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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

The blazing bomber was only 300
feet above the target when he
released his death load. There was
deafening explosion. the enemy
vessel rocked and began to sink.
And the plane crashed just eff the
bow of it's target.
That's the story Corp. Eugene T.
Gard, "a, of Oakland, Calf, and
Salem, Utah, told today from
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Bill Encourages
Rubber From, Farms

WASHINGTON, June 24-(UP)-
The senate agriculture committee
unanimously approved legislation
today to establish a rubber supply
agency which would control and
encourage the production of syn
thetic rubber from farm and forest
commodities.
The measure authorizes appoint
ment of a director at an annual
salary of $4,000 who would loan
ncney. construct plants and award
contracts.
The bill was introduced by Sen,
Guy M Gillette, D., Iowa, chair
man of a senate agriculture sub
committee which has been investi-
eating the production of industrial
alcohol and synthetic rubber.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

Calling Sherlock Holmes.
Ell Centre police were en- the alert
for a missing bride Wednesday af-
ter being called onto the case by
a bridegroom of "a hours.
The desk force received call
at All p. m. Tuesday from Del
Juann, Los Angeles asking them
to help him find his bride, who
had disappeared earlier that day
Juann and his lady-fair had gene
to Yuma where they tied the Gus
tomary knot. On return the couple
were going back by San Diego as
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

and the SueZ Canal-Still were in
their preliminary stages but were
pointed for control of key Allied
communications routes and re-
sources in the near east and, pos
sibly, a junction eventually with
the Japanese.
Dispatches from Mascow told of
powerful German attacks behind
strong aerial squadrons and as
many as 200 tanks that forced the
Russians to give some ground on
the Kharkov front and indicated
that Hitler again was attempting
to get his major summer offensive
underway in the Ukraine. 1t pre-
viouSl1 had been estimated that
the Axis had 100000 men on the
Ukraine front and 100000 others
in reserve.
The rapidly spreading battles
shadowed the desperate fighting
still in progress at the Crimean
naval base of Sevastopol, where the
Russians acknowledged further but
indecisive German gains at the
cost of many dead and wounded.
BATTLE DEVELOPING
Dispatches from the Egyptian
border told only of preliminary en-
gagements on Libyan soil at the
northern or coastal end of the Brit
ish defense front, west of the
strongly fortified Sollum sector.
But heavy dust clouds indicated
that Nazi Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel was pushing his main COL
umns southeastward from Gambut
in an effort to strike in the Sidi
Omar area, thus risking a dash
across a waterless desert region to
outflank the Sollum defenses
The main engagements may al
ready have started on the Sidi
Omar front, London Military COM
mentators said, since news from
the desert battlefields is often de-
layed. But there was no definite
word that Rommel had struck with
his main forces or that any pene-
tration of Egypt had been achieved
On other fronts:
LONDON-Prime Minister Winston
Churchill faced bitter debate or
the Libyan defeat to be followed
by vote on a motion of censure
against conduct of the war, design
ed primaril" to force the Prime
Minister to give up the post of de-
fense minister.
CHUNGKING-Chinese report
counterattack recaptures important
city of Kweiki on the Chekiang
Kiangsi railroad as Japanese drive
is stalled.
MELBOURNE-Allied airplanes
fight off Japanese on scouting op-
erations north of Australia, shoot
ing down one enemy plane over
Timor.
CHURCHILL ON PAN
Criticism of Churchill in Lon
don was centered on a motion hold
ing him responsible for "the dis.
aster at Tobruk." 1t was not be.
lieved that his leadership was
threatened unless the Axis force,
advance into Egypt, but the Prime
Minister'S critics were unusually ac.
tive.
So serious was the situation, il
which even members of Churchill!
own conservative party are de
manding a shakeup, that he ma.
fly back to London from the Unit
ed States where he is engaged in {
council of war with Presiden
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

serious danger of milk shortage,
where normally there are no
uch sales, during the past few
months more than 5000 milk COWS
,ave been slaughtered owing to the
ack of mixers"
Crops already affected by the labor
shortage include sugar beets, large
acreages of which have been plowed
Up because labor for thinning could
not be found; peaches, which in
some cases have been thinned with
clubs instead of by hand; cotton,
lacking necessary hand labor; and
alfalfa and grain hay.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
BrawIeyMa On
List of Missinq

