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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

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by the admiralty which revealed
that at least 40 Nazi planes and
probably considerably more were
shot down in a four-day running
battle which ended with the arrival
of the bulk of the convoy at Rus
SiaS Arctic ports.
Nazi submarines joined the bat
tie and two of them were sunk
and possibly four more the admir-
atty revealed. British naval losses
included the destroyer Somali and
a mineSweeper, the Leda.
The admiralty attributed the sue
cessful repuluse of the attacking
NaZi air and sea forces in large
part to British carrier-based fight
er planes, known as sea hurri-
canes.
The Importance of the convoy
was indicated by the admiralty's
statement that it was one of the
biggest convoy operations in some
time
NAZIS CALLED LIARS
The convey was spotted Septem-
ber by Nazi reconnaissance planes
and four days later the running bat
tie began.
The British version sharply chal-
lenged Nazi propaganda accounts
which had claimed that the Ger
mans sank or damaged some 40 of
an estimated As ships in the con-
voy.
The battle was the largest of a
series of running sea-air engage
ments which have been frequent
since the Inauguration of the north
ern supply route to Russia.
The exact number of ships which
safely ran the Nazi attack was
not revealed but the admiralty al
ready had said that the great ma
jority' of the convoy vessels docked
at Russian ports.
TURN AT STALINGRAD
Dispatches from Moscow indi-
Gated that the trend of fighting at
Stalingrad and adjacent fronts was
running in favor of the Russians.
No important German gain has
been recorded for a week or 10
days, it was indicated, and the
front appeared to be more or less
stabilized in the ruins of the city
of Stalingrad.
London military observers report
ed after close study of communi-
queS frcm both sides that the Ger
mans appeared to have made no
material gains in the last 10 days
and that, if anything, their position
was deteriorating slightly under
Soviet counterattacks.
There was no indication that the
battle-now in its 32nd day = had
lost any OF lis fury. However, the
pattern of previous massive Nazi
drives generally has called for a
pause for reorganization and REIN
forcement if the adjective has not
been captured in a months hard
fighting.
LOSSES ENORMOUS
A Soviet military commentator
estimated that the NaZiS lost $4,000
men killed in action on the Stall
ingrad front last week and the
Tass Russian news agency reported
Continued on Page G, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Bridges Attorneys
Seek TO Outlaw
Deportation Order
LOneShOreman Leader
In Washington While
Court Fight Goes On

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25.
(UP) = Defense counsel for
Harry Bridges, West Coast
CIO and Longshoremen lead
er, today opened a federal
court hearing on his habeas corpus
writ petition to evade deportation
by asking Federal Judge Martin
Welsh to require the government
to produce certain records and
statements.
Bridges contends that Attorney
General Francis Biddle lacked au-
thority to review the case and order
his deportation to Australia after
the board of immigration appeals
had ruled against the decision Of
Federal Judge Charles B. Sears that
the government had proved Bridges
deportable as a member of the
Communist party.
Bridges was not present at the
hearing, being in Washington, d. c.
Richard Gladstein, one of three
attorneys representing Bridges, made
two motions to open today's hear
ing. The first asked introduction in
court of government documents and
Continued on Page 6, Gel. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Parity
Tru
Offered
Administration in
Final Effort TO
Settle Farm Issue

