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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
Strike Ties up
Motor Frei 9ht

the Interstate Motor Lines and the
Pacific Intermountain Express COM
pany joined the strike at Salt Lake
City and truckline officials said
the only possible rou'ings for coast
bound freight were through Seattle
Oh alcng the southern route to Los
Angeles.
H. l.. Woxberg, Los Angeles, agent
for the international teamsters
union said Las night that "if the
Continued on Page 8, col y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
House Committee
Demands Probe
OF Store Grab /.

WASHINGTON, April 20. (UP)-
The house rules committee after
a stormy hearing Friday approved
resolution by Representative
Charles S. Dewey, G1D, Illinois, for
congressional investigation of the
seizure of the Montgomery Ward
and company
A coalition of Democratic and
Republican members overrode Wig
orouS efforts of Chairman Adolph
Sabath, DD, Illinois, and other
administration supporters to pre-
vent consideration of the reSolu-
tion for the time being.
DeWey's supporters demanded that
the investigation be carried out ito
find out whether the constitution
and the bill of rights still prevail
and warned that if seizure of Mont
gomery Ward was justified, ANY
small country store in any hamlet
Of this country right be seized by
the government.
STIRS INDIGNATION
President Roosevelt's action in
taking over the Chicago mail order
establishment appeared to have
aroused more cohesive opposition
among Republicans and conserva-
tive Democrats than any other ad-
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
Dewey Calls for Grouping
Of Powers to Keep Peace

proposed three fundamental prin-
ciples for U. S. foreign policy, which
he said would command the sup
port CT the American public. He
listed them as:
ITO carry on the war to total
crushing victory, and in so doing
drive home to the aggressor nations
a lesson that will never be forgot
ten;
ITO organize in cooperation with
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28

BOISE, Ia, April 28. CUP)-With
motor freight traffic between Den
yer and the west coast paralyzed
by the AFL teamster tie-up which
started here last Friday, the two
factions were lining up today in a
effort to reach settlement favor
able to their interests.
The major portion of transcon-
tiental freight routed through
Idaho and Utah came TO a stand
still yesterday when employees OF
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28

SACRAMENTO, April 90. (UP)-
The board of directors of the Leagui
of California Cities Friday sough
from federal officials policy OF
allowing state selective service to.
interfere in the draft of men from
critical areas of war industry con-
centration with the warning thai
if present and projected draft poll
cies are followed police and fire
departments in some areas will bt
rendered completely ineffective
In kilograms sent Thursday nighl
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
Cattle Feeder
Carrots Move

First shipments OF Imperial VAL
ley carrots to cattle feeders in the
Los Angeles milk shed rolled coast
ward Friday.
The growers will be paid $40
ton roadside, tops and all, for the
surplus carrot crop this year The
arrangements for the sale were
made made by the war food ad-
ministration to get rid of the surplus
and relieve a livestock feed short
age in the Los Angeles area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
STTRS INDIGNATION
Veterans Advised
On Job Insurance

SACRAMENTO, April %. (UP)-
The California employment stabili-
Zation commission Friday reminded
veterans of the present war who
earned $500 or more prior to their
induction in industries covered by
the unemployment compensation
laws that they are eligible for un-
employment insurance. The COM
mission said it is distributing a
pamphlet outlining veterans insur-
ance rights.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
WLB Orders Pact
On Merit Paw

LOS ANGELES, April %. (UP)-
Douglas Aircraft company and the
UAW-CIO, certified representative
at the Vernon plant, Friday were
ordered by the Tenth regional war
labor board to settle their disagree
ments over the companys point
rating system for merit pay in
creaSes within 10 days.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28

other nations a structure of peace
backed by adequate force to pre-
vent future wars:
ITO establish and maintain In
our relations with ether nations
conditions calculated to promote
worldwide economic stability not
only for the sake of the world but
also to the end that our own people
may enjoy high level of employ
ment in an increasingly prosper
Gus world"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
SACRAMENTO, April 20.

