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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
STRONG BAIT

PETERSBURG, IN D. - I n
granting eight duplicate gasoline
rationing stamps to Barney Elk
ms, filling station proprietor,
local rationing officials consid-
cred as evidence of necessity a
dead mouse, a mouse trap and a
partly destroyed gasoline stamp.
Cheese failed to lure the
mouse, which had eaten seven
stamps, Elkins explained, so he
used the eighth stamp as bait.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE


This is the third of series Of
outstanding rubber bridge hands
given to me by Harry j. Fishbein
of the Mayfair Bridge Club in
New York.
The opening lead was won in
dummy with the king of dia-
monds. Now if you want to lose
the contract, all you have to do
at this point is to lead a small
heart and take the finesse. East
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
WRONG ADDRESS

DENVER = Arrested on a
Federal charge of defacing cur
rency, a 59-year- man ex-
planned he wrote Biblical quota
tons on dollar bills, hoping they
would fall into the hands Of
criminals and reform them.
Secret Service agents were at
loss to explain why some of
the bills were mailed TO them.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
KALAMAZOO CHOO CHOO

KALAMAZOO, MICH.-When
the Kalamazoo Stove Co.'S boiler
blew out officials borrowed a
Michigan Central locomotive,
parked it on a siding and pump
ed steam from its boilers into the
heating system of the plant un-
til the building was warm
enough for employees to resume
their war work.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
RUBBER TROUBLE

BOISE, IDA.-Think of the
rubber situation and spare a tear
for Fire Chief Frank Pulaski.
His men, fighting a fire across
the railroad tracks, uncoiled l.
$50 feet of hose. While they
weren't looking, train shipped
the precious rubber tubing into
three pieces.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
oBEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .


3. Control over food produc-
ton and distribution, instead of
oeipg set up as a separate food
administration, is given to Sec
rotary of Agriculture Claude r.
Wickard.
4. Problems of non military
administration of foreign lands
occupied by u. S. troops are
given to a new Office of Foreign
Territories, OFT, likewise set up
within the Department of State.
under Paul Appleby, former un-
der-secretary of agriculture.
ALL THIS, AND MONEY, TOO
A fifth indication of this trend
toward stronger cabinet control
might be listed in the current
Senate move to place funds ex-
pended by the Board of Eco
nomic Warfare under more strict
control of Secretary of Com
merce Jesse Jones.
The exception is, of course,
the new order on manpoWer,
transferring control over Select
i've Service to the War Manpow-
er Commission under Paul v.
McNutt. VINO is left within the
organizational framework of the
Office of Emergency Manage
ment, the big overall war agen-
cy holding company. But the
original plan. was to put man
power control in the Department
of Labor.
All this shuffling around of
government agencies may look
like nothing more than lot of
reframing of old familiar faces.
But if it has any significance
at all, it is that a lot of these
war jobs which were originally
considered temporary are now
being sized up as jobs that will
have to be carried over into the
post war period, and therefore
they are being assigned to the
established executive agencies
of the government.
SMILED AND FROWNED ON
This idea of centering more
war powers in the cabinet is be-
ing talked of in Washington now
as a successor or as a develop
opment of the theory that there
should be one supreme boss of
all the war agencies should be
all tn ewar agencies should be,
transferred to this director. In
Congress, this idea has jelled in
the form of the proposed War
Mobilization bill, spon sore d
originally by Congressman John
Tolan of California and taken up
by Senators Truman, Pepper,
Kilgore and others. Hearings on
this legislation are now being
held before Senator Claude Pep
per's subcommittee on Educa-
ton and Labor.
The idea of having a supreme
direc tor of war mobilization
stems from the pld Barney Ba-
ruch proposals based on expert
ence in the last war. Thus far,
the reaction to the COMPRESSION
al Office of War Mobilization
plan has been all favorable. But
it is known tn a I the idea is
frowned on by top men in the
present War Production Board,
who feel that any general re-
shuffling of war agencies might
be too much of mid-stream horse
swapping at this time. The War
Department is also known to op-
pose the Tolan War Mobiliza-
ton plan, and has had in prep
aration for some days formal
statement giving its arguments
against the legislation.
The idea of building up a
stronger war cabinet is there
fore being looked on as some
thing of a substitute for the To-
Ian plan.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
FARM RELIEF PROGRAM

