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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
US0 Pushes Plan
For E. {. Building

Action on the obtaining of new
quarters for the $50 Club Canteen
FOR servicemen appeared imminent
Tuesday noon as new moves were
being planned to obtain the Sixth
and Main Street Imperial Irrigation
District building formerly occupied
by the California Electric Company.
In conference with the local USO
workers, Mrs. Fay Andrews, nation
al USO representative, and w. A..
Tondro, city recreation council
chairman, Robert w. Burns, Los
Angeles, regional executive, said
Tuesday that the USO is more
hopeful that whether the electric
building is sold to an outside in
terest or retained by an Ell Centre
business, we can negotiate lease
for the duration" to house the cam
teen.
If we can obtain this building,
I assure you that it will be one OF
the finest we have" Burns declar-
ed.
He said the USO was eager to
obtain a larger recreation center
fer Servicemel iOr several reasons.
The present canteen quarters would
cost too much to be renovated; the
proposed new location would make
larger activities possible and be
more centralized and finer furnished
from the USO furnishings pool {;
more men in uniform will be seen
paign opens.
He paid tribute to the fine CO.
operation given workers and the
excellent community spirit that has
been manifest in Ell Centre"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
BAPTIST BROTHERHOOD
HEARS GUEST PASTOR

Speaking on the subject of THE
cid and the New" in reference to
religion, the Rev. Dwight H. Ball,
pastor of the Presbyterian church
was guest speaker at Monday nights
dinner meeting of the Mems Broth
erhood of the First Baptist church.
Bruce King, president, appointed
committee to investigate possibili-
ties for sponsorship of Scout troop.
The Rev. Mr.. Charles Burrill,
pastor, expressed appreciation for
the work done for the church by
the brotherhood.
Seventeen attended the dinner, ar
rangements for which were made
by a committee composed of Bob
Wood, Max Stroh, Ray Measures
and Bill Evans. A. j. Sparks and
Alvin Hawkins were in charge of
the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Meetings Slated
On Grapefruit

Desert Grapefruit producers will
meet in Coachella May l8 and El
Centre May 10 to nominate an ad-
visory board of the state market
ing order for the fruit, the state
agricultural department announc-
ed TUESDAY.
Handlers of the fruit will meet
in Coachella May l8.
The marketing order regulates
size and grade of grapefruit ship
ped to California markets and is
administered in cooperation with
a fec eral order regulating inter-
state shipments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
WAITS HEARING

Diana Afford, 20, Balboa hotel
waitress charged with vagrancy
pleaded not guilty in police court
Tuesday morning and hearing was
set for Thursday at 400 pm. A
Renteria criver, As, 29l East Or
ange, pleaded guilty to running a
Fifth and State streets boulevard
stop sign and damaging city pa
troll car before Judge Lee Nuffer.
He was fined $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
NEGRO SOLDIER FILM
SHOWING IN T.. {.

The war department. education
al documentary film, THE Ne
gro Soldier" is being shown Tues
day and Wee neSday at the Broad
way theater. The picture is releas-
ed by the special service division of
the department. Carlton Moss, a
Negro writer and actor wrote the
screen story.
The story traces the role Of the
Negro soldier from Chrispus At
.tucks (ex-slave) hero OF the Boston
Massacre, to Robert Crooks, first
American soldier OF the armored
force TO Gle in this war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
CANTALOUPES MOVE
TO COAST MARKETS

ParagruZ Brothers, Filipino cam
taloupe growers. Tuesday shipped
two flats of cantaloupes TO the San
Francisco market. 1t is believed
TO be the second shipment this
year.
The cantaloures were No. 5s.
Last year the Paragruz Brothers
shipped the first to leave Imperial
Valley. they recalled Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
SUGAR SURPLUS DROPS

WASHINGTON, May 3. 0UPJ-
Hope for any material increase in
civilian sugar rations in 1914 faded
Tuesday as the war food admins
tration reported that sugar stocks
fell to 1856, 1866 tons on April /,
nearly 100000 tons below the figure
for the same date a year ago The
greatest drop, the WA said, was
in beet sugar stocks, reflecting last
years unusually small crop. Beet
sugar producers have indicated that
crops will be small again this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Strikes Hamper
War Industry

Continued from Page II
Automobile Workers (CIO) officials
said they hoped to meet with COM
pany and government representa-
tives within a few days 10 settle a
controversy over wage claSsifica-
tions set up by WLB directive.
More than 1900 production employ
es walked out Friday.
At Springfield. H., $50 AFL ma
chinists at the Hummer Manufac-
turing Corp. a subsidiary of Mont
gomery Ward. continued strike in
an attempt to force the company to
comply with a WLB order eStab-
fishing the union as collective bar
gaining agent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
SlNATRA IN HOSPITAL

