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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

PITTSBURGH - ms In the
OPS's first civil action under he
Price Control Act. Pittsburgh Steel
Company today was permanently
restrained from making further
"above-ceiling' purchases OF iron
and steel scrap, vital war materials.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23
Flashes of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Slightly Warmer

RIO DE JANElRO-INS- Bra
lillian police today grilled German
and Italian employees OF the sristo-
cratic casino AtlaIt ieo at Santos
following an explosion OF two
bombs in the grill room which in
Jured several persons.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

NEW YORk-lNS- Looking for.
ward TO a crowded day members
Of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association were to hold
their annual election OF officers and
directors today at the Waldorf AS
toria The elections were sand
wiched in between heavy conyen-
ton program highlighted by re,
ports OF special committees before
TIT annual banquet of the Bureau
OF Advertising afterwards.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

WINNIPEG, Man.-INS - One
thousand veteran Lanaulan soldiers
ilOm overseas nave arrived in Cana
da TO train new troops. Coz. j. -.
Balston, minister ot defense, an.
nouuceu today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

A,..ns victor. Ban. y T. $ Await. p m. Is.,.s., As, ta,s
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

NEW YORk-INS-Crown Prin-
cess Juhana OF the Netherlands
and her husband. Prince Bernard,
lea, c Tor Washington today where
they VIII be guests OF President
ana Mrs. Roosevelt.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Russian
radio reports that German sailors
have arrived at Toulon and that
certain French naval units have
been coded to the Nazis wei brand
ed as pure imagination" today by
the French government at Vichy.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

NfSFINGTON--UP-Nelson A.
Rockefeller. coordinator OF inter
Ierican affairs, today announced
project TO survey fisheries re.
sources in the Caribbean for posi-
BILE additions to wartime food sup.
plies.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

WASHINGTON-AP- America
may have snne surprising food
shortages through meeting the in.
creasing wartime demands OF the
United Nations. Senators said
Secretary OF Agriculture Wickard
disclosed this situation at closed
sessions Of a Senate Appropriations
Committee reviewing House action
In slashing more than $4,000 900
from cash midget estimates from
the Aericult,ire Department in the
coming fiscal year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-23

CHICAGO-INS- Acting swiftly
after he was named TO conduct
sweeping srand jury investigation
into alleged seditious activity in the
Chicago area, L. S. Attorney J.
Albeit Vol announced today issu-
ance OF subpoenas for six persons
TO appear before the grand jury.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Aged Aid Law Bans
Labor on Farms

SACRAMENTO, May Is CUP -
There is little chance that federal
regulations can be relaxed TO per-
NIT CALIFORNIA; $4,000 aged aid
recipients to earn FAY as agricul-
tural laborers without stoppage OF
the benefit checks, state welfare
Director Martha A. Chickering
said today.
Our present law is absolutely
rigid ON this point" Miss Chicken
ing said, "ano the department is
powerless to make rulings contrary
to it, however much we may de-
sire to do so. l am firmly con-
WINGED that permitting old age Sc
curity recipients to work in agri-
culture and retain their earnings
without loss of their aid would help
the serious situation California
farmers are facing"
Miss Chickering said the present
requirements we're forced on the
state by the federal social security
board last summer over state pro-
tests.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Jopon's
Victims
StdrVe
Chinese Perish
ByHundreds in
Shanghai Area
BY ROBERT p. MARTIN

