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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
District Calls Special
Elec ection for September IL

| in this area of the California Elec-
trio Power company.
Purchase of the power facilities
of the California company hinges
entirely on the outcome of the
election and if the issue is ap-
proved at the polls the district will
take possession of the properties
some time in October as contracts
for the purchase have already been
signed by officials of both concerns.
Of the $6000000 to be raised by
the sale of bonds $4,900000 will go
for the purchase of properties and
the remainder for tying the dis
trict's system in with that of the
California Electric company and
making necessary improvements in
both systems.
The resolution passed by the
directors. which contained the cleo
ton call. named election boards
and called for voting to take place
between 6 a. m. and 7 p. m. on
Sept. 16.
The new tax rate represented a
reduction of Is cents on each $100
of assessed valuation, last years
rate being $3.75.
With a $3.50 tax rate district Of
ficials expected to raise approxi-
mately $1,122,68O. Assessed valua-
ton this year totalled $37754, lO3,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
New Buildings in
MexicaIi to Cost
$4,000 Pesos
Several Large Business
And Residential Places
20 Up Below the Border

M E X | C AL |, Aug. "a
Value of new business and
residential buildings under
construction in M ex c a i
totals more than 1927, 900
pesos, government officials reveal
ed here today.
While most of the value is placed
on half a dozen large business
establishments that are nearing
completion, included in the total
valuation is also several private
dwellings that are going up in
Mexicali's new residential district
east of the government palace on
RefOrma street.
Largest home under construction
in that area is one being built by
Francisco Nunez that will cost ap-
proximately 10000 pesos when COM
pleted
Most expensive business structure
going up is 100000 peso theatre
on Madero street. The building is
being erected by the Curto Theatre
company and is expected to be COM
pleted in time to open this fall.
Another residence has recently
been started in the new colony that
Continued on page 6, col d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Owner Disre9ords Strike
Threat; Keeps Plant Open

In spite of strike conditions he
said were forced on his plant by
the Teamsters union because he
refused to interfere with the per-
Sonal liberties of his employees,
Emile Faure Tuesday placed the
Faure Tractor and Equipment plant,
all its facilities, and his present
employees at the disposal of I'M
perial Valley farmers in order to
keep farm equipment in repair for
the war effort.
About half of his employees struck
Tuesday, Faure said. At a Ma
tional Labor Relations Board a
short time ago 10 men voted that
they did not want to be represented
by the Teamsters union and l3
voted that they did. Faure would
not agree to sign a closed shop
agreement, he said, because that
would force the 10 men into the
Teamsters union or they would
have to leave his employ.
"I can't let this strike condition
interfere with the progress of farm
ing" Faure said, 80 l appeal to
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Soldiers Hurt in
Truck Collision

Two soldiers from Camp Young
suffered minor injuries shortly be-
fore midnight Monday when army
equipment and a loaded hay truck
collided on the Holtville- Brawley
highway and gas tank on the hay
truck exploded, setting fire to the
load and throwing blazing hay
over equipment and road.
Highway Patrolman Walter Walsh
said an army truck was towing a
shop truck at the time of the col
SiSion.
Pvt. James Wilson, 10, and Cpl.
Harvin, %, suffered minor injuries.
The army equipment was driven by
Cpl Albert E. Mitchell and the hay
truck by Frederick Edwin Little, 81,
Holtville resident
Patrolman Walsh summoned the
county fire fighting equipment from
Brawley to keep the fire under con-
troll and the highway maintenance
crew to block off the road so that
other vehicles might not be endang-
cred.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Former Resident
Of Valley Dies

Mrs. Ruth A. Knight, wife of
George H. Knight, watermaster for
the Imperial Irrigation district from
1925 to 1941, died at her home in
Los Angeles Monday and will be
buried after funeral services We'd
neSday.
The funeral services will be held
Wednesday at the Armstrong Family
Funeral parlors at 1901 South Hope
street. Los Angeles, friends in I'm
perial Valley we're informed Tues
day.
She came to Imperial Valley in
1915 and lived in CaleXico and I'M
perial at various times before leav-
ing the valley in l941. The Knight
home is at 1900 South Alvarado
street, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Knight
died there. They left the valley be-
cause they were in i'll health.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

