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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
BROWDER STARTS PAYING
DEBT OF "GRATITUDE"

Ever since Earl BroWder, convicted
secretary of the Communist party, was
pardoned from prison by Roosevelt, the
Red leader has been busy arranging to
render thanks by sounding a call to all
the brethren of his stripe to back the
Roosevelt fourth term moves. These et-
forts came to an official status last week
when Browder dissolved the Communist
party and proclaimed himself and all
the members thereof as for the fourth
term, declaring that the President is the
only person the nation can trust to win
the war He went on with his proclama-
tions to the effect that the Communists
are for winning the war to man and
that they are for the system of free en-
terprise' in postwar planning.
Now, out of all this there is only one
thing that can be believed-support for
the president for a fourth term.
What else could be expected, even from
a Browder? And the more so since high
er-ups in Washington issued orders which
permit Browder's wife to remain in this
country long past the time her visa is
dated
What has happened that would change
the tenets of the Communist party? What
is there to convince anyone that there
has come an overnight conviction that
the system of free enterprise Is better
than state socialism? It just won't go
down, Mr.. Browder.
And the people should know that, too,
If the Communists were dangerous as
party, they are many times more danger
Gus now when they can not be Identified.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
SaIvaged Fats
Quota Lags

Imperial county waste fats SalV-
age campaign continued to sag dur
ing April according to the war pro-
duction board.
Ell Centro lee the county in
pounds of kitchen fats turned in
but the county only reached 18 per
cent of its quota, the report said.
A total of $3.50 pounds was as
signed the county of which only
1884 pounds were reported for
April. Ell Centre housewives deliver
ed more than half, 966 pounGs to
the butchers, while BraWley con-
tributed 459 pounds, Holtville 1870
and Calexico 10 pounds.
Imperial county has been trailing
IL other southern California coun-
ties which turned in a total of 919,-
SOB pounds as compared to a quota
of 743,350 pounds, or 1873 per cent of
the quota. Quotas are based on
population figure of one-siXth
pound per person per month, with
Imperial county's population set at
$500.
The salvage division pointed out
that the easier meat supply is not
related to the present supply of
fats and oils. The supply still re-
mains insufficient for military, in
dustrial anC essential civilian pur-
poses, the WPB report said.
Housewives are paid five cents
per pound and two red points for
each pound of fats turned in to
the butchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
CHESTER BOWLES PARRlES
RATiONS EASING INQUIRY

Inquiries directed personally to Ches-
ter Bowles, OPA director, seeking his
explanation for the order cancelling ra-
ton points on meats so soon after he had
written at length in a national periodical
to the effect that people could expect no
easement until next year, make him plain
mad. And he so far has failed to even
begin to reconcile his actions.
He hardly can plead a sudden change
in conditions as to meat supplies between
the time he wrote the article and the time
it was published. Neither can he recon-
cile the fact that his article ignored fire.
quent announcements from other Federal
agencies over period of at least six
months emphasizing that the nations
cold storage plants were bursting with
meats of all kinds. 1t is to be presumed
that he wrote the article reasonably
near publication time
And so it is altogether pertinent to
eye the points cancellation order from
the vote appeal point of view, and this
view is gaining daily. Manifestly can
collation. of points could not have been
made except that a surplus warranted
such action. This premise is based on
the assumption that the bureaus followed
a logical course 1t could be that Bowles
"1OUG Jllt dIilClt Oul VI l'4bd1' lIlt'oiiitNi'
as it was the War Food Administration
that proclaimed that the storage plants
were so full of meat that grain crops
and the like were spelling for lack of
space. 1t is not new for bureaus to get
in rows with each other Someway 1t is
hard to believe that Bowles could have
been misinformed as to the situation he
described in his article 1t would seem
a safe guess that Mr.. Bowles is on the
way out He is mad, and it is pretty
good old saying that whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad
Until some more sensible and logical
proof can be produced the public can do
naught else than conclude that the new
dealers have made another wholesale
appeal for votes The timing may not
seem right with the election five months
away, but by that time the public will
have forgotten it was "gypped' for six
months or more by keeping points on
until May when they could have been
removed last November.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Il WAS CONST|pATED
FOR Many YEARS!
Now I'm Regular Every
Morning!"

