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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
u. ). Forces 10 Hold
Easter Services Near
Front and in London
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, April g. American
armed forces will worship tomorrow
in series of sunrise Easter services
from the front lines of Italy
battle-ground to London's Hyde Park
For thousands it will be their
second Easter overseas.
The largest dawn service probably
will be the one in Hyde Park. The
Bishop of London will deliver the
sermon. The services, beginning at
7:30 am. Q:30 am, Eastern war
time), will be broadcast worldwide.
A 100-voice Negro soldier choir
will sing at services in a British port
city and an English choral society
will travel to huge American air
base Easter evening to sing Handels
Messiah"
Services Near Battlefront.
In Northern Ireland, where thou
sands of American troops are await
ing invasion day, Catholic services
are planned at St. Bridget's Church
in Belfast. Elsewhere in the British
Isles many soldiers will observe the
day at small services in scores OF
Nissen hutS.
Within sound of front-line battle,
Protestant troops of the 5th Army
in Italy will attend dawn services
to be conducted by Chaplain Rope
land G. Adams of Lisbon, N. H. A
military band under the direction
|of Warrant Officer Willmon N.
Trumbull of Worcester, Mass, will
supply sacred music.
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark, 5th Army
commander, will read the Easter
story from the scriptures at a sec
ond service tomorrow afternoon and
a choir of Is WACS and soldiers
will sing hymns.
Christian, Jewish Services Combined.
A sunrise service in a large the
alter in North African city will
combine observance of both Chris
tians and Jews. Radio will carry
these services to troops at even the
most isolated points in the Medi-
terranean.
Easter masses for Catholic troops
will be conducted in chapels and
churches near where troops are sta
toned both in Italy and North At
RIGA.
Civilians in Britain will take this,
their fifth wartime Easter in stride,
wearing last years rejuvenated
clothing, for under British rationing
you do not buy new Easter clothes
Furnishing up their old ones for
the traditional Easter parade along
Piccadilly, Londoners this week
started a run on cleaners and caused
most of the shops to close their
doors at midweek with signs such
as no more work accepted unit,
after ApriI 70"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
Steel Workers End
Kansas City Strike
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 8.-Work-
ers Oh the night shift of the big
Sheffield Steel Corp plant returned
to their jobs yesterday, ending a
walkUut of about LOO employees
which shut the plant down Thurs
day night.
Harold Edwards, international
representative of the United Steel
Workers Union, said the workers re-
sumed production with the under
standing their grievances would be
negotiated at series of conciIia-
ton meetings, which probably would
last several days.
The War Labor Board office said
the walkout was in violation of the
Smith-Connally Act, which requires
that notice Of a strike vote must
be filed 80 days before any work
stoppage. The office said no such
notice had been filed with the WLB.
The plant, employing about 5000
workers, Is engaged almost 100 per
cent in war production.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
Pacific Easter Rites Coincide
With Anniversary of Butuon
HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, April 8.-Thou-
sands of American servicemen and
women will gather at sunrise to-
morrow for services symbolizing the
spirit which marked the eulogies
for the men on Bataan, pronounced
two years ago by Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and President Manuel
Quezon of the Philippines.
The anniversary of the loss of
Bataan falls this year on Easter
Sunday.
Gen. Macarthur paid tribute to
the Bataan heroes at the time in
these words:
THE Bataan force went out as it
would have misunderstanding to the
end. No army has ever done so
much with so little. Nothing be-
came it more than its last hour OF
trial and agony"
Those Filipino and American SOL
diers, planelesS airmen and shipless
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
Navy Reduces Number
OF Pilots 10 Be Trained
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy reports that a re-
duction in pilot requirements for
1914, 1915 and 1916 has been made
possible principally by "a lower
attrition rate than had been origi-
nally anticipated" in the training
program.
BY cutting the number of pilots
to be trained, the Navy said, it will
be possible to place greater empha-
sis on the quality of pilots, though
there will be no release of personnel
In large numbers to other duty.
Last announced figures on pilot
totals were $4,000 as of December 81
1913. The number of planes an
nounced as in operation is 27,50C
and production of an additional
$4,000 planes is scheduled for 1914
The Navy said that to raise the
quality of pilots, prospective nava,
flyers now will be required to spend
three college terms in the VIZ
program before beginning aviation
training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
Woman Who Saved Two
Wins Civilian DSM
By the Associated Press.

