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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
WAGE STABILIzATION

Nevada State JournaD
By an eight to four vote, the War Labor
board the other day granted an increase
of "A cents day to the little steeP' work
ers and at the same time placed the
boards SO called union-security formula
in effect in the industry. The boards
action may have far reaching effects by
prompting quick action by the President
in seeking wage stabilization legislation.
The little steel" case, in which the
workers demanded 81 day increase and
the union maintenance rule has been be-
fore the board for several weeks. The
split decision, with the labor members
opposing the wage increase compromise,
leaves the situation still upset. Chair
man William H. Davis said the board had
established "yardstick" calls for 15
per cent increase in wages above those
of January l, 1941, according to Davis,
but evidently the labor members of the
board are not satisfied with that measure
ment.
The board has not established public
confidence in its handling of numerous
cases, and it is doubtful if the ''yardstick'
it claims to have adopted will be effective
unless it is backed by proper legislation
There must be a stablization of wages
as we'll as prices if this country hopes
to avoid the scourge of initiation. The
problem must be met head-On. 1t cannot
be lodged much longer
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
ON LIVING DOWN
A NAME

(ChrStian Science MonitOr)
Reports from California indicate that
many of the "Okies" who constituted
problem seven or eight years ago by their
immigration from Oklahoma, Arkansas,
or the Great Plains States have become
assets now by their employment in air
plane factories shipyardS, or on farms.
Quite possibly this development may go
so lar as to give a revised meaning to
name about which some OklahomanS
have been UNDERSTANDABLE sensitive.
1t may be recalled that the term Yankee
first came into general circulation dur
ing the Revolutionary War through Amer
lean adoption of doggerel song, Yankee
Doodle" written in derision of the Colon
ial troops by a surgeon in Lord Amherst's
army. And Quakers have come to be
widely respected under the designation
originally applied to the Society of
Friends, including their leader, George
Fox, in ridicule of the supposed tendency
of some to tremble under religious emo
ton.
Among American States, residents of
Indiana have fondly adopted the name
Hoosier which originally had some refer
ence to uneducated speech, and GeOrgians
Identify themselves as Crackers without
,signlfylng ignorance or poverty. Oklaho-
ma already knows what it is to see name
redeemed; for the word Sooner origi-
nally meant one who had sneaked across
the line ahead of the hour set for the
run for land in 1889, but now it is the
accepted appelation for one from the
Sooner State or for its University's foot
ball team. Perhaps "Okie" will experience
a similar building up.
After all, this process of living down
a name might better be described as "llV
ing up" name.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
DEALISMS MAKE NO
DIFFERENCE THESE DAYS

This is no time to prate of Communism
and its menace to our own governmental
structure as a reason for delaying help to
Russia. The political idealism of Com
munism is one thing, the winning of this
war is another. We've got to handle them
as separate items, and not let our dis
taste for one Influence our action in an
other. or we're liable to suffer for it,
The stark truth is that we cannot af-
ford to see Russia knocked out OF the
war If We must, to prevent it, we should
take dangerous CANDLES, We should risk
temporary defeats. In the cruel light of
cold reason we should be better off to
lose half million men on a second front
than to see Russia beaten to her knees.
Even if an attempt to open second
front failed temporarily, it would be bet
ter to make it if the attempt is needed to
prevent Russian collapse.
Better to fail on one front, and still
keep another one open, than to lose the
first one and, at the same time, make
the opening of a second well nigh i'm
possible.
If Russia can continue to stand up un-
der the German battering, without sec
ond front. then we believe it is better to
wait until we are 100 per cent ready
until there is no chance of failure AS
much as anybody, we'd like to see the
blow killing one when it finally lands.
But let US not wait to deliver it until
the enemy has had a chance to sink
harder blow into our own solar plexus.
We cannot pay too high price for
perfection, or even the chance to pay it
may be taken from us.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD
OF EQUALIZATION, IMPERIAL
IRRIGATION DISTRICT.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Assessor of Imperial Irrigation
District, having completed the as
Sessment book for the year 1912 has
delivered the said assessment book
to the Secretary of the Board OF
Directors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict who now has it in his office
in the Masonic Building, Ell Centre,
California, where it will remain for
the inspection of all persons inter
ested until August 4, 1912.
The Board of Directors of said
Imperial Irrigation District acting
as a Board of Equalization, will
meet 10 equalize assessments on
August 4, 1942, at ten O'Clock am
and continue in session from time
TO time thereafter as long as may
be necessary, not TO exceed ten
days, exclusive of Sundays, at the
office of the said Board Of Directors,
in the Masonic Building, FL Centre,
California, TO hear and determine
such objections to the valuation
acreage, or any other matters per
tanning TO the assessment, as may
come before them.
BY order of the Board Of Direc-
tors.
w. w. GOODSON,
Secretary Of the Board OF
Directors Of Imperial Irriga-
ton District.
NO. A. J14-21-2sJ
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
S. Burton Heath
Writes:

1t is possible to say with little
eXaggeration that Oliver Lyttelton' S
accounting of the British war effort
is a non fiction. 1912 What Price
Glory" or Farewell to Arms"
We. on this side of the Atlantic
have heard and real soul-searing
accounts of the horrors of war
where bombs are bursting, machine
guns spraying, incendiaries firing,
bayonets splitting human bodies.
Piecemeal, bit by bit, we have
been told something of the social
and economic effects of total war
in a democrac% and of its even
more scarifying effects in the total
itarian countries.
But Lyttelton, the Donald Nelson
of Great Britain, has given us
frankly, factually and without
adornment, a picture of the COM
plete readjustment that such war
means to civilians.
Every man and woman is subject
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

There is a good deal of official
worrying in high places of govern
ment about the morale OF labor
The underlying thought is that
workmen must be kept in a per-
petual dither of excitement about
war production and that the only
way to do this is by constant re-
sort to Billy Sunday pep talks and
the scheduling of a succession OF
drives, slogan contests and cam
paigns accompanied by song, all
whooped up like a holy rollers re-
Vival.
Before Pearl HarbOr, there
was a lot of worrying about the
morale of the Army, too. But
the minute real war started,
soldier morale practically eeas-
ed to be a thing to worry about
The Morale Division of the War
Department i'll Washington
practically hasn't been heard OF
since.
Artificial stimulants for the mo-
rale of labor. however, are still
being concocted under Col A Ro-
bert Ginsburgh, head of public re-
lations in the Services of Supply,
which does missionary work to
maintain morale, Officers are sent
to war production centers to make
speeches at lunch hour and shift
change periods. They say 1t does
good, and that production curves
shoot rightup after these pep meet
ingS.
Navy has been more conservative
about this morale business, but IS
overhauling its labor relations Or
ganization under Admiral Wood
ward and a labor reporter from
Colonel KnoX's Chicago Daily News
Maritime Commission is worrying
about the morale OF the shipyards
workers, with Mark ODea, former
New York advertising agency eX-
cutive, in charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21

to draft to work or fight. They
cannot take jobs at will and move
on when they please They are
frozen at their machines.
Women work long hours-up to
55 a Week-often at tasks that
every man hates to think of having
women do.
Boys and girls from II years up
are almost universally engaged in
war work on farms or in factories
hot pin money. occasional tasks,
but day-by-day drudgery that frees
men for fighting and for even more
onerous labors.
Not only has production of ci-
william goods been cut to the bone,
but manufacturers have had to see
the patronage they had laboriously
acquired turned over to rivals, so
their own factories might be used
for war goods.
Food is rationed. Money doesn't
count. Cabinet ministers and fac
tory workers. millionaires and sub
SiStence level laborerS, each is en-
titled to the same amount.
Clothing is rationed. The rich
can have better quality, to be sure,
but for each woman, whatever her
income or bank balance, there is
one coat, one dress, one pair OF
shoes, one nightgown, one set of
undergarments, two pairs of hose
and four handkerchiefs for this
year.
After July the ordinary civilian
will get no gasoline at all.
Income taxes start at the $3.50
year-level, and climb fast to the
almost completely confiscatory rate
of 97l2 cents ON the dollar.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
LABOR BEING BABIED

