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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes Hippantly, some
times recklessly.

There probably are some millions
of persons who do not know that Wal
| ter Winchell and Drew Pearson on the
one hand and the Blue Network on
the other, have been engaged in some
what of knockdown and drag out
battle
Issue: The right to say certain
things over the air, those certain
things having to do with the records
of certain men in public life.
1t is reported that the 33 trials for
alleged sedition were involved in the
affair.
Drew Pearson announced in his
Sunday broadcast that the matter had
been adjusted to his satisfaction, in
dicating that the Blue Network had
acted rather handsomely in the final
adjustment.
Here we have a really important
matter. 1t deserved to have front page
space in every newspaper in the land,
with a statement of the exact issue
and of the exact terms Of settlement.
Involved is the highly important
matter of how much the public can
know about what.
We have a censorship. 1t is neces-
sary. But how much is to be censored
is determined by the censor and by
nobody else.
1t is probable that we have as good
and sensible censorship as we could
we'll have.
But no censorship can be right all
the time. All censorship is likely, al
most sure, to be stupid some of the
time.
Our censor probably would agree
with that statement, too.
That being SO, it follows that there
will be disputes. In some of these dis
putes the censor will be wrong.
Many think he was wrong, not to
to say dull and stupid, in refusing to
let stories pass that would let Britain
know that we still do have something
of a race problem in this country.
That Winchell and Pearson have
won out in their dispute indicates that
someone with a poised iron hand was
wrong also.
The right to criticize is highly
important. 1t is one of the most
important rights we have.
To lose it would throw us back
to the days when the accusation
Of less majesty could send man
to the gailows or the guillotine
1t is important that Americans be
free to criticize Martin Dies, or Sum-
ner Hatton or Sumner Welles, or
even Cordell Hull Well, let's include
Congresswoman Luce also.
Mrs. Roosevelt had a sentence or
two clipped from her stories cabled
from London, but those sentences
dealt with locations, with military
facts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05
SUCCESSFUL WAR ON SMOKE

Salt Lake City.-Salt Lake City's
anti-smoke ordinance, stringently en-
forced during the last year, has cut in
half the density of the smoke pail that
used to hang over this city, whose sur
rounding mountains make natural
smoke harbor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05

Mrs. Roosevelt had a sentence or
two clipped from her stories cabled
from London, but those sentences
dealt with locations, with military
facts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-05

Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

CARSON CITY, New, May 26.
-UP) - Nevada has too mCch
money.
Gov. E. P. Carville disclosed today
that the Silver State, while watch
ing with sympathetic interests the
tax struggle in Washington, is con-
sidering a tax problem of its own
"a problem apparently unique IN
the nations history.
The state, which has no sales tax,
no state income tax, no inheritance
tax and no tax on intangibles, re-
Gently paid off the $650,075 balance
of it's entire bonded indebtedness
and this year reduced its state tax
rate in consequence.
STILL TOO MUCH
But still there was too much tax
money.
So" said Governor Carville, I'VE
bought $l,339,O00 worth OF war
bonds"
Still more surplus accrued
Next" said Governor Carville,
I'VE set up a half million dollar
fund for postwar rehabilitation.
He's a former cowpuncher HIM
self, the governor explained, and
felt that the state like a prudent
individual should set aside some
thing for the time when the live
stock and mining busineSSeS-Ne'
vada's mainstays-may not be sc
good
What Nevada will do next to cope
with its tax problem has intrigued
the curiosity OF a long list of busi-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Tuesday Vote for
New Is Per Cent
Forgiveness Plan
Conference Committee
Approves Tax Plan and
F.D.R. OK Held Probable

WASHINGTON, May 26.
(UP)-House leaders decid-
ed today to bring up the
compromise Is per cent for
givenesS pay-aS-yOu-go in
come tax plan for house action next
Tuesday.
That decision was reached at a
meeting Of house ways and means
Chairman Robert l.. Doughton, d.,
N. c., and Speaker Sam Rayburn,
D., Tex.
AGREE ON BILL
Members of the senate-house con-
ference committee agreed yester
day on the compromise rs per cent
forgiveness plan for most taxpayers
and 100 per cent forgiveness for
the little taxpayers. The conferees
were confident of congressional ap-
proyal but declined to guess Wheth-
er President Roosevelt would sign
such bill.
Best guesses were that the PreSi-
dent would not veto it, but Chair
man Doughton, most vigorous foe
of the Ruml complete forgiveness
plan, said
We're not going to lose any
sleep about that We hope it will
be acceptable"
The new tax plan was adopted
by vote of II to 8 by the confer
ees late yesterday. 1t would divide
taxpayers into two groups-those
who owe more than $50 tax on l942
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Cops Not So Kind
As He Expected

