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The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
Current Comments From Washington

Within q three-hour period. Congress began consideration of a declaration of war on Germany and Italy, and concluded its de- Alterations, and the President signed the paper. That is making good speed: yet, during the inter val, a flock of airplanes could have left the California coast, sunk Japanese Warship a hun dred miles at sea, and returned to the landing field: provided, of course, that there was landing field and that there were plan es to do the work. Congress and the President made a record be- cause they were prepared. In the matter of defense, time has been wasted by the clockful, yet it is not too late to turn from our slothfulness and I've. At any rate we had better turn if we want to live.
 It would have been strange in deed If, having declared war on Japan, the law should have been permitted 10 decree that all fight ing must be done in continental America. Accordingly, the stat ute book was cleared promptly of so much of the Selective Ser vice Act as provides that troops shall not be used outside the Western Hemisphere. It followed as a necessary consequence, that enlistments were heightened to the duration of hostilities and six months thereafter. Probably Hit Ter will bear watching for more than six months after he has been licked.
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
SOLDIERS LEARN TO SPEAK JAPANESE

CAMP ROBERTS, Calf. - AT officers and men at Camp Rob erts, Calf, will be able to tell the Japanese what they think of them. if they meet the enemy face to face.
 Seven Japancsc-American sol diers at the camp volunteered to give classes in Japanese language geography and history, and ses- sions are being held twice a week.
 One subject covered by Pri- vate Yoshio NakazaWa is the Ian guage necessary to converse with the Japanese Geisha girls.
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
Register All Men IS to 65

The oldest sat up and took not ice when they heard that the President had in mind to regis ter all men between the ages of 18 and 65. The 2l-28 class will be exhausted before those of more mature years are drawn upon for military duty, but fighting is not the only useful service to be rendered. The government pro poses merely to find out what ev- cry man of 65 or less can do. In cidentally, out of 32 Presidents, 21 were in the fifties and in the sixties.
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
New Privileges Under OPM For Alaska Mininlo

Notification has been received by B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of Mines, now also serving as Emergency Coord:nator of Mine Priorities for Alaska. from Will bur A. Nelson, Administrator of Mining Priorities, at Washington. D. C., of important new privil- eges that have been granted to mining enterprises by the OPM.
 By amendments 10 Preference Rating Order P-56 that were eff fectiVe December 2, l941 these new privileges have been extend ed 10 all mining enterprises to which serial numbers have been granted under that Order. Such enterprises in Alaska now num- Der 31. Gold placer mining op- erations which fall under Prefer ence Rating Order P-22 are not included among those entitled to the ratings granted by Order P 56.
 In general the amendments cover three main points:
 l. The benefits of the Order are extended to cover
 (a) Rsfactory plants;
 (b) Approved prospecting en terprises.
 2. A rating of Ale is granted to enable operators to make ad- vance provision to avert actual breakdown. It should be noted that this rating may be applied only with the advance permis- sion of the Director of Priorities in each particular case.
 3. A rating of A-3 is granted for the purchase of certain ma chinery and equipment listed in a schedule that is attached to the amended Order, and of repair parts for such machinery and equipment. As to such machinery or equipment tthough not repair parts) advance permission must be obtained from the Director of Pr;orities in each case before ap- plying the rating.
 So far as Alaska is concerned the most important benefit con fered by these amendments is the privilege of using the rat ings granted by the amended Order to approved prospecting enterprises. TT ese benefits should serve to stimulate the search for and development of deposits of minerals, particular ly those other than gold A wire is being sent to the Office of Pro duction Management to learn whether Or not the term "propect ing enterprises as used in the amended Order includes gold pla cer prospecting enterprises.
 (Continued)
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09

day, seven days a week, in eV- cry munitions plant, is being ad- vocated by the Administration, and supported by both labor and indus.rialists. When the CIO and the General Motors, for example think alike on a 158-hour week, the union offering to submit diff erences to arbitration, we are getting somewhere, so far as pull ing together is concerned.
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
Raise Defense Appropriations

The Senate Appropriations Committee has raised the latest defense appropriation by an amount that has not as yet been given out: perhaps from 8 bill lion to II billion. It is expected that before the beginning of the New Year, Mir. Roosevelt will ask for an increase of power, but not beyond that held by the President during World War Number One
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09

