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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
Democrats Begin
Platform Study
For Chicago Meet

CHICAGO. July Is. (UP)-Mem-
berS of the subcommittee of the
resolutions committee of the Demo-
cratic national communion are here
to begin work on the platform to be
presented at the party's national
conclave which opens at the Chi
cage stadium next Wednesday.
Reports from Washington said
that 1500-word proposed draft OF
the party's platform had been pre-
pap d with administration approval
and forwarded here for study by
the subcommittee.
Although a 150C-word platform
would be short in comparison to the
460O-word statement of policy
adopted by the Republicans here
last month, movement was re-
ported undo rway to pare an addi-
tional 500 words from the docu-
ment.
Eleven women are included In the
23-member subcommittee named
last week by Robert E. flanagan,
chairman of the D, me cratic ma
tional committee. The group. which
also includes IL members of Con-
gress. is headed by Rep. John W.
MacCormack. House m a jority
leader
Public hearings before the sub
committee are scheduled to start
Monday at the Stevens hotel, two
days before the convention meets,
but 1t was indicated that some
groups may be heard prior to that
time.
The Democrats completed most
of the arrangements for their con-
vention yesterday with the appoint
ment of Senator Abe Murdoch of
Utah. head of thu credentials ccm-
mittex,:: Robert w. Kenny. attorney
general for California. chairman of
the rules committee. and Gov. Har-
old McGrath of Rhode Island, head
of the committee on permanent Or
ganization.
Gov. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma.
temporary chairman and keynoter,
has arrived in Chicago and said
his speech before the convention
Wednesday night was all prepared.
He indicated 1t would be brief
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
POSTWAR TAX STUDY
IS ENCOURAGING

1t is interesting and highly encouraging
10 discover that in an attempt to work
put what may be termed a postwar tax
measure discloses that treasury and con-
kressional groups include in their ten or
ozen varied proposals one that should
have been enacted long ago. Or rather
congress should have amended this one
phase of taxes in the last bill.
And this has to do with the sitting
corporation tax rate now in operation.
While there has been and will be, great
Efforts to find a common ground of CO.
operation between labor and capital, con-
Tress and the administration blindly have
rome about widening q breach already
raceable as much as anything else to un-
balanced, prejudicial legislation. By a
angle act congress can reestablish friend
relations and at the same time lay the
Fround work for future cooperation.
At present the corporation tax makes
impossible for employees to take adj
antage of opportunity to become part
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
ACROSS The TABLE
Riverside Daily Press)


Americans in general feel relieved that
De Gaulle's visit passed off so satisfac-
torily. Gun salutes and formal dinners
are all right in their way, but quiet con-
versation in the Presidents office was
better.
About the monetary conference at
Breton Woods, NJ H., Walter Lippmann
remarked that the mere fact that these
people could get together and discuss
monetary difficulties was the most val
able part of the conference.
These two statements may sound ir-
relevant. They really are not. The fact
is that after the last war too many diff
culties were presented too suddenly to
peoples differing greatly in heritage, en-
vironment and consequent mental atti-
tudes. They could not get together, and
the hope of the world sank into despair.
This time, insofar as humanity possible,
that mistake is being avoided. Matters
of Importance are being discussed before
hand. Representatives of various ma
tons are sitting down together, talking
things out quietly. Settlements thus ar
rived at are based on mutual faith and
understanding They have chance to
stand, where those based on suspicion and
lack of knowledge of what the other fell
low really want are doomed to fail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
DISPUTE ON RECONvERSION
PLANS INDICTS BUREAUS

