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Evening star., 1943-04-23
White House Action
Threatened by WLB
In CeIanese Strike
PorIey Called Here in
Effort to Avert
Coal Mine WoIkout

The Government was coming
to grips with John L. Lewis on
two fronts today, with an i'm
piled use of armed force threat
ened in one sector where his
United Mine 60 Workers are in
volved. ~
The National War J Dor \ ard
last night issued an !-timatuL to
UNIV District so, calling for can
collation. "at once" of walkout at
the plastics division of the Celia
nese Corp. Of America, Newark; and
declaring that the alternative would
be the referraE of the case to the
White House. This step usually is a
preliminary to intervention by the
armed forces.
K. c. Adams, press representative
OF Mr.. Lewis, said in New York that
the UNIV president won't make
any statement on the ultimatum to-
day-I think"
Earlier. the WLB, which has been
bitterly assailed by Mr.. Lewis,
moved to avert a, strike in the BIZ
luminous fields by summoning the
miners chief to a conference here
at 10 am tomorrow. Called also
were Charles O'Neill and former
Senator Edward r. Burke, chair
men of the Northern and Southern
Appalachian Operators Committees
Both said they would attend.
Negotiations Renewed.
Meanwhile, representatives o1
Pennsylvania anthracite coal oper-
ators and the mine workers were tc
resume contract negotiations in New
York this morning with the union
having rejected a counterproposaI
advanced yesterday by the oper-
| ators.
Strikers at the Celanese plant
yesterday cheered the reading of a
telegram to the WLB asserting that
its board was making "unwarranteo
threats" and offering to go back te
work only IF assurance is given
grievances will be adjusted" The
ultimatum followed.
President Howard Gill of the
striking Local 1866, District so
UNIV. had said, however, that I'll
the Army or Navy enter into the
matter, we will gladly work for them
but not for the Celanese Co."
The Labor Board telegram, signee
by Wayne L. Morse, representa-,
the public, said mo union offlcia
or group of union employees ha
any right in time of war to sa,
to their Government or to tn,
people of this country that the,
will continue to strike against tn,
Government until and unless til,
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Sweden Rotions Shoes

STOCKHOLM, April % tR.-Shoe
rationing was instituted today in
neutral Sweden, with every one re-
stricted to one new pair each 18
months. During that period, more
over, men can have only one pair
OF old shoes half soled and women
two.
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Wreck Survivors in FIoridu

The Navy Department reported
today that survivors have been
landed at Miami, Fla, from me-
dium-sized United States merchant
vessel which was torpedoed and sunk
by an enemy submarine In the South
Atlantic early IN March.
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Gov. Stussen Ordered
To Active Navy Duty
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASsocfAted Press.
The Navy announced last night
that Gov. Harold E. Stassen Of Min
nesota, lieutenant commander in
the Naval Reserve, has been ordered
to active duty, effective April %.
Evening star., 1943-04-23

tSee TOXIC, Page ADD
Evening star., 1943-04-23

(See WAR LOAN, Page AID
Evening star., 1943-04-23

(See AFRICA, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1943-04-23

(See MINERS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1943-04-23

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-X Of this edition Of
The Star, supplementing the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1943-04-23

(See RUBBER, Page AS.
Evening star., 1943-04-23

(See PAY, Page A-30
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
Fishing Added to
List of Essential
War Activities

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-UP)-
A revised occupational bulletin is
sued today By the selective service
system added commercial fishing
to the list of essential activities,
grouping it with agricultural SER
vices which previously had been an
ncunced.
The bulletins are for the guild
ance of local draft boards. Specific
jobs listed as critical in the COM
merical fishing industry are:
Cost accountant; fishing vessel
captain: chief and second engineer;
all-around fishermen covering
fishermen who by training and ex-
perience are capable of performing
all operations by using one or sew
eral kinds of gear and who can per-
form requisite construction, repair
and maintenance of such gear :
barge operated pile driver foreman
West COAST; rigging scow fore
man west Coast; webbing fore
man; mate; oyster culturaliSt;
operated pile driver operator.
The category "all-arOund" fish
erman does not include workers
performing only one or a few of the
lesser routine tasks and does not
include casual fishermen.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
81 Men FromI.V Y.
Swell U.S.. Army