Notwithstanding the non-parti- san and Whole-hearted support that is being given the President, his record is not good, it seems. His start was made by buying his way into a city council. He lives in a world of falsehoods. He has been going to Hyde Park and then hurrying back to Washing ton in order to create the appear anCe of a crisis. AS an advertis- CT, he is like a bald-headed bar Der selling hair restorer to GUS toners. All this must be true, since Hitler said it recently in Berlin.
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
Boys Shoot Axis Embassies

German and Italian embassies closed quietly, so far as outside commotion was concerned. The protecting policemen had noth- ing to do saving to give hard looks to a parcel of boys who made snoots" as they passed by. Indications pointed to activity within, such as the burning of papers and the assembling of per s0nal effects.
The Nome nugget., 1942-01-09
Production Picture Brighter

Regarding production, things look brighter than they did a few weks ago. The strike menace has departed. A tWenty-four
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Army Orchestra
May Support Star

Attempts are being made to OBJ
tain not only an orchestra from
Camp Young to appear with Gin
ger Rogers, film star. at the val
ley-wide Imperial county war bond
rally Sept. % bu,o also full armor-
ed troop, it was announced Satur-
day.
An orchestra of soldiers from the
camp went over with n bang when
they appeared at the recent scrap
metal rally at the county fair
grounds in Imperial, where the
bond rally will be held.
Four thousand tickets have been
distributed to bond issuing agen-
cieS in Imperial Valley where they
will be given out with the 2ur-
chase of war certificates. Children
under l8 will be admitted to the
combined military, professional and
amateur show with the purchase of
a 50-cent war stamp at the site of
the program.
Amateur talent from each end of
the valley towns is being lined up
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Poole Convic cted
Of MdnsIauqhter

I'VE, the jury, find the defend
ant, H. A. Poole, guilty of man
slaughter"
A superior court jury returned
this verdict at 6 pm. Friday at
the close of Poole's trial on a charge
of numbering Charles Ellis. So, in
Brawley last Aug. l.
Poole will be sentenced to San
Quentin penitentiary Tuesday for
a term not to exceed 10 years. The
state board of prison terms and
paroles will determine the exact
length of the term.
The jury returned the verdict
after celebrating the evidence 3ia
hours.
Poole sat alone at the counsel
table while court attaches were re-
called from their homes to be pres
ent for return Of the verdict. Cell
ing fans whirred monotonouSly
overhead as one by one the officials
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20


firmation in dispatches from Mos
COW.
One Soviet counterattack was
said to be directed against the Fin
nish front where the strongest Rus
sian effort since last spring was
reported to be in progress in the
Poventsa region, north of Lake
Omega. The Stockholm report said
the Russians were attacking on a
scale that indicated they hoped to
crush Finnish resistance.
The second attack was aimed
north CT Stalingrad. presumably
in the VoroneZh sector where the
Russians hold salient into Ger
man lines which they were believed
to be trying to turn into a flank
ing threat to the Nazis attacking
Stalingrad to the south
STALINGRAD EASED
Stockholm said this attack had
been in progress for "a hours and
that large numbers of Russian re-
serve troops were going into action
in drive to break the NaZi lines
between the Volga and the Don
rivers.
At Stalingrad itself the position
of the defenders was eased slightly
by the arrival of air reinforcements
and the recapture of dominant
hill which controlled river, pre-
sumably the Vclga, and much OF
the center of Stalingrad.
On the western European front
British planes spent the night lay
ing mines extensively along the
Nazi held coasts and Russian planes
were active in the Baltic. 1t. Col
James Walsh, commanding ar
American flying fortress group in
Britain, said the Boeing fortresses
soon will be ready to attack Ber-
lin with precision bombing.
Ankara reports received in Lon
don said that Jugoslav patriot forces
have received more than 100 tons
of munitions from Allied Submar.
ines operating up the Dalmatiar
coast. Other reports indicated
spreading unrest and guerilla wal
in the nervous Balkans.
VITAL POINT RETAKEN
Moscow reports emphasized tina
the Stalingrad crisis is deepening
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Flood s
Wreck
own
Wisconsin Areas
Razed by Torrent
As 4Lose Lives

