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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Stoop Labor Wage
Rates Fixed Here
To Hasten Import
Hearings Bring Action
AS Prelude TO Filling
Valley Farm Needs

?" Continuing efforts to inn
port agricultural labor into
imperial Valley and avert a
serious manpower shortage,
I prevailing wage for "stoop"
labor was approved Friday by agfi-
cultural manpower committee men,
bers and labor pirating was con-
demned.
After hearings in the courthouse
at which labor representatives and
employers met, prevailing mini
mum wage of 45 cents an hour and
a maximum of so cents was apprv-
ed by the committee.
At the groups regular meeting
Thursday, the practice OF plratlng
labor by one employer from an
other was stigmatized as the pos
sible means of wrecking successful
recruiting and Importation Of labor
erS. Tom Finney, United States en-
ploTment service head, was request
ed to report any pirating to his
Superiors.
ny OliCI hlS iiioiC h'ciiSS w "Oih II
ers than is being paid them by their
current employers farmers are often
able to inveigle workers away. This
practice must stop, the committee
announced, for the success of the
whole venture depends on the coop
Grafton of farmers and growers.
Establishing a prevailing wage was
a step required by the Farm Secur-
ity Administration before workers
from Mexico or elsewhere would be
permitted to enter the valley. Ar
rangements for housing of incom-
ing workers are now nearing COM
pletion and contracts between the
farmers requiring laborerS and the
FSA are being made.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Gold Towns Change
To Ghost Towns in
General Shutdown
BY UNITED PRESS

GOld-mlnlng communities OF the
western states faced the prospect
Cf becoming ghost" towns Friday
as hard rock and placer miners
ceased digging for gold the wars
most useless metal, by order of the
government.
Miners walked from the mile-decN
Ross and Yates shafts at the
HomeStake mine, the worlds largest
gold mine. at Lead, S. D., Thurs
day night. They had hoped for
an order countermanding the war
manpoWer commission directive to
close down gold mines, the first
order of the war closing down ar
entire industry to conserve labor.
The "reprieve" never arrived.
The night shift crews broke out
the last new ore for the duration
from the mother lode veins direct.
ly beneath the little town which
never had known depression be-
cause fabulous Homestake had
yielded more than $l9,000,000 an
nually for many years.
Then the miners returned to their
hCmeS to worry about new jobs in
nearby Montana copper mines or
elsewhere. The hard rock crews Of
Slavs, Firms, Irishmen and others
had no jobs Friday because the
first operation of gold mining -
breaking new rock-had been ord
cred stopped and only the clean
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were arrested here and signed
confession.
The girl disappeared Tuesday af-
ternoon while playing in front OF
her grandmother's house in San
Francisco. Her mother and faith
er, Louise and Morris Miller, were
visiting inside. Miller is a shipyard
worker
In a joint statement to Sheriff
James M Froom of Tehama county
Du BoiS, 80, and his wife Charlotte,
%, said Du Bois picked up the child
on a street he did not remember.
They said he was alone and drove
later to a library where his wife
joined him.
"She asked me who the child be-
longed to- Du Bois said, and l
said she belonged to me and my
ex-wife. Then we left Sen From
cisco and went up to the coast
highway. We stayed at an auto
court on the main highway
Du Bois said they left the child
at the school because Il saw the
papers and thought it was getting
too hot for me-" He said they
drove south into California to Red
Bluff where they were arrested by
highway officers and city police.
San Francisco police, acting on
information that an Oregon licens-
ed car had been seen near the home
of Vivian's grandmother, had ask
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Mass Strikes Hit
French Industries

On THE FRENCH FRONTIER,
oct. Is. CUP)-Mass strikes and
disturbances today were reported
sweeping French industrial centers
and rumors circulated that the Ger
mans might oust Pierre Laval from
the Vichy regime and replace him
with an outright Nazi puppet.
The reports said the Germans
were diSpleased by Laval's failure
to mobilize French workers for Nazl
war factories and might replace
him with Jacques Doriot, pro-Nazi
Paris editor, or Pierre Cathala, fin
ance minister in the Vichy cabinet.
Lyons was said to be the center
of the most serious disturbances
which were linked to the mobiliza-
tion 'of labor for Germany.
Other points where outbreaks were
reported were Amberieu and Gren-
oble.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

