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, 1942-11-25
Soldiers Buy
Bonds

Americas fighting men are con
fident of victory-so confident
that they are investing approx
mately $13,0OO,OOO in War Bonds
every payday.
Although no quotas have ever
been set and there is no pressure
on them to buy, nearly 10000 900
soldiers, from privates to generals,
are buying bonds.
Rear Admiral Charles Conard,
chairman Of the Interdepartmental
War Bond Committee, who re-
ceived the report of Soldier War
Bond purchases as part of an
overall accounting by the War
Department of both civilian and
military payroll savings, said the
War Bond record of soldiers is
an inspiration to the nation as a
whole.
Both abroad and in home camps
and forts, the soldiers themselves
have spurred War Bond purchases
and have set an example for the
nations millions of workers, Ad-
miral Conard said.
""The fact that every phase of
the Arny's War Bond program is
voluntary Is a striking tribute to
soldier morale" Admiral Conard
asserted.
, 1942-11-25
Leaders Praise
Production
e" Award

Labor likes the new Army-Navy Production Award. Both the
American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organ
izahons have called upon their membership to do their utmost to
win the Award which is given for excellence in war production. 1t
has been accepted by the workers with considerable satisfaction in
plants where it has been given, and the men and women on the
production lines are proud to wear the Army-Navy Lapel Pin, the
civilian decoration for doing excellent work in turning out record
quantities of ships, tanks, guns, airpanes, food, clothing, and other
vital war materials for the armed forces.
, 1942-11-25
Labor
Represented On
Red Cross

Washington, .. Embarrassing
representation of labor on Amer
lean Red Cross chapter boards and
committees in all parts of the
country is indicated in reports
coming to Red Cross national
headquarters here. Among the
larger cities having such represen-
tation, according to Labor Sec
ton records, are the following:
In st. Louis, the AFL represent
alive on the chapter board of di-
rectors is John I. Rollings, secre-
tary of the Central Trades and
Labor Council. Luther w. Slim
kard, secretary of the Industrial
Union Council, represents the CLIO.
Richard Frankensteen, director
of aviation of the United Auto
mobile Workers of America (CIO)
and c. M. Hedgecock, business
agent for the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(AFL) serve on the Detroit board.
State Senator John Shelley, who
also is president of the AFL Labor
Council, and George Wilson, presi-
dent of the Industrial Union Colln-
Gil, represent labor on the San
Francisco Chapter board of di-
rectors.
In Oakland, Cal, the CLIO is
represented by Paul Heide, and
the AFL by Charles w. Real.
Hundreds of smaller cities have
similar representation, and many
Red Cross chapters will set up
special Labor War Fund Com
mittees during the period of the
1943 fund campaign.
In New York City, the Red Cross
chapter has established a perm
anent Joint Labor Committee,
whose chairman is Vincent J. Fer
ris, Secretary of the Allied Print
ing Trades Council and a member
of the chapter board of directors.
This committee sponsors a training
course for Labor Union-Red Cross
Liaison Officers, whose role is to
increase participation of their
Unions in Red Cross services.
Plans for increasing labor par
ticipation on a national scale are
being made by the Red Cross
Labor Section here. This section
supplies service to the labor press
and is responsible for planning
special Red Cross projects with
all branches of organized labor.
Do you make every hour count?
Or are you a no-account ? ? Fl
, 1942-11-25
NEGROES DOING FINE WORK
IN ARMY

The assignment of Maj. Orion Page of the 184th Field Artillery
a Negro. as ne of the officers who are doing special morale work
among members of the AFL and CLIO in 40 Cleveland war plants has
drawn attention to the splendid record made by Negroes in the
United States Army.
Maj. Page is a Chicago lawyer and graduate of the University
of Chicago. Long before the Selective Service Act was proposed, he
enlisted in the National Guard a. a private and worked his way I'D
to lieutenant before the Guard was federaIzed-
He was graduated from the battery officers course at the
Artillery School, Fl Sill, Okla, and was commended for his work
on maneuvers in Louisiana in 1941. He has been stationed at It.
T,c+or REcL
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Russians Fighting
Big-Sca!e Battles

