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Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
LABOR SEEKS AUTHORITY

Labor favored the supercommit-
tee plan which would have given
it an equal voice with manage
ment to determine" policy and
force execution of it in the in
duStry's effort to produce war
weapons. Management opposed it.
Management favorS the new sub
committee, which apparently would
have only advisory power. Labor
opposes it.
Management bases it's stand on
the contention that it has done
a good job on the production lines
Labor charges that. the corpora
ton have failed to convert theil
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
Imperial Masons
Install Friday

Edward z. Ceilings will be in
stalled as master of Imperial lodge
No. 800, F.. and A M. Friday night,
g O'Clock in the Imperial Masonic
temple with C. E. Sones, senior
grand steward, and Charles H.
Knights, inspector for the 1O8th
Masonic district in charge.
Other officers elect are: Milton
Griffin, senior warden; Clyde
Rodgers, junior warden; William
j. Webb, treasurer; Henry G.. Mil
Ter. secretary George Varney,
chaplain; Richard E. Hansen. sem
lor deacon; Rockwell French, jun
ior deacon; David j. Blank, mar
Shall Elvis Y. Adair, senior ste
ward; Benjamin Ernest Fargo,
Junior steward, William DORIS
chuck, tiler.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
Auto Mano9em't
Wins First Bout

facilities to war work and threat
en- widespread unemployment
among auto workers.
President C E. Wilson of Gen.
eral Motors, acting as spokesman
for the manufacturers. brought the
dispute into the open late yester-
day at press conference by an
nouncing that the l0-man joint
committee had "disbanded" and
that a new group TO be announced
by the OPM would be acceptable
to industry.
AS soon as the OPM announced
the new plan, labor Immediately
declared that the new subcom-
mittee had powers completely In
adequate to insure effectuation OF
the tremendous armament pro-
gram called for the president"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
Prefers Life in Jail to Wife

ALBEMARLE N. c., Jan. 8 CUP)
Howard Burleson worried and
tore up all the time over domestic
problems, has asked the Stanley
county court to place him in pris-
on for the duration of his life.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08

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ern LibyaD and into Tripolitania
with the crack Coldstream and
Scots guards in hot pursuit.
The remnants of the Axis armor-
ed units which had been holding
defense positions at Agedabia, south
of Benghazi, attempted to escape
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
FILED

Articles of incorporation were
tlled in Ell Centro Thursday by the
employees association of the I'M
perial Ice Division of the California
Electric Power company. The Off
GERS Of this non-profit organization
were listed as o. N. McCulloch and
Leslie D. Whitted, Brawley; Oscar
Gillian, Philip Allen, and Onzie
Grant, all of FL Centre,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
CounciImen Table
Filipino Petition
AGAINST GambIinq

Continued from page One)
gambling places are owned by orien-
tails. He demanded to know why Fill
pino interests could not obtain Ii
censes to operate games Of chance.
He told Police Commissioner Wes-
ley He'll that the card games Great
ed an immoral condition, and that
it seemed a shame that Filipinos
could not also run gambling estab-
liShments here.
Copies of the petition were sent
to various Ell Centro organizations,
including the Ministerial associa-
ton, which met Wednesday and
voted to keep hands off, The
ministers took the attitude that the
matter was strictly up to the police
and the city council.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
FARM BUREAU
MEETS SATURDAY

