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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
Well Explained

Brown-Stout people, they say,
are rarely guilty of or
crime.
Jones-Well, we'll. You see, it's
SO difficult for them to stoop to
anything low.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
Who Will Control Civil Aviation
After this War-And How?
BY SCOTT NEARING

Aviation is beating two ideas into the mind of humanity.
The first, Numbered across the planet on the wings of air raid
terrorism, is the future danger of air brigandage. The second, re-
peated and re-echoed around the conference tables OF both
diplomacy and business, is that postwar controls of the air will
spell political and economic control of the planet
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

Nothing is SO strong as gentle
ness; nothing SO gentle as real
strength.-Francis de Sales.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

It's no crime to be poor in this
country, but what a crime so many
poor in a country so rich!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

Let us endeavor so to live that
when we come to die even the I'M
dertaker will be sorry. 49, Mark
Twain.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
BOOMS BIRTHS

War is keeping the stork on the
hop. Since Pearl Harbor 1000, 900
more babies were born in this
country than in the last two years
of peace, the census Bureau reveal
ed recently. All records were brok-
en- last year, with 3s200,0 0O births,
160, 900 more than in 1912.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

Our greatest glory is not in fall
ing, but in rising every time we
fall. -Confucius.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

A Yugoslav Weekly Devoted to the
Interest of the Workers
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
j.. S. F. and It's Educational Bureau
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Driver Suffers
Crushed Arm

Truman West Brawley tractor
driver, was in a BraWley hospital
Thursday for treatment of his left
arm which was mangled when his
sedan and a truck sideswiped eight
miles north of Brawley Wednesday
night.
Mrs. West, who was with her
husband at the time Of the acci-
cent on the old Calipatria high
way, said her husband was driving
with his arm hanging out OF the
car window. highway patrolmen
said. w. K. Kimp, Negro, SIG North
Adams, BraWley, was the driver of
the truck. Officers said the car
and truck collided in the center of
the highway.
After the accident West was ;a.i-
en- to a BraWley hospital where ef-
forts were being made to save his
arm.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Chinese Give Up Hensyans
With Last Fighter Dead

CHUNGKING, Aug. 10.
(UP)-A Chinese communi-
que admitted Thursday the
loss of Hengyang, key city on the
Canton Hangkow railway, which
fell to the japanese two days ago
after Chinese defenders-"to the
last man"-had been killed.
But while the Chinese were an
nouncing the loss of Hengyang, al
lied southeast Asia headquarters
reported that allied troops, forging
steacily southwark on the main
Burma highway to Mandalay. cap
tured the town of Taungni, Is miles
below Mogaung.
The Chinese said that the fate
of their commanders at Hengyang
was not known. The city fell after
bitter street fighting Monday and
early Tuesday The communique
reported that the tempo of fighting
near Hengyang increased Wednes-
cay and that fighting was continu-
ing on all sectors east ad west of
the Slang river.
In Burma, troops of the third
Indian division reported finding
many enemy dead and considerable
equipment abandoned by the Japa-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Harry Bridges
Raps BiddIe

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 10. CUP)
Harry Bridges, west coast long
ohoreman leader Crdf red deported
to Australia by Attorney General
Francis Biddle, Thursday asSailed
Biddle as "a big flop and danger
to the common American people
1t was Bridges first comment
on the attorney general since the
ninth circuit court of appeals up
held the deportation order in June
An appeal against the decision is
pending.
Bridges in q statement appearing
in the official newspaper of his
international longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's union detailed sew
eral charges" against Biddle
Some of the things I am relating
here" he said, were disclosed by
Biddles operatives assigned to
watch Bridges in New York to "a
few of Broadway's chorus girls and
models - which information was
later passed on to the right parties
in union circles"
The labor leader asserted that to
Biddle, Joseph Stain is greater
enemy than Hitler" and added the
attorney general allowed "Trotsky-
ties to go unmoleSted."
"Biddle," he declared, lis a dis
rupter of unity and drag on the
Roosevelt Truman ticket
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Jackie Cooper
Must Face
Civilian Count