NEW YORK, May 9. CUPp-
Crooner Frank Sinatra was pa
tient at Mt. Sinai hospital Tuesday
the victim of streptococcic throat
infection. Physicians said the con-
dition of Sinatra, stricken Saturday
night during a radio broadcast, was
good and that last night his tenn
perature had dropped from l03 Y
degrees to l02 2/5 degrees after sui
ia drugs had been administered.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
POLL TAX BILL UP

WASHINGTON, May 9. CUP)-
The senate Tuesday took up the
anti-poll tax bill without serious
protest by southern senators, lend
ing strength to expectations of an
early showdown in the controversial
issue without tieing up the Gambler
in a filibuster
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
CAR LOOTED

c. T. Jackson, Valley hotel. re-
ported to e. Centro police at 2:39
am. Tuesday that a window in his
car was smashed and a suitcase
stolen. Police presumed that the
culprit had taken a hacksaw from
a nearby truck and used it to break
the wincow.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Wards Employees
Vote on Union

union Goes not have a majority Oh
the employees that will end the case.
"On the other hand if the elec-
ton shows that the union has
majority, then the management has
declared that it is willing to con-
tinue its contract and that will end
the case"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
WOMAN CHARGED
WITH ASSAULT

A charge of assault with a dead
ly weapon was filed against Geneva
williams, 80, Negro, in Brawley
Justice court Tuesday. She shot anc
wounded her husband, Floyd, 80,
because of Jealousy, Brawley police
said, and according to the COM
plaint
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
FACES MORALS CHARGE

william Bennett, 40, who has IIV-
ed in Brawley about a month, is
held in lieu Of $1,000 bail demand ed
after he was charged with a morals
offense involving three small girls.
He was aTaigned in Brawley JUS
tice court Monday on the charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

WASHINGTON, May 9. up
The supreme court has agreed to
review the decision of a three
Judge New York federal district
court In the governments antitrust
suit against the Associated Press.
In a brief notation on its order
list. the court noted probable jur-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
FACES NEW CHARGE

C plain Morrison Wilkinson,
Washington, D. c., veteran of the
air war in China, who was accused
of raping pretty Earl Carroll show
girl after a Hollywood party, is
charged with eight additional Of
fenses, six of them of a sex nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
PLEADS GUILTY

Eugene Ponce pleaded guilty in
Imperial county superior court Tues
day to five bad check charges filed
agains, him in Brawley. After plead
ing guilty he asked the court for
probation. The probation hearing
will be held May Is
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
ME EXICAN DIES

Esteban PereGa5, A8, laborer OF
Westmorlant, died from a heart
attack Monday night. He was taken
to the county hospital after he was
stricken at Westmorland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
DEGREES GRANTED

InterlocutOry divorce DEGREES were
granted in Imperial county superior
court Monday 10 william H. Nor
rid from Bessie d. Norrid and TO
Eleanor E. Bandy from Clarence
! Bandy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

Continued from Page Il
out on the 23rd straight day OF
operations by allied planes based
in Britain against the defenses OF
western Europe. Italy-based allied
bombers attacked the Balkans on
the two days before the unbroken
campaign from Britain began.
NIGHT AND DAY
The Caylight assault followed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
WOULD PRECLUDE DAM

WASHINGTON, May 9. OUP)-
The house Tuesday adopted an
amendment TO the flood control bill
which will prohibit the building of
a high dam at Table Mountain in
California's Sacramento Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
Scanningl |. Y.
News Horizon
WOMAN DIES
In Ell CENTRIC

Mrs. Liza Davis, IA. Negro died
from a heart attack at l04 Orange
avenue. e. Centro, Tuesday morn
ing. Funeral arrangements are
pending.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
To CONFER DEGREE
nAn,. Mo LOO 2 A NJ

