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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
WHY THE CHANGE?

(Alhambra POst-Advocate)
Gov Culbert l.. Olson has ordered that
from now on no more closed meetings OF
the .CIO State, County and Municipal
Workers of America shall be allowed IN
the Los Angeles state building. The order
came through the governors secretary,
Stanley Mosk.
Following the complaint of a former
member Of the union who had been, ac-
cOrding to her story, voted OUT of the
union, the ruling was made under state
laws covering meetings in school build
ings and the like, which must be open to
the public.
If the union wants to conduct its meet
ings open to the public, apparently that
will be all right, although this has not
been stated At least it probably would
continue to save rent for the organization,
such as other organizations have to pay.
What is the most interesting aspect OF
the situation is summed up in two ques-
tions First, if the closed meetings are
against the law, why were they allowed
up to the time the row started over
single member? Second, if the meeting
were legal, why change them now?
1t would be interesting to know whether
closed meetings of other organizations
have been allowed in state buildings as
well. Have AFL unions been allowed
the same facilities as the C1O union?
Have the Merchants and Manufacturers
association members also been afforded
facilities? That's a kind of union.
The answers to all these questions may
lie in the fact that on Aug. .25 there is
primary election, and a run-off in No
vember. 1t could be that
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
WASHINGTON POLITICS
HIT HOME IN |. v.

It's long echo from the congressional
chambers of Washington to the highways
and farms of Imperial Valley, but not
too long for the sound waves (and more)
coming out of the feud between Price Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson and the con-
gressmen upon whose political toes he has
stepped with hob-nailed non-partisan ap-
pointments.
Almost everybody knows by now that
more than a few congressman are out to
get Henderson's scalp because he ap-
points assistants on the basis of ability
instead of politics, and that these con-
gressmen have used their appropriation
whip to achieve their goal. Because Hen
derson has ignored congressional recon-
mendations for personnel in an election
year, the Office of Price Administration
has been deprived of a large part OF the
sum needed to operate it well and ettl-
ciently.
That has been the price the politicos
exacted in dollars and cents for Hender-
sons habit of appointing men-Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike = without
first asking how they stand with the par
ty, and whether they can help elect Ger
tain congressman.
That price is being taken out of the
hide of Imperial Valley farmers and
others even now, just as it will be taken
out of the hide of the whole nation
through initiation and rising cost OF liV-
ing, unless the political reprisals are
halted.
The harm that can be done is ably
demonstrated here in our unfair quotas
on automobile and truck tires and tubes.
Everyone, even rationing officials In high
places, agree that we are entitled to
larger quota on the basis of motor vehl-
Gle registration, but limited personnel
and other pressing duties prevent the
investigation that would be necessary be-
fore the change-over could be made from
the present population basis to the need
ed vehicle registration basis.
ManpoWer alone can make it possible
to make such changes as are needed in
the valley if our farmers are to get their
produce to market. Present manpower
in Henderson's organization is not suf-
ficient And congressman are threaten
ig to vote out an appropriation which
would actually reduce present manpower,
instead of increasing it to meet the needs
That is not economy 1t is not even
common sense. 1t is just plain politics
and it doesn't smell good.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
MANHATTAN
CORNFIELD
(Riyerside Press)

(RiyerSide PreSs)
On the corner of Sixth avenue and Fiji
ty-second street, New York City, right in
the middle of the night club district,
there is vacant lot. On that lot corn
has been planted, and the stalks are now
close to two feet tall, so It's said. Around
the lot is high wire netting Inside this
fence a farmer hoes his crop. AT the
edge of the field is tomato patch, with
27 thriving plants coming along in sight
of Radio City.
The farmer, taciturn as many tillers
of the soil are apt to be, gives no intor-
nation as to what this means-whether
it is a victory garden or whatnot. He
merely says 10 ali inquirers: Use your
imagination, like Jules Verne"
That farmer has used not only his
imagination but something more. He
came some weeks ago to a lot Uttered with
trash and waste from a subway excava
ton. He cleared away the rubble and
built himself a hut from it in which he
lives and on whose doorstep he sits and
smokes when not engaged in the cultiva-
tion of his corn and tomatoes. He feeds
pigeons, he works, he loafs, and invites
his soul
He demonstrates a fine combination
of imagination, gumption and the philos-
optical life All the while keeping things
about him clean and tidy as he minds his
own business. And his operations are be-
ing carried on within stones throw OF
one of the greatest business sections OF
the entire world. Something to ponder
over.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
s. Burton Heath
Writes:

For the first time since the
United States began its mad race
to arm the anti-axis world before
Hitler could blitz democracy out
of existence, re begin to see day
light ahead in the steel situation.
So far as it is possible to deter
mine, pressure upon steel Is be-
ginning to lessen. Unless we are
obliged once again to increase our
production goals, soon the worlds
greatest and most efficient metal
industry should prove ample for
our needs.
Ample. that is, for our military
needs, which today are all that
really matter. There is not going
to be any steel to waste. There Is
not going to be enough steel Tor
ordinary civilian goods, even If the
plant and the man-poWer were
available to use it.
Industrial and government eX-
perts say our ingot capacity-the
plant with which to make raw
steel in its elementary FORMS
sufficient
When the conversion of auto
mobile continuous strip mills is
completed, by the end of 1912, the
bottleneck in steel plate probably
will be broken.
With the completion of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

worlds greatest rush building pro-
gram, and in view OF the shutdown
in non-essential civilian construc-
ton, the bottleneck in structural
shapes should disappear.
The principal fly in the oint-
ment today, looking ahead to to-
morrow, is whether even a three
ship-a day maritime program will
suffice to overcome sinkings and
build up the merchant marine and
transport; service we must have to
beat Hitler.
If sinkings continue at their
present pace, we may have to shoot
for a yet higher level of ship con-
struction. Then, indeed, we might
find a new bottleneck in steel plate.
Without letting optimism run
riot, we believe the sinkings are
going to be brought under control
to such an extent that three ships
a day seven days q week, will do
the job.
That confidence looks forward
not only to improved naval tech
niaue, which insiders profess to see
working out, but also to the build
ing of hordes of small anti-sub-
marine craft capable of overwhelm-
ing the decreasing number of u
boats the axis can produce and
man and send into shipping lanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
Ry LEON KAY

CAIRO, July 4. (UP) = British
troops have captured hundreds OF
prisoners and 40 guns in counter
attacks against the Axis forces on
the Alamein line and the Allied air
force. in operations on scale un-
precedented in the Middle East, has
shot down "a enemy planes IN
single day, it was announced To-Day.
The ground forces put many tanks
out of action in a series OF strong
attacks and the air force destroyed
four German planes aground III
heavy attacks on enemy Landing
grounds camps and roads, bringing
their "a hour bag to %. That total
did not include a German plane
shot down over Malta.
The Axis forces, beaten back
Thursday by the biggest Imperial
counterattack of the Egyptian cam
paign, were trying to reform yester-
day for a continued thrust eastward
from Ell Alamein, 60 miles from
Alexandria.
STRIKE FIRST
British forces struck first, in care
fully calculated counterattacks, and
it was indicated that the Germans
again had failed to gain an inch OF
ground.
The Axis planes were shot down
in a wild series of dog fights IN
which Imperial fighter planes swept
the air.
Sixteen Junker-c7 dive bombers,
seven Messerschmitt-109 fighters
and one Italian Macchi-202 were
downed by the Imperial planes.
The four grounded planes destroy
ed were MesSerSchmitt-1O 1O9s.
The communique was issued joint
ly by the Middle Eastern command
and the Royal air force. The text:
COOPERATION
our forces yesterday attacked
the enemy, who are attempting to
thrust eastWards in the Alamein
area. The Allied air forces, cooper
ating with the land forces on a
scale unprecedented in the Middle
East. hammered the enemy through
out the day.
Our troops put a number OF enc
nv tanks out of action and captured
40 guns and several hundred pris-
oners.
Fighter planes shot down 16
.Junker-87s, seven Messerschmitt-
l09s and one Macchi-202.
"I.anding grounds, camps, roads
and Sidi Barrani ION the coast to-
ward the Libyan frontier were
attacked. -Four l09s were destroyed
aground.
HITTING HARD
"The enemy continued attacks
Yesterday on Malta. One lO9 was
shot down.
British Imperial mobile task for
nations were hitting ceaselessly at
the German and italian forces over
a wide area west and south OF Ell
Alamein. -.
They had embarked on a swift
follow-up to their big counterattack
of Thursday.
Authorities, taking no chances ON
dissident elements rising behind
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
ImperioIs Hummer Ndzis
CeoseIessIy in Desert

