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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11

Tic CdlCtIIaCIOn was Cnt IIrSC
time, as far as publicly known, that
the United States ever has notified
Latin-American government of
explicit action to terminate such
credits. Most such credits carry
an expiration date but are allowed
to stand available indefinitely be-
yond the deadline. The largest block
Of credits expired last MAJ but the
government saw fit to give Argen-
tina an express notice of cancella-
ton.
The question of whether to take
this action was considered for some
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11

OullCt. ollt OullCe, ii IL COulu NC lldu
would be worth $4000,000
Dr. Vincent Du Vigneaud, head
of the department of biochemistry
of Cornell University Medical col
lege, announced last night at a
meeting of the American Chemical
Society that he and some of his
colleagues had discovered biotin's
chemical structure.
The announcement eliminated q
series of Investigations begun in
1910 when DR.. Du Vigneaud and
DR.. Arnold B. Melville, also of Cor
nell, announced that they had iden-
titled biotin with vitamin H.
In october, 194l. they announced
the first break in the determination
OF the architectural structure of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
YANkS BLAST R0MmEL LINES ON desert
Touhy Runs for Hideout

CHICAGO, Oct. l0-(UP)-Pollce
feared today that terrible Roger
Touhy and other criminals from
the Stateville prison had succeeded
in reaching friends and hide-out
in the local underground.
A car containing three men and
travelling 85 miles an hour sped
around a state police barricade on
the highway at Elmhurst, on the
outskirts of Chicago, last night, un-
deferred by the hail of bullets state
policemen fired after it.
If the car contained Touhy, he
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11

had: thrown rocks at each other,
allied each other fiery names
'restled in the back alley behind
heir homes and ordered the "law'
IN each other too many times to
count.
Judge Adams plans almost blew
up in the first moment of their sem
tencc.
Mrs. Furst. bespectacled and
garbed in the dress furnished by
the Jail offered to shake hands.
Mrs. Rubenstein sputtered. II
should shake hands with you, yet, "
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
CfiRYSlER STRIKE
COMES TO END

DETROIT, Oct 10-CUP) -- Full
schedules on war production re-
sumed at the Chrysler Corp, JEFF
ferson avenue plant today after a
one-day walk-out by 1000 workers
in sympathy with 400 others sent
home for smoking on The JOB.
A ChryS:er spokesman said a fun
Shift reported and was put to work
this morning and that the plant
rule against smoking on the Job
remains III effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11

bitoin molecule, and subsequently
by chemical reactions and combina-
tons discovered the three dimen-
sional pattern in which the various
atoms make up molecule of biotin.
A biotin molecule is composed of
10 atoms of carbon, l6 of hydrogen,
three of oxygen, two of nitrogen and
one of sulphur.
Biotin is so powerful that one
part in 100000, 100000 still functions
as a growth-promoting factor of
yeast
Scientists hailed the discovery as
one OF the great triumphs in mod
ern chemistry, certain to lead to
important developments in chemis-
try, biology, and medicine.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
D AMBL|Ne
EpORTER
The Little Lady

The Little Lady
1t was a sad day for Julianne Nc
Call when her father, John Mccall
decided to accept work elsewhere
and leave his family in Imperial
until he returned. She insisted upon
going with him. She saw no reason
VIII Il three -year-old girl could not
accompany her father wherever he
went.
IF you Wart to GO, her father
said. you will lave to cook for me.
You will have to cook all my meals.
Can you COOKE
Oh, yes, Julianne could cook.
Gould you cook my dinner for
me?" he asked Julianne insisted
that she could, cooking dinner was
no great task for her. Julianne re-
NAMED in the house while the rest
of the family went out in the yard,
apparently to get a rest from the
conversation about her culinary abil-
tiles.
After a while Julianne thrust her
hea,, out a window and called:
Come on in, Daddy. Dinner is
ready" Fearing the worst, Mccall
hurried into the house.
Dinner WAS ready. Julianne had
taken everything out of the retrig-
orator and set it on the dining
table.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
Jup Warship Sunk
Off CuuduIc canal
American Airmen Fight Bi+terIyto
Prevent Enemy from Reinforcing Land
Units on Key Island in SoIomons

