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Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

ike these people and TO get along
With them because that's my job.
But it. can't X done-thcy simply
won't let YOU
He had in n4.nd the case Of Mel
vile James Cox British neWspap-
er correspondent who was kilac
in a plunge from q fourth-f floor
window after he had been arrest
ed by gendarmes and kept for
three days in cell which reSemoled
a dog kennel The entrance to the
cell was so low that Cox had TO get
down ON mis- hands and knees to
enter.
When in authority the Japanese
are hardheaded, arbitrary and
without sympathy or compassion.
In China I have seen Japanese
soldiers stuff lighted cigarets into
the nostrils of defenscles Chinese
who have offended them. Kicking
and slapping women, showing old
men into canals and laughing at
their feeble efforts to escape, prac-
ticlng jiujitsu on Chinese coolies
are parts of the Japanese techni-
que in carrying their vaunted spirit
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
No Trouble at All
Knocking laps Off
Says Yankee Filler
Volunteer on Burma
Road Tells of Attack
Just Like Football

RANGOON, Burma, Jan.
10. (UP)-A slim young pilot
from Scarsdale, N. Y, de
scribed today a raid of the
American volunteer group ir
Burma on japanese air base III
western Thailand.
1t was like a football game. Two
of us blocked out the japanese
while the other one strafed the
japanese planes on the ground, "
he said. 1T wasn't any trouble
knocking those boys Off"
In that raid. on the Raheng air
drome, the Americans who came
over to guard the Burma road and
are now participants in the Malaga
theatre of war. shot down three
Japanese planes in a dog fight
and machine-gunned and burned
four aground.
Thursday, in their second raid of
the week on a Japanese base in
Thailand, the Americans, six of
them flying American TomahaWkS
CurtiSS Hawk P-40S, caught the
japanese by surprise.
They machine-gunned nine planes
which were on the field-from ar
altitude of 20 feet They set fire
to seven of the planes.
The japanese. caught flat-footed
stood beside the planes and firec
rifles at the American pilots.
The seven planes were set afirt
in two sweeps over the field anc
the Americans flew away. Then a
young man from Alabama, hap
pened to look back and see the
two remaining planes undamaged
He returned and gave them a final
burst-"just for luck" he said.
He saw one plane burst into
flames and thought that the other
was damaged
One American plane is missing
from this raid but it is believed
it might have escaped across the
frontier into Burma before it was
forced down.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
CAA TO Resume
Pilot Training

Civil aeronautics pilot training
classes. halteu - El Centro Whel.
the government stopped all but
government airplane activities
within $50 miles of the Pacific
coast, will be resumed Immediately
Dean Glenn Gieffer OF the El Cen
tro Junior college was informed.
Student pilots hereafter will be
taken to isolated destert camps for
their training, Dean Kleffer was
informed.
Kiefter will accept applications at
any time, he said, as "a CAA m
spector will be in FL Centre Tues
uay TO confer with applicants. Men
between the ages Of IS and Is. IN
elusive. are eligible if they have
had two years of college OF are
now enrolled as a college student
Applicants may communicate With
Kieffer at his office in the junior
college in Ell Centre or call HIM
at his home, Ell Centro 776-J.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

