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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 25. (UP)-
Refusing to work without con-
tract, approximately $500 steel work
ers in four district plants walked
out on strike Saturday and thous-
ands more were expected to follow
suit during the holiday weekend.
The full effect of the walkouts
called in protest to the War Labor
Boards refusal to extend existing
agreements during negotiations or
a demand by the CIO United Steel
workers of America for a II cents
an hour wage increase, will not be
felt in the Pittsburgh district until
Monday.
PLANTS FACE CLOSING
At that time, some rs or 80 dis
trict plants will be idle unless some
action is taken meanwhile to head
off the walkouts.
The four plants whose contrarts
expired last midnight and which
had shifts scheduled for that time
were the Oliver Iron & Steel Co.
Macintosh & Hemphill; Phillips
Mine & Mine Supply Co., and the
DWin Bell Co., all situated in Pitts
burgh.
A total of approximately 100 dis
trict plants employing some 10000
workers operated under contracts
which expired last midnight, but
few had planned to operate during
the Christmas holiday.
Meanwhile, President Philip Muir
ray of the Steel Workers union
maintained a strict silence since
he warned the WLB Thursday that
its refusal to extend the agreements
and make any wage changes retro
active would create a grave situa-
ton" in the war vital steel indus
try.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26


workers were idled when a picket
line at the Corrigan-McKinney and
Strip mills of the Republic Steel
Corp. refused to let night shift
workers enter the mills Friday
night.
Most of the steel plants in Cleve-
land and some in Youngstown were
closed for holiday and an accurate
check on the number of workers af-
fected would not be possible until
Sunday night when work is sched-
uled to be resumed, officials pointed
out.
CONTRACTS EXPIRE
Contracts between the United
Steel Workers of America union
(CIO) and the companies on strike
expired at midnight Friday night,
and union and company officials
feared the stoppage would spread
to include all of the 350,000 workers
at the 214 affected plants.
Contracts with 268 other compan-
les including the United States Steel
Corp. and the Jones & Laughlin
Steel Corp. expire Jan. 3 and 4
and unless the strikes are settled
by that time, the stoppage may be
extended to affect most of the ma
TONS war vital industry.
No violence had been reported in
either Cleveland or Youngstown.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
MEETS WITH STIMSON
CANCEL STRIKE MOVE

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 25 (UP)-The
international Association of Ma
chinists, local 1125, withdrew its
petition for strike vote at Con-
solidated Vultee Aircraft Corpora
ton, Elmer Whitworth, president of
the union, announced Saturday.
The action came, WhitWorth said,
after the War Labor Board reported
it will conduct hearings on proposed
wage increases for Southern Cali
fornia Aircraft plants.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26

mans from North
Africa, Sicily and
southern Italy. He
has done this by
adherence to a
tactical principle
which h a S been
described as "nev-
er give the enemy
an even break.
His record indi-
Gates that t h i s
will be the basis
of h | S prepara-
tioDc anc st,eA ~, n
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
DIES IN CRASH

LANCASTER, Calf, Dec. 25 CUP
Aviation Cadet Zeno E. Futtder
21, Chicago, ILL.,, was killed when
his training plane crashed 18 miles
northwest of Polaris Flight Aca-
DENY near here, army officials dis
closed Saturday. Pilots of other
planes reported Futtder's trainer
burned in the desert after the cras.<
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
10000 Men Leave Jobs
In Ohio. Pennsylvania:
May Make 35O,000 Idle
SRefuse to Return TO Jobs When
Contract Expires as Leaders
Protest WLB Ruling on Raises

YOUNGSTOWN o., Dec. 25 (UP) : About $4,000
workers were idle in the Youngstown Saturday
steel workers refused their jobs the Youngstown
Sheet Tube Co. and the Republic Steel corporations
vital plants because of contract expiration Friday night
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
British Forces
Bottle for
Adriotic Bases
Or+ona Becomes Second Sta|insrad
AS Street Fighting Increases:
Nazis Move Tanks into Easements

