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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08

the payment of subsidies to roll
back prices, withdrew from that
position today on vote of "a to
33.
Senate action came after the
senate's ban in the belief that it
would result in a presidential veto
such as was accorded a similar con-
gressional expression a week ago.
BACK TO GROUP
The subsidy ban had been at
tached to an emergenc" resolution
extending the life of the commodity
Credit corporation until Jan. /.
to conference for formal agreement
by congress on acceptance of the
resolutions wording without the
subsidy ban. Formal approval of
such an agreement by both house
and senate was expected
Then, after completing action on
three pending appropriation bills on
which both houses of congress are
virtually agreed, congress will be
ready to take its first extended re-
cess since the world war started with
the German invasion of Poland in
September, 1899.
Another potential bar to a start
of the summer recess was cleared
away during the morning when the
house agriculture committee voted
8 to 6 to table a resolution. ap-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
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struct him to do anything about
the salaries of the employees re-
ceiving more than $2l.60 a week.
The order was late in reaching him.
so Stevenson said it was retroactive
IL days.
ACTION HELD UP
Union officials said they believed
action was held up because at the
same time Stevenson asked for per-
mission to raise employees salaries,
he also asked for permission to in
crease the prices he charges for
laundry service.
The letter the Laundry Workers
International union sent the Ma
tional War Labor Board follows:
"Since March 81, 1943, there has
been filed with your board an ap-
plication for wage adjustment in the
case of the Valley Steam LOundry
of Ell Centre, Calf. To this date
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08

400 while year ago the city's
property was valued at 1898, ,305.
Despite the drop, city officials
said the report was extremely ia
vorable as little new building has
been done during the year and
stocks of many business houses have
greatly diminished. In addition, a
number of smaller business estab-
lishments have been forced out of
business, the councilmen said.
Land in the city was appraised at
$685. ,595 for l943-44. This COM
pared to a valuation of $2,386, ,305
for the previous year.
improvements were valued at S.
545, ,260 for the current one-year Pc
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Capture Of Harbor
By Few DeviIdogs
Without Help Told
Two Companies of US.
Marines Ahead of Main
Force CaptOrs of Viru

WITH INVASION FORC-
ES, New Georgia, July 5.
(UP) - (Delayed) = T w 0
companies of Undiscovered
marines, worn by four days
of forced marching, attacking the
Japanese from the rear and sue
ceeded in capturing Viru harbor
before the main Allied invasion
forces arrived, it was revealed to-
day.
Enemy troops flung themselves
over cliffs or ran for the brush
in vain attempt to escape as the
screaming marines charged out of
jungle and up an 800-yard she'll
torn ridge to rout the Japanese.
When the main invasion forces ar
rived they found japanese bodies
piled high in the village and the
marines in control.
AHEAD OF FORCES
The marines who marched across
New Georgia's thick jungles landed
on the island June 20-10 days
ahead of the invasion forces-tc
prepare the way for the bigger
show.
On June 81, they started the 30
1ile march toward Viru, strategic
harbor on the southwest side ol
New Georgia. over a circuitous
route haraSSed by japanese patrols
Even for these tough fellows l.
hours of daily stumbling, swim,
ming and sleeping in the rain wa;
hard going. They lived on choco-
late rations. The last day they hac
practically no water. The first day
out patrol of from 20 to 40 troops
attacked them. A detachment was
ordered to rout the enemy and Il
Japanese were killed.
staff Sgt. Howard Biggerstaff OF
cincinnati, marine combat CORE
Spondent, reported that one marine
continued on Page 8, Col. p
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to pirate workers at higher wages
than we are now getting.
RECOGNIZE SUBSTANDARD
Even the state of California has
recognized the substandard wages
in this laundry and ordered wages
in the lower brackets raised above
what we have petitioned the NWLB
for The low wages now being paid
have made it impossible to keep a
crew large enough to take care of
the work with the result that laun-
dry is piling up to the extent that
we have a three weeks backlog of
work with the plant running at
half capacity.
with notice of the new anti
strike measures recently passed by
congress, our members are thor
oughly disgusted with the whole set
up. We have tried to abide by our
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08

