liam G. McCuistion, New York.
John Oliver Thompson, preced-
ing witness, had identified McCuis-
ton as a Communist party member
at the New York headquarters dur
ing 1884, when Thompson was en-
ployed there as elevator operator.
Thompson testified Bridges Wis
tied the headquarters and attended
a central executive committee meet
ing of the party sometime in the
winter of 1934-35.'
The government, in completing
examination of Thompson, brought
out he once had been convicted OF
manSlaughter, had served II months
and was now on parole.
During his testimony he named
as Communists McCuistion, Betty
Gannett, who he said was from
Philadelphia, and Joseph Curran,
identified as head of the CLOS
National Maritime union. Curran
OTTER was around headquarters,
Thompson said.
The witness said that on the one
occasion Bridges visited there,
Bridges was accompanied by Roy
Hudson, a member OF the Marine
Workers Industrial union, and j.
Peters.
He said Peters taught in the
National school where Communist
marine workers learned the art OF
sabotage. Thompson said he at
tended the school for three months,
Continued on Page 2, Col. o
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hoInicidaI Maniac
Escapes at Patton

LOS ANGELES, April "a CUP)-
Stanley Massey, "a. inventor who
was found insane after he stabbed
his two small children with but
cher knife, escaped today from the
Patton State hospital. The sheriff's
office described him as a "homici-
dial maniac.
Massey in 1899 locked himself in
q house with his children, Harold,
8 and Dorine. 10, and seriously
wounded them before neighbors
broke IN and overpowered him. He
complained that " the Nazis are
after my invention" which he de-
scribed as an airplane which
won't fall down.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
U.S.. War Cabinet
Reviews Disaster
Of Greek Campaign
President Discusses
Means of Getting Help
To Britain With Aides

WASHINGTON, April "a.
(UP) - President Roosevelt
today called his "war cabi-
net" to a meeting offering
the first opportunity for a
full-dress review of the allied cat
astrophe in Greece and it's effect
on this country's program of sup
plying materials to Great Britain.
Secretary of State Cordell Huh,
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox,
and Lend-LeaSe Coordinator Harry
l.. Hopkins were called to the meet
ing with the president at noon.
The other member of the war cabi-
net" Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., could not attend
because he was testifying before a
congressional committee on new
tax proposals.
The meeting ended after an hour
and Is minutes. None of the con-
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ing, such as:
Il would like to change my ad-
dress. 1 am sore l did not be-
fore. :"
And.
This is to let you no I change
just for a few weeks. -
He didn't say whether he was
changing his pants, or what.
At other times the letters are
amazingly brief. There is the one:
Dear People: 1 will write you
again." There was a signature and
nothing else.
Another was.
After you read this you can
find mel"
Sort of like I'm it," in Eide
and Seek.
The matrimonial angle continual
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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Whittier Escapee
Arrested Here

Two boys, one of whom said he
escaped from Whittier State school,
were held in the county Jail at Ell
Centro Thursday pending inStruc-
lions from school officials.
Harry Locke, Is, the one who said
he ran away from whittier; Joseph
II. Ward, Is, and Joseph Vernon
Cole, l8, were arrested by Holt
VILE officers j. M. Priest and Joe
Smoot, Wednesday night. Two other
boys ran into the bush on the out
skirts of the town and escaped.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
BOUNDARY COMMISSION
MEMBER VISITS HERE

Officials of the Imperial Irri-
cation district were engaged Thurs
day in conferences at Mexicali
with Gustavo P. Serano. of El PaSo,
member of the International Boun-
Diary commission.
Serano was on one of his quar-
terly trips through this section and
discussed water and boundary mat
terS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24

shortage is being felt in some es-
sential defense industries.
Mr.. Roosevelt demanded on Mon
day the mines reopen at once in the
interests Of national defense. He
said "the public interest demands
1t and the public interest is para
mount
Early last night the northern
coal operators and the UNIV an
nounced in New York they had ac-
cepted the presidents proposal to
reopen the mines, but UNIV Presi-
dent John l.. Lewis made his ac-
ceptance contingent upon the will
ingnesS of the southern operators
to open their mines. He said the
miners would not divide their
forces.'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
Thermometer Hits
Hiuh Mark Here

Summer gave Imperial Valley a
preview showing Thursday as ther-
mometer mounted to 81 degrees at
noon, the highest mark of the sea-
son, and threatened TO go at least
three degrees higher during the af-
ternoon.
Wednesdays maximum tempera-
ture was 80 degrees for the pre-
vious high mark of the month, ac-
cording to the U. S. weather OBJ
server at the city pumping plant.
Minimum temperature Wednesday
was SO degrees.
The forecast for southern Cali
fornia Thursday night and Friday
was continued clear skies with
slightly lower maximum tcmpera-
lures.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24

SoSoPN iAlNNAihAlioiii, SOiibioilSu iiOlli
a headquarters in Detroit" was
spurred by the revelation that Bar
on Franz Von Werra, German air.
man who escaped to this country
from Canada, had fled to Peru af-
ter jumping bail totaling $4,000.
The underground railway, the
Daily News said. is financed by
thousands of dollars collected in
the United States for relief of Ger
man prisoners. This money, the
newspaper said, has been placed
at the disposal of 1l2 German pris-
oners who tried to escape from Can.
adian internment camps. All but
eight of these prisoners were re-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24

