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Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

Faced with government order
to conserve trucking equipment and
tires. no matter what inconvenience
anyone may suffer, Imperial county
truckmen Monday night evolved a
system to be submitted to the Office
of Defense Transportation and plac-
ed in effect by June l.
1T makes no difference what we,
the shippers, the farmers, or the
public may think about this order"
Chester McNutt, trucker of Ell Cen
tro and chairman Of the meeting,
said Monday night. I'VE must
follow this order to conserve or the
government will take over all truck
transportation. We have to work
out our own system. Truckmen
throughout the United States are
doing the same. We all now there
have been too many trucks running
empty"
1t was decided to ask farmers
to perfect their system for leaving
their products at the roadside SO
the truckmen may pick them up
without having to drive into fields
Shippers were to be asked to have
the loads ready when ordered and
easily accessible to the truckmen.
The truckmen Monday night set
up two points where carriers may
get clearance slips if they find it
impossible to get a load for re-
turn trip, at the Simpson service
station in Ell Centre and at the
Donald service station in Brawley
Truckers will call these two stations
when they have more. than they can
carry and the surplus will be carried
by the carriers who have no return
load.
County Agricultural Commission
err B. A. Harrigan said that the
crews at the agricultural inspection
stations on highway 80 and 80 will
check each truck to see if the re-
quired clearance slips have been
obtained.
Out-of the county carriers will be
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Here's Why Gobs
Cockiest AfIoat'

WASHINGTON, May 26 CUP) =
Lieut.. Cmdr. r. E. HaWes, 48, OF
Thomson, Ga, who won the NaVys
gold star for saving the submarine
tender Pigeon and a submarine DUR
ing Japanese bombing attacks on
Cavite, explained today why ne
thought American bluejackets are
the cockiest men afloat.
Once, he said, when a huge fleet
of bombers was bombing the Cav
ite naval base, showering bombs
al! around his vessel, his crew stood
by helplessly. One of his men
looked around, grinned and remark
ed: 'U'ain't funny, MCGEE
Another sailor, after watching
lone American plane break up
big formation of bombers before
being shot down, sat down and
wrote letter: Dear Mr.. President,
We lost our P-40 today. Please Seno
us another"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Valley Truckmen
Revise Methods

eliminated from carrying unless
they have loads for the round trip
it was explained.
Trucks will not be permitted to
leave Imperial Valley empty, that
much was made clear. Farmers and
cooperative associations were believ-
ed to be exempt from the order
that trucks must have return
load.
The carriers must have a IS per
cent load for a return trip but will
be permitted to travel from one city
to another within the valley to
pick up their loads because Impe-
rial county is considered to be a
closely connected area in which
there will be some sort of free move
ment of trucks allowed.
Harrigan declared that he believ-
ed the natural flow of traffic in
and out of Imperial Valley will take
care of the problem Of return loads
and there will be no hardship in
the long run on the public or any
one else.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
'On|v Democratic Country
Will Do This Evocuee

"Surely we are treated nicely
Only democratic and civilize coun-
try will do this things. I think our
life here is going to be a happy
one"
So said c. NishikaWa, Imperial
Valley Japanese resident now liv-
ing in the Parker assembly CEN
ter, in a letter to P. B. Schoon-
maker of Ell Centro.
One of the most interesting
things in Nishikawa's letter was
his reference to the Colorado river.
He said = After that seeing the
first time the River of Colorado, 1
thank her for giving us all the
water we used without any complain
for the long past years and which
she also done for the mems civlli-
zation and doing her big part OF
our defense work"
Next. he said, they passed the
town of Parker (which was Won
der to us during the past two
months. I think it was town
little larger than Heber with many
Indians who I thought was going
to share their privileges to us. Here
we saw many Indian farmers who
seemed was taking easy in every
way"
NishikaWa SAID the japanese farm
ers were more interested in the
land than anything else. All around
the center are mesquite trees, big
and densely grown. There are ar
row weeds NishikaWa said were a
good kind. These things he con-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