Corporal Jack l.. Ritter of the
United States Marine corps, son
of Llewellyn B. Ritter of Brawley,
is listed among the men missing be-
tween May IL and June 6, the U.
S. Navy department said Wednes-
day.
The Navy department released the
official list of names of 280 missing
from southern California. No
additional information or details
were included in the official an
nouncement.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

Fourth of July fireworks of any
kind were banned Wednesday at
the request of Gen. James l.. De-
Witt, commander of the western de-
fense command and the fourth
Army.
The sale and use CT all fireworks,
even the smallest firecrackers, were
prohibited in California by pro-
clamation issued by Gov Culbert L.,
Olson.
Fireworks of all kinds were BAN
ned in California, Washington, anc
Oregon because the use of fire
works might play into the hands
CT fifth columnists and saboteurs.
Gen. Dewitt suggested that all
peace officers and officials in the
three states strictly enforce the no.
sale and mouse fireworks policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

we're brought to this port, or made
their way TO 1t
In two instances, crews were on
a sinking vessel twice before they
reached here. The ships that rescu-
ed them were torpedoed and sunk
But one of the heaviest death
tolls recorded since the Axis sub
marine campaign began was on a
medium-sized United States cargo
passenger ship sunk off the United
States Atlantic coast. Survivors re-
vealed yesterday that 88 lives we're
lost The second sinking off the
east coast revealed yesterday was
that OF a medium-sized British
ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

said the SITUATION was already SER
ious and getting worse.
I'VE were short $1,000 workers ir
May" he said, land while we are
facing an ever greater shortage now
the real harvest problem will come
in July and August when the peaks
are normally reached in the major
ity of cur orchard crops"
A survey is being made. Wiser
said, to determine actual losses thus
far due to labor shortages.
Our preliminary studies," Wiser
said, reveal that losses and acreage
Flowed under owing to labor short
age have been substantial Increas-
ing sale of dairy cows points toward
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

a honeymoon trip. They stopped
for few minutes at Seeley
That was the last time Juann saw
his bride.
Unfortunately, the groom was IN
quite a hurry to get back to Los
Angeles and after she disappeared
he did not have the time to spare
to go around hunting 24-year -old
matrCn. So he continued on his
way into L. A. There he placed the
call to Ell Centre officers.
He said he had information that
his wife had caught a ride in the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

lIle lIlluSllt VI Jdlludly
All together, 1853 United Nations
vessels have been victims of tor
pedoes, shells and submarines in
this area, but 81 reached port.
This compilation, believed con-
servative, shows 148 ships lost along
the Atlantic seaboard, SO in the
Caribbean, % in the Gulf of Mexico,
Is in the south Atlantic and 80 off
the Canadian coast.
The 13 vessels the Navy disclosed
yesterday had been sunk in the
Caribbean went down from June 3
to ID, inclusive. The Navy said that
ITO persons, including 1876 passen-
gers, were aboard the ships and
that 635 persons, including 1876 pas
sengers, had been rescued. They
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

hospital bed. The hero was his
squadron leader, a marine captain
whose name cannot yet be revealed.
The captain is missing in action. >
Card detailed enc of the wars
greatest tales of individual heroism.
His captain, he said, already had
scored direct hit on Japanese
aircraft carrier and a near miss"
on another vessel before his third
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
AXIS DRIVES WEDGES TOWARD NEAR EAST
OF BRIDE

direction of Ell Centro and would
like to have her arrested.
What for" said the officer on
the FL Centro end.
Because I want her. replied
Juann.
We've no right to arrest her but
we'll do everything possible to find
her." he was informed.
If anybody sees a fleeing bride
please report Immediately to Del
Juann, 1882 north Norweing boule-
ward, Hollywood.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS
NEW ZEAL AND AREA

WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
June 25 Thursday - UP) - An
earthquake rocked wellington at
9:18 pm. Wednesday, and while
there were no casualties, masonry
fell from the parliament buildings
and show windows were shattered.
The shocks were the heaviest
here in years, and we're felt in
other towns in the provinces. Citi-
zens fled from their homes into the
streets
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

and final attack.
Other members of the squadron
said the captain led them directly
over the target on the third raid,
but made the first dive himself. 1t
was believed he had been wounded
seriously before he crashed.
Card said none of the marine
pilots dropped their bombs from
above 500 feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Hero's Death Ride Told

A MARINE AIR BASE, SOME
WHERE IN HAWAII, June "a -
CUP)-His dive-bomber was ir
flames, riddled by antiaircraft fire
He was near exhaustion from two
previous attacks. One CT his arms
was bandaged. But he never finch
ed.
Down, down his plane hurtled
toward a Japanese warship steam
ing toward Midway island,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
D AMs!!Ns
u EpoR7ER
A Sorely Tried Man

