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Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Peace Rumors Are
False, Says Hull

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 up
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said
today that recurring peace rumors
are false and are being circulated
by enemy sources to create over
confidence among the Allies and
thus impair the Allied war effort.
Hull was asked at his press con-
ference to comment on reports from
various neutral sources that Ger
man spokesmen are sounding out
Allied leaders on the possibility of
negotiated peace.
"I think l would be safe in au-
thorizing to put me entirely in the
negative about such rumors at
every days conference until l
notify you to the contrary Hull
answered
They are evidently put out, most
of the time, with view to creating
ver-confidence among the Allies
in carrying on the war to a success
full conclusion, and in that way inn
pairing the whole vigor of the war
situation on the Allied side.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Scothins Attack
OPAIS Made

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 CUP)-A
special house committee charged
today that the Office of Price Adj
ministration and other executive
agencies had used the subsidy pro-
gram, lend-leaSe act and needs of
the armed forces as "suterfuge to
impose legislation upon the country
which congeSs had failed or refused
to enact.
In the third interim report in its
investigation of excess use of au-
thority by the executive branch, the
committee, headed by Rep. Howard
Smith, D., Va, centered its attack
on the CPA. 1t accused that agency
of maintaining meat and cattle
pricing policies that violated ex-
press provisions" of the price con-
troll act by setting meat ceilings not
generally fair and equitable" and
by fixing indirect ceilings" on the
price of live cattle.
The report also:
|. Charged that the agriculture
departments food distribution ad-
miniStration and the federal sur
plus commodities corporation, in
contracting for dairy products for
military and lend-lease purposes,
inserted clauses which sought to
amend the provisions of the fair
labor standards act of 1893 which
exempted certain employers in the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
LITTLE ! CAN
DO'-WARRE En-

Gov. Earl Warren during the
weekend issued an official state
ment setting forth his stand in the
strike of power employees of the
Imperial Irrigation district, the
United Press reported.
Unfortunate as the situation
can be-" the governor said, there
was little the governors office can
do about strike of A. F.. of l..
electrical workers against the I'm
perial Irrigation district"
However, he quoted from a state
ment he attributed to President
Roosevelt that a strike of public
employees "manifests nothing less
than an intent on their part to
prevent or obstruct the operations
of the government"
THE Imperial Irrigation district"
the governor said, lis a statutory
agency of state government with
full power to regulate it's own af-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Now Needed Are
Horse, Hot Doq

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (UP)
The public soon will be getting
larger share of the govern
ment's surplus property" which
includes $4,000 sets of unused
army harness from the last war
and 100000 wooden mustard
spoons.
What with tanks and jeeps and
similar cOntrivances, there is lit
tie use for horses or mules to pull
caissOns i'm this war, so the army
after 25 years has unpacked the
harness and turned il over to
treasury's procurement division
for sale.
Faithfully for the past quarter
century il has been taken out OF
storage and shined at army depOts
once every three years-but now
it will BE-, sold to harness manu-
facturers who will revamp it for
farm use.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

things which they should have
and have not been able to get.
Washington and the east have
thought of the west as the far west,
the very far west, and all of us
want to convince them that we are
a part OF the union"
News of Hays departure for
washington was greeted with in
terest in Imperial Valley as he is
so we'll informed on the problem
and plans of the residents of the
valley. He was secretary of the Ell
Centre chamber for more than II
years. Hays still has farming inter-
ests in the valley and is deeply
interested in valley development.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Directors Refuse
Mediation Offer

SACRAMENTO, Nov. %. (UP)--
Paul Scharrenberg, state director of
industrial relations, today disclosed
that his offer TO mediate in the
strike of AF'L electrical workers
against the Imeprial Valley Irriga-
ton District had been turned down
by the district board of directors.
Scharrenberg said the refusal
was contained in a telegram in
which the directors said they didn't
want to deal with any outside
labor agitatorS." He commented
that the statement was reminiscent
of the last century and said that
apparently anyone who was born
outside Imperial county was con-
sidered an outside" person.
Although the union has agreed to
arbitration or mediation, Scharren-
berg said he could not enter the
dispute unless both sides agreed.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