Another example of the everlasting
rows and disputs among the multitude
nous bureaus in Washington to the detri-
ment of industry and orderly economic
operations is seen in the present bitter
controversy over start on reconversion
plan. Right now it is a three-way fight
Involving the War Manpower Commits
sion and the War Production Board with
the military as third party, out of sorts
with both bureaus.
The dissention is only natural and goes
to prove that it is not logical and that it
is improvident for boards to set up to
function as war emergency bodies to even
undertake to outline and put into opera
ton an overall program of readjustment
when the calls of war on industry and
production are at an end.
Herein the administration, in its OBJ
stinacy and refusal to recognize funda-
mental proposition, already is throwing
a monkeywrench into the postwar ma
chinery. All along these bureaus and
boards have been tolerated and the coun-
try has put up with inefficiency and bick-
erings simply because of war emergen-
cies. The waste of time and materials
have been accepted with complacency be-
cause there hasn't been anything else to
do. Despite all these faults the very force
Of the nation as a whole insured suffi-
Client war production.
But to go ahead operating for postwar
with this self-Same set-up not only is a
danger to the nations industrial progress
but is a menace to prosperity itself and
endangers a program to set the country
firmly on it's feet without serious inter-
ruption once the war is over.
AS fuel to keep the row aflame there
is the studied effort to build a barrier
between what is termed little and big
business and in this phase of the dispute
the politicians in congress are showing
their hand.
In the meantime it doesn't seem to have
occurred to the administration to enlist
The services of businessmen themselves
and men high in the industry world to
move into the picture. But that is not to
be expected at Washington. AS result
first thing the country knows the actual
movement for reconversion will be here
with no adequate government machinery
TO take over
The nation can't stand up under bureau
tampering rows, inefficiency and blund-
Pring long after the end of the emergency
period, and that time is mighty close at
hand
The nation can't stand up under bu-
teau tampering, hampering, rows, inef-
iciency and laundering long after the
Ind of the emergency period, and that
lime is mighty close at hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF OIL PROTECTION
CHARGES DUE
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
THAT
have received from the Depart
ment of Natural Resources the rec
ord of assessments and charges for
Petroleum and Gas for the current
year.
The charges therein assessed and
levied are due and payable on the
first Monday in July and one-half
sixth Monday aftel the first Mon
day in July at six O'Clock,
P. NJ, August IA, 1914. and unless
paid to the State Treasurer at the
Capitol prior thereto, fifteen per
cent will be added to the amount
thereof, and unless paid prior to
the first Monday in February next
thereafter at six O'Clock P. M. Feb
ruary 5, 1915, an additional five
per cent will be added to the
amount thereof; and the remaining
one-half CT said charges will be-
come delinquent on the first Mon
day in February next succeeding
the day upon which they become
due and payable, at six o'clock P. M.
February 5. 1945. and If not paid
to the State Treasurer at the Capt.
tol prior thereto, five per cent will
be added to the amount thereof.
HARRY B. RILEY, Controller
BY: BERT FOSTER, Deputy
Dated at Sacramento, California
this 3rd day of July, 1914.
mo. y J11-16 inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
Ernie Pyle
Soldiers Think Writer Lost
Without Shooting Irons;
Stops to Visit and Gossip

dog in her arms, belly up. the way
you cuddle a baby, and soothing it
by rubbing her cheek against its
head. Tho dog was trembling with
fear from the noise.
Pretty soon the word was passed
back down the line that the street
had been cleared as far as a Ger
man hospital about quarter of a
milo, ahead. There were lots of our
own wounded in that hospital and
they were now being liberated.
STOPPED TO CHAT
So Lieutenant Shockley and Wer-
tenbaker and Capa and myself got
up and went up the street, still
keeping close to the. walls. I lost
the others before I had gone far.
Fer as l would pass doorways SOL
diers would call out to me and I
would duck in and talk for a mo,
ment and put down name or two.
BY now the boys along the line
we're feeling cheeritr, for no word
of casualties had been passed back.
And up here the city was built up
enough sc that the waiting riflemen
had the prott ction of doorways. 1t
took me half an hour to work my
way up to the hospital-and then
the excitement began
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
Editorials and Comment

ners or stockholders in the industries IN
which they draw salaries. BY the same
token the levy makes it impossible for
employers to present these opportunities.
The law now exacts penalty rather
than offering an inducement along this
line, because once the wage Garner owns
stock he is the victim of double assess
ment-a levy on his wages and a levy on
his profits.
There are number of other laudable
proposals in the study thus far. but none
with more far-reaching possibilities than
liberating industry from this corporation
tax.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
Judge Says 0PA
Must Know
of Violations

