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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
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homeless Waifs--

homeless Waits
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Anderson
and their family would be Babes
In The Woods" if there were any
woods in Imperial county. They
would be Orphans OF The Storm
if it happened to be storming.
Anderson known far and wide
as Sonny" is the new athletic
coach at Central Union High school
He had heard of the housing short
age, SO about a month before
school opened, he came to Ell Cen
tro and rented a house. He con-
graduated himself upon being a
far sighted family provider.
Three days before school began,
Anderson loaded his wife and child
rem and their - sessions into the
Anderson car and trailer and head
ed Ell Centroward. Away out on
the desert the Anderson automobile
developed a flat tire. Investigation
showed that the spare was airleSS.
Mrs. Anderson and family aband-
oned the automobile fer the trailer,
anderson disconnected the trailer
and limped to a service station with
his car running on the rim. The
only person on duty at the lonely
service station was a woman. There
were no men to help him SO An
derscn athletically changed it HIM
self.
Now, We'll go on home" An
derSon said as they loaded lip and
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New Lexington in
Final Preparation
For Duties at Sea
Heroes of Lost Ship
Watch as NameSake
Launched in East

QUINCY, Mass, Sept. 26.
(UP)-Tk'e new aircraft car
rier Lexington, named for the
ship sunk in the battle of the
Corla Sea, was launched to-
day more than a year ahead of
schedule, with heroes of the lost
Lady Lex proud witnesses.
Thousands of war workers at the
Bethlehem Steel Co.'S Fore river
shipyard paused briefly to watch
with equal pride as the giant slid
down the ways into the same waters
where its illustrious predecessor was
launched II years ago.
She is the second carrier launch
ed since Pearl Harbor and the fifth
warship to bear the name of the
first battle of the American Revolu-
ton.
Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson
of Mohawk, N. Y widow of former
assistant secretary of navy, christen-
ed the new Lexington with the trad
itional champagne, playing the sans
role she had in the 1925 launching
Rear Admiral Frederick G. Sher-
man, who commanded the now sunk
en- Lexington at Bougainville, Lac
Salamaua and the Coral Sea, dedi-
Gated the new carrier Ito the service
of our country, to the service o.
freedom, to the service of mankind.
Repeating the words of Rear Ad-
miral William A. Moffett at the
launching of the lost Lexington
Admiral Sherman said:
This magnificent ship must i'm.
press us all with the ever-growine
Importance of naval aviation
Now we launch new LeXing
ton with the full acceptance o.
Admiral Moffett's statement ant
with world recognition of the pri
mary Importance of naval air way
fare"
Control of the seas, formerly de-
pendent on battleships and ships o
the line" Admiral Sherman said
Continued on Page 6, Col -
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Miss Ginger Rogers,
C. o. Phoenix Bond Rally,
Phoenix. AriZ.

Phoenix, AriZ.
Dear Miss Rogers:
I don't see why you want to let
this Gene Autry come to Imperial
Valley with you to sell war bonds
at the fair grounds next Tuesday
night. He's just getting me in more
trouble than you did. as 1 outlined
in my letter yesterday, and if l
get in much more trouble, I'm not
going to be able 10 interview you,
as my boss told me TO do.
Maybe you wouldn't care about
that, since quit a few hundreds of
other people are buying war bonds
so they can see you in tn big show
at 8:l5 Tuesday night, but I WoC'd
since my boss says it's interview
you, or else! And, anyway, / think
the grandstands would be full Just
to see you perform, without this
here singing cowboy.
l haven't got anything against
Mister Autry, since he's bigger'n
me. but he's making trouble.
Remember how l told you yester-
day about my girl friend, and how
she isn't speaking to me because
practiced interviewing her Well,
thought I'd just 60 by her house
and give her a chance to fix things
up with me, and l did, and what dc
you think l saw?
There she was, and the living
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
DEAR GINGER:
How About This Autry Guy?

room was all fixed up like the
sheriff'S posses corral, and she was
wearing cowboy boots and chaps
and a big hat, and when she saw
me she forgot that she was mad
al me and yelled, "Yip-e-e-e-e. Let's
practice like We did yesterday, pard.
Only this time yoI pretend you're
Gene Autry and II pretend I'm me,
C'mon, old-timer, let's hit the trail "
She must have thought opened
my mouth to say yes, because
couldn't seem to close it, SO she
started in.
oh, Mr.. Autry," she said, It's
so nice of you to want my tele-
phone number. And DO you think
you could get me screen test?"
Now I ask you Miss Rogers, war
bonds or no war bonds, do you
think I ought to stand for that?
And besides, how am I going to
get to interview you, now that YOU
re SO close to being here, what
with YOU selling war bonds and
everything?
Yours in trouble,
Spelvin Sinkwitch.
P.S I've got my war bond, but
it kinda brings the war home to
a fellow, going without his meals
for q while. S. S
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27


