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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
cost OF LIVING
INDEX IS PR0BED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-R--
Labor members of a Presidential
committee studying the cost Of llv-
ing reported today it has gone up
43. percent since January, 1871,
ard were taken to task by ir.dus-
try members who said the report
had not been reviewed by COM
petent and accepted authorities.
There has been no committee
finding on this point" said the in
dustry members, H. B. Horton,
treasurer of the Chicago Bridge
ard Iron Company, and George
X. Bait, pice president Of Dugan
Brothers, Newark, N. J.
TT is the opinion of the industry
members of the Presidents COM
mittee," Horton and Bait added in
statement, that the committee
is under responsibility not to make
a final report to the President
and to the public until careful con-
sideration has been given to all
the relevant data"
Chairman William H. Davis of
the committee also issued state
ment saying the report is mot in
any sense a report of the commit
tee."
''It is statement of the conten-
tons of the CLIO and ALL as to
the cost of living in the BIS Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics) index, -
he continued.
COPIES ware given to the in
dustry members of the committee
who will submit to the committee
their comments in due course. A
copy has also been given to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics foc
comment. These comments and all
other relevant data will Of course,
be carefully considered before the
committee makes its report to the
President.
The labor members of the five
man committee are R. j. Thomas,
president of the clio United Au-
tomobile Workers, and George
Meany, secretary-treasurer of the
ALL. Their report was prepared
by the ALL and CLIO. It's estimate
of a 3. percent increase in living
costs compares with the 23.4 per
cent finding by the Labor Depart
ment's bureau of statistics.
Thomas and Meany submitted
the report to Chairman William H
Davis of the committee with the
recommendation that it be trans.
nitted to the President, and urged
that wage increases be authorized
to cover their contended increase
in living costs.
LAS a matter of simple justice
and practical necessity" they said,
wages should be adjusted upward
at least to the extent of the dis.
crepancy between the rise in iv.
ing costs since January, 1941," anG
the l percent increase the Wa,
Labor Board allows under it's Lit.
tie SteeP' Formula.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
M0RCENTHAU SAYS
PRESSURE MUST GO

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-RH
Secretary Morgenthau tonight is
ered stern prohibition against
.,,rnssure methods" in the sale
of war bonds.
At the same time, the Treasury
.oad said Emil E. Placek, chair
man of the Saunders CNeb.) Coun-
~ War Finance committee. had
oivan him personal assurance that
be had "scrapped his ill-advised
,,an 10 turn over to selective serv-
ire and ration boards the names
nj people in his county who refuse
to buy war bonds.
In Wahoo, Placek said he would
"oo along with this drive, but 1
don't know about the next one."D
There is ne need to take dicta-
4orial action in the matter, and I
have been requested that any such
activity anywhere in the United
States be Immediately discontin-
ned if it has already started"
Morgenthau added.
He said the American people
have subscribed generously to war
bonds and in the present drive are
subscribing even more generously
than in the past.
"As they become more and more
aware Of the seriousness of the
war, and it's probable length, and
the horrible treatment that our
men are suffering at the hands Of
our blood-thirsty enemies, the peo-
ple will subscribe even more
heavily" he added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
Artillery Boon,s On Both
Sides Of Pope's Summer
Home At Castel GondoFo

LONDON, Jan. 29-RE Pope
Plus summer residence at Cas-
tel Gondolfo south of Rome now
is almost on the immediate bat
lie front. Transocean broadcast
from Berlin said today, with ar
hllery in action on both sides Of
the place.
Flags with the Holy Fathers
emblem-crossed keys and tiara
fly from the buildings and the
roofs have been painted to make
them recognizable by airmen, the
broadcast said.
Allied headquarters dispatches
said the allies were about eight
nile rom the pope's summer
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
new USS ATLANTA
TO BE LAUNCHED

CAMDEN, N. j., Jan. 3d. Up -
A new cruiser Atlanta, successor
to the mighty AZ sunk by the
Japanese in the Battle of Guadal-
canal Nov. 10, 1912, will be launch
ed at the New York Shipbuilding
company here Sunday, Feb. 6.
Mrs. Margaret Mitchell Marsh,
author of Gone With the Wind"
will sponsor the new Atlanta, as
she did it's predecessor.
The keel of the ship, fourth U.
S. Navy vessel to be named At
lanta, was laid Jan. Is, 1913. Short
ly afterwards residents Of Georgia
raised 500, 1877, 1880 in War Bond
sales and presented the money to
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
to finance construction of the war.
ship.
BATH, Me-, Jan. % In The
U. S. S. Mansfield, one Of the
new-type destroyers being built by
the Bath Iron Works Inc, slid down
launching ways into the Kennebec
River today.
The destroyer, second to be
launched at the yard this year,
was named for Sergeant Duncan
Mansfield, USMC, of Albany, N.
Y; one of the naval and Marine
Corps volunteers who entered the
harbor of Tripoli in the war
against that country and destroy
ed the captured frigate Philadel-
phia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
Were Stomach Ulcer Pains
Nauoleon's Waterloo?