fairs, consistent with the Consti-
tuition of the state and the specific
laws for the administration of such
agencies, and such general laws as
are applicable to them.
1T is beyond the jurisdiction of
this office and the state generally
to more than urge all concerned to
bear in mind the rights of the
public" he added.
He declared that a work stop
page in the electric or irrigation
services of the district can only re-
suit in serious consequences to the
food supply of California and to
the training of troops in the armed
forces which are dependent on
these facilities.
He also said that under his
limited powers the state director
of industrial relations, Paul Schar-
renberg, had offered to mediate in
the dispute at the governors order.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

dairy industry from meeting over
time requirements.
2. Criticized the federal surplus
commodities corporation for enact
ment of new legislation" by writing
into contracts clauses against dis
elimination against any person be-
cause of race, creed, color or ma
tional origin. Regarding this pro-
vision, it said: Congress has never
enacted such a law, and however
laudable its purposes may be, no
government agency has been au-
thorized by legislation to impose
such a condition"
RECOGNIZES ONE BODY
Declaring that the Constitution
recognizes but one legislative body.
namely, the congress" the report
said
when an executive agency finds
that it cannot perform its functions
efficiently under the authority
granted it by congress. it has but
one alternative: that being, to c
port the facts to the congress and
request an extension of its powers. ="
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Nays New Secret
Weapons Are Said
Better Than Foes
Developments of One
Time Impossible Are
Now i'm Constant Use

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
(UP)-Rear-A w. II.
p. Blandy, chief of navy ord
nance, said today that the
navy has developed new Sc
cret weapons which will rank as
high or higher than the German
ia radio-controlled bomb and the
acoustic homipg torpedo when the
story can be told"
At a press conference on the
eve of his departure for a sea COM
mand Blandy said that "one or
two of our developments will be
called romances of science"
"One development now in use was
once proclaimed impossible by
foreign scientists he continued
Hundreds of new developments
are still in progress-some are re-
finements, others will be revolution
airy in character"
GOOD WEAPONS
Blandy said the Japanese have
some good weapons but none of
them is of a revolutionary charac-
ter"
He stressed the Importance of
keeping knowledge of the secret
weapons from the enemy at this
time, but promised that they would
be revealed to the public when and
if any of them were captured by
the Axis powers.
In a review OF his term as chief
of the bureau of naval ordnance
since February, 1941, Blandy reveal
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Treasury Begins
HOPELESS fiqht

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. tUP)-
Treasury spokesmen today began an
apparently hopeless fight to revive
their proposal to exempt almost
100000, more persons from income
tax, and renewed their opposition
to a sales tax.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
first witness at senate finance COM
mittee hearings on the house
approved $2,l40,000 bill, said the
fiscal picture has improved. but
more taxes were needed to absorb
the inflationary gap" which may
lead to "black markets, ruptured
ceilings, and substantial increases
in the cost of living.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

LII. JOIlIl L. NdSOIl IOlu q blcS
subcommittee that Japanese
American girl in the center's hos
pital had told him that between
5000 and 10000 internees had been
warned to Join the crowd or die. >
Mason charged earlier that War
Relocation Authority Director Dill
lon S. Myer made no immediate
effort to investigate the disturbance
during which DR.. Reece Petticord
the chief physician, had been bad
ly beaten, and that Myer caution
cd staff doctors to ''bc careful be-
cause this might cause an inter
national incident"
Describing the demonstration
which occurred on Nov. | and which
has now led to demands for per-
manent army control of the center
for disloyal Japanese-Americans
Mason said:
FORM SEMI-CIRCLES
"They packed in tight around the
building, they formed tight semi
circles around the doocS. ther flat
tened their noses against the WIN
dows: two of them with knives
chiseled at the window sashes.
I'VE all felt at the mercy of these
people.
During the four and a half to
five hours on Nov. that most of
the white personnel of the camp
were virtually held prisoners in
building a 17-man delegation of
japanese were presenting demands
on Myer and Camp Director Ray
Best, demands which were halted
only b. news of continuing attacks
on the camp medical staff
A transcript of that meeting,
read to the Dies committees counsel,
quoted Best, Immediately after re-
ceiving a phone call from the hos
pital, as stating: They have beaten
up Dr. Petticord. That will have
to be stopped right away"
George Kuratomi, spokesman for
Continued on page 6, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
kazis Retake Isle
In Aeqean Sea