SALT LAKE CITY, May &c.
The Sale Lake City police de-
partment isn't as kind as Wal
ter Stevens, 35, Las Vegas, New,
might think.
Stevens escaped from the city
Jail March while serving the
first day of a Today sentence
for drunkenness.
Yesterday police received a
letter from Stevens.
"Will you please send Walter
Stevens papers, my birth certi-
ficate, social security card and
other papers," he said. 81 got
10 days for drunk and was put
i'm the kitchen and l took off.
That's been about two months
ago."
Police Chief Reed Vetterli re-
piled:
1--WE have received your letter
relative to your property which
you left here when you escap-
ed. 1t will be necessary, how
ever, for you to appear and sign
for this property before IL can
be returned to you. Since you
owe us nine days, il will have to
be served"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Dusseldorf Target
OfHuse RAF Raid
yanks FIyin Day
By UNITED PRESS

Large bomber formations
from Britain struck at Eur
ope by daylight Wednesday,
intensifying the Allied all,
offensive that sent about 1000
planes against Dusseldorf in Ger
many and the italian island strong
holds of Sicily, Sardinia, and Pan
telleria within the last "a hours.
A German news service reported
from Spain that big Allied con-
voy including warships and troop
ships had steamed through the
Straits of Gibraltar into the Medi-
terranean.
About 400 planes, most of them
American, took part in the Allied
air attacks against the Mediterran-
can islands.
CARRY BLOCK-BUSTERS
An estimated 500 Royal air force
planes, most of them big four
engined bombers carrying block
busters, smashed up additional acres
Dusseldorf, German city already
shattered by 81 previous attacks.
The Raj last night was starting
on its second 100000 tons of ex-
plosives for Hitler's stronghold
Twenty seven planes were lost in
the raid. while other craft went
out to harry objectives elsewhere
on the continent.
The attack ON Dusseldorf-onl,
80 miles from Dortmund, scene o
the biggest raid of the war 48 hour.
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
MONEY SURPLUS
Nevada Has Extra Dough

ness leaders and prominent persons
who have taken up residence in the
state to get better view of the
goingS-on.
LIST is LONG
The list includes Maj. Max c.
Fleischman, the yeast king; E. L.
Cord, automobile and airplane man.
ufacturer; Lewis Luckenback
steamship magnate; E. C. Ruckstell
axel manufacturer; Richard Bonelli
the baritone; John Raskob, cap
italiSt; Charles Howard, horse rae
ing enthusiast; Bing Crosby, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Hunter l.
Gary, utilities magnate, Arthur K
Bourne, of Singer sewing machines
William Bassett of the Otis Eleva-
tor Co., and DR.. Raphael Hermann
scientist and philanthropist.
In addition to the amusement af-
forced by the spectacle of a state
SO old-fashioned that it has its
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

SdlQ, ullleSS ldISC diilouiioo Va ouP
plies and air power are received
here Immediately for defensive op-
erations.
RESISTANCE STIFFENS
Chinese forces trying to check a
japanese drive westward through
Hupeh province battled stubbornly
against several enemy columns
pushing toward Wufeng, only 55
miles east of Enshih, wartime capi-
tai of Hupeh province, and a key
city on the approaches to Chung
king. Communiques indicated Chi
nese resistance was Stiffening.
The main western penetration of
the Japanese armies consisted of
three parallel columns advancing
over a strip of so miles wide south
of the Yangtze Battling toward the
border of Szechwan province, the
japanese are closer to Chungking
now than at any other time in the
war.
Prior to this month, the japanese
had been held in check on the CEN
trail front by the dangerous gorgeS
of the Yangtze, mountainous ter
Continued on Page 6, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Axis Ports Feel
Heavy Bomb Blow
From AIlyPIanes
End Jap Force
Now Being Hit
yU.S. Troops

