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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Valley Cities
Listed on
Plane Hook.up
New Program Calls
For Widespread
Pickup Operation

Application for the csflhlish-
ment CT ne airline service to
Imperial Valley towns will coastal
points was scheduled to have been
filed Tuesday in Warrington, d. c.
Notification to this effect was
received Tuesday morning by
Mayor Robert w. Hat,on from Earl
d. PrudGen, president of Ryan
School CT Aeronautics. Mr.. Pruoden
advised Hatton that his subsidiary
company, the Ryan Aeronautical
Company, is filing the petition be-
fore the Civil Aeronautics Board
in hington.
The route is being proposed az
an airline feeder pickup service,
Prudden states, and schedules stops
at Calipatria, Brawley, Ell Centre,
CaleXico and Yuma. From this area
the proposed line will operate to
Indio, Palm Springs, Beaumont,
Hemet, Redlands, San Bernardino,
Ontario, Monrovia, Pasadena, and
Los Angeles. Part OF the plan Is
a branch extending south OF Los
Angeles to can Diego, with II in
termeGiary stops on the coast.
Mayer Hatton turned ever the
papers relating to the application
to Ben Herring, secretary of the
chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Carrot Harvest
Moves SIoWIV

he said. His report indicated 300
unemployed workers in the valley.
The greate,lt demand is for tractor
operators and balers in the alfalfa
fiel6s, he said.
His report for the month of
March, just released, indicated
5000 men, $50 women and 224 boys
and girls under l8 were employed d
as seasonal workers. Year-around
workers tCtaled 1910 and some
1000 farmers and their families
were employed, making a total for
the month of 12,484 which includes
$1,000 shed workers.
During March LOT agricultural
workers were given temporary re-
leases for non-agricultural work to
relieve shortages in construction
and other work.
Garrigues reported that his Of
flee had conducted investigations
of 239 agricultural workers on
whom information was supplied for
use by Selective Service in deter
mining draft status.
He said that $500 migratory
workers left the valley for other
produce areas in March.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Dairy Leader
Scores u. 5.
Price Set.up

CHICAGO, April II. CUP)-Owen
NJ Richards, manager of the Amer
ican Dairy association, charged
Tuesday that home markets for
dairy products, developed through
years of effort, have been destroyed
in months by "vacillating price CELL
ings" and other government policies
The result is, he told a national
postwar mobilization rally for the
dairy industry, that the industry is
threatened with an annual surplus
ranging from 10 to Is billion pounds
of milk after the end of the war
reduces lend-leaSe, foreign relief,
and military demands.
Despite a domestic shortage ma
tional production now approximateS
000,000,000 pounds of milk an
nually compared with an average of
around ,COO,0O0,00O pounds be-
fore the war, he said.
Richards urged that dairymen
'do for ourselves instead of de-
pending on government aid, and
find new outlets for dairy products
instead of ourtail;ng production.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

Cities
Ballot
Elections Hit
An-Time
High for Lass

AS election boards and
candidates in seven Imperial
county incorporated cities
looked over the poll books and
computed the number OF check offs
of ballots Tuesday afternoon, it was
conceded that adding machines
would not be needed to tally the
vote. Predictions of a quiet elec-
ton" were borne out as time ap-
preached for closing the ballot boxes
and in many voting places it ap-
peared the election would be about
the record for light voting.
A canvass of some of the larger
voting precincts in afternoon,
among them three in Ell Centre,
showed only a sprinkling of votes
had been cast. At the court house
in Ell Centre, at that hour only SO
ballots haG been cast. At the City
hall the tally was SO while at
Harding school the count was 76.
Few contests contributed to the
lack of interest during the CAM
paign and this was reflected in the
vote cast. The most spirited tilts
were in El Centre, Westmorland
and Holtville Calipatria, CaleXico
and Imperial and Brawley voters
had to write-in if they used "sec-
Ond ticket"
Wherever contests occurred each
candidate was sure of winning
up to the last minute.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
BomberS Blast
Vital Points
Around Berlin
Great Fleet Of For+resses and
Fighters Meet Lille Nazi
Opposition in Vicious Raidino
LONDON, April II. (UP)