LONCCN, May 2 CUP) - Bis
scale battles are in progress IN the
BryanSk- Crel-KurSk triangle C.
the south Russian front and in t.
Xal hin sector northwest of Mos
cow. the Star reported today.
hu5sian forces northeast OF C"ci
200 miles south of MOSCOW, WEI
.eportcd striking fiercely in an 81
tempt to break through the Gle.
man lines.
The Russians were believed to
lay to be fiercel- attacking alont
The northern front from MurmanSk
above the Arctic Circle, TO the Gu
of Finland. and to have won loca
successes around Smolensk, on th'
central front
Radio Len'ngrad broadcast tn"
1000 more Germans had been kill
ed ON the Leingrad front, and the
1909 more Germans had been kill
ed on the Leningrad front, and tina
a tank unit On that front had. II
three days fighting, killed 500 Ger
mans and captured large quantitie.
# military equipment. RADIO Len
ingrad said Russian fighters were
Har5ssing Finnish defense lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Fire at Peace But
Irish at War with
Tempers White Hot

Continued from Page One)
when l met them. An officer was
checking his maps in the shade OF
Mango tree when | pulled up in
my American jeep and he stopped tc
outline the front to me. He didn't
finish, though, for just then four
Japanese bombers circled and VIC
ducked for shelter.
They dumped their bombs on 6
village below us and within a few
minutes the place was smoking
ruin. As the planes went on an
Irish captain and l walked back TO
headquarters through the ankle
deep dust of peanut fields.
The green Of ireland will look
mighty nice after this" he smiled
and a little later he introduced me
TO Private Clancy. An Irish major
also told me of the cruelty of the
japanese and their Burmese traitor
allies
He said a patrol was sent out
to bring in the wounded and that
they found one OF their officers
with his hands tied behind him
and bullet wound in his head.
Our men hadn't been really mac
before that, but they are fighting
mad now, and I personally will get
so of those ----- for Paddy before
l retire from here" he told me.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Big Plane Hits
Utah Peak Near
Salt Lake Field
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One)
Tilot, San Francisco.
ONE WAS ALIVE
one of the male passengers. ac-
cording to a man who reached the
scene soon after the crash. lived
for about 90 minutes after the acct
dent but was so badly injured he
WIS unable to talk.
The witness, Robert Pearson of
Sal. Lake City, said he helped the
man from the burning wreckage OF
the crashed plane, covered him with
a blanket and left for help. When
aid arrived, the man was dead.
Pearson had been attracted 10
the muddy side Of the peak and the
wrecked plane by the noise of the
explosion that came when the Main
liner hit.
Pearson said he detected the
sound of the planes motors shortly
t,fore the crash and it seemed TO
lie in trouble"
p A. Larson, who also lived in
4 residential area near the capital
ig"eed with Pearson.
A brilliant fire ragged after the
Tlare hit but it was soon eXtingtish-
cd by the rain and sleet that was
falling. Some parts of the wreck
age were still smouldering, however.
hours after the wreck.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
N " Jersey Standard on
Pa. Again at Hearing

WASHINGTON, May 2-CUP)-
Irving Lipkowitz of the justice de-
partment'S antitrust division told
the senate patents committee today
that Standard Oil Company IN. j.
was merely Il. G.. Farben's Charlie
Mccarthy in the chemical field"
Farben is the big German chemical
trust.
I'm other words" Sen. Robert M
LaFcllette, Prog. Wis, remarked
standard Oil was acting as a
'come-on for l. c. Farben.'
Lipko!Witz was recalled by the
committee after Standard Oil in
a press release, branded as untrue
statements he made at an earlier
session. He asserted that Standard
Oh dare not argue their case be-
fore the committee where facts and
figures must be presented and where
they would have to explain the
meaning of many of the documents
filed here"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Highway Patrol
Forms Auxiliary

Continued from Page One)
composed of himself as chairman.
Patrol district Inspector Rudy
Schmoke. Sheriff Robert w Ware,
Chairman Charles Bratton of the
county defense council, Chiefs OF
Police R. R. Voyles of FL Centre
Lon Cromer of Brawley, Guy Echols
of Calexico, and District Attorney
Elmer w. Head as legal advisor,
with w. L. Townsend serving as
civilian representative appointed by
Director of Motor Vehicles James
Carter.
The advisory committee held its
first meeting at the sheriff's office
in Ell Centre Friday afternoon to
lay preliminary plans.
The auxiliary will operate with
the advisory committee as overall
head, channeling through Sgt. Reed
to individual senior nlgnWay patrol
officers in each section. who will
direct the section leaders named
to guide personnel of each section.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Gore Enters Bill
ToFreeze Wages
Al Current Levels

