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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
New Deal Supports Plan
To Seize Private Autos
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Ruby Hummingbird "a misnomer
if there ever was one) sang song
of woe into the ears of Ell Centro's
Police Judge Lee Nuffer Wednes-
day morning, when she was hailed
into court on charge of telling
fortunes without city license.
The 31-year-old police problem
(she's chirped through bars of local
bastilles numerous times) said she
had been making as high as $1,000
per month as a soothsayer, yet her
occult powers faileC to click in her
own predicament.
Her vision was SO short in fact,
that she couldn't see a sign of a
silver lining in the immediate fu-
ture, and tearfully threatened to
commit suicide "if the police keep
bounding me-"
Denying she was telling fortunes
in Main street drink emporium
for money cthose five dollar tips
men gave me were not for telling
their fortunes; and they weren't for
anything else, either'0, the un-
birdlike Miss Hummingbird (she ac-
quired the f>lcy handle by marry
ing a stepscn of a Cherokee Indian
chief said she intended to get a
license for peering into the future
of others 'if the business justified
Judge Nuffer. in rare mellow
form, frankly admitted the need OF
first class fortune teller just then;
or at least some of the wisdom OF
Solomon. He didn't want to send
the lady back to the cold walls OF
the hoosegow, and he didn't want
to turn her loose.
WED all be happier if you just
sort of took powder out OF town.
he told Ruby.
La Hummingbird wasn't in the
mood to make people happy just
then, and she told the judge so
She couldn't go back to the coast,
she said, because that's where her
husband gave her love potion
and bound her out as an appren-
tice Geisha girl, she said.
She couldn't &c to Phoenix. be-
cause her sister lives there, land If
I get into any more trouble, my
sister won't live over it, she sobbed.
So Judge Nuffer set trial for May
ID, and released Ruby on her own
recoginzance. That's When Miss
Hummingbird broke into violent
tears, and allowed as how self de-
struction might offer the only ave-
nue. of escape from police heckling.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

problem of manpower" to equip them
with the best planes, guns and
ships.
Some manpoWer problems may be
ironed out when the commission,
created by President Roosevelt TO
gear Americas entire able-bodied
population into the war effort, holdS
its first meeting this afternoon.
McNutt has indicated that three
major issues are involved in man
power mobilization:
|. Whether a d tional labor
shortages can be prevented without
an amendment to the selective serv-
ice act to authorize blanket defer
mentS to skilled workers, The adj
ministration is reported favoring
such action.
2. Whether maximum efficiency
Tan be attained without freezing"
vital workers in jobs where they are
able to contribute most to the war
effort.
3. Whether workers will move
into war industries without Labor
draft,
McNutt said these problems will
be met Measures must be taken, he
said, to see that employers use
skilled workers only at jobs where
such skills are required, and that
boarding" of skilled men be labeled
"as unpatriotic as boarding of scarce
materials"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
10 FL Centre Firms Sign
100 Per Cent for Bonds

Imperial County War Bond COM
mittee, which only started clicking
Tuesday in its drive to sell valley
folk an $88,600 share in Americas
war on the enemies of democracy,
Wednesday reported the employees of
10 FL Centre firms had signed up
100 per cent to divert 10 per cent
of their earnings to war bonds and
stamps.
The 100 per cent concerns are:
Imperial Hardware company. At
lantic and Pacific grocery, Brown
bilt Shoe store, Woolworth 81 10,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Flax, Grain Truck
Rates Considered

Establishment CT uniform rate
for hauling flax and grain from
Imperial Valley to the Los Angeles
markets is the object of a meeting
at the FL Centre Chamber of Com
merce at 7.30 p. m. Thursday.
Flax and grain growers invited
all truckmen to attend the meeting
so they may get together on uni
form rate and avoid the difference
in rates which have prevailed in the
past.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
C0RREC|D0R SURRENDERS TO JAP H0RDES
Militia Recruiting Begins inI.V.
With Series Of Informative Meets

citizens between the ages of 18 and
As years are members of the un-
organized militia of the state. In
case of war or other emergency, the
governor has power to mobilize
whatever portion of the unorganized
militia he deems necessary and has
authority to move the organized
and unorganized militia wherever he
wishes. Governor Culbert Olson,
however, promised not to call the
volunteer militia from the county in
which enrolment took place and
said it will be used only in event
of enemy invasion or attack. 1t was
understood the militia will be used
only for protection of homes and
communities.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Residence Saved
From Fire Here

