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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
ALLIES BOMB GERNNANY'S ROCKET NESTS
kLRB Aid Refuses
Postponement
OF Ward Election
Union Would Put Off
In Big Chicago Store
Bargaining Ballot

CHICAGO May 3. (UP1-George
j. Bott regional director of the
national labor relations board, re-
fused Wednesday to grant a unicn
request for postponement OF
scheduled collective bargaining
election for employees of the Chi
cago plants of Montgomery Ward
and company.
Representatives of the United
Retail, Wholesale, and Department
Store Employees Union tCIOO had
asked the NLRB to delay the elec-
ton so tie union would have more
time to prepare for it. The NLRB
headquarters at Washington Tues
day ordered the election held
within seven days to determine If
the unicn represents majority OF
Wards Chicago employees.
THE union pro'e ested, but am
not going to extend the period
before the election without defi-
mite instructions from Washing
ton" Bott taid after a conference
with company and union officers.
II am not planning to ask WASH
ington for instructions. Unless
something untoward comes up, t."
election probably will be held Men
day"
However, Samuel Wolchok, in
ternational president of the union.
said he had asked the NLRB head
quarters at Washington to grant
the extension of time before the
election.
AS Bott conferred with the union
and company officials on the set
ting of the election date, union
representatives distributed to
Wards employees copies of the
union paper, THE Spotlight"
which announced that the union
intended tc sue Montgomery Ward
and company in an attempt to re-
gain wages lost by strikers during
a 13day strike which preceded the
governments seizure Of the Chi
cago plants.
Our attorney, Francis HeiSler
is filing suit against Montgomery
Ward for collection of all back pay
for the period CT tie strike the
paper said.
1t urged employees who partici-
pated in the rtrike to notify the
Hnion of how many days they were
not paid
WolchOk said the suit would be
filed within a few days. Leo Coed
man International representative of
the union, said it was the unions
contention that the national labor
relations act makes it possible for
striktrc to sue for back pay in
cases where tie strike was due to
unfair practices" He said there
were a number cf such suits on
court records.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
FbI Exonerates
Heber Man on
Raj! Tarnpering

SAN DIEGO, Calf. May 3. (UP)
Harold Nathan, local FBI head.
Wednesday said Andres o. Sanchez
had been cleared of sabotage
charges resulting from an asserted
witnesses vivid imagination, Sanchez
has been released from jail
The 47-year-old Heber rancher
had been jailed for an asserted at
tempt to wreck train April IL as
part Of plot to wreck Boulder
dam.
Investigation showed thu entire
story false. Nathan said.
Nathan said his investigation in
dicated that Sanchez was partly
the victim of another person with
a detective complex and a vivid
Imagination.
The other person. whose name
was withheld, also concOctcd tale
of dynamite being assembled below
the Mexican border for the wreck
ing of Boulder dam. Nathan said,
adding that his inquiry proved the
story false. No charges have been
filed against the other person, ac-
cording to Nathan.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Detective Kills
Negro Officer
In Phoenix Row

PHOENIX, AriZ., May 3. (UP)-
Detective Leonce T. Frenchy) Nav
arre is being held in the city Jail
pending a hearing for the fatal
shooting late Tuesca ay of David L.
johnson, 32-year-old Negro police
officer.
The shooting followed an argu-
ment concerning Navarre's running
a boulevard stop sign, according to
another Negro officer, Joe Davis,
who witnessed the shooting.
According to Navarro, Officer
called him a vile name and started
for his gun.
Il Cont take that from anyone"
the detective later told investigat-
ing officers, land I don't like TAX
ing it from a colored person."
Navarro said the argument en-
sued when johnson came up to him
and wanted to give a friend of his.
with whom he was talking, a ticket
for running the stop sign.
johnson was shot three times
through the body.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
youn9 Scientists Perfect
Chemical Quinine

a large scale, military sources were
hopeful that it will replace the
vast quinine- bearing cinchona tree
plantations in the Japanese-held
Netherlands East IndieS-once the
worlds chief sources of supply.
DISCOVERIES of the synthetic drug
were two 26-year-old scientists, DR..
William Won Eggers Doering, a ma
tive of Fort Worth, Tex, and a
Harvard graduate, and DR.. Robert
Burns Woodward, of Quincy, a
gra6 uate of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. They worked
ON the problem ID months.
Woodward was given full credit
for originating the plan for syn
thesizing the complex drug. AS in
Structor i'm organic chemistry at
Harvard Woodward, with Doering
as a collaboration, was engaged by
the Polaroid Corp, to find a syn
thetic suitable for use in the pro-
duction of light -polarizing material.
Previously, natural quinine, special
ly-treated and combined with other
materials, was uSsd.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Muchinist Strike
Ties up Ships

