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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Army
Eyes
Strike
Military May
Step in on
|. A. .Walkou+

LOS ANGELES, Feb. Is
(UP) Army y intervention
appeared imminent Tuesday
in the strike of more than $500
water and power department en-
ployes which threatened the power
supply to vital war industries and
water to millions of residents.
The strike has the blessing of
the AFL Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and involves both union
and non-union employees who de-
mand higher wages.
CONTINUE FUNCTIONING
All public utilities continued to
function at capacity load despite
the walkout of more than one-third
the staffs. Mere handfuls Of work.
ers remained in some departments
working feverishly to prevent dis
ruption in service.
Power and water from ten major
stations and so smaller units reach
ing from boulder Dam to San Pedro
and northward into the Owens VAL
ley some ITS miles away were
threatened by the Walkout which
started yesterday. More than a mil
lion and a half people and some of
the country's largest war industries
are dependent upon the municipality
-owned utility for power and water
The workers sought SIS monthly
wage increase, were given IS in
stead, and Immediately left their
jobs, maintaining they would not
return until their demands are met
SEES ALL-OUT STRIKE
On brotherhood Of electrical work.
ers official said he expected to see
virtually the full complement Of
municipal employees walk out #
the strike continued.
Many of the strikers circumvent-
ed Mayor Fletcher -Bowron's .'returr
to work" ultimatum by reporting tc
their posts but refusing to carry ou'
their assigned duties.
A union spokesman guaranteed a
continued flow of power through
the circuits unless Mayor Bowron
forces the ISSUE"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Flying Forts DisIodse
Nozis in ItaIy Shrine
Big Siege Guns Join Air Forces
TO Bombard Rome Defense Spot;
Germans Lose Holds on Beachhe ad

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Naples, Feb. -tUPl- Am
erioan attack planes bombed
Rome tuesday. Allie d head
quarters announced.
ALLIED HEADQUAR.
TIERS, Naples. Feb. Is. (UP)
American Flying Fortress
es and big siege guns of the
5th army poured a drumfire
of death into the ancient
Benedictine monastery Of
Monte Casino Tuesday and
FROM reports said the two
way b o m b a r d m e n t had
knocked out the powerful
German defenses inside the
shrine on the surrounding
slopes.
The merciless bombing and she'll
ing, launched only after American
troops had suffered bloody losses
for almost two weeks to save lne
SHRINE from destruction, came While
swalins of allied bombing planes
began what appeared 20 be m all
ouc offensive to smash The German
armies in western Italy.
ENDS IN FAILURE
Simultaneously, an allied head
quarters spokesman declared thai
the German offensive against the
allied beachhead below Rome had
ended in costly failure
More than 100 Flying Fortresses,
droning in over the mountains in
the brilliant sunlight, sprayed tons
of high explosives and fragmenta-
ton bombs over German gunners
crouching inside the stonewalled
Benedictine monastery and in deep
pillboxes on the neighboring hill
side
American infantrymen, who for
weeks had been at the mercy of
Nazi artillery directed and fired
from the abbey, watched with sat-
isfaction and awe as the bombs
tumbled from the bellies of the
highflying Forts.
ON THE ANZIO BEACH HEAD,
Feb. 13. tDelayed) CUP)-The skies
of Rome have become an aerial
battle field for American. pilots who
are helping to hold an around-the-
clock air umbrella over this en-
battled beachhead
The first air unit to be stationed
at the beachhead is a group of
American pilots flying SpitfireS, and
Major Alvin G. Gillem of Columbus,
O., the commander. said that his
men frequently chased German
planes all the way to Rome before
bringing them down.
DOWNED 10 PLANES
Gillem's unit already has doWned
10 Nazi planes. Every time his men
take off, they can look down on
Rome, toward which allied ground
Continued on page 6, col s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Yanks Hit AtolI
Toward Truk

PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Feb. 10.
CUP)-Preliminary reports Tuesday
indicated that Eniwetok atoll, next
major Japanese base on the central
Pacific route to Truk and Toxic,
was blasted into uselessness last
weekend in one of the mos: pro-
longed assaults ever made by Amer
ican carrier-based planes.
Naval experts in Washington 3e-
lieved that the attacks .foreshadow-
ed an imminent American invasion
thrust against EniwetokD
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Court Act Pends
On Ham n Eggs