The residence of Jesse Frazee at
1853 Broadway was saved from de-
struction by fire that was probably
caused by children playing with
MATCHES Wednesday, by quick work
of Ell Centre fire fighters.
The blaze originated in small
shed at the back of the house, and
spread rapidly to the larger struc-
ture. Damage was estimated at about
SIS
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
COnClllatOr OF the dispute.
BAKERY STRIKE
IN THIRD DAY

PHOENIX, May Sup - The
three largest bakeries in Phoenix
remained idle today as the strike
of $50 bakers for higher wages con-
tinued for the fourth day
Negotiations between the en-
ployers and representatives of the
Bakery and Confectionery Workers
International Union OF America
(AFLD were deadlocked pending the
arrival of Earl Ruddy, Los Angeles,
department of labor conciliator.
Meanwhile, the Is smaller Phoenix
bakeries were supplying the needs
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

Recruiting of Imperial county I'M
its of the state militia began at a
meeting in Ell Centre Tuesday night
and will continue daily under the
direction of County Farm Advisor
Frank Beyschlag.
A series of recruiting and infor =
nation meetings were scheduled at
Mulberry schooi n the West dis
trict Wednesday night, at the Cali
patria INLAND Farm center meeting
at Fremont school in Calipatria
Thursday night. and at the Swiss
club in the Holtville area the after
neon of May Is. Others will be ar
ranged.
Beyschlag said Tuesday night
that under California law all male
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

German workers are being taken
from factories and thrown into the
fighting without military training
because of the large enemy losses,
the official TaSs news agency said
The government newspaper IL
vestia said the offensive now under
way will steadily become stronger
and will carry out Josef v. Stains
May day order to the Red army
to defeat Germany in 1912.
The final factor insuring Russia S
victory, Izvestia said, is the increas-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Indians Jailed
For Two 0ffenses

Two residents of the Yuma Indian
reservation were held in the county
Jail in Ell Centre Wednesday after
arraignment late Tuesday before
United States Commissioner Dorsey
WhitelaW
Edmund Hill, 17-year-old ITO
FOUNDER, was accused of taking Ii
ouor on the reservation and Morris
Palone, 39-year-old 205 FOUNDER was
accused of striking his wife with a
flatiron during an argument.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

j. j. Newberry 5 a. 10, Central club,
J. c. Penny company, Office Sup
ply company, Valley drug, Imperial
Valley Credit association, Marshall
Feed and Seed company, Latham
Lumber company, Ell Centre Lumber
and Trading company. Whiting
Mead company. Ira Huffman, Elite
Printing company, Security First
National bank, Bank of America.
In addition, the committee report
ed that 80 per cent of the employees
of Safeway grocery company had
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

ing Anglo-United States aid.
"Our allies, Britain and the United
States. are aiding us more and more
each day, pumping into the Rec
army fresh vital juices"
Izvestia said the war is entering
a new phase-"final liberation OF
the occupied Soviet territory'-and
that the new large battles are I'M
minent marking further offensive
operations of the glorious Soviet
armies"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

authorized the company to deduct
10 per cent of their wages for the
purchase of bonds.
Other valley cities we're rapidly
completing their war bond campaign
organizations, County Chairman
Gordon Scriven said.
The FL Centre organization Is
composed of the following commit
tees:
Advertising, Publicity and Pro-
motion-Paul A. jenkins, w, 9. Cos
Continued on Page 8; Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

This is the first time this year
that we have had a shortage in
agricultural labor" said Manager
Thomas Finney of the Employment
service. All offices CT the Federal
Employment service In California
Immediately were notified of the
shortage and asked to supply the
men.
Imperial Valley beet. growers pay
10 cents a ton above the govern
ment scale for such work and an
additional 10 cents ton If the top
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

pers remain until the field is fin
nished, Finney said.
Due to the labor shortage, the
sugar beets are being shipped from
the valley at the rate of rs carloads
a day. The daily shipment should
be so to 10 carloads a day. Each
car contains 40 tons or 10000 pounds.
Present indications point to
shortage of experienced combine
and tractor operators for harvesting
of such crops as flax and hay.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