Ell Centro chapter No. 109, RAM,
will confer a cegree at the stated
meeting Thursday night, 7:3O o.
clock. Masonic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09
1000 yonk Planes
Hit Nuzi "Wol! ~

close on the heels of a heavy RAF
night blow at the French INVASION
coast, Belgian railway yards, the
German railway junction OF Osna-
bruck, and an unidentified objective
in the industrial Ruhr, at a cost OF
10 planes.
Though the American air COM
mand frequently has employed SIM
liar size fleets for raids on Berlin
and other targets in Germany
PROBABLY never before has it sent
nearly 1000 heavy bombers and
fighters against occupied territory
The devastating attacks carried
the allied campaign to knock out
Germany's invasion defense COM
munications and air bases in ad-
vance of landing operations an
other step forward.
TARGETS STRUCK
More than 2,CO0 tons of block
busters anG fire bombs were be-
lieved to have been dropped by the
FortreSSes and Liberators on:
Railway yards-Liege, Belgium;
Thionville, France; Luxembourg
City, Luxembourg.
Airdromes-St. Trond and Flor
] rennes, Belgium; Thionville, st
Dizier, Laon- -Couvron, Laon-Thies
and Juvincourt, France.
All 10 targets lie in the triangle
formed by northern France, Bel
| GUM. and Luxembourg SO import
ant to the defense of the channe
coast, which lies close to invasion
| armies in Britain.
Crews participating in the attacks
on the Thionville and Luxembourg
railway yards said they met nc
aerial opposition and only moderate
antiaircraft fire. One pilot called
the flight a Sunday afternoon
drive"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-09

The Daylight assault foIIoWe
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
TRAGEDY OFF
.ALA5kAC0AST
IS NOW TOLD
Two Survivors Of Liberty
Ship Straub Relate
Experiences

SEATTLE, May 20. - Two sur
vivors of the Liberty ship Strauh
told for the first time the story OF
the tragedy off the coast of Alaska
that cost SIS lives on April 10.
Ensign Bruce S. Spang. third
mate, and Lieut.. Donald Moore
gunnery officer. said the Straub was
carrying gasoline and other sup
plies. The ship had smooth sailing
until the seventh day out when
there was a terrific explosion at
midnight.
Spang said II was blown into
the alleyway. The ship began to
sink Immediately II WAS pitch
dark. The lifeboats were gone and
oil on the water was burning. The
ship was sinking SO rapidly that
was standing in cold water up to
my waist, then jumped and swan
to one of the overturned lifeboats. y
Lieut.. Moore said he and other
members of the crew watched the
ship sink while they gripped an
overturned lifeboat.
Twenty men were saved by the
rescue ship, picked up the next
morning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
BROWN BEAR ON
TRAILS, FOREST
SERVICE WARNS

Recent examinations of the For
est Service trails in the Eagle and
Herbert River valleys by Forest
Service trail men indicate the pres
ence of brown bear.
One item of evidence is their
usual depredations Of tearing down
the carved wooden direction signs
and making kindling OF them. This
happens two and three times each
year and would probably happen
more often If the signs were re-
newed every time they. are torn
down. AS it is impossible for the
trail maintenance men to patrol
these trails more than two or three
times a year, the Forest Service Of
ficials hope that the people who
use these trails will understand why
the signs are sometimes found in
pieces on the ground instead of
in their proper place on the post.
The Forest Service wishes to warn
the public that standard bear
rifle should be carried when travel
ling the trails in this particular
area at this time OF the year.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
SAWMILL
WORKERS
WALK OUT

SEATTLE, May 20--At least TOO
of Seattle's 5000 sawmill workers
walked off their jobs protesting the
National War Labor Boards de-
NAL of wage increases to 10000
employees of the Pacific northwest
pine and Douglas fir industries. it
was announced by John Christen-
sen, President Of the Northwest
Council of Lumber and Sawmill
Workers.
-Four mills closed owing to the
walkout.
Christensen said he pleaded in
vain at a mass meeting for the men
to remain on the job, as the indus
try was classified as critical war
production. and he added They
just told me to go places and said
that was just the same old mullar-
key I've been giving them for the
past l6 months
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
COAST GUARD AUX.
TRIP PLANNED FOR
TOMORROW MORNING

Flotilla No. 2100 of the Coast
Guard Auxiliary will hold an outing
tomorrow at Youngs Bay. all ves-
sells scheduled to leave the Small
Boat Harbor at 8 o'clock in the
morning, travelling in formation.
Everyone is reminded to take
their own lunch and to report
aboard Commander J. B. Burford's
boat between 8 and 8:45 o'clock for
last-minute instructions. 1t will not
be necessary to call at the Control
Tower for papers, according to an
nouncement.
1t. Earle Watterworth, District
Director of the Coast Guard Aux
iliary, will be on the official boat
along with an official U. S. C. G.
photographer, who is making the
trip with him.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
HALIBUT
FISHING
STARTED
First Vessels Leave Seattle
-0thers 10 Follow
Next Week

