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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Hull Prepares Peoce Talk
With Allied N utionS

remained alone with Hull for Is
minutes after Gromyko left.
HALIFAX EXPLAINS
Upon leaving Hull's office, Hall
fax said:
Mr. Hull asked us ito call in
orcer to convey the intimation to
our respective governments in be-
half of the United States govern
ment that he would be glad ait a
convenient date to open informal
conversations with us on the gen.
eral problem of postwar security"
He said that no specific Ameri-
cam organization plan had been
given him and added that the pro-
posed conferences here on the SUBJ
ject have been anticipated at the
Moscow conference.
Gromyko declined to make any
statement after the meeting.
Hull, however, revealed that the
plan to have the informal four
nation conferences ON world Or
ganization meet here was suggest
&c by Molotov. He said Molotov Of
fered a resolution at the Moscow
conference to hold the conferences
here and that 1t was accepted. That
resolution heretofore had not been
disclosed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
j. s. Planes Rake
Reich, PIoesti

LONDON, May 81. CUP About
2,750 United States heavy bombers
and fighters flew from Britain and
Italy Wednesday against four rail
hubs in northwest Germany, a Nazi
air base in eastern France, and the
Great Romanian oil center of
PlCeSti.
The U. S. eighth and ninth air
forces sent nearly 1,750 Flying For
tresses. Liberators, and fighters
against the Ruhr rail centers of
Hamm, Osnabruck, SchWerte, and
Soest, and the Luxduil airdrome
near Mulhouse in northeastern
France.
From Italy up to 750 Forts and
Liberators with a Lightning and
Mustang escort struck at oil re-
fineries at Ploesti, reporting hits On
at least one big refinery in the
heart CT the Romanian fields which
supply the German war machine.
A Naples announcement of the
Ploesti attack said smoke visible
for miles otscured the Oil refinery
area, preventing detailed observa-
ton. Ploesti last was attacked on
May l8.
The bombers encountered intense
anti-aircraft fire over Romania
and number OF fighters challenged
Continued on Pc. 6, Gel. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31

this service the welders returned
to the counters portion of their
weekly salary checks which in
cluded payment for work not ac-
tually dcpe.
SOucy said that the scheme was
made possible by the counters, who
are responsible for recording the
quantity of work done by the weld
erS.
According to the investigators,
the counters received as much az
$75 a week extra for their manipu-
lation of the count. Some welders
claimed they were 'pressured" into
the clubs on threats that unless
they "joined" they would receive
n short count for work they ac-
tually had done.
Brandon said that those workers
convicted of conspiracy faced n
maximum penalty CT two years i'm
prisonment, and $4,000 fine while
those charged with making false
claims could be sentenced to as
much as 10 years in prison and
fined $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Inbound Planes
On Coast Stir
HaIf.Hour Alert

3. los ANGELES, May 81. (UP) -
Scnthern California had its first
air raid scare since the early days
of the war Tuesday night when
28-minute radio silence was ordered
after the two unidentified fleets of
airplanes were detected approach
ing the coast
The aircraft were identified by
the fourth interceptor command as
friendly before general blackout
was ordered.
Overcast skies prevented early
identification OF the planes, an army
spokesman said, and radio stations
as far south as the Mexican border
we're ordered off the air at 7:12
p. m. PVT.
mo condition of alert was pro-
claimed army officials said, be-
cause the approaching target was
identified before it was close enough
to warrant such action.
Police communications division
records showed that the radio sill
ence was the 18th since Pearl Har-
Dor and the first since April 25,
l943
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31

WASHINGTON, May 81.
UP) - Secretary OF State
Cordell Hull revealed that
Great Britain, Russia, and
China are being invited to send
representatives here for informal
conversations looking toward ce-
velopment of a postwar organiza-
lion for International security.
Hull said it was up to those ma
tions to determine and announce
whom they would send here for
the conferences. 1t was assumed
soviet Commissar of Foreign At
fairs v. M. Molotov and British
Secretary of Foreign Affairs An
thony Eden would be likely can
didateS.
The time OF the conference has
not been determined. Hull said the
United States is ready whenever
the other nations are. Asked wheth-
er he expected to speak for this
nation, he said he hadn't come to
that yet. 1t was assumed he would,
however, because he has been car
rying on all the conversations on
that subject with the ambassadors
and with special senate com"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
SHOWDOWN BATTLE FOR ROME RACES
COP Governors Challenge
RooSeveIt's Policies
Speakers at State Executives Meet
Rap Foreign Program, Taxation,
Farm Set-up and Western Water Rules
by JOHN L. CUTTER

