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, 1943-07-22
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, 1943-07-22
NLRB Election Set for july
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surance Company in the state of Ohio has been set by the National
, 1943-07-22
Report Of
Frigidoire Negotiations
By ROBERT N. ELSNER
President UE Local SOL

August 26 is the date for payment of the vacation pay. Employees
with one year or more seniority n July ], 1913, will receive DO
hours and those with five years or more will receive 80 hours pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Unfit for Modern
Warfare? General
Hershey Thinks So
Draft Chief Wonders If
We're Not All Liable to
Crack Under Great Strain

WASHINGTON, June Ia.
(UP)-The army's high rate
of rejection of men for men,
tai and nervous reasons
nearly % per cent of the to-
tai ejections-makes Selective Ser
vice Director Lewis B. Hershey Won
der whether we are all unfit for
modern war"
Hershey, in testimony before a
house appropriations subcommittee
released today, revealed that about
one-third of the reflections for white
men were for mental and nervous
reasons. He said that out of total
of 100000 reflections of both whites
and Negroes, 657,200 were rejected
for mental disease, neurological dis
orders, or mental deficiency. The
second greatest cause of reflections
was syphilis.
His testimony was considered an
answer to charges at the recent
convention of American psycholo-
gists in Detroit that the army had
given onlY lip service to the elimi-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
I U.s..
Mexico
Dicker
Arran9 9emen+s to
Plant MilkweeId
Near Completion

Fifty thousand acres OF
land in the Mexicali Valley
will be planted to milkweed
(cryptostegia) in a great
rubber growing project work
ed out by the United States and
Mexico if present plans carry.
Approximately $3,000,000 will be
spent on the project.
Imperial County Agricultural
Commissioner B. A. Harrigan said
Monday that he and Stephens Hast
ings, former member of the United
States department of agriculture
who was loaned to the Rubber Pro-
duction corporation, made survey
of all available land in Imperial
and Mexicali valleys They found an
available block of 10000 acres ex-
tending II miles south from Algo-
dones and another block of 10000
acres 25 miles south of MeXicali.
I'VE were instructed to find large
blocks of available land suitable for
cryptoStegia or milkWeed," Harrigan
said Monday. I'VE we're told to find
land where labor would be available
and to refrain from interfering with
land already producing food We
also were told to gather data as
to soil, climate, frostS, water avail
able, and labor supply and send it
20 Washington where officials of
the two governments will make the
final arrangements. 3
The two large blocks of land in
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Teams Need Only
$4,000 for Plane

ElkS Buy A Bomber campaign
committeeman tore their hair Mon
Gay when they realized members
had sold only $l59,35 worth of
bonds and their drive to sell SITS
600 worth will close Tuesday night
We've got to sell $4,000 worth
between now and the close of the
campaign Tuesday night said Ole
Kaiser, campaign manager. Those
warning team members had better
get busy at once"
Meanwhile the battle on the
popularity front was nip and tuck
race among the six top spots.
Betty Mae Duer occupied the top
Monday with 8,l40 votes. Nowassa
WeStover was second with ITO
votes, Jean Criss was third with T.
$50. Frances Niles came in fourth
with 6,340 She was followed by
Loretta Ellen Eyer with $500 and
Marjorie Watson with 5,040.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
SUB LARS DAMAGED BADLY BY US. BOMBS
Nazi Spy Paved Way for Japs- Sneak
Attack on Pearl Harbor, owl Reveals

WASHINGTON, June IA. (UP)-
A German spy played major role
in the sneak attack on Pearl Har-
bor, providing the japanese with
the numbers and types of Ameri-
can ships there and devising and
operating system of light sig
nails for betrayal of the us. fleet
four days before the attack, the Of
flee of War Information revealed
today.
Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn,
German agent and member of the
Nazi party, was arrested December
8, l94l, found guilty of espionage
by a military commission on Feb
ruary 81, 1912, and sentenced to be
shot. On October l6, 1912, his SEN
tence was commuted to so years at
hard labor. Kuehn claims that he
missed becoming GeStapo chief un-
der Heinrich Himmler because
Reinhard "Hangman" Heydrich
double crossed him.
SIGNAL DEVISED
One signal devised by Kuehn for
the japanese fleet was a light from
a dormer window in his house at
kalama, small community located
at Kai Lua, Oohu, on the eastern
side of the island. Another light
was to be flashed from a Lanikai
beach house owned by Kuehn.
Kuehn was aided by his wife and
his step-daughter. The latter op-
Grated beauty parlor for service
mems wives near Pearl Harbor.
The Owl release was based on in
formation from the Federal Bureau
Of investigation. Many details were
lacking, for example, if and when
the lights were actually flashed,
and to whom. If they were flashed
to units of the japanese fleet. He
apparently intended, it indicated
that enemy vessels must have been
fairly close to the islands.
ADMITTED TO US.
Kuehn was first admitted to the
United States at Honolulu on Au-
gust Is, 1885, oStensibly to study the
japanese language. He never re-
turned to Germany but made two
trips to Japan. Between then and
1911 only fragmentarv knowledge
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Sfeftinius Tells
Russian Shipments