such work at the usual $l.20 an
hour new construction rate.
Work is at a standstill on an
other ship urgently needed by the
navy in spite of WLB order to
the machiniStS union to perform
this work" Rear Admiral Carleton
Wright, commander of the 18th
naval district, notified the navy
department in Washington.
The WLB order was directed
to CIO machilists local 1904 in
Oakland. Cal, and to 'AFL machin-
lists local 68 in San Francisco.
e. F.. Dillon, business agent of 10
cal SO. and James Smith, business
agent CT local 1924, said the final
decision on compliance with the
NWLB order would rest with the
members.
TIE WLB issued second order
Tuesday to machinists in San
Franci1co.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Committee Pushes
Imperial County
Postwar Planning
Organization Group
Outlines Program,
States Working Unit

Imperial county organizations TO
be represented on the postwar plan
ming committee were designated
Tuesday night by the preliminary
committee headed by Roy Womack
of Ell Centro.
The committee established the
basis of the county wide committees S
membership by naming Is groups,
cities and political subdivisions as
entitled to be represented in any
organized program of postwar de-
velcpment.
PLANS OUTLINED
Under the proposed plan busi-
nessman or city official will be
appointed to the committee from
each of the county's II commune
ties by either the city council OR
the local chamber of commerce.
This will account for one man from
each CT the following: BraWley, Ell
Centre, Calexico, Holtville, Impe-
rial, Calipatria, inland, WestmOr-
land, Seeley, Heber and Bard Win
terhaven.
The board of supervisrs will be
represented by one member. Each
supervisor is asked to select one
farmer from each district, of which
there are five, to be a member of
the committee.
. Other county organizations which
will be entitled to a membership
of one representative are: Farm
bureau, American Legion, board of
education, organized labor, Fedora
ton of Women's clubs, ministerial
association, fair board and Imperial
Irrigation district.
SET 25-mAi> GROUP
This membership will total 25
which the organizing committee be-
lieved would be representative. The
committee decided that a larger
committee would be unwieldy.
The organizing committee COM
prising Roy Womack of Ell Centro;
Earl Cavanah, Caleico; Clarence
Walker, Westmorland; Eugene
Anderson, Jr., Brawley; and Roy
Thompson, Holtville, was selected
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Fall From Truck
Proves Fatal

Jay Herbert West, II. of 10962
Elm avenue, LynwoOd, died early
Wednesday from a fractured skull
suffered when he fell from the top
of a truck load of grain as it was
driven along highway 8 approx
mately two miles north of Truck
haven.
Motorists at midnight Tuesday
stopped Ross Shadduck of Banning.
owner and driver of the truck, and
told him they saw a tarpaulin blow
off his truck. Shadduck saw that
West, who had been asleep on his
bed spread cn top ON the load of
grain, was not there and went back
along the highway to search for
him. immigration officers assisted
They found West and sent him to
the Brawley hospital In an am
bulance. Vests mother was located
in Beaumont and reached her son
before he died.
This was Vests first trip as
Shadduck's helper, Highway Patrol
man Lewis Mitchell said Wednes-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Japanese Peril
Chinese Rail
Line in Thrusts
Heavy ArmOred Force
Strikes New Blow
In HOnan Districts

CHUNGKING, May 3. CUP)-
japanese troops, supported by tanks
and armored cars, Wednesday were
reported striking in the outskirts
of Hsuchang and Fancheng in an
20-mile frontal attack aimed at
closing the central section of the
Peiping- Hankow railroad in Honan
province.
A Chinese communique acknowl-
edged that enemy forces had reach
ed the vicinity of the northern
outer gate to Hsuchang and also
were driving from the southeast,
where they had reached a point six
miles from the city.
Two other japanese forces were
advancing on Fancheng from the
northwest and the northeast. The
enemy unit, which drove to within
three miles of Fancheng in the
northeast. was supported by about
100 armored cars and several tanks.
The ether group, moving from the
northwest. contained reinforcements
which skirted HSuchang and reach
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
State Eyes War
Surplus Sales

between federal agencies and local
governments.
The federal program was only an
outline, Dean said, and details Of
policy and administration would
have to be worked out subsequent
to its approval.
In a letter transmitted to Cover
nor Earl Warren by Frank Bane,
executive director of the Council
of State Governments, Clayton pro-
posed state agency to work with
four federal agencies in handling
all surplus war property purchased
by the states, their political sub
divisions and, possibly, non-profit
organizations, and that federal dis
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Railroad Lines
ParaIyzed in
Invasion Areas

