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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Nelson Defends
WPBFaTm Order

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-tUP)-
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the
War Production Board today con-
tended the senate committee in
vestigating the war effort had been
unfair in criticizing WPB's hand
Ing Of the farm machinery pro-
gram.
He defended the boards action
in making available 173,O0O tons of
steel for use in farm machinery
for the fourth quarter Of 1912, as
serting that that was an increase
of $1,000 tons over the third quar-
ter.
The senate committee in a special
report yesterday criticized WPB
severely and charged that it had
gambled dangerously with the war
food production program.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
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Axis communication lines, sank a
merchant vessel off the Tunisian
coast
REDS WIN GROUND
Axis troops in Russia stiffened
in their resistance TO the Soviet
winter offensive, but the Red army
continued to win new ground.
hark VoroShilovgrad, and Rostov-
all important cities in the system
of Axis defenses-were being
threatened.
The Russians observed the 10th
anniversary of the death of Nikolai
Lenin. founder of the Bolshevist
republic, with a ceremony in the
Kremlin. There the gain made in
the Russian offensive that started
on November 10 were announced.
More than 100000 Axis troops have
been killed, it was said; 100000
prisoners have been taken; 5000
tanks. 1900 guns, and $50 planes
have been destroyed. The Germans
have been driven back more than
l85 miles on two fronts, the re-
ports said.
NORWAY PREPARES
Swedish reports said the Ger
mans were reinforcing their army
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
posed program.
CARE FOR OWN

CAKE FOh OWN
Another faction contends highly
paid war workers should make ar
rangements privately to care for
their children.
Standards for the centers would
be set by the board of education,
but fees. hours. and regulations
would be fixed by local agencies.
The act is intended for the dura-
tion of the war only, or until July,
l945 whichever is reached first.
The committee also gave favor
able recommendation to a bill by
lloyd LoWrey, Democrat, Rumsey,
to permit classes in secondary and
elementary schools on any days ex-
cept Sundays and major holidays.
This. the authority said, would al
low longer summer vacations and
release older children for farm
work.
Another measure was unfavor-
ably recommended by the educa-
tion committee. 1t sought to re-
duce the number of school days
from ITO to 100 a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Retired Teachers
Freed TO Serve

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 22.-tUP)-
The state senate late yesterday
passed bill to permit retired
school teachers to return TO work
without losing their retirement
rights. Senator Frank L Gordon,
Republican, Suisun the author, said
the measure would help alleviate
critical shortages of teachers in
some school districts.
Senate bills introduced included:
Hatfield. prohibit hunters from en-
tering private property without
written permission, with penalty
for violation loss Of license; Burns,
to give the national park service
police jurisdiction in Kings can
yon national park, and Collier, to
move the closing date of the COM
mcrcial salmon fishing season in
district 6 including Del Norte and
a portion Of Humboldt county Up
fro mSeptember Is TO october Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22

members and 26 passengers. most
of them army personnel. Among
them were Maj Eric Knight. the
author: P. E. FoXworth, assistant
director in charge of the New York
office of the FBI; and other prom
inent army and State Department
officials.
There was no indication wheth-
er the board Of inqiry would go to
the site of the crash. but it was
considered likely that it would in
its effort to determine the cause
Of the crash. The plane was bound
from the United Sttaes to Africa
or the Middle East. and it was be-
lieved the crash might have been
caused by motor trouble since the
weather was reported favorable.
NEWS DELAYED
Maj. Gen Harold L. George chief
of the army air transport COM
mand, said the inacceSSibility of
the crash scene delayed announce
ment of the week-old accident. The
United Press correspondent in
Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. re-
ported that the disaster occurred
in flat country near the coastal
area in the vicinity of Paramaribo.
Censors prevented disclosure of fur
ther details
The greatest previous accident of
an American plane was the Au-
gust 81. 1910. crash of a Pennsyl-
vania Central airliner at Lovetts-
vile. Va. in which 25 were killed
The most disastrous plane wreck
in world history was the crash of
the Russian experimental plane
Maxim Gorky on May Is, 1885,
killing 48.
OTHER VICTIMS
Other victims in the Dutch Guia-
ma crash were two State Depart
ment officials. William Hodson of
New York and o. E. Henryson Of
Washington. Secretary of State
Cordell Hull expressed his regret,
saying that they died in the per-
formance of their duties and have
been added to the list of those 9TH
er Americans who have given their
lives for their country"
There was no explanation of
Foxworths presence on the plane.
He was accompanied by another
FBI official, Special Agent H. D.
Haberfeld.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
French Warned of
Impending Attacks