LOS ANGELES. July Is. CUP)--
OPA inv. Etigators must know
charges to be true of their own
knowledge before filing criminal
charges against asserted OPA vio-
lators, Federal Judge Peirson Hall
held.
Judge Hall put sudden stop to
the practices of filing charges on
information and belief" on grounds
that many complaints are being
issued on insufficient evidence.
1T must be clearly established
that there is reason for issuance of
thesc complaints and the permis-
sion of the court must be given be-
fore these informations can be filed
in the future the judge said.
However, Judge Hall upheld the
right of United States attorneys
office to prosecute OPA violators
On criminal information providing
there is sufficient ground for the
Issuance of such information.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
NEW FARM PRODUCTION
COUNCIL HEAD NAMED

BERKELEY, Cal, July Is. up
Don w. McColly, SO, Riverside.
California, has BEN named acting
director of the state farm produc-
ton council to succeed William B.
Parker, who recently resigned.
Council members said McColly 5
position was designated acting
pending approval of the appoint
ment by Governor Earl War; n and
the state senate.
McColly was an executive OF the
Riverside. Chamber of Commerce
before he becamoI assistant to
Parker in charge of southern Cali
fornia. Charles Gibbs. who served
as director following Parkcr's res
ignation, was appointed business
manager of the council.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
Prisoner Group
From Italy
Placed at Dam

YUMA. Ariz., July Is. CUP)-One
thousand former Italian prisoners
OF war are now members of the u.
S. army. are scheduled to arrive
Saturday at Imperial dam 20 miles
north of here on the Colorado river
whepel they will be stationed. Col. G..
w. Howard of the army engineer
board announces.
The Italians, who have sworn
allegiance to the United States,
wear u. S. army uniforms with
shoulder straps and cap brassards
bearing the word ITALY"
They are attached to the Second
engineer general service regiment
and the 50th engineer maintenance
regiment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
THE POST-PRESS

Established 1886.
Published Sundays as combined issue
of Imperial Valley Press and The
Morning Post, by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company, 625 State ST., FL
Centre, California.
- Paul Jenkins, Publisher
and President.
A. c. Johnston. Vice President and Ad-
vertising Manager; Mrs. Logan II.
Jenkins, Secretary.
Member United Press. California News
paper Publishers Assn. West-Holliday
Co. Inc, national representatives.
Rates, in combination with either The
Morning Post or Imperial Valley Press:
Single copy SC; carrier paid in ad-
vance: month, S1.OO; 3 months.
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BY Mail: 1 month, S1.OO; 3 months.
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Outside of California S1.00 per month
flat.
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office as End class mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16

Summer months afford more
time fo- both mother and child
to have the child's portrait
taken. Our air conditioned
studios make it comfortable, too.
Since we shall be taking a vaca-
ton sometime during the next
month, arrangements should be
made now for portraits to be
completed before that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE
COUNTY BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION


NOTICE Is hereby given that the
Assessor Collector of perial
County, California, has delivered
to the Clerk of the Board of Super
visors of said County, the local
assessment roll for the fiscal year
1944-45, and
The said Board of Supervisors,
sitting as County Board of
Equalization will meet for the pur-
pose of equalizing said local assess
ment roll on Tuesday, July IL, 1914,
at 10 o'clock a. M, and said Board
will continue in session ror that
purpose from time to time, until
the business of equalization is dis
posed of. but not later than Mon
day, July II, 1914, at 500 o'clock
pm.
The Clerk of said Board will be
in his office in the Court House at
FL Centre, California, each bust
ness day between Friday, July Z,
1914, continuously until and in
Guiding MONDAY, July II, 1914, at
500 O'Clock pm, except on Sat-
urdays after 1900 o'clock noon and
other legal holidays, for the pur-
pose of receiving requests for equal
ization of assessments by tax pay
ers. and all persons are notified to
appear before and file with said
Clerk between said dates any petit
lions requesting equalization which
they desire. On such receipt the
same will be referred to and con-
sioered by said Board.
DATED: Ell Centre, California,
July 7, 1914.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors.
(No. II (July Z to ~
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16