The War Monpower Commission and the Depart
ment Of Agriculture have outlined q program for the
relief of American formers Unlike prior farm relief
plans this one has little to do with financing 1t is on
intelligent, foword-Iookine program to guarantee
the formers enough help that they can feed us, our
allies, and the furnished victims Of axis occupation,
once we have begun to free these lost.
Generally speaking, the ideo depends on full
time mobile army Of experienced farm workers which
can be moved around the country at federal expense
to supplement local monpower as crops mature.
The plan contempIotes moving experienced for
ners from substondord ocreoee where their effort is
largely vested training farmers to use available man.
power to the best advantage; expanding Employment
Service placement machinery to move available
help where it will do the most good; and in crop sea-
sons to mobilize local volunteer groups in temporary
crises
These things, the planners believe, will be nnpos-
sibe unless farm wages ore raised so to compete
better against the lure Of industrial pay scales.
Certainly the whole scheme will collapse unless
the 48 stotes induced to revoke suspend those
stotutes-odoPted originally to protect their woge-
eorners against competition from outsiders - that
would make impossible the complete mobility upon
which the new farm relief plan depends
As War Monpower Chairman Paul MoNutt
nounces the overall plan, it seems to be thoroughly
intelligent approach to most vexotous and poten-
toIIy dangerous problem.
Many ideas just as promising os this one have
Topped because nobody did anything to effectuote
Them Others have foiIed because too many persons
did too much, all different This led to chaos.
The farm monpower relief outline does credit to
Commissioner McNutt os prooteol pIonner Now
it remains to be how good the Hooser will prove
as an administrator
Meanwhile the formers themselves have on inn
mediate job. Mr.. MoNutt cannot succeed unless the
legislatures Of most states cooperate by relaxing
Gripping legal barriers to labor mobility.
The formers have much influence in stote leesIo-
lures For their sokes, and for the sake Of
kind as WHOLE that influence should be used to force
through necessary statutory revsions Another year
will be too Iote.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
HI VA, BOSS!

PHILADELPHIA-Er ne t
Parnell, hit by an automobile,
didn't have to call his office to
explain why he didn't report for
work. He found his boss, Henry
Smedley, in a hospital room adj
joining his. Smedley had just
stumbled and injured his hip.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
c CARDS?


KANSAS CITY - Collins
Gettes, 35, claims the fancy hot
foot he received from three l8-
year-old youths was worth Sl0,-
600 damage suit, were accused
of pouring gasoline on Gettes'
clothing and in circle around
him-and igniting il. He was
asleep-waiting for street car.
NEEDN'T WORRY NOW
ROCKFORD, ILL.-Working
more than an hour overtime,
Melvin c. Boese, 80, had vainly
sought an apparent shortage of
SIS in his days accounts at the
grocery store he operates.
A robber walked in through
a side door, which normally
would have been locked at that
hour, and walked out again with
the days receipts-S650.
Or was it S645?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
NO S. S. HARRY BRIDGES

The serious suggestion that O Liberty Ship be
named for Harry Bridges, Ieoder in c. l. O. group
which, until Russia attacked, was delaying Amer
icon production, is shocking. Not only should
the deo be repudoted but the person who sponsored
in the Maritime Commission should be relieved from
any type Of duty which requires sound judgment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
Low TEMPERATURES

Surgeon General Poron expresses the opinion that
room temperatures Of S. degrees would not serious
" mpoir public health and thot temperatures much
as 10 degrees lower would result in only slight dan
gers.
Without venturine to set 10y opinion against Dr..
PorrQn's skill, this is startling and unbelievable.
Given time and opportunity to adjust itself erod-
uoIk. much Of the public eventually might find such
temperatures heoIthfuI rather than otherwise. But
~ adjustment period would be very unpleasant
5td might bring wave Of disabling sickness which
~ notions depleted force Of medioos could not
hendls.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
sTAGGER SYSTEM

New Jerseys statewide staggered hours program
for schools, stores and offices has accomplished won
ders. Persons who used to fight for standing in
Buses troeys and trons actually get seats, port
Of the time. Trove time has been cut down in some
instances as much os IS to 20 minutes
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-16
HORIZONTAL
] Pictured u. S.
flyer, Gen.

