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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

OF assertions made IN washington
by w. S. Wasserman. chief of the
American lease-lend mission to Au-
stralia, and l.. j. Hartnett, Au-
tralia ndirector of ordnance pro-
duction.
These statements, as received
here. amazed American and Au-
stralian officials because of optim-
ism which a lease-lend mission
spokesman likened to those made
in Egypt before the German forces
broke through to threaten Suez.
Wasserman was quoted as saying
that very little more American
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

of the increased cost of shipping
oil by rail rather than by sea.
In general, he proposes that
congress authorize the OPA and
the agriculture department to buy
high cost raw materials and sell
them to manufacturers and other
professors at loSs-at the gov
ernment's loss--to maintain pres
ent price levels.
Henderson gave con gressional
leaders no definite estimate of what
1t would cost to inaugurate sub
sidy system similar to that now op-
Grating In Canada, but was reported
to have mentioned that 1t probably
would approximate three or four
hundred million dollars year"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

Sen. Elmer Thomas. D., Okla,
chairman of the senate military ap-
preparations subcommittee explain
ed its provisions and revealed that
it includes money for nearly 100,-
600" tanks.
The measure is the largest single
appropriation in history and house
concurrence is expected today.
The largest item for the domestic
establishment In the bill Is $l1.3l6.-
$4,000 to build airplanes for the
army air corps. But the measure
also includes $l2,700, 100000 for
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

: aid would enable Australia to take
the offensive; Hartnett as saying
that Australia would soon be able
to supply the American forces here
with most Of their necessary wea-
ponS.
"Wasserman' statement is ut
terly ncomprehensible and is apt
to give a completely false picture"
lease-lend spokesman said. Hart
nett's statement Is untrue as 1t Is
quoted in dispatches. Such state
ments are apt to do irreparable
harm to the Allied cause In the
southwest Pacific"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Germany Prepares
Near East Attack

LONDON, June 30-(UP)-Mes-
sages from Europe today reported
that thousands of German para
chute troops had been rushed from
Sicily to Greece for possible air
invasion of the Near East II the
Axis offensive in Egypt is halted
by unfavorable weather or British
reinforcements in the desert west
of Alexandria.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

w dNCAC uiodoIiouS lIllldIlOIl IilIu
frozen price levels will be weak
ened - If 1t does not fail - if the
OPA Is forced to allow widespread
price increases to save many busi-
nesses and industries from bank
ruptcy.
He fears, 1t was said, that If
prices, now frozen at March levels,
are relaxed because of increasing
costs of raw materials, transporta-
tion. ETC., the entire cost of living
may leap out of control
He proposes, instead, that the
government assume the burden Of
such increased costs to prevent in
creases In consumer commodities.
He pointed out that the price Of
gasoline on the east coast was
boosted 2h cents yesterday because
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

lend-lease.
The bill would grant the war de-
partment sl0,3l9. .559. .342 for pay and
subsistence Of an army which Is ex-
pected to top 100000 mark before
the end Of fiscal 1943.
Action on the war bill was block
ed yesterday when senate Rcpub-
lican Leader Charles L. McNary OF
Oregon objected to what he describ-
ed as indecent" haste In pushing
through bill which. he pointed
out, calls for more money than all
of the first world war cost.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
E9yPt
Peril
Germans Advance
On OnAlexandria in
Battle for Nile
BULLETIN

CAIRO, June 30-(UP)-The
Germans advancing along the
Mediterranean shore toward
Alexandria, have passed Ell
Daba, 80 miles west of the
major British naval base, it was
said authoritatively here today.
Ell Daba was where the British
had been expected to make their
big stand before Alexandria.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
SHRINERS ELECT
NATIONAL OFFICERS

CHICAGO, June 30 (UP) - AL
bert Fiebach, Cleveland attorney,
today was elected Imperial Poten-
tate of the Arabic Order of Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine. He succeeded
Thomas c. Law, Atlantic, Ga.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Australians Hit
Optimists i'm u. s.

