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Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Whittier Called
Country Club for
Misguided Boys
'SOb-Sister Ir,fluence'
Blamed for Trouble
At State Institution

WHITTIER, Cal, April 6
(UP) = The Whittier city
council and chamber of com
merce today asked Gov. Cul.
bert Olson to eliminate the
"sob sister influence" from the
Whittier state school and treat it
as a house Of correction rather
than as a country club for mis-
guided boys
Approximately half the major
crimes committed in the commul
ity can be attributed to boys es-
coping almost daily from the
school, read a letter to the chief
executive signed by IL directors CT
the chamber of commerce and
written On behalf" of that organi-
zation and the city council.
"It is high time thai either you
Or the director of institutions eS-
tablish some discipline in the school
or else close it down altogether,
the Whittier petitioners said.
"If you feel this cannot be done.
then we urgently request that the
school be closed ana the valuable
grounds and buildings turned over
to the army or navy of the United
States to be used in some effective
manner
Assemblyman Gerald C. Kepple
of Whittier forwarded the letter tc
Olson and added a communication
of his own criticizing per capita
cost of maintaining boys at the in
stitution, now called the Fred G.
NelleS School for Boys
Kepple urged:
l. That competent and qualified
authority be placed in charge Of
the school without delay.
2. That the superintendent and
personnel be assured of protection
in enforcement of discipline.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
U.S.. Negotiates
For French Sugar

WASHINGTON. April 6-UP)-
The United States is negotiating
with the French Vichy government
to purchase 100000 tons of sugar
from Martinique and Guadalupe,
French island possessions in the
Caribbean, it was disclosed today.
State department officials said
the negotiations have a three-fcid
purpose: l, to supplement depleted
sugar stocks in this country; 2, to
ease the severe economic plight of
the people in those islands; and 3,
to demonstrate further this gov
ernment's willingness to aid the
French SO long as they continue to
resist pressure for further collab-
grafton with the axis.
The sugar involved represents the
current crop and last years carry
over.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Court Rescinds
Liquor Sale Ban

LOS ANGEL FS, April 6-UP)-
The state supreme court today up
held a district court of appeal de-
cision allowing cafes and taverns
to dispense liquors to patrons with
out accompanying the beverages
with fo1d.
The decision, in effect, allowed
cafes tC Sc. inCoxicsltS until the
superior court can retry a test case
as ordered by the district court of
appeals.
George Y. Hammond acting as a
taxpayer and citizen" won su-
perior court suit enjoining Mr.. and
Mrs. Vernon Mcdonald, operators
of cafe at Compton, from serv-
ing liquor without food. The dis
trict court of appeals reversed the
decision and ordered a re-trial In
its opening session here today, the
supreme court concurred with the
district court of appeals and order-
ed the superior court decision re-
versed and the case retired in su-
perior court.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
OIL USED TO
BURN BRIDGES

The same persons were believed
to have started the two fires which
destroyed four railroad bridges in
Imperial Valley last week, investi-
eating officers said Monday.
In both instances bridge pilings
were soaked with oil and set alight
sometime during the night. The
first fire occurred March 20 five
miles south of inland on the main
line CT the Southern Pacific and
the second last Saturday morning
on the branch SP line about five
miles south of the first fire.
The federal bureau Of investiga-
ton headed the work at the scene
of both fires. Agents declared Mon
day that they had no announce
ments to make regarding the prog
ress of their Investigations at this
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Venereal Disease
Precaution Asked

SACRAMENTO April 6-UP)-
Gov. Culbert Olson today urged
California law enforcement off
GERS to renew their efforts tc sup
press venereal disease in the vicini-
ty of military areas.
The governor released letters from
Secretary of War Henry Stimson
and Secretary of Navy Frank KnoY
relating the need for more rigid
enforcement of public health laws.
He said he had written the secre-
taries to learn if any local officials
had failed to take adequate action
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

The Mexican sat uD in his damp
bed and in a few words ended a
search for possible victims of the
accident. He said he was in his
car alone and was returning home
from a rather gay party He said
he saw he was going to miss the
bridge at the first try so stopped
his car in the road. On his second
try, he said, he put the car in
the wrong gear and drove off into
the water.
Il crawled out and went home
to bed," Granada said. He went to
bed still wearing his wet shoes and
clothing.
Deputy Sheriff Herbert Hughes
and Highway Patrolman Everett
Weatherbie were called when a
motorist saw one wheel of car
protruding from the water The
search was on. The irrigation dis
trict turned the water off and
searchers probed in search Of bod
les.
The car was registered to Mike
Herrera but he sold it to Granada.
That complicated the search for the
car owner 1t took several hours
to find Granada to set fears at
rest.
Then Granada went damply back
to sleep and the officers went home
to lunch.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

