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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
DRAFT FOR ALL
GOAL OF BILL

WASHINGTON. March 23-CUPl
Gen. Theodore CT. Bilbo D, Miss.
today introduced legislation to en-
power President Roosevelt to as
sign all American citizens men and
women alike to essential war tasks
either in the armed forces. war in
duStrieS or home defenSes.
The measure. similar to one re-
Gently introduced in the house by
Rep. j. Percy Priest, d, Tenn,
would provide universal registra-
ton of all men and women 18
years of age or cider The bill also
would authorize the government to
requisition any property deemed
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
|. Y. Japanese Will
Finish Evacuation
Signup Saturday

Japanese of Imperial county must
complete signing up for voluntary
evacuation by noon next Saturday.
Governments officials an nounced
Monday.
The first meeting permitted alien
japanese since the outbreak of the
war will take place at the Buddhist
church in FL Centre at 7:30 We'd
needay when first generation jan
aueyo will hear about voluntary
evacuation A V. Schneck field
agent of the Wartime Civilian Con-
troll administration. c. H H Small,
evPcuee consultant. will speak.
BY signing M for voluntary
evacuation" said X NiShimura of
The welfare committee of the jan
ancSe American Citizens leaeue, We
arc >i2nifving our WILLINGNESS to CO.
operate with the United States gov
comment and are rot Waiting for
the Army to eVaCuate us This does
not mean we must leave by today or
tomorrow rut does mean we may
avail ourselves OF government help
and advice
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
Sunday
Wages
Scored
Nelson Says Govt
Won't Allow Any
Pushing Around

WASHINGTON, March %.
(UP)--War Production Chief
Donald NJ. Nelson today ask
ed labor to suspend for the
duration what he called the
privilege of getting double time pay
for work on Sundays and holidays.
Speaking before an emergency
meeting of CIO leaders, Nelson also
said the nations need for greater
production must not be used "aS
cloak to put something over on
labor" He assured 500 representa-
tives of CIO locals that no essential
rights of labor will be abrogated
unless the needs of the country for
victory demand it.
we are moving as fast as we can
toward Seven-day, three shift oper-
alton of our basic war industries"
Nelson said.
The principle that a man should
regularly have the seventh day off
and should receive time pay
if an emergency forces him to work
on that seventh day, is perfectly
sound. But where that seventh day
does not fall on Sunday or holi-
day, l don't think that work upon
Sundays and holidays, in war time,
deserves extra pay.
CAUSE OF TROUBLE
The question also is involved in
current CIO-General Motors nego-
tiationS and in an International
Harvester case which the war labor
board will hear Wednesday.
Nelson said the joint committees
of management and labor had been
set up to get more and faster pro-
duction-and for no other reason" ."
These committees aren't being
set up to put labor into management
or to put management into labor;
they aren't there to foster company
unions, and they aren't there to
help any unions organizing cam
palgn, either" he said.
Now | know that there are peo-
pie in this country who would lik
to use this war situation to Whittle
down labors rights and privileges.
AS long as I have anything to do
with it, the war production job is
not going to be used that way. I
will not be a part of any attempt
to use our need for increased pro-
duction as a cloak to put something
over on labor.
NO PUSHING AROUND
I'VE are going to see to it that
nobody pushes you around-but W!
are going to see to it that labor
doesn't push anyone around, either.
There's a small number of shor'-
sighted employers on one end of
the line; there's a small number OF
short sighted labor folks on the
other end of the line. l don't pro-
pose to see either group taking any
advantage of this situation"
He warned that labor and man
agement must forget selfish interest
if I'VE are to do this job and still
.etain the freedom and the liber-
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AIR SQUADR0NS Open AUSTRALIAN BATTLE
Police Chief Names Full Time Doq
Catcher, Poundmaster for Fl CentrO

El Centro will have a full time
dog catcher and pound master
starting Tuesday morniag. and he
will be as lenient as the law al
lows but will enforce strictly the
city ordinance requiring that all
canine pets be licensed, Chief Of
Police Ronnie Voyles said Monday
The job has been given to J. M.
(Jim) Scroggins, who served in a
similar capacity here for two years
before.
Decision to hire full time man
tc enforce the dog ordinance was
made at last Wednesday nights
council meeting, when the city dads
were privileged to view motion
picture showing in 9ruesome details
the effects of rabies on human
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
SecondaryS Schools
May Boost Terms
To Eleven Months