SPRING VALLEY, Wis,
Sept. 10. (UP) - Wisconsin
home guards took charge Of
this flood smashed village to-
day, helping the 973 residents
salvage remnants left by high water
that caused an estimated $500. 900
damage.
This little town, with its homes
and business houses wrecked or
made uninhabitahle, was in the
center of the devastation caused by
flash floods yesterday throughout
several northern Wisconsin coun-
ties.
Four persons lost their lives, two
by drowning and two by lightning
Power, transportation and commu-
nication were disrupted throughout
the area. Five persons suffered in
juries in a derailment of Chicago
and Omaha passenger train at Eagle
Point, Wis, and railroad officials
estimated that il would take 10
days to restore normal service in
the flood area.
The home guard troops from Eau
Claire kept crowds of sightseers and
potential looters away from the APP
proaches to Spring Valley whose
streets were Uttered with house
hold goods, merchandise, building
wreckage and automobiles in scram-
bled heaps.
Emergency arrangements to sup
ply food, fresh water, clothing and
shelter were being expanded under
direction of the Red Cross and
volunteer groups.
A total of lis of Spring Valleys
100 houses on the Eau Claire river
flats were judged to be uninhabit-
able as the water receded. Three OF
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Scout in SoIomons
Put to Torture by
Japanese Senfries
Native Police Veteran
Keeps Silence Despite
Brutal Treatment
By ROBERT c. MILLER

UNITED STATES MAR
INE HEADQUARTERS, Sol
ONION Islands, Aug. 81. (UP)
(Delayed)-Sgt. Maj. Vouza,
As, veteran of the Solomon Islands
native police, crawled to Marine
outpost and collapsed from loss of
blood
He went out two nights ago as
a volunteer to scout japanese posi-
tions. The Japanese caught him.
They tied him to a tree and told
him they would kill him if he did
not tell all he knew about the Mar
inc positions and strength.
Vouza insisted he knew nothing.
Japanese soldiers went to work on
him with their bayonets. They took
turns slashing at his throat and
torso. They stopped occasionally to
ask him if he was ready to talk
and to thrust in his face the little
FhiiSA wan iio6, q SiO VI eioeSAoA
Marines, which he had carried in
his belt.
After some hours of this, the
Japanese learned that a Marine
patrol was approaching their out
posts. They left. One of them thrust
a bayonet through Vouza's throat.
to finish him off, but missed the
jugular vein.
Vouza squirmed until he got the
rope which bound him in his teeth,
and despite pain and loss of blood
he doggedly worked until he had
chewed it through. He crawled
through the underbrush between
japanese and Marines who were
now fighting savagely
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Former vaIIeyite
Killed in Crash

Word was received in Imperial
Valley Friday of the death of 1t.
Bill S. Wade, former valley resi-
dent and nephew of Tom Edgar,
in the crash of an Army bomber
near Birmingham, Ala, last We'd
nesday
He was one of the six victims in
the crash of the bomber from Drake
Field at Lakeland, Fla. The plane
struck a mountain peak. Lit. Wade,
son of George r. WAGE, a former
city engineer of Brawley, lived in
Brawley during his boyhood and at
tended elementary schools there.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
BREAK QUOTA.
AIM IN I.v.

Imperial Valley Sunday will make
its first concentrated effort to help
California raise its million ton quo
ia of scrap metal by Dec. and will
attempt to exceed all estimates of
scrap metal available in this area.
THE quota for the United States
is 81 million tons by Dec. l with
California expected to raise a mill
ion tons by that time" said Nolan
C. Smith, chairman of the county,
wide committee for the scrap drive.
I'VE place great hopes in the four
city drives scheduled for this week.
end, the ones in Holtville and I'M
perial on Saturday and the ones
in Ell Centro and Brawley Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Democratic Party
Row Lessons Olson
Chance of Victory
Wide Open Rift Over
Party's Leadership
Leaves Sore Wounds