JdJlOll, dll COuIity Wal DOdIN.o Wiz
instructed to set up committees to
issue certificates of war necessity,
which will be required for all trucks
after November Is. Neither gasoline
nor tires will be issued them with
out a certificate
Miller said the central group,
which will consist of five members,
will be announced in the near flu
ture.
Although MilSer's information
about the registration from the state
war board was rather scant, it was
determined that the committees
duties will be threefold:
|. 1t will help develop transpor-
tation programs in the county
2. 1t will assist farmers in fill
ing out applications for certificates
of war necessity.
3. 1t will assist farmers in max
ing applications for new trucks.
Miller appealed to the Woman's
Ten Thousand club Thursday for
volunteers to help with detail work
of the registration. There were l6
replies to his request.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Aircraft Wage
Boosts Opposed

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. (UP)-
West Coast aircraft management
representatives contending the
problem of manpoWer cannot be
solved by wage increases. today urg-
ed adoption of a job classification
program not providing salary boosts
Management delegates, attending
the aircraft-labor stabilization con-
ference conducted by Paul r. Por-
ter of the National War Labor
Board, said wage increases to men
and women in war production in
dustries are not necessary to main
tain morale in such war produc-
ton"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
SoIon Says Alaska
Situation Better

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. CUP)-
Chairman A. B. Chandler, D., KY,
of a senate military affairs sub
committee which recently studied
Alaskan defenses, told a full meet
ing of the committee today that
the situation in the Aleutian islands
has greatly improved" because of
his subcommittee investigation.
Chandler told reporters afterward
that he believed many of his sub
committees recommendations had
been adopted by the war and navy
departments.
Chairman Robert r. Reynolds, D.,
N c., of the full committee, told
reporters that the subcommittee had
been given permission to proceed
with an investigation of continental
army camps, including a study of
vice conditions near military posts.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Burglar Murders
Berkeley Chemist

BERKELEY, Oct. 16.-U.PD-
A burglar tooay snot and killed
John Shaw Tarbet, 43-year-old
chemist, when Tarbet arose from
bed to investigate noises in his
apartment. The slayer apparently
escaped through a window.
Before he died of two bullet
wounds, Tarbet told police he awoke
early today and heard a noise in
the bedroom Were MS wife, Grace
a professional interpretive dancer
was sleeping.
Tarbet said he opened the door
and was oIfronted by a shadow
on the wall. A voice said stuck
'em up. Tarbet said that as he
leaped across his wifes sleeping
form, a gun blasted twice. One
bullet pierced Tarbet's lung and
the other lodged in his abdomen
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Draft Bill Out of
Committee; House
0kay Will Follow
TwO-HOur Debate Will
Precede Passage With
Amendments Permitted

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is.
(UP)-The house rules COM
mittee today sent the legis-
lation reducing the draft age
to 18 to the floor for two
hours of house debate tomorrow af-
ternoon.
The bill is expected to be passed
at the conclusion of that debate to-
morrow. The senate probably will
pass it the middle of next week.
Rules committeeman questioned
the action of the military affairs
committee in rejecting a require
ment that 18 and 19-year SOL
diers be trained for full year be-
fore going into combat areas. They
finally accepted Military Affairs
Chairman Andrew j. Mays explana-
ton that the army had vigorously
opposed such restrictions.
The rule under which the house
will consider the bill will perraii
members to offer amendments to
place such restrictions in the meas
ure if they desire. Any other amend
mentS affecting the selective service
law also will be in order for con-
sideration.
President Roosevelt was asked at
his press conference whether he has
plans for halting voluntary enlist
ment in the armed forces now that
the draft age is about to be lowered.
He declined to answer, saying it
would be best to wait to talk Oh
this matter until after pending leg
iSlation is passed.
AS the bill to draft 18 and 49,
year-oldS moved quickly toward the
White House. the Selective service
situation until the end of 1943 shap-
ed up about like this:
YOUTHS OF 18 AND 10
Those who have finished high
school, are not attending college
and have not already started to
enlist in the army or navy or mar
,ile corps or the aviation cadet
corps of those services can expect
to be called starting in late Novem-
Der. BY the middle of February all
such youths who are physically fit
will be in the army. At the end of
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Italians Awake to
End Front Danger.
Seek Easy Way Out
Neutral Reports Tell
OF Growing Fear Rome
Will Bear Next Blow
BY HUBERT UXKULL

