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Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
SlonS.
MAXIMUM PRICES

l. All commodities sold at retail
excepting only those few specifically
excluded by the order, are price
controlled.
2. The maximum prices are the
highest prices charged by each in
dividual seller during March. Zach
store-even though part of a chain
is considered an individual seller.
8. Each store will have a diff
ferent maximum price because the
ceiling is based on the individual
stores highest price in March.
4. There is nothing in the regu-
lation to prohibit a retailer from
reducing his prices. However, no
price can be above the ceiling price
5. Important groups of commodi-
ties have been selected as cost
of-living" items The ceiling prices
for these must be displayed by
every retailer in his store beginning
today.
Since the regulations most i'm
portant exceptions will be found in
food markets, Henderson suggested
that shoppers and storekeepers
carefully note the following excep-
tions-the only items in food mar
kets which are exempted from the
ceiling order:
Butter and Cheese: evaporated
condensed and other canned milk
products; poultry and eggs; fresh
fruits and vegetables Except ba-
nanas); flour; mutton and lamb;
fresh fish; seafood and game; nuts
dried pruneS and dry beans.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Bankers Facing
Job Problem

lowing old prejudices," he said.
Wartime problems are essentially
those of peace time, in new guise
and Observation-Disclosures, turn
over, compensation and training
Eden added.
Employment of women will in
crease greatly, he said, although
competition from both defense and
non defense industries will bring
increased consideration of older
women not currently included in
the ccuntry's labor supply.
Eden said indications were that if
a woman can do a job virtually the
same way man did it, she should
receive the same pay as the man.
Training of women to do as many
bank duties as possible, thereby re-
lieving the decreased number of
men available for work which they
alone can do, is another personnel
problem, Eden pointed out
Bankers from all sections of Cali
fornia attended the three day con-
vention. whose theme was "Califor-
MIA banking goes to war"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Olson Pardons 4
ToCIear Records

LOS ANGELES, May 49, up
Gov Culbert L. Olson today par
doned and cleared the records of
four men who have completed prison
terms, including an army flying in
Structor.
John Olsen, Oakland, the instruc-
tor, pleaded guilty to a negligent
homicide charge in Oakland in 1888,
and completed his term in 1910
Harry H. O'Brien, so, San Bernar-
dino, pleaded guilty TO a robbery
charge in Los Angeles in 1881 and
completed his term in 1887. Lewis
Leibrenz, 33, convicted of writing
a bad check in Stanislaus county in
1894, completed his term in 1887
Oldest case was that of Harry
Selden, SO, who completed a two
year term for burglary in 1917. He
had pleaded guilty in Los Angeles
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
new BOOKS
At the FL Centre Public Library


At the FL Centre Public Library
FICTION
Death In The InkWell. jefferson
Farjeon; House In The Dust, Doris
Leslie; Gunsmoke Trail, E. B.
Mann; A Time For Silence, Andre
Maurois; The Coasts of Folly, Joel
Williams.
ON-FICTION
Jungle Performers, Clyde Beatty,
Marriage For Moderns, Henri Bow
man; The War At Sea, Gilbert
Cant; This Is Your War, Marquis
w. Childs; The Picnic Book, Clark
Fredrikson; The Record Book
Supplement, David Hall; It's Fun
To Make Things. Martha Parkhill
Gardens For Victory, an-Marie
Putnam; The World Under The
Sea. B Webster Smith: Breads
And More Breads. Jean Sumption
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary,
H. I. Woolf.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
German Mothers
Broadcast Message
BY UNITED PRESS

German mothers broadcast path
= ic messages to their sons at the
front Sunday-the Reich's Mothers
day-but none expressed happiness
or pride in her sons exploits for
Adolf Hitler.
Most of the messages. as recorded
from the German radio by the Unit
Ell Press in New York, expressed
anxiety and a forlorn hope that
the sons soon would return home.
The German announcer told the
troops: This is Mothers day and
you soldiers are deprived of the
y ivleges and JOY of bringing flow
trs to your mothers. SO we called
me Of them to transmit messages
from home TO you"
The mothers messages all includ-
C the thought, We hope 10 see
you home soon" One said. This is
the most important thing
Father. is for the moment, back
lone" one mother said. Herbert
end Emil were on furlough but now
are back in the east You certainly
must be glad 70 ..ear your mother
voice after three years of separa-
ten"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Farmers Run Tests
ToBoost YieIdin
Alfalfa Fields