LONDON, May 3. tUPo - Allied
bombing fleets have crippled every
major German railroad yard in a
1OO-mile- deep coastal belt from
Cologne to the Bay of Biscay.
threatening 10 paralyze the move
meni ca Ccii:l.n reserves to the
west ern Invasion frCnt," the min
istry of economic warfare revealed
Wednesday.
A ministry spokesman said the
terrific preinvasion bombing of the
past month has had an appalling
effect in the network of western
railroads over which the German
high command planned to shuttle
troops and equipment to meet
British American invasion armies.
The railways in northern France
and Belgium, he said, are now un-
able to bear the peak load neces-
sary to an effective defense OF the
channel coast.
mo marshalling yards between
Cologne and tie Bay of Biscay for
100 miles inland are capable OF
forming trains" the fpckcsmai
said.
He declared flatly that the Ger
mans. faced with the possibility o.
an Allied invasion almost at any
hour. have only these alternatives:
to keep their reserves at danger
ously-remote points more than 100
miles inland from the thrcatcnec
coast, or to reinforce their coaS' a
garrisonS Immediately, thereby
running tic risk of suffering great
casualties.
Sabotage by French and Belgian
patriots also has helped paralyze
the Nazi-opcrated railway linel
and prevented recons truction work
he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
p 4Ms5!xs 4.15n!s

Unfair To Wives
There was conversation about
flowers at the tuberculosis and
Health association dinner in Ell
Centre Tuesday night.
What kind of flower is that?"
someone asked. "A
That's the shell flower" somc-
one replied.
Looks like an anernic hOllyhock
to me-" said Argyle McLachlan,
Yes. that's the shell flower"
agreed Adolph Binter of Calexico.
you and your flowers!" Scoffed
Mrs. Binder. What you do to flow
erS! had a beautiful Rose of Mon
tana in bloom. 1t is a beautiful vine
with pink roses. Adolph decided to
help with the garden SO he trim
med around some. Then the Rose
of Montana began to wilt. Then it
died"
Yes" hastily agreed Binder. Il
cut off the stem when 1 was trim
ming away some weecS." Ali huS-
bands can imagine what Binder
went through.
Il was showing some of my
friends what Adolph had done to
my Rose of Montana" Mrs. Binder
went on, land you should have
hearc what they said. They said
the vine would be better and more
beautiful than ever and they let
Adolph hear them!" Binder looked
SNUG.
well, did it?" someone asked.
"YeS, it cid" Mrs. Binder admit
ted with a sniff of disgust. But it
shouldn't have
Let's Substitute
While Paul Ford was planning
a business trip to San Diego, he
Continued On Pg. g. Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
PASADENAN FIGURES
SACRAMENTO. May 3. CUP)

SACRAMENTO. May 3. CUP) -
A program FOR industrialization of
California state prisons was out
lined Wednesday by Richard A..
MCGEE. new director of corrections.
who said he hoped tc have 1t ready
in detail for presentation to the
legislature next January.
MCGEE said he would make a
survey of possible markets for
prison manufactured productions
with the view of establishing MANY
small enterprises in the states pris-
on system"
He added that convict camps
manned by convicts frcm San
quentin and Chino prisons prob
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

SACRAMENTO. May 3. up
James S. Dean. director of finance,
Wednesday studied a proposal from
w. l.. Clayton, chief of the U. 5.
surplus war property adminlstra-
ton, that his department .'coordl-
nate what Clayton said would be
purchases of colossal" volume and
variety of surplus war materials
available for sale to the state and
it's political subdivisions.
Dean said he thought his de-
partment would be in an excellent
position to know the needs OF state
agencies for surplus war materials,
but feared that arrangements ior
financing purchases might be diI-
ticult II the state acted as mediator
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. CUl

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. oUP)
-AFL and CIO machinists We'd
necday postponed work on two
ships ordered by the navy and
maritime commissi ion pending union
meetings Wednesday night at which
members will decide whether or
not to comply with directives from
Tie national war labor board cr-
dering them back to work.
Machinists at Bethlehem ship
yard refused to work on a net ten
der ordered by the navy and ma
chiniStc at Moore Drydock Co. re-
fused 10 work on a cargo vessel
ordered by the maritime commits
sion.
Both jobs involved final ship ad-
justments which the unions claimed
was repair work. for which they
have demanded higher wages. WLB
Tue; day directed them to accept
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
BOBBY Trap Blast
Kills Three