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 10.
UP)-Jackie Cooper, film star ana
naval Viz student, has been
turned over to civilian authorities
by officers at the Notre Dame Nav
al Training school to face charges
of contributing to the delinquency
of q 15-year-old South Bend girl,
authorities said Thursday.
George Bender, "a. Sheffield, Ill,
Vie student who was charged WIN
having immoral relations with the
girl, also was turned over to Sheriff
Steve Molnar. Cooper and Beno er
were released Immediately under
bonds.
The charges grew out of a wild
hotel party July % at which the
15-year-old girl claimed that Coop
er and a feminine companion piled
her with liquor and helped Bender
convince her that she should go
with the Illinois naval student to
a room which Cooper had rented.
The girl and a 16-year-old COM
panion, who left the party early,
took their story to County Prosec-
utor Arthur F. Scheer who issued
warrants for Cooper and Bender's
arrest last Friday. Naval author
tiles at the school. however, re-
fused to release the two until the
case had been reviewed by Secretary
of Navy James Forrestal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

was no estimate of the number CT
Japanese killed by the almost con-
tinuous air and sea bombardment
which steadily supported the ground
forces
The final drive TO the northern
end of Guam met little resistance
and eliminated rapid eight day
strike, which began on July 81
when the u. S. forces drove across
the center of the island.
Few If any japanese were be-
lieved to have escaped from Guam
because of a constant naval patrol
off the northern end of Guam.
The reconquest of the first ter
ritory to fall in the Pacific was
effected by the first marine brigade
the 3rd marine divisions and the
77th army division
It's seizure left passed Rota
island, between Guam and Tinian,
as the only island in the southern
Marianas still in Japanese hands
While the Americans were digging
out the enemy remnants on Guam,
central Pacific pilots continued
their steady attacks on Japanese
bases, hitting Wake Island for the
third consecutive day Monday. Truk
and Ponape in the Carollnes and
Nauru, east OF the Gilberts.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
yonks Complete
Cuum Conquest

PEARL HARBOR, Aug.
10. (UP)-Marines and army
troops, by completing their
conquest of Guam, concluded
the campaign of the southern Mar
ianas Thursday to give the allies
firm foothold within Japan's inner
cefense ring.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced that American forces end
ed all important japanese resistance
on Guam Tuesday after less than
three weeks of fighting and were
now mopping up the few remain
ing Japanese who had been isolated
and pocketed.
The japanese, consisting of only
a hancful of the enemys original
garrison of approximately $4,000
men, were surrounded a few hun
dred yards inland from Patti Point,
at the northeastern corner of the
island, when the Americans swept
to the northern shores.
In retaking the island, which fell
to the Japanese four days after
Pearl Harbor, the Americans be-
lieved to have killed great many
proportion of the enemy garrison
More than 10000 enemy dead al
ready have been counted but there
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Hitler
Pur9es
Executes Kin
Of Officers
in Plot

BERN, Aug. 10. (UP)-
Frontier reports said Thurs
day that German execution
squads have put to death the
wives, children, parents, 9TH
er relatives and even the intimate
friends of the eight German army
Officers hanged in Berlin Tuesday
for completely in the abortive plot
against Adolf Hitler.
The executions of the relatives,
in some cases extending to cousins,
were carried out Tuesday, inform
ants said, presumably simultaneous
ly with or within a few hours of
the death on the galloWS of Mar
shall Erwin Won Witzleben ana
seven other officers for treason in
conspiring to set up a peace gov
ernment in Germany.
Many other German civilians also
were understood to have been placed
on trial for completely in the plot
and it was believed that their fate
would be disclosed in an official
communique expected to be issued
soon.
Frontier reports said the bomb
explosion July 20 which nearly took
Hitlers life had been planned to
occur while he was comforting with
Benito Mussolini, premier of the
puppet Fascist government of italy
but occurred "a hours after the
Hitler Mussolini meeting because OF
a laSt-minute change.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

out beyond captured lie Mans, 100
miles or less from Paris, in drive
that threatened to outflank the
French capital from the south.
NEARING PARIS
Unconfirmed reports said ad-
vanced American spearheadS might
already be only 40 to so miles west
and southwest of Paris.
Headquarters spokesmen indicat-
ed that German rear guards were
putting up increasingly stiff re-
siStance against the Paris-bound
Americans although there was no
sign that the Coughboys had yet
run into any major opposition.
The NaziS also were bracing deS-
perately against three British and
Canadian columns battering against
their defenses below Caen in a full
scale attempt to turn the enemy's
right flank and lay open the short
est road to Paris, ll2 miles away
On the isolated Breton peninsula,
small German garrisons were hold
ing out bitterly in Brest, Lorient,
and Nantes, under heavy attack
from American tanks and infantry
men, and another enemy force was
holding out in encircled Angers, SO
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Bachelors ROOst-

