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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-15
MEET
TO DRAW UP
GRID PROGRAM
Ry DAN MCGUIRE

SAN FRANCISCO, June Is. tUP)
Faculty representatives and grad
uate managers of the 10 Pacific
Coast Conference schools met IN
Joint session today to draw up fall
football schedule which reported
ly will have only a few modifica-
tiOns and innovations in order to
cope with wartime restrictions.
For the first time since the war
started the schools have adopted
a united front against the peSSi-
mistic outlook of observers who be-
lieVe the conference must diSband
for the duration or break Up into
north-south circuit in order to
provide some sort of football for
the coast
GET o. X.
Having received the approval OF
the Western Defense Command fol
games on the same basis as last
;ear, and the Office of Defense
Transportation sanction for a linn
tied but adequate number of week
end trips, the conference followed
the example of the Big Ten in lay
ing out new schedule.
we actually faced a tougher sit
uation in 1917 and 1919 declared
DR.. John w. Olmstead of UCLA
president of the conference. AT
that time we had been organized
only a few years: now we are strong
enough to overcome almost any
problem which may arise at the
meeting
Eligibility rules are being giver
a good going over in an attempt
to assure the unlimited participa-
ton of navy and marine corps re-
SerViSts.
The representatives plunged into
their work with renewed enthusi-
asm when Cmdr. Tom Hamilton
former director of the navy'S pre-
flight program, told them that the
navy had found football was the
best sport for determining the COM
bat potentialitieS of fledgling flyers
Faculty men on hand for the
meeting include c. v. Ruzek, Ore.
gon State. William Owens, Stan
ford; Dean Edwin Voorhies, Cali
fornia; DR.. j. Fred Boiler, Wash
ington State; Dean T. s. Kerr, Ida
no; Hugh Willett, use; Orland j
Hollis, Oregon; RUBY Nettelman
Washington. and Dean Burley Mil
Ter, Montana.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-15
ABOUT PITCHING

But what about the Dodgers
pitching?
The observer recalled that Bobc
Newsom is approaching 25. that
Curt Davis is nearing 81. and that
the undependable Whit Wyatt is
moving in on 35.
The betting men around Toots
Shor's agreed with our observer that
the Dodgers Will be lucky to finish
in second place, considering the
threat Of the Cincinnati Reds and
too-lightly regarded Pittsburgh Pl-
rates.
All of which was a bad summa-
ton for US. because We had picked
the Dodgers to win the National
League pennant in our preseason
forecast. But we. too. are convinc-
ed now that the Brooklyn Buns
Will not win the pennant-eyen
though theysmay fatten during the
next5Week or so against the luckless
Giants
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-15
Markets at a
Glance
Ry UNITED PRESS

BY UNITED PRESS
Stocks irregular
Bonds ifregularly higher
Curb stocks irreRularly lower.
Cotton Off as much as 80 cents bale.
Wheat unchanged To \ cent lower.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-15
STAR SLOy

Like Miss Williams. Miss Curtis
was no sensation as a starter Miss
Williams was humbled so badly IN
her first interscholastic contest
that she went home before the
champion was crowned. Yet she
went on ITO become one of Americas S
greatest water stars and would have
gone to the 1910 Olympic games had
they been held that year.
Already plans are being made to
send Miss Curtis to the National A
a U. outdoor tourney, and she has
indicated she is interested in going
With modesty appropriate to a po-
tential champion. she said: L cer-
tainly hope to go. But III be lucky
to get in the finals back there
Swimming experts believe Miss
Curtis will go far because she
"sWims with both arms and
"breathes on both sides These eX-
perts pointed out that many a good
swimmer has failed to reach that
point of efficiency which makes
champions simply because he Tor
SIte1 CdIl uSe Ollly one ann anu
breathe only while swimming on one
SIDE.
The parallel between Miss Curtis
ard Miss Williams could be drawn
further. Both are tall and slender,
ard both have a tendency to be
self-effacing. Moreover they have
that all-important tenacity Of pur-
pose which makes for champions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-15
CARDINALS FAVORED!

