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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
Peanut Oil

Peanut Oil
At the American Legion barbecue
Tuesday night you couldn't see Le-
gionnaires for Texans We asked
Al Smaller why Texans all ate pea
nuts. He said there's an OIL Chinese
proverb that says Become you
will, like those you kill" The Tex
ans were all great hunters of squir-
rels. Squirrels like nuts. Therefore
Texans are like squirrels. A re-
markable deduction that places Ed
Allen, ex-Liberty Hill; Ira and Ma
rion Aten, ex-Sweetwater; Dinty
McChristy. eX-Brownsville: George
Robertson ex-CroSS Plains, and
Harry Woodbury., ex-Waco, not to
mention Lee Nuffer, who won't ad-
nit he's fro mthe long-horn state
Up in the trees where they be-
long, eh?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
TUBECULOSIS CLINIC
ARRANGED FOR FRIDAY

DR.. E. W. Hayes, specialist in
treatment Of tuberclosis, will be at
the Imperial county hospital from
a. m. until noCn Friday to con-
duct a chest clinic.
From / p. m. until p. m. he will
conduct chest clinic at the health
department in the court house
basement in Ell Centro. ANY doc
tor wishing to consult with DR.
Hayes may contact the health de-
partment before Friday or take
their patients to the clinic.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
SUES FOR DAMAGES

M. c. Mathews Tuesday sued the
Sleek Meat company and others for
damages in excess of $1,000 for per-
sonal and property damages al
legedly suffered in a traffic ac-
cident in Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
WHAT CAUSES
EPILEPSY?

A beetiss containing The opinions OF To-
nous doctors on this interesting subject
will be sent FREE. while they lost. 10 ony
rsoder writing 10 the Edveotionol Division.
S3s Fifth Ave-. New York. NY. Dept. C-l65
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
Scanningl |. '.
News Horizon
DIVORCE COMPLAINT

William w. Morgan Tuesday sued
Margaret Morgan fer divorce, al
leging extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
Parker Dam Line
Comes to Valley

Without fanfare or cere-
mony, Imperial Irrigation
District announces that cleo
trical energy generated at Parker
Dam has been synchronized with
the Districts system. At the Drop
4 hydro-plant, the connection was
established Monday afternoon.
District officials said the event
would have been one for valley
wide participation but for exist
ing war emergencies. Due to trans
portation needs for war. the
achievement was made lust a rou-
tine operation by District engineers
and technicians.
Technically the event featured
tie-in between Parker Dam-Impe-
rial Irrigation District power with
the major part of the former Cali
fornia Electric system in Imperial
Valley which the District acquired
by purchase on October Is, l943.
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS
Immediately affected by the in
terconnection were Imperial, El
Centro, Holtville, Heber, Calexico,
Mexicali and their adjacent areas.
Prior to the tie-in, the former Cali
fornia-Electric system in these
sections was supplied with electrici-
ty brought over the private corpor-
atoms lines from San Bernardino.
District electrical engineers plan
to cut the Brawley area over to
the new system in the near future.
E. H. Aiken, chief electrical en-
gineer of the District estimated
that the interconnection will result
in a savings of approximately $50, :
900 per month or s240,000 per year,
as the hydro-electri plants at
drop and 4, will now run at full
capacity, "a hours per day. Parker
Dam power costs pa mills per kilo-
watt hour. whereas power puc-
chased from the California Electric
Power company and delivered
through the Coachella and Rincon
power lines costs 7l2 mills per kilo-
watt hour.
Provision for obtaining Parker
Dam power by the District was
made on August 6, 1910, when the
organizations board of directors
ratified contract with the United
States government The contract
eliminated more than a years
negotiations carried on by the
board with the Bureau of Reclama-
ton.
HIGHLIGHTS OF CONTRACT
Important provisions of the con-
tract are summarized as follows:
l. The contract provides for de-
livery at Drop No. 4 on the all
American canal of hydro-electric
power generated at Parker Dam for
over the Imperial r.
rigatoin Districts system.
2. The government agrees to
make available to the Irrigation
District at all times up to 5000
kilowatts of electricity, to be de-
iivered in amounts as the District
may require.
3. The government will build,
operate and maintain all facilities
to point of delivery, including
at Drop 4. This includes
of 50-mile high
voltage transmission line from
IL miles east of Yuma,
70 connect with the Valley system.
4. Charge for the energy is to
De pa mills per kilowatt-hour, plrs
$500 per month readiness to
serve" charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01