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers, Dec. 25. (UP)-
The battle for Ortona Adriatc anchor of the Naz line
mounted Saturday to pitch officially described match
ing the fury of Sangrad' with the Germans cngng des-
peratey to almost mpregnble positions in the northwest
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
Seizure of Rail
Lines Ponds as
Empasse Stands
Conferences Recessed
Till Monday With
Leaders More Hopeful

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. UP)-
Government, railroad and union Of
ficials-certain of avoiding a ma
tionWide strike but not SO certain
of avoiding government seizure and
operation of the railroads-took a
Christmas holiday Saturday from
their futile Week-long attempts to
settle their wage controversy.
Christmas eve conferences broke
up on bitter note with the pros
poets of a settlement considered
only "a bare possibility by some
union officials. But the meetings
will resume Monday, and the union
and carrier leaders may get to-
gether Sunday.
HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT
The more optimistic observers
believed that both the unions and
the government would hold out for
concessions until the very last min
ute before the scheduled strike
deadline-next Thursday Those OBJ
servers are hoping that some basis
for settlement, possibly an arrange
ment for a guaranteed work week
and overtime pay, will be found by
then.
The issue, stripped of its extras,
now Is resolved to controversy
between the government and the
unions. The administration is de-
termined that any settlement must
be within the wage stabilization
policy. The unions are just as de-
termined to get more than they
would be allowed under that for
mula. Union spokesman asserted
yesterday that if left alone with
the carriers, they would be able
to work out a deal.
Sometime between now and
Thursday, either a settlement for
mula must be reached or, to pre-
vent a strike, the government will
seize and begin to operate the rail-
roads as it did during World War
I. Mr.. Roosevelt wiped out virtual
ly all possibility of a strike before
leaving for his Hyde Park, N. Y,
home Thursday night by ordering
Attorney General Francis Biddle
to prepare the necessary papers for
seizure.
MEETS WITH STIMSON
Biddle conferred with Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson, presum-
ably about the use of troops if nec-
essary. Union spokesman have indi-
Gated, however, that they will not
strike if the government takes over
the roads.
The steps toward federal control
were taken after only two of the
20 railroad unions accepted Presi-
dent Roosevelts offer to arbitrate
the dispute. The bulk of the rail
road workers not agreeing to arbi-
tration are the incorporating un-
ions, with a membership of 1,10O,-
900 workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 81, minimum Saturday 43: s am.
54; humidity Ga noon Saturday G8, humidity 10;
pm. Saturday 60, humidity a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26

I. A. HAY-U S. No. l SCI 1850; u s. No. leafy
1. v. S30.5O- $3.50; No. $sO.5O-sI.5O; Sept. flax
$2.96al.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Housewives Nav
Fill Workers Place

A warning that many non-work-
ine women may be needed to help
carry on business, and that mer-
chants here may be forced to use
two part-time workers in place
of present full time workers, was
issued Saturday by a government
representative passing through Ell
Centro.
Pearce Davis of the federal Office
Of Defense Health and Services,
was here for one day studying pot
ential man or woman power which
can be used if the Consolidated
aircraft corporation places a sub
assembly plant here.
He conferred with Tom Finney
Of the state employment service.
ard delved into housing conditions,
costs of living and health facilities.
Davis said that 400 workers would
be needed by Consolidated. The
wage scales, he said, would be
expected to draw many working
persons from existing business con-
Germs.
This, he said would place the
average business listed as non-es-
sential in the position of closing
up, curtailing, or finding two part
time housewives to fill each full
time job vacated
He said he could not conclude on
such short investigation whether
the community could meet this
demand.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Wallace Warns of Third
War: Asks Close Union