WASHINGTON, May 26.
(UP)-American army fore
es have wiped out one of
three Japanese pockets of re-
sistance on Attu and are now
pounding second pocket.
The navy announced today that
ground forces, supported By army
bombers and fighters, cleaned out
both sides of the Chichagof valley"
and then made an assault which
was reported as continuing against
the enemy forces along the ridge
of the valley.
The enemy pocket on the ridge
apparently was the group which the
war department, in review of the
Attu situation Sunday, said had dug
in on high ground northwest of
Chichagof harbor. No mention was
made in today's communique of
the third pocket, which the war
department review said was locat-
ed in the mountains between Chi
chagof harbor and Serana bay.
Today's communique also report
ed new flare-up of activity in the
South Pacific which resulted in
destruction of the 1,333-ton naval
vessel Niagara off San Cristobal
island. Considerable damage" was
inflicted on the vessel-used for
serving motor torpedo boats-by a
group OF attacking Japanese planes,
and it was sunk by American gun
fire after all aboard had been trans
ferred to accompanying naval units
The Niagara was under the COM
mand of Lieut.. Comdr. David Bum
combe, of La Mesa Calf.
The communique also revealed
that on Monday, island time, U. S.
torpedo bombers and fighters bomb
ed and strafed japanese installa-
tions at Ringi Cove on Kolomban-
CARA island. The next day they at
tackled the enemy base at Rekata
bay on Santa Isabel island.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
School Head TO
Direct Hipass

Elmer j. See, district school sup
erintendent in Holtville, will be
director of Hipass Health camp this
summer, it was announced by the
camp executive committee We'd
nesday.
The camp, maintained in the
mountains west of FL Centro for
underprivileged children and chill
dren requiring special food and cool
mountain air, will open on July IL
this year and close Sept. 4.
Capacity of the camp is 100 chill
dren and it is expected to be filled
this year because so many parents
are employed and want a good
place to leave their youngsters
while they are employed See will
be assisted by his wife. Anyone
wanting to join the camp staff this
summer may communicate with
See.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

Watermelons, those wartime
"non-essential" aristocrats of the
American dinner table, brought I'M
perial Valley growers between $50
and $85 ton Wednesday under the
historic Sl8O a ton which opened
the shipping season in 1943.
: The price of $l80 ton at the be-
ginning of the season earlier this
month made agricultural history in
Imperial Valley. Last year, BAN
ner year for the watermelon grow
er, the price was around $3.50 a
ton, and the acreage was $500. The
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

from q 80 pm. to dark and begin
at dawn next day and quit before
the temperature rises.
The high market and great de-
mand for the so-called non-essen-
tial watermelon followed the trend
taken by the other so-called nom
essential crops, cucumbers, lettuce,
cantaloupes and celery, all of which
were in high demand and brought
high prices. AS non-essential
crop cueumbers brought 81 a crate
but the army couldn't buy them.
They were then put on the essential
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Jeep Production
Halted By Strike
BY UNITED PRESS

More than $1,000 striking war
workers, protesting the policies of
the War Labor Board, virtually
paralyzed the Akron, O., rubber in
dustry Wednesday and halted the
manufacture of army jeeps in the
most serious threat to war produc-
ton since Pearl Harbor.
The War Labor Board, faced with
growing challenge to its au-
thority, urged the workers to honor
their mo strike pledge and re-
turn to work Meanwhile, the WLB
denied the wage increase demands
of John l.. Lewis and his United
Mine Workers, but approved sug-
gestions for compromise. 1t was
the demands of the miners that
provided the impetus for the
spreading protests against the
boards DEGREES.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
italy, REICH HIT; JAP FORCE WIPED OUT
WatermeIons-$18O Ton.

list and now are bringing $3.50 to
$4 crate There is, however, no
great acreage left in the valley
The army can buy all the carrots
wanted but some army buyers say
the servicemen won't eat carrots
much unless they are canoied and
dolled up. Meanwhile, valley grow
ers, who increased their carrot
planting 80 per cent this year at
the request of the government, are
left with a supply of carrots too
great for the dehydration plants to
handle and too much for the fresh
carrot market.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Quake Thought in
Jap-HeId Islands

PASADENA, May 26. = CUP)-
California Institute of Technology
officials said today that very
severe" earthquake recorded on the
seismograph here at 4:21.49 pm.
yesterday had occurred in the VI
cinity of Japanese-held South Pa
cific islands.
The shock, large enough to cause
great damage if the epicenter were
near an inhabited region, took place
probably in Western New Guinea
or the Philippines at a distance of
7lO0 miles west of Pasadena, they
said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Rural Children
Purchase 25 Jeeps
In Imperial County
Campaign to Purchase
Vehicles for Services
Comes to End Here

