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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Boy Punished, So:
Teacher Punished:
Parents Punished
Jury Rules Mother Had
No Right to Beat Up
Child's Instructor

LAFAYETTE, Ind, March
81. (UP) = A jury decided
last night that parents must
not take unto themselves the
right to punish" the teacher
who taps a pupil on the head for
whispering.
Deliberaung for more than three
hours, II men and a middle-aged
grandmother found MI. and Mrs.
Arthur Leslie guilty of assault and
battery for whipping pretty Con-
stance M. Davis, 49, in front of
their 11-year-old son, Danny, and
her other fifth grade pupils at Lam
glois school.
The jury recommended each be
fined 5000 and sentenced to 80 days
Imprisonment.
IRISH LAWYERS
Before a crowded courtroom, two
irish lawyers took turns in sum
ming up the case in which all the
principals and most of the children
who saw the flogging had appeared
as witnesses.
Prosecutor Dan Flanagan said
the whipping was a blow to the
American way of life, like the Japa-
nese sneak attack on Pearl harbor.
Let us not take unto ourselves
the right to punish" Flanagan
said. The Ku KluX Klan did it and
was finally driven out Of southern
Indiana. It's the worst thing that
can happen to a country =.
Il got licked in school five or six
times a week, but I loved my teach
er"
INSANITY PLEADED
Defense counsel Francis Murphy
who had argued temporary insan-
ity for Mrs. Leslie and the right OF
parents to protect their young"
asked the jurors to think of the
Ten Commandments and the APP
preaching Easter season.
DO you want to make those chill
dren orphans during the Easter
season?" he asked. The Leslies have
another son, Keith, l3.
What about the Ten Command
ments?' he said DO you remem-
Der the one that said, Love thy
neighbor as thyself?'
I'm sure Danny wants to go back
to school and let bygones be by
cones. And I'm sure Miss Davis will
cooperate"
THEORY REJECTED
The jury's verdict rejected the
theory that Mrs. Leslie was tempor-
arily insane when she Stormed into
the classroom with her husband to
give the teacher some of her own
medicine" with a Boy Scout belt
Miss Davis testified she had tap
ped Danny lightly on the head with
a copy of the Treasury of Life and
Literature, Vol. II" for his unstud
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

legislation, passed by the house Of
representatives has been suppressed
in the senate committee on educa-
ton and laDCr, las not made :
wholesome impression upon the
American people.
Thomas was not present when
Byrd made his speech but Ser
James M. Mead, D., N. Y, a men,
Der of the committee, defended its
refusal to report house-approved
antistrike legislation. He said the
committee had called before it all
government officials engaged in war
production.
They told us unanimously that
there is no need for our committee
to report out antiiabor legislation
at this time," Mead declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

tlle annals OIL AInerlcan lnQuStrlal
relations"
In an unprecedented joint press
conference between representatives
OF unions and management, they
debated before an audience of news
parermen, Army and Navy repre-
sentative and groups of their own
partisans the merits of the So-called
R6uther plan for the automobile
industry to produce 500 airplanes
u daH.
Wilson said it was impractical
because of the diverse types of
planes needed - bomberS. fighters,
intelceptors and troop-carriers.
He said such mass production
would call for the utmost in stand
al dization.
NEED STANDARDIZATION
Reuther contered: Before this
war is over there is going to have
to be much more Standardization
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Bomber Chieftan
Says Is japanese
BattIeships Sunk
so Enemy Airplanes
Destroyed Prior to
March 1st, is Claim
MACAR THURS

GEN. MACARTHUR'S S
HEADQUARTERS. Austria
liza, March 81. (UP) : Col.
Eugene L. Eubank, who com
manded American bomber
forces in the Philippines and Java
campaigns, estimated today that
his planes had destroyed or SER
iously damaged Is japanese war
ships and 46 transports upVto March
|.
Further, he said, the American
bombers headed by flying fortresses
had positively destroyed so Japa-
nese fighter planes in addition to
a countless number destroyed
aground.
This estimate of devastation to
enemy sea and air forces took no
account of the stirring victories OF
the American and Australian air
forces this month which permitted
Australian Air Minister Arthur s.
DraKeford to assert that the Allied
air forces had wrested az superior
ity from the Japanese in the New
Guinea and New Britain invasion
areas.
FEW ALLIED LOSSES
The cost of the victory Oh the
American bombers in the Philip
pines and Netherlands East Indies
campaigns, Eubank said, had been
extremely low in both personnel
and equipment.
Our fortresses will carry plenty
of lead and still come home he
said. Throughout the entire Phil
ippines and NEI campaigns we
lost only two bombers through pill
oting errors such as take-offs and
landings"
Air Minister Drakefcrd had said
yesterday that American and Aus
tralian air forces had sunk or Grip
pied since March 10 more than 10
per cent of the total cruiser strength
with which Japan entered the war.
CHALLENGES JAPS
Col. Eubank, whose home is at
Port Arthur, Tex, and whose fam
lily lives at Albuquerque, N. M, said
American planes in the Philippines
and NEI campaigns had ranged wide
over enemy held territory, thickly
infested with Japanese fighter
planes.
Eubank described what he called
a typical operation. 1t happened
March l, the final day in Java:
Pilot Capt Clarence E. McPher-
son, of Mccall, Idaho, and Bomb
ardier Master Sergt. David Semple.
of Salt Lake City, Utah, both now
decorated, took their fortress over
Continued on Page 8; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Film Star Goes TO
Directors Camp to
Avoid War Service
Career Ruined? Ayres
Sorry, But Scruples
Prevent BlOOdshed
Copyright, 1S42, by United Press
ABOARD WEST COAST