DELAWARE, Ohio, March g.
CUP) - Vice-President Henry A.
Wallace declared today that third
world war would be probable If
the Allies should double Gloss the
Soviet Union and inevitable if the
Soviets should again embrace the
idea of fomenting world revolution.
Another war also would be certain,
he said, if we permitted Germany
to rearm again.
Unless there is a close and trust
ing understanding between Russia
and the United States, he said,
there is grave probability of
Russia and Germany sooner or
later making common cause" after
the war.
Wallace expressed these views in
an address entitled practical rehg-
ion in the world tomorrow" deliv-
cred at the Ohio Wesleyan univer-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08

case we double-cross Russia.
THAT war will be probable II we
fail to demonstrate that we can
furnish full employment after this
war comes to an end and Fascist
interests motivated largely by anti
Russian bias get control of our gov
ernment."
Then he emphasized that the
ground for warld war III can be
laid by actions of other powers, even
though the United States follows
the most constructive course.
For example" he said, such a
war would be inevitable II Russia
should again embrace the Trotsky-
ist idea of fomenting worldwide
revolution. or if British interests
should again be sympathetic 10
anti-Russian activity In Germany
and other countries"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
ON MANEUvERS
Guardsmen GrOan but Live

per of stew, they revived sufficient
" to sit around a camp fire un-
til II 80 pm. telling tales so tall
that they shamed the trees which
lowered around their camp site.
They crawled into their pup tents
at 11:30, and thereafter all that
was heard was a chorus of snores
ranging in intensity from weak
grumtS to limitations of locomo-
tives.
Sunday morning they ate so
many hotcakes that Mack Mer-
GERS shooting arm was put out of
commission because of welding a
pancake flipper so long. That
cramped his style at the pistol
shoot in the afternoon.
TOOK OVER NESTS
Guardsmen had to take over ma
chine gun nests Sunday morning
During this fierce engagement
Captain John Kepley was stung or
the nose by a bee and rescued
from a swarm of the stingers' COM
panions by flock of martins. Ear
Parker was peering across country
through field glasses when sud-
denly he saw a mule loom up ir
front of him. He jumped anC
snatched the glasses from his eyes
The mule was only a jackrabbit
magnified by the lenses of the field
glasses.
They had a steak dinner Sunday
which almost put them out of train
ing for the pistol shoot. but they fl
nally managed to qualify seven OF
the Is contestants as expert marks
men.
BY this time they were about fin
ished physically, but had to break
camp and take everything home.
1T was good training perioc
and the men did marvelously we'll,
agreed Capt Kepley and Lieut.. H
K. McClimans, as they checked the
men out.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Strike HuIts Production
I'm Vital Rubber Factory
'7,5OO Workers in
Walkou+ Patterned
After Boeing Halt

MISHAWAKA, Ind, Mar.
8. UP)-A strike of $500
workers patterned after the
Boeing walkout' halted pro-
duction at the Ball Band
Rubber Products company.
George S. Cummins, president of
the Mishawaka local of the United
Rubber Workers (CIO), said the
plants entire working force had
struck.
Company officials declined to
comment except to acknowledge the
plant was shut down.
EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT
The strike, voted at mass meet
ing yesterday, became effective at
midnight.
The union threw a picket line
around the plant and more than
1000 workers failed to report for
the midnight shift. Three thousand
more remained idle when the am.
shift started today and union Off
cials said 1000 employed on the
4 pm. shift also would not report.
Cummings said it was patterned
after the Boeing walkout' to speed
War Labor Board action on de-
mands for a wage increase. EN-
ployes of two Boeing plants in
Washington staged a three-hour
walkout 10 days ago for the same
purpose.
I'VE were impressed with the re-
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Hand grenades made of tin cans
filled with sand beefstaks E.
pup tents bacon and eggs :.
a pistol shot -. problems 8.
popping rabbits on maneuvers =.
hot cakes . sore muscles &.
Company of the California State
Guard in Imperial Valley groan-
ingly returned to their homes in
the Ell Centre area late Sunday
after camping at McCabe school
all weekend and engaging in ma
neuverS and drills which are part
of their training. They groaned
and fumed but they lived through
it.
CRAWL IN TENTS
They thought their maneuvers
across country Saturday afternoon
would finish them, but after a sup
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
State Assembly
Committee Blasts
Police Brutality
Group Urges Change in
LA. Charter to Provide
Punishment for Officers