LONDON, April IL. lUP)
Very strong" forces of
American planes, up to 1000
heavy bombers and fighters, struck
one of the heaviest blows of the
pre-invasion offensive against Ger
many Tuesday, blasting aircraft
plants at Bernburg and Oschers-
leben on the approaches to Berlin.
The daylight attack followed by
a few hours the heaviest air assault
of the war, in which British night
raicers battered French and Bel
gian railway functions with more
than 4,032 short tons of bombs, an
all-time record.
One of the biggest United States
aerial fleets in action recently
plunged deep into Germany to
smash anew at plants supplying
the German air force and break I'D
repair work on prer:ous,y shattered
factories.
1000 BOMBERS
United States headquarters de-
scribeo the force of Flying Fortress
es and Liberators as very strong,
indicating it numbered we'll up to-
ward 1000 heavy bombers. The
shepherding formations of fighters
were in comparable strength.
Among the targets attacked were
Bernburg, IS miles southwest of
Berlin, and Oschersleben, Is miles
to the northwest and IS miles from
the German capital.
The weather was clear over Ger
many, permitting visual pin-point
bombing, and the massed raiders
left towering columns of smoke to
mark the sites where the targets
had stood.
Crewmen of the first Liberators
returning from Germany said re-
sistance was feeble. Nazi fighters
stabbed sporadically at the Ameri-
cans over long section of their
flight, but each pass was brief.
The German airmen seemed
more anxious to find safety from
the swarms of escorting fighters
than to mix with the bombers, the
Liberator crews reported.
HEAVY BARRAGE
German ground gunners threw
up heavy barrage through which
the big bombers flew in perfect
formation five miles above the
Reich.
Nazi radio propagandists report
ed violent air battles between Amer
lean and German planes, and
claimed that a number of Fortress
es were forced down in the Spree
valid area some SO miles south
east of Berlin.
Six Flying ,Fortresses landed in
Continued on Page s, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Tornudoes Cause II Deaths
I'm Central States Area

less after floods at El Reno, King
fisher, Bartlesville and Pawhuska.
Twisters also hit at Lenopah and
Sapulpa, Okla. A tornado hit Ho-
bart, injuring at least six persons.
The Arkansas tornadoes struck
from Harrison in the extreme
northern part of the state, to Mag
nolia, almost in the Louisiana bor-
der. Mrs. Marion Ward, mother OF
an hour-old-b baby, was killed at
Harrison.
TOWN WIPED OUT
Three persons were killed at
Shilo, near Batesville, when the
small town was practically destroy
ed. Two persons were killed near
Woodson and two near Pine Bluff.
Fifteen persons were reported in
jured at a conscientious objectors
camp two miles north of Magnolia.
The tornadoes and heavy rains
were accompanied by electrical
storms.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

Visits
Says Downey
Failed to
Project State

"It is important that we
prevent ratification of the
treaty giving additional Col
orado river water to Mexico be-
cause its ratification by the United
States senate would endanger the
agricultural and industrial future
of the entire southwest" Lieuten-
ant Governor Frederick F. Houser
said in Ell Centro Tuesday while
furthering his campaign for the
United States senate.
Houser arrived in Ell Centre Tues
day morning for a conference with
constituents, spoke at joint XII
wants. Rotary luncheon in Brawley
at noon, conferred with friends in
various cities in TIE county in the
afternoon, and was scheduled as
the main speaker at meeting
sponsored tv the Ell Centro Pro-
America unit IN Ell Centro Tuesday
night.
SEES GRAVE DANGER
The lieutenant governor declar-
ed that he realized Imperial county
and all southern California are en-
dangered by the Colorado river
water treaty along with the other
basin states from the standpoint
of future development and from the
standpoint of the millions OF DOL
lars they have invested to insure
use of Colorado river water.
"In my opinion" Houser said,
"the fact that the treaty was not
Knocked out in the state depart
ment is the responsibility Of Sem
ator Sheridan DoWney. 1t would
have been easy to smother treaty
while it still was in the state de-
partment. Downey is working to
prevent ratification of the treaty
now but that is like raising the
alarm after the horse has escaped
through the unlocked stable door.
Downey neglected to lock the door.
There are three possible reasons
for the state departments action
regarding the treaty. 1-Over-an-
xiety to further the good neighbor
policy. 2-The state department
knows nothing of the Colorado river.
California was sold out for the
benefit of the Rio Grande valley"
OUTLINES VIEWS
Houser said he advocated: /
Need to carry the war through to
a finish so that Japan is relegated
to the position of a third rate
power. If we don't there will be
another war on the Pacific coast in
20 years with Japan using her
Continued on Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

