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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Workers SHORTAGE
Cuts Down Nations
Of Needed Copper

Continued from Page One
high-wage industries will cease
growing practice Of "pirating" work.
ers from less attractive mine jobs.
5. McNutt also reported that tire
rationing boards have been asked
to give special consideration to
transportation required for mine
workers between their homes and
the mines"
6. Nelson disclosed that a special
inter r-departmental committee has
been organized Ito see that appro-
pirate steps are taken speedily to
adjust wage differences and to meet
the manpower shortage in the
mines"
7. McNutt called a special meet
ing to be held here Thursday to
study additional means for solving
the problem. Twenty representatives
of mine labor unions and manage
ment and u federal officials will
attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Wilson's Honored
At Party by Many
Friends Saturday

Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Wilson,
whose marriage was a recent event,
were honored Saturday night
when a group of their friends pre-
sented them with many beautiful
gifts for their home in CaleXico.
The party took place at the home
OF Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Van Der
Linden with Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Rambo, Jr,, as co-hoSts for the
occasion.
Pinochle provided the entertain
ment of the evening. Delbert
Chambers won high prize, Mrs.
Chambers second and Mrs. Bertis
Perritt low. Mrs. Morris Foster re-
ceived special door prize When
refreshments were served, the bride
cut the wedding cake.
Invite dguests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles zinn, Mr.. and Mrs. Riley
Eaves, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Havens,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chambers, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cy Rounds, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
Sullivan, Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Hart,
Mr.. and Mrs. Perritt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave Lee, Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Muir
ply, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Foster,
Mr.. and Mrs. Switzerland, Miss
Marietta Rounds, Jim Mulligan, the
honor guests and the hosts. Mrs.
Wilson is the farmer Betty Rounds
of Drop No. 3 of the All American
canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01

Service So Girl
Pledges Loyalty

NEW YORK, Sept. up =
The problem of finding an eff
cient wolfbane to keep the girl
friend safe and sound while a man
goes off Hun-hunting was solved
today, in an inadequate sort of
waY. by Barbara Britton.
Miss Britton, whose best" boy
friend is in the Navy, came out
with an insignia to be worn over
the heart and thus gently advise
prowlers that she is just killing
time with them while Mr. Ia is
occupied with more serious busi-
ness. Miss Britton is blue-e eyed
blonde on her way to becoming a
movie star and so runs into all
kinds of distractions while she is
being true
The insignia is somewhat on the
fraternity pin idea. though it does
not necessarily denote an enegage-
ment, she explained.
WEARS ANCHOR
If the bo; friend is in tie Navy.
as in Miss Britton's case, the girl
would wear a heart-shaped pin
with the letters "USN' and an an
Choir indicating she is anchored to
him. Two hearts are for married
folks.
The Marine Corps and Army pins
carry appropriate emblems.
Miss Britton thought it fitting
that she come forward with this
idea because she has been in a
Marine picture, Wake Island,
Navy picture, The Fleets In, and
an Army pitcure. Young and Will
ing.
The pin doesn't mean there is
a serious engagement" she explain
ed. The idea is just to win the
VOLTS respect so he won't get ideas.
Il is just a warning. OF course,
it wouldn't stop a real wolf"
Miss Britton doesn't think a girl
should lust sit around and twid-
die her thumbs because boy
friend is in service
Il 90 out with any number OF
boys" she said.
For example there was Saturday
night She went out with two en-
signs. neither of them wolves
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Cops Deliver Boy
After Mother Di ieS

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. l, CUP)
Two policemen named Bill" today
gave their christian name to a baby
they brought into the world by
distance instruction after the
mother had died,
Bill, seven pounds and day old,
was well and healthy"-thanks to
the quick action of Officers William
Sturgeon and william Snellen.
When they found his mother she
had been dead for an hour from
the pangs of childbirth. They tele-
phoned headquarters for advice A
health officer finally was reached
and his directors were rclaycd to
the nervous policemen by priest
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01

moved to a hospital, but Leavell
insisted they must act Immediately.
Using sterilized kitchen utensils,
they followed Leavells instructions
as they we're repeated by Father
Saffrin. They severed the umbilical
cord, bathed the baby, wrapped it
in a comfort and took it to hos
pital, where it was reported "an
exceptionally healthy boy"
Although Snellen admitted he was
"a little scared Jefferson county
police said he ad saved at least
II lives in the past six years by
administering first aid to victims
Of accidents and suicide attempts.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
SOLDIER RETURNED
TO CAMP LOCKETT

