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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24
Flashes of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight;
Colder, Rain

MOBILE. Ala.-AP-peclariug 81
am sick aud tired Of this strike
business" Alabamas Selectivt
Service chief asserted today thai
every board in Alabama will be
told to reclassity all men Who wals
out on defense jobs Brig Gen
Ben NJ. smith. state SelectiNe SerY
ice director and also head OF Ala
bamas state guard. said NO man
is deferred in the draft because OF
personal favor. The deferment is
granted because a worker is en-
gagged in vital war industry
ETROlT-lNS - Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad officials IN
Detroit said today that the B,
and o train which sideswiped
fast freight near Oickerson.
fast freight near Oiekersor,
dor" which left Detroit at 5:45
p. m, last night with between
200 and $50 passengers. They
said the train was due in Wash
ington at 800 a m. today. They
had no further Information.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

Rummaee sale Friday and SATURDAY..
III Pearl St. ADV s2A
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

MOSCOW-lNS- Wendell VIII.
kie, now in Moscow as special ennis
sary for President Roosevelt. re-
sumed his rourd of visits to Russian
war factories today following two
hour conference with Premier Josef
Stain.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

NEW DELIil-lNS-NassaCre of
The crew OF British military plane
by Indian extremists was disclosed
in the legislative assembly today.
The pilot was Killed when the plane
crashed west of Narayanpur, Sir
Sultan Ahmed announced. and the
survivors put to death by natives
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

Ramnage sale Friday and saur
day, p OF Y. g. y. Huron. Adv. 924
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

WASHINGTON 1NS-Thc ICON.
|mile Cauadian.Alaskan military
Highway described as an engine II
ing colossus " roadbuilding. Will he
FINISHED around Dec / of this year.
Secretary ~ Wa Henry L. StIm-
son revealed today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

See GASOLINE Page 10
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

See FARM BLOC Page 10
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

NEW ORLEANS AP-The so.
called New Orleans Million Dollar
Breakfast scheduled for Friday
morning with a $1,000 war bond
as a meal ticket-has gotten pleas
antly out of hand. subscriptions, the
local War Bond committee report
ed. now total $2.S02.l50.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

LONDON-INS-The British gov
eminent TODAY officially announced
Occupation OF Tananariye. capital
|of Madagascar.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

NEW YORK-INS-Crash Of an
Army fighter plane in flames near
Newfoundland. y. j.. was announc.
ed today by headquarters OF the
eastern defense command Of tho
FIRST Army. The pilot OF the ship
was not Immediately identified and
an Army sta ement said a hail o.
machine gun bullets. APPARENTLY
touched off by the flames kept res.
cue workers from the ship TO extri
|cats the pilot
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-24

BERLIN From German Broad.
|castsl -AP- A special German
|communique reported, today that
|Nazi submarines had sunk three
|destroyers. an auxiliary cruiser and
five transports in an attack on an
allied convoy between Spitsber-
|gen and Iceland.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
MIA Will Conduct
Housing Survey
In Valley Areas
Federal Agency Plans
To Study Shortage of
Accommodations Here

M. II. j. Driggers, repre-
sentative Of the Housing
agency, will be in Ell Centro
within a week to begin a sur
vey of housing conditions If
Imperial county, Chamber of Com
merce Secretary Ben Herring said
Wednesday.
Herring learned of the visit in a
letter from Kelvin C. Vanderlip,
who signed for the regional repre-
snetative of the MIA in Los An
geles.
Several days ago the chamber Of
ficials had written asking that the
housing situation for Navy officers
and civilian employees on defense
projects in the county be investi-
gated.
Prior to that Herring had con-
tacted Naval officials who informed
him that the matter of providing
suitable shelter for officers and
civilians here had been taken up
with Washington.
Vanderlip said that he had not
received definite instructions from
his national headquarters regard
ing the valley situation but that
the survey would be made in antici-
patton of an order.
1t is estimated that housing facil-
tiles for at least 1876 employees at
he Ii Centre Marine air station
are needed in addition to houses
for &c or more permanent officers
at the camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Polish Chieftan
Backs Africa Deal

