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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Women
To Do
Work
Buildings Sought
To House Plants
In l.V.Ci+ies

Consolidated Aircraft COM
pany Immediately will estab-
lish supplementary factories
in several Imperial Valley
towns and employ Imperial
Valle% women to make airplane
parts for the war effort, it was re-
Vealed Thursday.
Officials of the company asked
Secretary Ben Herrino of the Ell
Centro Chamber of Commerce TO
find Is to 20 different buildings
with a grand total of 100000 square
feet Captain William Nelson, COM
pany representative, will be in the
valley the first of next week to
inspect the buildings and select the
most desirable from the ones Her.
ring was able to locate.
DETAILS LACKING
There was no announcement as
TO the opening date for the supple
mentary factories nor did company
officials reveal how many women
would be employed in running the
three daily shifts at the plants.
There was a possibility that more
than $50 women will be required
in Ell Centro alone.
The women will be recruited from
Imperial Valley as far as possible,
it was understood. The auxiliary
factories were not established in
San Diego because of the housing
shortage there. 1t also was consider
ed wise to utilize the reservoir of
feminine labor available in the val
ley.
SHUTTLE SERVICE
To save gasoline and tires, it was
decided to scatter the plants through
the various valie% towns.
There will be no storage facilities
required as the company planned
to send trucks from San Diego load
ed with raw material every day and
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
MexicaIi Stages
Great Parade for
Civilian Defense
5000 Will Take Part
In Big Pageant Set
For All Day Friday

MEXICALI, Nov. 10. =
More than 5000 men, women,
and children will participate
in a big parade and celebra-
ton here Friday in honor OF
the civil defense program.
Four battalions of the Civil De-
fense Reserve will receive their flags
from Gen. Felipe Rico, commanding
officer in Baja California, at the
ball park at 8 am.
In the parade scheduled for 10
am. will be the battalions, school
children from MeXicali and Tijuana.
and all the members of the various
civil defense units operating to pro-
tect Mexico from the enemy.
A bull fight was scheduled for
the afternoon and the days festivi-
ties will close with a fiesta at the
open air theatre near the governor
palace.
Officials of Imperial count" and
Gen. Brown, commanding officer at
Camp Lockett, were invited to at
tend along with other residents on
the American side.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Survey Begins on
Proposed New U.S..
AirfieId in w.
Site Near HOltviIle
Mapped Preparatory to
Possible Construction

Surveying crews worked
Thursday on the proposed
military landing field north
east of Holtville as Il prelimi-
nary step in the task of get
ting federal approval and funds for
the project.
1t was understood from reliable
sources that present plans call for
the establishment of a satellite field
on the mesa beyond the II ghline
canal. A satellite field is said to be
one OF small extent designed to be
used as a practice landing field.
Maps will have to be made after
the survey is completed, data COL
lected and prepared, and the whole
mass of information presented to
officials in Washington before they
will decide whether they want the
field. If officials decide they want
the field, reliable sources said
Thursday, estimates will have to be
prepared and the money sought from
the government. 1t may be months
before this can be done.
War developments, however, may
mean changes in the plans and
schedules as they now stand, it wa
explained.
Rumors circulated in Imperial
Valley were to the effect that the
government planned to spend vast
sums of money on the Holtville
site and that work was to begin
there Immediately. 1t was impos-
sible to ascertain where these ru-
mors originated.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