6S the Associated FreSS.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, April "a
40-year-old munitions worker who
twice rescued fellow workers after
their clothing had been ignited in
powder explosions, has become
Americas first woman to receive
the civilian Distinguished Service
Emblem, highest Army award to a
war worker.
Brig. Gen. A. M. Prentiss pinned
the medal on Mrs. Annie Marie
Young at ceremonies for which the
Pine Bluff Arsenal stopped produc-
ton for the first time in nearly a
year.
The arsenaPs public relations
office said the War Department adj
vised that the decoration-civilian
equivalent of the Distinguished
Service Medal-had never been
awarded to woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
ICoIored Political Leude,
Is Slain in Chicago
By the Associated Press.

~ LAC hsoOtldttu SIcSS.
CHICAGO, April 81. Livert
(St. Louis Kelly, so, described by
police as one OF Chicago's leading
colored political and labor chief
talns, was shot and killed last night
after a quarrel at a political rally,
Capt. Raymond Crane said.
Mr.. Kelly's Staying marked the
first violence in the political cam
paign preceding the Illinois primary
election next Tuesday.
Capt. Crane said Wendell Lyons,
Al, came to the Woodlawn police
station and admitted fatally shoot
ing Mr.. Kelly. He was ordered held
without charge pending an inquest
TODAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
New American Steps
Expected Soon in
Invasion Diplomacy
By the Associated Press.

New American moves to surround
Germany with a tight ring of nom
cooperating neutrals are expected
in the immediate future. They are
necessary to prepare the way for the
coming invasion.
Fresh efforts may be expected, If
in fact they have not already been
undertaken, to have Turkey and
Spain shut off shipments of essential
metals and clamp down on espion-
age, and get Turkey into the war
before 1t is too late.
England's severance of communi-
cations with Ireland, where Axis
diplomats still hold forth, may be
reinforced by a further American
appeal to the Irish government to
break with the enemy. Many ex-
perts here would not be surprised at
efforts to persuade hard-pressed
Sweden to break her remaining COM
mercial ties with Germany.
Hope for Finnish Peace.
Sweden's resistance to German
pressure would be much stronger If
Finland were out Of the war and
hope persists here that a Russo
Finnish peace will yet be agreed on
in time to shock German morale
and to provide shot in the arm
for the dominated peoples.
In another phase of preinvasion
diplomacy the United States and
British governments appear to have
been stalled, at least for time.
How quickly and completely this
stalemate, which is over recognition
81 the Ode Gaulle) French Commit
tee of National Liberation, might be
broken remained a matter of purest
speculation among diplomatic off,
Gals here, since the next move is up
to London.
Some light may be thrown on this
and other aspects of war diplomacy
by Secretary of State Hull tomorrow
night when he broadcasts over the
Columbia Broadcasting System at
$50 pm. on the operation of Amer
lean foreign policy.
Most Delicate Issue.
The French question is one of the
most delicate now at issue in this
policy since it involves not only
coming to agreement with the
British, who hold views divergent
from those of Mr.. Hull and President
Roosevelt, but also maintaining
friendly and cooperative relations
with French leaders.
BY implication, Mr.. Roosevelt ad-
viSed his press conference yesterday
that the heart of the Governments
French policy is self-determination
for the French people. Since, he
said, no one now knows what forms
of government those peoples want,
who can attempt to determine their
government for them.
The British have favored pre-
invasion recognition of the De
Gaulle committee as the provisional
government of France and the COM
mittee itself has laid full plans to
govern. Until Prime Minister
Churchill and Mr.. Roosevelt get to-
gether on the orders to be given
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the in
vasion commander, no wheel can
turn to effectuate the plans, at
least none can turn officially.
The pressing element in the whole
field of invasion diplomacy is the
time of the invasion itself. Lon
don dispatches have spoken of the
day and hour being set. This leads
military experts here to believe that
the time is not too far off-other-
wise, unpredictable weather condi-
tons would make it impossible to
fix the date so exactly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
'Droft Kaiser Groups
Formed in II States
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne ASSOClaRC PreSS.
CHICAGO, April 8.-Vandorf
Gray, national chairman sof the
Henry j. Kaiser for President clubs,
announced last night at a meeting
|of supporters of a draft Kaiser
movement, that SO clubs had been
organized in 81 States ito dissent
cate full information regarding the
|desirability and availability of
Henry j. Kaiser as the Republican
nominee"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