Nelson said that limiting indus
trial profits on war contracts by
law would "slow up procurement,
and, in my considered Judgment
interfere in a substantial degree
with the war program.
The WPB chiefs position on the
profits question was expressed be-
fore the senate appropriation COM
mittee in testimony on the new
S19.062, ,373,260 war funds bill which
carries the antiprofits rider" The
testimony was made public today.
The senate appropriations COM
mittee adopted the profits limita-
ton rider Saturday despite the op-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
AXIS LOSES 212 PLANES; india ATTACKED
p AMBLINe
u EpoR7ER

The Hot Seat
| Dee Keesee, that elongated limb
of the law, arose from swivel
chair in the sheriff's office, and
George Bucklin slipped into it to
get a little rest.
The minute the Bucklin torso
plunked into the chair, there was
loud metallic ping" The chair
exploded into bits. A spring zoom
ed east, bolt shot south, and as
sorted bits of metal clanked to the
floor ca all sides.
Laughter was violent for a while,
SC violent that no one could help
Bucklin out Of the Wreckage. He
wallowed around in the debris un-
til he finally got to his feet.
well, George drawled Keesee as
soon as he could get his breath,
I'm awful heavy but I amt heavy
enough to bust steel and iron by
just settin' en- it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
ROCKET SOCIETY
FORMED IN CALF.

SACRAMENTO, April 6 (UP) =
The California Rocket society which
seeks to promote interest lin ex-
perimentation of outerspace in the
field of astronautics," today asked
incorporation of Secretary OF State
Paul Peek.
Directors of the Los Angeles coun-
t. group are Bernard Smith, Gwen
dolyn Steelberg and Robert Gordon,
all of Los Angeles; George Putnam,
Pacific Palisades, and Gavin Gal
ceran, San Gabriel.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

time.
In discussing the similarity of the
two fires, officers said the fires
were started in the night in iso-
lated places, oil was used to soak
the piling of all bridges before they
were fired, and in each fire the
saboteurs burned bridges so located
that they could fire two quickly
and disappear.
A Slav and a German were ar
rested during the week end but the
FBI declared they were found while
officers were investigating the fires
and they were held until it was
ascertained if they had registered
as aliens as required by the gov
ernment. The prisoners held in
the county Jail at Ell Centre were
John Rix, IA, German and M. Alu-
jevich, SO, Slav.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
4-HCIub Delegate
Returns TO Valley

Penny Latham, All All-Star rep
resentative from Imperial county,
retu-,led to her home in Mesquite
Lake Monday after spending a week
at a conference in Berkeley.
Miss Latham plans to make a
full report of proceedings at the
California meeting and send it to
Louis Andersen. other AllStar Sc
lection, who was unable to attend
the conference. Anderson is en-
gagged in defense construction in
Hawaii.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Heating Pads on
Wartime Basis

WASHINGTON, April 6-UP)-
The war production board today
limited production of electric heat
ing pads and prohibited the use of
chromium, needed for war produc-
ticn, in their manufacture.
Approximately 80 manufacturers
during 1912, may equal their 1910
production of hospital-type electric
heating pads but will have to cut
the number of pads for home use
to half those made in 1910 Off
cials said the order, which went
into effect Saturday, will restrict
production to approximately 150,-
600 hospital-type pads and $4,000
home pads.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Plane Crash Kills
Twoi in Navy

SAN DIEGO, April 6-(UP)-A
navy plane crashed near Bonita,
10 miles south of here today, kill
ing Ems. Willard E. Norval, Coro-
nado, and James F. Grow, Jr., an
apprentice seaman from White
Deer, Texas. The plane was fly
ing on routine maneuvers at the
time of the accident, 18th Naval
District announced.
Ems. Norval, 26, is survived by
his widow, Katherine Norval, OF
Coronado, and his mother, Grace
Morgan, of Galesburg. III. Crews
next of kin is his father. James F.
Grow, Sr., of White Deer, Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