9 He is active in
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
Prospector Lost.
Found Near Yuma

YUMA, May 20-(UP)-Searchers
found Harry Schultz, so, Whittier,
Calf, alive and we'll yesterday o0
miles north of Yuma after be hao
been missing 10 days while on
prospecting trip.
A posse, headed by Sheriff 1 H.,
Newman and including 20 cavalry
men, found Schultz.
Schultz said he became lost on a
hike from the Red Cloud mine. lie
said he was without water for two
days, until he reached the COLORADO
river, and he was without food Tor
four days.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

The Red army was supported by
renewal of the Raj offensive
against the Nazi war machine =
striking hard at Mannheim - and
by an official statement in the
House of Commons that the Allies
are maSSing strength for "a care
fully planned invasion of Europe
at some undisclosed date. American
forces in the British Isles presum-
ably would take part, in an effort
to relieve pressure on the Russians
in such battles as that now in
progress at Kharkov.
Outcome of the battle that is ex-
pected to decide whether Hitler
can launch his summer offensive
in the Ukraine still was undecided,
but reports from both Moscow and
Berlin indicated that German
CONFERENCE.-The toward Barvenkovo
on the Soviet southern flank had
failed so far to make important
progress.
All dispatches Wednesday told of
the tremendous scope of the battle
in which tanks and artillery, infan-
try and cossack cavalry were SO
tangled in deadly combat that the
air fleets battling overhead found
it difficult to intervene. A million
men were estimated to be engaged
in the battle. But neither side
claimed any outstanding gains and
it was indicated that the outcome
would be determined by ability to
stand up to ruthless slugging that
is costing both armies heavily in
men and machines.
RUSSIANS PREPARED
Soviet marshal Semyon limo
shenko appeared to be well equipped
for the exchange of grinding blows
on the Ukraine front, having seized
the initiative there with large re-
serves and early air superiority.
Radio Moscow said Nazi field mar
shall Fedor Won Book had thrown
all of his tank reserves into the
conflict without hating the slow,
grinding Russian advance.
The Nazis, however, had massed
huge forces in the Ukraine for their
contemplated offensive and there
was no reason to believe that they
had yet suffered any decisive blow.
The important thing from limo
shenko's viewpoint was to keep
them on the defensive. Radio Ber-
lin acknowledged the Soviet mar
shall was succeeding in that pur-
pose, although the Nazis took the
viewpoint that Timoshenko was
burning up his strength and would
be unable to halt a later counter
Continued on Page 6; Column %
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

Federation, who Is in Washington
comforting with federal officials.
Hoober asked that the farmers
aid in developing way to move
crops with a minimum OF equip
mCnt and rubber and make a sur
vey to determine :l-What tonnage
can move by freight and what by
truck. 2-What can be done to pool
equipment. 3-Check what can be
done to increase inefficiency in use
and care of equipment. 4-Deter-
mine tire needs for three or four
months. 5-Determine how many
tires can be recapped.
He urged that the information
be gathered Immediately and be
presented to Assistant Chief Ellis
Longnecker of the Office of Defense
Transportation, who will be in Los
Angeles June 10 for a conference
on southern Cailornia problems.
The purpose in Washington is
to give every possible assistance to
move vital farm crops Hober tele-
graphed Wednesday. I'VE should be
interested in how much we can
assist in the total war effort by
using only a minimum amount of
Rubber in moving crops, not how
Continued on Page 6; Coumn a.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
Australia Renews
Demands for Help
ToForestan laps
Anzacs Critical of AEF
In Northern Ireland
While East Neglected