All other men unGer 26 employed
in industry are subject to immed-
late draft.
Under present regulations, only
state directors and national head
quarters are authorized to recon-
mend Geferment in the 1926 age
group. Hershey, however, has auth
oriZed blanket deferment for per-
sonnel of the merchant marine and
the army transportation corps.
FARM DEFERMENTS
The 100000 agriculturally defer
red registrants under 26 are not
affected by the order because their
Ceferments are subject to the pro-
visions of the Tydings amendment
to the selective service act which
provides that they must be neces-
sary to, regularly engaged in and
irreplaceable in essential agricul-
tural work.
The inter-agency committee, un-
der War ManpoWer Chairman Paul
v. McNutt, which drew up the
new deferment list was meeting
Tuesday to study deferment quotas
for specific plants.
CLASSIFIES ORDER
Hershey listed the following nom
agricultural activities which are
deemed critical enough to warrant
continued deferment of relatively
small number of men in the 1925
age group: -.s, ,4-.- ~. q. e s
/. Synthetic rubber production
and certain related rubber pro-
grams.
2. Army service forces programs
inclucing the production of am
phibious ducks, rockets, radar, crit
ical components for trucks, and
special research and development
work.
3. Specified aircraft items for
the army air forces.
4. Landing craft, rockets, sub
marines, aircraft carriers, high
capacity ammunition, radar, speci-
fled aircraft, ships and aircraft
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

Although carrot tying and pack
ing is reported the largect vege-
table activity in the valley this
week due to market conditions
many growers are net harvesting
their crops resulting in consider
able unemployment for tiers who
work only a few days week.
George Garrigues, farm labor
director, stated that employment
figures showed only ITO drop over
the previous week, but the uncert-
ainty of the carrot situation indi-
Gates periods of larger unemploy-
ment.
Workers totaling 3190 were re-
ported in the carrot fields and
sheds last week.
Melon hoeing and thinning en-
ployed 900 last week and is rs Fer
cent complete. Tie alfalfa harvest
is 8 percent complete employing
nearly 1000 men. A need for 1923
at the seasons peak is indicated
he said
The total seasonal workers en-
ployed in the valley is now 1890
as compared to the previous week
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Navy to Take
Famed Hotel

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, April
II. CUP)-The navy Tuesday filed
federal court action requesting
Owners Joseph NJ Shenck and Jay
Paley to vacate the luxurious Ar
rowhead Springs hotel by May l,
when it will be converted into con-
valescent hospital.
Accommodations are planned for
$50 enlisted men and so officers
who have been in action, Admiral
George c. Thomas, 18th Naval dis
trict medical officer, said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Russian Drive
Sweeps Into
Crimea Sector

LONDON, April IL. (UP)-Rus-
sian troops have captured the
German stronghold of Kerch. on
the eastern end of the Crimean
peninsula, Permier Josef Stain
announced in a second order of
the cay Tuesday.
LONDON, April 1l-UP'-Gen.
Fedor I. Tolbukhin's fourth army
of the Ukraine has captured
Dzhankoi, railroad junction ccm-
manding all of the northern
Crimea, in a whilrwind campaign
sweeping 81 miles deep into the
Black sea peninsula in four days,
Moscow announced Tuesday.
Another fourth army column
crashed through the formidable
German 6efenseS astride the Pere-
kop Isthmus linking the Crimea
with the mainland and drove
through Armyansk into the PEN
insula, Premier Josef Stain said in
an order of the day. .-...
Tolbukhin's Campaign to wrest
the Crimea from the 100000 OF
more Axis troops stranded there
since the Russians sealed off the
diamond-shaped Black sea penin-
sula last No.ember was developing
at sensational speed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

state. A twister hit the Liberal,
Kan, army air base Sunday night,
causing an estimated $62,500 DAM
age to installations. There were
no casualties reported in Kansas.
HEAVY RAINS
The central section of the coun-
try was drenched by heavy rains
extending from Iowa and Illinois
southwark. Traces of snow were
reported at Omaha and Grand Is
land, Neb.
Four inches of rain fell at War;
saw, Mo-, and the remainder of the
state reported a general two-inch
rain
Cairo, ILL.,, reported 3.79 inches
of rain. Terre Haute, Ind, had 2.19
inches of rain. Flood conditions
were pree icted along the Illinois
and Missouri rivers.
The Red Cross sent disaster re-
lief workers to Oklahoma where
more than 100 families were home
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Bossy Protests
Hamburger Trip