Bachelors ROOSt-
Far be it from us TO say anything
about the housekeeping ability OF
these summer bachelors. Maybe the
summer bachelors like it or would
rather put up with it than do some
thing about it, That must be it.
Bruce King and Hal Atkins have
sort of am arrangement at the hang
out they are infesting while their
wives are away Well draw a veil
over it. The weather is too hot to
take a second look.
The other night they were bur-
rowing in their nest somewhat late.
They heard something foreign. They
listened. Then all the lights in the
house went out.ShiverS! ShNers!
Bruce ran to the back of the house
to investigate. Silhouetted against
the skyline were two bulky shapes
hiehtailing it around the garage.
Ali Art Davis and Red Ritch.
Bachelors Hal and Bruce were
still sitting around in the dark
when the telephone rang. 1t was
Art. He and Red, scarcely able TO
control their giggles, suggested that
the quartette drive out for so1t
drink or so.
I'VE can't" said Hal in a solemn
tone. Wed like to but we can't
leave just now. There have been
some providers here and they turned
the lights out. We've called the po-
lice and are expecting them any
Continued on Page 8, Col. Al
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
WPB Head Presses
Procurement Fight

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. CUP)-
War Production Chief Donald M.
Nelson, in another round of his
recurring fights with army leaders.
Thursday asked the Joint chiefs of
staff to decide whether some pro-
curement programs could not be cut
back despite objections of top army
supply officers.
Making public his side of the
case, Nelson "Wednesday night is
sued statement saying he had
sent to the joint chiefs of staff a
copy of a WPB report on army
ordnance stocks which was with
drawn when the army objected on
grounds that it painted an unduly
optimistic picture
He said he was submitting the
report, prepared by two WPB stat
lStlcians, so that the joint chiefs
can determine whether the ade-
quacy OF certain army stocks is
such that modification of some pro-
curement programs may be advis-
able The joint chiefs of staff is
the top policy making body for all
the armed services and is composed
OF ranking generals and admirals
The WPB chairman has concur
rec il army demands for increased
production of certain shortage items
such as heavy artillery and ammu-
milton, air-borne radar, heavy duty
truck tires and heavy trucks. But
his new statement made it clear
that he feels the army probably has
sufficient quantities of some other
items.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

+ AT a press conference in Honolulu
: July 20, which was disclosed Thurs
day by the White House, Mr.. Roose-
velt said progress in the war against
Japan was exceedingly good but he
declined to reveal what future plans
were discussed with Admiral MINI
itz and General Macarthur.
He added that there was no ques-
ton about General Macarthur re-
turning to the Philippines.
IMPORTANT FARLEY
The President described the con-
ferences as the most important he
/ had held in long time.
He stepped himself in the Pacific
war, talking with generals and ad-
miralS, and with wounded buck
privates as their litterS were lifted
from hospital planes just in from
Saipan. He saw hundreds of planes,
many of them recently in from
combat against Japanese aircraft.
He saw powerful units of the fleet.
at sea as we'll as at Pearl Harbor,
spots in the world. E..
From what he saw and whao he
heard, the President left the Ha-
waiian islands firmly convinced of
ultimate victory over Japan and In
admitted awe at the accomplish
ments of the armed services since
the japanese attack on Pearl Har-
bor December 7, 194l.
In press-radio conference short
ly before he left, the chief execu-
tive said his three-dayS of strategy
conferences and inspection trips
around Oahu were extremely sue
cessful and that plans for future
allied operations left him with more
confiC ence than ever about the
outcome of the Pacific war
Mr.. Roosevelt plans to report to
the American people soon, probably
in radio broadcast, on his trip.
MEETS KEY MEN
Key figures in his war strategy
talks were Macarthur, supreme
commander in the southwest Paci-
fic who saw the President for the
first time since the war began, and
Nimitz, commander Of the Pacific
fleet and the Pacific ocean area
Admiral William F.. Halsey, COM
mancer of the third fleet, and
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
5. F. Firm Obtains
S734,147 Navy
Station Contract

