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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO ELECTORS OF
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY
THE IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT under and pursuant to
the provisions of Section 4c of the
Statutes of 1915, page l, as amend
ed, of the intention of the Impe-
rial Irrigation District to make
and enter into contract in writ
ing with the United States of Amer
lea relative to the furnishing and
disposal of electric energy to be
hereafter generated by the Imperial
Irrigation District and that said
proposed contract has been spread
upon the minutes of the Board of
Directors of the Imperial Irrigation
District and that the nature of said
| agreement, the consideration there
! for, the date that said agreement
is to be effective and brief sum-
mary of the contents thereof are
as follows:
Said agreement is contract be-
tween the United States of Ameri-
ca and the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict for the purchase of surplus
electric energy by the Government
CT the United States from Imperial
| Irrigation District.
The consideration therefor is that
the United States is to pay to thS
Imperial Irrigation District for the
electric energy delivered pursuant
| to this agreement at a schedule of
, rates as more particularly set forth
in paragraph 8 of said proposed
contract, reference to which is here
by made and which is hereby in
corporated by reference.
The date that said contract is
to become effective is ninety days
from and after the first publication
of this notice.
That IL summary of the contents
of said agreement is as follows:
That the United States of America
owns and operates a power system
throughout the Lower Colorado Riv-
er area in Arizona, California and
Nevada and Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict owns and operates a power
system in California and may have
surplus electric energy available
from its generating stations. That
the two systems are inter-connected
near Drop on the All American
Canal. That said agreement is
made in conjunction with con-
tract of 1910 between the parties,
which contract provides for the
delivery of electric energy by the
United States to the Imperial r.
rigation District That after the
District has supplied it's own pres
ent and future requirements the
District may deliver to the United
States electric energy at times and
in amounts as requested, from sur
plus power had vt a schedule of
rates provided for in said para
graph 9 Of said agreement.
That the term of said contract is
until ninety days after the cessa-
tion of hostilities of the present
war.
Dated this 30th day of March,
1913.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
By Evan T. HeWes (Sgd.)
President.
BY G.. l.. Dermody (Sgd)
Assistant Secretary.
District SeaD
'No. 5D (A1-6 inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

IlGflIcTS llldlilJdllleu COllSIdllJ IJdJIOlS
SIX FIGHTERS DOWNED
Six enemy fighters were sent
crashing to the earth and four Al
led planes were lost.
No details of the latest advance
of Lieut.. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson's
First army in northern TIlniSia
were given in the communique, but
/ dispatches indicated that the
troops already were less than 80
miles from Bizerte.
First army patrols successfully
engaged and inflicted casualties on
ar enemy patrol" the comunique
said. Elsewhere, it reported only
patrol activity.
Thirty-tWo German tanks at
tackled the American positions some
IS miles east of Ell Guettar yester-
CAY. but a hurricane barrage knock
eG out three of them and the other
% turned back, dispatches said.
MASSES STRENGTH
Meantime, the British Eighth
amy was massing strength for an
assault to break through German
Marshal Erwin Rommels last ma
.tural defense line above SouSse
nearly 140 miles to the north. The
German Afrika KorpS now was en-
trenched along the north rim OF
the deep, water filled Dadi Akarit
at the northern entrance to the
Gabes gap % miles above Gabes.
CCThe Algiers radio reported at
a m. Algiers time that fighting has
broken out anew between Eighth
army vanguards and Rommels rear
guards 248 miles north of GabeS,
& suggestion that advance British
forces have swept across the Wadi
The main body of the Afrika korps
was said to be continuing its rapid
retreatD
fThe Allied controlled Morocco
radio quoted unconfirmed reports
that Rommels headquarters were
no longer in Tunisia' and radio
London relayed a Swiss report that
Rommel would become liasion Of
ficer and military adviser to the
Italian high command when he
leaves Tunisia'
The length of the German stand
at Wadi Akarit is expected to de-
pend as much on the progress OF
twin American thrusts from the
northeast against his rear as much
ae on the impending frontal attack
by Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's Eighth army.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
British Strike at
Submarine Pens on
French West Coast