A SOrely Tried Man
First Walter Lancaster misplaced
his wedding shirt and his best uni
form cap the night before the we'd
ding.
The night of the wedding ne
started for the church in the state
in which prospective bridegrooms
usually start for their weddings. He
forgot the marriage license.
But that isn't patch to what
he now has to endure. AS you may
have noted, his first name is Wal
ter His new father-in-laW's name
is Walter and he acquired a
brother -in-law with the name OF
Walter. He also has about half a
dozen friends named Walter.
He could keep them straight by
calling them Walter, the First, Wal
ter, the Second, etc. Or Walter A,
Walter B, and Walter C. Or No.
Walter, No. 2 Walter, and No. 3
Walter.
Oh. well, you figure it out.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Farmers Predict
Calf. Crop Loss

SAN FRANCISCO June "a (UP)-California farmers
engaged in losing with maturing crops and face
major losses unless solution to the labor problem
worked out Immediately farm agencies reported today
Ray L. Wiser president of the California Farm Bureau
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
District Boosts
All Water Rates
2OPer Cent Increase in Charges
Cover Rising Expenses. Need for Hike
In Wases to Retain Employees Here

Imperial Irrigation District officials Wednesday pre-
pared for 20 per cent increase in water rates. genera
increase in salaries of employees and the investment OF
$4,000 in war bonds.
The hike in water rates. which will affect every water
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
319 Allied Ships
Sunk by U-Bodts

A CARIBBEAN PCRI June "a. UP)t-Sinking of ID
United Nations ships-13 in the Caribbean and two
off the United States Atlantic coasrased to at least 319
oday the toll of vessels Axis submarines and submarine
laid mines have taken in hemisphere waters since
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Initiation Peril
Increases Again
Henderson Says Subsidies Only Check
Against Runaway Spiral Next Winter;
Congress May Act on Proposal Soon

WASHINGTON, June "a. (UP)-Price Administrator
Leon Henderson believes will be impossible to hold price
ceilings at March levels during the coming winter unless
government subsidies otang S50OO0OO0O are made
available TO hard hit industries his associates revealed to-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Twin Offensives
Goinins on Fury
On Vital Fronts
Caucasus OiFieIds. Suez CanaIin
Crave Peril as Germans Throw Total
Strength Into Giant Pincers Attacks
BY UNITED PRESS :

Axis twin offensves against the Russian Ukraine and
Egypt edged forward Wednesday toward the riches
of the Near East
The two drves-aimed against the Caucasus oil fields
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24
Fireworks Under
Bur, r his Fourth

This order of DeWitt's cancels
all permits issued prior to his order,
it was understood.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

Me Puppy. Nizc DOG!
Desert sand stretched away into
the distance. 1t was a dusty. hot
twilight. While crossing this
stretch just as dusk one night Mrs.
Rose Perry saw small, gray dog
walking along in the sand.
1t was such lonely, lost little
figure that she began to worry
about people who leave dumb ami
mails to die in the desert wastes.
She had to rescue the poor little
animal She found the dog and be-
gan to coax She visited, she
snapped her fingers, called him a
nice doggie, but he continued to
retreat from her.
Just as she exhausted her fund
of ccaxing' tactics. someone in the
party said.
perhaps it's a coyote"
"FFEF EKE! EEEEEEKE!" squeal-
ed Mrs Perry and fled to the
safety of the car she had been rid
ing in.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

A Way Out
Babe Peterson 4, never had cared
much for sugar and seldom asked
for it.
He was interested, however, in
the sugar rationing cards his moth
er obtained for him and his BROTH
ers and sisters. She showed each
child the card allotted to him or
her and explained the system.
Not long after that Babe began
to demand sugar on his bread and
butter.
Nov, Babe" said his mother,
you never have cared for sugar
and I'm not going to start giving
you extra sugar at this time"
"Ch, all right" said Babe, wag-
ging his head, then I'll take my
sugar book and go down town and
get me scme sugar of my own
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

Land OF Plenty
The prospect of having his ton
sils extracted and having to live
on ice cream and jello for days
and days had Michael Afford, Z,
worried.
Say, Dad" Michael said, 1--WE
better get scme jello. hadn't we?"
His father, Aaron Afford handed
him a 81 bill.
In few minutes Michael return
ed with a whole dollars worth OF
jello.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-24

