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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-01
MEETING
is HERE

A countrywide meeting of school,
teachers will be held tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock in the audi
forum of Henderson high school, it
was announced today.
Superintendent of Schools t. M.
Rollins will preside over the session.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-01
Political Notices
FOR COUNTY CORNERSTONE
-Four Year TERM

l announce my candidacy to sue
coed myself as County Commissioner
Of Vance County for the four wear
term, subject to the action Of the
Democratic Primary of May 80. Your
vote and support will be greatly ap-
preCiated.
HENRY w. HIGHT
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-01
SANDERS Is
AT GRANGE MEETING

County Farm Agent J. W. Sanders
gave an illustrated lecture on Mar
keting Feed Through Dairying' on
Wednesday night at the meeting of
the Middlebur2 Grange,
Richard d. Buchan, Grange a
tcg, presided At the meeting
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-01
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1912
ed or desired 3

ed or desired"
Mr., Morgan added that IN, co,
ptny was voluntarily climlna,Ina III,
royalties in the license agrcrrfSoa '
by which ii is setting up Fifteen ~
dltIonal prime contractors t. ~
government for the manufacturo ~.
products 1t has developed. y"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-01

Mai. Gen. George F. Moore :
For extraordinary heroism in COM
handing harbor defenses at Manila
and Subic Bays, Maj. Gen. George
F. Moore of the United States
Army, stationed at beleaguered
Corregidor fortress, has been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Gross. Announcement of the award
vas signed by Col. L. A. Diller,
Gen. MacArthur's personal aide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

source Of Free Chinas increasing
economic strength.
Yunnan, three times the area of
New York State, is China's second
largest Province, with an estimated
population of II million. In natural
resources, Yunnan is surpassed only
by the heavenly endowed" province
Of Szechwan. Tin production is es-
timated at 5000 tons a year. Yum
nan also contains important de-
posits of copper, coal. alluvial gold
and marble, and produces gypsum,
sulphur and asbestos. Yunnan is
rich in rice, wheat, sugar cane, to-
bacco, tea, hemp and cotton.
Running Now Boom Town.
Since the war, Yunnan Province
has embarked on a three-year pro-
gram of economic reconstruction
and recent construction of several
big hydraulic plants has brought a
new era of cheap power supply and
industrialiZation to the entire re-
gion.
Running, humans capital. was
before the war an obscure. provin-
cial town, with little modern in
dustry. After japanese occupation
of the coastal provinces, factories
were moved into Yunnan, and Kun
ming today is boom town. Several
universities in exile have been es-
tablished in Running, which is also
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through the Kaolikung Mountains
rising from 1893 feet to $500 feet in
the space of 40 miles. 1t is in this
stretch of the Burma road that hair
pin turns wind dizzily around prec-
ipices through road-cuts no wider
in some places than 9 feet. From
the 7,500-foot peak, the Burma road
makes the descent that is considered
one of the greatest engineering jobs
in the world. falling in % miles to
2.785 feet at the crossing of the Sal
ween River. At this point only 125
miles of the Burma road has been
passed.
Rainy Season Starting.
Both Chinese and American road
experts believe that the Burma road
constitutes the toughest going ever
faced by an invading army. Level
land forms less than 10 per cent OF
the total area of Yunnan Province.
The rainy season. just started in
this region, will add to Japanese
troubles, because rain brings land
slides. Another major obstacle for
invaders is malaria, prevalent in the
valleys, which has chronically de-
populated many Yunnan Province
districts.
Invasion OF Yunnan Province
could expose to destruction China S
developing west, now an important
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phase of the war effort, be an all
out effort. "A copper ornament on
your mantelpiece may be decora-
tive" he told the club members.
but it also may provide metal for
the few bullets which will save the
life of an American soldier"
The labor shortage, Mr.. Nathan
said, will be offset by an increasing
influx of women into all jobs and
it may become necessary to shift
workers from non-essential fields
to essential ones.
Louis D. Krakow was nominated
for the presidency of the club, at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

the head Of the slate which the
Nominating Committee presented
to the meeting at the Raleigh Hotel.
Others named are N. Ward Guthrie.
first vice president; George B. Ken
needy. secoI!d vice president; Charles
J. Columbus, secretary, and Ernest
s. Johnston, treasurer.
William F. Sigmund, Matt Meyer.
Henry NJ. Voss. James w. Harley.
Clayton r. Sanders and Frank
Gatewood were named on the panel
from which three members of the
Board of Directors will be selected
at the election May 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Mountains in Yunnan
Formidable Barrier
For Invading Army
Travellers Believe Jops
Can Never Conquer
Chino's Back Door