The Sd directors of the Imperial
county farm bureau are scheduled
to meet at 1870 pm. Saturday in
the farm offices at the court house
to hold their regular monthly meet
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
Alamo of Islands
Finds Macarthur
Holding Positions
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Arthur'S short, tight defensive line
In ali attempt 10 locate weak spots
at which the fnal assault may be
directed.
Assistant Secretary of War John
j. Mccoy reported that tho war
department has had no complete
report on casualties on either the
American or Japanese side.
Macarthur, he indicated, has been
too busy fighting to furnish the
department with detailed bulletins
on the progress of the battle. How
ever, Mccoy said that indications
were that American casualties have
not been ."unduly heavy" and that
Japan has lost considerably more"
troops than has Macarthur.
GENERAL IN FIELD
Macarthur himself Mccoy SAX
Is in the field at the side Of his
troops, directing their operations in
person. He naturally declined to
indicate whether MacArthur's head
quarters were on the Bataan penin-
Sula or deep within Corregidor.
which probably will be the citadel
of the final us: stand on the
islands.
The. tone of the American COM
munique was in striking contrast
to Japanese propaganda claims on
the progress of the Philippine cam
paign. The Tokyo radio took, the line
that the task of the American fore
es was hopeless" and that they
we're being driven from position af-
ter position.
Macarthur, however, reported
that the morale and determination
OF the American and Philippine
troops are high and that they NAV
be counted on to continue their
PERSISTENCE with skill and courage. "
1t was apparent that Macarthur
and his men were selling their lives
as dearly as any American fight
ing men since the Alamo.
FIGHTING FOR TIME
But it was a race against time
time for American planes to be
flown east to battle stations in
Burma, the Dutch East Indies and
Australia. Time for American naval
forces to re-concentrate in the
southwest Pacific. Time for the
British to catch second wind in
The dclense Of vital Singapore
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
Singapore Cool
Of Big New Push

during a sand storm but rear guards
were brought to battle at some
points by the British.
British advances of 20 to 40 miles
we're reported in the first phase
of the new westward surge, despite
many enemy mine fields, and hope
was expressed that the drive might
now carry on through all of Libya.
If it does, the Allies will be in a
position to strike at Italy from
close range.
REDS ADVANCE
In Russia, the Red Army was
pounding with increasing fury at
the Axis lines from the Crimea
to Leningrad and the London ra-
dio said Berlin had decided TO make
a further withdrawal of the German
winter defense line in the Soviet
Union.
Russian shock troops made new
landings in the Crimea and were
fighting in the Yevpatoriya sector,
40 miles north of Sevastopol, Whiie
the Russians who had been under
siege at Sevastopol continued ID
crash into the German lines in an
effort to join up with the YeVpa-
toriya and Kerch forces and clear
the enemy from the Crimea.
On the Ukraine front it was re-
ported the Russians had hammered
to within about 80 miles OF Khar-
,I,hn =. p
reported strong enemy attacks.
On the central front before Mos
COW. the Red army was reportel /
developing wide pincers attack
after having taken Meschovsk, 1875
miles southwest of the capital.
NAZIS STRESS LOSSES
The German communlquc SAID
that the enemy suffered extremely
heavy losses" in these operations.
On the northern front, Russian
reinforcemcntS were reported mOv-
ing into the Leningrad area in
what appeared TO be another at
tempt to knock Finland out Of the
war. A big-scale offensive against
the Firms was reported developing
and dispatches from Stockholm in
dicated that there was considerable
concern in HelSinki regarding sup
ply lines-especially food--aS a re-
suit of the German reverses on the
eastern front.
In the Far East, the exact posi-
tions in Malaga remained vague
although London spokesman said
that the Imperial forces were de-
Tending positions about 40 miles
north of the important railroad
and rubber center of Kuala Lumpur,
which is regarded as a key point III
the defense Of Singapore.
The japanese admittedly had
made some progress in the last few
days as result of reintorcements
landed in Selal,gor state, but Sin
gaporC dispatches said that theY
had paid an extremely hlgh price
in casualties.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
BROADWAY LIGHTED

The city council, while ignoring
the gambling issue, took other meas
ures to ease the tension that has
existed on Broadway since New
Years Eve, when two Japanese
were shot by an unidentified Fill
pino.
Additional street lights were Or
dered installed there, the contract
for installation going to Imperial
Irrigation district. Better light, the
council thought, might decrease the
chance of "Sniping."
The ban on night parking on
Broadway was ordered lifted i'm
mediately after the new lights have
been put up, and the street re-
stored to "normalcy."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
Tire RationinQ
Sefup Perfected