CHUNGKING, May Is.
(UP)-Hundreds of Chinese
are starving to death in
Shanghai and thousands Of
Americans, British and Dutch have
experienced extreme economic hard
ship in the city since the Japanese
occupation, authoritative sources
said today.
Chinese are the worst sufferers IN
Shanghai because the Japanese have
refused to permit importation OF
rice, which is sent instead to Japan.
Rice riots among the Chinese are
common daily occurrences. Hun
dreds of corpses of starved Chinese
are collected each morning, accord
ing to information received here.
The Shanghai Chinese gather in
block-long queues each day to OBJ
tain a handful of rice which must
suffice to feed an entire family.
Most white foreigners in Shanghai
face an acute shortage of funds be-
cause of rigid banking restrictions
and japanese advisory control"
over the city's business life.
Between December and March Is
the cost of food in Shanghai in
creased 80 per cent, and by this
time the increase probably has
reached go or 10 per cent.
Enemy foreigners still are able to
draw 1000 yen from their accounts,
but this is barely enough for mini
mum living costs. And even these
funds soon will be exhausted be-
cause the Japanese permit with
drawals only to so per cent OF &C
counts. Japanese authorities exam
inc bank books and determine
whether additional Withdrawals can
be made.
Many foreigners in Shanghai have
been selling their extra clothing,
radios and bicycles at Enthusiastically
low prices in order to obtain funds.
The moratorium on rents which the
Japanese declared in December ex-
pired on April l, and now landlords
can evacuate non-paying tenants.
Japanese seized all medicine, in
Guiding Red Cross supplies, iodine,
splints and sulfanilamide, creating
a severe shortage of drugs. The
Japanese also requisitioned all auto
mobiles, removed the engines and
used the bodies for scrap iron, it
was understood here.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Union Wins TussIe
With Beer Company
Operating in &c.
Truck Drivers Local
Gains Contract Under
Threat of Boycott

The A. F. of L. Truckdriv-
,rs, Warehousemen and Help
ers union of Imperial Valley
Friday claimed a 100 per
cent membership among beer
truck drivers, as result of an agree
ment between the union and the
ABC Distributing company.
Arthur Herzog, head of the firm
late Thursday capitulated to the
unions demands FOR a five day
week, a wage minimum of $45 per
week for drivers and a union shop
thus ending a threatened secondary
boycott against the brand OF beer
distributed by Herzog.
Announcement of the agreement
was made by Secretary Ray Magness
of the union, and confirmed Friday
by Herzog.
Magness had served notice that
unless Herzog signed by Thursday
afternoon, he would throw picket
lines around all bars and taverns
serving beer distributed by Herzog
After the signing, Magness per-
sonally notified bars that had re-
moved that brand of beer from their
coolers that it no longer was on
the unfair list.
Herzog, according to Magness, has
two drivers, both of whom. Magness
said, formerly were members of the
transfers. Under conditions OF the
agreement, these drivers must re-
Join the union within 30 days.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

two civil control stations, one al
ass Commercial street in Ell Centre
and one at 355 Seventh street in
Brawley.
This final registration will be COM
pleted by pm. Saturday. The Japa-
nese then will wait for the Army
to provide transportation to Parker
They all must be out of Imperial
county by noon next Thursday.
Registration in Ell Centre pro-
crossed in an orderly manner, APP
parently because the business af-
fairs of the evacuees already had
been taken care of as the govern
ment instructed. There was no con-
fusion and no excitement.
A responsible representative of
each family and all persons living
alone had to clear through the civil
control stations and have all papers
and affects in order.
Federal, state, and county officials
have had the japanese register 10
different times since Pearl Harbor
they have had to arrange SO
their property and crops may be
handled by others and put their
affairs in order SO they may remain
away from home for the duration
The United states Army ordered
evacuation of Japanese from five
additional areas of Washington and
California. The orders were said
to bring to approximately $4,000 the
number of Japanese actually moved
to assembly or reception centers
or under moving orders.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Payroll $4,000
Per Week on Nv.
War Construction
Official Says Total
May Reach S250,OOO in
Short Time Here

Over a thousand construc-
ton workers employed on
government projects in I'm
perial Valley are now draw
ing more than $4,000 per
week and the payroll may soon GO
over the $250,000 mark.
This was the disclosure which had
been made Friday by w. w. Null
herm, paymaster for Vincent-Prin-
gle and Webb construction COM
pany.
Mulherm was in Ell Centre to
make arrangements for the volun-
tary purchase of war bonds and
stamps by the workers on the Seeley
airport, inland Marine base and
other projects. Before he left, the
man who signs the checks" had
received 500 cards for purchase
authorizations and had placed an
order for $500 more.
An expectation that the number
of workers will increase was voiced
by Mulherm. He said that the COM
pany had absorbed all the surplus
labor in the valley and is now call
ing on labor unions throughout the
country to furnish workers.
The warm weather of the summer
will probably cause a large labor
turnover as men come and go, Null
herm said, thus partially explain
ing the large number of cards Or
dered. Each time a worker is hired
new card will have to be used
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Science Tests on
Schedule Here