oCNcldl VI Illc lidil -uOHCil uoCloIo wiz
worked throughout the night with
intensely suffering inmates, said the
poisoning appeared to be ptomaine.
Others, however, said they believed
that because of the nature of the
victims reactions the poison was
of a type that would have to be
placed in the food Intentionally.
ACTION QUICK
The poison had acted too quickly,
they said, to be classified as pto-
maine. The first death occurred
about 40 minutes after dinner was
served.
DR.. I. B. Hill said the poison ap-
peared to be chemical poison. Pto-
maine poison is of a bacterial type.
DR.. John C. Evans, hospital super
intendent, described the illness as
acute gastro-intestinal.'
Some AGO patients, on a special
workers diet, ate the poisoned eggs.
Population of the hospital is ap-
proXimately 1900.
Physicians still hurried from ward
to ward today treating patients.
They said, however, the violence of
the flareup had subsidized consider
ably and said there was possibili-
| ty there would be no more deaths
IL STILL ILL
Fewer than II patients were con-
sidered still critically ill. They were
being administered supportive treat
ment with stimulantS.
The staff at the hospital, six doc
tors and ten nurses, experienced
difficulty in treating the victims
because the wards, some of them
without telephones, were housed in
widely separated buildings.
! Dinner .lad scarcely started when
! the first symptoms of the illness
were noted Patients became violent
T. il, vomiting blood. Forty minutes
after dinner began, the first inmate
] died.
Doctors Immediately ordered vic
Tins in the five affected wards to
bed and applied stimulants.
CRAMPS SET IN
The illness grew rapidly worse
with patients suffering violent
stomach cramps and partial paral-
ySis of the respiratory organs
Doctors said they experienced lit
tie difficulty with the patients them
selves, despite their acute distress.
Two staff members sampled the
eggs. One Immediately suffered Sc
we're cramps and the other vomited
The eggs, which DR.. Evans said
he subsequently learned had been
served at other state institutions as
part of the same shipment without
causing illness, were quick frozen
eggs.
ESTABLISHED PROCESS
The yolkS were drawn from crack
ed eggs, put into tin containers and
frozen at Sub-zero temperatures. the
same conditions under which they
were stored at the hospital.
DR.. Evans said he believed the
process had been in use for several
years.
Two StomachS were sent immed-
lately to Portland for examination
y specialists there. 1t was likely
autopSieS would be ordered
Dr. Joseph Beeman, director of
the state crime detection laboratory
was summoned from Portland to aid
in the investigation.
Evans said the canned egg yolks
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
U. 5. Army Creates
Austrian Unit

WASHINGTON. Nov. l9-(U.P9
Formation of an Austrian battalion
of the army of the United States
has been authorized, Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson announced
today.
The unit will be an infantry bat
talon composed of Austrian citizens
living in the United States.
Stimson said it was authorized in
response to the appeal of many Aus
trians for an opportunity to serve
together as a unit in freeing their
homeland and other nations con-
quered by the Axis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Mexicans at Work
But Worries vex
American Officials
State, Federal Gov'ts.
Cannot Get Together
On Kitchen Setup

Although 30 per cent of
the MeXicans imported into
Imperial Valley to help re-.
lieve the agricultural labor
shortage had been put to
work by noon Thursday, officials
in charge of them were not without
a multitude of troubles
Capt. Willard E. Speares, liason
officer for the Farm Security Ad-
ministration with the Mexican gov
ernment, told members of the I'M
perial Valley war manpower COM
mittee Thursday morning that sew
eral difficulties had arisen.
l. State officers refused to ap-
prove temporary arrangements al
ready approved by the FSA engin-
GERS for housing and feeding the
men at the county fairgrounds where
they are stationed.
NECESSITIES RUSHED
2. Priorities to buy COTS tin dish
es, cups and other things needed
to take care of the laborers had
to be obtained at the last moment.
Wednesday night and Thursday
morning the SIS MeXicans had to
split into groups and taken to
several restaurants in Imperial and
Ell Centre to be fed because plans
for kitchen at the fairgrounds had
to be changed.
Originally the FSA engineers had
approved a temporary plan for n
kitchen in the large pavilion on the
grounds but the state officers ruled
that concrete floor had to be
laid under the kitchen and that it
had to be completely enclosed with
screen wire.
PRIORITIES RUSHED
Priorities to obtain cement, lum-
ber and other materials had to be
rushed through various channels
before construction could begin.
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Manpower Board
Men Attend Meet

Nelson Correll and Tom Finney,
president and secretary, respective
ly, of the Imperial Valley agricM-
tural war manpoWer committee,
will attend a California war con-
ference in Los Angeles December
2 and 3, it was decided Thursday.
The meeting will bring together
manpower chiefs frcm all over the
state as we'll as government repre-
sentatives from Washington to dis
cuss agricultural and industrial
problems.
Truck transportation, upon which
valley crops are vitally dependent
as a marketing means, are expected
to be under discussion.
Both Correll's and Finney's ex-
penses will be paid by the Imperial
Valley Farmers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19


quoted an article from the Jap
anese newspaper, Asahi, declaring
that the attention of the world in
the future will be directed more to
Gibraltar and Spain than to the
Suez canal and Turkey.
The Allied occupation CT North
Africa gives increased importance
to SPANS attitude and, Asahi as
serted, can hardly cause Spain to
place much confidence in recent
assurances by Britain and the Unit
ed States that their action would
not affect Spain.
Spain's Balearic islands in the
Mediterranean comprise rather
exposed oCtposts,' the japanese pa
per said, perhaps limiting at the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Consair Will Set Up Parts
Factories i'm Valley Areas
Jeffers Says 0PA
Plan Cumbersome

