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tended the University of California
at Berkeley.
Pvt. Robert Avina. who used to
work at Crossland's in Ell Centro,
is at Keesler Field. Miss, in the
army air corps technical training
school, He is studying to be a radio
operator and gunner and hopes to
become a flying sergeant. He is
stationed about rs miles from New
Orleans.
Once a fisherman always a fish,
erman. If you don't believe it,
listen TO these excerpts from let
ters from Winnie Reed, who is in
the navy and stationed at Seattle,
Wash. We caught a bunch of
sharks last night and gave them
away before we found out that we
could sell the livers for 25 cents a
pound We must have had about
10 pounds at least. From now on
the cash is going into cur pockets.
Later he wrote his wife, II sold
the fish livers 1 caught the other
day for $3.50. I caught the sharks
during my noon hour"
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British Penetrate
Tunis 7 Outskirts
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Tunis. Enemy transport columns
were falling back before Allied in
fantry and were being pounded fur
iously from the air.
USE ARMOR
The British First arm" had push
ed an overwhelming weight of armor
through the captured town of Mas
sicault on the central plains and
surged on eastward toward St. Cy-
prien to within easy artillery range
of Tunis, which was no longer pro-
tected by any formidable natural
barrier
Both Americans and British were
closing in on the junction CT Te-
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Entire Nation May Go on
48-Hour Work Week Soon

WASHINGTON, May 7 CUP -
The growing manpower shortage
and need for increased production
may lead war manpower officials
to order a 48-hour minimum work
week throughout the nation.
The feasibility of such an order.
VINO officials told an informal
press conference late yesterday
depends largely on the number of
exemptions which might be neces-
Sary. If too many exemptions are
necessary. the plan would be aban-
doned and the current policy of ap-
plying it to specific areas and in
dustrieS would be continued.
INCOME INCREASE
If War Manpower Chief Paul "
McNutt decides to apply it nation
wide, there would be a substantial
increase in the national income.
Workers covered by the federal
wage-hour law would be getting
time and a half for hours worked
beyond 40 To those working only
40 hours now, it would represent a
80 per cent increase in earnings.
When President Roosevelt issued
an executive order in February for
a 48 hour week, Economic Stabiliza-
ton Director James F.. Byrnes con-
tended in a radio address that
money paid for overtime was not
inflationary. Thus far, the order
has been applied to only 80 local
areas, and to the lumber, nom
ferrous metals mining and steel in
dustries on an industry-wide basis
Disclosure of the study of the
broader application of the order
came during a discussion of the
directive issued by McNutt to the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Wife Kills Two
Younu Children

DALLAS, Texas, May 7-CUPD-
Mrs. Mary K. Frailey, IL, charged
formally with murder, told author
tiles today she Just couldn't bear"
to see her small son and daughter
placed temporarily in the custody
of their father, SO she shot and
killed them.
The children, Louis Martin, 6, and
Watt Martin. III, 7, were slain late
Yesterday. two hours before their
father, Watt Martin II, was to have
called for them.
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Atiz. Officers to
Enforce Regulation

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Of the state have no business in
iecting themselves into the prob
lem. But this is no time to say.
let George do it. 1t is not some
one elseS business. 1t is our busi-
ness. all of us. 1t concerns all the
people, and we are all representa-
tives of the people
DUTIES TIE IN
Darrell Parker. chief attorney for
the OPA in Arizona, pointed out
that some of the cooperative moves
proposed tie in naturally with state
and local authorities regular duties.
Game wardens, for example, will be
expected to check hunters and fish
ermen for improper use Of gasoline
and TO keep a lookout for illegal
slaughter OF livestock.
In connection with meat control
officers were told that any slaught-
ering outside a regularly establish
ed slaughter house was a suspicious
circumstance" and should be inveS-
tigated They were asked to report
facts to their county, attorneys
Traffic officers were given in
structions regarding improper use
OF gasoline ration books. In the
case of fragrant" speeding cases
they were told that ration books
should be taken up at time of ar
rest and given to the judge with
filing of a complaint. They were
asked to report tire abuse such as
driving on flats or smart alec
driving involving skidding turns and
stops.
In the case OF commodity prices,
officers were asked to report
stores where prices are excessively
high even if you haven't the evi-
dence. You know the chiselers in
your own community better than
the OPA."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