Checks en- fertilizer tests were
made recently at the William
Thompson ranch northeast of Holt
vile and will be made this week on
the c. M ranch near Calexico where
Paul Glud has some interesting eX-
periments. Assistant Farm Advisor
George Winright said Monday.
Thompson used a 100 pound ap-
plication of nitrogen and phos-
phcrus in a light application and
obtained four times as much alfalfa
as in the places where the fertilizer
was not used, Winright said. This
return was said to pay the cost OF
all five cuttings this year.
Glud used 100 pounds of liquid
phosphate in the irrigation water
and realized an increase of 40
per cent on the cuttings thus far
this year. Winright said the in
crease is shown not SO much in
height as in the thickness and
leafiness. Glud also had a 38 per
cent increase in another test. He
used 120 pounds of liquid phosphate
in Feb, 1941 and last year realized
an increase of one third of a ton
per acre per cutting. This yeal
the same field is showing a 35 pei
cent increase.
Winright recommended that
farmers run tests in their fields
and find out if the use of fertilizer
will increase their yields.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18

DEL MONTE, Cal, May 18. CUP
Wartime necessity will force banks
to change established practices and
swallow old prejudices' in selec-
ton of employees, William M. Eden
of Chicago told the opening session
of the 51st convention of the Cali
fornia Bankers association today.
Eden, second ce-presdent of the
Continental National 3, ak and
Trust company of Chicago, said the
resourcefulness of banks will be
taxed to the utmost in carrying on
activities under war conditions.
I'VE shall do we'll to maintain
reasonably stated and reasonably
Well-trained organizations, Eden
said. He predicted bankers will have
to accustom themselves to selecting
employees from population groups In
which heretofore they have not been
interested.
These are principally older men
women in increasing numbers with
out much regard to age, the handl-
capped and others. To many OF Us
this means parting company with
long time policies, abruptly chang
ing established practices and SWal-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Government Jobs
Boom |. V.Unions
Continued from Page One

ACOnClDueO from rage ODe1
average S45 per week.
The teamSterS have a number of
wage scales, depending on the type
of equipment they operate. The
average of all claSsifications is 95
cents, and the average weekly pay
is about $50.
This means that the 1882 members
of these three unions draw an ag-
gregate pay envelope each week of
$4,000
Two other A. F. L. unions also
have increased their memberships
since beginning of construction
work on the INLAND marine base,
the Seeley airport and other mill
tary bases. They are the operating
engineers and the electricians un-
ions No figures for these were avail
able Monday, however.
Leaders of the transfers. car
penters and construction laborers
unions. who cooperated in compiling
the above statistics, said in joint
statement Monday that "unionism
has come into its own in Imperial
Valley" and that "acomplete change
nf heart has been noted in the pub
lies attitude toward organized la
Dor"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
PubIiCisfs Linked
With Jap Groupin
Propaganda Trial

WASHINGTON. May 18-CUPl-
Lieut.. Edward Gusts Crimmins. nov
an army intelligence officer. re-
vealed today at the trial of two
alleged publicists for Japan that
he had written a pamphlet in 1887
fer the japanese committee on
trade in San Francisco.
The two defendants. David War
IA Ryder and Frederick Vincent
Williams. are charged with con-
spiracy to violate the foreign agents
registration act The prosecution
contends that the japanese COM
mittee was a propaganda agency
nasquerading as a trade body and
that Ryder and Williams were serv-
inc it as publiciSts without having
duly registered with the state de-
partment.
Crimmins testified that at the
time he wrote the article he in
tended il as a resume Of what would
be the economic repercuSsions here
Ct a Japanese boycott" He teSti-
fled he was hired by the committee
to write the pamphlet for $500
The witness said he became &C
quainted with the committee by at
tending a japanese luncheon club
on many occasions. At that time
he was engaged in the import and
export trade with the Orient.
Crimmins testified that before the
pamphlet was published. he was
told by a secretary to the Japa-
nese consul general in San Fran
cisco that Ryder would handle all
publications in the future.
Frank Osborn, a salesman for
Schwabacher and Frey Co. of San
Francisco, publishers, testified that
his company had printed the Grim
Minis pamphlet and a number of
others.
He said he was told that Ryder
was handling all publicity for the
committee but that in his relations
with Crimmins he was not to re-
veal that he knew the committee
was behind the publication. Grim
minis turned over to the publishers
the first so per cent payment for
the pamphlet, Osborne testified.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Berlin Says 324
Red Tanks Smashed