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each of eight areas the boundaries
tcr which We're determined By the
population of the cities and veg
lStratlon of the rural areas sur
rounding it. The boards may issue
tire orders to owners in the dis
trict where they ordinarily keep
their cars and trucks. They may
buy the tires anywhere they wish
just so long as they have an order
issued by the board in the area
where the equipment ordinarily Is
kept.
HEADQUARTERS
BraWley tires rationing head
quarters 1l6 South Sixth. The tire
rationipg board members are S,
D, Carey, Grace Little. and Floyd
Shank.
Ell Centre headquarters at city
hall. Board members Mrs. Olga
Costello, Will S. FaWcett. and A.
H. Keller.
CaleXico headquarters at city
hall. H. w. Going, MIS-. James
VierhuS, and r. E. PlCdger board
members, The board meets Mon
days at 2 p. m.
Callpatria headquarters at city
hall. c. A. Sperry Frances Fowler,
and Ray HightoWer. board mem
bers, Holtville headquarters at
city hall. j. r. Snyder Philip Grlt-
fin and N1rc E,yonpoc N1apkip
board mempelS. imperial head
quarters at 100 North Imperial
avenue. Van M. Sayidge, Jess l..
Bishop, and Margaret Anscll, board
members. Westmorland headquart-
ers at city hall, John Hansen, w.
S. Cummings, and Leland Cam,
board members. Bard board mem
bers are Bill Quick, T. j. Worth
=ington, and Tom Adams,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08
LONG SINCE PAST

Even to Hollywood, Valentino is
not happy memory He is the
symbol of a long-lost era when a
Whooper-dooper movie cost maybe
half a million dollars and could
be counted on to bring back $4,000
700, It, was the time when tho ay-
erago male star was happy with
$1,000 a week; a time when al
most anybody could write script,
ana when directors had not dis
covered they were important. If
valentino and his -fledgcd
fanatic fame were alive today, the
SWarthy ex-gigolo couldn't be shown
as the wolf in a one-reeler of ped
Rldlng HOOD for less than $3.50
900. '''
Imperial Valley press., 1942-01-08

Fd ncies
By Paul Harrison

have a hunch the thing is going
to be played straight as belated
glorification of a tragic hero.
OLD WIVES TALES
Rudolph Valentino has been
dead Is years, since Aug. 26, 1895.
In that time new generation has
been hearing about him OCCASION
ally from elder sisters and parents
and signing Spinsters-about how
the Greatest Lover could have TAX
en- all the gals away from today's
Boyers and Gables. They've heard
Cthe youngsters Valentino was a
great actor, too, as we'll as a Wond-
rous and mystery-Shrouded figure
in real life And in testimony to
these things they may have read
something about that CHASTITY, stage
managed demonstration of mass
hysteria when he died in New
York. Also accounts of annual Wis
its of heavily veiled mystery WOm-
en- to the mausoleum each year-
stunts arranged by cemetery
press agent.
A couple of summers ago, when
movies were in the dulleSt of their
doldrumS, a local theater tossed
out all its modern, Super-colosSal
flopS and put in some old Valen-
tinos. They did business, but not
in the way the star would have
chosen.
The first youngsters who attend
ed came away Whooping with deris-
ion and advising all their friends
to get a load of this diSinterred
ham. In the 13 to Is elapsed years,
photography had improved a lot,
and sound had brought realism to
the screen. Direction had improv-
ed, and writing makeup and every
thing else. Likewise changed was
the technique of romance. When
Valentino Wiggled his eyebrows,
shrugged and tossed his graceful
hands about, the customers laugh
ed. They also Snickered at Agnes
AyreS, and at the silly clothes
Adolphc Menjou wore. They like
to died at some Of the mclodrama-
TIC and Soppy SubtitleS.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

The Board charged the AFL
Init. Assn. of Machinists with bas-
ing its campaign for votes among
some 10000 workers at the COM
pany's plants in Tonawanda and
Cheektowago, N. Y, on promises
of premium pay for Saturday and
Sunday work in violation of
pledge to President Roosevelt to
give up this demand.
In its 2-to-1 decision, however,
the Board refused to set aside
the results Of the election in
which the AFL union defeated
the CLOS United Automobile
Workers by q small margin.
Gerard D. Reilly, Board member
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
NAIL ISLANDERS