There Just isn't any labor, and,
apparently, there is no way to get
it.
Napoleon once said that an
army marches on its belly. Fin
ney recalled, and added:
This nations army, from the
looks of things right now, will be
navigating at snail's pace II we
don't find a solution to this farm
labor problem. There won't be any
thing to put in the army's stomach
Right now, there is an actual
shortage of approximately 300 work
ers in the beet harvest. This will
increase when the cantaloupe sea-
son reaches its peak, because cam
taloupes are more easily worked,
and the pay is accordingly higher.
LOSS THREATENED
From sources other than Finney's
office, it was learned authoritatively
that beet growers, who started the
season with high hopes, stand to
lose hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars because thousands of acres OF
beetS cannot be harvested with
present labor supplies.
The tomato and carrot crops are
similarly situated, it was revealed.
Two possible solutions have been
suggested, but both appear to be
stymied. One is the importation OF
farm workers from Mexico, and this
is rendered virtually impotent by
the very stringent immigration laws
now in effect, Finney said.
The other is the enlistment OF
school boys and girls as harvest and
shed workers. But here, too, Finney
said, fruitions of such a plan is
threatened.
I'm Imperial Valley the program
of registering school children as
agricultural workers is virtually
completed, with approximately 200
high school and junior college stu
dents volunteering for work.
IT'S THE LAW
However, because of the Califor-
mia labor laws preventing children
under Is years of age being en-
ployed between the hours of 10 pm.
and am, this will make it i'm
possible to place these volunteers
Continued on Page 6; Coumn a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Rossi Hits Back
At Tenney Hearing

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26. CUP)
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi, dapper
florist who has headed San Fran
cisco's city government IL years,
today angrily denied testimony that
he gave the Fascist salute at public
meetings and charged secret in
formers we're using the Tenney leg
lislative committee for political
assassination"
Rossi, feature witness in today's
hearing into alleged Fascism in San
Francisco, declared that his Loyalty
to the United States was 100 per
cent"
With tears in his eyes, Rossi
charged in lengthy prepared state
ment that whoever inspired this
cowardly attempt against me is a
political rogue, paid by some anti
American group to spread discord
and disunity."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

Robert Hatton issued an official
proclamation calling ON Ell Cen
trans to take part in the weeks
activities and to attend the June
Q meeting which will be the first
of the Town Hall meetings plan
ned for the summer months.
Calipatria and Westmorland will
have their meetings the night of
June 3, Brawley and Holtville on
June q. and Calexico on June 5.
All meetings in the county will be
free.
Defense council officials of Los
Angeles and San Diego will attend
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

man tanks we're within few miles,
panic prevailed Army doctors gave
orders for immediate evacuation of
all wounded soldiers and any civil
ian patients able to travel.
The state will contend that the
four nurses injected their victims
with morphine and other toxics af-
ter a night of anguish because the
incurables we're unable to stand
a trip from the hospital.
All were buried except the wit
ness, Philip lie Brun, who claimed
he awoke in the morgue the follow
ing morning with only sheet cover
ing his body. He said German SOL
diers arrived and took over the hos
pital a few moments later.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

valley meetings to study the reac-
ton of the public and the success
of the plan..
At a meeting Monday night coun-
ty and municipal defense officials
ordered the materials to be used in
the bomb extinguishing demonstra-
tions. They will be purchased and
transported through Army chan
nels. The state defense council
will provide the films.
The county defense council will
help set up defense committees in
Bard, Winterhaven, inland, Seeley,
and Heber.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
PARLEYS plan BIG AEF AIR OFFENSIVE
L.V. TESTING GROUND

Imperial county will be the prov
ing ground for programs and DEM
onstrations to be put on in Cali
fornia by the state council of de-
fense.
The week of June l to June 6 will
be incendiary bomb week in I'M
perial county and will be character
lied by a series of meetings to show
pictures of what these bombs can
do and demonstrations of how to
extinguish them.
First such meetings in California
will be held in the Ell Centre Stad-
ium and in Imperial on the night
of June 2. In Ell Centro Mayor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

must be obtained from the county
clerk, circulated, and filed between
May 81 and June 20, both dates in
elusive. Each petition must have
20 good signatures, that is the sig
natures of registered, qualified vot-
ers. Each petition may contain no
more than 80 signatures OF any kind.
Petitions in Imperial county must
be filed by candidates for the Of
fices of assessor collector. auditor,
county clerk, district attorney. pub
lie administrator, recorder, sheriff,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
FiIipinos Injured
In Auto Accident