Rural school children of
Imperial county between
Feb. l and May l sold en-
ough war bonds and stamps
to buy SO jeeps for the arm
ed forces of the United States.
The youngsters sold a total OF
$52,368 worth of bonds and stamps
working under the supervision OF
Deputy County School Superinten-
dent Florence Finney, who was in
charge of the Schools At War pro-
gram in Imperial county.
BUY OTHER THINGS
At the schools where the enroll
ment was so small that it was i'm
possible for the children to sell
enough to finance jeep, they pur-
chased soldiers uniforms, hospital
beds, machine guns, and other
equi ipment needed by the nation S
fighting men.
Eleven rural schools received Min
ute Men flags for having 80 per
cent of teachers and pupils regu-
larly buying stamps and bonds
Several schools received certificates
of award from the u. S. treasury
department for selling bonds and
stamps totalling 5000 or more from
March to April 10. Many received
awards for the excellence of scrap
books showing their wartime activ-
tiles, Mrs. Finney said.
Wilson school children in Ell Cen
tro, sold enough to buy five jeeps
Verde school bought four jeeps, as
did Jasper school. Bard school
bought one jeep.
Next fall Mrs. Finney hopes to
start the children in Buy-A-
Bomber campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Lewis, Officials
Meet With Owners

WASHINGTON, May 26.-CUP)-
John L. Lewis and a delegation of
United Mine Workers officials, con-
fident that they were we'll on the
road to achieving many of their de-
mands, reopened contract negotia-
tions today with the northern and
southern bituminous coal operators.
The meeting, called at the direc-
tion Of the War Labor Board, was
the first at which both northern
and southern operators had sat
around the same bargaining table
with the miners since the two
groups split in 1941.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
17.Year.0Id Youth
Dies After Wreck
Near Intersection
Truck, Car Collide at
Point Southeast of &C.;
One Slightly Injured

Raymond Singh, 17-year-
old youth, died in the Impe-
rial county hospital at 1886
o'clock Tuesday night from
injuries received when a car
he was driving collided with fuel
tank truck driven by Jack Wood
near the intersection of Dogwood
and Ross Roads slightly more than
an hour earlier.
Otis Briggs, one of the Ell Centre
police officers who investigated the
accident, said the sedan Singh was
driving turned over twice and that
Singh was thrown from the ma
chine. The car had been hit squarely
on one side, Briggs reported. The
truck did not overturn but was
hurled completely around by the
impact, he said.
DRIVING SOUTH
Briggs said Singh was driving
south on DogWood and Wood east on
Ross Road when the vehicles met.
Both machines were going in a
straight direction and neither driv-
er was attempting to make a turn
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Wage Boost for
RR Workers Voted

WASHINGTON, May 26.-CUP)-
A general wage increase of cents
an hour for more than 100000
incorporating railroad employees
was recommended to President
Roosevelt today by an emergency
beard of the national railway la
Dor panel.
Fifteen incorporating railroad
unions had asked for a union shop
and a wage raise of 20 cents an
hour. The board turned down the
union shop request.
The recommendations of the
board become effective in 80 days
unless changes are ordered by Eco
nomic Sterilization Director James
F.. ByrneS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

ence of the Ohio and Mississippi,
reported a SOL level.
Wolf Lake, ILL.,, north of Cape
Girardeau, was under martial law
and fears were expressed that the
Atlas powder plant there might be
flooded. The 1000 acre plant man
ufacturers in dustr ial explosives
Nearly 800 residents and 400 flood
refugees remained at Grand Tower.
Ill, farther north, even though the
town was 80 per cent under water.
Mayor G. D. Gardiner appealed 20
the residents 10 leave because no
food had been received since Satur-
day and supplies were dwindling.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Leaders Present
At jap Talks