The two pronged offensive =
fourth by the Soviet armies this
Summer-gained momentum along a
broad front as other Russian forces
surged through burning, re-captur-
ed Kharkov in drive to hammer
the enemy back behind the Dnieper
river and farther.
More than 80 towns and villages,
including Donetsko-Amvrosievka, on
the Stalino-Taganrog railroad 10
miles Southwest of Voroshilovgrad,
fell to the Russians in the first
three days of their break through
of the Axis Mus river line into the
Donets basin.
Advances of up to % miles since
Saturday through defenses that
stopped both the 1941-42 and
l942-43 Soviet winter offensives
were reported in a special COM
muniqUe last night. One Russian
formation alone killed 1,50O Ger
mans and wrecked Is Axis tanks,
Seventeen German planes were shot
down in aerial combats.
The Mus river advance, coupled
with twin drive from. the Soviet
bridgehead on the West bank of the
Donets below Izyum, to the North
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
All Germany Put
Under Control Of
HiInmIer's Police
Chief of GestapO Now
Ranked Behind Hitler,
GOering in Nazi Party

LONDON, Aug.24-(UP)
The Berlin radio today an
nounced the appointment of
Heinrich Himmler, chief of
the secret police, as minis
ter of interior in a Nazi govern
ment shakeup that London experts
believed virtually would place all
of Germany under direct gestapo
rule.
The major reorganization in the
Nazi leadership was revealed few
hours after the heaviest raid of the
war on Berlin. Competent observ-
ers here saw it as desperate
gamble by Adolf Hitler to prevent
a German internal collapse under
the impact of intensified air at
tacks and mounting military de-
featS.
COMPLETE CONTROL
Gestapo. after his appointment as
interior minister had complete con-
troll not only of the entire German
police and armed SIS, but the coun-
try's whole internal life.
The way was cleared for Hitler
to put more power in Himmler's
hands by the removal of DR.. Will
helm Frick, long time minister of
the interior.
Frick was shCnted to the post of
protector" of Bohemia and Nor
avia, which was opened up by the
relieving of Baron Konstantin Won
Neurath. A number of lesser of
ficers were affected, and there was
an implicit though unexpressed
hint that Robert Ley had been
ousted from the Nazi labor front
leadership.
The shuttle obviously strengthen
ed enormously Himmler's person.
al prestige and power, and appar-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

OF lncendlarleS turned
Adolf Hitler's capital into raging
inferno visible for $50 miles, re-
turning crewmen said.
Fifty-eight bombers were lost, the
greatest number ever lost in a sim
gle British raid on the continent.
The huge four -engined Strings
Halifaxes and Lancasters loosec
destruction on four square miles OF
the city and left smoke rising 49,
900 feet into the sky.
The whole assault took a little
less than an hour, but nevertheless
was twice as heavy as any of the
70 previous raids on Berlin and
perhaps four times as heavy as any
single German raid on London.
(The London Evening Standard
quoted German broadcast that
American planes participated in the
raid, but the broadcast has not re-
ported by any other listening post
and the 9th u. S. air force denied
any of its planes were out last
night)
Subsequently an official an
nouncement said that no American
planes took part in the Berlin raid
IN CLEAR WEATHER
"The assault was delivered il
clear weather just before midnigh
and preliminary reports indicate
that bombing was highly concen-
trated," the air ministry said.
Airmen who participated in some
of the nine raids that all but blast
ed Hamburg off the map between
July 24-Aug e said last nights raid
appeared fully as effective.
1T probably will take a few
extra raids to wash out Berlin" one
pilot said, But we certainly made q
good start in that direction"
The bombers swarmed over Berlin
in what was officially described as
Continued on page 6, col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Jap Sea ckieftain
Is Reported Lost
BY UNITED PRESS

A Chinese dispatch reported Tues
day that Japan had lost her new
fleet commander, Admiral Mineichi
Koga, in fighting in the South
Pacific, where Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's forces continued to make
gains.
The Chinese central news agency,
quoting a Chinese military source,
said Koga, successor to the late
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was
killed aboard his flagship in a
bombing attack last month North OF
New Guinea.
Koga succeeded Yamamoto after
the latter was killed in air combat
in the South Pacific.
Severe air and sea blows against
Japanese naval vessels occurred IN
the Solomons area in July. The
enemy lost more than II Warships
in two surface engagements near
New Georgia and in an attack by
American planes in the Northern
Solomons
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-CUP)-
The army wants no part of super
vising the Japanese-Americans in
relocation camps while Agencies ex-
ist which could and should" han
die them efficiently.
Thus, the Dies subcommittee
headed by Rep. John Costello, D.,
Calf, SHE'D away from a recon-
mendation that the war department
Supplant the war relocation author
ity in this field.
THE war department at this
time has a sufficient burden in eff
fectively conducting the war, be-
cause of which we know that the
war department is unwilling to as
srme any additional burdens which
could and should be efficiently
handled by other agencies of the
government" Costello said in a re-
port on its three months investiga-
ton of WRA.
Costellos committee said that the
WRA, under director Dillon S. Myer,
was released % members of the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
War
PI an $
Mode G
Churchill, FDR
Promise Forward
Action by Armies