Col. w. B. Higgins of the United
States Army engineers IN Los An
oeles. told President G. G.. Bennett
and Secretary Hugh Osborne OF
the Associated Farmers that the
government has no intention OF
holding up construction because OF
closed shop arguments and SAID a
labor relations officer OF the en-
gineering department was TO ny
from San Francisco to Ell Centro
late Saturday to study the Sltua-
ton, Associated Farmers agreed
late Saturday to study the sltua-
ton. Associated Farmers agreed
TO hold up action until the engln-
rering labor relations officer arrived.
PRESSURE ATTEMPTED
The excitement broke Saturday
when an Imperial Valley farmer
was ordered To join the TeamSterS
union and pay $63.85 dues or ne
could not work at the airport site
with hlS tractor, Bennett SAID. Inc
farmer paid up. He worked TWO
hours and then was discharged.
The farmer said the union refused
10 return the $63 85.
Bennett and Osborne said an OIL
company was ordered to stay OIL
the construction site with its trucks
unless all drivers were union mem
bers. one farmer was told he could
not bring n45 own helper with nm,
Bennett was told. because the union
had its own men waiting TO work.
Col. Higgins said he understood
there was no closed shop clause in
the government contract but some
sub-contractor may have SUCH an
agreement. The engineering rep
reSentatiye was expected to nave
this information.
we won't stand for this closed
shop business in Imperial Valley,
Bennett declared. We never have
and there is no reason why we
should now. OF course We are at war
but the President of the United
States said he was not going 10
en3rce any closed shop issues. II
it is necessary, we will put that
statement to a test in Imperial val
ley. The county provided the site
for the new airport and put up a
lot of the money. Imperial Valley
farmers deserve to get work at the
construction site and TO use their
tractors and men on the job.
Why should the farmers Of this
valley be barred from working by
a racketeering union organizer?
Why should the racketeers tell the
oil company owner which men to
hire and why should they tell these
truck drivers what to join. We
won't tolerate sucn tactics because
the Constitution of the United
States says we don't have to-"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

to 1929.
The senate ignored a plea by Sen
PrentiSS M. Brown, D., Mich, floor
manager for the bill, for rejection
of the amendment.
IF this amendment is adopted,
Brown told the senate just before
the vote, 1T means there would
be absolutely no power to fix prices
of industrial products. Farm prices
would go up 25 per cent on the
average and industrial prices would
have to go up and the vicious spiral
would go on"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
u AMBl|Ne
X EPORTER
Introducing Cookie

introducing oOkle-
Ladies and gentlemen may We
present Cookie Beecher, the arlato-
crat of Imperial Valley feline So
ciety?
Not that it is necessary to pres
ent Cookie to everyone, Cookie has
many fans. At Christmas time
Cookie received more than q dozen
Christmas gifts and dozens OF
Christmas cards addressed to Mr.,
Cookie Beecher.
Cookie is a gorgeous silver Pers-
ian cat with a pedigree packed tull
of illuStrioGs ancestors. He was
reared by Mr.. and Mrs. w 8.
Beecher after his mother and all
his current brothers and sisters Wert
killed when he was five days ole.
They fed him milk with a medicine
dropper until he was old enough
to take the nipple of the nursing
dolls nursing bottle. IN the days
tefore he was weaned, Cookie used
to take the nippel of the nursing
bottle in his teeth and drag the
bottle around demanding food.
He is one of tnoSe amusing cats
with a whole bag full of tricks
Pete, the Patriotic Parrot has moth
ing on Cookie. the Cooperating Cat
Cookie can salute the flag, too. He
stands up and gives a salute snap
py enough to please an Army Of
ficer. He also can sit up and jump
and roll over and Whatnot
Whenever Beecher says, We'll
Cookie, it's 8 o'clock" Cookie goes
and gets his leash and takes ii to
Beecher. Ae Knows Beecher is 60
ing to take him for walk.
In fact. Cookies regular evening
stroll with Beecher is an Ell Centre
institution. Things would not be
normal at Seventh and State
streets around pm. every night II
Cookies aristocratic little figure did
rot go on patrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Stocknen Revive
Beef Controversy