LONDON, Nov. 30. CUP) - The
Berlin radio reported today that
the Aegean island of Thera (San-
torin), 70 miles north OF Crete, had
surrendered to German naval forces
the first indication that the AL
lies had penetrated that deeply
into islands below Greece.
The German DNB news agency
in a broadcast dispatch said that
Thera capitulated to the Germans
Saturday night.
There was no immediate eX-
planation of when or how the Allies
had taken the island.
The 35-Square- mile island of
.Thera, one of the Cyclades, lies
some so miles west of Stampalaia in
the Dodecanese, which Allied forces
were reported to have held some
time ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Flying Fortresses
Raid Continent

LONDON, Nov. %. (UP)-Strong
formations of American Flying
FortreSseS battled dirty weather,
icing conditions, and German fight
ers today TO bomb targets in north
west Germany for the second time
in four days.
Today's attack was on a lesser
scale than the record bombardment
Friday of Bremen, but it added
considerable tonnage to the weight
of explosives dropped on Germany
by the American heavy bombers
this month.
The FortresseS were escorted all
the way to the target by Republic
P-47 ThUnderbolt fighters of the
United States Eighth air force.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
|. /. D. |
Power |
Flowing
Zanjeros Refuse
To Quit Work;
Plants Guarded +

The strike at the Imperial
Irrigation district entered its
third day Monday with 60
striking electrical employees
"dismissed for cause" and
40 of the original lis strikers back
at work. %s
I'VE dismissed the 60 electrical
employees" said Chairman Evan T.
HeWes of the irrigation district
board, because they we're taking
their orders from the union in
stead of from their department
superintendent.
THE district is continuing to
operate with the help of the loyal
district employees who did not strike,
volunteers from among the farmers
of Imperial Valley, and new men
we have hired to take the places of
the strikers"
ALL ZANJEROS REPORT
HeWes said he was told that the
union representatives Sunday con-
centrated on the zanjeros, the men
who handle the only domestic and
irrigation water supplies available
to Imperial Valley residents, and
urged them to strike against the
district. Hewes said, however, that
all the zanjeros reported for work
as usual Monday morning.
In the water department shops
SIS men refused to walk through
picket line established by the union
Saturday. All but 13 of the So we're
back at work Monday morning.
Meanwhile farmers of Imperial
Valley, who had been made special
deputy sheriffs by Sheriff Robert
w. Ware, continued to guard vital
irrigation district plants and equip
mcnt and helped to keep the cleo
Continued on page 6, col y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

now Is IN lenerdn ana would pro-
ceed to Egypt for meeting at
which he, Mr. Roosevelt and Chur-
chill would formulate demands for
the immediate, unconditional sur
render of Germany.
(The Lisbon dispatch relayed
through the British censorship was
the most fortnight report so far
of the many circulated regarding
a Roosevelt-Stalin- Churchill meet
ing. Others have been largely Of
Axis origin, obviously not depend
able and of a propaganda nature)
The United Press report from
Lisbon regarding the purported con-
ference did not identify the travel
ers or say where they came from.
1t mentioned both Cairo and Alex
andria as possible meeting places
of the Allied big three"
AXIS REPORT
An earlier NaZi broadcast heard
in Stockholm said the three already
are proceeding with the momentous
conference.
Though the broadcast said the
conference was being held at an
''undefined place." other reports
reaching Stockholm suggested the
"hig three" were meeting in North
Africa.
Eduard Benes, president of the
Czech exile government, also was
participating at Stalin's express
wish, the German radio said, while
the London Daily Mail reported
rumors circulating that General
issimo Chang Kai-shek and per-
son representing Germany in some
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

He said that San Diego has grown
to such size that it has problems
comparable to those of San Fran
cisco and Seattle and therefore It's
officials decided to open an office
in the capital and keep a represen-
tative there to look after the city's
interests.
Il shall go back there to try to
secure those things which the
southern part of California wants
and needs" Hays wrote friends in
Imperial Valley. I'm addition, the
other large cities of the west want
San Diego to have someone there
in Washington SO they may have
a united western front to secure for
the II western states some of those
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Tuesday DeadIine
For Dairy Subsidy