Contract for constructing addi-
tional aviation facilities at the Holt
vile air station was let this week
to A. F'arnell Blair of San Francisco
the eleventh naval district an
nounced Thursday.
Cost Oh the facilities will be
S734,147. Construction was to begin
Immediately.
The new facilities represent a
moderate expansion Of the air sta
ton, naval officials said They in
clude two hangers, training build
ing. three temporary wooden bar
racks buildings, one bachelor Off
GERS quarters, one WAVES bar
racks, an officers mess, a brig, two
Storehouses and an addition to the
dispenSary.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Mexico Company
Pays District
For Water Used

Imperial Irrigation district has
received $23,275.50 from the Com
pania de Terrenos y Aguas as pay
ment for water released by the dis
trict through All-American canal
to Alamo canal for relief of corn
and cotton growers in the MeXicali
valley.
District officials said the money
which will be deposited in a United
States contract fund created by
the board of directors OF the ids
trict, in compliance with provisions
Of the All-American canal contract,
constitutes the first payment of
monies into that fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Here's Itinerary
Of Roosevelt
On Western Tours
BY UNITED PRESS

The timetable of President Roose-
Velt's trip to Hawaii:
July 13-Left Washington.
July 14-Spent day at Hyde Park,
leaving at night.
July 19-Arrived at marine base
San Diego, California.
July 20-Made fourth-term NOM
ination acceptance speech from
San Diego.
July 21-Sailed for Hawaii
July 26-Arrived at Pearl Harbor
and took residence On Waikiki
Beach section Of Honolulu.
July 27-Visited Schofield bar
racks for review and lunch in Off
GERS club. Conferences in afternoon
and evening.
July 28-Lengthy morning con-
ference. Afternoon visit to jungle
training center and Kanehcc naval
air station.
July 29-Visits to army and navy
hospitals, lunch with Admiral MINI
itz in Pearl Harbor, tea at home
of Gov Ingram Stairback and
press-radio conference. Sailed fol-
next destination.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Nazi Prisoners
At Stockton
Strike on Job

STOCKTON Cal. Aug. 10. (UP)-
Eighteen hundred German prisoners
of war, most of them formerly
members of Gen. Erwin Rommel's
Elite Afrika Korps, were confined
to quarters Thursday at the Stock
ton army ordnance depot after 500
of them started a sit-doWn strike
protesting a nine-hour work day.
The prisoners, together with all
army personnel at the depot, were
ordered Monday to work nine hours
instead of the customary eight in
accord with a recent army plan to
spur production.
The prisoners sent a spokesman
to the gate Wednesday when trucks
came to take them to their a. m.
jobs He told army officers the men
would not work nine hours a day.
He repeated his statement today,
Maj. Arthur Cook, public relations
officer at the depot, said.
He said dietary measures may
be taken. The men have been de-
prived of access to baseball equip
ment, music and canteen facilities
since the beginning of the strike.
!. Under terms of the Geneva con-
venion, diet of bread and water
can be imposed under such circum-
stances.
The 500 strikers, who originally
volunteered to work, received 80
cents per day for working at nom
essential jobs at depotS at Stock
ton, Lathrop and Tracy.
The Geneva convention provides
prisoners may be worked up to II
hours per day at tasks not directed
against their own country. Cook
said the strike would not hamper
depot operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Arizona Readies
Road Projects
For 18 Millions

TUCSON Ariz., Aug. 10. (UP)-
Gov. Sidney Osborn, speaking be-
fore the American Legion conven-
ton Wednesday night. revealed that
the state highway department will
begin work on an $l8,000,000 road
project at the conclusion of the
war.
Promising returning servicemen
job preference Osborn said the con-
templated development of the Colo
RADIO river will furnish work for
10000 men.
Senator Ernest w. Mcfarland
democrat, ArizonO predicted that
the war with Germany would end
before Armistice day, November IL.
For the fourth time, Prescott was
selected as the site for next years
convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
u. s. Subs Sink
Is .Jap Ships

categories, the overall total hit is
undoubtedly more than 1000 yes
sells.
Although the navy did not specify
the area where the latest enemy
vessels were sunk beyond saying
in the Pacific and Far East"
American submarines have been
known to operate in Japanese coaS-
tai waters and are now being forced
to hunt even closer to the Japanese
mainland as targets become scarcer
In announcing recent cutback
in submarine production, the navy
gave as an importat reason the
low losses suffered by American
submarines. To date 27 have been
lost since the war began.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Growers ArranQe
Grapefruit Boost