Constipated? Then here's an un-
solicited letter you'll want to read:
I'D been troubled with common consti-
patton for many years. Was taking laxa-
tives and pills all the time. and feeling
very weak and run down. 3 months ago. |
began eating KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN
daily. Now. l have a regular. natural
movement every morning. which helps me
feel my best!' Mr.. Samuel D. Blank. 292
Kings Highway. Brooklyn. New York.
What is this seeming magic of
KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN? Scien-
lists say it's because KELLOGG'S
ALL-BRAN can really "get at"
common cause of constipa-
ton namely, lack of sufficient
"cellulosic" elements in the diet.
KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN is ono
of Natures most effective sources
of these elements, which help the
friendly colonic fora fluff up,
and prepare the colonic wastes
for easy, natural elimination.
KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN is not
a purgative! DoesD't work by
sweeping out" It's a gentle-act-
ing, Regulating" food!
If you have constipation of this
type, eat KELLOGG'S ALL
BRAN or several ALL-BRAN
mullins regularly. Drink plenty of
water. See il you don't find lasting
relief! Insist on genuine ALL
BRAN, made only by Kellogg's in
Battle Creek,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
FAST on TRIGGER
(San Bernardino Sum

Some of the country's politicians are
too fast with their criticism. Perhaps
that indictment should go for lot of
those who are not politicians.
Senator Bridges recently took a bitter
shot at Australia, charging the common
wealth with having released 10000 men
from her army He was forced to retract
and this was his alibi:
THE statements made by me were bas-
ed on the first news releases, which did
not give a complete picture of the situa-
ton.
Freedom of speech is a precious right,
but it must be guarded or it could be
lost. Australia is an important ally of
the United States in this war, and Is an
appreciative ally.
Senators and representatives should be
extremely careful to avoid unjustified
criticism of the nations allies. Particu-
larly should they guard against casting
aspersions on those who fight side by
side with this country. To do otherwise
is merely playing the game of Hitler
who would like to see his enemies divided.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
CONGRESSMAN DIES
pasadena Star-News)

Congressman Martin Dies decision
not to be a candidate for reelection as
a member of the house of representatives
from Texas will withdraw from public at
least temporarily, one who has held a
conspicuous place in it for years AS
chairman of the house committee on un-
American activities, he has made his
name a household word throughout the
United States.
No member of congress in recent times
has been more enthusiastically lauded or
more bitterly condemned than Represen-
tative Dies A fair appraisal of his work
probably is that it performed a greatly
needed public service, but that the meth
DDS often were open to criticism.
The Dies committee began its revela-
tions of subversive activities by alien
groups and sympathiZers at a time when
Americans generally were complacent
about their country's supposedly invul-
nerable position and were apt to be skep-
tical and even scornful of warnings that
political termites were at work in the
United States.
The Dies committee did an effective
lob of awakening America to the danger
of subverSve work by organizations alien
in their origin and inspiration. Unfor-
tunately, it also injured the regulations
of some individuals who were innocent
by trumpeting to the world improved ac-
cuSationS.
Martin Dies is a comparatively young
man, notwithstanding his IA years of ser
vice in congress, and it is not likely that
his political ambition has been satisfied.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA

Riverside Daily NeWS)
An American correspondent in Eng
land reports that some of the Yanks are
attempting to explain to their British
brothers-in-arms the difference between
Republicans and Democrats. This is
noble experiment that should be pursued
to its conclusion, whatever the difficult
ties.
Once the average Britisher has acqulr-
ed a working knowledge of the New Deal,
southern and anti-New Deal northern
branches of the Democratic party, and
of the nationalist and internationalist
Republican sects; once the British-based
American has solved completely the mys-
teries of the English currency system
then two of the most formidable barriers
to international understanding will have
been Surmounted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Convicted Nazi
Sabofeur Wins
In Court Ruling