MELBOURNE, June 80. (UP)-Prime Minister John
Curtin said today that Australia still insuffciently
strong nsuffciently equipped and nsuffeny advanced
in its organization.
His statement was made reply to newspaper reports
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Nozis Can't Ia ke
1t. Says Evacuee
Billy MitcheII's Sister, Member Of
JusosIav GueriIlas Until Caushtby
Ges+apo, Says Bombs will Bring Victory

JERSEY CITY, N. j., June 80 (UP)--Federal agents,
including those of army and navy intelligence and the
department of justice swarmed aboard the Swedish liner
Drottninghom today it's arrival from Lisbon with 900
Americans but permitted only diplomatic attaches to i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Henderson Fears
Price bIoW-Up

WASHINGTON, June 80. (UP)-Prce Administrator
Leon Henderson has notified congressional leaders that
price ceilings cannot be held at levels unless SUBJ
sidzation legislation is enacted Immediately learned
today He is reported to have warned that the struggle
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Farm Labor PIeo
I aiken to Capital
Valley Producers Ask Supervisors Help
In Getting Immediate Action TO Bring
In Crops, Provide Movement TO Market

Imperial Valley farmers Monday stormed the meeting
of the board of supervisors in Ell Centro and desperately
begged for help in getting labor to harvest their
they declared doomed to be lost unless they
get to harvest them Immediate action followed the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

Seeing Double
Guests. and we suspect the bride
were confused at the wedding of
Jim Cruickshank in Santa Monica
last weekend.
You see. Jim is twin and his
brother. Don Cruickshank of I'm
perial Vallev. was to be bestmar
at the wedding. The twins weren't
satisfied with only looking lust
alike. They had to dress just alike
It was terrible. No one could tell
which was the bridegroom AND
which was the bestman. The wrong
man was continually getting kissed
and congratulated. That gave Don
q swell chance but rather cramped
the style of Jim.
The bride should have put a ring
In Jim's nose SO she could be sure
she married the right twin.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

1appeal OF the farmers VINO repre-
sented all types of crops grown in
the valley.
Board members instructed Chair.
man B. M. Graham to telephone
w. B. Parker, former state agricul-
tural director in California who is
now in Washington, D. c., as 8
member of the federal bureau Of
economic warfare and food, and
ask. Graham telephoned Parker and
at his request sent him telegram
explaining the tragic situation fac
ing valley farmers and pointing
out the great loss of food and sup
plies needed for the war effort
unless something is done. Parker
promised to help.
sThe farmers o: this county can
not compete with the exhorbitant
prices the Navy pays the men they
employ on defense projects" said
NJ E. Ryan. secretary-manager of
the Imperial Valley Hay Growers
association. "The farmers just don't
make that kind of money. The ex-
treme scarcity of farm labor has
resulted in farmers bidding against
one another until the wages paid
farm labor have pyramided out of
sight. We don't blame the workmen
for getting the wages when they
can but what are we to do with our
crops? We can't harvest them and
we can't get them hauled away even
though they are needed"
EXAMPLE CITED
Ryan declared that a Negro man
made Sl02 in one week for hauling
hay and the association furnished
the truck. The Negro quit because
the association couldn't pay him
more money. 1t cost the association
1927 to work that man and truck
for a week, which was prohibitive,
Ryan said.
The board and the farmers dis
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
80 Escape Death
In Collision Of
Truck and Engine
Motor Vehicle Driver Only Fatality
As Locomotive. Passenger and Baggage
Cars Leave Tracks at SeeIey Crossing

A truck driver killed, San Diego and Arizona
train 25 feet of railroad track destroy
ed 80 shaken and frightened and beer truck de-
moshed in collision west of E Centre at 58 Tues
day. Cecil Thaxer Johnson 32 beer truck driver of Los
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Americans i'm Action on
Desert Against Romme|
D AMs!!xs 4vsIn!;
u EpoR1ER

It's Their Story
Southern Pacific employees swear
this story is true.
Right after the train and the
beer truck met disastrously west of
Ell Centre early Tuesday, scattering
beer all over the place, cute little
black and white mongrel dog trot-
ted to the scene. Around his neck
was a collar and from the collar
dangled a bottle opener.
He Faded
The porter on the wrecked train
really behaved very we'll.
After the passengers and the
train crew reached Ell Centre, the
Negro porter said.
Boss. amt got my color back
yeti"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

Anything But That
1t was very naughty of Joyce
Wright to drive over a fire hose
while firemen were fighting a fire
In FL Centre not long ago.
Fire Chief Corn Reed, who has
a habit of spotting such things,
saw her. Waving a traffic ticket
book in a menacing manner, he fol-
lowed her to her office after the
fire was out. Looking fiercely down
his nose as an irate official should,
Chief Reed issued his ultimatum.
You either take me out to a
chicken dinner or I'll give you a
ticket for driving over that fire
hose"
She looked Chief Reed over coolly
and held out her hand.
"I'll take the ticket she snapped.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
WEATHER