The Japanese Army will never
succeed in conquering China over
the Burma road because of the
height of the peaks in the sea of
mountains" which reaches 500 miles
into Yunnan Province from the
Burma frontier. travellers returned
from that part of China believe.
Christopher Sharman of the
Friends Ambulance Unit, who re-
Gently returned from China and
Burma, where he organized medical
relief for United China Relief, be-
ieves japanese troops invading
Yunnan Province would meet their
flrst great natural resistance" be-
yond Mangshih. Here the Burma
road makes its first spectacular climb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
About Metal Salvage
Stressed 10 Ad Club

Steel production in the United
States soon will be limited by the
shortage of scrap, Robert r. Nathan.
chief of the planning board of the
War Production Board, told the Ad-
vertislng Clubs luncheon meeting
yesterday, stressing the vital nee
eSsity of salvage
The salvage program, he pointed
out, must. along with every other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
G. u. School to Graduate
20 Nurses Today

The Georgetown University School
of Nursing will graduate a class of
20 young women at it's commence
ment exercises at 430 pm. today in
Gunston Hall on the college campus
United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran will address the gradu-
ate nurses, most of whom are 60
ing into the Army and Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
For Dr.. Allen (. CowIes

Funeral services for DR.. Allen E
Cowles, 70. of 1902 Hilton avenue
Takoma Park. Md. will be held at
pm. tomorrow at the Sherwood
Presbyterian Church. Twenty-sec-
ond and Jackson streets NE.
DR.. Cowles, retired dentist, who
was killed by an automobile during
Tuesday nights blackout, will be
buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

a major relief center. Numerous
Chinese industrial co-operatives,
supported through United China
Relief, are located in Running.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

The mayor said the Japanese
would be permitted to return to
their jobs when the Wal ended. He
said that although they We're Ameri-
can-born, 1t was impossible TO de-
termine if they had registered at
the japanese consulate as "dual
citizens"
The Les Angeles county board OF
supervisors meanwhile unanimously
adopted a resolution asking re-
moVal Of 1891 Japanese aliens
from Los Angeles county to inland
areas.
Declaring that presence of Japa-
neSe forms a potential menace to
war industries, the board said truck
gardens in the vicinity of the Long
Beach naval air base and near air.
craft plants We're operated by Japa-
neSe.
County Administrative Agent
Wayne r. Allen, an advisory men,
Der of the war production board Of
Washington, said it is difficult il
not impossible to distinguish be-
tween loyal and disloyal American
aliens"
Allen notified his department
heads that the Sc American-bol
Japanese employed by the county
would be held responsible for any
SubVelSiVe acts committed by Japa-
neSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

representative, when boiled down
and averaged up, of the nation
100000 white women over 18.
The mean woman, as the DOE
calls her, stands only five feet three
inches tall while weighing 1873 !.
pounds She has a 1927 neck, a
1852 bust, a 29.15 waist and =
heaven help her-a 33.8H hip.
When you consider that the cur
rent ideal of feminine beauty is q
creature five feet six inches tai
weighing 100 pounds with 81 bust
25 waist and IS hip, you get an idea
of how far the mean American
woman misses the mark.
Investigators concluded that the
best clues to a woman's body type
We're her weight and overall
height. The DOA discovered if IA
woman is ) feet 4 inches tall and
weighs 135 pounds, she probably
will have a 1888 bust, 28.99 waist,
1891 hip and 1896 sitting spread
A comparative table left the in
ference that Arkansas women. on
the average, are the best t-built in
the country. In the 1929 age group
they're the tallest, at least, anG
come as near as others TO the bust,
waist and hip ideals.
Next in order are the women of
California, District of Columbia,
North Carolina, Illinois, Maryland,
PENNSYLVANIA and New Jersey.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
U.Boais Sink e:h
Ship in Atlantic
Coastal Seaways

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-UP)-
German submarines have made
their ninth successful attack on
allied shipping along the Atlantic
coast within two weeks, but an
enemy craft may have permitted a
prospective 10th victim to slip out OF
its grasp, the navy announced to-
day.
The 7,096-ton tanker Francis E.
Powell owned by the Atlantic Re-
filming company, was sunk by a tor
pedo somewhere off the Atlantic
coast late Monday night or early
Tuesday with the loss of 4 lives
including that Of her skipper, Capt.
T. J. Harrington of Baltimore.
The Nazi "rattlesnakes' So
called by President RooSevelt-may
have been less successful in their
attack on the 7,236-ton tanker
PAN Maine, owned by the Pan
American Petroleum and Transport
company.
A navy spokesman said early to-
day that the Names last mes
sage yesterday afternoon had re-
ported a submarine attack. but that
no further word had been received.
Hope has arisen that all may be
we'll with the ship" the spokesman
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
3 laps, 3 American
Citizens Indicted
As Tokyo's Agents
Propaganda Activities
Laid to Group Formed
In S. F. in Sept, '37

WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
UP)-Three American citi-
zens and three prominent
nationals were indicted by q
federal grand jury today IN
connection with the distribution OF
pro-Japanese propaganda in alleg-
ed violation of the foreign agents
registration act.
Americans indicted on charges OF
conspiring to violate the act were
Ralph Townsend of Lake Geneva
Wis, and David Warren Ryder and
Frederick Vincent Williams of San
Francisco.
The japanese named were Tsu-
tomu Obana, secretary of the Japa-
neSe chamber of commerce in San
| Francisco; K Takahashi and S
Takeuchi, San Francisco managers
of the N.Y.K. Steamship Co, ano
the MitSukishi Co. respectively.
The jury also returned indict-
ments against Townsend and Ryder
| Oll Clldl SCo vi ItlA4llle w AS6AoSSA a.
agents of a foreign principal. Will
liams was charged on nine count:
of Wilful failure TO state materia
facts in registration statements hi
subsequently filed under the ac
as an agent of the Japan Times
and Mail (noW the japanese Time!
and ADVERTISER, an English-lan
guage newspaper published in To
kyo,
Named "co-conSpirators. but no
as defendants, were Kanzo Shisak
and ToShito Sato. both former Jap
anese consul generals in San Fran
cisco.
Obana now is held as an enemy
alien, but TakahaShi and Takeuch
Continued Gun Page 6. Col. A
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
Congress Finishes
With PriceCurbs
After ! Months
Control Measure Goes
To President; Action
Expected Immediately

WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
(UP)-A price control bill
carrying broad authority to
fix price ceilings on manu-
factured commodities goes to
President Roosevelt for his sigma
ture today seven months To the
day after he asked congress to enact
il.
The final bill is somewhat differ
ent from the version sought by the
administration because it Limits
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
sons authority to keep down the
price OF farm products.
MI. Roosevelt is expected To sign
the bill Immediately 1t will then
give legal authority to Henderson; ;;
efforts to control prices and COM
bat the inflationary trends of the
greatest war in history.
The bill directs the price aol..ln-
istrator TO attempt to keep prices
in the same general relationship
as prevailed from Oct. to l5 194l
and to keep rents in defense hous-
ing areas at approximately the
April l. 1941 level.
He may license commodity deal.
erS as means OF enforcing tht
act. Violators are subject to !
maximum penalty of $4,000 and tWC
years Imprisonment, as we'll as Il
civil suits for triple damages. Fo
second violation. the governmen
is authorized TO use court pro
cedure TO revoke the offender
license, thus putting him out o
| business.
Henderson could operate Withou
! the licensing system if he tCunt
he did not need it and in any even
would be compelled to give a Ii
cense to anyone who asked. Farm
erS and fishermen could operat
without licenses.
The bill contains four ceilings be
low the highest OF which it is spec
ifically forbidden to fix farm price
and those only with the prio
! approval of Secretary of Agricul
ture Claude r. Wickard. They are
10 per cent of parity; the marke
price of Oct. l, 1941, or of Dec L
194l or the average market pric
prevailing from 1919 TO 1929.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

the Coamo, of the Puerto Rico line,
from lifeboats, which had set out
from the torpedoed vessel with 76
persons aboard Five died during
the lifeboats' six days at sea. TWen-
tp-tWo OF the survivors were crew
members
Two hundred OF those aboard the
Allied steamer We're swept over
board when the first of two tor
pedoes struck the engine room and
the steamer sank in 25 minutes
The torpedoing occurred at 80 am.
Jan. 19.
The steamers chief officer said
two lifeboats were smashed by the
torpedo explosions.
Il think two other lifeboats man
aged to get away" he said. THE
night was perfect and moonless
and the sea was smooth when the
attack came. The rescue took 20
minutes. The ship sank in 25 min
uteS.'
The captain of the steamer was
among the missing.
The survivors included, III addi-
ton to the crew members, con-
struction workers and a 2l2 year
old girl With her mother and father
The little girl was very brave,
the chief officer said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
Flood Recedes In
Sacramento Area