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25
(UP)-Administration lead
ers, reviving hope of a com
promise on the anti-inflation
bill, indicated today that they
might postpone until next week a
senate vote on the farm bloc's
amendment to create a new and
higher parity price level.
They are appealing to the public
to make known its position to con-
greSs over the weekend. They hope
that such pressure will weaken the
already Wavering farm bloc lines
further and counteract the lobbying
of farm organizations, $50 repre-
sentatives of which have been
working Oh the senators.
The farm blocs Strength appar-
emily began to taper off after yes
terday's swiftly moving develop
ments which were highlighted by
an impassioned speech by Sen.
Prentiss M. Brown, D., Mich, man.
ager of the anti-inflation bill. Be
fore that the farm bloc seemed on
the verge of a victory comparable
to the one it won in the house.
But after the senate had recessed
until today, Senate Democratic
Leader Alben w. Barkley of Ken
lucky said I'VE have the votes
now" for a compromise proposal.
The compromise would provide
that President Roosevelt, in setting
farm price ceilings at parity levels
under the new anti-inflation bill
make notifications in cases where
increased labor or other costs tC
the producer" result in a ceiling
price that fails to reflect those
costs. The farm bloc seeks to in
clude in the computations of pari-
ty the costs of all farm labor-the
time of the farmer and his family
as we'll as that of hired hands.
Government officials estimate
that the farm bloc's amendment
would raise present parity levels
12 per cent and increase the cos
of living $3,500,000, year.
The appeal to the public to in.
torm senatos5 iand congrossmo1
how it feels on the subject was made
last night by Brown. Several hours
after his senate speech which, ad-
ministration leaders hope, may save
the Presidents anti-inflation pro-
gram from defeat, Brown said:
The farm bloc'S amendment viii
not carry if the American people
make their position known to con-
greSS between now and Monday
when the vote probably will come.
The amendment should not be
passed. Passage would be a tre-
mendous defeat for America, a blow
to unity and comfort for the ene-
my. 1t would mean that the con-
sumner, who thought he was getting
a life preserver by this anti-infla-
ton bill, would be getting another
anchor instead"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25


Passersby on Broadway, in the
heart of the downtown shopping
area, were startled by the sound of
four or five gunshots which were
heard above the noise of the street
traffic.
Several nearby traffic police rush
ed into the Texas Oil building and
were informed the shots were fired
on the 18th floor. Entering tie
production department, they found
McClelland dead and Wood, head
of the department, seriously wound
ed
According to the police version
of what happened, McClelland and
Wood apparently engaged in an
argument which was climaXed by
the chief clerk firing at least three
shots at his superior before turning
the gun on himself.
Wood was wounded in both hands
and in the head. He was rushed to
the police emergency hospital where
surgeons said his condition was
critical.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
DEAR GINGER:
Twitchie's in Trouble

other disasters like that. So far,
there hasn't been any trouble with
the people / write about, and they're
mostly spmathetic after they see
what they've done to my eyes, etc,
in the first blush of their anger,
This is diff ',rent The other
day the boss said, "TWitchie q wish
he wouldn't call me that, Ginger
Rogers is coming to Imperial Valley
Sept. 90 to sell war bonds at the
fair grounds that night, at 8:l5
| want you to interview her. If you
don't get the interview, don't come
back. The war effort needs your
typewriter, anyway. It'd make good
scrap" (He wasn't foolin' either
about the scrap, I meanD
1t didn't worry me any when
news of the assignment leaked out
somehow, and l2,968 gentlemen, be-
sides few who aren't, asked me to
introduce them to you. OF course
l had to agree, because some of
them were quite unpleasant about
what would happen if l didn't, but
l was sure you wouldn't mind meet
ing a few new faces, especially If
they bought war bonds.
The trouble happened when l
started to practice. ", never
interviewed anyone like you before,
SO l thought It'd be good idea
to sort of work up to it.
So I asked my girl friend, who's
very nice except sometimes when
she has a temper, if she would
help me, and she said she would,
seeing that it was just business
and might help me hold my job.
SO she pretended that She was
you. and l pretended that I was
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Red Tape Binds
Farm Laborers

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 25 -
tUP)-The Arizona State Farm
Bureau Federation was on rec
ord today with protest that
the twO-day long staple cotton
wage scale hearing concluded
yesterday was IAN unnecessary
injection of red tape"
Earl Maharg, executive sec
retary of the farm bureau read
a prepared statement at the
hearing. The special board, ap-
pointed by Secretary of Agri-
culture Claude Wickard, ac-
cepted the statement as a mat
ter of record and proceeded
with the hearing.
Maharg's statement called at
tcntiOn to the fact that negO-
tiations with the Mexican gov
ernmen for importation of
farm workers did not include
specifications for minimum
wage. He said the wage scale
beard was set up without con-
sulting agricultural groups af-
fected.
Furthermore, as a war meas
ure," the state said, establish
ment of a minimum wage is an
unnecessary injection of red
tape which will lead to injus-
tice and distribution of labor in
the state, which at this time is
imperative in order to preserve
war essential crops
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Snag Encountered
In Pipe Cleaning