The great Napoleon who conquered ma
tions was himself victim of after-eat-
ing pains. Those who are distressed with
stomach or ulcer pains, indigestion, gas
pains, heartburn, burning sensation, bloa1
and other conditions caused by excess
acid should try Udga. Get Csc bog OF
Udga Tablets from your druggist. First
dose must convince or return box to us
and get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK
At Saunders and drug stores every
where,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
HEALTH PROBLEMS

In the tropical lowlands OF South
America, malaria is the major
health problem. In some of the
highland mining countries, on tho
other hand, the chief problem. is tur
berculosis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-30
LIFE LOST

In some exeriments as much as
so per cent of the storage life of a
lot of apples was lost because of
exposure to gases given off by
ripper apples. a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Deputy Grabs
Jail Escapee

Alfonso Ruiz, 33, fugitive from az
Imperial county Jail chain gang,
will rue the day Deputy Sheriff
A. T. (Slim) Lyons started home
from work on time Wednesday
AS Lyons was driving toward his
home in Holtville "Wednesday ne
saw Ruiz walking unsteadily from
the south toward highway 80 be-
tween Ell Centro and Holtville. The
officer stopped and ordered RUIZ
into the car.
Somewhat befuddled, Ruiz crawl
ed in.
"Oh, you, Slim," the Mexican
muttered. The officer turned the
car around and headed back to El
Centro to put Ruiz behind the bars
again. Lyons has known Ruiz III
years.
Ruiz escaped from a chain gang
last February when truck on
which he was riding with other
TRUSTEES stopped at the railroad
crossing between Ell Centre and
Imperial. He dropped off the trucE
and hid, the other TRUSTEES saying
not a word about his disappearance
He was Jailed for six months for
drunk driving. He now faces pen
itentiary sentence for escaping from
custody.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16

1884; IA showed an increase; ana
three remained the same as the
year before. .....s
I'VE were very favorably inn
pressed with the personnel and
management of all the county of
fices and we received the fullest
cooperation from everyone" the
report said. Among the recom-
mendations was this one regarding
county personnel: 1--WE recommend
that the board of supervisors ap-
point permanent committee for
the purpose of equalizing salaries
and adjusting any conditions or
correcting and differences tending
to cause a lack of harmony among
county employees. We recommend
that this committee be appointsd 1
from the personnel of county en-
ployes and officers to consist OF
three heads of departments and
two county employees"
The jurors recommended thai
the board of supervisors give ,se.,-
ious consic Grafton to the establish
ment of some plan of retiremen.
fund and group insurance for em-
ployes and officials. They also sus-
geSted that the board consider en-
Continued on page 2, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Chemical firms
Face j. S.Count

NEW YORK, March 16 CUP =
The government today filed anti
trust action against Is American
firms and the powerful British
Chemical Trust, Imperial Chemical
Industries, Ltd, on charges of
maintaining international cartel
agreements to restrain production
and marketing of alkaliS.
Defendants included the Dow
Chemical Co., major American pre-
ducer of critical magnesium, which
has been linked with cartel interest
in the metals field; the United
States Alkali Export Association,
Inc, (Alkasso) of Delaware, and
the California Alkali Export Assc-
ciation (Calkex) of California.
ICI's American agent, Imperial
Chemical Industries, Ltd, CT New
York also was named.
Other defendants were:
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., New
York; Church & Dwight Co., New
York; Diamond Alkali Co., Pittc-
burgh; Hooker Electrochemical Co.,
Niagara Falls, N. Y; the Mathieson
Alkali Works, Inc, New York.
Niagara Alkaliqo, New York
PENNSYLVANIA Salt Manufacturing
Co., Philadelphia; Southern Alkali
Corp, New York; Westvaco Chlo-
rine Products Corps, New York;
Wyandotte Chemical Corp, Detroit;
West End Chemical Co., Oakland,
Calf, and Pacific Alkali Co., Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
E.. Paul Ford of San Diego