Tuesday is the last day applica-
tions can be signed for the dairy
subsidy payments to farmers, Ru-
dolph Miller Of the county Triple A
committee said Monday.
The applications for payment of
the subsidy, which is an adjustment
between the ceiling price Of milk
and the cost of feed. are ready at
his office and must be signed not
later than Nov. 30.
The drafts for payment may not
be attached or assigned, but go
directly to the dairymen, he said.
The drafts are made here and can
be caShed Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
az Strikers Now Back at
Jobs: 60 Are Dismissed
D AMsllNe
1\EpoR1ER
Maybe He Sings

Maybe He Sings
There was a mouse problem al
the Marshall Seed and Feed COM
pany S. T. Marshall knew that
something had to be done about
it. He pondered, How, he said to
himself, can l get the best of those
mice? AT last he hit on plan.
I'll pay anyone five cents for
every mouse he catches" Marshall
said to his staff. Nov get busy
and clean them out"
Every man in the store rushed
out and bought a supply of mouse
traps. They all collected but no
one collected as much as Marshalls
son, Jimmy. 1t always seemed that
Jimmys traps caught more mice
than all the others put together.
The rest of the staff vowed that
Jimmy must take the mice out of
their traps because it just wasn't
possible for his traps to catch so
many.
The rivalry is still on with jim
my operating under cloud of sus-
picion.
EtDont forget, you mouse trap
rers, that there was Pied Piper
who had way with rats. Maybe
Jimmy has some such system he
uses on the mice)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

Seeley MONDAY ana coilSJruCIlOll
will begin late this week.
Included in the new buildings arc
barracks for officers and men, mess
halls. day rooms, dispensary, and
maintenance buildings.
Camp Seeley has been occupied
by several different army units since
it was established. First came the
eleventh cavalry. then the 18th field
artillery, and at present the ord
nance test command is established
there.
News of the new buildings was
greeted with pleasure by officers
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

and men of the desert test conn
mand as they have been housed In
tents so long. They believe that
they will be more successful IN
their battles against desert wind
and dust which seep into their
working and sleeping quarters. They
also know they will be much more
comfortable In both summer and
winter weather.
II was said that the type Of build-
ings to be installed will not take
long TO build.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29

The Nazis used flame throwing
tanks for the first time in Italy
in a futile attempt to stop Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's vet
Grams, who plunged forward with
aid of an earth-shaking artillery
and aerial bombardment.
In the first lunge, a foothold in
the enemy's line was gained near
Castelfrentano, just inland from
the Adriatic, and other Eighth army
troops threw a second bridgehead
across the Sangro r'ver near Archi,
IA miles inland.
GOOD PROGRESS
A communique SAID the British,
Indian, and New Zealand forces
were making good progress" i'll
heavy fighting.
AS the British struck in early
morning darkness yesterday, Ameri-
can forces forged a slight gain in
high ground on the Fifth army
sector and Allied bombers ranged
north to Trieste to cut the Austria
Italy railroad.
On Saturday British warships
bombarded the enemy's rear lines
in the Gulf of Gaeta on the west
coast the second time in six days,
and the previous two days other
surface vessels shelled German
positions on the Adriatic.
Failing to stop the Eighth's at
tack with regular tanks and special
flame -throwerS, the Germans sent
40 planes in four waves at the
assault forces but each wave was
intercepted, forced to jettison its
Continued on page 6, col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
British Ind LuII
I'm Iealy Bottle
Eighth Army Smashes Forward in Area
OF Nazi Adria+ic Line Anchor; Foe
Uses Flannel hrowinq Tanks in Fiqh+

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers Nov. 20. (UP)-
British Eighth army forces have smashed into the Adatc
anchor of the German winter line in Italy announced
today increase in land and air action indicated
the lull in the battle toward Rome ended.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
RobertHoys Goes
ToU. S. Ca pitaI

Robert Hays manager of the construction industries
department of the Diego chamber of commerce and
formerly secretary of the E Centre chamber of commerce.
will leave San Diego this week to open an office for
the San Diego chamber in WaShngtOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Jups Threatened
bv Own Leaders

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (UP)-Japanese American
nernees at the Tue Lake Ca segregation center
threatened by their eads with death unless they Joined
the demonstration Nov which led to riot the former
senior medical officer at the center said today
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
New Buildings for
SeeIey Are Slotted

