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The Valley settler., 1944-04-14
sc CHOOL pCINGS

Ut general assembly last Friday, oril l., MT. Rogers Of the Extension Service gay talk, The seniors presented two cuts f their play or practice and aGverti eme :. Friday, april l4th, the freehmen ill tertain the sophOrores and juniora at party after school. fine party is expec to be over by show time.
 Saturday, april 22nd, is MUSIC NIGHT, r} n by the Music Department. The sc.lool bl will operate for pupils in the program. School attendance from now until the cls 3 is very important inasMuch as It ill [. It ruch towards passing grades. Parents aJ requested to discourage missing >choo1 less absolutely necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
wiiIkie Begins
Western Tour

OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 7 CUP) -
Wendell L. Willkic, 1910 Republican
presidential nominee and one of
the leading aSpirants for the COP
nomination again this year, ar
rived in Utah today to begin a pre-
convention strength testing tour
of the intermountain states and
the Pacific northwest
Willkie told reporters that the
primary purpose of his current trip
is TO talk with political, industrial
agricultural and labor leaders.
He said that he was particularly
interested in getting details of the
expansion of industry in the west
Willkie told Utah reporters that
specifically he wants to check on
the status of the huge new steel
mill at Geneva. Utah, which is now
going mo production OF steel but
where a controversy has started
over a government order that halt
ed construction of structural steel
unit.
Willkie confirmed that he has
entered the Nebraska preferential
presidential primary, apparently to
test his strength as candidate in
the midwest.
Asked about report that he
planned a trip to South America
this year, Willkie denied that he
planned such a journey.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
SUCH BEHAVIOR TO
RE EXPECTED

If you think this was short
sighted policy for the members Of
this particular union 10 take, you're
crazy. They were acting as normal
human beings might be expected to
act under such circumstances, as
you or / would act if VIC faced 20
per cent cut in pay.
To go back to the aluminium case,
however what was foreseen, came
to pass. There were cutbacks,
there were layoffs, some people
were out of jobs, while the iuckier
ones stayed on, working 48 hours a
week and taking home their time
and-a-half for eight hours over
time. In this first instance, 1t Of
fered no great problem. The work
ers who were laid off found other
Jobs because there happened to be
labor shortages in other industries
in that area. There was a quick,
painless and fairly easy readJust-
ment.
But this same thing is going to
happen some more and IN other
industries, and in lot OF place 1t
isn't going to be so easy to get
other Jobs. War Manpower Com
mission officials actually say that
in some places you may even see
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
Washington Eyes
Russ Division

+ WASHINGTON, Feb 7. CUP) -
Diplomatic observers noted Monday
that the Soviet Unions plan to
grant autonomy to her 16 republics
would open the way for the United
States to send diplomats to parts
of Russia rarely visited by outsiders
iSincc the Red revolution.
This factor was being studied
closely in the light of Russian re-
|. ticence for 25 years to grant even
restricted travel permits for visitors
f-let alone allow representatives of
other countries to set up consulates.
Aside from the American embassy
in Moscow, the United States is
represented now only at the con-
sulate at Vladivostok and that was
opened only in 1940
If the new Russian plan is put
into effect-and if the United States
as ees - Representatives of little
known and colorful people of the
central Asiatic republics would join
the diplomatic corps in Washing
ton. And American diplomats
would be sent to some of the
strangest lands in the world -
Kazakh, Uzbek, Tadzhik Kirgiz, and
Turkmen.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
Union Leaders
Defy Subpenas

WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. (UPl -
Two defiant officials of the Me-
chanics Education Society of Amer
lea refused to obey subpenas to
attend labor board headings Mon
day but sent an attorney who said
they would have been poWerless
to act without authority from the
unions executive committee.
The hearing was called because
the MESA defied the board by con-
Gucting strikes in Ohio and Michi-
gan war plants as a result of
iurisdictional dispute in the WHY'S
Overland plant at Toledo
WLB chairman William II. Davis
said the board was not content with
the appearance of the attorney,
William l.. Brooker, Cleveland and
announced that the subpenas would
be enforced against MESA president
George White and secretary Mat
thew Smith.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 7. tUP)-,
America will win the peace only il
we keep the people of our country
at work. vice president Henry A.
Wallace declared in an address
here Sunday night III which he said
he wanted to kill the myth" that
our gigantic war debt will stand
in the way of postwar prosperity.
The "one great test of statesman
ship after the war" will be our
ability t. main.a.n the maximum
useful employment over a long
period of years. and at the same
time preserve our democratic liber-
tics" Wallace declared.
A prosperity can be created that
will carry the national debt easily,
he said, and Il want to do what l
can to kill the myth that the gi-
gantic war debt will stand in olT
way"
I'VE can pay the interest on this
debt and have a standard of living
at least so per cent higher than in
lllC ucCdQC VI JilC OO -, llC bdNSN'
But if we allow the thought OF
the national debt to scare US he
continued, 1T will hang as a mill
stone around our neckS and we
shall all be sunk III a sea OF un-
imaginable difficulties. There is
just one way to treat the war debt
and that is to remember that 1t
can be carried easily, if we are
able to work hard and to use our
natural resources and human skills
to the maximum.
The greatest economic sin Is
waste of human labor Wallace said.
THE greatest threat to a balanced
budget is unemployment. Unemploy-
mcnt is one thing that can break all
of us. You can't peat something
with nothing; we can't beat unem-
ployment with anything but positive
programs aimed at full employ
ment.'
Wallace spoke to the Latin
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
TYPICAL

Sacramento Bee)
Abandonment of plan to relocate 100
Japanese on Henry Ford's $4,000 acre
Georgia plantation has been announced
by the farm manager.
Speaking of the japanese who applied
for relocation, he said:
They wanted more than we were CIV
ing our own people. They would have
taken the place over.
So, in other sections of the United
States people are getting true under
standing of one of the dominant features
of Japanese character.
Similar experiences have been report
ed from some sections of Colorado where
relocated japanese have taken over much
of the choice farm land and the veget-
able industry.
These incidents provide some insight
into the reasons which prompted Califor-
MIA, many years ago, to pass the anti
alien land act.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
Girl. 10, Loses
In Death Fight

POMONA, Calf, Feb. 7 UP)-
Ten-year- Phyllis Ann Gammill,
who Wagcd courageous nlne-
month battle to live, was dead
Monday-just as her physician had
begun to hope the precious drug
penicillin would save her life.
Phyllis, who remained cheerful
and smiling through her fight
against a deadly streptococcus
blood infection, died Saturday
night, barely "a hours after the
miracle drug arrived.
Following her first penicillin in
lection Saturday, her doctor, Dr..
John I. Litwenenco, said her con-
dition had improved noticeably.
She died later that same night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
State Democrats
Name Delegates
For Fourth Term

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 7. (UP)-
CALIFORNIA; 56-member delegation to
the 1914 Democratic national con-
vention Monday pledged itself to
support President Roosevelt for a
fourth term in the White House,
party leaders announced after con-
ferenCeS here.
Attorney General Robert w.
Kenny announced that the names
of the Sc California delegates were
being filed at Sacramento with
secretary of state Frank Jordan,
that complete harmony had been
effected with all Democratic ele-
mcnts in the state" and that the
delegates were pledged to support
president Roosevelt for fourth
term"
Delegates at large selecred wcro
Kenny, William M. Malone, San
Francisco cO-,n:y Democratic chair
man; state assemblyman A. w.
Robertson, Santa Barbara Mrs
Helen Gehagen, national committee
woman and Ray Files, Los Angeles
Democratic leader.
The delegates filed necessary pa
perS with the registrar of voters here
as a preliminary step. The re-
quired $500 signatures were being
obtained and formal filing with the
secretary of state was declared all
that remained to launch the Cali
fornia fourth term campaign
The committee is proud of its
work which achieved harmony in
all groups of the Democratic party.
All Democrats are pulling together, u
Kenny said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
LABEL SYSTEM HITS
AT HIGH STANDARDS