starting the program but the un-
official guess was either Nov. l or
Nov. Is.
HIS order to OPA was coupled
with an appeal to motorists to cur
tai gasoline consumption until the
new restraints become effective, and
to observe a 35-mile- -an-hour speed
limit.
Il want to avoid the necessity for
any additional curtailment of either
the speed OF the gasoline rationing
programs that are now proposed
he said. Il want to avoid any en-
forced RECOMMENDATION . -.
This is a game III which we can
all Win-or all lose
The rationing, on Il coupon basis,
will follow the program which has
been in operation since last July
in II coast states and the District
of Columbia. 1t restricts non essen
tial driving to 1880 miles year.
Supplemental allowances are pro-
vided for more essential motorists.
Officials here are agreed that
enforcement of the 35-mile speed
limit is outside the sphere cf fedora!
[ 4, 70, f,,1I
ibility of the 40 states.
Jeffers repeated the warnings of
other government officials that mo-
toristS will receive no additional
rubber for non essential driving
until the war ends or until produc-
ton exceeds military needs. He
said that observance of the 35-mile
speed limit will add considerable
mileage to tires motorists now have
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Football Scores

Wisconsin 7, Notre Dame
Cornell 20. Lafayette l6
3rd South Carolina 0, Tennessee 0
Harvard 0. N. G. Naval Cadets l3
Holy Cross 6. Dartmouth II
Maryland "a, Connecticut
Bucknell 7, Lebanon valley
Colby SO, Lowell Textile 0
3rd Duke 7, Davidson 0
3rd Georgia Tech 2, Auburn 0
2nd Purdue 7, Fordham
lSt Utah 0, Santa Clara 6
3rd Indiana IA, Butler 0
2nd Washington 0, College of
Pacific 0
Bird Michigan 3, Great Lakes
3rd Columbia l3, FIT. Monmouth 0
Carnegie Teach 0, Geneva 26
w. Virginia 81, Washington &
Lee 7
Boston U 6. American INTL 0
3rd Northwestern 0, Naval Cadets
0
End Texas l8, Kansas State 0
Penn 6, Georgia Cadets IA
Navy 0, William e. Mary B
End Minnesota 3, Pittsburgh o
Bird Iowa 6. Nebraska
2nd Indiana IA, Butler 0
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Bridges Petition
To Defeat Custer
Under Submission
Attorneys Argue CIO
Leader Victim of
Unfair Hearings

SACRAMENTO, Sept. &c.
(UP)-F1deral Judge Martin
|. Welsh today took under
submission a petition for a
writ of habeaS corpus sought
by Harry Bridges, West Coast GIG
leader, to prevent his deportation
to Australia as an undesirable alien
Attorneys were granted 10 days
in which to file final briefs
Bridges was not present in court
His three defense attorneys argued
for two days that his previous de-
portation hearings were unfair anc
that U. S. Attorney General Franci;
Biddle disregarded a previous ruling
by the immigration board of ap.
peals in Bridges favor when hi
ordered the alien labor leader de
ported in June. -.
In his order, Biddle declared
Bridges had been proved to hav'
been affiliated with the Communis
party, which he said had beei
shown to have advocated overthrow
of the government by force ant
violence.
The Communist party sought t.
intervene in the hearing but Judg
Welsh denied the request withou
comment.
U. S. District Attorney Frank
Hennessy argued in the final hour
Of the hearing that the court wa
not concerned whether Bridges wa
leader of labor in San FranciSc
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Eastman Orders s.
Mile Speed Limit
For Entire Nation
Every State Requested
To Carry Out Move
TO Enforce Ruling

WASHING GION, Sept. 26.
(UP) = Joseph B. Eastman,
director of the office of de-
fense transportation, today
ordered a maximum 35 miles
an hour speed limit for all rubber
tired vehicles in the United States.
Eastman announced simultaneous
ly that he will request the governors
of all the states, directly and through
the council of state governors, to
put a 35-mile speed limit in effect
in their states by proclamation OF
otherwise, and to call upon state
and local officials for strict enforce
ment.
The new wartime speed limit be-
comes effective Oct. for all We
hicleS except those operated by
common carriers in scheduled regu.
lar route service.
For those vehicles the order be-
comes effective Oct. Is. The effec-
tive Date was delayed with respect
to such vehicles to give carriers
time to make necessary adjustments
in their operations. Eastman said
The order, Eastman said, was de-
signed to save rubber and tires. II
was issued after consultation be-
tween Eastman and Rubber Czai
William S. Jeffers, who yesterday
ordered OPA to extend gaGoline ra-
tioning throughout the entire ma
ton.
Eastman acted under wartime
powers awarded TO President Roose-
welt b. congress and shifted to JET
fers when he was made rubber czar
Officials said that JefferS in turn
transferred this authority ta East
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YOUNGSTERS Break
&c. Street Lights