LONDON, Jan. O.. - (UP)-A
Spokesman of the Inter-Allied ST.
preme Command, broadcaSting in
French over the BBC, warned the
population Of occupied France to-
day that their territory sWould be-
come a theatcr of war operations
The spokesman emphasized that
the Allies would not allow the Ger
mans to proceed unmolested in for
tifying the French Mediterranean
coast and using the harbors of Mar
seille and ToClon as submarine
bases
He warned the French to stay
away from buildings used by the
German staff as headquarters and
barracks for sheltering German
troops, from railroad centers,
freight yards, locomotive repair
shops, and the vicinity of factories
working for Germany
"On the day the Allies need
YOU he said, you will be in
formed"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Argentina Becomes
Center for Axis
Espionage Agents
MONTEVIDEO. UrugnaV. Ian.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. Jan. %
- CUPl - Thirty Axis espionage
agents are operating in Argentina
and their activities effect at least
10 American republics. the COM
mittee for the political defense of
the Western Hemisphere revealed
today.
The agents form four groups,
each with its own illegal shortwave
radio tranSmitter, it was reported
Many of the agents went to
Argentina from Chile. which broke
off diplomatic relations with the
Axis Tuesday, and from Brazil
which declared war on Germany
and Italy Aug. %. to establish
headquarters for AXIS espionage in
the Western Hemisphere.
The information was based on
three memoranda on espionage
furnished to the Argentine govern
ment by the United States in Nov
ember. The committee was meet
ing today to decide whether the
memoranda shall be made public.
The memoranda was followed by
the arrest Of 38 persons by the
Argentina police. Six were in
dicted.
John Jacob Napp, one of the in
dicted men, implicated Capt. Die
trich Niebuhr. German naval and
air attache, in espionage activities
He was recently recalled by Ger
many at Argentina's demand. after
his government refused to waive
his diplomatic immunitieS. so he
might possibly stand trial for eSpi-
onage in the Argentine courts.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
EscadriIIe Flies
Again in Africa

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cause there are few buildings and
the Germans frequently come to
bomb and machine gun them. They
are largely cit% bred. several years
older than American pilots living
and fighting beside them, but they
can WELD a shovel to dig fox hole
as we'll as any American.
Before long, however, the Escad-
rifle will have IT'S own command
post, built deep in the ground. with
telephone and electric lights.
Rozanoff is a fighting leader. He
fought in the action that cost the
rejuvenated EScadrille its first plane.
A group CT MeSserschmitts attacked
four French planes above the field
at 8 am, Jan. Is. as standing pa
trcls were being changed. RoZanoff
was flying in relief patrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Chaplain Tells
Duties at Camp

Describing his duties as chaplain
at Camp Dunlap, Lieut.. Duplicci of
the us. Marine corps, gave an in
teresting talk for the Ell Centre Ro-
tary club at its luncheon meeting
Thursday noon in the Barbara
Worth hotel
Richard H Moore was called upon
for his life history and gave an in
tereSting account of his experiences.
Hazel Gallagher, president, pre-
sided and the January committee
arranged the program with Eu-
gene Forbcss acting as chairman
of the day. Other members Of the
committee arc j. r. FahS, Earl
Farris, w. CT. Foss.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Speed Blamed for
Two Deaths Here,

A coroncr's jury late Thursda,
blamed excessive speed for the
deaths of Jesus Ruiz, 54, and Felipe
Villareal Vitela, %, in a traffic ac-
cident on Fourth street south Of
Ell Centre last Monday night.
Vitela was ono of the Mexican
farm laborers imported from the
interior of the southern republic to
help harvest Imperial Valley crops
A car driven by Ruiz carecncd
across the highway, went out of
control, and rolled over and over
in a ditch beside the highway,
highway patrolmen said. Ruiz
liver near Heber.
The two Mexicans were the first
traffic fatalities in Imperial coun-
t. in l943.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22

mixture of coffee and rye, may be
solo by the manufacturer for IL
cents per pound
Coffee Plus 10 Per Cent Filler
"a combination of coffee, chicory
and chick peas, may be sold for
30l2 cents a pound to restaurants.
Forbes Coffee. Cereal and Chi-
cory'-a compound containing cof-
fee, cereal and chicory. Ceiling
price-25 cents per pound.
Special Victory Blend"-contain-
ing coffee, chicory, cereal and soy
beans. Ceiling price for wagon
delivery-3l cents per pound.
Victory Blend" coffee, roasted
barley and garbenzo beans. Ceiling
price-22 cents = pound.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Civilian Meat
Cut 18 Per Cent

los ANGELES. Jan. UP
b w. CamDton, executive secretary
Of Meat Packers, Inc, estimated TO-
day that southland civilians arc OBJ
tanning only 10 per cent of their
normal meat supply.
Industry representatives reitcr-
ated the charge that the shortage
is caused by influx OF more than
100000 out-of- state war workers,
uncounted by the Office of Price
Administration when quotas were
set, and a heavy consumption of
meat by members of the armed
forces on leave.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
German Bishop
Defends Freedom