BERLIN, May 13 = German
Broadcast Recorded BY United
Press in New YorkD-The high M
mand reported in a communicate
today that 324 Russian tanks hav"
been destroyed in the battle Of
Kharkov where successful defen-
sive fighting by German troops
was said to have repulsed heavy
Soviet attacks supported by tanks,
planes and artillery.
On the Crimean battlefront 800
miles south of KharkoV, the Ger
mans were said in the communioIc
TO be completing humiliation cf dc
feated Russian forces around kerch
and the narrow straits leading 10
the Caucasus.
1t said the British air force yes
terday and last night lost a total
of So planes in attempted attacks
on German naval forces, German
territory and occupied territory.
I'm the northern North sea
strcng British air force formati,ns
unsuccessfully attacked the cruiser
Prinz Eugen. They were repulsed
under heaviest losses the COM
munique said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Hubby Wanted to
Be Alone:HeIs

HOLLYWOOD, May 10. CJPl-
Petite Virginia Shelley divorced Ac-
tor Frank Albertson today because
she said, he thought she ought to
stay in Hollywood where all wives
belong" which would have been fine
if he hadn't said it on a trip tc
New York.
The former actress said he told
her he wanted TO be alone.
They have two children, Frank, 7
and Anthony, /. Miss Shelley will
receive $500 a month for a year
and thereafter 40 per cent Of Albert
sons net salary or minimum OF
5000 a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Landerman Urges
Quick Seed Deals

Assistant Farm Advisor H. Lee
Landerman Monday urged all farm
ers to hurry with their arrange
ments for growing Calapproved
grain sorghum seed as all deals
must be closed by June L.
The land where the Calapproved
seed is tc be grown must be clean
land and not have grown grain
sorghums for two years. 1t also
must be at least 1000 feet from any
other grain or sudan grass, Lander
man said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Tanks Head Vast
Soviet Offensive
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One
and others damaged in an exchange
of blows ranging from New Guinea
down across the Jouisiade islands to
the Solcmons.
Developments on other fronts in
Guided:
BRITAIN-RAF resumes major
scale sweeps over northern France
after Today lull.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES announc-
ed complete humiliation" of REM
nantS of japanese mobile force
which struck northward from Lung
ling along Burma read in southern
Yunnan province in attempt to out
flank Yungchang or Paoshan as it
is sometimes called; Chinese lead
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Scanning |. Y.
News Horizon
GRAPEFRUIT BOARD
NOMINATIONS DUE

Nomination of producer members
and alternates of the Grapefruit
Advisory board and the administra-
tive committee under the grapefruit
marketing order of the state and
nation will take place in the Bar
bara Worth hotel basement in FL
Centre at pm. Friday A similar
meeting will be held in Coachella
Valley High school at 1880 pm.
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Malta Downs Is
Attacking Planes

VfLETTA, Malta, Nay 10. up
The weekend toll of Axis sea and
air raiders was listed today at Is
planes and at least one motor tor
redo boat
British shore batteries sank one
e an undetermined number of ene-
Ily motor torpedo boats attempt
ing To attack shipping in Valetta's
harbor Yesterdays bag of enemy
FLAMES included eight destroyed anc
four damaged. one Raj night fight
er was credited with shooting down
three Italian bombers in less than
two hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
2Rura| Burglary
Cases Reported

Imperial county deputy Sheriffs
Monday investigated two burglaries
of rural homes, one at the E. H.
Mccain home south of Ell Centre
and one at the E. Chaffin home
east of Calipatria.
Mccain said his home was looted
of a portable radio and a Colt auto
matte pistol Chaffin said the bur-
glars took two S. bills and ten 81
from his house
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Draft Questions
60 TO list Groups