Schools in session, the police log
revealed Saturday.
Officers noted that no less than
eight large lights have been put
out Of commission since school be-
gan in Ell Centre last Monday.
Many of the lamps had holes
shattered through them by rocks
or BIB guns, the officers said, eX-
planning that the same thing haD-
pens nearly every year at the be-
ginning of the school term when
youngsters have returned from va
cations.
Lamps at Eighth and Orange,
Sixth and Vine, Fifth and Len Rey,
Fifth and Vine, Fourth and Vine,
Eighth M Park. in the 400 block
on Sandalwood, in the 600 block
on Wensley ana in the city park
near the fire department tower
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
California Cites
Dependence on Gas

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 90 up
The states five-man committee for
rubber supply and use today appeal
ed to the National Rubber admin
istrator, william M. JefferS to use
as little gas rationing as possible in
California" due to this states vital
dependency upon rubber borne
transportation.
In a telegram to the rubber czar
following JefferS' nationwide gas
rationing decree last night, the rub
ber committee asked JefferS to
consider several plans to conserve
rubbr in California calling for lib
eralized gas rationing.
While the committee is COM
pletely in sympathy with efforts to
conserve rubber" the group said,
1T believes that Mr.. JefferS will
consider plans now being explored
by the committees investigators fol
attaining this objective with as lit
tie gas rationing as possible"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

QOuDU JlldJ lllt ftuSSldllo Ildl
thwarted immediate German hopes
of capturing Stalingrad
Moscow emphasized that the
danger to the Russian position was
still grave but dispatches from the
fighting front tcld of Soviet ad-
vances in the northwest sector
above Stalingrad and of the con-
tinued repulse of heavy Nazi as
saults within the city itself.
German reports emphasized more
and more the theory that the cap
ture of Stalingrad itself was not
necessarily vital to NaZi strategic
plans.
LAVAL IN TROUBLE
Dispatches from Vichy and from
the French frontier indicated in
creasing difficulties for Premier
Pierre Laval.
Laval ousted ms special secre-
tary of state for relations with
Germany Jacques Benoist-Mechin
when he found him intriguing with
the Nazis in Paris to displace Laval
and set up new regime headed by
Benoist- Mechin, Jacques Doriot, the
most radical of pro-Nazi French
men, and Vice Admiral Charles
Platon.
Laval also was reported to have
broken with another close collabo.
rator, jacques Guerard, ostensibly
because Guerard talked out Of
turn" in Paris possibly in connec.
ton with Benoist- -Mechin's maneu'
veringS.
AXIS SHIPS SUNK
Frontier dispatches told of s
heavy guard placed around tht
portalet fortress to thWart an,
attempts by Paul Reynaud ant
George Mandel, former premie
and interior minister respectively
to escape over the border to Spain
They also reported widening, riots
demonstrations and bombings il
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

regarding the war.
I'm England we denounce crimes
against the German Reich because
we do not know that our British
empire has committed SO many of
these crimes itself and it does not
become us to give ourselves moral
airs unless we sincerely repent our
past a change of heart whereof we
have given the world no assurance
whatever.
Although the English do not
know their own history, Americans
know it, the Irish know it. the
Indians know it to their cost; and
there is no reason to suppose the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

evidently knows it and reacts eX-
plosively when we pose as herren-
volk exactly as Hitler does.
There's nothing to fuss about.
What matters is not that Dresser
hopes that the Germans will. if
they beat the U. S. S. r., finish
the job by beating the British
empire, but whether he hoped the
Germans will beat the United
States, too. If he is soundly de-
termined to see Adolf Hitler
damned first, he can say what he
likes regarding wicked old Eng
land. We can take care of our
selves with Americas help or even
without it at pinch"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27