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-(UP)-
Continued resistance of German
Catholics to the theories of Nazism
has been revealed by the public9-
tion of pastoral letter of the
Bishop of Berlin, the Most Rev.
Conrad Count Won PreySing, who
called on his people to cling to
the faith that everyone is entitled
70 his rights"
In words that were necessarily
restrained because they came from
the capital of Hitler's government,
but nevertheless left no doubt of
their meaning, the Bishop denounc-
e1 the Nazi dream of world con-
quest, the persecution of the Jews,
and the denial of fundamental JUS
tico to the German people.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Loan Association
Names Directors

At the twcnty-sixth annual meet
lng OF the Brawley National Farm
Loan association in Fl Centre re-
Gently, Ruby /. Baker of Ell Centre
and Valentine F. Buffers of Braw-
ley were elected for a three-year
term as association directors.
They will serve with Jack H.
Benson, Ralph M. Buffers, and
Judge H. B Griffin, all of BraW-
ley. Griffin is president of the
association.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Edgar Bros. Unit
In Annual Dinner

Officials of Edgar Brothers COM
pany employees and their wives
and husbands gathered in the main
dining room of the Barbara Worth
hotel in FL Centre Thursday night
for their annual dinner and gen.
eral gathering.
During the evening, j. II. Edgar,
company president, gave a report
of company business in 1912, which
he declared, was very satisfactory
year for the company
S. p. Williams, Ell Centre attor-
ncy, spoke on current topics of in
tereSt.
Music was provided by Mrs. H.
Nelson, music teacher at Douglas
High school.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
FBI Agents Nab
Tall Tale Teller

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22.-tUP)-
Danny Dougan, 81, of Detroit,
Mich, was held by the Federal Bu-
reau Ct Investigation today for i'm
personating a United States Ma
rine.
Dougan was arrested in uniform
last night. FBI agents we're seek
ing a complaint before US. Com
missioner David B Head.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
ScanningI.V Y.
News Horizon
CHILDREN ASKED TO
RI1IID MORE MODELS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-tUPl-
The nations school children today
were asked by the Navy and US.
office of education to build 100000
solid model planes this year for
training men in the armed forces
and aircraft spoilers to recognize
types. A half-mLhon models were
produced by students last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Inquiry Launched
In Plane Crash

WASHINGTON. Jan. Pup
4 board of army officials today
was investigating the greatest sin
gle plant disaster in American
aviation history-the crash of a
four-motored transport in Dutch
Guiana which killed 35 Americans.
The dead were the nine crew
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
OUISLING'S COUSIN
RENOUNCES PARTY

ham QuiSling. coutin of Vidkun
Ouisling, head OF the Nazi puppet
government of Norway. has re-
nounccd his membership in the
Ouisling party, Swedish circles
heard today. Abraham Quisling
was dismissed as police constable
at Skien, Tclemark province, as a
result of his action, it was said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-22
Fight Looms for
Child Care Plan

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 22.-UPl-
An assembly floor fight on legisla-
ton to enable school districts to
establish child care centerS for chill
dren of war industry workers ap-
pcared inevitable today despite the
fact the committee on education
reported the bill favorably last
night
Labor organizations, parents
teachers and womenS groups head
ed supporters of the urgency bill.
which has IS co-authors in the low
er house. The measure is conSid-
cred an enabling act for districts
TO obtain funds under federal law,
with final amendments requiring
the districts to assume financial
responsibility rather than the state.
CRITICS SPEAK UP
Debate on the legislation is ex-
pected to start next week
Critics of the bill. citing school
districts in Vallejo which already
are participating under the federal
Lanham act, questioned the need
for state agency. The education
committee defeated an amendment
by Lester Mcmillan. Democrat. Los
Angeles, to appropriate S250,000 to
launch the program. Another
amendment meeting disapproval
was one by Francis Dunn, Jr., DEM
ocrat. Oakland, designed to permit
children of war workers and men
in armed services to receive bene-
fit of the centerS at half-price.
School groups may oppose the
measure since school facilities and
equipment is included in the pro-
Evening star., 1943-04-16
Bitter Battle Raqes
In House Over Farm
Appropriation Bill
Rules Group Refuses
To Help Save Measure
From Legislative Ak
By the Associated Press.