LOS ANGELES, April IL. (UP)-
She's just so many red points now,
but a 1,200-pound range COW had
a lot of fun Monday night in two
hour fling before starting the last
mile to the packing house.
The white-faced bossy burst out
of truck taking her to the ham,
burger factory, charged pedestrians,
trucks, and deputy sheriffs.
One sheli4I went to the hospital
with an injured hip, suffered when
he fell from a pile of lumber while
trying to lassoo the charging critter.
Finally unable to run without fac
ing a maze of improvised lariats,
the COW was shared, hog-tied, and
hauled away valiant loser.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Sen. Tenney Eyes
Votes in County

State Senator Jack B. Tenney of
Los Angeles is in Imperial Valley
furthering his candidacy for the
office of United States senator in
the May l6 primaries.
A former resident of Calexico
five years he is making his head
quarters at the hotel there while
in the valley.
Candidate for both the Republi-
can and Democratic nominations he
condemns the record of Sheridan
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Hughes Marks
82nd Birthday

WASHINGTON, April II. (UP)-
Charles Evar Hughes, who retired
in l94l as chief justice of the su-
preme court, celebrated his 82nd
birthday anniversary Tuesday.
"I am as we'll as can be reason
ably expected at my time OF lie,
Hughes said. II still cherish the
privileges of old age. 1 am living
quietly and trying to be as cheerful
as possible in this war-torn world.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Guardsn,en Return
From School

StaI. Sergeant Ben Glilbero OF
the headquarters detachment OF
the California State Guard in I'M
perial county and First Sergeant
Ernest Ellis of C company in CAL
exico recently returned to Imperial
Valley after attending State Guard
school for non-commissioned Off
GERS.
This school will be moved to Los
Angeles soon so that more SOUTH
ern California guardsmen may take
the course which runs approximate
ly two weeks. Col. Spooner, Major
Worthington and a staff OF eight
regular army officers will teach
the classes in the Los Angeles ses-
sions.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Grain Growers
Wait Meeting

Imperial grain growers will meet
in Brawley Saturday night for the
twenty second anniversary of
their founo;..g anG their annual
election of Officers.
A banquet this year will be selv-
ed in the Elks hall at 7:30 pm.
j. R. Garvey, manager OF the
Los Angeles office OF the associa-
ton, will discuss the grain out
look for the coming season and
give the growers his ideas on the
market situation, it was announced
Tuesday by George Buffers, presi-
dent of the association.
The total association member
ship this year is 563.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
d AMBlINe
EpoRTER
Modern Transportation

At the height of the big wind last
Saturday afternoon three grammar
school youngsters proved that they
knew how to solve transportation
problems. .,,,,,
All three were in coaster wagon
going down Ross avenue. One was
steering, one rode as passenger. and
the other was holding tWo-foot
square of canvas as sail. The wind
did the rest.
No gas tickets needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

DoWney, incumbent.
THE miserable record of Sheri-
dan Downey during his term in
Washington is perhaps better known
to the residents of Imperial Valley
than to the people of other parts
of the state" Tenney, author of the
ballad "Mexicali Rose, saie. Dow
ney's lack of representation of
California in the United States
senate is now well known" he as
serted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
"4.F" Tablets
Boomerang

LOS ANGELES, April IL, (UPl
Amos Roe Beaman, drug manu-
facturer, was free Tuesday In
$4,000 bail pending grand jury
action on charges OF selling Az"
tablets.
Beanman allegedly told pur-
chasers seeking to avoid army m
duction that his tablets would
cause rapid pulse. flushing, dizzi-
ness, and nervousness.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Cotton Mills
Go Overtime

WASHINGTON, April II. up
The cotton textile industry was or
dered Tuesday to go on a 48-hour
working week starting May IA to
combat growing manpower shortages
threatening the industrys 1914 pro-
duction schedules.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
u. s. SEXES Four
More Jap AtoIls

ton for further assaults on Japan's
diminishing island empire.
U. S. naval and ground forces
now have established American
sovereignty over total of 10 bases
in the Marshall group, which the
enemy fortified illegally under
league of nations mandate.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Pearl Harbor, April IL. CUP)
Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced Tuesday United States
forces occupied four additional
atolls and one isle in the MarshallS,
strengthening the American posi-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Knox Scans CourtmurtiuI
Case Of kimmeI, Short

ceedings but this extension expires
June 7. Knox said he wanted to
determine whether the June 7 date
is the deadline for the filing Of
charges and specifications against
the officers. He promised TO pro-
vice a Qualification soon.
Knox pointed out that both men
signed waiver on their trial until
war conditions permit.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

the pending court martial pro-
ceedings against Rear Admiral
Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen.
Walter c. Short, commanders in
the Pacific when Pearl Harbor was
attacked.
Congress voted a six months
extension for the initiation of pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11