LONDON, April 3. CUP) Brit
ish four-engined bombers struck III
force last night at Lorient and St
Nazaire, Germany'S two largest sub
marine bases on the French Allan
| tic coast.
The double blow ended a four
night, weather enforced lull in the
Anglo American aerial offensive
following the heavy attacks Mon
/ da- night on Berlin and Bochum,
the latter a steel and railway CEN
ter in Germany's Ruhr.
TWO PLANES LOST
Only two planes were lost in last
nights raids and in subsidiary
mine-laying operations, considered
an unusually small loss for attacks
on such heavily defended targets.
Every type of bomb from tWo-ton
block busters to tWo-pound incen-
diaries was unloaded on the sub
marine pens, repair shops and other
U-boat facilities OF st. Nazaire and
Lorient, both Of which already have
been SO badly battered by Anglo
American planes that the Ger
mans are believed to be on the
point of moving the bases farther
south in France.
9th RAID
The raid on Lorient was the 69th
of the war and that on St Nazaire
the 47th. Lorient last was attacked
in daylight by the 9th u. S. air
force March 6.
Other Allied planes took over the
resumed aerial offensive in day-
light today. Bombers and fighters
swept over the southeast coast in
relays and bomb explosions were
heard from the direction of the
northeast coast of France or south
ern corner of Belgium.
The night raids against the sub
marine bases were timed to COIN
eide with the intensification of Ger
many's U-boat warfare against Al
lied sea lanes in an attempt to
throw the impending invasion of
Europe off schedule.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, April 3 CUP)-The British
First army has driven closer to
Mateur, only l8 miles from Bizerte,
an Allied communique announced
today. and field dispatches said
american big guns smashed Ger
man tank attack on the south
central front.
Despite bad weather generally,
the great Anglo American aerial
armada gave the harried Axis forces
nc rest. Light bombers and fight
er-bombers raked German positions
and transport north of Gabes i'll
relays, the enemy airfield at LaFau-
ccnnerie was bombed twice and rag
ing fires were left burning, and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

Principal place where freedom oi
the air" debaters go wrong is in
trying to tie up freedom of the air
with freedom of the seas. They're
two different kettles of fish.
The United States got into the
last war over freedom of the seas
the right of any neutral nation to
sail its ships on the open oceans in
time of war.
Great Britain has always favor
ed freedom of the seas because her
life depended on the ability of her
ships to travel the seven seas and
bring back from her colonies the
raw materials needed by the British
Isles.
But just because seaplane
lands in the ocean it doesn't fol-
low that Il seapsane has the same
right as a merchant ship. For one
thing, the seaplane can fly over
land and come to rest on river
or lake, far in the interior. And
an spanning land plane is
even less limited.
Advocates OF extending the prin-
ciple of freedom of the seas to the
air have nevertheless developed this
theory of the right of innocent
passage''-the right of any plane to
fly over, land on or take off from
any air base. Theoretically, a plane
in innocent passage may refuel and
be reserviced, provided it does not
carry arms, does not pick up or
discharge cargo.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

| was warned that / would find a
strong spirit of isolationism throughout
the country. | only found that people
were anxious to learn about the British
war effort. Sure they were critical Of
the British and lot Of other things. So
much so that | felt | was in Wales
There is no real isolationism in this
country. 1t is only an artificial isolation
ism.-Jack Jones. Welsh coal miner who
toured y. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
Certificates Not
Needed for wire

War Board certificates are no
longer required for the purchase of
poultry wire, Triple-A officials in
El Centro said Saturday. They ex-
pressed belief that good supply
OF such wire is on hand at hard
ware stores Heretofore purchasers
of chicken wire were required to
possess certificates issued by the
War Board
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

If we are to keep faith with those we
have selected for military service, we
must do the all-important job that lies
ahead in such a manner that every fight
ing man, giving everything he has to give
on the battlefront, will know that we at
home are doing everything we can to
bring him back to us victorious.-Draft
Director Lewis 3. Hershey.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

You got to take your time learning to
milk or you'll ruin good cow Learn
ing to milk comes hard with some people
but it sure is a lot harder on the COW.
George Simmons, farmer and instruc-
tor at Farmingdale, N. Y, Agricultural
Institute
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