War Production Board has its big
war production drive on, in which
more than 1000 plants are partici-
pating, and labor and management
are sitting down together to pro-
duce slogans and ways to increase
production.
The War ManpOwer Commits
sion under Paul McNutt has as
vet done nothing about labor
morale, as it has as yet done
nothing about most things, ana
the Labor Production Division
of the War Production Board
Cnder Wendell Lund is seldom
heard from on anything.
But there is an apparent incll-
nation to baby labor for fear ii
won't support the war effort. The
unuttered question behind all the
long-drawn-out negotiations over
the Little Steel labor cases was fear
that if the union requests for 81
/ d-QdN lllCGPdSt anu Illt ClOo1Nt "4iOf
were not handled right, it would
be bad for labor's morale.
Maintaining labor's morale has
become a kind of obsession. 1t has
gone so far that some of the in
spired or misguided experts are
trying to frame a laboring mans
ten commandments to be known
as the War Workers Victory
Code" No one has reduced this tc
writing, but the code was to IN
clude pledges which would practl-
callv commit workmen to take q
pay cut and work overtime free
Labor leaders laughed and suggest
ed a code for manufacturers, ask
ing them to give up golf and all
profits.
There is some evidence that all
this worrying over labor's morale
is beginning to annoy labor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Young Greshan1s
Go TO Missouri

The two young sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. Olin r. Gresham, Olin Brooks
and Allen, boarded a bus Tuesday
morning for a visit with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Brooks and Mr.. and Mrs. w. O..
Gresham who live within II miles
of each other near Liberty, Mo.
Gresham, who is a teacher at
Central Union high, will enter
USC. as soon as summer school
lets out here on August 8 and will
complete his work toward his mas
ters degree. Mr.. and Mrs. Gresham
plan to drive to Missouri early in
September for a short vacation, and
will bring the boys home with them.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
FORM AIR SCOUT SQUADRON

CHELSEA, Mass, July 1G CUP)
This Boston suburb boasts the
first air scout charter granted in
the United States. The charter
went to Squadron Is of the Central
Congregational Church. Composed
of Senior Boy Scouts, the squad
ron is specializing in ground
training
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Robert Hawk Back
From Hawaii Post

Mr.. and Mrs. L. C. Hawk, pioneer
residents of the Verde district, were
overjoyed by the return recently of
their son Robert and his wife who
have been in the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawk, who had been employed in
construction work there for some
time before Pearl Harbor, returned
last week, but Mrs. Hawk has been
here for a fortnight.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Hidalgo and Juarez fought the foreign
ers who menaced our liberties. Shall we
besmirch their record by failing to fight
now! - Gen. MaXimino Avila Camacho,
Mexican minister of communications, urg-
ing war against axis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21

BOSTON, July 16-CUP) - Maj.
Russell H. Sweet. public relations
officer for the First Corps Area,
reveals that the mysterious letters
S.MRLH appearing on the back
of soldiers letters means: Soldiers
Mail-Rush Like He'll
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foIioloing edit
0riais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions Doiced by editors eiseIohere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion sf
this paper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
YOUNG SLAYERS
 ARE REPENTANT
Four Colored Boys Admit- ted They Were at Stab-
 ping of HOlyOke Boy

New York, August 5. - tUP) = Four dejected young Negroes - as young as any to appear on such ser- ious charges in many months = stood in the glare of the police line up lights today charged with the fatal stabbing of Stanley Kolbusz oi Holyoke, Mass.
 Shuffling uneasily under the eyes of dozens of detectives in the other wise darkened auditorium, the quar- tet was asked by acting Captain Ed ward Dillon whether they had mode statement to the district attorney regarding the charges.
 All four nodded. They were moi questioned further. However, police already had announced they hac confessed to stabbing the 19-year- old defense worker in Harlem last July IS during an attempted rob bery in which two teen-age girls acted as the lure for Kolbusz anc two Holyoke companions.
 The prisoners were listed as Fran ces Stewart, 16, William Brown, IS Sam Maduro. 19, and Frank Holmes 21.
 The police indicated Brown wal suspected of welding the knife which penetrated Kolbusz's heart He was kept alive in Sydenhan Hospital by two operations and dai' ly blood transfusions until Sunday when he suffered 8 relapse and uied
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
Soviets Now Battling To Prevent Smashing Of Timoshenko's F Forces
VICTORY HOUSE
 DRIVE JUMPED
Biggest Day Since Open= ing Yesterday-$l3O,.
 7O8.5O Bond Sale

