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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
British Subs Sink
German Transport

LONDON. Jan. Cup The
Admiralty nnounced today that 4
large enem:' troop transport and a
supply ship have been destroyed
by British submarines in the Med
iteranean. Two other supply ships
were hit and probabls' sunk, the
C"mmunique added.
The troop transport was sunk by
2 submarine commanded by Lieut..
r. b. Lakin. who put three torpc-
does into /. despite heavy escort.
The transport went down Off the
Gulf of Naples.
A submarine commanded by 1t.
A j. w. Pitt sank the large suppl
ship in the Aegean sea and then
chelled shipping and harbor install
lations in the enemy occupied Greek
Port of Kumi.
r large enemy supply ship was
damaged severely b. a submarine
commanded by Lieut.. A. c. c.. Mars
and the other supply ship was at
tackled by an undersea craft under
Command of Lieut.. L. w.
Napier
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
War Strike Ended
After 2Days Lost
In Making Arms

DETROIT, Jan. 6. - (UP)-Full
production was resumed TODAY at
the eiGnt River Rouge plant of the
Ford Motor company, after striking
maintenance men needed their TN
ion officials plea to remember our
pledge to the boys on Guadalcanal'
and ended their 23-hour walkout
The strike. described as unau-
thorized by the executive board of
zeal GOO United Automobile
Workers of America tCIO)). was
called off late yesterday when a
back to-work order was Issued by
Paul Ste. Marie, president OF the
local.
Several hundred maintenance
employees walked off their jobs
Monday night to protest the COM
panys reorganization of mainte-
nance crews in various plant units.
About $4,000 day and night shift
workers were made idle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
Nazis BIowingU Up
Roads in Retreat
Before Red Army
COssacks Slashing at
Flanks of Enemy in
DisOrderly Flight
By UNITED PRESS

Routed AXIS forces fled in
disorderly retreat before the
advancing Russians in the
Caucasus Wednesday.
Cossacks slashed at their flanks
as the Germans and their allies
attempted to escape from the re-
surgent Russian forces west of MOI
dok.. The Germans were blowing up
bridges and mining roads in a des-
perate attempt to escape annihila-
! ton.
| London reports said at least $780,
NO Axis troops were in full retreat
! in Russia. The Soyiets famed out
from Prokhladnenski in an attempt
| to annihilate the enemy. The CO.
sacks led the Red army charge.
followed closely by tank units and
infantry ready for mopping up duty.
BETTER IN AFRICA
The war picture was brighter for
the United Nations in North Africa
as we'll as in the snowowept Rus
sian front.
British troops held hill position
approximately 80 miles southwest
of BiZerte. They won their new
position after dawn attack Tues
day on a strong German entrench-
ment. They now were in position
to move reinforcements across Tuni-
sia's northeastern tip for further
assaults against the Axis perimeter
defenses of BiZerte and Tunis.
On the other end of the African
battlefront, the British Eighth Ar
M Imperials stabbed at Axis de-
lenses around Misurata, 125 miles
east of Tripoli, where Field Mar
shall Erwin Rommel was expected
to make a stand. italian rear guards
had evacuated Buerat Ell Hsun, rs
miles east of Misurata, Radio Nor
Deco reported, and had entrenched
behind the Nadi Fem Fem on %
mile front.
The Russians attacked anew on
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Schools Increase
Attendance Here:
2Teachers Added
Halliday Sessions in
Some Classes Planned
TO Meet Emergency

Increasing attendance at
Ell Centre elementary schools
forced employment of two
additional teachers since the
Christmas h OF d avs and
crowded conditions will make half
day sessions necessary in some
classes where the attendance shows
the greatest increase.
School Superintendent Guy Weak
lie" said Wednesday that more than
rs new pupils enrolled after the
holidays, % at Mckinley, "a at
Wilson, Ia at Harding, and the re-
mainder at Washington.
Children Of men employed in fed
eral construction projects, children
of officers and enlisted men sta
toned in this area, and children
in the migratory agricultural group
are included in the new attendance
There are not as many in the last
group as usual in January.
In some classes and grades in
the elementary schools it will be
necessary to start halliday SeS-
SONS Weakley said. We will have
one group attend in the mornings
and another group attend in the
afternoon. Thus another teacher
will not be necessar" and the pres
ent school facilities will be made
to serve double duty
Rural schools thus Ear have not
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Tax Deed Setup
Declared Invalid

