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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Toastmasters Hold
Elimination Round

Cactus Gayel ToaStma5ter'S club
Monday night appointed six of its
members TO speak at the meeting
the following week. selecting from
these six. two Representatives for
the district elimination contest IN
the National Toa tmasters speaking
contest.
Two were selected from the speak
e-s Monday evening Willis Johnson
and Malcolm Macurda. and four
we're nominated. Carl SchooSs, Red
Mitchell. Hayden Sears and Visgo
Hansen.
Speakers Monday night we're four
who had been chosen best speak
ers during the past few weeks Ma
curda. Johnson Hansen and Bill
Duflock. Bill Duflock was voted best
speaker then Johnson and Macur-
d.. Outlook having been voted also
70 represent the club IN the speak
ing contest but declined.
Dorsey WhitelaW Was toastmaster
CT the evening and Ira Huffman.
president presided.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Kaiser Yard Sets
ShipbuiIding Mark

PORTLAND. Ore, March l6 up
The Kaiser Oregon Shipbuilding
corporation will launch l6 Liberty
freighters during March TO claim
the record for the nations per way
ship construction, company officials
said today.
They asserted the per day mark
at the local yard would be Substan-
tally greater than that set by Cal
ship company OF Wilmington. Cal,
whose larger number OF deli' cries
was offset by having more ways III
operation than the II at Oregon.
The months launching program
will eclipse the oregon mark for u
set in December, and will mean
each of the yards ways will account
for i. Liberty freighters, the build
ers of the Today Joseph n. Teal de-
clared.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
British RepuIse
Jap Burma Slabs

NEW DELHI, March l6. Up
British troops are holding firm de-
spite fierce japanese attacks north
of Rathedaung, in western Burma,
a headquarters communique said
today.
The activity has been concen-
trated chiefly in the area between
Thaungdara and Kyauktaw. north
and northwest of Rathedaung, where
a series of fierce attacks and coun-
terattacks have been going on, the
cOmmunique said.
Royal air force bombers and fight
ers supported British units and
bombs we're seen to burst on all
targets attacked
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Army Turns Down
Mickey Rooney

HOLLYWOOD. March l6.-tUPD
The army turned down Mickey
Rooney today as a poor physical
specimen and thereby gave a jolt
to the movie makers who'd cast
their No star as guinea pig in
a draft-deferment test case.
Faced with the loss of practical
ly all their top-flight picture he
roes. the producers appealed young
Rooney's IA status in hope of get
ting the government TO decide
whether movie stars were essential
war workers.
Army doctors. instead, thumped
the 22-year-old Mickey's chest and
conclu1ed he was suffering from
apprehension. or high blood pres
sure. Rooncy's draft board imme-
distely reclassified him as phySi-
cally unfit Az.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
'CHUTIST CLAIMS FALSE

WASHINGTON, March l6 CUP)-
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said
today that exhaustive Investigations
hy his agents had proved that each
of the It's landings by parachu-
fists" reported since June, 1912, was
false and unfounded.
He deplored careless transmittal
Of rumors of this type as injurious
10 national morale. put praised
those who promptly reported suspic-
IouS activities or incidents to the
FBI and local police In such cases,
he said. citizens should notify the
FBI or local police and not under
take Investigations on their own.
Hoover said that in some cases
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
AFL Chief Denies
Seamen Shortage

RICHMOND. Calf, March 10
up Harry Lundeberg. head Of
the Sailors Union of the Pacific
oAFD, today denied the shortage
of Seamen was acute enough to
warrant adopting what he termed
the impractical alternative of ship
ping women out as steWardesses on
merchant ships.
Although women might be will
ing and ready to serve their coun-
try by going to sea, their ineXpe-
rience would hinder rather than
help Lundeberg said in an inter
view with the Richmond Record
Herald.
The sailor chief said women
would be deprived of any privacy
on board ship due to arrangement
Of quarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
0PA To Set Up
Citizen Boards