WASHINGTON Oct. 10. (UP)-A japanese destroyer
was sunk and heavy cruiser and destroyer damaged
by American airmen striving desperately halt greatly
expanded enemy attempts to land renforcemens Quad
acana, the Navy announced today
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
Farmers Prepare
TO import Labor
Valley Asricu|turists Take First Step
Toward Bringing in Mexicans to Help
In Harvest Fields; Meetings Slated

Imperial Valley farmers Saturday began setting tn
stage for importation of Mexican labOrerS.
First steps toward bringing in men to work valley field
will be taken Sunday at pm. when vegetable and bee
growers scheduled to meet in Judge Vaughn Thomp
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
n. S. Pupils Join
Big Serap Drive
Elementary School Groups Plumber City
Dump Piles. Haul in Loot TO Hell p US.
Achieve Victory in War Against Axis

and school children barged full tilt into the
lCentro scrap metal drive Saturday with the latest conn
gent composed of the entire student body of Central Union
High school
While elementary pupils plundered scrap heaps and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
U.S.. Cancels Out
Arqentine Credit

WASHINGTON, Oct. TO- (UP)-The United States en-
bassy in Buenos Aires has notified the Argentine govern
ment that this country has cancelled credits totang $1O
100000 extended by the EXpornSort bank and the treas
ury department. it learned today
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
Science DissectS
Potent vitomin

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (UP)-The unraveling of the
chemical architecture of Botn the most powerful vam,
expected today to lead eventually the discovery
how to produce it synthetcally.
The entire worlds supply of biotin is tenth of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
Combined Aerial
Offensive Opens
I'm North Africa
Germans Slack Off Infantry Pressure
At Stainsrad but Throw More Troops
Against Soviet North. South of City
- BY UNITED PRESS

Air fared up in North Africa Saturday to break an
extended desert lull and the blazing Stangrad front
Russian forces fought off Naz attempts to break
through to the VOlga river American British and Allied
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
No Obstacle

No Obstacle
Wilson school children considered
an automobile body left across the
street from the school. Heavy equip
ment usually is used to transport
such objects to scrap metal piles.
Not in this case.
About 20 small BOYS ringed them
selves around the huge object, lifted
il easily, and carried it across the
street to the school scrap pile. the
thing looking like some sort of
fantastic bug on the move.
Something Melted
All this business about freezing
salaries was a great worry to Van
Austin, Negro janitor at the FL
Centro post office and also at the
First Presbyterian church.
His fellow employees at the post
office convinced him that the new
law froze him to his two jobs Aus
tin didn't like the idea of being
frozen to jobs. That worried him
worse than the frozen salary angle.
Came day when Austin wanted
to go hunting. Now can man go
hunting when he is frozen to the
Job of being a church janitor? That
took some pOndering. Austin ponder
ed and pondered the problem. The
more he pondered the more he
wanted to go hunting Finally he
had an inspiration.
Austin went TO the Rev. DR..
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11

BUTTERFLIES Angeles extra 48i%e; grade cream
6i1ac; manufacturing milk 6Il2c; route gathered
53c
l.. A. HAY-U. S. No. l S24; u. s. No. 2 Ieafy
I. v. S22-23; No. $l9.5O-2O September flax
$2.46.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 92, minimum Saturday 65; am
Saturday ~ humidity SO; Saturday 81, hu-
midity II; pm. Friday 80, humidity 49,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-11

Total Cash. Cheeks and Drafts Sent
Through Tke Two Fl Centre Banksl
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Economist ADVISES All GROUPS
To Help estrict InfIotion