NEW YORK, Dec. l6.-CCU.PD-
Gen. VladyslaW Sikorski, Prime
Minister of Poland. said today that
strategic considerations. taking pre-
cedent over politics. justified the
"Darlan deal" by which the United
States Army was able TO seize po-
Sitions in French North Africa.
Sikorski, addressing the overseas
Press club, asserted that the de-
cision of the Allied high command
in Africa was exclusively dictated
by military requirements and is en-
tirely justified by them"
Il would regard as most danger
Gus for the further development OF
the operations conducted by Gen
Eisenhower anything that would in
terfere with. or restrict the freedom
of his operational moves" Sikor-
ski said, and all the more so or
account of Germans decision to
hold Tunis and Bizerte at all cost
and the advantage held by the Axis
powers as regards communications" ="
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Actress Reveals
Family QuarreIs

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. l6. - CU.Pl
Blaming terrific domestic quarrels
which made me look 10 years old
er,' Hungarian film Actress Ilona
Massey today divorced Alan Curtis,
actor.
Miss Massey told the court that
Curtis liked to drink and argue
and the combination was so hare
on my nerves I finally had to be
placed under doctors care"
L tried everything l could to
keep the peace" she testified But
the moment he started drinking
there was not much | could do
A corroborative witness, Muriel
GriffithS, film studio secretary, tolG
of visiting the Curtis home after
what she described as terrific
quarrels" and said she had warned
the screen and operatic star to do
something" about them.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Witnesses Stymie
Fascist Probe

ICS ANCiEIE ES. Dec. lG.-CUPN
Six witnesses failed to appear to-
tlav ut the onening of a state legis-
lative investigation into alleged
subversive activities of the Sinar-
ouiStaS. secret Mexican organiza-
ton, and Chairman Jack B. TenneY
angrily ordered sropenas for them
to appear Saturday.
1T is almost inconceivable that
these very PEOPLE who urged this
INVESTIGATION and who are supposed
TO have material should fail to aD-
pear before the states official
BODY" Senator-e elect Tenney said.
Four of the six witnesses asked
10 attend the hearing sent telegrams
saying all evidence regarding Sim
arouista activities had been placed
in the hands of federal authorities
and that the Federal Bureau of IN
vestieation was probing the mat
ter.
The teleerams added that it
might be injurious to the war ef-
fort and inter- American relations
IN proceed with the public hear
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
MIA Investigates
Housing Facilities

WASHINGTON, Dec. l6. up
The National Housing Agency to-
day began tabulations of housing
facilities in the San Francisco area
in response to request from Henry
Kaiser shipbuilding interests a.
nearby Richmond for 1000 addition
al housing units for ship"ard EN-
ployes.
Maurice Davis. MIA regional rela-
tiOnS officer for California. SAIL
the tabulation was ordered after
a conference between representa-
tiveS CT the maritime commission,
the Kaiser shipyardS and MIA. The
tabulation will determine how much
housing already has been provided
and the estimated number of new
shipyard workers expected in the
San Francisco area.
Davis said decision on the Kaiser
request would follow the tabulation.
He said things will move pretty
rapidly"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16


81 and Ell Ccntro Dec. %. Those
who buy war bond or stamp will
have the privilege of looking into
the interior of the submarine which
VAS brought to Mare Island on the
deck of freighter and refitted by
the navy. FacSimiles Of batteries,
gauges, dialS, and controls taken
out for study were placed in the
sub as we'll as two Japanese" in
proper uniforms at their battle sta
lions, ready to launch the two tor
pedoeS.
Since the only entrance is a To-
inch hatch in the coming tower, 81
viewing ports were cut i'll each side
of the hull and glazed with pleXi-
glass. CatwalkS with stairs at either
end were hinged to the sides of the
sub. These are let down SO those
who buy stamps or bonds may
mount and look into the interior
The submarine itself is 81 feet Ions
and the tractor II feet long. The
whole thing weighs 10000 pounds,
20 tons of which is the weight OF
the submarine.
This trophy of our war with
Japan will arrive in FL Centro at .
pm. on the Monday after Christ
mas and will Ee parked on Sixth
street between Main and State
streets until pm. that night.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Kaiser Charues
NLRB Prejudice

WASHINGTON, Dec. l6. CUP)-
The National Labor Relations
Board today granted permission to
the OREGON Shipbuilding Corpora
ton and the Kaiser Company, Inc,
TO file affidavits with the NLRB
here in support of their claim that
two members of the NIRB had
shown prejudice against the COM
panieS.
The companies were instructed to
file the affidavits on or before De-
cember 26.
Attorneys representing the two
concerns were reported to have ac-
cuSed MI RIB Chairman II. A. Mil
lis and Board Member Gerard d.
Reilly of prejudice and asked that
an NLRB camplaint pending
against the Henry j. Kaiser firms
be heard by the War Labor Board
instead of the NLRB.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Hole
Proves
Puzzle
Earth Vent Ne ar
School at INLAND
Growing De eper

