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Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

AXIS.
Solution of the 21-day deadlock
on Britain's offer of postwar DOM
inion status appeared near. by
means of a compromise whereby
the Indian people will have control
of all cabinet portfolios including
defense in the new government.
c. Rajagopalachari, premier OF
the government of Madras and for
mer president of the dominant ALL
India Nationalist Congress, pre-
dicted announcement of the settle
ment within two days, after various
details are ironed out.
1t was Rajagopalachari who draft
ed the congress last hope counter
proposal on which the reported ba-
sic agreement was reached by Sir
Stafford Cripps, British cabinet en-
voy, and congress negotiators.
You'll have to wait for two days
for the settlement" he told corre-
spondents. You have waited for
months and you should not hustle
now. It's a Caesarian operation"
President Roosevelt's envoy to
India, Louis A. Johnson, was play
ing a key role in working out the
settlement and details concerning
the direction of India's defense.
He conferred at noon with Cripps
and Jawaharlal Nehru, left wing
leader of the All-India Congress
on matters dealing with the author
ity to be given British military lead
ers and Indian defense ministers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
$500 Defenders
Stood Off Enemy
In Saga Of Bataan
StimsOn Reveals Small
Total for First Time
Since Struggle Began

WASHINGTON, April 8.
(UP) = Secretary of War
Henry l.. Stimson said today
a force of only $4,000 Amer
leans and Filipinos went
down fighting before overwhelm.
ingly superior Japanese forces on
Bataan.
He promised the fight will not be
ended until the invaders eventually
are driven out.
Stimson said defenders of Bataan
were worn down, outnumbered
weakened by short rations and dis
sease, and that they evidently had
been overwhelmed.
But Corregidor, he added, is still
fighting on, along with the other
Manila bay forts.
He also revealed that President
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Reno Warned TO
Close Up Houses

RENO, New. April 9. (UP)-Reno
the biggest little city in the world,
was told today to close down on
commercialized prostitution. Lieut.
Gen. John L. Dewitt demanded
the abatement after a conference
with Nevada authorities.
Mayor August Frohlich promised
to take up the matter with the city
council at the earliest opportunity
Renos tabled "stockade" was closed
some time ago at the army's order,
but prostitutes moved to other sec
tions of the city. Prostitution under
police license Is legal in Nevada
last outpost of the wild west"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Approaching Planes Send
l.. 4. Into Full BIockout

LOS ANGELES, April (UP) -
Headquarters of the Army's western
defense command announced today
that one of the most effective black
outs of the war which plunged this
city of l,504,000 persons into dark
ness for almost two hours last night
was caused by the presence of "un-
identified aircraft later identified
as friendly"
From 900 pm, PVT, when wall
ing sirens signalled a blackout of
this entire area, until 1854 pm,,
when the all clear was sounded, the
largest city on the west coast was
ghost town. Virtually no sign of
life was visible outside its build
ings.
The blackout extended in all di-
rectoins from the city for radius
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
State Out Of Red
After Ten Years

SACRAMENTO, April 9. CUP)-
For the first time in 10 years, Cali
fornia was out of the red today
and had cash excess of $3,061 900
in the general fund, it was an
nounced by State Controller Harry
B. Riley.
While conceding that the state
had returned to a sound financial
footing, Riley warned that condi-
tons could change quickly, parti-
cularly with increasing war restric-
tions on manufacture and sale of
automobiles, tires, refrigerators, and
other goods.
The state retired remnants of an
$82 100000 cash deficiency last
month and began April with en-
ough cash to pay off all general
fund obligations.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Pioneers to Hear
Old Fiddlers

Program at the Imperial Valley
Pioneers picnic at the fair grounds
April l8 will feature an old fid-
dlers contest, community singing
led by H. Lee Landerman, and five
minute talks by prominent men and
women of early settlement days.
Ror Breedlove, chairman of the
entertainment committee, Sa d
Thursday the committee wished all
old fiddlers in the valley to be pres
ent for the contest.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Fireworks Banned
For Duration