Cpl. John Leja of the army air
corps spent leave recently visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John d.
Leja OF Meloland, and friends in
Imperial Valley He is stationed at
an air field near Kingman, Ariz.
His brother. Charles, is a seaman
first class in the navy and is in
the Pacific war zone.
Charles A Wallace, a former resi-
dent of El Centro, is a sergeant at
Boiling Field, d. c., an army air
base. Sgt Wallace is son of Mrs.
Edda Thompson of 878 CONNER
cial ave, FL Centro.
Two Imperial valley men are
among the hundreds stationed at
Ft. Benning, Ga. They are cpl. A.
j. SriZZ; OF the Desert Milling
company and Ed Gilmore, former
manager of the Bank of America
branch at CaleXico. Both will be
assigned to an officers candidate
school.
Reginald L. Knox, jr., El Centre
attorney. received his orders to re-
port to San Diego Monday to be
sworn into the United States navy
as an ensign in the supply corps.
He is to report for duty Thursday
of next week in San Diego where,
according to present plans, he will
remain until September when he
will be sent to Harvard university
for further training. Knox will be
connected with the navy supply
depot in San Diego.
MI and Mrs. d. H. Quinn, 712
Broadway, have three sons in the
service, Hugh enlisted in the army
in Oct. 1910 and is in the quarter
masters corps, in a field bakery
near San Bernardino. Lie enlisted
in the navy March, 1912, and has
been in Chicago technical training.
He was home on liberty 10 days and
is now stationed at North Island
with a bomber squadron. Eris en-
listed March %, and is III navy
boot camp, San Diego.
Frank Dixon, son of Mrs. Grace
Dixon, who has been at Camp Volt
els, Texas since March /, was trans
ferred to Louisiana university at
Baton Rouge, Ia. where he is a
cadet in the army specialized train
ing program. About June l he eX-
poets to be tested and interviewed
Tor assignment to some college for
his basic mechanical engineering
training Dixon was graduated from
Central Union High school and at
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steel industry in which he called
for a 48 hour week in that industry
by July l. Officials were asked
whether it would be applied to
other industries. They replied:
I'VE have reviewed industry after
industry and for the last two weeks
have been diligently studying
whether it should be extended
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HeaId Appointed
Superior Judge
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ICOnIlnueQ ITOm PaBt y
county, Heald devoted a great deal
OF time to civic and public enter
prises of all kinds, fearlessly TAX
ing the lead in matters he believed
to be for the public good He is a
past president, a past commander
Bar association. q past commander
of the American Legion, a Mason,
and takes an active part in many
other civic and fraternal groups.
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Govt TO Continue
To 0Derate Mines
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time in trying to perfect a new
agreements before May l9,
expiration date OF the truce under
which miners are now working.
There appeared to be slight chance
that the panel will have concluded
its deliberations by them.
ONeill told the hearing that the
mine workers could not justify their
wage demands under the Little
Steel formula which President
Roosevelt has said must be enforced
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Warren Signs Tax
Reduction Bills
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NOONJIIlutU IIUIII FdBt y
per cent credit against the corpo-
ration income tax payable in 1914
and 1945, reduction of $4,000 re-
serve frozen" for postwar en-
ployment. 100000.
SB 1896, Brown, county old-age
pension contribution of $40 per case
per month reduced to IS; estimated
to save county S13,038,000; old ra-
ton between state and county half
and half, new ratio 5-6 and l-6.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
WILL PLEAD
TO CHARGE

Joseph Abatti Italian youth, was
arraigned in Imperial county su-
perior court Friday on a grand jury
indictment charging him with beat
ing a Meloland farmers wife while
attempting to rape her He will en-
ter his plea to the charge next
Tuesday.
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IMPERIAL FATHERS OF
FIGHTERS To MEET

Fathers of Fighters in Imperial
will meet at the Imperial Veterans
hall at 8 pm. Tuesday for one of
their regular sessions. All men
eligible to join were invited to at
tend.
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ACKNOWLEDGE PENETRATION