Attempts to line 600 feet OF Ell
Centros water main with concrete
on State street hit snag Thursday
afternoon after the entire length
of pipe had been cleared of chem
ical differentiation which had al
most closed it to the passage OF
water.
Walter Heinecke, public works
director, said that one mixture OF
concrete that had been pumped into
the pipe had to be sluShed out when
part of the equipment doing the
work failed
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
OutIawed Canadian
Communist Leader
Taken in Custody
Fugitive for 2 Years
SH1fenders TO Help
Promote War Unity

TORONTO, Sept. 25. (UP)
Tim Buck, outlawed secre-
tary of the Communist party
Of Canada and 13 of his as
sociates surrendered today
to Royal Canadian mounted police
"in the interests of national unity
The IA men appeared at the office
of J. l.. Cohen, Toronto lawyer, and
telephoned RCMP headquarters from
Cohen's office.
Buck told police they wanted to
surrender for internment hearing.
Buck would not say where he had
been for the last two and one half
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
October FatefuI
Month, Says Nazi

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. (UP)-
Allied diplomatic sources here have
received a copy of recent speech
by Dr. Albert Speer, Nazi minister
of armaments and production, quot
ing him as saying:
I'VE must win this year by the
end of october, when the Russian
winter begins, or we will have lost
once and for all.
I'VE musI win with the weapons
we have now and not with those
we will have next year.
I'VE can only win if every man
capable of bearing arms is at the
front and we must put all we have
in the front line whether this is
going to be deleterious to postwar
industry or not"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

that Di Meglio had cut the electric
wires to the house, tried to shut
off the gas and had poured dirt
down an attic vent into her kitch-
en-.
He posted bond and gained his
freedom. When he failed to appear
for trial Tusday his bail was Or
dered forfeited and Il warrant Is
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25


train wreck. Three additional bodies
were removed from the charred,
twisted wreckage early today, bring
ing to Is the number of bodies re-
covered. Five other persons remain
unaccounted for and it is feared
they were cremated in the fire that
followed the crash.
State police estimated that 200
persons on the three trains were
injured. Only 10 were hurt serious
T. enough to require disqualification.
A warrant charging Raymond
Rufus McClelland, of Baltimore, en-
gineer of the B. q O.s crack diesel
engined Ambassador" with man
slaughter was issued last night by
William D. Clark. justice of the
peace at nearby Rockville, Md. Nc
Clelland was released in $4,000 bond
after railroad officials promised to
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Range Feud Breaks
Out Anew in River
District of County
Aged Rancher Stays
Animals to Keep Right
TO Old Age Security

The range war which has
ragged at intervals in the Col
Orado river bottoms in east
ern Imperial county since
early settlement days, devel-
oped modern tinge Friday
George E. Fitz, 70, who home
steaded land in the river district
35 years ago, was held in the I'M
perial county Jail in Ell Centre Fri
day on charge of shooting horses
and cattle in an effort to protect
his right to receive old age security.
He said the animals came on his
land after he ordered their owners
to keep them off. So he shot them.
He believed he was not permitted
to earn money as long as he re-
ceived old age security. Therefore,
he told officers, he ceased leasing
his land to cattlemen and ordered
them to keep their animals off his
land. He said he believed he had
to take these drastic measures and
admitted shooting maybe six, may
be l6, maybe 20" horses and cattle
with his % rifle
d. l.. Clark, owner of some of
the slain animals, told Imperial
county officials that he found the
annals dead in the brush covering
the river bottoms and had extracted
% calibre slugs from the carcasses
Clark said he tried to buy the land
from Fitz and agreed to pay Fitz
the price he asked. But Fitz refused
to sell. Clark said the land was
unfenced and his animals probably
had wandered over it. He formerly
had leased the the land but lately
F'itZ had refused to release it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

civic services.
Objectives of the wartime pro-
gram, both inside and outside
classrooms, are: l. Guidance OF
youth into critical services and oc-
cupations; 2. Wartime citizenship
training to insure better under
standing of the war, its meaning,
progress, and problems; 3. Physical
fitness; 4. Voluntary military drill
for selected boys; S. Competence in
science and mathematics; 6. Pre-
flight training in aeronautics for
prospective AVIATION cadets and
ground crew maintenance men; 7,
Pre- induction training for criti-
cal military and production occupa-
tions; 8. Community service in
Guiding training for essential civilian
activities.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Unrest Reported
In Nazi Garrison

