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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-12

prices vary with the nine regional
zones into which the country has
been divided. There are two classi-
fications Of prices, one for the in
dependent stores and one for the
chain stores doing a business In
excess of $250,0O0 a year.
All prices are tied to Department
Of Agricultural grades Of meat. The
grades must be shown on the meat,
while the list Of prices for the
various cuts and grades must be
plainly posted in every store.
What Is bad about the new
prices Is that they represent
substantial rise over previous
legal ceiling prices, which varied
from store to store. The rise Is
particularly marked when the
comparison Is made for the chain
stores. Their previous legal
prices were anywhere from 10 to
90 per cent below the present
ceilings.
It is true that the low chain
store prices were mostly a fiction
since these stores have had very
little meat to sell. Most OF the
supplies went to the stores that had
higher ceiling prices or to stores
that sold their meat without re-
gard to ceiling prices, high or low
Nevertheless many consumers have
been buying at least part OF their
meat at substantially lower prices
than they will now be forced to pay.
"Monkeyshines"
The OPA has sought to explain
the new prices as lower than the
actual prices which consumers
have been paying in recent months.
This explanation makes a monkey
of the BIS. Cost Of Living Index,
whose meat prices. evidently re-
fiecting legal ceiling prices rather
than actual prices, have shown al
most no change since March, 1912.
The BIS. figures will now have
to make a long jump in order to
catch up with reality.
An organized campaign to break
down OPA's rent control program
the best and most effective pro-
gram the OPA has carried out
has been started by the National
Association OF Real Estate Boards.
This organization, defeated In Its
efforts to push through anti-rent
control bills In Congress, has been
putting pressure on OPA officials
In Washington to change It's ply
steal administration as well as to
modify Its policies.
Among the demands made by this
organization are that rent control
should be put into the hands of
local rent committees. affiliated
with the local rationing boards. and
that rents should be adjusted to
the prevailing level of other prices
and to the income of the tenants.
Landlords Want Gravy
These demands sound reasonable
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-12

the JAW to head the child care
work Of the union. She came to find
out why the urgent child care
needs Of hundreds of thousands of
JAW women are not being met.
Here's the story on Detroit, for
instance. The Wayne County Child
Care Committee was established
almost two years ago. Finally. in
January, 1943, the Board Of Edu-
cation sponsored a project for
Lanham funds for so nursery
schools and Is before-and-after
school care centers. Two months
later Federal Works approved the
program but cut substantially the
amount Of Federal money re-
quested.
Detroit needs care for about
$4,000 children now. The new
projects will meet only half the
need. In the meantime, very
serious black market In child
care Is growing up.
And Detroit Is far better off than
many other war industry centers.
In Milwaukee the Board of Educa-
ton has refused to continue spon-
sorship of existing WPA nursery
schools or to apply for funds for
any additional facilities, although
working mothers are in desperate
need Of them. In Evansville, Ind,
where the city population has in
creased by 10000, UE reports there
are no day nurseries, nor any plans
for them"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-12
Landlords Wont Gravy

These demands sound reasonable
until 1t Is recalled that under the
administration Of rent control by
local committees, which preceded
the present era of Federal rent con.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

O1lCIioltC.
A communique announced that
American and Australian forces oc-
cupied Salamaua, once strong
enemy naval and air base, on Sum-
day as the remnants of the enemy
garrison fled up the coastal route.
Australian units from inland posi-
tions drove toward the coast, seek
ing to cut off at least some of the
enemy troops, and turned north
ward to herd them into the tighten
ing moose at Lac. At least 10000
enemy troops were believed caught
in the narrowing Allied lines.
TEMPORARY SAFETY
The enemy'S only sanctuary was
Lac, approximately Is miles north
west of Salamaua and that could
be only temporary since Allied
forces ringing that stronghold were
preparing for an assault on its in
ner defenses while Allied planes
kept up pounding attack to weak
en- the japanese garrison's ability
resist.
Allied aircraft began using the
bomb -pitted 1250-yard-long Sala-
maua airdrome at once. A small
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Girl Tesfifies in
Seduction Case
AGAINST PoIhamus