-Manpower Director Paul V McNutt.
The allies have achieved notable vic
tories recently, but to count on a quick
conclusion of the war would only work
to get ourselves in trouble.-British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The FOLLOWING edit.
oridis are presented as interesting opin.
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion si
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

If democracy can BY a voluntary
measure solve a problem which others
have had to solve through compulsion, it
Is one of the greatest tributes to our
ability to do a lob as a democracy
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
ROOSEVELT: WAR LEADER
OF THE FIRST CLASS.

they are to have such a powerful and
able wartime leader as President Roose-
welt.
This may sound strange, coming from
q newspaper which has lambasted Mr..
Roosevelt's theories and actions time and
again. But ii isn't strange, because our
disagreements have been over issues, and
not over the fundamental qualities OF
the man himself.
We Americans have a hard time re-
conciling a political antagoniSm and a
national unity. Unhappily, if we oppose
a man before election, we keep on OPP
posing him after election, despite the
fact that he has won and we should do
our durndest to see him not as a politi-
cal opponent, but as the established lead
er of his country. Furthermore, we have
a bad habit of condemning all fellow
does as wrong, r Ely because some OF
the things he s. for appear to us as
silly and abs
We belle mat Mr. Roosevelt has
done a lo- absurd things. We con-
slider his cal program lopsided in
favor of tical theory; we disagree
with his ic-social blueprints; we
don't like te-getting tactics and
are convinced It he has made many
avoidable mistah
But these are Americas internal prob
lens to be Strengthened out here at home,
and we can look over them TO Roosevelt
the leader in crucial war times We see
five men of which Roosevelt is one, and
we realize that we need not be ashamed
of him when placed alongside of the other
most powerful men in the world.
Roosevelt does not suffer by compari-
son with arch-leader Churchill, or the
brainy, powerful Stain, or the inspired
e Ha hot bar
to contrast him with the fifth man, Hit
Ter the Hun.
Among such men-giants as they are
we have the belief that Roosevelt is able
to hold his own. Certainly he is on a
par with the other Allied leaders in
courage, in determination, in ability to
assume tremendous burdens and respon
sibilities. He is easily their peer in sim
cerity, in spirituality, in self-confidence,
in willing self-sacrifice. And we believe
he is their equal not only in intelligence
but in diplomacy.
Americas weakness has been her lack
of training in international statesman
ship Russia since World War | has es-
pecially trained her career diplomats.
Britain has a thousand years of expert
ence behind her and her leaders are
STEPPED in it. But America, in her isola
tionism has focused her attentions on in
ternal politics and party politicians.
At national politics, Mr.. Roosevelt is
the expert of the experts He is the
nearest thing we have to a trained, car
eer politician. His training and aptitude
can be put to good advantage in his roll
as leading diplomat in worldwide politi-
cal strategy.
Let us disagree with him when we
think him wrong, and oppose his acts and
issues as we choose, but let us not close
our eyes to the fact that he is a strong
and powerful leader of whom we can
be proud and who needs our support,
not as a politician but as our President.
-Manpower Director Paul Y. McNutt.
The allies have achieved notable vic
tories recently, but to count on quick
conclusion of the war would only work
to get ourselves in trouble.-British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
COOKING WITH GAS?

STOCKHOLM, April 3. (UP)-
All trucks in Germany henceforth
must operate on wood charcoal gas
as a fuel conservation measure, the
Swedish Telegraph Bureau report
ed from Berlin today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04

Much heavy and hard fighting still
lies ahead for British and American
forces lin Africa. )-Winston Churchill.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
Japs Feel Heavy
Allied Air Blows
Throughout East
By UNITED PRESS