MILWAUKEE, March 16 up
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown
announced today that citizens price
panels soon would be attached to
local rationing boards to smooth
the function of price control
Brown made his announcement in
an address in which he again ap-
pealed for consumer cooperation in
rationing and price control ad-
ministration and asserted that the
nation could not afford the
luxury of prohibition psychology. :
He said that the job of educating
the public for new price controls
soon TO be effective was too big for
the regular OPA staff to handle
and that price panels. composed Of
uncompensated personnel, would be
assigned to each rationing board.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Allies Map Out
Program TO Fight
Ndzi Sea Raiders
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that the submarine war was being
pressed hard. A Daily Herald cor
respondent back from a convoy trip
reported that Germany is starting
tine biggest spring blitz of the sea
var" The Morocco radio reported
four U-boa:s sunk off the Portu-
guese coast Dispatches from New
York reported the landing in the
West Indies Of four lifeboats with
6s survivors OF a British ship tor
pcdoed in the mid-Atlantic.
LARGEST CLAIM
The report OF the sinking of the
Empress OF Canada vas the larg-
est claim in the Axis grab bag
The Empress. a q. 500 -tonner. could
carry several thousand troops.
on the Russian front. the Red
arm" continued to fight through the
German hedgehog defenses toward
Yartsevo Smolensk, and Staraya
Russa. and new attacks south OF
Lake linen are reported.
ADMIT LOSS
The Russians admitted the loss
of Kharkov but Soviet lines east
OF the city appeared TO be holding
fairly we'll Many sources believe
the whole Russian front soon may
be static because OF the spring mud
and the need of both sides TO re-
equip and regroup. Swedish re-
ports said the Russians were rein
forcing the Donets area.
Actual progress toward reconcilia-
ton of Gen. Henri Honore Giraud
and Gen. Charles DeGaulle and
the French factions they head ap-
peared possible as result of Cir
aud's invitation for a meeting with
the Fighting French chieftain.
The air war in the Pacific appears
TO be flaring up with japanese
attack on Darwin and another big
Allied blow against a japanese con-
voy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Businessmen To
Get 0PA Places

CHICAGO March IL up
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown
disclosed last night that he Is plan
ming a general reorganization Of
OPA 10 place businessmen instead
of lawyers in KEY positions. and
to invest more authority IN local
ration boards
Brown said al a press conference
that prominent Chicago mer-
chandising leader" would be in
yited 10 become the new general
manager. replacing John f. Hamm,
senior deputy administrator and
chief aide OF former Price Admins
traitor Leon Henderson. Hamm,
Brown said. is leaving the OPA.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Rats Take Over In
Northern County

RICHMOND. Calf, March 10
CUPD-Contra Costa county author
tiles said today that rats had over
run the farming community of
Concord. destroying poultry grain
and truck produce.
County Farm Advisor Ray Goble
said the rodents constituted a dis
tinct menace" to agriculture and
health and called on the county
agricultural commission to take
immediate action to eradicate them.
Andrew OLSON. farmer near
Concord. said that rats had killed
more than 100 Of his baby chick
ems. and grain and truck produce
growers have complained OF de-
Struction Of crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS. FL cENrRo. CALIFORNIA
Governors Ask
Farm Deferment

DFs MOINFs. Il March l6 Up
Governors ana agricultural ex-
p,rts from TIE states comprising
tive great mldWesicru farm reeion
dtmanded formally TODAY fhat aeu-
culture be recognized as IN essen
tial industry. and thai essential
farm workers be deferred from mill
tary service.
The I2-state conference on crit
i,al farm manpoWer ana machinery
problems made the demands II
formal rcsomtior.s adopted last
night after former President Her
bert Hoover warned iu al address
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Senators Offer
Postwar Plan
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Allied council to-
/. Assist in coordinating military
and economic resources of the men,
Der nations in prosecution of the
war
2. Establish temporary adminis-
trations for Axis-controlled areas
as they are occupied by United Ma
tions forces.
g. Administer relief and assist
ance in economic rehabilitation of
member nations and Axis territory
occupied by United Nations forces.
T. Establish procedures and ma
chinery for peaceful settlement of
disputes and disagreements among
nations.
5. Provide a United Nations mill
tary force to suppress any future
attempt at military aggression by
any nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Govt Money For
Counties Asked

SACRAMENTO. March Is up
The senate adopted a joint rcso-
luton seeking federal considera-
tion for counties whose revenue has
suffered because of federal acquisi-
ton of land
The resolution. offered by Sena-
tor II. E. Dillinger, Placerville,
memorable Congress to enact legis-
lation reimbursing counties at the
rate of 81 per 500 valuation for
lands taken off county tax rolls for
federal use
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Mexican Sign.Up
Starts Up Again

WASHINGTON. March l6 up
Secretary of State Cordell Hull re-
vealed today the recruiting OF MeXi-
can agricultural laborers for work
in the United States is being re-
Sumed.
He said at a press conference that
Information had been received from
Mexico City that selection of agri-
cultural workers under the agree
ment of last Aug. is being renewed
today.
The flow of Mexican labor to
labor shortage areas in the south
western section of the United States
had been interrupted by technical
difficulties. which Hull indicated
had now been settled
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Co. AssembIyman
Asks Accounting