Nobody is sure to escape. And roundworms
can cause real trouble inside you or your
child. Watch for the warning signs: un-
easy stomach, nervousness. itchy nose or
seat. Get Jayne's Vermifuge right away!
JAYNE'S is Americas leading proprietary
worm medicine used by millions for over a
century. Acts gently, yet drives out round
worms. Demand JAYNE'S VERMIFUGE.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
RAMBLING REPORTER

Continued from page l.
and willing to welcome those tow
headed little rascals any time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-01
Nazis Use Robot
Tanks at Anzio

Continued from page l
sector, only to be driven back By
a storm of gunfire.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

WASHINGTON, May 8.
fUP)-John l.. Lewis and his
United Mine Workers must
play lone hand in national and
labor politics for the 1914 campaign
year.
Few observers doubt that Lewis
will throw his strength this year
against the New Deal which he de-
nounced along with the American
Federation of Labor Monday night
in withdrawing the UNIV applica-
ton to rejoin the AFL. But he
cannot hope for organized support
from the two rival branches Of the
labor movement.
BY withdrawing the miners ap-
plication, Lewis acknoWleo ged de-
feat for the second labor unity move
which he has led since he broke
with President Roosevelt in 1910
and withdrew from the Congress of
Industrial Organizations. For both
defeats, he blamed the New Deal.
Two years ago, he proposed merg-
er of the AFL, CLIO anG UNIV into
a single organization, but failed to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Brawley Speeds
Youth Center

BRAWLEY, May 9-Another step
forward in BraWley's youth recrea-
ton program was taken Monday
night when members of the BraWley
Youth Recreation association met
with the city council to iron out
ways and means of getting equip
ment needed.
Plans call for use of city parks
as recreation centers where teen
age girls and boys may play during
the summer months. Ernest O.
Steimle, principal of Barbara Worth
and Ruth Reid, has agreed to sup
erviSe the program which is planned
for the entire city.
Mayor Elmer Sears explained that
the city's part in the program will
be to provide the sites and equip
ment and he appointed committee
to figure the costs and find out
what equipment and facilities are
available. The committee is COM
posed of Councilman w. l. Hopes,
park commissioner; S. d. Carey,
finance commissioner; and Waiter
Hopkins, city engineer.
At the meeting Sheriff Robert
w. Ware commended the program
and declared that 1T is one of the
best means of handling the juvenile
delinquency problem.
The recreation association is COM
posed of representatives of all Or
ganizations and groups in town.,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Randy, Ceylon, May
0. CUP)-The Japanese invasion of
India showed signs of breaking un-
der Allied blows Tuesday as Brit
ish armored forces crushed through
the enemy positions around Kohima
and Raj and American bombers
raked their siege lines south of
Imphal with bombs and gunfire.
simultaneously, it was disclosed
that British .'Chindit" raiders were
over hundreds of square miles OF
Japanese-held territory in north
central Burma, cutting the last
enemy lines of communication be-
tween Myitkyina and southern
Burma.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
NATION N-W|DE Wal Lk0UTS
HAMPER WAR INDUSTRY
1000 yunk Planes
Hit Nuzi "WuI''
Smash Airdromes and Rail Cen+ers
In Occupied Belgium and France;
Luxemb ouro Comes in for Searinqs

: LONDON, May 8. (UP)-
A force of nearly 1000 A
merican warplanes smashed
at 10 German airdromes and
rail centers in France, Bel
gium and Luxembourg Tuesday to
lead a record attack on western
Europe in which the allies had
flown 3,7OO sorties up to noon.
The aerial campaign to ham
string Nazi anti-invasion defenses
reached a new pitch on its 23rd
straight day with an early full
scale assault by some 1000 U. S.
heavy bombers and as many more
fighters on keystone bases in oc-
cupied territory.
STRIKE HARD BLOWS
American and British heavy
bombers alone dumped about 1000
tons of bombs on eight airdromeS
and four important rail yarcS in
the first 12 hours of the day. Light
er planes sprayed explosives across
broad reaches of the continent.
With 3,700 sorties flown, and air
armadas still shutting to Europe,
there was every indication that the
allies were eclipsing all former rec
ords of the unprecedented offensive.
Veteran coastal observers who
have watched more than four years
of air war sway back and forth
over the channel said they never
had seen aerial fleets the size of
these roaring overhead hour after
hour during the day.
The lombard ment was carried
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Soldier Killed
In Knife Fight

SANTA ANA, CAL, May 8. (UP)--
Pvt. Eduardo BetancoWt was in
serious condition at the county his
pital Tuesday following a knife
fight in which Pfc. Joe Mooney
81, died from a stab wound in his
heart.
The district attorneys office said
it would turn the case over TO mil
itary authorities.
Rose Gonzales, Betancourts fian-
Gee, said the fight started when
Mooney threatened to kill his own
wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Yankee Bonbers
Strike From
Guam TO kuriIes

