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The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Bicknell
were Saturdays hosts to members
of the Pot Luck Supper and Card
Club. All members attended.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mrs. L. A. Clifford Of Stafford
and daughter, Mrs. R. D. Brum-
baugh of New York City who has
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Page of Casa
Grande spent the weekend with
his parents, owners and operators
of Page Auto Court.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Clemans have
purchased the Ferris Karam home
on West Central avenue and will
move in next week The Karams
have bought home in Ell Paso,
Texas, and will leave for there as
soon as their business in Coolidge
is settled.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Karam left
Wednesday for Ell Paso, Texas, to
make their home. He is expecting
to be called to army service in the
near future.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mrs. Katie Harold of Pasadena
California, a former Coolidge resi-
dent, spent the weekend at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ancil Tay
lor. Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Weinhold
were guests Saturday for an eve
ming Of cards
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Lorene Miller, colored teacher
at Borree's Corner School, was
called to Tulare, California. Fri
day when her mother was serious
ly injured in an automobile acci-
dent. Florence Albers is substi-
tuting during the formers absence
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Mr.. and Mrs. John Howard re-
turned Saturday from Mayer. Okla
homa, after four-month visit with
his parents.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-04-21

. Miss Mary Lawrence accom-
panied her sister, Miss Phillys
Lawrence, to Phoenix for a short
visit Sunday, after the latter, who
is employed there, spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Noll Wilson.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Shriners Wait
Rites at SD.

L. J. Goree, Jr., of Ell Centro. will
be among the new officers of Al
Bahr temple. San Diego, Ancient
Arabic Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
to be ipducted into office at an
open installation Saturday night
in the San Diego Masonic temple,
7:30 o'clock
Elective officers are headed b.
Fred M Thompson, illustriouf
potentate; GLAND B. Goldsberry
chief rabban; John R. Helix, aSsis-
tant rabban; l.. j. Goree, Jr, high
priest and prophet; Glendon H
Conklin. oriental guide; Adolph
Muehleisen, treasurer, Fred B.
Grant. recorder.
Two valley men have headed the
temple as illustrious potentate.
John Stewart Ross in 1922 and
Warren Currier in 1882
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Death Summons
caIeXico Man

Warren j. Stuckley. 45-year-old
mechanic and proprietor of re-
pair shop in Calexico, died in an Ell
Control hospital Wednesday after
a long illness.
He had lived in Imperial Valley
the last eight or 10 years. part time
in Brawley- part of the time in the
Ogilby district. and more recently
in Calexico. Stuckley served as an
observer with the ground obscrva-
ton corps at the Ogilby station
until the corps became less active
and his services were not needed
there any longer. He came to I'M
perial Valley for his health.
Among his survivors are his
mother, Mrs. Allie Stuckley of
Portland, Oregon; and a brother,
Stanley Stuckley of San Francisco.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
IIneriaI Mdsons
Seat Officers

IMPERIAL, Jan. 81 - Clyde E.
Rodgers was installed as master of
Imperial lodge No. 800, F. and A.
NJ. wednesday night in the I'M
perial hall with Charles H. knights
of Ell Centre. inspector for the
108th Masonic district, as installing
officer.
c. E. Sones of Ell Centre was
master of ceremonies and Blanche
Tullos of Imperial, installing or
ganist.
Other officers installed we're ::
Clayton C. Rogers, senior warden;
Milton B. Griffin, junior warden
Lawrence G.. Niles, treasurer; Dor
man V. Stewart, secretary; George
Varney, chaplain; Cleo K. Green,
senior deacon; Burton McKinnon,
Junior deacon; Edward 2. Ceilings,
marshal; Elton Cary. senior stew
ard; Wallace NJ Kent, junior stew
ard, and George Cordle, tyler
Highlight of the evening was
presentation of a gift to H. G..
Miller who has served the lodge as
secretary Is years. A past masters
jewel was presented to the out
going master, Griffin.
After the meeting refreshments
were served in the banquet room
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Housing Units
Bought for &C.
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Tire Imperial Irrigation district
from the Hazard-Gould company
of San Diego. The property is 81
acres in extent and is situated in
East FL Centre. 1t is east of Fair
field avenue, south of the extern
sion of Commercial street, north of
Main street, and extends to the
Dogwood road.
Several of the units will be placed
on the American Fruit Growers
ranch east of Brawley, and four
in CaleXico by the Farley Fruit
company. Definite details we're not
comrlcte ln tbs phase of the pur-
chase.
It will be approximately three
weeks before concrete floors can
be laid, buildings moved, and in
stallations completed and ready for
occupation, Osborne said Thurs
day.
GET FIRST CHOICE
The shed laborerS will be given
first choice for the units.
Negotiations for purchase of the
units have been in progress for
weeks with the farmers in the val
ley trying to get the purchasing
details completed before men from
other lines of business took them
to relieve housing shortages in
other areas.
Osborne said the units are con-
structed so that they are suitable
for desert climate. They undoubt-
edly will be most welcome to the
shed lahorers so they will not have
to spend so much time hunting for
a place to live, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Allies Hammer
Jap Vessels
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recoroed by United Press in New
York. said trat Japanese ground
batteries and naval planes at Ra-
baul shot down So planes of for
nation of so allied bombers and
$50 fighters which raided Rabaul
yesterday. Ground fire accounted
for IL planes, the radio said, and
japanese planes shot down Al
In the Cape Gloucester area of
southwestern New Britain, Ameri-
can patrols successfully raided enc
my positions on the Bergen bay
front. japanese planes attacked the
American beachhead at Arawe, on
southeastern New Britain, without
causing damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
IRON LUNGER HAS BABY