SACRAMENTO, Feb. Is. (UP)-
Secretary of State Frank M. Jor-
dan said Tuesday there was a posi-
bility a friendly court suit might
be filed to determine whether the
ham N eggs" pension plan should
be voted on May l6 and to settle
other technical questions about the
primary election.
Representatives of the County
Supervisors association, the Los An
geles county counsel, the attorney
generals office and the state legis-
lative counsel will meet with him
Thursday to discuss the questions,
Jordan said.
The attorney-general's office and
the legislative counsel have dis
agreed whether the pension initia-
tive, calling for $40 payments a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Highway Patrol
Puts Officer
In Safety Work

California Highway Patrolman
Walter Walsh henceforth will devote
his time to school safety work and
school bus inspection, Capt. M. P.
Hebblethwaite announced Tuesday.
Several years ago Walsh was as
signed to this work and made a
success of it," Capt. Hebblethwaite
said. 1--WE believe it will require one
officers time to do this important
job as it should be done. It is i'm
portant that school equipment be
kept in excellent condition and that
school children are trained to OBJ
serve all traffic rules and regula-
tionS."
Walsh will confer with school Of
ficials, inspect buses, teach safety
classes and give safety talks in
schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
MONASTERY BOMBED
He Ends His
Tax Problem

FORT MYERS, Fla. Feb. Is
tUP)-Police said Tuesday that
Chester Clark, AZ, an unemployed
shipbuilder, committed suicide
because of worry over his income
tax. He owed the government
$3.50.
His wife said Clark, who was
under the impression that his
tax was due Tuesday instead of
March 15, has been i'll, and was
worried about the complicated
tax forms. He shot himself Mon
day night while she was away
from home consulting a tax ex-
pert.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

week to persons over so, Is entitled
to vote at the special session
called by the legislature for ratifica-
ton of a constitutional amendment
removing a prohibition against tax
alton of federal property.
The attorney-generarS office has
ruled the pension plan is qualified
for vote by petitions filed in 1910,
and would 60 on the November bal
lot If disqualified for a special cleo
tion. However, supreme court suit
contesting this ruling is pending.
Other questions to be settled are
whether both the propositions
should appear on separate ballot
or on the main primary ballot, and
whether separate ballot boxes must
be used.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
House to Probe
Guayule Set.up

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. up
The house Tuesday authorized its
agriculture committee to investigate
the guayule rubber program.
Representative John z. Ander-
son. GR). California, said that al
though $45,00O.000 has been appro-
priated for the program and mil
lions of acres planted. "it appears
to have begged down."
He said it is time I'VE found out
where we are
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

Knox wrote. ITO this end, it has
already established policies designed
to rotate its personnel, SO that men
who have served a tour of duty
aboard ship or on advanced bases
may eventually be relieved by men
who have been stationed at conti-
mental shore activities"
Knox pointed out, however, that
there were practical difficulties in
the way of fulfilling complete
rotation plan as nothing must be
done which would tend to decrease
the level of experience of naval
personnel functioning in combat
areas below the margin of safety"
Replacement of personnel exper-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Navy Reveals Program
For Requirements

fenced in combat, Knox said, there
fore must be effected gradually.
The army revealed on Feb. 2 that
it's rotation policy Is being extended
to the south Pacific theater, where
heretofore only wounded men have
been furloughed home. The program
in the army is limited by available
shipping facilities as well as war
plans. In the North African theatre
the armys program calls for fur
loughs after 10 months or more com
bat service, and in the Alaskan and
Caribbean theaters furloughs home
are arranged when possible after
two years service.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Water Pact Goes.
Before Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. CUP)-
President Roosevelt Tuesday trans
mitted to the senate for ratifica-
ton the recently-signed treaty be-
tween the United States and Mexico
governing the use of the Colorado
and Tijuana rivers and the Rio
Grande from Ft. Quitman, Tex. to
the gulf of Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
WASHINGTON, Feb. Il

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is.
(UP) Navy enlisted men
and officers who have been
on sea duty or at advanced bases
for l8 months or more become elig-
ible for replacement and assignment
for rehabilitation leave In the Unit
ed States, 1t was learned Tuesday.
The policy was outlined In re-
cent letter from Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox to Representative
A. Leonard Allen, CD, Louisiana.
"The navy recognizes the desir-
ability of effecting, as much as
possible, an equalization Of the
duties assumed by its personnel"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Civilian Population
Of u. s. Shows Drop

