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The messenger., 1943-08-01

ca dnk1C III q 1dll GU UAlO A A~O0 ~ Whitney plant.
 Following a week at Old Or chard, Maine, MT. and Mrs. Christian Peterson, 1892 Terry Plaines, attended the racing meet at the Empire track, New York.
 MT. and Mrs. Richard D. Keller, 5 Knollwood Rd., have been vaca- tioning at Lake Sunapee, NH.
 A few hours after the father had departed for duty in the US. Navy, July 16, daughter was born to MT. and Mrs. Hardy. Mrs. Hardy was Marie Kohler and is now visiting at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Howard w. Kohler, 756 Bloomfield Ave.
 Chris Webber, the II year-old son of MT. and Mrs. Norman Web- Der, 196 Terry Plaines Rd., under went a slight operation at the Hartford Hospital late last month.
 Phyllis E. Bidwell, senior at Pembroke College, Providence, has been named to the deans list for the first semester of the academic year 1943-1944.
 James Baker has resumed his residence at the home of his broth CT, R. w. Baker, Cottage Grove Road.
 State police are Investigating a fire which destroyed about two acres of tobacco tenting on the American Sumatra Plantation in North Bloomfield early Saturday morning, July 31. Both the Bloom field Center Fire Department and Blue Hills Volunteer Department answered the alarm.
 The establishment of an Honor Roll for members of the Bloom field High School Alumni Assoc iation in service is being delayed because of insufficient funds and unless the project can be financed by donations from the membership it must be postponed for an indef mite period. It is explained that all present available funds are re- quired for the Annual Alumni Award. The Association now has 178 of it's members in the various branches of service.
 Ivan Moore is back working, fully recovered from the burns he suffered several weeks ago. What man wouldn't recover and get working when he hears that he has become the daddy of a son? 1t was the day his son arrived that he first went back into the fields to help take in the hay.
 Karl Mailing, 32 Elizabeth Ave-, was guest of honor at a surprise party on his 83 birthday, July 30. Many of his Danish friends from town and Hartford were on hand to greet him.
 A daughter has been born to MT. and Mrs. Richard Heating, 737 Cottage Grove.
 MT. and Mrs. John D. Stout, IT,,
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WOOD--Seasoned oak and pine flrewood
$40 cord delivered. Chestnut 1896.
PREPARE FOR THIS WINTER.
Oak, Hickory, Seasoned-$2O Cord,
Pierson. Sandy Spring. Ashton 1891.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Derrnody Is Named
lid. Secretary
Al Meeting Here

G.. l.. (Jerry) Dermody has
been appointed secretary of
the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict to succeed the late Wal
ter Goodson. His appoint
ment was made by district direc-
tors at a meeting Tuesday after
noon.
An employee of the district for
the last 20 years, Dermody has serv-
ed in several positions and since
1880 has been assistant secretary OF
the organization.
His first job was with the dis
trict was that of deputy collector
a post he assumed in 1923.
He took over the position OF as
sistant secretary in 1890 under
Frank H. McIver, former district
secretary, and continued in that
capacity when Goodsen assumed the
secretaryship in 1884.
The board elevated Dermody to
his new post in an unanimous ac-
ton.
No assistant for him has as yet
been selected. Choice of man for
that position will also be up to the
board of directors.
Dermody is married and has two
children. He is resident OF Ell
CentrO.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
WLB Calls Public
Hearing on Coal
Dispute Tuesday
Group to Hear "Such
Report as Anyone
May Care to Deliver

WASHINGTON, June >.
(UP)--The War Labor Board
today called a public hear
ing for tomorrow on the
coal mine wage dispute to
receive such reports" as any party
may care to submit.
The boards order came as jockey
ing in the operators-United Mine
Workers bargaining session indi-
Gated that last-minute efforts were
being made to reach an agreement
which would cover northern soft
coal mines. r.
Southern mine operators, how
ever, made it clear that they still
regarded the negotiations as hope
lessly deadlocked and were prepar-
ed to submit detailed report to
the War Labor Board on the points
still in dispute.
The northern operators were be-
lieved to be considering the posi-
5ility of agreeing to payment CT
$3.50 daily portal-to-portal pay
pending an investigation to deter
nine the average miners under
ground travel time 1t was believed
John L. Lewis and the mines un-
doubtedly would agree to such a
provision.
Toda"'s union operators meeting
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,OPA Reform Nears
FIVE NAzIS FLEE
TEXAS PRISON