QUEBEC, Aug. 24-UP)
President Roosevelt and
Prim Minister Winston
Churchill announced today
that their eight-day war con-
ferences had been largely devoted
to the war against Japan and prom
ised that powerful forward action"
would be executed soon by the
fleets, armies and air forces of the
two nations.
armies, and air forces of the two
nations. .
In what probably will be regard
ed as their declaration of Quebec" "
the two leaders announced the pos
sibility of a tripartite conference
with Soviet Russia, but in an ex-
planatory press conference accom-
panying their statement explained
tactfully that Russia was not ask
ed to this largely Pacific meeting
because she is not at war against
Japan.
Refraining from any positive
statement on details of the decisions
reached here, Mr.. Roosevelt and
the Prime Minister told in their
joint statement how the war talks
were devoted largely" to "the war
against Japan and the bringing of
effective aid to China"
ANNOUNCE APPROVAL
Then they announced their Un-
animous approval of the plans
reached by their combined chiefs
of-staff and agreement on political
issues underlying or arising out of
the military operations.
The statement also disclosed that
Continued on page 6, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Fertilizer for l.. Y.
On WaV West

County Agricultural Commission
er B. A. Harrigan Tuesday was
called to Los Angeles to attend a
meeting scheduled Wednesday to
arrange for distribution of train
load of fertilizer en- route from the
east coast.
The trainload of single super
phosphate, necessary for the winter
crops in Imperial Valley, Yuma,
and Phoenix areas, will be dis
tributed among farmers in the
three areas.
This trainload is the first of the
$4,000 tons declared to be needed
this winter for wartime crops.
The fertilizer will be sold at a
ceiling price of $3.50 a ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
WAC Recruiting
Jap.Anlericans

CHICAGO, Aug. "a (UP) - The
Womens Army Corps now is re-
cruiting Japanese American girls,
regional officials of the War Re-
location Administration said today.
WAC recruiting officers are visit
ing the 10 WRA relocation centers
in the west to sign up volunteers,
WRA officials said.
The eligibility requirements, they
said, are the same as for other
women, except the Japanese
American recruits need be only 81
inches tall instead of So, and they
may weigh only 95 pounds instead
of 100.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

approximately $4,000 more than
that of last year.
Evan T. HeWes, district president,
said the reduction in the tax rate
was brought about because of the
directors recent action in refund
ing bonds and warrants.
Of the money raised through
taxation $65O,OOO will be used for
the redemption of bonds and war;
rants and paying interest on out
standing obligations, $l50,000 will
go into drainage fund, $4,000 in
the districts emergency fund, $75,-
600 for payments to the federal
government on the Laguna dam
and $197680 for maintenance and
operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
ALLIES BEGIN DESTRUCTION OF BERLIN
NO FATHERS GO
BEFORE OCT. Is

SACRAMENTO, Aug. "a (UP)
= Lieut.. Col. Kenneth ii. Leitch
today announced that no pre-
Pearl Harbor fathers will be in
Quoted in California before Oct.
rs and said that if the October
state quota makes it necessary to
draft fathers they will be in
Quoted between Oct. 26 and 81.
The October quota, he said, is
slightly less than that for Sep
tember, which was about three
times the August number.
IF ther, ale fathers taken i'm
October" he added, "it will be
very limited number"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
II Million Tires
Released in 1q43

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-(UP)-
Rubber director William M. Jeffers
said today that 100000 passenger
car tires will be released for es-
sential civilian use this year and
that an additional 300,000,000 pas
senger car tires will be manufac-
tured and distributed for similar
use in 1914.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
THE STATES BATTLE

Bruce King who is from Texas,
and Mrs. King, who is from Arkan-
sas, battle continually about the
advantages of their states.
When that big migration started
from Texas and Arkansas and head
ed for California in the depression
days" King told his wife. They
came to a big sign which said
Straight ahead for California All
those who could read came on to
California and the others got lost
and went back to Arkansas.
king will find poison in his
beans some day.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

of informing rural and city resi-
dents of the best methods for get
ting satisfactory results from their
home gardens.
DR.. c. M. Rick, member of the
truck crop division of the Univers-
ity of California, was loaned to p. A.
Mings, university truck specialist in
truck crops, for this series of gar
den meetings, Assistant Farm Ad-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