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 16.
(UP)-Italy has become sud-
denly fearful that it is to be
the second front, neutral OBJ
servers in close touch with Rome
and Berlin said today.
Italian fears have been intensified,
informants said, because Germany
has started to pay conspicuous at
tention to Alpine defenses between
Italy and Austria.
There were indications that Ger
many also is awake to the danger
that its concentration on Russia
may make the opening OF a second
front in the Mediterranean easier
and that aerial attacks on Malta by
reinforced German air forces have
been the result.
Informants said Italy now feared
it might be attacked not only from
the southeast, toward Egypt and
Libya, but from the southwest, the
direction of French North Africa.
For that reason, they asserted, it
seemed not impossible that Italy
was already thinking of means to
avoid being crushed between the
Allied and German war machines
and to eXtricate itself in time from
hostilities.
1t was reported here that an
apparent purge in the German army
high command was partly due, at
least, to the ir.istence by some gen.
erals that Adolf Hitler was making
mistake by concentrating all his
forces against Russia and neglect
ing the Middle East.
But the reports indicated also, that
though Hitler was dismissing gen.
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

prepared llSUo Ol wal CGllillIldlS dI Z
Norway, Jugoslavia, Holland, Bel
GUM, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Norway has already revised its
criminal law to invoke, for the first
time in it's history, the death pen
atty.
Norway and Jugoslavia announced
today the firSt-ranking men on their
lists.
Norway made its world enemy No.
Vidkun Quisling.
Cuisling is charged, among other
things, with selling out his country
and preparing the groundwork for
the German invasion.
The next seven on Norway's list
are:
Albert Viljien Hagelin, deputy
leader of Quislings Nazi party; Jo-
mas Lie, just resigned as Quisling's S
;hief of police; Gen. Paul Rediess,
German Gestapo chief in Norway;
Guidbrand Lunde, Quisling minis
ter of propaganda; Hendrick Rog-
stad, Gestapo chief in the Trond-
helm area; Wilhelm Schettfau, Ges-
tapo interrogation officer; and Ern-
est Doennum, Norwegian Quisling
GcStapo interrogation officer.
NorWayS list contains more than
1000 names. The evidence against
the war criminals is SO detailed that
it fills a special safe in the Norweg-
ian ministry of justice here.
Heading Jugoslavia's list of thous-
ands, including Germans, Hungar-
ians, Quisling Jugoslavs and Ital-
ians are:
German Gen Fritz Zimmerman;
Gen. Won Danklemann; Hungarian
Gen. Feran Bojor; Ante Pavelic,
Croat Quisling; Eugene Kvaternik
just dismissed as chief of police of
zagreb; Giovanni Mazzolini, Italian
governor of Dalmatia; and Gen
Milan Medic, Quisling premier of
the puppet Jugoslav regime.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Morgenthau Visits
In British Isles

LONDON, Oct. 16. CUP)-United
States Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., who arrived here
several days ago, said today he
planned to remain in England for
10 daTS or two weeks ION treasury
business, not mission"
Il came without my brief case"
he said.
Il hope to see as much as pos
sible of the British war effort and
the American forces"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
300 Homeless. Morooned
AS Floods Hit in South

CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct. 10
U.P)-Flood waters began to re-
Cede in a wide area in and around
Cumberland today after causing ex-
tensive property damage and leav-
ing 300 families homeless or ma
rooned in low-lying sections.
The American Red Cross set up
emergency headquarters in Cum
berland and at Ridgley, w. Va,
across the Potomac to house and
feed families forced to evacuate
their homes.
Damage was estimated unoffi-
cially here today at approximately
100000.
After rising to level five feet
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Conferees Agree
On Victory Tax

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-CU.PD
Senate-house confereeS today
agreed on the $3,650000,000 victory
tax, stiffeSt increase ever voted for
individuals. with a minor modifi-
cation which did not affect the
main features of the levy.
The tax will impose per cent
levy on all gross incomes above
$12 a week, starting in 1943, and
part of it will be rebated or paid
back to the taxpayer during or aft
er the wal
Imposed IN top of new high reg
ular normal and surtax rates, the
levy will be withheld, in most cases
from the pay checks and envelopes
of wage and salary earners as they
are received
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Old Faithfuls-

Old FaithfulS-
Practically everyone. if not at
present then surely at some time
in the past, has had pair of be-
loved hcuseShOeS. The kind of
houseshoeS that soothe the soles
of the feet, calm the soU, and in
general ease away the care of the
day
Mrs Ted Reynolds had such
pair of houseshoeS. She loved
them in spite IF their advancing
age and their bedraggled appear
ance. No matter how many times
Reynolds tried to get the dog to
tear them up, Mrs. Reynolds always
rescued them before they were dam
aged beyond use.
Came their wedding anniversary.
While at work in the court house
on her wedding anniversary a
gorgeously wrapped parcel was de-
livered to Mrs. Reynolds. With her
Co-Workers looking on, she excited
ly unWrapped the parcel. The first
thing she found was a wedding an
niversary card of tender beauty
The next thing she found was that
sad looking pair of cid houSeShoeS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
vichy vexed by
Arms Smuggling