The Victory House war bond and stamp campaign yesterday en- joyed its biggest success since open ing day week ago, Chairman J Francis Smith of the war bond committee reported today. Sales yesterday amounted to $130, ,7O8.5C while opening day sales last We'd nesdya were $307 900.
 Total sales to date are now $696,- O62.25, within les sthan $55 900 oi the goal of $750,000. The campaign will continue till Saturday.
 Sales at Victory House on the Green yesterday amounted to ST. 575, the remainder of the days total being accounted for by sales al banks, post office, stores and other agencies.
 Controller Thomas M. Conlon secretary of the war bond commit tee, said that sales figures indicate that the $750,000 qouta will be reached and surpassed by a wide margin. Four full days of sales re- main before the drive is to be ended.
 Sponsored by the Colonial Danes of America, Victory House Is now a tour of Connecticut cities. Dur ing it's stay here it is headquarters for local bond and stamp sales Local entertainers broadcast dail! from Victory House over both loca stations, 'ar'SrveFf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
OBEY GOV. HURLEY
 IS COX'S ORDER

Hartford. Conn, Aug. 5.-UP)- State Highway Commissioner Will liam J. Cox today instructed a lead ing department official to adhere strictly to Gov. Huley's recommen- dation that "errors, inadequacies and mistakes" be eliminated from the departments operations.
 Cox's letter of instruction was to A. w. Bushell. head of the division of engineering and construction.
 The governors recommendations were made in a report last week reinstating Commissioner Cox aftel 8 suspension of six months.
 Cox wrote Bushell: "Will you set that the governors instructions anc wishes, as they concern your bureau are adequately made known to youN bureau personnel. and that they art compiled with in letter and spirit hnnceGcgWagd"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
RUSSIA PURClNC
 HER COLUMNISTS
German Spies Driven Out of [ Leningrad-Jugoslavs
 Win Great Battle
By M. S, HANDLER

United Press Staff COrreSp0ndent)
 Moscow, Aug. 5.-(UP)-A purge of White Russian fifth columnists and German spies smuggled into Leningrad at the height of last win ter's Nazi siege of the former czar- ists capital was revealed today by the official Community party news paper Pravda.
 The German agents, who made contact with underground counter revolutionary groups including former czarist officials and officers, were said to have attempted to cre- ate unrest in the beleaguered city and organize an uprising.
 Many of the German spies sent through the lines were women, it was stated, and they like all the others seized in the purge appeared to have been executed.
 Article No. 58 of the Russian penal code stipulates the death penalty for counter-reyolutionary activity.
 One of the women arrested was identified by the name of Petrova who was said to have obtained im- portant military information" in Leningrad but to have been arrest ed while trying to re-cross the bat. tie lines and deliver the informa- ton to the Germans.
 Many of those seized in what
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
AMERICAN PLANES
 HIT TWO ZONES
Strike Three Merchantmen in Mediterranean-Nazi
 Planes Are Over Iceland

Cairo, Aug. 5.-(UP)-Allied heavy bombing planes, which probably in- cluded United States army air corps Consolidateds, have scored one di- rect hit and near misses calculated to cause serious damage in an at- tack on three big enemy merchant men in the eastern Mediterranean, 1t was announced today.
 Other planes scored direct hits on troop and supply barges in an at- tack on Axis light shipping, pro- tected by airplane and warship es- corts off the Libyan base of Bardia, a communique of the Middle East ern command and the Royal Air Force said.
 Notation that British patrols had been active in all sectors Monday night and Tuesday morning, and that artillery fire had intensified yesterday in the northern and cen tral sectors of the front west of Fl Alamein, indicated that move might be made soon by either the British Eighth Army or the Axis ground forces.
 The communique noted also that there was increased air activity over the battle area.
 British fighter-bombers attacked enemy vehicles concentrations 1T the central sector and fighters main tained offensive patrols.
 RVN IL. fighters were shot down yesterday
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
REPUBLICANS NOT
 TO BACK WILLKIE
Senate G. 0. P. Group Is Not Agreeable to PrO-
 posed Victory "Creed"
By JOHN R. BEAL