position of Nelson and spokesmen
for the Army and Navy. They
agreed n urging that complete dis
cretion be vested in spending agen-
cies to prevent war profiteering thru
renegotiation of awards.
Lieut.. Gen. Brehon Sumevel,
chief of Amy supply. testified that
more than $85,000,o00 already has
been recaptured by the war depart
ment, the hearings revealed. Both
Nelson and Sumevell told the com-
mittee that specific statutory profit
limitations would require an Army
or auditors TO investigate "just mill
lions of transactions"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Service to Open
Desert CuvuL Lcdde

school children always has been one
of the most popular features of the
Cavalcade celebration.
There will be two dances in
Calexico Thursday night. Mexican
dancing will be in full swing at
the Mexican Village and American
dancing will be in order at the
skating rink across the street from
the village.
C. F. Reynolds, secretary of the
Calexico Chamber of Commerce.
said he received word that the So
piece Southern Pacific band will
be in the Cavalcade parade Satur-
day afternoon. The band will ap-
pear in a concert on the De ANA
hotel lawn between 10 and II
o'clock Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Nelson Opposes Statutory
Limit on War Profiteers

WASHINGTON, April (UP) -
Chairman Donald Nelson of the war
production board was disclosed to-
day to believe that statutory limi-
tation of industrial profits on war
contracts would interfere in sub
stantial degree" with the war ef-
fort.
His views were made known as
the senate prepared to consider a
sliding scale limit of 2 to 10 per
cent on war contract profits. Mel
sons opposition introduced new
element of uncertainty as to out
come of the legislation.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

instead of the heel, and Opal said !:
Il didn't wanna kill him, judge.
just wanted to carve him up a
Bit"
And let that be lesson to you,'
said Urlean, as she was led away
to the klink, to which she and Con-
nelly we're sentenced to 60 days.
On account of her tender age,
Opals case was put over to Tues
day, at which time the juvenile
authorities will have something to
say.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

TOT IdrHl WOTK III a HuHIDeT Oh
places. The employment service
will place workers at current wages
in localities where they may be
needed. She indicated that farmers
will have to agree to an eight hour
day and that the workers will be
volunteers but will be subject to
placement like other job applicants.
Mrs. Roosevelt suggested that
women who would like to be farmer
cites should begin training for
physical fitness and to learn farm
work technique.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Nation
Honors
Army
Valley Joins U. S.
With Camp Seeley
Soldiers Paradins

The rapidly expanding I'm
tied States army that is be-
ing built up to win World
War II was placed on review
before a patriotic public
M,nday as the nation celebrated
the 25th anniversary of this coun-
try's entrance in World War I.
1t was Army Day.
Throughout the nation, army un
its paraded as their leaders set
the keynote CT the celebration by
declaring that our lighting men
eagerly await the day when they
may take the offensive to make
freedom and peace safe through
out the world"
Ell Centre joined in this nation
wide observance of Army Day WIN
parade by steel helmeted soldiers
from Camp Seeley.
Virtually all business activity
halted for 30 minutes as hundreds
of troops, mounted en- horse drawn
and mechanical fighting equip
IleIlJ, passed III TeVleW UelOTt
throngs CT citizens lining the side
walks.
Twenty-Five years ago congress
declared war against Germany
Four months ago Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor and put this nation
into war that is worldwide in
reality instead of in name.
AMERICANS FIGHTING
Already American men are fight
ing-in the jungles of Bataan in
furious air battles over New Guinea
and on the India Burma Chinese
front. Elsewhere at a dozen or
more key posts, American soldiers
are en- guard.
Already past the 100000 mark,
the army is growing fast toward
the 1912 goal of 100000 And be-
hind these men are the roaring
furnaces and whirring machines
and millions of workers who are
building the weapons of war.
Twenty years ago the United
States army totaled 100000.
President Roosevelt, in his Army
Day proclamation, struck the theme
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

She said war production board
might make survey of all NYA
shops to see if any of their equip
ment could be used in war industry
and if so, divert it.
She said also that NYA subsidized
college students cases should be
reviewed, and all whose home finan-
cial conditions have changed for
the better should be eliminated
from NYA rolls. Those taking tech
nical training should be permitted
to continue the courses.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06

0i6.
He insulted us, judge" averred
Urlean Monday morning when all
three faced Police Judge Lee Nuffer,
in explanation of why the girls
flounced out of the place and went
home for tn camiiy axe.
They returned with the chopper
and proceeded to work Brother Con-
nelly over with same.
The blade of the AK was stained
with blood, and Judge Nuffer, max
ing a note of this, asked Opal how
come she used the cutting portion
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
The Great Day