VICHY, Oct. l6. GUP)-The coun-
Gil of ministers, moving to cope with
the dropping of arms and NUM-
tions in France from foreign planes,
warned today that any persons CO.
operating with such activities might
be sentenced to death.
The councils order referred spe-
officially to "terrorists" and DeGaul-
lists. 1t was issued after the minis
ters had met with Chief of Govern
ment Pierre Laval who told them
that all French projects had been
ordered to suppress disturbances.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

ed officers and truck operators to
watch for it. M. D. ONeil, klamath
Falls, Ore, truck driver, saw the
car near Red Bluff.
Il drove 30 miles an hour to Red
Bluff" he said. Il got the high
way patrolmen and we were ready
for Du Boise before he got to Red
Bluff"
Du Bois told Capt. George Stolp
of the highway patrol at Red Bluff
that he had sometimes drank too
much and he thought that having
a little girl might help straighten
me out"
Meanwhile Vivian had been max
ing herself at home in Grants
Pass. After she was left at the
Lincoln school, she told Mrs. Lillian
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

were made homeless. At Keyser,
w. Va, 20 miles southwest of here,
so families we're marooned.
At Piedmont, w. Va, the waters
CT the savage river threatened to
damage partially completed
earthen dam, largest of its type in
eastern United States but reports
today Indicated the dam was not
in danger.
Most of the upper Potomac VAL
ley and a large portion of the Vir-
ginia Valley had been reported un-
der water for hours. All major
streams were pouring waters over
their banks and numerous flash"
floods in smaller streams isolated
many communities.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
JAP H0RDES Open BIG GUNS ON MARINES
LITTLE S. +. GIRL SAFE

RED BLUFF, Cal, Oct. 16-UP)
"A Portland electrician and his
wife who always wanted a little
girl and couldn't have one of our
own" will be returned to San Fran
cisco today to face charges of kid
naping four-year-o Vivian Miller.
Vivian, neither harmed nor wor-
ried, was found yesterday at a
Grants Pass Ore, school where the
couple left her. A few hours later
Mr.. and Mrs. Beaumont Du Bois
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

below that reached in the disastrous
flood of 1886, the Potomac river
crested here early today. The crest
was expected to reach Washington
more than 100 miles southeast Of
Cumberland-tom
The waters rose as high as six
feet in the Cumberland business
district yesterday, forcing sus-
pension of all business activity as
merchants moved equipment and
materials to upper floors. AS the
waters receded today, hundreds of
workmen began the task of clean
ing up muck and debris.
One of the hardest-hit sections
was Ridgley, situated on a bend
in the Potomac, where $50 families
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

estimates Tor the current fiscal
year placing total expenditures at
$4,000, 100000, including s74,000,-
100000 for war purposes, saba ,o00.-
900 for non-war purposes and l.
850,000,000 for interest in the mount
ing public debt.
The report was prepared for Mr.
Roosevelt by Budget Director Harold
d. Smith and transmitted with a
brief presidential message.
The President acknowledged re-
ceipt of many letters from citizens
in all walks of life" Some of them
protested against recent cuts in
appropriations and others urged
a reduction of federal expenditures
to the amount spent in the fiscal
year 1882, the year before the Presi-
dent first came into office.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

