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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
100000 Mexicans
On j. s. Rail Jobs

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 10.
CUP) - Don Rafael de la Colina.
Mexican minister to tie United
States, says that Mexico has SEN
100000 men, vilally needed in its
own agriculture program, to work
on railroads in the United States.
This is one of the most impor-
tant contributions we can give the
united nations" Colina told for
eien trade class at the, midwest
inter American center Tuesday
night
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
Will Outline
Campaign
Note for Party

CHICAGO, April 10. (UP)
Gov. Earl Warren, of Cali
fornia, was selected Wednes-
day to deliver the keynote
address at the Republican
national convention in Chicago
June 26.
The choice of Warren as tempor-
airy chairman anG keynoter was
made by the 26-member convention
arrangements committee headed by
Walter S. Hallanan, of West Vir-
ginia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
5000 PLANES BLAST WIDE INVASION path
London Denies
Churchill,
Roosevelt Meet

LONDON, April 10. CUP)-An
authoritative source said We'd
nesday that no meeting has been
arranged between Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and President
Roosevelt, nor is Churchill see
ing Stain"
Reports from enemy sources
that meetings are imminent are
quite untrue" this informant
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
Writer Reveals
New War Tragedy

WASHINGTON, April 10. (UP)-
Drew Pearson, newspaper column
ist, disclosed Wednesday that Allied
naval gunners shot down 81 U. S.
troop-carrying planes carrying
nearly 400 soldiers over Sicily last
August IA, only three days after
a similar incident when 25 trans
port planes were shot down by
friendly gunners with a loss of
more than 400 men.
The war department declined i'm
mediate comment on this second
incident disclosed by Pearson. The
first incident had been confirmed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

officially after 1t was revealed by
Jack Foisie, returned army COM
bat correspondent in speech at
San Francisco.
Pearson said his washington
Merry y-Go-RounG' column that the
planes shot down August Ia were
in a formation bearing paratroopers
to aid the British operations at
Catania. He said that whereas en-
emy guns probably accounted for
some of the craft destroyed August
II, the second group were shot
down by naval gunners-probably
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

SACRAMENTO, April 49,
(UP)--Hubert Scudder, state
real e S t a e commissioner,
said wednesday the state division
of real estate will make a deter
mined effort" to prevent the sale
of unsuitable farm land to the pub
lie.
Reporting an apparent trend
toward the subdivision of farm
lands in the state, Scudder said
that "some promoters are securing
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

the bar at the front of the tavern.
Sanders, described as "panic-strick-
en-" ran out of the tavern and fled
ON foot, according to Mrs. Helen
Kusper, owner of the builcing in
which the tavern was located. Mrs.
Kusper said she saw Sanders from
her apartment.
ROW OVER MONEY
Brennan, who once worked as a
bartender at the tavern, said Ca
pone and Larkin had been drinking
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

the Allied high command. listed a
number OF measures 1t claimed had
been taken by military command
ers tc remove all possible military
targets from the city.
1t warned, however, that con-
tinued Anglo American bombing
raids may imptl the German COM
manders to change its status. ana
urged de Valera to try TO persuade
the Allies TO cease their "Senselegs
attacks
WASHINGTON, April 10. (UP)L.
President Roosevelt has written
Cannon DE Valera. Irish prime
minister, that "the fate Of Rome
rests" with the German govern
ment, which is using facilities there
to the limit OF It's capacities"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

with him an6 his wife when they
became involved in an argument
over change from a IS bill. Larkin
accused Capone and Sanders of
taking the money from the bar,
Brennan said.
Police, searching the basement
of the building. found the partial
ly-buned remnants of Larkins hat,
shoes. eyeglasses and a blood STAIN
ed towel The steps leading TO the
basement also were bloodstained.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
House Extends
Lend.Lease

WASHINGTON, April 10. up
The house Wednesday approved ant
sent to tho senate an extension Of
the lend-lease program until July
l, l945. after rejecting attempts u
give Congress complete review au'
thority over certain lend-lease OPP
erations and all termination settle
mentS. The vote was 334 to q.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