MARYSV1LLE. Cal, May 3. CUP)
Three Camp Beal enlisted men
were killed in the explosion of a
land mine contained in an expert
mental "booby trap" used in train
ing at the base, camp officers an
nounced Wednesday.
Killed were Sgt. James TumminS,
%, Elizabethton, Tenn; Sgt. Leon
Russell, 81, LaFollette, Tenn, and
Pvt. Anthony P. San Fillippo, 90,
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.
The explosion occurred when the
men were setting up the BOBBY trap
for demonstration, camp officers
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

= Lieutenant General James H.
Doohttle sent a small formation of
his Eighth air force Liberators
against the mysterious German in
StallationS in the Pas De Calais
area of France to maintain on q
rec uced scale the unbroken series
ope.
Thunderbolt and Mustang fight
ers accompanied the Liberators in
the 18th consecutive day of offen-
sive operations by the Eighth air
force alone.
STRIKE BY NIGHT
Fleets of swift Mosquito bombers
struck by night at Leverkusen, Ger
man site of poison gas and chemi-
cal works, and the French rail hub
of Acheres, while Italy-based Raj
planes exploded a broad side against
Italian harbors and rail yards.
Early reports indicated that bad
weather over the continent today
had enforced temporary hull in
the bombing offensive softening the
Atlantic wall and it's feeder lines
for invasion armies.
The only tentative reports of day.
light activity were by the Berlin
radio, which said single planes we're
over southwest Germany. They ap-
parently were reconnaissance craft
| plotting the accumulated damage to
the Nazi war potential.
TERRIFIC DAMAGE
Recapitulations of the unprece-
dented bombardment since April II
brought out in bold relief a picture
of tremendous destruction, the full
extent of which will not be known
until allied troops land in western
Europe and see for themselves.
Hundreds of freight cars loaced
with anti-invaSion supplies were
blown to bits as American and
British bombers concentrated on
rail bottlenecks in France, Bel
gilm, Holland, and western Ger
many.
The latest tWO-way night attacks
from Britain and Italy coincided
with disclosure that allied planes
had rocked Europe from Norway
10 Bulgaria and from France to
Romania with more than $500
tons of explosives last month, an
all-time record.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Director Studies
Work in Prisons

ably will be operated this year, but
he added he believed the camps
are unsuitable I'm ordinary times.
"Idleness probably Is ono oil the
greatest curses of our modern pris-
ons," MCGEE said "The prisoners
should work, net as q matter OF
punishment. but as matter ol
opportunity and the state should be
It's own manufacturer and customer
as far as the prisons are con-
cerned.
I'VE want to ask capital and la
Dor how we can do this without
upsetting the states economy. We
want to avoid getting into COM
petition with private industry"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Seems Wonders
Never Cease

WHITE PLAINS. N. Y, May 3.
tUP)-Henry Aukbedder, for 81
years law firm clerk, reversed
the usual procedure in his will.
He left his entire ectate, valued
at approximately $1,000. to men,
bers of Cadwalader, Wickerhsm
and Taft "in grateful remem-
brance of the treatment accord
ed me as an employe."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
New Order Dooms
AQe-oId Siestd

tional eight-holr day, with an hour
off for lunch, as OF June l.
One of the reasons for the change
is that it will give workers more
leisure time for culture and sports,
the decree said.
TOO much time is wasted travel
ing to and from the office to the
homes during the siesta hours" the
document said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Jury Will Hear
Baby Mix.up

LOS ANGELES, May 3. tUP)-
A jury of eight women and four
men was selected Wednesday to
hear baby mixup charges of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry James HardWig,
who claim they had baby boy at
South Hoover hospital only to find
seven days later it was a girl.
The Hardwigs' attorney said they
would have baby day in supe-
rior court and would subpoena all
babies born at the hospital last
June 81, the day Mrs. Hardwig says
she bore a son.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Firebug Charge
Faces 5. F. Man

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. CUP
The San Francisco county grand
jury today had voted a 22-count
murder indictment naming George
Holman, 49-year-old local cafe op-
orator, as the pyromaniac RESPONSE
BILE for the New Amsterdam hotel
holocaust March 81 in which 20
persons lost their lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Points Cancelled
On All Meets
Except Beef Cuts
Surprise OPA
Order Ere es
Numerous Hens