SACRAMENTO, April %.
(UP) - Gov. Earl Warren
Friday announced appoint
ments to a new adult authority
which will handle parole and par
don affairs under a prison system
reorganization effective Monday and
disclosed that present permanent
heads of state penal institutions
will be retained.
Appointed to the adult authority
were Walter A. Gordon, Negro at
torney of Berkeley and member
of the board of prison terms and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28

Appointment of Richard A. Nc
Gee, former director of public in
stitutionS for the state of Wash
ington, as director of corrections
and overall chief of the California
prison system was announced last
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
Droft PIdns Hit
Firemen, Police

o Paul V. McNutt, director OF the
var manpower commission, and
Major General Lewis B. Hershey.
aaional director of selectiye service.
he board declared the present pol
ICY OF revoking nearly all defer
nents for men under 26 will cut
)olice and fire department per-
;onnel In California 10 per cent.
II the same policy is followed IN
he 26 to 29-year age group, the
elegrams declared. from 80 10 30
Der cent of the firemen and police
IN cities Of the state will be lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
Fifteen Perish
In Shin Fire

: NORFOLK, Va April 20. tUP'--
Fifteen civilian workers were listed
as dead Friday and 20 others as
injured as result of a fire which
swept through the hold OF a naval
vessel at the Norfolk navy yard
last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
Ward Asks Court
10 Void Seizure

CHICAGO, April 28 (UP)-Counse for Montgomery
Ward and company to federal court Friday to seek
dissolution of temporary injunction restraining company
officers from interfering with the governments operation
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-28
y AMBlINe
EpoRTER

INuii oaiu
THAT wss ii COCO speech Leon
Miller said 10 Viggo Hansen after
Hansen had delivered a WOW of a
irlk at Toastmastels club, but
you've get one habit you should
1 get rid Of"
"What is that" Hansen asked.
"Well,' said Miller, going on with
his duties as general critic. i
notice you always button up your
coat after you get up 10 make a
speech. You should button your
coat before you get up to make a
speech.
"When you get like 1 am Han
sen said with sad look down at
the bulge, you can't button your
coat until you d. ttand up"
Lonesome Blue;
Herb Fawcett was excited about
going to New York City on busi-
ness. You know . bright lights
and everything.
Before he left Ell Centro Faw-
cett had ARRANGED for a ride home
He did not finish his business, how
ever, until it was too late to take
the ride. Now he can't get reser-
vations home until May 5.
And is he hcmesick He's prac-
tically pining away He's blue. Hes
morose. He's despondent. And be-
sides that he has important meet
ings scheduled before May S.
These country boys should stay
cut of big cities. The pace is toe
fast for them.
II Could BE
Two Negroes were talking about
the war while they were doing a
little yard work at an Ell Centre
home.
The war is going to be oV,'
Continued on Pc. 8, Col. A.
Evening star., 1944-12-06
The Sun and Moon,
~ VI cAilGS u
Precipi tior

Monthly precipitation in inches in ths
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1944-12-06
WlB UphoIds Order
10 Dismiss Workers
Who Left Clio Union
Py the Assoriated prsss

kS the ASsoclAted Press.
The War Labor Boards Ship
building Commission has upheld an
arbitrator's ruling that "a shipyard
workers should be discharged under
a maintenance of union member
ship provision. although they still
pay dues.
The "a workers are employees of
the Bethlehem-Fair Shipyards,
Baltimore, where CIO Industrial
Union of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers has a maintenance of men,
bership and dues checkoh provision
in its contract with the company.
The commissions ruling, con-
CURED in by industry members, In
effect declares that maintaining
membership in good standing" In
a union involves more than -nere
payment of union dues. The -
employees, who had quit the union
and were expelled, still paid their
dues because the company continued
to check the amounts from their
pay.
The industry representatives said
that since the board originally had
granted union security the order
should be supported unanimously.
Evening star., 1944-12-06
$4,000 Nurses Needed
By Armed Services

The need for 10000 more Army
nurses and 1000 more Navy nurses
was emphasized today at a meeting
Of the national committee of the
Red Cross Nursing Service by Miss
Virginia Dunbar, director Of the
service.
Nurses must be brought to un-
derstand." she said, that the situa-
ton is critical because of the large
number of casualties on all fronts. -
Some Army medical units have
been forced to go overseas without
nurses, Miss Dunbar said. Hospitals
in this country are operating with
Evening star., 1944-12-06