!. u. S. and Raj medium and light
bombers struck repeatedly at. the
invasion coast Wednesday. Maraud-
er mediums hit military targets
along the French shore, Douglas
Havoc light bomDers of the ninth
air force hit northern France. Bos-
tons, Mitchells, and Typhoons of the
tactical air force were active in the
same area.
Still other formations of allied
aircraft crossed the southeast coast
early Wednesday afternoon, bring
ing the triple-ecged offensive de-
signed to cripple German air power.
snarl railway communications, and
wreck coastal defenses in advance
of the opening of western front
to its highest pitch of intensity.
FIND VITAL TARGETS
An American communique sum-
marizing the 9th air forces We'd
nesday morning offensive said Fort
resses and Liberators in very great
strength hit enemy aircraft parks
at Eschwege, southeast of KasSel,
Paderborn, Gutersloh, Lippstaot and
Werl, the last four all east of
Hamm. in addition to fighter fac
tories at Kassel itself.
At the aircraft parks, the big
bombers presumably caught hun
dreds of German fighters which the
Nazi command had been boarding
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 3,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
Stute Strives to Protect
"GuIIibIe" Land BUYERS

marginal lands with questionable
water supply"
"A careful analysis of the water
situation" he said, will be made
before the sale of these lanes is
permitted A determined effort
will be made to prevent unsuitable
lands from being sold with the
disastrous results of former years"
Scudce also disclosed that the
problems of the househunter in
California have come even more
acute with commission payments
TO brokers being shifted from land
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

lords to tenants.
Many brokers are charging the
equivalent of a full months rent
for their services" Scudder declar-
ed, "anc collecting this amount
from the person seeking living quar-
ters." Before the war, he added,
brokers collected their fees from
the landlords.
However, Scudoer said, he has
received mo new complaints for
the past month" on brokers' charg-
ing exhorbitant" fees for locating
vacancies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
ICKES TURNS DOWN COAL
MINERS PAY DEMAND

WASHINGTON, April 10. (UP)
Coal Mines Administrator Harold
l.. Ickes Wednesday rejected the
United Mine Workers demands that
the bituminous mine operators be
required to pay $40 in retroactive
wages to each miner Immediately
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
The New Regimen

The New Regimen
In the dark hours of Tuesday
night Sheriff Coroner Robert Watt
Ware arrived home from the FBl
training school in Washington
d. C. When hi staff arrived at
work Wednesday they Immediately
began suffering from the effect;
OF the scientific brain feeding their
head man had undergone. This
gadget (whatever it Isl was tackled
on the bulletin board.
Form FI-i89-40-TS
OFFICE OF CORONER
"IMPE7IAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
COMMUNICABLE
ITO ALL STAFF MEMBERS:
From and after the date OF TIL
Communiuue TX all members OF
the staff of Sheriff Coroner shall
A. Refrain from profanity in any
form CT degree in prcGence CT prls-
onerS.
b. Keep their shoes shined ano
shirts on at all times
C.. Be courteous to each othel
and all ln-hat,s OF the jail, nc
matter what happens.
d. Address the sheriff as Sir,
while on duty.
E. Drive and operate all auto
mobilez at not exceeding Is miles
per Ecur, excep3 in emergencies
when II miles is allowable.
F. Cease all smoking while OF
duty, except in case of visiting o.
ficcrs, when cigars may be accepted
from them.
G.. Make up all reports on in
Cividual typewritors, without errors
of any kind whatsoever, ard no
CraSureS.
II. Join some civic luncheon club
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. A. =
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
Allied Raids Rake
Course To Berlin
1000 Us. Fiers Strike Deep into
Reich as RAF Hits Sectors
us Miles Back Of LowIands Coast

LONDON, April 19. (UP)-Berlin reports to Stock
holnpossiby Nazi fishing expedition seeking informa-
tionsaid today that all German coastal forces from
northern Norway to the Spanish frontier had been ordered
to stand by for allied invasion.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
D AMBl!Ne
EpoRTER
AL Olutely Unfair

hLT UIUCCIy CTIdH
The unkindest cut and the lowest
downest trick ever accorded a Eu-
man being laid c. c. ,Skeet) Ram
bo low.
At city council meeting in Ca
lexico Tuesday night Skee.s was
elected police commissioner.
When he went to work Wednes-
Gay morning he discovered thai
burglars had looted his cleaning
establishment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 81. minimum
We'd. 81; am. Wed. GA, humidity
"a; noon Wed. SO, humility 25;
pm. Tuesday 80, humid ity %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18