that they had escaped some time
after midnight.
The men were wearing either
blue pants and shirts, or old Ger
man military uniforms of an odd
khaki color, resembling olive drab.
The five men and their descrip-
tions as announced by the FB1
were:
Adolph Bobenberg, %, five feet
eight inches, weight 1877 pounds,
blue eyes, brown hair and light
complexion.
IndWig Jung, 81, five feet II in
ches, weiaat 1853 pounds, blond hair,
gray eyes and light complexion.
Hans MaSSoeur, 81, height five
feet nine inches, l54 pounds, dark
Lrown hair, blue eyes, light COM
pleXion.
Harold Stalleicjen, %, six feet,
$50 pounds, hazel eyes, brown hair
and light complexion.
Ralph zeischang, q, five feet six
inches, l54 pounds, blue eyes, brown
hair and ruddy complexion.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Sea Scouts Need
ReDair Plvwood

El Centro Sea Scouts need some
plywood to repair sail boat and, if
possible, build a new one for use
in their activities, it was an
nounced Wednesday by Joel Avina,
first mate.
There is priority on the ply
wood" First Mate Avina said, but
we thought someone might have
some extra that we could Use. Con-
tributions may be left at the Ell
Centre police station.
There are IA boys in the Scout
ship and their activities provide eX-
cellent training and recreation for
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Riots May Affect
.MexiCan.Yankee
Affairs--Downev

SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.
fUP)-Sheridan Downey, D.,
Cal, warned today that the
zoot suit riots in Los Angeles
may have "eXtremely grave
consequences in impairing relations
between the United States and
Mexico, and also may endanger the
program of importing Mexican
labor to relieve the manpoWer
shortage on U. S. farms.
Downey, here with senate mill
tary affairs subcommittee to study
wartime problems, disclosed he had
several phone conversations with
Los Angeles authorities concerning
the riots last night and early today.
MOST ARE MEXICANS
Most of Los Angeles 'zoot suit
ers' are Mexicans," he declared.
The trouble is an outgrowth of
wartime conditions SuperimpoSed on
such conditions. Those MeXicanS
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British Lose z
In Raid on Isle

VALETTA, Malta, June 8
tUP) - Light British naval
forces landed reconnaissance
party on The Italian island of
Lampedusa Sunday night and
all but two men returned,
cOmmunique said today.
Italian and German COM
muniques had claimed that five
British commando cOmpanies-
tetween 500 and 1000 men-at-
tackled the island and said all
of the landing force was an
initiated. The Axis also claimed
several landing craft were sunk.
The British cOmmunique said
light forces carried out coastal
reconnaissance on Lempedusa,
which lies 80 miles west of Malta
off the east Tuisian coast. and
that the vessels suffered no
damage. Only two from the
landing party failed to return,
il added.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Al! Restrictions
On Wool Lifted

WASHINGTON, June 9.-CUP)-
Hope that clothes rationing may
be avoided this year-and perhaps
for the wars duration-brighten
today with announcement that the
War Production Board has virtually
abandoned all restrictions on civil
ian consumption of wool.
The only restricting circumstance.
WPB pointed out, is the manpower
and machine shortage. Although the
existing supply Of wool may be ade-
quate, the supply cannot be utilized
without sufficient tools and work
men,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Stores Will Close
Earlier on july II

Retail merchants of Ell Centro
will close their establishments at G
pm. on Saturdays, beginning July
II, it was decided at a meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce mer-
chants committee Wednesday
MORNING.
The early Saturday closing hour
will be in force until September II,
at which time stores will again re-
main open on Saturdays until
pm.
While most firms will observe the
summer hours, drug stores, reStau-
rants and several other types of
businesses will remain open later.
The committeeman also agreed to
recommend the closing of Ell Gen.
tro stores on Monday July 5, in
observance of the nations indie
pendence Day.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

CAMP HOOD, Texas, June g.
(UP)-Five German military pris-
oners were at large in Texas today
after their escape from the North
Camp Hood internment area.
Military authorities enlisted the
aid of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, state and local officers
in the search for the men, all 81
or % years of age, who made their
getaway by as yet undiSclosed meth
ods.
It was understood that seven pris-
oners originally escaped but that
two were recaptured.
Only official statement from
Camp Hood was:
mo military vehicles are miss
ing"
That apparently cleared up re-
ports that the men had escaped in
n military vehicle.
: Camp officials informed the FBl
that the men were missed during
the regular morning checkup, and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Mrs. J. Dempsey
Has Court Round
AS Jack Is Absent
Judge Refuses to Dismiss
Suit Against Ex-Musical
Comedy Star in Divorce