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. IA
tUP) - Fourteen-year- Mary
Monica Doyle Allen today sat in
superior court here and without
batting an eye told an all-womap
jury how Isaac Polhamus, 81, police
chief of Yuma, Ariz., seduced her,
while he was taking her and two
other youthful prisoners to San
Diego.
Under questioning by district
attorney Thomas Whelan, Mrs. AL
len, who looks considerably older
than Ia, gave all the intimate de-
tails of how the party left Yuma
with Polhamus and herself in the
front seat. 1t was there, she said,
that he fondled her and kissed her
once.
Later, after the party had stopped
for soft drinks, she and Polhamus
got into the back seat, she said, and
Glen Spaulding, l6, took over the
wheel. 1t was shortly after that the
greying police chief seduced her,
she testified.
Under cross examination by de-
fense attorney Ed Hervey the girl
said that Polhamus had promised
her that he would be able to get her
off without going to Jail in San
Diego and that she was kind of
mad and disappointed" at Pol
hamus. She also testified that she
was slightly mad" because she had
not been permitted to see her hus-
band, Douglas Allen, 81, before she
left for San Diego
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Boys
Arm
Severed
2-year-OId Bows
Arm CUT Off as
Truck, Car Crash

Two-year-old Norman Pip
pins left arm was severed
at the elbow Monday night
when a car in which he was
riding and an army truck
sideswiped on highway No. 80 north
of Westmorland.
Only portions of the boys arm
were found scattered on the nigh
way and on the two vehicles, offic-
ers said.
The car in which the boy was
riding was driven By his grand
mother, Mrs. Pansy Pippin. and
the army truck by Pvt. Robert Cas-
tillo Santos from an army base at
Thermal. The truck was one of a
long convoy headed toward Indio.
The boy is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otis Pippin, Heber residents. The
cars carrying various members of
the Pippin family we're headed south
toward Heber when the accident
occurred. Pippin applied tourni-
quet to his sons arm and the
three cars proceeded to Westmor-
land for help.
1t was understood that the con-
voy, including Pvt. Santos, pro-
ceeded toward Indio without realiz-
ing what had happened. Highway
Patrolman Walter Walsh asked that
the convoy be stopped as soon as he
was informed of what had happen
ed.
Mrs. Pippin contended that she
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
4 Carloads Of
Phosphate Arrive

Four carloads of phosphate. I'M
perial Valleys first shipment OF
an emergencg allotment of fertilizer.
arrived in Ell Centro Monday af-
ternoon and U. S. Department OF
Agriculture War board officials said
% additional carloads were sched-
uled to arrive Wednesday.
So far 1T cars of phosphate have
been allotted to this county but
the remainder of the shipment Is
not expected for several days. The
county war board is seeking more
than 100 more cars of the phos-
phate to be used in fertilizing es-
sential crops in the district this
fall.
Since notice was sent out that
the federal government had grant
ed two fertilizer allotments, one
for al and another for 70 carloads,
scores of farmers have applied for
portions of it. Rudolph Miller. war
board secretary, said. Essential
crops will receive preference, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Farmers Seek to
bunish Red Tupe

c. o. Hoober of Calipatria, vice.
president of the California Farm
Bureau Federation, will join other
Farm Bureau officials at confer
ence called in Berkeley Saturday
to attempt to get supplies, equip
n<t and manpower SO that farm
ing may proceed without the inter-
ference of government red tape.
I'VE are informed by Ray B.
Wiser, president of the California
Farm Bureau Federation" Hoober
said, that not one major crop has
been harvested in California with
out loss of food because of delays
caused by government regulations
or conflicts among government bu-
reauS.
This red tape and the continu-
Gus conflict among the various bu-
reaus and commissions delay farm
ing activities so much that this
nation is suffering a loss of food.
One bureau interprets regulation
one way and another bureau takes
a different Interpretation. Mean
while the farmer loses valuable
time, is hindered shamefully in his
farming activities, and the nation
loses food it so desperately needs to
carry on the war;" Hoober said.
"The farmer also suffers when
agencies get to warning with one
another about which gets the cred
it for doing certain things and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
0PA Meat Survey
Near COMPLETION