To accomplish this, he said, large
scale migrations" of workers into
war industry centers will be neces-
sary.
Addressing the federal-state con-
ference on war restrictions, McNutt
said American armed forces will
total 100000 by the end of 1912,
and that it would be staggering
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

of military fields, hospitals and
schools.
Workers at the Phoenix, Holsum
and Rainbo bakeries walked eff
their jobs Sunday after employ
ers refused demands for wage in
creases amounting to about so per
cent. The employers said they had
offered blanket increases averaging
about Is per cent.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Reds Increasing
Offensive Drive

MOSCOW, May 6. (UP)-A strong Red army offensive,
backed by steadily increasing flow of United States and
British aid taking heavy toll of hastily Ger
achievements all along the 800-me Russian 'front.'
official Soviet accounts said today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Manpower Crisis
Predicted in u. s.

WASHINGTON May g. UP)-The United States races
supreme test" in modifying an additional loooooQo
workers to more than double the industry labor supply
within the next year. Chairman Paul " McNut OF the
war hanover commission said today.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
!. v. Farm Labor
Shortage Arrives

Imperial Valleys long threatened farm labor shortage
became reality Wednesday.
When the sugar beet topping went into full
swing this week. the beet growers called for 300 beet top
pers The federal employment office in Ell Centre
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Defenders
Give Up Battle
After 5 Months
Enemy Within 100 Miles of India After
Overrunnins Burma; Vichy Loses Two
Cruisers in Madagascar Struggle
BY UNITED PRESS

American defenders of Corregdor fortress went down
under batterng attack by japanese big and assault
troops steel barges Wednesday while heavy fighting rag
ed across vast front from Australia to the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

u. S. No. 1 S24.-S25; u. S. No. 2
Ieafy Nv. S23.-$24.; us. No. 2 $18.-
$40. Mpls. Sept. flax S2.54R.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

Then the wood chips pass on to great iron
chambers with special Innings where they are
attacked by concentrated hydrochloric acid
that flows through in continuous stream and
dissolves out all solubles woody materials
With this chemical attack two-thirds OF
the wood disappears in solution. What IS
left is lignin and at this stage the lignin is
drawn off, washed of acid and nodded into
little briquettes that can be burned into a
pure charcoal.
AS the hydrochloric acid comes off with
its content of liquid wood it runs through
a towering evaporating chamber where the
acid goes off as a vapor, is caught and
purified and used over again.
After the chemists have thus obtained
their FIVE different kinds of sugars out Of
wood they have several ways to use them
They can convert them further and end up
with the kind of sugar used in the home,
or in candy.
Or they can merely add yeast to the
sugars start fermentation and produce ethyl
alcohol. A long ton of wood is said to yield
80 gallons of 100 proof alcohol.
If the chemists want neither alcohol nor
sugar they can obtain fats from their trees.
They simply take the wood sugars, grind them
up and make them into a fodder for pigs or
cattle The nutritional value Of the fodder
seems to be about the same as that of barley.
Since Germany. has been desperate for fats
for a long time this fodder use for wood
sugar is a common practice there
In Europe, too. there is a rival Schoer
process for getting sugar out Of wood. No
body needs TO worry over the details, of how
it works but the method is fully known TO
American chemists. 1t does just about the
same job as the Bergius process.
For years the meat packers of America
have prided themselves on their slogan that
they use everything in a pig but the squeal
The way chemists can make sugar out Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