LONDON, Sept. 25. CUP)-Eight
German soldiers were reported to-
day to have been court
for spreading defeatism, a growing
malady in Nazi garrisons.
The Moscow radio said the eight
soldiers were tried at The Hague,
Netherlands, and sent off to Russia
in a punitive battalion" meaning
a convict chain gang If they sur
vive, they will be sent to prison
after the war.
Frequent desertions from German
garrisons, especially in France, were
reported in advices reaching Lon
don.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

produce him for a hearing on Oct.
l6.
McClelland's mechanic, John II.
McCurdy, of Pittsburgh, was re-
leased on 5000 bond as a material
witness.
While railroad, state and federal
officials, including federal bureau OF
investigation officers. were inves-
tigating the wreck, Maryland states
attorney, Ben O. Wilkinson. said
"the evidence which has come TO
light, to my mind, indicates gross
negligence and justifies this charge
of manslaughter" against McClel-
land.
B. a. o. officials at Baltimore
said that although preliminary
investigation had been made. mo
definite announcement of the course
of the wreck will probably be made
for several days"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

Capt Edward V. Rickenbacker,
World war l flying ace and aviation
leader, has accepted the chairman
ship of the national policy commit
tee of the corps. The army, navy and
commerce departments have endors-
ed the program.
The corps will be divided into
five special service divisions for
those in the last two years of high
school: |. Lard service calling for
pre- induction training for all
branches of the army except the
air; 2. Air service; 3. Sea service
providing training for all branches
of the navy except the air; 4. Pro-
duction service preparing for war
industries and agriculture; 5. Com
munity service preparing for medi-
cal, nursing, teaching, business and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

sued for his arrest.
Before the warrant could be serv-
ed Mrs. Sancoy was back at the
police station complaining that Di
Meglio had thrown out blankets
and mattresses, pulled OFT drawers
overturned a dresser and strewn
clothing all over the house.
Di Meglio was jailed again but
bailed out Wednesday morning and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
UniQue Eviction Fails

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25- (UP) -
Ralph Di Meglio, 81, was in Jail to-
day for the third time since Mon
day night all because of his de-
termined but unorthodox methods
of attempting to evict a woman
tenant from house he owns.
Di Meglio was first arrested Mon
day night after Mrs. Marie Sancoy,
his tenant, complained to police
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Stimson Cancels
Louis-Conn Bout

WASHINGTON, Sent. 25-CUP1-
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son today cancelled the Louis Conn
fight that had been scheduled for
Get. IL.
Stimson ordered Sgt. Joe Louis
and Corp. Billy Conn to return at
once to their military duties
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

crews prepared to devote Sunday
to picking up contributions left in
the alleys by residents. They will
donate their time to the drive and
the, city will provide the trucks.
Next weekend Boy Scouts of
Ell Centro will make a house to
house canvass of the city to ascer-
tain what srap metal has been
left by residents.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Tobin Will Speak
Saturday Night

Daniel j. Tobin, president of the
International Brotherhood of team
sters, will give first hand account
to the nation of his observation of
how British labor is helping win
the war when he speaks at 7:15
p. m. Saturday night, Imperial VAL
lev union members were advised
Friday.
Tobin has just returned from
England where he was a delegate
to the British Trade Unions con-
gress and personal envoy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

Imperial county was scheduled
to be in an uproar throughout the
coming weekend as salvage com-
mittees in every community ar
ranged to triple efforts to boost
the scrap metal donations.
The $40 tons collected during
the drive thus far is away below
what it should be-" was the con-
senSus. Drive officials declared
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
BRITISH BLAST NAz| CONVOY ATTACKERS
Scrap Drive Adds Speed

stop and consider that the per
capita donation in Imperial county
thus far is only IL pounds. In
Nebraska the per capita donation
for the state was l0l pounds" He
pointed out that the drive is not
the duty of the committees alone
but is the duty of every man, wo-
man, and child in the county.
In the meantime, FL Centre city
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