Imperial county will be repre-
sented at a Pacific League meeting
in Los Angeles which will consider
the japanese problem on the Pa
cific coast.
District Attorney Charles G. Hal
liday, Fern Young of Calexico, and
Charles Nice of BraWley went to
Los Angeles Wednesday to hear the
discussion to be led by Congress
man John Costello, who has been
studying the Japanese problem as
a member of congressional COM
mittee appointed for that purpose.
He was scheduled to bring Wash
ington's viewpoint to the session.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

year before the price was $3.50 a
ton.
This years acreage was 1900.
Growers were not the only ones
cashing in on the watermelon deal
this year. One of the biggest wa
termelon growers in the Valley was
paying his pickers SIS a Gay and
his pitching crews $18 car. They
were in the money because some
crews can load five or six cars a
day. Some picKerS were said to
be getting $40 a day for working in
the smaller fields. The pickers work
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

system began receding
Crests on the upper reaches of
the Illinois river poured downstream
to flood new areas near st. Louis
where the Mississippi already has
crested. The chief danger points
were along the Illinois river from
Beardstown to Grafton, H., and the
$50 miles north of Cape Girardeau,
Mo, on the Mississippi.
The river at Cape Girardeau
stood at 40.8 feet, a gain of A of a
foot, this morning. 1t was expected
to gain another 8 of foot before
cresting tomorrow. At st. Louis, the
Mississippi had dropped to the 38
foot level. Cairo, ILL.,, at the conflu-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Farmer EIectrocuted Here
Bv Electric Garden Fence

Edwin Delos Barrett, 40, was elec-
trocuted late Tuesday when his feet
slipped into the water of an irri-
cation ditch and he toppled across
an electrified fence at the Barrett
ranch southeast of Ell Centre.
He last was seen live at $3.50 pm.
Tuesday by Fred A. Rochester, trac-
tor driver, who noticed Barrett
working along an irrigation ditch
near the fence around a garden
plot, Deputy Sheriff Robert Parrish
said. A short time later Rochester
noticed Barrett against the electfi-
fled fence.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
HedylaMarr to
Marrv 3rd Time

HOLLYWOOD. May 26.-UP)-
Hedy LAMAR, the lady with the
curves, the eye-lashes and the body
that was seen in the nude in her
motion-picture debut, headed for
her third matrimonial try today
with John Loder as the lucky man
Miss LAMAR, who has spent the
last five years in Hollywood wear
ing on the screen more clothes than
an Eskimo in her efforts to forget
her birthday suit performance in
Ecstasy" appeared with Loder late
yesterday at the Santa Monica mar
riage license bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
Food wastage Is
Likely Prospect

WASHINGTON, May 26.-UP)-
Wastage of crops and tightened
supply of canned and processed
foods is probable unless sufficient
manpower is available when the
canning season begins.
The Office of War Information
said today that this threat to the
food supply could be averted only
through an extraordinarily effec-
tive" recruitment of new workers
and the maintenance of a nucleus
of experienced workers in each To-
cal cannery.
Efforts alrtaGy are being made by
government agencies and civilian
groups to insure sufficient manpow-
er as the need arises.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26

ton in the permanent period af-
ter the war.
4. Organizing and improving dis
tribution methods to facilitate the
expansion of production.
5. International governmental ac-
ton to coordinate production and
consumption.
The committees charged with
drafting conference recommends
tionS were understood to be taking
those points of agreement and
drafting specific declarations to be
put before the conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-26
EdseI Ford, Head
OfCar Industry
Passes in Detroit
Son of Great Inventor
Dies of Undulant Fever
At Age of FOrty-Nine

DETROIT, May 26. (UP)
-Edsel Bryant Ford, head
of the Ford Motor Co., one
of the worlds greatest indus
trial empires, died early to-
day of undulent fever. lie was 40.
At his bedside when he succumb-
ed was his father, Henry Ford, who
founded the company nearly a half
century ago and introduced to the
world the Tin lizzie"
Ford was stricken critically i'll
about a week ago and death came
at 1:30 am. Also at bedside were
his wife, Eleanor; his mother; two
of his three sons, Benson, a student
in an army administration school
and William Clay, Is, and his
daughter, Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford
20.
BORN INTO BUSINESS
Ford was born into the automo-
bile business, grew up in it and
lived to become the president and
sole heir to the far-flung empire
When Ford was born Nov. 6, 1893
in a two-story brick house in what
is now the heart of Detroits busi-
ness section, his father was tinker
ing with "horSeleSs carriage
while not working as a $3O-a-week
obscure mechanic for the Detroit
Edison Co.
Ten years later Henry Ford or
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