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 80. tUPD-
River flood waters slowly receded
in the Sacramento area today af-
ter a dozen families evacuated their
homes east of Sacramento to eS-
cape American River High waters
Tho American River reached a
40-foot crest last night to force
closing of the important II street
road. Since the u. S. 40 highway
between Sacramento and North
Sacramento also was closed, thouS-
andS of workers at the Sacramento
air depot we're forced to take long
roundabout detours.
The Sacramento river rose to
1913 feet last night but IA flood
gates of the Sacramento weir were
opened and the level dropped
slowly The overflow at the FIRE.
mont weir was 3.5 feet this morn
ing and will pass four feet to-
morrow. The overflow is diverted
INTO the Yolo bypass.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
CI0 Reveals Ted
Rasmussen Carried
Off Dues Records
Unions Battle Among
Selves over Rights
In Lettuce Sheds

With slight hope for fin
iShing in III" specified four
day time, the NLRB hearing
dragged on in FL Centre We'd
neSdaV as two labor unions
fought each other and lettuce ship
pers for the powerful position o.
sole representative of shed employees
in Imperial county
I'VE cant find Ted Rasmussen,
leader of last years lettuce strike
and he failed to turn over the rec
ords and books showing C1O men,
bership in Imperial valley Donald
Henderson. international C1O or
ficial, testified. Rasmussen reSign-
ed from leadership of local 78 OF
the UCAPAWA, affiliated With the
CIO. last April without giving
up the records he was in The habit
Of carrying i'll the back OF his cal.
He WAS Il marine engineer ana ie''
Oh board Il ship and was somewhere
on The Pacific when Hawaii Wa5
bombed"
Henderson testified that RasmuS-
sen sent per capita dues and other
money TO the headquarters Office
OF tie union but did not send lists
OF names of those who paid. There
fore. Henderson said, it was lnl-
possible to provide the board VIII
the number of CIO memberships II
lettuce sheds until completion OF
a reorganization he said he started
Jan. 10 and a reenlistnent Of mem
berS.
V. p. Lucas, attorney for the
Transfers union affiliate in the
vegetable industry, indicated oy
questioning Henderson that ht
! planned to show that the CIO ha'
no substantial records upon which
To base the CIO claim of the right
To be included on any ballot II
shed elections to determine the
i bargaining agent.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
E:iIip'glos Collect
S1,CO7 Relief Fund

The Filipino community in 1m-
Derial Valley has collected $l,O07
FOR Philippine war relief and turn
ed over this sum to the Red Cr6Ss
chapters III the valley, $7l6 TO Ell
Centro, who will hold it in a spe-
cial fund.
This campaign is not a part of
the American Red Cross war relief
drive but one for the Filipino Red
Cross, with tine American Red
Cross serving aS trustee.
In addition to the $7l6 contrl-
buted by Ell Centrans, BraWley and
other communities gave 1921. B.
c. Rivera, p. Obra, and +. MostaJo
officiated as collectors for the Fill
pno community council with B,
DiaS A. Arciaga and M Quintua
as collectors for the other areas.
Members of the Filipino Com
munity council hope to complete a
quota Of $4,000 to be sent TO the
Philippines in three inStallmentS,
members said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

the AXIS, the JAPANESE OlleISlVe
down the Malaga peninsula still was
hammering at British defense lines
and an order was issued for civilian
evacuation of the north shore OF
Singapore island by noon Friday.
The Japanese had claimed to be
within 25 miles of the Johore straits
separating the peninsula from the
island. 1t appeared that the British
were setting up a defense arc close
to the straits town of Johore Batu
in an effort to hold the enemy out
side of artillery range.
The British had last reported
heavy fighting against four pound
ing Japanese columns which had
advanced to within 43 miles of Jo-
hore straits, and the evacuation
preparations at Singapore mean
that every measure was being taken
for a strong last-ditch defense.
Throughout the Far East, the
japanese threat to key Allied bases
and communication lines remained
grave, but:
TRANSPORT SUNK
American flying fortresses leading
an Allied drive to destroy the big
japanese invasion armada in the
East Indies sank another large
transport, set a second transport
afire and straddled an enemy cruis-
er with bombs, raising the U. S.
toll of enemy ships to IA or Is ana
the Allied toll to 81 in the battle
of Macassar Straits.
British dispatches said defense
lines were holding about 43 miles
north of Singapore island in heavy
fighting and in London parliament
was told by government spokesmen
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
: rain
Okay G. q
Shippers. Union
Act on Shortage
Of Lettuce Cars