C1he German communique today
acknowledged that superior Allied
infantry. tank, and air formations
had achieved a deep penetration in
Tunisia. The Italian communique
said that Reggie de Calabria, Ira
PAM. Marsala and the Island of
Favignana mad been bombed b.
Allied four-motored planes)
Many AXIS prisoners were taken
but no count had yet been made and
mOpping up operations still were in
progress at many points.
The Americans striking southeast
from Mateur cleared the hills four
miles south of Ghouigui despite
strong resistance. They pressed on
toward Tebourba Front dispatches
said the enemy Withdrawals were
mostly in the direction OF Tunis,
indicating the Germans planned TO
make a stand en- Cap Bon peninsula
east of Tunis.
For more than 36 hours the Allied
double-headed offensive had been
gaining momentum and the Axis
appeared TO be too badly beaten to
hold much hope Of stopping it short
ot Cap Bon.
MAIN ATTACK
The main attack on Thursday
was on a lO-mIle front where the
British First army broke through
the last mountain barriers east Of
djez-El- and flooded out on
the rolling plain, pushing beyond
Massicault in a sudden lightning
thrust. The leak through was
made possible by an all-out Allied
aerial assault tn at sometimes
brought infantry leaping out of fox
holes to cheer and shout at the
bombers sweeping close together
over the enemy positions and un-
loading might cargoes that shook
the walls
delayed repOr,s revealed that AL
lied planes dropped 1,25O,0O0 pounds
OF bombs on AXIS targets yesterday
sank 25 ships and destroyed 25
planes in the biggest day Of aerial
activity during the North African
campaign.
ThiTty-fiYc AXIS tanks were group
ed on the south side Of the main
road 10 Tunis. North Of the road
were 25 others They were a pitiful
remnant Of what was once Marshal
Erwin Rommels hard-hitting panz-
ers in the Afrika Korps.
The British armor attacked i'm
mediately. There was sharp fighting
as the Germans fell back after suf-
fering serious losses.
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PIONEER SELLS
HIS RANCH

/. +. CresSey, who has lived in
Imperial county Tor almost 43
wears. this week sold his ranch on
Imperial avenue west of Central
Union High school to c. E. Sprouse
of El Centro. CrcSsey makes his
home in Compton, but came to El
Centre this week to dispose of his
personal property at the ranch.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
BRAWLEY WOMAN
TO BE BURIED

Mass was said at 10 a. IN. Friday
in BraWley for Mrs. Maria Valdez
Ruiz, who died in FL Centre Tues
day. She was buried at Calvary
cemetery in Brawley.
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Scanning |. Y.
News Horizon
SUIT FILED

Julia Cells Thursday sued Fell
ciano Cells for divorce. alleging eX-
tgeme cruelty They were married
in e. Centre June IS. 1928 and
separated April %, l943.
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Reporter

Continued from Page u
er-in-laW and Aunt Linnie variety
usually presented to men around
Christmas time.
PS.-Tyler insists he is not in
cahoots with Sem Bacon.
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Universal Appeal

Universal Appeal
1t was peaceful along Len Rey
avenue the other night
The street was almost empty.
Suddenly the twilight air was
wrent with a loud explosion. Plop-
plop-plop went flat tire along the
pavement.
In a tWinkling people poured out
of every house on both sides of the
street, and the residents gazed in
silent sympathy as the crippled car
crept out of sight.
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DIVORCE GRANTED

nimas Castillo THURSDAY Obtained
final divorce from Fidela NJ.
Costello.
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right across the. country
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IN FINAL PHASE

We have reached the final
phase" he told the = army
group The worlds eyes are on you.
Forward to victory"
The enem- suffered tremendous
losses on land. while Allied planes
ranging northward as far as Italy
sank a destroyer and II small <lips
destroyed 40 enemy planes. and hit
a second destroyer as we'll as many
other vessels. The concentrated aer-
ial attacks stopped virtually all
enemy reinforcements and supplies
/ 70 Tunisia.
! In sweeps against the enemy line'
southeast of Mateur. American anC
French troops We're reported threat
ening TO trap large enemy rear
guard units in the Tebouba hills and
mad thrown ou. a spearnead toward
Djedeida which lies east of Te-
bourba and only l3 miles from Tu-
mis-
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bourba from which the enemy ap-
parently was withdrawing.
Gen. Harold Alexander's orders
were for all-0ut offensiyes that
would give the enemy no Opportuni-
" to catch hs breath and drive
him back to a Dunkirk on the Med
iterraOeap beaches
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Charles A. Wallace, a former resi-,
dent of Ell Centro. is a sergeant a
Boiling Field, d. c., an army ali
base Sgt Wallace is a son of Mrs
Edda Thompson of 878 CONNER.
cial ave, FL Centro.
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BEHIND THE HARLEM OUTBREAK