First tests in nationwide science
talent search TO be held at Central
Union High school were scheduled
for next Wednesday, school officials
announced Friday
The preliminary examinations
will be under the supervision of H.
K. McCracken, chemistry instruc-
tor.
Students taking the aptitude test
will be Edith Small, James Reidy,
Reginald Theriault, Craig StriCk-
land, and Andy Dubois.
The science talen search is con-
Quoted by the Science Clubs of
America, sponsored by Science Ser
vice. Purpose of the search is to
discover and help develop scientific
talent that will be of value to the
nation in war and In peace.
Forty boys and girls who lead in
the preliminary examinations will
be given all-expense trips to Wash
ington for the final examinations.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

Tor the same reason.
Greenslade asserted 10000 military
trucks are standing at a single
East Coast port waiting for ships,
and that war goods ARE piling up
at the docks on both coasts and are
backing up at some inland war
plants" because of insufficient ship
ping space.
Victory or defeat Greenslade
warned, "at the present time re-
solves itself into a simple mathe-
NAUTICAL pattern-can we build ships
fast enough to replace the vessels
sunk off our coasts and in foreign
waters and at the same time have
a large enough margin of shipping
to carry vitality needed supplies to
our forces and fleets in foreign
WaterS?"
Greenslade said that at one in
land plane there are 10000 combat
vehicles ready to be shipped
Thousands of trucks, intended for
American forces in Australia and
Ireland and elsewhere, have been
stored for lack of shipping to carry
them where they are so badly need
ed, he said.
Unless this bottleneck can be
broken, it is feared that some war
production plants may be forced to
slow doWn-or even stop work alto
gether"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Mexico Threatens
Move Against Axis
Over Torpedoing
Ultimatum Dispatched
As Declaration of War
Demands Are Voiced

MEXICO CITY, May Is.
OUP) The Axis must ex-
plain the torpedoing of a
Mexican merchant ship off
the Florida coast in a man
ner satisfactory to Mexico by May
81 or Mexico will take steps de
manded by our national honor"
the government announced today.
Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla
dispatched that ultimatum to Ger
many, Italy, and Japan today as
labor, political leaders and the press
demaned retribution for the IA
Mexican lives lost when the bright
ly illuminated Mexican ship was
torpedoed without warning We'd
nesday night.
Vicente Lombardo Toledano, pres
ident of the Confederation of Work.
ers of Latin America, demanded, in
an open letter to President Avila
Camacho that Mexico declare war
on Germany at once. The newspaper
LaPrensa, one of the largest of the
Mexican dailies, also demanded
declaration of war.
Mexico has severed diplomatic re-
lations with Germany, Italy, and
Japan. Only congress can declare
war, but congress may delegate that
power to the president The ulti-
matum was sent through neutral
intermediates to all three Axis
countries, since the submarine was
not identified.
A foreign office statement said
the torpedoing 'once more shows
the ways unhesitatingly adopted by
Axis powers to conduct hostilities
in this conflict.
This is not merely case OF
aggression contrary TO the most
elementary principles of humanity"
it continued, but also an open
violation of international law and
of rules regarding submarine actions
against merchantmen in wartime in
accordance with the act signed in
London on Nov. 6. 1885,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
HoItviIIe ests
Defense Program

cessfully handled, said Curtis King,
Holtville's representative on the
Imperial County Council of De-
Tense.
First person to report to the
control center after the alarm
sounded was MAYOR F. Roy I'homp-
son.
Every unit and committee in the
Holtville defense set-up was used
by those in charge of the test mo-
bilization. The disasters" consist
ed of fires, bombs, wounded per-
sons, ambulance calls, fear crazed
mobs and ones of similar import
ance.
I'VE found things to correct and
improve just as have the other
cities in the county," King said,
I'VE are going TO get busy immedi-
ately and profit by the experience
gained in the test Thursday night"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