LOS ANGELES, Jan. Sup
The state supreme court today rul-
ed unconstitutional l94l legislation
which terminated the right of orig
inal property owners to redeem
holdings sold by the state under de-
linquent tax procedure.
BY four-three decision, the
high court held the amended law
unconstitutional because it is retro
active, legislating property own
ers out of rights held by them prior
to its enactment.
The decision affects an estimat-
ed 100000 parcels of California land
with an assessed valuation of APP
proximately $30,000000.
The court made its ruling in a
suit brought by the Mercury Herald
company, publishers of the San Jose
Mercury Herald, against Maurice
Moore, auditor of Santa Clara
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

Anti ureaucrat
Congress Opens

o proposal for substantial expansion
of social security legislation.
A preyiew of what is to come
from this war Congress, in which
the Republican party comes back
close to control, was given yester-
day at Republican and Democratic
caucuSeS.
PRELIMINARY TEST
1t promises to be OPEN handed
with money to fight the war
1t hopes to do some non-war pen
ny-pinching.
But whatever else it may do,
this Congress will provide a prelim-
mary battle-ground of the Presi-
dental contest of 1914. and to Mr..
Roosevelt it will offer the most
difficult test of his White House
career in handling the legislative
branch of government.
The giSt of what Rayburn said.
according 10 members present, was
that this new Congress would not
accept-withOut having it's say
legislative proposals from down.
town government offices; that the
new Congress was to be a coordi-
nate, equal and independent branch
of government in it's relations with
the administration.
The Republicans earlier had en-
countered arrogant bureaucracy"
and promised that any necessary
laws which tax, regulate and regi-
ment the people shall come from
their Congress and not from the
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

county.
The supreme court decision up
held the contention of the Santa
Clara auditor that the law in force
when property was sold to the
state governs the redemption right
of the original owner, and that the
legislation cannot legally deprive
the original owner OF that time
right.
The law involved in the test case
was designed to shorten the five
year period during which on origi-
nal property owner could redeem
title of lands decided to the state
for delinquent taxes.
Under the new law, effective last
June, the right of the original own
er ended with execution of the deed
to the state, except in distressed
assessment districts which would
not be affected until January l.,
l947.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
Union Fines Keep
Machinists From
Alameda Shipyard

ALAMEDA. CAL. Jan. G-CUPl-
A work stcppage by "a CIO ma
chinists today interrupted outfit
Eng Of navy vessels at General
Fneineering & Dr'dOck Co. for the
second consecutive day.
Three department laho: rcprc-
sGltatives arrived to investigate
The dispute. which President RooSe-
welt denounced in taleor9m to local
ehir yard union leaders.
The machinists said thev wanted
10 work. tut had been fined S25
each by'their union for working the
S 't,wda1 and Sunday following
Christmas in violation of union or
ders.
A. F.. Gaffney, Personnel MANAGER
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
State Lawmakers Launch
Anti Japanese Measures

SACRAMENTO. Jan. Sup
The first of several proposed legis-
lative attacks against japanese cit
lzens and aliens appeared in the
California legislature today.
Senator Claire Engle of Red Bluff
end Assemblyman Lloyd Lowrey of
Yolo county, joined on two reso-
buttons and two bills to crack down
on Japanese. while Assemblyman A.
G. Thurman of ColfaX also had a
Joint resolution memoralizing Con-
gress to restrict all japanese.
These measures were introduced
today and other members revealed
they had similar measures in the
making, or would join in pushing
the original proposals.
One of the Engle-Lowrey bills
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06


tralia was fearful of a major Japa-
nese offensive, possibly even against
this continent. Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's giant Consolidated Liber-
ator and Boeing Flying Fortress
bombers attacked the Japanese fleet
concentration in two waves.
They planted 1000 pound bombs
on eight supply ships and trans
ports, a destroyer tender and a
destroyer tied alongside it.
The bombers. raiding without
fighter escort, shot down six Japa-
nese fighter planes which tried to
intercept them.
Only one bomber was missing
when the communique announcing
the raid, possibly the most success
full in the southwest Pacific cam
paign, was issued.
OFFICIALS WORRIED
For two days, Australian govern
nent and other sources had been
expressing fears of new japanese
aggre ssion, asserting that a power
full Japanese fleet was assembling
at Rabaul, Japan's biggest base in
the southwest Pacific. lying 900
miles south of its own Truk islands
base.
Japanese scouting planes, prob
abb small ones operating from big
submarines, had been sighted off
the Bowen Mackay area of the
northeast Australian coast.
AS he had done at Milne bay and
in the Owen Stanley mountains
when the japanese threatened Port
Moresby, New Guinea, Macarthur
struck just at the moment when
anxiety was becoming acute.
IN TWO WAVES
A powerful force of the Consoli-
dated B-24s made up the first wave
of the attack On Rabaul harbor. 1t
was their biggest day of the war
IN this area.
The tour-motored bomberS swept
over Rabaul harbor to find three
ships still burning as the result of
earlier attacks. Heavy gun fire from
the ships in the harbor started at
once. The planes remained in for
nation and made runs again and
again over the hottest part of the
harbor. picking the best targets.
The bOmberS went in at medium
level and visibility was good.
They took such care that between
II and Is Japanese Zero fighters
were in the air toward the end.
The ConSolidateds. bristling with
guns. shot down three and made
for home.
Then the fortresses, the second
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Banqhart on Way
To AICatraz Cell