Sammy Angott. getting rundown
from Frank Doyle, and Henry
Armstrong didn't appear mad at
each other as former triple crown
wearcr dropped INTO opponents
dressing room al Stlllman's Gym
naSum. where both worked for
feht at Madison Square Garden.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-15
SPORTS PARADE
BY JACK CUDDY

NEW YORK. June Is. tUP)-The
smart money boys OF Broadway
regard yesterdays Boston victory
over Brooklyn as the straw that
broke the camelS back. That's why
the betting in the vicinity ol roots
Shor'S restaurant changed last night
from even money on The Cardinals
and Dodgers to 9-5 iayoring the st
Louis outfit in the pennant chase.
After the game in which the
Braves had nosed out the Dodgers,
4-3. one Unprejudiced baseball writ
er said: If Jimmy Brown is per-
mitted to stick with the Cards for
the rest of the season, st. Louis
will win the National League pen
nant by 10 or u games-in front
of the Dodgers. And, even if Brown
doesn't stick, the Cards will win
by at least six games
1t wasn't the score in yeSter-
days twilight contest that affected
the observers. 1t wasn't the fact
that this defeat put the Dodgers
two full games back of the Cards,
who had knocked off the Reds. IN
stead. it was the realization that
the Dodgers were a team Of "old
men" who tired-let doWn-in the
closing innings of this game with
the Braves.
AS one capable observer remark
ed "A team that fades in mid-June
because of age will founder badly
when the weather gets hot and the
ground gets hard. That sun-baked
hard ground on any diamond takes
all the life out Of aging legs
The observer emphasized that
even in war time. the Dodgers hao
too many old men--in the athletic
I sense-to give the comparatively
young Cardinals a run for the pen
nant. He mentioned the ages OF
the performers:
Camili, 35; Vaughn, 81; Walker
| 33: Gall 81: MedWick, 80; Pau
I Waner. ~. and Herman, "a. Then
there was Lippy Leo Durocher, the
/ 33-year-old manager who is trying
to play shortStop.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
| Irish and Navy
Win HondHy;
u. S. c. Upset

NOtre Dame swept Army from the
unbeaten ranks before $4,000 fans
in New York yesterday, $50, con-
Yincing Eastern football circles OF
its right to the national champion.
ship. In Philadelphia, Navy,
sWamped the week before by the
Irish, made fine comeback al
Penn's expense, winning by a 24-7
margin before more than 1000
Penn tied Army, 1913, the previous
week
Purdue, weakened by the loss OF
several naval trainee stars, rallied
in the closing seconds to nose out
Minnesota, 14-7, for its eighth con-
secutive victory. On the West Coast
Southern California was upset and
beaten for the first time this sea.
son, 10-7 by San Diego Naval.
In other games Michigan doWned
Indiana, 1876; Northwestern, Notre
Danes next opponent. swamped
Wisconsin, 41-0; Georgia Tech over
powered Louisiana State. 42-7,
Brown nosed out Yale, 21-20, and
Cornell took a thriller from Penn
State, 1870. "Details on Sports
PagesD
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Stain Says Real Second Front
is Near, Firms Seeking Way Out
Nozis Declared on Edge Of Catastrophe
Premier Praises U S.-Britsh War Aid

which is crumbling now before our
very eyes" the Soviet Premier de-
clared
Italy has dropped out of the
Hilterite coalition never to return
again he said. Next in line are
other partners of the coalition. Fin
land. Hungary, Rumania and other
vassals of Hitler are discouraged by
Germanys military defeat and now
finally have lost faith in any out
come of the war favorable to them
and are anxious to find a way out
of the bog into which Hitler dragged
them.
In entering the war the partners
in the Hitlerite bloc counted on a
quick victory Before hand they
had allotted who would get the buns
! and pies and who would get the
bumps and blackeyes. They naturally
meant the bumps and blackeyes for
their adversaries and the buns and
pies for themselves.
But now it is obvious Germany
(See STAIN, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Nine Die, 7 Rescued,
In Mine Explosion
Seven Bodies Located
Deep in NeIIis Nv. Va Phi
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NELLIS, w. Va, Nov. 6.-Nine
men lost their lives and two others
were hurt tonight after a local gas
explosion wrecked a section of the
No, mine of American Rolling Mill
Co.. which had resumed work only
two days ago after the general mine
shutdown.
Only II men were in the mine at
the time of the blast, the first in II
years. Supa. A. E. Oakley said
Two we're brought out alive and
sent to hospitals at Charleston, 25
miles away.
The other nine were known to
be dead and seven of the bodies had
been located at midnight, four and
a half hours after the disaster, Mr.
Oakley said.
The rescued men, the extent of
their injuries undetermined, are
William Barker and Lawrence VIM
cent.
The dead: William Gunnoe, fore
man; Lester Gunnoe, his brother;
William Workman, Oral Miller, John
Williams, Julius Domokas, Odell
Linville, Steve Turkovitch and John
Setliff.
Mr.. Oakley said all bodies, ex-
cept those of Mr.. Domokas and Les
ter Gunnoe, had been found in the
blast area two and a half miles un-
derground.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
By GOULD LINCOLN.