grad QeIeTueTS III WIIdC MOoSOW ue-
Scribed as the decisive encounter
of the 53-day siege.
The Germans said they had reach
ed the Volga river on a twomile
front in Stalingrad. The Russians
admitted that their troops had been
driven out of two more streets in
the area under pressure b. superior
enemy forces.
A U. S. Navy communique in
Washington Friday afternoon re-
vealed that the crisis is at hand in
the American effort to retain
foothold in the Solomon Islands.
The navy reported the massing
of Large group of japanese ships
about 260 miles northwest of Quad
alcanal, in addition to the power
full enemy naval formations pre-
viously sighted in the southern Sol
onions.
BIG GUNS ROAR
"A large number of enemy troops
with equipment have been landed
on Guadalcanal island and our
positions are now being shelled by
enemy artillery on the island the
communique said.
Our positions on Guadalcanal,
centering around an airfield wrested
from the Japanese and then i'm
proved for our own use, have been
bombed from the air and shelled
from the sea, but Fridays was the
first report of artillery lombard
ment.
The communique did not say
whether our forces were answering
the japanese fire with American
artillery, but it was assumed that
they were and that our aerial con-
/ tingents probablE were trying to
seek out and soften up the Nipon-
neSe gun positions.
NAVAL ACTIVITY SECRET
No mention was made of major
American naval activity, although 1t
was presumed that U. S. naval chief
tains directing operations in the
SOlomonS area would throw in all
possible strength.
The spread of Japanese naval
| oJltIIBUll W Ullt llOl I'll dlIb oOhbil vi
Guadalcanal indicated a sort of
a-pincers tactics, but it was not
known what results could be achieV-
ed by this maneuver in the absence
of reports on our own naval forces,
The navy did not describe the Sit
uation on our Guadalcanal airfield
at present but disclosed that planes
still were operating from the base
on Oct. IA.
On that day navy and marine
corps dive bombers, escorted by
fighters, left Guadalcanal and in
flicted minor damage" in two at
tacks on enemy transports ap-
preaching the island with troops
and equipment. One American
fighter was lost in that scrap.
STALINGRAD STANDS FIRM
Earlier, on the same day, Ameri-
can search planes found and strafed
nine enemy planes on the beach
at Rekata Bay, 185 miles northwest
of Guadalcanal. The enemy craft
were damaged
On the other active battlefront
Stalingrad defenders were unfolding
the tradition they have established
in SO days of the worlds bloodiest
Continued on Page 6, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16

Mr.. Roosevelt compared the estl-
mated $4,l94 100000 non-war total
for the l943 fiscal year with the
$6,516, 900, 900 peak in 1889. He also
pointed out that non-war spending
this year is $l.O00000,0OO below
the corresponding figures for fiscal
l942 and that these reductions we're
made despite the many expanding
duties of primarily non-war govern
ment agencies.
The President agreed with cor
respondents that increased em-
ployment caused by the waf had
helped make II possible TO reduce
non-war expenditures He offered
the example of reductions IN the
Civilian Conservation Corps and the
National Youth Administration made
possible by the war
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
The Drought Ends

The Drought Ends
For seven long months Mr.. and
Mrs. George Townsend of Calexico,
were without word from their
son, Burnie, who enlisted in the
Navy last January 21. The last
letter they received from him was
mailed from Australia.
Day after day, week after week,
and month after month dragged
by without a word from Burnie.
Only parents who have endured
similar circumstances, can under
stand what they went through dur
ing that seven months or under
stand their Joy when they received
an airmail letter from him last Sat-
,rday. The letter was mailed in
Chile, South America There were
six stamps on the letter. 81 want
to make sure you get it, Burnie
wrote
The boy gets around.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
FDR Reports Cut
I'm Non-Wur Costs

WASHINGTON Oct 16. (UP)-President Roosevelt
in report the New Deal spending record advised con
gress today that expenditures for the current
fiscal year 56 per cent below the 1889 peak fiscal year
In 96page accounting, the President included budget
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Nv. Truck SignuP
Begins Oct. 22nd
Volunteer Workers Will Register Farm
Trucks in Valley for Thre Daysin
Preparation for Rationina Program

Volunteer workers in different Imperial county cities
will aid with hree-day registration of farm trucks on
October 22 23 and "a Rudolph Miller board secretary
announced Friday.
Under recent order of the office of defense transpor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Thousands Named
World Enemi les
Allied Governments Indic+ Terrorists
For Trial After War; Six Nations
Prepare Long Lists and Evidence

LONDON, Oct 16. (UP)-Six allied governments have
indicted thousands of axis and men as world
enemies and plan try them for their lives the
before international court it was learned to-
day. The six governments, in exile here which have
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
Germans Launch
Biggest Attack
Thru voI9a City
Axis Opens u Decisive Battles on Two
Fronts with U.S.. Forcesin Solomons
Fighting Furious Jap panese Onslaught
. By UNITED PRESS

Freshly landed japanese troops in great force Friday
turned heavy artillery against hardwon American posi-
tions on Guadacana while another furious battle
front the Germans sormed with full fury against Stain
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-16
y AMBlINe
EpoR1ER
Heb! Heb. Heb.

Heb! Heb. Heb.
His Honor, Mayor Robert Hat
ton, forgot to pay his water bill
Thursday.
So they fined him the usual 81
penalty.