CHICAGO, Jan. G. tUP)-The
Justice Department disclosed today
that Basil The OwD Banghart,
machine gunner for the old Touhy
gang who boasts that no Jail can
hold him because six haven't, was
en- route to federal prison, the
Rock" at Alcatraz.
Banghart escaped from Joliet,
H., prison with Roger tThe Terri
ble) Touhy and five others. Octo-
Der 8. and was captured by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation 81
days later along with ToUhy and
one of the other escapes.
The us. district attorneys office
said Banghart I it for ,Alcatraz
by train last night in the company
cf US. Marshal William H. McDon-
aid and two deputies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
BY LYLE c. WILSON,

WASHINGTON, Jan. Cup
The 18th Congress, elected by ma
ton at war and pledged by its
leaders to fight arrogant bureau-
cracy," convened at noon today
The House was ready to re-
elect as speaker, Representative
Sem Rayburn of Texas, who yes
terday mace clear in speech be-
hind closed doors OF the Demo-
cratic caucus that Democratic as
we'll as Republican members of the
new Congress will stand up to
the executive branch Of the govern
ment.
Organization CT the two cham
bers was pretty much routine, pre-
paratory to hearing President
Roosevelt deliver his annual mes
sage on the state of the Union
tomorrow.
Today's ceremonies were sur
rounded by an aura of solemnity,
rejecting the feeting OF the peo-
pie who elected the CongreSs-a
people whose big objective is to
win the glooal war into which they
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
Marines Killed In
Crash of Trainer

SANTA BARBARA, Jan. Cup
An officer and private attached
to the us. Marine Corps air sta
ton here were killed when their
plane crashed 10 miles north of the
station late yesterday, it was an
nounced today.
Dead were First Lieut.. John
Gardner Metts, US. Marine Corps
Reserve, survived by his mother.
Mrs. Cora L. Meets, (60l9 First ave-
nue. North Birmingham, Ala, and
Private First Glass Robert Shan
ron. whose next of kin was his ia
Their, Chester M Shannon, GIT
Franklin ST. Port Washington,
Wisconsin.
The crash occurred during rou-
tine training flight Marine officials
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

to amend the federal constitution
to bar persons of Japanese descent
from citizenship, and TO determine
the identity and forfeit the eiti-
zenship of those holding a dual
citizenship in any other country.
and prohibiting such citizenship.
Thurman's resolution, introduced
at the request of the Placer coun-
ty grand Jury. memoralized Con-
gress to enact adequate legislation
to prohibit all Japanese, both alien
and native-born. from owning, en-
joying, using or occupying agrictii-
tural lands, and 10 restrict all Jap
anese from becoming United States
citizens.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

would broaden the penalty against
both landowners and aliens con-
cerned in sharecropping, leasing,
renting or selling land to an alien
in violation of the alien land law,
which Engle said would end fla
grant violations which have &C.
Cured prior to the war"
The other bills would require
commercial fishing licenses for all
persons engaged in off-shore fish
ing. and require holders to be
United States citizens or a person
eligible to become a citizen. Iden-
LITIGATION cards would be required.
Lowrey and Engle had two joint
resolutions, memoraliziing Congress
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