SACRAMENTO, March 8.
(UP)-The state assembly
o m m t t e e to investigate
charges of police brutality in
Los Angeles today submitted
a report denouncing the police de-
partment for continued brutal and
inhumane" treatment of prisoners
and urged changes in the city char
ter to permit punishment for future
violations.
the death of Stanley Beebe after
receiving injuries while in the Gus
tody of the Los Angeles police" the
report stated. Mention was made
that the inquiry resulted in the
suspension of five officers, five be-
/ ing charged with perjury and one
with manslaughter
PRINTED IN JOURNAL
Assemblyman Sam l.. Collins,
Fullerton, was chairman of the
subcommittee. The report was
ordered printed in the Assembly
Journal and Collins, Chester Gan
non, Sacramento and John Pelletier,
Los Angeles, verbally attacked the
department. from the floor.
The late District Attorney John
DockWeiler asked the legislature to
investigate after police refused to
cooperate.
Evidence showed that Beebe was
in perfect health and in a doubtful
degree of intoxication when arrest
ed last Dec. 10, the report said. His
wife called at the Jail and found
MIN in battered and bruised con-
dition" and after mis- release, an
officer called at his home and re-
ported to the department Beebes
injuries were inflicted by police
The report blamed the police for
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Group Advises on
Gas Certificates

Issuance of gasoline certificates
to farmers for non-highway use is
now being done by the local ration
board on recommendation of the
farm transportation committee of
the United States Department of
Agriculture War Board.
Rudolph Miller, secretary of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration, under which the war
board functions, said Monday that
this method of rationing gasoline
to farmers for use in equipment
other than automobiles has recent
ly been put into operation and gave
as reason the fact that the war
board is better acquainted with the
true needs of the farmer than any
other agency.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
King, Queen Turn
Out War Supplies

LONDON, March 8-(UP)-
King Georce and Queen Eliza
beth have set up workshops in
Windsor castle where they and
the entire royal encourage turns
out war equipment and mater
ials. il was revealed tonight.
The Queen, Princesses Eliza
beth and Margaret, the ladies'
maids and clerks along with
others of the household have
been making oamouflage nets
to hide antiaircraft guns for
more than six months.
The King specializes in max
ing breech blocks for six x-pOund-
er antitank guns, and has be-
come so proficient that he now
completes an average of 25 a
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Tragedies Mark
Weekend Of Death
In Imperial Valley
-Four Deaths Recorded
Here: Baby Dies After
Taking Deadly Drink

A weekend of violence,
sud d e n deaths, stabbing
fighting and the death of a
baby sent officers scurrying
all over Imperial county in
investigating the tragedies.
Maria Antonia Mason, eight
months-old, obtained some poison
at her home at 112 Lincoln street
Calexico, and died from taking it.
BODY FOUND
A man believed to be Donald Oh
Stewart McMaSters was struck and
killed by a train at Ogilby. The
body was found early Monday.
Archie McCullum, Negro soldier
guarding a railroad crossing in the
INLAND area, was struck and killed
by a train Saturday near inland
The Negro, about 25 years of age
was found beside the tracks near s
lateral by another soldier, Pvt. AL
bert Mache.
In a fight in resort at 532 G
street in Brawley, Alfonso Garcia
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Farm Bureau LAYS
Maketing Worry
In wickard's slap
Members of Organization
Ask us. Secretary to z
Aid Transportation

A resolution laying re-
sponsibility of moving lmpe-
rial Valleys hay, fax, and
grain crop right in the lap
of Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard" was passed by
Imperial County Farm Bureau dir
ectors Saturday.
Directors declared that they are
hampered in their efforts to market
their crops by a shortage in trucks,
tires, men, and railroad facilities.
LOVELAND WARNS
UNLESS something is DONE" de-
clared President Baxter Loveland
of Farm Bureau directorate, there
will be terrible situation when it
is time to take these important
crops to market"
It was decided to ask the assist
ance of state and federal officials
in unsnarling the tangle which
transportation now is in. They were
to make a direct appeal to congress
as we'll as to Wickard, the directors
declared
ASK LOANS
They voted to ask the government
to put honey and hay on an S5
per cent of parity loan basis SO
the farmers 4, and beekeepers can
afford to hold their products until
they are able to get good price
for them.
During the afternoon session dir
ectors agreed that they will have to
get some sort of insurance to pro-
tect themselves from loss through
damage done b. the birds at the
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08

