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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Mankind United
Defense Ruled Out

Los ANGELES, Jan. 19-'UPl-
The IS le dsro OF Mankind Unit
q" to la we're under o:der to APP
near for trial March l6. Federal
Judge Leon r. Yankwich yester-
day ruled their constitutional rights
would not be affected by standing
trial on sedition-conspiracy charges.
Counsel for the defendants at
tackled VALIDITY of grand jury in
:ictments naming Arthur L. Bell of
San Francisco. voice" OF the or
ganization. and IS others.
Attorney A. LWirin, represent
i,g the Civil Liberties Union, argu-
eo the indictments abridged rights
OF speech and freedom of press.
Judge Yankwich overruled de-
murTers to the indictment and de-
MED motions to strike out portions
Of the complaints, but compliment
ed Wirin for defending the tights
OF those charged.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Measure Sets 70
Property, Tax Cut

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 10. CUr>-
Legislation to reduce local proper
ty taxes and remove politics from
gubernatorial appointments wa S
pre- :ented to the California legis-
lature today.
Assemblyman Charles w. Lyon
also introduced bill, worked out
by Secretary DiXwell Pierce of the
State Board of Equalization, ma
ticnally recognized tax authority,
which would cut local property taxes
by so cents per 500 CT assessed val
uation in most counties. The reduc
ton would be made by using some
of the states record surplus in what
Lyon said would bring maximum re-
lief to the largest number of tax
payers.
The bill, with other tax measures,
will be held up in committee pend
ing Il report from Governor Earl
Warren's 15-membcr citizens taxa
ton committee.
Constitutional amendments by
Assemblyman Harrison Call and
others would require civil service
for the staff of the railroad COM
mission and require that the SEN
ate confirm all appointments Of
the governor to the board COM
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

Hears Sentence on
Alien Indictment

SAN FRANCISCO, JSr. 8
(UP)-ArthUr CArD Iinkletter, San
Francisco radio commentator and
program director, wGs sentenced to
six months in Jail or $500 fine
today by Federal Judge Michae!
Roche on charge CT making false
clo inns to American citizenship.
Iinkletter paid the fine and was
tr ed.
Linkletter had pleaded guilty to
charge that he claimed he was
On American citizen when he reg
istered to vote in San Francisco.
and when he applied for radio STU
dio identification passes. Actual
ly, the government alleged, Link
letter was born in Canada and Is
an alien.
Il can't understand, said Judge
Roche, why man with your ca
racity would show such a careless
disregard for the law
1T is an error in judgment re-
Flied Linkletter. Il wish to God
| had never done it. In my heart
I know nothing but America, I
don't know how to tell yota but
the word alien seems strange "
Linkletter, in answering the fed
eral charge, said his earliest recol-
lection of a home was of one at
Lowell. Mass. Until 1882, he be-
lieved he had been born there. He
then learned he had been brought
to this country from Canada when
he was 4 years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Airport Planning
Measure Proposed

LOS ANGELES. Jan. lC-,UPD-
the county board of supervisors
today voted to call on the state
legislature for laws safeguarding
luture development OF airports
throughout the state.
The group instructed the county
counsel 10 coOpe.a ate with the re-
2lonal planning commission in pre-
Gazing laws tnat woald permit
lands adjacent to imports to be
cleared off or be kept free from
sta - which might inte. fere
with maximum use CT the landing
Kids
To protect counties or cities from
becoming involved in heavy eX-
penditulcS for conc Amnation of
property, buildings or obstrucSions
aojoining air ports, the board stip-
ulated the GnportS must purchase
the property involved and intor-
porate it as bumper Stiip 20 tE2
actu?l landing field.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Pilot Parachutes
In Desert Area

YUMA, Jan. -. - tUPD-W. L.
Weeks, aviation cadet and co-pilot
Of trainer plane which has been
missing since Sunday night, para
Chuted to safety and despite an in
iured ankle walked to Horn. sid
ing en- the Phoenix line of the
Southern Pacific railroad about "a
miles northeast of here, it Was an
l.ounced today.
The public relations office of the
Yuma air base, which made the
announcement, said Weeks reached
Horn aboUs noon yesterday Weeks
telephoned the local field from
Horn.
Aerial and ground search is con-
tinuing for the plane and the pilot,
Cadet F.. r. Thompson, in the Vi
cinity of Horn.
The search was started Sunday
night when the plane was last re-
ported about 35 miles southwest of
Tonopah.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
'JoPs
Take
.Beutiinq
Allie d Fighters
Gain Victories
On Three Fronts
BY UNITED PRESS