SEATTLE, May 20. - The first
Seattle halibut vessels to go to the
banks this season put to sea yes
terday following a joint meeting
between the Deepsea Fishermens'
Union of the Pacific and the Fish
ing Vessel Owners Association.
II. E. Lokken, Manager of the
FVOA, said a final decision was
reached to abandon the tieup as a
protest TO the OPA price ceiling.
Only a few vessels were prepared
to put to sea Immediately.
Boats initiated M through 2 are
expected to leave port Monday or
Tuesday and the second half of
the fleet will move Friday.
Vancouver fishermen left for the
banks Thursday night.
Lokken predicted the tieup will
not curtail the supply, but it will
be somewhat delayed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
SUFFER
SETBA(k5 IN
INDIA FIGHT
Nippons Reported Being
Driven Out Of Besieg-
ed City Of Myitkyind

SOUTHEAS T ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS AT HANDY, Ceylon,
May 20.-The Japs are being driven
out of besieged Myitkyina, the chief
Jap base north of the Burma Road,
and Chinese and Americans are clos
ing in ON three sides.
Brigadier General Merril's Am
erican Marauders crossed the IRA
waddy River, four miles below the
city and closed one of the chief
lines of communication.
On the Imphal and Kohima front
in eastern India, the British sud-
denly turned the tables on the Japs,
throwing a roadblock across the
enemy's lines of communication near
Jessami, east of Kohima.
In the past two days, II enemy
aircraft have been destroyed and
six others probably destroyed. The
Allied loss was two planes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
DEWEY MAKES
CLEAN SWEEP
OREGON COP
WAYNE Morse Widens His
Lead Over Holman in
Senatorial Race

PORTLAND, May 20. Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey captured Oregon's
Is delegates to the COP national
convention in sweep which brought
from his hackers the cry, Hes be-
yond stopping now"
Late returns widened the margin
of his triumph in yesterdays pre-
ferential primary over Stassen and
Bricker. Major Felker, one of his
hackers, declared the outcome raised
Dewey's claimed delegate total to
339 and sis part of a nationwide
trend"
Wayne Morse, lawyer and former
public members of the War Labor
Board, stretched his lead for the
Republican senatorial nomination
over Senator Holman, who is seeking
a second term.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
AIRDR0kE5
IN FRANCE
ATTACKED
Rail Centers Are Smashed
al Night-Big Raid
Is On Today

LONDON, May 20. = American
heavy bombers, probably $50 strong,
blasted three enemy airdromes in
Northern France and rail yards at
Reims in less than IL hours after
Royal Air Force formations smash
ed four French rail centers in night
attacks
The Americans today hit the Orly
and Villacoublay fields near Paris
and the Champagne field Reims.
Last night a great wave of Raj
night bombers followed up the
pounding given Berlin and Bruns-
wick
The raid on Brunswick flattened
some of the largest works in the
district and hundreds of buildings
were destroyed according to cor
respondent of Stockholm news
paper.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
DAMAGE TO
S0ERABAJA
CONFIRMED
Jap Air Base Offers Only
Minor Resistance 10
Allied Attack

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, May
20.-Strong carrier-borne forces Of
the Nimitz, Macarthur and Mount
batten commands, united for the
first time in the war, heavily dam
aged on Wednesday Japan's prin-
cipal Dutch East Indies base at
Soerabaja.
General Macarthur, in special
communique, said carrier planes
attacked and damaged an import
ant oil dock and installations. and
struck at 10 vessels aggregating 35,-
eco tons which were sheltered in
the great harbor.
The attack was the first water
borne assault on the important base
the Allies we're forced out Of two
years ago, and was on the heels OF
a strike by Liberators which flew
in and bombed rail yards and other
installations on 2,500-mile round
trip from northwest Australian
base.
The Jap Air Force and ground
defenses put up only minor resist
ance, and nearly 100 carrier planes
OF the Jap Navy failed TO offer the
slightest resistance to the great OPP
Grafton deep into their territory
Three Allied planes were lost. One
ship was seen to blow up in the
harbor and others were probably
sunk.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
New Income
Tax Bill Is
Given 0kay
Senate Passes House Ap-
proved StreamIining
Measure on Returns