Maximum Monday Ill. Minimum
Tuesday II. S pm. Monday 103, hu-
mitlity 2. S am. Tuesday 78, hu-
midity 30. Noon Tuesday ITO, hu-
mudidty Is.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Chicuqo Livestock

CHICAGO. Dec. tP-Although the
number of head placed on sale was some
to slip into lower price territory today.
IL prices were we're about steady to 5 cents
for several days. There were not many
transactions at that level however. and
most offerings were taken at Sl3.4O and
= addition to 1s:o 900 salsble arrivals,
packers had $4,000 directs on hand. The
week and livestock circles thought any any
prolonsed cold weather over the corn belt
would be certain to accelerate that ex-
Reactina to the sharp declines in the
fe nfst ss;n Two GAYS this week producers cut cal
produced a much hrmer market, with fed
steers ana yearlings steady to strong An
stsays sarly big bf Of 81; was made for choice
week and did not result in a.saie.
The lamb market was late in setting
soartea. " few lots were steady at S1525
Omitted States Department of AsricuI-
ttuirs,-ssllable tyre. hogs 1900; total 5000:
choice 1915 and IL. SO; extreme extreme GoIS iop.
5so So posDa sDw mostly SsHy steady ggod ana
~ salsble sheep, 1000; total. II 900: late
Ia iesdsS: SisS rat lambs. steady to strong top,
fat ewes slow, undertone weak; few M tive
Wooled lambs. 1880: bulk GOOD and choice
o;t. Io2 o-5e; good and choice clipped No. /
psits; I5 500-25; good and choice yeariinss
today.s trade; Market not established; few
i9ts lat lambs steady at l5.25-5O; eood
held above 1870; some Interests biddins
Salable cattle. $500: calves. 500; fed
pecially on western order buyer and ship
per ACCOUNT; largely fat steer run. bulk
u - S.l6;26 early TOP. 1875; 1900 bid
cattle slow. steady: heifers weak at IL 90
so: best, 1925; cows active. Arm;
weighty cutters to 400: most fat cows
a.75-12.00; bulls Arm: weiehty sausage Of
ferinss to 1890; vealers steady at 1850
down,
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Washington Produce

BUTTER-a3 score, tubs. 40; 1-pound
prints 49l2; l4-pound prints so; 81 score.
tubs, 41l3; 1-pound prints, As: l.-pound
prints, 47s. ni pound iaGS: prints 4sis; 30
score. tubs, A.; | pound prints 47i2; "
pound prints, 4s 80 score, tubs 40; l.
SO score; tubs, 45h: 1-pound prints, 49,.
14-pound prints, 4fL4
LIVESTOCK - Calves, 1917; spring
lambs Is.
prices paid net fob. WashingtonD
EGGS-Market steady. receipts very
light: prices nominaIly UNCHANGED prices
paid for Federal-State graded eggs re-
ceived from grading station December
2) whites: U. s. extras. large. 5O-53;
-; average. 43la,. Y; S. standards, large,
44-45; average, 44Ia: u s. standards
medium, SO: U. S. trades, 36-3a: average
3sE2; browns. U. S. extras. large, 5O-51
average, so; U. S. extras medium, 4l-43
average, AZ: U. S standards large. 43-44;
sgersse. 43k: U. s: standards, medium
arrivals Of nearby. ungraded eggs season.
largely nominal; whites. 40-41; mixed COL
,o,L1 LIVE PouLTRY-Market steady; fowl,
coloreo, pounds and up, 24-25; under 3
pounds. 22-23: roosters. mixed colors 15-
10: chickens. Delaware. Va, and MARYLAND
ROCKS and crosses. broilers and fryers ali
sizes, 26: turkeys. young, toms 3l-32
hens, 1894: oil toms and No 2s, %.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
D. {. Postal Receipts
Set New Records
In November
Climb to S1,074,4l5,
Against SS25,053 in
Some l94l Month
By EDWARD c. STONE.