Jimmy CoffeyL 22-year-old SOL
dier stationed at Camp Lockett,
was arrested in Holtville Monday
night on charge of escaping
from the guard house at the camp.
Military police took him in charge
after he was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Lloyd Lyons in Holtville
hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Saturday DeadIine
To Apply for Sugar

Saturday is the deadline for in
dustrial and institutional users of
sugar to file their statements with
Ell Centre price and rationing board,
Margaret Foster, clerk of the beard,
reminded Tuesday. Only 62 of the
more than 125 users in this cate
CORY have filed their acquisitions
for sugar purchases during Septem-
Der and October.
The sugar users have 20-day
period in which to file their esti-
mates and these acquisitions fer the
two months period will not be taken
after that date.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Alien Custodians
Must File Report

Private individuals or officials
7andling property CT alien enemies
# the United States or concerned
in its legal administration are re-
quired to file a report with the
enemy property custodian. County
Clerk w. j. McClelland was in
formed by the custodian Tuesday
Forms TO be filled out were to
be sent to McClelland and may be
obtained by those required TO fill
them out.
Additional details may be obtain
I'd by conferring with McClelland.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
ROSEMARY RICE
VISITS IN INDIO

After spending a week in Long
Beach, Rosemary Rice was visi-
tor at the home of Mrs. Alice Mann
in Indio last week. Returning from
a trip to Los Angeles. her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Rice stopped
at the Mann home last weekend
and brought Rosemary and jeanne
Mann home to Ell Centre. Mrs,
Mann and her daughter, Carol
Mann will drive down Saturday and
take jeanne back to Indio with
them The Mann family formerly
lived in Ell Centro for many years.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Scanning |. Y.
News Horizon
TO VALLEY

Mr. and Mrs. Arno e. Yaeckel
and their neice and nephew, Lois
Dripp and Arthur Robinson and
Frank Ullman o. Ell Centre, re-
turned Saturday from a vacation
trip in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains They took a pack train out
of Mineral King and spent a de-
lightful vacation in the pinewoods.
fishing and feasting on their daily
catch.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
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were firmly in the hands of Aus
tralian defenders.
MacArthur's bomber forces carried
out strong attacks on Lac and Buna
and there we're ground clashes near
Salamaua oil the Huon gulf.
Farther north the American army
air force based in China renewed its
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Se|ective Service
Head Acts toCaII
Single Men First

Continued from Page One)
said, Wlll be 10 level off inductions
so that men from small towns and
from cities will be called OH an ap-
proximately uniform basis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
MUST FACE TRIAL

Finch Heron, Ell Centro Negro,
Monday was ordered to trial in
superior court on a charge of con-
tributing to the delinquency OF a
16-year-old girl and with failure
to support his unborn child. He
appeared for preliminary hearing
in El Centric justice court Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
LIBRARIAN HOME

Mrs Agnes BigeloW, city librar-
ian. has returned today from her
summer vacation spent in San Di-
ego with her mother, Mrs. F. B.
Ferris. and her sister, Miss Anne
Ferris. in their new home in the
Talmage Park section.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1-CUP) --
Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., KY, chair
man of senate military affairs
subcommittee which has just re-
turned from an inspection trip to
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
CORRECTION

Through error. the Post-Press of
last weekend carried the story of
the house of Dr. John Pace burn
ing to the ground The house de-
troyed by fire was the home of
Mrs. Louise Thomas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
RAISE SILVER PRICE

NEW YORK, Sept. 1-CUP) -
Handy &; Harman, bullion dealer,
'oday raised it's price of foreign
liver to A "a cents an ounce
from the previous price of 35 1-8
cents in effect since Nov. % last
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
TELEPHONED LOUISVILLE

The men tolephCned Leavell at
Louisville who told them: The baby
will die or freeze to death unles'
you do just as I say"
They protested that the mothers
body and the baby should be re-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
END VACATION

Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Snow and
their daughter. Lila June, return
ed this week from a vacation in
Los Angeles and at Live Oaks
Springs. where they were guests
of the c. H. Johnstons.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
IN Ell CENTRIC

Mrs. Julia Nj. Bracket, who has
been spending the summer in Hol-
lywood, was in Ell Centre Tuesday
and expected to leave Wednesday
for Milwaukee. Wis, where she will
visit her daughter, Mrs. Waller
Carson. Mrs. Carson has three sons
in active ervice with the armed
forces.
Later in the fall Mrs Bracket
eXOectS to return to Ell Centre to
spend the winter. Enroute east she
will stop in San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
WARNINCl BEWARE OF
BOWEL WORMS

Roundworms inside you or your child can
cause real trouble. And you may not know
what is wrong. Warning signs are :'picky"
appetite, nervousness. uneasy stomach.
itching parts. Get Jayne's Vermifuge right
awayi JAYNE'S is Americas leading pro-
prietary worm medicine; used by millions.
Acts gently yet expels roundworms.
Be sure you get JAYNE'S VERMIFUGEi
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
BACK FROM OUTING

Mrs. T. l.. Skinner and Anne
Skinner have returned from an out
ing in San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
LEAVE FOR VACATION

Cor1ty Treasurer George Varney
and Mrs. Varney plan to leave
their home in Imperial Saturday
for a four day vacation in Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
RETURNS TO WORK

Rub" Norris, of the AAA staff. is
back at her desk after delightful
trip to her old home in Missouri.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-01
Know The Easiest
Your Car SHINY?

Does coating of dust spoil the ap-
pearance of your car few days after
it's been washed? Then try this easy,
economical way to keep it looking
bright. Buy one of those specially pre-
pared dust cloths from your Standard
Man. With it, you can shine up your
car in couple of minutes. A few flicks
every day, and your car will stay
bright for weeks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
March Of Events Are :s' %;''"r
by BENJAMIN DeCasSeres

What is necessary 10 cure this
warrior people and their IN
born megalomsnia IS change
OF character. And that is 100
big 2 Job for any other country
10 undertake. 1t just can't be
done.
The four most famous rulers
OF Germany were all warrior
minded megalomanlacs 49, Fred
erick the Great, Bism arc X,
Kaiser Wilhelm ii and Hitler.
Those four men have been and
are the idols of Germans. Hitler
could not exist one hour if the
German soul were not in back
of him.
There is only one answer
one final answer after this war
TO this perpe tual German
menace. and that is TO divide
Germany into score Of small
principalitieS. take away all
armed power from her and
guard her with an international
lash as YOU would a maniac.
And dOn't weaken
Let them be absolutely free
10 produce music, books, news
papers, paintings. etc Leave
them free in their folk ways.
But do not allow them voice
IN international affairs. And
don't weaken.
Germany IS the German people
and The German people are Ger
many Let US quit our Sentl-
mental tand POLITICAL lying 10
ourselves about these people
They are too terrible 10 be
loose.
MO GREATER catastrophe can
Y bcfall the mind of man. 10
my way Of thinking, than that
his imagination should become
frozen and that he should be-
come a mere thinking and re-
producing m h inc. without
ornament. without rhetoric. with
out fantasy.
II is the cog-and-gsdget mind,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02

the mind that derides All that
is merely beautiful in writing,
painting, music and the arts
generally,
Take this thing called basic
English" for instance. Basic
English means that even the
Bible must be done over into
hard boiied English with all
those delightful "begats and
other archaic expressions left
out.
Against this humiliation Of the
Bible ! am glad 10 see that the
usually conservative Mr.. J. Don
AID Adams. editor OF the New
York Times book review has
ISSUED protest. He says:
Sooner or later, no doubt, Lin
coins Gettysburg address will
be basic Englished, and Lear
and Hamlet and Mercuitot will
have 10 learn TO speak all over
again in vocabulary Of less
than thousand out Of all their
magnificent words.
The finest treasures OF our
language may some day appear
in "cigarstore English. Imagine
Shelley's Ode 10 Skylark' done
over by one Of these hard-boiled
basic English fellows.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
Vi+annin &
Injections
For Shock
By G.. n. LAL