Possibility of increasing the sec
ondary school terms from 8 ID or {
n onths to II months a year was
discussed in FL Centro this week
end at a meeting of principals and
superinttldents of Imperial anC
San Diego county schools.
School officials representing high
schools and juni-r colleges through
out the two counties declared they
: asiderCd the incHeaSe may be
.4ecessary because of the war emer'
gency
The schools must take care OF
the needs of the young people
faced with entering the service of
Continued on Page 6; Column o
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beings The picture was brought
here by Harc.a 5chweitzpr. county
health inspector
The present city ordinance will
be amended at the next council
meeting to require that all dogs
be vaccinated against rabies before
a license can be issued The amend
ment is being drafted now by City
Attorney Dorsey WhitelaW
This provision also will be en-
forced to the letter, Chief Voyles
said.
Dog owners were given a break
Monday when Voyles announced he
mad recommended that the penalty
of 80 per cent of the license fee be
dispensed with for the time being.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

vital to the war program by the
President.
Bilbo offered his bill as an
amendment to the selective service
act. The President would be en-
powered to assign registrantS, not
eligible fer military service, to work
in government or private plants
and home defense tasks
Priests universal conScription
measure was greeted generally in
the house as premature" Priest
does not intend TO press for action
on it at this time. and it was not
known Immediately whether Bilbo
would seek senate action.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
Olson Loses Fight
On Guard Bill

SAN FRANCISCO. March s3 Re-
rUP)-The state supreme court TO-
day ruled the state guard reorgani-
cation effected bv the state leglS-
lature is constitutional.
The decision dismissed Governor
Culbert OSon'S contention the leg
islature went outside its powers IN
reorganizing the guard contrary TO
his own program.
The court rullrg is expected To
lead to dismissal Of an mln'ti"h
suit filed in Los Angeles. The SUIT
had frozen payment cf salarie' TO
"nordsmen and prevented olhPl
for state guard purposes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23


McNear, remaining as president
under authority of government Of
fiCialS who took over the railroad
last night, said the freight line
already was operating at full SER
vice. and that the President knew
it"
J. w Barriger, associate director
OF the Office of Defense Transport
tation with a staff of eight assistants
began operation Of the railroad at the
orders of President Roosevelt, aItec
McNear had rejected the govern
ments fifth request for arbitration
of the 84-da"- old strike
1t was the governments first
seizure Of corporation property .lnce
the war began.
Barrger described the govern
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
leo Zumstein Again Wins
Swiss Swing Honors Here

HOLTVTLLE, March % = Leo
ZumStein, perennial Swiss swing
champion late Sunday night was
crowned champion of the 1912 Swiss
swing by Miss Betty Won Flue,
queen of the Swiss swing
More than COCO southern Califor-
MIA residents watched ZumStein,
1870 pound Palm City resident, win
with a margin of one fourth of Il
point over Hans Wir2 of Los An
eeles HumStcin, long a resident of
The HoltVillc area, scored 56h Bill
Under Pasadena, six feet and six
inches in height and weighing 2l5
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

pounds, was third with 55 points:
Perfect score for fall is 10 points.
zumstein was Tie only one who was
near the maximum, one time max
ing a score f 9a, points for fall
There Wee :. swing 5-ntenders
Crown girls. Marguerite Won ALL
ner. Martha Mueller, and Louise
TreSch, gave the medals to the
winners, Wir2. Under, and the three
n,cn who tied for fourth place. Ed
Pctrig, Louis Durrer, and DOminik
OchSner, all with scores of 54#,
Walter Svhollberger was fifth with
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

worked in years past as a public
accountant at salaries between $1,000
and $500 said he was on the Jack
e. Heintz payroll at $500. He iden-
titled a payroll entry showing his
total salary and bonuses in l94l
as $25, 1853.
An earlier witness, a former $3.50
-a-year Army Air Corps employ
told the committee that he was palI
bonuses of SD 800. His salary from
the firm also had been raised from
$4,000 to $4,000, he said. The witness,
Harry EX. YoXtheimcr, is assistant
controller of the Jack & Heintz Co.
Cleveland. He testified that he had
received bonuses of $1,000 last De
cCmber He had been employed b.
the firm for 46 days by that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