PEARL HARBOR, May 9. (UP)
Long range army and navy Lib
orators were revealed Tuesday to
have made the second land-based
attack on Guam, former American
naval base in the MarianaS, as the
Allies also carried out new aerial
blows against the Japanese from
the Kuriles to the Carolines and the
Marshalls.
The bombers, in raiding Guam,
ran into a swarm of approximately
25 enemy fighters over the island,
but shot down seven of them, prob
ably destroyed three others and
damaged two more, all without loss
10 the American force.
The japanese defenders put up
only moderate anti-aircraft fire as
the bombers from the 7th air force
and fleet arriving two hit the island
the largest and most Southerly of
the MarianaS.
Guam is only about 600 miles nor
thwest of the enemy's key Caro-
lines base at Truk.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Legal Snos Cited
In Downey Filing

LOS ANGELES, May 8. (UP)-
Candidacy of Sen. Sheridan Dow
ney. CD), Calf, for reelection
was challenged Tuesday on the
grounds he filed for the nomination
outside his home county
State Senator Jack B. Tenney,
also seeking the nomination, eX-
hibited photostatic copies of Dow
news declaration of candidacy on
both Republican and Democratic
tickets. Both were filed in Los An
geles county, while Downey's legal
residence is In Orange county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Trunk Shipper
Held in Texas

CHICAGO, May 9. CUP)--Soylo
Villegas, &c, husband of the woman
whose body was found packed III
salt in theatrical trunk at Los
Angeles Friday, has been arrested
at Crystal City, Tex, Walter Storms,
chief of Chicago detectives said
Tuesday.
The body found in the trunk was
identified as that OF Louise Chris
tine Wright, native of Myrtle
Miss, who had lived with Villegas
in Chicago as his common-law-
wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Industrial Units
Plan expansion

LOS ANGELES, May 9. (UP)-
The Southern California area pro-
duction urgency committee Tues
day approved plant expansions
totaling $14,l2l, ,824.69.
Construction projects included a
$95G,870 diesel locomotive servicing
plant in BarstoW, Cal, for the
Santa Fe railway; dry cleaning
plant at San Bernardino, Cal, air
port to relieve local cleaning prob
lem and laundry at the Terminal
Island navy receiving station.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

STUDY NLRB ORDER
More than $500 striking MEM
bers Of the FAA at 13 Detroit war
plants considered a National Rela-
tions Board ruling which said they
had a right to unionize, but held
that unions of supervisory employees
were not entitled to recognition.
Early settlement was anticipated
in other disputes at Detroit and
some 5000 employees of war plants
were expected to return to work
within the next two days.
Two virtually completed naval
vessels at San Francisco were de-
layed in drydock when AFL and
CIO machiniSts rejected back-tO-
work order from national union
heads and continued strike for
wage rate revisions.
The CIO Machinists' local claim
ed that workers were entitled to an
hourly repair rate, IA cents an hour
above the new ship rate, for final
repairs and outfitting on the craft.
The AFL local refused to order
its men to work more than 48 hours
a week in l04 San Francisco bay
machine shops.
200 STRIKERS RETURN
At Canton, O., 200 members Of
the United Steel Workers union
(CIO) voted TUESDAY on returning
to work at the Timken Roller Bear
ing Corp, steel mill, which has been
strike bound since last Wednesday.
At the Marlin-Rockwel Corp.
plant at jamestown, N. Y. United
Continued On Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
10000 Stay
Off Jobs
Union Disputes With NLRB Orders
Tie up Output in Many Areas;
Row Spreads from Coast to Coast
= BY UNITED PRESS -

More than 10000 plant workers idle Tuesday
the result of labor disputes New York state to
California.
The Detroit Windsor Ont. area was hardest hit by
Wakouts with $4,000 workers already idle and 5000 fore
men at the Ford Motor Co., plant at Detroit threatening
strike unless the Foremans Association of America recog
niZed : their bargaining agent.
Canadian government Ford Motor Co., of Canada, Ltd
officials and union representatives conferred Windsor
attempt to end the strike of Ia 900 Ford workers
grievance procedure Justice G. B. OCOnor, chairman of
the National Wartime Labor Relations Board of Canada
returned to Ottawa and said he would seek Qualification
of grievance procedure
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Japs' Invasion
Of India Slips