International >,r. service Science Idtor
CPECIAL uses Of Nltamln { IN
- war. for saving the lives OF
wounded soldiers and 10 prevent
and cure the effects Of injurious
substances in war chemical in
dustries arc revealed by Prof
Harry y. Holmes OF Oberlin
College. Ohio. in Science. -
Large doses OF pure Vitamin
c. known as aScorbic acid, dis
solved in sterile water are 10 be
injected into the blood directly
10 treat shock the dangerous
condition OF collapse caused by
excessive bleeding and emotional
strain.
THE basis OF this treatment,
i which Professor II o m es
urges surgeons IN our armed
forces" 10 test out on p large
scale. are the highly satisfactory
results Of trial treatments given
in a number OF medical centerS.
Professor Holmes stated:
Private reports from q group
81 physicians and chemists show
that In numerous Instances In
travenous injection OF . solution
OF one gram Nitsmin c produced
astonishing recovery from Sc
we're post-operntive shock (shock
following surgical operation"
ONE gram OF pure Vitamin c
~ ia equivalent in effectiveness
10 about 10000 international
units Of this vitamin; a large
dose compared with tho $50 10
500 such units considered enough
for an adult person every day.
For prevention of heat pros
trations." not only in industrial
plants, but also in the tropics
and in North Africa where Allied
soldiers are fighting, Vitamin c
is most beneficial.
Heat causes perspiration. and
Nitamin c is eliminated from
the sweat glands. Also the cor
tex of the adrenal gland is az
fected by heat. which may have
much TO do with signs Of lowered
vitality. Consumption or injec-
ton of extra amounts OF the
vitamin restores the balance OF
this substance inside the body.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
letters to the Editor

important account for the
complaints and the downright
obstIuctionist tactics OF hun
dreds of thousands OF car OWL
ers who have refused 10 register
for gas-rationing? Apparently
too many Americans still expect
10 fight this war by proxy
without seriously disturbing
their own peace-time comforts.
As illustration. one noisy con-
gresham recently argued thus,
with magnificent irrelevance.
against gas rationlng:
Somebody from Washington
telling an individual how 20 70
about his own business looks too
much like the bug that bit
Hitler"
Such Grass stupidities should
he told 10 the marines on Qua
dalcanal, or to MacArthurs men
in the New Guinea jungles. or TO
American sailors on convoy TO
MurmanSk. or 10 our men IN sd-
vance tank columns in Tunisia
These men in the services did
not shout about their right" 10
business-as-usual, their right
10 go about their own private
businesses. But in this twelfth
month since Pearl Harbor many
Americans who would instantly
resent the slightest slur on their
patriotism arc behaving like
pampered children when II comes
TO gas rationing.
Rubber administrator LETTERS
and the Baruch committee and
now our President himself have
called for countrywide ga Ia
tionng as military necessity.
And every American on the home
front with grain OF patriotism
must cooperate fully.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
Grin and Bear Il

\YIEL ratonng here and early returns indicate
w that Detroit weathered the first day without too
much travail
There were no reports Of wholesale absences from
work because Of lack Of transportation and little any
evidence Of general confusion.
Certainly gas rationing will be definite hardship to
great many Detroers No getting around that fact
particularly when currently filled gas tanks out and
they have to depend their meager raonng allowance
But if they continue to meet the situation cheer
fully they did the first day they will automatically
have solved good part OF the tough problem.
Their initial reaction apparently is that they in
bad spot but that it's part Of the and the best
they do grin and bear it. Which, after all is about
sensible way any to look at IT,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02