Public displays of fireworks are
prohibited for the duration of the
emergency, Fire Chief c. S. Reed
of Ell Centro was informed Thursday
by the state fire marshal
Also the use of fireworks b. indi-
viduals during the emergency was
called a fire hazard by Gov. Cul
bert L. Olson. The governor said
Gen j. L. Dewitt of the western
defense command requested that the
sale of fireworks to the public be
prohibited in California during the
emergency.
Olson urged that applications for
the use of fireworks be denied for
the duration in the cities and coun-
ties which restrict but do not pro-
hibit the sale of fireworks.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

Of SO miles. The alert, but not the
blackout, reached as far south as
the Mexican border.
Military authorities ordered radio
stations off the air with a second
blue" warning, which followed by
10 minutes the preliminary vel
low" warning indicating the pos
sibility of unidentified aircraft in
the area.
Fifteen minutes after the blue"
warning, the blackout sirens Shrek
ed. Hundreds of air raid wardens,
their white helmets family visible
in the darkness, moved in readiness
through the streets.
Rooftop lookouts said the wide
spread blackout was the most eff
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

fective of the three ordered here
since the nation went TO war.
Street lights blinked out within a
minute or two after the sirens
sounded, and lights in buildings
throughout the sprawling metropolis
flickered out almost Immediately
afterward.
There was no visible evidence OF
military action. such as the barrage
of anti-aircraft fire during the
blackout Of Feb. 25. and no search
lights were used.
Seven persons died Of heart at
tacks during the blackout. receiving
hospitals reported. Two died In the
street, four at home and one In an
ambulance.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
bATAAN FALLS TO ENEm \
Not Saboteurs
This Time

Two ties on a Southern Pa
cific main line bridge three
miles west of Glamis were set
afire Wednesday afternoon by a
red hot brake shoe dropped
from freight train.
News of the fire spread faster
than the fire and the bridge
soon was the focal point for a
veritable young army of inves-
tigating officers.
Sabotage ideas were set at
rest by a section foreman who
found the shoe as soon as a
train crew extinguished the
flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

back because rations were low and
winter coming on. Rations finally
were two. spoonful of flour a day
for each man.
Gibbins was a famous baseball
catcher and was sought by big
leagues. He refused to leave the
Army.
Rosary was scheduled at the Ryan
mortuary at pm. Thursday and
requiem high mass was scheduled
at 8 am. Friday at st. Johns Cath
olic church. His survivors are two
daughters, Mrs. Kinne of Ell Centre
and Mrs. Edgar Pullman of San
Diego; a son, John B. Gibbins of
San Diego; and six grandchildren,
Burdette, Jack, and Shirley Kinne,
and Mary, John and Tommy Glib
bins.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

ICIIoS IttIIto OOl POI dUIOII, q oOUoIO-
iary of the Reconstruction Finance
corporation, and Basic Magnesium,
Inc, a private concern with head
quarters at Cleveland.
He charged that under the COM
panys agreement for construction
of a $63,000,000 magnesite refinery
at Las Vegas, New, it stands to make
a profit of 4,280 per cent in one
year.
Bunker said that in organization
Of Basic Magnesium, As per cent
of stock went to Magnesium Elek-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

tron, Ltd, of England, which fur
nished knowledge of refining pro-
cess. He said the British company
operated under a licensing agree
ment obtained from 1. G.. Farben-
industrie, German chemical trust.
There is a serious question as
to the contribution of Magnesium
Elektron, Ltd, of the process, since
they do not own, nor do they have
the license to operate this process in
the United States said Bunker.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

years with troop G of the Fifth
Cavalry and most of that time was
regimental commissary sergeant, He
retired from the service in 1906.
He knew Buffalo Bill well while
the famous man was a scout for
Gibbins' outfit in the wars against
the Sioux. Gibbins could hear the
firing at the scene of the Custer
massacre but the soldiers in his
outfit were unable to reach the
scene in time. He helped survey
Yellowstone park, was on hand
when the Oklahoma strip was open
ed. hunted buffalo throughout the
were two spoonsful of flour a day
Apache uprising, and took the 1000
mile trip when soldiers chased Sit
ting Bull into Canada TO avenge the
death of Custer, They had to turn
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
FIRE UNITS SET UP