The hard-hitting Chindits in two
weeks OF whirlwind attack we're
revealed to have cut the Mandalay-
Myitkyina railway at 10 separate
points in the vicinity Of Indaw, and
to have severed the alternate Bhamo
Myitkyina highway. The Japanese
were reported completely bewilder-
ed by the Chindits' slashing tactics
and offered on,y spasmodic res
istance.
On the east Indian front, an Allied
communique revealed that Anglo
Indian tanks and infantrymen we're
striking hard for a knockout blow
against the remnants OF the once
formidable Japanese army drawn
up around Kohima.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Farewell Party
Ends Fatally

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, May g.
CUP)-A farewell party for Staff
Sgt Paul Bitters resulted in his
Death Monday when he was stab
bed in a free-for-all fight at a
Montecito cafe.
Guillermo Valencia, Mexican ma
tional lemon picker, was critically
injured in the fight which started
when Cpl. ROLAND Feska, Camp
Cooke. discovered 5000 missing and
attempted to prevent anyone from
leaving until it was found.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
FACES KILLING QUERY

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9. CUP)-
Police Tuesday held Emanuel Silva,
35. electrician, for investigation in
connection with the gun Staying of
James P. Call %, U. S. navy gun
ner's mate whose body was found
Monday in a hallway of the Candle
stick Cove war housing project. In
spector Harry Hustled of the homi-
eide bureau said Silva, father of
five children, surrendered Monday
night Silva assertedly confessed
killing Call accidentally.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Lewis voids Application
For Reudmission to AFL

liam Green Withdrawing the min
ers' application. He said the council
members had lacked the courage
to vote yes" or mo- and instead
had constantly muttered and
mumbleo and indulged in fearsom
incantations over the fallacious and
hoary question of jurisdictional
rights
1T is an amazing exhibition of
base hypocrisy approximating NOR
al turpitude," he said.
Lewis charged the council with
"servility" to the administration by
its action last Friday reaffirming
that the UNIV could return only
with the jurisdiction it had when
it bolted eight years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
'FbI Probes Second Attemp
To Wreck Trdin at s. D.

struck them, police said.
1t was the same streamliner in
whose path a switch engineman
discovered two 50-pound steel over
head dolly trucks on Sunday night
Harold Nathan, agent in charge
of the local FBI office, said both
attempts might be the work OF
Juveniles, however a full investi-
cation was under way.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Ex-RuiI Man Threatened
President. Charges Soy

Los Angeles at The Tune OF The
alleged threat.
Mason said he had been on sever
al presidential specials, including
trip to Canada when Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill accompan-
led Mr.. Roosevelt He asked for
hearing May IL to allow friends
to testify on his behalf.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

Secretary Of State Frank Jordan
said Downey's name might have
been kept off the ballots if the dis
closure had been made sooner, but
with no precedent for action at
this time he would have to get a
ruling from the attorney general If
Downeys candidacy is formally ques
Downey's candidacy is formally
questioned.
If Downey were found to have
failed to fill necessary legal require
ments, his vote in next Tuesday S
primaries would not be counted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

win support. He sought readmis-
sion to the AFL IL months ago
and apparently expected speedy ac-
ceptance.
But since then, the AFL executive
council, at four sessions, and the
AFL convention have refused to re-
admit the miners on Lewis terms.
He had asked that the UNIV be
accepted "aS is" with a later settle
ment of jurisdiction questions-in-
volving the "catch-all" UNIV dis
trict so in general and its chemical
worker members in particular. The
AFL insisted that jurisdictional is
sues be settled first.
Lewis scoffed at those objections
in his letter to AFL President Will
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

secret service agents on warrant
issued in Washington on April l.
The warrant alleged that he SAID ne
and 10 Others "haye tommy guns
waiting to get crack at the Presl-
Cent of the United States
Mason, who admitted being the
man named in the warrant, denied
the charges and claimed he was
working as a private detective III
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Employment Drops
II, California

LOS ANGELES, May 9. (UP)-
California employment, particularly
in durable goods industries, decreas-
ed twice as much in March as in
February. a chamber of commerce
report showed Tuesday.
In February there was a loss of
84O0 wage earners and in March
the drop was 20,900, the report
showed. Forty-two per cent of the
state total was in the Los Angeles
area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

miles north of the depot at so foot
intervals Mon6ay night, police re-
ported.
The engineer of the streamliner
San Diegan, due from Los Angeles
at 6:15 PM, saw the rocks and
slowed the train in time to avoid
derailment. The stones were hur-
tied high in the air when the train
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
George Ade Shows
Slight Gains
In Heart Attacks