Valley lettuce shippers
Wednesday had agreed TO al
low The Pacific Fruit Express
d free hand in distribution Of
empty refrigerator cars IL
shippers who need them most
Meanwhile the local CIO vegetable
workers union. mol content Will
the shippers stand. demanded more
drastic action.
The car shortage that became
noticeable early III the season and
which has continued to grow untll
shippers were forced for stop oper-
ationS FOR several days is as acute
at present as before railroad Of
ficials said In meeting of 100 OF
the valley shippers Tuesday it was
unanimously agreed to let the rail-
road company continue the pres
ent policy of prorating the cars
according to the most urgent nee3
The United Cannery Agricultural
Packing and Allied Workers of AM
erica, newly reorganized CIO affil-
late in El Centro. dispatched A
telegram TO Secretary of Agricul-
ture Claude Wickard, however de-
nouncing the shortage of cars in
the valley and demanded immed-
late government action.
Officials of lhe organization said
4 L. III .
dredS of men tshed and field work
ersl out of work should not be
allowed TO continue. The need Of
vegetables grown i'll Imperial VA
ley to men engaged III defense AMI
other industries was also pointed
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
MEAN WOMAN
Horrors. She's Dumpy

WASHINGTON. Jan. 28-CUPl-
The average American woman is
dumpy. II that's a seditlous state
ment, take it up With the agrlcul-
ture department.
A department scientific COM
pendium of research into feminine
sizes and shapes reveals that the
average American woman is short,
heavy for her height, thick waist
ed and hippy.
BY measuring SO external dimen-
sions of 1853 women selected at
random in seven states and the
District of Columbia. the DOA's
bureau of home economics arrived
at data which it believes is fairly
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
Negro Kills Enemy
ToSettIe Debt

LOS ANGELES. Jan. % cUP1-
Jack blackjack Woods. 50 year
old Negro, walked into the police
staten today and said he had Just
squared 10 year old debt-he haG
put a As Calibre revolver slug
through a Negro actor who once
gouged out one of Woods eyes.
The dead man was Curtis Nero.
81, who was shot as he lined up
on the eight ball in Il Central ave-
nue. pool room.
Woods said he and Nero 10 years
ago got into an argument because
Of bottom dealt cards and that II
the ensuing fracas Woods lost al
eye.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28
= AMBL.INe
X EPORTER
faint True

T'aint True
Attention, rumor mongers Hans
Merklein and Noel Smith, Ell Cen
trans, are now in San Francisco
awaiting transportation to some
where in the Pacific to help build
the bases Uncle Sam needs so bad
" out there. They have not been
seized by the army, nor gobbleo
up by men from Mars, nor slam
by the Gestapo, nor fired from
their jobs, nor jailed as VagrantS.
nor accused Oh being japanese
aliens, nor shot in rocket to the
moon. nor turned into EsqulmauX,
nor anything else your imagination
may concoct out of the whole cloth
They're simply couple OF young
men who will most likely be- pretty
doggoned SeaSiel. Tor a. spell SooE,
and after that. they'll be some
where close to where the bombs
are falling and they'll be doing
what Uncle Sam needs them to dc.
So, for the love OF Pete, how about
putting the silencer of common
sense on all this silly business OF
rumOr spreading?
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

They have found the people
friendly and the girls pretty and
easy to get acquainted with.
The complaint about the coffee,
the favorite beverage. is that
though its quality is good the Brit
ish and Irish cooks do not know
how to make it, and as to the beer
they find it flatter and less palat-
able than American lager.
Canteen managers, barkeepers and
shop keepers report that the Yanks
are sobr lot and believed they
will learn to like the beer.
There was some difficulty at first
when the soldiers offered American
money for their purchases, but that
has been worked out in most cases.
The rate OF exchange is half a
crown (2'2 shillings) for half dol
lar, which is the same as the Of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-28

ficial rate of fl for 81.
Irish people learned quickly to
distinguish the Yankees because OF
their steel helmets.
The Yanks, however, still have
difficulty in recognizing the rank
of British soldiers. In some cases
they have madt he mistake OF
saluting British enlisted men. Some
of them have solved the difficulty
by Saluting nobody but looking In
tently the other way.
The biggest compliment paid the
potent Irish whisky was that by
an officer who bought a bottle
noting that because OF taxes 1t
costs twice here what 1t does at
home-downed a drink of 1t and
gasped: Boy, that must have been
keeping two SpitfireS grounded.