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -
(UP)-Rubber Director William
M. Jeffers said today he was
not satisfied with the office of
price administrations handling
Of price ceilings OH automobile
tires and criticized the current
tire registration program as
cumbersome.
Testifying before the senate
banking committee, Jeffers said
the OPA's plan for registering
the nations tires seemed un-
necessarily complicated.
81 can't say I'm entirely in
accord with the program" he
said. 1.-The procedure is per-
haps too cumbersome"
Jeffers was testifying OIL leg
islatiOn which would rive in
dependent tire dealers exclu-
sive rights to sell new, used,
retreaded and recapped tires
for civilian use.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Motorists Fail to
Register for Gas
Because Of Rules
Govt. Departments,
People Confused by
Stamp Tax Regulation

Ninety-five per cent of I'M
rerial Na;iey was in trouble
Thursday over gasoline ra-
tioning, with 85 per cent Of
the trouble pre-dated for de-
livery Friday.
Twin causes set the valley by its
heels.
First was the last minute complex
which threatened to keep motorists
lined up into the wee hours of Fri
day night or Saturday morning at
registration depots, unless the" turn
out Thursday to better Wednesdays
record. In the jurisdiction of the Ell
Centro board Wednesday, only $50
out of about 5000 motorists had
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Kidnapped Baby Located

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19.-(U.PD
A tall. blond nurse with fruStrat-
ed urge to motherhood who police
said threw tiny Mrs. Inez Maclam
ever a cliff and kidnapped her
three infants after padding herself
to simulate impending maternity
was SOUGHT throughout the south
west today.
All three children were later
abandoned as 90-pound Mrs. Mac
lam, 22-year-old wife of Edward L..
Maclam, now in San quentin pris-
OH for robbery. recovered from her
fall and told her story.
SiX-weekS-old Judith Rae Mac
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
City Will Crack
Down for Taxes

The city will soon begin to crack
down on citizens who have not paid
their paSt-due unsecured personal
property taxes, it was disclosed
Thursday
AT the city council meeting We'd
nesday night the councilmen gave
verbal sanction to move City Clerk
Neal Gavin and Deputy City Clerk
l. Maupin asked be taken. Suits in
the small claims court will be ini-
tiated by those with delinquent taxes.
Gavin said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

he said
The two women met at the Jail
previously when Maclam was there
pending transfer to San Quentin.
Mrs. Wallace offered to drive the
mother to Ravenna. Mich, to visit
Mrs. Maclam's father, James
Young.
Near EncinitaS, Mrs Maclam
said, the nurse stopped her car
to admire the view at the top of
cliff
The next think I knew" she
said, II was being beaten over the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

have met since the Monday morning
breakfast which started the drive.
The second team to go over the
top in the collections this year was
the one headed by Dubois MCGEE
to solicit Negro residents. This team
reached 1876 per cent of its quota
and Is going forward to set a mark
for other teams to shoot at
Other teams reporting success were
the advance gifts headed b. Warren
Currier, branch house headed by AL
Missildine, rural schools with E. L..
Hitman as chairman, government
employees under the leadership OF
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

lam was left in BITS station late
yesterday after the nurse, Mrs.
Margaret Shannon ODea Wallace,
SO, had shown it to her husband,
George H. Wallace, serving n, mar
cotics sentence in county Jail here.
She attracted no notice when she
appeared at the Jail with the baby.
Because of the previous padding,
Wallace said, he believed the child
was his
She acted mighty proud of 1t
and I know she wouldn't harm 1t,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