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. lU.
tUO-The 45th annual con-
vention of the American ma
tional livestock association was
in adjournment today after
delegates had taken a strong
stand against impOl tatiOn Of
Argentine beef or the lifting of
the embargo against meat from
any country where hoof and
mouth disease exists.
Frank BOice. Tucson, AriZ.,
formerly first vice president,
was elevated to the presidency
of the organization, succeeding
J. Elmer Brock, Kaycee, Wyo.
A. ID. BrOwnfield, Albuquerque,
N. NJ, succeeded Boice As first
vice president and +. L. Mol
lin, Denver was retained as exc
cutive secretary.
High on list of approved
resolutions was one calling for
elimination of unnecessary,
On-defense spending, includ-
ing AAA payments to members
of the organization itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

c. OMahoney, D., Wyoo and was
perfected with a revision proposed
by Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga
OMahoney'S amendment, designed
TO gear agricultural prices to urban
wages. would have the effect OF
preventing Price Administrator
Leon Henderson from fixing any
farm price ceiling lower than about
100 per cent of parity.
RuSSell's revision adopted as
part of the OMahoney amendment
would prevent the fixing of any
farm price ceiling lower than the
average price of the commodity in
volved during the period from 1919
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

ton among California cities in the
matter of high school machine shop
facilities for teaching farm me-
chanicS
School Board Chairman Roy Wo-
mack and Superintendent Guy A
Weakley were joined by Mechanical
Instructor Emmitt Allen and several
of Aliens students in branding Nc
Phee's report as an error.
Unanimously, they declared that
El Centre has the best equipped
machine shop of any city of COM
parable size in California, and said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

Although the Japanese obviously
were hammering steadily ahead IL
their drive toward Singapore, there
were indications that one of the
biggest break of the war might be
building up on the Russian front
as a result of the furious Rec
Army cffensiyes all along the line
The extent to which the Eastern
front reverses had shaken the
Nazi home frcnt still was highly
uncertain, but the tremendous loss
es in men and machines which
have been suffered in Russia ap-
reared for the first time to be
causing grave uneasineSs-if moth
ing more-Within Germany.
That did not mean that there
was any immediate danger of Hit
Ter losing his grip on the Ger
mans or ca tle people OF Europe,
but, with a severe winter sweeping
across the continent, it seemed
likely that the Nazi leader would
face the gravest situation of the
war at home.
HITLER AT CRISIS
The gravity of this situation
within the Axis home front prob
ably will depend on whether Hitler
having taken over the supreme
military command, can stop the
Russian counter offensive.
At present, it seemed certain. he
has failed to Stabilize the front.
For the first time the Russian
censors were PERMITTING the trans
mission of dispatches saying that
the enemy was lin full flight,
that the Germans were surrender
ing in large groups and that the
Russians were roaring forward
from the Crtn.ea 70 the Leningrao
front.
Some of the enthusiasm cf the
Russian press dispatches might be
regarded a eXaggeration, but even
Berlin radio acknowledged some OF
the Soviet gains. The Russians were
pressing forward III an effort 10
drive the enemy from all of the
Crimea and to relieve the siege of
Leningrad. hut their greatest op-
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Farm Bureau Seeks
BaIing Wire Supply

Imperial county 1arm bureau Is
engaged in an attempt to secure an
adequate supply of baling wire ties
for the spring hay baling season,
C. o. Hoober, Imperial county farm
bureau representative to the recent
federal convention in Chicago, had
revealed Saturday.
Within a few months the demand
for hay from the Los Angeles and
san Diego areas is likely to be
greater than ever because of the
increased larm production effort
being fostered by the government.
Cutting of supplies of imported
feeds such a copra meal and
molaSseS will also increase the
amount of valley alfalfa used by
coast dairymen.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
BY II. o. THOMPSON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. tUPD -
The Japanese have spread d heri-
tage OF hate throughout the Far
East
BY bombings of ndefended towns
and by acts Of terrorism in oc
cupied districts, by cruel eXploita-
lion of subjugated peoples-they
have made themselves perhaps the
most hated race on earth.
A foreign diplomat in Tokyo, at
ter a particularly brutal demCnstra-
ton of the japanese nature, said
to me in a sudden burst of anger
I've tried for eight years to
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Big Orange Crop
Forecast for 1942

