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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-14
CITY LEAGUE soFTeALL

TONIGHT'S GAME
942 Us. Central Specially at Pros
pect. : p. m.
Little Steve Stevenson. who has
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-14

Visit at Fort Custer
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Colts and
Mrs. Aubrey Hayes visited the
latter's husband, Pvt Aubrey
Hayes at Fort Custer, Battle
Creek on Sunday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-14

SETTLERS Move
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Settler
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

of some 10000 junk yards showed
that the old cars stayed in them
an average of as days before the
scrap was on its way to the mills,
Cabot and other officials stressed
that all kinds of scrap had to be
collected this fall if all the nations
furnaces were going to run full.
blast during the winter months.
AS indicative of how old cars are
moving into steel mills where they
are converted into metal for guns,
shells, ships, planes and tanks, Cab
OF pointed out the decline of cars
on hand. A survey in February
showed approximately 100000 in
junk dealers hands at the end of
August.
The August figure represented
decline from 401 ,437 cars on hand
at the end of July. WPB officials
said that it was imperative to get
in the old automobiles-just as it
was to collect all typese of available
Scrap-so that no steel furnaces
would be forced to shut down this
winter as they had to last winter
because they did not have the old
scrap.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Finders Not Keepers

There was donator to the scrap
metal drive who suffered before he
made up his mind to donate an an
tique COLT pistol last Sunday.
Paul Jenkins had had that pistol
for a long time and he priced it.
He fingered it lovingly while hunt
ing for scrap metal to donate.
"It's a valuable antique" he
murmered to himself as he squint-
ed at the gun. But 1t could be
made into a new model. So here
goes" He felt noble but sorrow
full withal.
Imagine his horror when he read
in the RR column next day that
Carl Rogers, Dee Percival and
Frank johnson had engaged in a
battle to the death for possession
of his late lamented antique pistol.
They had found it in the Jenkins
scrap metal donations.
Note to Carl, Dee, and Frank
1t would be good idea to call
Paul and tell him what you did
with that antinque pistol. Honestly,
he's in mourning.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Andv
Elliott
Dies
De an of Valley
Pioneers Passes
Away on Coast

Imperial Valley lost the
beloved dean of all its pio-
neers in the death of Andrew
Jackson Elliott, 83, in San
Diego Tuesday.
Elliott. the man who carried the
United States mail by pony express
across the trackleSs desert that was
Imperial Valley in 1877 and 1878
outlived many of the men and Wom-
en- with whom he worked in early
days to conquer the desert and
harness the turbulent Colorado riv-
er.
Funeral services were scheduled
at the Johnson-Saum mortuary in
San Diego at 3 pm. Thursday and
he will be buried in the coast city.
The saga of Elliott's life is the
saga of Imperial Valley develop
ment. In 1877 he first saw the
cleaning wastes of sand he had to
cross as pony expressman in car
rying the mail between Yuma and
San Diego. AS a lad less than 18
years of age, he was familiar fig
ure as he rode uD to the lonely stage
stations on the desert to get a fresh
PONY and dash on again with his
sack of mail.
), In the early nineties he drove cat
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Stamp Book Full?
Then Buy Ticket

"If your war stamp book is nearly
full. fill it up and trade it for a
bond now, in order that you may
be admitted to the Ginger Rogers
war bond rally on September 90
urged Ben Herring, county bond
chairman, Wednesday.
Herring stressed that the rally is
not purely an Ell Centre enterprise
but encompasses the entire Of I'M
perial Valley.
From Brawley the Women's Am
bulance corps has volunteered its
services for the evening when Ac-
tress Rogers is slated to appear a:
the county fairgrounds.
Two more entrants in the singing
contest, the two winners of which
will appear with Miss Rogers, were
listed Wednesday, They were: Betty
Hogue, Holtville, and Rosemarie Da-
Wis, McCabe. Margaret Ann Hender-
son, Ell Centre, was the winner of
the first of q series of elimination
contests Tuesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Warren Backers
Meet in BrawIey