head with a rock and then I was
showed over the. cliff. When l came
to the automobile end Mrs. Wal
lace and my babies were gone"
Although the embankment was
about 80 feet high, the unbroken
fall was about 20 feet, officers said.
Mrs. Maclam was in a, San Diego
hospital with critical injuries.
The two other children, Kay Rose,
A, and Edward Clark, l3 months,
were left in union station Monday
before the nurse took the baby to
show her husband,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

advisability of Axis protection"
obviously referring TO the failure
of the Vichy government to ioin
the Axis openly before the Allies
moved into French North Africa.
Asahi declared:
We hope that Spain, as friend
of the Axis, is not making the same
mistake as France"
Radio Berlin, broadcastinR 10 the
home front featured a dispatch
from Majorca, largest OF the Ba-
learic Islands, claiming that the
United States command in French
Morocco intends to disarm the ma
tive population. which "contradicta
flatlv the American assertion that
the Moroccan population Is friend
ly to United States troops"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Two Killed When
Train Hits Trolley

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. l9.-(U Po
Two persons were killed today when
a Louisville & Nashville railroad
switch engine struck a street car,
knocking it more than 100 feet.
At least five were reported in
jured.
Only 16 persons were aboard the
street car, police said The vehicle
was overturned and smashed
The dead were Jules Messy. CO.,
motorman of the street car, and
an unidentified Negro.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Policeman S Raise
Depends on Govt

Watt Briggs. city policeman, was
voted SIS raise in salary Wednes
day nioht, depending on government
regulations.
Because it was a regular raise, city
conncilmen were of the opinion that
the salary boost to $l85 q month
would not come under the recent
wage freezing" order.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

Sheriff r. w. Ware, employee groups
with Chester Irving as chairman,
labor unions headed bv Dick Neff
business team with John Ravmond
at the helm, and the associations
committee with Glenn Kieffer as
chairman.
The next report luncheon was
scheduled to be held Mondav at
1910 pm. at the California hotel
at which time the campaign COM
,mittee hopes to have achieved
goal of 85 per cent of the entire
amount needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19

lllp FICllCll NICIlcId Ill NuhlIlC WCy-
gand and limiting at negotiations
with Pierre Laval to bring Vichy
into the war as a full Axis partner.
Reports from the Axis left little
doubt that Marshal Henri PHILIPPE
Petain remains virtual puppet-
willing or unwilling-in the hands
of Laval and the Nazis. Weygand'S
refr'al to act a similar part led
to his arrest by the Germans short
ly after he refused to assume COM
mand of French armed forces. for
merly held by Admiral Jean Fran
co.'s Darlan.
Laval recertlv named heir pre-
sumptive" to Petain, was acting un-
der the new status which gives him
full ncwers to make decisions die
tated by the situation" 1t was
considered significant that Pc
tain's voice has not been heard
over the radio since the North At
rican campaign began. but that
his orders have been quoted by Axis
sources.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Uttered Alleys
Plague Council

bad condition as ever.
No dates were set for this clean
up, leaving the impression that it
would be a continuing process un-
til some semblance of cleanliness
mas been reached in the thorough
fares
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Community Chest
Near Half Full

Community Chest committees were jubilant Thursday
they had collected $4684 40 cent of their
goal for this year.
This report was made at luncheon at the California
hotel at Wednesday. the first time the committees
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Axis Propaganda
potIishts Spain
. BY UNITED PRESS -

Axis propaganda, which often foreshadows axis
military political has suddenly shown great inter
est in Spain which only days ago ordered partial
mobilization of its military, naval and air forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
NiQht of Horror
Rei9ns Following
Dinner of Death
Canned Ess yoIks Fatal TO Inmates Of
Oregon Institution; Quick Reaction
Nav Indicate Le+haI Chemica al Dose
= BY ARTHUR BREMER

SALEM Ore, Nov. 10 (UP)--The toll of victims poison
ed by food served dinner last night at the state hospital
here reached AZ today.
There disagreement the of the poison
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
PINCERS CLOSING