ABOARD WEST COAST
LIMITED, fmroute to Port
land, Ore, March 81. (UP)-
Lew Ayres, the movie star
and first prominent American to
refuse to shoulder arms because of
religious scruples, sped toward a
conscientious objectors' camp N
oregon today and said that any
other course would cause for him
"a nightmare Of hypocricy and de-
ceit."
Nervous, and as he put it, emo
tionally upset" the handsome hero
of many a movie epic, including
HollyWoods first preachment against
war, AL Quiet on the Western
Front" boarded the train at flag
stop north of Hollywood last night.
The whole thing is almost too
close to me to talk about now
he said, pulling his brown tweed
coat about his shoulders and settling
down in the tourist sleeper berth
for which the government had paid.
Travelling with one other con-
scientious objector, a mechanic from
Hollywood, Ayres said that his mo-
tives were almost entirely religious. -
He said he believed that his eXper-
fence in making All Quiet" had had
a tremendous effect on his outlook
and added that he would be sincere
ly sorry if his picture career had
been ruined. From his pocket he
took a prepared statement which he
had intended to release when he
reached the camp at Cascade Locks,
Ore. The Statement-one OF the
most surprising ever issued by a
.fCOntinued on Page &. Column -
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burma were costly out important
The greatest immediate danger
appeared to be on the Allied west
flank, where the enemy pushed 20
miles northward to the village OF
ShWedaung, only 10 miles south
Of Prone. London said British
forces probably would be forced to
withdraw northward from Prone
toward the big oil fields about 100
miles away.
The withdrawal was forecast be-
cause of Japanese gains against
10000 Chinese troops which had
been standing off 10000 enemy SOL
dierS for a week in the TGungoo
area, on the east flank.
CHINESE BATTLING
The Chinese sUllI were fighting
in the Toungoo sector at last re-
ports but their main operations
were north of that town where they
repeatedly counter attacked the en-
emy and captured several villages
and the Kyungan airdrome on Sun
day to clear the way for Allied
withdrawal to their main positions
on the highway running 200 miles
north to Mandalay.
The critical state of the war in
Burma may have been reflected
in India, which many observers be-
lieve will be the next objective of
the Japanese if the Burma gateway
can be conquered
Great Britain'S plan for granting
Indian independence under a DOM
inion form of government and thus
enlisting aid in the war against
Japan was threatened with mount
ing difficulties if not with collapse.
On world fronts:
AUSTRALIA-Ameri and Aus
tralian planes blast japanese bases
at Lac and New Guinea and Koe-
pang on Tlmor, setting big fires
and destroying probably six planes
on the ground; Australia reorgan-
ICES army command under two gen.
erals; American reports of knocking
out l6 Japanese warshipS, As trans
ports and SO airplanes up to March
boosts Allied totals for war tC
an estimated 80 warships, go trans
ports and 200 planes.
PHILIPPINES - japanese bomb
plainly-marked American base hos
pital in continuing rates on Ba-
taan peninsula and Manila bay forts
but land fighting dies down except
for patrol clashes.
RUSSIA-Red army smashed ir,tC
important centers of enemy re-
sistance" west of Moscow, wiping
out $500 German troops; Germans
pushed back in Leningrad area with
loss of $500; Russians still closing
in on VyaZma.
ARCTIC - British and Russian
naval forces sink or damage five
German warships, including destroy
er known sunk and a destroyer and
three U-boats sunk or damaged, il
protecting a BritiSh-American COLI
voy Of war materials which presum-
ably reached Murmansk. Admiralty
reports attackers beaten off in Arc
tic snoWstOrm despite Berlin prop
aganda claims of four to eight ships
sunk
GERMANY - NaziS acknowledge
loss of another submarine.
LIBYA-SandStor limit desert
Continued on Page 8, Col. ID
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labor policy by congress and said,
"it would contribute more than
anything else to unity in this coun-
try"
He contested a statement by SEN
ate Democratic Leader Alben w
Barkley, KY, made yesterday, that
an organized campaign" exists to
intimidate congress into passing
antistrike legislation. This campaign,
Barkley said. was pressed by can
ned threats" through the mails.
The mail campaign, demanding
elimination OF the 40-hour week
overtime provisions and enactment
of antistrike legislation, is spontan-
eous, Byrd said.
Referring to the senate labor COM
mittee. he declared:
The fact that important labor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
japanese Freed
In Curfew Case