WASHINGTON, June IA. UP)-
Lend-Lease Administrator Edward
R. Stettinius, Jr.. said today that
great as food shipments to Russia
have been-1,0770 tons in the 10
months ending April 30-they have
been small in comparison with
RuSsias critical needs.
He said the Russian army was
supplied through lend-lease with
nearly 100000 pairs of boots and
Gl,4l0 tons of sole leather to keep
the boots in repair and to manufac-
ture new ones.
Some 10000 tons of seeds have
been shipped to the Soviet Union to
aid the Russians in restoring food
production in areas liberated from
the Axis and in raising more food
in newly developed regions behind
the Ural mountains, Stettinus said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Justices Reverse
Flag Decision in
Witnesses Case
Supreme Court UphOlds
Right of Religious Sect
Not to Salute US. Flag

WASHINGTON, June IA.
UP)-The supreme court,
by a 6 to 3 split, today re-
versed itself and upheld the
right of children of Jehovah'S s
Witnesses to refrain from saluting
the American flag at public schools
because the salute is contrary to
their religious beliefs.
The court specifically overruled
its famous Gobitis decision of three
years ago, in which it held that
children of members of this religious
sect could be compelled to salute
the flag in public school exercises
IN penalty of expulsion from school
DELIVERS OPINION
Justice Robert H. Jackson, deliver
ing todayS majority opinion, de-
clared that to compel members OF
the sect or their children to salute
the flag would be to SAY that a
bill of rights which guards the
individuals right to speak his own
mind left it open to public author
tiles to compel him to utter that
is not in his mind
The court today upheld the same
sect-Jehova's Witnesses-in anoth-
er case in which it invalidated a
Mississippi statute under which
three persons had been convicted
of sedition for preaching the sect's
tenets III the state. The trio were
Betty Benoit. Ralph E. Taylor, and
Glen Cummings.
Justices Hugo Black and William
o. Douglas joined the majority in
a concurring opinion and Justice
Continued on Fage 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Housing Project
ForE.C. Favored

that action was expected to be TAX
en- lin a week or ten days"
The extent of the program the
regional office has submitted was
not known, although Herring and
other Chamber of Commerce Off
cials had requested housing facili-
ties to accommodate many civilian
employees at the Ell Centre Marine
Air Training station.
Marine Officers at the station
stated that they could not obtain
sufficient civilian help in Ell Gen.
tro to meet their needs and conse-
quently were forced to bring many
such workers in from other points.
1t is housing facilities for this type
of worker that the Chamber of
Commerce is seeking.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

: The Fortress attack on Bremen,
together with a companion raid on
Kiel, cost the Eighth United States
air force &c heavy bombers, a rec
ord number for a single days oper-
ations from Britain.
The American raid highlighted a
48-hOur offensive against Germany
in which Allied bombers delivered
a record weight of explosives to
strategic objectives in the Reich.
FOCUS OFFENSIVE
AT the same time Allied air fleets
from North Africa focused an Of
fensive on Sicily, italian bastion
battered by two days and a night
of bombardment.
The southern aerial campaign
swung to Sicily after the surrender
of three Mediterranean island out
posts-Pantelleria, Lampedusa, and
LlnoSa-ln three days, while the
record-breaking offensive by Amer
lean and British planes against
Germany tapered off.
"A dispatch from Ned Russell,
United Press correspondent, on fall
en- Pantelleria disclosed that Pre-
mler Benito MusSolini personally
directed the surrender of the island
for the sake of the civilian popu-
latiOn.'D
Russia appeared to have joined
the western allies in their announce
ed intention of trying to bomb the
Axis into submission. The Red air
force was smashing night after
night at German air bases behind
the eastern front, and Nazi plane
Continued on Page 8, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Sailor Threatens
To Kill Police