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committee. said work on Gov Earl
warrens s464 100000 budget would
be completed by tonight and that
he probably would ask that its con-
sideration On the floor be set as a
special order Of business Tor Thurs-
daV
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Legislators Accuse
Govt Of Usurping
Rights Of States

Continued from Page i
the resolution did not challenge the
powers of the federal government By
merely asking a redefinition of how
far federal bureaus can 90. He urg-
ed a barrage of resolutions not re
spectfully asking. but demanding
that the federal government get
back in the sphere of its operations
and stay there
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16

nervous citizens mistook birds or
kites for parachutists, and that
even scantier evidence was the
basis for other reported in
vasionS.'
In New York last October, he
said, a man who had seen a gray
ish-white mass in the sky, re-
sembling a parachute, said that on
closer observation he identified
them as n flock of several hundred
birds.
A Vermont family was sure it had
seen enemy agents dropping in a
grove of trees, but what they ac-
tually saw was boy flying a kite
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
HELD IN LOS ANGELES

los ANGELES, March TO. -IUPI
Linden Emerson, 26, was being
held today by federal authorities
for an elleged attempt to cause a
train wreck. Officers said Emer-
son smashed a switch signal in the
Santa Barbara yards of the South
ern Pacific railroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16

near his father, who was painting
n flagpole
When agents traced ouwn a para
chutist rumor in Maryland several
months ago, they found that a
farmer had seen from distance of
several hundred feet a man carry
iro n flour sack on his back.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Scanning ".
News Hcrizon
GETS SAD NEWS

Mrs. Earl Mckinney Of FL Centre
received word Tuesday that her
nephew. Jack Slade of Shreveport
La. was missing in Africa, where
he was in active duty with the
army. She has three other neph-
ews in action one in the Pacific
area. and two in the Atlantic area.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16

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of Ford Motor company.
NEED WEAPONS
Our boys must have planes.
ships. tanks and supplies in un-
limited amount to fight this war.
We brand management and labor
alike as traitors TO our country and
murdererS of OR sons in any shut
down OF plants.
We don't know who is response
BILE for walkout and don't give a
damn. but We beg you workmen to
go back to work and settle all diff
ferences by arbitration or put on
uniforms like our sons and fight.
You are leaving our sons de-
fenseless, without planes, ammuni-
tion. submarines and tanks.
Go back TO work. Go back to
work T.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
- ISsINTIAI

tat arEfucrafIHe forces threaten
& na PRODUCTION
- I<sTNTII
Aane8ifurc must be- recognized
aH e sfutlll War industry and
r..f - rated as such with respect
maanaWcr. materials and equip
nfrf enc resolution said
Another ureed that all cx-
nrrfnHed labor essential 10 farm
rudartlan bc deferred. and that
.H aeh farm workers be given
a.unrr recognition by federal au-
fn.atlez Rlfh suitable insignia or
DINER mark oi distinction for re-
U.uuz ou the farm front
The resolution. however. did not
demand blanket dcfcrment of all
nm hborcrs. but restricted its re-
sur.f - skilled and experienced
u.unoNtr
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
OInTR RESOLUTIONS

- III Il htNAfiA ihbNN
Ofher r-olutiuns approved By
f., conference requested
That all present stocks oi
frozen farm machinery be re-
ns-ed Tor sale. and that adequate
..upHes of steel and other md
.erals be- made available for COM
.Icuon of partially constructed
% dChines
. An adequate supply of repair
r.f.- fuH machinery.
g transportation to and from
work Tor migrant or seasonal farm
laboyers.
Immediate release To farmers
oi fertilizer necessary for spring
plsntinp. Available supplies OF fer
tili2er material are now held Tor
use in the manufacture OF NUM-
tons
NEXT TO MILITARY
Speaking at the Cornbelt Gov
crnors farm manpower conference
Hoover said that food stood next
10 the military effort IN impor-
tance. He charged that the gov
crnments price system oitei
"strangled" food production ant
distribution
Food serves on both the home
and the foreign fronts he SAID
We have not only the JOB OF feed
Ing ourselves. but also our Allies
And If we would have peace after
the war instead of the anarchy oil
starving Europe We must be pre-
pared to meet that also
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Rambling Reporter