HERSHEY, Pa, May 81.
(UP)-Four Republican gov
ernOrs challenged the ROos'a-
velt administration Wednes-
day on such varied subjects as for
eign policy, farm program, western
water control, and taxation.
They were speakers before the
final session of the 36th annual
governors conference which Tues
day night heard Gov. John w.
Bricker, of Ohio, a cant idate for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation, accuse the Roosevelt ad-
ministration Of q "spend, waste,
borrow, and tax" policy which
would wreck American economy If
continued in the post war period"
MUST BALANCE BUDGET
Bricker called for balanced fed
eral budget and reduced federal
taxes.
The federal government should
balance its bucget at the earliest
possible date" he said. THAT would
give more jobs than all the made
work the government cam possibly
plan.
Moreover, there is vital need
for a sane and constructive federal
tax policy that will stimulate incen-
tive and encourage venture capital.
Federal taxes should be reduced
as soon as possible, after victory.
Such action would enable business
to map out constructive programs,
without constant fear Of changes,
and to provide jobs for all who
wish ito work I" 'r9f - '-'es47rr' Is.
Wednesdays speakers were Gov
ernors Bourke B. Hickenlooper, of
Iowa, Dwight H. Green of Illinois,
John C. Vivian of Colorado, and
Earl Smell of Oregon.
WHY AUTHORITY PLACED
In ado ition to attacking the pre-
war foreign policy, Hickenlooper
told the governors, apparently in
anticipation of a fourth term cam
paign by Mr.. Roosevelt as COM
mander- chief, that the President
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Byrd Delegates
FIout Unit Rule

GAINESVILLE, Fla, May 81
CUP)-Joseph C. jenkins of Gaines
vile. Fla, a delegate to the Demo-
cratic national convention and q
supporter OF Senator Harry Byrd
for president, said that the BYRD
supporters would net vote with the
Florida delegation as a unit fol
President Roosevelt.
At the organization meeting OF
the delegates to the national con.
yention in Jacksonville. the unit
rule was voted upon and passed. Il
to 6.
In the first Florida primary.
voters selected IA delegates pledge'
to Mr.. Roosevelt and four to Byrd
According to the Florida rule, i
two-thirds of the delegates art
pledged to a candidate then the
delegation votes as a unit for thai
candidate.
Jenkins said that the Florida
delegation does net have the au-
thority to enforce such a ruling
He asserted that the national DEM
ocratic convention 1860 adopted thf
unit rule but that in 1912 1t wa
amended.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Much.Wed Woman
Saws IFS Fun

DENVER, May 81. CUP) - Mrs.
Dixie Rose Belle Hughes Morris
Gettel Edgar Sims Dickerson Smith
Lane. who admitted she liked the
sound of wedding bells so much that
she was married seven times with
out ever going through the for
mality of divorce, is held Cn
charges of bigamy.
II knew I'd get caught some day,
but it certainly was a lot of fun
being married to so many men in
IA years. the plump. 30-year-old
brunette told deputy district attor-
ney Frank Wachob.
The multiple marriages were dis
covered yesterday when Fronklin
Lane. the latest husband. told au-
thori+ies he thought his wife had
another mate.
Mrs. Dixie Rose. etc, etc, said
her first husband was Cecil Norris.
whom she married in Amarillo,
Tex, when she was l6 years old.
He was killed two months later.
Her second marriage, to Henry Get
tel at Rocky Ford. Colo. was an
nulled by her parents short time
later.
Two of her present husbands are
soldiers, she said. Three are living
in the United States and the other
is a German prisoner of war.
She was married tc Cpl. Homer
Smith in Ration, N. NJ. in l94l. He
is a prisoner of the Nazis. Private
Paul Sims, to whom she was we'd
in La Junta, Colo, in 1888 is sta
toned at Camp Callan. Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
American Planes
Hit at Peiping,
Tokyo Declares
BY UNITED PRESS

A long distance American air raid
on Peiping. former capital of China,
was reported by Tokyo radio Wee
nesday, which claimed one of two
Psi fighters participating in the
raid was forced down and captured
near Hctsin in Shansi province.
The Tokyo broadcast, heard by
United Press in San Francisco, said
the attack took place Tuesday
morning, and quoted an official
communique of the north China
military headquarters of the Japa-
nese expeditionary forces.
Peiping, in Hopeh province, is
well to the north of Tokyo, and
the furtherest point reported reach
&c by American planes based in
southern and southwest China.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Lumber
Strike
Closes
Workers Trek
Back in
Northwest Area