INDIO, Cal, Aug. 10. tUP)-Des-
ert grapefruit prices will slump af-
ter the war unless Arizona and
California growers cooperate in an
advertising program to combat
growing competition from Florida
and Texas growers, Imperial and
Coachella Valley growers agreed
Thursday.
The California growers testified
at a state agricultural department
hearing.
The recommended advertising
program will be submitted as a
referendum to grapefruit men and
will be integrated with a similar
one for Arizona.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. CUP)-
U. S. submarines, which are grad
ually fighting themselves out of a
Job in the Pacific, have sunk 16
more enemy vessels, including one
combatant ship, the navy announc-
ed Thursday.
Their latest victims included five
cargo transports, nine cargo vessels,
one tanker, and one escort vessel
to bring the total number of enemy
vessels hit by American undersea
craft to 839.
The total inclu6ed 687 sunk, 81
probably sunk and lis damaged.
Since the navy no longer announces
the probably sunk and damaged
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Officials Plan
To Attend Farm
Bureau Meetinq

Ray 3. Wiser, president of the
California Farm Bureau Federation
and Bert Smith, secretary, will at
tend special meeting of directors
and alternateS of the Imperial
County Farm Bureau in El Centre
at p. m. next Monday.
This will give the directors an
opportunity to explain to the Off
cials the help they seek from the
federation in getting relief from
duck damage, getting cancellation
of the flax tariff the Colorado river
treaty, taxes, and other matters.
The two visitors will discuss
changes in the bylaws and the in
crease in Farm Bureau dues ar
ranged by the federation.
The meeting will be held in the
court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
27.712 Stote Employees Ask
For Increases i'm Salaries

would represent increases over the
1888 bases ranging from so per
cent for persons paid $50 per month
in that year to 1888 per cent for
the one civil servant whose salary
was $4,000 per year then.
Approximately one-third of the
total number of employees, 1850,
whose pay in 1888 was between 500
and $l60, would be upped an aver
age of 1886 per cent from that
base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
Chile Landslide
Kills Scores

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 10. CUP)
Reports reaching here Thursday
indicated that more than 100 bodies
had been recovered from the debris
OF a miners barracks in SeWell
which was struck by two avalanch-
es "Wednesday night.
There was no confirmation from
mine officials.
Communications with the mining
district were meager due to heavy
storm which had started the avail
anche.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10.
(UP)-Salary increases for
the 27.712 employees of the
state of California which would add
SIS ,680,155 to the present annual
payroll were considered Thursday
by the state personnel board.
The request was filed August 3
by the California State Employees
association and covers all state en-
ployes except those at the Univer-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
VOLUNTEER UMPIRE STABBED

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 10. GUP)-
An army sergeant home on furlough
offered to umpire a boys softball
game Wednesday, and wound up
with knife wound below the heart
for his trouble.
Sgt. Glenn C. Hogue, enjoying his
first days leave from a camp in
South Carolina, was charged by an
irate fan who didn't see eye to eye
with his decisions at home plate.
The an escaped by automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
STORE BURGLARIZED

The o. w. Perry store three and
half miles north of Holtville on
the Brawley highway was burglar
lied shortly after 7 am. Thursday
Perry reported to the county sher-
ifs office. Entrance was gained
through a bedroom window in the
back of the store building. Perry
said $l2 in cash and some cigar
cts were among the articles taken
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10
QUAKES RECORDED

PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 10. CUP)-
SeiSmographs of the California In
stitute of Technology recorded a
double earth shock at 6:57.l8 and
7:Ol.02 p. m, PVT, Thursday at a
distance of 400 miles to the north
west, probably off the coast of Brit
ish Columbia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

king said Chinese troops made fur.
ther advances in their assault on
the ancient-walled city of Teng-
chung, one of the main Japanese
strongholdS in Yunnan province
blocking a juncture between the
Chinese and Gen. Joseph w. Still
wells Burmese forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-10

Sity of California.
The amount represents a pay
boost of 10 per cent, based on sal
airy ranges established in 1888 plus
a war bonus" of $25 per month
granted by the legislature for the
1943-45 biennium to persons receiv-
ing up to $500 per month and $40
to persons paid more than $500.
According to statistics incorpor-
ated in the request, the new rates