Ell Centre war price and rationing
board officials will complete sur
vey of meat markets this week,
undertaken to determine whether
meat dealers are complying with
OPA meat selling regulations put
in force in June.
The investigation started several
days ago and will be carried out
throughout the Ell Centre rationing
area.
Regulations require that markets
must post in conspicuous places
charts showing cuts of beef, veal,
lamb, mutton and pork, which are
authorized for sale by the OPA,
and their maximum prices. Cuts
must also bear price tags and show
the grade and point value. Mar
ket operators must also give re-
ceipts date of sale, name and ad-
dress of seller and the name, weight,
grade and price of each cut sold
upon request.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Parents Leave {
Children Alone in
Country All Day
NeighbOrs Care for
Youngsters, Call to
Officers; Pair Held

Indignation was high in the
rural area northeast of Holt
vile Tuesday because Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel James
Payne were said to have left
their six children, the oldest nine
years old and the youngest three
month-old nursing baby, at home
alone all day Monday with moth
ing to eat, officials we're informed.
Neighbors in the vicinity of the
Payne home Is miles northeast of
Holtville fed the children and then
telephoned the county sheriff's Of
flee to find out what should be done
with them. County Probation Off
Ger Leona Jacobs and deputy
sheriff drove to the Payne home
and took the six children to the
county juvenile home so that they
would be cared for pending arrival
of their parents,
About am. Tuesday Mrs. Payne
appeared at the juvenile home to
get the children. She was taken to
the county Jail for questioning. A
short time later Payne appeared at
the Jail to get his wife. Both we're
detained in the Jail pending an
investigation of the case. Mr.. and
Mrs. Payne said they had been
house hunting and had had car
trouble which prevented them from
returning home as soon as they ex-
pected.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Legislators Back
In CONGRESS Halls

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA. (UP)
Congress, refreshed after it's first
summer recess since 1889, recon-
vened at noon today to consider
critical problems of manpower, tax
alton, initiation, and postwar policy.
AS senators and representatives
resumed their seats, newspaper
headlines told of the worst setback
for American fighting men since
the defeat at Kasserine Pass in
North Africa. The Fifth army at
Salerno, ITALY. fighting with it's
back to the sea, was being driven
from hard-won positions by furious
ly counterattacking Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Pictures Disclose
Arlnistice Sinners

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA (UP)-
The armistice to end hostilities with
Italy was signed by an italian gen.
eral and an American, Maj. Gen.
w. B. Smith, in tent hidden in
Sicilian orchard, official signal
corps radio telephoto pictures
showed today. .t.
The document first was signed
by Gen. G. Castellano, chief of
staff to Italian Gen. Ambrosio of
ITALY, Smith, chief of staff of
Allied force headquarters, then af-
fixed his signature.
The pictures, released by the war
department showed the setting in
the orchard of the advance head
quarters of Allied forces in Sicily
The date was Sept. 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
New Military Wing to Be
ADDED to County Hospital

A new 2O-bed wing is expected to
be built at the Imperial county hos
pital soon for the care of depend
ents of men in the armed forces
stationed in this area.
Cost of the addition to the county
institution estimated at $4,000, will
be shared by the county, military
relief agencies and the Red Cross.
it was decided at a meeting attend
ed in the court house in Ell Centre
Monday by the county board of
supervisors. Col. #. j. McQuade,
commanding officer at the Ell Gen.
tro marine air training station. 1t.
Cmdr. j. D. Keye of the same sta
ton, and women representing some
of the military relief agencies.
Supervisors favored the plan and
instructed the district attorneys
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Fonda Denies He's
Father of Baby

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. up
Lanky Screen Star Henry Fonda
formally denied today that he is
the father of Barbara Thompson s
three-month-old baby and said he
knows nothing about it.
The denial, filed in superior court,
was contained in an answer to Miss
Thompson'sc paternity suit. She
charged the actor, now a qaurter-
master third class in the navy, Sc
duced her in an Ell Centro Cal,
hotel room last fall while he was
on movie location.
Fonda said in his suit, however,
that the pretty, twice-married di-
vorce has frequently been arrested
by Long Beach police ON charges
of drunkenness and immortality"
He added that she is known
under numerous and sundry aliases.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

lCy, W1eeleT COlu TcpOTJcTo upOIl
his return from summer vacation.
Wheeler said he would not agree
to plans of Senate Democratic
Leader Alben w. Barkley of Ken
lucky to delay vote on the bill,
now on the senate calendar, until
military leaders can present new
estimates of their manpower needs.
Wheeler charged the army is
the greatest "WaSter of manpower
in the country"
He said the transportation sys-
tenn is begged down because of un-
necessary troop movements, and
colleges are filled with boys in the
army that are not being used"
MEN DO NOTHING
I'VE also have camps all over
the country filled with men who
are lying around doing nothing
and who are anxious to get to the
fighting fronts" he said Finally,
the army is releasing able bodied
men of 38 who could be retained
Continued on page 6, col ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Red S
! q Ike
City
Killers Troops
Evacua+e Vital
Defense Point