| IN NORMANDY ByWireleSs)
| Tank Commander Martin Kennedy
of Chicago wanted to show me just
where his tank had been hit. AS
matter of fact he hadn't seen 1t Tor
himself yet, for he came running
up the street the moment he jumped
out of the tank.
So when the firing died Gown
little we sneaked up the street I'M
til we we're almost even with the
| disabled tank. But we were care
| ful not TO get our heads around
the corner of the side street, Tor
| that was where the Germans had
| fired from.
The first shell had hit the heavy
steel brace that the tread runs on,
and then plunged on through the
side of the tank, very low.
SAY" Kennedy said in amaze
ment. 1T went right through our
lower ammunition storage box! l
don't know what kept the ammuni-
ton from going Off We'd been a
mess if it had. Boy, it sure would
have got hot in there in a hurry!"
NO ONE IN SIGHT
The street was still empty. Be-
yond the tank about two blocks was
German truck, sitting all alone in
the middle of the street. 1t had
been blown up, and its tires had
burned Off This truck was the
only thing you could see. There
wasn't human being in sight any
where.
Then an American solcier came
running up the street shouting for
SOMEBODY to send up a medic. He
said a man was badly wounded Just
ahead. He was extremely excited,
yelling, anc getting madden because
there was no medic in sight.
! Word was passed down the line,
and pretty soon medic came out
of a doorway and started up the
street. The excited soldier yelled
at him and began cussing, and the
medic broke into q run. They ran
past the tanks together, and up the
street a way they ducked into a
doorway.
Ion the corner just across the
street from where we were standing
was a smashed pillbox. 1t was in
a cut-aWay corner like the entrances
to some of our corner crugStores at
home, except that instead of there
being a door there was a pillboX
OF reinforced concrete, with gun
Sits.
The tank boys had shot it to ex-
tinction and then moved their tank
up even with it to get the range of
the next pillbox. That one was
about block ahead, set in a niche
in the wall OF a building That's
what the boys had been shooc ting
at when their tank was hit. They
knocked it out, however, before be-
ing knocked out themselves.
LULL IN FIGHTING
For an hour there was a hull in
the fighting. Nobody did anything
about a third pillbox, around the
corner. Our second tank pulled
back a little and just waited. In
fantrymen worked their way up to
second-story windows and fired
their rifles up the side street with
cut actually seeing anything to
shoot at.
Now anc then blasts from a 90
nm. gun would splatter the build
ing around us. Then our second
tank would blast back in that gen.
eral direction, over the low roofs
with its machine gun. There was a
lot of dangerous-sounding noise, but
I don't think anybody on either side
got hit.
GERMANS TOTE WOUNDED IN
Then we saw coming up the
street, past the wrecked German
truck l spoke of, group of Ger
man soldiers. An officer walked in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
WE SOON MAY SEE HOW
WAR PROPHETS STAND

Starting many months ago, there came
from time to time all sorts of predictions
by war observers as to what Germany
would do when Allied invaders actually
set foot on German soil.
If the Russian armies continue the pace
set several weeks ago and which has been
accelerated in the last few days, there
should be Forthcoming soon an answer to
these predictions. When the Russians
strike into East Prussia they will not be
actually on reich soil, at least not for sew
eral miles. The entry point is along
false border" or touching on land taken
from Poland and which could be "disput-
ed terrain" as far as nazi admission of
landing in the homeland is concerned.
A few have predicted that Germany
will collapse the very moment the country
proper is invaded in strength. This pre-
diction, of course holds main interest.
On the other hand it is commended that
if the German people have consented to
the fuehrer continuing in supreme COM
mand after the bombing of Berlin and
scores of other big German cities they
will not quit at the moment of invasion
by troops. Goerings pledge that the
reich never could be bombed has been
blasted, yet they fight on.
Actual invasion may turn the balance.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Negroes Request
Equal Rights
From Democrats