Other speakers viii be Col. Florence
Blanchheld. superintendent OF the
Army Nurse Corps, and Capt. Sue
Dauser, superintendent of the Navy
Nurse Corps, members of the COM
mittee.
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one nurse to every "a patients, she
added.
Basil O'Connor. chairman of the
American Red Cross, also was ex-
pected to address the all-day con-
ference at the Washington Hotel.
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Father Ryan to Broadcast

God Prepares for Christmas" will
be the subject of an address by the
Rev. Gerald A. Ryan over Station
WWDC at 8 pm. tomorrow on the
Catholic Radio Hour from the
Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton. There will be special music.
Evening star., 1944-12-06
Weather Report

District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia Considerable cloudi-
ness with temperature rising to
about so this afternoon Mostly
cloudy and not so cold tonight, with
low near 37 Cloudy with moderate
temperature and rain beginning
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-12-06
River Report

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls.
Report for Last ID Uourx
Evening star., 1944-12-06

Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast
Geodetic Survey
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BRITISH TIGHTEN
=. MOOSE ON FAENzA
Troops Seize San Prospero
:. On West Bank Of The
:: Lamone River
Rv holland NORGAARD

ROME, Dec. o. lR "A noos'
was steadily being frightened abou
Ahe northern Italian highway coast
1T noint of Faenza today by Brit
.ish Eighth army forces in bitter
fighting.
i Already as much as five miles
lbeyond the Lamone river, the
3town's water barrier on the south,
iAhe British seized San Prospero on
1.-The west bank only mile south
west of Faenza. :,
!. A parallel column, beating back
steady resistance, fought to a
spur less than a mile south OF
tCelle, two miles west of Faenza
and only mile from highway nine
running northwest to Bologna.
The withdrawing Germans,
fighting back hard to protect their
flank, recaptured yesterday the
!, village of Pideura, across t h e
Lamone from Faenza for about 13
I miles northeastward and Allied ar
tillery was blazing away at stout
1y entrenched machine-gun and
mortar positions across the
stream. - --.....
Eighth army patrols along the
Adriatic reported an area from
/, three to five miles north Of Raven
ma now clear of the enemy.
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Reports Show l1uo lima
Attacks Set New Record

/, that the other 30 per cent dlon 40
damage. because Two is pretty
densely covered with installations
of all kinds.
1.-THE results appeared good de-
spite a thick cloud cover. The best
part is that the attack cost nothing
except time, fuel and the bombs
used. We lost no aircraft or per-
sonnet and none of the planes
was damaged"
Harmon disclosed h t the
arny's forward air command set
up in the Pacific, commanded by
Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, has been
replaced by a new task force call
ed "Comstratair" The abbrevia-
ton means command strategical
air forces. q
The new organization is com.
manded by Harmon and embraces
all land-based units in this area
that can be used or long-range Of
offensive operations. These include
medium bombers and long-range
fighters. -
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rather firmly f;xed by the time the
world security organization plan.
ned at Dumbarton Oaks begins to
function.
That fact makes the big-three
meeting more important than ever,
and puts new emphasis on inter.
national actions outside the peace
agency framework.
Russia has sought TO- take over
territory which she calls right
fully hers-eastern Poland, Lithu
ania. Latvia and Estonia and tt
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CHINESE RETAKE
RAILROAD TOWN

CHUNGKING, Dec. 9.-lR-The
Chinese counteroffensive in Kwei
chow province has recaptured the
railway town of Shangsu in an 18
mile advance from Tuhsan, thu.
almost completing the task O.
hurting the Japanese back int
Kwangsi province. the Chinese
high command disclosed today.
The pursuit southwark is contin
uing, the Chinese said, and tn,
new war minister, General Cher
Cheng, declared "the crisis il
Kweichow is passing, but we mus
be prepared for a resumption Of
the enemy offensive"
Shangssu is 81 miles southeast O.
Kweiyang, Kweichow's capital, ane
less than five. miles from the
Kwangsi border. Previously the
Chinese had hurled another Japa
nese column back to the KWangs
border farther east.
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Remember the babies at Christ-
mas, with stuffed toys and plakie
toys. teddy bears, lambs ieep.
ooats, chlnelle dolls, and tini-tot'
bean bags. aac "a a az
800 to 1896
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By MORRIE LANDSBERG