Both papers also attacked another
unsupported rumor that Negro do
mestics were organizing Order of
Eleanor" Daughters of Eleanor
and Eleanor Clubs" in Norfolk and
other Southern communities as a
means of making extraordinary de-
mands on white housewives.
An editorial in the Virginian-Pilot
declared:
1T is time to haul these things
out of the whispering gallery,
identify them for the fakes that
they are and stop peddling them.
1t is the belief of City Manager
Bolland that these rumors are
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

refusal to certify the election 10
suits would disfranchise "the en-
ployes who have freely selected q
representative" under the guise Of
penalizing the union officials.
Complaints against the type Of
propaganda used by ALL unions
in election drives at the Curtiss-
Wright plants involved in this case
and at other plants, were made in
a letter sent TO President Roose-
welt in July over the signatures of
Clio President Philip Murray, JAW
President r. J. Thomas and Rich
ard Frankensteen, JAW director
Of aviation.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

who gave the dissenting opinion,
objected TO the decision on the ba-
sis that it recognized results of an
election won over a rival union
by repudiating a solemn compact
with the President of the United
States made in the interest Of
prosecuting the war by the ma
tional leaders of its parent organi-
Zation."
The majority decision stated that
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07

Southern communities.
The papers praised by Davis are
the Virginian-Pilot. Norfolk, Va;
the News and Observer, Raleigh,
N. c.; the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch. Richmond, Va, and the
Journal and Guide, a Negro weekly
published in Norfolk.
The Virginian-Pilot and the Jour-
nal and Guide exposed word-of-
mouth rumors that Negro residents
of Norfolk had purchased all avail
able ice-picks in that area with the
intention of making mass attack
on white residents during a recent
blackout in the city.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
Labor Board Rops AFL
Policies at Curtiss-WHght.
But Winks Eye at Result

WASHINGTON, Sept - An election campaign conducted
the ALL union at plants of the Corp
severely criticized this week decision handed down by the
National Labor Relations Board.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
owl Halls Papers
Killing Race Rumors
BY HOLLACE RANSDELL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 Four Southern newspapers one
Negro weekly commended this week by Elmer Davis di
of the Office of War Information for investigating and
exposing false undercover of impending racial conflicts in
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-09-07
planted and prOpagated by enc
mics of our domestic peace"
GOOD CITIZENS

The Journal and Guide under the
heading, Tracking down dangerous
and inspired false rumors," stated:
white people in Norfolk have
nothing to fear from an uprising
among Negroes. They should dis
abuse their minds of any fears that
Negroes are going to do anything
illegal or insane to reflect discredit
upon themselves or upon their city
in these critical times, or in normal
times"
The Richmond Times-Dispatch in
assailing the Eleanor Club myth
said:
1--WE must nail these rumOrs for
they spread bigger and more dan
gerous lies, including reports OF
plots and connter-plots. IL we
can't kill them promptly when
they arise, they work overtime,
and with great effectiveness-for
Hitler"
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Jops Thought Torpedo Boats
Were Planes, Bu' eIey Says

1t. John D. Bulkely of torpedo
boat fame, says daring raids in the
little vessels aren't all serious
matters.
He told reporters the funny part
yesterday when he arrived at the
Navy Department to report to Ad-
miral Ernest J. King, commander
in chief of the fleet. 1t seems that
the torpedo boats had the japanese
completely fooled.
Asked how he sneaked up on any
thing with roaring motors, he said
that seemed strange to him, too,
until he found that the noise bafled
the Japanese.
They thought we were airplanes," /"
he chuckled. There was q Jap
broadcast about our Subic Bay raid
and it said that the Americans had
q new secret weapon that was a
monster, made a big noise, had great
Tapping wings and fired torpedoes
n all directions"
Evening star., 1942-05-19
| Bombers Halt
| Eruption of
| Mouno Loo
~ the Associated Press.