Exercising their right under the
new anti-strike law, employees OF
the Valley Steam Laundry in El
Centro served notice that they will
strike 80 days from july because
the War Labor Board failed to
grant their request for wage in
creases filed last March 81, it was
announced Thursday.
Announcement of the strike in
tent was made by Lee A. Pyle, pres
ident, and R. P. Gibbons, secretary
of the Laundry Workers Interna-
ton union, an AFL affiliate.
Meanwhile Bert Stevenson, laun-
dry owner, raised the salaries of all
employees receiving less than $21.60
for a 48-hour- work week, to the
S21. go as ordered by the California
department of industrial welfare
bureau of industrial relations. Stew
enson said the order did not in
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
YaeckeI Succeeds
.Scriven as Grief
OF E. {. Chamber
William Outlook Takes
YaeckePs Place AS 1st
Vice-President of Group

Arno Yaeckel, manager of
the Ell Centre branch of the
Bank of America, was elect
ed president of the chamber
of commerce of that city at
directors meeting conducted in
the chamber offices Wednesday
night.
Yaeckel, who had previously serv-
ed as first vice president of the
organization, succeeds Gordon Scriv-
en- who resigned the position when
he changed his residence from Ell
Centre to Pomona.
SUCCEEDS YAECKEL
Succeeding Yaeckel as first vice
president will be William Outlook.
while Charles Bramkamp will con-
tinue to act as second vice president
of the organization.
The directors elected Will Foss
treasurer to fill vacancy created
when Sid Campbell recently moved
to San Diego.
New directors appointed at the
Continued on Page 8, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Polish General Nav
Be New Chieftain

LONDON, July 8. (UP)-Relia-
pie sources said today that Gen.
kazlmierz Sosnokowski, former war
minister in Poland will be named
commander-in-chief of the Polish
armed forces, succeeding Gen. Wlad-
lslaw Siskorski, who was killed in
an airplane accident at Gibraltar.
Sosnokowski, 58, was minister of
war for a term ending in 1927 The
report that he would succeed ST.
korski as commander -in-chief was
unofficial but came from a usually
raliable quarter.
Sikorski was premier OF the Pol
ish government in exile, as we'll as
commander-in-c chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
New Super Gas
IS Announced

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8 CUP)
Standard Oil of California an
nounced today its scientists have
perfected a super gasoline" which
would give so miles to a gallon to
postwar family automobiles equip
ped with specially designed engines.
Fifty miles TO gallon of gaso-
line in the family automobile is a
definite probability and not just a
postwar pipe dream" said Ralph
A. Halloran, manager of the COM
pany's research and development
department.
The new gasoline, he said, pro-
vides 40 per cent more power out
put than the present high octane
fuel, land we aren't stopping
there"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
2-week Dispute
Ends Temporarily

SUNNYVALE, Calf, July 8 OUP)
"A two weeks old labor dispute at
the Joshua Hendy iron works here
was temporarily settled today when
36 tool room machinists agreed to
return to their jobs pending settle
ment of the dispute by the War
Laboar Board.
Members of the machinists
union voted last night to accept the
order of the Regional War Labor
Board to go back to work under
conditions existing before the dis
pute began June 90. The first Shift
of tool-makers was to resume work
in the war plant this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08

riod and $6,438,560 for last year.
From those figures veterans ex-
emptions were deducted.
Personal property was valued at
$2,290,21O for 1884 and $2,459, ,705
for 1942-43. Veterans exemptions
we're also taken from those totals.
Valuations of public utilities, rail-
roads and other properties on which
values are fixed By the state board
of equalization, we're listed at ST.
916,350 for both years.
The council transacted routine
business and started its annual
functions as board of equalization.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Ndzis Order Evacuation of
French Population on Coast

France, was described as mainly a
Nazi attempt to drain France of
her young and resistant elements
before an Allied landing occurs
The ministry communique said
information regarding the evacua-
ton order had come from under
ground sources in France.
The areas affected included Sete,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
A. West Guilty Of
Assault With Knife

Alexander Stephen West, So. We'd
lesday pleaded guilty in Imperial
'ounty superior court to charge
If assault with deadly weapon in
the pocketknife killing of Joseph
Frank Hawkey. AZ, Long Beach
velder, at plunge north of Holt
vile last Feb ID
He originally was charged with
murder as was his brother, James
Monroe West, 54, but jury failed
to reach verdict in his case and
found James Monroe West not
guilty. The charge against Alex
ander Stephen West was later re-
duced and he pleaded guilty. He
was ordered to serve a year in the
county Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Mexican Teachers
Come Here to Work