Continued from Page One)
uated scale for compulsory savings.
computed on income after tax de-
auctions. 1t would range from 10
per cent for persons with q $500
net limit up to 100 per cent on sums
in excess of SOS. 600. the amount
Mr. Roosevelt proposed as top pay
for the duration.
Gore led an unsuccessful attempt
during congressional consideration of
the price control bill to impose a
mandatory, overall ceiling on prices
"a move Price Administrator Leon
Henderson ordered earlier this week
which becomes effective on the 18th
of this month.
Nj Roosevelt. -. his seven point
program. urged the Sterilization OF
wages and recommended that WLB
adjust inequalities and bring sub
standard wages to normal Chairman
William II. Davis interpreted the
directive to mean that the board
should pursue a flexible" rather
than arbitrary policy in balancing
the wage structure and announced
that. while it will not freeze wages
it will not permit them to get out
of line.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Tokyo Announces
Fall Of MandaIay

TOKYO, May 2 Japanese
broadcast recorded b. United Press
san Franc sco) Imperial head
quarters late today announced the
.all OF the strategic city of Manda-
lay to the advancing japanese
troops in Burma.
The announcement briefly dis
losed that the japanese forces
operating in Burma captured Man.
d9lay on FsidaT afternoon.
In a broadcast recorded by CHS
Listening Station, Tokyo radio
said:
The Imperial headquarters late
today announced that Japanese
forces operating in Burma on Fri
day evening completed occupation
Of MandalaT, the enemy's strategic
military tase in central Burma"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Army Fights S. F.
Bov Barrier Plan

with the resultant less of the many
millions CT dollars already invested
by the army"
Admiral Greenslade pointed out
that the plan would force naval and
other vessels to pass through ship
locks or tidal locks and gates to
reach present naval facilities with
delay and risk to every vessel, in
Guiding danger of complete block
ade."
Greenslade said the chief of en-
gineers of the army and the board
CT engineers for rivers and harbors
recommended against a salt river
barrier, holding that the cost
would be far in excess of the value
of the resulting benefits" and stat
ed that "a structure of this char
acter would radically change the
tidal currents in the upper bays
The commandant does not be-
lieve that during this emergency
any time. manpower, equipment. or
funds should be diverted to the
furthering Of the Reber plan or
any other project of this character.
Admiral Greenslade said.
The Oakland city council, the
Alameda county board of supervis-
ors and the port of Oakland hare
gone on record against the pro-
Dosal
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Senate Will Probe
Story Lawmaker
Intimate Of Spies

WASHINGTON, May 2. up
Sen. Lester Hill, D., Ala, adminis-
tration whip, predicted today the
senate will investigate "the truth
or falsity" of a New York news
paper charge that United States
senator frequented a Brooklyn house
allegedly used by Nazi spies.
The accusation was contained in
a copyrighted story by New York
Post which was based on an affida-
Wit made by GuStave Beekman.
Convicted on morals charge for
operating the allegedly diSorderly
house, Beekman faces a maximum
sentence of 20 years.
Several other senators expressed
both interest and concern over the
charges, but for the present Hill
was the only one who discussed
them for publication. According to
the Post, the unnamed senator often
visited the house and was on good
terms with a man said to be engag-
ed in Nazi espionage.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
in excess of So, Coo.
MORE MONDAY

Further action was postponed I'M
til Monday when the two remain
ing corporation tax issues will be
considered - the amount, if any,
corporations will receive i'll rebates
after the war on the taxes they now
pay and whether to retain or re-
peal the declared value capital stock
tax
There is strong sentiment in the
committee to credit corporations at
least 90 per cent of the excess
profits taxes they now pay as a
"back to business aS-usuar nest
egg to ward off severe postwar
depression. Fate of the 81 25 per
81 900 levy on declared value CAPT.
tai stock-which committee experts
want retained over the treasury's
obiection-still is in doubt.
After these questions are decid-
ed the committee will take up the
Presidents suggestion that no
American be permitted to retain
more than $4,000 annually after he
settles his taxes.
HARDSHiPS CLAIMED
Congressional opponents contend
the plan will work extreme hard
ships on persons with heavy in
surance commitments, those COM
mitted TO heavy payments on their
homes or other property, and per-
sons wishing to make large char
liable contributions.
Treasury experts estimated that
the corporation tax program voted
by the committee will increase taxes
from these sources by some $500, =
900 600 or 100000 900 below the
amount expected to have been rails
ed by the administrations proposal
Under the committee plan, cor
porations will be required to turn
over to the treasury 40 per cent of
their next taxable income in 1912
and "a per cent of that part of their
income which exceeds a fixed per-
centage Of their investment or the
average of their earnings in the
four years preceding start CT the
war.
The Is per cent surtax. which
adds up TO a regular income tax OF
40 per cent on most corporations
was recommended by the ways and
means committees own staff of eX
perts. The only corporations that
would net pay 40 per cent of their
taxable earnings, excluding excess
profits, are those earning S25, 900 or
less.
The normal tax rate for these
smaller businesses are: UP to So
600. Is per cent; $1,000 to $4,000,
II per cent; $4,000 to $4,000, 10
Ter cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
SEDITION CHARGES