afternoon and evening.
Tibbetts laid the cards on the ia
BILE in regard to the ever dwindling
supply of tire materials and asked
that both farmers and transporta~
ton operators cooperate to conserve
equipment and rubber.
BEHIND SCHEDULE
He said that synthetic rubber fac
tories will probably be four months
behind their original schedule OF
production. 1t will be September
before the first rubber tires roll oil
the line, he estimated.
To meet the situation it will be
necessary for trucks here to use
more recapped tires.
Imperial valley has the lowest
recap use ratio of any of the west
ern areas" 1ibbetts declared.
He promised that the picture will
change.
Truck parts are also wearing out
with no requirements available, said
ribbettS.
PARTS SCARCE
CkGIy HIOiOl kClilCiC OiitiO iStiNIo
cur shores for a foreign dest nation
carries enough supply parts to keep
it in operation for full year Since
many of the parts are no longer
in production, at man. times it is
impossible to find 4 gear replace
mcnt in the entire nation, TibbcttS
said.
BY abandoning olf-the- highway
rickups equipment and tires will
be saved, the O?A official said.
Neither he nor w. C. Klebenow, as
sistant director of the Office of De-
Tense Transportation from Los An
geles, suggested substitute trans
portation which could be used by
farmers in bringing crops from
fields to highways.
Tibbetts emphasized that trucks
must cut down speed and must not
be overloaded.
BREAK IN RECAPS
Outlining the program which must
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DRAFT DEFERMENT
CHANGE CONSIDERED

WASHINGTON, Jan. Sup
War Manpower Commission Off
Gals said today that they were UNI
able to predict how long present
deferments for dependency and es-
sential occupations would remain
unchanged
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

president, to head the drive. Com
mittees to cover the various dis
Uricts in the city were named by
Scheniman.
Last years budget was $4,000 ar1
the canteen has been operated eff
ficiently within that sum by the
women of the city, but in view of the
fact that the numbers of men pa
tronizing the canteen have almost
tripled, an increased budget is nee
esssary. On an average, the canteen
has been serving 5000 servicemen
a week.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

LO!S, IutSuaI llIgHI III Ute CIIdIHDUI'
of commerce building.
The present canteen is too small
to meet the demands made upon it
and plans were made to enlarge it
by adding the adjacent building,
connecting the two by means of
a large archway. Plans for repair
ing, altering and painting the rooms
were discussed and will be under
taken at once.
The annual drive for finances, by
the council maintaining the cam
teen. will start Feb. and budget
of $4,000 was set. w, A. Scheniman
was appointed by Howard p. Meyer,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

but neither his full name nor his
camp was mentioned
The police officers at the station
Wednesday morning assumed that
both the lieutenant and the drunk
en- soldier were from Camp Lockett
in the San Diego mountains
The soldier was not booked by
the police.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06

Tic pUIICt dlIIVtu OH Clt SCeHt
and diSarmed a drunken NJ. P. who
was brandiShing a long butcher
knife.
The soldier was brought to the
station and turned over to his lieu
tenant. The army officer displayed
disinterest in the whole matter, the
log noted.
The military policeman was re-
ferred to as Sgt Brown" on the log
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
IA. P. 1errorizeS
Group With Knife

Terror and dlslnterest were mirrored in single nota
ton on Ell Centros police log Wednesday morning
At IL Is pm. Tuesday night officers received call
come to 402 Broadway where Negro military policeman
was reported to be threatening many persons
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06


for shock and minor burns.
Fire burst like an explosion
across vanished and hiehly-in-
flammable bowling ALLEYS with only
a moments notice. In that moment
some of the bowlers saw thin
triclle of smoke drift across the
alleys. Robert Armstrong, one of
the bowlers, said he stopped to
watch the smoke but others contin-
ued to bowl for few seconds. Then
as the smoke thi kencd. patrons
started tc rush for the exits. As thew
did so. an explosion swept the build
ing. hurting men and screaming
women through the doors under
the whiplash of sheet of soaring
flame.
FIVE IN WASHROOM
Five attempted to find refuge in
bodies were found there three hours
later when the brick shell of the
building had cooled enough to al
low firemcn to enter. A sixth body.
that of Janitor Joseph Bingham,
Al, was found in the center of the
building.
The five chalred bodies were
identified as those of William Gut
rich, 10, son of a Chicago police
man, Thomas Podgbmek. Carl Ded-
do, Philip Gardner, SIS, and Anthony
ErriS.
The fire broke out shortly before
midnight while between 200 to 300
men and women crowded the bowl
ing alleys. restaurant and cocktail
lounge housed in the one story,
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Plans Laid to
Enlarge Canteen

Enlargement of the Ell Centre servicemen's canteen
Main street to meet the needs of the increased number
of stationed in the valley, and plans for the annua
financial drive discussed joint meeting of the
Centre Servicemens Recreation council and canteen rec
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
Production Bureau