Arrangements have been made
with the Mexican government for
the importation into Imperial VAL
ley of 83 rural school teachers OF
Baja California who will work on
farms until the fall school term
starts, employment officials in FL
Centre revealed Thursday.
The teachers have gathered at
MeXicali from many sections of the
territory and. will cross the line
into the United States as soon as
their immigration papers can be
prepared.
Sixty-five of the group are men
and the remainder women. All have
experience as farm workers, having
taught agriculture in their various
schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
y AMBl|Ne
EpoR1ER
RatiOning Gems

Here are some gems cleaned from
the El Centro rationing board:
In response to the question
what is your occupation?" man
replied: Repairing farm machinery
and the US. government"
On an application for tires, one
applicant said he had five tires
with two no good, one worn out and
one blown out. Since he apparent
ly was going around without any
tires at all, the board wondered why
he bothered to ask for new ones.
Another said he had five tires but
three were blown out. That left
him two, SO the board dallied with
the idea of giving him permit to
buy MOTORCYCLE tires.
All in the spirit of good, clean
fun, you understand.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08

ALGIERS, July 8 (UP) - The
French ministry of information an
nounced today that the Germans
had ordered a number o areas on
both the Atlantic and Mediter-
ranean coastlines evacuated be-
cause they are urgently threat
ened."
The evacuation order, which ap-
piled to both coasts of European
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
A Plumped-Up Charge

Make Womack was discussing
wars and soldiers with a couple of
her small friends. She got around
to talking about her father, Floyd
Womack, a veteran of World War
No. l.
MY Daddy can't 60 to war; she
said, because his uniform fits him
too soon now"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
MAY Fate FOrbit--

That proudest of all uncles, Keys
Mitchell, was writing letter to his
cousin Mrs. Dixie Cole of San Die
go. He raved on and on about Joan
and Judy Mitchell, daughters of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Mitchell of
Brawley. He closed his letter with
this statement:
I'll have to stop talking about
them or I'll sound like grand
mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08

West of Marseilles, on the Mediter-
ranean coast and Hendaye. Saint
Jean De Luz. Bayonne, and Bizar-
ritz on the Bay of Biscay.
Several hundred thousand per-
sons will be affected by the move
as the order applies TO every
one except personnel considered
strictly essential for economic
security of the regions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Heb! Heb! Heh!--

Rance Baker is an unhappy man.
He hasn't been able to have coke
in peace or any other way since
RR revealed the places where he
has been hiding them. His pack
rat tendencies have struck a snag.
His office in the court house is
subjected to repeatsd shakedowns.
Now he knows how we feel
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Senate AbdndonS
Sub bsidies Fight
SoIons Reverse Decision on Attempt
To Outlaw RoI|back of Food Prices;
WAY Now Clear for Recess Of Congress
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON. UP)-Congress finally
and to the White House the life of the
Commodity Credit corporation until admins
an free to continue its roack subsidy for food price
reductions
WASHINGTON July 8. (UP)-The Senate today re-
ceded from it's attempt to outlaw the administrators
sdzed rolback of food prices and perhaps opened the
for Congress to start its summer vacation by nigtfa
The Senate which voted SO to 28 last Tuesday to ban
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
The Impossible

We wonder if there is anyone
who has filled out every govern
ment questionable without making
a mistake. We have been led to
believe that we filled out one with
out error but we are expecting to
be caught up short on the thing
any day now.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Property Values
In City Decline

Property valuations Ell Centro $49905 under their
appraised value for the 1942-43 fiscal according to
figures given the city council by City Clerk Neal Gavin
Wednesday night.
Cavn's report showed current valuations at $3,279-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Germans in New Offensive
Try 'StaIingrod Reversal
Nazis Attempting to Cut off Large
Force Of Russian Troops; Reds Holding
Firm Along Entire Length Of War Front
BY UNITED PRESS =

German forces nearly 100000 strong, pressed
offensive Thursday attempt to achieve "Salingrad
reverse by choppng off the Red armys Kurks salient
and wping out it's estimated 100000 defenders
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
EXPIRATION DATES

Coffee stamp No. II July Il.
Sugar stamp No. 13-August II.
Shoe stamp No. 1S-Oct 81.
Gasoline "A" coupon 6-Iuly II.
Canned goods. stamps X. L. NJ IN Book
July 7: N. p and Q-August I.
Meat. Butte. etc, Red stamp P-July 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
NO RELATIVE