All former records for November
receipts at the City Post ONCE we're
shattered by big margin IN the
month just ended and revenues for
the first II months of this year
were also much higher than in any
corresponding period in the past.
Postmaster Vincent c. Burke an
nounced today.
November postal receipts amount
ed to $l,074,4l5.77, a jump of s249.-
1921 over the 1925 .053 AS income
total in the like period of a year
ago. This was gain of 1922 per
cent, one Of the very best percentage
increases in the whole year.
In the II months, postal revenues
crossed the sl0.000000 mark for the
first time, reaching S10.594, ,524.60,
compared with $8,517, ,755 30 a wear
ago, an upswing of S2076. 1881.
With this high total for IL months.
1t becomes more and more evident
that the years receipts will exceed
$l2,00O,000
The exceptional November show
ing was not due to very much extra
Christmas business. Postmaster
Burke said today. Christmas busi-
ness is really being felt now. how
ever, and there was a furry of parcel
post shipments on the last day OF
November as people tried to follow
the postal request and mail as many
Christmas packages as possible be-
fore December Most of the Novem.
Der extra postal rush was due to
the wartime boom, Mr.. Burke as
serted.
Revenues in the first II months OF
1912 compare as follows with the
like months in l94l.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-Continuing
their recent broad advance. grain
prices today rose to almost 2 cents
a bushel, with rye futures again in
the lead.
Wheat, corn and rye quotations
were around top levels for the past
two months in some cases. Cash
corn was the highest in more than
three months.
Buying came from mills, industrial
users OF corn and dealers covering
previous short sales in the rye pit
Record farm and industrial con-
sumption Of corn and belief that
war developments may lead to re-
vived export traffic in domestic
grains stimulated buying. Colder
weather also was factor while some
dealers thought the flour ceiling
might be revised upward.
Wheat closed Ss-11s cents higher
tnan Yesterday. December, $126la;
May, sl.3las-14; corn, 1-1s4 higher
December, $685. -34; May. 9l1a; oats,
l4-1a up; rye. 1872 higher; soy
beans, 1a-1ls lower.
Mill buying of wheat expanded
materially in late dealings and flour
business was reported active in some
markets. Large Eastern chain
bakers. small independent users and
Jobbers as well as Government
agencies were reported in the mar
ket for about 10000 barrels of flour
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Stocks Of Fuel Oil
And Gasoline Rise
In Weekly Period
Increases Are Minor
And Figures Are Well
Under Lost Year
Ps tfs Associated Press.

Ps tFe Associated Press
NEW YORK. Dec 2-Minor in
creases in stocks of fuel oils and
gasoline during the week ended
November % were reported today by
the American Petroleum Institute.
Finished and unfinished gasoline
in storage at the end of the week
totaled 78.854,000 barrels. against
78 8.583 900 a week earlier and sc $780,
600 year previously.
Industrial fuel oil supplies were up
1874 900 barrels at 77,796,000 but still
were we'll under the 94,8l7 900 bar
rels of a year earlier. Last week. S
figure was revised to 77,0l2. 900 to
exclude Government supplies, which
the API said do not enter the do
mestic inventory position.
Light fuel oils of the type used
for household heating were a shade
larger at 49,739,0OO barrels against
SIS ,25l 900 a year earlier
Daily average crude oil produc-
ton was down slightly at 3,878,00
barrels. against 1912 400 the previous
week and 4,O86.60O year before.
Refinery operations were estimated
at 778 per cent of capacity, against
IT'S the previous week. indicating
the industry ran 3,736, 900 barrels
of oil to stills daily compared with
3,722 900 in the week of November
81 and 4.145000 year previously.
Gasoline production for the week
was II .269 GOO, against 1l,43l 900 the
week before.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Production
Continued From First Page.)

pect the Army to look after the
Navy's demands, or the Army TO
look after the demands of the
Maritime Commission
Il don't think there will be many
wounds left from the battle" ne
continued, maybe one or two that
won't heal quickly. think you will
find this to be harmonious ar
rsngement in the long run"
The action setting up the aircraft
board calls for abolishment of the
WPB Aircraft Division Most of the
division personnel will be transferred
to the Bureau of Aeronautics and
Air Forces Materiel and Production
Commands in the Pentagon Build
ing.
Carrying out orders of the board
directly within the two service air
arms will be the Production Control
Committee, to be headed by Ted P.
Wright, deputy director of the WPB
Aircraft Division and former vice
president of Curtiss- Wright Corp.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Duce Hits Churchill Wornnq Declares ItoIy Won't Quit