The Iperial county Warren-For
Governor club met at the Planters
hotel in Brawley Tuesday night to
make plans for the campaign and
to arrange for distribution of War
rem literature before the election.
Personnel of the club will be in
creased as the interest in the cam
paign grows, Baxter Loveland, COM
mittee chairman, said wednesday.
Members of the committee are
c. o. Hoober and Mrs. Ola B. Sper-
ry of Calipatria, J. r. Snyder of
Holtville, John l.. Dubois and Otto
j. Bradshaw of Ell Centre. G.. G.
Bennett of IIeber, j. w. McKim of
Imperial, w. L. Jacobs of Calexico,
Charles Wieman. B. M. Graham, and
Loveland of Brawley
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Kaiser Launches
Vessel Ten Days
After keeILaying
All World Shipbuilding
Records Shattered By
Coast Miracle Man

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept.
%. (UP)-The Oregon Ship
building Co. today launched
the Liberty ship Joseph N.
Teal 10 days after it's keel
was laid. Henry j. Kaiser announc-
ed it would be delivered Sept. q
to break every shipbuilding record
in history.
Delivery will be made on the first
anniversary of the completion of
the first ship Kaiser ever built
the Star of oregon. Today's launch
ing broke the 24-day keel-laying-
to-launching record set Aug. % by
the miracle" builders Richmond.
Cal, yard. and the delivery next
Sunday will shatter the fiye-day
outfitting record held jointly by
Oregon and Richmond.
Kaiser, who hurried here from
New York to witness his latest con-
struction triumph, told brief press
conference which preceded the
launching ceremony that the rec
ords were testimony to "the great
production era" which would re-
build the world after the war.
Company officials stressed that
establishment of the record had
NOT meant sacrifice of other work
at the yard, and they emphasized
that they were launching mo empty
hull"
AS it hit the water today, the
Joseph Teal was 81 per cent COM
plete, compared to the average of
70 per cent for routine jobs. Boilers
had been installed and had steam
up.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

Rdldel DOZa, one OF the ldDOrerS'
from JaliSco, a state near Mexico
City, crossed the border Tuesday on
a special nonresident passport to
confer with Tom Finney, United
States employment director in FL
Centro.- Loza, who represented the
group of Mexicans. was seeking in
formation concerning the earliest
possible date that the agricultural
workers will be allowed to enter the
United States.
He told Finney that the men are
all good workers" and are I'M
burdened by families.
Loza said that the men had come
from Jalisco and other neighboring
states several weeks ago when word
filtered through that the U. 5. gov
ernment was asking for aid from
the Mexican laborers. Upon reach
ing the line they were denied en-
trance into the States. Loza said
The incoming workers have thrust
an unemployment problem on the
Mexicali officials. Many of the 430
have been jailed for vagrancy.
Before returning to Mexicai Loza
was assured by Finney that he
would take up the problem with
other government officials, which
he did Wednesday in a letter to
Frank Buckner, placement officer
in the California department of un-
employment.
Details regarding physical exam
nations for incoming workers, nee
essity of which was one of the reas-
ons they were stopped, are being
worked out now, Finney said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
LegaIities Tie Up
Notorious SeeIey
Auto Bone Pile
Intended for Japs,
Wrecked Cars Now
ImmObilized BY Suit

Now that junk beside the
railroad at Seeley . >.
No pie of junk in all the
world ever caused so much
comment as that rusty pile
of ancient automobile bodies aban-
doned in a dusty heap alongside
the railroad tracks at Seeley. 1t
worried everyone who passed the
spot on highway 80 for the last
two years.
That junk pile has a past. Here
is one version.
1t was collected by a San Diego
junk company to be sold to the
japanese back in the days before
the United States woke uD and
prevented the shipment of junk to
the Japanese. The junk was already
piled beside the tracks when the
government order went into effect
Jan. /, 1910.
The junk company then decided
to have it baled. loaded on flat
cars, and transported to the coast
area. Negotiations for a baler OF
the hydraulic type, which cost in
the neighborhood of $4,000, appar-
emily did not go through.
Officials of the San Diego and
Arizona railroad company disliked
the look of the junk heap and sued
the junk company. so it is said, to
clear it from their right of way.
Continued on Page 2, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Forget Old Cars.
Get In the Scrap