SACRAMENTO, May l8-tUP)-
Occupational questionnaires will r.
in the mail not later than May 81
for Californians in the first and
second selective service registration
periods who have not been inductcd
into the armed forces, Brig. Gen
j. o. Donovan, state director of Sc
lective service. announced today.
The questionnaires, providing E
cross section CT the regiStrants
skills, experience and aptitudes,
must be returned to local draft
boards within 10 days, Donovan
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
HOUSE PAYS TRIBUTE
TO DEPARTED MEMBER

WASHINGTON. May 10 CUPD --
House Speaker Sam Rayburn an
nounced that the house will adj
journ today out of respect to Rcp.
Pat Boland, its late Democratic
whip, after holding memorial SER
vices for him Boland was regard
ed as one of the administrations
most valuable spokesman in the
house.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Axis Stalking All
For 1q42Victory
Continued from Page One

The Nazis are still firmly in the
saddle and MuSSolini. although
greatly weakened. is in no immed-
late danger as long as he is backed
by Germany's armed might.
There are many weaknesses inside
the AXIS and in occupied territories
where the Gestapo has executed
possibly 100000 persons, but these
can be increased to the point of
disaster only by an about Allied
attack Meanwhile, Hitler is swing
ing desperately for knockout blow.
FAMILIES SUFFER
The Germans have maSsed 2l0 of
their 300 army divisions against the
Russians. They already have suf-
fered an estimated 2,500,000 casual
ties in the east, including 10000
dead.
This has put a tremendous strain
on German manpower.s and the Sit
uation is stretched beyond the dan
ger point in order to increase the
fighting services to about 12,000,000.
This includes 100000 in the army,
100000 in the air force and navy
and 100000 in the auxiliary serv-
ices, including the labor corps.
While there is no shortage of guns
or munitions. one result of the in
crease in fighting services has been
decreased IN some lines OF produc-
ton, especially OF airplanes. in both
Germany and Italy, due both TO
shortage of workers and materials.
ITALIAN STRUGGLE
It is estimated that the monthly
plane production now is over LOO
planes and under $500 The Nazis
have probably 5000 planes in all
now, but many are out-dated.
Hitler has made great effort TO
turn Italy-leSs vulnerable TO Raj
raids-into a workshop TO bolster
war production. and hundreds OF
German production experts have
gone there in addition to thousands
Of soldiers and Gestapo agents. But
the Italian output has been greatly
hampered by the failure of Germany
recently to maintain it's promised
shipments of 100000 tons of coal
monthly and by shortages of oil
down probably Is per cent, mag
nesium. copper, tin. wool and cot
ton.
Italian production has been dove
tailed with German war needs in
an effort TO relieve German labor
for front line duty and to prevent
Italy's economic collapse.
SUB PRODUCTION
1t is estimated that one of every
three U-boats that puts TO sea, Is
lost. Names of the famous submar-
inc commanders no longer appear in
official reports. Publicized command
erS are newcomers.
Experts believe Hitler now has
between 200 and 300 submarines in
action and is producing them at
the rate of about 10 a month.
The U-boats are mostly of the
500 10 750-tOn type and many are
based in concrete bomb-prOof gar
ages" on the coast of France.
The strain of this output as well
as of Raj bombing of great indus
trial centers, is keenly felt, especial
ly in Germany where Hitler has
put 100000 war prisoners and o.
100000 foreign laborers to work. The
total of foreign laborers is expected
TO reach 100000 later this year.
Even women and children are being
mobilized. Yet the Germans &C
knowledge that they are shy 100000
agricultural workers for this springs
planting.
There Is good reason to believe
that Hitler's puzzling request TO
the Reichstag for special powers,
was due to production difficulties.
The strain on the Italian and
German workers is beginning TO
show clearly.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
JAPANESE ARRESTED

YOShlSOtO kubO. 81, Japanese
laborer of Brawley. was arrested
Monday by agents of the federal
bureau OF investigation on charge
of being guilty of American ac-
tivitieS. He was taken to the coun-
ty Jail in e. Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
BY UNITED PRESS