NO RELATIVE
AS far as is known O'Brien had
no living relatives. He always said
he was alone in the world and that
there was no one to be informed of
his i'll health.
O'Brien was one of Imperial VAL
leys widely known peace officers
and was a familiar figure in Braw-
ley for many years. He had a great
love of beauty, especially of flowers,
and devoted great deal of time
to his garden He was we'll known
for his kindness and was especially
good to children.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
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Livingston.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
Constable Shoots
Self in la IoIIa:
Brawley Resident

Brawley Constable William
O'Brien, 65, resident of I'M
peri1l Valley for more than
30 years, shot and killed
himself in La Jolla WedncS-
day.
After services at a La Jolla mortu-
ary at 10 am. Thursday, OBrien
was buried in Greenwood cemetery
beside his wife.
He suffered a heart attack several
months ago and never had recover
ed his health since that time. He
had been in the mountains west of
Imperial Valley this summer and
had gone to La Jolla only a short
time ago. O'Brien walked out of
the house into the yard at the place
where he was staying Wednesday
morning and shot himself. He was
taken to Scripps hospital where he
died during the afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday ia, minimum
Thurs. IL: 5 am. Thurs. 76, humid
ity ga; noon Thurs. 110, humidity
21; pm. Wed. Ill, humidity 10.
DnNu nERUrTS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-08
jap SEQ
Mount
All Jap Ships
Sc en- Sunk or
Hi+in Battle

ALLIE d HEADQUAR-
TERS, Southwest Pacific,
July 8. (UP)-American as
sault troops drove inland
Ice,
Evening star., 1943-10-24
REMODEL Your LOOKS. . /.

Actually. all the grooming expert
did 49, something you can do with
a flip of your comb - was to comb
Mrs. As front hair up above her
ears and brow and to roll it snugly
under to make a wave-furrowed
pompadour. Her back hair was let
alone was allowed to hang down
because that effect looked youthful.
To preserve that effect and to put
a stamp of adult grooming on Mrs.
AS Golf, the grooming expert
ciereriy suxxesfed that she tuck
the back hair into an ineIpen-
siee little crochefed snOOd, eye
catching in color. This snood now
receives star billing in her ward
robe Copied in a flock of brilliant
shades, it can do a lor-twinning
act with a fuchsia lpstick. . . a gold
necklace a rust-colored sweater
-. pair of scarlet clogs.
AlAKEUP7 Biggest Improvement
here was in the new choice OF shades
in foundation and powder. Mrs. A
had been using a colorless founda-
ton to make powder stick e. had
Evening star., 1943-10-24

put npStlCk
on much more boldly. In the use of
cheek rouge Mrs. A. had to discard
her pet theory that the more she
used, the younger she looked.
YOUTHFUL STANDING. Here's the
SIMPLE posture trick taught Mrs. A
which sliced years and what
passed for pounds - off her figure.
Placed in front of mirror, Mrs. A
was shown how to line up her body
like a three-story house. Ground
floor: hip girdle: second story:
shoulders; top story: head. Then.
Mrs. A was warned of the penalties
when she forgets her posture: bust
line shrinks, waistline thickens,
abdomen becomes aggressive, sta
ture dwindles.
Is it surprising that Mrs. A be-
came the belle of the Officers Club?
Evening star., 1943-10-24

off a woman's age, can transform
the pattern of her life. l tell you this
with conviction because heartening
example, typical of what any woman
can do, is brought to my attention.
1t comes from a grooming expert.
who told us about the lady in the
case "a widow in her late thirties
- and showed us joyous little note
from her, announcing her forthcom-
ing marriage to an Army captain.
What spurred Mrs. a. we'll
call her that - into doing something
Evening star., 1943-10-24

relied upon a full
some pink shade
of powder to i'm
prove complexion
tone. Result: a
now-you- it.
now w-you-don' t
bonbon pinkness
which permitted
occasional areas
of beige toned
s kin to peep
through. Using
Mrs. As oun
sEin fnne usfhe
key, the best
trick for out
scitfins age, the
grooming expert
switched her to a
beige tin e d
foundation and
matching powder
added subtle
color with cheek
rouge blended in,
oh-so-skillfully
Evening star., 1943-10-24