SEDITION CHARGES
Noble and Jones were returned
last night to Los Angeles where
they face trial May 10 on federal
Sedition charges.
District Attorney Otis D. Bah
cock said Noble admitted a con-
viction in his youth on charges
of taking coins from pay telephone
boxes. and that he was proud Of
his diShonorable discharge from the
U. S. Navy in 1917 for desertion.
Babcock said Noble told the jury
he admired Adolf Hitler but re-
tracted his preyiously-quoted state
ment that Gen. Douglas Macarthur
had deserted the defenders of Ba-
tam. Noble told the jury he was
aware Macarthur left the Philip
pines only because of President
RooSevelts orders, the district at
torney said.
Deputy Attorney General War
rem Olney said Jones. Yale grad
uate and former editor of the de-
funct humorous magazine Life, -"
admitted writing anti-semitic and
pro-AXis literature. and admitted
participating in the mock impeach-
ment trial of President Roosevelt
which eliminated at the Dec. II
Friends OF Progress meeting.
Babcock said Noble expressed
willingness TO repeat the mock trial
for the jury.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Victory Campaign
Gives I.V.Ch
TO Smash Enemies

Continued from Page One
and pledge To set aside a given por-
ton of his or her pay check each
payday, a definite percentage TO go
into stamps and bonds"
THREE DIVISIONS
The drive is to be divided into
three segments.
First is the effort, starting Tues
day. to put the payroll allotment
plan into effect in every business
concern. All firms will be asked TO
present the proposal before en-
ployees. BY this plan, each employee
signs a pledge TO set aside given
percentage of his paycheck. A rate
of 10 per cent has been universally
suggested, except in lower wage
brackets, Hickcox said.
Starting May 25, a second phase
of the program will go into effect
whereby every home and family unit
in the city and county area will be
contacted for pledges by those who
nave not been reached through buSi-
ness houses.
The third section of the army
SllabtBg ID W IldhC DOllNao allN
stamps available at all retail stores
where efforts will be made TO stimu-
late the habit Of taking stamps in
lieu of cash change.
Each firm in which more than go
per cent of the employees sign up
will be entitled to display a coveted
100 per cent flag" Business houses
in which 80 per cent or less of the
workers cooperate will be given
citations and presented with scrolls.
Full plans and programs were
carefully worked out, with tenta-
tive quota of S35,3l6 in stamp and
bond sales set for FL Centre during
May. Quotas for other valley COM
nunitieS are:
Brawley, $2l,078; Calexico, sl3,l2
Holtville, s6,556; Calipatria 1854,
Imperial, Sl,772; Westmorland, 1886;
WinterhaVen and Bard district. 1886;
and miscellaneous including Seeley,
H.ber and outlying farm areas, S4,-
554
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Corporation Tax
Structure Shapes
Up in Committee

WASHINGTON. May PUP
The house ways and means COM
mittee today had but two phases of
the 1912 corporation tax structure
to dispose of before turning to
President RoCSevelts proposal for n
$25 900 net limit on private incomes.
Speeding action on the 81 100000
900 war revenue BILL the commit
tee late yesterday overrode admin
istrationS recommendations by
adopting a Is per cent corporation
surtax instead of n 81 per cent
levy the treasury adopted.
Earlier it adopted a flat 94 per
cent tax on excess profits - three
per cent higher than the treasury
recommended-and voted to retain
the present normal corporate in
come tax rates which graduate
from Is per cent on earnings up
to IS 900 to "a per cent Cn income
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Season i'm Swing
o., Valley Forms