Two Filipinos were injured Mon
day night when their car went out
of control on Mt. Springs grade,
skidded 200 feet, plunged into a
canyon, jumped a pile of rocks, and
overturned twice.
Paulin Aucheto, 80, San Diego,
and Isidoro Ordas, 80, Escondido,
we're treated at the county hospital
for minor injuries, highway patrol
men said. Ordas, the driver, said his
foot struck the brakes and threw
the car out of control
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

being built, including hospitals and
office buildings. Nishikawa was
tcld 10000 evacuees soon will live
at the center which officially was
named Poston, Ariz., and a post
office established there.
Construction interested Nishi-
kawa. A block is composed of IA
living buildings, he said, with din
ing rooms, laundries, baths, toll
cts, and a recreation building. A
Continued on Page 6; Coumn A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

the Ell Centro board will serve not
cnly the county seat but Calexico
and Holtville. The boards former
ly functioning in Holtville and Ca
lexico will not be retired, but VIII
merely be inactive for the present,
it was announced.
One member from each OF the
inactive boards will act as alternate
on the Ell Centre board. i.
The functions of the two central
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

i'm the FL Centre district, hence
residents of the area south of Sun
set Springs must apply to Ell Centre
for their tires, sugar and typewrit-
erS.
Centralizing of rationing activi-
ties in the valley in two areas, 1t
was said, will greatly facilitate work
of the boards, and serve to clarity
the jurisdiction in which each resi-
dent belongs.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

superintendent OF schools. surveyor,
supervisor In the Calexico and Holt
Vile districts, treasurer. and lus-
tices of the peace and constables
in each of the eight townships.
The filing fee Is $40 for those
offices which have salaries not ex-
ceeding $500 for one year. The can
didates for offices paying a salary
over that amount must pay filing
fee totaling 2 per cent OF the first
years salary. the election code or
dered, according 10 McCielland.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

The states principal witness will
be an incurable patient, the lone
survivor of the alleged mercy mur-
ders," who arose from his coffin
just before burial to tell the story
of mass homicide.
The defendant nurses-Medem-
oiselles Treal, Artus, Roulet and
Bouilly-contend they acted on the
suggestion of an unidentified army
doctor who later disappeared.
The alleged executions occurred
four days after the French gov
ernment fled Paris and while the
frantic French population was jam
ming all roads ahead of the German
advance.
When reports reached the staff of
the little Orsay hospital that Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

sidered a good sign of rich soil. If
the climate is about the same as
Imperial Valley, Nishikawa thought,
the tomato and squash farmers in
the valley cannot compete with
those of the Parker area. The land
must be cleaned, irrigation bitches
made, and the ground leveled.
The assembly center is located in
a mile square about II miles from
Parker dam. There are hundreds
of buildings built and hundreds
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
HeaId President
0fProsecutors

District Attorney Elmer Heald
was elected president of the Cali
fornia District Attorneys associa-
ton at meeting in Yosemite, the
first time such an honor has been
accorded an Imperial county off,
cial.
Roger r. Walch Of Kings coun-
ty was elected secretary.
Resolutions asking the state leg
islature to place all taxing agen-
cies on an equal footing were passed
at the convention, resolutions In
which it was requested that the
counties, cities, and irrigation dis
tricts share equally in all bene-
fits in the handling of tax decided
land.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26