SACRAMENTO, Calf ,
Sept. 10. (UP)-A wide open
rift in the Democratic party
leadership of California to-
day highlighted the close of
the two day biennial party conven-
tions and state central committees.
In contrast to the smooth progress
of the Republican sessions, the
Democrats wrangled and split III
tempestuous night session which
did not conclude until an early
hour today. Political observers felt
the party wounds would not heal
quickl" and would have decided
effect on the attempts to reflect
Gov. Culbert Olson and other Demo-
cratic officeholders on Nov. 3.
The name calling started in clos
ed caucus meetings deadlocked on
choice for state chairman of the
central committee. Unable to mus
ter enough votes for either Isadore
Dockweiler or Herbert Legg of Los
Angeles. the Bourbons settled on
Assemblyman A. W. Robertson of
Santa Barbara as compromise
candidate.
LOSS is ISSUE
The final showdown found Will
liam Malone. retiring state chair
man, and George Reilly, San Fran
cisco member of the board of equal
ization, opposed for the office of
vice chairman. Before Reilly won
out, 218 to 1872, party chieftains had
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

pervisorS Tuesday. The said SIM
liar programs are in effect in sew
eral California counties.
Under the plan, Mrs. Simon said,
the government will pay the pro-
duction cost of the fluid milk and
the schools will have to pay the
distribution costs. The penny for
half pint price would be the cell
ing for the milk sold to the children
and school officials were TO ar
range so that no one would know
which children had pennies for
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Lv.Dove Hunters
Given Citations

Game wardens in the last two
days gave citations to seven dove
hunters and told two of them to
appear in federal court and the
remainder to appear in justice
courts in Imperial county.
Max Houschild and G.. w. Murrie,
both of the coast area, were charged
with using unplugged guns while
hunting doves, a federal offense.
r. c. Bunker and r. Robinson, out
of-the- valley hunters, were charged
with shooting from the road.
John ZenoS of Holtville was cited
for having an overlimit of doves,
Yum Nah OF FL Centre for shooting
from a car and M. M. Menser of
Bellflower for shooting from a car
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

wages anu PIICeS OF udlIy IteU ANU
other goods and supplies entering
into the cost of fluid milk produc-
ton.
2. Immediate action by appro-
pirate agencies to control movement
of mixers and dairy laborers from
their present positions.
3. Selective service should defer
mixers until requirements can be
trained and placed.
4. Consideration should be given
to immediate adjustment of price
ceilings in any marketing area
where, through lack of adequate
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Two-Penny a Pint Milk
May Serve |. v. Children

Possibility that the federal agri-
cultural marketing administration
will establish a program to furnish
fluid milk for Imperial county
school children at penny for half
pint, will be discussed at a SUI
pervisors staff meeting called for
next Tuesday by County School Su-
perintendent E. Lee Hiteman.
Mrs. Helen Simon and Miss Mar
guerite Lopez we're sent to 1mper-
ial county to launch the project
and will meet with the school su-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

entered the court room and took
their places. His counsel, A. c. Fin
ney, joined him. In the audience
sat the defendants wife, her head
bowed. She was crying.
When the verdict was read by
Court Clerk Margaret Ann Chris
tian, Poole and his attorney smiled
at each other and Poole looked back
at his wife with smile. Then Poole
wiped his eyes, which were brim-
ming with tears.
Poole was returned to the county
Jail to await sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

to take tWo-fold action: ~.
|. A committee was authorized
to canvass the farmers of the val
ley to determine the number of
rubber-tired agricultural imple-
ments that may also use steel for
wheels. The report of the group
will be used in an appeal b. the
chambers to government officials
to release more rubber for use in
the agricultural section here and
to release other rationed equipment
necessary to keep valley farmers in
business.
2. Possibility of improved bus
service between the scattered COM
munities in the valley will be inves-
tigated by another committee with
the object of persuading bus COM
pany to put on buses for purely local
service or forming a company OF
Imperial county residents to organ
ize a line here.
CROP CURTAILMENT
E. H. Cain, ex-president, led the
discussion of the vital needs of
the farmers. 1t was brought out
that a continued shortage of tires
here will result in a detriment to
both the county and the nation
because of the forced curtailment
of crops.
The valleys allotment of rubber
is being made on the same basis
as crowded urban communities
where population is used to deter
mine the number of tires distributed
the officers were told. Driving dis
tances in the city are not as great
nor is the driving as essential there
as in the valley where crops to
aid the war effort are raised.
The local bus line proposition was
considered of utmost Importance
because of the approaching nation
wide rationing of gasoline in addi-
ton to the continued wearing out
of tires now on the automobiles of
valley citizens.
OPA IN FAVOR
Under the plan several small buses
would be used to make two or more
complete round trips of cities daily.
Office of price administration Of
ficials for San Diego and Imperial
counties are in favor of it, they dis
J Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