fighter and light, fast bomber planes,
including the American made Doug
las Bostons, raced again and again
into the enemy lines, striking at
the Axis flanks toward the coast.
NO REST GIVEN
Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, per-
sonally commanding the Imperial
forces at the front, apparently had
determined to give the Axis no rest
day or night and, if possible, to
keep them either from massing for
another big attack or digging in to
consolidate a fixed defensive line.
The Imperial forces were growing
stronger and, while the Axis also
could expect reinforcementS, Auch-
inleck was trying the policy of hit
ting constantly in hope that he
could surpass the enemy's strength
and remove the Snreat to Alexandria
and the Nile.
Reports from the front at dark
Yesterday said that the Germans
seemed for the present to be try
ing to avoid engagements after the
withdrawal of perhaps four miles
which Auchinleck's first big coun-
terattack had forced.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
Americans Bomb Nazis

LONDON, July 4-CUP) - The
United States army air corps en-
tered the air war in the western
European theatre on this Independ-
ence day morning with raid on
German occupied territory.
The American planes were in op-
erations that included a sweep over
Holland Belgium and north France,
it was stated reliably
United States army headquarters,
in its first communique of the
war. announced that six United
States army air corps crews, in a
Joint operation with Royal Air
Force light bombers, attacked var
ious targets.
The United States planes, Doug
las A-20-A twin motored light bomb
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

ers, swept with Royal Air Force
light bomberS over the Dover
strait and made their first raid
at daring low levee
2 PLANES LOST
Two planes, with crews of three
men each, are missing from the
raid. which was made in full day
light over one of the most power
fully defended areas in the world.
The United States army head
quarters communique said in full:
Headquarters European theatre
of operations, United States Army:
"Communique No. l:
In a joint operation with Royal
Air Force light bombers. six Ameri-
can air crews attacked targets in
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. 3348
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters
Testamentary
In the Matter of the Estate of
WALTER M. PAINE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton for probate of the will Of Walter
M. Paine, deceased, and for the
issuance to WILLIAM TAFT PAINE:
of letters testamentary, has been
filed in this court, and that Friday
the 18th day of July, 1912, at two
pm, of said day, at the courtroom
Department Two of said court, at
the Court House in the City of Ell
Centro, County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted.
Dated June 49, 1942.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G. o. Kenyon,
Deputy Clerk.
(No. 24 (J24-J5 inco
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
SITTING AS A BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION

Notice is hereby given as required,
that the City Council of the City Of
Ell Centre will convene on July /.
1912 at 7:3O pm, at the City Hall
of the City of Ell Centre, to sit as
Board of Equalization for the pur-
pose of Equalizing the tax roll, and
will continue to sit as Board OF
Equalization from day to day until
the equalization of the tax roll is
completed.
Dated this 26th day of June, 1912.
(SignedD ROBERT w. HATTON.
Mayor of the City Of Ell
Centre.
Attest:
(Signed) NEAL II. GAVIN,
City Clerk.
(No 25) (J28-J5)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

America is awake. America is alert.
America is at work. Two-fisted fighting
men will have arms and ships.-Jo Ohm NJ
Carmody, member U. S. Maritime Com
mission
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Edison