WASHINGTON, Sept. % CUP)
War Production board officials
today asked Americans to turn in
all the iron and steel scrap they
can find in their cellars, attic and
yards despite the fact that they
may see old automobiles in grave
yards" or junk yards.
Paul Cabot. deputy chief of the
WPB's Industrial Conservation bu-
reau, predicted that all the old au-
tomobiles in the hands of junk
dealers soon would be on their way
toward Berlin or Tokyo as bombs
Or shells. He said old cars are be-
ing broken up by the junk yards
four or five times as fast as autos
are going off the highways into
the hands OF junk men. And these
old cars won't provide nearly
enough scrap.
Contrary to what some folk be-
lieve, Cabot said that dealers are
turning over their inventories of
old, discarded cars at least every
so days. The most recent check
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

after the convention refused, dur
ing a closed session, to suspend the
bylaws and give voting privileges
to the delegates, Earl Rocks, pres
ident of the state federation, said
the motion to, suspend the bylaws
failed to receive required three
fourths majority by a dozen votes.
AS result of the dispute, con-
vention sessions have been the most
tumultuous in the history of the
state federation and almost no
other business has been presented
to the delegates since they conven-
ed Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Nazis Deny Book
Called to Berlin

LONDON, Sept. 20 - CUP) =
Stockholm reports said today that
high Nazi sources have denied that
Field Marshal Fedor Won Book,
commander of the German armies
on the southern front. has been
recalled to Berlin.
The denial which like the original
rumors came through Stockholm,
also said that there was no rift
between Won Book and the German
high commano.
However, the Nazis did not spe-
officially deny the report that Won
Book had been relieved of his south
ern command
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
PILE SCRAP

Heinecke told FL Centre residents
to pile their scrap metal in the al
les at any time and the city crews
will pick it up on their regular
rounds. This system was worked out
so there would be no addition labor
cost and no additional use of tires,
gasoline, and trucking equipment
will be involved.
Imperials scrap metal total We'd
nesday was 40 tons deposited at
the county road yards and 25 tons
at the fair grounds.
Imperial Future Farmers of Amer
lea, using trucks furnished by the
city, the road district. and w. L.,
Townsend, will bring in metal. Any
one in the Imperial district may
telephone Imperial 237 or Imperial
243 for information on the scrap
metal drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

sentatives of the 16 union locals.
The committee resumed its dis
cussions this morning after failing
to reach an agreement during con-
ferences last night.
Delegates who walked out of the
convention represent about $4,000
union members in the state. The
union locals were denied voting
participation in the convention on
grounds they had failed to pay their
per capita assessments In accord
ance with provisions of the state
federation's constitution.
The walkout occurred yesterday
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

DdCGcIeu oIdllllBIdu SITctlS OONleC
forces had advanced, notably in the
northwest sector where they pierced
German lines and recaptured an
important height.
But at other points the Russians
were driven back several streets in
house-by-h battles that ragged
under unprecedented Nazi air at
tacks which we're said to involve
as many as 1000 plane sorties per
day.
The western air front was quiet
but British headquarters in Cairo
revealed that Imperial commandos
had struck in wide offensive be-
hind Marshal Erwin Rommel's lines.
Desert raiders struck $50 miles
behind the Alamein lines to attack
Benghazi and BARGE simultaneous
with the previously revealed British
commando attack on Tobruk.
Another desert column surprised
Gialo, the Axis-held oasis only 1876
miles from the gulf of Sirte and
held the spot for nearly a week.
wrecking all the supplies and in
stallaticns at the spot.
Cairo believed that the aggres-
sive tactics of the Imperial forces
had dealt heavy blow to Rom
mel's attempts to reorganize his
forces after the failure of his at
tack on Alamein.
Prime Minister Winston Church.
i'll. in message to British ship
builders, reported that the Allied
shipping position has recently i'm
proved but that it still is grave.
Reports circulated that Adolf Hit
Ter and Benito Mussolini may meet
at Vienna shortly, possibly to con-
slider difficulties with the Axis Bal
kan satellites. The same question
was thought to have been foremost
in conference of Nazi Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
and Vice-Premier Mihail Antones-
cue of Rumania.
STALINGRAD HELD
Moscow dispatches admitted that
the German attack, paced by tanks,
had won several more streets in
the bitter Stalingrad battle. But
the Red army organ. Red Star. as
serted that the outcome of the
street battles thus far showed Stall
ingrad car and will be held.
The German high command
agreed that the battle was raging
with undiminished violence and
claimed that more ground "in the
center of the city had been occu-
pied. Soviet counterattacks north
west of Stalingrad we're said to
have slowed down but the Ger
mans admitted they were on the
defensive and fighting hard in the
Voronezh salient $50 miles north
west of Stalingrad.
Moscow reports emphasized the
high cost of the Nazi advance, re-
porting that German attack
which captured two streets in Stall
ingrad succeeded only with the loss
of 5000 Nazis killed and 20 tanks
destroyed.
Increasing German complaints
about bad weather were reported
and London said the Stalingrad
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Kaiser Hires 1900
Men in One Day