PORTLAND, Ore, May 81.
(UP)-AFL lumber workers
streamed back to their jobs
Wednesday-With n union leader
predicting that by Thursday all
$4,000 AFL members among the
nearly 10000 western strikers would
be back-While misunderstanding
between labor and the war labor
board was offered as explanation
why CIO strikers were not return
ing to work.
Kenneth M. Davis, executive sec
retary of the Northwestern council
of Lumber x SaWmill Workers
(AFL), said reports to his office
here indicated all AFL plants in
Oregon resumed Wednesday and
that the situation throughout the
northwest was encouraging. He
said full production would be re-
sumed Thursday in AFL mills"
The majority of Seattle sawmills
were operating although only about
so Fer cent of the AFL crews had
returned to work. Tacoma and GrayS
Harbor mills were still iGle, it was
reported by union officials who
planned mass meetings to get that
small minority who still misunder-
stand the situation" back to work.
The difference in AFL and CIO
action was explained as emanat-
ing from difference in interpre-
tation of what the WLB means by
granting a prompt 'hearing' after
the strikes go back to work While
AFL officials say they have re-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
ForrestaI Would
Defer Trials
Of KimmeI, Short

WASHINGTON, May 81. (UP)-
Secretary of navy James Forrestal
said "Wednesday he was personally
opposed to court-martial trial.
during the war, of Rear Admiral
Husband E. Kimmel in connection
with the Japanese attack ON Pearl
Harbor.
ForreStal was asked at his news
conference to comment ON Kim
mels request, in letter to Senator
Homer Ferguson (RD. Michigan, for
a trial "at the earliest practicable
date"
The secretary replied that our
ing this war--certainly during this
phase of it--I would net be person.
ally in favor of conducting such a
trial"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Fifth Army Storms
Hills Around City
Report Hints
Evacuation
Gets Under Way
BY ROBERT v. vERMILLION

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, May 81. (UP)
The Fifth army smashed
to within nearly Is miles of
Rome in an all-out battle for
the Italian capital Wednes-
day, routing the Germans
from trenches and gullies
with bayonets and raining
shells on their Alban hills
strongholcs.
The Germans counterattacked
with strong tank forces continuous
ly, but apparently futiely, as the
Fifth army shifted the main weight
of it's offensive to the western half
OF the front in an attempt to turn
southwest.
The advances carried deep into
the Valmontone- Campo Jemini line
the last defense belt below Rome
but Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G.. Alex
ander, allied commander in Italy,
warned in his daily communique:
WARNS ON ENEMY STAND
1T is now evident that the enemy
intends to hold this line at all
COST"
American tanks and tank de-
stroyers made the deepest penetra-
ton of the enemy line when they
rumbled right up in front" of
Genzano, Is miles south of Rome.
and Lanuvio, two miles farther
south, and began pouring shells in
to the two towns on the southwest
slopes of the Alban Hills.
American infantry advanced on
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Cut in Mexican
Farm Help Seen
As Crop Dancer

LOS ANGELES, May 81. OUP)--
County Supervisor William A. Smith
Wednesday criticized a proposed
slash in the number of Mexican
nationals to be imported into Los
Angeles county for farm work this
year and said farmers will plOw
uncer their crops if the quota is
not increased.
I'VE were led to believe that we
would have 10000 workers this year
and the proposed cut to $4,000 in
our quota comes as a distinct sur
prise" Smith said.
Labor shortages have caused
some growers to plow under their
crops and they will not be willing
to plant for a fall harvest when
they discover there will be still
greater shortage of labor than an
ticipated,' he declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
U.boat 0ver1au|s
U. S. Ship, Takes
Off 7 PASSENGERS

PHILADELPHIA May 81. (UP)-
A German submarine stopped the
Portuguese passenger liner Serpa
Pinto in mid-ocean last Friday and
took two American citizens as pris-
oners after threatening TO torpedo
the vessel, the fourth naval district
announced Wednesday,.
The two taken prisoners were
Virgilio Magma, New Bedford,
Mass, and Manuel Pinto, Water
bury, Conn.,, the navy announced.
Three passengers lost their lives
when the 1886 passengers and crew
were told to abandon ship by the
officers of the German submarine.
Later, the Nazi officers relented
and allowed the passengers to re-
turn to the ship and permitted the
vessel to proceed on its way to
Philadelphia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
ShiP Pyord Crews
Face Charges