Permanent buildings will be installed at Camp Seeles
to replace the tents which set there when the
established the camp in pre-Pearl Hafbor days,
army officers revealed Monday.
Materials for the buildings were route TO Camp
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Germans Caught in
Jaws Of Big Trap
In White Russia
Fleeing Nazis Must Go
Through Rain of Steel
From Russian Big Guns

LONDON, Nov. 30. (UP)-Radio
Moscow announced today that
Soviet troops have captured sew
eral enemy strGnghOlds in the
Dnieper bend southwest of Dne-
propetrOvsk, killing more than
1000 Germans.
Red army forces are continuing
their offensive into the Ukraine
below DneprOpetrOvsk, the broad
cast said, adding that nine enemy
tanks were destroyed in the ac-
ton.
On another undisclosed Sec
tor, battalion of German infan-
try was wiped out after stub
born battle, it said.
MOSCOW, Nov. 20. (UP)
German oops routed
from Gomel were in panicky
flight toward hlobin today
under a shattering hail Of
Russian artillery fire which COM
pletely spanned the 19-mile wide
corridor between the jaws of a red
army trap.
The course of the disorderly Nazi
flight through lower White Russia
was marked by abandoned armSA
blown up bridges, and hastily sown
mine fields intended to impede the
Soviet pursuers.
The Russians sped II miles along
the Gomel-Zhlobin railroad in
single day to within 18 miles of
the latter point, a vital junction
Continued on page 6, col -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Stain Said on
Way to Meeting
With Ally Chiefs
Travellers in Lisbon Say President of
u. S.. British Prime Ministers Have
Been in North Africa for Several Days

LONDON, Nov. 90 (UP)-Travelers reaching Lisbon
reported there today that President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill had been in Cairo for several
days and that Premier Josef Stain the way
them Lisbon dispatch quoting the travellers said Stain
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
Mail Department.

Mail Department
This came in the mail '-onday.
Dear RR-Rumors were ram
pant following the Turkey Day
football game that Coach Ander-
son challenged the Heber grammar
school to a post-seaSon bowl game
Will you please have one of your
personal investigators check this?
'P.S.-It was close game the first
three minutes"
The note was signed The Mayor
of Plaster City
Up In The Air
1t is we'll known fact that Harry
Horton is wrapped up in his activ-
tiles as pilot in the Civilian. Air
Patrol. He's a lieutenant, and all
that sort ol Thing, in the CAP.
The other day Horton was in
court because when he isn't flying
a plane for the CAP he is attend
ing to business as an attorney. He
was citing case in court.
You will find that case" said
Horton with his mind in the clouds,
lin 81 CAP"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-29
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday 76, minimum
MDnday SO; 5 am. Monday AZ, hu-
midity 53; noon Monday IL, humid.
ity 28; pm. Sun. 6S, humidity "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-05
North Carolina

The president of the North Caro-
lima Society, Mr.. John K. Slear, with
Mrs. Sloar and the members Of the
members of the board Of the organi-
cation, their wives and husbands,
will be in the receiving line Saturday
evening when Mrs. Roosevelt will be
the guest of honor. The occasion
will be the annual Christmas party
of the Society and will be held in
the large ballroom of the Shoreham
at 9 o'clock.
Those in the receiving line will be
Representative and Mrs. Harold D.
Cooley, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Kenneth
c. Royal, Miss Emily Carter Warren,
Miss Annie Lee Chisholm, Mrs.
Macie Lowe, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Hessick, jr.; Chaplain and Mrs. Will
liam S. Hicks, Col. and Mrs. John D.
Langston, Gen. and Mrs. A. L. Cox,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. McFayden, Mr..
and Mrs Robert A. Winston, Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Spain, Capt. and Mrs.
Josephus Daniels, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Brookbank and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Pike, Representative and Mrs. Cam
eron Morrison and 1t. Comdr. and
Mrs. w. Ney Evans, co-chairmen on
arrangements, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jonathan Daniels, members of the
distinguished guests committee,
with other members of the North
Carolina delegation in Congress, also
will be on the reception committee.
Season membership cards and a
limited number Of guest cards may
be had from the president, Mr.
Slear, and the secretary, Miss
Chisholm.