If OPA has overstepped its authority
more in one thing than another 1t Is IN
that bureaus determination 10 take ad-
vantage of price leveling' to ignore Con
gress' stipulations on the label law. Not
only has OPA used every Subterfuge IN
the category to ignore the expressed pul-
pose of Congress, but it openly has Ilout-
ed the law and is continuing to do so.
Under false statements the bureau mas
enlisted the support of some organlza-
tions. some of which easily could be mis-
led. OF course the CIO, supporter OF
the OPA in this case, has the same Sel1lSh
motive that motivates it in other activit-
les.
Briefly. the OPA wants to, and is, sub
stituting the tried and trusted branding
of all articles the public must buy Tor
bureau-controlled and operated label
system that can result only in lowering
the standard of living. In the long run
the buyer, under this label system Will
learn how he has been duped and now
an institution whose guarantee mas peen
as good as gold, has been destroyed. The
buyer will learn that he has been buying
NEAR Grade A or an article on the
border line of Grade and paying better
than Grade A prices simply because ne
has no protection.
If the 0PA could have its way ana
institute its label program 100 per cent
the result would be catastrophe, especial
ly in the foods line. Its program would
send to every nook and corner OF the
country. into every canning plant, an
army of totally ignorant graders, unit
ted in training and inspired only oy holo-
ing bureaucratic job.
Under its label policy every business
concern which has built up high grade
OUTPUTS and sustained them would be
forced to abandon it all. Not only that,
but instead of improving their grades IN
competition with others, these industries
would have to throw iii with every other
one and Just put out goods regardless
and see their work of decades smashed.
What does it mean to go to food
shelf for a can of fruit or vegetables with
Grade A. B, or G displayed? Who select
cd the grade? John Doe, as far AS the
housewife goes. Or if one goes TO buy
suit of clothes? It's the same there.
Who would rather purchase Grade
automobile than make with brand OF
excellency stamped on 1t? 1t might De
easy for all autos, for instance, to look
alike and under the label plan there
would be no way on earth to know which
was better.
= OtlllIN Is l1Ol lIe olliA iCduii NIiiSiIN a..
the measurement of the standard or
value. Many other elements enter into
the equation and the buyer should have
the opportunity to consider style, flavor,
individuality to suit his taste, and many
other hidden values.
Brand names insure all these things.
Labels do not That is the whole story IN
a nutshell.
Industry is facing a crisis. The buyer
is facing fine bit of bilking. The stand
ard of living sorely is threatened. The
very bulwark of the better way of life
built up in this country is at stakes due
to the whims of bureau-mad admins
tration.
j Congress has stood steadfast before in
slapping down the OPA. 1t must get
tough again, and this time it should put
OPA in its place, even If 1t IS necessary
to throw the whole kit out on its ear.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
MACARTHUR'S JOB
(San Diego Union)

(San Diego Union)
In view of the revelation Of the tate
which befell American prisoners from
the Philippines it now should be clear
that General MacArthur's principal job
in this war has been outlined-the recap
ture of the islands. The general has re-
vealed on numerous occasions that this
is his all-absorbing ambition and he has
been crying for the men and the materials
to enable him to do the job. There Is no
doubt that he will do it If he Is given the
assistance he needs.
Moreover, the report should serve to
silence the political boom that has been
built UP in his behalf. The recapture OF
the Philippines now is bigger assign
ment than running for the presidency on
any ticket 1t is to be hoped that he has
been given such an assignment and the
means with which to carry it out.
Had some of the equipment so sore
lv needed in the Pacific been allocated
bv that eminent tactician, Harry Hop
kins, who stepped into the military PIC
ture at the outbreak of war, after career
as a welfare worker, at the time Bataan
and Corregidor were holding out, the
story today might be different.
But the report should emphasize one
thing above all others: Let's get on with
the Pacific war and stop regarding 1t as
u sideShOW
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
OKEH WAGE RAISE

{ LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. CUP) -
The tenth regional war labor board
To-day announced hourly wages,
varying from Is cents for laborers
'-go $1.20 for non premium Journey
men as highest approvable rates for
Los Angeles foundry workers who
Fought wartime increases under the
ssgroSs inequities" formula. Almost
all Los Angeles foundries are on
schedule, and no manpoWer diff
tultieS or Warge rates are hindering
production regional chairman
Thomas Fair Neblett said Major
ity decisions granted increased pay
rates to four foundries to correct
existing ineuuities.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07