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 81. tUP)--
General hospital authorities Thurs
day revealed that Mrs. Thelma
Hanson. %, an iron lung patient
since Nov. 8, had given birth to
a daughter and both were doing
we'll" Mrs. Hanson. suffering from
infantile paralysis, was removed
from the lung briefly Tuesday
night when the baby's arrival be-
came imminent and returned to it
a few moments later.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
MANY never
SUSPECT Cause
OF BACkACHES
This Old Treatment Often
Brings Happy Relief

Many sufferers relieve naggng backacbe
quickly, once they discover that the real cause
OF their trouble may be tired kidneys
The kidneys are Natures chief way of TAX
ing the excess acids and waste out of the blood.
They yhelpmost people pass about3 pints day.
poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it
may cause nagging backache, rheumatic
pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, get
ting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the
eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or
scanty passages with smarting and burning
sometimes shows there is something wrong
with your kidneys or bladder.
Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. Tksy give happy relief and will help tho
10 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste from your blood. Get Doans Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27

Inc lllegal plckeIlnS VI
Imperial Irrigation District
headquarters at Imperial by
representatives of Local Un-
ion BAIT of the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, an affiliate of the
American Federation of La
Dor, is undoubtedly pleasing
60 the spirits of Judas Iscar-
lot and Benedict Arnold. At
any rate the traditions es-
tablished by these arch trait
ors of history are being car
ricd out-with modern i'm
provements-by the LIB .E.W.
Two pickets, one at the
south gate and the other at
the west gate of Imperial
Irrigation District h e a d =
quarters at Imperial, were
placed in those respective
positions, together with their
"Unfair to Organized Labor"
signs, by the international
Brotherhood Of Electrical
w ork k ers, notwithstanding
the fact that the District IS
a political subdivision of the
state of California, and has
been so declared by both
state and federal courts. A
strike against the govern
ment or any Of its subdivi-
sions, is of course illegal.
Presence of this pair OF
pickets at Imperial can only
be regarded by patriotic citi-
zens as straight out sabo-
tage of the nations war eff
fort. because they are there
for the sole purpose of inter
fering viii the normal func-
ions of Imperial Irrigation
District-to prevent the de-
livery of indispensable sup
plies necessary to maintain
vital water and power facili.
ties to military and naval
bases and to the agricultural
front = called tn C nations
First Line of Defense.
OUTSIDE LABOR UNION
ORGANIZERS, operating
under the banner Of the Az.
L., who sought to wrest con-
troll of Imperial Irrigation
District from the people OF
Imperial Valley by declaring
a strike against the District
at midnight last November
26, have, with cold blooded
determination, refused to
recognize THAT THERE is
NO STRIKE IN FORCE
AGAINST THE DISTRICT'
Tie former handful of en-
ployees, practically all of
whom were electrical work
ers, who did obey the COM
mands of outsid e labor
union dictators, have long
since been discharged anu
the District has already re-
built its electrical organiza-
ton to a point where it is
functioning better than it
was before the walkout.
Governor Earl Warren, IN
a formal statement issued
when the I.B.E.W. called the
strike, declared "any work
stoppage in The electric or
irrigation services of the
District can result only in
serious consequences to the
food supply of California
and to the training of troops
in the armed forces which
are dependent upon these
facilities" The governor al
so declared the District
strike "a Strike Against the
Government
Did this deter the I.B.E.
w.? No! Sponsors of the
illegal walkout have contin-
,,aL ord owe ono+;o,,i,,n q,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
California Boosts Postwar
Projects by S13.250.000