Continued from Page One
Ian Pedroza, Manuel Bracamonte,
Marvin Bryan, Hector Medina, Doyle
Smith, George S. Martinez, Cruz
Escamilla, Robert Holt, Tomas Obe-
20, Henry Cordero, John Ram, James
L. Strange, Ostie Kiiby, Orville N.
Ray. Ollie Brewer, william Herman
dez, Bernard Mendez, Charles Hicks,
Floyd Holmquist, Norman Tyson.
Birtus Perritt, Edward G. Wylie,
Thomas McGrath, Gilbert Cooley,
Samuel Eriz, Patrick Brown, Ofviey
Ashbrook, David Strange, Abner
Sneed. William Reid, Jake DUNCAN,
George D. Glass, J. L. Gideon, Cam
don Sudduth, Herbert Spence, JOS
eph Myers, Edgar Hazlip, Willard
Stump, William Johnston, Ernest
Herrera, Carlos Ramos, Sam Bell,
Robert Baly, Walter Schultz, Will
liam Robbins, Arley Stanley, Robert
Clark, Pringle Collier, James Tuttle,
Joseph Sexton, Hector Esquer, Vim
cent Zamarripa, Tommy D. Jones,
Paul Albert, Lloyd Coate, James
Evans, Zacarias Umagat.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
0PA Sponsors
Propaganda

ing planned by three government
agencies. II
The campaign, timed to coincide
with point rationing of canned
foods next week and of meat and
fats in the near future, is being
sponsored jointly by the Office of
War Information, the Agriculture
Department and the Office of Price
administration. :,
URGE SUBSTITUTES 8
Housewives will be urged to use
fresh vegetables, potatoes, fruit,
cereals, bread, eggs and milk in
place of commodities now rationed.
Storekeepers will be asked to give
prominent display to them both in,
their stores and advertising.
Chief media of the campaign will
be newspapers, radio, motion pic
lures, lectures and billboardS. An
Owl official said leading food adj
vertisers recently pledged $10O,O00,-
900 worth of advertising for boost4(
ing foods recommended by govern.
ment agencies. E
Owl already is supplying extern
sive material for women's pages of
newspapers, suggesting balanced
menus and new dishes of unra-
toned foodstuffs. The Agriculture
Department is asking food retail
ers to feature regularly so-called
Victory Specials items in plenti-
full supply.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
Americans Strike
Hard at Forces
CONTINUED from Page one

Continued from Page One
ed in the steady reduction of tht
Axis bridgehead in the northwes
Caucasus, while to the north the
Russians were plugging toward tbs
Dnieper river and the big German
base of Orel where the central ano
southern fronts join.
Nazi resistance in the rich and
heavily fortified Donets Basin
shaped up as one of the toughest
nuts the Soviets had to crack
throughout their winter campaign.
The Nazis claimed the recapture of
KramatorSk and Krasnoarmeiskoye
two OF the basins strongest bastions.
but the claim lacked responsible
substantiation
The Royal air force. pressing its
offensive against Germany toward
the long standing goal of nightly
raids, bombed the industrial center
OF Nurnberg in southern Germany
and other targets in the Reich.
Russia and the Jugoslav govern
ment were reported to have reached
a tentative understanding for set
ting dissenSion among their factions
in Jugoslavia, sort point in the
Allied strategy. The reports gave
rise to hope for a coalition of Gen.
DraJa Mikhailovitch's patriot forces
and those led by Communist parti-
sans
For the fourth straight night Fly
ing FortreSseS bombed Rabaul, key
Japanese base on New Britain is
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
Easier Now to
Buv n eW Auto

The Office of Price Administra-
tion eased the restrictions, effec-
tive March g. and made the entire
stock of unsold cars-about 100000
available for sale under rationing
regulations.
1t said that the automobile ra-
tioning order had been rewritten
and simplified to expand eligibil-
ity lists and to liberalize types and
cars with list prices over $500.
ORDER PROVIDES
The new oroei provides:
l. "A moderate enlargement" of
those eligible to buy new cars to
include persons whose present cars
are no longer serviceable and who
need requirements for purposes
listed for &C. gasoline book hold
erS.
g. A greater expansion" in the
list of persons eligible to buy con-
vertibles and cars in the higher
price bracket to include those not
having use of a 'Serviceable vehicle
needed in any gainful occupation
or work related to the war effort
or public service"
3. Ration free" purchase by
anyone in the same classification
of a 194l model driven less than
1909 miles considered new. Deal
ers will be held responsible for Sc
curing information on the purchas-
er'S qualifications.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
Education Expert
Discusses Taxes