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8.
-(P)-The mightiest warship and
plane blow yet to crash down on a
japanese base-the Dec. 7 Gu. S.
time) attempt to eliminate Two
lima as an intervening menace to
the BIOS now raiding Tokyo-was
expanded by new Navy reports to-
day.
A communique today said navy
search planes, in the face OF in
tense enemy anti-aircraft fire, flew
low to bomb airstrip installations
at Two Jima, which is in the BONN
islands area $50 miles from Tokyo
and about an equal distance north
of the B-29 base on Saipan.
Previously official and spokes-
man reports had told of more than
100 Liberator bosnbers and per-
haps as many as 70 Superfortresses
B-29s), escorted by long range
Lightnings, pouring down an estl-
mated 900 tons of bombs on Two
Jirna during the day. The reports
also told of a naval task force
heavily Smelling the island with the
aid to aerial spoilers.
Today's communicate did not
specify whether the Navy search
planes preceded or followed up the
bombers and warships.
(Mention of the heavy anti-air-
craft might indicate the search
planes went in first inasmuch as
ack ack was reduced to almost the
vanishing point during the heavier
assaults.
One Navy search plane was dam
aged, the communique said. All
returned safely.
The communicate also reported
raids Dec. on Pagan and Rota,
enemy bases in the Marianas close
to Saipan.
At the B-29 base on Saipan, 1t.
Gen. Willard F. Harmon, comman-
der Of the army air forces in the
Pacific ocean areas, said the Two
lima attack was just a curtain
raiser and that although the re-
suits appeared good 'we definitely
are not happy about the overall
result because the weather proved
a handicap.
Roughly. 20 per cent of the
bombs landed in the target area, !"
he said. But that doesn't mean
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matte officials over Britain's in
tervention In Italy and Greece is
mild compared to their anxiety ov-
er the possibility Of some Russian
move in Poland which would show
up as great power domination so
far-reaching as to wreck finally
the chances for a peaceful settle
ment.
There is a growing impression
here that much of the pattern Of
Europe's future will be developed
during the present winter and be
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THIRD ARMY CLASHES
DEEPER INTO FORTS
AROUND SAAR BASIN
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
army well before the end Of Win
ter.
With the British and Canadians
in Holland and the U. S. First
and Ninth armies at the edge of
the Cologne plain stabilized for the
moment by weather and flooded
rver barriers, action centered on
the fronts of the U. S. Third and
Seventh and French First armies.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third army 35th division pushed
about half mile east in extending
!, to mile its bridgeheads on the
east bank of the Saar river at
/: Sarreguemines and at Dieding and
Wittring, three and five miles
southeast.
Northwest of Saarlautern, the
S0th division knocked back
strong counterattack at Dillingen
!, and knocked out IL more pillboxes
in a slow gouging into the Sieg-
fried line, the last big barrier be-
fore the Rhine
The German counterblow wa s
hurled by 600 infantry and II tanks
and fighting ragged from house to
house and wall to wall yesterday
before the Germans give UP and
withdrew from the city.
Fighting Into aarlautern
Fighting still was in progress in
side Saarlautern, and a German
force massing for a counteratsack
against the Saar bridgehead there
Both the 95th division here and
was broken up by artillery fire.
the Goth to the north were under
heavy fire from the Siegfried line.
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patc's
Seventh army, using surprise tao.
tics similar to the Third, fought
into Bischwiller four and a hall
/ miles from the Rhine north Of
,Strasbourg, jumping off before
dawn in double development at
tack without artillery preparation
If you want to stop having colds
60 to one Of the earth's poles, anc
you'll be free Of them.
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Like. She has nane,,vsr,.
pro-Russian government e0 % get
DER countries and friendly l go,. Dor
ments elsewhere in ~ govern.
tain has sought to msin ope, Br.
ou'posts of empire in sera her
PAGES [,, IKE Greece and Itslv 1r ,ss 4
flank the Mediterranean 50. Which
,;o There Z: are a; q Baptist denor;,.
lions in the United States, ''0'nln''
- Bermuda e11 n is SIT miles sout5....
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CLASHCLEARS AIR
FOR COMING FARLEY
Continued from Pare One,