ployers are doing 1t. Have conf
dence in the readiness of the Gov
ernment to do its best to make right
any real injustices resulting from
its regulations.
If your income is medium sized
If your taxes hurt, remember there
are q lot Of people who have had
too little for a long while. and it
may be your turn to 60 without q
few things you would like. Save
up in advance to pay your taxes,
and buy some Defense bonds be-
sides.
Increased taxes, Prof. Clark said,
are designed ito save people from
wasting their incomes in driving up
prices by future bidding for goods
that are not. there. If the tax. COL
lector does not take the money, in
creased prices will-in q more in
furious way"
Taxes have not been planned to
deprive people Of goods, Prof. Clark
added. "The requirements of de-
tense have already done hat."
Evening star., 1942-01-25
| War Board Jobs
Given to Reed,
Motthiessen
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ranking Jobs in the new war
production board were awarded yes
terday to Philip D. Reed, board
chairman Of the General Electric
Co. and G. H. Matthiessen. jr., Of
Pasadena, Calf, an executive OF
the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.
Reed will head the industrial
branches In the division Of industry
operations, and Matthiessen will
direct the priorities program In the
same division. The appointments
were made by Donald M. Nelson,
W. z. B. chairman.
Reed, who has been connected with
the defense work here since last
February, was a deputy director OF
the o. P. M. materials division, and
a special assistant to Director Gen.
eral william 8. Knudsen in charge
Of industrial branches. His home Is
In Rye, N. Y.
Matthiessen. who also has been
here about q year. was Reeds as
sistant.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Bonneville Bid
For Utilities
Is Reported
By the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The Herald
Tribune said today that DR.. Paul ].
Raver, administrator OF the Bonne-
vile Power Administration, has
been in New York negotiating for
the acquisition by Bonneville and
other public agencies Of several
privately owned electric utilities In
the Pacific Northwest.
Among companies involved in the
conversations, the Herald Tribune
said, was the Puget Sound Power &
Light Co.
The newspaper added that while
DR.. Raver was unwilling to divulge
the full scope Of his negotiations, he
let it be known that the price in
volved for the purchase of Puget
and the other companies would be
about s100000,00O, probably to be
financed by the sale of revenue
bonds.
Puget Sound Power & Light Co.,
a subsidiary Of Engineers Public
Service Co.. sells power at retail to
A communities and at wholesale
to 16 in Central and Western Wash
ington. In some Of these counties
are so-called public utility districts
which have the power to condemn
the company's properties and issue
obligations in payment thereof.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Reliance Electric Plans
To Sell Preferred Stock

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Jan. 24-Reliance
Electric & Engineering Co. plans to
sell $500 shares of $5 convertible
preferred stock and 1880 shares of
SIS par to restore cash reserves and
working capital. it informed the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion in a registration statement
today.
The common shares are initially
reserved for conversion of the pre-
ferred shares, and principal under
writers include Hayden Miller & Co.
of Cleveland.
The company said it would apply
$500,000 to restore cash reserve, an
other 5000 600 to restore working
capital and would add the balance,
if any. to general funds. Reliance
manufactures motors and genera
tors.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Lewis Loses Appeal
In Utilities Case
By the Associated Press.