CONVE TION HEADQUAR-
TIERS, CHICAGO, July 10. up
Negro spokesman, raising issues
which have produced serious riffs
within the Democratic party, de-
manded that the Democratic ma
.ional convention promise equal
economic and political rights to
Negroes.
They asked for commitments on
federal legislation to abolish poll
taxes, tc halt lynching, to end Jim
Crowism" in the armed forces, to
establish a permanent fair employ
ment practices committee.
fThe COP convention three weeks
ago made specific pledges on those
issues, but the racial issue in the
Democratic south has loaded such
demands with political dynamite
for the Democratic platform ccm-
mittee)
The Negro leaders submitted
their proposed racial planks at the
committees initial session Monday.
Walter White, executive secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
told the committee that in a recent
tour of war theaterS, Negro SOL
diers kept asking him:
ITO what are We returning in
America? To shoe-shining jobs anC
the Ku KluX Khan or to the democ-
racy for which we are fighting?"
White and the Rev. Maynard
Jackson said they were speaking
for Is Negro organizations repre-
senting 100000 members Jack
son asserted that the organizations
| wanted anti-lynching legislation, g
permanent FEPC, elimination o!
| segregation in the armed services
and guarantees that the Negro
would be allowed to vote unrestrict-
ed by lilly white primaries and
| poll taxes.
Edgar B. Brown, director Of the
National Negro council. commended
hat the government should ''if nee
7ssary, call cut troops to enforce
the recent supreme court decision
that Negroes could not be excluded
from the Democratic primary. That
decision aroused a stormy reaction
in the south.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS
GET JOBS ON RAILROAD

LOS ANGELES, July Is. (UP)-
uvenile court jurists well
coined an announcement by the
Santa Fe railroad that it will EN-
ploy SO young delinquents in Dag
get, California, railroad gang under
prevailing pay and conditions.
The project is an experiment
worked out by the company and the
courts. The boys will get half their
pay in cash, the remainder to be
held for them pending settlement of
their court cases.
Mexican Consul-General Vicente
Peralta, consulted because some of
the youths are Mexican nationals,
hailed the move as furthering good
neighborly relations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
LETTUCE
New York TimeS)

N-NeW OIh IIleSJ
Some call it hay, sarcastically; some
use the generic term salad; some OF
us speak of it simply as lettuce. But
nearly everybody eats it, one way or an
other. 1t has been cultivated since an
Gent times, so long that its origin has
been lost; it no longer grows wild even IN
the East Indies, where it is supposed to
have come from in the first place. And
today there are more tame varieties than
you can shake stick at, varieties which
someone is periodically proclaiming as
good for your eyes, your nerves, your
digestion or your disposition. But In
spite of the faddists, it is still eaten in
great quantity.
Some prefer it in the tightly packed
head, quartered and doused, sprayed or
sprinkled with dressing. And of dress
ings there is no end, varying from may
onnaise and French dressing through
thousand island various cheese cOncoc-
tons, plain oil and vinegar to very alb
struse combinations of condiments and
libations. There are some people who
even cook lettuce, thus degrading its
abysmally.
The old, back-country method, however,
still gives honest lettuce flavor that
few professionals seem to achieve. BY
this method you start with crinkly leaf
lettuce, edged with russell or red and
picked in the dew of early morning. 1t
is kept crisp in the springhouse, in
huge bowl. At a proper time home-cured
bacon is fried to its own crisp, the let
tuce is whisked to the kitchen and bacon
and sizzling fat are poured over it. Cider
vinegar is added, and salt and black pep
per. And when it gets to the table you
may add sugar, if you please, but nothing
else.
Each to his taste, of course, but coun-
try lettuce wilted with bacon grease and
Hanged with vinegar is something to re-
member and come back to when the APP
petite has a case of the summer filters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
AMERICA PRESSES TO TOP
IN AIRCRAFT WONDERS

When Pearl Harbor convinced this ma
ton in a flash of the dire need for better
and better, faster and faster airplanes,
there was developed overnight deter
mination on the part of the country's
greatest engineers and designers not only
i to meet the so terrible needs, but to go on
and on, challenging the rest of the world
| for supremacy in types OF fighting
planes
Today, as we have been since December
1941, we are many steps in advance and
we shall stay that way for the rest of the
war and we shall keep on that way far
on into the future That is, we shall, un-
Jess the government puts something in
the way. There is the sign of some such
obstacle right now in our backwardness
| in applying this world lead in our future
laviation policies and tendency to hang
back, timorously saying things should be
so and so, yet lacking the temerity to en-
force certain demands for which we are
well qualified to follow up and for rights
of ways we are in position to enforce
There is little use in dominating the air
in the matter of superior planes if we
can only fly them around in our own
backyard.
An authority on progress and standards
of aviation makes known that the United
States at this moment has in the air five
types of fighting planes capable OF more
than 400 miles an hour speed with man
euverability far superior to any other
type in the skies, Britain not excepted.
With the advent of the Super-Fortresses
ali types of bombers hitherto superior TO
ours, stepped back to inferior places, al
though several types of European de-
sign, even at least one in Germany, easily
led until the supers gave such good &C
count of themselves in the raid on Japan's
homeland
Two factors made this superiority pos
sible. American genius and American in
hustry itself. There have been no mir
acles. Only the ability to create and pro-
huce 1t has been steady, painstaking
course with everlasting quality of the
Yankee to keep on tinkering until he has
something better. Someone once called
that propensity genius and so it stands
Today There has been few things bor-
hering on the miraculous in production.
Mostly concerning industry's capacity to
retool plants and construct new ones.
And there too has been the ability Of the
lens of thousands Of skilled and unskilled
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
Jim Farley Finds
Things Lonely.
But Keeps Busy
BY SANDOR S. KLEIN

