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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-30

Timing its first daylight ~
sault of the war on the Nazi
capital to coincide with the tenth
anniversary of Adolf Hitlers
accession to power, the Raj
struck its target precisely at IL
a. m, when Goering was sup
posed to start his speech.
A Nazi radio announcer said
the Fuehrer himself was with
his soldiers
ALL RETURN SAFELY
The British Air Ministry said
the swift mosquito bombers,
Britain's newest type in action.
returned safely from their haz-
ardous expedition 400 miles into
hostile territory.
During the delay Of an hour In
the start Of Goering's address,
radio listeners heard mufded
shouts and explosion-like noises,
that could have been caused by
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-30

LONDON, Jan. 30-R-
American flying fortresses
and Liberators destroyed %
German fighters in Wednes-
days large scale raid On
the Wuhelmshaven submaI.
inc base and the Emden In.
dustrial area, the Eighth y.
S. Air Force announced to-
day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-30

lmpertiel cevsress
Of All loeel News
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
T DR.
T erm
Democratic Chiefs
Urge Roosevelt to
Run Again in "A

WASHINGTON, March 3.
(UP)-Some members of the
Democratic national commit
tee today urged President
Roosevelt to run for a fourth
term if the war is still in progress
in 1914.
Mr.. Roosevelt conferred with Post
master General Frank Walker,
chairman of the National Democrat
ic committee, and a special subcom-
mittee CT national committee men,
bers who came here to discuss gen.
eral party problems. The meeting
occurred as Mr. Roosevelt, recovered
from his recent illness, completed
10 years in the presidency.
WALKER TALKS
After the White House conference
Walker told newspaper men that
during the meeting he heard some
of the men say that if the war was
on, the President should be a candi-
date" in 1914.
Walker added that the two or
three" who spoke to the President
of a fourth term got no response
from the President"
Asked for his own personal views
of a fourth term Walker said that
he thought 1T is no time to discuss
candidates for 1914"
Walker said the President did
most of the talking" at the confer
ence, discussing the prosecution of
the war and the general condition
of the country
He said the president was very
optimistic" about the war.
Present for the conference, in ad-
Gition to Walker, were Edwin Paul
ey of Califo mia, secretary treasurer
of the National committee; Vice
Chairman Ambrose O'Connen of
Iowa; Oscar R. Ewing of Indiana,
Frank McHale of Indiana, o. F.
Warden of Montana. James C.
Quigley of Nebraska, James A. Noe
of Louisiana, Robert A Hurley of
Connecticut, Cuipert J.. Olson of
California, Carolyn Wolfe of Utah
Emma Guffey Miller of Pennsyl-
vania and Gladys Tillett of North
Carolina, who is chairman of the
wOmen's division Of the committee
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
BEGINNERS WAGES
SHOULD BE MINIMUM

SHOULD BE MINIMUM
With the manpoWer situation
presently confronting us, it would
seem highly important that the
navys man expansion program
should be held to such minimum
number as may be consistent with
reasonably potential demands.
The objective indicated may be
wholly justified but certainly it
should have careful analysis.
The committee has reduced the
estimate to $l0OC0O,000. 1t has
cone so with the thought that
between now and July it may dev-
elcpe thai a fewer number than
$3.50 COO enlisted men will meet
Ell demands likely to arise during
the ensuing fiscal year. If not,
the amount withheld can be con-
ciuded in the regular 1914 naval
appropriation Dill, and if, then
deemed necessary made immedi-
ately available"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Arizona Military
Zone z Cut Down

Highway No. 80, thence easterly to
ella Bend; thence southerly on the
unimproved road on the Gila- Pa
pago Indian reservation road to
the Maricopa-Pim county line;
thence easterly to the Graham
county line, southerly in the Gra-
ham-Pima county line to its inter-
section with the Graham-Cochise
county line; easterly to the Ari-
New Mexico state line,
The old line started at a point
farther north near Topock, Ariz.,
running east to Yucca, Signal,
Hillside, and the intersection of the
city limits of Phoenix and highway
20; to Florence Junction and thence
to the Arizona-New Mexico state
line
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