MELBOURNE, May 20.
(UP)-Australia renewed its
demand for more planes,
men, guns and ships today
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
Allied air force continued its wide
reconnaissance flights in search OF
an enemy invasion fleet.
One newspaper by implication
criticized the United States for
sending additional forces to North
ern Ireland unless they are intend
ed for an immediate offensive
against the German held continent
of Europe.
Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford,
in a statement, said:
The need for planes can not be
too strongly stressed =. our slogan
should be planes, more planes and
still more planes. Without them
our task will be made heavier and
longer
THE request made at London by
Dr.. (HerberD Evatt (Australian
foreign secretary for delivery OF
planes to Australia as rapidly as
possible needs the support of all
Australians. 1t is encouraging to
find that his spirited and capable
appeals are meeting with public
support throughout the world"
The critical newspaper was the
Sydney Daily Telegraph. Comment
ing on the arrival of American
troops in northern Ireland it said
Australia would be the first to
Continued on Page 6; Column 50
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
Government Order
Leaves I.v. Tomato
Men with Surplus
Compliance With u. S.
Request Brings Local
Growers to Crisis

Imperial county tomato
growers, who increased their
1912 paintings 33 lL3 per
cent by order of the federal
government, w e d n e S d a y
made a determined effort to market
the surplus crop and ward oil the
so per cent loss they now face.
At a meeting of growers in Ell
Centre Tuesday afternoon, 1T was
decided to make County Agricultural
Commissioner B. A. Harrigan trustee
to handle the crop, to ship nothlng
smaller than 12-top tomatoes, to
market no small sizes, and get cam
neries to take the poor grades.
The tomato acreage in the county
this year totaled approximately 490U
acres. Prices set by the government
did not take into account the TACT
that Imperial county tomatoes must
be hauled 200 miles to a cannery.
The government set the price at
S18 a ton, delivered. 1t costs "a TO
get Imperial county tomatoes to
Il cannery.
Harrigan Immediately communi-
Gated with food buyers delegated
to purchase food for the armed
forces of the nation and with those
in charge of purchasing supplies
under the lend-lease program. He
also contacted representatives OF
the surplus commodities division,
which distributes surplus food to
the needy, to see if Imperial county
tomatoes may be purchased under
that program.
At the growers meeting it was
arranged that the trusteeshlp may
be dissolved at a general meeting
of growers if market conditions
improve
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

the surface of Imperial county lie,
although practically all county Oh
ficers will be up for reelection
Voters have turned to the state
contests for their political discus
sionS to date.
The candidacy filing period opens
MAY 81 and closes June 20. The
campaigns will be competing with
the war for public interest but
several hot contests are expected,
particularly revolving around the
reelection drive of Gov. Culbert
Olson.
Imperial county's greatest local
interest centered in the candidacy
of Mark Rose, Imperial Irrigation
District director, for a seat in the
house of representatives from dis
trict made up of Imperial, River
side and Orange counties Demo-
Gratis claimed Rose is 1.-The man to
beat" for the party nomination, al
ter a survey in adjoining counties
State Senator Jonn Phillips, RiV-
erside, seemed to be the leading Re
publican candidate, with a great
many friends in Imperial county
Observers declared it would not be
surprising to witness a November
run-off between Rose and philips.
Nominees will be chosen in the
primary election Aug. IS for. COVER
nor, lieutenant governor, attorney
general, secretary of state, treasurer,
controller, state board of equaliza-
ton Cfour members chosen by dis
tricts), state superintendent OF pub
lie instruction, 80 members OF the
state assembly 20 state senators ana
lesser county COMETS.
OLSON WORKING
Governor Olson is doing a lot oil
travelling in his reelection campaign.
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

no person be permitted to retain
more than $4,000 year after taxes.
There was no definite way yet
to compute the taxes the average
American Will have to pay on his
1912 income if the committee pro-
gram is finally approved by the
house and senate. But on the basis
of decisions SO far family with an
income of $4,000 year and two
children would have to pay about
$3.50. Such family now pays $58.
The remaining decision on indi-
vidual income taxes is whether to
grant the treasury's request to start
collecting part of each taxpayer
tax at the source as soon as the
new revenue bill passes.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
Mil LION MEN AT DEATH GRIP
in WARS GREATEST BATTLE
Hoarder to Take
PotIuCk Now

NEW YORK, May 20vUP)-
The sorrows Of boarding were
fOrcefully impressed upon
Brooklyn housewife today.
She anticipated rising prices
and shortages last fall and
stocked up on canned goods.
She bought cans of tomatoes,
peaches, cranberry sauce, 20
cans of soup, pickles, hash and
peas until a room in her cellar
was filled to the caves.
One afternoon she left home,
and when she returned she
found that pipe had burst and
flooded the basement. Every
label was soaked from the cans
and she couldn't tell peas from
peaches.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
Greek Repudiates
Story Of Shooting