T.. L dul TOIQ Ol Odll Diego
is Ell Centro'S new city en-
gineer and director of public works.
Ford was elected to the position
vacated by the resignation of Wal
ter Heinecke last December. The
city council Wednesday evening
voted Ford salary of $400 mon.n
and S25 car allowance effective
March 16
The new director is a member
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and has been a contrac-
tor and engineer. He first went t,
San Diego in 1911 where he Was
an engineer and contractor in sub
division work. In 1913 he was em-
ployed by the county. In 1921 he
was city engineer for East San
Diego where he was in charge of
designing and supervising con-
struction of all its sanitary sewers,
grading an6 paving of streets and
was building, sewer, plumbing and
electrical inspector.
In 1888 he was general superin-
tendent for the general contractor
building Coulee Dam. For year,
until 1886, he was construction fore
man and superintendent for the
city of Los Angeles. The past five
years he has been employed by
the Guy F. Atkinson Co., Los An
geles, in the capacity as job mail
ager and superintendent of con-
struction on various projects in
clucing streets, utilities, earth i'll
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Germans Crushed
In South Russia

LONDON, Mar. 16. (UP)
Soviet troops have broken
across the main Odessa
Zhmerinka railroad line, capturing
the junction town of YapnyarKa
anc cutting the vital supply line
for the German armies in the
southern Ukraine.
Premier Josef Stain announced
the Red army break through in a
special order of the day which
revealed that tanks and infantry
men of Gen. Ivan S. Konev'S End
Ukrainian army stormed and cap
tured Vapnyarka Wee nesday.
The advance put Konev's flying
columns within % miles of the
Rumanian frontier and the Dnies-
ter river, the next natural defense
line open to the fleeing German
forces.
Striking swiftly southwestward to
capitalize on their successful cross
ing of the Bug river, 25 miles east
of Vapnyarka, the Russians were
reported driving the battered Nazi
columns in headlong retreat toward
the Rumanian frontier.
Moscow dispatches indicated that
Konev's advance had cracked the
German front wide open and end
ed all hope in Berlin that a sue
cessful stand could be made in
southern Russia.
With the loss of the south bank
of the Bug river, the Germans have
no natural defense line above the
Dniester river on the border OF
BeSSarabia. A series of Russian VIC
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Valley Produce
Prices Hold

Although Texas truck farmers
have plowed under thousands of
acres of cabbage, spinach, carrots
and beets, Imperial Valley pro-
ducers due to their proximity to
the dehydrating plants, have not
had to take this action, Rudolph
Miller, secretary of the Agricultural
Conservation Program said Thurs
day.
Press reports indicated that
Texas biggest winter vegetable crop
in history partly was plowed under
due to low prices. The report also
said Florida and Arizona growers
were also destroying extensive fields.
Texas cabbage production this year
was 155 per cent greater than in
1943 and prices have fallen as per
cent below ceiling.
Miller pointed out that as early
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Jury Convicts
Achsfetter

An El Centre justice court late
Wednesday found Ed Achstetter,
Transfers Union secretary treas
urer, guilty of battery in the case
filed against him by Paul Imhoff,
teamSter.
The jury deliberated the evidence
less than two hours.
Achstetter waived time for sentence
and Judge John E. Simpson gave
him his choice of paying a 5000
fine or serving 100 days in the
county jail.
Imhoff filed the suit against Ach-
stetter last December after a beat
ing Imhoff said he suffered at
Achstetters hands at Seeley. The
jury in the first trial of this mis-
demeanor case failed to reach a
verdict.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Income Returns
Flood Offices

Nearly 1900 harassed last-minute
taxpayers jammed the office of the
deputy collector of internal reve-
nue. in Ell Centre Wednesday.
Deputy James Marable and his
staff settled back in their chairs
Thursday after midnight vigil for
late filers Wee nesday and tabula.-
ed the results of the first two and
one-half months of the year.
To and including March IA the
office had taken 2,097 returns in
the Ell Centro office. Wednesday
the deadline, they counted 1,199
returns filed UP to midnight, max
ing an El Centre total of 1926
returns routed through the local
deputy.
At Brawley the deputy reported
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Soldier
Vote
Studied
Pre- siden+ Asks
State Views;
Action Raped