William Outlook, county publicity
chairman for the drive, said that
Ell Centrans who contribute scrap
metal Sunday will be presented
with stickers for their windows or
doors. The stickers will show that
the residents of the homes where
they appear have helped with the
drive. Drive chairmen in other
towns may contact Outlook if they
want stickers.
Sundays drive in FL Centre will
be launched by the blaring siren
of fire truck which will be driv-
en- through the streets in the resi-
dental sections. The Sunday pick
up will be made in the residential
sections only.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

lllt FL OtllIlO QIdlJ DOdIQ dllIlOullC-
ed Saturday.
With full police power, the special
agent will be able TO quell any dis
turbanceS. free-for-alls or other
mischief which breaks out during
the journey to INLAND, it was indi-
cated. What course will be pursued
once the draftee contingents board
the main line trains was not re-
vealed
The order recalled difficulties met
when the last group of selectees
Travelled from Ell Centro to inland,
with so many of its members in
ebriated that Sheriff Robert w.
Wares office was notified, and a
deputy closed town cafes and sal
oons in inland to avoid trouble.
On that trip one potential draftee
smashed a window out of Southern
Pacific coach, sliced the leaders in
one of his own hands and lost n
pint of blood, officials said He was
returned to FL Centre for medical
attention, and his induction was de-
layed until the next quota is sent
to Los Angeles.
In explanation OF his misfortune
he said he thought he glimpsed
someone on the train creeping up
on him. and swung a haymaker at
the intruder, only to discover it was
his own reflection in the train WIN
dow.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
REDS C0UNTERATTA TO EASE strain
p AMBL|Ne


Hot Politics
Harvey A. Hastain and Dan West
met in BraWley the other day and
as two Republicans frequently do,
they began to talk politics Nor
was this the first time Hastain
and West have talked politics. 1t
has been going on for years and
years.
The conversation got around to
Wendell Willkie. Hastain was pro-
Willkie and West was anti-Willkie
Nov. listen, Harvey" said West,
you're New Deal Republican
Il am not" objected Hastain
You know I'm not"
They went on and on and on.
At last West had TO leave and
started walking toward his car. Still
talking earnestly, Hastain accom-
panied him. They stopped several
times en- route to the West vehicle
and talked. They talked While
walking and talked while standing
still. They reached Wiest's car and
West craWled in behind the wheel
HaStain stood beside the car with
one hand resting near the top OF
the door
Still talking, Hastain slammed
the door on his own finger ano
darned near whacked it in two
pieces.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
Germans 'Deport'
French Citizens

ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER,
Sept. 10 - (UP) - Reports from
France tonight said that Nazi mill
tary authorities in Paris have start
ed massive" deportation of French
citizens to the east in reprisal for
anti-Nazi activity.
There was no indication how many
Frenchmen were being rounded up
for deportation by the Germans.
1t was said that they are being
sent to Polish and Silesian mines
This is the first time that Ger
many has undertaken deportation
of French non-Jews, it was under
stood.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

the milk and which did not.
This penny milk program viii
help the dairy farmer" Mrs. Simon
said. by training a new crop Of
fluid milk drinkers and developing
a market for the dairy farmer" She
said there was not a fluid milk
shortage, that she had checked up
and found that there Is plenty Of
milk In Imperial county 10 carry
on the program. Details will be-
worked out at the meeting Tues-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20
I.v. War Manpower
Committee Set Up

Imperial countys farm labor sub
committee SATURDAY. had been trans
formed in space of few hours
from University of California ex-
tention service organization into
the war manpower committee, a cog
in the national machinery of VINO
Chairman Paul v. McNutt.
The new committee, which retains
Nelson Correll as its chairman and
all other officers, will report I'M
perial county's labor needs and
problems directly to the U. S. gov
ernment.
The manpower committee will
meet every Thursday morning at
10 am. in the courthouse.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-20

control, production costs have al
ready increased to a point where
present OPA price ceilings are no
longer adequate to cover such costs.
5. The various federal agencies
engaged in carrying out phases of
the war effort should undertake
Immediately to agree upon and CO.
ordinate their objectives and poll
cies lin order that we as dairymen.
who desire to cooperate to the full
est extent may continue to supply
this universal food"