To those men who have been Sc
riously wounded and have suffered
he loss of sight. limbs or have 9TH
ar disabilities the United States
Government has also established
and is maintaining rehabilitation
schools that will fit them for the
work they are most capable of do
ing or will give them vocational
rehabilitation training to fit them
for jobs they can do.
The Fl Centro office of the USES
under the direction of Tom Finney
has interviewed nearly every re-
turning Imperial Valley veteran of
World War II and has either placed
the men or given them valuable as
sistance. Discharged men are urged
. contact his office for aid in en-
olovment.
SEES NO PROBLEM
Finney anticipates no problem in
obtaining employment for the dis
charged veterans as. thev return
to Imperial Valley for thus far
local employment has been pos
sible in nearly every case For at
least several more months there
will probably be plenty OF positions
open, but as jobs may get scarcer
commi tees have been named to
JUNCTION when that time Occurs,
sinney said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

The committees recommended by
the SelectiVe service boards and ap-
pointed by General Lewis B. Her.
shey, national director of selective
service, for Imperial county, will be
known as the War ManpoWer Com
mission unemployment commit
tees. Two such groups were named,
onc for the area served by the
Brawley selective service board and
one for the south end OF the county.
Finney Is chairman of the SOUTH
end committee with Paul E. Cook,
GaleXico, Richard Neff, Ell Centro,
end l a. Harris, Holtville, as men,
bers. In the north end the commit
tee will be headed by Fred Flueger,
manager CT the Pacific Guano Fnr-
tiliZer company at Brawley. with
Hayes Parker, Tom Allen, Jack
Murphy and Byron Walker as other
committee members.
JOBS READILY FOUNC
As jobs have been found ouiJ,
easily TO da.c, the committees have
not met to actually function as vet
This is mainly due TO the fact that
veterans are given preferential at
6ntiOn and placed in Jobs "as
&2ued ly as PCS itle And because
- f'nd o." refnrning veterans
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

dry pack and in the files at the
main office are letters telling of the
fine flavor o. swiss Miss" I'm
daunted." Mar Vista" and "Yodel-
E. dry pack brands and Alma" and
Lucky Strike" ice pack brands.
Massera produce carrying Impe-
rial Valleys name over the nation
and world originates from packing
sheds in the valley but his opera
tions extend throughout the grow
ing sections of California and Ari-
zona. He expects to put his labels
on more than 1909 cars this year
and his slogan of "Perishable Pro-
duce 1865 Days a Year" will add ar
extra day during 1914.
eco FIELD WORKERS
The company has 300 steady field
workers employed with 100 in the
local sheds. Carrying the produce
to market is fleet of 50 Massera
trucks from pick-upS to wide
Wheelers and Diesels.
Cther military purchases this
year will include 10000 crates OF
celery and 100 cars Of onions.
Acreages in Imperial valley alone
include 500 acres of watermelons,
100 acres of carrots, 40 acres of tur-
nips, 10 acres of beetS, 25 acres of
punching onions, 200 acres of cab
bage, 2,cC0 acres of lettuce, 40 acres
Of banana squash, 80 acres o.
chicory, and the company has 300
acres of seed onions which have
been contracted for under govern
ment lend-lease
The overall operations CT the
company in Arizona and California
will approximate between 1900 and
5000 acres.
Key men on the local Massera
combat team for food production.
are Bill Hubbard, buyer; Mike
Hubbard. in charge of growing op-
erations: Walt MasSera, dry pack
salesman; Glenn Mathews, ice pack
salesman; Ralph Smith, Ralph
Price and George BeSSerideS, field
superintendents; c. w. Tedrick,
she'd foreman; Louis Pando, pack
ing foreman; Joe Stein, shook de-
partment; and office employees in
El Centro are Merle ellison. Ade-
line Garcia, M. Thompson, Billy
Hoagland and Carl Mason.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