HILO, T. H., May 19.-Army
bombers were called into action to
enforce the Hawaiian blackout-
they bombed famed Mauna Lac
volcano to halt a two-week erup-
ton which made it possible at times
to read q newspaper on the war
darkened streets Of Hilo, IS miles
away.
The Army censorship permitted
disclosure last night that the volcano
lava wall, 90 feet high and half q
mile wide, finally came to halt
May Is.
The lava passed within a few
miles of the Hilo water supply and
then shifted southwark when about
IL miles from the heart of the city.
Bombing was resorted to on May
2, a procedure first employed during
the 1885 eruption when twenty 600
pound bombs were dropped at
points designated by DR.. Thomas A
Jaggar, Government volcanologist
The plan of the bombing Is to cause
the collapse of rock tubes through
which the lava advances from the
vent in the mountainside.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Idaho's Price Laws
Conflict With CeiIinq
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, May 19.-Even If
they're right, Idaho merchants are
apt to find out they're wrong.
If they comply with price ceiling
regulations, some of them at least
are going to run afoul of a State law
requiring at least an 8 per cent
markup over the prices paid to the
wholesaler and be subject to $500
fines, Attorney General Bert Miller
said.
If they comply with the State law,
they're going to run afoul of the
Federal regulations and be subject
to-they hate to think what.
Mr.. Miller has appealed to the
Ofice of Price Administration for
help-he suggests an amendment
permitting the States statutory
markup, even though this puts some
retail prices above the ceilings.
Wholesale prices which rose while
retailers we're selling old stocks were
blamed for 1t all.
Evening star., 1942-05-19

The little but loud boats have
made a great record in their dar-
ing raids. They not only have sunk
ships many times their size, but
have made attacks on surface gun
emplacements and on airplanes.
1t. Bulkeley displayed note from
a superior officer that chided him
about the rumors of the versatility
of the boats. The runor was that
three airplanes were seen fleeing
over the mountains, pursued by tor
pedo boats.
Don't you think this is carrying
war q little too far?" asked the cap
tain who wrote the note.
1t. Bulkeley is proud of his men.
Every one who has stuck by him has
been decorated at least once, and
some more than once.
1t. Bulkeley said he was likely to
be sent to work at torpedo school
at Newport, r. I. a
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Danger Seen in Influx
OF Homemakers
Into War Plants
District PIT. A. Congress
Told Society Depends
On FomiIy for StobiIity

There may be great danger In the
present "hysterical f1ux into indus
try by homemakers," Mr.. Albert L
Gardner told members of the Dis
trict Congress of Parents and Teach
ers today. Mrs Gardner, nationa
chairman of PIT. A. publications
was principal speaker at the open.
ing session Of the 10Th annual con.
vention of the congress at the De-
partmental Auditorium.
Discussing "Unchanging Truths,
she told the convention that some
things are absolutely, unchangeably
true" in time of peace or war. These
fundamental truths, she said. center
about religion, the home, education
and love Of country.
Home Is Base Of Society.
The whole structure of our so.
ciety, she said, depends on the pres.
ervation Of the home and unity o.
family life, and thus it may be tha
the major job of parent-teachel
groups in time of war Is the preser.
yation Of these truths centerin,
around home.
Parent and teacher alike mus
now think of the home and tn,
school of the future, she said, point
ing out that it eventually will b,
universally recognized that the hom,
and the school must work CLOSELY
together to prepare children to TAKE
their place in the democratic world
She stressed that no one can pas.
along to any child a sound mora
code without having one.
Bringing the greetings OF DR.
Frank w. Bauou, superintendent oi
schools, to the convention, DR.. c. r
Reed, first assistant superintendent
OF schools in charge of curriculum
told the group that parent-teachel
units could be the most powerful
organizations in the United States
today.
Unselfish Point of View.
Thoroughly unselfish in their point
of view. they have a platform or
which every one can stand-"the
welfare of the boys and girls o1
the community" The task of edu.
cation Is community task, he said
and Is something We can all be
unanimous about"
The remainder of the morning
session was devoted to general bus
iness, the reading of the minutes
of last years convention by the
secretary, Mrs. Richard j. Purcell
and the report on the year.
achievement by Mrs. P. c. Elicit
president of the congress.
DR.. Helen Mitchell of the staff ol
Paul v. McNutt, Federal Security
administrator, was to be chic
speaker at the afternoon session.
The convention will continue to.
morrow, with talks by DR.. Charle.
I. Schottland of the Labor Depart.
ment's Children's Bureau, and Capt
Rhoda Milliken Of the Womens Bu
reau and the installation Of newly
elected officers.