the Axis. .
American planes, fuel and ammu-
milton are in readiness for a great
expeditionary air force, it was un-
derstood. There was growing Specu-
laton on the possibility of intensive
United Nations operations designed
to make Hitler fight on two fronts,
and thus aid the Red army in its
desperate battle in the east.
That the first American action in
western Europe will be in the air
was indicated by the presence OF
two aviation commanders, Lieut..
Gen. Henry H. Arnold and Rear
Admiral John H. Towers, in the
mission to London, but it also in
cluded tank and infantry special
lists who might be planning CON-
mando or bigger invasion thrusts.
RUSSIANS IN DANGER
The position of the Soviet armies
on the Ukraine front, particularly
at Kharkov, was obviously serious,
but Moscow dispatches said the Rus
slams still were holding their posi-
tions and breaking up persistent,
big-scale German counterattacks on
their southern flank. The Moscow
communique, however, failed to
speak of any Soviet offensive action
and acknowledged hard, defensive
fighting.
The Berlin radio, broadcasting
lyrical comment on "the military
genius" of Hitler, continued to claim
that the trapped Russian armies
had been unable to break out and
were being crushed by air and mech
anized attacks. London experts said
the German forces had apparently
achieved some success, but that it
was likely that there were no more
than four to seven Soviet divisions
on the south flank, instead of the
100000 men which Axis-inspired
broadcasts reported trapped.
Berlin radio also reported that
the German, italian and japanese
naval forces had adopted joint
plan for intensified operations
against the United Nations on all
sea fronts, but Moscow said Hitler
was having trouble with his generals
again and that a showdown was
about to come between the Axis and
Vichy France.
NAZI STAFF REBUFFED
According to the Soviet TaSs news
agency, Hitler summoned confer
ence of leading generals to inform
them that he would not tolerate
demands that he abandon leadership
of the armed forces, which he as
sumed last winter after collapse of
the main Axis offensive on the
Russian front.
In regard to France, it was re-
ported that the Italians had massed
some 100000 troops Originally in
tended for the Russian 'front.' on
the French border and again made
specific demands for Corsica and
Nice and for special privileges at
TuniSia.
Hitler was said to have given
Mussolini a free hand to press de-
mands on Vichy, but also was said
to be calling upon pro-Axis Pierre
Laval to meet the Fascist claims.
In this connection the NaZiS ap-
peared to be concerned lest the
French fleet carry out its long
standing threat to go over to the
Allies, if the Axis violates armistice
terms by invading French territory,
as Mussolini is threatening to do.
On other fronts:
CHINA-Chinese hurl back Japa-
nese attacking Allied base of Kinh-
wa, in Chekiang province, from
three sides; heavy enemy casualties
Continued on Page s.; Column %
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Ration Boards Rationed

Imperial Valley Tuesday had been
divided into two districts for the
administration of war rationing
regulations.
Two central boards were set up,
one at Ell Centre and one at Braw-
ley, with branch at Wtnterhaven,
on order of County Coordinator
Dewey Carey and State Admins
traitor Paul Barksdale.
The Brawley board will serve the
entire north end of the valley, while
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26

boards will apply to all commodi-
ties which are now being, or may
in future be, rationed
The deviding line between the two
rationing areas is the north line
of the Imperial high school district
and the Brawley high school dis
trict, with the exception CT the Sun
set Springs elementary school dis
trict, which will go to Brawley. All
territory south of this line will be
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Sones New Member
OF Draft Board

G. E. Sones, Ell Centro lumberman,
Tuesday was appointed a member
of the El Centro selective service
board by Gov. Culbert l.. Olsen.
He was appointed to fill the
vacancy left by the resignation of
John w. Donohue, who Is too i'll
to fulfill the duties as board
member.
Sones met with the beard for the
first time on Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
y AMBLINe
X EpoR1ER
He Knows His Pop

Rudolph Miller's 10-year-old son
was fascinated by his fathers ex-
perienceS while on weekend
bivouac with the State Guard about
month ago.
Last weekend when Miller
again prepared to bivouac with the
Guard, Sonny's interest knew no
bounds. He was as enthusiastic as
his father. Sonny said:
II know why Daddy likes belong
ing to the State Guard. He gets
to camp cut all night and gets up
in the morning to play cops and
robbers"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
The Obvious

One of the warm nights recently,
Dick Coor-Pender was entertain
ing guests at cards at his home.
The wind was blowing and things
were lively.
Coor-Pender went into the kitch-
en- after ice water. He returned in
few moments with the water and
asked:
You wouldn't think 1t was rain
ing, would your"
"Oh, for goodness sake!' ex-
claimed everyone present, "Is it?"
mo" he said as he calmly passed
the ice water, "it isn't"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
A Pipe Dream