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help win war. Want do our part.
Then the quartet of drunks stag
gered into the trailer house.
In vain Riley explained that 1t
was best to call on him during regu-
lar office hours. Groggy from the
fumes exuding from the inebriated
men. Riley argued with them until
4 a. m. and then called police.
THE LAST STRAW
Monday was the worlds most
hectic day because it was the last
day to file federal income tax re-
turns.
On her desk in the district at
torney's office, Mrs. Hazel Living
ston found a note 1t said: The
bureau of internal revenue called
and wanted to know if you had
filed your income tax return" How
nice. she thought, of my neighbor,
Marlin Lovelady. TO call me up and
remind me. She decided TO call
him at once and thank him.
Right in the middle of the con-
fusion at the bureau of internal
revenue office, the phone rang for
tho millionth time.
IT took a long time to ask every
one in the bureau office if he had
telephoned Mrs. Livingston about
her income tax. Mrs. LivingSton's
embarrassment grew as she, waited
We never call people about their
income tax returns" Lovelady. a
deputy internal revenue clerk, said
YEARLY. 1T must be someone try
ing to play a joke on you"
And did she feel silly for falling
fol a joke like that!
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16
Fathers Condemn
Work Sfoppages
As 'Traitorous

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IF Ford Motor company.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-16

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WEST MEDFORD

w. MEDFORD, MASS, March 80
Work, Fight and Pray" ad-
vised Rev. J. Frederick Bailey
in answer to the question which
he used as the subject of his
sermon How to Meet Tempta-
tion?". His congregation of the
Shiloh Baptist Church listened
intently to his discourse which
was very searching and prac-
teal stressing the wisdom of
avoiding temptation instead of
overconf1dently and unneces-
sarily keeping in temptations
way.-A letter of appreciation
for the gift from the Church Of
a New Testament was read from
Reginal Cooke who is in the
Aviation Service Training Corp.
at TuSkegee, Alabama.-The
Church School Service followed
the close of Church service as
usual. An interesting feature of
the devotional service was the
Responsive Reading led by the
former Church Sunday School
Superintendent Mrs. Carrie
Booker. A short rehearsal of
the Easter music proved the
pupils to be in very good voice
and augers well for the Easter
Exercises.-A very interesting
and constructive Teachers
Meeting was held. Plans for
the Annual Convention of the
| Mystic Church Schools on the
10Th of April at Shiloh Baptist
we're discussed. Mrs. Lena
Walker is Chairman of the
Meals Committee and will have
mattresses from her Sunday
School Class. Other younger
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IMPORTANT DATES
FOR HOUSEWIVES

Now-Coffee stamp No. 25
good for one pound of coffee.
Expires midnight, March 81.
Now-Point system ration
ing for canned fruits and veg
etableS, soups, canned baby
foods, etc. in effect.
March 14-Last day to use
sugar ration stamp No. II, good
for three pounds.
March 15-Federal income
tax return must be fled, and
first instalment paid.
March 16-Sugar ration
stamp No, II, god for 5 POUNDS.
Must last through May 81, or
II weeks,
March 21-Last day to use
coffee ration stamp No. Is.
March 21-Last day for use of
No. 4 coupons on "a" gasoline
ration books, good for three
gals each.
March Blast day for tire
inspection of "a" gasoline RAJ
ton books.
April 12-Last day for use of
period 4 fuel oil coupons.
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WOBURN
ST. JOHNS BAPTIST CHURCH
Reu. Edward D. McCreary, Jra
Interim Pastor