Is GERMANYcompoSed OF Ger
L man people or who lives
there: Are the German people
responsible for the makeup OF
the German goVernment-or
who is? Are NaziS and ges-
tapos and Hitler'S armies made
up of goyernments--or il not,
what are they In other words,
are we fighting the German
people, the German naion-or
some other fellow
One of the subtlest forms Of
Hitler-devised propaganda is TO
make us believe that we are not
at war with the German people.
but with Nazis. This is a pSy-
Geological setup 10 get German
terms at the peace table when
the licking is over. It's prepar-
ing US for the baby act"
But there is al least one Ger
man who sees clearly. II is Emil
Ludwig, famous biographer of
Napoleon and Goethe, who said
IN recent interview at Los
Angeles
"A Gallup poll shows that 20
per cent Of Americans feel they
are fighting against Hitler and
not against the German people.
This Is false and dangerous
belief. which will lead Ia the
Same receptions as the last war.
The German warrior people
~ an entity. guided by Its intel
iigentsia. first followed the kai-
ser and now n proletarian In Its
desire 10 conquer the world.
Hitler IL Germany"
IN THAT | agree absolutely
i with Mr.. Ludwig. But | part
with him on the proposition
(Which he outlines AZ length
that after the war we should
take over the possession Of Ger
many entirely and begin the
education" OF Germans along
American lines.
Germany is already suffering
from TOO much education. -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
Call a Halt Nowl

S A GLARING instance Of irresponsible government
"A BY commission and bureau ruhning insaney Wild is
the wholesale shipment Of American industrial plants TO
Russia the very time when Americans are being held
down the absolute necessities of life
According 10 a recent dispatch from Washington
the treasury procurement division has recently purchased
for Russia:
Two complete oil refnenes
"A complete steel mill
3-A complete aluminium mill
A complete railroad system, including locomo-
tives freight and other equipment
5-A new electric power plant to be built and
equipped BY the United States at cost of SlSOOOOOO
ga complete oil pipe line, including pumping sta
tons and all essential equipment
The Ford tire manufacturing plant
BESIDES these purchases many others are in pros.
= pect
We are the military ally Of Russia against
the common enemy but that does not that we must
GIVE AWAY industrial establishments.
This unheard-of procedure has properly reused the
ire of many of congressman.
Representative Johnson Of Illinois calls IT outrage
Gus, which indeed 1t is.
He further SAYS il is probable that Of those
1870 Reds and pnks Chairman Dies named being
socketted government jobs working in this way for
a United States of the World which would mean
bankrupt United States of America
Representative Woodruff Of Michigan saws without
bandying words:
III we are sending steel mills out Of this country
must be heads. We don't have enough steel
as il is.
And the shipment of oil pipe line at the time that
Americans asked to live in frigd homes because OF
the lack Of transportation to bring oil to the East
utterly incomprehensible"
1T IS however not incomprehensibe when We realize
that there is government bloc at work in our top
heavy bureaucratic setups that is interested in
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UNION with Soviet
Russia than in a military alliance ONLY with the Rus
SLAMS for the duration
For eight years Congress has been heedessly dele
eating it's powers to crackpo New Dealers We are
reaping the whrlw1nd
And meanwhile Americans periodically going
short everything
Such nanity will not help win the
On the contrary, it disgruntes millions Of Americans
and thereby injuries morale at critical juncture,
Congress should call halt MOVING TO
RUSSIA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
AURA '. OHIIGER,
1875 Seward Ave.

(Euitors Note The Time,
will pnd free ono SXl0 inch
Photographic PRINT OF any pic
ture made abroad IN which
reader from his immediate
household identifies any service
man. The reader must mail 10
The Picture Editor. Detroit
Times, a clipping OF the picture,
his servicenan marked. with the
ser71ceman's name and rank
and the readers name, address
and relationship
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02
No Time FOR Nonsense

DETROTT traffic judges deserve commentator for
IL their unswervingy stern attitude toward reckless
motorists. They announced time ago that drunken
and reckless drivers could expect lenency and they
are living up to their announcement
Just yesterday for instance, Judge Thomas r Maher
imposed straight jail sentences ranging from 10 to 80
days upon eight convicted of reckless driving
That's fine. 1t il simple practical justice.
This newspaper always has held that drunken and
reckless drivers should get short shrift
Especially with rubber precious gold the
reckless driver merits confederation Jail is the best
place for him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-02

TO THE EDITOR:
DERHAPS Americans have had
Il TOO many bouquets from
newspaper editors and others on
the present healthy state OF
civilian morale. For IT certainly
seems shall say?-baTely
possible that a good many So
called 100 per cent Americans
do not always see this war as
realistically as our admlnistra-
ton al Washington.
How else explain the wide
spread fault-finding at the pres
ent rationing OF coffee and fuel
oil and even Of sugar? Or-more