WEATHER
Maximum Tuesday 109. Minimum
Wednesday IS. pm. Tuesday 102,
humidity %. S am. Wednesday 20, :
IA. Noon Wednesday 102,
humidity 27.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Mrs. W.D. Carey
Enfertains Club

Mrs. w. D. Carey. sci Brighton,
was hostess for the White Shrine
social club at it's regular meeting
Tuesday.
Present at the meeting were: Mes
danes Leta Mae Bryan, H. L. Bush,
Sylvia Harris, A. N. Bucklin, r.
w Ware, E. L. Hiteman, Bertha
Gillett, Bertha Judd, John P. Han
sen, B. o. Mitchell, Leslie McCon-
nell, all of FL Centre; Mrs. Charles
Farrell. Imperial; Mrs. E. j. Smith,
Mrs. w. L. Odett, Holtville.
Guests included: Mrs. Alice Du-
Sold. Mrs. r. P Moore, Mrs. Frank
Birkhauser and Mrs. Frank Hood.
Mrs. Hiteman was first-prize win
ner at bridge. Mrs. Smith won sec
ond and Mrs. Gillett won the door
prize
Next potluck and bridge meeting
is scheduled for the home of Mrs.
Bryan. 473 Brighton, August 4.
All members were reminded that
they and their husbands have been
invited to spend the day at the
home of Mrs. John Kuhn in Man
zanita Sunday. July 26. Each is to
bring potluck, including service and
sugar. Iced tea and rolls will be
provided by Mrs. Kuhn.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
New Deal BungIes.
Candidate Charges

Lotus H. Loudon, Republican can
didate for congress from the I'M
perial-Riverside Orange district,
charged in Imperial county We'd
neSday that the New Deal admin
stration has bungled the war effort.
Joudon, an Anaheim newspaper
publisher, declared: The ineffi-
cheney of the New Deal in time of
peace is being carried 100 per cent
into the war effort. We're on the
short end of the stick. apparently.
have no program, and are still
fumbling. Americans have the
brains. the ability. the eagerness-
but we're getting nowhere fast.
There's no longer any excuse for
any person not to see in this time
of war the bungling which many
could not observe in time of peace" ="
Loudon predicted that he will
defeat John Phillips for the Repub-
lican nomination.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Bill Deprives wPB
OF Rubber Control
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production of industrial alcohol and
synthetic rubber, would establish a
separate war agency to promote and
encourage use of agricultural COM
modities in making synthetic rub
Der.
The agency, headed by 10000
a-yesr director appointed by the
president. would strip WPB of con-
troll over the grain alcohol into
rubber program.
The proposed director would be
empowered TO award contracts for
producing butadiene, the basis for
synthetic rubber, from farm prod
ucts and to grant priorities on crit
ical materials TO synthetic rubber
producers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
BrawIey Banker
Joins U.S.. Army

Directors of Security First Nation
al bank Wednesday had appointed
Ira W. KinSey to succeed Carl A.
Jacobson. Brawley manager and
longtime vall.y resident, who is
leaving for officers training camp
and active duty with the U. S.
Army.
The promotion of Glenn .. walk
er to assistant manager was also
announced, making the official staff
Kinsey. manager. H j. Ingram and
Walker, assistant managers.
jacobson has been connected with
Security bank and its predecessors
continually since June, 1917, and
has been manager since 1898. He
has been an active member of XII
wants. American Legion. Masons. Del
Rio Country club and Imperial
County Sheriff's Posse.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Split Seed May
Alleviate Labor
Shortage in Beets