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16.
(UP)-President Roosevelt
delayed his decision on
whether to sign or veto the COM
promise soldier vote bill Thursday
pending results of his canvass OF
state governors on effectiveness of
its federal ballot provisions.
Acting shortly after the house
com ,oleted action on the measure
by approving it 273-l11, Mr. Roose-
velt wired the 48 state governors
Wee nesday for their opinion as to
whether their state laws would per-
NIT use of the federal ballots and
if not, whether steps would be
taken to make their use possible
RAPS PRESIDENT
Rep. Charles A. Halleck, CRD,
Ind, chairman of the Republican
congressional elections committee,
Continued cn page 8, col d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
GERMANS MAKE LAST STAND AT CASINO
.Yanks Slaughter
1900 Japs in
Island Fighting
Fanatical Enemy
Moved Down in
BOugainville Battle

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TERS, Southwest Pacific,
March 16. (UP)-American
troops have smashed a heavy Jap
anese counterattack against their
beachhead on Bougainville island
and killed more than 1900 enemy
troops in six days of fierce, close
quarters fighting, allied headquar-
ters revealed Thursday.
Charging fanatically ag ainst
American machine guns and flame
throWers, the Japanese were now
ed Gown by the hundreds and fin
ally were forced to retreat, leaving
l,l73 of their dead on the battle
field.
Uncounted scores of other enemy
troops were believed to have been
killed under the almost inceSsant
American shellfire and aerial bomb
ing.
Headquarters spokesmen said the
Americans expanded their positions
Monday on the enemy counter
thrusts.
Meanwhile, allied headquarters
announced that American airmen
struck at the japanese base at We
wax. New Guinea, Tuesday for the
fourth straight time and shot down
eight more enemy planes.
Almost 200 miles to the south
east allied ground forces closed in
to within Is miles of Madang.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Allied Tanks and Troops
Deal Out Swift Death
SGermans Bore
|n+o Ruins;
Retreat Cut

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, March 16.
(UP)-Allied tanks and in
fantry burrowed through
the debris-choked streets of Cassi-
no THURSDAY, under savage fire
from reinforced German troops
who went back into the town We'd
nesday night after it had been
wiped out by the greatest aerial
and artillery bombardment in his
tory.
Fanatical Nazi infantrymen and
mortar crews dug in for a death
battle in the twisted rubble heaps
that remained of Casino, defying
the shellfire that poured down ON
them from the surrounding hills
and the raking blasts of the attack
ing allied armor. zs
Front reports said the allied
tanks and assault troops were forc-
ing the Germans slowly out of the
town, with sappers working franz
tically to clear away the wreckage
that blocked their path.
The Germans, apparently REIN
forced by fresh units rushed into
the. battle during the night, fought
back viciously with gunfire, hand
grenades, and their screaming
meemies" multi -barrelled trench
mortars.
While the battle ragged inside the
ruins of Casino other allied forces
pushed forward into the hills to
the northwest, threatening to cut
off the Germans in the town.
simultaneously, American infan-
trymen on the Anzio beacnhead
front were revealed to have launch
ed new attack southeast OF April
liza. Two enemy strongpoints fell TO
the Americans Wednesday.
An allied communique said bitter
skirmsihing also took place on the
9Th army front, and spokesmen said
the Germans had stepped up the
tempo Of their artillery fire in thai
sector, particularly along the
coastal highway.
All reports indicated that the
Nazi high command regarded the
destruction of Casino as the OPEN
ing broadside in a concerted allied
offensive all across the Italian
front.
Official photographs showed that
only few jagged walls remained
standing in Casino. The only
building not demolished was four
story hotel, the top two stories
of which haG been crushed by a
direct bomb hit.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10.
(UP)-War Prod uc t i o II
Board Chairman Donald NJ.
Nelson, who gave the order two
years ago that halted manufac-
ture of passenger cars, is now pre-
pairing for the eventual reconver-
sion of the automobile industry.
He is forming an advisory COM
mittee, composed of the top official
in each company that made passen-
ger cars before the war, to consult
with WPB officials on the prob
lens of change-over to peacetima
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Liberators Drop
Bombs on Truk