Imperial Irrigation district direc-
tors took final action on two
matters vitally important to dis
trict residents Monday by setting
l943-44 tax rate of $3.50 per $100
of assessed valuation and calling a
special election for Sept. 16. at
which time voters will ballot on
the issuance CT $6,000,000 worth of
power bonds which would be used
to purchase the power properties
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24

visor George Winright said Tues
day.
In addition to the garden discus
sions, home poultry. milk, and meat
projects will be discussed for the
benefit of city and rural residents
interested in these phases of the
war time food production program.
Exact dates and places of these
meetings will be announced as soon
as the schedule is worked out.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Victory Gardens
Get Expert Hell p

Home gardeners of Imperial county will have exper
help this fall in planning, planting and caring for the
Victory garden plots it announced Tuesday,
A series of home garden meetings will be held il
various cities of the county early this fall for the purpos
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
British Lose So Bombers
I'm Greatest Raid Ever
Made on Reich's Capital
Huge Tonnage Of Bombs Loosed on
Ci+y as Allies Begin to 'Hambursize'
It; No yank Planes Accompany RAF

LONDON, Aug. "a -(UP)- A huge British air
armada, opening what may be Hamburg" offensive
dropped 1500 to 1000 tons of bombs Berlin last night
in the heaviest raid of the the German capital
Great four-ton super blockbusers and hundreds of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
Reds Near Heart
Of Donets bdsin

MOSCOW, Aug. 24.-(UP)-Red armies smashed deep
into the mnerarich Dones basin against fierce resist
today Lberang territory held by the Germans since
194 and threatening to collapse the whole Axis position
in South Russia
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
D AMBllNe
~ EpORTER
TRUE STUFF

Truth is stranger than fiction.
Virginia Grassland Tuesday morn
ing donned sweater in her office
in Ell Centre because she was cold.
Don't tell the outside world but the
cooler was to blame.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
BASEBALL

AMERICAN
First game: RHE
New York .......... 100 O1O OOO-2 IL /
Detroit 100 OO1 OOO-l 4 /
Chandler and Dickey: White,
Corsica and Richards
NATIONAL
First game:
CIllCdSO ....-...------......UuU UUu
New York 100 300 0
Bithorn. Warneke. Erickson, Pas
seau and Mccullough; Chase, Field
man, Hubbell, Adams and lombard.
ot. bOulS ........-.........--......OuU "
DOotOih ..-....-...-..........-.-.....UUU
M. Cooper and w; Cooper;
Javery and Poland.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-24
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 100, minimum
Monday 10; 5 am. Monday ", hu-
midity SO; noon Tuesday 98, hu-
midity 23; pm. Monday SO. hu-
midity 16.
La gaceta., 1943-06-10
Los "HitlemStdS" Sc PyOpOmen
ReCM1YIY o. los Gases VeMeMOSOS
DERRIBADOS A LOS ALEMANES
ENTIRE $50 Y 100 AEROPLANOS
ATACADAS POI LA AVIACION LAS POSICIONES
FINLANDESAS

Escuadrillas rojas bombardea-
ron no solo aerodromos, sine tam
bien dep6sitOs de municiones y
combustible.
Los alemanes cOncentran fuer-
zas v enormes c~antidades de ar
mamentos en- ell sector Orel-
Bryansk y los frentes centrales.
Recientemente ell enemigo hizo
ataques en- los frentes de Lenin-
grade y VOlkhOvO y trat6 de des-
truir las fabricas de armamentOs
de Cork.
La radio alemana asegura que Ia
amenaza del presidente Roosevelt
sobre los gases no tiene puntO de
apoyo v da a entender que ell Reich
Sc propone atacar a Russia desde
ell aire, este veranO, con enOrmes
fuerzas.
Soldados rojos asaltaron
las lineas finlandesas y mataron
a 40 hombres, quitandoles cuatro
ametralladoras y varias subame-
tralladoras.
En- los alrededores de Leningra-
do Sc lie destruyeron a los h~itleris-
tas importantes puntOs fOrtifica-
dos, incluyendo "cajas de pildo-
ras', fortunes y trincheras pro-
fundas.
Los peri6dicos dan la noticia de
que los Aliados han ~resuelto sitiar
la isla de Pantelleria, en- ell Me-
d~iterraneo, que es diariamente
atacada por centenares de aerOpla-
nos.
La escuadra inglesas y la avia-
ci6n Aliada, incluyendO muchOs
aparatos norteamericanos, inter-
vienen en- las operaciones.
81 la guarnici6n italiana no sc
rinde, la isla sera arrasada por
complete.
Possible es que los Aliados in
tenten un desembarco apoyados
por miles de aviones y la escua-
dra.
La gaceta., 1943-06-10