oy tLt h8SOCl8tCu fIcoS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-The United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals yes
terday upheld Federal Judge Will
liam n. Holly's order last May Is
denying Frank j. Lewis, Chicago
financier, permission to file a petit
ton seeking to require that the
Central States Utilities and the
Central States Power & Light Corp.
be sold to him for 81 ,600, 900.
Lewis, chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank Of Chicago, had al
legged that a contract for such a
purchase was made in December,
1899, between himself and the
Utilities Power & Light Corp, q
bankrupt concern which the Ogden
corporation succeeded.
The Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
that the District Court had no ju-
risdiction because q purchase by
Lewis was not pertinent to the q.
p. & L. reorganization. Consum-
nation Of the sale was dependent
upon approval from the Securities
and Exchange Commission, which
never was obtained.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
LII Auto Factories
Making Arms or
Being RetooIed
Changes Accomplished
At Less Cost Than
In Other Industries
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Jan. 24.-Virtually all
the automobile industry's plants now
are being utilized or will be in use
for the production of war materiel
when necessary retooling Is COM
pleted, the Automobile Manufactur-
ers' Association reported today.
The statement said that in obtain
ing war production from the auto
mobile industry, the Government
has had to invest only half as much
in new facilities as was spent for
plants and tools in the heavy goods
industries as a whole.
War Wcrk Speeded.
Asserting that eight out Of every
10 existing plants of the motor In
dustry had war work in progress or
assigned to them at the end of
November, the association statement
went on:
while q few spectacular new
plants producing tanks, airplane en-
gines and guns have caught the
public's attention, actually the auto
mobile industry had $50 plants pro-
ducing war goods or being re-
fooled for such work on November
30. At that time the automobile
output was running at rate so per
cent below the previous year."
Car Output Cut.
Automotive News said today in its
weekly survey Of the motorcar in
dustry that output for this week
totaled 72,317 cars and trucks. This
compares with 73,070 units reported
by the trade paper for last week
and 120,070 this week year ago.
The survey credited General Mo-
tors with 26.333 units this week,
compared with 28,224 last week;
Chrysler with 1878 this week,
against 1908 last week, and Ford
divisions with 12,375 cars and trucks,
compared with 1892 the previous
week.
Production of the other COM
panies, the publication said, re-
manned steady, with WHY'S turning
out war materials only.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
DECEMBER.
= S591,513.750 s4ss.131,
TWELVE MONTHS.
Tox Note Redemptions
Start at Treasury
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASsoclated Ffess.
The tax notes which the Treasury
began selling August ! to persons
and corporations wanting to lay
aside money for taxes are beginning
to come back to the Treasury for
redemption.
Out of the $2,534,6 ,675 sold,
So, ,723, ,675 have come back in pay
ment for taxes and $9,ll0,350 have
been turned in for cash. Redemp-
tions, however, have barely started,
and on about March 16 large per-
centage Of the notes outstanding
are expected to be turned in for
income taxes.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Chain Store Volumes
20 Per Cent Larger
During 1941
Mail Order Concerns
Leod Despite Some
Lag Late in Year
Special Dispatch to The Star,

opeCltl DlbpdLCQ 70 1Qe SLaI.
BOSTON, Jan 24.-Sales volume
In the chain store industry, on the
basis of the reported figures of 81
typical companies, showed a gain
of over 20 per cent in the calendar
year 1941, as compared with the
year 1910.
The monthly compilation released
by Childs, Jeffries & Thorndike,
Inc, indicates sales of this par
ticular group of companies, repre-
senting s4,532, ,690,281 in the u
months ended December 81, COM
pared with a volume Of $3,757,417,-
116 for the identical companies in
the previous year, an increase OF
20.6 per cent.
The mail order group, despite
some slowing down late In the year
in the phenomenal rate of increase
shown earlier, led the field with a
gain for the year of 26.6 per cent.
The apparel group was not far be-
hind with a sales advance Of 24.9
per cent. Every group in the total
showed an increase in excess Of
10 per cent.
The compilation also shows sales
for the month of December alone,
and clearly indicates that the
Christmas shopping season was
most satisfactory for this type of
merchandising. Gains for the diff
ferent groups in the field, compared
with December of 1910, ranged be-
tween lat per cent for the drug
chains and 27.4 per cent for the
grocery chains. The variety group,
for which the Christmas season Is
particularly important, showed an
increase Of 1874 per cent, the Is
companies which comprise this d1-
vision in the compilation reporting
aggregate sales Of s245,sl3.9S3 for
the month of December, 1941.
The detailed compilation follows:
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Armour Chief Halls
Good Sales, Profits
BY the Associated Press.

I
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-George A.
Eastwood, president of Armour {,
Co., told stockholders at the annual
meeting yesterday that the COM
pany's business since November /,
beginning of the new fiscal year,
has been good both in volume and
profits.
He expressed hope that current
dividends can be maintained, but
whether operations this year will
permit any payments of back divi-
dends remains to be seen.
One new director, John E. San
ford Of Atlanta, and four others al
ready on the board were elected for
three-year terms.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-1f you are
a housewife, an industrial worker, q
farmer, or an employer, you may use
definite methods to help curb infla-
ton. according to the advice Of
Prof. John M. Clark of Columbia
University.
Prof. Clark, In a pamphlet pub
lished by the Public Affairs Com
mittee, Inc, suggested:
Housewives-Study the require
ments of healthy diet. There is no
need of undernourishment, but don't
waste foods or other scarce mate
rials, and don't hoard them.
Workers and Farmers-If you are
getting q break" for the first time
in some years, don't try to push
your advantage too hard. II you do,
there won't be enough real goods,
and 1t Is better to gain q few real
dollars than q lot Of rubber ones.
Elnployers-Absorb all the in
creased costs you can. Most en-
Evening star., 1942-01-25
u. s. Steel Units Set Records
In Ore Output and Shipments