Those State Guarders we're out
in the open last weekend. They
had terrible problem in extended
order whatever that is) and had
finally captured the enemy.
They had run through deep sand
In crouched position; they had
crawled on hands and knees over
rough terrain, they had scrambled
up and down through the rocks
and brush on steep river banks. At
the end OF an hour and half, they
were all painting and gasping in
the hot sun. One super enthus-
last then exclaimed:
Gee. fellows, that was a lot CT
fun. Just think, in month or two
we might be getting paid for this!"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Nurses Tried for
Mercy Murders

VICHY France, May 26 (UP)-A jury trial in Yer
saas Asszes court will hear evidence tomorrow against
four pancstrcken charged with executing
incurable patients at Orsay hospital in June 1940 while
German troops Chevreuse valley south of Paris
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Committee 0kavs
Dependency Funds
For Service Men
Bill Provides $50 for
Enlisted Mans Wife,
Sets Up Sliding Scale

WASHINGTON, May 26.
(UP)- The senate military
affairs committee today
unanimously approved a bill
to establish a system of al
lowances for the dependents of men
in the armed services. The bill
would provide $50 a month for the
wife of an enlisted man.
The committee approved an
the selective service system to es-
tablish categories of dependency and
to defer from service men with bona
fide dependents even if they could
support their dependents, from other
income If they were in service. But
such deferments would be subject
to proof of a bona fide" family re-
lationship and to marriage prior
to the war.
The allowances for the depend
ents would be made through deduc-
ton from the soldiers pay, plus dir
ect grants from the government.
lIlc ucpCiiuCilCy dlloWdiiICo WOuAot
be as follows:
Glass of Dep. Govt. Contribution
Wllc ---..-........-.-.--...-- ..--.---.--.------@So
Wife and Child ..........- $40
Child, no wife .................... $2O
Two children, no wife . $50
Former wife, divorced -. $40
The men in service would have
$22 deducted from their pay each
month which would be turned over
to their dependents plus an addi-
tional five dollars for Glass B"
Observation-Disclosures other than
wife or child.
The government would grant an
allowance of SIS month for one
dependent parent and S25 for the
support of two dependent parents,
plus five dollars for the support OF
other Glass B dependents. But an
overall limit of $50 would be placed
on the total for dependents in this
classification.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Primary Election
Lists Wide Open

First shots in the coming primary election were schen
ued to be fired Wednesday, the first day on when cano
dates for county offices circulate and file their noha
ton petitions. , ....
The state election code provides that these petitions
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Labor Shortage
Hits Home Here
Beet Harvest Short 800 Men, Melon
Deal Will Be Worse; Importation Of
Mexicans, Use Of Students Unlikely

gloomy picture of Imperial Valley agriculture was
painted Tuesday by Manager Tom Fnney of the Ell Centre
office of the United States Employment SERVICE who has
smack into stone wall in his efforts to supply enough
labor to harvest this years crops
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Second Front in
Europe Mapped
bv ALI led Chiefs
American Planes. Fuel. Ammunition in
Readiness for Bis-ScaIe Action; Land
Raids May Be Part Of Coming Strategy
= BY UNITED PRESS :

The shadow of American wings fell farther across
Europe Tuesday when United States aviation officers met
with British sraegsts in series of conferences that
newed prospects of early and direct AEF blow against
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
He's SpoOfjng-

The reason Ken Forshee is called
Jiggs has nothing whatever to do
with corned beef ano cabbage. It's
something much more interesting.
Ask him again.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 100. Minimum
Tuesday 81. 5 pm. Monday 80, hu-
midity 13. S am. Tuesday II, hu-
midity 48. Noon Tuesday 49,. hu-
midity 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-26
Los ANGELES HAY

u. S. No. 1 S24.-S25; U. S. No. 2
leafy Nv. S22.5O-23.50; US. No. 2
S18-$19. Mpls. Sept. Flax S253H.