Ell Centro-ll0 tons.
CaleXico-85 tons
Brawley-80 tons.
HoltVille-80 tons.
Bard Winterhayen-7 tons.
Grand total-512 tons.
THE people of Imperial county
are just getting their teeth in this
thing" Ben Herring, secretary of
the Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce, said Saturday. They are be-
ginning to report where scrap metal
may be found. They are beginning
to notice where i is accumulated
and to note the large amount of
scrap to be found even in urban
homes and on city lots
SCRAP AT AIRPORT
"One man reported that there is
lots of pipe, wire, and other Scrar
on the Ell Centro airport site Stuff
left after construction. This must
be true in regard to other federal
construction sites in the county
People in other communities have
dug out the hidden scrap metal ano
turned it in. Imperial county car
do the same"
Special canvassing and collectine
crews worked all day Friday anC
Saturday in Imperial and planned
to continue their efforts all day
Sunday. County crews, city crews
Future Farmers of America, anC
Boy Scouts were combing the toWr
and the surrounding rural areas ir
a well planned campaign to salvage
all scrap metal They struck the
jack pot when they descended or
several of the industrial plants ir
the district and hauled ava" hun.
dreds of tons of scrap.
Salvage committees in the Bard.
Winterhaven district not only col.
lected seven tons of scrap meta
since the drive began but also col
lected two tons of scrap rubber
I'VE also located 500 tons of Scral
metal which the Indians have" sale
T. J. Worthington, head of the
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Probably no foreign dignitary on
a flying tour of the Soviet union
ever learned so much about Russia
as did Willkie in his brief stay
here.
Wilkes personality, directness of
manner, and Democratic attitude
captivated all Russians he met. In
his vitality and optimism they saw
the symbol of young America, for
whom the Russians have the great
est admiration.
Avoiding formal contacts as far
as possible, Willkie talked with
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
British Army Men
Believe Russians
Can Repeat Feats
Offensive This Winter
Predicted for Soviet
Before Second Front

LONDON, Sept. 26. (UP)
Military circles were con-
fident today that the Red
army will be able to repeat
it's offensive of last winter
and keep the bulk of the German
army committed to an eXhausting
campaign in the East, while the
Allied threat grows in the west.
A Russian offensive this winter
may not gain any more territory
than it did last winter, they said,
but it would succeed in pinning
down the Germans to another cam
paign in Russia next spring and
summer.
! This is a most important factor
in Allied second front plans, how
ever belated they are from the So
Wet point of view
The last five months of campaign
ing from Kursk to the Cauca5us has
made big inroads in both Russian
and German strength. But these
military circles do not believe the
essential strength of either side
has been destroyed. They consider
the German army still the worlds
greatest offensive force, and the
Russian army still a remarkable
machine.
MAJOR VIEW OBSCURED
While the Red army has nevel
developed a general offensive, these
military circles said, it is capable
Of hard-hitting local attacks which
whittle down enemy positions.
They said the intensity of battles
such as those of Sevastopol and
Stalingrad were likely to obscure
the fact of world war. One reason
is that there are more slack periods
between offensive spasms.
While accurate figures of losses
in this war cannot be o. tanned,
there is a rough basis for comparing
the remaining strength of Russians
and Germans.
During the World war, which
lasted 1853 days, German dead to-
tailed 2050,466 of 100000 men mo-
bilized. Austria Hungary lost 1.200,-
900 dead of 100000 mobilized. or
altogether a total of $3.50, ,466 dead
for Germany and Austria Hungary.
Thus an average of 2,089 were killed
every day for four years.
CASUALTIES LESS
In this war, the Greater Reich"
has a pool of maI.power roughly
equivalent to the combined power Of
the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern
empires. AT reasonable estimate,
it has lost 100000 men killed. The
German army, therefore, is nowhere
near the accumulated casualties
after the great spring offensive OF
1918 failed
Military circles here believe the
total of Russian dead probably is
above the German total, and GER
) tainly the aggregate of prisoners
and manned is higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

brief visit to the front sandwiched
explain Americas position and
in-Willkie had an opportunity to
learn the Soviet attitude in count
less talks with Russians of every
position from Josef Stain to the
man in the Moscow street.
Willkie, working at pace that
long since left the members of his
party red-eyed and exhausted, spent
Is hours a day studying Sovit in
dustry and agriculture and confer
rnig with Russian officials and for
eign diplomats.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Baby Tumb!es in
Fish Pond, Dies

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 26-UP)
-Fourteen-months-old James Rob-
son toddled across the street from
his home yesterday afternoon to
see the brightly colored fish in a
neighbor's pond. The child slipped
on some moss and fell head first
into the shallow pool. BY the time
he was discovered half an hour Ia
ter, a fire department rescue squad
was unable to revive him. The boy
was the son of MI ana Mrs. l.. b.
Robson.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Blast at Britain Okov
Is Hitler Beuten-- Shaw