The shortage of civilian manpower
is not expected to be relieved ma
terially by a war department plan
to release approximately $4,000
men this year for service in indus
try and agriculture.
The senate hearings also disclosed
that War Manpower Commissioner
Paul v. McNutt estimated that only
half of the 22,000,0O0 men in the
1888 draft age bracket are physi-
cally fit. After allowing for essential
services in industry, agriculture and
for other reasons, he added, $780,
900 more of this group may expect
induction.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Fi|ipinos Start
Red Cross Drive

The Red Cross drive for fu<!s
will start among the Filipino resi-
dents of Imperial Valley on Tues
day, it was announced Monday.
Pete Obra will be in charge of
the drive in the Ell Centre, Holt
vile and Imperial areas. He said
he planned to have his committees
canvass all the islanders for finan-
cial help in carrying on Red Cross
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08

Cecil warned that unless higher
ceiling prices were paid to produc-
ers there would be serious deterlor-
alton of herds and a consequent
decrease in fluid milk supplies" He
said increases were essential to
cover higher feed prices. The raises
recommended for consumers gen.
orally called for a one-half cent
per quart increase in most northern
cunties and one cent in the south.
STORE PRICE UP
Under the schedule of increases
recommended by Cecil, the store
price and home delivery price OF
milk in Imperial county would be
upped two cents quart. The store
price would rise from the present
rate of IA cents quart to l6 cents
and the home delivery price from
Is cents to II cents.
Milk fat would jump from 81
cents to SLOT, an increace of 20
cents.
Imperial county's advance OF two
cents a quart, as set up in the
proposed change, is twice the jump
asked for any other county in the
state. The requested increase in
some counties would be one cent per
quart and half a cent in others.
TO START CAMPAIGN
Assemblyman Ralph c. Dills, D.,
Compton, said he planned to launch
campaign i'll the legislature to
force the price increases to save
the svate.s dairy herds, which he
declared were gradually being deci-
mated in southern California.
I'VE cannot wait much longer
for action along this line" DlllS
said "or we will have no dairy
cattle left"
Dills was a member of the Cali
fornia agricultural delegation which
recently accompanied Cecil to
Washington in an effort to obtain
greater consideration of milk pro-
ducers of this state.
The OPA apparently does not
understand the gravity OF the situa-
ton here" he said. Herds through
out the state, particularly in the
southern sections are deteriorating
rapidly-being slaughtered because
the producers cannot afford to keep
them. We must have an increase to
cover the higher costs of feed and
labor even if it becomes necessary
to defy OPA in so doing.
SHOW CHARTS
Theorists in Washington point
to charts to show Why the price
should not be upped, but they do
not seem to grasp the practical situ-
alton that exists. Unless the pro-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-08
Calm
Pacific
Lake
WelIes Declares
jap Disarmament
Peace Necessity

WASHINGTON, March 8.
(UP)-Acting Secretary of
State Sumner Welles said to-
day that unconditional sur
render and complete disarm-
ament of Japan should serve to
make the Pacific ocean equally safe
for all powers with interests there.
Welles' statement was in response
to question at his press conference
about reports that our Pacific allies
would welcome establishment of U.
S. bases for postwar policing pur-
poses in the Pacific.
DECLINES COMMENT
He declined to comment specifi-
cally on that point, but said that
American policy is to assure our
selves of complete security at the
end of the war.
One of the elements is the uncon-
ditional surrender and complete
disarmament of Japan, he said, add
ing that emphasis should be placed
on means of attaining international
security so that the Pacific will be
as safe for all other law abiding
nations as for the United States.
PEACEFUL LAKE
The United States should not
claim the Pacific as lake under
American Jurisdiction, he said, but
rather should make it a peaceful
lake equally safe for all powers in
terested in that area.
Rep. Warren G.. Magnuson, D.
Wash, has said that China, Aus,
tralia, New Zealand and the Meth.
lands are tentatively pledged tc
cooperate with the United States
in policing the Pacific after the
war.
AS chairman of a house naval af-
fairs subcommittee, Magnuson is
cooperating with the administra'
ton on a program for postwar es-
tablishment of a network of Ameri-
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