Meanwhile the laws of an Allied
pincers clamped tighter around the
Axis positions in Africa. bringing
closer the dav of offensive opera
tions AGAINST Europe with Italy the
most likely target.
Sweeping westward toward Tri-
politania, the British Eighth Armv
caught up with Nazi rear guard
strung along a 25-mile line of hills
south of Bengha2i. British forward
elements smashed the thin Nazi
line, driving forward in an effort
to cut through to the Gulf of Sirte.
Moving with growing momentum
and French armv of possibly 300,-
600 men grol'ad into Tunisia, seek
inc to bring to bav the 10000 emer-
gencv troops which the Axis has
concentrated in the Bizerte-Tunis
area for a probably HOPELESS at
tempt at a delaying action.
DRIVE FROM SOUTH
Driving north across 1900 miles
Oh WllutTlltSS anu utotlI l, d oiioIh
force of fighting French and
Americans from Lake Chad was re-
ported aiming straight at Tripoli,
the heart Of the Axis position in
Africa.
Allied planes from both Algeria
and forward bases in Libva blasted
at Marshal Erwin P"mmel's retreat
ing troop and supply columns and
destroyed large numbers of junk
ers SOS and other troop-carrying
plrnes being employed to ferry
Axis troops to concentration points.
The pressure was being kept on
Rommel's s-Mediterranean sup
ply lines with further attacks on
hastily assembled Axis conveys
seeking to rush ammunition, food,
and oil to Africa.
The German TranSocean News
agency circulated reports, attrib-
rted to British press sources, that
Gen. Francisco Franco had refus \,
a Nazi demand for Spanish air and
naval bases. The agency attributed
tCcntinued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
Allies Close In
On Trapped Foe
Worried Nazis Arrest Weysandfor
Refusal to Lead Vichy Troops as
Laval Ne qo+ia+es for Full War Status
- By UNITED PRESS

Allied forces closed in the axis Thursday from three
directions in mighty offensive designed drive Germany
and Italy permanently from North Africa and elsewhere
the Germans revealed their mounting irritation bv arrest
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
D AMBLlNe
n EpOR1ER

No SOAP
Things were in a dither at the
county fair grounds Wednesday
when the 575 Mexicans arrived
there pending distribution among
the farmers. The Mexicans wanted
to take bath right away and
needed soap to do a good job.
The farmers ordered 200 cakes of
soap and told the first 200 to take
the soap into the showers and leave
it there so that others could use it..
It didn't work. The first zoo
took the SOAP but thev didn't leave
it in the showers They took it
and hid it in their cots or some
place, leaving 375 soapless.
Good Work.
RR would give pretty to see
the. Dol Rio Golf club members
out Saturday and SUNDAY doine
the heavv work on their golf course.
We bet that when they get through.
the place will be one big hazard.
went the nineteenth hole get a
work out, thought 1t will Get the
grooming VI lllcllHic.
Sims DO Count
Members of the White Shrine
of Jerusalem had party. Before
il started the members were enter
ing the Masonic temple in Ell Gen.
tro where it was to be held. Mrs.
p. II Judd had baked a wonder
ful cake and was starting up the
stairs with 1t when E. Lee Hiteman
saw her.
Il ct me carry that cake fer you"
he offered gallantly. They all
started up the stairs.
e SMACK THUD!
Hiteman had stubbed his toe and
dropped the cake, instantly reduc-
ing it to crumbly blob.
The Blow Off
Never let it be said that Lee Nuf-
fer can't blow the lid off if he
wants to.
He went hunting the other day
and while travelling around, his
gun went off inside the car and
blew a big hole in the top.
IN other words, he blew his top.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-19
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 81, minimum
Thursday 46; 5 am. Thursday 63,
hum. "A; noon Thurs. 76, humidity
46; 5 pm. Wed. "a, humidity 43.
BANN DEBTS
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Conodion Navy Aids
In Aleution Bottle

VANCOUVER, B. C.-Canadian
naval forces are actively engaged
In the battle for the Aleutian Is
lands. Canadian Navy Minister
Angus Macdonald declared here In
an interview.
Our interest centsrs In the
Aleutians at present." he said
Units of our naval forces are CO.
operating with the United States
In action against the japanese
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-23
OBecause 1t Stays Fresh Longer

90. o00, 900 nan-dsys' work will be
lost this year due 10 nutritional III
nesses alone.
A New York State Committee esti-
mates industrial production could be
increased 25eo by better food. The
problem will be solved when wives
put better food on the table and In
the lunch boxes Of the nation.