If you think the country'S man. 4
power troubles were terrific Wnen
it was trying to find enough labor
for the new war production indus.
tries. get a load of what the pre- :
dicaments are going to be in the
period of cutbacks, cancelled con+
tracts and reconversion to civilian
production. Those problems are
here right now. They are few in
number today. but they point up
the fact that they will be multiplied
by the hundreds in coming months.
Here is a typical example: Cut
backs were ordered recently IN the
aluminium industry for the simple
reason that there is mere than a
years reserve of ingot aluminium
Oh hand. There is obviously no
sense in keeping up production
of stuff for which there is no use,
so production was cut III some
plants. Eventually, say War Pro-
duction Board officials, the cut
backs may be as much as 40 per
cent of productive capacity
in one of the aluminium plants
of the country, the leaders of the
local union involved saw this cut
back coming. They couldn't help
but see it coming. Warehouses
we're full and there was even talk
of using aluminium to build add
itional warehouses to store the pro-
duction in eXces of current orders,
Untitled orders simply no longer
existed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 3541
In the Matter of the Estate OF
w. w. TISON, also known as WILL
LARD w. TISON, Deceased.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF AP-
PLICATION FOR PROBATE OF
WILL AND FOR LETTERS
TESTANIENTARY.
A document purporting to be the
last Will and Testament OF w. W.
TISON, also known as WILLARD
w. TISCN, deceased, having on the
7th day of February, 1914, come in
to the possession of the above SUI
perior Court and a Petition for th2
Probate thereof and for the lSSu-
ance of Letters Testamentary to
Hazel G.. Tison having been filed
by said Hazel G.. Tison with me,
the Clerk of said Court.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Friday, the 18th day Of Feb
ruary, 1914, at the hour OF two
o'clock t2:0O pm. of said date
at the Court room of said above
Court in the Imperial County
Courthouse in Ell Centre, County OF
Imperial, State of California, has
been set as the time and place for
proving the Will of said w. w. Ii
son, also known as willard w. I'll
son, deceased, and for hearing the
application of said Hazel G.. Tison
for the issuance to her OF Letters
Testamentary, when and where any
person interested may appear ano
contest the same.
Reference is hereby made to sale
Petition for further particulars.
Given under my hand and Tho
seal of said Superior Court this TIL
day of February, 1914.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
tSEAL
BY G.. O. KENYON,
Deputy.
(No 45) F7-8-9-10-1l
-14-15-16-17
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
TWO DIE IN CRASH

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. CUPl-
A navy dive bomber, flying from
Hollister auxiliary air station,
crashed shortly after noon Satur-
day in the vicinity of Moro bay
near San Luis Obispo, killing the
two occupants of the plane, the
navy announced. The plane was
demolished. Names of the victims
were withheld, pending notification
of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
CapliiteaL Talk
si-by-
Peter Edison

some unemployment, even though
The country as a whole may have
"a labor shortage.
s To date, no one concerned has
any very definite ideas about how
these problems are going to be met.
Union officials have no policies on
the subject, and neither have en-
ployers, War Production Board nor
War Manrower Commission. But
sthat isn't saying they aren't think
ing about it and not worrying
about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
WOMEN SEW FOR AIRMEN

3SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7 CUP)
Last September, two men decided
to volunteer their sewing and
mending services at the Salt Lake
Air Base. Today, there is a crew
Of 35 volunteers. Since September,
they have seWed on 10000 chew
rons and 1909 hat braids and
made 1000 patches.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
4O-HOUR WEEK ASKED

So the leaders of the union
went to the management and SAID
in effect. Look: All this over
production can't 60 on forever, ana
we know it. ShutdoWnS are certain,
layoffs will result, and a lot of us
are going to be out OF jobs. we
are now working 40-hour week?
Production will thus be cut back IN
line with demand, overtime will be
eliminated, costs will be reduced,
and no one will be out of job.
The management is reported to
have agreed to the idea, so the
union leaders took it to their men,
ship And the members turned It
down cold. They would take their
chances on the layoffs and cut
backs. Wasn't there war on?
Wasn't there still a demand for
all-out war production? Weren't
the production goals going to be
greater for 1914 than for 1913?
Hadn't everybody been yelling tor
the last two or three years that
there wasn't enough ALUMINIUM
that we might lose the war for lack
of aluminium?
What was all this stuff that had
been handed out in production
drives. fighting absonteeism2 Had
it all been lot of hooey? Was the
reward for all this production cf-
fort to be layoff, a reduction in
hours? A reduction in pay? The
elimination of the overtime take
home? How could workers expect
TO meet war bond subscriptions and
the present cost of living if their
weekly pay was reduced by 20 per
cent? They wanted more money
mot lCSS
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
COLD WINTER IN IDAHO