Avis armies were on the
run Tuesday in Russia. Afri-
ca and the Southwest Paci-
fic.
The Russians, having liberated
Leninerad were attacking the Ger
mans xnorthern solient = a line
stretching from SchlusSelburg. 25
miles east of Leninorad. to Nov
oorod 30 miles sorsh-in an Of
fonsive that might we'll prove
sorineboard for a drive into the
Baltics, east of Prussia and Po-
land
In other parts of the 1250-mile
fighting front from Leningrad to
the Caucasus, the Germans were
suffering severe setbacks, also. They
were in grave danger in the mar
rowing Kamensk- -Rostov Caucasus
and south of Voronezh, a Russian
offensive had splattered into a
three -pronged drive, one spearhead
of which menaced the Industrial
End strategic railroad town of
Kursk
heoNuNALL IN 1ONISlh
In Africa. Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel was reported to have quit
his retreating army as the British
Imperials drove to within so miles
of Tripoli, the Axis chief Libyan
base. Rommel, intending to pull
his ragged forces into Tunisia as
quickly as possible, had gone to
Mendenine, 68 miles within Tu-
niSia
Allied planes battered his re-
treating forces behind him. For
the third time, American Flying
FortressN carried the aerial war to
Tripoli, bombing Castel Benito air.
drome, 10 miles south of the city.
Tripoli was smashed. and smok-
ing. Huge fires RACED at Castel
Renito, where the Fortresses had
dropped their bombs among hur-
riedlv dispersed Axis planes.
Within Tunisia. probably as a
6lversionary tactic, two German
companies had attacked Allied po-
sitions northwest of Bou Arada,
70 miles southwest OF Tunis. The
only Axis gain, however, was re-
corted in a minor sector near Pont
Du Fahs.
JAPS MOPPED UP
American and Australian forces
were mopping up the Japanese on
NY Guinea's north coast after
driving them into pockets and cap
tt:ing Sanananda Point and SAM
amanda village, their last points
Of resistance. There was no doubt
that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Al
lied forces had scored a smashing
victory which all but concluded the
northern New Guinea campaign.
Allied air activity diminished aft
er the two smashing raids on Ber-
I'm, but Stockholm reported that
Oslo, the capital of Norway, had
an air alert this afternoon
INITIATIVE PASSES
The initiative definitely had
Continued on Page 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Year First Auto
Fatality Recorded
Near County Seat
Mexican Succumbs to
Injuries Suffered as
Machine Overturns

The first traffic death in
Imperial county in 1943 oc-
Cured Tuesday when Jesus
Ruiz. 54. Hebar, died in the
countv hospital from injur-
les suffered in an accident on the
CaleXico highway two miles south
of Ell Centre at $40 pm. Monday.
His companion, Felipe Vitela, %,
also of Heber, was not expected to
survive.
Witnesses told highway patrol
men that the car driven by Ruiz
was travelling at a high rate of
speed a few moments before the
accident. Officers said the car ran
eff the road on the east side of the
highWa". Marks on the pavement
showed the car travelled 600 feet at
Continued on Page 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

recalled Lieut.. r. w. Bowling the
days first witness in the trial of
the movie hero on charges prefer
red by two teen age girls.
Lieut.. Bowling said he called on
Flynn with two other officers and
MorIie Black and Armand Knapp,
two friends of Betty Hansen, IT.
year-old waitress who already has
told her story of night with Enrol
Flynn.
Mr.. Flynn was YER gracious, ="
Lieut.. Bowling said. He offered us
whisky and we turned it down. He
offered us coffee. We didn't want
that, either.
DIDN'T KNOW GIRL
so he poured himself a drink
and was about to taste it when
told him OF the charges. He coughed
and sputtered and said good God"
and that's when l complimented
him on his acting He wanted to
know who the girl was. l told him,
Betty Hansen. He turned to Knapp
and asked: DO l know herr?
Knapp said sure he did. the little
girl he met at Fred McEvoy's dim
ner party. And then somebody, I'm
not sure whether it was Knapp or
Flynn, said
"Oh yeah, the little washed out
blonde
The lieutenant said he then took
Flynn to juvenile hall to confront
Mis- Hansen.
She seemed ill.," Bowling said.
She was rather cross and sleepy.
II was about midnight last October
IA
IND GIRL IESTIFIES
After Bowlin9's testimony was
corroborated by other witnesses,
Peggy Satterlee, second of the two
teen age girls accusing FlEnn, told
the jury her story of two lurid
nights aboard the movie hero'5
white painted yacht. Sirocco.
The l6-year-old Miss Satterlee,
IN powder blue suit, white blouse
and long curls, began with an ac-
count of how she met the host She
charges once with ignoring her
closed Goor and again with Turing
her to his cabin on preteXt of show-
ing her the moon through a port
hole
FIRST MEETING
Having announced that size reach
her 10th birthday last February 7.
Miss Satterlee, an exceedingly at
tracrive brunette, told of meeting
Flynn aboard his yacht moored at
Continued ON PAGE 8. Col i
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Two Valley Men
On CasuaItyList