Gen. George C. Marshall, Army
chief of staff, was put forward
yesterday as the 1914 Democratic
nominee for President by Sena-
tor Johnson, Democrat, of Colo
rado, who said the New Deal is
through"
Senator johnson coupled with the
Marshall proposal bitter attack
on the Roosevelt administration. He
declared last Tuesdays election re-
suits had shown political revolution
underway in this country.
The Johnson statement, widely
distributed in the Capital soon after
it was issued. caused a stir among
Evening star., 1943-11-07
NOTICE TO READERS
AND ADVERTISERS

1t is necessary to limit the size of each days paper in
order to control the amount advertising can be
printed in The Star.
To accomplish this, commencing Wednesday, November
TO- 1943 all display advertising copy must be
least two days in advance of the day of publication %
display copy will be accepted the day before
All advertisers again reminded that they are re-
quested to reduce their advertising per compared
with their lineage used in the fourth quarter 1912
Under present conditions Star finds it necessary to
limit the amount of advertising order that its standards
for full of the features may be main
tanned 1t appreciates the understanding cooperation
of it's readers and advertisers
Evening star., 1943-11-07
BY GEORGE II. ENGEMAN.

Seeking to overcome the spread
ing shortages of consumer goods, the
Government soon may sponsor pro-
duction of between 100 and 12s
rigidly-standardized commodities tc
be sold at fixed dollars -and-cents
prices, it was learned last night.
The program would call for man.
ufacture of one type of suit, one
type of shirt, one type oil woman's
Slip one type of sheet and wide
range of other goods which have
disappeared, or are beginning to dis
appear, from the low-price ranges.
1t contemplates cooperation by the
War Production Board, War Man
power Commission and other Federal
agencies in providing priorities for
Evening star., 1943-11-07
urkish Paper Denies
Country Will Enter Wor

BY the Associated Press.
1STANBUL, Nov. 6.-Speculation
that Turkey was about to enter the
war was firmly denied today by the
newspaper Aksham, which said the
Cairo talks are only for Turkeys
information and do not concern the
giving of Turkish bases to the Allies.
Referring to the conference be-
tween Turkish Foreign Minister
human Menemencioglu and British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
who is returning from the tripartite
discussions in Moscow, the news
paper said: The Cairo talks are
not an extension of the Moscow con-
ference. The single aim of the meet
ing is for Eden to give Britain's s
ally Turkey full information urop
questions and discussions there"
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Workers Bear Greater
Anti Imitation Burden
WLB Chairman Holds
Sterilization Program
Has Been q Success,
Davis Writes Wallace
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman William H. Davis of
the War Labor Board told Con-
gress yesterday that wage con-
trolls are making the Govern
mentS anti-inflation program
bear more heavily on the work
ing man than some other ele-
mentS of the population.
He expressed this view in letter
to Vice President Wallace written
at time when the administration S
food subsidy program is under fire
by farm members of Congress and
amid increasing pressure from labor
organizations for relaxation of wage
controls. The letter accompanied
a report to Congress on work of the
board.
1t went to the Capitol just one
day after the apparent end of the
prolonged controversy between the
WLB and John L. Lewis United
Mine Workers. The board Friday
night approved, with minor condi-
tions, an agreement worked out be-
tween Mr.. Lewis and Fuel Admin
lstrator Ickes, providing a boost from
ST to $3.50 in the daily basic wage
OF the soft coal miner but calling
for him to dig coal an hour longer
each day.
Steel Wage Dispute Looms.
Mr.. Davis said this agreement
was within the wage sterilization
program in view of the increased
production. The WLB approved it,
II to l, with Public Member Wavne
l.. Morse dissenting. Mr.. Morse de-
clared the agreement appears to
have been dictated at the point of
a strike weapon"
During the long controversy over
coal wages, Mr.. Morse contended the
board should consider no settlement
while coal miners were on strike.
To do so. he declared. would en-
courage other unions to resort to
strikes.
With the coal dispute out of the
way, one over wages of steel workers
apparently is shaping up. The
United Steelworkers of America,
headed by Philip Murray, who also
is president of the CIO, is reported
determined to seek an increase of
Is cents an hour irrespective of the
WLB's Little Steel" formula which
(See LABOR, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Representative FuImer
Enters Florida HOSPITAL