dealt the blow sit up and take notice.
Well. because you are already
privy to the news of Mrs. AS en-
gagement, you know about her con-
quest. So let's examine her beauty
tricks with an eye to appropriating
those that may prove useful.
HAIR-Do7 The moment Mrs. AS
hair style underwent a change of line
she began to shed years. She had
been wearing a simple wavy bob,
pushed away from a side part and
speared with bobbie pin. Trouble
with this hair-do was: the two lines
that plummeted down from her
temples added years which every
knowing woman tries to subtract.
Besides, this hair-do lacked interest
and excitement, two words which
spell Youth.
Evening star., 1943-10-24

about her looks
was a challenge.
(You may never
have to face
one. In fact,
schy ,cait for a
chaHense?)
Mrs. AS was a
social slight. An
Officers Club was
opened in her
town; her name
remained con-
spicuously absent
from the list
while, one by one,
her attractive
friends were COM
mandeered into
hostess service.
So, Mrs. A re-
solved to do just
what any woman
srnarting from a
slap at her vanity
should do. She
determined to
make whoever
Evening star., 1943-10-24
If they happen TO
need il! See what
one woman did ..
% %|st1r Blythe

00D LOOKS
~ rem cd ele d:
Often a change OF
appearance, particu-
larly a remodeling
Job that clips years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-12
Women Slain BrutuIIy

New York, October 12. - (Up) = Police searched the toughest neigh. borhood of Queens borough today for the killer who bludegoned, raped, robbed and strangled Mrs. Marie Pearson, 62, mother of four children, as she walked through a vacant lot to her home.
 Her battered body, the clothes torn from it and one ear almost ripped off, was seen by workmen on a nearby room yesterday in the tall, tangled weeds of the lot, less than 40 feet form busy street.
 Contents of Mrs. Pearson's purse were scattered near the path she used as @ short cut from the bakery where she had worked for the first time since her husband, Arthur, left to work in a Portland, Ore, ship- pard one year ago.
 Police, who said the district had a higher crime rate than any other in the borough, found an uncollected voucher for $7.91, Mrs. Pearson's earrings for her first three days work, two blocks from the lot.
 When she left the bakery Sunday night, Mrs. Pearson told e fellow worker, who offered to accompany her to her home, that she was not afraid to walk alone.
 An autopsy showed Mrs. Pearson suffered 8 skull fracture. Her throat bore the imprint of the killers fingers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-12

flourish in the Far East, has been practically unobtainable fin the Am. ericas in It's original form of cHl-' chona bark.
 On one of the last planes to leave Corregidor, Col. Arthur F. Fischer, flew 100000 cinchona seeds to the United States by way of Australia. Today, at the great greenhouses oi the Department of Agriculture'a Plant Introduction Garden here, thousands of those seeds are grow ing into quinne trees in the first major effort to bring the drug back to the hemisphere from which it sprang in 1643 as Q bitter bark de- stined to shape empires in it's con- trol of malaria.
 USE DUTCH METHODS
 Extreme care Is necessary to nurse the tender cinchona seedlings into maturity, and nothing Is left to na- ture that can be improved by gov- ernment scientists, working on prin- ciples largely developed by the Dutch in painstaking experiments conducted for half 0 century.
 It usually requires 10 years to raise Q cinchona or quinine tree to the point where its bark is ideally suited for quinine extraction. Since one harvest of 6 tree kills it, mll- lions of seedlings and then trees arc required for fighting malaria, which is regarded by military authoritiea as Q greater threat V1an the Axis on some tropical fronts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-12
PIon Fed. Aid For Schools

Washington, Oct. 12 = (U.P) - A plan to authorize $500 ,000,O 900 an- nual federal aid for state school systems-an issue in congress for eight years-energed today as Q war emergency measure, and quickly confronted economy bloc opposition.
 The plan was embodied in Q bill by Senators Ebert D. Tohinas, D., Utah, and Lister Hill, D., Ala, to authorize federal appropriations "to assist the states in more adequately financing their systems of public education durin emergency, and in reducing the inequalities of educa- tional opportunities"
 The issue has been before con. gress sicne the first bill, limited to $I00 900, 900 and with the 'emerg- ency" provisions, was introduced in the house in 1885. 1t has been ap- proved by the senate education committee but never reached floor vote because there was no chance of passage over the opposition of northern senators, Catholics, whose parochial schools were not included in the benefits. and others who saw t as federal encroachment on state educational systems.
 The bill, amended this year to provide @ $500. .O00, 900 authorization with the accent on $200, ,000, 900 to help local school systems increase teacher wages during the war em- ergency. has been forced by Hill to floor consideration. He predicted confidently that 1t would pass.