United Press Staff C0rrespondent) Washington, Aug. 5-(UP)-Senate Republicans indicated today that they would not accept Wendell L. Willkie's proposed victory creed" as a basis for this years party plat form.
 Most members refused to con- ment publicly, but former non-inter- ventionists objected on the ground that 1t sought to commit the c. O. P. to a League of Nations after the war and to the principle o1 policing the world"
 Willkie, in a statement issued in New York, proposed three basic principles for adoption by both the Democratic and Republican parties He proposed:
 That America fight with the United Nations "until the last vestige of totalitarjanism and ag- gresslon is destroyed throughout the world"
 That there be mo thought of ap- basement, no hope of peace until we reach this end"
 Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
India Must Have Independence Or Leaders Will Consult With Japan
One Week Ultimatum Is Given Britain to Grant
 Demands
BY F. ID. SHARMA

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Bombay, India, August 5. = UP) Nationalist leaders intend to give the British Indian government a oneweek ultimatum demanding immediate independence with the alternative of civil disobedience campaign, well informed sources said today.
 A member of the working commit tee or executive of the Nationalist All-India Congress said that the ultimatus would be sent to British authorities by Mohandas K. Gandhi, spiritual leader of the movement.
 (The British radio said that Gandhi addressed the working com mittee for ninety minutes at a meeting today and that Maulana Azad, president of the All-India party, said new resolution is be- ing drafted saying that "once the British have granted independence to India, the Indian Provisional Government will wholeheartedly and unreservedly declare itself on the side of the United Nations"
 (The new resolution, it was re- ported, also will state that if inde- pendence is granted the Indian peo- pie will meet the Japs or any other aggressorS with armed re- sistance.")
 The ultimatum wouldtbe addressed to the Marquess of Lintithgow Viceroy of Indian, 1t was said.
 It would give him one week 1r which to hand India over to the Nationalists and would outline an alternative plan under which Ma tionalists would try to get 1ndia's 3O0,O0O, 900 people behind civil dis obedience campaign despite the threat to India, China and the en- tire United Nations war effort, in- formants said.
 Determined To Go On
 Nationalists were said to be de- termined to proceed with their cam paign despite the revelation that Gandhi had proposed to negotiate with Japan" in event that India attained independence. This pro posal was dropped in an independ- ence resolution which the working committee subsequently, adopted.
 Mrs. Saronjini Naidu, member o1
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
WAR WORKER MET
 WITH HIS DEATH

Falmouth, Mass, August 5. - (UP) - Manuel F. De Mello, 43, of East Falmouth, a war worker on a harbor project here, lost his life today when he was struck on the back by a crane hook. He died oi internal injuries at doctors office an hour later.
 De Mello, a former lieutenant in the Falmouth fire department, was mailing . board to the side of a wharf when the accident occurred The crane operator, whose name was withheld, had failed to see tho workman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05
TWO SHIPS SENT
 DOWN LAST MONTH
American Freighter Hit 200 Miles Off Coast British Boat in Caribbean

An East Coast Port, Aug. 5-(UP) Ten crew-members perished and the captain and 55 others were ~c3- cued when a medium-sized Ameri- can freighter was torpedoed by an unseen enemy submarine 200 miles off this coast early in July, the Navy disclosed today.
 Thirty-one of the survivors, in- cluding five who required hoSpitaliz- ation, were landed here and 25 others at another Atlantic port.
 "This was the first ship ever to go down under my command" said Capt. Carl M. Froisland, 62, of (2197 Troy avenue.) Brooklyn, N. Y. T heard an explosion and the entire deck was enveloped in flames. Flame and -moke leaped hundreds of feet into the air"
 First Mate George A. Lilly, 57, Of Baltimore said that the first tor pedo struck the vessel on the port side at about 6:30 p. m. and that she floundered AS minutes later. At least one lifeboat burned in the water and two others capsiZed in the confusion of abandoning ship. Fire spread rapidly over the ship and after one explosion the sea around the sinking vessel be- came a boiling mass of flame.
 Those in lifeboats and on life raft fingered to pick up survivors clinging to flotsam. Among these was the captain, who had leaped from the ships desk.
 Coxswain James Dawson, 26, of Bridgeport, Conn, who commanded the ships gun crew was among nine survivors who tloated on the life raft until picked Up.
 To Deck Engineer Andrew Cruz
 
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