Residents in the 500 block on
Vine street in Ell Centre display
ed slight hysteria Saturday
night when a pistol shot was
fired in a house at No. SAT
Wine street, and the word
quickly spread through the
neighbOrhOOd that someone had
been shot.
Summoned to the dwelling,
Police Officers wyatt Briggs
and IL. L. Henry found a sailor
sitting in the middle of the liv-
ing-roOm floor.
AS the Servicemen spied the
officers coming toward him he
threatened to kill them, the pO-
liceman reported.
A little gentle persuasion,
however, resulted in the sailor
surrendering his pistol.
One bullet in the gun had
been exploded and tore a hole
in the ceiling.
The weapon was taken to the
police station, but the sailor re-
manned at liberty.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Pioneer Resident
Of E.C. Passes on

Morgan Gibbs, l, pioneer resident
of Ell Centro. died late Saturday aft
ernoon after an illness of five days.
Funeral services were scheduled
at the Lemons funeral chapel in Ell
Centro at 10 am. Tuesday. Burial
will be at Evergreen cemetery
He was born in ElmWood, Tenn.
in 1862, and arrived in El Centro 20
years ago.
Among his survivors are his wife,
three daughter, Mrs. r. R. VoyleS
and Mrs. William Tackett of Ell
Centro and Mrs. w. A. Scruggs of
children, and three great-grand-
of Manhattan Beach; six grand
Stonewall, Tenn; son, Cecil Gibbs
children.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Plane Crashes into
Naval Air Station

QUONSET POINT, RI, June IA.
UP)-An airplane crashed at the
Quonset naval air station today,
setting off supply of explosives in
a terrific blast which ratified WIN
dows in Newport, 10 miles tcross
Narragansett Bay.
A spokesman for the First Naval
district described it as major
explosion" but said that for Sc
curity reasons complete details must
be withheld pending investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

Hope that the National Housing
Agency would approve a housing
project for Ell Centro flared Monday
when Ben Herring, Chamber of
Commerce secretary, was advised
that the regional MIA office had
recommended the construction pro-
gram to Washington authorities.
In a letter from M. H. j. Driggers,
official of the regional office, Her.
ring was advised that program for
Ell Centre had been formulated and
sent to Washington where its ap-
proval was awaited
EXPECTED SOON
Herring was also advised by tele-
gram from Senator Sheridan Dow
ney's office that the proposal had
already reached the capital city and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Dempsey Divorce Suit Is
Ended: Decision AWoited

He took under consideration, in
addition to Dempsey's suit for di-
vorce, Mrs. DempSey's suit for sep
aration. He dismissed Mrs. Demp-
sey'S counter-divorce suit because
her subStantiating witness failed to
appear in court.
Referee Young denied a motion
by Mrs. Dempsey'S attorney, Gerald
Donovan, to include in her sapara-
ton complain the charge of CON
donation"
Donovan alleged that there had
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Possessions of
Family Are Burned

IMPERIAL, June l4.-Open house
was scheduled at 507 North H
street, Imperial, all day Wednesday
so residents of the city may leave
gifts for the Robert Mccall fam
lily, whose house and possessions
were destroyed by fire last Fri
day.
There are four children in the
family, a girl IA years of age, and
three boys, -, and years of age
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

mentS Tor casualties.
The prediction was made by Maj.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective
Service director, in testimony re-
leased today by house appropria :
ticns subcommittee. He said the
aSSum ption that all able bodied
fathers would be taken for military
service is too broad" but that no
distinction has |, en- established be-
tween fathers with one or more
children.
Il think you will have to take
fathers" he said Il am not at all
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

of his activities is available, but in
the early hall of 1949 the now-fa- =
nous dormer windows in his house
was constructed, and the FBI files
show the following about his work"
just prior to the Pearl Harbor at
tack:
On or about October 25, 1941,
$4,000 in cash was delivered to
Kuehn, at his resident with the dor
mer window, by Tadasi Morimura,
fourth secretary of the Japanese
consulate.
In November, l94l, Kuehn went to
Otojiro Okuda, japanese vice-con-
sui at Honolulu and offered to as
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