Masajiro Kita. 50. and Hatsuyo
Kita. 20, Calexico Jaranesel resi-
dents arrested last week end on q
charge of violating the curfew Or
der of military authorities, were
released from the Imperial county
iail in El Centro Tuesday by the
federal bureau CT investigation.
The couple was released without
a formal complaint being signed
against them by FBI officers, who
arrested them for being GWay from
their home between p. N. aid 6
a. m The FBI made no comment
Cn the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

of airplane design than we have
today Only by reducing the types
of planes can We produce them in
the quantities We need. That's the
way Germany did it,
The debate opened with George
V. Denn", Jr., as referee He ruled
out discussion Of the 40-hour week.
double pay for Sundays and holi-
days, strikes, profits, salaries wages.
proposed joint labor-management
committees for war production and
such other issues as now are pend
ing before GM-UAW contract ne
gotiatorS.
Next came reading OF the So
called Reuther plan which the JAW
CIO submitted to President RooSe-
welt in December, 1910. with a claim
that it would enable the automobile
industry to build 500 aiplanes a day
while still producing 100000 auto
Continued on Page 8, Col. ID
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Early Training
Bakersfield City
Wranq|e Settled

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, March 81
CUPD-Police Chief Robert Powers
was completely eXonerated of
charges of improper administrator
of the department in report filed
today by w. A. Wiltberger, head of
the San Jose police school
The charges were brought against
Powers by Harry Clements and Gus
Vercammen, city councilmen, and
Wiltberger was hired by the coun-
Gil to investigate.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Kynette Clemency
Plea Denied

SACR AN.FNTOO, March 81 =
CUF)-The state advisory pardon
board today denied the clemency
r.ea OF Earl F. Kynette. 46year-cld
former Los Angeles police officer
convicted of attempting to murder
Investigator Harry Raymond during
a 1888 Los Angeles graft probe.
Board members voted unani-
mously against granting Kynette a
pardon or committing his sentence.
Kynette and Roy j Allen were
convicted of trying to kill Raymond
by assault and placing explosives
near building occupied by their
intended victim.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Transient Admits
Smuggling Opium

Herbert Hoffman E5y, 2l-ycar-old
white transient. Tuesday admitted
he smuggled 96 grains OF opium
from Mexico into the United States
He told L. S. Commissioner Dor
sey Whitelaw he muGgled L
bindles of the narcotic The opium
was confiscated by customs Officers
when they arrested him. WhitelaW
ordered Fby held in the lmpelia!
unity jail in lieu of $500 pan
demanded pending his appearance
in federal court, The plea OF gu'ity
was entered in Whitrlaw'S Office IN
El Centro Tuesday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

Springs while federal, county, anc
railway officers still were Investigate
ing the burning of two bridges or
the main line of the Southern Pa
cific railway south of inland Sun
day morning.
These two acts Of sabotage oc-
Cured within 25 miles Of each
other, Sheriff Robert w. Ware said
DAMAGE SLIGHT
Irrigation district officials, how
ever. said the canal Gamage was
negligible and the saboteurs had
not endangered the main irriga-
ton system of the valley by then
violence. The SaboteurS were him
dered Tuesday as they were Sun
Gay because employees of the sys-
TENS were on the alert and spotted
the damage before anyone was in
jured or any great loss suffered.
In discussing the canal damage
irrigation district officials said the
canal extension near the Elmore
ranch goes over a wash on tres
tie and the break was caused by
someone mailing up the flume with
large pieces Of lumber. The water
runs through this flume as 1t
crosses the trestle and by closing
the flume the sabOteurs caused the
water to back up and overflow
This overflow ate into the canal
bank and caused a break, the water
flooding onto nearby land.
Repair crews of the district be-
gan work early Tuesday but could
not ascertain what had caused the
break until they cleared away the
muck and they could see the lum-
Der plugging the flume, Ware said
later runs through the flume q
mile and a half east OF the Elmore
ranch.
FBI NOTIFIED
Ware notified teurral bureau of
investigation officers working on
the bridge burning investigation in
the inland area and Immediately
FBI, Navy and Army investigators,
and Imperial county deputy sher-
ifs rushed to the scene Of the canal
break
In connecuon W.T.. their inves-
tigation OF the bridge burnings,
FBI officers had two Japanese
aliens imprisoned in the Imperial
county jail in El Centre Tuesday.
Tataro Sakaguchi, Sc inland farm
laborer, and YoshiEa Higa, 40, Nj
land farmer.
These two japanese aliens were
arrested said Harold Nathan, head
of the FBI in Imperial and San
Diego counties, because they were
living near the places where the
railroad bridges were burned. They
were living there and we thought
it wise TO arrest them
He declared they were not con-
sidered suspects and denied he be-
lieved they had any dirct connec-
ton with the burning of the tive
Southern Pacific bridges.
Peace officers said it was too
early in their Investigations 10
make any statement about the canal
break.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