anxious to get into jobs that will
help win the war, the army. USES
and selective service are making
every effort to see that these men
find work of first importance to
the war effort Finney said.
Cur office has been instructed
to take into consideration in plac-
ing a veteran his physical and
psychological condition, his handi-
caps and his aptitudes as we'll as
any ncw skills he may have ac-
quired during his enlisted service" "
he continued. And We must re-
member that congress has given
all veterans the right to return TO
their former jobs
1T is OF iurtner interest to note, "
Chairman Finney said, that the
firms of Imperial county are CO.
operating Fundamentally with the
USES and the committees in find
ing suitable jobs. The Imperial 1r-
rigation District, for example. has
welcomed the opportunity to inter-
view returning veterans and is
making every effort to see that
they are offered employment COM
mensurate with their ability and
experience, and other firms have
assured our office at $40 State
street, e. Centro, that they desire
to render all possible aid to the dis
abled boys returning from the bat
tlefronts."
1900 ? MONTH
1t has been estimated that wal
heroes are being released from hos
ritals in California at the rate OF
4,0C9 4 month 10 be aborbod by
private employers, and with more
/ heroes rn'urling each month, the
numbe cor rtinues to increase, Fin.
ney az u
Anotner frHotion of the USES
office n El Centro is the interview.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Valley Tops 50 Million Income
Agencies Speed Program
Of Jobs for Veterans

World War II veterans are coming home to Imperial
County.
While the main attention of the country is being di-
reced toward postwar planning of rehabilitation of our
soldiers when the end sends then back their homes,
one agency already has been doing important job in
rehabiltating men who have already been discharged.
The United States Employment Service has been pay
ing particular attention to the problem of placing return
ing soldiers and while to date they have given service to
only about 80 in Imperial County the number is
pect I'd to increase daily men return.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
CaIipatria Flax
Mil! Expands

The ablishment of the $4,000
Dayton plant in Calipatria last May
brought to the north end of I'M
perial Valley its first flax mill.
The mill was operated in June
and fer three months handled large
quantities of the tremendous flax
crop of last year. Since November
when w. j. Dayton 6ied, Mrs. Day.
ten has been operating the mill and
is now engaged in installing a new
grinder which will be used for
screenings. She also farms more
than 70C acres at Calipatria.
The present manager, l.. c. Pat
terson, said the mill has a CONNER
cial loading capacity of l2o tons
a day. The mill is equipped to ham
die four to five tons per hour OF
cleaning and for seed, can handle
three to three and one-half tons an
hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

Imperial Valley residents are IN
creasinely proud of the fact that
they ship fresh fruits and vege-
tables to market every month in the
year. Every month is a harvest sea-
son in Imperial Valley.
TOTAL AVERAGE
The present farming area of the
valley is 474.l23 acres. There were
l3, crops produced which were val
ued at a million dollars or more.
Four crops had an Individual valne
of half a million dollars each.
Higher prices prevailed in l9i3
than the year before and indica-
tons that prices in 1914 will remain
at a high level in spite of the ef-
fects OF price ceilings.
Field crop acreages in the valley
for the 1894 season totaled l44.-
l57. The garoen crops totaled 33,0ll
acres while the permanent crc.'S
such as pastures, oranges. grape
fruit and the like totaled 5,9l5
acres.
LATEST FIGURES
Latest available figures issued b.
the Imperial Irrigation district
showed the following acreases pre-
vailed as based on a check made
late last fall:
Alfalfa, 100,26l: barley, 1882
oats, 22l; wheat, u; bermuda, 81
270; flax, 668; sugar beets, 2,465
permanent pastures. 1899; clover,
222. miscellaneous grass. 35; sudan,
i.267, seSbania, 1887; milo, 20,375;
rice, 1901; cotton, 40: In6ian corn,
"a; silage, "A; June corn, %; sugar
cane. l02; sorghum, l55: hegari, 235.
This comprised the field crop acre
age.
The garden crop acreage includ .
ed: lettuce, 1892; cantaloupes, rs:
honeydews, IS; peas. 1873; carrots
5,5l5: tomatoes, 1911: watermelons.
IA; cabbage, 1852; squash, l,25l;
mixed vegetables. 1888: turnips, 81:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