The Japanese continued to suffer
Saturday under Furnishing but scat
tered Allied air attacks and ad-
mitted the Chinese we're Waging
offensive war against their invad-
ing forces on land.
The air attacks ranged from a
foray against enemy shipping by
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bomb
ers in the southwest Pacific to the
regular blows delivered b. the Brit
ish at occupied points in Burma.
TWO SHIPS HIT
MacArthurs communique said two
ships probably were hit late Thurs
day when bombers caught 13 enemy
warcraft and merchantmen at an
chor off the harbor of Kavieng, on
the northern end of New Ireland
above New Guinea Purpose of the
raid appeared to be disruption of
links in Japanese supply lines.
Other United States bomber planes
attacked Japanese positions along
the northeast New Guinea coast.
Raj Blenheims struck the Kan
balu rail junction in Burma north
of Shwebo and Tended off a Japa-
nese raid on Maungdaw, within
British lines in Burma north of
Akyab.
CAMPS SHOWERED
Air forces at the Alaskan defense
command said at least 20 freight
car loads of bombs shoWered on
japanese camps in the Aleutians
last month. AS many as 70 planes
took part in some raids, pouring
1900 bombs at four-square- mile
area at Kiska.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-04
British Troops
Approach Bizerte

fighters maintained constant patrols
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09
POSSIBILITY OF
COOP COLLEGE
TO BE STUDIED

COLLEGE CAMP, Lake Geneva,
Wis. - The Publicity and Education
committee of the Cooperative League
will set up a special committee of
regional educational directors to ex-
plore the possibilities of % expand
ing the Midwest Management Train
ing School; (2) moving Rochdale In
stitute to more control location; CD
taking steps leading to the establish
ment of a national cooperative col
lege or training school Action fol-
lowed a report by Lionel Perkins on
the work of Rochdale Institute. The
committee is to be appointed by Will
liam lorna, newly elected chairman
of the Publicity and Education Com
mittee, and is to report its findings
to the next meeting of the PIE com
mittee.
A. major item on the agenda of the
Pre- committee meeting was a discus
sion of the report of special com
mittee on Cooperative Technology
headed by V. S. Alanne, Merlin G.
Miller, Laurie Lehtin and Hans II.
Lacti recommendations will be re-
ferred back to the National Society
OF Cooperative Accountants for final
action.
A resolution calling for adequate
and equitable taxation as a major part
of the battle against initiation was
passed by the publicity and education
directors of the regional co-operatives.
An impressive array of posters for
the Cooperative Centennial Campaign
was examined by the poster commit
tee and Mr.. Ferneberg of Chicago,
formerly employed by the Swedish CO.
operatives, was selected from among
those who submitted sketches to do
tho series for the coming year.
William lorna, educational direc-
tor of Central States Co-operatives,
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09
T0LAN URGED TO
INVESTIGATE RIOTS

In telegram to Rep. John H.
Tolan, Morris Milgram, national sec
rotary of the Workers Defense league,
urged the Tolan committee investi-
eating national defense migration to
work Immediately to discover the
truth about the causes of racial an
tagonism. The text of the wore fol-
lows:
Just returned from Richmond, Va,
where city is excited about race riot
expected July 4th. Negro press in
dicates racial tension spreading
throughout country. Your committee
investigating national defense migra-
ton should work Immediately to dis
cover truth about causes racial an
tagonism. There certainly are steps
which communities and federal gov
eminent can take to ease tension.
We look to your committee to point
the way before further violence oc-
ours"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09
congressman TO
GET REACTION
OF HOME FOLKS
Wiping Out of Differences
On Appropriations Reached
Yesterday and Members
Now Heading for Home to
Meet Home Opinions.