BOSTON. May 81. tUP) - Fifty
five Bethlehem-Hingham shipyard
piece-work welders and counters
were arrested by squads of FBI
agents and U. S. deputy marshal
Monday In what was described as
one of the most widespread war
fraud rackets since the war began.
Seized after an inves tigation OF
several months, the workers were
charged with conspiiing to defraud
the government.
E. A. Soucy, agent in charge OF
the FBI at Boston, said that the
extensive investigation was carried
cut with the authorization of U. S.
Attorney Edmund J. Brandon and
the full cooperation of officials at
the south shore shipyard.
He said that those arrested had
formed about 80 Clubs each OF
which comprised one or two colln-
ters and from three to 80 welders.
According to Soucy. the counters
in the clubs" agreed with the
welders to record false credits for
extra production. In return Tor
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
IIITVUtt.
CONNALLY APPROVES

mlttee.
CONNALLY APPROVES
Chairman Tom Connally CDo
Texas, of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee gave his hearty
approval" to Hull's plans for the
early discussions of the postwar
peace organization. Declaring that
Hull "is equipped to advance an
American plan for a postwar or
ganization for peace and security
Connally said:
IT applaud and commend the
secretary for his determination to
meet and solve this outstanding
problem"
Senator Burton K. Wheeler CD
Montana, prewar isolationist
leader, said it was "all right" to
have conversations" now, but he
warned that before any organiza-
tion is actually planned the Unit
ed States should ascertain what
demands Great Britain and Soviet
Russia propose to make.
Invitations for Britain and Rus
sia to send representatives here
were extended by Hull in 45-min-
ute meeting with British Ambas-
sador Lord Halifax and Soviet AM
bassador Andrei Gromyko. Halifax
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
President Wants
More Money to
Keep 0PA Goinq

WASHINGTON, May 81. CUP)-
President Roosevelt Wednesday ask
ed congress to increase appropria-
tions for the office of price admin
istration for the fiscal year start
ing July / to enable OPA to step
up it's enforcement program and to
simplify price controls.
Mr. Roosevelt sent to congress
a request for $l82, ,252 900 to finance
OPA operations during the 1945
fiscal year compared with $3.50, ,500.-
600 provided for the agency in reg
ular and supplemental appropria-
tons for the current fiscal year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
clo Head Says Monpower
Set-up Shows Bung|ing

WASHINGTON, May 81.
(UP) = The navy's abrupt
stop order on Corsair fight
er plane production at the
Brewster Aeronautical corporation
is typical of the bungling which
has characterized the handling of
manpower problems throughout the
war;" Richard T. Frankensteen,
vice president of the United Auto
Workers (CIOO asserted.
He told a senate military affairs
subcommittee that the Brewster
cancellation had been ordered by
the navy's bureau of aeronautics
without notice to the International
union, without advance notice to
the company, without consultation
with the war manpower commits
sion in the interest of minimizing
employment dislocations, without
consultation with WPB or with
the war department concerning
other uses of the plant and of its
trained labor, and finally, without
even adequate consultation with
other parts of the navy cepart-
ment."
Frankensteen said the navy's ac-
tion in cancelling the Corsair pro-
gram on less than weeks notice
would put most of 1880 Brewster
employees out of work.
How are we to reconcile the
navy's apparent interest in nation
al service legislation with an ac-
ton like that in the Brewster case?"
Frankensteen asked.
Donald Nelson says that we
need more cooperation among Ia
Dor, management and government
to prevent setbacks of this kind.
] should like to ask in what respect
the navy's action at the Brewster
plant contributes to pulling up our
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Vessel Wrecked
On FaraI|ones:
1000 Men Saved

SAN FRANCISCO, May 81. CUP
More than 1000 Of icers and men
Of the U. S. navy, returning from
Pacific war theaters to the MAIN
land. were re- cued from the Lib
erty ship S. S. Henry Bergh and
nearby waters Wednesday ai'er
the vessel went aground OH the
FarrallOne shoals 20 miles west
of the golden gate.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31

airplane output or to furthering
the cooperation which Mr.. Nelson
suggests.
I'm general manpower problems
have been handled on fire bri-
gade basis-do nothing until you
have a five-alarm fire-each en-
ergency by itself"
Brewster President Preston Lock-
wood told the subcommittee that
the company first learned of the
cutback plans on Tuesday, May 16,
when then-President Henry j. Kai-
ser was called to the telephone from
board meeting and informed that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
BY ROBERT DOWSON