This weeks riot in Harlem repeats with the shrieking
clarity of siren at midnight inescapable truth that
has been drummed TO the American public constantly for
years that it utter impossibty to segregate dis
crimnate against and bruaze the largest and
most important minority group in the nation without en-
genderng deep resentment and desire for retaliation
that inevitably will take extreme costly and violent means
of expression Obviously outbreaks like the Harlem affair
police like Detroit will settle nothing; they
serve only to drive a wedge further between the
people of the country which quite conceably can make
victory the Axis long and difficult and even when
won, entirely meaningless any picture of world demo-
cracy
Surely after the expensive lessons of Beaumont Los
Angeles, Mobile, and Harlem the course that true
American justice should follow must be clear Garry the
Four Freedoms to the world from country which enjoys
them The establishment of the Four Freedoms here need
not be especially hard ENFORCE the Bill of Rights of the
Constitution, even in the benighted South; PROHIBIT
Congressional meddlng of the type that made the Nation
al Labor Relations Board drop its intercesson behalf
of three hundred discharged employees of Kaiser ship
yard; DEMAND full cooperation and straightforward
action from all city, state and federal officials and
ABOLISH and for ALL the pattern of segregation in
the Armed Forces that is becoming model for the rest
of the nation. Victory abroad futile if Amercanism
defeated at home.
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Why Doesn't Boston FL
Hire CoIored Trainmen?
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otherwise, be kept away from
the deep south or be placed in
to strong concentration camps.
A colored man was jailed.
Southerners who led the char
ges of "colored-Jap relations"
thereby tried to create racial
disunity in America as they
have done for a number of
years. This propaganda, had it
taken affect, would have estab-
lished our people as allies of
Hitler, which is the effect the
Axis wanted.
Il now develops that the real
allies Of Hitler were those who
spread this vicious propaganda
against loyal American Japs and
colored citizens. The presump-
ton that Americas enemies are
based on color is all wrong.
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Good Ship Harmon

Last week at Quincy, a Des-
troyer Escort was launched for
the United States Navy in honor
of a colored Navy mess attend
ant, Leonard Roy Harmon who
died in action against Japanese
forces at Guadacanal last Nov
ember. May it be known that
practically all of our medal dec
Grated heroes of this war, be-
ginning with Dorie Miller at
Pearl Harbor, have been cited
for action against the japanese
imperialist regime at Toxic.
General Macarthur himself
has publically proclaimed that
the gaflantry of colored men in
the Pacific war theatre has not
been exceeded by any other ra-
cial group anywhere. We know
this to be true.
In spite Of all these facts, the
'leveling of" of japanese Am
erican populations, among ouI
c0lored group can, and possibly
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Harlem Quiet
(Conttnued ION Paqe Onel

(IOHItHue1 from rage One)
ored civilians and soldiers alike
since the start Of the War; the
increasing dissatisfaction with
the failure Of the Government
to crack down on instances of
discrimination in war industries
in the New York section; the
anger of the people against
rent-gouging and unfairly-high
living costs in the Harlem area,
and most greatly of all, the dis
gust the people naturally feel
toward the police department,
which is generally felt TO have
a separate set of standards
with accompanying brutality
and bias-for the Harlem citi-
zens. To combat at least some
of there evils, a committee for
mter-racial action was immed-
lately formed, including in its
membership some of the out
standing members of the race
in the New York section.
The immediate cause Of the
trouble was concealed in a gar
bled, dubious, police explana-
ton, According to this version,
a policeman attempted to arrest
/ a colored woman when a colored
military policeman interfered.
The military policeman, it was
stated, took the civil poIceman's
club and beat him with it. He
then ran, and was shot lin the
back by the officer. This shoot
ing, and the refusal of hospital
attendants to permit the woun-
ded soldier to be seen, touched
of the spark that soon flared
into a roaring conflagration.
No substantiation for the un-
usual explanation of the police
had been officially issued up to
late this week; Harlem leaders
expressed deep puzzlement over
its unlikely features. and de-
manded a full probe to estab-
lish the real facts.
In the meantime, scores Of
kilograms and letters were be-
ing received by officials and
leaders contrasting the quick,
positive action taken in New
York with the wishy-was at
| titude of Detroit officials, and
the later efforts of the Western
city to blame their abortive riot
entirely on the colored popula-
ton.
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Races Almost Strangers