With the senate receding from some
of its proposals for changes in APP
preparations and the lower house max
ing some concessions, the congress
recessed yesterday until September
IA, with a record of having appropri.
ated about 100 billion dollars for war
and home front uses.
Reactionary interests appear to
have been most powerful in the SEES
sion and their success in adjustment
of two new deal agencies, the Ma
tional Youth Administration and the
National Resources Planning Board
are outstanding examples of the in
fluence which they welded Passage
of the Smith-Connally anti-labor bill
over the presidential veto and repeal
ing of the Presidents order limiting
salaries to top of $4,000 are two
other major indications of their
power.
In the final action on appropria-
lions yesterday, the Federal Crop In
surance program was killed This
may probably be ascribed to the sub
rosa insistence of the insurance COM
panies which may have seen in this
program an entering wedge into gov
eminent operated insurance threaten
ing their private racket. Now the in
surance companies have the benefit
of the extensive studies made by the
government agency and of the lessons
learned by the operation of the
agency.
The senate's insistence on barring
the use of any funds for the price
rol-back subsidies was yielded, the
lower house having had change of
heart on that feature when the Presi-
dent vetoed the CCC appropriation
bill first passed, in which subsidy
were barred. This is a
clear administration victory.
The farm bloc proposal for a raise
in the ceiling price of corn from $107 |
to $1.40 on the Chicago market was
by the house agricultural |
the proposal having been
originated in the senate.
The proposal that all employees of
war agencies paid $4,000 year or
more must have the approval of the |
senate was killed, the lower house re-
fusing to accept a compromise pro-
posal that the approval of the senate +
be required for the appointment of |
anyone to such jobs at a salary of |
$500 or more. Opponents of the
measure, charged that the intent of
he proposal was to create patronage
or the senator's
The office of price administration
md office of war information Jared
quite well in the final fight on the
var agency appropriation measure.
Overtime pay funds for federal work
rs and emergency funds for use by
he president were included in the
appropriations measure as
inally passed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09
Use OF war
PRISONERS In
so. PROTESTED

! Marvin Jones recently appointed
War Food Administrator today haC
before him protest against the use
of prisoners of war to break down
wages and other conditions of employ
ment on American farms.
H. L. Mitchell, general secretary Of
| the Southern Tenant Farmers Union
charged that Italian war prisoners
we're being employed chopping cotton
on a Mississippi delta plantation when
there was surplus of farm labor
availa BILE locally.
Mitchell wrote the Food Admins
traitor that he had reliable informa-
ton to the effect that E. ]. Mullen Jr.,
a plantation owner of Clarksdale,
Miss, had attempted to hire local
labor offering wages of $500 for a
14-hour day when other planters were
paying $3.50 to $500 for 10 hours
work and that Mullens applied to the
War Department for the use of pris-
oners from the Sardis Internment
camp nearby Sixty Italian war pris-
oners were then assigned to chop
cotton on the plantation at soc per
day and board.
Mitchell urged the Food Admins
traitor to prevent the use of war pris-
oners on farms anywhere in the
United States to beat down wages and
other conditions of employment on
the farms. The letter stated that the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union had
no objection to the use of prisoners
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09

estimate which shows that there were
79,5O5,000 tons of bituminous coal in
the consumers stockpiles on June l.
We should have increased stockpiles
by more than 100000 tons during
May We are still losing ground in
June"
CADET NURSE CORPS ORGANIZED
Newest of the women's uniformed
groups is the United States Cadet
Nurse Corps, set up to revive young
women's interest in enlistment as stu
dent nurses. The Bolton Act, signed
by President Roosevelt June Is, will
provide student nurses with a distinc-
tive uniform and insignia. Also, this
legislation permits the government to
give accredited institutions the funds
to pay room, board, tuition and fees
for nurse trainees, and to give them
a stipend of SIS month for the first
nine months of training, with a grad
ual increase.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-09
JAP farm
LABOR BEING


The 10 relocation centers, temper
airy homes of the people of japanese
ancestry who were evacuated from
the Pacific Coast area, are proving a
source of labor for the farms. Off
Gals of the War Relocation Authority
estimate that more than 5000 work
ers have been supplied from the cen
tiers, either for year-round or seasonal
farm employment The workers who
left the centers this spring for sea
sonal employment went for the most
part to the inter-mountain states,
some of them to FSA transient farm
labor camps.
Under the program of the War Re-
location Authority qualified evacues
are being permitted to leave the cen
tiers for private employment and nor
NAL living on the outside. Since
many of these people were farm op-
orators or farm workers on the coast
prior to the evacuation, they have
naturally returned to farm work. At
the relocation centers farm operations
are carried on and the evacuees pro-
duce approximately 80 per cent of
the vegetables required for the mess
halls.
Many different skills are repre-
scented among these people. There is
a high percentage of technically
trained and professional workers.
There are office workers and mechan-
les who are going outside to take jobs
ments are made through field repre-
sentatives of the War Relocation Au-
thority and the United States Employ
ment Service