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 10. tUP)-.
A record crop of 49,528OOO packed
boxes of oranges for the l94l-42
crop was forecast today by lhe
California Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service, on the basis OF Jan
| reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

up yesterday when the men burst
in. without looking at her, they
STROBE toward the filing cabinets,
in which We're the records of men
registered with the board.
She beat them to it. Backing up
against the files, she demanded:
What do you think you're doing
You can't look at those records
They're confidential!
One man grabbed her. The other
slapped her face. Squirming, kick
ing, biting, scratching, she fought
them until she tainted.
When she regained consciousness
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

that a complete school TOR training
farmers to care for their agricul'
tural equipment Is, and has been,
in full operation here
The school alluded TO. 1t was said,
is situated at Sixth and Broadway
in a building formerly housing
garage, and full curriculum
tractor mechanics Is maintained
there.
Allen disclosed that plans have
been under consideration for some
time to erect q new building on
Continued on Page G; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Not Equipped? H.S. Takes
Issue with Stdte Report

FL Centre high school personnel,
from the chairman Of the board
right down to the mechanical stu
dents, Saturday took furious issue
with a charge that the school is
rot adequately equipped to train
farmers in the maintenance and re-
pair of their machinery and imple-
laentS.
The charge was made in a report
ON a survey conducted by Julian
McPhee, chief OF the bureau of
agricultural education at Califor-
Ina Polytechnic institute, who gave
FL Centro third rate classified
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

the men were gone, but the records
were intact. Bleeding. her clothes
torn, she hurried down the stairs
and told Druggist John NisselSon
what had happened.
The attack on Miss Leventhal
gave new meaning to a fire that
had occurred in the draft board
office the night before Nisselsons
wife had found a sign at the office
entrance aflame, and she had put
it out. Investigators said the fire
was deliberately started and II 1t
had not been discovered, would
have spread TO the office.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
a Hopeless Case

All this business about the tire
ratloning boards and Imperial VAL
leys tire and tube quota IS Il bit
sad.
People may 90 apply for tires
if they want to but they might as
well stay home unless they come
under the specifications and quail
fications set forth by the govern
Continued on Page 6; Column II
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
SOVIET rR|UMPHS BRING
CRISIS WITHIN GERMANY
Japanese Spread
Heritage OF Hate

Editors Note: II. q. Thompson,
author OF the following dispatch,
returned from Tokyo recently al
ter five years as United Press bur
eau manager there.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
She Meant Well

At farewell party given Bill
Livingston Monday night by young
people of the Presbyterian church,
a young lady was carried away by
the fact that Bill is on the verge
OF leaving for military service.
Looking up at him with eyes
brimfull of admiration, the girl
gurgled:
Isn't it wonderful that you're
going away?'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Farm Bloc Wins
Price Curb Test

WASHINGTON Jan. 1G. (UP) = The senate today
adopted 55 to 81 combined farm bloc amendment to the
pending price control bill which according to admnisra
ton SpokesmcrSoud increase farm prizes 25 per cent
The amendh8snt originally offered by Sen. Josep
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
japanese Drive
Nearer Singapore
In Malay Bottle
Allied Reverses in Far East Pale in
Light of Smashing Russian Offensive;
Nazis Demonstrate Uneasiness at Home
- BY UNITED PRESS -

japanese armed forces smashed into the outer defenses
of Singapore in the Kuaa Lumpur sector Saturday but
the Axis suffered heavy blows in Russia and appeared
to be increasingly threatened on the home front.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
CirIFi9hts Off
Draft List Theft

NEW YORK, Jan. TO- (UP)-Two toughs who desper-
atey tried to steal the records of draft board 231 didn't
thai.
Miss Leventhal the boards senographer was locking
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Street Department
Ordered to Ignore
Unofficial Bosses
Political Pressure Off
AS Result of Ruling
Outlawing Interference