At the present time at least,
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and col
ored groups have very little in
common. Our religion certainly
is a great contrast, but this is
not necessarily a dividing force.
It has been the Japanese race
superiority" air that has made
the japanese people compare
tiveiv poor mixers among other
groups. The Chinese by con-
trast are much better mixers,
far more sociable and have a
sunny sense Of humor more akin
to oHr own. Yet many Chinese
have religions and customs as
different from ours as the Japs.
Whether the japanese will af-
feet a friendship with colored
citizens or view us only as COM
petitors for the one type Of lob
that will be offered both groups
is at present a matter of debate.
But if white, colored and Jap
anese leaders get together now
and assure everyone that New
England will offer equal job
opportunities" to all workers
regardless as to race, then we
can avert a lot of trouble that
may arise after this war. Unless
we make this seemingly simple
precaution' soon, New England
is due for some headaches. We
hope His Excellency the Cover
nor, is listening in to this broad
cast.
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ACTORS GUILD


/ New York - The 9Th Annual
Summer Party, Caribbean Fiesta,
( Wednesday evening t28th) at
/ the Manhattan Center, 34th
+ Street and 9th Avenue was far
from what we expected. The
affair which was earmarked to
be the gala sensation of the sea-
/ son that has attracted the at
tention of thousands and gave
them something to wag tongues
for many moons afterwards will
probably be a memory for the
duration. 1t was minus the gla-
mour, glory and glitter that we
all adore.
Loyal supporters of the Guild
| however were there and enjoyed
a grand evening of frolic and
fun, many o. whom I was glad
to greet including:
W. c. Handy, Daddy Of the
Blues" and treasurer of the Or
ganization, host to scores Of
| friends who visited Box II -.
DR.. La Verne Barber, Mrs.
Maurice Barber. Charles E.
Handy. Ms. Davis Of Birming-
ham, Miss Eloise Robinson, Mrs.
Mccall, Baron Jimmie RoSenu-
krantz Of Copenhagen, Denmark.
James A. Billboard Jackson,
ESQ Marketer and Mrs. J. were
quite busy greeting friends, Mrs.
Dick Abrams and Bob Carpenter
in the party 1t was a great
pleasure to see TIE blonde and
graceful Beatrice Happy Will
liams, former Shuttle Along"
beauty, widow of the late base
ball star Smokey Joe" Williams
she looks like million
dollars,
Mamie Blues Smith, the first
colored woman's voice to be re-
corded on photograph records,
who has been i'll for some time,
was all smiles with Mary Straine,
noted nightclub singer and
George Ketcham Mrs. Ar
dena Daniels, mother Of Jimmie
Daniels, said her boy is well and
doing fine 49,. J. c. Johnson, of
Tin-Pan Alley and Sarah Dun
stan, of the ADV.S. were a
happy two-some.
Alberta Pryme, charming as
ever had a party that was right
in the Groove; Mable Hopkins,
Marguerite Henry, Barbara and
Theda DeaS, the latter the FORM
er Mrs Tiny Bradshaw, Nan
| SeWell, AltoneI H. Mathews, Ed
ward Mathews, Carrie and Irv-
ing HanTer, Norma Sheppard,
Irene Grille. Laura Lewis.
Mrs. Pearl Carpenter, former
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PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST
CHURCH

IN nh
Req. Samuel H. Bullock, Pastor
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF
THE FOUNDING OF THE
CHURCH. FROM AUG. 8 OVER
SEPT. u.
The last two Sundays were
busy days at the Pleasant Hill
Baptist church with Uncle FL
mer and his singers holding
the services twice and the Jen-
kins Band leading the program
last Sunday. As usual the mu-
sic was stirring and tie
church was packed. This will
be the case each Sunday until
Sept. IL when the. new baptis-
nal font viii be used for the
first time.
Last Sunday, Mildred Jen-
kins, daughter Of the founde;
Of the Jenkins Orphanage and
Band was the soprano scloiSt
and the Jenkins Band played
sacred music while the chorvs
sang. Spirituals. These friends
VIII appear on the program
again next Sunday The Celes-
tial chorus, Mr.. Prout, leader,
will sing an Halleluia Chorus
with band accompaniment and
a fine program is anticipated.
As usual there will be a large
crowd which every Sunday
grows larger and larger.