INLAND, Dec. l6. = En-
gineerS and school authori-
ties Wednesday were inves-
tigating 4 mysterious, water.
filled hole in the earth which
~rddenli appeared beside the inland
school tcacherage this week and
has been rapidly increasing III
depth.
Wednesday school officials drop
Fed a 100 foot length of garden
hose into the opening without touch
iEg bottom. The hole is small around
the top and water keeps seepin9
INTO it. AS the hole deepens the
water line lowers. The water then
cieers up again to fill the depreS-
sion almost to the top.
Authorities l;ed engineers from
the Imperial Irrigation district to
make an immediate investigation
to aSce tain what caused the depres-
sion and if it is likely to increase
10 any great extent. The engineers
were scheduled to make their in
ve5tiga.iOn "Wednesday afternoon.
inland residents wondered if there
could be any connection between
the depression and the volcanic
mudpots which lie only a short dis
tance from INLAND.
Meanwhile, school authorities in
structed school teachers to keep
the children we'll away from the de-
preston ard not permit them to dc
any inve e:tigating for fear they will
be injured in some manner.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
MIL LION DOL LAR fire RACES IN BOSTON
IfsBad Day
For President

WASHINGTON, Dec. IG.--
OU.P.) - President Roosevelt
sometimes gets mixed up OH his
spelling, even as the rest of us
do.
The President got too many
as" i'm "generalissimO" in a
lons.,and letter to Generalissi-
mo Chang Kei-Shek which
began: MY dear Generallissi-
no."
The President handed the let
ter to DIR. Wei TaO-Ming. Chi
nese Ambassador. for transmits
sion to Chungking by a new
radio photo circuit.
Mr.. Roosevelt addressed DR..
Wei Tao Ming first as Minis
ter" instead Of using his proper
title-"AmbasSadOr."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

the Farm Securities Administration
with the government of Mexico, the
USES is the sole placement agent
for the workers. Anyone who
thinks that's easy hasn't worked
with almost 4 thousand men who
can't speak English.
Take the case of one Mexican
worker. He has worked on four
different field Jobs in the last four
days.
He was originally assigned to a
farmer who had contracted to use
him for certain period of time.
The Mexican didn't like his employ
er, however. 50, he left the camp
provided for him at the ranch and
returned to. .te replacement center
at the Imperial fairgrounds.
Without consulting anyone he
hoped onto q truck that was head
ing for the ranch of another veee-
table grower. He worked all day
and had his dinner. 1t was only
when the grower checked up that
night that he found he had an extra
Mexican.
Back he went to the replacement
center.
SECOND TRY
The next day he Joined a group
of workers going out to a grape
fruit orchard. AT the end of four
hours of work he was discovered
and hustled back into Imperial On
the fourth day he was finally reas-
stoned bv the USES officials who
discovered his case.
A system of cards and numbers
for the men has been worked out
bv the USES in order to keep track
on them. but more trouble is eX-
nected when several hundred more
Mexicans cone in January.
1t is imperative that the Mexicans
be kept employed at least rs per
cent of the time. If not thev must
be paid regular wage anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
PEOOlER JAILED

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10
tU.PD-Alfred Lunchner, 81, was
fined $50 and sentenced to 90 days
in Jail today for peddling salvaged
coffee to housewives without a IL
cenSe.
Lunchner said he found the cof-
Zee behind roasting plant Off
GERS testified that in one pound OF
coffee a city chemist found SO
small bits of glass.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Battle
Lin eS
Drawn
Allies Mass for
Tunisia Assault
As Nazis Prepare
BY UNITED PRESS