The House wades into the
third day of debate on the S707,-
040844 Agriculture Department
appropriation bill today with the
Rules Committee adamant in its
refusal to help save the measure
t1om threatened legislative may
hem.
Expected to be fought out this
afternoon is a recommendation of
the Appropriations Committee for
abolition of the Farm Security Ad-
ministration, abandonment of the
crop insurance program. and dis
continuance of parity payments for
the 1943 and 1914 crops.
After brief meeting late yester-
day, the Rules Committee refused,
for the second time in two days, to
accede to an Appropriations Com
mittee request for an order under
which legislative provisions written
into the bill could not arbitrarily be
stricken out on points of order,
Agriculture Committee members
opposed to abolition of FSA fought
the move and carried the issue to
the House floor when Chairman
Cannon of the Appropriations Com
mittee chided the farm group for
its stand.
The lntercommittee dispute
threatened to result in stripping the
bill of many provisions on purely
parliamentary grounds.
-Four of the estimated 40 legisla-
tive provisions we're hacked off yes
terday and dozens more were slated
for the legislative AK today. Those
stricken involved only minor mat
ters, but the tactics of opponents
drew from Representative Tarver,
Democrat, of Georgia challenge
to cattle State representatives to
prove their good faith" by striking
out funds for the control of cattle
diseases.
There we're prospects the bill
would be tied up in the House for
at least several more days, and that
the Senate would restore. by amend
ment, many of the items removed on
technicalities in the House.
While House procedure prohibits
appropriations for unauthorized pur-
poses if any one objects, it does not
prevent the House from accepting
them if the Senate inserts the funds
through amendments.
Meanwhile. the House yesterday
approved without debate the con-
ference report on the revamped farm
labor bill which provides SIG, 100 600
for land army of farm hands this
year, and sent the measure to the
Senate.
The sooner you get that War Saw
ings stamp in your book the sooner
you will get victory in the bag.
Evening star., 1943-04-16

mise 50 reached would embrace a
20 per cent withholding levy against
the taxable portions Of pay en-
velopes and salary checks. This
would not be an additional tax, but
means of making weekly, semi
monthly or monthly deductions from
earnings against taxes as now COM
puted.
If the parties can agree the with
holding levy probably would become
effective July l.
A form of the Ruml plan was de-
feateG in the House two weeks ago
by a 2l5-to-198 vote, with Repub-
licans lined up for and Democrats
against it, in one of the most spec
tacular House party fights in recent
history.
Republicans have been maneuver-
ing to bring the skip-a-year tax
Evening star., 1943-04-16
b the Associated Press.

LONDON. April 16.-Premier
Mussolini was reported by the
Berlin radio today to have de-
clared Sicily, Sardinia and
smaller islands at Italy's south
ern flank as an area of military
operations in a move interpreted
mere as throwing up defenses
hastily against expected Allied
stack.
The action was preceded by a
shakeup of the Italian police. which
some London observers said was an
attempt to deal with potential
slackers and saboteurs who might
impair the defense of Italy. The
Italian Premier acted in his capacity
as commander in chief.
The Moscow radio said a state of
emergency had been declared in
Sardinia following discovery of an
"a n t = government organization
working to disrupt the military
measures of the Italian-German
command" Three arrests were re-
ported
The move by Mussolini followed
his four-day conference with Hitler
to contrive strategy and rally re-
sources against Allied invasions
promised for the summer. The ac-
ton was interpreted here as sug-
gesting that Mussolini shares the
view held in some of the best in
formed British quarters that the
cleanup of Axis forces in Tunisia
now will be swift and complete.
1t is known that bombed
Naples has been evacuated at least
partially and similar moves may be
made in Sardinia and Sicily in line
with the Axis policy OF clearing
civilians from potential front line
areas and heavily bombed cities.
Non-essential civilians have been
forced from many French coastal
cities such as Lorient. The Paris
radio reported today that all persons
having no vital reason for remain
ing are being removed from Cher
bourg and Dieppe.
The Berlin radio reported the
shake-up in Italian police admin
lstration in which DR.. Carmine
Senise. chief Of Italian police forces,
was replaced by Renzo Chierici,
Blackshirt leader. and diplomatic
quarters here were quick to trace
the action to increasing German in
f1uence in Italy.
Chierici formerly was deputy
commander of the Fascist organiza-
tion in Tripolitania and lately has
commanded special branch of the
Fascist militia. The assistant police
chief also was replaced and new
projects were named for the i'm
portant posts of Messina. Sicily, and
the naval base of laramie, the Ber-
lin broadcast said.
The prefect of Messina replaced
the war production director. 1t was
reported.
Rome dispatches to the Swiss
newspaper Tribune de Geneve re-
ported last night that authority
which had been taken away from
italian Army officers and intrusted
to Nazi officers as been restored to
Evening star., 1943-04-16