More persons in eastern cities
stayed home Sunday than on any
comparably warm spring Sunday
in long time, according to unoffi-
cial estimates.
All the large metropolitan areas
in the east reported that Sunday
automobile traffic was at least SO
per cent below normal. Most notice
able decrease was in the volume of
traffic between cities. Some strategic
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Ell CENTRAN
JOINS NAVY

Homer A. Spear, Jr., who enlist
ed in the United States Navy thru
the FL Centre office, passed en-
trance examinations and was rated
mechanics mate, second class, he
wrote from San Diego during the
weekend.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Valley Accidents
Take Two Lives
Continued from Page One)

Saturday, Peter Landerman, 49,
months-Old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. Lee Landerman, suffered the
loss Of two teeth. A coupe driven
by his mother and truck driven
by John Peter LaBrucherie, 10, col
lided at the intersection Of the
Dahlia road and Main street. Mrs.
Labrucherie suffered slight injuries.
The Mexican traffic victim, Sala-
Ear, is survived by his wife. who is
expecting a baby, and five small
children.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
FINAL DIVORCE
Is GRANTED

A final divorce was granted In
Imperial county superior court
Monday to Mary Lane in her suit
against Paul Lane.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
Price Pegs Take
Effect in Stores

WASHINGTON. May lG-CUP)-
Retail prices on hundreds of thou
sands OF commoditieS-virt all
goods that Americans eat, wear and
use-reverted today to their highest
March level
Housewives were expected to find
their cost-of-liying taking a turn
for the better" of their pocketbooks
because April and May increases
will be wiped out. There were no
official estimates OH what the over
all increase has been since March,
but it was known to have been size
able in some commodities.
The labor department estimated
the retail ceiling would establish
4 general price level of about ISL
per cent of the 1934-39 average.
CAN'T Go HIGHER
we have drawn the battle lines
for the fight against a rising cost
Of living" Price Administrator Leon
Henderson said.
The big thing for everyone to
remember is that prices under the
ceilings are going no higher
Today also marks the automatic
licensing of every retailer although
no physical evidence of that has
been given to any store Each is
nonetheless licensed and, thus, SUBJ
ject to OPA action to revoke the
license in event Of violations of the
general regulations.
The price ceiling has been called
the citizens charter Of security
against rising living costs" and con-
tainS the following general provi-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
MEXICAN TRIED
BEFORE JURY

M. Gonzalez, Brawley Mexican,
went to trial before a jury in SUI
perior court Monday on a charge
of committing a morals offenSe
against a small boy.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18
BY GLEN NJ. STADLER

LISBON. Portugal, May 18-CUP)
Adolf Hitler is feeding his vast
total war machine on the loot of
Is conquered countries and is at
tempting to maintain order by hun
dreds of thousands of executions.
Almost 100000 Europeans have
been slain by Nazi firing squads
The equivalent CT $4,000, 100000 in
cash and goods has been taken from
the defeated
1t is the opinion of competent
observers that the NaziS will bleed
occupied Europe completely before
taking anything away from the
German people, who live compare
lively well on continent OF malnu-
triticn and even famine.
The Nazi technique of government
by terror has been systematic and
thorough. 1t has served the double
purpose of preventing uprisings and
permitting virtually unopposed
plumber, despite sporadic instances
Of clandeStine resistance. Here
compiled from private and official
sources, are the statistics on exc
cutionS:
Poland, 1880 slain; Jugoslavia
5000; France and Belgium, 1900;
Holland, 300; Norway, $50; Greece
$50; Russia, Latvia, EStonia, Lith-
uania, about 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-18

ers were alert meanwhile to the
threat of a japanese drive up from
Indo-C China, aimed at the Kun
ming terminus of the Burma road
above Yungchang.
CAIRO-The war in the eastern
Libyan desert flared up en- land
and in the air after long lull
with wide-ranging Raj bombings
of Axis objectiveS and sharp patrol
skirmisheS.
BERLIN-The German high COM
mand claimed the destruction OF
324 Russian tanks in the battle OF
Kharkov and said that mop-up OF
defeated Soviet forces is underway
on the Kerch peninsula in the
Crimea.