WASHINGTON, Feb Is (UP)-
The civilian population CT the
United States declined by approx
mately 100000 between April l,
1910, and Nov. /, 1943. the Census
Bureau reported Tuesday.
The decrease from l3l 1923, ,l04 to
27,307 ,889 was mainly due to in
ductions in the armed forces, al
though migration to war indus
trial areae in the west and south
showed gains, but regionally cnly
the west had a civilian population
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

increase. California, with a gain
of slightly more than 100000, led
the IL states and District of Colum-
bia which showed increases. New
York state lost slightly more than
100000
States gaining civilian population
and the percentage of increase in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
VALLEY-Clcar Tuesday night,
Wednesday,. Slightly cooler We'd
nesday, maximum temperature
around 65 degrees. Light frost,
Tuesday night. Lowest tempera-
ture 30 degrees. Colder Wednes-
day night with general frost.
Lowest temperatures 20 to 20 de-
greeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
LODGE SUCCESSOR TAKES
OATH IN UPPER HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. (UP) -
Sinclair Weeks, prominent massa.
chusetts Republican leader appoint
ed to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge
jr., who resigned from the U. S.
senate to go on active duty in the
army, took the oath of office in
the senate chamber Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
DEFIES DRAFT BOARD

SEATTLE, Feb. Is. (UP)-Gor-
don Hirabayashi, Seattle. Japanese
American whose conviction on
charges of violating the wartime
civilian control act was upheld by
the United States Supreme Court
Tuesday defied his draft board by
refusing to fill out QUESTIONABLE
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
Russians Wipe
Out Nazis

MOSCOW, Feb. Is. (UP)-1he
Soviet army organ Red Star said
Tuesday that the survivors of 10
CClnnaa divisions trapped in the
Ukraine had been compressed into
a tiny pocket which lis squirting
blood under the blows of ou, troops"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15
House Committee
Okehs Flood
Control 0utIays

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. (UP)-
The house appropriations committee
Tuesday approved war department
civil functions supply bill calling
for expenditure of S1l1,477,979 on
flood control and other civil projects
during the fiscal year beginning
July l.
The total included $86,911 ,440 in
new appropriations-the exact
amount requested by President
Roosevelt in his budget message.
The remainder represented reap
preparation of previous authorized
but unobligated funds.
TOPS BUDGET
The $23,566.539 in reappropriated
funds was $3,009, ,450 more than con-
templated by the budget bureau.
The committee said it authorized
the increase for important and
pecessary advance planning of flood
control work.
peal of S34,957,572 in other unex-
pended balances CT previous appro-
priations for projects suspended fu
the duration.
WASHINGTON, Feb. is CUP)
The projects involved where the
funds allocated for expenditure
in the 1945 fiscal year are $4,000
cr more, include:
Construction-Prad Dam, Calf,
1901, 900.
South Pacific coastal area: Tu-
junga Wash Channel, Calf, $780,
600: Burbank, Western Channel,
Calf. (uppeD. $50,000.
Maintenance of completed pro-
jects-Los Angeles river and tri-
butary channels, Calf, $4,000.
"The repeal course is advocated
with respect to rivers and harbors
and flood control balances" the
committee said Because otherwise
they would be available for finan-
cling projects, wholly or partly
without congressional consideration
or sanction, and that has occurred
in a number of instances :"
To permit such Use of the funds
the committee observed, would be
tantamount to turning over to the
budget bureau the congressional au-
thority to appropriate.
ON PANAMA CANAL
It's recommendations allow ex-
penditure of only S2,767,473 for pre-
liminaries on the third locks pro-
gra moi the Panama canal, and re-
peal $30257,572 which had been au-
thorized for work on the locks
which practically are in a "sus-
pended status" The committee said
that when resumption is decided
upon, congress should re-examine
the matter, obtain revised cost es-
Inmates, and start appropriations
afresh.
The committee approved $780,
300 for the Sacramento river, Cali
fOrnia, flood control project, in
GLIDING $1,945 900 for new work. II
held that the project was of par
ticular Importance because floods
must not interfere with strategic
rail and highway routes and various
army installations in the Sacrament
to valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

cluded: Arizona, las; Nevada, 201;
and California, 148. The District
of Columbia increased 242 to
civilian population of 1,l75,334
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

For convenience In totals
Brawley includes inland, Cali
patria and Westmorland; Holt
Vile. Winterhaven and FL Cen.
tro, Imperial)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

This corner for committee
daily report on bond sales
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-15