AS voting time neared Evan
Hewes, district president, expressed
confidence the plan would win ap-
proval at the polls.
1T is just q matter of getting
the people out to vote" HeWes said
URGE STRONGLY
IIeWes and other district direc-
tors have strongly urged voters to
cast ballots on the plan and have
repeatedly pointed out the large
saving they can effect by approving
the issue.
G. R. Jerry Dermody, district
secretary said approximately 5000
persons are registered to vote. Der
mcdy and other district employees
spent Monday setting up ballot box
es and arranging last minute de-
tails. The polls will open at am.
and voting will be concluded Tues
day at pm.
TELEPHONE RESULTS
Dermody said results of the cleo
tion might be known as early as
$3.50 o'clock Tuesday night. Results
will be ephoned to the LID. Of
flee in El Centro by workers in
each precinct. Approximately 165
workers, including election boards
and judges, have been employed to
tabulate votes.
If the plan is approved district
directors will proceed with plans to
sell refunding bonds in the amount
of $13,815,000 which will bear inter-
est at a rate not to exceed three
per cent. Some outstanding bonds
bear interest of more than five
per cent.
The financial condition of the
district has been so improved dur
ing the last 10 years that it is now
possible to sell bonds at a much
lower rate than was heretofore pos
sible.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
FiIlney to Explain
Availability Plan

Managers of essential firms" op-
Grating in Imperial Valley have
been requested by Tom Finney,
county director of the us. Employ
ment Service, to attend meeting
IN Ell Centro Thursday night dur
ing which the War Manpower Com
missions new available plan will
De explained in detail
Designed to eliminate labor pi-
rating and the migration of work.
9rs from one industry to another,
the plan has already been put into
effect in California, and Finney will
De prepared to explain its operation
1t the meeting, which will be held
n the court house at 8 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

RudOIph MIIItT, U.S.D.H. VIII
board secretary in Ell Centro, said
Monday that the ruling will allow
farmers to buy many small items
by merely signing a simplified doc
ument stating that they are engaged
in this connection. The printed
statements will be given them by
dealers in hardware and other COM
modities used on farms.
Purchases amounting to more
than $25, however, will still requier
q war board certificate, Miller said.
Miller explained that in line with
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
ALL SINGLE MEN IN
CALF. WILL GO FIRST

SACRAMENTO, June Ia UP)-
Fathers will not be drafted in Cali
fornia until every board runs out of
single men, State Selective Service
headquarters revealed today.
Under a pooling arrangement set
up many months ago in this state,
each board must be drained of an
eligible elias sof registrants before
proceeding to the next and the rule
would apply i'm the case of fathers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

WHITE PLAINS, NY, June IA
CUP)-Trial of the divorce suit of
Lieut.. Commander William H.
Uack) Dempsey against his former
Show-girl wife. Hannah Williams
Dempsey. was completed today Of
ficial Referee j. Addison Young re-
served decision.
Referee Young gave attorneys un-
til June 25 to file memoranda, in
dicating his decision will not be
made until late this month or early
in July.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
WAR IN BRIEF
: BY UNITED PRESS

MEDITERRANEAN: Allied air forces turn offensive
against Sicily, blasting its ardromes for third time in AZ
hours after the surrender of Lnosa the third Italian is
land to give up in three days.
EUROPE: Royal air force raids Rhineland and Ger
shipping after 48-hour Anglo American offensive
which dropped $3.50 tons of bombs the Reich in record
breaking performances.
RUSSIA: Red army reports capture of four villages in
surprise attack northeast of Ore junction of central
and southern fronts 54S German planes reported destroy
ed last week.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Allied planes hitting at Jap
power based at Rabaul for third time in four
days drop 80 of bombs ardrome setting fires Wis
ible SO miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

sure but what perhaps a great ma
iority of them will have to go
He cited as one exception the
extreme hardship" case covering a
man:
With two or three children,
whose wife is an invalid and who
has nothing except what he earns,
and who, when he goes home, takes
care Of his wife and children, gets
the meals and washes the children's S
clothes"
Hershey told the committee there
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

been a technical admission OF con-
donation in the testimony that
when Dempsey raided his wifes
Hollywood apartment last Novem-
ber and found Benny Woodall, Dali
las, fight promoter. one OF the CO.
respondents, there Dempsey said:
Il have caught you again"
This, the attorney contended, was
admission that Dempsey had con-
doned the adultery which he ehare-
ed in his original bill OF inform .
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
The Expert