SAN FRANCISCO. March -
CUP)-Lt. Gen, John L. De Witt,
commanding general of the Western
Defense Command and Fourth
Army today announced the military
restricted area in Arizona has been
reduced b. nearly one half.
The army announced that Secre-
tary of War Henry StimSon has
determined that the military Sitla-
ton will permit the relocation
further to the south, of the north
ely boundary of Military Area
No. l of Arizona"
10 MILES WIDE
Col. Karl R. Bendetsen explained
that a strip of territory in South
ern Arizona, roughly 60 miles wide,
has been freed of military res
trictions in Gen. De Wits pro-
clamation No. /.
Theoretically, the war relocation
authority now could authorize re-
turn of evacuated Japanese to this
6O-mile strip.
Announcement of the alteration
Cf the military area was contained
in public proclamation No. 16, dat
eG March 2.
NEW BOUNDARY
The new boundary of the military
area in Arizona runs from the
Arizona California state line at
Ehrenberg; thence easterly along
U. S. Highway No. 60-70 through
Vicksburg to Salome; thence south
easterly on the unimproved road
through Harrisburg to the Yuma
Maricopa county line thence south
erly on this county line to U. S.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
WL.B
FiindinQ
Ready
Decision Of Board
on Aircraft Wages
To Be Given Soon

WASHINGTON, March 3.
(UP)--The War Labor Board
apparently was nearly ready
today to hand down it's long
awaited decision on the West
Coast airplane case, but WLB
sources differed in forecasts on the
nature of the decision. There was
general agreement on two points
however:
/. Industry and public members,
with the exception of Wayne l..
Morse, constitute the board major
ity. Morse and the labor members
have written separate dissenting
opinions. This will be Morse's first
split with the three other public
members.
2. The decision will constitute
a compromise between what the
unions and dissenting WLB men,
bers seek what the board majority
feels is essential to correct Unequal
tiles but at the same time stabilize
the airplane industry
GRANT RAISES
1t was said in some quarters that
the WLB will grant general in
crease of Az cents an hour to the
10000 ,Boeing Aircraft Co. employees
at Seattle and Renton, Wash, and
an increase of about seven cents an
hour to approximately half of the
100000 employees in the eight south
ern Califo. mia plants involved, as
correction OF inequalities. These
increases would not only be much
less than what the workers demand,
but also below the recommendation
of Paul r. Porter, chairman of the
WLB's shipbuilding commission, on
whose lengthy report the decision
is based.
BEGINNERS WAGES
Disagreement was also evidenced
on that aspect of the decision con-
corning beginners rates. 1t was stat
ed that the Boeing workers will re-
-ceive raise in 1tarting rates, rather
(Continued on Page 6, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Group Cautions
Against Big Navy

WASHINGTON, March Sup
The House Appropriations Com
mittee today approved a $4,265,-
946,938 supplemental appropriation
oor the Navy but cautioned against
the armed services drawing too
heavily upon the nations man.
power supply
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs
CHEF of the Bureau of Navy Per-
sonnel, had testified before a sub
committee that the navy expected d
to total 2 100000 officers and en-
listed men by June. 1914. Other
testimony showed that as of Feb
luary l, there were 126,70O officers
and l,l59,600 enlisted men in the
navy.
TOTAL CASUALTIES
Jacobs told the subcommittee
that the Navy expects casualties
amounting to 10 per cent of it's
total personnel. Jacobs said that
fewer than 10 per cent of the navy's
present strength has been involved
in active combat, and total casual
ties have amounted to 1902.
The committee, in explaining why
it had reduced a proposed cloth
ing and small store fund from
$I47, ,240,$$ to 100000, said
while no ceiling has been i'm
posed by law upon naval enlisted
strength built up through the
reserve, an expansion of such mag
nitude should be the subject
of careful scrutiny and recommend
alton to the House Naval Affairs
committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

formed by the plant employees has
the majority membership in the
plant. G.. H. Lampkins, company
manager, had not been informed of
the reason for the walkout at 1915
pm. Wednesday but had heard in
directly that the plant employees
were scheduled to attend a meet
ing at the Labor temple in Ell Gen.
tro Wednesday afternoon.
Approximately SO men walked out
Twenty of the group stopped work
for 40 minutes Friday in an attempt
to get wage increases. They went
back to work, however, when it was
explained that sucn action was un-
authorized and against the war
time regulations of the National
Labor Relations Board.
The labor conciliation board in
Washington was informed of the
walkout Immediately after it OF
CURED.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

Issuance of war ration books one
and two has been frozen until aft
er March Is, it was disclosed We'd
nesday, and persons who do not al
ready possess coupons for purchas-
ing rationed items will be unable to
obtain them until after that date.
Notice of the freezing action
was received by the local board,
which requested Ell Centrans not to
apply for books until after the
freezing period has ended as all
requests made before that time
will be rejected They said that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Preparation Must
Be Complete Ere
Montgomery Drive
British Eighth Army
Now Making Ready for
Grand-Scale Assault
By NED RUSSELL