Continued from Pare One)
by the great powers. 1t is regard.
ed as fundamental to President
Roosevelt's dealings with stanr
and Churchill that this should b
known and understood abroad.
| Concern among American diplo
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There is no railway in Iceland,
although it has a normal popula-
ton of 10000.
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The muskrat brings the greatest
financial return of any single fur
bearer in the United States, figur-
ing total receipts.
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II you want to stop having colds
60 to one OF the earth's poles, and
you'll be free Of them.
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RENTS CUT FOR TWO
SECTIONS OF VILLAGE
Continued from Page One)

section but has consistently gained
i in the Worth section.
!. All the other housing managed
{ by the local Authority is substan-
/ TALLY occupied except for 129
4 dormitory rooms out of the 256 in
! Maffitt Village, it was said.
A.. A great majority of all the
housing in Maffitt Village is &C.
cupied by employees of the North
& Carolina Shipbuilding company.
HI, No rent changes are contemplate
led on any Housing Authority
!. houses except those in the Raleigh
!. and Worth areas, it was said. On
la part of the Worth section, con-
,::sisting ct heated war apartments,
the present rentals will remain I'M
I :changed.
1. The Housing Authority in state
ment said that these changes are
!, in no respect to be construed as a
!: competitive measure designed to
take tenants away from privately
owned housing. No tenant salts
! ]]factorily housed in privately own
led accommodations will be ac-
cepted as a tenant in any house
agoperated by the Authority. The
adjustments are intended instead
1; to bring the rents on the affected
!. units to comparable basis with
\ other housing operated by us. We
!. feel that tenants in these two Sec
iitions have been paying relatively
more than our other tenants, and
/ we wanted to correct this situa-
lion"
\ The old and new rentals in these
!. two sections are as follows:
Y! Raleigh Section: unfinished
= units:
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Talk by Senator Hatch
will Open MI. Vernon
Program February s

Senator Carl A. Hatch of New
Mexico will conduct discussions on
"A just and Durable Peace" at a
new School for Christian Living
series beginning next Sunday eve
ming, February 6, at Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Church. The series
will continue through March IL.
The program begins at 6 pm. with
a supper and variety program.
Study courses follow from 7 to 8
pm.
Other subjects will be: Postwar
Problems" DR.. Sidney B. Hall of
George Washington University;
Developing My Personality" Chap
lain Leighton E. Harrell, U. S. A.,
and Modern Use Of the Bible" the
Rev. Lloyd H. Snyder, jr., minister
OF education, and Amos N. Kirby,
superintendent of the adult division
Of the church school, both Of this
church.
All young people and young adults
are invited. There is no charge for
registration.
The Board Of Stewards will meet
at 8 pm. Wednesday.
A community program Of recrea-
ton will be featured from 7 to Q
pm. Open house will be held
Saturday at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Dr.. Douglass 10 Speak
Al Foundry Church

DR.. Paul r. Douglass, president Of
the American University, will
preach at Foundry Methodist
Church tomorrow at II a m. on "The
Refugee From Responsibility"
At 8 pm, the Rev. Preston L.
Peach, missionary, who spent rs
years in Malaga, will preach on
What Next in Southeastern Asia?'
He will also speak at 7 pm. in the
Ball Memorial Chapel on British
Rule and What It Has Done in Ma
laya." This will be preceded by a
fellowship at 6 pm.
At Z pm, in the Let's House, Paul
Keve will speak on Does 1t Pay to
Do What Is Right?" A fellowship
will be held at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
Father F|aherty 10 Open
Lourdes Novena Feb. ;

The Rev. Patrick Flaherty Of the
Vincentian Fathers will conduct the
annual Lourdes Novena at the Ma
tional Capital Grotto of Our Lady
OF Lourdes at the Immaculate Con-
ception Church from February to
II. He will preach every day at 7:45
pm. on "Lourdes and Bernadette. -
The shrine was erected by the
late Rev. Francis j.. Hurney, former
pastor Of the church in 1880. The
first novena was conducted in Febru-
ary 1881.
Father Flaherty will be the guest
speaker at the l2:15 mass tomor-
row.
Other masses will be at tbs, 8.15
9:f5, 10. 10:45 and 1880 am.
Evening star., 1944-01-29
'IRITUAL PSYCHIC SCIENCE CHURCF
REV MIA SPARkAAN
Spiritual Srtrnrr

REV. LOLA N. MILLER-MessaEe Service,
Med;' =, go R:m- assisted by mediums.
1320 n 81. NV. All reached.