Noble and Jones are leaders OF
the Friends of Progress movement
in Los Angeles. Noble was arrest
ed recently by the FBI but was re-
leased IN orders Of U. S Attorney
General Francis Biddle.
Warren ordered his Los Angeles
assistant, Warren Clney. to file the
charges Immediately and to con
tinue an investigation to determine
if treason or other charges should
be filed.
Warren acted on the basis OF &
bulletin issued yesterday by the Los
Angeles group in which a column
under the heading cf "Copperhead
Notes. criticized Macarthur 70:
leaving his Bataan forces and going
to Australia.
NOT FREE SPEECH
After quoung the text 0. ,Ae
article Attorney General Warren
said "by no stretch of the ima9i-
nation can tins be considered an
exercise CT The right Of free speech
1t is manclous ialsehood anc
when coupled with the other ma
terial in this and other publications
by the same persons shows a clear
and definite purpose not only to
defame General Macarthur but al
SO to spread disaffection am3nf
our people and cripple our nation
Continued on Page 8, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Allied AvidtorS
Take Heavy Toll
In Guinea Raids
Japanese Advances in Central Burma in
Face Of Stiff Chinese Resistance Put
United Nations in Difficult Position
- Bv UNITED PRESS -

Allied planes pounded Japanese bases north of
Australia Tuesday but in Burma the ignored heavy
losses and pushed norhWard toward Mandalay and the
Prone oil fields Both of the Japanese advances in central
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Macarthur Libel
Suspects jailed
Attorney General Orders Arrest Of LA.
Group on Charges Publication Detained
Commander; Ex-Ham'n Esser Named

SACRAMENTO, March 81. (UP)-AttOrnoy General
Earl Warren today ordered the arrest Of Robert Noble
Ellis Jones and several other associates charges of
spiracy to commit criminal libel against General Douglas
Mac Arthur. Allied commander
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Senator Charges
Labor Bill Gag

WASHINGTON, March 81. (UP)-Sen. Harry F. Byrd
D.. Va charged today that tEe senate labor committee
headed by Sen Ebert D. Thomas d. Utah. has suppressed
action on labor legislation approved by the housa.
Speaking in the senate, Byrd called for adoption of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Debate Dissects
Reuther Project

DETROIT, March 81. (UP)-A champion of unions and
general of indusry-Drecor Walter P Reuther Of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO) and President c. f.:
Wilson Of General Motors Corporationtoday submitted
the issue of allout production to debate unique in
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Soboteurs Strike Again
In Attempt to Wreck I.v.
Canal by Plugging FIume
investigators Still Seek Suspects in
Burning TrestIes; Second Act Within
rs Miles Of Attempt to Wreck Train

Saboteurs struck at Imperial Valleys vital facilities for
the second time in 6 hours when they damaged an rrga
on canal II miles of Wesmorland early Tuesday.
They wreaked damage an extension of the Tri1oum
canal near the ElmOre ranch highway 80 Kane
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
y AMBLINe
u EpoR7ER