Two more rural fire fighting units
were organized Wednesday night at
farm center meetings. Virgil Corf-
man was elected area fireman and
Gene HIGGINS his assistant at Eu-
calyptus and Mat La Brucherie was
made fireman and Fred Veliquette,
assistant, at McCabe.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
in
Contract Hinted

WASHINGTON April 9. (UP)-Sen. Berkeley L. Bun
ker d. New, charged in the senate today that govern
ment agreement with Basic Magnesium Inc so sinister
to indicate that officials guilty of mafeas
ance Bunker denounced agreement between the De-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Enemy Smothers
brdve Defenders
Und er Vast Armv
Corregidor Still Holds Out But Few
OfPeninsu|a' Fighters May Reach
Island Fortress TO Continue Battle
additional War News on Page Six

American and Filipino troops exhausted by continuous
fighting short ratons disease and lack of relief
whelmed Bataan peninsula today by fresh and numer
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
British-Indidn
Settlement Near
Announcement Expected 2Days Of
Asre ement to Give India Control OF
Al! Cabinet Portfolios in New Se+up

NEW DELHI, India April 9, (UP)-An Influential
Indian Nationalist leader said tonight that
is expected within two days of agreement with Great
Britain giving India Nationalist government and enlist
ing her 400 people actively in the war against the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Cd|exico UnfoIds
CdvuIcdde vents
Big SpectacIe's ProsramLeads Up to
Pageant Friday Night. Parade Saturday
Through Border City; Many Take Part

CALEXICO, April 9.-First events of the 1912 Cava
cade of Imperial Valley unfoded Thursday in brilliant
after brilliant all leading up to the historical
pageant to be presented in the natural amphheater
of CaleXco 8 n.m. Friday
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Indian Fighter
Dies at Sen Diego

John Gibbins 86year-old father of Mrs. f. G. Klnne
of Ell Cenro and veteran of the indian and Spanish
American wars died Wednesday at his home in San Diego
His death ended colOrful which began in 1874
when he enlisted in the United States Army He spent 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Norway Rallies
To Help. Church
Against QuisIin9
Second Anniversary Of Invasion Finds
People Still Unconquered. Waiting
For Chance TO Strike Openly at Foe

LONDON, April 8. (UP)-Norwegians, angered almost
to the point of resistance by the attempts of German
Puppet Leader Vdkun Qusng to suppress the church, OBJ
served the second anniversary of the German invasion to-
day, pledging increasing resistance to the NaZiS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