~
Progress of Red army tanks, flame
-throwers, Stormovik planes and
cavalry leading the drive on the
Ukraine capital of Kharkov was
still obscured by meager informa-
ton regarding positions. Moscow
dispatches said the Russians had
plunged across a water barrier,
possibly the Donets river, and were
still crashing through enemy re-
serves in fortified positions.
Until either Moscow or Berlin
discusses definite positions on the
Ukraine front, the success of the
Red army offensive will be difficult
to Judge, but for the time being it
was of particular Importance that
the Russians retained the initiative
on the Kharkov and other sectors
except at Kerch.
The Germans obviously have ex-
tremely strong defensive positions
at Kharkov and elsewhere around
their main bases, but they are being
forced to expend strength on which
Hitler had counted for his summer
offensive and if they lose the Uk-
raine capital their hopes of Selling
the initiative in the south will suf-
fer a severe setback.
The Russian defenses at Kerch,
key to the Crimea gateway to the
Caucasus, also are strong by Ber-
Inns admission and heavy fighting
continued there despite Nazi claim
that important hilltop positions out
side the town had been captured.
On other fronts:
ARCTIC - A Nazi communique
claimed that German air attacks
had sunk the U. S. cruiser Pensacola,
9100 tons, destroyer and two
small ships in q battle with United
States convoy in the Pitzbergen
area on the supply line to Russia.
There was no comment from Lon
don or Washington.
AUSTRALIA - Allied filters hit
japanese transport and shoot down
seven of II enemy interceptors over
Rabaul; japanese also bombed in
Louisiade islands.
BURMA--British troops in north
Continued on Page 6; Column q
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

The rescue ended l5-hour i'm
prisonment during which the young
Hill Military Academy cadet re-
manned conscious and cheerful, de-
spite the crushing weight. He was
pinned against the wall OF the
tunnel about siA O'Clock last night.
RescuerS brought Harper to the
surface on an improvised stretch
err, and waiting physicians imme-
diately administered anaesthetics
At Providence hospital, attendants
said it probably would not be nee
essary to amputate his battered
legs.
Throughout the long night, Har-
per, a resident of Yakima, Wash,
smoked cigarettes, drank black cof-
fee and chatted with his rescuers
as they sought to shore up" the
tunnel walls to move the boulder.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

KINGMAN, Ariz., May 15-UP)
The Utah Construction company
today submitted a low bid of $l8,-
996,392 for construction of Davis
dam at Bullshead Canyon on the
Colorado river.
The only other bid was made by
the Davis Dam company, a merger
of six different construction COM
panieS. Their bid was Sl9,3l3, 434.
The Kingman office of the Bureau
of Reclamation, where the bids were
opened, made no comment as to
when the contract would be award
ed.
Plans and specifications for the
SAL, 100000 project, in addition to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

American Troops
On New Fronts

WASHINGTON, May Is -
CUP)-President Roosevelt said
today American forces are get
ting into the world fight more
and more, and i'm new places all
of the time.
He made this statement in
discussing the urgent need for
increasing numbers of transport
planes to enable the army and
navy to get into the rapidly ex-
banding battle fronts against
the Axis.
Mr.. Roosevelt also said the
total volume of lend-lease aid to
anti-Axis nations in April
amounted to S677, 100000.
This was an all-time monthly
high, and brought to S3,835, 000,-
900 the total since lend-lease
started in March, 1941.
The President Noted that
lend-lease aid in April was at
an annual rate of more than
$4,000, 000, 900, compared with an
annual rate of S4,000,000,0 600
last December.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Twins Bring Total
Children TO Is

BERKELEY, Cal, May l5--tUP)
Twins we're born to Mrs. Marie
Rydman today and now she has a
total of Is children.
Today's arrivals were a boy and
a girl. They and their mother were
reported doing we'll at Albany hos
pital. The father, H. j. Rydman'
vending machine operator was de-
scribed as doing all right, too
Mrs. Rydman, Al, gave birth 10
twin boys two years ago.
The roll call now is: Harvey %;
Clarence %; Helmer 81: Donald 10;
Russell II: David Is; Norman IL;
Marianne IL; Loretta May 7; jackie
6; Charlene 4; Gay and Garry, z;
and the new twins, not yet named.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