cow ENTION HEADQUAR-
TIERS, CHICAGO. July 10. up
The lonesome man of this Demo-
cratic convention - politically
speaking-is genial Jim Farley.
Twelve years ago here in Chi
cago, eight years ago in Philadel-
phia, Farley was Democratic ma
tional chairman and ran the show
for Franklin d. Roosevelt. But
eight years of Roosevelt were
enough for jim. He fought the
third-term nomination here in 1910
and he is back again to see how
things look for lining up some
delegates to 60 on record against
a fourth.
It, lonesome business, politically,
because when the roll is called
Thursday night there aren't going
tC be very many anti-Roosevelt
votes. Possibly there won't even be
a roll call, but Farley is aiming to
prevent the fOurth-term nomina-
ton from being made y acclama-
ton if possible.
II is matter of principle with
Jim and the certainty that he can't
stop Roosevelt hasn't erased the
smile of old or stopped him from
dumping with callers like this:
This is Jim Farley. Remember
me? I used to be in politics"
He has no encourage, no organl-
cation this time-but he and his
lanky young son, Jim Jr, in a
three-room suite at the Blackstone
hotel across the street from con-
vention headquarters in the Stevens
where everything is being perfected
for Mr.. Roosevelt's denomination.
But a good many people visited
that suite.
Some called for old times sake
because they still like Jim person
ally even though they aren't going
along with his anti Roosevelt ideas
others were canvassing the situa-
ton with him.
Some Democrats want to present
Farley's name to the convention tC
provide a rallying point for a
/ fourth-term protest vote. Farley
however, was still uncertain Wheth-
err he would permit the presentation
of his name.
For the present, Farley wants tt
be regarded as just another member
of the New York delegation TO the
convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-18
GERMAN FOOD
SITUATION IMPROVED

The food situation in Germany is
better now than in the last war
says Dingle Macintosh Foot, Brit
ish parliamentary secretary to the
Ministry of Economic Warfare who
has been in Washington to confer
with U. S. Foreign Economic Ad-
ministration officials. This i'm
proved food situation has been one
of the main causes of Germany s
ability to hold out thus far. She
has had two good harvests, and ur
until this year she has had what
ever food she has been able to get
from the scorched Russian Ukraine
and by robbing the larders OF
France, the low countries, Norway
and Denmark.
Because the German food situa-
ton has been better, it has been
argued that foods should be let into
the German conquered countries &c
save their starving population ano
particularly their children. Since
1899. food has been considered con-
traband by the Britieh in their
blockade of Nazidom and only
small amounts have been allowed In
principally to Greece
The British blockade, augmented
by U. S. naval and air aid after
America entered the war, has not
been confined to food, but has been
against everything the enemy
might need. The full story OF the
blockade operations cannot now be
told, but in general, says Mr.. Foot
the German-Japanese efforts tc
beat it have in the last few years
BEEN confined to winter operations
when nights are longest and wealth
er the worst. Only approach to Ger
many has been through the west
ern French ports on the Bay OF
Biscay. Ships attempting to make
the run have had to make the voy-
age nonstop from Japan, without
refueling, completely BACKED out
and with radios sealed
There have been three busy sea-
sons. In the spring of 1912. Axis
ships were engaged in this traffic
both ways. In the winter Of l943
only few got through. Some were
sunk by naval action, and nearly all
those that were overtaken were
scuttled. So desperate have the
Germans become for some mate
rials, principally alloy ores and
We etable oils, that there has heen
some blockade running in subma-
rines. The climax came this past
Dectr nber when the Germans sent
out II destroyers TO escort in one
shipload Of wolfram. The convoy
was intercepted in the Bay CT Bis
cay and several OF the destroyers
sunk by naval gunfire and aerial
bombing In the last Is months 1t IS
not believed that any chips have