L
and a total of 81 japanese aircraft
destroyed over the weekend.
The Japanese sent l9 bombers
and fighters against Port Moresby
in two of the heaviest attacks OF
the war on that vital New Guinea
base and also attacked Wyndham
on the northwest mainland coast.
In Burma, the japanese were
launching heavier aerial attacks on
Allied bases in an effort to knock
out the American volunteer group
and RAF fighters, which Chung
king said needed quick reinforce
ment.
Enemy Squaurons of 40, 80 and
90 fighters and bombers attacked
Allied air bases in central Burma
on Saturday and Sunday while land
forces were massed for expected
heavy battles in the Toun9oo sector
and south of the Prone oil fields.
CHINESE IN ACTION
A New Delhi communique said
that Chinese forces we're fighting
south of Toungoo (which Tokyo had
claimed was captured) and that
japanese artillery fire against their
positions was ineffective.
Air fighting strength and United
States reinforcementS in Australia
were among the subjects discussed
by Gen. Douglas Macarthur in con-
ferences with Australian War Min
lister F.. NJ. Forde and other military
officials regarding strategy in the
southwest Pacific.
MacArthur's ability as commander
of United Nations forces again was
lauded by Forde, who promised
that operations would be aggressive
rather than defensive.
AXIS SHIPS SUNK
In the Mediterranean, British
submarines struck a heavy blow at
apparent axis preparations for
middle east offensive by sinking IL
supply and troop ships within sight
of the Italian coast.
This blow to the axis Mediter-
ranean forces was one of the bold
est forays of the war as it took
! the British underwater craft into
| the narrow straits of MesSina, be-
! tween the lower tip of Italy and
Sicily.
Two Italian submarines. two sup
ply ships, six schooners and motor
vessel carrying troops were sent
to the bottom, some of them so far
inside the mined Italian coastal
waters that the action was witness
ed from the shore.
10 nf
British submarines staged the raids.
ALL SUBS SAFE
/ All of the British submarines have
returned safely to their bases, the
admiralty statement at London said,
and dispatches from Cairo indicat-
ed that the British were preparing
to strike new and hard blows at the
enemy in the Libyan desert.
The British 9Th army in North
Africa, driven back from the Ben
ghazi sector after its winter offens-
i've, took the initiative again over
the weekend and smashed at the
German and italian forces in the
Martuba sector, on the north coast
near Derna.
American built planes battered
the airdrome at Martuba during Il
heavy Sandstorm and then British
mechanical forces raided the axis
base, taking $50 prisoners and bat
tering the enemy installations in
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

ican President line freighter Ruth
Alexander, an 8,135-ton converted
passenger ship once in west coast
service, arrived in Brooklyn yester-
day aboard United Nations YES
sell from Java.
The freighter, with a crew of 48
under Capt Frederick Willayts,
reached Manila last Dec. 8, two
days after the japanese sneak at
tack on Pearl harbor. 1t lay in thu
harbor for nearly three weeks, but
after it had nearly been struck
twice when the japanese bombed
the open city it was decided to MAXI
4 run for safety.
At $50 am. Dec. 81, a four-mo-
tOred japanese plane was sighted.
Chief Officer Joseph D. Cox, "a.
who lives with his wife and seven
%ear-old daughter at Healdsbur2,
Cal, said the Ruth Alexander sent
an SOS when the bomber was sight
ed at 5000 feet. On its third attempt
The japanese scored three hits, all
amidships. and set the Ruth Alex
ander afire.
Coz said the ships emerg oncy
call was picked up by a Dutch light
naval bomber. but the pilot returned
to his base, because his fuel was
running low
Seven hours after they had aban-
dCned ship, Cox said, the Dutch
plane returned. The sailors, believ-
ing it to be the japanese plane,
dlyed into the water to escape ma
chine cunning. The Dutch pilot
landed his bomber close by in 4
choppy sea.
Continued on Page G; Column .
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ments position as that of temporary
receiver or trustee OF the raii-oad--
vital midWestern defense link-and
said he planned no changes In ex-
eCutiVe personnel.
He said strikers with certain ex'
ceptionS" would be restored TO jobs
with full seniority, after IA confer
ence with their representatives. Of
ficials of the Brotherhood Of Rail-
way Trainmen and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men.
They will return to work under
working conditions which prevailed
before Dec, 20, when new rules
which led to the strike went into
effect, Barriger said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

She was the second witness in the
committees inquiry into cost and
profits on war contracts handled by
Jack and HentZ, inc, Cleveland
Miss Bowman was asked by Com
mittee Counsel Edmund H. Tolanl
what her duties we're as secretary to
William Jack president of Jack and
HeintZ.
She replied that she Just works,
sometimes IA hours a day"
Toland produced Jack & Heintz
personnel records that showed Miss
Bowman was earning a salary OF
$4,000 earlier in 1871 and that il
December her pay was raised to
$25,000 %car
Donald Lake, who said he had
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