WITH THE BRITISH AR
MY IN SOUTHERN TUNI-
STA, Feb. %. (UP)-(Delay-
ed)-The Eighth Army will
burst through the Mareth line and
Axis defenses at the Gabes bottle
neck the moment Lieut.. Gen. Ber-
nard L. Montgomery is confident
he has enough tanks, guns, men and
planes for an overwhelming attack.
Montgomery, commanding the
Eighth Army, will no. bulge until
that moment has arrived.
SECRET OF SUCCESS
That has been the secret of his
success over 400 miles of desert
battle-ground, from Ell Alamein to
Tripoli, and he and every man in
his army knows that the Afrika
Korps cannot be finally beaten with
out the proper preparation.
I flew from Ell Alamein to Tripoli,
and drove from Tripoli to the pres
ent front, and l know what Mont
gomery considers preparation. His
transport, thousands Of vehicles,
IlOWS across dusty rOadS, paved rOadS
and rough sand tracks in endless
streams.
There is an emphatic difference
between the Eighth Army's and the
British First Army's transport. In
northern Tunisia, l saw conveys of
$50 trucks moving cautiously at
night.
IapCE r,nNvOvS
Down here, hundreds of vehicles
make up a single convoy, and 1
seemed to be passing a new convoy
every few minutes. In the forward
area, hundreds of vehicles were dis
perSed over the flat desert plain
as far as the eye could see.
Decisive superiority in the air has
enabled Montgomery to move guns,
Continued on Page 6, Col A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Parent OF Dead
BoyFiIes Suit

Damages in excess of $4,000 were
sought trcm the Vessey system
and Clifford Ansel Patterson We'd
nesday for the death of six-year-
old Kenneth Wayne Green in a
traffic accident east of El Centric
February II.
The suit was filed by Malcolm
w Green, father of the boy.
Patterson, driver of the truck
and two loaded Vessey trailers
which struck down the boy on
highway 80 two and a half miles
east of Ell Centro, already had been
charged with negligent homicide.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Axis Consu|s Now
In United States

WASHINGTON, March 3.-CUP)
The State Department announced
today that former German and
Italian consuls-general at Algiers,
who were captured in the North
African vasion, have been
brought to the United States and
are being held pending exchange
for American diplomats whom the
Germans seized in France and took
to Germany.
The Axis officials are being held
along with their staffs and the
members of their households under
guard at the Ingleside hotel, near
Va.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Strike Threatens
S.E.Navywork

ALAMEDA, Calf, March s.
CUP)-The strike of go machinists
at General Engineering and Dry
dock company threatened today to
impair the Navys entire program of
ship repair and conversion in the
San Francisco Bay area.
The machiniStS failed to report
to work yesterday as the result of
dispute over the suspension of
Charles Young, leaderman and shop
steward, from the union, the United
Steel Workers of America (CIO),
Local 1904.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
RECITE PRAYERS
Must Forgive Axis,
Saws Nine. Chianu

NEW YORK, March 3.-CUP)-
Nine. Chang Kai-Shek, her small
figure almost lost in the vastness
of Madison Square Garden, told
$4,000 persons last night that the
United Nations must try to forgive
the Axis nations when they are de-
feated.
There must be no bitterness in
the reconstructed world" she said
mo matter what we have under
gone and suffered, we must try to
forgive those who injured us and
remember only the lessons learned
thereby"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