Volga and the Don River to the
west, Russian forces were reported
continuing their crowding opera
tions, trying to cut of and destroy
piece by piece the remnants of the
vast army that Field Marshal Gen.
Fedor Won Book deployed in the area
more than three months ago.
Here the Red Air Force came into
play. The communique reported it
had shot 20 tri-motored German
Junkers transport planes out of the
air yesterday and then had raided
airdromes to destroy 80 more.
The enemy has been attempting
to bring up supplies and war ma
terials with transport planes" the
communique said. Pincers thrown
far west of Stalingrad by Russian
columns previously had cut Axis
rail and road communications. De-
struction Of the flying freighters
adds to the harassment of the in
vaders caught in the Don loop.
Soviet units repelled attacks in
the factory area of Stalingrad. the
communique said, and killed 800 of
the enemy
The war bulletin tailed more than
5000 invaders killed in the days
fighting.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Steel Men Confused
By War Contract
Readjustments
Machine Tool Industry
Reports Cancellations
OF Material Orders
Py the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The Iron
Age said today readjustment of war
contracts was confusing many COM
panies and that the machine tool
industry as we'll, as structural and
reinforcing fabricators eported d
many cancellations on war material
orders.
The magazine said cancellations
in the machine tool industry was
due partly to the switch in emphasis
to fighting planes and ships, while
the others were the result of the
War Production Board decision to
curtail construction programs in
order to make materials available
for direct military use.
Said the publication:
Already slashes in tank produc-
tion schedules have been reflected in
lessening pressure on some steel
mills which have been rolling tank
plates.
Statements in Conflict.
"Of all segments of industry study
ing this war contract adjustment
period, none are watching more at
tentively than the thousands of
strictly civilian product companies
shut of from supplies Of steel and
other metals because their plants
have no place in war industry
machine.
Official and unofficial statements
on the steel supply situation-some
of which seem to be in conflict
have brought perplexity to both pro-
ducers and consumers the WPB
will not permit any piling of ingots
but will see that any steel produc-
ton in excess of that required for
direct war requirements will find its
way into essential civilian needs.
LAS to the extent Of raw steel
stocks in various steel plants. the
Iron Age has learned that at some
plants in the Chicago, Pittsburgh
and Eastern districts, the inventory
of ingots is slightly higher than it
had been before lease-lend require
ments. The condition at these mills
by no means indicates a 'piling OF
ingots.'
AT one of these plants in the
East, the situation was in a class by
itself since almost the entire output
of steel ingots has been allocated
for lease-lend requirements. Since
this plant has no finishing facilities,
these ingots must be shipped else
where.
Most of the current reports of
ingot stocking refer to carbon
steels. The situation in alloy steel
production is not only tight but
seems to be nearing some sort Of
climax. Last week the WPB put
pressure on various steel companies
which are not now making alloy
steel in their open hearths, or are
making small amounts, to explore
the possibility Of stepping up alloy
steel production.
Steel lngot production this week
was unchanged at 995 per cent with
the only alterations being Detroit s
one-point drop to 1045 per cent and
the Eastern districts 9-point decline
to 106 per cent. Other areas were
unchanged from last weeks sched-
ules.''
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Consumer Loans
Drop 8 Per Cent
In October
,y The Associated Pres.

By the Associated Press.
Consumer installment loans out
standing, representing purchased
contracts and direct loans, at all
commercial banks decreased by s
per cent in October to an estimated
total of 1922 900, 900, the Federal
Reserve Board reports.
Although automotive loans showed
the largest declines in the latter part
of l941 and the early part of 1912,
the board said. since June of this
year the retail loans have declined
by 20 per cent or at about the same
rate as automotive debt. Personal
inStallment cash loans which previ-
ously showed the smallest relative
downward trend are currently de-
clining at faster rate than loans
for repair and modernization.
Evening star., 1942-12-02
Beatrice Creamery Pays
75-Cent Extru Dividend

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Dec. 2-The Beatrice
Creamery Co., Chicago. yesterday
declared an extra dividend of rs
cents share on common stock. in
addition to regular quarterly divi-
dend of Is cents a share of the
common, payable January to
stockholders of record December II.
The company also declared reg
ular quarterly dividend of s125 a
share on preferred stock payable at
the same date.