LONDON, Sept. ID. (UP)
Germany acknowledged to-
day the loss of Bryansk,
great railroad hub linking
the central and southern
fronts in Russia, and Moscow said
a Red army column was racing in
against the Nazi flank to cut off
the routed garrison.
Berlin, in it's familiar manner of
backing into an admission of a
major defeat on the Russian front,
said the German garrison evacuat-
ed Bryansk last night according
to plan" after it had destroyed all
the installations so thoroughly that
the Soviets are putting their hands
in an empty pocket"
FORCE RIVER
Confirmation of the Soviet cap
ture of the key city anchoring the
now unhinged ends of the fronts
was expected during the day from
Moscow, which reported that Soviet
troops had forced the Desna river
at. Bryansk and were storming the
town itself.
The fall of Bryansk, from which
railroads radiate to Moscow, Khar-
kov, Gomel, Kiev and Smolensk, was
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
DEATH LURkS
NEAR SALERNO

cident and every emotion that goes
with modern warfare.
Tonight as we looked out over
the Salerno plain toward the
fabulous ruins of Paestum, the an
cient Greek city "a miles southeast
of Salerpo, it all seems like a
nightmare but rendered realistic
by the incessant humping of high
explosives and the knowledge that
tomorrow will bring battle Of
equal violence with the odds on our
side.
Riding into a strange shore
aboard flimsy landing craft with
machine guns, mortars and Ger
man 88s banging at us was bad
enough dashing across 100 yards
Continued on page 6, col a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

ician and head of the county hospi'
tai, will be in charge of the new
wing also and will work out man
agement arrangements with mill
tary doctors and physicians who
will have sole care of the depend
ents of serviCemen to be cared for
in the new wing. The military will
provide the nursing staff and pay
the same salaries as are paid the
nurses in the other sections OF the
county hospital,
Supervisors then wrote Dwight
Felt of the federal works agency
to send an engineer to go over the
proposed plans as soon as possible.
The military group will present a
proposed floor plan TO the agency
and the supervisors at once 80 that
all concerned will be able TO get
together on the final plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

to contact them. He said he also
had heard rumors that some Japa-
nese had been brought to the coun-
ty by persons purporting to have
a right to do so.
Conditions are such that 1t is
up to law enforcement officers to
talk to the Japanese and to the
persons who may bring them into
the county," Ware declared. I'm
time of war 1t is wise to be certain
about these visitors. Carelessness
may be dangerous"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

office to confer with legal repre-
sentatives of the military forces
in drawing up tentative agree
ment for the construction of the
hospital wing and to present 1t to
the board at the meeting next
Monday. After the military forces
have no further need for the wing,
it will become the property of the
county of Imperial.
The military forces will equip
the wing and provide the nursing
staff and medical supplies. The
county, according to tentative plans,
will provide the food, laundry. and
utilities for the new wing The cost
per patient per day would be S3.75
anG under this system the county
expected to realize a profit in the
neighborhood of $1,000 year.
DR.. John D. Parker, county phys
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Fifth
Nazis Make Total
Attempt to Push
Americans TO Sea

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, North Africa, Sept.
ID. (UP) The American
5th army gave ground
against powerful Nazi tank
counterattacks, a communique said
today, in one of the fiercest battles
of the Mediterranean war on the
Salermo bridgehead south OF Ma
Piles.
The Germans, in a battle which
British sources compared to the
bloody struggle at Gallipoli in
World war 1, apparently were MAX
ing an all out effort to smash the
24-mile long Allied bridgehead be-
fore the British 9Th army, which
took Bari and Cosenza, can move
100 miles up from southern Italy
to join the Americans.
(The German radio claimed that
Nazi tanks had broken through U.
S. artillery positions, destroying
whole divisions" and forcing the
Allies to start evacuation of the
bridgehead, but the Nazi high COM
mand communique merely said the
Allies had been driven to Salerno
and the beaches, with severe losses.
London observers were inclined to
view the Nazi evacuation claims as
exaggerated but acknowledged that
bitter fighting was in progressD
GREAT AIR BATTLES
Both sides were intensifying their
aerial operations over the bridge
head where fierce see-saW fighting
continued on land as -ell as in the
air. Many enemy attacks were
thrown back by the Americans and
British but the battle continued
unabated.
While the British 9th army In
southern Italy drove northward
through Bari on 10-mile race to
join the Americans, the Nazi high
command threw tanks, troops, and
artillery that swept the beaches
from hillside emplacements, into a
great effort to destroy the Allied
24-mile bridgehead on the gulf OF
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
SO Italian Vessels
Now in Ally Port