Great Spots
Sunday was a great day for Bert
BaSkins. He and the Mrs. visited
relatives in Holtville Sunday morn
ing. When they left, Paul Werve
Jr., insisted upon kissing Uncle
Bert goodbye. In the afternoon
Bert and wife went to Calipatria to
visit more relatives. When depar
ture time came, all the nieces and
nepheWs were most affectionate
and gaily kissed Uncle Bert good
bye
Bert didn't feel so we'll Sunday
night. In fact. he grudgingly ad
mitted that he was a little under
the weather and had felt rotten all
day Sunday
No wonder. He had the measles.
The Big Shots
Great High Commissioner Mas
sey Horton and his staff are back
from Phoenix where they studied
coming problems . or did they?
Their public may expect reports
from time to time but there is no
telling what on.
BY the Way Horton met a long
lost relative on this Phoenix expe-
dition. And what a relative! Nary
a hair on his head.
Poor George
George Bucklin decided RR had
been remiSs in handling out oleand-
erS recently SO he decided to pick
one off bush and hand it to him
self
The oleander, SO George said, OBJ
jected to being awarded and
smacked him in the eye Now
George is going around with wad
of cotton over his eye.
That's his story.
Good News
Imperial Valley friends of Les
Rogers were informed Tuesday that
he decided not to tuln golf pro.
His decision was influenced some
what by his playing in the South
west Golf tournament during the
opening of which Rogers found out
now the game should be played.
The friends who have been beg
ging Rogers to give them golf les
seas, it is sad to relate, will have
to seek a new golf professor. Rogers
graduated himself backward into
golf Kindergarten.
Early Training
Now we know how come Evan
Hewes can stand so much of what
it takes to be chairman of the I'M
perial Irrigation district board. He
had training.
A long time ago when he was still
wearing three cornered pants,
HeWes used to show his diSpleasure
by creeping over the floor to the
wall and there deliberately butting
it with the top of his head
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
WEATHER

WEATHER
Maximum Monday SO, Minimum
Tuesday Sd, pm. Monday 80. hu-
midity Is; 5 am. Tuesday 60, hu-
midity 80; Noon Tuesday 81, hu-
midity "a.
Los ANGELES HAY
us. No. l S24.50-25.5O, u. S. No.
2 leafy ~. S24-24.5O; us. No. 2
S22-S23. Mpls. Sept. flax S2.5812.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Bank Debts

Ell Centric Business Barometer
The Phoenix index., 1942-08-29
Cen'I Davis
Lauds Troops

CAMP STEWART. Ga.-(SNS)--
Brigadier General B. d, DaVls,
concluded a two-day Inspection
tour of colored troops here Friday
and said he was very favorably
impressed"
General Davis, of the inspector
generals office in Washington
spoke briefly to massed troops
after a review in his honor one'
firing range late yesterday r
He told them he was very
much encouraged" over what he
had seen, stressed discipline ano
cosnradeship, and said, Whatever
7 have become 1 owe to my Of
ficers and nonComs when was an
enlisted man
General Davis has had "A years
experience. His son, Lieutenant
Colonel 2. o. Davis, is with tne
air forces at Tuskegee Flying
Field Ala.
The Phoenix index., 1942-08-29
Entertainers
Are Reunited
Al Fort Dix
Privates Johnson
And Boxwill Team
Up Once Again

FORT DIX N. J.--(SNS)-- in
civilian life, Private st. Elmo
johnson and Private James 1hom-
as Boxwill were well known per-
sonalitieS in the entertainment
field. Their paths crossed many
times along the great white way.
They worked together in Lew
Leslie's 'Blackbirds" and "Rhap-
sody in Black and later when
Private BoXwill appeared on the
Paul Whiteman Hour as a featured
singer in Cecil Mack's Choir. Pri-
vate Johnson arranged the score
for the chcir. Now they are back
together again as soldiers in the
service of Uncle Sam at Fort Dix,
N. J.
Although Private Johnson and
Private BoxWill have been in the
army only few short weeks, they
have already appeared Oh the
'"This is Fort Dix" radio program,
which is heard every Sunday after
noon over the Mutual network.
They have also been heard on the
4Fort Dix Passes In Review" radio
program and we're assigned import
ant roles in a movie filmed at this
Post recently.
Both men were glad to be back
working together again and Private
Johnson commented, 1.-The Army
does everything to treat all men
as individuals"
After they were asked If they
would appear in a movie based on
the "This is Fort Dix radio pro-
gram, Private BoXWill expressed
the opinion, "if man has ability
in the army he gets a chance
whether his face is white or
black"
Private BoXWill was awarded a
two thousand dollar scholarship by
the Barnes Foundation after grad
uating from high school. This
enabled him to continue voice
study under Maestro Emilio RoxaS,
former coach of Martinelll and
Gigli.
Judging from the applause he
received, the soldiers are apparently
in accord with Private BoXWill'S
choice of songs. His favorite songs
are, "Old Man River" Stout
Hearted Men, and Figaro" from
the Barber of Seville"
Private st. Elmo johnson has
studied music since early child
hood, but he is best known for Or
ganizing the ST. Elmo Johnson
Choir in 1888. He directed, coached
and managed this group until his