The Allied army in Iunl-
sia gathered strength We'd
nesday for an assault on
Bizerte and Tunis, and in
Tripolitania the British Eighth Army
pushed more than so miles west OF
la.
American bombers and fighter
bomberS raced ahead OF the Eighth
Army, battering the retreating Afri-
ka Korps. The main body OF the
Axis army apparently was about G5
miles west of Ell Agheila.
Allied patrols in northern Tunisia
were reported to have found that
the Germans had abandoned some
of their advanced positions there
as air pressure became heavier. A
London commentator estimated that
the Axis now had fewer than 20J
combat planes operating from Tuni-
sian bases.
Marine corps dive bombers pound
ed Japanese air bases at Munda
and BUN in the Solomons without
opposition, the Navy announced in
WASHINGTON.
ROMMEL IN TRIPOLI
Allied pressure was heavy all
along the North African front.
Spanish reports estimated the
combined strength of the Afrika
kOrpS and the German Tunisian
army at 10000, and said Marshal
Erwin Rommel had arrived in Tri-
poll to plan the defense of the Axis
| toeholds in Africa.
Allied air activity against the
German reinforcement ports in Tu-
nisia increased. and British planes
from Malta joined III the assault
Continued on Page 2, Col q
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

containers in the alleys near their
trash barrels.
we wish to remind FL Centrans
to rinse out the cans before they
put them in the containers sai(
A. L. Herzog, chairman of the F.
Centro drive This is requested
because particles of food left ir
the cans will ferment and the
bacterial action on the can is det-
rimental to the tin. The lids alsC
should be rinsed and put inside
the cans. The labels may be left
Oil the cans"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Rumanians Balk
AT tHifIer's0rder

LONDON Dee. lS-Up)-Radio
Moscow said today thot Adolf nit
ler hns ordered the dismissal of Ru-
maninn chief-of staff Cen. jacob
ic'' and other hieh- ranking ann
officers for refusing to send &C
additional divisions to the Russicn
front.
The diSmissals were revealed by
Lieut.. Col. Nikolai Kandra, Ru-
manian chief of divisional staff
captured by the Russians, accord
ing to the broadcast. Col. Kandra
was quoted as saying Hitlers de-
mandS for the army shake-up were
submitted to premier Ion Anton
escu on his recent visit to Berlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

BtTIIl SdIU IIIt ItIIIIUII IUIUIBII
office merely pointed out that
discussions of this mat
ter had not been concluded"
The dispatch continued
1T was recalled in this connec-
ton that the German supreme COM
mand at the time established cer-
tain documentary evidence in its
first publications and that certain
demands were made.
1T was also recalled that the Ger
man supreme command saw itself
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

1t is unnecessary to flatten the
cans since a portable press anC
haler will be brought to Imperial
Valley when the scrap pile is large
enough to warrant it. The cans
will be pressed, baled, WEIGHED. and
hauled away to plants designated
hy national salvage officials, who
know where tin is needed in the
war effort
Ell Centros tin can scrap pile
was established on Commercial ave-
nue. near the city dog pound, Her.
zog said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

compelled to order the shackling
of British war prisoners because the
British had first shackled German
war prisoners.
The German supreme command
at the time had announced its meas
ures merely as a reprisal, pointing
out, however, that it expects ex-
plicit evidence that similar mall
treatment of German war prisoners
would not happen again
Actually, the Germans instituted
Stacking OF prisoners, on the charge
that British Commando had shac-
kled four or five Germans in a raid
In reprisal," the Germans shackled
all British prisoners taken in the
Dieppe raid, and the British sub
sequently shackled the same num-
Der OF Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

Steel Corporation armor plate,
Murray asserted, will produce IA
tank engines, eight tank transmits
slons and seven airplane motors. ."
He noted that an official in the
tank and combat vehicle section of
the War Department Ordnance di-
vision, Reuel E. Warriner, is the
son-in-law of President r. c. STAN
ley of the International Nickel Co.
who is also member of the board
of directors of United States Steel
BE this Il direct relationship or
merely coincidental one" he de-
clared, nickel now being wasted in
homogeneous armor plate should
forthwith be conserved for use in
steels where it is critically needed" i"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

III statement prepared Tor the
Senate small business committee.
he said the WIPE has refused to or
der the elimination of nickel from
the steel which goes into armor
plate for tanks and armored We
hicleS.
His statement was read to the
committee by J. Raymond Walsh,
CIO research director.
There is no technical contro-
verSy involved" Murray said
Three important steel companies
successfully melt steel that is fab
ricated into armor plate without
any use of nickel. and with a small
er use of molybdenum."
The 80 pounds of nickel that
goes into Chrysler tank via United
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
FILM STARS WOULD
MAKE NAMES LEGAL