VALETTA. Malta, Sept. l3-De-
layed d-UP)-The total number of
surrendered Italian vessels already
in port here or expected shortly ap-
preached so today.
The fleet appeared to be getting
up steam preparatory to departing
Fourteen submarines and eight
dstroyres were reported on their
way and the seaplane carrier Mari
Clio of 5000 tons was expected dur
ing the day. Last night three de-
stroyers and a submarine joined
the fleet
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
D AMBl|Ne
~ EpORTER

FOiled Again
With a stubborn look on his face,
Russell Hoy stood at the end of a
long line of persons waiting to
transact business at window in
an Ell Centre bank. He waited and
waited as time passed
I'm going to cash this check ii
it's the last thing ever do" Hoy
told those nearby who became dis
couraged at the long wait and
walked away.
After a long time. Hoy reached
the window and handed over the
check he carried in his hand. He
talked through the grating for a
few minutes and then walked
rapidly away, still carrying the
check in his hand.
"I thought you said you we're
going to cash that check?" jibed
the bystanders.
"Well," said Hoy, very red in the
face, "the check wasn't any good"
Lese Majestic
Lieutenant Harry Horton was a
5 snappy looking figure in his Civil
ian Air Patrol uniform as he and a
group of fellow officers drove to-
ward Wellton, Ariz., to do a little
air plane plotting as is their duty.
At the big bridge over the Colo
RADIO, Negro guards gave Harry a
snappy salute. The attention nom
plussed Harry for minute but he
recovered in time to return the
salute. The group, headed by
Harry, stopped at cafe in Yuma.
just as they started In the door
they met a soldier carrying bottle
Continued on page g. col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
BY WILLIAM STONEMAN
Representing the Combined
IT g Drn-c

WITH FIFTH ARMY, Italy, Sept.
II Delayed up - Anyone who
spent today on the beaches south
of Salerno never will forget it
and no one who survived would, re-
live it for a fortune.
The engagement was not ex-
tremely costly in mems lives but
there were enough of our men
lying on the beaches and in vine
yards to make short walk a tragic
experience.
Strafing, bombing, shelling and
machine cunning were the common
lot of thousands of Americans. The
day was packed with every in
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
YANkS fall BACK BE FORE
FIERCE GERMAN ATTACKS
Hard Shakes in
Solomon Islands

PASADENA, Cal, Sept a.
tUP) Three earthquakes that
might have done damage in the
Solomon islands region during a
five-hour period last night were
reported today by the California
institute of technology seismOlOg-
lists.
They were centered 5000 miles
southwest Of here.
The first shocks came at
7:14:03 and 7:24:38 p. M, the sec
Ond at 100000 p. m., and the third
at 12:3O:42 and l2:41:19 a. m., the
seismOgraph showed.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

the DOruerS OF Imperial county,
Sheriff Ware said. We must ques-
ton any Japanese who may visit
the county and find out If he or
she has right to be here. 1t will
not be necessary for residents of
the county to make this decision
If they see a Japanese. just call
the sheriff's office and we will as
certain if the Japanese has right
to be in this area"
Ware said he had heard rumors
that Japanese had been seen here
but had not learned of it in time
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14

which has control of certain func-
tions and activities. The farmer
doesn't care who gets the credit
just so long as he gets what he
must have to farm. Perhaps we
may find way around this red
tape in the survey we will conduct
at the conference"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-14
Returns to U.S..

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,
Sept. Ia. - (UP) Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt has left Australia for the
United States after an 11-day
whirlwind tour of army, navy and
Red Cross installations during
which she met Mrs. Douglas Mac
Arthur informally.