onions. l.343: beets. 1877; sweet
corn. 40: cucumhers. 342 pep
pers. 1874: beans, SIS. chicory, 287:
ROMANO. 25. cauliflowe- 7 brcc-
coli. 1854; spinach, 3; garlic, O. glad
ioli, 7; eggplant, Al; greens. 1873;
sweet potatoes. 30: black-eyed peas,
626.
Acreages Of permanent crops
we've: asparagus, 272: tangerines,
24s: dates. 152; grapes. 679: pecans,
494: lemons. 60; grapefruit, 3,4ll;
oranges. 667: shate trees, 5; mixed
fruit, 10; olives, !. pomegranates,
/; apricots, 2; gayule, /.
A tctal CT 374 996 acres Of Jn'
perial Valley land was faTmed T. |
-oason. The total area fGrmable
wze 472 073 a"res.
HALF AND IkLF
Fifty per cent CT the farms are
operated by the owners Of the land
and so per cent by tenants, Irriga-
ton district records showed
All valley residents point with
pride to the agricultural achieve
ments which have made the area
famed throughout the worlt for its
excellent products and for the spe-
cial type of farming necessitated 5y
the irrigated desert and the climate.
After the war farmers expect 70
so on with bigger and greater ac-
compiishments, playing their part
in the postwar recovery program
and making places in this farming
community for as many returned
soltiers as want to live in hospitable
Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

q. S. REQUIREMENTS
Most of the crates are specially
made so that they are square with
no top bulge, making it possible to
pack more crates in a given space
and TO keep the cargo from shift
ing.
AS a result of these purchases,
Massara has been informed that
Imperial Valley lettuce and cab
bage is being consumed all over the
world and especially in the South
Pacific. Services in the states also
consume Imperial Valley produce
through direct sales and through
purchases from jobbers TO whom
Massera sells.
Massera ships both ice pack ano
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Modern Packing
Shed Built

As a result of the fire which
burned out the ice Maggie Pack
ing shed in Holtville last year, the
company has one of the most
modern plants in the valley in
operation at this time.
In the new shed Maggie, as in
the past specializes mainly in ca
rots. New conveyor lines that
take the carrots through three
washings under forced spray have
no spikes for lifting, thus elimin-
ating the breaking of carrot
punches This equipment is con-
sidered superior to the former
methods used.
The company will harvest car
rots from 700 acres this year.
Some endive or chicory will be
harvested as well as a few acres of
cabbage. The company also has
400 acres in cantaloupea and
mClcrs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12

ing OF soldiers who have been dis
charged from the army at Camp
Lockett for physical reasons. 10
date, Manager Finney estimated, a
total of 756 discharged soldiers
from that camp have been inter-
viewed and referred to jobs all over
the United States, preferably neaf-
est their homes. From reports COM
ing back to the local office, nearly
every man has been placed in es-
sential jobs and are continuing to
assist Uncle Sam in winning the
war, even though their eSical
condition no longer made it pos
sible for them to be Of service to
the military departments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Substitute Seen
For Carob Bean

The war makes for diversified
farming as well as new interests in
new crops Imports CT the mucilage
from carob beans necessary fer the
sizing of fine printing papers has
been ftopped and thus has caused
an interest in the growing of Guar
CGwahr) beans in the United
States as substitute. The plant is
a legume with beans about lontil
ize. A layer CT rlucilage lies urGei
their hard seed cCat and is a coed
substitute for the ca:ob beant. Be-
sides the mucilage a protein core
makes the bean a valuable stock
feed Some experiments are being
made in the valley with this new
crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
WorId's Richest Soil Area
Produces Abundant ood
Bg MARGUERITE BROOKS
So we took the S50.00O.0OO .


Imperial Valley Mother Natures favorite child in the
world of agricultural development, last year produced
food and feed suffs valued at approximately S5OOOOOO0
All indications that the value of the 1914 production
will top that impressive 1943 figure farmers literally
bend their backs the governments demands for
greater and greater production.
The richest agricultural in the world has kept Its
place the spite of wartime conditions and wartime
problems.
Problems of the war; however, have not blinded the
farmers the fact that they must plan for the future
They continuing their experiments with new crops anu
their efforts improve the they already are groWlnE
They their search for adaptable to this rr
gated desert with its semi-tropca climate Their
es for and better seed continues war or no war
They already are planning for the postwar period.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-12
Military Groups
Buy Lots Of
Cabbage. Lettuce

Army and Navy buyers in Imperial Valley have pur.
chased 10000 of lettuce and $4,000 of cab
age this season from grower alone.
Al Massera who estimated that he had shipped 10000
of pershabe produce the military services last
year said his total shipments this his overall
operations will be 250000 crates of lettuce and 100000
of cabbage typical order which represents the
heavy buys by the Army alone received the latter
part of February for l0,700 crates of cabbage.