LOS ANGELES, Dec. l6.-U.Pl
Robert Taylor and Barbara STAN
wyck are just a couple of made-up
names, but the movie stars who
have been using them and like
them well enough to make them le-
GAL it was revealed in court to-
daV,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16

II days after the Cocoanut Grove
night club holocaust that took 483
lives.
A dozen specially shops and pro-
lesSional offices we're swept b. the
flames but major damage was in
Sallinger's. an expensive women's
clothing store where huge Christmas
stocks and fulS were destroyed.
Thousands of spectators were or
dered from the area by Deputy
Chief William F. Quigley, who fear
ed that a wall of the siX-story
Amory building would collapse.
Quigley said very conserva-
tive" estimate of the damage would
be more than 100000. The man.
ager of SallingerS said his stock
alone was valued at $l,000000 and
that nearly three-quarters of it was
ruined or damaged.
STARTS IN BASEMENT
The fire started in the basement
of SallingerS, ate through the cell
ing and spread to an adjoining
bakery shop.
Two alarms were sounded and
firemen who responded appeared
TO have halted the fire.
But it cut through partitions and
broke out on the opposite side of
the building in a shoe store. While
firemen were tatting the fire there,
more flames were discovered in Of
fics over their heads
Ultimately five alarms were sound
ed, bringing more than half the
city's 1900 firemen to the scene.
An emergenc% call brought 270
coast guardsmen to the tlaze to
aid in handling crowds and the ice
,laZed hoselines.
'MOKE FEELS MANY
1t. Charles Ashley directed the
guardSmen, many of whom were
felled by the acrid smoke that bill
.CWed through the downtown streets.
Ten OF the 81 suffering smoke in
halation We're hospitalized with at
least ten firemen.
A special guard was set up be-
fore the Washington Jewelry Co.
store as iiremen sought to retrieve
thousands OF dollars worth of gems
stored in vaults.
Center of the blaze was the Ar
mory building but flames spread
all along the block at Washington
and West streets to the adjoin-
ing Blake building.
Flames roared upward througi.
elevator shafts and stair wells
sending showers of sparks high in
the air and endangering 4 hall
dozen other structures in the region
including the huge r. II. White
department store.
Firemen were forced 10 work in
! Continued on Page .: Column 3,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
Residents Become Tin Can
Conscious i'm New Drive

FL Centre became veritable tin
ctn alle5 Wednesday with resi-
dents securing their premises for
material to dump into the first
days contribution to the national
tin can collection campaign.
City crews prepared to make
their first exclusive tin can COL
lection on Thursday and Friday
of this week, schedule to be fol-
lowed during the length of the tin
can campaign. Residents were
asked to put tin cans in separate
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
y AMBL'Ne
NJ Ep0RTER
Old Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard
Ell Centrans may think they have
food shortage problems but listen
to the story of Rudolph Miller tolG
of a recent visit to Yuma, the city
completely submerged by soldiers
He found he could get no room
All hotels and auto courts were
fun He also found he could get
nothing to eat after 7 pm. This is
how he found out:
Miller sat down at a cafe table
and picked up menu.
"Ill take pot roast" he told the
waitress. She departed to the
kitchen and was back in few
moments.
Sorry, but we're all out of pot
roast" she said
Very WE'LL Miller said after an
other lock at the menu. "Ill take
beef heart" The waitress again
went to the kitchen and again re-
turned. She placed a cup of coffee
before him.
Sorry" she said, we're all out
of heart" Miller saw an order of
hot cakes and coffee carried past
him.
"Ill take hot cakes and coffee"
Miller said weakly. The waitress
wLs back in moment
Sorry" she said. that was our
last order of hot cakes"
Very well" whispered Miller. I'll
JET keep this coffee"
Sorry" said the girl, but we
can't serve coffee without food. "
She took the coffee away from
him.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
BED OF ROSES
This Ones Got ThOrns

JOB had his troubles but so do Of
ficials Of the United States Employ
ment Service who have the job of
placing the 1877 Mexican nationals
imported into Imperial Valley to re-
lieve the pressing agricultural la
for problems.
Under the agreement signed by
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-16
British Stoy In
German ShuckIes
- BY UNITED PRESS =

The Germans indicated Wednesday that they still have
not unshacked British prisoners although the British
let German prisoners out of their irons last Saturday.
A Transocean agency dispatch broadcast by Radio