proposal to another vote, claiming
sufficient new strength to pass it,
but the Ways and Means Committee.
dominated by Democrats, has re-
fused to send another pay-as-you- go
bill to the House floor until it dis
poses of measure to extend recip-
rocal trade agreements another
three wears.
Evening star., 1943-04-16
pay-as-you-go income tax legis-

pay-as-you-go income tax legis-
lation.
The bipartisan effort to settle the
embattled issue developed at a
morning conference in Mr.. Ray
burns office. attended by Minority
Leader Martin, Majority Leader Nc
Cormack, Chairman Doughton and
members of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
Mr.. Rayburn said afterward,
We're going to try to forget the
Ruml plan first to embody the
skip-a-tax-year idea and all other
plans, then sit down and try to
work out something that will be
acceptable to all concerned"
Mr.. Martin told newspapermen,
1--WE had a little conference to see
if it was possible to reach a COM
promise"
1t is expected that any compro-
Evening star., 1943-04-16
Alleged Confession
In Lower 49, Trial
Admitted as Evidence
Judge Finds Statement
By Prisoner Apparently
Was Made Voluntarily
By the Associated Press.

6y lEe hSSOCldleu fless.
ALBANY, Greg. April 16.-After a
bitter argument in the absence OF
the Jury. Los Angeles police state
ments quoting Robert Folkes, COL
ored dining car cook, as admitting
he slew Mrs Martha Virginia James
we're admitted in evidence today IN
the Lower 13" murder trial.
In the face of strong opposition by
Defense Attorney Leroy Lomax, who
charged the admissions were OBJ
tanned after the defendant had been
given liquor and after use OF third
degree" methods by Los Angeles po-
lice, Circuit Judge L. G. LeWelling
ruled the statements were admls-
sible.
within the meaning of the law
and in the light of evidence, these
purported admissions appear to have
been made voluntarily. and for that
reason should be admitted" he said.
Tells of Confession.
Two Los Angeles police officers,
Capt. of Detectives Vern Rassmus-
sen and 1t E. w. Tetrick OF the
Homicide Bureau, said Folkes made
the first admission after they had
taken him to visit his girl friend in
Los Angeles and had been given q
half pint OF whisky.
At the home of the girl. who was
not identified, 1t. Tetrick said,
Folkes made statement, which was
repeated and transcribed by a
stenogra pher at the Los Angeles City
Hall
AS his mother. Mrs. Jessie Folkes,
looked on. the detective continued,
Folkes said he was ready to go oack
to Oregon and pay the price"
Slashed to Death.
Mrs. James. bride of Ensign Rich
ard F. James. U. S N. was slashed
to death as she lay in lower l3 berth
of car D of the Southern Paclflc's
West Coast Limited as it roared
through West Central oregon en-
route to California before dawn on
January %.
The State attempted to have the
statements admitted yesterday. Cir
cult Judge L. G.. Lewelling said he
first would have to know the circum-
stances under which they had been
obtained from Folkes.
Judge Lewelling dismissed the jury
while Prosecutor Harlow Weinrick
and Defense Attorney Leroy Lomax
presented their arguments.
Before the jury was dismissed,
Harry NJ Hughes, colored sleeping
car porter, testified that Marine Pvt.
Harold Wilson. a key State witness,
said after the slaying he had seen
white man run from Mrs. James
berth.
said He Was White"
He fWilson> said he was white
man" Mr.. Hughes replied to de-
fense question. He said he could
tell he (the fugutive) was white
man when he turned around to look
back as he was then under the light
in the elbow Of the car
Pvt. Wilson, who occupied upper
i3, previously testified that he was
unable to determine whether the
man he saw running from the berth
was white man or colored. He
maintained he never stated to any
one that the man was white.
Mr. Hughes said Pvt, wilson's as
sertion that the man was white was