MOSCU, JUNO 10.-Documen-
tos encontradOs a los prisiOneros
alemanes revelan que ell Eje sc
propone recurrir a Ia guerra de
gases como SUI Ultima esperanto
de victoria.
Las radioemisoras sovieticas
transmiten programs para que la
poblaci6n civil aprenda a defen-
derse contra la guerra qufmica y
posibIemente microbiana..
"Posible es que ell enemigo AFRO
je cases." Sc dice, ''por cuanto sa-
Demos que los 'hitleristas' despre-
clan todas las convenciones inter-
nacionales."
BESIDE ell martes pOr la noche
hasta hoy, centenares de aviones
roios atacaron seis importantes
aerodromos y lie d%estruyeron al
enemigo entire $50 Y 100 apara-
tos. Los photos rusos perdieron
81 de sus maquinas.
Ell mando aleman arroj6 tres
ondas de aeroplanos, 70 en- total,
contra Volkhovo, 80 millas al sur
este de Leningrado, y "a de ellos
fueron destruidos.
Atacando en- horas del dia, e.
martes, a 10 largo del rio Volkhov,
los alemanes sc e%ncontraron con
una cortina de fuego antia@reO y
poderosa resistencia pOr los cazas.
Cuatro edificios sufrieron danos.
Dos aeroplanos rusOs Sc perdie-
ron.
La radio alemana habla de un
ataque a 16 millas por ell oeste de
Leningrado, en- Oranienbaum, re-
velando sin quererlo que los SOL
dados rojos ocupan esa importan-
tie poblaci6n frente a la fortaleza
de Kronstadt y la base naval de
la isla Kotiin.
CREASE que la Inca s%ovietica
solo Sc extendia hasta P%eterhof,
IL millas por ell oeste suroeste de
Leningrado, y seis millas de Ora
nienbaum.
La gaceta., 1943-06-10
De vIOLENC|A
CONTRA Los MEJ|CANOs

LOS ANGELES, California, ju-
MO 1O.-Actos de %violencia han
ocurrido aquf entire mejicanos e
individuos evidentemente prena-
dos de prejuicios raciales.
Mas de $50 personals fueron le-
sionadas v en- las carceles estan
encerradas unas 500.
Ell Abogado General del estado
conference o ell g~obernador
Warren y la ley Sc aplicara con to-
do rigor.
En- Washington, un funcionario
de la embajada mejicana expreso
su indignation por Ell ataque, no
provocado, hecho contra miembros
de la colonia mejicana en- Los An
geles.
Possible es que Sc formule una
protesta ante ell gobierno de los
Estados Unidos.
La ~secertaria de estado llamo
por telefono al alcalde Bowron y
este prometi6 que la ley esra cum
plida. "No hay problema de dis
criminaci6n racial" dijo.
Intervinieron en- la rina solda-
dos Y marineros.
Ell consul general m%eJicano en-
Los Angeles, Alfredo Elias canes
recomienda a las familias meJica-
mas que no dejen salir de nOche a
sus hiios y parientes, con Ell I'm
dc evitar desagradables a%conteci-
mientos.
La gaceta., 1943-06-10
INA LEG|sLADORA PIDE
A LAS MUJERES QUE
ESTUD|EN la NUEVA LEY

Clearwater, JUNO 10 La
representante Maria Lou Baker,
autora de la ley sobre los derecnos
de la mujer, aprobada por la ulti-
ma legislature, pide a las muJereS
que estudien la nueva importance
legislation.
No releva la nueva ley al hon.
bre o esposo de la obligation de
mantener a su esposa y familla;
NO anula ell derecho de una muJer
4 ma tercera parte en- la herencia
de su esposo; no cancela por COM
nleto Ia relaci6n de bienes entire
marido y mujer; la firma DE i1s
dos. marido y mujer, debe ser OBJ
tenida para hipotecar la casa no.
gar de ambos.
Una mujer puede ahOra estal
asociada en- negocios con su mari
do o son cualquiera otra persona
que ella escoja para clio, sin tener
ane conseguir IN permisO de los
tribunales; una mujer puede &C,
tuar con ell poder de un abogaao
n.r. su esposO o puede cOnceder
= n.i.roo derecho a su marldo'