54 =.
The Holtv;lle Swiss band won in
the tug -of-war, defeating San Di-
ego and Los Angeles Swiss residents.
Swiss bard music, Swiss songs,
md vodeling were presented thru
out the day. Dancing in the club
houvH was arranged for both after
noon and evening A Swiss lunch
was served at noon
Faul Eeoler, club president, said
the 1912 Swing was the most sue
ceSSful in the 20 years the SWING
has been presented.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
Govt Hell ping
Strikers. Claim

PEORIA ILL.,, March 23 UP)-President George P.
McNear r, accused the government today Of "favorng
strikers in its seizure of his 239me Toledo Peoria West
ern railroad, approximately 100 workmen waited for
union and government officials arrange for their
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
With esses Tell
Of Huge Bonuses

WASHINGTON, March %. (UP)-Adene Bowman
private secretary to the president of Cleveland firm max
ing pn2 starters for the government told the house
naval affairs committee today that her salary and bonuses
for 94 toaed $39356 and that she had received 95
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
Bomber ReScueS
20 i'm Lifebouts
Survivors Recount Dutch Pilots Feat
OfLandins on Sea Twice, Overlooking
Plane to Save Victims Of Jap Bombs

NEW YORK, March % (UP)-Twenty survivors Of an
American merchantmen sunk by Japanese plane two and
half days after it had srnakcd out Of bombed battered
Manila harbor praised today the of Dutch bomber
which rescued them The survivors, the of the Amer
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
American Airmen
Leod ForoYs on
jap island Bases
Enemy Sends Bomber Fleet Against Big
Allied Base; United Nations Count %
Nipponese Planes Downed in Weekend
BY UNITED PRESS

Allied and japanese air squadrOns pressed a battle
Monday for control of the skies Australia and Burma
On the approaches to Australia American aircraft led
series Of attacks in which enemy bases at Keeping and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
. AMBLING
~ EP0RTER

The Big Cheese
The Swiss and their guests had
a great time at their annual swing
north of HoltVillc Sunday.
we hear" Paul E3gler Swiss
club president, said over the loud
speaker that the japanese say
they will be happy to die for their
country Well, there are some
Swiss going to Japan and make
the japanese very, very happy
E. " Edwards decided he would
try his hand at cheese sticking He
was blindfolded. tWirled around a
few times. and handed a big spear
The idea was to thrust the spear
into target at the end CT a long
fenced lane. Edwards tried and
tried. Ever time he ended up hug
ging a post about half way to the
target.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
Jack OF All Trades

Jack OF All Trades
A Negro girl telephoncd Ell Cen
tro police headquarters Sunday
night in great agitation and asked
for an officer to come to her house
and help her.
Officer Les Conn was sent to Sc.
what the girl wanted.
Conn was the maddest man in
Ell Centre when he returned to
police headquarters. The girl haG
been horseback riding, couldn't get
her boots off. and wanted Conn to
take them off
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

Not SO Bad
Out at the John Donohue ranch
there is big sign ON the gate
which says. BAD DOG"
The ether night the II P. Garin
company lett one of its trucks at
the Donohue ranch for Safekeep-
ing. That might some ae stole two
tires of the truck
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
Correct, My Boy

Correct, Ny Boy
Deputy District Attorney Luray
Mouser was questioning a small! boy
in justice court
The nine-y -yearold Wrinkled up his
brow ana concentrated before he
answered most Ct the questions.
do you know what happens to
little boys who dent tell the truth"
MOuSer asked
Go to hell" responded the boy
promptly.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

Code DECIDED
Mr. and Mrs. PerCie Thacker and
Mrs Bob Thacker wore themselves
to fraz2le Sunday night trying to
find out where Captain Bob Thack
er had been when he sent his wife
a radiogram, They never had heard
of the place.
Aliases. Biographies, maps and
what not were studied A magni-
fy.ng glass was used. No soap.
They could not find San Sorigini
They went to bed firmly convinced
that he was on an island that had
just been discovered
Monday morning they discovered
there was Slight typographical
error in the name of the place. 1t
was Sans Origini, which Thackcr
said was polite way of telling the
family it was none of their bus
mess where Bob was when he sent
the message home
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

LOS ANGELES HAY
U. S. No. 1 S2i-5O-2 $3.50; U. 5. o.
2 leafy Nv. S24-24.5O; us. No. 2
S22S23. Mpls. Sept. flax $685..
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday "a, Minimum
Monday Al; pm. Sunday ~, hui
midity II; am. Monday 54, hu-
midity q; Noon Monday -. hu-
midity 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-23