NEW YORK, Sept. 23-tUP) -
Henry j. Kaiser, Pacific Coast ship
builder, hired 1900 workers the
first day of his campaign here to
recruit 10000 men.
He set up an office in midtown
store. Sixteen hundred besieged
it. BY night, 1000 of them had
been told they would leave for
Portland, Ore, early next week.
Kaiser will advance each SIS for
transportation, and it later will be
deducted from his pay check
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

feSouICeS dC IVS command 10 Strlke
terror to the soul of Germany" he
said. "The only way to fight and
strike terror to the hearts of those
who would destroy our way of life
is to annihilate them from the air."
He criticized many of our ad-
mirals" who do NOT realize "that
the day of surface fighting on
land or sea-is forever gone" and
called for an end of this pacifist
attitude which says that we must
be nice to the Germans and their
allies and NOT hurt them after the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Unionists Strike Against
Union Ruling in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 23-tUP)-
Efforts were being made today to
compromise dispute which led
delegates of 16 union locals to walk
out of the 31st annual convention
of the 31st annual convention of
the Arizona State Federation of
Labor and threaten to set up new
labor organization in Arizona.
The regular delegates and the
Rebel" delegates appointed joint
committee yesterday afternoon fol-
lowing the walkout in an attempt
to compromise the dispute over
granting voting privileges to repre-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

war"
"The German people, as a race,
are the most dictatorial In the
world when they have the upper
hand" Lee said. But when they
are down. they will lick our boots.
If 1t Is necessary, In order TO pre-
serve democracy to put them into
the position where they will lick
our boots, then that must be done.
Brutality must have It's chance
and the best way 10 achieve that
brutality Is through the air"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Automobile
Jams City Traffic

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Sept. 90
CUPp- Police received an urgent
call yesterday to untangle a traffic
jam at a main intersection. They
found -year-old Donald Wald-
man riding in his toy automobile,
with drivers hemming him in on
four sides and beseeching him to
move on. Donald said he wanted
to see how his car would ride on a
real street.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
'STAL|NGRAD Can BE HEIDI SAY REDS
Big ConyoyGets
Thru to Russia

LONDON, Sept. %. (UP)-
The admiralty reported tilsr
"tbe great majority" of British
and American ships in the Rus
sian bound convoy which was
attacked by Nazi forces had
arrived at north Russian ports.
The admiralty cOmmunique
said that none of tie conveys
escort ships was lost.
(Nazi reports had claimed That
about 40 of the As ships which
Berlin said comprised the con-
voy were either sunk or damag-
ed.)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Weatherman Starts
Parachute Scare

YREKA, Cal, Sept. 23-CUP) =
The weather bureau today dispelled
a Japanese bomb" scare, news of
which travelled swiftly through the
countryside via party line tele-
phones.
The mysterious paraphernalia
which fell on John Lighthills ranch
it was explained, was merely
weather bureau balloon and appar-
atus used for studying the upper
air.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Not Art Anyway

Poets are where you find them
and it is just RR's luck to stumble
over them hither and yon.
The one most recently brought to
light is M. C. CUncle Brother Pin
nell.
In the interests of literature and
good, clean English, RR will refrain
from printing the whole thing but
will merely pause to point out that
there was considerable poetic license
used. For instance here are two
quotations;
He couldn't stay where the sheep
amt
So he had to sign complaint.
Then he turned on his jeep
And went back to his sheep.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23

they had their scrap metal collected
and were taking it to headquarters
in their district or asking that
someone come and get 1t. John
Straub, foreman of the Fred Bright
farms, said he had supervised the
collection of all scrap metal on
the Bright farms and had hauled
10 tons to headquarters. Ten farm
ers had telephoned before 10 am.
Wednesday to say they had junk
ready.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
y AMBl|Ne
IL EpoR1ER
Ouch!-