WASHINGTON, March 16. CUP)
Army Liberators attacked Truk.
japanese naval base in the Caro-
lines, in a pre-dawn raid on We'd
nesday, the navy announced Thurs
day.
Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire.
only one of the big four -engined
bombers was hit and the entire
raiding force returned to base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16

as last November Imperial agricul-
tural groups began acting in antici-
patton of surplus crop of cabbage.
The War Food Administration be-
came interested and last month
set a support price of SIS roadside
for cabbage to be delivered to coast
dehydrators. ;st'9-.t
The high quality of the valleys
cabbage pays growers 80 cents per
50-pound bag FOB. car, which
gives the grower approximately
$500 a ton for shipment to the
east. After deducting growing and
harvesting expense the farmer is
able to realize minimum of profit,
qMiller asserted.
County agricultural men already
are studying VIA support of car
rots and beets and hope that no
crops will have to be plowed under
in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Grand Jury Warns County
On Hospital G Conditions
Calls on District Attorney to
Garry Out Remedial Program;
Cites Danger Of Damage Actions

Final act of the 1943 grand jury before being discharg
ed Wednesday was to recommend that the district attor
ney of this county follow up the recommendations OF
this grand Jury relative to the Imperial county hospita
and that state laws being complied with in al
respects and if resort to due of law
see that they complied with:
And them "It is opinion that if conditions are moi
corrected the hospital the county ultimately will hav
lawsuit that will cost considerably than 1T would
cost TO correct these bad cOnditions.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16

1858 filings up to Wednesday
morning and on Wednesday 800 re-
turns were filed. The total for the
two weeks the office was open
there was 1853.
Calexico taxpayers filed $50 with
the deputy who was there one week
prior to the deadline.
The total returns filed in the
county directly through these dep
uty collectors was 5.496.
The Ell Centre post office re-
ported Thursday morning that
more than 1000 letters addressed
to the collector OF Internal Reye-
nue. at Los Angeles were tied In
a special direct mailing to that
office. More than 300 money orders
were handled by the office We'd
nesday, clerks said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Tu|e Lake laps
Await Arrest

SACRAMENTO, March 16 (UP)-
Three Japanese residents Of the
Tule Lake, Calf, segregation center
were expected to be arrested and
brought to the Sacramento county
Jail Thursday following their in
dictment by federal grand jury
yesterday en- charges of possessing
two lcw-power radio transmitters.
Indicted were Yoshio Kawagove
and Hideo Ray Kawazoye, brothers,
and Masanori Hirata. Federal
Judge Martin I. Welsh issued bench
warrants for their arrest, setting
bail at $2,500 each, and Assistant
U. S. Dictrict Attorney Emmett
Seawell planned to present the war;
rants Immediately at the Tule Lake
center.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
WPB Maps Plan to Resume
Manufacture Of Autos

Nelson made no provision in his
new committee for firms that in
tend to manufacture automobiles
after the war for the first time
such as Henry j. Kaiser-in COM
petition with established compan
les.
Nelson believes that established
firms should get first call at the
limited amount of materials to lie
available immec lately after the
war and this view was emphasized
in the commission of any prospec-
tive newcomers on his committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Yal,ks Blast
kazi Centers

LONDON, March Is. UP)-
American bombers in very strong
force plunged deep into southern
Germany against skimpy fighter OPP
position Wednesday and drove home
a many-pronged attack to round
out what may have been the Nazis'
toughest "a hours Of the air war.
The Berlin radio said United
States bombers attacked Augsburg
and Ulm, industrial and transport
centers of southwest Germany
Bombs fell in "densely populated
residential areas" of both cities and
caused considerable casualties, the
Nazis claimed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
we|ders Defy
wLB Order

LOS ANGELES, March 16 CUP)-
Unicn welders at the Weber Show
case and Fixture Company Thurs
day went on strike in protest
against a War Labor Board order
compelling them 10 iCin another
union, local president Earl j. Behl-
ing announced.
The workers, members CT the
United Brotherhood of Welders,
Cutters, and Helpers of America,
refused to comply with what they
termed unconstitutional policies" "
The WLB order. Behling said would
compel them tc leave their inde-
pendent organization and join
the AFL.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-16
Ford Workers
Back on Jobs

DETROIT, H. arch 16 CUP -
Production retul:. ed to normal at
The Ford Motor Company's River
Rouge plant Thursday following
suspension of so men and women
employees for melting a strike which
halted output of war-vital Pratt g.
Whitney aircraft engines.
Company cfficials, said suspension
acton was taken lin the presence
of and with consent CT officers of
Ford local 600, United Auto Work.
ers (CIO, and the International
Union"
The suspensions followed a Wild
cat strike at the end of the after
noon shift Wednesday when 5000
workers picketed building entrances
and parking lets at the plant.