EDITORS NOTE: The foliolcing edit
oriais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
GETS STATE POST

SACRAMENTO, July Is. tUP)-
John H. Fisher. former general
manager Of the Los Angeles City
Civil Service commission, Saturday
was under appointment as assistant
executive officer of the state per-
sonnet board at salary of $480 per
month. Fisher placed second to
Executive Officer William X. Smith
in a recent nationwide examina-
ton for the EXECUTIVE officers posi-
ton.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-08
Naval Power Counts

When this war was young there was much
talk and some sincere belief that the day OF
naval power was about over. This was es.
pecially the case when Britain's great war.
ship, the Prince Of Wales, was sunk by a
plane at Singapore. 1t was to be an air war.
principally. with the nation possessing the
greatest air strength triumphant.
To a greater degree than in any previous
conflict this is true. 1t is proved in Europe
by the fact that ever since the American
and British Allies gained superiority in the
air the power Of Germany has been slipping.
Further proof is afforded by the fact that
from the time General Macarthur began to
have increasing air support the japanese in
the southwest Pacific have steadily been
forced out of territory they were able to con-
quer in their first mad sweep southwark be-
cause they controlled the air.
But it is not the whole truth. Nor does it
prove that naval fire power is of small worth.
Witness the bombardment of Japanese bas-
tons from the sea in preparation for troop
landings in the Marshalls. American naval
gums lure eIleIIly DlOCkNOuSeS every DIT as
staunch and seemingly invulnerable as those
in the Gilberts to pieces, destroyed pill boxes,
literally ripped Japanese defenses to shreds
before single marine set foot on land. AS
a result. American losses were small and VIC
tory on Kwajalein, Roi and Namur was speed
ed.
1t is not unreasonable to think that with
similar naval preparation all Japanese would
by now be off New Guinea and New Britain
islands, and probably New Ireland as we'll,
and the road to Japan from the south be
cleared of all barriers.
The American fleet has done such splen-
did job in the opening phase of the Marshalls
battle it is fair to think that when this group
is fully in American possession, it will next
turn its attention to the chief of Japan's outer
defenses, Truk, where the main enemy fleet
is supposed to be anchored If the japanese
accept the challenge there the greatest OF
all sea battles will be fought, and in view
Of our Nays success in every engagement
thus far in the Pacific we are not over
optimistic in anticipating victory for our fleet.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-08
Capital Of Europe

Soviet Russia gives strong indication of her
postwar intentions toward Europe, and they
seem to point to union of communist states
with capital at Moscow
For example, there is Russia's proposal to
set up . government in Poland which will
owe no allegiance to the Polish government.
in-exile at London This can mean only one
also Russias demand on Bulgaria to desert
Germany pronto
These measures following so quickly after
the Moscow announcement of autonomy for
the Soviet Republics certainly permit an in
depreciation envisioning a Encouragement of
geographical and political boundaries and in
fluences when the war is concluded It is
not impossible to foresee that if there should
come into existance a United Communist
States of Europe. Germany, already strongly
conmunistic. will be included and France,
even more strongly communistic than Ger
many, may also be paAt of the new fedora
ton.
However fantastic it may appear Moscow
could emerge from this war as the capital of
Europe No amount of talking about the eradi-
cation Of spheres of influence in the postwar
world can eliminate this possibility. 1t must
be recognized that Russia will be in position
to enforce any demands she may make at
the peace table, especially as she will prob
ably occupy sixteen seats, through the new
autonomous arrangement, with sixteen votes
instead Of one.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-08
Our Chief Aim
Lost By Non-Use