mage record compares with a move
ment OF 18,7l3,382 gross tons In 1910
and exceeds the previous record
year Of 1916 by $500, ,222 gross tons.
The steamship company reported
It hauled 80 per cent Of the total
iron ore moved on the Great Lakes
during the 1941 season. In addition
to that, the Pittsburgh ships and.
other subsidiary vessels carried T.
418,607 tons Of limestone and coal.
To provide for q still greater
movement in 1942, the Pittsburgh
Steamship Co. now has under con-
struction five vessels which viii be
placed in operation during the COM
ing season.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
New Orleans Coffee
House Is Opened
BY tie Associated Press.

~ the AsSociated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 24.-Recog-
nizing New Orleans as the most
important coffee market In the
United States" the Brazil National
Coffee Department is opening a To-
cal ONCE here, Eurico Penteado,
financial attache of the Brazilian
Embassy in washington, announced
yesterday.
Penteado introduced George
Quart as head of the local office at a
luncheon honoring the two South
American visitors, given by the New
Orleans Board of Trade and New
Orleans Green Coffee Association.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
U. S. Leod Production
Up Slightly in Month

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-United
States production of lead In De-
cember jumped to 57,181 tons from
a, $3.50 tons In November but still
was below output Of 1905 tons In
December, 1910, the American Bu-
reau Of Metal Statistics said today.
Stocks on hand at the end of the
year totaled 20,185 tons, substan-
tally above the 1851 held at the
end Of November although only half
Of the 40,926 tons on hand ct the
end Of 1910.
Domestic shipments stepped up to
50,680 tons from 45,980 In Novem-
ber. Shipments In December, 1910,
totaled 56,755 tons.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
a, the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 2.-Two
subsidiaries of the United States
Steel Corp. disclosed today they set
new records in the production and
movement Of iron ore during the
194l season.
One, the Oliver Iron Mining co.
of Duluth, Mimi, produced record
iron ore tonnage Of 34,127 ,982 net
tons, compared with 26,l93,055 net
tons In 1910. OF this amount, YES
sels Of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co.,
United States Steels Great Lakes
subsidiary, conveyed to lower lake
ports q, 81, Isl boss tons. The ton
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Cotton Market BaIks
After Advance 10
12-Year Highs
Futures Close 5 Cents
A BuIe Lower to IS
Higher at New York
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Jan. 24-Cotton fu-
lures baked today after an ad-
vance that has lifted prices to IL
year highs. The market closed 5
cents q bale lower to Is higher.
Recent heavy trade buying ia
pered OF and a note OF caution was
introduced by postponement of con-
gressional action on the compromise
price-control bill.
The market lost as much as go
cents bale at one time, but came
back when mill buying was attracted
by the lower levels.
Port receipts Friday, 1881 bales;
port stocks. 3,325, SIS.
Range follows:
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Sales of Domestic
Fleece Woods Slow

BY the ABSOciRted PteSS.
BOSTON, Jan. "A Omitted States
Department Of Agricultural The
demand for domestic fleece woods was
generally quiet during the last week.
A few sales of fine combing Ohio
delaine were made at 45-47 cents,
in the grease. Graded one-half
blood staple combing fleeces were
quoted at 46-48 cents, in the grease.
Graded three-eighths and one
quarter blood bright woods had some
call at 51-52 cents, in the grease.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Metropolitan Reports
Drop in Deuth Rute
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. A.-The Met
ropontan Life Insurance Co. said
today, its records showed q 1941
death rate of IA per 1000 persons
the lowest ever attained bv the
company's industrial policyholders.
As q result, the announcement
said, the life expectation Of these
insured persons was advanced to
63A years, q gain Of SIX months over
the figure Of 1910.