'DdUCle Is eIlutu.
Fighting continued on the Their
mopylae sector although unofficial
Nazi sources claimed the Germans
had broken through the historic
pass and we're pursuing the Brit
ish towards Athens while the luft-
waite pounded roads and ports in
an effort to break up their evacua-
ton from Greece.
EAST AFRICA
On other fronts, the British re-
ported their East African forces
had broken through the forward
defenseS of Italians who have been
fighting stubbornly before the
Ethiopian town of bessie and that
the Fascists were falling back, pur-
sued by British and native troops.
On the sea and air front, the
British reported one of the two
Nazi battle cruisers, Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau, had been hit during
steady RAF raids on Brest, and
that probably both had been heavi-
ly damaged. The admiralty said
the British submarine Urge had
torpedoed and sunk an oil tanker
of more than 10000 tons.
LIE HAVRE ATTACKED
The Raj reported it had heavily
attacked lie Havre and bold day.
light air attack on an important
German electrical power station
near Osnabruk had resulted in
direct hit that did heavy damage.
Churchill,S remarks were an in
direct reply to critics of the British
tactics in Greece, where a compar-
atively small expeditionary force
with insufficient aerial protection
was driven back through the noun
tains after inflicting heavy losses
IN the Germans. Churchill said he
hoped soon to make general state
nent and expected general debate
n parliament on the war, but de-
spite sharp criticism in the press
ne did not appear TO be in danger
from his political foes.
GERMANS WRONG
The fact that both the British
and the Germans officially report
I'd fighting still in progress at the
Fhermopylae sector indicated Nazi
sources in Berlin had been too op-
imistic in their reports Wednes-
lay on the swift progress of the
Nazi columns toward Athens, but
it was said the German high COM
nand reports were running at least
)ne day behind developments at
The front.
The high command said merely
Germans had broken into the Brit
sh defenseS at the historic pass
where Leonidas and his 300 Spartan
warriors fought to the last man
against the Persians.
1t seemed the British rear guard
night sell itself as dearly in a des-
oerate effort to slow the avalanche
Of steel-clad machines which Ger
many has poured into Greece.
There was no hope in London
the German drive could be stopped
or long.
laconic London military spokes-
nan said the British still hold out
n the Thermopylae area. The Ger
nan high command said the Brit
.Sh lines in the region of the pass
nave been penetrated but failed
20 confirm the unofficial Nazi claim
made Wednesday-that all resist.
ance at Thermopylae had been brok-
IN and German troops were rush.
.ng down on Athens.
! The most recent United Press
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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pute-aS regards both the northern
and southern fields-to the board
at 12:45 am. She said it was now
clear" that the southern operators
have declined to agree to the
presidents proposal :"
Mediation Board Chairman c. A.
Dykstra is expected TO invite rep
resentatives of all sides-southern
and northern operators. and the
United Mine Workers of America
(CIO--to come here at once for
conference. In some cases the
board has asked all parties to agree
to the resumption of work during
mediation.
1t will be the biggest and most
important case of the board. APP
proximately 100000 miners are in
volved, and the pinch of coal
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24

captured.
While still inside the camps, The
News said, German prisoners we're
provided with compasses, slide-rules.
and map-making instruments by
mail Nazis here were urged to send
such supplies By leaders of the Kyff-
hauser Bund, German war veterans
league. the newspaper added.
Once outside the internment camp
the News continued. the prisoner
knows where TO find caches OF food,
money, matches and maps and how
to make his way TO the nearest
receiving station" OF the UNDER
ground railway.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
D AMBlINe
EpoRTER
Rough Treatment

Rough treatment
It's been nearly year ago that
San Diego friends of E. H. Kirby
of Ell Centre paid him visit for a
stag party. On that evening-it was
May 18-they talked over old times
and were quite jovial when some
thing disturbing. happened. 1t was
the earthquake.
This week the same friends wrote
Kirby, warning him that they were
considering coming to Ell Centre
again for the annual get-together.
You must promise no earth
quakes, however" Stanley Potter
and Earl Underwood stipulated,
Lack of an earthquake might be
drawback. Last year the gentle
men used the quake as an expla-
nation to Mrs. Kirby for every
broken dish, every crack in the
plaster.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24

alarm to the desk.
Patrolman George Schuck anc
Charles Kliki, ran to entrances Of
the club. Schuck fired the frs
shot. He was wounded in the hand
and thigh by the return fire anc
fell. One bandit forced a chauffeur
and woman out of a private caI
and took the wheel. Patrolman Xix
caught up to him just then. The
Continued on Page 2; Column D
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Bridges Hearing
Near End at ST..
Wine esses Link CIO Leader with Red
Headquarters in New York; One Tells
Of Sabotage School for Communists

SAN FRANCISCO April "a (UP)-The government
is almost through with it's case against Harry Bridges
government attorneys said today they called their seven
teenth witness at the CIO leaders, deportation hearing
The attorneys said they would finish tomorrow unles
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-24
Mediation Board
Gets Coal Strike

WASHINGTON, April "a. (UP)-The National Defense
Mediation board receives the three-weeks old bumnous
coal dispute today President Roosevels personal appeal
for immediate reopenng of the soft coal mines had failed
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins certified the dis