CHICAGO, May 23 OUP'-Fed-
eral Judge John p Barnes ruled in
favor of the defense in a molten
to suppress evidence used in the
first conviction of Hans Max
Haupt, who was once convicted and
sentenced to death for treason for
aiding his son, Herbert, a Nazi
saboteur, who later was executed,
Judge Barnes criticized FBI
agents who visited the Haupt Ecme
after Herbert had been arrested,
searched the home for Herbert's S
clothes, and took a blank draft
card and money.
Hans Max Haupt is the first of
six defendants to be tried again
after a previous conviction, follow
ing action of the U. S. circuit court
of appeals in setting aside the con-
viction and death sentence. Haupt,
Walter Frcehling and Otto Wergin
were sentenced to death, while Mrs,
Haupt, Mrs. Froehling and Mrs.
Wergin received 25-year prison
terms.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Bet Costs Life
OF "Tenderfoot"

CHALLTS. Id, May 23. CUP) -
Mrs. Eva r. Gellispi, 81, Canton,
Ohio, lost a wager and her life
when she died in the snowcovered
mountains near here of exhaustion,
Sheriff Lee Clark reported.
Mrs. Gellispi had accepted a bet
of a steak supper that she could
like from Challis to Bayhorse, 20
miles from here in the Central
Idaho wilderness.
The hiker, who had come here
from Ohio three weeks ago because
she liked the rugged west" became
lost and was retracing her steps
through water and snow when she
died, Clark said
Her body was found II miles
southwest of here late Saturday.
by a searching party.
Mrs. Gellispi is survived by her
husband, Joseph, serving with the
navy, and an 1l-montfS-old daugh-
ter, Betty Joe.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Sheriff Selects
School" Topic

The fourth class of the Imperial
County Law Enforcement Training
school being conducted by Sheriff
Robert w. Ware Wednesday night
will take up the subject, Latent
F'ingerprints, the preservation,
Photography, and Development
Thereof"
Sheriff Ware will be assisted by
Deputy Sheriff Robert Jensen, head
of the fingerprint and photograph
ic departments in the Imperial
county sheriffs office.
The sheriff is conducting a series
of "a classes for all regularly en-
ployed, salaried law enforcement
officers in the county, an agree
ment he made when he enrolled
in the training school conducted
by the Federal Bureau of Investi-
CATION in washington, d. c. this
winter
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Soldiers Fight
For Life After
Dropping Shell

LONG BEACH, Cal, May %. (UPp
Three army privates were in criti-
cal condition Tuesday in the wake
of a blast from dropped shell
which killed one soldier and in
jured seven.
Private First Class Robert K. FCx,
"a Columbus, Ind, was killed out
right. Seriously hurt were: Private
Vladimir w. Kotch, 81, Hamtramck,
Mich; Private First Glass Melvin
H. Strandt. "a, Milwaukee, Wis;
Private First Glass Russell c. Sny-
der, "a, HathWood, s. c.
Small by army standards, the
shell, for a coastal defense gun.
was being carried along concrete
walk late Monday at Bixby Park
emplacemcnt when it was dropped.
A tremendous blast shook the resi-
dental area and fragments sprayed
the air.
Captain Harry Shaffer of Chicago
was stripped naked by the blast
but was unhurt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Will Rogers Body
Rests at Home

CLAREMORE, Okla. May 90.
tUP1-The body of Will Rogers,
Oklahoma's friendly pilgrim of the
long trail" was back home on his
Beloved range Tuesday, reposing in
stone crypt at the 100000 Men,
orial Museum.
The body was returned Monday
from Los Angeles, where it has
been held in a crypt since Rogers
and Wiley Post were killed Aug.
IS, 1895, in plane crash at Point
Barrow, Alaska.
Simple private services were held
in the museum at the base of a
statue of the famous wit, a replica
of his likeness which stands in the
Hall of Fame in Washington.
As a CaskCt holding the body was
borne into the museum, the strains
Of Home on the Range" floated
through the Oklahoma twilight
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Accused Girls
Kin Arrives