Ouch!-
The conversation in q group of
farmers was on the subject-guess
what? Correct. The labor situa-
ton.
Harold Hunt listened and said
nothing. Another farmer turned
to him and practically walled, "The
labor shortage is terrible, isn't it?"
"It isn't SO bad,' said Hunt.
"Vhat?" beloved the other farm
er. Every man you meet is look
ing for help"
yes" agreed Hunt, "but all
these fellows looking for help
haven't gone to work yet"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Make Nozis Lick
Boots is Demand

WASHINGTON, Sept. % (UP)-Sen Josh Lee D.
Okla calling for the opening of second front by air be-
tore JAM today demanded that the United States make
the German people click boots-if that is necessary
to preserve democracy Ths country should use every
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
BEGIN SURVEY

Not to. be outdone by the rural
sections, Ell Centre city crews We'd
nesday began survey of the city's
junk yards which were declared to
be gold mines of scrap metal.
Every bit of ccrap metal will be
collected from these junk yards
and donated to the scrap metal
drive" Walter Heinecke, Ell Centre
public works director, said. I'VE
have three junk yards, two in the
city and one outside the city limits.
We won't leave scrap in any OF
them"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Baseball

NATIONAL
Philadelphia COO 900 00'.-0- IL
Brooklyn 002-021 0lx-6-1 1870
Melton, Pearson & Livingston;
French & Owen.
AMERICAN
Washington 600 00l 000-l-5-l
New York 900 500 l0X-4-7-0
Scarborough, Kennedy a. Early;
Bonham & Dickey.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Street Battles
Leave Decision
Still in Balance
Soviet Forces Advance in Strategic
Northwest Sector Of City but Give Way
Elsewhere; Victory in Egypt Revealed
: BY UNITED PRESS

Red Star organ of the Red army Wednesday proclaim
ed the conviction that Stangrad can and will be held
as German and Russian troops traded blows in street
battles Moscow reports indicated that at points in
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Curbs Hold 43O
l. LoborerS at Inc
Mexican Workmen Wait for Lifting Of
immigration Restrictions to Enter
Valley for Part in Harvesting Crops

Across the international boundary in Mexcali 430
Mexican aborers from the interior of the southern repub
lie awaiting relaxation of strict immigration laws to
pour into Imperial county and help prevent threatened
labor shortage, it disclosed Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-23
Farmers. City Residents
Vie in " Scrap Drive
Rural Donations Begin Coming In as
EICen+ro Begins Canvass Of All Junk
Yards; Totals Mounting Elsewhere

Farmers and city residents alike jumped into the scrap
metal drive Wednesday with fiery intensity occasoned
by the outbreak of rivalry between the rural and city
dwellers.
Bright and early Wednesday morning farmers began
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-02
Frahm in Prison
Must Face Men
He Sent There

JACKSON, Mich, June l.
up - Former Police Superin-
tendent Fred w. Frahm was in
prison quarantine today, on his
way to cell like those which
house a number o. men he
helped convict during nearly 30
years with the Detroit police de-
partment.
"We'll have to be unusually
careful until we find out how
the other inmates feel about
him." said Warden Harry II.
Jackson upon Frahm's arrival to
begin concurrent terms of four
and six years for graft and tax
evasion.
"A lot of the tough boys he
put in here are still here"
Frahm's son, Marvin, a De-
troit patrolman, drove the car
that took him to Southern Mich
igan prison direct from federal
court, where he was sentenced
to terms aggregating six years
for income tax law violations.
He had previously been sem
fenced in circuit court to four
years on an indictment charg-
ing conspiracy to protect a base
ball pool, and the terms will run
concurrently.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-02
Biol Plane EDGE
Claimed by Soviet
Losses Listed as
432 to 1874

MOSCOW, June 2-(P)-The
Soviet government claimed a
three to-one edge today in de-
struction of planes on the Ger
man Russian front last week and
implied a lull in fighting
aground yesterday with the
statement mo essential change
took place"
During last week, May "a to
go" a communique said, I'VE
destroyed 432 German planes.
Our losses were 1874"
Four Axis patrol ships were
reported sunk in aerial opera
tons Sunday, but the Soviet in
formation bureau did not speci-
fly where. (Red air and fleet
units operate over the Black,
Baltic, White and Barents seas
against German naval craft and
transports, protecting Allied
supply lines and attacking
those of the enemy
Russian filters were credited
with destroying or damaging 33
tanks, two armored cars, 100
trucks, Jas munitions carts, ten
field guns, two railway trains,
an oil tank and a fuel dump on
various sectors of the land front
Sunday.