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Naples, Feb. I5-iUP)- Am
eriean attack planes bombed
Rome tuesday, Allie d head
quarters announced.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
WRAEGELL co.
 PACKS 42,934 CASES

The Farwest Wrangell company still led in the amount of fish packed in the Wrangell-Petersburg district up to September 8. with a total oT 42,g54 cases, approximately half Of the amount packed by them at this time last year. which amounted to gS,852 cases. The fig ures, as released by the Fish and WildIiIe service for the four opera tors in this district, are as follows.
 Harvest Wrangell Go. reds S554, pinks, 16,697, chums 15,104, echoes 257y, total 42,954 cases.
 Pacific American Fish O., Pet ersburg - reds 822S, kings IT. pinks 15,634, chums 16,856. echoes 2TO7. total 56,442 eases.
 Dean Kaylor, Scow Bay - reds 1876, pinks 7997, chums 25.543. echoes 309, total 35.225 cases.
 Nakat Packing Corp. Union Bay reds 2907 pinks 20,g2S. chums S566, echoes 5429, total 35,8S0 cases.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
Ill When Touring
DIM0ND POWDERS QUITTING SOON

WASHINGTON - Delegate D . mond of Alaska introduced a bill August 29 in congress providing that the person elected congEession- al delegate from the Territory for the term beginning January 8, l945, shall fill any vacancy in the office occurring between the Alas kan election September 12 and the January date.
 The measure would allow Dele gate Dimond to proceed with his announced plan of resigning to ac- cept a judgeship in the Third divi- sion. Thus the man elected next month, either R. L. (Bob) Bartlett of Juneau or John E. Manders of Anchorage, would go to Washing ton when Dimond resigned.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
PLANE SERVICE FROM
 KETCHIKAN TO ANNETTE ISL.

Ketchikan is to be hooked up with daily plane service to Annette Island Air base, to connect with planes form the states, if present plans go through.
 Raymond ". Slough, director of the Alaska office of the Civil Aero nautics board, will hold an exam ination in Ketchikan September If, at 10 am. to pass on the ap- plication of the Ellis Air Transport for authority to conduct certain operations between Ketchikan and Annette island air base via Metla- katla"
 At the same time an application of the Ketchikan Air service will be passed on flor certain operations between Ketchikan and Edna bay via intermediate points, and Ket- chikan and Tamgas harbor via Met lakatla and over an irregular route to all points in the First Judicial district of Alaska"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08

pharmaoeuueals are mauutse- ured in Palestine at the rate of about S2.O0o.000 worth annually.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
MISSING PERSONS

The governors office has re- eeived inquiries regardfng ghe whereabouts of the following per s9ns. Anyone knowing the where a8outs or these persons kindly con .act the governors office at Juneau
 Thomas Macdonald. e years old. lis nephew, John R. Creighton, Al Inn Vale. Fairfield. Liverpool England is anxious to know where he is living now.
 Kenneth Bennett Price. nick name Kay Price. Worked on fish ing boat in 1941 and 1912. Amy one having information concerning
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
PERSHING HAPPY HEARING
 NEWS OF PARIS COUP

WASHINGTON, D. C. General Pershing. who commanded the Am eriean expeditionary force in the first World war, recently described the liberation of Paris as a great step along the road to Berlin In a statement issued through the OWI, Pershing said that over four years ago when the Germans took Paris, my sorrow was beyond words Paris to me was the heart of France"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08

Give to the National War Fund drive
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08

Ancient fighting galleys had as many as 16 tiers Of Oarsmen
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08

(Paid Advertisement)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
KETCHIKAN MAN IS
 KILLED IN FRANCE

Lt Ragnar Myking of Ketchizan has been reported killed in action. according 10 word received by rela- tiyes in the First city.
 Lit Mykng was reared in Eet- chikan and worked with the Alaska Transportation company for several years. He was first supply sergeant in ketchikan and later attended Officers Training school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He served in the Aleutians. on Adak. and arrived in
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
THE LATE MR.
 sCHICKLEGRUBER