WASHINGTON, May 3.
(UP)-Price Administrator
Chester Bowles Wednesday
ordered all meats except
beef steaks and beef roasts,
removed from rationing effective
at midnight Wednesday night.
All cuts of pork, veal, lamb, and
mutton will be point-free after
midnight, BowleS said in a sur
prise announcement. The point
free category also will include flank
steaks, beef hamburger, beef stew
meat, all variety meats, sausage of
all types, ready-to-eat meats, cam
nee meats, and canned fish.
NO VALUE CHANGES
Points on choice beef steaks and
roasts will not be changed from
their present levels.
BoWleS said Wis volume of these
preferred meats now coming to
market "is not large enough in
relation to demand to warrant any
point change ait this time"
A record run of hogs has been
coming to market and slaughter is
near peak levels, he explained.
At the same time BoWles orc cred
the monthly allotment of go red
points for each individual cut to
80, beginning May T. Because of the
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

announcement that two young Cam
bridge scientists have found a syn
thetic material identical with nat
ura] quinine.
Although it was uncertain wheth-
er the synthetic antimalarial drug
can be produced Immediately on
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Famous Country
Club Burns

LOS ANGELES, May 3. CUP)-
Fire WedneSo ay almost completely
destroyed the MidWick Country
club, at one time one of the ma
tion's SWankieSt golf clubs.
Damage to the richly-furniShed
clubhouse at Monterey Park, once
the playground for millionaires from
nearby Pasadena and Los Angeles,
was estimated at 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
Church Conference Faces
fiQht on War Activities

port, said the decision of partici-
patton in the war was left TO the
individual under the adopted mai
ority report.
A subcommittee on temperance
report condemning liquor was ad-
opted by a vote of $50. The report
charged that seldom has the IL
quor traffic ever shown an effron-
terry more brazen than that Of the
present moment"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May
3. OUP)-Nearly a century
of searching for a chemical
method of duplicating quin-
inc finally has met with success,
IL was disclosed "Wednesday with
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

MEXICO CITY, May 3. tUP)-
The sieSta widespread Latin
American custom OF resting two to
three hours daily in the afternoon
will be outlawed in Mexico June
/ in accordance with a presidential
decree signed Tuesday.
The president ordered all EN-
ployers to adopt the more conven-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
"F|apper" Era
DESIGNER Dies

LONDON, May 3. (UP)-Paul
Poiret, so, once known as the
richest dressmaker in Paris and
who war credited with creating
the short skirt OF the flapper
era, died Monday in poverty, ac-
cording to European reports
reaching here. His financial
downfall started with the crash
of 1929 when the market for his
high priced gowns disappeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May
3. (UP)-A fight on the floor
of the general conference of
the Methodist church ap-
appeared certain Wednesday when
the highly volatile matter of the
church's stand on participation in
the war goes to the convention,
probably Friday.
A committee on the state of the
church voted down proposal
which would have placed the church
on record as approving participa-
ton in the war. holding to the
1910 general conference declaration
against war, but with certain revi-
SionS.
WAIT MINORITY REPORT
However, a minority report call
ing for approval of war participa-
tion will be placed before the con-
vention along with the majority
report, under church law.
The majority report, approved by
a 44-18 vote, stated that "the church
should honor Conscientious decision
whether 1T leads to participation in
or abStentation from war"
Many MethodiStS in loyalty to
conscience are in the armed and
auxiliary services" the majority re-
port continued. "Others in equal
loyalty are In civilian public SER
vice camps or in prison.
I'VE send our greeting and love
to them all"
Charles G. Parlin, lawyer and lay
delegate from Englewood, N. j., who
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03
BASEBALL

AMERICAN
New York .... 100 0C0 OILS 7 |
Philadelphia 900 600 COL 6 0
Borowy and Iiemsiey; Hamlin.
Bowman and Hayes.
Washington l02 20
Boston .............020 90
Leonard, Candini and Ferrell; V.
Johnson and Partee.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 002 500 000-7 I3 0
New York ...... 900 900 00l-l 5 0
st. Louis ..........ll0 coo 003-5 8 0
Pittsburgh 900 900 O0l-1 D
Boston ............010 10
Brooklyn 100 90
Andrews and MaSi; Ostcrmucllcr
and Owen.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-03

presented the minority report, de-
clared the ma ajority report "offers
nothing to our brethren in China
but to lay down their arms and
surrender TO the Japanese 1t
fails to call on the church for
prayer for victory"
PASADENAN FIGURES
DR.. Albert E. Day of Pasadena,
Calf, chairman of the subcom-
mittee which brought in the re-