Mrs. Betty Siegal, 38, mother OF
Mildred F'orsythe, arrived in Ell
Centro from st. Louis, Missouri,
Tuesday to confer with her daugh-
ter about a charge that she had
murdered her 10-months-old baby
by throwing it in the Colorado river.
She was accompanied by William
J. Morio, also of ST. Louis, uncle
of the accused girl.
The Missouri residents talked to
the 18-year- -old girl who Fricay in
formed Yuma, Arizona, officers that
she had thrown her baby in the
river. Her dry-eyed calm was undis-
turbed by the sight of her mother
and uncle.
The girl will be taken to Winter
haven wednesday afternoon for an
inquest.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Neqro Unionists'
Hearing Opens

to pay dues to an auxiliary union.
In opening arguments before
Judge Peter Mullins, company at
torneys said the companies had no
direct interest in a dispute between
the union and the Negro workers.
They said the company was con-,
cerned only in that it had agreed
to comply with a closed shop pro-
vision in the union contract.
Judge Thomas M. Foley issued
a temporary order on petition of
Wilbert williams and Jim Yates,
Negro shipyard workers, restrain
ing the company from firing them
because they refused to join Me-
gro auxiliary of the union instead
of the regularly constituted unit.
They accused the International
BoilermakerS, Iron Shipbuilders and
Helpers union of discrimination.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
PLAN CARLTON AFTER WAR

SPRINGFIELD, H., May %.
CUPD-A memorial carlton, similar
TO the one built by Edward Box
in Florida, will be constructed here
in memory of Thomas Rees, former
publisher of the Illinois State Regis
ter, according to municipal postwar
project plans, when materials are
availa BILE. Rees, who died II years
ago. left 100000 to build the car
illon. The fund has grown with in
terest and may reach s30O,OOO by
the time trustees are ready to spend
it. officials said. Plans Tor the
memorials site and erection must
await peace, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Vote Canyassinq
Meet Slated

Imperial county supervisors were
scheduled to meet at 2 pm. Tuesday
to canvass the absentee ballots
cast in the special election and
on June 2 to canvass the absentee
ballots cast at the consolidated
primary election, both of which were
held last Tuesday. ~
The special election was held to
get vote on the proposal to per-
nit the state to tax federal owned
property. The consolidated primary
election was held-to select congress
ional. legisla ative, state and local Of
ficers. The consolidated primary
combined the usual May and Aug
uyt primaries. There will be no
August primary this year, the neH
election being the presidential ell
ection in November.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
COURT RULING UPHOLDS
OPA SUSPENSION ACTS

WASHINGTON, May 23. (UP)-
The supreme court, holding that "in
times of war the national interest
cannot wait on individual claims to
preference upheld the power of
the office of price administration
to iscue suspension orders against
business firms that have violated
rationing regulations.
The court split to l on the case,
with Justice owen j. Roberts dis
senting. The ruling upheld an OPA
order requiring l.. P. Stcuart and
Bros, Inc, Washington fuel oil
dealers, to restrict its fuel oil sales
and deliveries to those customers
who were on the firms books on
Oct. 81, 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
First Waterrne|ons
Leave Valley

Imperial Valleys first big ship
ment of Watermelons left WeStmor-
land for the Los Angeles market
during last weekend.
The shipment went by truck from
the Bill Jones ranch. There were
Is tons or about a carload.
A few small lots had gone by
truck prior to the weekend ship
ment. County Agricultural Com
missioner B. A. Harrigan said Mon
cay,
Watermelon shipping season is
late this year due to the cold
weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Assets Of State
Banks Mount

Total. assets of lis California banks
last month reached total OF ST.
COS, 16,00O-an increase of $400,0OO,-
coo since June 80, l943-Benjamin
C. Coriett, state superintendent of
banks, disclosed Tuesday.
The increase, Corlett declared,
represents the increase in deposits
which have now reached the stup-
endous sum of $2,436,310,000."
Nearly half of the S2,606, ,7l6,OOO
liabilities was in demand deposits,
which totaled $1,033, TIA 900, Corlett
said in a report to Go. Earl Warren.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Contests Slated
In Legislature

primary election showed Tuesday.
A count of absentee ballots next
month may give both major party
nominations to candidates in addi-
ton 20 the 60 assemblymen and 18
state senators now without opposi-
ton.
Two RepublicanS-Senator T. H.
Delap, Richmond, and Nelson Dill
worth, Hemet, will have opposition
from Democrats at the November
election. returns showed. However,
the Republicans picked up one seat
in the election of Republican Louis
G.. Sutton to fill the unexpired
term of Representative Clair Engle,
D1 in the 9th district, and their
control of the upper house is not
threatened.
If both DIWorth, who seeks to
succeed Rep. John Phillips, Ban
ming. in the senate, and Delap win
in November, the Republicans will
have a 25 to Is advantage. and the
worst they can do is % to II
edge.
In the assembly 33 Republicans
anC 81 Democrats hold both party
nominations with 20 seats contested
or in doubt. If Republicans win
in half the contests they will have
43 to 81 advantage. a majority
Of one less than in the present
house.
Republicans claim a slight fur
thef advantage in the fact that
members Of their party now hold
13 of the 20 seats for which there
are contests.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23