retaries obtained TX" cards, show
ed that about half the registrants
received either TX" or "B-3" CARDS.
the latter allowing the holder 10
buy gallons of gasoline during
the next So weeks.
Local officials throughout the II
eastern states and the District OF
Columbia are threatening drastic
penalties for those who are found
to have given false information
Conviction carries maximum
penalty of 10 years In prison, a
$4,000 fine. or both.
Gasoline rationing began today
in the east and the previously an
nounced figures on ration units VIII
hold for the time being.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

ground LOT suspicion IildC CiilSellllB
had been widespread and that
thousands of non essential" mo-
florists had given false information
to get high gallonage ration cards.
Unofficial estimates were that rs
per cent of the estimated 100000
registrants classified themselves as
essential motorists and obtained
*" or B" cards. TX" cards al
low unlimited purchases: "B" cards
allow the holders to buy from SO
to 81 gallons of gasoline between
now and July L. "A" cards, for
essential motorists, allow the
purchase of only three gallons per
week.
An unofficial survey in the DIS
trict of Columbia, where some 200
congressman and some OF their sec
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15

Foreman Joe Marston of the
Rocky Buttee quarry, who directed
the rescue and helped pry up the
boulder and the smaller rocks
which fell with it, said the youth
ran out of conversation just be-
fore dawn.
when we finally moved the rock,
he didn't say word" Marston
said. "Just looked happy. He's a
mighty brave kid"
Harper and three friends were ex-
ploring the tunnel when the boul-
der fell. William Mahan. Is, like his
companion a cadet at Hill Military
Academy here, said Harper pushed
him out of the way of the tumbling
boulder. The other two also escap-
ed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Mexican Killed
Al Araz Junction

Ramon Yslas, who had been en-
ployed by Geronimo SalaS near Nj
land, was killed by a train near
Araz Junction in eastern Imperial
county, Deputy Sheriff Maurice
Breech of Winterhaven informed
Sheriff Robert w. Ware Friday.
The body of the Mexican was
found on the railroad tracks early
Friday morning and identified by
papers in his pockets. In the papers
was a permit to visit relatives In
Arizona. It was dated May IL.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Boy Hero Saved
From Mine Death
- BULLETIN .

PORTLAND, Is. (UP-Jimmy Harper old cadet
Military academy Is hours
trappcd-h boulder than
a ina tunnel of Rocky Butte
PORTLAND Ore4 May Is. (UP)-Rescue squads pried
1G-yearold Jimmy Harper out from under 150Opound
boulder in remote tunnel of Portlands Rocky Butte early
today finally answering his oft-repeaed query of GLOW
you gonna get me out of here?"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
FDR Would Make
SPOT Out Of X

WASHINGTON, May Is -
tUP) President Roosevelt thinks
that the names of persons who
hold "X" gasoline ration cards
should be a matter Of public
record, and not kept secret.
He expressed this belief at a
press conference, at which he
explained how he is attempting
to save use of gasoline and tire
rubber by White House cars.
As an example of his gas and
rubber economy plan, Mr.. ROose-
welt said he had ordered one
White House car and one secret
service car to be left at his home
in Hyde Park, N. ", instead of
being driven up from Washing
ton every time the President
goes to Hyde Park.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
'Hoppers Infest
San Joaquin Area

SACRAMENTO, May 15-UP)-
Stewart Lockwood, entomologiSt for
the state department of agriculture.
today said a serious infestation Of
grasShoppers is developing in the
southern San Poaquin Valley and
in San Diego. Imperial and San
Bernardino counties.
Lockwood returned here today
from a trip through the area. He
said damage to crops so far had
been slight but that more serious
damage was expected.
About 400 tons of poison bait has
been spread in the areas so far, he
said. and further shipments Of
poison are on hand.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-15
Fire Destroys
Half of VILLAGE

MINDEN, Ont, May 15-(UP) -
Half of this village was destroyed
by fire early today. Nine buildings
were burned to the ground with
damage estimated at $150,000.
Citizens formed a bucket brigade
to battle the flames, which started
in bakery shop. Other buildings
destroyed included general store
butcher shop, radio store, cafe, in
surance office, garage, vacant store
and the office of the neWSpape,
Echo.