But the reason America now has TO worry
about its rubber supply. and its sugar supply
is just because of this same problem OF
scarcity. Many things that seemed crazy to
a great and powerful and wasteful America
back in 1886 are now in the forefront of
today's thinking
America is still great and still powerful,
but it can no longer afford to be wasteful.
That is why the production of sugar out
OF wood. and from sugar bets and other
sources besides sugar cane is an immediate
necessity
Nobody claims that il would be as cheap
at the start 10 make sugar out of trees as II
is TO get sugar out Of sugar cane or from
beets, anymore than any one claims you can
make synthetic rubber cheaply as we used
10 get II from the rubber trees of the
Malay Peninsula.
But in this war ordinary economies and
self-interests must go out the window as
every nation fights for its existence. Actually
sugar-from-wood can be produced for some
thing like 4 cents pound which is
less than the 40 cents a pound for the
wholesale price of cane sugar prior to Pearl
Harbor. The experts will probably bubble
over figures but il all adds up to about a
standof the price scale.
However, if America needs more sugar
America is going to get it just as it is
going to get rubber. If and when plants are
needed to make sugar out of trees they will
be built OF that you can be sure.
How do you go about making sugar out
of trees like those in your own backyard?
Here's how:
Logs are run through a shredder and cut
into wood chips Or. even more economically
you start with the piles of waste wood
chips and sawdust that litter the landscape
near any big sawmill.
The wood chips run through a revolving
drier and their moisture content is reduced
to about 8 per cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

acre wood ts a more productive raw material.
An acre OF trees each year grows enough
new wood TO produce two tons of sugar. This
In about per cent more sugar than can be
obtained from an acre Of sugar cane or an
acre OF sugar beets in the same year
The United States has never made sugar
out of wood because it has never had to do
1t before. But the commercial process that is
used in Sweden. Switzerland and in Germany
is fully known TO American chemists.
The knowledge of how to do it. stems
from the work Of the brilliant chemist DR..
Frederick Bergius who won the Nobel Prize
IN 1891 in recognition of his discovery Of
how to make gasoline out Of coal and sugar
out of wood
DR. Bergius last visited America back in
1885 attending meetings of the American
Chemical Society in Pittsburgh, and at that
time he said
Many people in America laugh about
making sugar from wood But that is only
because they do not realize that the difference
between chemical problems in Germany and
those IN America is the difference between
plenty and scarcity Here is America your
chemists seeking diligently to find ways
to turn surplus crops and other materials into
saleable articles"
This was about the time we were paying
farmers to pillow under crops and kill baby
pigs
In Europe in contrast" DR.. Bergius
went on. I'VE chemists are working at just
the opposite problem, the making Of COM
mon needed things and common foods out of
any natural resources we have.
That is why have perfected and now
use the process for making gasoline out of
coal and the method Of making edible sugar
out of the wood in trees
What DR.. Bergus had to say seemed fan
tastic to any American at the time for the
war was then five years away from the
United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

wood is even better They use everything in
tree except the bark and they can even
use the bark.
At the start Of the present war in 1880
great plants in Germany were making 100, 900
tons Of sugar year out of trees Probably
even more plants have been built since then.
The estimated cost of 100 900 ton plant is
81 100000
This means that if America wishes to do
the same thing, the shortage of sugar due to
the loss of the Philippines can be overcome
for, about 100000 900 to $50 600, 900. But II
would take time to build sugar-from-wood
plants.
The biggest salvation for American sugar
needs OF 1912 will be the beet sugar industry
which spreads through II States with Cali
fornia Colorado, Michigan and Montana head
ing the list in that order. An estimated Weld
of 100000 tons of sugar from beets is in
prospect, but 1t may be more for all restric-
tons on planting of beets for this purpose
are now removed.
Last year Cuba was the leader with 2 $685.
600 tons of sugar and probably even more will
be obtained this year But Of this total
nearly half the crop will go into molasses
and wind up as industrial alcohol for NUM-
tions and other purposes
The stress on alcohol for war is an i'm
portant one Most people think Of alcohol as
something that goes into tall glass in the
form OF whisky along with soda or ginger
ale.
But in wartime alcohol furnishes the mo-
tive power for torpedoes And II is the solvent
IN making gelatine. dynamite and smok-
less powder. 1t is the chemical needed TO pro-
duce nitrocellulose. and IT enters into scores
of industries like pastics- which are vital
to the nations war effort Every time a 16-
inch gun is fired one-ffth of an acre of sugar
ane-in the form of ethyl alcohol-goes up
in smoke. The government must have it's
alcohol before you have sugar on your table.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