Two Imperial Valley service men
were included in the list of Navy
casualties for the Eeriod of De-
cember Is to December 81, 1912,
announced Tuesday
Marion Harrel Rankin, gunner'S
mate, third class, U.S.N.. was killed
in action in the Southwest Pacific
Rankin is the son of George w.
Rankin, cattleman OF tne West
morland area. He had lived there
four years before joining the Navy
two years ago. He was "a, and had
attended Brawley High school.
Marine Sergeant William l.. Ros-
anbalm was listed among the 413
dead. He was of Imperial and
leaves wife and 5-month- old
dat ghter. His wife learned of his
death in Samoa two days before
Christmas.
The Navy announced that 4O3
were wounded and 1913 missing
The list included Naval, Marine
and Coast Guard personnel.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

Ihe valley apparently WAS Iilt
coolest spot in California Tuesday
night but the whole state shivered
Monday night and early Tuesday
in the cold wave which blanketed
the area.
General freezing weather was eX-
pected throughout southern Cali
folnia Tuesday night and Wedne5-
day morning with the weather
bureau predicting the coolest spots
will be in the coastal valleys where
the temperature will go as low as
90 degrees.
COLDEST HOURS
The thermone at the ke.; sta
ton on the John Dubois ranch in
the Ell Centre area stool at 20 de-
grees for an hour and half Tues
day morning, the coolest snap oc-
curing around 8 am. At 8 pm.
Monday the thermometer there
stood at 80 degrees, two degrees
above freezing, Weatherman Roy
Simpson said. The temperature was
below 25 degrees for 10 hours.
East of Calexico the minimum
temperature was 22i2 degrees. In
the WeStmorland area the mini
mum was "a degrees. In the pea
growing district east of Caliparria
the minimum was 25is degrees and
in the valleys warmest spot at Z
heading northeast of INLAND the
minimum was 29ia degrees.
COLD ALL OVER
In most places through the CEN
I'll part OF the valley" Simpson
said, the minimum was % degrees
to "a degrees and was two to three
degrees higher en- the slopes on the
east and west sides of the valley.
The cold r,.lained the longest in
the southwest section where the
thermometer was below 25 degree3
for 10 hours and blow % degrees
for seven hours. About the same
conditions may be expected Tues
day night
PIPES FROZEN
While farmers checked over their
agricultural losses, city resident )
discovered that water pipes had
frozen in many instances. One
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
FEC Called Nasty
Mess of Rats as
House 0k's Probe
Congressman Charges
Commission Used US.
Power to Hound Him

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
(UP)-The house by over
whelming voice vote today
passed a resolution to inves-
tigate the federal communi-
cations commission. Rep. Eugene
E. Cox. D.. Ga, sponsor of the reSo-
luton, said the commission housed
the "nastiest mess of rats in the
country"
Only two faint NOS" were heard
as the motion was put to vote
following an impassioned denunci-
alton of the FEC by Cox.
He accused Chairman James l..
Fly and attaches of the FEC of
"well-known Communistic affilia
tions" and charged the commission
had repeatedly tried to smear me"
since introduction OF a previous in
vestigation resolution last year.
HOUNDED HIM
Fly set his Gestaro, like a pack
of wolves on my trail" Cox told the
house.
He said they sought to investigate
his mail through the post office.
urged tie justice department to
prosecute him. and had his income
tax returns over a period of ten
ears probed by the bureau of in
ternal revenue.
They even went into the income
tax reports of clerks in my office"
he said.
RESENTED ACTIVITIES
Cox said his teud with Fly had
stemned from his appearance be-
fore the commission on behalf Of
radio station formerly owned by
the Albany, Ga, Herald. He declar-
ed that because Of the commissions
hostile attitude toward newspaper
owned stations separate corpor-
atiCn had been set up to operate
the station and he had been given
81 500 worth of stock in the new
Continued on Page 3. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
ultin1atun1!