WASHINGTON, May 20. = The
Senate has passed the House APP
proved bill for streamlining the in
come tax to relieve some 100000 900
citizens of the necessity of COMPUTE
ing individual obligations and SIM
plifying the returns of 100000
others. The Treasury estimated 1T
will reduce the yield by $60,000,0 900.
The action by voice vote came
swiftly after Senator LANCER yield
ed the floor, ending two days CT
speechmaking protesting the hasty
passage of that section of the bill
which provides that on next jan
uary the present 20 percent with
holding system against wages and
salaries be revised to deduct the
full tax liability for persons earning
up to $4,000 year.
: The bill now returns to the House
for action on minor amendments.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
Lutheran Church
To Be Scene Of
Wedding Tonight

With the Rev. G. H. Hillerman
reading the vows at 8 o'clock, the
marriage of Miss Katherine Torkel-
son to Corporal Joseph w. Alexan-
der, USA, will take place this even
ing at Resurrection Lutheran
Church.
( The bride will be given in mar
rage by Mr.. Emil Samuelson and
her sister, Miss Ruth Torkelson, will
be the only attendent. Mr.. Ray
mond Nevin will act as best man
for the bridegroom and ushers will
include Messrs Bert Mcdowell and
John Krugness.
Wedding music will be played by
Miss Helen Johns and quartet
will sing "Oh Perfect Love-" before
the ceremony.
Following the service at the
church, there will be reception al
the Governors House and all
friends of the couple are extended
an invitation to attend both.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
ALLIES IN
VIGOROUS
ADVANCES
Ndzis Being Driven Back
Along Entire Lower
Half Of Front
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, May 20.-Allied troops
have seized a string Of the strong
est Notifications of the Hitler line
and their vigorous advances are
driving the Nazis back along the
entire lower half of the Italian front
to yet third wall.
Headquarters declared the Ger
mans are now being forced back
upon switch line" running south
west from Pico to Terracina on the
coast, and the German High Com
mand has announced the loss Of
Campodimele near the center Of
the line. four and one-half miles
south and slightly west of Pico.
and within few miles Of the
switch line itself.
Assaulting the sagging Hitler
line, the Americans on the south
won to the road junction at Itri
and the seaport of Gaetz. and the
French punched deeper into the
middle. while the Eighth Army on
the northern flank shook the Hit
Ter line. Even the Liri Valley Is
being put under SCATTERING at
tack at the town Of Aquino. and
the mountain stronghold OF Ponte-
corvo is already outflanked by the
French.
Huge stores OF booty have been
enveloped and more than $500
Nazis have been captured.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
TURKISH ENTRY
IN WAR FEARED
BY NAzI PARTY

SIMFEROPOL, U. S. S. r., May
20.--One of 246 enemy officers that
the Russians announced were cap
tured in the Crimean campaign said
that Adolf Hitler had ordered the
peninsula held because of fear that
its fall might help plunge neutral
Turkey into the war on the Allied
side.
Hans Messenger, AZ, colonel in
the artillery, said that special
order was forwarded early in May
shortly before Sevastopol fell to hold
the peninsula.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
HOWARD SIMMONS
JOINS STAFF OF FISH
and WILDLIFE HERE

According to announcement from
the office of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, Howard Simmons has join
ed the staff as fisheries manage
ment agent for the Alaska PENN
sula and Aleutian Island districts.
Simmons has been assistant
manager of the Juneau Cold Stor-
age Co. for the past several years
With headquarters at False Pass
Simmons will leave for his district
about May %, using the Fisheries
vessel Crane for patrol purposes
during the season. He will carry
on the combined work of the Fish
cries and Game Commission, re-
turning to Juneau for duty during
the winter months.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
ARRIVE FROM SOUTH

A vessel coming into Juneau yes
terday afternoon brought the fol-
lowing persons from the south:
Margaret E. Brown. Corrine Green
how, Rosanne Schneider, Maxine
Wallender, Frank r. Clayton
Charles r. Wallace, and Edward j
Fortier.
Boarding the ship here were F
H. Molitor, r. c. White, J. D. Scott
Frank Brown, Mrs. Louise Glockie
julius X. Peterson, Sherman L. Ed
wards, Alice Baker, Dolores Lee, A
~. st. Claire, Earl Payton, Theo-
dore Domke, Ernest Giovanetti anc
S. 0. Whitman.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-20
Two U-boais
Sent Down
Off Norway
Others Probably Sunk OF
Damaged by Convoy
Escort in North

LONDON, May 20.-The British
naval force escorting convoy both
outward and homeward bound, sank
two German submarines, probably
sank one or two more, and dam
aged others, the Admiralty an
nounceS.
The British destroyer Mahratta
was torpedoed and sunk, but the
crew was rescued.
The attacks were made during
several days off the northern tip
of Norway.