on Une EZneV triumph, Cne NaZl
high commands admission of the
loss of the key stronghold on the
central front evidently reflected an
other smashing Soviet offensive of
the long series in the winter cam
paign.
OPENS POSITIONS
Besides breaking off the point of
the German spearhead aimed at
Moscow the fall of Rzhev laid open
the Nazi positions on the whole
central front to a grand scale on
slaught.
The air offensive against Europe
entered a slight lull, presumably
because of adverse weather condi-
tions. But American bombers in
the Pacific took up where the Royal
air force and United States army
air force left off.
Flying FortresseS and Liberators
sWooped down on a 14-ship Japanese
convoy headed for New Guinea and
left it sinking, blazing and scatter
ed Two ships were sunk, two smash
ed and the rest dispersed.
MAJOR EFFECT
The attack on the convoy may
have major effect on the course
Guinea. depriving the enemy of
needed reinforcements which might
be used for new drive against the
allies.
The record air attack
on Europe was by no means halted.
The RAF smashed again at targets
in western Germany and mined wa
ters employed b. the Nazis for coaS-
tai supply shipments.
The Raj lost three planes in the
nights operations, which were car
ried out in bad weather on a scale
well below the previous six nights
of sledge-hammer blows at German
targets in the biggest air offensive
of the war.
HIT SHIPS
Allied bombers from African bases,
joining in the offensive, meantime
bombed the Axis Sicilian base of
Palermo, starting big fires and hit
ting number of ships. Gen. Dwight
d. EiSenhoWer'S bomberS and fight
ers struck ceaselessly at Tunisian
targets, and in raids on the ports of
TuniS and La GoCiette scored many
bomb hits.
Neutral reports said fires still
were burning in Berlin from the
great bombardment Monday night
in which the Nazis admitted 191
were dead and 268 injured
The allies were moving forward
Continued on Page s, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
FR Ends 10th Year
In White House

WASHINGTON, March 3.-CUP)
President Roosevelt completed his
tenth year in office today with the
biggest tasks of his career still
ahead of him.
Facing the 61-year-old chief exec
utive was the job of leading the
United States through the hardest
stages of the war Still before him
were many home front difficulties
-manpower and initiation = that
must be worked out before the war
effort begins hitting on all cylin-
derS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
RATION BOOKS
FROZEN ALSO

while most local residents clwn
books at present, there are some
who were in need of them for new
born babies and for service men
who eat some of their meals at
home as we'll as for persons who
have lost their original books.
The board also revealed that
forms were available for institu-
tional and industrial users for proc
essed foods including sugar and
coffee. These persons have been
asked to register between now and
March 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Short Investigated
As Fire Cause

CALEXICO, March 3. = Posi-
bility that a short in the electric
wiring caused the fire that de-
stroyed the Imperial ice plant here
Monday night, was being investi-
gated by inspectors and company
officials Wednesday.
The ruins still smoldered We'd
nesday while insurance adjusters
and investigators carried on their
study of the situation.
Company officials hope to re-
build the Calexico ice plant as soon
as they can, they said Wednesday,
but can make no plans until they
find out whether it will be possible
to get equipment and building ma
terial.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

WOULD Teach al men guilty OF ab-
senteeism. Much of it was caused
by men who knew they would be
safe from the draft in any event,
he said.
He pointed out to the House ma
val affairs committee, which is con-
sideriug a plan to have absentees
reported to their draft boards, that
this would not affect those who are
ineligible for military service.
Describing abSenteeism as most
serious" he said:
THE place to hit them is in the
pocketbook. If you dock their
wages, you are hitting them where
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Personnel
Increased FourfoId

WASHINGTON, March Sup
"A fourfold increase since Pearl
Harbor in the number of enlisted
personnel in the Navy and a con-
templated doubling of the present
figure by June, 1914, was revealed
by Rear-Admiral Randall Jacobs,
chief of the Bureau of Navy Per-
sonnel, in testimony made public
today by a House appropriations
subcommittee.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Gandhi Ends Fast:
India Government
Denies Concession
Spiritual Leader Sips
Citrus Juice After
81 Days on Water Diet

POONA, March 3. (UP)-
Mohandas K. Gandhi's 81
day fast came to a ceremon-
ious end today when he sip
ped six ounces of orange
juice after 10 of his followers, squat
ting on the floor of his darkened
room, had chanted hymns and mur'
INJURED prayers of thanksgiving for
his survival
1T must have been something
higher than the doctors power
that saved me-" the shrunken lead
er of Indian Nationalists said in a
weak voice at the end of his fast
protesting against six months of
internment by the British.
DRANK SLOWLY
Then his wife, Kasturbai, handed
him the glass of orange juice and
supported his feeble hand as he
drank SLOWLY. When he finished, the
faithful and his doctors filed silent
ly from the room, leaving the 73-
year old man to rest.
Gandhi appeared weary and worn
but cheerful as his followers, three
doctors, and guards gathered in the
Aga Khan's palace for the finale
of his passive and unsuccessful tilt
with the British.
FAST FAILURE
The fast, outWardly at least, was
failure, for it didn't bring Gandhi
either of the two things he sought
his freedom and vindication from
the British charge that he was an
instigator of last summers bloody
quit India" riots.
The glass of orange juice was
handed to Gandhi by his wife, Kas-
turbai, as he lay propped up in bed
in bare room on an upper floor
of the Aga Khan's richly appointed
palace.
RECITE PRAYERS
Gandhi closed his eyes in medita-
ton while his wife and others in
termed with him recited prayers.
Then he raised the glass to his lips
and slowly slipped it.
Thus ended the fast he began
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