WASHINGTON, Jan. l9-CUP)
President Roosevelt today dir
Getting striking Anthracite coal
miners to 90 back to work within
IS hours or face the consequences
of necessary steps" by the gov
ernment to protect the nation.
The President said the walkout
was doing the country SERIOUS
injury"
Mr.. ROOsevelt's directive was
contained in kilograms sent to
% national and local officials of
The United Mine Workers.
Approximately i2,C0) miners are
still out in strike which beg
2l days ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Quota S12.500 Set for
81 Cenero Red Cross Unit

A quota of $l2,5OO has Eeer, set
tor the Ell Centro chapter of the
American Red Cross, including the
budget for the Holtville and I'M
perial branches. with the annual
roll call scheduled for March.
This announcement was made at
the monthly meeting of the direc-
tors Monday night OF the quota,
$1,000 is the chapters contribution
TO the war chest. a sum slightly
under that raised last year which
was in excess ol $1,000 The in
crease in the budget is due to the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Money0r Trail
Leads TO Arrest

los ANGELO Jan. l9-fUP)---
A t. ial Of forged $l0) money ord.e"s,
cashed in Los Angeles department
ores. led to the arrest of Frank
=. Graham and Ben j. Graham at
Oxnard. Cal, on suspicion of rob-
blng the Pittman, New, postoffice
police announced today.
The two men were identified by
sto., clerks in an arraignment be-
fore U. S. Conn j-'}ner David B
Head. They we.e held on $4,000
rail each pending grand julJ act
ion.
The money orders were identified
as part Of a look of l78 orders
stolen from the Pittman postot!ice
several weeks ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Phoenix Politics
AT Boiling Point

PHOENIX, Jan. 19-CUP)-Roy
J. Hevne, appointed city manager
recently by the city commission in
an agreement with the Phoenix
Chamber of Commerce, was ousted
today by the commission, and
James r. Daune, police chief, re-
signed after the commissions ac-
ton.
Richard H. Smith, who resigned
as city manager when the commits
sion asked for the designations of
three city officials in the pact to
clean up Phoenix SO that the ban
barring air force personnel from
it might be lifted, was re-appointed
to succeed Heyne.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

Wt HUUy USPU All uUVeTCISCIIItIlC III
tie PostPrcss to get the news to
them.
Whitelaw said lie represented
ojority of the grower-ShipperS
both in number and acreage and
had been delegated by his group to
negotiate with the CIO committee
about q contract. He said the COM
mittee headed by Feller and Cum
nin9ham refused to negotiate with
him or to contact him for the pur-
pose of negotiations.
He said the grower shippers he
represents have not signed CIO
contract as yet but are willing to
do so in spite Of their objections
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

Mrs o, w. Keep, staff assistant:
Mrs. Norman +. Dupont. Mrs. Ed
win Aiken. nutrition ard canteen;
Mrs B. E. Lemons, camp and hos.i-
tai service; Leo DeCelles, home
nursing, Mrs. John r. Rice. Junior
Red Cross; Mrs. Estelle Reid, home
nursing, DR.. f. b. Godfrey. blood
donors. Arno c. Yaeckei, finance.
The Rev Mr.. Edward Hutchinson.
speakers bureau; Mrs. Earle q.
Davis. Mrs. w G. Costello. public
lily; Ken Thornton, radio.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Locketi AbsoIved
In Police Incident

Brig. Gen. T, K. Brown Of Camp
Lockett Tuesday said his investiga-
ton revealed that a Negro military
policeman who terroriZed crowds
on Broadwa? in Ell Centre Jan. 6,
was from the 65th quartermasters
battalion at Yuma and not from
Camp Lockett as originally an
nounced.
The drunken Mp. was arrested by
Ell Certro police after he threaten
ed many persons with a long butch
er knife. Ell Centro police placed the
Negro in charge of 1t. Greenburg
also said to be from the Yuma
contingent.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

missions and the state supreme
court.
Assemblyman Jack Tenney, Los
Angeles. prepared a bill for intro
ducticn later today which would
abolish interlocutory divorce de-
crees and make divorce final
when issued, on grounds the pres
ent system does not achieve its
purpose. He had another measure
to disbar any attorney who is dir
ectly or indirectly connected with
any Subversive movement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

to the suggested wage scale if an
agreement can be reached with
local 70 of the United Canncry.
Agricultural, Packing, and Allied
Workers of America, CIO affiliate
A CIO bargaining committee has
refused to contact Whitclaw since
informed Jan. 6 that he was repre-
senting majority of the shipper
growers.
In his advertisement in this issue
of the Post-Press Whitelaw printed
the wage scale favored by the grow
er-shippers and outlined their stand
in the matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

great increase in the chapters
local operations in war activities
and nelp TO servicemen and their
families. The budget for the local
chapter is $4,000.
II. r. Anderson, new chairman,
announced the following committee
craftsmanship appointments: Louis
Slee, disaster preparedness; Mrs
Fl. r. Anderson, volunteer services;
Mrs. A. r. Tagg, production; Mrs.
James A. Schofield. motor corps;
Mrs. P. M. Mercer, home service;
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