Continued From Page One)
! that at present the government
was utilizing so per cent of all
goods produced in the nation.
DEMAND GREATER
Prior to Japan's attack on Pearl
Harbor, SO per cent of all rubber
used in the us. was imported
from the Orient, Wakeley said,
adding that the annual consump-
ton in this country approached the
100000 mark during peace times.
The demand for rubber has in
creased greatly, however, he said,
because of the war program.
He explained the need for the
rubber rationing setup.
The United States rubber stock
pile consisted of about 100000 tons
at the outbreak of h os tilt ii S,
Wakeley explained.
He offered a degree of encour-
agement to listeners when he pre-
dicted that 100000 tons of syn
thetic rubber would have been pro-
duced by midsummer. By next
summer the amount will have
reached the million-ton mark, he
said
He told his audience that many
new hardships were looming be-
cause of the discontinuance of the
manufacturing of many household
articles and rationing restrictions.
He decried the loss of man work.
ing house in war plants because of
absenteeism, and at the same time
told how many of these plants
were solving production problems
through close cooperation.
Predicting spending spree for
the country following the war, he
stated that Americans would own
bonds worth about SO billions of
dollars at the close of the conflict.
The government would be in po-
sition to cash the bonds at any
time upon presentation, he pre-
dicted.
He foresaW additional transfer of
civilian workers from non-eSsential
occupations to plants producing war
materials. He added that one
method being used to increase out
put was the increasing of the effic-
iency of present workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
'Conchie' in Gandhi
Sympathy Fast

CAMPTON, N. H., Feb. 26-(UP)
-Corbett Bishop, innate of a con-
scientious directors camp here, to-
day began the 18th day of what he
termed a 2l-day last in sympathy
with the great struggle" of Mo-
handas K. Gandhi.
CARRIED in dungarees and fez-
like hat on which was printed
free India now" Bishop said he
felt perfectly capable of continuing
his chores.
Bishop, a native of Corinth,
Mass, and a former West New
York, N. j., bookseller, said his
last food was a sandwich February
10. Camp officials said he re-
peatedly refused to attend meals
at the main dining hall
Since beginning his fast he has
lost about % pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
AAA FIELD MAN
ENDS VISIT HERE

Henry Lassalette, district field
man for the state Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, ended a
visit of several days to Ell Centre
Friday night and travelled to San
Diego where he was called on busi-
ness. While here he conferred
with Rudolph Miller, secretary of
the local Triple A organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
Scion Proposes
Bill After Work
On Planes Stops

Continued from Page One
delayed by labor disturbances or
other causes.
Such plants subsequently would
be returned to the owners whenever
it is determined they can be op-
Grated privately lin a manner con-
sistent with the needs of national
defense"
The bill would outlaw jurisdic-
ton disputes. 1t would set up a
wage board to consider pay adjust
ments but woulG. outlaw pressure
for wage increases through strikes
or labor disturbances.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
MEDALS OF BRONZE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(UP)-
The armed forces will reduce the
use of copper for insignia and ap-
parel so that servicemen cited for
bravery or efficiency will be cer-
tain to get their bronze medals,
the War Production Board an
nounced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
STATE WAR BOARD
SPECIALIST HERE

Jack Hartline, information spec
ialist for the state war board. was
a business visitor in the valley
Friday. He arrived Thursday and
planned later to visit San Diego
before returning to his office in
Sacramento.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
"PERFFCTLY LEGAL"

They are at least common-law
marriages. another aSsemblyman
who didn't want to be quoted
commented, which are perfectly
legal"
Attorney General Alan Bible said
he would make a study of the Ne
vada Inv 10 determine whether
the statutes contained any other
provisions for performance of mar
riages.
This is the first time I have
heard of it." said Bible. when in
formed of the marriage situation by
telephone.
Il don't know anything about
it," he continued, "but I will inves-
tigate the situation today. There
is a possibility some other Nevada
law, by inference, gives ministers
and judges the right to perform
marriage ceremonies, but tn
would have to be investigated. I
am only specializing"
Bible said the situation present.
ed interesting possibilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(UP)-
A highpowered propaganda cam
paign to induce housewives to sub
stitute unrationed for rationed
foodstuffs in the family diet is be-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
VOICE CRITICISM