NNxTTH sugar being rationed due to the
NV st0ppage Of imports from the Philip
w pines and other sources of supply now
being blockaded, everybody naturally wishes
that at home could grow our sugar on
trees or, like the old witch in the fairy tale
Of Hansel and Gretel, we could live in n
house made Of sugar and sweetmeats and
never worry about ways and means of sweet
ening communal tooth
Well it may very soon come to II that we
Will be growing our sugar on trees and living
in houses that literally material sources
OF sugar by virtue of their wooden structure
Making sugar out OF trees-or any kind
Of wood-very likely may be the way America
finally decides to solve her wartime sugar
shortage.
This year the nation will have 10 get along
with 900 900 less tons of sugar because of
the Philippines situation And more than
! 500 900 tons Of the great Cuban sugar crop
is being diverted into molasses TO make
alcohol vitality needed for munitions and the
efert.=
All this adds up TO sugar rationing books
for the public and II is here that the first
impact OF the war hits EVERY American
But the miracle Of modern chemistry is
ready TO step into the picture and help solve
the sugar shortage and turn tall beech birch
hemlock and maple trees into crystal white
sugar just as good as any that is now on the
dinner table
With it's vast forests the United States is
most fortunate. II is estimated that today
some $50 600 600 acres of timber exist in this
country II the nation wanted TO get its sugar
from wood and use all it's wood for this pur-
pose the present timber of the United States
would last for So 600 years
Less fantastic and less TAR in the future;
10000 acres Of standing timber could supply
the 1000 600 tons Of sugar that America
won't be getting from the Philippines this
year.
All this means that the long time con-
servation program OF the American forest
product industries is bearing fruit. Further
more. the use Of wood TO make sugar would
hardly dent the forest preserve.
At the present time forest industries have
succeeded in increasing the annual growth of
wood so much that the average loss by fire
and cutting is restored each year. This bal
would not need be upset at all II sugar
were made from the wood waste of the forests
as could easily be done
Most people think that sugar cane or the
sugar beet give the highest yield of sugar.
Yet forest experts can prove that acre for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

How to Turn q Tree
Into Sugar. Logs Are
Ground to Chips and
Immersed In Hydro
chlOric Acid. Soluble
Sugars Are Drawn
OF and a Solid Resi-
due Is Left Behind
Which Can Be Turned
Into Pure Charcoal.
The Liquid" Wood
Flows On and After
Drying and Purify
ing Contains Five
Wood Sugars. Near
the End of the Pro-
cess These Sugars
Can Be Used in
Either of Two Ways:
Fermented to Alcohol
for Munitions, or
Further Refined to
Become Pure Table
Sugar.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

If the Ra+ioning Of
Sweets Becomes Too
Sour. Science Prom
iseS That II Can Re-
place All the Crop We
Lost in the Philippines
by Processing Only
10000 Acres Of Wood
land end Explains
How II Can Be Done
as Well Here as
in Europe
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

1912 by American we,kly Inc Gt Britain u d's Reserved.
Evening star., 1942-05-15

Lewis B. Hershey, selective service
director, told the committee 1t soon
might be necessary to induct into
the Army more single men who have
been deferred and married men with
working wives.
But, he indicated, selective service
has no intention of disrupting
established" families if this can be
avoided, although it may be neces-
sary to shift heads of families into
necessary industrial war work.
Gen. Hershey indorsed. with reser-
vations. the general provisions OF
the bill to provide for compulsory
allotments of part of servicemen's s
pay toward the upkeep of their de-
pendents.
Gen. Hershey said there was an
immediate and pressing" need fol-
the pending legislation, under which
$40 monthly would be deducted from
the pay of enlisted men with de-
pen6ents and the Government would
add to this $40 for a. wife and $40
additional for each child.
Besides saving the Government
embarrassment" in certain cases
which we must continue to take,
such as men who married recently
Gen. Hershey said. the legislation
would make a great deal of differ
ence" in morale.
1t would, he said, remove much
worry over financial matters which
now naturally disturb drafted man
with dependents.