SACRAMENTO. Jan. %. up,
Approval of an additional S13.25O.-
600 IN state postwar building prof.
ects, bringing the total value of
projects now ready for architects to
Sl9.5l2,5 500, was given Thursday by
the state board of control.
Among new projects approved: A
new state office building in Sac
ramento, $i.750.000; a state office
building in San Diego, S5OO.0OO:
repairs to the state capitol building.
100000; new units for the Yount-
vile state veterans home. 81 .433.-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27

600; state fair grounds improve
ments, S657 900.
The board added S5.727 900 to the
S5,077 900 already approved for de-
partment of institutions improve
ments, as follows: Camarillo state
hospital, S1,550,0O0; Napa state
hospital $l.l40,000: Norwalk state
hispital, $4,000; Patton state hos
pital, 81 600; Stockton state
hospital. S7G5 200: Sonoma state
home. S686,0O0; and Pacific colony,
S49l 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
AUTO LOOTERS MAKE
$1,000 HAUL

Tobian A. Ventusa reported to
El Centro police Thursday morn
ing that his car was looted Wednes-
day night and property valued at
$40, 700 taken.
VentuSa, rancher in the San
Fernando valley and a farm labor
contractor, said the thief got a
diamond ring valued at $500, $100
wrist watch, $500 in cash, and an
account book valued at $4,000
Ventusa had left his car parked
near Second and State streets
locked. The burglars broke out
the window in one Of the doors.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27

New Projects approved for the
department of education, totaling
50. .77S,O00. are as follows: Chico
state college, S284,000; Fresno state
college, $4,000; Humboldt state col
lege, $4,000: San Diego state COL
lege, $4,000: San Francisco state
college, $2,282.000.
The postwar projects will be
financed through earmarking of 20
per cent of the retail sales tax and
10 per cent of the franchise tax,
as approved by the 1943 legislature.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
FACES CHARGES

Jerome Stevens, Sd, Ell Centro
Hotel employe was released on $50
cash bail Thursday morning follow
ing charges filed against him by
Francis MaHaffey for "defrauding
an innkeeper.' Hearing on the
case will pe held in police court
January %. S. E. Siskrom, Al, who
claimed to be a North Carolina
shoe salesman, pleaded guilty to an
intoxication charge in police court
Thursday and is serving a five-day
sentence. On similar charge N.
B. Meza, 40, Mexican, is serving a
like sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
TO LOSE JOBS

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 81 up
The United States Civil Service
Commission Thursday had issued
the order to remove two members
of the Arizona State Highway Com
mission, emper Marley, Phoenix;
E. H. McEachern, Miami, and two
engineers, Fred N. Grant, deputy
state engineer, and w. P. Hutch
ins, district engineer, for violation
of the Hatch clean politics act.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Goering Brigade
Beaten inIta!y
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ranean, reported the Fifth armv
had massed the largest concentra-
ton of guns he ever had seen on
any front.
However. there still was no con-
firmation that the Americans had
crossed the Rapido river in force
or had entered Casino. main baS.
tion of the Gustav line. A patrol
two days ago reported the Germans
had evacuated Casino and taken
up strong positions in the sur
rounding heights.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
FIRE DAMAGES TRUCK

A panel delivery truck of Cooks
FOOD Market was damaged by fire
Wednesday evening when a load of
DID Christmas trees caught fire
while being unloaded at the city
dump near Second and Ross. The
trees ignited and burned rapidly
when sparks from a nearby fire
were blown into the rear of the
truck.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
With The District