A new era had dawned
Saturday for the Ell Centre
city street department.
The department, for the
first time since the last city
election, was operating entirely free
from political pressure, with every
employe, from Public Works Direc-
tor Walter Heinecke down to the
humbleSt man with shovel in his
hands, instructed to brook no IN
reference from outsiders, includ-
ing individual members OF the city
council
The order to ignore criticism OF
self appointed bosses, even when
such bosses" are members of the
council, was issued by Mayor Bob
Hatton who in his capacity as
street commissioner. served notice
that "henceforth. I'm going to run
the street department as it should
be run, with no outside interfer-
ence."
Hatton had called together al
KEY IllGIl Ill GIlS QC PAL Ill4CllO' lAACAdo
ing Heinecke, City Engineer Ralph
Congreve, Assistant Engineer Bill
Williams and General Works Fore
man Kirby Patton for the purpose
of settling "once and for all the
question of who is to give orders to
street workers"
FAWCETT SITS IN
Councilman H. w. FaWCett, for
mer commissioner of streets. sat
in on the conference in an advisory
capacity.
Hatton said that certain indi-
yidualS" who have been in the
habit of making free lance" in
SpectionS of street work. and order
ing the men around probably will
get nothing better than a Bronx
cheer for their troubles in future.
The mayor mentioned no names,
but he left no doubt that he was
paging Councilman Wesley He'll.
whose criticism of the entire public
works department, and his attempt
to have Heinecke fired on New
Years Eve. this week precipitated
what appeared TO be final disSolu-
ton OF the famous political trium-
Continued on page 6, column n
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
Union Moves In on ~.
Airport Construction Job
Associated Farmers Serve Notice Here
Closed Shop Will Not Be Tolerated; AL
Affiliate Sets Up Own Hiring Hall

Associated Farmers cracked down Saturday on leal-
tes mion closed shop and hiring hall set up at lhe new
oernnpnt arnor construction site west OF I'll Cehtro
and nformed government officials that closed shops VIII
NOT hp tolerated in Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11
WEATHER

Maximum temperature Friday 76, minimum Sat
urday az; 5 am. temperature Saturday AZ, humid
ity SO; noon temperature Saturday II, humidity
"a; 5 pm. temperature Friday GA, humidity 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

L. A. Hay-U s. No. l S22-22; U. s. No. 2 leafy
l. v S2O-22; U. S. No. 2 SI6.5O-17.5O; Mpls. May
Flax 2O8l2
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-11

Total Cash, Checks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two e. Centric Banksl
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-23
Farm Trucks Must
Have Certificate
10 Obtain Gas

Al farm trucks - wen - Al
otner trucks must esrry acertifi-
cate Of var necessity beginning
Nov. i. I they do not have :
eertnieste q var necessity they
VII not Be able 70 get gas tres
OF repairs. Every truck owner =
oeing mailed = QUESTIONABLE n b
niled in and returned 70 the o.
ice Of Defense Transportation
Central Mailing Office. ?. Q. Box
z25e. Detroit Mich. within 10
DAYS after they receive IL. Pierce
county farmers should have theirs
now.
The department Of agriculture
asked the Pierce county war board
10 organize transportation CON-
mittees TO assist farmers in their
transportation problems including
assistance in filling out these ques-
uonnaires.
Arrangements have been made
with Washington COOPERATIVE
Egg & Poultry association. branch
office. Tacoma: Washington Co.
Operative Egg & Poultry associa-
ton. Gig Harbor: Washington
Packers, Inc. Sumner: Hunt Bros.
Puyallup; Farmers Union. Puyal-
lup; FsA. Liberty Bldg. Puyallup:
Enumelaw Cooperative Cream
cry. Enumclaw. TO assist farmers
make out their applications for
certificate of war necessity" on
three days only. Tuesday. wednes-
day and Thursday. Oct. 81. IS and
20. Remember these days only;
and members only.
In addition TO these places for
assistance farmers may 60 to the
ACP office room SOL courthouse,
Tacoma. or winter school building. /
Western Washington experiment |
station. Puyallup, on these same
three days.