The Expert
How about going out and playing
a little golf with me?" John Hartzog
telephoned Fred Campillo.
We'll" Campillo said hesitating-
ly. I'm not much of player, but
I'd enjoy a game They made ar
rangements and Hartzog called for
Campillo in his car. In the back
seat was as elaborate golf bag as
Campillo ever saw. The bag was
of hand fooled leather and was
stuffed with every known kind of
golf club. The bag and its contents
were a golfers dream.
Where did you get that?" Cam
pillo asked HartzogC pointing at the
bag.
II won it recently" Hartzog said.
Campillo began to worry. Here he
was out with a champion. Campillo
thought he was out with a golf
Sicked a top-notcher.
I'm away out of my class he
thought sadly.
Out at the Barbara Worth Coun-
tContiHued on Page g. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

the ruling the WPB had directed
manufacturers and distributors of
small farm commodities to make
these items available to farmers by
seeing that retailers are well stock
ed
When farmer makes purchase
of a farm commodity costing less
than $25 he must surrender his
signed certificate to his retailer who
in turn can have his stock replen-
ished by submitting such certifi-
Gates to manufacturers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Hewes S Confident
OF PIon Approval
Voters Urged TO Turn Out to Polls in
LID. Refundins Election; Three and
Half Million Dollars May Be Saved

Voters of Imperial Irrigation district will trek to ht
polls Tuesday in special election that will spell approval
of the organizations second refundng plan by
which directors estimate taxpayers will more thar
three and half million dollars in interest bonds anC
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Most FQthers TO
Euce DrQf4t Soon

WASHINGTON June IA. (UP) War manpoWer Off
cas expect draft most physically fathers regardless
the number of children they support to meet the army
official quota of 1O9O0000 by early 1914 and monthly
100000 600 thereafter to provide replace
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Restrictions on
Farmers ReIdxed

Purchasing of many items vital to farming will be made
easier for Imperial Valley agrculturists July when
War Production Board ruling eliminating the necessity of
IT, S. Department of Agriculture War Board certificates
for purchases up to $25 goes into effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
Photos Disclose
Bases Neor Ruins
From Heavy Blow
Sicily Becomes Main Target for Allied
Bombers After Third Island Capi+uIa+es;
Duce Gave Order for Pan+elIeria Fall
BY UNITED PRESS =

The American air force in Britain announced that its
Flying Fortress raid the big German UbOat base and
center of Bremen Sunday caused heavy dam
revealed by phOtOgraphs of the bombing
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
3 AMBl!Ne \
~ EpORTER

Now We Know '.
IF YOU want to know why my
husband married me-" said Mrs.
Evan T. Hewes to a friend, I'll tell
you. It's because l can bake good
chocolate cake"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14

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Washington ....--.............- 600 0
Chandler and Hemsley yle, Scar
borough and Early.
NATIONAL
Cincinnati ....................-000
ST. Louis ........--.........0 900 90
Starr & Muller; M. Cooper and
w. Cooper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
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BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-14
WEATHER

Maximum Thursday 1O3, minimum
Friday 81; am. Friday II, humid
ity %; noon Friday 81, humidity "a;
5 pm. Thursday 81, humidity Ia.
BANK DEBTS
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-11-04
APPOINTMENT or
DMIHIsTRATOH

No 53h6N
STATE or MICHIGAN. The FRO.
bate Court for tho County OF Wash.
tennw
At n session Of said Court. held nt
the Probate office in tho city 81
Ann Arbor. In said County. on tho
9th day of October. a. u. 1913
Present. Hon. Jay q. Pray. Judge
OF Probate
In tho Matter NJ tho Estate Of
Earl n. Dean, Deceased
Truman J. Dean, having filed in
said Court his petltion praying that
tho administration 81 said estate bs
granted to Raymond X. Klaasen or to
some other suitable person.
II Is Ordered. Tint the 3ist dav ~
December, A. ~ 1919 nj ten o'clock
In the forenoon, Rt said Probate or
flee. he and IL hereby appointed for
hearing said petition:
n is Further ordered. That public
NOTICE thereof he given by publlcn-
lion OF n copv OF this order. onco
each week for three successive
weeks previous n said dav Of hear
ing in the Ypsilauti Daily Press.
newspaper printed and circulated In
said County
JAY q. PRAY.
Judge OF Probate.
A true conv.
NORA . BORGERT.
Register OF Probate.
Adv. i-1liS
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-11-04

RENO-AP-Heiress Doris Duke
Cromwell declared in her divorce
complaint that James II. X. Crom-
well has been interested primarily
in getting his hands on 100000
Of her tobacco millions since they
separated three years ago. A bill
OF particulars attending her formal
divorce papers, which were filed
secretly on Oct. %. set forth that
Cromwells demands for a fnan-
cial settlement after their separa-
ton have been so high that the
plaintiff has been unwilling to as
sert thereto"