Il was sick and 1 didn't want to
live any more" Bill Thomas Man
tells, Ell Centre Greek resident SAID
Wednesday when he repudiated his
original statement that an uniden-
titled Negro had shot him in the
head Monday.
He said he took a pistol from a
friends house and shot himself IN
the head, accidentally firing sec
ond shot which slightly wounded
him in the leg. the Greek told Deu-
utv Sheriff Peter Klyne.
ManteliS will be blind for the re-
mainder Of his life, physicians SAID
as the shot severed the optic nerve
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

revenue lTOn INCOME ldxcS--Soiiic
$750000,000 less than the treaSury's
new goal.
Everyone who earns more than
his exemptions-tentatively set for
!. $500 for single persons and $1,000
Nor married couples-must pay the
normal tax on taxable income re-
gardless of the amount.
Surtaxes may start at IL per cent
ON the first dollar of taxable in
Come and increase to as high as
IS per cent. That schedule has been
tentatively adopted by the commit
tee but several changes are to be
made.
Committee members interpreted
yesterdays action on the surtaX
schedules as indirect rejection OF
President Roosevelt's proposal that
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
BrawIey Honors
Bow Scout Group

BRAWLEY, May 20 - More than
300 Boz Scouts, Cub Scouts and
their parents gathered at the Scout
Hut in Brawley Tuesday night for
the annual charter night sponsor
ed by the Brawley Kiwanis club.
Boy Scout troop % and Cub Pack
l22 and their parents enjoyed pot
luck dinner and a program during
which the Rev Mr. Hayden Sears
pastor of the First Methodist
church of Ell Centre, addressed
them.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
War MayForce
Cosmetic RefilIs

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP)
- IL looks as il American wO-
men soon may have to buy
their cosmetics OH 4 refill"
basis, using the same vanity
cases and cOmpacts over and
over again.
This was indicated today by
the war production board, as
it prepared an order which is
expected to restrict such con-
tanners to plastics or paper.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
&c. Works Chief
In s. D. Hospital

Ell Centro's Public Works Direc-
tor Walter Heinecke Wednesday
had been removed to Emergency
hospital in San Diego for treat
ment of what was described as pois-
oning from medicines he took re-
Gently during an attack of the flu,
Heinecke had been under the
care of San Diego physicians, but
when he failed to respond satisfac-
torily, he was ordered to the hos
pital, friends in Ell Centre were
informed.
He was accompanied to the coast
city by Mrs. Heinecke.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20
0ne-Day BIitz Will Cap
War Bond Drive in Valley

Imperial Valleys War Bond COM
mittee Wednesday was all set to
conduct a one-day blitz next Mon
day to achieve absolute victory in
the drive to sell S88,600 in war
bonds and stamps during the month
of May.
A vast volunteer army of men
and women will make a house-to-
house canvass on that day to obtain
bond purchase pledge cards from
every resident OF the valley, County
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

union, both ALL, and Paul Gar
land, organizer in this area for the
Congress of Industrial organiza-
tons.
The first phase OF the drive, that
of obtaining pledges from employees
TO set aside a given amount OF their
earnings TO purchase bonds, Is VIZ
tually complete throughout the val
ley, Scriven said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

Beginning with Trifolium schools
commencement exercises Thursday
night, Imperial Valley rural schools
will graduate classes at a series of
programs ranging from May 81 to
June 9.
Those schools which have listed
their dates with the county super
intendent of schools office a.:
MESQUITE Lake, May 25: Sunset
Springs, MAJ IS; Highline, May
26; schools in the Ell Centre hiPh
school district, Elm, Eucalyptus,
McCabe, Seeley, S!lsbee, Westside,
and Roosevelt, May 81 at Central
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-20

Chairman Gordon Scriven an
nounced.
simultaneously, Scriven announc-
ed the appointment of an organized
labor committee to sign up all
union members. The committee is
composed of Walter Weldon, secre-
tary of Construction and General
Laborers union; Dick Neff. secre-
tary of the Carpenters and Joiners