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y,
June 9. (UP)-Mrs. Han
nah Williams Dempsey came
out for her round in her
doubled-barrad divorce suit
with Lieut.. Cmdr. Jack Dempsey
tCdaT after Supreme Court Referee
j. Addison Young had refused to
dismiss the former heavyweight
champions complaint.
Recovered from the nervous col
lapse" which kept her confined at
1ome during all of Dempsey'S por-
ton of the trial last week, rlrS
Dempsey was in court today when
her attorney Gerald Donovan, NOV
I'd for a dismissal of Dempsey
complaint on the grounds of fail
Ire to prove any acts of adultery
as alleged in the bill of particulars.
DEMPSEY ABSENT
Dempsey, an officer in the L. S.
coast guard, was absent. His attor-
aey, Arthur F. Driscoll said he had
been called back to duty.
ut was the opinion of his supe-
rior officers in the coast guard that
the trial was taking too much OF
his time Driscoll told the referee
He has, however, a half promise
that he may be permitted to testify
On rebuttal."
1t appeared therefore that Demp-
sey would hear none of his wife's
witnesses dispute the testimony OF
his witnesses that the former musi-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
County State Guard Units
Stuv Same Under Set-Up

in the Spruce Mulberry area and
in the Jasper and the Mt. Sigma!
areas.
All of these various protection
units have been in existence for
a long time and meet regularly for
practice drills and instruction under
the leaders. The units operate, of
course, under the regulations and
rules set up by the state organiza-
tions of the state guard and the
militia. The militia, 1t will be re-
membered, was organized only in
the rural areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
. Reps.
TO Take
tiu n q
Group He ads in
Ne citing TO Set
Up Action Plan

WASHINGTON, June 8.
(UP)-A coordinated con-
erassional move to reform
the Office of Price Admins
tration took shape today as
a result of a conference of chair
men of three house committees with
Speaker Sam Rayburn.
The chairmen agreed during the
meeting on respective spheres of
authority for their committees, and
directed their legal staffs and in
vestigators to coordinate their ef-
forts.
Present were Chairman Howard
Smith,, D., Va, of the special COM
mittee investigating executive agen-
cieS; Chairman Wright Patman,
D., Tex, of the small business COM
mittee; and Chairman Lyle Boren,
D., Okla, of the special interstate
commerce subcommittee investigat-
ing grade labelling and newsprint
orders.
The conferees agreed that the
Smith committee would devote it
self to studying the legality of OPA
actions; the Patman group would
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

the north Pacific, the Russo-Ger-
man. and the Chinese fronts.
"All this adds up to what can be
described without eXaggeration not
only as the greatest naval war In
which we ever participated. but the
greatest naval war in the history
Of the world" he said.
In his prepared speech, Knox said
that the navy must now win and
maintain freedom of the air as well
as freedom of the seas
The air is q new symbol OF free
dom or slavery-an instrument OF
either freer movement than we nave
ever known or an instrument OF OPP
preston with which single nation
could enslave the earth
This was the second class TO
graduate after three, instead OF the
usual -four years at the academy,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

'night to investigate when he saw
man lying in a road of the indus
trial suburb.
AS he neared the body, he said,
a car parked at the curb and load
ed with PachucoS-Zoot-su suited Mex
lean hoodlums-roared into action.
1t was impossible for him to side
step it.
Even the decoy in the street
was a Pachuco," he muttered.
CLIMAX RIOTS
Medley's injuries climaXed five
nights of rioting between service
men and young Negro and Mexican
hoodlums clad in rakish zoot suits.
The disturbances prompted the
Mexican consulate to send official
reports to the embassy in Washing
ton and the foreign office in MeXi-
co City.
Meanwhile, the navy issued a
drastic order declaring the entire
city of Los Angeles "out of bounds
to sailors. coaStguardsmen and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

properties was turned over to the
military. This order did not affect
the reserve units in Imperial coun-
ty, units which are trained and
prepared to guard the various pub
lie properties when necessary"
In Imperial county there are six
units of the state guard reserve,
one in each incorporated town eX-
cept Holtville where most of the
personnel was called into the SER
vice In addition to these state
guard units, Captain Kepley said,
there are units of the state militia
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

thor of the original bill, said the
compromise would set up machinery
for an election and 30-day notice to
strike after the War Labor Board
has assumed jurisdiction over a
labor dispute in a war industry.
He said, however, that any right
to strike in war industry was
virtually wiped out by the bills
provision that the government may
seize any war industry whose inter-
ruption is threatened by a labor
dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Warren Approves
Unemployment Bill