LONDON, May 81. (UP)-Stock-
holm reports said that the Germans
intend tc follow a "scorched earth
policy as they fall back across oc-
cupied western Europe before Allied
invas ion armies.
Dispatches from the Swedish
capital quoted the Berlin newspaper
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung rs
saying that the German army will
burn all vegetation and dwellings
useable as cover in the path of
attacking troops
Though the newspaper said the
Nazi high command would carry
cut its plans only in emergency
situations, the Stockholm cores
pondent of the London Daily Tele-
graph pointed out that Europe had
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Nozis Map Plan
Of Scared Earth

learned "at bitter cost that IN,
Nazis always can find an emer
gency to hand II there Is a chance
of satisfying their taste for de-
struction."
London Daily Herald dispatch
said German regional military
commandert In France had ordered
voluntary" civilian workers em-
ployed on defense and other mill
tary projects in France to prepare
to move with the German army
WREN 1t became necessary.
From the official Soviet news
agency Tass came q report that
chief of state Henri Philippe Pc
tain OF the Vichy government soon
will make an inspection tour of
Germany's Atlantic wall defenses
along the French coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Senate Reduces
Cabaret Tax

WASHINGTON, May 81. tUP)-
The senate voted wednesday to cut
the cabaret tax from 80 to 20 per
cent and to exempt uniformed SER
vice men and women from it alto
gether.
A few minutes later, the senate
passed the new national debt limit
bill to permit the governments out
stanC ing obligations to rise from
$2lO OOOO. 900 900, the present limit, to
$500 ,OOO, 100000.
Opponents of the high cabaret
tax had contended that more than
2.4OO night spots were forced to
close since it went into effect April
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
Germans Lynch
j. 5. Airman

LONDON, May 81. (UP)-A Ber-
lin dispatch to the Stockholm news
paper Dagens Nyheter said Wed
nesday that official German circles
had confirmed the mob lynchlng OF
an American airman shot down in
central Germay.
The dispatch also quoted Ger
man authorities, in the first Official
comment on the reported shooting
of AZ British and allied alrmen at
a German prison camp as denying
that any airman was lynched after
once becoming officially a prisoner
OF the German government.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31

the navy was contemplating a gen.
eral curtailment in fighter plane
production. Kaiser was not inform-
ed when the curtailment would be-
gin, Lockwood said, nor was he
told that 1t would apply to Brews-
ter.
The actual terms of the cutback
at Brewster were given company
officials at a conference at the
navy department on May 10, he
said, and on May % the formal ter
mination notice was received at the
firms main plant at Long Island
City, N. Y.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
id-Air
Kills II
Big Bomber.
Fighter
In Collision

SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 81.
(UP) The entire 11-man
crew of a naval Liberator
bomber and a Wildcat fighter pilot
were killed in a midair collision
Tuesday IS miles northeast of here,
llth naval district officers said
today.
The planes crashed and burned
on Palomar Mountain three miles
from Palomar observatory burning
IL acres of surrounding brush.
Identification of the four officers
and eight enlisted men was with
held pending notification of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
2 4Msa!xs 4.slMts

The Big Surprise
Great was the delight of Harol
Speer. seven year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Lee Speer OF the Ell Cen
tro area, when he was told he had
a baby sister
"Oh, my, what will Grandma
say?" he asked in an excited voice.
Didn't Grandma know that you
were to get baby sister?" friend
asked. Hadn't your Mother told
Grandma about it?"
How could she?" Harol asked in
surprise. "She oidnt know 1t her
self until yesterday
From The Mail
The following note came to RRs
desk and since it is q good thing
to call the public's attention to
these things. we will pass it on.
Dear RR-Saluting the flag Is
one of the citizens methods OF pay
irg respect to the symbol of our
nation. When the flag flies or when
IL Easses in parade, 1t Is our as
slirance that our nation lives and
wa are safe under its standard. 1t
made us proud to see our service
men snap TO attention and give a
courteous and respectful salute to
the colors as they were carried
down Main street Tuesday curing
the Memorial Day parade. We were
not so proud of civilians, however.
They looked upon the parade as a
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
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ROSar.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-31
WEATHER

Maximum Tuesday 80, minimum
Wed. So; am. Wed. 81, humidity
33; noon Wed. 80, humidity 21; 5
pm. Tuesday SO, humidity 20.