The Great Day
Sunday was the greatest day
(thus far) in the life of seven-year-
old Stanley Rayburn.
He not cnly went fishing but
wen- t. Mexico to do it. In addi-
! tior to that. he went out in boat
with Ed Schloader. And he caught
six perch all by himself. Excite
ment ran away with him.
His parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
! Rsvburn, finally Gained him down
a little and packed him off to bed
Before sleep claimed him, Stanley
promised to teach his mother h,cw
to fish and generously offered to
give her the benefit CT his six
perch experience.
Stanley slept but his subcon-
sciouS mind raced on.
Three times in the night, Stanley
awoke his parents by shouting in
his sleep
First you take a pole. Then you
put worm en- the hook D.. Then
you put it in the water Then
you pull out a fish" ~
All this proves that Stanley will
grow up to be just like all the other
fishermen.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Recall Petition
II dmeS BrQtton

Petitions the recall of Ell Centro Councilman Charles
Bratton being circulated Monday.
IGentfty the authors of the revealed
but influential business who helped elect Brat
ton two years ago known to have approved it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Womun'S Harvest
Army Proj jected

WASHINGTON, April g. (UP)-Plans for a womanS
land to be recruited by the u S. employment service
for work this revealed by Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt at her press conference today.
Mrs Roosevelt said she believed women will be needed
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Gals Use Axe
TO RepeI Suitor

Opal Wiley and her sister, Mrs. Urlean Jingle are a
couple of Negro girls who don't take 1--WE off nobody
Love-sick B. r. Connolly found this out the hard way
Saturday night when he met the girls in drink emporium
onNE Ell Cenros eastside and, according to them made
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Mexican Drives
Car Into Canal
Officer Locate Mo+orist in Bed with
Water Dripping from Him; He Says He
TiedTwice TO Cross Bridge, Missed

Valario Granadas clothing dripped Monday when Of
ficers aroused him from his bed and asked him if there
passengers in the Granada drove into rr
cation canal the intersection of South Eighth and
the Mt Signal road west of Ell Centro Sunday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Nipponese Naval
Units i'm Action
In Boy of Bengal
Crushing Aeria! Blow Dealt Enemyin
Weekend Fighting But Assressors
Move Ahead Against Allied Positions
: BY UNITED PRESS -

Japan carried the to India Monday with attacks
by sea-borne airplanes on two east coast cities
strong enemy naval force including aircraft carriers,
reported by the Anda radio to have attacked Allied
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
An Honest Golfer

An Honest Golfer
"How's your golf these days?"
a friend asked Harry Hovey after
a glance at his sunburned face
Just the same" he mourned sad
ly, Il admit something is the mat
ter with me. Other men can take
the same clubs, the same kind of
a Cclf ball, and play on the same
course as I do. They make good
scores and mine are terrible. That
makes 1t my fault"
That's the first time in a long
and varied career that RR ever
heard of golfer admitting such
a thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
And So Away

And So Away
Since Ernest Stauch is home
! on vacation from Panama, he and
his brother. Raymond, embarked on
a social whirl of dizzying intensity
and varity. They have g. ne here
and variety. They have gone here
ties and entertainments.
Ernest rests and takes his ease
between engagements but Raymond
has to go the same old work a.
day round.
Ih1s vacation of my Panaman-
ian brtoher,' Raymond groane0
Saturday." is killing me.'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Perfect Solution

Perfect Solution
James Lyle, Ell Centre Negro
told this story after he was knitted
by another Negro man
"Ah wuS astandin' there mindin
nah own business when dis man
Felix Thompson came up and
started carvin' on me. All says to
him how Gomez and he say Abs
g. nn@ git rid OBJ you. All wants yo'
wife Then James added: Mex
time rs gonna be mo- coreful who
ah marries. Abs gonna get me
a wife so many men don want to
git away frcm me-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
Oleander Departrncnt-

OIeander Department.
Cleanders to the youthful bicyc-
lists who cleared the highway of
rocks which slid from a hill on
the grade west CT Ell Centro Sun
day. Lots of people would have let
George do it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-06
WEATHER

WEATHER
Maximum Sunday 78, Minimum
Mondty So; pm. Sunday 20, hu-
midity 33; 5 am. Monday IS, hu-
midity 43; Noon Monday II, hu-
midity As.
LOS ANGELES HAY
u. s. No. l S24.-$25; u. S. No. 2
leafy l. v. S23-S24; U. S. No. 2 $22-
S23. Mpls. Sept. flax S2.63A.
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SATURDAY
STOWE WILL
W0RD-pICTURE-