Maximum Of two state senators
and 20 state assemblymen will have
opposition in the November elec-
ton and there is little apparent
threat to Republican control of the
two houses of the legislature, an
analysis of returns of last Tuesdays
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
oUADS BORN IN ENGLAND

SOUTHEND-O ON SEA, England,
Nav q. OUP)-QuadrupletS- three
boys and one girl-were bern today
TO Mrs. Daisy Moxham, wife of an
Raj flying officer. The babies were
born nearly four months to the day
after oladruplets were born TO Am
erican Army Sgt. william II. Thomp-
son of Pittsburgh and Miss Nora
Carpenter of Heanor, Derbyshire, a
former British barmaid and ATS
girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23

SAN FRANCISCO, May %. CUP)
"A hearing will be resumed today
on a demurrer filed by the Kaiser
Co. and the Permanente Metals Corp.
to an order restraining them and
the boilermakerS union from firing
Negro shipyard workers who refused
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
VET, SO, DIES

LOS ANGELES, May %. OUPlr~s
Funeral services were being arrang-
ed Tuesday for Oliver H. Castle, 96-
year-old Civil War veteran, who
died Monday at Sawtelle veterans
hospital eight days before he was
TO appear as honorary chairman and
grand marshal of Los Angeles Mem
orial day celebration. He was taken
i'll Friday. His death reduces the
state roster of GAR. veterans TO
"a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
REV. FIR. HUTCHINSON
GOES TO HOSPITAL

The Rev. FIR Edward Hutchin-
son, rector Of st. Paul's Episcopal
church. was ordered to the Ell Cen
tro hospital Monday night, having
suffered a heart attack. He was re-
ported as being improved Tuesday
but he will have to cancel all ap-
pointments for the present, his
phvSjcian stated
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
SHERIFF URGES HORSEBACK
RJDERS TO SHUN FIELDS

Sheriff Robert W. Ware Warned
horseback riders to refrain from
riding through alfalfa fields as it
damages the crop.
II received complaint from a
rancher south of Ell Centre because
horseback riders had been riding
through his alfalfa fielcs at night
after the field had been watered,"
Ware said. ut must have been
done by someone who know little
about farming in Imperial Valley
or they would have known better.
Horseback riding over wet fieldS
does too much damage to be per-
mitted"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloCinQ edit
Oridis are presented cs interesting opin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsechere. They
dc not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-23

A diet deficient in magnesium
causes rats tc experience fatal con-
vulsions when exposed to intense
sound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-18
Wrightsboro Road Job
To Be Started Monda,

The resurfacing of the Wrights-
boro road by the contracting firm
OF F. D. Cline, of Raleigh, is sched-
uled to get under way Monday. R.
A. AshWorth, resident engineer of
the North Carolina Highway COM
mission, said Friday.
The work will be done on three
miles of the road from U. S. high
way II to the new road encircling
Bluethenthal Army Air base. and
from the end of a two-mile stretch
OF hard surfacing done by the fed.
eral government to U. S. highway
lit, the Burgaw road.
Traffic, Ashworth said, will be
maintained constantly.
Reconstruction of Sturgeon
creek bridge, in Brunswick county
which was damaged considerably
when an oil tanker exploded on it
has been started. The Bowers con
truction company of Raleigh is
now engaged in constructing ar
auxiliary bridge to maintain traf
fic over the highway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-18
Sunday School Lesson

termines the worth of the govern
democracy is that every man is a
king, and if the king abdicates, or
does not wisely exercise his king
ship, misrule results. There is no
magic in democracy" if individ-
ual citizens live and act upon a
lew level of moral vision and so:
cial responsibility.
Christian citizenship, therefore
has very real meaning. What
manner of persons we ought to be-
when we think of our Christian and
democratic heritage! God grant
that we may not fail as kings in
democracy!