it hurts"
Representative Lyndon Johnson.
Democrat, Texas, author of the
pending bill, told Knox that "the
British hale absentees into court
and give them stiff fines or jail
sentences" His bill would require
war industries TO file absentee
reports periodically with the War
Manpower Commission. who would
file them with selective service
boards.
Knox said there we're an average
of 32,757 absentee workers per day
in the 16 Navy yards and stations
during January-or 94 per cent OF
the workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
NAzIS ANNOUNCE EVACUATION OF RzHE\
1000 Bombs Fall
On Kiska Island

WASHINGTON, March g.
(UP)-The Navy announced
today that 1000 bombs were
dropped on Kiska and 10 Jap
anese planes were destroyed in
nine previously reported Ameri-
can air raids during February.
1t was estimated that the
bombs dropped on the enemy
Aleutian base during Febru-
ary tOtalled at least 100000
pounds.
AT the same time, the Navy
reported another bombing raid
the 81st-On Munda-Japan's
central SOlOmOns air base.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Price Goes Up
On Newsprinf

LOS ANGELES, March g.
The Zellerbach Paper company
announced to its customers
Wednesday, that hereafter
there will be a S4 per ton in
crease i'm the price of newsprint.
Newsprint, the paper on
which newspapers are printed,
had been selling at $50 a ton
plus the freight. The price
now will be S54 "a ton plus the
freight, representing an s per
cent increase.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
'Pauper' Disclosed
To Be Wealthy

BROOKLINE, Mass, March g.
(UP)-A man who died as an ap-
parently penniless dishwasher in
Brookline cafeteria was revealed
today to be a minister, who had
been educated in three universities.
and who possessed small fortune.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03

ing of lettuce, carrots, and cam
taloupes. Louis will compose the
committee to check up on tomato
costs, and w. c. Wilkinson will COL
lect information on the cost OF grow
ing and harvesting peas.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Meat, Cheese Due
For Ration List
In Near Future

WASHINGTON, March 3.
(UP)-The Office of Price
Administration may order
point rationing of both meat
and cheese to begin about
April l with each consumer prob
ably limited to an average combined
allotment of IA pounds a week, it
was learned today.
Reliable sources also believed that
rationing of butter, oleomargarine,
lard and other cooking fats and
oils may be ordered at the same
time.
CAN'T PREDICT
Deputy OPA Admins /itor Paul
OLeary, chief of the rationing pro-
gram, when informed of these re-
ports, said CPA was awaiting the
recommendation of the agriculture
department which must make the
first move. Meat rationing has been
planned for some time, but OLeary
said it was impossible to predict
just what items will be included
when rationing begins.
He also said that any average
weekly figure of the amount of meat
and/or cheese allowed would vary
under the point system inaSmuch
as scarce meats would have high
point values. Thus a person who
spent all his meat points each week
on porterhouSe steaks would get far
less than the average, while a per-
son who spent his points on more
plentiful meats might be able to
get more.
ALMOST CERTAIN
Other quarters said cheese ra-
tioning was almost a certainty. 1t
has been predicted here for several
weeks and when canned meats and
fish We.e frozen two weeks ago re-
ports began to circulate that cheese
would be rationed with meat.
Red coupons in the new ration
book will be used for meat rationing.
II cheese is included the stamps
will be interchangeable. A house
wife will be able to spend all of her
red coupons on meat or divide them
between meat and cheese.
The "a pound average allotment
is based on supplies expected to be
available during 1943 for civilians.
Civilian consumption of meat alone
last year averaged slightly more
than zl2 pounds per week per per-
son.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Ice Company Men
Walk off Jobs
Work Stops Second Time Within Week
At Imperial Ice and Development
Plant; Dispute Among Men Suspected

Men employed in the plant at the Imperial Ice and De-
velopment company in Ell Centre walked off the job at
II 5 Wednesday, leaving three to look after the
engines
1t understood that the Teamsters union disputes
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-03
Knox Calls for
Absentee Law

WASHINGTON, March s. (UP)-Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox declared today that the place hit
tory absentees is "in the pocketbook"
Weekend dissipation is the most serious cause of alb
seneeism Knox declared He called for legislation which