undermine a government a
gency whose officials have
refused to turn their organ
izatiOn over to racketeer-
ing pressure group, whose
actions indicate that their
patriotism is measured by
the yardstick of dollars and
cents-plus lust for power.
When the pirates of old
Tripoli and the Barbary
Coast of Africa preyed on
the shipping of the world,
during the early part of the
nineteenth century, they de
manded payment of tribute
from the United States to
refrain from acts of piracy
against Yankee ships. I'M
mediately the battle cry Of
the republic became mil
lions For Defense But Not
One Cent For Tribute.' Evi-
IDENTIFY that patriotic slogan
has been reversed by the
I.B.E.W. w h o S &C officials
want the tribute first-thc
leftover, if any, to go to de-
Tense.
In a recent fireside chat,
his third wartime State Of
the Union message to the
people of the United States.
President Roosevelt recon-
mended "a national service
law-which, for the duration
of the war, will prevent
strikes, and with certain
appropriate exceptions, will
make available for war pro-
duction or for any other es-
sential service any able bod
ed adult in this nation"
We cannot help but Won
der what the Presidents re-
action would be in the case
of the I.B.E.W. and it's out
law strike against the Dis
trict?
In the meantime, TWO
A.F.L. PICKETS, defying
duly constituted laws and
scorning the patriotism that
is inspiring thousands OF
young American boys to sac
rifice their lives for their
country-continue picketing
operations at Imperial. They
are obeying orders which
would undoubtedly br in g
smiles of satisfaction to Hit
Ter and TOTO. A prominent
military official of the Unit
ed States declared recently
that "strikes already have
prolonged the war"
We cannot help but accord
some respect to a foreign
7gent WHO WORKS FOR
THE INTERESTS OF HIS
OWN COUNTRY. BUT
HOW, PEOPLE OF IMPE-
RIAL VALLEY, WOULD
YOU CLASSIFY NATIVE
BORN AMERICANS WHO
PL ACE T II EIR O WIN
GREED AND AMBITION
ABOVE T II f WELFARE
OF THEIR OWN NATION?
Think of the waste of mar
hours that should be used in
some essential war industry,
that two able bodied men are
throwing away before two
gates in Imperial where the
I.B.E.W. of the American
Federation of Labor is en-
gagged in an illegal, outlaw
demonstration. w h a t will
THESE MEN tell our sons
when they return home from
the battle fields? And how
will the I.B.E.W. meet the
unspoken challenge of the
brave boys who will NEVER
return home?
(Advertising.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
ARRESTED A FOR
YAKIMA OFFICERS

Myron Brush was held in the
county Jail in Ell Centre Thursday
after his arrest on a warrant from
Yakima, Washington. He was
charged with stealing four wheels
and tires from William Lusby of
that city Washington officers
were expected to arrive in few
days.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
CASSINO FALLS

(The Italian government radio
at Bari reported Wednesday nigh
that the Americans had captured
CassinoD
French elements of the Fifth
army seized important hign
ground" north of Casino, the head
quarters communique announced.
"On the Adriatic flank, action
was limited to intensive patrol
activity" the communique said.
Allied warships continued to sup
port British troops on the Tyrrhen-
ian sea end of the Fifth army front
with bombardments of highways
in the Formia area Tuesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Senate Speeds
Soldiers Vote
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linoiS, co-author with Senator The
odore Francis Green, (D9, Rhode
Island, of the pending senate bill,
agreed he was ready for a vote
and confident of victory.
Most of the shifts are based on
a section of the new Lucas-Green
bill which stipulates that validity
of absentee ballots shall be deter
mined by state and local officials.
Thus, the responsibility for throw
ing out a soldiers ballot because
he had not registered, paid a poll
tax or voted on the regular form
of state ballot would not rest with
the federal government
GIVES PRESIDENT POWER
The pending Lucas-Green bill
would set up a member war
ballot commission, appointed by
the president and confirmed by
the senate, to administer the act.
The commission would print, and
distribute through the army and
navy and war shipping administra-
ton, special federal war ballots
for members of the armed forces
ana merchant marine.
The ballots would provide blank
spaces for writing in the voters
choice for president, senate and
members of congress. The voter
could write in either the individ-
ualS name or party designation.
The voter wccld seal the ballot
in a specially provided envelope
bearing his nam, address and vot-
ing district on enc side and an
oath of eligibility including age and
length of residence en- the other.
This woulu IL be placed in an
other envelope, addressed to the
commission at Washington, bear
ing instructions to forward it to
the secretary of state of the voters
home state. The secretary of state
then would forward he unopened
ballot to the proper precinct where
it would be counted in accordance
with the states own voting laws.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Snecial Session
Gets Under Way