July 1 may be the day you cele-
brate your independence, but July
l3 is the day dedicated to the junk
man. For on this day begins a
triple threat drive to win the war
at home by salvaging millions OF
tons of things Americans are ac-
customed to throwing away.
The fats and greases from the
kitchen of city, village and farm.
In % principal municipal areas,
the tin cans that were never con-
sidered good for anything but haul
ing to the dump.
And all over this broad and
beautiful land, every scrap of
scrap-not only the rubber that
hasn't been collected, but all the
metals and all the rags from
every nook and corner. July Is
marks the beginning of a nation
al cleanup campaign the like of
which this nor any other country
ever saw.
From the greases will come ex-
ploSives.
From the cans, tin and steel.
From the rags and old iron, from
practically everything except bot
ties and bones and the few remain
ing items of waste which no one
has found a use for yet. salvage
for the Unsuitable NAV of war.
Announcements from Donald Mel
son and other big shots of the wal
production machinery. Ads in 40(
newspapers of 1872 cities, paid for
by the glycerine and soap industry
educating the people on how tc
save the kitchen grease that usually
goes down the drain pipe or into
the garbage pail. Pieces in the
newspapers and messages on the
radio from coast to coast. Posters
counter cards and leaflets.
In the rural areas, county Ex-
tension Service leaders have beer
trained to head up the drives. II
the city areas, house to house calls
from the local Salvage Committees
Old aluminium. old paper, old rubber
drives are over the hump. Now its
grease, scrap metals and rags thai
are being sought and in the 28 Sc
lected cities, tin cans. This is the
way the war will be won in July
after which there no doubt will bt
other salvage drives.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
FARMERS HELPING

No fooling, the war could be lost
without this salvaging OF household
fats. Germany found that out in
1887, and two years before the war
began the NaZiS started boarding
grease. They put grease traps IN
all the kitchen sinks. They rebuilt
sewage disposal plants to recover
oils. they did without butter in the
famous guns not butter drive, and
they boiled up animal corpSes OF all
kinds. Germany is therefore fat
sufficient, and not just in the head.
The United States has always
been the most fat-wasteful cOun-
try. The consumption of fats
scared to 82 pounds per person
per year, which is a third more
than the fat consumption was 80
years ago. TwO-thirds of this is
eaten i'm the form of meat, butter.
Shortcomings. A fifth goes into
soap. A twelfth goes into paints
and varnishes and the remaining
twentieth into industrial uses.
But the war has upset this bal
ance. Last year the United States
consumed II billion pounds of fats.
This year it will be IL billion
pounds. Next year it may be l3
billion pounds.
Normally, the United States
would be importing up to 2.5 bill
lion pounds of fat year, about
half of it from the area under Jap
anese control This year, the u.
S. will export up to 10 billion
pounds for the use of the United
Nations, and faces a shortage OF
Is billion pounds a year.
Two billion pounds of grease are
wasted in kitchens every year. II
one-fourth of that can be salvaged
the country can get by, for the
farmers-raising more soy beans,
harvesting more peanuts, ginning
more cottonseed, farrowing l05 mil
lion head of hogs this year-wlll
produce the other billion pounds
of needed fats.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
Editorials and Comment
EDITORS NOTE: The follo,oing edit

0rfais are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions UOiced by editors eiseLohere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
N OTIC
No. 1858
In the Matter of the Petition of
WALTER F.. BEILBY.
Notice is hereby given that WAL
TER F.. BEIBBY has filed in this
court Petition to establish the
place and date of his birth, the
hearing of which has been fixed by
said Court for Friday, the 10th day
of July, 1912. at 2 o'clock PM, at
the Court room thereof, at the court
house in said County of Imperial.
and all persons interested In said
estate are notified then and there
to appear and show cause, II any
there be, why the said Petition
should not be heard and order made.
Dated June 26, 1942.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy.
mo, 26) (J30-Js inc.)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

the front and creating fifth column
conditions, ordered 1000 Egyptians
detained. The move was in line with
general Tightening up of enforce
ment of all public security measures
and it was said that persons pread-
ing seditious rumors would be dealt
with harshly.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