lust getting started. County Agri-
cultural Commissioner B. A. Har-
rigan said Saturday. The crop was
expected to be about the same as
last year The crop was not at
fected by the japanese situation
as other valley farmers took over
management of the crops and land
Hay harvest was just starting
into its peak this week and ranch
ers We're beginning to thrash barley
and flax.
Sugar beet harvest, which began
about a week ago, will be less this
year because the allotment to I'M
perial Valley was cut down by fed
eral officials.
This Years watermelon harvest
will be about two weeks late be-
cause of the cold spring. Shipments
ire expected to reach quantity size
around June |. Gu. nifty shipments
were reached about mid-May last
year.
r ,ce growers are preparing the
ground and planting the 1913 crop
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Correspondence
Talk at School

His experiences as newspaper
reporter in Germany and later il.
France and England, will be de-
scribed in e Centre Monday by DR..
Martin Hall at a Central Union
High school assembly at l2:45 pm.
and at a Junior college assembly
at las pm.
Dr.. Hall was forced TO flee from
Germany because of his opposi-
ton to Hitler's Nazism. He fled to
France and remained there for a
year before it fel! to Germany.
Next he went to London where he
lived for a -ear. In connection with
his newspaper work. DR.. Hall in
terviewed Hitler and many other
Nazi leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03
Big Forest Fires
Deliberately Set

WEST GREENWICH, r.. l., May
2 CUP)-Brig. Gen. Peter Leo Can
non, state adjutant general, said to-
day there was no doubt that the
fires which had destroyed timber
and property worth more than 81
100000 in western Rhode Island
were deliberately set, and that his
staff would join Federal Bureau OF
Investigation agents and state police
hunting suspected saboteurs.
Gov. J. Howard McGrath said
the fires, which had burned since
Thursday afternoon in a 80 square
mile area, were isolated and under
control, and 1900 soldiers, sailors
and volunteers were eXtinguishing
them.
The towns Of West Greenwich,
Coventry and Scituate were still
under martial law, and the state
guard and soldiers from Fort Bev-
ems, Mass. were patroling the roads.
Fifteen fires broke out Thursday
and four yesterday, some five miles
apart. almost preclnding the chance
that sparks from one fire had start
ed another.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03

as I have ever seem"
1.-The record of these committee
hearings should net be defiled with
a piece of cheap and filmsy pub
licity like this he said. The state
ment made by Mr. Lipkowitz here
this morning tears this flimsy, cheap
job of publicity to shreds and tat
tiers, and exposes it for what it Is
"a self serving statement which
couldn't fool anybody.
The man who issued that re-
lease did not have the CUTS TO come
down here before this committee.
be sworn in. and then make the re-
marks he did make
TESTIMONY ASKED
Bone said that certainly a big
company like Standard Oil has
enough money to pay for railroad
fare down here to testify instead
of putting cut cheap statement on
cheap paper in New York"
when this record is completed.
I want it to have facts, not wild
charges, in it." Bone said. II want
it to be so that the people of this
country can realize what has been
going on, 10, these many years, be-
hind their backs"
LipkoWitz, in a previous hearing,
presented over 100 documents from
the files of Standard Oil and T.. G.
Farben' which he said, proved that
the American firm was ''conniving"
with the German company to limit
the production of acetic acid and
acetylene in the United States,
while permitting unlimited produce
tiCn of the strategic war materials
in Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03

subversive organization.
The same charge rests against sin
of their colleagues. One, F. K
Ferenz, was described by Neal How
ard Ness, who joined the bund as
an undercover man. as a Friends OF
Progress leader and as the ound S
propaganda director in Los An
geles.
Ferenz and three Others named
in the states charges-James and
Joan MacBride and Leone Miner
will testify when the grand jury re-
sames sessions next Tuesday. The
other defendants are Baron and
Daniel Van Meter of Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-03

SAN FRANCISCO May PUP
Rear Admiral j. w. Greenslade,
commandant of the 18th naval dis
trict. in a letter to the San Fran
cisco board of supervisors. today
voiced strong opposition to the So
called Reber plan for the construc-
ticn of saltwater barriers across
San Francisco Bay for the purpose
CT making fresh-water lakes north
of Richmond and south of Ala
media.
AT the same time. Brig. Gen.
Frederick Gilbreath. u. S. A. COM
handing general. Oakland port of
embarkation. told the Oakland
chamber of commerce. that the
Reber plan, if carried out, would
render virtually useless the army's
Port of embarkation in Oakland