WASHINGTON, April H..
(UP)-Secretary of the Ma
Wy Frank Knox said Tuesday
he was going to ask a ruling from
the attorney general and from the
judge advocate general of the navy
to clarity certain legal phases of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
2000 u. S. PLANES HAMMER GERMANY
Hershey Reveals
Deferment Plan
Under New Rules

WASHINGTON, April II. (UP)-Maj. Gen. Lewis
b. Hershey seectve service director Tuesday authorized
state directors recommend defermens for certain regis
trants 26 who employed in Ia vital industrial
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Dear Brother

Dear Brother
When Frank Weakley left for
the service, the whole family de-
cided to write train letters SO he
would have something to read en-
route. His small brother, the red
haired little rascal, David, dashed
off this contribution to the family
collection:
The time has come the walrus
Chats mel said
To talk of many things Chats you)
Continued on Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
Framed Again!

Tom Finney was in hurrmy.
g. At least one would judge SO after
q look at the remains of the screen
door hanging on the employment
office where Finney holds forth. 1t
looks as though a Kansas tornado
had passed that way.
Carrying a big box, Finney hur-
ried toward the door. He kicked at
the door to ope nit. The next thing
he knew he was imbedded in the
screen like fly caught in spider
web.
Jitterbugging, Tom?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-11
WEATHER

Maximum Monday "a, minimum
Tuesday "A; am. Tuesday SO, hu-
midity 81; noon Tuesday 80, humid
ity 20; pm. Mon. 79, humidity 10.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

ago, some of their underground
homes were eXcavated in Hun ~
and parts of Central Europe.
Racial memories of the age of
giants are TO be found in ancient
literature, such as the hair-raising
account of Ulysses adventure with
the one-eyed giant Polyphemus. The
Titans, too, a husky and aggressive
gang of giants, always put up
terrible battle.
THE AMERICAN WUEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

A T. LAST science has proved
~ what it long suspected-that
v those fairy tale giants really
and truly did exist, "once upon a
time" The time was more than a
half million years ago and they were
not occasional freaks, like the circus
giant, or Goliath of the Bible.
T hesc twolegged powerhouseS
were the normal type for their day.
Gigantopithecus, whose early ex
istcnce recently was reported by Dr.
Franz Weidcnreich of the New York
Museum OF Natural History dis
coverer Of the giant with DR.. r. Won
Eoenigswald of the Geological Survey
Of Netherlands Indies = averaged
seven 10 nine feet tall, weighed 500 TO
600 pounds and had teeth six times
the size OF modern mans and twice
that of gorilla. 1t is possible that
an diversified GigantopithecuS- may
have stood II feet tall and weighed
at least half ton.
The most startling implication is
that when the evidence is all in he
may not be the all-time human heavy.
weight, but merely middleweight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

off all the food animals slow enough
for such heavy person TO club. Any
how, man became smaller. lighter
and quicker.
Between 100000 and 100000 years
ago there was Meganthropus Of Java
still a giant but weighing only 400
pounds. Even smaller and lighter
though still a pnNcrhouSer -NsaS- the
man who next lived i'm caves of Java
and Southern China and used fire
A mere 100000 years ago was
Java's Nandoeg Man, with another
marked reduction in size. Then G.;
the Wadjah Man OF Java. COMPARE
with the Neanderthal Man of Europe
All this time, as the body Shrank
the skull grew, indicating an ever
bigger brain Obviously, intelligence
was replacing mere size and the
happy conclusion was drawn that
man would continue TO become ever
more intelligent.
Unfortunately, this is not true
Modern mans brain has started Ia
shrink. His brain.casc averages
smaller than that OF the Gro. Magnor
Men, who lived in Europe al the be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

Finally in 1941, a jawbone was
found in Java. unquestionably human,
but of such gigantic size that il could
have held those giant" teeth. There
had been many other scraps of evil
dence since Eugene Dubois, in 1891
1894, discovered the jawbones and
skull pieces OF the socalled missing
link, the ape man of Java Now pieces
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17
illustrated london News

Gigantopithecus could swing such
a heavy club that il would crush the
tigers skull as it sprang. beat down
the guard of the bear and brain him.
Those enormous teeth were unlose-
able and almost unbreakable tools.
not only for mastication but for
gnawing off the limb for a club.
He was perfect for his environment
then the environment changed
Perhaps he did it himself, by killing