SACRAMENTO, June (UP) -
Gov. Earl Warren today waited
until the closing hours of the legis-
lative bill signing period to approve
the abolition of the part-time ad-
ministration of the unemployment
insurance program in California
and substitute a full-time commits
sion pledged to reorganize the entire
setup.
Al the same time he announced
he will veto a series of seven other
bills changing jobless insurance
standards to avoid tying the hands
Of the new commission even before
it has had the opportunity to study
the defects of the system and ap-
ply the remedy that experience and
good management should dictate
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

North African headquarters an
nOunced the demand on the island
a few hours after the italian radio
had reported that an ultimatum for
caritulation had expired and the
garrison was preparing for a land
ing attack.
IN L5AFLET FORM
An African headquarters COM
munique announcing the demand
on Pantelleria said it was dropped
on the island in the form of leaf
lets, and was designed to save the
garrison and inhabitants from un-
necessary suffering
Without mentioning a time limit
on the demand, the communique
said the air and naval lombard
ment of Pantelleria, together with
blockade measures, would be main
tained so long as the Italians Ignore
it.
Intensifying the campaign against
the Mediterranean stepping stones
to Europe, Allied planes and war
ships gave Pantelleria its heaviest
pounding of a long and relentless
assault and struck at other targets
along the southern bulwarks of the
continent.
REVEALS THREAr'
One day short of three years after
Italy entered the war Rome an
nounced for the second straight
day an Allied threat to an Italian
island in the Mediterranean-Pan-
telleria today, Lampedusa yesterday,
according to axis accounts of a
commando raid on the latter out
post.
A broadcast Italian communique
said the allies delivered the surren-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

ers, ready for passage b. both
houses of congress before the June
20 deadline in the present coal mine
truce.
The legislation went to confer
ence because of a ouse-approved
provision to permit strikes in war
industries after a secret ballot of
the employees and a 30-day cooling
off period. The senate rejected that
provision on the grounds that no
interruption should be countenanced
during the war emergency.
Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex, au-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
Argentina Makes
Bid for RECOGNITION

BUENOS AIRES, June 9 UP)-
Argentina's new revolutionary gov
ernment bid today for recognition
of the United States and other
countries with an announcement
that it will demonstrate with deeds
its friendship with the other Ameri-
can republics.
Official communications an
nouncing establishment of the new
government under President Gen.
Pedro Ramirez were handed to
foreign ENJOYS last night. 1t was
learned that the American embassy
Immediately transmitted the COM
munication to the state department
at Washington for study and advice
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09


said the ALLIES were making graft
flying progress in the battle of the
Atlantic" He warned however
that thought each day secs new
victories won, that vital sea contest
is BY no means Won"
Knox departed from his prepared
address and spoke eXtemporaneously
for the most part to the 765 gradu-
ates and their guests.
And then there's the south
Pacific front" Knox said where
one of the strongest American fleets
ever assembled keeps watch and
prepares for fresh activity"
There are now eight fronts, not
one" he declared.
He listed these eight fronts as the
western Mediterranean, the astern
Mediterranean. the Atlantic, the
south Atlantic, the south Pacific,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
VINO Chief Urges
Wives TO Work

LOS ANGELES, June 9. CUP)-
Wives who want war plant job
needn't worr% that it will hasten
the draft for their husbands, the
War Manpower Commission limited
broadly today.
Area VINO Director H. R. Harnish
said most able bodied men under
38 face induction this year anyway
and a working wife will have no
effect on date of the call to arms.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
NOT DISCLOSED
Seven Decorated
For Sub Work

PEARL HARBOR, TIL, June O.
(UP)-Seven members of the Pa
cific submarine fleet were awarded
decorations yesterday for outstand-
ing action against Japanese ship
ping by Rear-Admiral Charles A
Lockwood, Jr., commander of the
fleets underseas forces.
They included Lieut.. Commanders
Roy M. Davenport, TIC South Cit
rus street, Los Angeles, Calf. a gold
star in lieu of a second silver star;
Wreford Chapple, Billings, Mont.
and Raymond H. Bass. 2373 West
c2nd street, Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09

Anxiety caused by the disbanding
of the active section of the Califor-
MIA State Guard need cause no
worry in Imperial county because
there are six active units of the
state guard reserve in Imperial
county at all times, Captain John
KepleY said Wednesday.
when the active duty branch
of the California State Guard was
disbanded," Captain Kepley, head
of the state guard reserve in Impe-
rial county, said, sit meant that the
task of guarding various public
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-09
MEXICAN EMBASSY is
UNDECIDED ON MOVE

WASHINGTON, June 9.-UP)-
The Mexican embassy said today it
had not yet decided whether it has
any reason to make representations
to the State Department concern
ing the treatment of youthful "ZoOt
suffers" of Mexican descent in Los
Angeles.