By the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla, Nov. 6.-Repre-
sentative Fulmer, Democrat, of
South Carolina has entered the
Florida Sanitarium and Hospital
here and. possibly will remain all
winter for complete rest, his ply
sician, DR.. D. H. Kress of Orlando
said tonight.
DR.. Kress discounted reports that
Mr.. Fulmer was seriously ill.
He is merely here for a rest to
recuperate from too much work." the
physician said. He is getting along
very nicely"
Dr.. Kress said Mr.. Fulmer entered
the sanitarium several days ago.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
u. S. May Stondordize Types
OF 100 Critical Commodities

essential materials and labor. All
items would be manufactured from
uniform materials under uniform
specifications. Mill manufacturer
and retailer would be held to fixed,
small margins of profit to assure
goods getting through to consumers
at prices within range of low-income
groups.
Involved, also. is a drastic revision
of present OPA price regulations
now under study by Government Of
ficials.
Only low-cost items of critical
Importance to the consumer would
be manufactured under this pro-
gram, which is being formulated by
OPA officials In cooperation with
(see COMMODITIES, Page A-2lD
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Gen. Marshall for President
Proposed by Johnson, Democrat
New Deal Is Through Colorado Senator
Declares, Predicting Political Revolution

Democratic Senators. While most of
them refused to be quoted, their
consensus was:
1t was regrettable that Gen. Mar
shall's name had been thrown into
the political arena, when he has
the tremendous job of winning the
war.
That Gen. Marshall is an out
standing leader "a "solider-states-
man" as one Senator called him
and that if circumstances should
arise which would put him in the
race for the presidency, he would
be a strong candidate.
In proposing Gen. Marshall for
tSee MARSHALL. Page A-5l
Evening star., 1943-11-07
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Nov. g. Premier
Joseph Stain confidently told
the people of Soviet Russia to-
night that a real second front"
is near and declared that Adolf
Hitler's vasSal countries of Fin
land, Hungary and Rumania
now are anxious to find a way
out of the war in which an
Allied victory is near"
Stain, speaking before a special
meeting of picked Soviet and Red
Army officials and distinguished
Russians celebrating the 25th ami
versary of the Bolshevist revolution
and the fall of Kiev, earlier today
assured the Russian people that the
Soviet Union soon would be COM
pletely liberated from the Germans
and declared that Germany now
stands at the edge Of catastrophe. u
Nazi defeats on the Russian front
and blows by our allies at the
Italo-German troops has shaken the
whole edifice of the Fascist bloc
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Britain S Air Marshal
P|edgesDestructionoi Of
90 Nazi War Centers
Bomber Command Chief
Predicts Fierce Attacks
To Smash Nuzi Subs
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Nov. 6.-Air Marshal
Sir Arthur T. Harris promised the
British people tonight that Allied
air power will shatter 90 Nazi
war centers and smash the
U-boat campaign.
The commander in chief of the
Bomber Command declared in a
Northamptonshire speech that I'VE
propose entirely to emasculate every
center Of enemy production, 40 of
which are centers vital his his war
effort, and so that can be termed
considerably important.
I'VE are well on the way toward
their destruction.
We intend to reduce what re-
mains of the German submarine
offensive to naught," he said. That
might be evident before spring. and
certainly before the leaves fall next
year.
Every ton of bombs dropped or
| German industries will save the lives
of 10 United Nations soldiers in the
: near future when the invasion
comes"
80 Centers in Germany.
Marshal Harris explained that the
80 centers were all in Germany
Others in Italy and occupied terri
tory will be dealt with separately
he said.
Speaking on the same program
with Marshal Harris, 1t. Gen. Ira
c. Eaker, commander of United
States Army Air Forces in Britain
said that during the many months
in which the infant 9th Air Force
was growing up to its present size
which enables it to throw as many
as 1000 planes in the air in a single
days operations, the British placeC
more than 100 airfelds at the dis
poSal of the Americans.
To-day, the total is even larger
than that" he added.
British mosquito bombers. mean
while, helped last night to carry out
Marshal Harris promise with a
WhirlWlnd smash at targets in
Western Germany.
The Air Ministry announcement
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Vatican Radio Reports
Bombs Hit Holy City
Unidentified Plane Flew
Low; No One Injured
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6-The Vatican
radio, in an Italian Language broad
cast beamed to Europe, said tonight
that damage had been caused to
Vatican City last night by four
bombs dropped from a single plane
OF unidentified nationality.
The broadcast, recorded bv the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, quoted an article in the OBJ
servatore Romano, Vatican news
paper
1t said the plane was seen flying
at a low altitude for some time and
dropped bombs near the water res
erVOlr, between the Governor S
Church and the Palazzo Degli Uf-
fiji on the mosaic workshops and
near the Piazza Santa Maria. No
one was hurt but the mosaic work
shops and the Governors Palace
were seriously damaged, the broad
cast said.
LONDON, Nov 6 tP,.-The Ger
man high command, repeating
earlier broadcasts of the Berlin and
Rome radios, asserted today that
enemy aircraft last night attacked
Vatican City, in Rome" but the
Associated Press had no confrma-
tion that any such attack had oc-
CURED.
Bomb hits caused destruction in
the world-famous MOSAIC factory, as
well as damage to the Governor S
Palace" said the German communi-
que as broadcast from Berlin.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Nozi Prisoner of War
Killed During Fight