Production Bureau
O,N prediction is that in years
to come humorous literature will
contain many a reference to the
hosiery women wore during World
War No. -
At present this puffy hosiery is
ore of the main topics of CONVEX
sation among the womenfolk. The
women in che office we know about
have a contest every day to see
whose hosiery is the blousieSt. Kneel
once and there is a permanent
bulge at the knee
The gals start out in the morn
ing with one pair of hose ON and
reach home at night with that one
pair bic enough to make four stock
ines and pair of mitts. Then they
wash their hosiery carefully and
they shrink so much they have to
have a shoe horn to get them on
the next morning.
Some of the merriest sessions we
have ever attended have dealt
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we're catapulted Is months ago.
MESSAGE AWAITED

NtIC CdVdpUIUt0I I'd IIIUIIIIIS dBU'
MESSAGE AWAITED
Almost all of the 434 members
of the House and 96 members of
the Senate were present.
Mr.. Roosevelt will deliver his
message in person tomorrow and
next Monday will send TO Congress
his budget recommendations which
will propose for the 1914 fiscal year
expenditures probably exceeding
S10G, 000,0 100000.
TomorroW's message is expected
to set off political fireworks with
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
Macarthur Sends
Planes to Sink
Ten Enemy, Shi ps
Australia Relieved of Invasion Fear
By Sensational Raid on Rabaul Port
As N:ps Prepare TO Strike New Blow

GEN MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
JAM g. CAPITALIZED planes in SCATTERING blow at new
Japanese invasion fleet have sunk nine and probably 10
ships totang than 10000 tons, at Rabaul in New
Britain Island, it announced today
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
+ Die in Panic
Following Fire
Cocoanu+ Grove Disaster Echoed By
Chicago ConfIasra+ion as Hundreds Jam
Exits Attempting TO Escape from Flames

CHICAGO, Jan. 6. (UP)-Fire enveIoped a crowded
recreation paror today bringing death to six serious
y burning 35 others and driving the remaining 300 patrons
through doors and shattered windows
Hospitals said five of the nured critical cond
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
|. v. Truckers Must Slash
Mileage. OPA Mon Warns
Farmers, Other Operators Told Rubber
Will Not Be Available Until Late In
I943 From Synthetic Plants in Nation

Truckers must slash mileage at least 25 cent in the
future for synthetic rubber will be available until
the latter part of 1943 Paul bbetts assistant state direc
tor of the Office Price Administration, told farmers
shprcrs and others in Imperial Valley meetings Tuesday
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
y AMDLlNG
IMPORTER

Dear Pub
Butch Bledsoe is one of the few
purps in these parts who received
a Christmas card all his own. 1t
was mailed to Busch in Ell Centric
by George Bennett, who left Butch
in care Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Bled-
soc while he went away to war.
Probably Butch thinks George
should have taken him to war.
Butch really has very strCng ideas
on such subjects. He's a war dog
at heart.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
Signing Signs

Signing Signs
TO Whom It May CCncearn:
Everybody ST.; e, out Of this cage hut
relief officers"
That sign is dangling over the
now cage in the FL Centre police
station, the cage where Desk Ser
2eant T p. Farmer is locked away
from the public
I'VE put that up to keep the
wolves away from Lamb Farmer,
was the wap Jacket Tackctt eX-
pressed it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-06
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday IS, minimum
Wed. 80; am. Wed. AZ, humidity
SIS; noon Wed. &C, humidity 25;
pm. Tuesday 68, humidity So.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-17
Railroad Labor
Dispute Unsettled
ByFederaI Agent

CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (UP) -
Chairman Georfe = Cook OF the
National Railroad rleoltation Board
announced today ~ te had fail
ed to settle the dispute between all
first class railroads and 100000 of
their Incorporating employees de-
manding a $3.50, 900 900 wage boost
and the closed shop.
Cook said that nine days or sep
arate mediation conferences. dur
ing which he Shuttled between re-
presentatives of Is cooperating
railroad brotherhoods and man.
agement, had failed and that arbi-
tration of the issues had been pro-
posed but refused.
Cook reminded the brotherhoods
that organized railroad labor had
pledged President Roosevelt mo
strikes" for the duration of the
war and added that there need be
no strike vote nor threatened in
terruption of war vital rail trans
portation if the brotherhoods will
Use yet untried concilation machin-
cry.