BLACKFOOT, Ida, Feb. 7 fUP)
Until this winter freezing weather
has been q bother to Blackfoot
farmers-because the temperatures
were not low enough.
For the first time in five years,
the Snake River at Blackfoot froz>
over in the middle Of January. I'M
nediately, an active ice harvest
was underway as Bingham County
residents began stocking up for the
long, hot months next summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
POINTS GO UP IN SMOKE

KANSAS CITY, MO, rep. 'OPJ
Ration points apparently didn't
mean anything to Mrs. Ella Hen
bricks of Kansas City recently.
When the pork chops she Waf fry
ing filled her kitchen with smoke,
she fled. The fire department Of
ficials put out the flame and
opened the kitchen windows,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
WILL ORGANIZE
QUE PACK

Parents of boys 0, 10, and II
years of age will meet at Mckinley
school in Ell Centre at 730 p. m.
Tuesday to arrange for organiza-
ton of a Boy Scout cub pack.
Scout officials will be present to
assist with the plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
INDICATED POWDER
40 YEAR FAvORlTE

with thousands Of families, as itrelieves
itching irritation of minor skin rashes--
baby s diaper rash. Sprinkle on Mcxsana,
the soothing, medicated powder contain
ing Ingredients many specialists often rec
oInmcnd. Costs little. Demand Mcxsana.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The follOcing edit
oridIs are presented as interesting 0pn-
ions uoiced by editors elsewhere: Ihey
do not necessarily reflect the 0pinIon or
This pdper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
Wallace Urges
Peace Jobs

American consular corps at break
fast reception Monday morning,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
CLAPPER'S DEATH
LOSS TO JOURNALISM
Clos Angeles Times)

ILOS Angeles IlmeSJ
Raymond Clapper, a neWspaperman OF
deservedly high reputation who never
compromised his integrity, is dead as the
result of an airplane accident in the south
Pacific, where he was covering the inva
sion of the Marshall Islands. 1t is not
too much to say that his untimely taking
is a heavy loss to journalism.
Capper was keen observer, careful
worker who was always sure of his
ground, and a man who always set forth
the truth as he saw it regardless of con-
sequences. Where he made mistakes he
hastened to repair them; and he had no
pride of opinion. He was always willing
to be convinced. Clapper also had low
able personality, which made him friends
wherever he went. In time he might have
been another William Allen White.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

We have not at any time since the war
broke out adopted the line that nothing
could be changed in the territorial struc-
talre of countries.-Winston Churchill.
The Germans will do well to reflect
ON the fact that after August, 1918, when
tudendorff told the German government
that the war had been lost, Germany lost
between 100000 and 100000 killed and
every one in vain.-Brltish Minister OF
Econoric Warfare the Earl of Selborne.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07

The board (NWLB) has adopted the
policy that ability to pay is irrelevant
and that any employer whose business
does not justify payment of what the
board regards as a decent standard OF
wages is economically inefficient and
ought not to be permitted to remain in
business.-House Committee to lnvestl-
cate Executive Agencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-07

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-11
STRAND

Keyed to present-day headlines, ''The Adventures of Tartu," which opened yesterday at the Strand the ater, is stirring drama of intrigue. coupled with a romance that almost defeats its purpose. Robert Donat is the star in Metro-G Goldwyn- May CTS exciting adventure film, and Valerie Hobson enacts the leading feminine role. Others who stand out include Glynis Johns and Wal ter Rilla.
 'The Adventures of Tartu" is stark drama. It has romance and thrills and marks the first appear ance on the screen of Robert Donat in more than year. GlyniS Johns was last seen in "The Invaders" and Valerie Hobson is not 8 new conner, having appeared in r'U-Boat 29," Atlantic Ferry" and several other British-made films. Martin Miller contributes a fine dramatic performance as leader of the Czech underground.
 On the same program is another exciting feature, Hands Across the Border" one of the years biggest Western productions. Starred are Roy Rogers. king of the cowboys and Ruth Terry.