WASHINGTON, March %.
(UP)--War Production Chief
Donald NJ. Nelson today ask
ed labor to suspend for the
duration what he called the
nriNilepe of getting double time paY
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-03
.Jups Raid North
Australia Towns

MELBOURNE, Australia. Mar 8
japanese planes, extending their
offenGve zone to the northwest
tackled the Broome and WYndham
coast of Australia, attacked
air bases u:day and damaged both
towns. & communique of the royal
Australian air force said
At the same time. Japanese plane
formations, renewing THEN attacks
On New Guinea off the northwest
coast. bombed the towns CT Bulolo
and Wau. Damage was reported
to buildings but apparently there
We're no casualties.
Machine guns and cannOns spit
ting. the planes swept down on
BrCome and Wyndham airdrOmes
attacking installations and ground
ed planes, and shots damaged both
towns, the communique said.
BOMBS DROPPED
1t was reported that bombs were
dropped on BroOme.
The attacks were made almost
simultaneously by two japanese
plane fleets.
The air force communique report
ed that Australian planes had made
a successful reconnaissance flight
ever New Britain Island in the
BiSmarckS northeast of Australia,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-03
LaFOiLETTE BEATS
The DRUMS

Robert VI. LaFollette, Wisconsin sen
ator, has his fathers name, but lacks the
ability for original thinking which made
Fighting Bob great liberal.
Young Bob proved that pretty con-
clusively in the report Of his senate civil
liberties committee lambasting the ASSo-
ciated Farmers Of California, the Los
Angeles Chamuer OF Commerce, the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
and other so-called 'employers associa
tions," for "perpetrating' the open shop
policy in southern California.
The committee in case you didn't read
the dispatch, recommended "outlawing
of employers association consplracies to
flout the law" 1t didn't say how the
law had been "flouted."
1t was the sort of report old Fighting
Bob might have initiated 20 wears ago,
when employers were all-pOwerful and
employees were unOrganized and vulner
able That was what made Fighting
Bob great liberal-he surveyed the
true situation without trying to conform
to d rigid pattern which defined 'liber-
alism' in advance.
We doubt very much if the old warrior
would put his name on such a report
today. Things change quite lot in 90
years, and one of the changes has seen
the growth of a monopoly which is as
bad as that of employers used to be. 1t
is the monopoly by which few men in
so-called labor union office controlled
the acts Of thousands without consult
ing the thousands at all That is the
kind of thing the elder LaFollette fought
all his life and We like to think he would
be fighting it now, were he alive.
The younger LaFollette's report is SO
shot through with misstatements and
erroneous interpretations that it deserves
little comment 1t is no credit to the mem
ory of his father
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-03
THAT JAVA LINE

tChristian Science Monitor)
Batavia need not be another Singapore.
Looking at TIL map-particularly a map
With one Of thOS- vicious looking arrows
With which the cartographVrS try to IN
ejlc.,tV H'ol,mout-Wc may get the inn
preston tAut the japanese can drive
down t. the capital Of the Netherlands
Indies even more rapidly than they coy
,red the lower end of the kra Peninsula.
On the map he thousand miles Of Sill
matra looks almost ike an extension Of
Malaga. Anu he quick Japanese seizure
Of Paltmnuup ~, med to indicate rapid
extension OF thv MoyemenJ that took Sim
Papore.
Reading that Tokyo's troops moved
fifty miles up river to land at Palem-
bang despite all that Dutch and Ameri-
can air and sea forces could do was not
encouraging. II looked as If the Japa-
nese had in one day spanned half the dis
tance to Batavia and had acquired base
Ter air and sea attacks on Java. But the
Dutch Won It major victory whom they de-
stroyed all the oil and refmeries at Pal
embang.
They were courageous and thorough
IN sacrificing more than $500, 100000 worth
of material in that field, SO that it is eX
pecN'd to yield Japan no oil for at least
six months. Now reports are coming
III which indicate that centers of ress-
tance remain in Sumatra which will be
hard for the japanese to reach without
sea and air control.
Java itself offers no easy conquest 1t
is thickly populated and the native people
;aN loyal to the Dutch. There is a good,
though small. army. and the Dutch have
some good air bases. They need fighter
planes most Of all. If America can fur
uish those in the next few weeks the Java
line may be held. II it holds Japan will
begin to lose the South Pacific.