By the Associated Press
TONkAWA, Okla. Nov. GA Ger
man prisoner of war was killed dur
ing a fracas at the compound Thurs
day, 1t. H. T. Morris. public rela-
tlons officer of the camp, said today
No American personnel was in
volved but several prisoners were
engaged in the fighting. Details
surrounding the incident were not
disclosed.
1t. Morris identified the victim as
Johannes Kunze, formerly of Leip-
zig, Germany.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
80 Pei. Compliance
With 48-Hour Week
In Capital Reported
VINO Reveals Decline
In Employers Requests
For Additional Help
LABOR DRAFT opposed by VINO
policy group: support pledged to
volunteer plans. Page Alb
By MIRIAM OTTENBERG.

Eighty per cent of Washing
tons estimated $4,000 workers
are either working 48 hours a
week or are on a schedule in
substantial compliance with the
wartime work week order. the
area office of the War Man
power Commission announced
last night.
In making public the figures on
compliance here, Fred z. Hetzel,
area VINO director. said he did not
know how many workers had been
released to go into essential work
as a result of adoption of the 49,
hour week but that a number of
large employers had cut down their
requests to the employment serv-
ice for additional help.
For a large group of employers, "
he said, adoption of the 48-hour
week has enabled them to maintain
their production despite losses of
NoIhClo " VIC vi dlU anu NONeTIl-
ment jobs. They may not be in
creaslng their productive activity
but they are maintaining it with
fewer people,
Requests for Workers Drop.
Since the 48-hour week order in
March, he said, there had been Q
gradual but noticeable decline in
the relative number of requests for
new workers.
About a third of the workers on
WMC-approved work schedules, Mr.
Hetzel said, are working less than
48 hours week although at least
so per cent of these are working
A or more hours a week.
Mr.. Hetzel explained that there
were a number of firms here which
had a group of executives, a limited
number of shop people," such as
elevator operators and repairmen
and a group of specialists that
is, one person assigned to book
keeping, another to auditing, an
other as telephone operator.
In such outfits, which include
500 WOpK IIyUED No. 10
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Eastern German Line
In Italy 1ottering
Under Fierce Attack
British Advance 5 Miles
As Americans Threaten
Whole Nozi Right Flank
5y the Associated Press.

bS ltlt ASSOCldltQ ETeSS.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
gierS, Nov. 6.-The Germans de-
fense system on the eastern end
of their line across Southern
Italy tottered today under the
shock of a Smile advance by the
British 9th Army, and westward
the American 5th Army threat
ened the whole German right
flank by its capture of Strate-
gically valuable Venafro.
The 9Th Army stabbed five miles
up the Adriatic yesterday to take
Vasto, key of the German defenses
facing the Trigno River, Allied
Headquarters announced.
At the same time, the 5th ad-
Vanced into the mountains behind
Venafro, where the Germans were
seeking to protect their right flank
by plnning a new line on the tower
ing Aurunci Mountains. In yester-
days advances the Allies took some
IS towns and villages.
Yanks Near Easier Terrain.
Six and a half miles southwest OF
Venafro the Americans yesterday
were within one mile of Mignano on
the via Casilina-main inland road
to Rome.
Once through the gap in the hills
at Mignamo, 1t. Gen. Mark w
Clark's United States forces will face
easier going-so far as terrain is
concerned-all the way to Casino
10 miles distant.
From the vicinity of Casino two
broad valleys. first that of the Lir
River and then that of the Saccc
River. extend straight west-north-
west to Rome, passing to the north
of the Aurunci range, which guards
the northern edge of the Gariglianc
River valley and dominates the
coastal highway.
To make the slopes of the Aurun-