IA few random notes on
 life and labors of middle-aged
 parsonage by II. l. Phillips in
 Chicago NeWs.)
 SCHICKLEGRUBER, AD o b F , suddenly, following a long illness by the world in general. Please omit flowers, vegetables optional. MT Schicklegruber was born in Austria 54 years ago unfortunately He was a wrecker by trade.
 As a child he was irritable, mo- rose and eXcitable, and nothing was ever done about 1t until too late. He could outshriek every kid in the neighborhood and did. His favorite plaything was tablelegs with which he loved to beat his old nurse. but he would at times while away his time with blunderbusses. stink bombs, broken bottles n d brass knuckles. At the age of eight he was offered a job on the Quiz Kids program but refused it on the. clam he knew all the answers.
 Part of a Horse
 Young 5chIckIegruber was mis- educated in the public school which he attended with reluctance, and quit by common consent He aid not get a diploma but was Yot- ed best dog in the show.
 Alter leaving school he decided to be a self-made man and made the worst job of it in history. His early hero was said by many to be Napoleon, by others to be Napole- on's horse. Others said the model was only part of the horse. Grow ing to manhood, as it was jokingly called, he studied painting, house, portrait, barn and toenail, and gave it up on the third morning. For al time he did paperhanging but never for the same customer twice.
 The First Great war broke out when Mr. Schicklegruber was being berated by a woman for putting the border for the kitchen on the bedroom walls. He enlisted by way of compromise but never quit an argument from that day on.
 Settled in Germany
 He rose by leaps and bounds to the rank of corporal. The German military chiefs sued for peace when they saw that he was in line for a sergeantcy.
 Following this war MT SchicEe- l gruber settled in Germany and ran soapbox into the chancellorship. 1. During this interval he wrote a book. The world later threw it at him.
 During the later years he spec ialized in alibis. He was not the author of the famous lines, You cant do this to mel, T can lick; any man in the house." and q tell you we cant lose" but he did more than any other man to make them famous.
 III When Touring
 Mir. SchIcklegruber became sick on what he had supposed was a pleasure trip to Moscow. He was never ahe same again. Toward the end he complained of seeing things at night. The doctors said they were illusions. The doctors were nuts. He was seeing Eisenhower, Monty, DeCaulle and Stalin. What bothered him in the case of Stalin
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
ROOSEVELT TO MAKE
 FIRST CAMPAIGN TALK
 IN WASHINGTON, SEPT. z

WASHINGTON - President Roo seyelt said he will make his first political speech of the campaign in Washington on the evening of Sep tember 23 before a group to be or ganized by Daniel Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-09-08
.s .l .s e q. .s q. q ss & .s .s E ELKS NOTES
 By Bro. ThirtY-six
By Bro Thirty six

Wednesday night was the first of our weekly meetings for the com ing fall, winter and spring. So Brothers. let's be seeing you every Wednesday night
 Folks. don't forget our Annual Charity Festival and Milk Fund Dance to be held in the A.N.B. hall Saturday night. September g. The committee has everything all lined up and ready to go. so come early and have a good time.
 At midnight the drawing will be held for the quilt that the st. Phil lips Guild are awarding. Better be there to see if you are the lucky one.
 It was decided at the meeting to put on a dance or party at a later. date for the benefit of the National War Relief fund.
 The mail man was good 10 us this week as letters were received from Bros. Joel Wing. c. c. RuIa-. ford, Harry c. Williams and First It. Joseph L. Newton. Bro Wing.
  wrote from Bruin bay. where he is. stationed with the CA.A He ts. being transferred to Middleton is- land. Bro. Rulaford sent his best. wishes form Seattle. Bro Williams wrote from St Louis. Mo. where he Is a physical education director with the Y.MCA. When in Wrap-I gell, Harry was a teacher in the high school He says that the "YaI building oyerlooks the big league ball park and every afternoon tbera Is a game on he is up on the roof. watching either the Browns orI Cardinals in action.
 The fourth letter came V...- mail from First Lt Joseph L. Newton. l It is as follows.
 Somewhere in England
 August IT, 1914 Dear EIk5,
 "I have much spare time here in l the hospital and recently I found a battered Elks membership card that. brought memories of Alaska, so de- . cided to write a few lines tonight {. As you will remember I was the first man inducted from Wrangell, ] three long years ago. Since then I. have come up from private to my present rank of first lieutenant. Il have seen action against the Japs in the Pacific, and was wounded in France against the Germans about three weeks ago.
 T was hit three times. in the neck, in the right leg, and in the forearm. I will be hospitalized about three months here in Eng land, then I expect to get another crack at the "so and sos"
 q would appreciate letters while here in the hospital as it's pretty lying in bed 24 hours a day
 Best regards to everyone,
 Joseph L. Newton