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that loose practices would result
from lack of administrative direc-
ton and charged that there was
general looseness in discipline" in
the states prisons, along with
'favoritism and injustice and low
morale in the guard lines"
L believe" the governor said.
we can have an enlightened prison
system that will reflect sound bus
iness management and rehabilitat-
ing custodial eare-not a cruel sys-
tenn. nor even a harsh system, but
g.. system that does recognize dis
oipline as the basic essential of
orderly conduct"
He proposed a centralized depart
ment of corrections TO administer
prison affairs, and a new adult
authority to rske over all parole,
term fixing, prisoner classification
and like duties of the board of
terms and paroles and advisory
pardon board.
INTRODUCE BILL
Senator Charles Deuel., tD0, Chi
co, and four other senators, immed-
lately introduced a bill containing
the governors suggestions, and
hearing on it was scheduled before
the committee on governmental ef-
ficiency this afternoon.
AN identical bill was to be intro
duced in the assembly and irnmed-
late hearings were scheduled also
in the lower house.
Warren said that at the present
there are fewer prisoners in state
institutions han at any time in
the pas. 20 years.
But" he said, this is the lull
before the storm. War has brutal
izing effect upon humanity and
every war is followed by a tidal
wave of crime. It is certain to
come to US very few years after
the war and we will without doubt
see 10000 men in our penitentiar-
les. Now is the time TO prepare for
the Storm
SOLDIER VOTE
The governor said he was pro-
posing "a simple process" which |
hONlu aA41h 81 With IL bA4N
Sacramento or Nile valley, the !
Mojave or Sahara deserts" to vote
He said he was asking repeal Of
a state constitutional ban on taxa
ton of federal property because
congress had authorized local taxa
ton of holdings OF some federal
agencies and might in the future
broaden the list Of .axa-le proper |
ty.
WANTS FULL HEARING
Assemtlyman Alfred w. Robert |
sen, Santa Barbara, Democratic /
STATE chairman, said he believed |
there should be very full hearing
OF the pri-an reform program. H.
said he w opposed TO Legislation
by citizens committees" and be- |
lieved the legislature should gather !
its own information rather thar |
rely on the report of the governors |
investigeting committee.
WANTS TINE CHANGED
Return to standard time in Cal !
;fornia was advocated in a concur |
rent res3lu ion prepared for intro
duction in the Assem- bly, by Assem-
blyman Earl D. Desmond, Cd. !
Sacramento.
Desmond pointed out Californ-
ians were experiencing many hard !
ships due to TIE present wartime
setting clocks an hour ahead, par
ticularly in agriculture, transporta-
ton and the school systems.
Tae resolution stated electrical
energy was not being saved through
use of war time because large in
dustries engaged in producing es-
genital materials were working on
a 24-hc-r t2s.s and requested
Governor Earl Warren to proclaim
a return to standard time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
TRUANTs BECOME HEROES

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. CUP)-
Two quick-thinking nine-year-olds
played hockey down by the rail-
road tracks the other day and
Thursday they we're heroes. They
saw an open switch leading to the
Airco Corp. war plant, reported it
and officials halted a freight train
which would have smashed into
The plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-27
Germans CrumbIe
In Russ Drive
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grad front we're Meretskov's thruSts
through the center of the German
line along the Chudovo-Tosno- sec
ton of the MoScow-Leningrad rail-
way. Soviet reports said flatly that
that segment of the enemy line had
collapsed"
NAZIS HARD PRESSED
The Russian units which drove
through the center of the line
from Kirishi reached the railroad
at several points Wednesday. Now
the Germans control only two Sec
tons measuring % miles which
were under direct threat.
Ahead of the Red army troops
striking along the 100-mile front,
long German columns were scram-
bling westward and southwestward
along precarious lines, begging
down in swamps and sluShy forests
and pounded by Russian planes and
artillery.
All but overShadoWed by the SEN
sational developments on the north
ern front, one of the most sig
nificant battles of the winter cam
paign was raging in the VinnitSa
region of the Ukraine. There. the
Germans were sparing neither men
nor machines in a desperate effort
TO hold the approaches to the
Dniester.
LONDON, Jan. 81 CUP)-A Ger
man communique broadcast by the
Berlin RADIO said Thursday several
Russian DiviSloi.s have launched a
new offensive in the Dnieper bend
southeast of Belaya Tserkov, and
that fighting still is in progress.
The communique added that out
numbered German forces were
locked in heavy defensive" bat
ties ON the northern front between
Leningrad and Lake linen.