Stuck Up
This is a military secret but it
leaked out.
After a recent dance in the rec
areation hall at Camp Seeley, the
NElean up crew scraped up half q
pound of well maSticated gum
Turn 1t Off
Now that it is patriotic to drive
lowly, Evan T. HeWes is hard put
TO it. He needs something to do
while trundling along at snail2
pace Time was when his pace
kept him occupied. but no more
HeWes thought the matter over
and at last decided to sing while
travelling. Not that he ever sang
in his life. His hearers always
stopped him before he could gel
into the second stanza of any song
he ever tried
Now I can find cut if I can
sing he chuckled." "I'll practice
up while driving slowly along coun-
try roads. No one can stop me"
But they did.
Some of his employees had TO
pass him on the roads sometimes
and they can't stand the rumble
and tinny din that filters from
the HeweS chariot.
1t might be a good idea to buy
his silence by donating a car radio.
Maybe not He might try to sing
duets with opera stars
4ove Conquers ALI
= Andy Preble went home the
other night with a shaggy little
pup tucked under one arm. The
pup was a gift from Herb Faw-
0cett. 1t was che of those little
&camps with long ears. One OF
those pups no one in the world can
resist.
What do you think you have
there?" Mrs. Preble said as Andy
sidled into the house with the pup.
"Ch, just pup Herb gave me, -
he said and put the pup down on
the floor
With estate yelps Of happiness
the pup went over the living room
like miniature cyclone. Then he
did little chewing on Mrs. Preb-
les ShCe.
"Lcok at this place" Mrs Preble
scolded. I'VE can't keep him here.
Andy left shortly thereafter to at
tend a meeting Mrs. Preble had
to look after the pup.
Next morning. Andy sadly tuck
ed the pup under his arm and
started out the door.
What do you think you're do
ing?" demanded Mrs. Preble
= I'm taking the pup back to
~Herb,' sighed Andy.
you bring that pup back" she
ordered. The very idea CT taking
him out in the cold morning air
HLet him alone"
y Mrs. Preble and the pup both
glared at him reprovingly as he
crept out of the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
2 tsst!Ms tsosnt;

Stuck Up
This is a military secret but it
leaked out.
After a recent dance in the rec
nreation hall at Camp Seeley, the
clean up crew scraped up half a
pound of well masticated gum
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
WEATHER

WEATHER
Maximum Wednesday 81, Mini
mum Thursday 81; 5 pm. Wednes-
day 82, humidity SO; 5 am. Thurs
day SIS, humidity 54. Noon Thurs
day 81, humidity "A.
LOS ANGELES HAY
u. S. No. l S24.-S25; u. S. No. 2
leafy I. v. S23-S24; U. S. No. 2 $2O.5O
$21. so. Mpls. Sept. flax S2.58R
Evening star., 1942-07-20

itary castes they will be a more
humane people and their nation
will be more secure. No other peo-
pie covets their land. They will be
freer themselves when they have
freed those they have attempted to
subject
Mr.. Moore's book answers many
questions that have in recent
months arisen. Was the attack on
America unexpected? Did we have
warnings? He admits that he
never believed the japanese would
engage in such madness. but he
shows by the record that the Japa-
nese felt themselves forced into q
tight place by our economic embargo
and that they felt we had drawn q
Gordon of starvation around them out
of which war was the only means Of
escape. The book is fair to both
the japanese and American diplo-
mats and in the main supports the
principles of foreign policy enunci-
. ated by President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull. 1t is book honestly
and candidly done by man who
tried unsuccessfully to persuade
Japan not to take the course she
! finally took. He does not hesitate
however, to point out our own mis-
takes over the years. 1t is re-
markable piece of contemporaneous
history.
Evening star., 1942-07-20
The Great Game of Politics
Presidential Support Declared Needed More
Thon Money to Put Over OPA Program