In the eighth ef his Incl
dentenrichnd dispatches direct
from the Russian fighting zone
Saturday. Leland stowe viii
word-picture fife In "A Log
Cabin Emergency Ho<pitai-
on the Russian front stowe
talks with newly wounded Rus
sian soldiers tells Of what
ne saw In their faces Of
the questions they ask about
the United States and Britain
and Of one soldiers query about
. second front this year. stowe
also outlines in detail specific
messages given 10 him BY these
wounded Russians for delivery
10 the soldiers and people Of
America.
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mere than tremendous Hnorssses
O. mud for miles ard niles and
niles. Then there VII he snowJ
ard thaws-as again IN spring
Ard sone tine IN November al
TIE holes and bitches win ee cam
ounaEed tn deep snox.
Nc would SEEM something
beyead the reach Of human
conquest 70 KEEP thcse roads
open. vet the Russians found
Ways last winter ana they vii
find them again this winter.
one day We were oucang.
snorting and crawling along q
particularly abominshle. mudin-
Tested stretch a creation when
an American jeep came bouncing
merrily toward us L was going
four times as fast as we could
manage. and the four Red army
men in II looked very oontenied
with. life.
They could afford % look that
way. Their Jeep merely plungeo
down into a two-foot ditch. ran
up a four-foot clay embankment
hurdled several pine logs snd
dashed nonehalantly on It's way.
Ivan the Terrible emitted an en-
vious growl. That machine passes
everywhere. he said
Actually. beside calling the Jeep
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=zoat.- the Russians aiso have
dubbed I the pssses-exsryxhere.
and of al the places IN the world
that the jeep vas obviously made
for I vas made - perfection %
conquer the unxpeskahie, unfor-
xetfzble roads in RussiAs var
zones. Il Is - al osdz TIE mos;
popular American wsr-aid product
that TIRE United states ms yet
seut 10 the Soviet Union.
But throughout eur nine
DAYS along the Rzhes front
and In all the various SEC
tors We visited and again vel
back behind the lines. do not
believe saw more than I.
or Is American ieeps. That
IL the pity Of ia ships
transportation - and an the
resi-.
Over the worst roads q the
war the Red army could use tens
Of thousands Of American Jeeps
and they would provide an ines
Unable speeding Up Of countless
military matters. Now and then
they might even spell the differ
ence between a holding action
and a Russian advance. In any
event. over the nightmare roads
Of rural Russia thousands Of
jeeps would be simply invaluable.
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All US0 Ceniers

1os Rust BidE.-RegiztrAtion q
junior hostessez. . a N. 20 s ,. m.
USO Travellers Aid service. 5 e
. ,. N. Before 5. ~ So Provi-
cent hlde. Information on day
care for children Of working
mothers. Mon. Wed. and IN. 3 =.
n. to ! ?. m. Tues. and Thurs.
evenings. : 70 .
l3th and Pacific ingo party.
p N
us Movie. $50 ,.
n.
South TzcomA-HAlloWeen mas
4uerade dance. post band. 3 ,. N.
sI2 Prevalent Bldg.-USo-Trav-
elers' Aid service. : q. m 70 5 ?.
n Information on where % 70.
what 10 see. What TO %. Emer-
gency overnight sleeping .ecom-
modations. Additional services to
strangers in the community in
need Of assistance.
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through extremely sensitive spots
whenever I have had occasion 70
ST down
AZ for Ne. ! shalt aizs re-
main baffied A. to hou IN the
World the Red army's supply
lines operate. for you caa
travel fer days and - -
little - - - completely
mysfifzed. But the answer i
that supplies de keep coming
NJ. Guns are barking steadily
most af the day and night
TIE German soldier u Fritz
- the Russians. FFlfz kaaws.
Yet II Is perfectly obvious uhat
such diabolieai roads a. these
could net Be kept in a state Of
funcfioning. however difficult and
painful that funetioning mas 10
be. without remarkable persist
ency and great wiilpower ana =
very high degree q organization
on the part az the Red army's
officers and men. Russias SHOWS.
rain and mud broke Napoleon, 5
army and his heart. When you
spend a few days here riding over
the worst roads in the whole var
you almost begin TO feel = little
bit sorry for Napoleon.
So these atrocious machine
defying and almost untravela bic