Several Senators voiced criticism
of the Boeing workers. Senator
Harry F. Byrd. Democrat, Virginia,
said Congress should stop the
strike" by passing legislation out
lawing strikes in vital war indus
tries
Senator William LANCER, Repub-
lican, North Dakota, said, however,
that "a strike is often the only
remedy working man has to get
enough to eat and wear" He un-
derstood that these strikes wait
ed two months for the War Labor
Board to give decision" he said,
adding that government officials
don't seem to appreciate that
poor people can starve to death in
two months"
Board members pointed out ear
lier that the WLB has been study
ing this case for some weeks, and
that its complicated nature has
held up final settlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
ScanningI.V Y.
News Horizon
LODGE TO MEET

Ell Centro lodge No. 334. F.. and
AM, will confer a degree at the
meeting Monday, 7:30 pm. in the
Masonic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
Nevada MARRIAGE
Legality Doubted

Continued from Page One
the statute books. So it was re-
pealed by adoption of another
amendment, which not only wiped
oft the part pertaining to Justices
fees. but invalidated the original
territorial act.
Thus by the last amendment,
the legislature not only took from
judges the right to perform civil
ceremonies, but deprived clergymen
of their legal power to unite cou-
Piles in marriage.
Whether the lawmakers can do
anything for the thousands who
married since 1887 is a matter of
speculation. They may be able to
pass a law legalizing the marriages
at this late date. said Frank In
gram, bill drafter for the assem-
bly,.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(UP)-
1t will be just little easier hence
forth to buy new automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26

land off Australia, hitting four
ships and blasting Rabaul itself
for two hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26
More Liberal Farm
Parity Plan Gets
Committee 0kay

tAOlIllldtu IIOIll rage OllG'
ious phases of the farm labor situa-
ton. Several members protested
vigorously against administration
policies.
GIVES VIEWS
The secretary said he did not
believe congress should enact legis-
lation which would "let a man out
of the army because he lived in a
rural area" but that he would like
TO see legislative action which would
prevent further drafting of skilled
farm labor.
Under questioning by Committee
Chairman Hampton P. Fulner, D.,
S. c., Wickard said he had been
advised b. Selective Service Direc-
tor Lewis B. Hershey that 250,000
single farm workers had been placed
in the new &C classification-the de-
ferred designation for essential farm
workers.
Meanwhile the senate committee
on military affairs today postponed
action on bill to defer all farm
labor from the draft.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-26

Continued From Page One)
that at present the government
was utilizing so per cent of all
goods produced in the nation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
NEEDED INVESTIGATION

An investigation of deep interest to
all relatives and friends of men in the
Army and Navy has been begun by
the Senate War Investigating Com
mittee. The committee is studying
causes of all Army and Navy plane
accidents since the start of the de-
fense program.
Last July, International L b O r
News Service asked why so many SOL
diers were being killed in airplane
crashes and declared it was high time
the people demanded an answer to the
question.
1t was pointed out that Army heads
said the loss of life was only normal
or less than normal, for an army in
training. "The nation has only their
word for it." ILNS said. "Why should
there not be searching investiga-
tion to get at the TRUTH"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
Union Member Is Clerk of
Indiana Supreme Court

Indianapolis, Ind - When Thomas
E. Williams, for % years member of
the Journeymen BARRIERS Interna-
tional Union at Jeffersonville, Ind,
started recently his four-year term as
the clerk of the Indiana Supreme
and Appellate Courts he won the
honor of being the first member of
organized labor to be elected to a
state office in Indiana.
His nomination by the Republican
state convention made him the first
unionist to be nominated to a state
office by any major political party in
the Hoosier state. In the November
elections he polled the highest plur-
ality of any of the winning Republi-
can candidates on the state ticket His
plurality was 124,303.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