BROOK, Ind, May 9. (UP) =
George Ade, 78-year-old author of
Fables in Slang" and other hum
orous works, was reported slightly
improved Tuesday after a heart
attack last Friday His physician
said, however, it was too early to
tell whether the improvement would
continue.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Points on Fat
Salvage Hold

. WASHINGTON, May 0. UP)-
Removal of most meats from ration
ing has not affected the kitchen
fat salvage program and two red
points plus four cents will continue
to be given for every pound of
waste fat turned in, Col. Bryan
Houston, OPA rationing chief, said
Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
TWO FIRE ALARMS

The Ell Centre fire department
answered two calls MONDAY eve
ming. At $50 a truck fire caused
by a short in the wiring was out on
arrival at Fourth and State. AT 6:55
a minor explosion occurred at the
offices OF F.. w. Marney, veterinar-
ian, 642 Broadway, when a gas
heater was disconnected but not
turned off. The escaping gas was
ignited but little fire damage was
done.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Allies
Cain
In Italy
Germans Give
Up Salient;
Falling Back

A L LII E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, May 9. (UP)
7 h e German army has
abandoned a deep salient on the
central Italian front, it was dis
closed Tuesday, falling back 10
miles under heavy allied pressure
to new positions north of the Aven-
tino river on the towering Maiello
plateau.
Blowing up bridges, mountain
tunnels and houses in the path of
their retreat, the NaZis fell back
across the Aventino, Surrencering
without fight the villages of Pal
ena and Lettopalena, 30 miles in
land from the Adriatic coast
USE HEAVY GUNS
Allied headquarters spokesmen
said the Germans covered their
withdrawal with heavy shell and
mortar fire witch was countered by
raking barrage from hastily-ad-
vanced allied guns.
The withdrawal indicated the
Nazis were preparing to abanCon
the entire salient hooking three to
10 miles into the allied lines along
24-mile front from CaSoli to
Castel Di Sangro.
FRONT SHIFTS
Occupation of the Palena and
Lettopalena areas moved the front
northward about 10 miles. The Ger
man salient in that sector formerly
had extended to the Sangro river at
Villa Santa Maria.
Allied troops were reported NOV
ing forward in strength to consoli-
date their new positions ON the
southern edge of the Maiello noun
tains-the 4,000-foot roof of italy
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Russian Forces
Battle Near
Sevastopo| Gates

LONDON, Wednesday, May 10.
(UP)-Red army forces have
captured the bomb shattered
Black Sea port Of ScvastopOl after
furious three-day battle, Pre-
nlier Joseph Stain announced
early Wednesday in an order of
the day.
MOSCOW. May 8. CUP)-Russiar
shock troops stormed in for the
kill at besieged Sevastopol Tuesday
and Crimean dispatches said the
German defense of the great Black
sea naval base was in its final
stage.
The Soviet seige army battered
through the maze of Notifications
in the commanding heights ringing
Sevastopol in two days of violent
fighting and now was reported pois-
ed to hurl the $4,000 Axis defend
ers into the sea.
The desperate Germans and RO-
manians undertook last ditch coun-
terthruSts, but were thrown back in
weird night fighting, in which the
enemy was silhouetted against a
ruddy backdrop of flames started
by Red army artillery.
CThe Berlin radio reported that
the defenders of SevaStopol were
under a hail of fire" from fal
superior Russian forces, the broad
cast apparently clearing the way
FOR admissions of further setbacks
The German communique sale
only that heavy fighting continu-
es" at SevastopolD
(The British radio reported fight
ing in the suburbs of Sevastopol.)
The 18-day lull at Sevastopol, fol-
lowing the swift Russian conquest
of the rest of the Crimea, exploded
with a sweeping artillery barragt
which methodically pulverized the
German firing points in the hills
commanding the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

SAN DIEGO, May 9. (UP)
-FBl agents Tuesday were
investigating what apparent
" was the second attempt in "a
hours to wreck a Santa Fe stream
liner train here.
A series of six inch rocks had
been placed on the rails about 5
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
More Olcanders-

More OlclnucTS-
On Wednesday DR.. w. w. Apple
of Ell Centre will reach a momentous
milestone in his life. This will be
the fifty-second anniversary of his
entrance into the practice Of med
icine He took his training at Louis
vile, KY, and started practicing in
Los Angeles.
y He has spent SO years as general
practitioner, "a years in Imperial
Valley.
His patients say that in all those
years he never has refused call
and has cared for them and their
families with wisdom kindness and
understanding.
RR wishes to present DR.. Apple
with some of Imperial Valleys best
oleanders as a token Of apprecia-
ton for his many years of faith
ful service.