Tie auUeU tNat "IOSt dollars cam
be rccartured, but lost time is lost
forever"
ForreStal defended procedure un-
der which the navy let contracts
which were later renegotiated by
the house naval affairs committee
at an estimated saving OF $1,000, ,O0O,-
600.
What we call renegotiation is in
large part merely reduction in price
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

"a normal procedure when man.
ufacturer gets into production and
is able to see what his costs are"
Forrestal said
American business by and large
doesn't want to profiteer out of
this war. but no one could forecast
the reductions in cost growing out
OF the unprecedented magnitude of
wartime production"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
D AMBl|Ne
EpoR1ER
It's 4 Compliment

It's 4 Compliment
Desk Sergeant T. P. Palmer of
the Ell Centre police department
Tuesday was convinced that he had
reached the ultimate peak of his
career.
A woman telephoned police
headquarters and demanded that
TIP. thaw out the frozen water
rireS at her house.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Off The Air

1t was a WOW at the Toastmast-
ers club in Ell Centro Monday
night when something happened to
the victrola and recording of the
voices of feminine guests continU-
ally strug a snag.
The voices would get off the
beam and cavort around in a most
distressing fashion.
The entertainment committee
called off this part of the programs.
when it became too laugnable
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Too Realistic

You should hear M. and Mrs
Eugene Moore in tkG- roles in
the grand opera "Hansel fnd Gret-
e. soon to be presented in Ell Gen.
tr1.
Eugene is n poor broom maker in
the opera and comes home empty
bonded from the grocery store be-
cause he doesn't have money
enough to buy meat and eggs.
Mrs. Moore as the broom max
e"'s wife puts great feeling into
Ter lament because there are no
eggs and meat. You see, she
l:nows exactly how the broom-mak-
er,S wife felt when she had to
prepare meals with fewer supplies
Than she expected.
This is, however, the first time
We ever realized that rationin9
could Influence grand opera.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Uniformly Quaint

UNIIOTmIy VUINI-
Now that the BraWley policemen
are all decked out in swanky blue
uniforms. they come in for a lot
of attention.
A small boy met Tom Greer on
the street the other day and after
gazing admiringly at his blue uni
form for a moment, shouted:
Hi Sailor!"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
FIynn's S Sur prise
At Charges Told
Police Lieutenant Recalls How Actor
Choked on Drink. Spu++ered at News
Of Complaint Lodged by Minor Girl

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10. (UP)-Poice testified today
that when they told Enrol Flynn he had been charged with
statutory rape he choked drink of Scotch whisky,
spluttered and cried, Good Cod"
"And congratulated him a nice job of histrionics y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Growers Use Ad
To Make ContQct

Declaring that ClO committee headed bv "Chuck"
Fc Ter and Duke Cunningham have not informed the rank
and file of lettuce and carrot shed employees of what
growers and shippers willing do in wage scales and
contracts. r. B. Whtf"" "rowershppers representative
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
Official Defends
Navy Contracts

WASHINGTON Jan. 10. (UP)-Under Secretary of
Navy James v Forrestal testified before the house rules
committee today that the need for extreme speed in early
war production frequently made impossible the negota-
ton of contracts advantageous to the government
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
First Killing Cold in 5
Years Nips Valley Crops.
Bursts City Water Lines
Repetition Expected as Farmers Count
Losses from Temperatures Running
Below 20De9rees in Coolest Portions

Imperial Valley early Tuesday suffered its first killing
freeze in five with squash peas and tomatoes badly
damaged in temperatures which reached a minimum of
slightly below 20 degrees in the E. Centre and 29
degrees in the walmest part of the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19

Avis armies were on the
run Tuesday in Russia. Afri-
ca and the Southwest Paci-
fic.
The Russians. having liberated
Leninerad were attacking the Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-19
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 62, minimum
Monday "A; am. Tuesday 35, hu-
midity 72; noon Tuesday 53, humid
ity II; pm. Mon. 81, humidity 23.
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