granting a 44-cent-a day increase
to the steel workers directly con-
f1icts with his public announcement
that further wage increases must
not be permitted
1t is not surprising that the mes
sage is awaited with skepticism
justified by the lack of any previous
White House effort to arrest the
steady raises which have been
bursting Mr.. Henderson's price CELL
ings, right and left. AS to taxation,
the Treasury proposals, approved by
the President, are concededly futile
and feeble. BY avoiding sales and
withholding taxes and by making
no nght for its own recommended
tions, such as wiping out the tax
exempt securities it has left the in
f1ationary gap wide open.
No EXCUSE for Congress.
Failure OF the President thus to
measure up to his own words is no
excuse for Congress to finch from
it's clear obligations but it makes it
less easy to blame it for SO doing.
When Congress realizes that an
election conscious President is un-
willing to take firm stand against
his scheming labor leader friends or
to abandon New Deal demagoguery
in his taxation policy, it is encour-
aged to resent the somewhat over
bearing attitude of the garrulous
Mr.. Henderson. In view of the many
incompetents with whom his ma
chine is manned, it is not hard to
understand Congressional reaction
to the contention that Mr.. Hender-
son has gotten a better grade OF
employe than If he had permitted
members of Congress to make pat
ronage recommendations.
Nor with his record is it surprising
that Congress should lack complete
confidence in the soundness of Mr..
l1Cllucl SOll > JuuSAlClio VI Viz Aiooihoy
of his character.
But whether Mr.. Henderson's
course in the patronage business has
been good or bad and whether Con-
gress is being petty and political in
| it's treatment of his requests are
secondary considerations.
The fact remains that if he had
completely competent machine; If
he were man of the soundest judg-
ment and the most perfect tact, and
if he were given every dollar for
which he asks, without an adequate
taxation program and real wage
control, he still would be unable to
keep the cost of living down.
There is no room to deny that the
reason these two essentials have not
been achieved is because the Presi-
dent has not exerted himself to
achieve them-though long ago he
declared then indispensable.
| tCopyright. 1912, by the Baltimore SUM-
Evening star., 1942-07-20
u. s. Produces Butadiene
Rubber Base, From Corn
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department yes
terday reported producing excel
lent yields" of pure butadiene-
basic ingredient of synthetic rub
BERN small-scale operations using
butylene glycol made from corn.
THE major problem remaining is
conversion of butylene glycol to
butadiene on a commercial scale" p"
the department said in disclosing
also the development of short and
economical fermentation process for
making butylene glycol from such
plentiful farm crops as corn and
wheat.
Chemists at the Peoria Ill) lab
oratory have succeeded in producing
excellent yields of pure butadiene
from corn-made butylene glycol in
the laboratory. but they have not
as yet developed the process to a
pilot-plant scale and they are not
making any definite predictions until
this has been DONE" the announce
ment said.
Chemists at the department.
Northern regional research labora-
| tory at Peoria are producing buty-
lene glycol on semicommercial
scale through the fermentation OF
| grains.
The comparatively rare chemical
has several important commercial
uses, including the manufacture OF
radiator anti-freeze and the pro-
duction of commercial solvents vital
| in some war industries.
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900 900 for which he asked, under
existing conditions, he still could not
do the Job. What he needs more
than money is presidential support.
Without that he is helpless and he
knows it,
He has courage enough to pillory
Congress for it's failure to cooperate
in the anti imitation fight, but, ap-
parently, he lacks the courage to
indict Mr.. Roosevelt for his failure,
which is easy to understand. That
would mean his resignation and Mr..
Henderson does not want to resign.
Because we are at war and Mr..
Roosevelt is our Commander in
Chief there is natural reluctance
openly to criticize him. For one
thing, If only as matter OF self
interest, every clear headed man
wants to uphold his conduct OF the
war and is anxious that his health
and strength be preserved.
For another, now as in the past,
the chef result of criticism seems
to be to stimulate the silly They
Hate Roosevelt" chorus with which
the radical press and the New Deal
iobholders habitually meet every
dissenting view no matter how well
justified
Menace Declared Great.
But the menace to the country
of this situation is so great that
there is no excuse for not speaking
plainly. A leading newspaper put
1t politely the other day when it
declared that The administration
is not giving courageous support to
It's own program"
That is true so far as it goes but
1t is an inadequate and not candid
presentation. 1t is confusing and
evasive to say administration
when you mean Mr. Roosevelt, who
is the administration and personally
responsible. Also, it is inadequate
to say that he is not giving courage
GUS support to his own program
when he is not giving any support
1t was belatedly agreed by the
President four months ago that
among the things essential to any
real control of prices were ceiling
over wages and a taxation program
that will diminish the amount OF
money the people have to spend.
These two were outstanding in his
seven point anti-inf1ation program
Yet he has done nothing to imple-
ment either. 1t is now asserted that
he intends to act shortly" that ir
few days he will send a message
to Congress urging legislation te
stabilize wages" So far wages
have been stabilized by merely rails
ing them and the action of Mr.
Roosevelt's War Labor Board ir