that the 34G tons is a mere frac-
ton of the scrap metal available
in Imperial county and the deter
mined to get the rest of it donated
to the war effort.
THE collection of scrap metal is
of vital necessity to the war effort
OF the United States" w. G.. Du-
flock, publicity chairman said Fri
daV
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

trial was set for Saturday.
Yesterday Mrs. Sancoy made her
third trip to the police station COM
planning this time that Di Meglio
was again in her home and throw
ing things around
Another warrant, charging dis
turbing the peace was issued and
Di Meglio was back in jail today,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Miss Ginger Rogers,
RKO Studio,
Hollywood, Calf.
Dear Ginger:

III III u IOIDIC,
Maybe you don't care, because
you don't know me. But you ought
to. You caused the trouble.
I'm Spelvin Sinktwitch, and I'm
just learning to be a reporter
Mostly there's nothing to it. Just
murders and fires, and politics and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
HiQh School W
Corps Organized

WASHINGTON Sept 25. (UP)-War Manpower Com
missioner Paul " McNutt today announced plan for or
ganzing high school boys and girls Victory which
will provide opportunity for all of the 65OOOOO high
school students in country prepare for service
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Office BuiIdinq
Echoes to Shots
Oil Company Chief Clerk Opens Fire
On Superior. Then Kills Self as LA.
Police Rus h Into Downtown Quarters

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25. (UP)-A fusillade of shots
through downtown office building shortly before
today L. p. McCleand chief clerk of the Texas
Oil company shot and critically wounded James r. Wood,
of his superiors and then committed suicide police
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
StaIin9rad Tide
Turns to Sow ct
AS Germans Stall
Forty Hun Planes, Two Submarines Lost
AS Allies Push Through Big Convoy
To Bolster Russian Resistance
= BY UNITED PRESS .

The British Friday reported major victory Nazi
forces attacking big Russa-bOund convoy and the
vital Staingrad front Soviet commentators believed the
initiative slowly passing to the Red army.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
Death Trains
EnQineer Blamed

DlCKERSON, Nd Sept. 25 (UP)-The engineer of
Baltimore and Ohio railroad passenger train which crash
ed into the of another fast express and tossed
from each into the path of freight train charged
today with mansaughter At least Is and possibly 20 per-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
y AMBl|Ne
~ EpORTER
Watchers Club

Watchers Club
Never before have the members
Of the Watchers club had the
wonderful time they are having
with all this tear up stuff on State
street
They cluster around like flies
around honey pot while Workmen
struggle with pipe, water, mud, and
incidentally with the crowds. The
workmen were digging holes in the
pavemen. hindered somewhat by
citizens peering downward to see
what was in the bottom of the eX-
cavationS.
Then along came a group of city
officials who possibly had some
reason to watch proceedings. After
school alcng came the school child
rem and joined the adult members
of the Watchers club There must
have been 100 per cent attendance.
just at sun down, Fire Chief
Corn Reed was observed standing
on a pile of mud and geSticulating
like a railroad conductor to work.
man half a block away.
(To tell you the truth RR
couldn't resist engaging in wee bit
o watchin' hiselfD
A Modern Miss
The Les Conn family was having
dinner. Three-year-old Patty Ann
was dining largely on black eyed
peas.
What is that you have there,
Patty Ann? her father asked.
"Blackout peas said Patty Ann,
downing another spoonful.
The Iron Man
Nolan Smith is going to have a
lot of explaining to do.
He was ribbed no end last Sun
day when the collection crews found
there was nary scrap OF scrap
metal in the alley back of the
Smith home.
But when Nolan arrived at the
Elks convention in Fresno this
week, he carried a 60 pound slab
of railroad track in his suitcase.
He probably wanted all the other
ElkS to realize he was a big shot in
the scrap metal campaign and car
ried the railroad track to prove 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday l09, minimum
Friday &C; 5 am. Friday 72, humid
ity SO; noon Friday 101, humidity
"a; pm. Thursday 81, humidity 22
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.
(UP)-Administration lead
ers, reviving hope of a COM
promise on the anti-inflation
bill, indicated today that they
rnipht nOStnnna Until neXt week q