To calibrate sugarbeet planting
for the use of split or sheared beet
seed, J. p. Fairbank and O. C
French from the department of
agricultural engineering of Univer-
sity OF California are in Imperial
Valley working with Robert c.
Brown of the Holly Sugar company
on machinery for a large CONNER
cial planting.
use of split seed, that is, beet
seed balls that have been divided
so that single seeds or very small
groups of seeds are planted in each
hole. is expected TO do away with
some of the thinning that has
required so much beet field labor
in past seasons. Instead of coming
mp in large clumps which have to
b. thinnCd with a short handled
hoe. the split seed gives a spaced
and fairly uniform planting which
requires little thinning and that
not by the Stoop-labor crews. A
long handled hoe can be used, ac-
cordine to Roy Banier. and if labor
Is scarce. a good deal of the thin
ming can be omitted entirely.
In tests on the Harold Hunt ranch
at Verde. Banter. who is a state COL
lege of agriculture man. found that
paintings of 2.08 lbs. of beet seed
gave l8 plants to the l00-inch row,
Is of which were singles. Planting
295 lbs. to the acre, the yield was
80 plants to the l00-inch row. %
of which were singles.
In paintings of 346 lbs. of seed
to the acre. l00-inch rows showed
IS plants. - per cent singles; SO
lbs. to the acre gave so plants to
the row. "A per cent singles.
1t was Banier's conclusion from
these tests that split seed should
be planted at a rate of from two to
three pounds to the acre.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
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and one other will represent the
irrigation district. Homer Chisolm,
who was to have served, has been
called to service.
County road yards are to become
storage places for scrap metal COL
lected on valley farms. District zan-
jeros are already leaving salvage
for victory" cards with instructions
to farmers in the valley as to how
they may cooperate.
Plans for salvage in other areas
will be left to committee members
directing work in those areas.
No payment will be made for the
scrap, but any money realized from
sale of it will be used to buy county
defense equipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Taft Fdvors u. S.
Sales Tax Plan

for dependents. That effective rate
is combination of a six percent
normal tax and a l3 per cent sur
tax. compared with an effective
rate of 10 per cent at present.
Taft said he considered a retail
sales tax the best form. He said
he had no rate to suggest. but con-
templated a levy patterned after
the Ohio retail sales tax, which
exemptS food.
TAX ON SPENDING
Asserting that the big increase in
income has been among war work.
ers. Taft contended that sales
tax would reach that group and
operate to combat initiation, as a
direct tax on spending"
Sen. Bennett c. Clark, D.. Mo.
another member of the senate fin
ance committee which begins tax
hearings tomorrow. disagreed.
Il don't mean to say that if it
were absolutely necessary l would
vote against it under all conditions,
Clark said. but | think it is the
most unfair and unscientific tax
that could possibly be drawn"
Sen. Josiah w Bailey, D.. N c..
referring to the fact that the house
bill falls considerably short of the
revenue goal of sS7, 700, 100000 orig
inally set by the treasury, comment
ed:
They say we must raise s2,0OO.-
10000 more in taxes. I say let us
spend s2.ooo,OOO,OO less"
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau. jr.. is scheduled to-
open the senate hearings on the bill
tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Admiral Leahy New
Top War Advisor
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nounced at yesterdays White House
conference.
The announcement followed an
outburst of second front reports
from London which rapidly is build
ing up a belief here that move in
western Europe against German is
imminent. Leahy's new appoint
ment. however, is not an eff shoot
of these developments. 1t has been
known here almost since Leahy re-
turned from his post as ambassador
TO France that he would be given
an overall military advisory position
directly under Mr.. Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Scrap Rubber Will Keep
Plants Working One Year

WASHINGTON, July % UP)-
The Nationwide scrap rubber sal
wage collection, which netted 545,-
l55 tons, will keep reclaim plants
operating at capacity for more than
a year. war production board Of
ficials predicted today.
Arthur B. Newhall, rubber CO.
ordinator, estimated that approxi-
mately 70 per cent of the scrap
could be converted into reclaimed
rubber for military or essential ci-
william use Reclaim plants annually
handle some 350,O00 tons.
President Roosevelt, announcing
the results of the rubber drive
said a statement would be issued
within the next two weeks on the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-22
Oregon Senator
Holds West Coast
Defenses Obsolete

SALEM. Ore, July %. CUP)-
Sen. Rufus c. Holman, r.. Ore.
contends that "criminally obsolete,
woefully inadequate and poorly dis
tributed" defense installations guard
the west coast of the United States
and Alaska.
Visiting his home state as a men,
ber of a senate military affairs
special subcommittee, Holman told
newspapermen that grossly mad
equate" fighter plane forces we're
stationed in Washington and Ore
gon.
He directed his criticism prin-
cipally at the alleged failure of
American forces to answer the at
tack of an Axis submarine which
shelled the oregon coast near the
Fort Stevens military reservation
at the mouth of the Columbia river
June 81.
obviously fully informed of the
limitations of the guns at the forts
which are of an obsolete vintage
of 1898. the Japs cruised leisurely
along the coast just out of range
he said.
He said the defenders had COM
puted the range and determined
that the submarine was $50 feet in
length but had been unable to reply
to the attack.
The patrol planes from the
Tongue Point did not rise to the
attack because they weren't there
Holman said. They were all away
on an undisclosed mission. The land
bombers stationed at Portland were
not advised of the attack until
several hours after it was over"