LONDON Sept. 26-(UPl George
Bernard Shaw said today that as
far as he is concerned the Ameri-
can novelist Theodore Dresser can
say what he chooses about Brltain's
Wickedness SO long as ne is de-
termined to see Hitler damned
Shaw said the press reports he
has seen concerning Dreiser's re-
mark that he would prefer to see
Germans in Britain than the
horse riding snobs" who are here
now were insufficient for comment,
but he added:
ITO say that Dreiser's comments
regarding the war are furiously
inaccurate is only to say that they
are like everyone else's comments
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Navy Needs Men

Imperial county has furnished
many men To the navy-more
than its Sh1r" on per capita
basis-and will furnish many
more.
The navy does not draft its
personnel, Int depends entire
lv upon enlistment.
IL needs men-and the men
who answer its needs are well
rewarded, for the navv trains
its men in many skills and
crafts.
Is there a place for you in
the navy, where YOU can do
your country good, and the
navy can do YOU GOOD? See
page 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
NAz|S BATTERED BACK in STAL|NGRAD
WiIII<ie Asks End Front

workers, peasants, soldiers, and in
tellectuals-thus obtaining a cross
section of Russian opinion he nev-
er would have acquired in embas-
sizes.
At the same time, Willkie care
fully explained the American
standpoint. A notable instance OF
that was last night, when he fully
threshed out the question of the
second front, the American supply
problem, and Soviet American re-
lations in general with -four noted
Russian writer's.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

be used by the Allies as the starting
place for their offensive. Northern
Scandinavia in the hands of the
Allies, he said, would secure COM
munications between Russia and the
western powers and cooperation be-
tween Allied and Soviet forces Is
possible TO achieve this end.
He said that such a move likely
would result in Allied possession
of Swedish ore mines, an import
ant source OF raw material for Ger
man armament.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
BY Nj. S. HANDLER

MOSCOW, Sept. 26-(UP)-Wen-
dell l.. Willkie said today that he
was convinced we can best help
our heroic Russian allies by estab-
fishing a second front" and added
that next summer may be too
late"
Willkie made the statement to
the press as he prepared to con-
clude his whirlwind visit to Russia.
In the course of nine days spent
at Moscow and Kuibyshev-with a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

Inc spokesman was Colonel DyrS-
sen, chief of an artillery regiment
who discussed SWeden's attitude to-
ward belligerents i'll a speech last
night.
Sweden's tense situation results,
the colonel said, from Germanys
efforts to put Russia out of action
before the latter's allies are able
to mobilize all their resources to
meet the Soviet's clamor for help
and a second front.
There are indications, the colonel
said, that northern Scandinavia will
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Cos Rotion Date
Moy BE Nov. 1st

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UP)-The offio, of price
administration today rushed preparations to ration gso
line to the nations 27 civilian motorists ordered
by Rubber Car William s. Jeffers to keep the countrys
economic life from breaking down.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
imperial Leads
Nv. Scrap Drive
Smaller Community Totals Greatest Of
All Metal Collections in Valley as
Public Enthusiasm in Effort Grows

With burst of patriotic fervor and hard work. lmpe
rial forged far ahead of all other cities in the metal
drive in Imperial county Saturday by boosting its donation
total to $50 tons
Total scrap metal donations in the county to date
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Huns Beaten i'm
Bottle Of volso
AS Reds Recoup
Behind-Lnes Difficulties Make
More Complications for Germans as
Berlin ReIinquishes Hope Of Victory
- By UNITED PRESS :

The Russian position at Stangrad Saturday appeared
be strengthening steadily while behind the lines in Naz
Europe troubles plagued the shaky regime of Vchy
France Soviet dispatches and Nazi propaganda left
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Sweden Voices
Fear Of Invasion

BERLIN, Sept. 26.-(German broadcast recorded by
UP at New YorSweden is in imminent danger of inva-
sion by either the Allies Germany according a Swed-
lsh military spokesman quoted today by the Transocean
news agency in dispatch from Stockholm
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE

QSt game)
Boston ........003 00l 600 4 8 O
New York .......20l O20 10x- 6 10 0
Donovan Sain Kluttz and Lom-
bardi; Hubbell and MancuSo
Brooklyn .......... 100 10
Philadelphia 900 OF
NeWSome French and owen,
Melton, Podgajny and Livingston.
AMERICAN
Detroit ......... 900 600 600 7 |
Cleveland ..... 900 003 00X- 3 8 2
Benton, White and Parsons;
Harder and DeSautelS.