zone, American army planes were
fighting beside the Australians in
offense and defense.
Thus in four continents = all but
the two Americas themselves-Un-
tied States army air corps planes
were in battle action before the
first seven months of American par
ticipation in the war had passed.
They were fighting submarines in
the Atlantic. they had met the jap
anese all over the vast Pacific.
AGAINST GERMANY
But the six low-flying Douglases
which flew out from an American
air corps base, manned by Ameri-
cans, tended by American ground
crews, flying as an integral air
force under United States army
command, had made history, and
the Yanks who had come over in
the last war were here again
against Germany, and in action.
The American planes, with the
army air corps star flashing from
their wings, had carried the war
to Hitler in their country's name,
the vanguard of a gigantic force
which with the Royal Air Force, is
designed to smash German cities
one by one.
Even the veteran Royal Air Force
lost seven of IL Lancaster bombers,
most of them over France. In their
recent raid ON Augsburg, in Ger
many.
1t was believed possible that the
British as we'll as the American
planes which made today's raid,
were of American make. The A-20-A
corresponds to the Douglas light
bomber the British air force calls
the Boston and the night fighter
which it calls the Havoc.
Building of the u. S. Army air
corps in this theatre has been a
monumental task. The ground per-
sonnel, tools, replacements, spares,
ammunition, bombs, must be ship
ped.
NO GRAND SCALE
For that reason, United States
authorities caution against any con-
clusion juping that grand scale
aerial offensive is about to start.
But organizational work is pro-
ceeding rapidly. The six light
bombers which made history today
will become squadrons one day, and
squadrons of medium and heavy
bombers will be operating with the
Raj.
The fact that American air crews
and ground personnel are reaching
England in increasing numbers was
revealed officially only a few days
ago with the announcement that
Maj Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower
had taken command of United
States forces in the European
theater.
The name of the air force COM
mander still is on the secret list.
Presumably, as more crews ar
rive, the army air corps will be
given increasingly frequent oppor-
tunities to experience themselves in
the best possible way. by raids on
German territory and will start to
extend the force of their operations
as they learn European flying con-
ditionS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

German occupied territory today.
Two American planes are miss
ing.
"The American crews flew a A
2O-A HPE aircraft in a daylight
minimum altitude attack"
ON FOUR CONTINENTS
Big United States Consolidated
bomber planes had spread devasta-
zion through the Rusnanian oil
fields in their first operations in
southeastern Europe. United States
air corps Douglas light bombers
were in action in the blazing Egyp-
tian campaign. In China the old
American volunteer group became
today the 23rd pursuit group of the
army air corps. In india, the Un-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
ITALIANS HELD


Enemy aliens considered danger
Gus were rounded up long ago and
interned or reported. There were
about 10000 Italians in Egypt when
the war started, most of them near
Alexandria 1t was understood some
who had been permitted to remain
in the naval base until recently
were held after they were found
making italian flags in anticipa-
ton of a victory parade"
In innumerable small scale at
tacks, the Imperials were hacking
at the enemy forces in an attempt
to keep them from massing and
regaining the initiative which, for
the moment at least, they had lost
Tanks, armored cars and truck
borne infantry, strongly backed by
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
QUOTA: IA POUNDS WEEKLY

What will be done with the lat
saved by the housewife? The 3OO
million pounds of salvaged kitchen
grease will go from the meat mar
kets to rendering plants to make 80
million pounds of glycerine. Glycer-
inc floats the compass on a battle
ship. lubricates and cushions the
recoil mechanisms on hoists and
big guns, goes into the making OF
explosives. Fifty million pounds OF
glycerine would make 1850 million
anti-tank shells.
The quota for every American
family is to save a quarter of a
pound of grease a week, which
will make enough glycerine for
one anti-tank shell. See the
butcher tomorrow, for instruc-
tiOns, and as you pour that bacon
grease into an empty One-pOund
coffee can, which will hold two
pounds of grease, just pretend
you're pouring explosive into the
casing of shell for your fav-
orite soldier to fire at the Japs
and NaZis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
WASHINGTON TIN CANS

Salvage OF TIN cans III Clues OIiler
than the % designated metropolitan
centers is not wanted now because
of inadequate de-tinning facilities
Tin can salvage will be extend
ed TO 104 smaller urban areas in
September BY May /, l943, de-
timing plants will be able TO ham
die $4,000 tons of cans year d. . =.
only / per cent of tin can is tin,
the rest being steel, which is also
as scrap 1t takes 80
tin cans TO keep a soldier going for
a year, as against 40 for a civilian
Salvage estimates run a ton OF
cans per month for each 1000 pop
ulation There are 5000 pounds
of tin in one submarine or the
equivalent of the tin in more than
4 ,000, 900 tin cans.