ST. JOHNS BAPTIST CHURCH
ReD. Edward D. McCreary, Jra
Interim Pastor
WOBURN, MASS, Mar. 90
The annual meeting of the
Mystic Baptist Church School
Convention Chester Canady, of
Woburn, Mass, will be held in
the Shiloh Baptist Church, West
Medford April 10. The Execu-
tive Board will meet in Shiloh
Church Monday, April 5, at 8
PM. All members are requested
to be present. The Convention
program, as interesting and ed
ucational as ever, will close at
5 o'clock, with no evening ses-
sion. Another unit left Woburn
last Monday morning for the
Armed forces. The American
forces. The American Legion
and other Civic organizations
marched with the boys from the
Armory to the Station. L. Rus
sell, Canada, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chester Canada left with
the Unit. Robert Reed who was
indicted the same time contin-
ued on to Camp. The boys were
addressed by Mayor William E.
Kane, Judge William H. Hench-
ey, and the Catholic and Prot
estant Clergy, before leaving.
Rev. McClreary continues to
preach inspiring, interesting,
and educational S m n S.
Friends and parishioners are
requested to attend all Of the
services. At 1o:45, am. Church
School at noon. Young peoples
meeting at 6 pm, and evening
services at 7 pm. Rev. Nc
Creary's topics were: "Altruis-
tic Christ" and "The Great An
sewer" The Young People will
go to the First Baptist Church
in Wakefield next Sunday after
noon. Rev. McCreary will be
the speaker. The choir is pre-
pairing for the Easter Cantata,
Mrs. Beatrice Scott, organist,
and Miss Dorothy Keller direc-
tor. Mr.. Willis Pollins donated
a second pint of blood to the
American Red Cross last We'd
nesday together with the State
employees.
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In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty
an act relative to the annual Observance of the Anniversary
OF the Boston Massacre and of the Heroic Deaths Girls
pus Attucks Samuel Maverick James Caldwell Samuel
Maverick, James Caldwell Samuel Gray and Patrick
Carr. - - ~
Be it enacted by the Senate House of Represent
ativeS in General Court assembled by the authority
Of the same, as follows:
Chapter six of the General Laws hereby amended by
inserting after section twelve c. inserted by chauter one
hundred and of the acts of the year. the
following section:-
section I'D The governor shall annually issue proc
lanaton calling for proper observance on March fifth of
the anniversary of the Boston Massacre Crispus At
tuck American of African Samuel ATayer-
Icg James Caldwell Samuel Gray met her
dependence
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MAIDEN

UNION BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Willard L. Clayton, Pastor
MAIDEN, MASS, March So
mo Man Careth For My Soul"
was the theme Of Rev. Clayton
Sunday morning - sermon
designated to quicken the spirit
ual life for the trying days
through which we are passing.
Rev. James L. Jackson, pastor of
the Eastern Avenue Baptist
Church, was the guest speaker
at night. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Jackson, Deacon and
Mrs. Arthur L. Ridley.--Mrs.
Frieda Ross, assistant Superin-
tendant conducted Sunday
School in the absence of Mrs.
Day who was confined home
with a cold.-The For-Me-Not
Club met at the home of Mrs.
Gretta Gibson Monday evening.
Plans we're discussed for the
spring activities after which re-
freshments were served by the
hoStess.-The Women's Service
Club of Maiden. Mrs. Grace
Hunt. president, and the Mystic
Social Welfare Society. Mrs.
Rosetta I. Tyler, president, were
among the clubs sponsoring the
presenting of 1t. Mildred Car
ter, End Officer of the WAC, at
the City Hall Annex, Everett, on
Tuesday evening. Miss Viola
WEIGH, a popular young lady of
the church and Sunday School,
has signed up as a WAC
Miss Marion Cuthbert, Educa-
tional Consultant of the Ma
tional YWCA, was the weekend
guest of Mrs. Elmer L. Valen-
tine. Miss Cuthbert attended a
Board Meeting Of the American
Missionary Board on Monday in
Boston, leaving in the afternoon
for New York.-Rev. Clayton at
tended a Board Meeting of the
New England Baptist Conven-
ton, of which he is the Secre-
tary, on Wednesday in New
York.
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WEST NEWTON
MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
Req. J. H. Dennis, Pastor

MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
Req. J. H. Dennis, Pastor
From now on and after this
day, March %. the Churches and
Christians, everywhere, are
called on to play their part in
all spiritual and material ways
of help. And don't worry: God
fed a man three years, who
never saw sight of city or
worked on a farm. Just go
straight ahead up the road, and
you will find the supply for your
needs, in War and Peace.-Our
doors fly wide open and well
come all at Mt. Zion, West New
ton. Visit us Sunday, April 4,
10:45 Am. Topic Judgment
and Justice" S. S. and B. L.
H. on schedule time. 1880 PM.
Topic: 1.-THE Same Mind" Lords
Supper at 8:45 PM. Watch the
paper, don't miss the Anniver-
Sary, Sunday May 2, 3 PM.
Sunday, March %, was a pleas
ing and helpful day at Mt. Zion.
Both morning and evening ser
mons by Rev. Dennis were felt
and understood. Gods Mark is
a safety Zone. 1t so brought out
the facts that Gods Prophets
were inspired men, who saw and
told the nations what would
take place, and they headed
not. etc. In the afternoon the
pastor and members visited the
Myrtle Baptist Church and Rev.
w. L. Clayton of Union Baptist
Church, Maiden, addressed the
Unity Club, on "Colored Ameri-
| cans in the Past and Present
War. Rev. Clayton breaches
for Mt. Zion Monday, April Is,
8 PM. Leading to Anniversary
Sunday, May 2.