Aside from original sin, who killed Cock
Robin and how many angels can dance on
pinhead. Americans have probably discussed
the ancient issue of states rights about as
thoroughly as anything since this nation was
founded. 1t has been belabored, picked to
pieces, and invoked for unworthy political
purposes. Yet today it is more vulnerable,
and consequently more important, than it has
been i'll years.
All of which is excuse enough for quoting
some observations on the subject in a re-
cent article by Rep. Hatton W. Summers, an
oldline, states-rights Democrat from Texas
Justfying his prescription OF Exercise: the
Cure for Federalitis,' Mr.. Summers writes:
Except by conquest, no people privileged
to- govern themselves ever lost that privilege
until they had first lost their capacity for
self government Capacity is lost by its non.
use. :. Let any sef-governing people shift
their governmental responsibilities away from
themselves, and in proportion as they do, the
strength to govern departs"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-08
Getting Jittef'y

Dispatches telling Of the American Smelling
of Paramushiro show that the attack was a
complete surprise and that defending forces
were so bewildered they fired along the beach.
es at shadows, in the belief that landing
was already being made. Unable in their
fright to determine where the shells were
coming from they also fired promiscuously in
the air, assuming that having been bombed
before this new assault was by planes too.
In this state Of confusion it was only natural
that their fire was completely Intellectual with
no attacking ship hit
1t is not revealed what damage was done
on shore, but it is obvious that after the
Marshalls assault, the japanese are obsessed
by the idea that any attack must be by
amphibous forces.
The impressive thing about this is that the
Japanese are getting jittery. If the Para
mushiro bombardment failed to destroy any
of their defenses, and it is not certain that
this was the result, it was still worth while
for its effect upon the morale Of the enemy.
Furthermore, it has definite value in that
it proves the Japanese on what is practically
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-08
The Literary Guidepost

being that made public long since
by Herr Hitler and documented
from time to time as his intuition
required. This mass Of materiaI
describes. in :Mein Kampf' and
elsewhere, the three means Of pre-
pairing Lebensraum, once it is con
queced. The population must be
killed off, transported, or reduced
to slave labor in the service III
the master race.
The second basis OF 1.-THE Black
Book OF Polish Jewry' is material
supposedly smuggled out of po.
Land in one or another way which
shows how these precepts have
neen enforced. Included are case
histories of whole ghettos stuffed
INTO railway cars. left to smothc,.
or to starve. OF children starved
until their bellies puff out and theiv.
arms signal stiffly like the legs O,
dead horse. There are pictures
OF these things, and of the mass
graves we read about. One of these
last is particularly shocking, snow
ing as it does a tall. thin man in
a German uniform standing on the
brink, pee-ing down with mill
interest. The picture would not
seem so unspeakable if there were
only a shade of horror, or even
repugnance, in his manner.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-08
A Job For Scientists

Science accomplished wonders in 1913. II
produced bottle caps from corn stalks and
peanut shells. 1t made automobile parts from
wheat straw 1t even churned ice cream with
out cream Electroncs are far advanced as
a result of 1943 developments. Plastics are an
actually
But science is overlooking one major re.
source from waste material which has pc.
tential values equal to any contemporary dis
covery. At least there is no record Of con.
certed effort to utilize it.
The reference is to alcohol in waste vege-
table growth There's money in garbage cans.
Cut-over cabbage fields are rich in alcohol.
Every garden patch and vegetable farm con-
tains quantities of it. Instead of being ex-
tracted it is plowed under or eventually
burned.
Considering the important part alcohol plays
in war production the neglect seems mex.
cusable. And considering the drain on Ameri-
can petroleum resources, it is to be hoped
hat something will be done to stop it. Alcohol
could go far to relieve the gasoline shortage.