workers, who turned out enough car
tridges for an entire Red Army divi-
sion.
The newspapers, according to a
Moscow radio broadcast picked up by
FEC monitors, also described Volga
steamer manned entirely by girls.
"They are making good job of it,
too"
There are plenty of women man
aging factories and mills and a num-
Der who have, since the war began,
proved themselves to be first rate or
ganizers, industrial executives and
technologists," &c lare Pravada,
Russian newspaper.
At the same time, the British
Broadcasting Corporation, in a Dutch
language program directed to Europe,
said Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her
message of greeting to the Soviet
women, had said: "The American
women are, like the Russian women,
taking part in all kinds of war pro-
duction. They are determined not only
to help win the war, but to do it as
quickly as possible"
BIC said women of 19 nationalities
had met in London to commemorate
"those women who have given their
lives in honor of freedom" Messages
from Mrs. Roosevelt and Madame
Chang Kai-Shek were read.
Here's piece of wisdom from John
Marchbank, vice-president of the In
ternational Transport Workers Fed
Grafton:
Much, if not all the world of to-
morrow depends on the cooperation of
organized labor and the influence it
will be able to exercise around the
peace conference table in the interest
of all peoples and all nations"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
ARMY MADE
A MISTAKE

(From Journal of Electrical Workers)
A traveller who has recently taken
a tour through the western states re-
ports that he found in some of the
local slaughterhouses that milk cows
are being slaughtered at an enormous
rate. This was taking place while
everywhere reports were evident that
there was shortage of butter, milk
and other dairy products. Here is one
of those terrible Embellishments of
our economic system that make men
grow weary of the struggle to i'm
prove it.
The cause for the slaughter of the
milk cows seems to have been the
draining off from the farms of farm
help. Farm dairies are more depend
ent upon skilled and competent labor
than any other branch of the farming
industry. When the Army took dairy
hands for mechanics without c0nsid-
ering the serious effect of this upon
food production, it made mistake.
1t is high time the War Manpower
Commission began to face this situa-
ton and began to improve it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1943.
DRAFTING LABOR

To cure "absenteeism" the Austin
Wadsworth bill proposes to draft
labor and send workingmen here and
there at the discretion of some official
Apparently all that is needed to
produce war materials is supply, or
an over-supply, of labor. No consid-
GRAFTON is given provision of nateri-
ais, housing, sanitation, food, trans
portation. All we hear about is the
absence of labor, which government
officials, including the Labor Depart
ment, testify is at minimum.
The Manpower Commission is sup
porting the Neutrality-suspicious. bill,
which gives the commission authority
to assemble manpower and materials
which it can best serve the nation and
has for its purpose something more
than subduing workingmen.
There have been too many in
stances. and recently, of workmen
being laid off, of workmen being
boarded, of families near defense pro-
duction factories having insufficient
food, shelter and transportation to
lead us to believe that mere drafting
of labor will solve the problem.
Overall planning is needed, and
this involves what we understand by
manpower. Men are useless without
materials and sustenance, and the
Austin Wadsworth bill is therefore
futile.
Give labor the tools with which to
do the job, and it will be done.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
Six Groups Hon0red
For Bond Purchases

Middletown, Ohio. - Employees of
six industrial concerns received War
Bond flags and certificates Tuesday
for subscribing 10 per cent or more
Of their earnings to purchases of War
Stamps and Bonds. The awards were
made to workers of the Barkelew
Electric Manufacturing pany,
Fairbanks Fiber Box Company, Mo-
kry and Tesmer Machine Company,
Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Miami
cabinet division of the Philip Carey
Company, and the general offices and
East works of the American Rolling
Mill Company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19

In the past, labor has helped put
safety laws in the statute books of
many states, but more can be done in
that field, by improving the quality of
existing laws, or by bringing about
their adoption and enforcement in
regions where no such laws now
exist. M. Ornburn.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-19
Elks Grand Exalted Rulers
Banquet Sunday

Next Sunday will be big day for
Hamilton Lodge, No. SO, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. 1t will
be the Grand Exalted Rulers Ban
quet and Mortgage Burning Cere-
monies in the Elks' City Club, which
starts promptly at $50 p. m. A won
derful menu has been arranged and
will be served to the members pres
ent.
Music will be furnished by the
Bendix Trio and George M. Ferguson,
will direct the Elks' quartette. George
T. Smith, chairman of the banquet
committee and John E. Watt, assist
ant chairman, have arranged the pro-
gram.